"Of course it's true."
Lin Xi turned around, "However, you'll have to pay extra."
Sun Tianlong asked, "How much?"
Lin Xi held up five fingers. "Five hundred."
Sun Tianlong nodded frantically, "Okay, okay, no problem."
Seeing them about to leave, the elderly men and women hurriedly asked, "Master, will you come back?"
Lin Xi waved her hand, "Wait for me for ten minutes."
The two arrived at a rather dark place.
Sun Tianlong grew increasingly frightened and trembled uncontrollably.
Although the person she was about to meet was her father, her father had turned into a ghost.
He was terrified at the thought of seeing a ghost.
Lin Xi took out a white bowl, filled it with water, and placed it on the ground.
Then, he took out three wooden chopsticks and handed them to Sun Tianlong.
Lin Xi said, "Put chopsticks vertically into the water and keep calling your father's name. When the chopsticks stand up, you will see your father."
Sun Tianlong trembled even more violently, stammering, "Master, I...I'll go by myself..."
"Go quickly." Lin Xi gave him a push.
The living and the dead are separated by the yin and yang; this is the simplest way to allow the living to meet the dead.
Other methods are also possible, but they will cost more.
Sun Tianlong trembled, repeatedly chanting, "Dad, Dad, I am Tianlong, Dad, Dad..."
With trembling hands, he took a deep breath and plunged the chopsticks in his hands into the water.
Amazingly, the chopsticks actually stood up.
Suddenly, a pale face appeared in the water, with two dark eyes staring straight at him.
Sun Tianlong's voice trembled with fear, "Dad, Dad... is that you?"
Sun Rui glared at him fiercely, "Sun Tianlong, it's one thing for you to kowtow and burn paper money for others, but I've called you over several times to identify graves, and you just won't come!"
"Dad, I was wrong. I didn't know it was you."
Sun Tianlong apologized profusely.
Waaaaah, he's so pitiful.
What normal person would expect their father to appear in their dream and ask them to go and identify their father's grave?
Sun Tianlong forced himself to remain calm, "Dad, I'll go back to our hometown right away and find you a more comfortable place."
Sun Rui said, "No need for that trouble. Just go to my grave, clear the weeds, and plug up the hole that's leaking water. I don't want to move it after all these years."
"Okay, okay." Sun Tianlong asked, somewhat puzzled, "Dad, after all these years, why haven't you been reincarnated yet?"
Sun Rui roared angrily, "This is none of your business. Hurry up and go back to your hometown. Go up the mountain and keep going until you reach the fork in the road. Turn left, then right, then left again. There is a peach tree in front of the grave."
Sun Tianlong nodded, "Okay, Dad."
As soon as he finished speaking, the three chopsticks fell over, and the face in the bowl disappeared.
Sun Tianlong plopped down on the ground, almost knocking over the white bowl.
He was extremely frightened. "Master, I'm so sorry, I almost ruined your treasure."
"It doesn't matter."
Lin Xi picked up the bowl and left. "Actually, it's just an ordinary plastic bowl."
She grabbed this bowl while having porridge this morning; she never expected it to come in handy.
Sun Tianlong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, looked at Lin Xi's retreating figure, and sighed with emotion, "Master, your Taoist skills are truly profound."
Lin Xi returned to her stall and continued telling fortunes.
Next, I calculated five more common, minor questions related to academics, marriage, family, and so on.
Lin Xi raised her hand. "The last divination. That's it for closing up shop."
"Master, I...I...I need help urgently."
Liu Yang paid the fortune-telling fee, swallowed hard, and said, "Master, I suspect my house is haunted."
Lin Xi looked him up and down. "Did you see a ghost? Or did you dream of one?"
“Nothing like that.” Liu Yang frowned. “I’ve been having a really bad run of luck lately. I’ve stepped in dog poop when I go out, bird poop falls from the sky, and I even choke on my water.”
"I fell on my way home yesterday." He showed the bruises on his leg. "Master, look, my leg is all purple from the fall."
Liu Yang lowered his voice and asked, "Master, has a jinx come to my house and brought me so much bad luck?"
Lin Xi shook her head. "You don't have any ghostly aura on you. It's not a ghost causing trouble."
Liu Yang's eyes widened. "That's impossible."
The onlookers thought to themselves, "Here comes another one who keeps saying it's impossible. The master is about to prove him wrong."
"Young man, you must trust the master."
"The master cannot be wrong."
The elderly people have become fans of Lin Xi and keep praising her.
Liu Yang had no time to pay attention to others and started talking to himself.
"Master, it's not just me, my mom, my dad, and even my mother-in-law and father-in-law have all been having a lot of bad luck lately."
"My mom twisted her back, and my dad broke his arm; they both ended up in the hospital. My mother-in-law and father-in-law are fine, but the chickens in our house died inexplicably."
"And my wife and unborn child..."
Thinking about this, Liu Yang's eyes welled up with tears.
"Xiaoman and I have been married for five years without having children. Two months ago, Xiaoman became pregnant, and both our families were overjoyed and began making all sorts of preparations for the unborn child."
"Xiaoman resigned from her job to focus on her pregnancy at home."
"However, Xiaoman suddenly miscarried at home and is still in the hospital recuperating."
Liu Yang said confidently, "Master, if there are no ghosts, then someone is deliberately trying to harm our family."
Lin Xi discovered the problem: "You, your wife, your father and mother, your mother-in-law and father-in-law, all live in one house?"
Liu Yang answered honestly, "After Xiaoman got pregnant, my mom and dad came to take care of her. My mother-in-law and father-in-law brought some local eggs to visit her and stayed overnight."
Lin Xi frowned. "The problem lies with your house."
Liu Yang stammered, "Impossible. My family bought the house three years ago, and there were no problems before."
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