Qingxi Town has about a few hundred households. It was originally a village, but later gradually evolved into a small town. The buildings in the town are all made of blue bricks and white tiles, exuding a cool feeling.
Fang Zhiyi is the Feng Shui master of this town. He is proficient in almost all the skills such as exorcising evil spirits, drawing talismans, and finding dragon points. Most of the townspeople respect him. Of course, this was before he took in any apprentices.
Fang Zhiyi, who was in his middle age, accepted two apprentices. Because learning this art has always been said to have three disadvantages, many families were unwilling to let their sons learn it. These two apprentices were some exceptions. The elder apprentice, Li Huaian, had no parents and was energetic and full of clever ideas. The younger apprentice was a little stupid, and his parents disliked him. When they heard that Mr. Fang was accepting apprentices, they immediately sent him to Fang Zhiyi. After handing him over, they left without looking back, for fear that he would go back to his parents.
Fang Zhiyi was a kind person and did not mind his two apprentices' shortcomings. On the contrary, he patiently taught them how to read a compass and how to draw talismans and set up formations.
Li Huaian was the first to cause trouble. It happened to be July, and Fang Zhiyi asked him to burn a few incense sticks for the wandering ghosts in the mass grave as usual. Knowing his bad mouth, he specifically reminded him: "Speak less and act carefully, don't disturb the dead." But Li Huaian didn't listen at all. Instead, he thought that his master was making a fuss out of nothing. It was drizzling and a little chilly, but Li Huaian had to work in the rain. He felt aggrieved, so he urinated on a mound of earth, cursing.
Just by peeing, he made the owner of the mound hold a grudge against him. The peddler had died a violent death and was already full of resentment. When he saw what happened to him, the peddler immediately became unhappy and followed him directly. When Li Huaian returned to the town of E, he did not think about going back to his master's house first, but wandered around, teasing the daughter of the restaurant owner and provoking A Cui, the embroiderer at the entrance of the town. As it got dark, the peddler also started to make trouble.
So Li Huaian made a big fool of himself. First, he performed a striptease in front of everyone, which embarrassed the women around him. Then he ran around like a monkey and scratched two passers-by. In the end, his face turned blue and gray, and he fell to the ground foaming at the mouth. It seemed that he was about to die.
Fang Zhiyi, who got the news, hurried over and looked at the apprentice. He just wiped his eyes with his hand and saw the peddler clinging to the apprentice's back. Fang Zhiyi naturally would not sit idly by, so he pulled the peddler off the apprentice and finally put him into the gourd. Li Huaian, who had regained consciousness, looked at the townspeople's ridicule and felt very embarrassed.
Fang Zhiyi also learned that his apprentice had urinated on someone else's head. The peddler didn't want to kill him, he just wanted to vent his anger, so he comforted the peddler and promised to perform a ritual to help him pass away. Then he turned around and scolded Li Huaian again.
Unexpectedly, Li Huaian was still brooding over what happened before, and took advantage of Fang Zhi's accident to throw the gourd containing the peddler's soul into the furnace used by his master to boil medicine. The furnace was inherited by his master from his master, and it was engraved with the pattern of the Heavenly Master. The peddler's soul was roasted in pain in the fire, and eventually dissipated. Li Huaian also breathed a sigh of relief.
Afterwards, he told his master that the evil ghost had escaped. Fang Zhiyi did not doubt it, but just sighed.
"Humans have their own ways, ghosts have their own ways. Those who commit many evil deeds cannot be tolerated by the laws of heaven."
But just after this storm was over, the young apprentice Lin A'dai got into even bigger trouble. His selfish parents lost money gambling outside and suddenly set their sights on him. Under their deception, Lin A'dai dug out his master's house deed and gave it to them. He believed his parents' words that they would just take a look and return it at dawn, so he waited obediently.
It was not until he heard that his master had been driven out by Mr. Huang, a wealthy man in town, that he seemed to realize that he had been cheated and that the house deed had been sold to Mr. Huang by his parents.
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