"...When I came in through the gate just now, I found that in the yard..."
"impossible!"
Mr. Xu suddenly interrupted Jing Cheng in a harsh tone.
Jing Cheng, who was reminiscing, was startled by him and looked at him in confusion: "What's impossible?"
Old Xu coughed lightly and rubbed the armrests to cover up. He seemed to realize his own misconduct and smiled awkwardly but politely at Jing Cheng: "I was too excited. Sorry."
Jing Cheng: “…” Did he say anything exciting just now?
Old Xu glanced at Jing Cheng and said calmly, "My friend just said that there is a big problem with the Feng Shui of my house. Do you know that my villa was designed and inspected by a professional from its construction to its layout? I have invited many Feng Shui masters to take a look, and no one has ever said that there is a problem. You are the first person to say so."
Hearing this, Jing Cheng was stunned for a moment and lowered his head in deep thought.
Old Xu took this opportunity to take a serious look at Jing Cheng. He hadn't paid much attention to him just now. This child looks too young. How can he be 16 years old? The suspicion that he had suppressed in his heart could not help but emerge. Can you really believe what a child of this age says?
On their way back, he heard the other party say that he was a member of the Jing family. As far as he knew, there was only one family with the surname Jing in this community. The family had two sons. The eldest son was a business upstart and was at least twenty-four or twenty-five years old. The second son was still in school. He was uneducated and had all the five vices. His reputation was so bad that even he, an old man who didn't care about the outside world, had heard of him.
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But after observing the other person carefully, Mr. Xu was unable to connect the godlike young man in front of him with the domineering young man in the rumors.
Just look at the Tai Chi that the other party demonstrated this morning. The movements were smooth and the eyes were clear, which was inconsistent with the rumors... Could the rumors be wrong? Old Xu thought.
Jing Cheng thought for a moment and said thoughtfully: "That means there is something wrong with their level. You might have met a liar."
Mr. Xu: “…” I feel like you are a liar now.
"I have seen many charlatans who swindle people by claiming to be Feng Shui masters."
Jing Cheng looked directly at the old man opposite him and said seriously, "These people are very good at figuring out the employer's psychology, and most of them set up traps in advance to lure people into them, such as burglary at home, inexplicable bad luck, hearing strange noises at night, or animals dying at home... In fact, these scams are very low-level, but there are always some fools in this world who like to jump into the trap."
"..." He understood what was said, it was clearly about him again! Old Xu was unhappy. Why was this kid cursing in a roundabout way? But after all, the other party saved his life, so he couldn't say bad things. So Old Xu could only ask politely: "My friend, do you know Taoist Zhang Jinhuai?"
Who is that?
Jing Cheng shook his head and said, "I don't know him."
You really don't know him? Old Xu was surprised and said, "Daoist Zhang is the descendant of Zhang Tianshi and is now the vice president of the Taoist Association. I thought that since you are a Taoist, you should know him."
In this day and age, there are still people who claim to be descendants of Zhang Tianshi?
Jing Cheng just thought it was ridiculous. The Zhang family of Longhu Mountain had long been in decline, but because of their great influence in Taoism, there was a folk song circulating among the people at that time: "It will never die out, it will never be wiped out, there will be a break after sixty-three generations." This meant that the descendants of Zhang Tianshi would end with the sixty-third generation.
Because sixty-three corresponds to the sixty-third hexagram of the Book of Changes: Water and Water are in harmony, Kan is on top and Li is on the bottom.
Ji Ji Gua is the most perfect Gua in Zhou Yi, that is to say, its Yang Yao is in Yang position, Yin Yao is in Yin position, and the six Yaos are in the right position. Chu Jiu and Liu-Four, Liu Er and Jiu Wu, Jiu San and Shang Liu are all in accordance with each other, and the six Yaos are in accordance with each other. Its lower Gua main Yao Liu Er is in the middle and right position with "softness" and supports hardness, while Jiu Wu is in the middle and right position with softness, so it is a combination of hardness and softness.
Precisely because it is too perfect, it will inevitably go downhill, which means "prosperity and decline".
In his time, there were innumerable impostors, but most of them were from the side branches of the Zhang family. It was unexpected that a hundred years later, there were still people who relied on Zhang Tianshi's banner to rise to the top. Was the Zhang family's name so useful?
Old Xu smiled and said, "When the villa was built, I invited Taoist Zhang to lay out the layout for me. All the Feng Shui ornaments in the villa were checked by Taoist Zhang a few years ago... By the way, Taoist Zhang is also a young hero like you, and he is only in college now."
Hearing the praise for this "Master Zhang" hidden in the words of Mr. Xu, Jing Cheng felt very unwilling to admit defeat.
In the past, the Zhang family was deeply favored by rulers of all generations. It was like a huge mountain pressing down on the other families, making it hard for them to breathe. Many Tianshi families could only retreat from the world to avoid the attack.
After Jing Cheng came down the mountain, he was often suppressed by the Taoist priests of the Zhang family. Once, he was blocked in an alley and put into a sack because he exposed a scam by someone who claimed to be "the descendant of Zhang Tianshi". The man held a grudge against him. Later, the employer not only did not thank him, but believed the scammer and became an accomplice of the evil. Since then, Jing Cheng never meddled in other people's business again.
Now that Taoism is in decline, the Jing family has chosen to "change careers", but the swindlers under the banner of the Zhang family are still able to stand at the top of Taoism... Jing Cheng thought, it's really as annoying as ever.
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At this moment, Zhang Jinhuai, who was attending classes at Shangjing University, suddenly sneezed loudly, which scared his classmate at the next table. The students around him all looked over.
"My throat hurts when I hear you sneezing. Are you okay?" said the classmate at the next table with lingering fear.
Zhang Jinhuai rubbed his nose and said in a muffled voice: "I'm fine."
After a while, he seemed to have thought of something, suddenly put down his pen, and began to calculate with his left hand.
The slender, white fingers have distinct joints, and they fly up and down very flexibly, and the movements are quite pleasing to the eye.
"What are you doing? Are you telling fortunes?" his classmates asked him curiously.
After a long while, Zhang Jinhuai's fingers finally stopped moving. He frowned and looked at the hexagram he had calculated, and said, "Well, Zhuge Liang's pre-horse lesson."
The classmate was very interested in the Taoist method, and he became even more excited after hearing this: "I know this question! Are you using the Taoist Xiao Liu Ren? What did you calculate?"
Zhang Jinhuai raised his eyebrows, stared at his fingers, and smiled with an ambiguous smile. He said slowly: "I calculated that a strong enemy of mine is about to appear."
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