Chapter 2 The Murder Case of the Old Fang Family
After Xiao Yu finished explaining the case, the group arrived at the town.
"This is it." He stopped in front of an old courtyard wall and pushed open the door covered with official seals. "My eldest son died of illness in his bed in the master bedroom. His mother drowned in the well in the backyard. The bodies have been buried. The surviving youngest son couldn't accept it and has moved away."
"Please come in, fortune teller." He waved his fan.
He really wanted to see for himself whether these fortune tellers, who were said to be so miraculous in the government offices, were really more capable than those charlatans in the capital.
Or is it also deceiving the superstitious and ignorant villagers?
Xu Chuchu didn't go in immediately.
She didn't know Xiao Yu's little thoughts, so she just stepped back a few steps to take a closer look at the feng shui of the house.
The "House Classic" says: "A yang house has yang energy embracing yin, and a yin house has yin energy and yang."
What this means is that a yang house is not necessarily a good house suitable for living. A yang house also needs to have yang energy and yin.
Conversely, a tomb is not necessarily uninhabitable. As long as there is yin energy embracing yang, it can be a good house with good feng shui.
The so-called yin and yang complement each other.
Of course, if the earth veins become dragons and are suppressed by dragon energy, then the feng shui will be extremely prosperous regardless of yin or yang.
However, most dragon veins are taken away early by powerful Feng Shui masters, so ordinary people don’t get the chance to benefit from them.
"Master Xu?" Xiao Yu discovered that this fortune teller particularly liked to daydream.
"Oh." Xu Chuchu came back to his senses. "The dragon head of this house is facing Si, and the tail is facing Hai. It is an extremely yin house. Someone died there recently. People with weak bodies should not go in. They should wait outside to avoid damaging the spleen and lungs."
After saying that, he strode in.
No... who is the weak person when you say that?
If a little girl can go in, then those who don’t go in are not men!
Xiao Yu thought she was just pretending to scare him, so he snorted and followed her in.
The followers felt a little embarrassed after hearing Xu Chuchu's words, but since their master had come in, they had no choice but to follow.
I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but as soon as I entered this house, I felt that the sunlight couldn’t come in. Even though there was no wind, there was still a yin energy that kept getting into my sleeves.
After Xu Chuchu entered, he checked the bedroom where his eldest son died and the well in the backyard according to what Xiao Yu said, but he found nothing.
The body had been removed and buried, and the scene was said to be undisturbed, but there were no signs of a struggle, let alone blood.
Even the water at the well was crystal clear. If you hadn't heard about it, who would have thought that someone had drowned here?
"Is there a record of the coroner's autopsy?" Xu Chuchu asked Xiao Yu.
"You fortune tellers still believe in coroners? Can't they tell the truth just by counting on their fingers?" Xiao Yu raised his eyebrows.
Xu Chuchu was helpless, not knowing whether this noble young man was here to ask for help or to find trouble.
"Just tell me whether you have one or not."
Xiao Yu curled the corners of his mouth and signaled his attendant to show Xu Chuchu the coroner's autopsy record.
"The eldest son died of diabetes, his father died of a head bleed, and his mother died of drowning," he said. "The coroner is very experienced and won't make mistakes."
Xu Chuchu nodded as she looked at it.
Diabetes mellitus is the modern equivalent of diabetes.
In a small town like this where there are only barefoot doctors, even a cold can easily take a person's life, not to mention diabetes which cannot be cured in modern times. It is already very difficult to detect it during an autopsy.
"Where is the eldest daughter-in-law? She still hasn't been found?" Xu Chuchu returned the autopsy record to Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu said with his hands behind his back, "There have been many caravans and carriages traveling to various towns recently, so it's hard to find the whereabouts of my eldest daughter-in-law for the time being."
Upon hearing this answer, Xu Chuchu's face fell.
I thought he was a rich man, but I didn't expect him to be a troublemaker.
If he wasn't good-looking, I wouldn't want to play with him.
"I'm afraid Young Master Xiao isn't telling the truth." She stepped closer to Xiao Yu and launched a barrage of verbal attacks. "Young Master Xiao has his arms folded and his eyes wandering – the epitome of a liar."
"If this case is really as Young Master Xiao said, that this family suffered a sudden disaster without any human intervention, then why should we continue investigating?"
"I guess Master Xiao still has some information that he hasn't revealed yet."
"Oh, no rush." Xu Chuchu interrupted Xiao Yu again, "Let me, the physiognomist, do the math and see if what I calculate is the same as what Young Master Xiao has found out."
"You charlatan, stop being so rude to our young master!" One of Xiao Yu's followers jumped out and stood between the two men. "The young master asked you to help solve the case. That's the blessing you've earned in three lifetimes. Don't be ungrateful."
Xu Chuchu chuckled. She might not know in three lifetimes, but it would definitely happen in one lifetime.
If she had not been punished by God in her previous life, she would not have encountered so many problems in this life.
"Don't stop her from calculating. Let's see what she can figure out." Xiao Yu showed no anger. He used his folding fan to push away the followers, his eyes full of amusement.
Xu Chuchu took off the bag, untied it and spread it flat on the ground. He took some thin bamboo sticks and held them in his hands. Then he sat cross-legged on the ground and closed his eyes.
He neither burned incense nor worshipped Buddha like other masters, nor did he take a bath or change clothes. He just chanted something.
"Assuming your predictions are accurate, I'm still unsure about the Fang family's tragic incident. I'm asking the gods about my doubts."
"Good or bad, gain or loss, regret or misfortune, worry or anxiety, only God knows you clearly!"
After saying that, she took out a bamboo stick, placed it horizontally in front of her, and scattered the remaining bamboo sticks into two piles at random. Her fingers moved back and forth quickly, so fast that it was almost impossible to see clearly.
No one had ever seen such a strange and complicated method of divination.
Although Xu Chuchu was pale and thin, her hands seemed to be well-maintained, with slender, white, tender and delicate fingers. Seeing her telling fortunes and plucking bamboo sticks was like a fairy playing the piano, which was dazzling for a moment.
I don't know when she stopped moving.
"Xun below and Gen above, Gu Gua Yuan Heng." Xu Chuchu's eyes darkened, "Oh no, this is really not good."
"What's wrong?" Xiao Yu frowned.
Xu Chuchu climbed up and said, "The result is the Gu hexagram. The Gu hexagram is divided into the 'lower Xun hexagram' and the 'upper Gen hexagram'. The Xun hexagram represents the eldest daughter, and the Gen hexagram represents the mountains. The six lines remain unchanged, which means Yuanheng. This means that the eldest daughter in the family has a Gu poison disease, so be careful of the curse."
"Be careful of the curse? But the Fang family doesn't have an eldest daughter..." Xiao Yu paused, then reacted, "You mean, the eldest daughter-in-law?"
"That's right." Xu Chuchu said, "In the Book of Changes, the eldest son's wife and the eldest daughter are connected. It is said that they are missing, but since it has been so long since the incident, I am afraid that the eldest daughter-in-law has died."
She looked at Xiao Yu and pointed out bluntly, "Young Master Xiao, you suspect the same thing, don't you? That's why when you first came to me, you told me you were investigating a 'missing person', not a 'murder case'. Because in this case, the disappearance of your eldest daughter-in-law is your main concern, and it's also the breakthrough you intend to solve the case, right?"
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