“I’ll choose semi-thorough…”
Guo Jing made what he thought was the wisest decision.
“People always harbor a sense of侥幸. I knew you’d choose this path,” Shui Miao rubbed his chin. “But achieving semi-thoroughness is extremely, extremely difficult. Even if I don’t bring you trouble, your destiny will.”
“Fate causing me trouble! What do you mean by that?”
Guo Jing now completely trusted Shui Miao. If Shui Miao told him to defecate, he wouldn’t dare to urinate.
Shui Miao paused, then picked up a clod of dirt from the ground and threw it into the distance. “See that? The dirt flies out and then falls back down. This is like fate. Fate has its own trajectory. Once it flies up, it must fall back down. It can’t fly up without falling back down because it’s just dirt, not a bird. Your current fate is like falling dirt. What I want to help you with is to prevent you from falling, to fly a bit further. To put it simply, I want to help you defy heaven and change your fate.”
“Defy heaven and change my fate!” Guo Jing became excited and quickly said, “Master, your kindness to me is like that of my parents. No matter what you ask me to do, I’ll obey. As long as you can save me, I’m willing to go all out!”
“Hmph! I don’t want to be your reborn parents. I didn’t see you particularly upset when your parents died so tragically.” Shui Miao shook his head and turned to leave, “Let me be straightforward with you. I’m helping you just to verify my ability to defy heaven and change fate. Also, my help isn’t free. You need to pay me a fee.”
“No problem, no problem! How much do you want? I’ll give you whatever amount!” Guo Jing hurried to follow Shui Miao like a loyal puppy.
Shui Miao scoffed, “You’ll give me whatever amount? How about one hundred million? Do you have that?”
“Uh…hehe…”
Guo Jing was embarrassed. “Master, I don’t have one hundred million, but I can get one or two million.”
“Alright, I’m not asking you to get more by corruption. I just need one hundred thousand yuan.” Shui Miao needed this money partly to repay Lin Xue thirty thousand yuan, plan to give five thousand to the ghost girl’s parents, and keep twenty thousand for himself for emergencies.
Guo Jing nodded repeatedly. “No problem, no problem. The money is in my bag upstairs. I’ll go get it right now.”
“Now?”
Shui Miao’s mind stirred and he shook his head. “Your first challenge right now is this woman of yours. After you go back, she will definitely quarrel with you, accusing you of having an affair with the female police officer. When she sees you taking money, she will try to stop you. If you insist on taking the money, she will surely resent me. Then, when she sees you obeying me and taking money to do good deeds, she will argue with you. When she doesn’t get the results she wants, she will definitely ask for a divorce and demand some money from you. If you don’t give it to her, she will report you, making you completely reform yourself.”
Based on his own experience, Shui Miao boldly guessed Tao Yaoyao’s reaction.
After Shui Miao’s explanation, Guo Jing immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. Given Tao Yaoyao’s personality, she really would do that. “M-Master, what should I do?”
“What should you do?”
Shui Miao sneered. “Only now do you think to ask what to do? When you were attracted to her before, why didn’t you think about what kind of person she was? Oh, I know. Back then, your mind was surely filled with how beautiful she was, how charming and sexy she was?”
“Master, why didn’t I meet you earlier!”
Guo Jing was filled with regret.
“If we had met earlier, I might not have been able to help you. This is all fate, the will of heaven!” Shui Miao gently shook his head. “Perhaps, you and she have deep hatred from a past life. As the saying goes, the one who tied the bell must be the one to untie it. You married her, so you must take responsibility. I can only help you a little, just enough to point you in the right direction. Ultimately, how to resolve this grudge between you and her depends on yourself.”
“Oh! This is troublesome now. I can’t get rid of her!”
Guo Jing sighed deeply, looking very distressed.
Seeing this, Shui Miao smiled faintly. “Not necessarily. I see your aura is quite good. Your fate hasn’t gotten to the point of being extremely bad. Perhaps, after you turn to doing good, you might receive some unexpected help. It’s not impossible.”
“Turn to doing good and my fate will change?” Guo Jing seemed to grasp a lifeline.
Shui Miao nodded. “Of course. There are many ways to change your fate. Feng Shui of ancestral graves, Feng Shui of living houses, doing good deeds to accumulate virtue, studying to understand the Dao—all can change your fate. But the most important thing is sincerity. If you try to change your fate with a mindset of seeking shortcuts, in the end, you will gain nothing.”
“Thank you, Master, for your guidance. I think I know what to do now.”
Guo Jing wasn’t a fool. He immediately understood what Shui Miao meant.
“Let me use my divine power to expel the alcohol, lust, and greed from your body to give you a helping hand.” Shui Miao stretched out his hand and placed it on Guo Jing’s head. Using fresh water and wood elemental power, he helped Guo Jing expel the turbid energy from his body. He then gathered and squeezed the fat and filth in his abdomen to his lower abdomen. “Alright, go and expel them. Remember, eat more vegetarian food in the future. It helps keep your mind sharp. The energy of alcohol and lust only makes your mind dull and increasingly corrupt.”
After saying this, Shui Miao turned and left.
Guo Jing’s lower abdomen was swollen and painful. He didn’t care anymore and quickly found a place to lower his pants, squatted down, and had a loud bowel movement. He emptied his stomach and expelled a large amount of dark, blackish substance…
After defecating, Guo Jing felt refreshed, as if his whole body had become lighter by more than ten pounds. He felt light and comfortable.
But when he looked back, he was even scared himself. This wasn’t human excrement—it was clearly a big pile of cow dung!
Shui Miao was waiting in front of the villa.
As Shui Miao had predicted, after Guo Jing returned home, Tao Yaoyao indeed went crazy and had a big argument with him. Guo Jing was provoked to anger and slapped her, which stunned Tao Yaoyao, making her dare not continue her loud complaints. Guo Jing gave Shui Miao one hundred thousand yuan. Shui Miao said that he would appear when Guo Jing needed him in the future, but changing one’s fate ultimately depended on Guo Jing himself.
Guo Jing completely trusted Shui Miao, repeatedly thanked him, and stood at the roadside watching the police car leave.
Then, he went back to get a grass hook and pulled the box up from the boat cabin.
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“Lin Jie, this is your thirty thousand, and this five thousand is interest.”
Shui Miao was good at being considerate, giving Lin Xue an extra five thousand.
“Ha, so generous!” Lin Xue laughed happily. “Then I’ll take it. After all, you earn money easily, ha!”
Chu Miaoyi lightly shook her head with a smile, turned on the surveillance equipment inside the police car, and saw Guo Jing pulling up boxes.
Guo Jing finally managed to pull the box out of the boat cabin and used all his strength to try to move the box onto the shore. However, the box was too heavy. With no choice, he had to open the box, take out a backpack from the car, and start putting gold bars into the backpack, which was clearly captured on camera.
“Wow, there are really so many gold bars!” Chu Miaoyi was amazed. “Hmm, by the way, with so many gold bars, why didn’t he ask his wife to help him carry them?”
Shui Miao glanced at the camera display and lightly smiled. “It seems my words have taken effect. He’s being cautious with that woman now.”
Chu Miaoyi looked at Shui Miao curiously and asked, “Shui Miao, do you really think you can reform this Guo Jing and turn him into a good person?”
“Yes! He’s a corrupt official, and greed is deeply rooted in his mind. How could he change just because of a few words from you? As the saying goes, ‘It’s easier to change a mountain’s shape than a person’s nature.’ I don’t think Guo Jing can become a good person.”
Shui Miao looked at the camera display and lightly smiled. “It seems my words have taken effect. He’s being cautious with that woman now.”
Chu Miaoyi looked at Shui Miao curiously and asked, “Shui Miao, do you really think you can reform this Guo Jing and turn him into a good person?”
“Yes! He’s a corrupt official, and greed is deeply rooted in his mind. How could he change just because of a few words from you? As the saying goes, ‘It’s easier to change a mountain’s shape than a person’s nature.’ I don’t think Guo Jing can become a good person.”
Shui Miao lightly shook his head and said with a smile, “Nothing in the world is absolute. I also want to know whether he will truly change or not. Anyway, I’ve already adjusted him to the best condition. Whether he can change his fate depends on his own efforts.” He paused for a moment. “Moreover, this is also a great opportunity for us to understand the mysteries of fate. I want to know whether humans can truly change their fate.”
“This is hard to verify, isn’t it? Is there any comparable reference?” Chu Miaoyi’s pair of lively eyes sparkled as she looked at Shui Miao.
The corners of Shui Miao’s mouth slightly lifted, revealing a confident smile. “Of course, it can be verified. I see that his ears are sharp and thin, and his forehead is narrow. This clearly indicates a lack of future blessings and even the possibility of imprisonment. I noticed that he wasn’t sweating anywhere else, but his forehead was sweating heavily, and his hall of fate was very dim. Combined with the tragic deaths of his parents, it’s enough to prove that a great disaster is about to befall him. If I’m not mistaken, he will face a major disaster within seven days. However, if his fate changes, the situation will be hard to predict.”
“Seven days, seven days isn’t much. Then let’s wait and see,” Chu Miaoyi smiled lightly. She thought in her heart that if all the bad people in the world could be transformed into good people and contribute to society, it would truly be a wonderful thing. She would be happy even if the profession of police officers no longer existed.
Lin Xue wasn’t as imaginative. “Anyway, the video of him hiding so many gold bars has already been recorded by us. If he doesn’t repent, that video will be evidence to punish him.”
“Ah, you’re right. Now let’s take a detour to the south. I need to give some money to the parents of that female ghost,” Shui Miao turned his head and pointed in the southern direction of the villa.
“Alright!”
Upon hearing this, Lin Xue immediately turned the steering wheel and made a sharp turn.
The car was going too fast, and Lin Xue actually crashed the police car into a dirt grave by the roadside.
“Lin Jie, you’re really bold! You dared to hit that grave?” Shui Miao sensed that there was no yin soul inside this grave. If there were a yin soul, crashing into a yin grave would be a big deal. A yin grave is like a house, but it’s the house of a ghost. Imagine, if you damaged someone else’s house, would they let you off easily?
“What’s there to be afraid of? We have you with us, don’t we?”
Lin Xue regarded Shui Miao as a talisman and was fearless.
Seeing Shui Miao’s serious expression, Chu Miaoyi knew the matter wasn’t that simple. She quickly said to Lin Xue, “Lin Xue Jie, we can’t do this in the future. Look at how serious Shui Miao is. It must not be okay to do this.”
“Thankfully, there was no ghost in that grave. otherwise, it would have been troublesome.”
Shui Miao gently shook his head. “Don’t rush. We have plenty of time. Drive slowly.”
“Oh…”
Lin Xue smiled awkwardly but didn’t slow down much.
The car soon arrived at the place where the female ghost’s parents lived.
As soon as Shui Miao got out of the car, a strong stench of blood and filth hit him in the face. Looking up, he immediately felt his scalp tingling. The feng shui of this place was truly terrible. Someone was even pouring feces into the water!
What kind of nonsense was this!
With things going on like this, how could anyone live here anymore?
Right, could the girl ghost’s death also be related to the feng shui here?
Seeing the current feng shui, Shui Miao immediately thought of many things.
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