“Oh, what a stench!”
Chu Miaoyi was just about to get out of the car when she caught a whiff of a foul, fishy odor. She hurriedly returned inside and shut the door tightly.
Lin Xue also smelled the stench and immediately turned on the car’s air conditioning. She waved at Shui Miao through the window and said, “We won’t get out. The smell is just too unbearable—we’re about to vomit! Please hurry back after you finish.”
However, the air blown in by the air conditioning was equally unpleasant.
“Just come out. The wind is picking up; the smell will soon disappear.”
Shui Miao smiled faintly, activating his immortal powers to shield himself from the foul smell. He simultaneously harnessed the elemental force of wind from his mastery of Feng Shui, creating a gust to disperse the stench. Once Lin Xue and the others stepped out of the car, he began walking with them toward the house.
Suddenly, the wind picked up. A couple of hundred meters away, near the riverbank, a middle-aged man who had been dumping feces into the water looked around. Spotting two people in police uniforms and a young man getting out of a car and heading his way, he froze in shock, hastily setting down the buckets and pole, and stood there dumbfounded.
“Oh my god! This is seriously disgusting! He actually uses human feces to raise fish?!”
Shui Miao used his spiritual perception and immediately discovered many silver carp in the large ponds surrounding the house from the southeast, north, and south directions. He deduced that this was indeed a large fish farm. However, the practice of using feces to raise fish was utterly unacceptable.
“Shui Miao, I don’t want to go any further. This place is just too revolting.”
Chu Miaoyi covered her chest. Although the wind had picked up, she could still smell waves of nauseating stench.
Lin Xue chimed in, “Yeah! From now on, I’m never eating fish again. Who in the world does something like this?!”
“Ahh!”
Shui Miao stopped in his tracks, activating his wood-element immortal power to purify the air around Chu Miaoyi and Lin Xue. He sighed, saying, “The reason I asked you to come out here was to show you the reason behind this household’s ruined Feng Shui and to teach you something useful that you might need in the future.”
“Is that so? Then quickly tell us about it!”
Influenced by Shui Miao’s wood-element power, Chu Miaoyi could no longer smell the stench and felt her spirits lift instantly.
Surprised that the smell had suddenly vanished, Lin Xue sniffed her nose repeatedly and cautiously asked Shui Miao, “Did you make the stench disappear?”
Shui Miao nodded slightly at Lin Xue, then turned his gaze toward the middle-aged man. This man, honest and simple, had never spoken to the police in his entire life. He was so frightened that he stood frozen in place, looking extremely nervous and scared. Shui Miao inwardly sighed and decided that after explaining the Feng Shui knowledge to Lin Xue and Chu Miaoyi, he would go talk to the man alone to avoid scaring him further.
Then, Shui Miao began his explanation: “East, south, west, north, and center represent wood, fire, metal, water, and earth, respectively. A house is a place for the living to rest and maintain their vitality. The atmosphere of a house is influenced by the five-element energies coming from different directions, which in turn affects the people living inside. Each type of energy has its unique properties. When affected for a long time, a person’s physical condition will also change. This is why northerners have fair skin, southerners are darker, westerners have golden hair, and the people of the Chinese land are of the yellow race. All of this is connected to the yin-yang and five-element energies. The saying ‘local water and soil nurture local people’ is based on this principle.”
“Why are many houses built facing south with their backs to the north? It’s because of the influence of these energies. The north represents water and yin. A house constantly exposed to cold northern winds will lose its yang energy, making people prone to illness. Therefore, houses are generally built with their backs to the north and facing the sunlight, so that people can benefit and rest better.”
“But a place like this has its Feng Shui completely ruined! Although the house is facing south with its back to the north, the surrounding ponds are all stagnant water not connected to any external waterways. Stagnant water lacks vitality and is filled with negative energy, directly affecting the residents and blocking the flow of positive energies from three directions. Being so close to the house, it’s like cutting off three paths of fortune. In such a case, if the homeowner had a metal element in his birth chart, it might be tolerable since there’s still a path open to the west. But what’s even more ridiculous is that they dump feces into the fishponds. The negative energy combined with filth creates a destructive force, forming a deadly and malevolent spot. Therefore, I’m certain that this uncle must have an extremely strong birth chart, while the rest of his family probably hasn’t been so lucky.”
After finishing his explanation, Shui Miao waved his hand, “I’ve said all I needed to. I hope this will help you avoid similar mistakes in the future. Alright, this uncle is a simple man, and he’s afraid of the police. You two go back to the car. I’ll go talk to him alone.”
Shui Miao started walking toward the middle-aged man.
Lin Xue and Chu Miaoyi returned to the car.
Just at that moment, a peasant woman happened to be passing by on her way to cut grass in the fields. Chu Miaoyi and Lin Xue stopped her and asked about the man who had been dumping feces into the fishpond.
The peasant woman told them that the man was named Lei Gong San, and he had an extremely strong birth chart. He had married three women, the first two of whom had died, and the third was now seriously ill and near death. The three wives had given birth to five children, but only one son remained, who worked away from home and rarely returned. Although Lei Gong San appeared honest and kind, he was actually extremely stingy. He made a living by raising fish and was not poor financially, but he never used commercial fish feed. Instead, he would go to city toilets to collect feces to feed the fish.
Lin Xue and Chu Miaoyi were amazed, realizing how significant the impact of Feng Shui could be on people’s lives.
They silently felt grateful for Shui Miao’s sincere guidance.
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At the edge of the fishpond, Shui Miao explained his purpose and offered the man 50,000 yuan, but the man refused to take it, insisting he was already wealthy. He also told Shui Miao that the female ghost wasn’t his real daughter but an adopted child who had gone missing years ago and had never been found. He had even forgotten about her over the years.
Seeing that the man didn’t seem at all distressed and noticing his slanted eyes, Shui Miao realized that the man was emotionally detached.
Shui Miao forcibly left the 50,000 yuan, claiming it was repayment for the girl’s gratitude, and turned to leave directly.
He had originally intended to warn the man about the terrible Feng Shui of the place, but seeing how well the man was doing, Shui Miao suddenly understood that the man’s strong birth chart was only part of the reason—he was also saved by the fish in the pond.
The water was stagnant, and the feces were dirty, but the fish were alive.
The fish consumed the feces and brought life to the stagnant water, which was why the man hadn’t been harmed by the negative energies.
However, if someone with a weaker birth chart lived here, it would be a serious problem.
Truly, one can keep learning until old age but never learn enough!
Shui Miao felt unexpectedly amazed, realizing how mysterious human destiny could be. Even in the most extreme Feng Shui conditions, there are still people who can survive.
Returning to the car, Shui Miao drove back to Guo Jing’s villa. By then, Guo Jing and his wife had already left in their car, leaving the villa completely empty. Lin Xue retrieved the surveillance camera, and everyone returned the way they came. However, just as the car reached the intersection, Lin Xue spotted the old nun running toward them in a flustered manner. As she ran, she kept waving frantically, looking extremely anxious, as if something terrible had happened.
“What’s wrong?”
Lin Xue stopped the car, opened the door, and stepped out to meet the old nun.
“It’s terrible, terrible! They’re dead, both my master and my senior aunt are dead! You must help me prove my innocence—I didn’t kill them!” The old nun was extremely nervous, fearing that others would blame her for the deaths of her master and senior aunt: “Please come quickly and take a look. The way they died is really strange!”
“Hmm?”
Shui Miao’s eyebrows slightly furrowed. He immediately calmed his mind and expanded his spiritual perception…
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