Chapter 46
3 Corpse Damage to Wealth
Fatty Lin's most impressive trait is his silver tongue. No matter how good he is, he can easily fool people with just a few words.
For example, this Qimen Dunjia divination left Li Xiaomei and Hua Zong completely bewildered.
The main advantage is that he explains things in a simple and easy-to-understand way, making his points easy to understand and reasonable.
"The hour stem is the platform palace, representing the career one is engaged in. It is Bing (丙) falling in the Kan palace. The Kan position represents due north, belongs to the water element, and water represents wealth..."
Fatty Lin explained as he calculated, and after nearly five minutes, he paused, looked at Li Xiaomei, and asked, "Fourth Sister, what's due north of our factory?"
"It's the factory gate!" Li Xiaomei said.
"Judging from the positions in the Qimen Dunjia divination chart, someone has definitely set up a trap near the factory gate!"
"That's what Fatty Lin asserted."
"What should we do then?"
Li Xiaomei hurriedly asked.
"If we find the object and dig it out, this trap can be broken!" I said.
"Little sister, look, even if Xiao Lin's divination points out a wrong direction, once you arrive, you'll find the item with ease!" Hua Zong said with a smile.
"Um!"
Li Xiaomei nodded.
"Don't worry, you know that famous fortune teller Long Po from the capital, right?" Hua Zong asked.
"I've heard of her; she's supposedly very effective. I wanted to find her this time, but after asking around, I learned she's disappeared!"
After Li Xiaomei finished speaking, she glanced at Fatty Lin and asked, "Is this related to Xiao Lin?"
"related!"
Hua Zong smiled and nodded, saying, "She disappeared after her magical duel with Xiao Lin!"
"It was a Pyrrhic victory for me. I came to Beijing hoping to have another match with her, but she ran away!"
When this was mentioned, Fatty Lin was both reserved and slightly proud.
After thinking about it for a while, I understand why Mr. Hua values Fatty Lin.
I was valued because of my acupuncture skills, while Fatty Lin was valued mostly because of this runaway old woman.
"Xiao Lin, don't worry, she can run away but she can't hide. She'll show her face sooner or later!" Hua Zong comforted her.
"Third Master, it's not that I want to cause her trouble, it's just that she's too insidious!"
Fatty Lin started by talking about Bai Xue changing her fate and explained what had happened.
During his explanation, he emphasized the story of Luang Phor killing infants to change their fate.
Can infanticide really change one's fate?
After listening, Hua asked curiously.
"able!"
Fatty Lin nodded and said, "But the aftereffects are also significant. Bai Xue's luck did improve after changing her fate, but it's also a fact that she was later haunted by vengeful spirits and lived a life worse than death!"
I didn't say anything. As soon as I heard what Hua Zong said, I knew that he wasn't just curious.
He's already so lucky, what more could he possibly want to change?
Fatty Lin understood what Hua Zong meant, but he didn't say anything. He just kept talking about the aftereffects of this kind of evil magic.
At first, Hua Zong listened with great interest, but later he realized something was wrong, and his expression changed.
Fortunately, we arrived at Panggezhuang.
After arriving at the location, we got out of the car and walked around in front of the factory gate.
"Xiao Lin, shouldn't we go inside the factory and take a look?"
Seeing that Fatty Lin didn't seem to be going in, Li Xiaomei asked him a question.
"Need not!"
Fatty Lin shook his head and asked, "Fourth Sister, besides the cat meowing and the crow cawing, did you hear any other sounds or see anything else?"
"I haven't heard any other noises, but I've been dreaming about bats these past few days!" Li Xiaomei said after thinking for a moment.
"I see!"
A knowing glint flashed in Fatty Lin's eyes. He calculated for a moment, then walked to a bare willow tree to the left of the factory gate, stepped on the base of the tree, and said, "Fourth Sister, do you have a shovel?"
"have!"
Li Xiaomei nodded and asked, "Are we going to dig up this tree?"
"No need to dig it up, but I suspect there's something under this tree, so we should dig it out!" Fatty Lin said.
"I'll call the workers out to dig!" Li Xiaomei said immediately.
Soon, Li Xiaomei called out five or six workers, and together they started digging under the willow tree.
In less than two minutes, they dug up a metal box.
"Be careful!"
Upon seeing the box, Fatty Lin immediately took charge and personally directed the workers to dig it up.
Soon, the entire box was revealed.
The box is about half a meter long and about 20 centimeters wide and high. It is all black, locked, and very well sealed.
"Get out of my way!"
Seeing the exposed box, Fatty Lin waved his hand, picked up a shovel, and walked over to the box.
"Watch out!" I said to Fatty Lin as I moved closer.
"fine!"
Fatty Lin smiled, picked up the shovel, and dug at the lock twice, removing it from the lock.
Remove the lock, open the box, and inside are three wooden boxes bound with red rope.
Seeing this, not only Li Xiaomei, but also the workers realized that something was wrong.
Fatty Lin stared at the boxes for a moment, then opened the leftmost box.
When it was opened, a dried-up dead cat was revealed, with a red cloth tied around its neck with a red rope.
"Whoa!"
Upon seeing the dead cat, a collective gasp rippled through the crowd.
Lin the Fat ignored them, stared at the cat's head for a moment, then slowly turned to the side, mimicking the cat in the box. Following the direction of the cat's dry eye sockets, he looked into the factory and pointed, asking, "What's that place over there?"
Li Xiaomei and the workers looked into the factory together, chattering about all sorts of things.
Fatty Lin frowned and opened the second wooden box.
As soon as the box was opened, the gasping sound grew louder; inside was a featherless crow.
Like the cat in the first box, this crow also had a red cloth tied around its neck with a red rope.
Not only that, the crow's eyes were also fixed on the factory.
Lin Pangzi followed suit and looked into the factory in the direction the crow's eyes were looking.
After getting up, Fatty Lin opened the third box, revealing a dried bat.
Unsurprisingly, this bat, like the cat and the crow, also had a red cloth tied around its neck with a red rope, and its eyes were fixed on the factory.
Fatty Lin thought for a moment, then drew a line along the gaze of each of the three corpses. The three lines converged, and following this line, Fatty Lin looked back at the factory, pointed, and asked, "What's that location?"
"It looks like my office!" Li Xiaomei said after looking around.
"Yes, that's General Manager Li's office!"
"That's what one of the workers said."
Unlike before, this time, opinions were quickly reached.
"Um!"
Fatty Lin nodded, took out the cat's corpse, and found a piece of yellow paper covered with bloody writing underneath it.
Picking up the yellow paper, Fatty Lin looked at the words on it and read them aloud in a low voice: "Year of Yi Chou, Month of Ding Si, Day of Geng Yin, Hour of Xin Chou, disciple Huang Daguang, with the incantation of my blood, commands the Three Corpse Gods..."
Halfway through reading, Fatty Lin stopped and brought out two more corpses.
As expected, beneath each of the two corpses was a piece of yellow paper covered in blood-written words, the contents of which were exactly the same as the first one.
"The Three Corpses bring misfortune and wealth!"
Looking at the three identical yellow papers, Fatty Lin solemnly uttered a few words.