Chapter 135: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 135

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

The next day Liang Yuanchao helped Wang Zhanggen contact the Geography Master. This Geography Master was an old man in his sixties, with gray-white hair, a thin build, and bronze skin. On the surface he looked no different from an ordinary farmer, except that he held a book on feng shui in his hand.

He followed Wang Zhanggen up the mountain to his father's grave, looked around, and soon reached a conclusion.

"The owner of this grave has prosperous descendants but does not govern wealth. If you want wealth, you must relocate the grave."

Wang Zhanggen immediately agreed wholeheartedly:

"Indeed. I have already given birth to three sons, so our descendants are prosperous enough, but over these years I have never made much money. Actually, there were several times I could have made money, but because of this or that reason, I ultimately failed to earn it."

The Geography Master asked:

"If you relocate the grave, what kind of feng shui treasure land do you want to choose?"

Wang Zhanggen said with a hearty laugh:

"Naturally, the best would be a place where both people and wealth flourish."

The Geography Master laughed:

"Who doesn't want both people and wealth to flourish? But such land is not easy to find. Moreover, even if there is some, you must be able to hold it down."

Wang Zhanggen said:

"I already have people now; I just lack wealth. If wealth comes, I can definitely hold it down!"

The Geography Master said:

"Looking at the land now costs 200 yuan. Finding the land costs 500 yuan."

Wang Zhanggen felt the fee was rather expensive, but many people said this Geography Master was capable, so he gritted his teeth and finally agreed:

"Fine, no problem!"

The Geography Master said:

"Then I will stay at your home tonight, and tomorrow early morning we will go inspect the mountain together."

Wang Zhanggen felt somewhat embarrassed:

"My home is very narrow, and there are also three children. Why don't you stay at Village Secretary Liang's home instead?"

The Geography Master shook his head:

"No, I must stay at your home. I am here to help you look at feng shui, not to help Liang Yuanchao look at feng shui. According to the rules, I must stay at your home. We cannot break the rules. You arrange it yourself. As long as there is a place to sleep, I am not picky."

Wang Zhanggen sighed:

"Fine then. I will go back and see how to arrange it."

Wang Zhanggen brought the Geography Master home and told Li Xiulan about finding a new grave site.

Li Xiulan had no great objection to this. Although it cost seven hundred yuan in total, which was not cheap, this money had to be spent. Without spending it, they could not change the fate of their home being unable to hold wealth.

As for the Geography Master staying one night at home, Li Xiulan had no objection either.

Although this new house was crude, just a bare shell without decoration, it had three rooms and a hall, so there were enough rooms.

Now she and Wang Zhanggen lived in one room, Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai lived in one room, and Xiao Hua lived in one room.

Tonight, let Xiao Hua move over to temporarily live with his two older brothers in one room, and give Xiao Hua's room to the Geography Master to stay for one night.

Since school had not let out yet, Li Xiulan took the Geography Master to see Xiao Hua's room.

The Geography Master looked and saw that the room actually had quite a few books, and various items were neatly arranged.

He immediately asked:

"Whose son's room is this?"

"My youngest son," Li Xiulan said honestly.

The Geography Master asked again: "Is this room managed by you?"

Li Xiulan said honestly again: "He arranged it himself. I rarely enter his room."

The Geography Master asked again: "How old is your son?"

Li Xiulan said honestly: "He just started first grade, eight years old."

The Geography Master said with a hearty laugh:

"Your son is not ordinary. He will surely be promising in the future!"

In the blink of an eye, it was time for school to let out in the afternoon, and the three brothers returned home one after another.

Eldest brother Wang Dashan and second brother Wang Erhai heard their parents say that a guest was coming tonight and that they would have to squeeze into one room with Xiao Hua. They had no objections.

But Xiao Hua had great objections because his parents did not tell him in advance and simply let the Geography Master sleep in his room for one night.

"Mom, why didn't you wait until I came back from school to tell me before letting him stay in my room!"

Li Xiulan did not care about this:

"Don't be so petty. The Geography Master came from far away to our home to help us look at feng shui. Letting him stay one night won't make you lose a single hair."

But Xiao Hua said angrily:

"This is not about losing a hair or not. It's about whether you respect me or not. Just like before, I kept asking you to help me change my name, and you never took it to heart. Now you give my room to someone else to stay in, and you don't take it to heart either. Do you know how I feel?"

Li Xiulan was immediately stunned. She did not expect Xiao Hua to have such a big reaction.

But she still did not think she was wrong:

"It's just letting someone stay one night. Don't be so narrow-minded!"

"This is not being narrow-minded. This is about respect. Do you understand what respect means!" Xiao Hua was very angry.

Li Xiulan found this both laughable and exasperating:

"You yell at me like that and call it respect? Wang Xiaohua, I'm telling you—are you itching for a beating? If you have any more opinions, believe it or not, I'll whip you with a bamboo stick. Don't think that because you're my youngest son, I won't whip you!"

Wang Zhanggen also came to lecture Wang Xiaohua:

"You're a man, don't be so petty like a woman. What's wrong with letting the Geography Master stay one night? Don't have any more opinions, otherwise tonight you'll sleep on the street!"

Wang Xiaohua's face was full of grievance, and he said nothing more.

But the dissatisfaction in his emotions did not disappear because of this; instead, it settled in his heart.

"Heh, your youngest son has personality and is very self-centered. Don't yell at him like that; you need to move him with emotion and reason with him, otherwise it will backfire." The Geography Master stood up and said these words.

However, Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan, the couple, were both bottom-of-the-society people with only a primary school education. How would they understand moving with emotion and reasoning? Their most direct way of disciplining children was yelling and hitting.

"Why don't I just sleep in the living room? I'm not picky about where I sleep; as long as it blocks the wind and rain, it's fine."

The Geography Master also voluntarily offered to yield.

Wang Zhanggen said instead:

"How can that be? You are our family's honored guest; how can you sleep in the living room? Besides, the living room doesn't even have a sofa. If you sleep in the living room, you'd have to sleep on the floor. That's not acceptable!"

Li Xiulan also hurriedly said:

"Sir, rest assured. You can sleep in our youngest son's room, just for one night. Even if he has opinions, he has to hold them in. It's fine; what can a child understand? He'll forget in a few days."

The Geography Master laughed heh heh, and finally still slept in Wang Xiaohua's room.

Wang Xiaohua indeed said nothing more, but his sensitive inner heart had already grown dissatisfied with this family.

Originally, his parents argued every few days, which already made him very impatient. His room was the only quiet place in this family.

But now his parents could easily deprive him of this quiet place, making him feel that his fate could be manipulated by them just as easily.

Regarding this, he felt an indescribable sense of helplessness and fear.