Chapter 630: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 630: Half-Immortal Wu's Conscience Is Unsettled

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Going now?" Wu Banxian showed a hint of surprise and blurted out.

"Yes, going now." Wang Changgen replied, then added: "Half-Immortal, after you've looked at my old homestead, we'd also like you to help take a look at my eldest son's new house."

Wu Banxian asked: "Where is your eldest son's new house?"

Li Xiulan said proudly: "In Guangzhou!"

Wu Banxian said: "I can go take a look for you, but you'll have to cover the round-trip bus fare."

Wang Changgen asked:

"Then for looking at the Guangzhou house, what's the price?"

Wu Banxian had already asked for eighteen hundred just now, so the price he quoted this time definitely couldn't be too outrageous.

Otherwise, showing too greedy a face would easily offend others, and he might even lose such loyal long-term meal tickets as Wang Changgen and Li Xiulan.

So he said:

"Originally, looking at houses in the city, I'd charge five thousand as a starting price, after all, city feng shui is much harder to handle than our rural feng shui. City people are numerous, houses are numerous, and feng shui trends are complex. But seeing as you're old customers, I'll charge you twenty-eight hundred."

Li Xiulan hurriedly said:

"Fine, fine, Master, you're truly a good person!"

She was endlessly grateful to Wu Banxian.

Feeling she had gotten a bargain.

Speaking of which, she was truly strange herself—she had always been extremely frugal, and when traveling to Beijing, even taking a taxi costing dozens of yuan made her feel the pinch terribly.

But now facing Wu Banxian, she was so generous and lavish.

Not even haggling over a price of over a thousand yuan.

One can only say that people are ultimately trapped within their own cognition.

And Li Xiulan's cognition was that looking at feng shui, no matter how much money was spent, was a must.

There was no haggling over this; to haggle would be insincere, and it wouldn't be spiritually efficacious.

Wang Changgen's thoughts were more or less the same.

So let alone Wu Banxian quoting eighteen hundred or twenty-eight hundred—even if he quoted forty-eight hundred or fifty-eight hundred, they'd probably grit their teeth and pay.

Wu Banxian had his own motorcycle.

Wang Changgen carried Li Xiulan back home, while Wu Banxian rode his motorcycle behind them.

Soon the three returned to Shangou Village.

Wang Changgen and Li Xiulan first took Wu Banxian to survey the old homestead.

Although that raw house had already been sold to Liang Xinghua, they still had to see it through—three times building a house, three times ending in an unfinished shell, they couldn't just let it pass so unclearly and confusedly.

From Wang Changgen and Li Xiulan's mouths, Wu Banxian learned that they had already had two unfinished shells on this homestead, and that over by the highway there had been another unfinished shell once.

So he took out his compass and measured with a solemn expression.

Finally drawing the conclusion:

"This homestead is not suitable for building a house. In ancient times this place was the grave of a wronged ghost. Later the grave disappeared, but the wronged ghost remained. Zhou Aidi hanged herself here—that was the wronged ghost taking a life! Fortunately, you weren't here that day, otherwise the ones in trouble might have been you!"

"Is that so? No wonder unlucky things kept happening!" Li Xiulan's face showed sudden realization.

Wang Changgen hurriedly said:

"Master, we've now exchanged homestead land with someone else, and this building has already been sold to another person. Can you help us look at the new homestead?"

Wu Banxian nodded:

"Fine, no problem!"

So the three of them came to a vegetable garden.

This vegetable garden originally belonged to Liang Xinghua's homestead land.

Now this homestead land had been given to Wang Changgen's family.

Because Liang Xinghua had been working away from home all along and rarely returned, he wouldn't be able to build a house on this homestead for a while, so he gave it to Zhang Aifen's family next door to use as a vegetable garden.

Zhang Aifen was several years older than Li Xiulan and Wang Changgen, so both of them had to call her Aifen Sao.

When the three arrived at the vegetable garden, Zhang Aifen was tending to the vegetable garden.

"Aifen Sao, tending the vegetable garden?"

Wang Changgen smiled and greeted Zhang Aifen.

Zhang Aifen held a dung basket in one hand and grabbed well-fermented chicken manure in the other, fertilizing the vegetable plot.

"Yes, what are you two doing here?"

Zhang Aifen replied with a smile.

Li Xiulan said:

"This homestead land has been transferred to us by Liang Xinghua. Aifen Sao, do you know about this?"

Zhang Aifen said with a happy laugh:

"I know, I know. When you need to build a house someday, just give me a heads-up in advance, and I'll tear down the vegetable garden."

Zhang Aifen was still quite reasonable.

Most importantly, now that the Wang family's three sons were successful, she had to give Wang Changgen and Li Xiulan some face.

"Aifen Sao, we're not building a new house that quickly today. We brought Wu Banxian over to look at the feng shui."

Wang Zhanggen said so.

"Fine, you all look, look however you like!"

Zhang Aifen said cheerfully.

So Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan took Wu Banxian and walked into the Vegetable Garden.

Wu Banxian held a compass and walked a circle in the Vegetable Garden.

Then he returned to Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan's side, showing a satisfied expression:

"This is a good piece of land; building a house here should mean no more accidents, and this land brings wealth—your son will definitely make money in the future!"

Hearing this, Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan immediately showed delight:

"Really? That's wonderful!"

Wu Banxian then shifted the topic:

"But you must also guard against villains; feng shui can change at any time, especially if someone deliberately sabotages it."

Wang Zhanggen hurriedly asked:

"How to guard against it?"

Wu Banxian remained profoundly mysterious:

"This cannot be guarded against; do more good deeds and keep a low profile."

Actually, saying this was just to leave himself an out.

If something really went wrong later, it wouldn't be that his reading was inaccurate, but that someone else had sabotaged the feng shui.

After viewing the feng shui of the new house site, Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan took Wu Banxian back to where they stayed at the Village Entrance.

Before leaving, Zhang Aifen also enthusiastically gave them a bunch of Lettuce.

At noon for the Meal, they ate Lettuce stir-fried with Pork, plus a plate of Eggs stir-fried with tomatoes.

After lunch, there was still a long Short Term in the afternoon.

Wang Zhanggen again had Wu Banxian go look at his family's new Ancestral Grave.

After looking, finding No problem, Wang Zhanggen then put his heart at ease.

In the Evening Wu Banxian spent One Night in Wang Zhanggen's dilapidated Cottage; that night, Wu Banxian Tossed and Turned, unable to sleep well.

The house was too crude, the bed board too hard, sleeping was uncomfortable.

Also, his Inner Heart felt somewhat uncomfortable.

Alas, these two Rural Area old couples are also quite pitiful; after great difficulty they built such a Building, but had to abandon it because someone hanged themselves to commit Suicide, their decades of savings were all spent, right? They don't know how long they'll have to live in this broken Cottage, the matter of building a new house is probably indefinitely postponed, right? Speaking of which, taking several thousand yuan from them—isn't that a bit black-hearted?

Wu Banxian felt uneasy in his conscience.

In the blink of an eye it was Early Morning the Next Day; the three ate breakfast, then together took the Rural Bus to the County Town, and then from the County Town's bus station took a Long-distance bus to Guangzhou.

On the bus, Wu Banxian suddenly spoke:

"This time going to look at your Eldest Brother's house feng shui, I'll take eighteen hundred from you, not twenty-eight hundred."

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