Chapter 1289: The True Fate

Su Chengfeng respectfully invited Mai Chengxing to sit on the sofa. After sitting down, he sighed long and painfully: "Alas! Uncle Mai, you must help me this time!"

Mai Chengxing nodded and said seriously: "Since I have already come here, I will naturally do my best, so you must tell me everything from beginning to end."

Su Chengfeng responded and sighed: "In the final analysis, it's all my fault for being old and confused, making some irrational decisions..."

As he spoke, Su Chengfeng narrated to Mai Chengxing about Su Zhifei and Su Zhiyu being kidnapped in Japan, Su Ruoli destroying the Matsumoto family, and his own betrayal of Su Ruoli and assassination of Du Haiqing.

After finishing, he asked with a worried face: "Uncle Mai, do you think I am suffering retribution?"

Mai Chengxing waved his hand and said seriously: "Chengfeng, you are my nephew, so I won't play those mysterious things with you. Just remember, in this world, whether from the perspective of Feng Shui or science, there is no such thing as retribution."

Su Chengfeng asked in surprise: "Why? Isn't the Taoist law you believe in saying something about cause and effect, and retribution?"

Mai Chengxing shook his head and said: "That's Buddhism. Besides, our Feng Shui Xuanxue is not a branch of Taoism. We are the I Ching, Eight Trigrams, and the Mysterious Gate."

Su Chengfeng asked hurriedly: "Then you just said there is no cause and effect retribution. Is this true?"

Mai Chengxing laughed: "In my opinion, it is naturally true. But if you don't believe it, it doesn't matter. I will give you a detailed analysis of the views in our Feng Shui Xuanxue, just as a discussion."

Su Chengfeng said hurriedly: "Please speak."

Mai Chengxing paused slightly and said: "I ask you, according to the theory of cause and effect, those who do evil must be severely punished, and those who do good must be rewarded, right?"

Su Chengfeng nodded: "According to their theory, it is indeed so."

Mai Chengxing asked back: "Then I ask you, why do some babies die as soon as they are born? Their lives have just begun, they have no evil and no good, why don't they even have a chance to grow up healthily?"

Su Chengfeng looked embarrassed: "This... I... I can't say well..."

Mai Chengxing nodded and asked again: "Then I ask you, why do some people do good deeds all their lives, but their fate is full of twists and turns?"

As he spoke, Mai Chengxing sighed with some melancholy and said slowly: "When I was young, it happened to be the Great War in the Central Plains. To avoid the war, my father moved the family from the Central Plains to Yanjing."

"At that time, my family lived in Mao'er Hutong. A woman next door ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddha every day, keeping the way of doing good in mind."

"Her husband died early, and she worked hard to raise three sons and let them start a family and career. But when she got old, none of the three sons gave her old-age support."

"The three daughters-in-law fought for the property and took turns to come to the door to beat and scold her. Every time they came, they had to deliberately grab the little food she had, and even smash the water tank that stored water before they were satisfied, just hoping she would die early so they could occupy that old house."

"The three sons didn't dare to move her, but every time they came, they were sarcastic. Even when someone next door had a funeral, they pointed at her nose and scolded her, asking why she couldn't be like the old man next door, be sensible, and die early."

"The old woman was not only hungry and cold, but also cried all day long. Although she didn't cry until she was blind, her eyesight was getting worse every day. Coupled with the fact that she couldn't afford lamp oil, she couldn't see her fingers after the sun went down, and her life was full of suffering."

"However, she never waited for any son's conscience to discover, and finally froze to death on that extremely cold winter day in Yanjing!"

"On the day of the funeral, the crying of the three sons could be heard across three hutongs, but anyone could see that it was just a scene for outsiders. After the play was over, they happily sold the ancestral house where their mother lived, divided the money, and scattered like birds and beasts."

"You say, if there is really cause and effect retribution, why did this old woman do good deeds all her life, but suffer all her life?"

Su Chengfeng thought for a while and said seriously: "Maybe it's a debt owed in the previous life, and she came to pay it back in this life?"

Mai Chengxing sneered and said disdainfully: "Only those who can't see through the laws of events will use such words to force an explanation. If everyone believes in the previous life or the next life, then you might as well lend all your money to me, and I will pay you back double in the next life. Do you agree?"

"This..." Although Su Chengfeng knew that Mai Chengxing was just joking and giving an example, he began to agree with Mai Chengxing's statement in his heart.

At this time, Mai Chengxing continued: "The same is true. Some people are full of evil, and what is the result? Not only do they end well, but their descendants can also be blessed!"

"Just like the old woman I just mentioned, after she died miserably, her three sons had rainbow-like luck. One did business and flourished, one joined the warlord and rose to prominence, and one went to Nanyang to fight. Their descendants are still well-known entrepreneurs today. The good person didn't enjoy a day of blessing, but the bad person blessed his family for several generations. You say, isn't this cause and effect retribution reversed?"

Su Chengfeng was speechless for a while.

Su Shoudao on the side couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Mai, if it is as you said, cause and effect retribution does not exist at all, then why does this family have these two extremes?"

Mai Chengxing smiled slightly: "Shoudao, you asked the point. Why? If you can't see the laws, you will only look up and curse, 'God has no eyes', and add a sentence, 'Good people don't live long, disasters last for a thousand years'. But have you ever thought that if there is really cause and effect reincarnation, this sentence is impossible to hold, because cause and effect reincarnation will not let good people not live long, nor will it let disasters last for a thousand years. This itself is a contradictory paradox."

As he spoke, Mai Chengxing changed the subject and said: "But! If you can see the laws, you will know that all this has nothing to do with cause and effect retribution, but stems from the different fates of each family member."

Su Chengfeng said hurriedly: "Uncle Mai, how do you explain fate?"

Mai Chengxing explained: "Fate is the principle of life, or the laws of life."

"My father once said that the old woman was originally a 'Heavenly Lone Star' fate. Although she did good deeds all her life, no matter how many good deeds she did, it was difficult to change her fate."

"To give the simplest analogy, even if you eat more carrots, you can't become a rabbit, because these are two completely different sets of logic."

"You can't think self-righteously that all rabbits like to eat carrots, and as long as you eat more carrots, you will naturally become a rabbit."

Su Chengfeng and Su Shoudao nodded thoughtfully.

Mai Chengxing continued: "The Heavenly Lone Star not only overcomes the husband and wife, but also overcomes the descendants, and the most miserable thing is that she not only overcomes others, but she herself cannot escape the fate of being lonely in her old age, so she has endless suffering and endless crimes in her life."

"Although her three sons were unfilial, from the perspective of fate, their own prospects were also invisibly overcome by the old woman's fate."

"It is precisely because the old woman died early that the three of them did not lose their lives because of this, and this gave them the opportunity to soar into the sky later."

"If the three of them were all filial sons, taking turns to take their mother to their side to fulfill their filial piety, then maybe the three sons would die early for various reasons, and maybe they would all die before the old woman."

"This, although it sounds absurd and incredible, is the true fate!" ===== CHAPTER 1290 =====