Chapter 69 - 69 Feng Shui Deadly Formation
69 Feng Shui Deadly Formation
At night.
In the dead of night, and under the cover of the dark sky, the entire village fell into a deep sleep.
Zhou Xiaoli quietly walked out of her house.
Looking at the dark night, she sighed to herself. “It’s a dark and windy night. Suitable for commiting murder and arson.”
She closed the door and walked into the night. She headed in the direction of the Old Zhou family’s courtyard.
After a while, she arrived at the Old Zhou family’s courtyard.
The Old Zhou family’s courtyard was a typical courtyard which sat in the north and faced the south. Zhou Xiaoli took out the compass she made and circled the Old Zhou family’s courtyard.
This compass had taken her a lot of time and effort to make, and it was finally completed.
Today, she would test the compass on Lai Jinniang’s family.
In Feng Shui, there were eight directions, which corresponded to the eight divinations: Zhen, Li, Dui, Kan, Xun, Kun, Qian, and Gen.
It was used to divine the fortune.
The eight divinations directly corresponded to the good and bad luck of people, events, and things represented by the eight directions.
For example, the southwest direction corresponded to the “Kun” hexagram in the Eight Trigrams. Kun’s original meaning was the ground, and in the five elements, it represents earth.
If the energy field of the southwestern side of the house was obstructed and there was an evil spirit causing trouble, the health of the mistress of the house would be affected. There would be constant disasters and illnesses, and the family would not get along well. Various troubles would occur.
The four directions corresponded to the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise.
The four directions were even more particular. If they were to cross paths accidentally with the four beasts, there would definitely be trouble in the family!
And this was what Zhou Xiaoli was going to make use of. She was going to use an evil item to disrupt the current Feng Shui formation and agitate the four beasts, thereby forming a new evil Feng Shui formation which could kill without any signs.
She learned this Feng Shui formation from books. It was extremely dangerous. Minimally, it would cause havoc in the family and the family would not have many descendants. In serious cases, the family would suffer calamities and lives may be lost.
After a series of arrangements, the energy field of the courtyard changed. Zhou Xiaoli had the Heavenly Eye, so she could clearly see that a layer of baleful aura was gathering above the courtyard slowly.
After the formation was completed, Zhou Xiaoli put away the compass in satisfaction.
She did not expect that even though she was inexperienced in Feng Shui, the compass she made was quite effective.
Just as she thought of this, a voice suddenly rang out behind her.
“Girl, you’re quite bold.”
In the middle of the night, when there was not even a single ghost to be seen, a voice rang out from behind her. Even Zhou Xiaoli, no matter how bold and daring she was, was still frightened by it.
Moreover, what she did could not be known to others.
With a dangerous look in her eyes, she looked in the direction of the voice and saw a figure standing in the night. She could not see clearly, but from the outline, it seemed to be a man.
Although his voice was deep, it was also of someone who had gone through vicissitudes of life. He seemed to be an old man.
When Zhou Xiaoli looked at him, the black figure had already walked towards her.
Looking at the way the black shadow walked, it seemed to be unsteady. Zhou Xiaoli could not help but recall the strange old man she had seen following the village chief into the village when she was at the homestead this morning.
At the same time, Zhou Xiaoli had already put up her guard and held her crossbow in her hand.
The old man did not seem to have any ill intentions. He stopped when he was one meter away from Zhou Xiaoli.
He smiled and said, “Aiya, little girl, I’m old and crippled. Hurry up and put away your crossbow. You’re scaring me.”
He said he was frightened, but there was not a trace of fear in him.
Zhou Xiaoli did not move. She did not understand why the old man had come.
At this moment, the old man’s gaze landed on the Old Zhou family’s courtyard behind her. He could not help but ask, “Girl, did this family offend you?”
“It’s none of your business!” Zhou Xiaoli threatened.
Zhou Xiaoli’s attitude towards the strange old man who had appeared silently and frightened her, and who might have witnessed the entire process of her setting up the formation, was not good.
“Aiyaya.” The old man immediately became energetic. “You little girl, you have a fiery temper. Yes, you have a personality. It suits my temper just right.”
Zhou Xiaoli: “…”
“Who are you?”
“Ah, I forgot to introduce myself. My surname is Yuan, and my Taoist name is Daoren.”
After the old man finished speaking, he seemed to be waiting for something. After a long time, Zhou Xiaoli did not react at all.
He could not help but be surprised. “You don’t know me?”
Zhou Xiaoli: “Must I know?”
Zhou Xiaoli did not care who this person was. She only cared if this weird old man would destroy her formation.
The old man was stunned for a moment before he chuckled. “That’s true too, hahaha.”
“Hey, girl, who is your master?”
As he spoke, he pointed at the Old Zhou family’s courtyard.
As expected, this old man knew what was the formation she set.
Zhou Xiaoli could not help but frown.
The old man said, “Don’t worry, don’t worry. I won’t hinder you. It’s just that this formation is quite nasty. You have a temperament, which is exactly the same as me when I was young.”
After saying that, he laughed happily.
After talking for so long, Zhou Xiaoli did not sense any hostility from the old man, so she gradually let down her guard.
“I don’t have a master.”
It was a reply to his previous question.
When the old man heard this, he slapped his thigh and was clearly excited. “It was just as I had predicted! My destined disciple should appear soon. Girl, do you want to take me as your master?”
The other party did not ask her why she knew these formations, which made Zhou Xiaoli have a better impression of him.
However, she had no intention of becoming his disciple. She immediately rejected him. “No.”
“What, no?”
The old man was shocked. “Why? I’m a master. Are you sure?”
Zhou Xiaoli nodded. She was not very interested in this. “I’m going.”
With that, she walked towards home.
The old man did not seem to give up. He chased Zhou Xiaoli all the way to her house and kept talking about how Zhou Xiaoli was the destined disciple.
“Girl, you have to think about it carefully. I’ll look for you tomorrow.”
Even after Zhou Xiaoli closed the door, Yuan Zhengchun’s voice still came through the gap.
Zhou Xiaoli ignored him and returned to her room.
The night passed in silence.
The next day, it was another busy morning.
Yesterday, they had made a total of 13 kilograms of sugar, and they planned to make more before bringing them to the county city to sell.
Hence, the Liu family and the village chief’s family arrived early in the morning.
In order to prevent any complications, it was decided that the village chief’s wife, Liu Yan, the village chief’s eldest son, and eldest daughter-in-law would represent the village chief’s family.
As usual, they did not let Zhou Xiaoli work. As she was bored, she brought a pot to the homestead.
“Ah, the young lady of the Zhou family is here. Aren’t you busy today?”
Seeing that Zhou Xiaoli had come over, the workers greeted her warmly.
They were bought over by the green bean tea given to them yesterday.
They felt that it was very generous of the Zhou family to offer green bean tea to them. They did not expect that they would even add sugar to the green bean tea!
Zhou Xiaoli smiled and replied, “Yes, I’m not busy today. I’m here to make tea for everyone. It’s been hard on everyone.”
“Not at all, not at all.” The workers expressed that they were lucky to be able to work for the Zhou family.
After greeting everyone, Zhou Xiaoli prepared to make tea.
She knew she could rely on Wei Chiyu. A pit had already been made under the shade of the tree, which was big enough to place the pot on it.
Just as Zhou Xiaoli arrived, Wei Chiyu arrived as well. He even brought two buckets of water with him.
Moreover, he had prepared dry firewood in advance, which was piled neatly beside the pit.
Zhou Xiaoli was very surprised. “When did you prepare these dry firewood?”
Wei Chiyu held a flint to start the fire as he said, “Didn’t you say yesterday that you wanted to cook green beans here?”
“Ah, yes.” Zhou Xiaoli stood at the side and looked at Wei Chiyu.
He was trying to ignite the fire sincerely. The sunlight shone through the branches and mottled on the side of his handsome face. The contours of his face were perfect.