Chapter 33: The True Body of Niu Da

  One day a year later!

  "Lao Yu, I'm at the underground shopping mall of the bus station now. Can you come over and help me out?" Jin Gang Pao's voice came from the other end of the phone.

  "No time, won't go." I was lying in the dormitory flipping through Ji Xiaolan's "Notes from the Thatched Abode of Close Observations".

  "Lao Yu, you must give me this face." Jin Gang was as stubborn as a dead skin.

  "I'm saying I won't go, so I won't go. That's it." I said, thinking of hanging up the phone.

  "Old Ou, you must save me this time!" Jin Gang Pao begged, revealing his true form.

  "How many times have I saved you, tell me! You exorcised the ghost for Director Sun's mother and drove the old lady into a mental hospital, who went to bail you out? You helped Manager Gao look at the yin zhai and dug up the city's septic tank, and I had to go rescue you. And last time you swore that Deputy Director Zhang's unmarried daughter was pregnant, but it turned out she just had gas, and they sent you to the detention center, and I went to bail you out again...". I slammed the book down, grabbed my phone, stood up and started scolding him.

  Jin Gang Pao, this guy retired and joined Yang's company as a security department head. He didn't last long, using the 200,000 yuan I gave him to buy a small sedan and show off every day. The money was spent in no time, and he took another 200,000 from me later on. In the end, whenever I saw him with his bare chest and that thick gold chain around his neck, looking like a thug, I felt disgusted. Especially that thick gold chain, as thick as a little finger, what's the point of wearing something so flashy?

  Later, this guy had no other choice but to go around telling fortunes and reading auras for people. Of course, he was still accurate most of the time, but those people introduced by Mr. Yang were not ordinary citizens. Last year, he made mistakes three times, and each time it ended with him calling me for help in desperation.

  "Niú Dà Zhēn Rén, this time you figure it out yourself, don't come looking for me again." I said and hung up the phone. This guy has already made a name for himself in society. Although his qigong skills haven't improved much, his reputation is loud enough: Niú Dà Zhēn Rén!

  Grass, cow eggs are still pretty good.

  "Drip, drip, drip..." The phone rang again. I grabbed the phone: "What do you want to do?"

  "Your brother is now in my hands..." A voice like a quacking duck. 'Your brother is in my hands', why does this sound so familiar? In Hong Kong and Taiwan movies, kidnappers usually say something like this.

  "Who are you?" I asked.

  "Don't care who I am, in half an hour if you don't arrive at the parking lot of the auto station mall, your brother will be short one ear!" Then he hung up the phone.

  "Jīn gāng pào, I'm... Little Sun, lend me your bike." I quickly changed out of my uniform. Jīn gāng pào and I are just internal contradictions among the people, this can be reconciled. Outsiders thinking they can bully him? No way! Besides, this guy is already good-looking enough, if he loses an ear, his image will probably be even more handsome than "One Ear" from "Black Cat Detective".

  I rushed down the mountain at an incredible speed, hailed a taxi and went to the underground shopping mall of the bus station. When I arrived at the parking lot, sweating profusely, I was furious. Jingangpao was sitting in his Passat car smoking, with two young men with yellow hair sitting in the back seat. To say that these two little rascals had hijacked him, I wouldn't believe it even if you killed me. A dead camel is bigger than a horse, and a rotten boat still has three catties of nails. His hard qigong practice was not in vain.

  "What's going on?" I shouted as I went forward.

  Jin Gang saw me coming and hastily opened the car door to rush over and grab me, "Old Yu, you must save me this time."

  "Who was on the phone just now?" I thundered.

  "It was Niu Ge who made me hit him." A young man with yellow hair and an earring in the back seat spoke up.

  No wonder the lines are so clumsy, they must be from Jin Gang Cannon again.

  "I was furious" I lifted my foot and kicked the cannon with all my might, this guy didn't even dodge, and suffered from my kick. I continued to kick him twice...

  Until I was exhausted from hitting him, he didn't dodge or fight back. Seeing that I was almost out of breath, "Lao Yu, this time you must help me, if not I'm really done for," Jin Gang Pao said dejectedly.

  I frowned and looked at the footprints on the cannon, feeling a bit relieved. I lit a cigarette and said, "What kind of trouble have you gotten into this time?"

  This guy waved his hand and sent away the two little brothers, sat down and mumbled for half a day before I could make out the general idea. It turned out that this guy had driven back to his hometown in a small car some time ago, just as a cemetery in our area needed to be relocated due to urban planning. The person in charge of the cemetery found the already famous Niu Da Zhenren and asked him to help choose a piece of land with good feng shui. This guy took 50,000 yuan from the other party and easily fixed on a mountain ridge without much effort. However, after moving the large tombstones over, the family members of the deceased would dream every night that their already deceased loved ones were being beaten by a group of soldiers wearing ancient armor. The wailing was unbearable. If only one person had dreamed about it, it wouldn't be so bad, but what's terrifying is that hundreds of families were having the same dreams. It quickly became a big deal at the cemetery management committee, and the person in charge immediately found Jin Gang Pao to ask for help. This guy was panicked and drove back overnight to seek my help.

  "How's the feng shui of that place?" I asked after a moment of contemplation.

  "It's a rare good location, I've checked it out, the land energy is light yellow, extremely rich and noble." Jin Gang Pao replied.

  "What about the terrain?" I asked with furrowed brow.

  "Sit north and rush south", the Diamond Cannon replied quickly.

  "Due north due south?" I further confirm.

  "Right. What's wrong, Old Yu?" He looked at me with a puzzled expression.

  "What is missing from the Five Elements?" I didn't pick up on his cue and asked another question.

  "Not short!" Jin Gang Pao replied after some thought.

  "Move the grave!" I gave him a clear answer. "There's no other way."

  "No way, last time the city gave each household hundreds of thousands in relocation fees before they agreed to move. You can't just say move and expect them to move, can you?" Jin Gang Pao's face was full of astonishment.

  "It's all over if we don't move!" I curled my lip.

  "What's going on, Old Yu? I think the feng shui of that place is very good!" Jin Gang Pao asked in confusion.

  "It's precisely because it's too good that it needs to be relocated. The light yellow earth energy is python energy, which is a rare good location. However, the prerequisite is that you can suppress it. As the saying goes: A person with good fortune cannot live in a place without good fortune, and conversely, a person without good fortune cannot live in a place with good fortune either. Ordinary people who cannot suppress the python energy are lucky if it's light yellow; if it were golden dragon energy, relocating the tomb would lead to haunting."

  "This is a mess! As soon as it gets dark, the wind starts to blow and scares away several of the night watchmen." Jin Gang Pao said with a gloomy face.

  "Besides, have you ever seen anyone dare to bury the dead directly south or north? That's a taboo, people usually slightly deviate from it. Moreover, that place has all five elements in harmony, so I suspect you've shifted the public cemetery to someone else's head." I sneered.

  "What's the meaning of this?" Jin Gang Pao stared at me with his cow-like eyes.

  I knew he would say this, these three words are almost his trademark.

  "My guess is that place has already been taken by someone else."

  "It's impossible for Old Yu now. If we observe the situation, it will be just the two of us meeting up. You didn't help him out, who would go and take his place?" Jin Gang shook his head.

  "It's just us two now, it wasn't like this before." I sighed.

  "Lao Yu, are you saying that place used to be a burial ground or something?" Jin Gang Pao asked.

  I nodded: "I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but if you're right, then such good feng shui, the ancients wouldn't have left it unused. So the possibility is very high."

  "But I went on the day of the groundbreaking ceremony, didn't see anything being dug up." Jin Gang shook his head.

  "You think ancient people were like modern people, casually digging a hole and burying someone. In the past, they emphasized deep burial and thick tombs." I thought for a moment and said: "A true dragon emperor would not lower his status to be buried in a place with python energy. Ordinary court officials only dared to use the energy of auspicious beasts, while python energy is only suitable for kings and marquises, and even high-ranking officials are not qualified to use it."

  "It's all over, what to do? Hehe, hehe, hehe, or else, you come with me to take a look, I know your family visit leave hasn't been taken this year." Jin Gang Pao started laughing again.

  "What's the point of me wiping your butt for the good things you've done yourself?" This guy took away over 200,000 yuan from me in the past, and he still has some himself. I have no idea where he spent the money during this time. So I have a lot of complaints about him, always feeling that he is not doing his job properly, corrupting and indulging in luxuries.

  "Never mind, I'll think of something myself." It's clear that this guy is also feeling a bit embarrassed. "I'll send you back first."

  I sat in the passenger seat with a gloomy face, my eyes closed, and didn't speak to him. As we approached the camp entrance, Jin Gang cannon also stopped asking me, and finally I couldn't bear his pitiful look "Let's have someone from our hometown send an urgent telegram to the unit, just write 'Father is seriously ill, please return immediately' otherwise, it may not be possible to approve the leave."

  "Thank you so much, Old Yu, I promise this is the last time." Jin Gang couldn't hide his excitement.

  "Cut it out, how many times have you said that?" I waved my hand.

  "Remember, 'Father is seriously ill, hurry back' don't write it wrong." I've always called my old man "Dad", not "Die". I deceive myself into thinking that "Die" and "Dad" are different.

  "Don't worry, I'll take care of it right away." Jin Gangbao stopped the car at the gate and I got out. As I closed the door, I casually asked, "What's the name of that cemetery?"

  "It seems to be called Yuqing Garden."

  "Damn it! My uncle-in-law is still buried there!" I kicked the car door and cursed.

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