It turned out that this house was funded by the company. The neighbor who lived opposite was a colleague of Uncle Ma. Ma Song affectionately called him uncle, it seemed that they had a close relationship.
Qi Yan recalled that when he was about to graduate, Ma Song once said that his father was promoted to school principal and was celebrating at home.
“Qian Qian, what’s the matter with you?” Wang Hang saw Qi Yan’s expression and felt as if something had happened.
“Did your uncle apply for the promotion as well?” Qi Yan’s face couldn’t possibly get better. If that’s the case, then the hanging of bronze mirrors at the door was really no coincidence.
“Ma Song is alone now after what happened to the Ma family, let’s help if we can,” the woman wiped the table, glanced at the living room door, and sighed, “How did that happen?”
Old Luo listened in silence and did not speak.
“I don’t think the feng shui master you invited last time was good. He talked about good luck and wealth, but something so bad happened to your long-time friend,” the woman muttered while mopping the floor. “These so-called masters are not credible at all, I don’t know what you were thinking. After all, you’re someone who was educated. Why would you still believe in such superstition?”
“Okay, enough.” Old Luo interrupted the woman impatiently, “Can you stop nagging already?!”
The husband and wife were about to quarrel, but a knock on the door interrupted them.
Old Luo was always smiling on the outside, so he glared at his wife, turned around and opened the door with a smile on his face.
When he opened the door, the first thing he saw was two unfamiliar young people. Behind them stood Ma Song, who had lost a lot of weight. He squeezed the doorknob tightly, “Ma Song, come in, who are the two young men?”
“Uncle Luo, they are my friends from the capital. They are here to help out,” Ma Song wanted to force a polite smile, but the smile didn’t take shape after all.
Qi Yan’s eyes fell on the wall directly opposite the door, where there was a bronze mirror, but it didn’t look like an authentic one because the pattern was wrong, and there was even a trace of malicious energy.
The three entered the door and sat down, and a middle-aged woman,who seemed to be a very easy-going person, brought them tea and snacks.
“Aunty, the bronze mirror on the wall is so beautiful, it looks like an antique,” Qi Yan is now acting like a rude young man, “Some time ago I had a friend collecting this kind of thing, and I heard it was worth more than six figures.”
“Sigh, how much can this thing cost?” Auntie brought another fruit bowl and put it in front of Qi Yan, “I don’t think it’s worth four figures, let alone six.”
Qi Yan scratched his head and smiled, looking a little embarrassed. “Really, I just watched a friend receive such a similar one, and he spent two hundred thousand on it.” He stretched out two fingers, his face gleaming, as if proud of knowing such a rich person, “I thought this is also valuable.”
Old Luo frowned, feeling a little uncomfortable. Who is this? He started bragging immediately after entering the house about a bronze mirror worth 200,000 yuan?
He might endure it if he said it was two million. Was two hundred thousand worth mentioning?
Auntie also thought that this young man was a little rude, but older people were always a little more tolerant towards young people. “It is hard to know whether they are real or fake. It doesn’t matter how much it costs anyways, the important thing is that you like it.”
“Yeah.” Qi Yan took a sip from the teacup, glanced at Uncle Luo’s house, and felt a chill in his heart.
This was actually a formation to get rid of bad energy. It was not a big deal, as long as the evil spirits were sent out. However, there were two bronze mirrors, one large and one small, placed outside the door of the house, which became a formation that transfers bad energy, and the evil spirits were sent to the opposite door.
Not many people use this technique anymore, but twenty years ago, there were some carpenters in the southwest who had inherited the technique from their ancestors. At that time, it was popular for every household to get their furniture crafted from a carpenter instead of buying them directly from the home furnishing store as it is now, so everyone treated carpenters nicely, in case they did something to the furniture and caused bad luck to their household.
In the past, people tended to create this formation in their new home for good luck, but everyone knew what to avoid, and there was nothing wrong with it. But no matter how good the method was, if it fell into the hands of someone with bad intentions, it would become a harmful method. For example, the decoration in Uncle Luo’s house was originally very good, but there were two bronze mirrors, and they contained malicious energy.
Qi Yan stood up and walked to the bronze mirror. After reaching out to touch it, he looked at Mrs. Luo embarrassedly, “Excuse me, may I look at this?”
“Um…”
“Young man,” Old Luo said with an ugly face, “I brought this bronze mirror back from the antique store, please be careful.”
“I’m sorry,” Qi Yan smiled at Old Luo, he did not touch the mirror again, and sat back obediently.
Seeing Qi Yan sitting back to his original position, Old Luo looked much better. He turned to Ma Song and said, “Little Ma, this friend of yours is quite casual.”
Ma Song just pretended he didn’t understand and talked about something else. The friendship between the two families was just between Ma Song’s parents and Old Luo. Now that his parents had passed away, there was nothing else to talk about between Ma Song and Old Luo.
Everyone sat together for a while, then got up and said goodbye. After the door was closed, Wang Hang glanced at the mirror hanging at the door of Luo’s house and wanted to reach out to touch it, but Qi Yan grabbed his wrist.
“Don’t simply touch these things.” Qi Yan glared at Wang Hang, who was really ignorant and fearless. The mirror contained bad energy. If Wang Hang touched it, he might have to be in the hospital for a few days, unless he was also Like Baihe, whole whole body was surrounded by purple energy, and no evil could touch him.
Thinking of Cen Baihe, Qi Yan suddenly felt strange in his heart, he shook his head and put it to the back of his mind.
“Is there something wrong?” Ma Song was not a fool. Seeing Qi Yan’s strange attitude today, he felt that something happened in the Luo family that he didn’t know about.
Qi Yan didn’t know if he should tell him about this. With his understanding of his friend, if he knew the truth, he would definitely break into Luo’s house and do something he shouldn’t do. However, he also thought it wasn’t right to keep it from him.
These thoughts only swirled in Qi Yan’s mind for a second. He shook his head and said, “It’s fine, it’s just those people don’t understand Feng Shui. It’s better not to touch it.” After speaking, he reached out and put the mirror in the correct position.
Ma Song hadn’t had a good rest in the past few days, so he didn’t have the energy to think about what Qi Yan meant. He just nodded.
But for some unknown reason, Wang Hang felt that the mirror looked even more foggy, as if it had exhausted the last bit of vitality and had turned into a useless piece of scrap metal.
In the afternoon, Old Luo received a call, saying that the old master who helped his family change their Feng Shui had a hemorrhage at noon, and before he could be sent to the hospital, he had passed.
Old Luo was stunned for a while, holding the phone for a long time before regaining his senses.
He suddenly remembered what the old master said when he was setting up the formation.
“There is no turning back when this formation is set up. After the event is completed, remember to bow three times and kowtow nine times in all directions, and then put the things away. If someone discovers this formation and destroys it, not only will I be dead, I’m afraid your life will also be threatened.”
But the formation is still in good condition, no one had found and touched it, so why did the master suddenly have a hemorrhage?
He wanted to wait until the day when Mr and Mrs. Luo was buried before taking down the mirror, but now it seemed that it didn’t matter anymore.
At 10 at night, Old Luo bowed three times and kowtowed nine times in all directions. Then, he took down the mirror on the wall. But after taking it off, his expression changed.
When did this bronze mirror get such a thick layer of patina?
He put the bronze mirror in the box and stuck the talisman paper given to him by the master on it. Then he opened the door and looked at the bronze mirror hanging on the door. There was also a layer of patina on it and the moment he held it, the mirror split in half.
“Gasp!”
Old Luo gasped as if he had seen a ghost.
Ma Song’s parents were buried peacefully. Qi Yan accompanied Ma Song to choose a spot to bury them. They chose a quiet double burial tomb, and let the husband and wife sleep peacefully in the ground.
On the day of the burial, many people came to see Ma Song’s parents off, including colleagues and friends of his parents, as well as relatives. Even Lin Shuo, who was busy with his papers, rushed over overnight. Although there were many people, they were very solemn.
Layers of soil covered the coffin and gave the couple eternal peace.
“Boys,” Ma Song’s eyes were red, but his tears did not fall, “take care.”
Wang Hang and Lin Shuo nodded silently, and Qi Yan patted Ma Song on the shoulder, “so do you.”
The four of them returned to Ma Song’s house and saw that Uncle Luo’s house was noisy. When they entered the door, they found out that Uncle Luo had suffered a heart attack and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. His children were comforting their mother.
Qi Yan glanced at them and turned away. He turned to Ma Song and said, “Come on, I’ll accompany you to get drunk tonight.”
“Okay.” A faint smile finally appeared on Ma Song’s face.
That night, the four friends didn’t sleep until late at night. On the way to the airport the next morning, they were still hungover.
Ma Song accompanied the three to get their boarding passes, and after having some food together, he reluctantly sent them to the security checkpoint.
“Ma Song,” Qi Yan stretched out his hand and patted Ma Song’s shoulder, flicking away the last ray of evil spirit from his body, “you must live well.”
“I will.” Ma Song hugged the three of them one by one. “Although we are far apart, we are still in the same country. There will be more opportunities to meet in the future.”
“Yes.”
They were separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, but their friendship was boundless.
