Chapter 191
Chapter 191
The deceased woman was named Liu Jing. Before she got pregnant, she had run a clothing store in a large shopping mall.
After she became pregnant, she transferred the shop to someone else.
Liu Jing’s husband also ran his own business-a big restaurant, no less.
So their family was fairly well-off. The apartment they had bought was a large flat of more than a hundred square meters, and the interior was luxuriously decorated.
“What a huge place…”
After we walked in, Anning could not help sighing. “When will I ever get to live in a place like this?”
Hearing her, I smiled and said, “You want to buy a place?”
She said, “Having a home makes you feel secure. But I won’t be able to afford one in this lifetime.”
“Don’t be discouraged,” I said, trying to encourage her. “I used to be poor too. I had to ask my family for money every month. Later, I followed Meng Yifan into real estate sales, and now I’ve saved up quite a bit. As long as you know what you want to do in the future and keep working toward it, your life will definitely improve.”
She nodded. “Fine. I’ll believe you for now.”
The apartment was indeed large, and Anning was very envious of it.
But the moment I stepped inside, the place gave me a certain feeling. It made me feel very “lonely.”
When I was working, my attention was on the job, so I would not think about the people around me who had already passed away.
But the moment I came in just now, this apartment put a kind of pressure on my mind. It made me suddenly think of my father and the others, made me feel that everyone around me was gone, and that I was all alone.
“There’s a major problem with this apartment,” I said.
“What problem?” Anning was confused. “This place is great. The color palette is just a little dark.”
I remembered what the Feng Shui section of Mysteries of the Six Yao had said: “The greatest taboo for a residence is Large House, Few People. It means the home is very large, but there are very few people living in it. In Feng Shui, this is called House Overpowering Resident.”
The Feng Shui section also said: A residence has the Five Voids of a Residence, which causes poverty and depletion. Large House, Few People is the first void.
“In Feng Shui, the human body naturally carries life force. If there are too few people in a home, then the residence’s yin energy becomes too strong, and yang energy cannot gather. If someone lives in that environment for a long time, they can easily become depressed or develop other mental health problems.”
After hearing my explanation, Anning looked utterly baffled. “I know ghosts exist in this world, but… does Feng Shui really affect people that much? A house is just an object.”
I said, “Don’t underestimate Feng Shui. Even people who study architecture learn this stuff.”
“If we analyze it from a scientific perspective, people always say home is a harbor for the soul. But if you’re the only one in that harbor, and the harbor is very empty, with a huge amount of space, then you won’t feel any warmth from it.”
By then, we had walked into the Master Bedroom.
I continued, “This Master Bedroom has to be at least twenty square meters. A bedroom is a person’s most private space, the place where they should feel the safest and sleep peacefully. But with such a huge space, it becomes difficult to feel any privacy or security.”
“And the Master Bedroom is also where a married couple sleeps together. This Liu Jing-her husband ran a restaurant. Restaurants are busy, and they close late, so Liu Jing must have spent long periods sleeping alone.”
“This Master Bedroom also violates the taboo of House Overpowering Resident. Bedroom Overpowering Resident can make the person who lives here long-term emotionally restless and agitated, prone to impulsive actions, and it can also affect their sleep.”
After saying that, I took the luopan out of my backpack and went to the very center of the living room.
The way I used the luopan was nothing like Seventh Master, who had a hundred marvelous uses for it. At most, I used it to determine the apartment’s east, west, south, and north directions.
After determining the directions, I discovered that in the southeast corner of the apartment, there was a flower stand. On the stand were four flowerpots, and every pot was planted with vine plants.
The house had pretty much been emptied out, but the flower stand and the pots on it had been left behind. Since no one had watered them in ages, all the plants inside had withered and died.
Anning walked over and asked curiously, “Is there something wrong with this flower stand too?”
I said, “There’s nothing wrong with the stand itself. The problem is what’s planted in it. The flower stand is placed in the southeast. In the Eight Trigrams, southeast corresponds to Xun. The Xun trigram is the eldest daughter born of Qian and Kun. If there is no eldest daughter in the household, then it represents the woman of the house.”
“Vining plants, especially those with drooping branches and leaves, are yin in nature. They symbolize entanglement, obsession, and frightening affairs. They can also easily cause the woman of the house to suffer from depression or mental illness.”
I asked Anning, “Do you know how the woman who lived here died?”
She shook her head and said she didn’t.
“Postpartum depression. She killed her son, who had just turned one month old, then hanged herself.” I took out the file on this Stigmatized Property and handed it to Anning.
After reading it, Anning’s face gradually turned pale. “Could it really be because of the house… that she killed her own child and then took her own life…?”
I said, “That’s hard to say for certain, but the Feng Shui of the house definitely had an influence.”
First, there was House Overpowering Resident. Second, there was Bedroom Overpowering Resident. Third, there were the vining plants in the southeast.
Fourth, the entire house was decorated in a dark color scheme, and the colors were extremely monotonous.
Young people nowadays pursue a minimalist style and tend to favor darker tones. What they don’t realize is that chasing a momentary sense of novelty and fashion will, after living in that environment for a long time, inevitably lead to an emptiness and loneliness inside. Over time, that can also give rise to depressive emotions.
“Feng Shui may have been one factor. Another was Liu Jing’s relationship with her husband.”
I analyzed, “The influence of the Feng Shui would have caused her to sleep poorly and feel restless and agitated. She must have argued with her husband often.”
“At the same time, Liu Jing was a woman who valued her family. You can tell from the fact that after she got pregnant, she transferred ownership of her clothing store. And deep down, she longed to be cared for. She lacked love.”
Anning stared at me, completely bewildered, then flipped through the file in her hands again. “But none of that is written here…”
I said, “I’m analyzing it from her perspective.”
Female Ghosts were different from male Ghosts. When a male Ghost refused to move on, he usually had a very clear purpose. As long as you fulfilled that purpose or need, he would obediently go where he was supposed to go, like Huang Haiquan, the guy who had been cheated on before.
But when a female Ghost refused to move on, her purpose usually wasn’t clear. Instead, there would be a knot in her heart. The most important thing was to untie that knot.
That was why I had to analyze the cause of her depression clearly.
“These potted plants are the projection of her inner world.”
“Some people lack affection. When that deficiency can’t be satisfied, they project their inner needs onto pets or plants and take especially good care of them.”
I pointed at the pot of vining plants and said, “Although these plants have withered, they were growing extremely well before they died, because Liu Jing took very good care of them while she was alive.”
“Her husband took everything away, but he left only these plants behind.”
“Her husband probably hated her very much.”
After saying that, I told Anning to seal up the living room windows and keep any light from getting in.
Next, we had to prepare for Soul Summoning.
While Anning got to work, I carefully searched the house for other clues.
As it turned out, I really did find something strange.
Behind the door of the Master Bedroom, I found a Talisman.