Chapter 25

"This...Xiao Yi, do you also understand Fengshui?"

"I can't say I understand this word, I can only say that I know a little bit. Sister Zhang, your store was booming before, but suddenly one day, the business in the store is sluggish. It's getting worse day by day, right?"

Xiao Yi's words stirred up waves deep in Zhang Hong's heart, and she was still wondering how Xiao Yi knew this, could it be possible that she had asked about it before?

"Sister Zhang, please don't look at me like that. I didn't know it before. I left Beitang County six years ago and only came back in the past few days."

"It turns out that's the case. To tell you the truth, Xiao Yi, the business in my store was really booming before, but since a strange incident happened once, the business is like an old man in his twilight years. It's getting worse day by day."

After being hit by Xiao Yi, Zhang Hong didn't plan to hide anything from Xiao Yi, because it wasn't such an important matter in the first place.

It turned out that the business of the restaurant was booming, and there were constant customers almost every day. Since one day, some strange things happened. First, there were dead rats and cockroaches in the kitchen, and then there was an inexplicable smell in the restaurant.

At first, I thought it was because the cleaning work was not done properly, but after cleaning the restaurant inside and out, the smell was still there. After the guests smelled the smell, they would not come to eat at all.

"No wonder I think there is something wrong with the Dao Qi here. I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen."

Xiao Yi muttered to himself, according to Zhang Hong's description, Xiao Yi could predict something similar in his heart.

"Xiao Yi, what did you say?"

"Oh, it's nothing. If Sister Zhang doesn't mind, can I help you take a look at the lobby and see where the problem lies."

"Okay, this couldn't be better. I didn't expect you, Xiao Yi, to understand this. If you do me this favor, I won't let you do it in vain."

Xiao Yi doesn't understand those things about Feng Shui, but Xiao Yi can feel Qi. In the whole hall, which part of Dao Qi is stable and which part is problematic, Xiao Yi can feel it with his eyes closed.

"Sister Zhang, the business in your store is probably due to a strange thing that happened two years ago, and then the business has been declining, right?"

"How... how do you know? I'm a little skeptical, have you ever worked here before?"

Zhang Hong said in surprise, what Xiao Yi said was correct, it was indeed one day two years ago that something strange happened in the restaurant, and the business was not getting better day by day.

Xiao Yi stood up and walked around the lobby. Zhang Hong didn't know what Xiao Yi was doing, so he also followed Xiao Yi, wherever Xiao Yi went.

When Xiao Yi walked to the edge of a load-bearing concrete pillar in the lobby, he stopped suddenly. Zhang Hong behind him didn't notice it, and directly bumped into Xiao Yi's back.

Zhang Hong stood back a few steps. She accidentally bumped into Xiao Yi's back earlier. It felt like hitting a wall. Xiao Yi's body remained motionless.

"That's it! The problem arises from this place, and this is also the source of Yin Qi."

"Here? Impossible here? This place is cleaned every day. If there is a problem, it will be discovered long ago."

Xiao Yi stopped in his tracks. Next to him was a landscape tree planted in a large tank. The landscape tree was one meter three to four meters high. There was another tree at a symmetrical position in the lobby.

Zhang Hong was a little puzzled, Xiao Yi stopped beside such a landscape tree, and said that there was something wrong with this tree, and he couldn't tell where the problem was.

"Sister Zhang, I'm sure you won't see it when I say that, but my feeling is right, that's the problem!"

Xiao Yi raised one foot, but everyone didn't realize what Xiao Yi was doing, only to see Xiao Yi kicking on the big vat.

With a crisp bang, Zhang Bing's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe what he saw.

"No way - damn, is this a foot? It's stronger than a hammer."

Xiao Yi kicked the vat to pieces. The porcelain pieces in this vat were as thick as one centimeter. It was impossible for a normal person to break it with his feet.

"Hey! What are you doing? Do you know how much such a tank costs? Just kick it and break it and the ground is full of dirt. If you can't find the problem, the responsibility will be on you."

Seeing Xiao Yi making such a big commotion, the lobby manager stood up and criticized Xiao Yi, but Xiao Yi didn't bother to pay attention to this kind of person at all.

"Xiao Yi, it doesn't matter even if you get it wrong. After all, you are not a person who understands Feng Shui. Manager Feng, please don't say a few words. Xiao Yi's idea is good."

Zhang Hong didn't know why Xiao Yi would do this, and he said this here to give Xiao Yi a step down, and he didn't expect Xiao Yi to solve the problem in this store.

"Sister Zhang... I, Xiao Yi, won't do things that I'm not sure about. I said that the problem lies here, and that's where the problem must be. Then you'll understand."

Xiao Yi grabbed the landscape tree with one hand and pulled it out from the soil. Suddenly, a foul smell permeated from the soil, and the whole lobby was full of this smell.

Immediately after Xiao Yi pulled out the landscape tree completely, Zhang Hong immediately frowned. The root system of the originally good landscape tree was all necrotic, and the smell was rotten and moldy.

"I didn't expect that the landscape tree would become like this after watering and loosening the soil every day. No wonder it always smells that strange smell."

"Sister Zhang, don't worry. The source is not this tree. If I'm not wrong, there are still things in the soil. This is the crux of the problem."

Xiao Yi found two chopsticks, fiddled with a pile of soil a few times, and found a black object from the soil, which seemed to be something wrapped in cloth.

After getting this tofu-sized thing out of the soil, Xiao Yi untied the outer cloth bag and took out an iron box from inside.

"What is this? Could it be that someone hid private money, and there is no place to put it at home, so they put it in a restaurant?"

Zhang Bing said with a smile, of course this is impossible, it is impossible for anyone to put private money in such a place.

"Xiao Yi, what is this?"

"This should be something used for sorcery. According to rumors, find an iron box, put human hair dander, chicken blood or menstrual blood into it, and put it in one place, it will affect the luck of this place."

That's all Xiao Yi knew. He gently opened the lid, and a foul smell came over his face. Everyone turned around and retched, almost vomited out.

Inside the box, there were some hair and some unidentifiable things, and the most conspicuous one was a used aunt's towel.

Zhang Hong held her nose, and now she understood something in her heart. The person who did this must be jealous of the good business in the store.

"Xiao Yi, you just said that this kind of magic requires menstrual blood, so this—"

"Oh, if I want to make Sister Zhang unlucky, I must use Sister Zhang's ability to work, and other people's naturally won't work."

"I understand that the person who does this kind of thing should be someone close to me, otherwise it would be impossible..."

Zhang Hong couldn't even utter the next words. The person who made the move secretly thought of such a disgusting method.