Mr. Feng Shui of the Republic of China

Xia Jingsheng accepted the invitation and started to prepare a birthday gift for the little girl.

On Maggie's birthday, a group of celebrities were invited to her home.The Mai mansion was decorated with lights and festoons, and under the private stage were six large long tables covered with red silk, on which were placed various kinds of fruit and fine wines.

When Xia Jingsheng arrived, his eyes were filled with the fragrance of his clothes and his temples, it was so lively.

Little birthday star Maggie, wearing a pink satin cheongsam, ran up to Xia Jingsheng like a butterfly flying through the sea of ​​people: "Brother Jingsheng!"

Xia Jingsheng smiled, and handed her a rose red brocade box: "Birthday present."

Maggie couldn't wait to open it, and saw a white jade Ruyi inside, the jade was eaten up moderately, and the precious light was inside.

"It's so beautiful!" Maggie held up the white jade Ruyi to the sun, marveling at the smooth lines and delicate carvings.

"Thank you Brother Jingsheng!" Maggie couldn't put it down for Yu Ruyi, "I really like this gift."

"What gift?" Sun Wenxi approached, just in time to hear Maggie's words.

"Look, brother Jingsheng gave it to me." Maggie held the brocade box carefully, "Brother Wenxi, where is your gift?"

Sun Wenxi scratched the tip of Maggie's nose, and ordered: "Bring it in."

I saw four servants carrying a "monster" wrapped in red cloth into the house.

For a moment, everyone's eyes focused on that thing.

Maggie's mother, Mrs. Mai, said in surprise: "Wenxi, you are spending too much money, what is so big?"

Sun Wenxi supported Maggie's shoulder: "Little girl, go and see for yourself."

Maggie stepped forward and felt through the red cloth first, feeling that the things inside were hard.She lifted the red cloth off, and a red-brown piano appeared in front of everyone.

Maggie exclaimed excitedly: "It's the Strauss I've always wanted!"

Mrs. Mai said with a smile: "Hurry up and thank Brother Wenxi."

"Thank you, Brother Wenxi." Maggie said, but her eyes never left the new piano.

Afterwards, the guests presented Maggie with birthday gifts one after another, and the atmosphere was joyful.

Maggie's father, Mayor Mai, even brought back to his daughter the custom-made jewelry when he went on business trips in the West, which is the only one in the world.

The tanzanite necklace made Maggie's complexion even more porcelain white.

Everything was fine until a woman came into the banquet hall.

She was wearing a navy blue cheongsam, the fabric looked a little old, even if she wore some jewelry, she couldn't hide her sallow and sick face.

When Mrs. Mai saw her, her complexion was not very good-looking, and she forced herself to ask: "Yun Niang, you are not fully recovered yet, why did you come down?"

The woman smiled, and sat down on the Eight Immortals chair beside her: "My aunt's birthday, I, as an aunt, will always come to congratulate her."

This stooped woman is Mayor Mai's aunt in Najin's home, and standing timidly beside her is Mai Lin, the second daughter of Mai's concubine.

Yun Niang took out a string of Buddhist beads from her bosom and handed them to Maggie: "Miss, this is for you..."

It is definitely unwelcome for a sick person to give a little girl a string of prayer beads as a birthday present.Mrs. Mai frowned and said, "Qiqi's birthday, what do you mean by sending prayer beads?!"

"Ma'am, you know, I believe in Buddhism, and I hope that the beads can protect the eldest lady." As she spoke, Yunniang closed her eyes slightly and said, "Amitabha."

Mrs. Mai's face turned dark: "We don't accept this congratulatory gift, you take it back! Come on, Yunniang is not in good health, take her back to rest."

"Cough, cough, cough..." Before the servants could touch her, Yunniang coughed loudly, "I won't leave, I'm happy today, I want to stay here and watch."

At this time, Mayor Mai couldn't hold his face anymore, he said coldly: "Come here, send Yunniang back."

"I won't go!" Yun Niang's attitude was very firm.

Mai Lin, the concubine, guarded her mother behind her, and said with tears: "Don't force her anymore, she also wants to prepare some decent gifts for her sister, but the girl who served said that the family didn't transfer money to our mother. These days, all the money is used in the house.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Mrs. Mai in unison.

As the mistress of the family, Mrs. Mai has always been in charge of the accounts of the Mai family, but now there are rumors that the concubine is being treated harshly, which is really embarrassing.

Mayor Mai's face was not very good-looking, and he asked: "What's going on?"

Mrs. Mai was in a hurry, she was straightforward, and she couldn't let others splash dirty water, so she immediately confronted: "Speak clearly, don't lie, when have I treated you mother and daughter harshly?"

Mai Lin cried very sadly: "These are all from the vernal equinox. If mother doesn't believe it, you can ask her."

The servant girl, Chun Equinox, served Yunniang personally. Madam Mai raised her eyebrows and shouted, "Call me Chun Equinox."

Not long after, someone reported back: "Spring Equinox left the mansion early this morning, and has not returned yet."

This time, it was impossible to prove it.

Yunniang originally chanted sutras with her eyes closed, but now she fell down when she heard this.

There was an instant chaos in the hall.

Mrs. Mai said anxiously: "What are you still doing in a daze, go to the doctor!"

At this moment, Xia Jingsheng pushed aside the crowd and stepped forward, "Let me have a look."

I saw that Yunniang's body was stiff, her heart was beating fast, and she was sweating badly.

Under Xia Jingsheng's handling, Yunniang slowly came to her senses, and was helped to the room again.

Yunniang's room is on the second floor of Mai Mansion. The furnishings in the room are simple, with only necessary tables, chairs, beds, etc.The most striking thing in the room is a small Buddhist hall.

Seeing Xia Jingsheng staring at the Buddhist hall, Mrs. Mai sighed: "Mr. Xia, this time is really thanks to you. Otherwise, Yunniang had an accident, and I wouldn't be able to clean it up even if I really jumped into the Yellow River."

Xia Jingsheng replied: "Madam, there is no need to be too polite, this Buddhist hall is..."

"Yunniang believes in Buddhism. She seldom walks outside in recent years. Most of the time she chanted scriptures and worshiped Buddha. The master decided to build a Buddhist hall in her room."

Xia Jingsheng heard the words and took a closer look, he saw that black air was constantly oozing from the yellow curtain of the Buddhist hall.

Xia Jingsheng wondered: "The Buddhist hall is a pure place, why would there be evil spirits?"

He opened the curtain, and there was no abnormality in the furnishings and decorations inside.

A futon, a wooden fish, a Buddha statue...

Wait, a trace of surprise flashed across Xia Jingsheng's eyes, the black air came from the Buddha statue.

He took a closer look, and the Buddha statue with the golden body was supposed to be benevolent, but it looked a little strange with a smile at this moment.

Seeing him staring at the Buddha statue, Mrs. Mai asked, "Mr. Xia, but is there something wrong with this Buddha statue?"

Xia Jingsheng asked his servants to take a bowl of chicken blood and pour it on the Buddha statue.I saw the golden paper on the Buddha statue slowly falling off, and the Buddha's body was split in two.

Mrs. Mai was startled: "Mr. Xia, what's going on?"

Xia Jingsheng pushed aside the shattered Buddha body, revealing a black fluffy limb.

"Ah—" Mrs. Mai cried out in fright, "What is that?!"

"It's a spider..."

"Spider...spider?" Mrs. Mai covered her face with a veil, took another sneak peek, and finally got a clear picture of the thing.

The whole body is completely black, and there are eight monocular eyes on the front of the head and chest, staring at people with gloom, and the entire spider body almost fills the inside of the Buddha statue.

Under the spider's body, there was a white thing, and little spiders kept crawling out of it.

Madam Mai turned her back and retched.

After finally slowing down, Mrs. Mai's face was still blue: "Mr. Xia, what should I do with that thing?"

"Burn it clean." Xia Jingsheng said, "The Buddha statue in the Buddhist hall is not a golden body, nor has it been consecrated, but Yunniang burns incense on it every day, so it will naturally attract ghosts."

Mrs. Mai was puzzled and said: "But I clearly remember that this Buddha statue was made of pure gold by an eminent monk. The weight and gold used are recorded, so there can be no mistake."

At this time, the servants came to report that the servant girl came back on the vernal equinox.

Mrs. Mai calmed down, and asked scoldingly: "Spring equinox, you have always been in charge of Yunniang's food and daily life. This mansion allocates money to each house according to the rules every month. How come you have become a monthly rule for the mansion to deduct their mother and daughter?" ?”

Chun Equinox's face turned pale, and he hesitated to speak.

Xia Jingsheng looked at the bracelet on Chunshou's wrist and asked, "What happened to the Buddha statue in the Buddhist hall?"

Hearing the vernal equinox, her complexion became even uglier. She cried and said, "I really didn't change the Buddha statue, Madam Mingjian."

Mrs. Mai's expression froze, and she immediately heard the loopholes in her words. She said coldly, "Chun Equinox, how do you know that the Buddha statue has been replaced? Mr. Xia didn't say so."

Xia Jingsheng pointed to Chunfen's wrist: "This bracelet in your hand is a new model released by Hetianji this summer?"

Chun Equinox quickly covered her wrists, but Mrs. Mai was one step ahead of her, pulling her hand over and rolling up her sleeves.Sure enough, it was Hetianji's bracelets. Mrs. Mai said suspiciously: "Every piece of Hetianji's jade bracelets is top-grade. Where did you get so much money? Could it be that you took the monthly bills of their mother and daughter?"

Mrs. Mai originally said this casually, but seeing that the spring equinox was extremely nervous, her whole body shook like chaff.

Mrs. Mai suddenly became serious: "You really took it?! Then the Buddha statue in this Buddhist hall was also taken by you?!"

Xia Jingsheng: "On the vernal equinox, you complained to Yunniang and asked for money. Yunniang didn't have any cash, so she took jewelry and let you pawn it, and you took a small sum of money from it every time and put it in your pocket. Even the golden body in the Buddhist hall Buddha statue, you also have a twisted mind, pawn the real Buddha statue, and replace it with a fake clay Buddha statue to pretend. You know that Yunniang is submissive, and she will only hold back when she is treated harshly. Today you go out to pawn as usual, but You didn't expect Yunniang to attend the eldest lady's birthday party."

On the vernal equinox, weeping and kneeling in front of Mrs. Mai: "Madam, I beg you, I really have never done it, please make the decision for me."

Xia Jingsheng: "Whether you have done it or not, you only need to go to the pawn shop to find out. Now all the pawn shops in the city are registered. As long as you find the Buddha statue and compare the two, the truth will naturally come to light."

Seeing that Mrs. Mai really moved her mind, the vernal equinox, who had insisted that she hadn't done it before, immediately lost her momentum, and finally told the truth hesitantly, which was not far from what Xia Jingsheng said.