"No need for compensation. It seems that the murderer's second scheme against your son was a ruse. The real target was to lure my grandmother there again and ambush her.
Before coming here, I specifically went to Xiao Li Village and now I have a general idea of who harmed your son!"
Although Ding Xianglan's death could be considered work-related and should warrant some compensation, for Ding Yun, the most important thing was to uncover the truth.
Ideally, she also wanted an opportunity to eliminate the murderer.
In the process of uncovering the truth, what Ding Yun lacked most was someone willing to help her and someone very familiar with Xiao Li Village. The Li Xinglin family was currently the most suitable candidate. Therefore, Ding Yun directly refused compensation and began to explain the truth of the matter.
Upon hearing Ding Yun's words, Li Xinglin's primary concern was not the lack of compensation, but that Ding Yun claimed to know who had harmed his son. Although his son had recovered, he wouldn't be at peace until the truth was revealed, always worried that the person might strike again.
Therefore, in the next second, he hastily asked:
"Who is it? Who else wants to harm my son? Could it be someone from Xiao Li Village? But I haven't heard of any spirit mediums or anyone in the village with such a lineage."
"Do you remember that a few days before your son fell ill, he specifically went to Xiao Li Village and said that the feng shui of the ancestral graves seemed to be problematic, and he needed to go back to check some information and ask people?"
It wasn't that Ding Yun was intentionally trying to create suspense or withholding information directly. The main reason was that this matter needed to be guided step by step, allowing Li Xinglin to figure it out himself, which would make him more convinced.
If he wasn't given any space to think from beginning to end, he might become suspicious and disbelieve the truth.
This was an experience Ding Yun had gained over many years.
"Wait, it seems there was indeed such a thing."
Hearing Ding Yun mention it, Li Xinglin's mind immediately started to work, recalling what had happened a few days before his son went mad. Some things were just not brought up, and once mentioned, the train of thought became clear.
Soon, Li Xinglin remembered that there was indeed such a thing. His son had even mumbled a few words to him when he returned, saying that the feng shui of the ancestral graves seemed a bit off.
He needed to check the feng shui books at home.
But later that night, he went mad.
His family was so preoccupied with his illness that they didn't think about anything else. It wasn't until Ding Yun specifically mentioned it that he connected the two matters and said with wide eyes:
"Could it be related to the ancestral graves?
No, is the feng shui of the ancestral graves really problematic?"
"That's right, the feng shui of your ancestral graves has indeed had problems, and it was deliberately set up by someone. I don't need to tell you who it is, do I? By the way, how did your son know about feng shui? Although not an expert, he at least has some basic knowledge."
Ding Yun nodded, confirming Li Xinglin's guess, and then asked a question that she was somewhat curious about.
Li Xinglin, however, shook his head with a wry smile and said:
"He doesn't know anything about feng shui. He just bought a few feng shui books from a bookstore a few years ago and read them whenever he had free time. It's really his loose tongue that caused trouble.
Not only did he almost lose his own life,
but he also implicated your grandmother!"
"No, wait. If what you're saying is true, then Li Anna is behind all of this. Right, I remember now. The day my son went to check the ancestral graves, the feng shui master hired by Li Anna was also present. I understand, I understand everything now. It must have been the feng shui master hired by Li Anna who did it. She was just afraid that my son would actually understand something and see through their actions, so she was in a hurry to kill my son."
"By the way, what exactly is wrong with the ancestral graves?"
Li Xinglin first spoke his analysis with gritted teeth, and then belatedly began to care about what was wrong with the ancestral graves and whether it would affect them.
After all, his family's ancestral graves were also within the scope of renovation.
Now that metaphysics was truly established, how could he not believe that tampering with ancestral graves would affect future generations, and he was concerned about what the specific problems were?
"Your ancestral graves have been set up with a feng shui formation called the 'Qi Gathering and Fortune Seizing Ascending Dragon Formation'. Its main purpose is to steal the luck of all members of the entire clan and supply it to one person.
She must have given each family a sum of money, right?
This money is both to sever the karmic ties and to temporarily suppress the ephemeral fortune that would bring you bad luck. It's basically equivalent to you tacitly agreeing to her actions, so the backlash that the feng shui master suffers is quite minimal.
Therefore, you won't have any immediate risks.
However, the ephemeral fortune will gradually dissipate. In as short as six months, and at most a year, everyone in Xiao Li Village, and even those who have left Xiao Li Village, as long as they carry the bloodline of those ancestors in the ancestral graves, will begin to collectively experience bad luck.
At the same time, because she has stolen so much luck.
Your bad luck will not simply be misfortune, but life-threatening danger. If there are no unexpected changes or interventions later, you will likely face continuous misfortunes, poverty, ruin, and extinction of your lineage.
Even if this feng shui formation is broken now.
You will still experience misfortune for three to five years."
This time, Ding Yun was telling the truth, not exaggerating at all. Although luck is invisible and intangible, it exists in countless universes across all heavens and myriad worlds.
However, this thing is not constant.
Great merit can naturally suppress luck, making it impossible for anyone to steal, and committing evil naturally leads to a reduction in luck. At the same time, many people deceive heaven and earth. So, overall,
luck is not absolutely fair.
Otherwise, there would be no talk of stealing luck.
However, after hearing Ding Yun's explanation, Li Xinglin calmed down instead, shaking his head bitterly and saying:
"Even if everything you say is true, it's probably useless.
You said yourself that it would take at least six months to a year to see the bad consequences. It has only been three months now, and no one in the village except me has been ambushed.
Why would they believe such a thing?
What you say is ethereal and its truth is unknown, but the money Li Anna gave them is real gold and silver, not a single cent missing. Even the village chief and elders in the village received more money.
If I were to tell them these things, they might instead say I'm talking nonsense and that I've been fooled by a swindler.
To put it more cruelly:
Even if I tell them, if they don't believe it, it will be useless. Then, in a few months, if the things you said really happen, they might even think that you were the one who caused it, that you are harming them.
People are always unwilling to admit their mistakes.
Especially when it comes to something that harms the entire family and clan, they would rather stubbornly cling to falsehoods and find a scapegoat.
Because once they admit it, they cannot escape responsibility.
Finding a scapegoat makes the matter unrelated to them.
I have already told you the possible consequences. If you insist, then I can cooperate with you and help.
Another thing is, if they don't listen.
Do you have any way to save our family?"