"Auntie Li from Xiao Li Village, Auntie Li from Xiao Li Village, Auntie Li, that name sounds so familiar!
That's right, isn't she Li Mao's wife?
Oh dear, then I'm not mistaken, it must have something to do with Li Xinglin's crazy son. Li Mao is Li Xinglin's cousin. Li Xinglin is someone who left Xiao Li Village when he was young. Could it be that your maternal grandmother successfully exorcised his son before, and it relapsed?
That's why Auntie Li came to find your maternal grandmother again.
Since it relapsed, your maternal grandmother wouldn't feel comfortable charging again, so it's normal not to have any income. It seems the killer mainly wanted to deal with Li Xinglin's son, and your maternal grandmother purely went to earn thirty thousand yuan from them, got caught in a disaster, and encountered someone she couldn't handle.
Or perhaps she was ambushed and lost her life.
I guess that's about the situation, pretty much. Don't investigate any further, in case you alert the person who dealt the blow. You might lose your life too.
Listen to me, let's just let it go.
You should honestly go to the capital and live your life, work hard to get into a university there, and then stay.
As soon as Ding Yun mentioned Auntie Li, the village chief found the address somewhat familiar and quickly recalled the person's identity and her relationship with Li Xinglin's family.
At the same time, he had some more detailed speculations.
The most crucial point was that these speculations were very reasonable.
After sharing his speculations, he naturally tried to persuade Ding Yun not to clash with a stronger force, suggesting that ordinary folks should just accept such matters.
"Village Chief, I know what I'm doing."
When the village chief heard Ding Yun's words, he knew she was just placating him and that she was definitely unwilling to give up investigating the truth of the matter. So, he hurriedly continued to persuade her.
Seeing that she couldn't be persuaded, he could only urge Ding Yun to be careful, emphasizing that as long as she was alive, she could always find opportunities. He warned her not to expose herself too much.
Ding Yun nodded in agreement and then took her leave.
Upon returning, Ding Yun did not, as the village chief had imagined, investigate stealthily. Instead, she directly rode her family's electric scooter straight to Xiao Li Village.
And as soon as she arrived at Xiao Li Village.
She discovered something was amiss.
To ordinary people, it seemed that every household in Xiao Li Village was doing well, with a clear atmosphere of prosperity and vigorous development. However, in Ding Yun's eyes, Xiao Li Village clearly showed signs of depleted luck in every household. All the luck was converging towards a tomb in the back mountain, and then through that tomb, it flowed to an unknown destination.
The reason why their village could maintain a semblance of prosperity.
Was solely due to a very illusory fortune that supported it.
Once this fortune dispersed, everyone would face ruin and disaster.
Seeing this, Ding Yun knew without a doubt that her and the village chief's guesses were correct. The root of the problem was related to the Li family, or more accurately, to the tomb behind them that was absorbing the luck of the entire Xiao Li Village. The current descendants of that lineage were definitely involved. Since she already knew the source of the problem, Ding Yun naturally had to continue investigating.
Therefore, in the next moment, she secretly entered the back mountain of Xiao Li Village through a small path and then smoothly found the location of Xiao Li Village's ancestral graves. What appeared before her eyes was a newly constructed tomb complex featuring a "Dragon Ascending Bureau" designed to gather and seize luck. With the largest tomb in the center as the core, and over six hundred surrounding tombs as supporting points, it utilized the underground earth veins of the mountain range to form a Feng Shui array.
This Feng Shui array had only one purpose: to use the graves of the ancestors of each family as a base point, channeling the luck of the entire clan into their own tomb, thereby using the luck of the entire clan to nurture one person, allowing them to leap into the dragon gate.
This Feng Shui array was more commonly used in ancient times, essentially allowing the entire clan to support a scholar through this method.
The hope was that this scholar would achieve great success, become an official.
Then the entire clan would benefit.
However, under normal circumstances, when creating this Feng Shui array, it wouldn't be done to the extreme. It would only draw about seventy percent of the clan's luck. Furthermore, a specific feedback mechanism would be incorporated into the Feng Shui array. This meant that once the descendant of the central tomb achieved great success and their luck soared, the entire Feng Shui array would reverse. Instead of the entire clan supporting one person, one person would then reciprocate by supporting the clan.
Overall, it was mutually beneficial: we support you first, and once you achieve success, you help the clan.
Generally speaking, the one who was supported would implicitly accept this responsibility and strive to help the clan to repay the karmic debt.
However, there were also selfish individuals who reneged on their promises. Perhaps as soon as they became officials, they would find excuses to return and disrupt the Feng Shui array. For example, they might move the graves of their parents and ancestors, or extensively renovate the graves of their parents and ancestors. The relocation and extensive renovation were pretexts; the main purpose was to disrupt the Feng Shui array.
In this way, they could naturally monopolize all the luck.
And they wouldn't have to reciprocate to the clan, which would affect their future promotions.
However, if the clan's years of effort were in vain, the entire clan might suffer bad luck for several years, and it would be impossible to support another clan member for decades.
But Xiao Li Village's Feng Shui array was clearly different. Xiao Li Village's Feng Shui array had pushed the entire matter to an extreme. It didn't draw seventy percent of the clan's luck, but ninety-five percent of the clan's luck. The remaining zero point five percent of luck was merely to prevent the clan's luck from becoming too low, which could lead to a major disaster that would wipe out the entire clan.
If it weren't for the instigator also paying a sum of movable wealth to Xiao Li Village to temporarily suppress it, then all the people of Xiao Li Village would immediately be covered in misfortune, and even drinking cold water would get them stuck in their teeth.
And this suppression with movable wealth was limited.
Once the deadline passed, they would still face extreme bad luck.
Even the entire village might encounter problems, various accidents, chaos, and unease for humans and livestock.
Even moving away from the village would be useless.
Only by destroying the ancestral grave Feng Shui array could there be hope.
Upon understanding this, Ding Yun immediately left Xiao Li Village and inquired in several nearby villages about what had happened in Xiao Li Village recently. When was the ancestral grave renovated? And whose family's grave was the largest in the center of the ancestral grave? Who were their descendants?
These things were actually quite easy to find out.
After all, they weren't secret matters.
Before long, Ding Yun had acquired a lot of related information. For example, the largest grave in the center belonged to Li Xiumei's family. Li Xiumei had now changed her name to Li Anna and was active in the entertainment industry as a relatively well-known second-tier celebrity.
She was also the one who spearheaded the renovation of the ancestral graves this time.
Not only did she pay for everything, but she also gave considerable compensation to each family, with the condition that the ancestral graves had to be renovated according to her wishes, and her family's ancestral grave had to be the largest and most magnificent.
Additionally, Li Xinglin's family was initially reluctant to renovate the ancestral graves. It was only after everyone else in the village agreed that his family was forced to comply.
There was also Li Xinglin's son, Li Hongyan. After returning and inspecting the progress of the grave renovation, he said that there seemed to be problems with the construction and that they should stop. He was going back to find someone to consult.
The next day, he went mad..."