Around nine in the morning, a knock sounded on the door.
"Qin Ze, Qin Ze..."
I was meditating and heard someone calling me from outside.
I immediately recognized it as my landlady.
I opened my eyes and replied:
"Coming!"
With that, I went to open the door.
"Click!"
The door opened, and I saw a very fat woman standing at the entrance.
She was about five feet tall but weighed over two hundred pounds.
She wore a loose, black floral dress and was stuffing a fried dough stick into her mouth.
Seeing her, I was stunned.
"Isn't this my landlady?"
Although she was plump before, she hadn't been this obese.
In just one month, she seemed to have gained at least seventy or eighty pounds.
As I stood there in a daze, the landlady said in a low voice:
"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a person before?
Move aside, let me come in and take a look."
Hearing this, I gave a wry smile and stepped aside.
"Sister Wu, you've gained quite a bit of weight recently?"
"None of your business. If I find any furniture damaged, I won't return your deposit!"
The landlady, eating the fried dough stick, had oil all over her face.
Her features were squeezed together. As she walked, she moved step by step into the room.
She squinted, scanning everything around.
She even spoke provocatively.
However, as the landlady passed in front of me,
I smelled a strange odor.
A smell of ghostly presence.
Vaguely, there was also a trace of Yin energy...
Very faint, and only for a moment.
Acting on professional instinct, I involuntarily narrowed my eyes and observed the landlady from behind.
The landlady was too fat; from behind, she looked like a mountain.
Although the ghostly aura was faint, it was indeed present on the landlady.
Barely perceptible.
The landlady must have encountered something, very likely to be entangled with something unclean.
But before I could fully ascertain, the landlady spoke:
"The room is clean enough, but none of my furniture is damaged!"
The landlady said in a deep voice, laced with resentment.
It made me feel as if I owed her something.
"Sister Wu, the house is fine. It's exactly as I received it."
I replied.
At the same time, I walked to the coffee table and picked up a Bagua bronze mirror that was on it.
The landlady was still walking deeper into the house, inspecting the furniture.
She kept muttering, finding fault with everything:
"Look, there are some scratches on these tiles! Deduct one hundred."
"And also, the wall is a bit dirty, deduct two hundred."
"..."
The landlady continued to speak, deducting from my deposit.
I stood behind her, not responding.
Currently, my greatest concern was what was attached to this landlady.
I picked up the Bagua bronze mirror and shone it at the landlady's back.
There was a difference between this Bagua bronze mirror and a Bagua mirror.
A Bagua mirror could ward off evil, but this Bagua bronze mirror could discern and identify evil.
Ordinary unclean things, no matter how they transformed or manifested.
Once illuminated by this Bagua bronze mirror, they would usually reveal their true nature.
As I held the mirror and shone it forward,
It was better not to have shone it; the moment I did,
I saw a blurry black shadow appear within the Bagua bronze mirror.
The shadow was attached to the landlady, indistinct, merging with her.
Seeing this, I instantly understood.
My guess was correct, the landlady was indeed entangled with something unclean.
With this certainty, I put away the Bagua mirror.
The landlady was still finding fault and had entered the bedroom.
I stood at the doorway, not following her.
She babbled on for a while, then came out.
With an unfriendly expression, she stared at me:
"Qin Ze, did you hear everything I just said? After all the deductions, plus my travel expenses to get here.
Your deposit is only thirty.
I'll transfer it to you via WeChat shortly. You can leave now."
After saying that, she wiped the oil from her mouth with her hand.
Seeing her stingy demeanor, I gave a faint smile:
"Sister Wu, aren't you being a bit too stingy?"
"Stingy? You say I'm stingy?
If I were stingy, I would have made you pack up and leave long ago. Why would I return thirty to you?
Take it or leave it.
You poor thing..."
After speaking, she noticed a banana left on my coffee table.
Without my permission, she directly picked it up and, without fully peeling it, shoved it into her mouth.
Her demeanor was like that of a hungry ghost reincarnated.
Especially her wolfing it down, which further revealed the clue.
Through my analysis and the experience passed down by my master,
The unclean entity the landlady was afflicted with was likely the culprit behind her current ravenous state.
But I didn't expose it.
I simply continued:
"Thirty is thirty. But Sister Wu, I must kindly advise you.
If you don't find someone to deal with this thing you're afflicted with.
You'll end up eating yourself to death!"
With that, I picked up my luggage and walked towards the door.
Leaving behind the landlady, who was eating the banana with a surprised expression, looking at me.
After I left the door, she finally reacted:
"You, you what do you mean? You, explain it clearly..."
I turned my head slightly and looked at the landlady:
"If you don't want to die prematurely, come find me at No. 81 on the Path to the Underworld."
With that sentence, I didn't linger any longer.
I carried my luggage and went downstairs.
If the landlady had been kinder to me, I might have removed the unclean entity for her for free.
But since she was so harsh towards me, the matter had to be dealt with accordingly.
One good turn deserves another.
Just a reminder, no action.
Life or death, she gets to choose...