“Why is this place disharmonized with Qi activity?” Wang Yao wandered around the location three times but did not find any obvious problem or anything special with the geography .
Even though his family had called him, he did not go down the hill until it was too dark to see any people .
“Xiao Yao, have you been up to the hill?” the villagers who encountered him asked curiously . After all, very few people would be up the hill when it was so dark .
“Yeah,” Wang Yao responded with no explanation .
When he returned home, supper was ready .
“Why did you come back so late?” Zhang Xiuying asked . “I supposed there were not many patients in the clinic today . ” She was trying to find out if there was something wrong with her son .
“There were not many,” Wang Yao replied . “I was tied up with something . Let’s have the meal . ”
The family of three sat by the table to eat .
“Xiao Yao, I want to ask you something,” his mother said . “There was a Feng Shui master in the village today to choose the place for Fengbo’s grave . ”
“Ah, I know that, and I met him,” Wang Yao said .
“You saw him?” Zhang Xiuying was surprised .
“Yeah, what’s up?” Wang Yao asked .
“I heard from some villagers that the Feng Shui master said the Feng Shui in our village was not good,” Zhang Xiuying said .
“Yeah, he indeed say that,” Wang Yao said . Miao Sanding had said there were some Feng Shui problems in the village, especially in the west of the mountain .
“What kind of the problems are they?” Zhang Xiuying asked .
“Well, he said there were few youngsters but many elders in the village, which leads to lack of vigor and vitality but the richness of lethargy,” Wang Yao said .
It was true that the number of youngsters in the village was few .
“Is it possible there will be more death in the village?” Zhang Xiuying was upset . She stared at her son . After hear the village news, she was stunned and began to worry .
“It’s nonsense,” Wang Yao said with a smile .
There was something odd in the west of the mountain . Wang Yao thought it was too weird to believe that it would lead to more death in the village .
“Then, that’s a relief . Do you know that some people came here today to talk about that?” Zhang Xiuying asked .
“Came here? Why?” Wang Yao was surprised .
“Of course, it was because of you!” Zhang Xiuying exclaimed .
“Me?” Wang Yao didn’t understand .
“It’s because you are familiar with Mr . Sun, and they’ve had the thought of moving out and purchasing an apartment in the town,” Zhang Xiuying said . “Hasn’t Mr . Sun engaged in the real estate in Lianshan and provided discounts to villagers?”
“So, they came about that . How many people came today?” Wang Yao asked .
“About seven or eight,” his mother replied .
“That many?” Wang Yao was shocked . It was obvious that these people had already thought about moving . The arrival of the Feng Shui master was just a fuse to confirm their thoughts . “Do you have such idea?”
“No, I’ve discussed it with your father . We don’t feel it is bad to live here,” Zhang Xiuying replied .
The couple had lived in the village for nearly 40 years . The had become familiar with the lifestyle and habits there . If they suddenly moved to town, they would have to spend years getting used to their new life, which would feel unfamiliar .
“I think it is good to live here,” Wang Yao said with a smile . “At least, I don’t plan to go to the town . ”
It would be no problem for Wang Yao to move to Haiqu or Jing and buy a house to settle down with his parents, let alone just in Lianshan . But, he was unwilling to leave the village .
After supper, Wang Yao went back up Nanshan Hill alone . In the dark, there was the occasional sound barking . He turned away to look at the village behind him on the mountainous road, focusing on the glowing dots .
“What’s wrong with living here?” Wang Yao whispered .
Then, he raised his head to look at the west of the mountain . Is there really the death of Qi?
Wang Yao continued up the hill, disappearing into the darkness . After a while, a light lit up on the hill .
The next morning, the sun rose as usual . The mountainous wind was still cold . Wang Yao went to the west along Nanshan Hill and then went north . He arrived at the west side . He again came to the places where he felt weird the previous day .
“It’s still weird,” he said .
It was covered by withered grass . There were no lively plants in the bottomland . It was bald except for some disordered stones and the corpses of two sparrows .
Wang Yao walked into the bottomland . The size of the bottomland was not big, only about half the length of a basketball court and no deeper than an average man’s height . It had an irregular shape, like an eggplant . He did not know when the bottomland had formed, but it indeed had existed for a long time .
As he walked into the bottomland, the wind only dropped a little . He did not hurry to leave but instead stayed inside . He felt a bit suffocated from the disharmony of Qi activity .
He again walked out from the bottomland, carefully looking around . He saw both high, middle, and low sides, and some dead trees . That was all . Then, he went to another bottomland, which was a little bigger . It also had an irregular shape . It was also deeper, about 6 feet . Like the other one, there was no grass, only disordered stones . There wasn’t even dead grass .
Wang Yao again walked down to the bottomland . He felt even more suffocated . This is so strange!
He easily jumped up and stared at the bottomland awhile . He still did not understand, so he walked on .
There was a plain . It was no bigger than 107 square feet, even smaller than a room . He could see some stones and grasses as obviously as louses on the head of a bald person . There was another plain like this one . Was it still?
Wang Yao turned away and was ready to go to one last place, but he suddenly stopped . He just continuously stared at the plain . What about having a try?
He took a deep breath . The neixi in his body flowed like a river . He suddenly jumped high and dropped to the ground like a shooting star .
With a sound of boom, like a sudden clap of thunder on the ground, the plain was struck . Wang Yao’s whole strength created a big pit . Almost the whole plain sank with the blowing dust .
Wang Yao calmly looked to the side . Nothing was going wrong except for the gray dust was getting a little darker . “No problem?”
He left and went to another place . There was a bulgy stone like a wolf’s fangs mace . Why not destroy it?
Wang Yao wanted to throw a punch to destroy the mountainous stone, but he finally decided to wait and see .
When he came down from the hill, he saw a car driving into the village . It parked at the clinic in the south of the village . Two men got out of the car . It was a man and a woman . The woman was in a down jacket, mouth-muffle, and scarf . She was wrapped tightly and toddled with the support of the man’s hand .
“No one’s available?” He knocked on the door but got no response from inside . He tried to push the door, but it was locked .
“We have to wait . ” The woman wounded weak . She seemed to only have a little energy .
“Go back to the car while we wait,” the main said . “It is too cold outside . ”
As they turned around, they saw Wang Yao approaching . “Professor Lu?”
“Hello, Dr . Wang,” the professor said .
“Hello,” Wang Yao replied .
He took a closer look at the woman wrapped in the scarf . She had a pale face and was short of breath . Her bleary eyes showed no energy or spirit . She severely lacked life foundation .
“Come in and we can talk about it,” Wang Yao said .
He sent both of them into the room . The woman took off her hat and scarf .
“It is you!” Wang Yao had seen this woman before .
Not long after the clinic had been finished, Professor Lu took had brought this woman for treatment . Wang Yao remembered that it was a kidney disease . At that time, her complexion had been far better . She seemed to have aged 10 in only months . Her disease had gotten worse .
“It’s me . ” The woman forced herself to smile a little . It was a bitter smile .
Her disease had continuously worsened . During her last visit to the hospital, they told her that she would not live more than a few months, even under the treatment of dialysis, if they could not find a proper kidney . She did not want to die in her 40s, which was not an old age . She wanted to go abroad to try her luck, but all of her friends, family, and classmates abroad told her there was no better treatment abroad for her disease .
During this period, she felt no color in her life . Even the sky was gray . Now, wealth and reputation had no meaning because her life would soon seize to exist .
She negatively waited and had begun to wonder whether a miracle would ever show up . Her disease had become so bad that her friend persuaded her to come to the clinic as a last wish .
“But, can he manage?” She looked at the young man in front of her .
Wang Yao was diagnosing her . It was bad, really bad .