In the Shangguan family’s conference room, everyone looked surprised.
Zhang Chu had acted so strongly, but Shangguan Wenzheng even expressed her opposition, wasn’t this clearly making things difficult for Shangguan Qingxue?
Shangguan Qingxue wasn’t used to Shangguan Wenzheng either, she directly shouted, ”Shangguan Wenzheng, what do you mean? Deliberately opposing me, right?”
Shangguan Wenzheng immediately roared with a low voice: “Shangguan Qingxue, I am your eldest uncle, how are you talking to me?”
Shangguan Qingxue didn’t care at all, “This is how I talk, you must give me an explanation today!”
Shangguan Wenzheng said in a deep voice, “I don’t blame you for being young and unintelligent, but this Mr Zhang should understand what I mean, right?”
Shangguan Qingxue still wanted to speak for Zhang Chu, however, Zhang Chu gently raised his hand and stopped Shangguan Qingxue.
This was because, Shangguan Wenzheng’s words were indeed reasonable.
In reality, fortune telling and face reading, and dragon pulse searching, were completely different directions.
Some southern feng shui masters specialised in yin and yang mansions, and the yin and yang mansions that had been transformed by other people, that was to make a fortune, that was to prosper the family.
But if you let this kind of feng shui master fortune-telling, counting your marriage, counting what direction you can get rich, then people kick you out.
Because, some specialise in yin and yang house of feng shui master, really will not fortune-telling, not to mention look at the future of the luck, even if you let him count how many people in your family, he may not be able to calculate accurate.
This is that there are specialities in the art!
Therefore, Shangguan Wenzheng raised this question, barely counting himself as a know-it-all.
So Zhang Chu said, “So, you want to see if I can read large-scale feng shui?”
Shangguan Wenzheng nodded, “That’s right, if you can understand large-scale feng shui, and can read and understand large-scale patterns, then we, the Shangguan Clan, will treat you as a guest of honour.”
“Not to mention Shangguan Qingxue investing in you, even if you have any needs in the future, our Shangguan Family, will definitely not frown.”
“But if Mr Zhang is not versed in the general situation, and only knows a little bit of minor physiognomy, then I’m sorry, unauthorised misappropriation of a large amount of funds has already involved a criminal offence.”
Zhang Chu, on the other hand, smiled faintly, “Geomancy, of course I understand it, but you have a way to verify it?”
“Of course!”Shangguan Wenzheng directly got up, “It’s actually very simple, Mr Zhang please follow me.”
Shangguan Wenzheng led the way, leaving the conference room and walking towards a small lake in the Shangguan family.
It was an artificial lake, there were quite a few pavilions within the small lake, and there were also some doll boats floating on the water surface for swimming, the environment was very beautiful.
At this moment, a large group of people came to the edge of the lake and looked out towards the small lake.
Shangguan Wenzheng suddenly opened his mouth and asked, “What do you think, Mr Zhang, about the feng shui here?”
Zhang Chu swept a glance at this artificial lake, followed by a slight smile, “To be honest, not good!”
Shangguan Wenzheng’s gaze condensed, “What a big mouth, I just don’t know if Mr Zhang is pretending to be ignorant, or if he really sees something.”
Zhang Chu said directly, “This artificial lake, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than saving a situation of a fierce tiger descending from a mountain, and although a fierce tiger descending from a mountain is as powerful as a bamboo, it can’t last long.”
“As the saying goes, a tiger falling down the mountain is bullied by a dog, this tiger descending from the mountain’s momentum cannot be sustained for a long period of time, at most, it can help the Shangguan Family’s great fortune for twenty years.”
Hearing Zhang Chu’s words, Shangguan Wenzheng’s expression changed colour for a while, clearly having been spoken into Zhang Chu’s heart.
Zhang Chu then laughed, “Twenty years of great fortune, now that it’s already decadent, I think that the higher echelons of your Shangguan Family should be very clear about it themselves, right?”
At this moment, Shangguan Wenzheng was finally somewhat convinced, and he said admiringly, “Mr Zhang has wise eyes!”
Immediately after that, he said, “By the way, Mr Zhang, this artificial lake of ours, when it was constructed, had other mysteries, and even certain miracles had once occurred, I wonder if Mr Zhang can see them?”
Zhang Chu directly said, “A tiger that goes up the mountain, a turtle that goes down the water, inside this lake of yours, there is a three-legged turtle that weighs thirty-six pounds.”
“What? A three-legged turtle?”The crowd immediately frowned, obviously never having heard of this expression.
Shangguan Wenzheng also let out a bitter laugh, “Mr Zhang is really joking, where is there any tortoise.”
“In fact, back then, there was an old gentleman ……”
Without waiting for Shangguan Wenzheng to finish, Zhang Chu interrupted with an odd expression, “You don’t think that there is a stone tiger in this lake, do you?”
“Hm?”Shangguan Wenzheng was slightly stunned and looked at Zhang Chu in confusion.
In fact, there had always been a rumour in the Shangguan Family that back then, there was a Feng Shui Master who had set up a wonderful Feng Shui Bureau for the Shangguan Family, allowing the family to start making a fortune.
Three years later, the Shangguan family bought the mansion, and that great Feng Shui master, in turn, helped the Shangguan family set up this artificial lake.
When the foundation stone laying ceremony was held at the artificial lake, that old gentleman brought a tiger carved in stone and released it in the artificial lake.
As a result, after the stone tiger went into the water, it unexpectedly let out a tiger whistle, followed by swimming, as if resurrected, and soon swam into the bottom of the lake.
For many years, the Shangguan family has been circulating a legend about the artificial lake, there is a tiger immortal.
Some fishermen said that when they were fishing in the artificial lake at night, they once felt that the bait had been snatched away by something with great force, and there had been a huge splash of water, suspecting that it was the stone tiger.
Some women whose husbands were always away said that one night she dreamt of a stone tiger knocking on the door and had a night of pleasure with it, and as a result, she got pregnant.
There are also children who say that their summer or winter holiday homework was taken away by a tiger and torn to shreds.
Although these were just some rumours, the people of the Shangguan Family all believed that within this artificial lake, there must be a stone tiger that silently guarded the Shangguan Family.
Therefore, when they heard Zhang Chu say that it wasn’t a tiger inside the lake, but a turtle, the Shangguan Family’s people immediately felt again that Zhang Chu might have miscalculated.
Even Shangguan Wenzheng directly said, “Mr Zhang, I’ve actually seen it with my own eyes, and the Feng Shui Master back then, did release a stone tiger, not a turtle.”
However, Zhang Chu laughed and said, “A tiger on the shore and a turtle in the water, the tiger has long since turned into a turtle.”
The Shangguan Family’s crowd immediately rolled their eyes, a tiger can turn into a turtle? Even if you know how to tell fortunes, you can’t take us as fools to fool us.
Of course, the Shangguan family couldn’t verify whether Zhang Chu’s words were true or false, no one knew where that stone tiger had gone.
You can’t just drain the artificial lake and search for the stone tiger like you’re catching crocodile finch eels, right?
Zhang Chu glanced at the expressions of the Shangguan Family’s crowd and instantly knew that they did not believe his words.
So Zhang Chu said, “The gentleman who set your feng shui back then was indeed very powerful.”
“I’m certain that the tiger, has already transformed into a three-legged turtle.”
“Of course, twenty years have passed, the spirit of that turtle is no longer there, how about this, since I met it, I’ll fish the turtle up and renew its great luck for a while.”
“And fish it up?”Shangguan Wenzheng was shocked, after so many years, he had never heard of anyone being able to move the turtle inside …… Oh no, the stone tiger!
But since Zhang Chu said so, he instantly also wanted to see if Zhang Chu really knew about the great power, or if he was just pretending to be mysterious.
So Shangguan Wenzheng asked, “I don’t know what props Mr Zhang needs to fish for turtles?”
Zhang Chu spoke, “Fishhooks definitely won’t do, tortoises are warm in nature, we should use wooden tools to fish for tortoises.”
Immediately after that, Zhang Chu quickly laid out, “Take a bamboo cage, and inside the bamboo cage, put a few stone fieldfares, stone earthworms, and other playthings.”
“Then, fetch some good wine, fetch an incense burner and watch me fish for stone turtles.”