Chapter 253
In feng shui, it is all about the unity of heaven and man. Everyone has an essence and a spirit, which, in layman’s terms, means that a person is alive because of the existence of his soul.
When a person dies, the soul is separated from the body, the latter decomposing and turning into dust, while the former goes to the underworld to be reincarnated.
Of course, it is impossible to verify the truth of all this, but some things do exist.
For example, flesh that guides the soul home does not rot in just one day, while flesh without a soul rots very quickly.
“At the time, I also found it unbelievable, after all, I don’t know feng shui either, but then that feng shui master did a puja and followed him to disprove his suspicions!”
When Grandma Lin said this, her face turned very pale, as if she had remembered something terrible.
“Grandma, what’s wrong?”
Lin Ran asked worriedly.
“Nothing.”
Grandma Lin revealed a bitter smile, and then continued.
“The spell that feng shui master did was called the spirit-seeking method, and its purpose was to find your parents’ souls!”
“So has it been found?”
Song Nuan, who was on the side, asked, hearing this she was also a little curious about what had happened back then.
“No!”
Grandma Lin shook her head.
Lin Ran smiled but was a little puzzled and opened his mouth to ask.
“If you didn’t find it, isn’t it the same as the initial speculation?”
“No! Not finding it is consistent, but there is one thing that is inconsistent!”
Grandma Lin shook her head.
“What is inconsistent?”
Lin Ran hurriedly asked.
Grandma Lin smiled and gave Lin Ran a look, then said.
“One of the last of the spirit-seeking methods is to make something called a mermaid soul lamp, this thing can detect whether a person’s soul is still alive!”
“What about the results?”
Lin Ran asked, but his heart was already a little fried, and the results were not consistent that didn’t mean that the results given by the Mermaid Soul Lamp were …..
“That’s right, the mermaid soul lamp shows that your parents’ souls are still alive! Or that their souls are not reincarnated and are still alive!”
“How can this be!”
Lin Ran couldn’t remain bashful any longer and directly stood up from his chair.
The soul was still alive, but the flesh was decaying rapidly, which could only mean one thing, and that was that the parents’ souls and flesh were incapable of making a connection.
And this situation, to give an example, was like the Magic Buddha in Wang Yifeng’s hands, as long as the soul entered the Magic Buddha, it was completely isolated from the outside world.
But why would the soul appear in which kind of place when one’s parents had clearly only had an accident?
“Let’s go, I’ll take you to see something!”
Grandma Lin suddenly got up and said.
Lin Ran and Song Nuan looked at each other, then nodded and followed along.
The three of them walked through the courtyard and then came to the backyard, which used to be a place for raising poultry, and then when their parents left, the place was left empty.
Led by their grandmother, the three arrived at a broken tiled room in the backyard, and the moment they opened the door, the two Lin Ran could clearly see a lot of dust falling down, indicating that no one had been here for a long time.
“It’s inside!”
Grandma Lin said, while pulling off and carrying out a large wooden box from inside.
“This thing is afraid of the light, it can only be seen in here!”
Grandma Lin said to herself, while opening the large wooden box.
The large wooden chest was placed closer to the door, where it could be viewed with the help of bright light, while the moonlight from outside could not shine on it.
After the large wooden box was opened, there was a smaller box inside. Grandma Lin carefully opened the smaller box and a very beautiful fish tank appeared in front of the two of them.
The fish tank was transparent, but the walls were very thick, and it looked as if the material was made of transparent branches.
There was a pool of clear water inside, and four small fish of different sizes were swimming happily in the water!
“This is a mermaid soul lamp?”
Lin Ran looked staggered, although these four small fish were all small in size, he could tell who each one represented just by looking at them!”
“Right! This is the Mermaid Soul Lantern!”
Grandma Lin said, while looking at Lin Ran and saying.
“The oldest one inside is me, the youngest is you, and the other two are your parents!”
When she said this, Grandma Lin couldn’t help but sigh and mutter to herself.
“I’ve kept this secret for so many years, I wanted to bring it into the earth, but I never thought that you would finally know about it!”
“Grandma!”
Lin Ran’s eyes were red, not knowing what to say.
“It’s alright, you’ve grown up and are capable of taking charge on your own, you can look into what happened back then if you want to, but you have to promise Grandma that you must protect yourself first!”
Grandma Lin said in a serious tone.
“Mhmm!”
Lin Ran nodded heavily at his words, he understood his grandmother’s good intentions, the reason he hadn’t told himself all these years was because he was afraid that he would go and investigate what happened back then on impulse.
What happened back then was definitely extraordinary, whether it was the clues provided by Song Yujiang or the clues he got from his grandmother, they all signified that there were a lot of secrets hidden back then, and if he investigated without sufficient power and without permission, I was afraid that he would only push himself into a dangerous situation.
“That’s all I know, if you want to investigate, you’ll have to rely on yourself for everything else!”
Grandma Lin said with a sigh.
“I understand, Grandma, can I take these four mermaid soul lamps with me?”
Lin Ran said.
“As you wish!”
Grandma Lin sighed and turned around to prepare to leave.
Lin Ran suddenly remembered something and hurriedly opened his mouth to ask.
“Right, Grandma, that Feng Shui gentleman back then, do you still have his contact information?”
“No, he happened to travel to our village back then, it was a blessing of sorts!”
Grandma Lin said, but then she seemed to think of something and spoke.
“If you want to find him, you can look for your uncle in Tanjiang City, back then I remember that feng shui master saying that there was a destiny with your uncle, maybe he still has the other person’s contact information!”
“Uncle?”
Lin Ran was stunned at his words, he had never known he had an uncle.
“Your mother came from a very high background back then, and willingly went to work on a construction site for your father, so she was cut off from her family, and only your uncle who cared for his sister still had contact with her!”
Grandma Lin laughed bitterly, followed by a shake of her head and turned to leave the backyard.
“Uncle?”
Lin Ran’s heart could not calm down for a long time, he never knew before that he actually had an uncle.
“Forget it, let’s collect the mermaid soul lamp first!”
Lin Ran shook his head with a bitter smile, although knowing that he had an uncle, he might be able to find the feng shui master back then.
But now that he was in Lin Jiawan there was nothing he could do, he could only be patient and take it one step at a time.
After putting away the mermaid soul lamp, Lin Ran went back to his grandmother to ask for his uncle’s contact address.
However, his grandmother and his uncle were not in contact with each other, but when his parents got married, they knew the address of his uncle’s house, and it was hard to say whether he still lived there.
Chapter 254
For the next few days, Lin Ran and Song Nuan stayed at home, idly going to the mountains to look at the scenery and touching the fish in the rivers around them, the days were uncomfortable.
She hadn’t spent so much time with her grandson since Lin Ran had gone away to study.
After spending five days at home, Lin Ran and Song Nuan set off on their journey back to Tanjiang City.
Before leaving, Lin Ran copied some of the more simple and easy-to-understand Chinese medical treatments from the Xuan Yang Pharmacopoeia and left them with his grandmother, so that she could find something to do during the day and help out as much as possible with the villagers in case of disasters and floods.
It was not that Lin Ran hadn’t thought of letting his grandmother go and set up a life with him, but he knew her too well.
She had lived in Linjiawan all her life, and it would be a torment for her to go and live in the city with herself, and she would soon feel very uncomfortable without her acquaintances.
So Lin Ran chose to let his grandmother stay behind. What people seek in their old age is long past any enjoyment, but the ability to live each day in comfort.
Lin Ran left several tens of thousands of dollars and hid them under his grandmother’s pillow. He did not dare to give too much to an old man, after all, he still understood the principle of “the sin of the jade”.
With the Mayor’s “kind” care in the village, Lin Ran was not worried and returned to Tamagawa City with Song Nuan.
When they returned to the clinic, it was already late afternoon.
The two of them wanted to go straight home and rest, but just as they arrived home, the doorbell rang at the back.
“You guys are back, I’m going to call the police if you don’t come back!”
As soon as the door to the room opened, Luo Qiqi rushed in with a look of impatience, followed by Qin Bing.
“How did you guys know we were back?”
Song Nuan was very surprised, the news of their return had not been told to the two of them, how did they know about it, and they rushed over in the first place.
“You, you really didn’t protect yourself from this trick of Kiki’s!”
Qin Bing said with a smile at the back, while taking Song Nuan’s mobile phone and pulling up a screen, Song Nuan couldn’t help but laugh at a glance.
It turned out that Luo Qiqi, this ninny, had taken Song Nuan’s phone and set it to location sharing mode, this ninny could factually watch her location wherever she was.
“Alright, let’s go, let’s go I’ve booked a place nearby, it’ll be too late if we don’t go!”
Luo Qiqi urged.
“What booked a spot? What’s the point of going?”
Song Nuan said in amazement.
“Barbecue, she has booked a barbecue stall nearby!”
Qin Bing said helplessly.
“A barbecue? It’s almost New Year’s Eve, why are there still barbecue vendors?”
Lin Ran asked in confusion as he finished packing up his things and walked out of his room, sniffing at his words.
“You don’t understand this, it’s called the tail end of summer, eating barbecue in the opposite season, hurry up and go, it’s very hot, if you go late you’ll be robbed!”
Luo Qiqi hurriedly urged, Lin Ran had no choice but to simply pack up with Song Nuan and follow Luo Qiqi and Qin Bing out the door.
On the way, Lin Ran learnt that Qin Bing had not been idle recently, running to the job market several times and recruiting two or three receptionists to prepare for the opening of the clinic.
Since the clinic was so large, it was simply changed to a model where the ground floor sold medicine and the first floor saw patients.
“And me! I’ve worked hard for the opening ceremony, okay?”
Luo Qiqi said discontentedly from the side.
Lin Ran smiled helplessly at this and said.
“Fine, you’ve put in a lot of effort too, I’ll give you some more loin for your tonic later!”
“Go aside, that’s for you men to eat, I don’t want it!”
Luo Qiqi said with a pout.
As the group chatted, they soon arrived at the barbecue stall, which was really crowded.
The New Year was just a month away, but the place was still as crowded as summer.
“Go and order, we want to chat!”
Once seated, Luo Qiqi said with a pout of dissatisfaction.
“Fine! I’ll go.”
Lin Ran laughed helplessly, but he was still very happy in his heart, he was quite upset about leaving the clinic to Qin Bing and Luo Qiqi, so he naturally didn’t have a problem with a small thing like ordering food.
Lin Ran went to order the food, and the three women were chatting feverishly after not seeing each other for a few days.
But just as the three of them were chatting away, suddenly two figures came up next to them and stopped on Qin Bing’s side.
“Big beauty Qin? What a coincidence, I didn’t expect to run into you here!”
A young man with long hair said with a smile, his name was Li Long who was the administrator of the talent market.
Next to him stood a thin, lecherous-looking young man named Liu Shi, who was his colleague.
“Li Long? What a coincidence!”
Qin Bing laughed, while turning his head to explain to Song Nuan and the others.
“He’s from the talent market, I went to the talent market to recruit a few days ago and met him a few times.”
“O? He’s so average looking, not as good looking as Lin Ran!”
Luo Qiqi mouthed to, although her voice was not loud, it still reached Li Long’s ears.
Li Long’s eyes narrowed slightly and there was a hint of anger in his eyes, but it was well concealed.
“These two are both your friends, huh?”
Li Long asked with a smile.
“Yeah!”
Qin Bing smiled back, but her heart was a little embarra*sed, she did not have a deep impression of this Li Long, only a nodding acquaintance, originally to say hello also a busy, but this guy does not seem to have a hint of intention to go.
“Can I take a picture with you?”
Li Long suddenly said with a smile.
“A photo?”
Qin Bing smiled and wondered, he was not a star, how could he take a picture with himself?
“It’s like this, three beautiful students don’t often see each other, I want to take a photo together for a souvenir!”
Li Long said with a smile.
There are no beauties who don’t like to hear compliments on their beauty, once Li Long said this, before Qin Bing could reply, Luo Qiqi had already posed for a photo, seeing this Qin Bing couldn’t say anything and had to nod her head in agreement.
Li Long handed his mobile phone to Liu Shi, asking him to help take the photo, while he himself came next to Qin Bing and placed his palm behind Qin Bing.
However, just as Liu Shi was about to take a picture, Li Long’s hand, however, unconsciously touched towards Qin Bing’s waist.
Qin Bing was wearing a lace top that was thin at the waist and was outlined very nicely.
“It’s so D*mn pretty!”
Li Long mumbled as he leaned his palm towards Qin Bing’s waist.
But just as his palm was about to touch Qin Bing’s waist, suddenly a hand actually reached over from the side like lightning and firmly grabbed his wrist, followed by a voice exploding in his ears.
“Do you really want to touch it?”
“You!”
Li Long was taken aback and struggled to take his hand back, but the other party’s palm was like an iron vise, making it impossible for him to break free.
“Lin Ran?”
The movement of the two people caught the attention of Song Nuan and the others, who all looked over, and when they saw Lin Ran’s face unkindly grasping Li Long’s wrist, Qin Bing instantly reacted and hurriedly took two steps backwards, distancing himself from Li Long.
“He …. What’s wrong with him?”
Qin Bing was a little less clear on exactly what had happened and looked at Lin Ran as he asked.
Lin Ran looked at Li Long for a moment and then said.
“This kid just tried to touch your waist!”
