Chapter 0019 What is this
Right in front of us stood a gigantic statue, carved from black stone. It seemed to be more than twenty meters tall, with a graceful figure and hands holding Buddha's fingers. It looked like a Bodhisattva.
But I have never seen such a Bodhisattva. Her face is pure and beautiful, her eyebrows and features are picturesque, especially her eyes, which are so enchanting and charming when she looks around. She does not look solemn, but extremely charming!
I looked at him for a while and felt my face getting hot and my mind was distracted. I cursed him inwardly, "You pervert", and quickly collected my thoughts.
Looking at the other people, they all stared at the statue with wide eyes, except Liu Feihe, whose expression was very special, as if he was both confused and shocked.
"What did Master Liu see?" I asked, raising my voice.
Everyone was startled by my voice and came to their senses.
Liu Feihe withdrew his gaze from the stone statue, shook his head, and asked Master He Jiu: "Master Jiu, I wonder what kind of statue this is?"
"I don't know what god this is. My great-grandfather ordered people to build it and it has been enshrined under the ancestral home." Master He Jiu said in a daze.
Before I saw the statue, there was indeed a stone altar, but compared to the huge statue, the altar looked inconspicuous .
There was an incense burner, some candles and offerings on the altar, and it was obvious that someone came here to worship regularly.
He Jintang was stunned and said, "Dad, there is such a statue hidden under our house, how come I didn't know anything about it?"
Master He Jiu ignored his son and said to me and Liu Feihe: "I think about it, there is only this statue in the house, it may be related to what happened to my great-grandfather."
I pondered for a long time but still couldn't figure out what this statue, which looked like a Bodhisattva and yet was so charming and enchanting, was.
In a blink of an eye, I saw Liu Feihe frowning, staring at the statue, muttering something. I was about to ask him when I heard him ask He Jiuye: "Has this statue always been like this?"
He Jiuye was stunned by his question: "This..."
Liu Feihe quickly added: "I mean, has the face of this statue always looked like this?"
Master He Jiu nodded: "This statue has always looked like this since my great-grandfather built it, so it has naturally not changed."
After hearing this, Liu Feihe kept shaking his head: "No, this is not right..."
My heart was moved, and I asked, " Master , have you ever seen this kind of statue?"
Liu Feihe raised his head and looked at the statue again, nodded, and then shook his head: "I have indeed seen such a statue. The clothes, posture, gestures... are exactly the same, but it is not this big, and... the face is different ."
Master He Jiu hurriedly asked, "Where have you seen that before?"
Liu Feihe was stunned for a while before he exhaled, "That should be thirty... thirty-two years ago. I followed my master and saw him in a family with the surname Xue."
I saw a look of sadness on his face when he said this. After a long while, he continued, "My master never came back because of this incident, so I was deeply impressed!"
It turned out that thirty-two years ago, the young Liu Feihe followed his master to gain experience outside. When passing through Liuzhou, the master and apprentice accidentally met a girl named Xue.
Miss Xue was about the same age as Liu Feihe. She was pretty, lively and enthusiastic. After a few interactions, Liu Feihe fell in love with Miss Xue.
Later, because a major Feng Shui case occurred in Shanxi, Liu Feihe followed his master there, and the trip lasted for two months.
When the master and disciple returned to Liuzhou, they heard the sad news that Miss Xue had passed away.
Liu Feihe was stunned at that time. He never expected that the two would be separated by death after only two months of not seeing each other.
When the master and disciple arrived at the Xue family, Miss Xue was about to be put into the coffin. Liu Feihe cried and asked to see her again.
However, his request was flatly rejected by Xue's mother.
At that time, Liu Feihe was very sad and excited. He rushed into the place where Miss Xue's body was placed without caring about anything. When he lifted the white cloth, he was so scared that he almost fell down.
I saw the woman under the white cloth, wearing a shroud, but her flesh was shriveled, and her bones were covered with skin, like a mummy. Only a vague trace of Miss Xue's appearance when she was alive could be made out.
Liu Feihe was shocked and sad, and ran to question Xue's father and mother. Only then did Xue's mother tell him the whole story in tears.
It turned out that the Xue family was originally a wealthy family in the Liuzhou area. They had been rich for generations, but their family size had always been small .
By the time of Miss Xue's father's generation, he was the only one left.
When Miss Xue's father was ten years old, Miss Xue's grandfather suddenly spent most of the Xue family's wealth, leaving only the Xue family's ancestral home and some living expenses.
Afterwards, Mr. Xue became a monk. Before he left, he left a message that Miss Xue's father could live a life of debauchery and women, but he must not marry or have children, otherwise it would be considered extremely unfilial!
After Mr. Xue left, there was no news from him again.
Later, Miss Xue's father grew up. At first, he still followed the instructions left by Mr. Xue. He was like a butterfly. Whenever he met a woman, he would just play around and then leave it at that.
But after he turned forty, Xue's father suddenly got tired of this kind of life. He wanted to have a family, so he threw his father's last wishes behind him, married a woman, and soon after, he had a daughter, Miss Xue.
Miss Xue was twenty-one years old and had always been healthy and lively. But a month ago, she suddenly fell ill. She was in excruciating pain every night and became increasingly thin. She went to see many doctors, but they could not find out what was wrong with her.
Until the night before Liu Feihe and his apprentice returned to Liuzhou, Miss Xue breathed her last. Her whole body looked as if all the blood and flesh had been sucked out of her, and she looked extremely horrible.
Xue's father and mother were so frightened that they almost fainted, and when they woke up they cried loudly.
Their daughter's death was strange, and the couple was afraid that the neighbors would see it and gossip about it, making their daughter restless even after death, so they reluctantly arranged their daughter's funeral affairs, wanting her to be buried in peace as soon as possible.
Liu Feihe's master examined Miss Xue's body and said with a serious expression that Miss Xue's death was definitely not normal.
When Xue's father and mother heard this, they knelt down and cried and begged him to seek justice for their daughter and find out the cause of her death!
Master Liu Feihe also has a very high level of attainment in Feng Shui. After he heard about what Miss Xue's grandfather had done, he intuitively felt that there was something wrong.
Because according to common sense of human ethics, what father would ask his son not to marry or have children for the rest of his life? Isn't it obvious that he wants the Xue family to have no descendants?
There must be something fishy going on here!
Afterwards, he carefully checked the situations of several generations of the Xue family and soon found something strange. Basically, the daughters of the Xue family did not live long. They either died early or died of illness in their twenties.
What’s particularly strange is that the life span of Xue family’s daughter is actually related to her birthday!
"Ah, isn't that exactly the same as our home!" Hearing this, He Jintang exclaimed.
