Chapter 21: People's Words Are Fearful
In the evening, the electricians at the construction site checked the circuit. After checking for several hours, several people nodded and shook their heads. They all said that there was no problem with the circuit, the wires were not aged, and there was no problem of human damage.
A little earlier, the test results of concrete and steel bars came out. At the same time, the Architectural Design Institute conducted a second review of the construction drawings and also gave a response that there were no problems.
Everyone in Jinxiu Group was scratching their heads. There were obviously no problems at all, so why did so many problems suddenly arise?
That night, due to a lack of electricity and many other problems, the construction site had to temporarily stop work and planned to resume work the next day.
The next day, in the early morning after daybreak, the construction site first carried out circuit repairs and cleaned up the collapsed three floors below. This project was quite large, because the first thing to do was to clean out the ruins inside, and then continue to restore it to its original state according to the drawings.
Around eight o'clock in the morning, several dump trucks with four front and eight rear wheels drove into the construction site, preparing to load the waste materials downstairs of the business building and then transport them out. But at this time, another accident happened. When the first dump truck was driving towards the business building, the driver's wheels suddenly slipped for some reason and he couldn't stop the car. A truck weighing 15 tons plunged directly into the foundation next to it. Then the second truck crashed into the ruins downstairs of the business building due to brake failure. When the third dump truck drove over, an even more incredible scene happened. All four tires burst at the same time and the car broke down.
The people at the construction site and the company's senior executives on site were all looking at the three broken cars in bewilderment, too surprised to utter a word.
At this time, the electrician in charge of repairing the circuit came to report that the circuit had been reconnected and all the wires had been tested. He had just tried to turn on the power and there was no problem. Mr. Huang waved his hand and said with a headache: "If there is no problem, turn on the power, and other construction sites will start work quickly..."
"Okay, Mr. Huang!" The person in charge took the intercom and asked to quickly connect the power and resume work.
A few seconds later, all the machines and equipment that required electricity started to operate, but just after they started operating for a blink of an eye, several sparks suddenly exploded all over the construction site, and the machines and equipment went out at the same time.
The electrician stammered, "No, no, I, we have indeed tested and confirmed that there is no problem. How, how could there be a short circuit again?"
A weird atmosphere instantly filled the crowd, and almost everyone had the same thought: it was too weird.
The Chinese have a deep-rooted and firmly-held idea that when something cannot be explained by scientific and technological means, people tend to think from another perspective, such as it is caused by evil spirits, ghosts, or the feng shui is not right, etc.
This is the most common human nature in the history of China's development over thousands of years. If it doesn't rain, it's a drought and people say it's because they have offended the gods in heaven. If there's a flood, they say the Dragon King or the river god is not happy. Even if they lose money playing mahjong, they say they have bad luck.
More than 90% of the people on the construction site had this thought, especially the ordinary workers who had already begun whispering, saying that there must be something wrong with the construction site, otherwise how could so many things happen in just two days.
There was an old worker in his 60s, biting his cigarette holder and looking deep in his eyes, as if he was quite knowledgeable. He said: "Seven or eight years ago, I just came out of the village and followed the construction team to work. At that time, we were also working on a large real estate project. We had been working for more than half a month. When we were laying the foundation, we dug up an old grave. Wow, guess what..."
He was halfway through his words when the people around him asked eagerly, "What's wrong?"
"That was a grave pit. There were more than a dozen skeletons buried in it, all mixed together. There were more than a dozen human heads. The scene was too scary. Later, the construction company called the police and invited archaeologists to come. After a long investigation, they said that this was a cemetery from hundreds of years ago and there were no burial objects. Then they asked us to clean out the bones and continue working." The old worker flicked the ash off his cigarette, and seemed to be frightened when he recalled the past. "I went to bed at night, and in the middle of the night, I heard crying coming from the construction site. At first, two or three people heard it, and then everyone on the construction site heard it. No one paid attention to it that night and thought it came from outside, but when work started the next day, a worker accidentally fell into the mixer."
The people who heard it nearby shuddered at the time. If a person falls into the blender, his body can be torn into several pieces.
The old worker sighed and said, "Two more incidents happened in a row a few days later, and we felt something was wrong. They refused to work no matter what we said. The construction company had no choice but to find a Taoist priest to perform a ritual, and then promised that there would be no problems again, so we continued working."
"Is your construction site haunted?" Someone said in astonishment: "Then tell me, what's going on at our construction site? Is it also..."
"Haha, this kind of thing is hard to say ," the old worker said meaningfully as he glanced at the collapsed commercial building and several dump trucks.
How do rumors start? It's very simple. Once one person says something, everyone else believes it. Then it spreads from one person to ten or a hundred people and the rumor becomes a reality. And everyone who spreads it believes it firmly, as if he or she had experienced it personally.
For example, now, in less than half an hour, almost all the people on the construction site were in a panic.
"Something bad has happened to the construction site of Splendid Mountains and Rivers..."
"Give the workers a two-day holiday first. After I report to the higher-ups, we'll decide when to start work." Mr. Huang made the decision helplessly, then returned to the office and reported directly to Feng Tianliang.
Feng Tianliang, who was attending a meeting in Lingnan, frowned after hearing Mr. Huang's description on the phone and said, "It's unlikely. When we first opened the property, we specially asked someone to come and take a look. The feng shui of this area is pretty good."
When building a house or laying a foundation in the countryside, someone knowledgeable will be sought to see if the location is right. When a real estate company launches a property, it will certainly seek out a Feng Shui master to see if there are any Feng Shui problems. This kind of thing is an open secret in the real estate industry. The Jinxiu Shanhe construction site was looked at by Feng Tianliang and his company's Feng Shui master, who gave him a positive answer at the time that it would definitely sell well after it was built and that it would be a prosperous place.
"Boss Feng, but there is indeed a problem..." Boss Huang said stiffly, "I'm not afraid of problems, I'm afraid we can't solve them. Winter is coming to Beijing in November, and many projects can't start after December. We have a tight schedule and can't afford any delays. We are rushing to move forward, and a day of suspension will result in hundreds of thousands of losses."
"Do you think it's really feng shui or an evil spirit?" Feng Tianliang asked hesitantly.
"It's almost certain. It's really weird!" Mr. Huang said firmly.
Feng Tianliang thought for a moment and said, "I will finish the meeting tomorrow, let's talk about it when I get back!"
After finishing the call with Mr. Huang, Feng Tianliang immediately called the Feng Shui master hired by the company, and the two agreed to come over the next day to see what the situation was.
Nothing happened that night. The next morning, Feng Tianliang flew back to Beijing from Lingnan. After getting off the plane, he called the Feng Shui master directly, and they both walked towards the construction site at the same time.
Around noon, Feng Tianliang arrived at the construction site first. He led the person in charge and General Manager Huang to wait at the door. After waiting for less than ten minutes, a Mercedes-Benz drove over and stopped at the door. A middle-aged man in his forties wearing a Tang suit got out of the car.
