"It's not that I'm bothered. I'm in this line of work. But since you believe what Bai Yezi said, you have to cooperate with me. Otherwise, it will be in vain."

"Don't worry, sir. I was blind to my true potential before. Please don't bother with me. From now on, I will do whatever you say. Is that okay?"

The uncle looked at him with a hint of surprise and asked, "What on earth did Bai Yezi say to you that could convince you so completely in such a short time?"

"Hey, it's actually very simple. He actually guessed my idea of building the Longmuting Pavilion. He knows every detail of the tomb , as if he saw it with his own eyes. You have to know that I hired people from my hometown to build this tomb . None of these people are in Shanghai now. Bai Yezi has no chance of contact with them. The reason he can describe it in such detail must be because he knows the business well."

The uncle nodded and said, "Most people who understand Feng Shui know the tricks of this kind of Feng Shui tomb, but I didn't expect to use this to convince you. It seems that the old ones are still the best."

"Let's not talk about Mr. Bai anymore. Since he said that you are more capable than him, then I will listen to you. Let's tell him what to do."

The uncle said, "If you believe me, then this grave must be relocated. Otherwise, it will only harm more people. In the end, you will also be harmed by the excessive accumulation of spiritual energy in the statue. Your bad temper is just one manifestation of this. Besides that, are you suffering from frequent nosebleeds now? Are you having sex every day? You know it's harmful to your body and mind, but you can't control yourself?"

"You...I haven't told these things to anyone." Yun Hui collapsed in the chair like a deflated ball.

"These things will happen after worshipping the Black Wood God for a long time. If you don't enshrine it in its proper place, your temper will only grow worse and worse, and you will eventually become a dehumanized criminal. Murder and rape are crimes you may commit in the future."

"Did you see this with your own eyes or just guess?" Yun Hui's head was covered in cold sweat.

"I personally witnessed a coal mine owner smashing the head of a three-year-old boy, who had nothing to do with him, with a shovel. His family tried to use mental illness as an excuse to avoid the death penalty, but he was ultimately sentenced to execution. I met with him before he was executed and later learned that he had been worshipping the Black Wood God, but in the wrong way, which ended up harming both himself and others."

Yun Hui sighed heavily and said, "Actually, I've never seen this statue before."

"You haven't seen it?" The uncle couldn't help but feel a little confused.

"Yes, I've never seen this statue. It was my mother who actually saw it. She supposedly got it when I was twelve. I don't know how she got it. On my birthday that year, she bought me a cake and told me that my career would flourish by the time I turned twenty and that I would be a wealthy man. At the time, I thought she was just trying to comfort me because our family was so poor that we couldn't even afford to eat and we had no connections, so how could we possibly be wealthy? I didn't take it seriously."

"Because my family was poor, I couldn't afford to go to school. I started learning cooking from my master at the age of twelve. My master is one of the best chefs of Huaiyang cuisine and he owns a large restaurant. Among his apprentices, I was considered the most hardworking. After all, my family was poor, so I cherished this opportunity. So my master was very good to me. But on my 20th birthday, his entire family died of gas poisoning. The cause was a rat that had chewed through the gas pipe, causing a leak."

"Later, as my family fought amongst themselves, I somehow ended up being the de facto owner of the restaurant. I earned my first fortune from running the restaurant. Later, the family infighting became so intense that I didn't want to continue, so I took some money and left to start my own business. I got into scrap buying because it doesn't require deep connections, but it's also very profitable. I ended up making quite a bit of money, and to this day, the largest scrap buying station in Shanghai is still my business."

"You mean it's actually your mother who worships the Black Wood God?" the uncle asked in surprise.

After hesitating for a long time, Yun Hui said, "I haven't told anyone about this. After I was twelve, no matter how difficult our family's financial situation was, my mother always rented a suite with at least two rooms. I was never allowed to enter the room where she slept. One time, she forgot to lock the door when she went out, and I was too curious, so I sneaked into her room. There wasn't any good furniture in the room, but the bed and quilt were new. The quilt was a bright red mandarin duck quilt, and there was a wooden man carved out of black wood placed in the inner part of the bed. As a result, I had a fever that night. Neither fever-reducing medicine nor fever-reducing injections worked. Later, I was completely confused by the fever, and I saw a man dressed in black, whose face I couldn't see clearly, standing motionless in front of my bed."

"I was so scared that I pointed at him and yelled there was a ghost. Then I felt my mother holding me to her bedside and talking to me for a long time. She pressed my head and knocked it a few times. That's how I slowly got better. After that, my mother told me not to go to her room again, otherwise I would burn to death."

After hearing about this bizarre situation, the uncle nodded slightly and said, "Do you know what went wrong with that executed coal boss's offering to the Black Wood God that led to him being executed for murder?"

"Did he also enter the room where the Black Wood God is enshrined, just like me?" Yun Hui asked.

"Of course not. When this coal boss was young, he wanted to sneak to Japan to make money. As a result, his boat was capsized by the waves and almost everyone on board died. But he came across a black wooden statue and drifted on the sea for two days holding what he thought was a wooden statue. Later, he was rescued by Chinese fishermen. He thought it was a manifestation of the wooden statue, so he took it on board and brought it back home."

"But not long after returning home, he had a strange dream . In the dream, a man in black stood by his bed and told him that he was the statue that saved his life, and in return he should let him sleep with his wife. The man woke up in shock. At first he thought it was a dream, but he had the same dream for three consecutive days. He believed in ghosts and spirits and thought the statue might really have spiritual power, but he thought it was just a piece of wood. It wouldn't be a big deal to leave it next to his wife's bed for one night."

"That night, he placed the black wooden god next to his wife's pillow while she was asleep, and hid aside to see what was going on. After a while, his wife began to talk in her sleep, and every word she said was extremely obscene. Then she took action again..." When he said this, the uncle glanced at Yun Hui, and saw that he was pale and his forehead was covered with sweat.

The uncle sighed and said, "After that, the coal boss's career skyrocketed until he contracted a coal mine. The coal produced by the mine was high-quality and stable, and there had never been a safety accident. After he became rich, he kept a mistress. As a result, not long after, he dreamed of the man in black. This time, the man in black wanted to sleep with his mistress. He had just seduced her and the two were in love, but the man refused to comply. As a result, two years later, he was sentenced to death."

Yun Hui laughed helplessly and said, "It's really rare that you believe what I said and can even name someone who has had the same experience as me."

The uncle said, "So far, no one has been able to explain the origins of the Black Wood God. We only know that the earliest worshippers of the Black Wood God were African tribes, and later Indian tribes also began to worship the Black Wood God. He is a very evil god, and worshippers must satisfy his lust for a long time in order to obtain everything he wants."

"But he didn't ask to be with my wife..." Yun Hui didn't know how to ask.

"Whoever makes the wish pays. Since it was your mother who made the wish, of course she wouldn't look for you. This is also the reason why Zhao Tingting got into trouble. It was because Yang Yanan made a wish on the Black Wood God's apprentice's burial place to be with the girl forever. So the Black Wood God sucked his girlfriend's blood and essence and gave her body to him, allowing the two of them to be together forever in another way."

"Alas, I really didn't know I would hurt innocent people. Before my mother died , she told me that after she died, I must bury the statue properly and never let anyone find it again, otherwise everything I have gained will be wasted."

"I understand. Your mother sacrificed everything for you, and I admire her. But her actions also trapped you. This isn't called burial, it's called hiding. She wants to keep the Black Wood God hidden forever as your family's private property, digging it out and praying again when she needs it. She's thinking too simply."