Chapter 218

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Chapter 218: Moving the Grave

"I originally thought that when Xiao Shun was taken away, my life would go back to the way it was before."

"But unexpectedly, someone has been following me for the past two weeks." Zhang Dafu looked angry.

"There was a strange child around me, and I don’t know how the news spread. Some business partners came to my door and hinted that they wanted to buy the child with money."

"I would never do such a terrible thing as trafficking people, especially considering that Xiao Shun is no longer by my side."

"To those people, I initially told the truth – Xiao Shun was taken away by a mysterious woman. But they didn’t believe me, they thought I was just trying to appease them."

"I don’t have that kind of patience, so I finally kicked them all out."

"But it didn’t end there. Recently, there have been people harassing me again and again. At first, they promised me a lot of money. When that didn’t work, they started threatening me, openly or subtly."

Chu Jiang furrowed his brow and asked, "Didn’t you report it to the police?"

"I did report it, but the police just took a statement from me. After all, those people only made verbal threats and didn’t take any actual action."

"I heard that a few people were arrested a few days ago, but it was useless. They seem to be a gang."

"Today, someone called and gave me a final warning. They said if I don’t hand over the child, they’ll kill me."

"This is the first time they spoke so boldly. I had my phone on recording and planned to go straight to the police station after getting off the plane."

"Then that thing just happened, and they seemed to have that ghost-like power…" Zhang Dafu spoke with a lingering fear.

Chu Jiang started thinking. Someone is looking for the Ghost Master, even willing to pay a high price to "buy" them, and resorting to murder if they can’t get what they want.

This brutal style of action reminded Chu Jiang of an underground organization back in his home country called the Ghost Hunting Society.

It’s an organization specifically hunting down Ghost Masters and taking away the darkness within them. After all, selling a ghost is a huge profit for them, much faster than doing illegal things like drug trafficking.

And the risk of hunting down Ghost Masters is much lower than directly sealing the ghosts.

It’s not just because Ghost Masters are easier to deal with than ghosts, but also because the ghosts inside them take some time to recover after they die.

As long as they can take over the Ghost Master’s body in time, it’s easy to seal the ghost back into a container.

Because these people are like rats in the sewers, their influence spreads throughout the country, intertwined and complex.

In addition, they mostly targeted ordinary Ghost Masters, so the research institute itself has been troubled by frequent supernatural events across the country. Naturally, they cannot devote all their energy to eliminating these people.

So, overall, the research institute has taken corresponding actions, but the Ghost Hunting Society still exists and has not been completely eradicated.

After thinking for a moment, Chu Jiang asked Zhang Dafu, "Are you taking a plane back to Yuetian City this time?"

Although the final destination of this flight is Luohe City, the plane will make a stopover in Yuetian City, where some passengers will get on and off.

If the other party is going to Yuetian City, Chu Jiang can have a word with the person in charge, Li Buhuo, and let Zhang Dafu go directly to him.

After all, this has already involved the ordinary people being murdered by Ghost Masters using supernatural powers.

"No, I’m going back to my hometown for the grave relocation," Zhang Dafu honestly replied.

Chu Jiang frowned, "Grave relocation? Why would you want to relocate a perfectly fine grave? Whose grave are you planning to relocate?"

Ever since Chu Jiang found out that ghosts really exist in the world, he has felt that it’s better to leave graves and tombs undisturbed. Who knows if a ghost might come out from underneath?

So at this moment, when he heard the fat guy say he wanted to move the tomb, his first thought was: Isn’t this suicidal?

Although moving the tomb may not necessarily cause trouble, after all, so many people die every day in the world, and there are countless bodies buried all over the world. If they all turned into ghosts, it would have been doomsday long ago.

But if it were Chu Jiang, there would be no need. He would never touch his ancestors’ graves.

"There is a reason for this tomb relocation, as the saying goes, the poor don’t change the door and the rich don’t move the tomb. If it weren’t for a last resort, I wouldn’t want to relocate and risk losing the prosperity and fortune I have for the rest of my life."

"But this matter is not up to me alone. The first, second, and third branches, along with my fourth branch, have been arguing about this for years."

"Only recently, we have reached a consensus and are ready to move the tomb of my great-grandfather to a feng shui blessed place that was already chosen in advance."

"There is also a proper way of tomb relocation, known as ‘seven moves and three not to move’."

"First move, the tomb collapses; second move, vegetation dies; third move, wild rumors spread; fourth move, men become thieves and women become prostitutes; fifth move, strange diseases and madness occur; sixth move, untimely death and wasted fortune occur; seventh move, the family line ends in prison."

"The different branches of our Zhang family have different reasons for wanting to relocate the tomb."

"The people in the main house have always wanted to become officials, but none of the descendants passed the civil service exam. The second house was originally doing well and didn’t agree to relocate the grave, but in the past two years, unfortunate things happened. My second uncle was hit and killed by a car, and my second uncle also broke his leg."

"So recently, the second house has become more flexible and no longer rejects the idea of relocating the grave."

"As for the third house, they are the most determined to relocate the grave. They used to have some wealth, but it has all been squandered by two generations. It’s a clear sign of a family in decline."

"They have been saying for a long time that it’s because our ancestor’s burial site is in a bad location, which affects the fortune of future generations."

"Lastly, there’s my family, the fourth house. We used to be open to the idea of relocating the grave, hoping to change our poor destiny to some extent."

"But later on, when I started to do well in business, I firmly believed that we should not relocate the grave. Because of this, I had a few arguments with the people from the third house."

"Those guys were jealous of my newfound success and said I was lucky."

"In the end, no one had the courage to secretly relocate the grave without everyone’s agreement. It’s something that all the houses need to agree on."

"And relocating the grave also costs money – hiring a feng shui master, digging up the grave, collecting the bones, transporting them, building a new grave, and burying them. Most of these steps have to be done on the mountain. Which step doesn’t require spending money?"

Zhang Dafu said with a smile on his face and handed a cigarette to Chu Jiang, but Chu Jiang just shook his hand.

He had to continue, "Recently, my luck has taken a turn for the worse. First, I was followed by Xiao Shun, and then Xiao Shun was taken away, and I was targeted by a group of malicious gangsters."

"I was thinking, since everyone wants to move the graves, let’s do it. I will contribute half of the money from my fourth room, and the remaining three rooms can gather the other half."

"I came back to my hometown specifically to move the graves, but also to avoid those people. They can’t possibly follow me all the way to my hometown, right? If anything, I can change my phone number."