Dream Walker: Feng Shui Master Bai Ya

Shang Muchen hurriedly wiped his face, hastily changed into what he thought were very high-end clothes, and hurriedly put on his leather shoes. Hungry and afraid of traffic jams, he didn't dare to take a taxi and ran all the way to the subway station. Fortunately, he didn't miss his appointment.

The Financial Center District, where the Pengpai Building is located, is the most expensive place in Yanji City, bar none.

In the financial center where land is extremely valuable, the Pengpai Building is the biggest piece of braised pork in the dog food bowl. Its eye-catching layout of "incense burner base, official hat top, and three incense sticks on a flagpole" is the masterpiece of Uncle Si.

At the main entrance on the west side of the Pengpai Building stands a huge bronze bull.

Although it may seem like a copy of Wall Street, Uncle Si taught Shang Muchen that he should have a "sense of delivery" to his clients. So Uncle Si asked his clients to place this bronze bull sculpture with its head held high in the "metal position of the five elements".

At this moment, Fourth Uncle was chatting with several men in business jackets around the bronze bull sculpture.

Shang Muchen saw them from afar, quickly adjusted his breathing, adopted a calm and composed attitude, slowed his pace, and walked steadily to the group of people.

"Hey, esteemed leaders, my nephew has arrived." Fourth Uncle nodded approvingly at Shang Muchen's attire and said to Shang Muchen, "Quickly, greet the leaders."

"Hello, leader." Shang Muchen greeted politely.

"Hey, young man, you look quite energetic!" A fair-skinned middle-aged man nodded, extended his hand and said, "I am the property manager of the building. My surname is Liang. I have heard Master Shang introduce you before."

"White Crow, Shang Muchen, right? Excellent. Outstanding temperament, handsome appearance; clearly a promising young talent."

After a few polite words, let's get down to business.

Manager Liang pointed to the bronze bull and explained to Fourth Uncle and Shang Muchen, "The strange thing I was talking about is like this—"

Since last month, the bronze bull has been crying and shedding tears.

It's quite strange, there's always a lot of water accumulating in its eye sockets, so much that it drips down and wets the ground.

It's neither dew nor condensation. The bronze bull has stood here for almost 15 years, and this has never happened before.

We checked the surveillance footage, but found no evidence of anyone deliberately splashing water.

"Metal generates water, right? This is the metal position in the Five Elements, so generating some water doesn't seem to be a problem..." Uncle Si muttered as he bent over to observe.

He turned to Shang Muchen and asked, "Little Chen, what did you figure out?"

"Um...it's nothing..."

Shang Muchen also stepped forward to observe and indeed found that there was a lot of water accumulated in the eye sockets of the bronze bull sculpture.

The water seemed to come from nowhere, flowing onto the ground and soaking the floor tiles.

Looking closely in the light, I couldn't find any water outlet in the bull's eye socket. It looked like air conditioner condensate, but where could so much water come from?

That's really strange.

He tried to activate his "mind's eye," but he didn't know if it was because there were too many people around or because he had panicked from running so fast. In any case, Shang Muchen couldn't activate any of his senses at all.

While observing, Uncle Si asked the property manager, "Manager Liang, if there's water, then there's water. Is there a problem?"

"Sigh, Master Shang, you have no idea, the moment this bronze ox started crying, everyone in the company was thrown into chaos," the property manager said with a worried look.

"Since last month, the securities market has experienced violent fluctuations due to changes in the international situation."

There are huge disagreements among the company's senior management, the board of directors is in chaos, and they have already started pressuring people to resign.

So, rumors started circulating in the company that the bronze bull weeping was a bad omen, symbolizing that the company was about to disintegrate and collapse.

Our property management sends cleaners five times a day to wipe it down, but the more they wipe, the more water there is.

Since the moment the bronze bull shed its tears over the past month, rumors have been swirling in the company.

Chairman Sun is attending a meeting abroad and can't come back. He instructed me to make sure you come and take a look, and provide a reasonable explanation or solution. The key is to calm the current unrest within the company.

Uncle Si laughed and said, "Hehe, I didn't expect that everyone in this building, who are all highly educated people with doctorates and master's degrees, would be so superstitious?"

What kind of "ominous signs" would they believe in?

"Master Shang, actually, these people who play the finance game believe more in metaphysics."

This building is full of people in finance. They don't have any high technology. If they want to get rich, there are only two ways: one is through insider information, and the other is by gambling with their lives.

Regardless of the financial derivatives, first add 10x leverage, 100x leverage—the bold get rich, the timid starve.

Think about it, those who can get into the Pengpai Building are the elite of the elite, the most daring, and the most willing to take risks among the millions of practitioners in the entire market.

With good luck, one order can turn your life around; with bad luck, one order can lead to your demise.

It would be strange if they weren't superstitious. They even have specific preferences for which foot they step into the building first each day, or the color of the first person's clothes they encounter in the elevator.

They had long since linked 'good omens' and 'bad omens' with stock market fluctuations; for them, it was a matter of life and death, how could they not care?

"Well, Manager Liang, how about this, let's not just stare at one cow like idiots." Uncle Si straightened his back, gestured towards the Pengpai Building, and said, "Let's walk around and look at it from all angles."

Leaving the bronze ox located in the "Gengxin Metal Position" on the west side of the Pengpai Building, the group strolled to the building garden in the "Jiayi Wood Position" on the east side of the building, where a towering ancient locust tree stood proudly.

Large patches of grass around the ancient locust tree have turned yellow and withered, and the ancient locust tree itself also shows signs of decay and fatigue, with a large number of branches withered. Gardeners are working hard to water it under the scorching summer sun, trying to save this old man who is hundreds of years old.

Uncle Si didn't say anything, and went to the "Ren-Gui Water Position" on the north side of the building.

A landscaped pool has been set up here, with water constantly washing over the golden signboard of "Pengpai Building" carved on a boulder in the center of the pool.

However, no water was flowing at this time.

Fourth Uncle raised an eyebrow, pointed to the pool, and asked, "Manager Liang, why is the water out here?"

"Oh! Right, I didn't have time to tell you."

Due to municipal pipeline renovations, the sewer pipes here won't be fully cleared until next month.

"When did the water supply start?"

"It was early last month, I think..." The property manager suddenly paused, then asked in a low voice, "Master Shang, do you mean the water outage here is related to the bronze bull shedding tears?"

Fourth Uncle neither agreed nor disagreed, only saying, "Try to get the water connected as soon as possible."

Look at that Taihu stone with the name "Pengpai Building" carved on it. If it is not washed and nourished by flowing water, and left to dry in the sun for another month or two, it will definitely crack.

By then, there will definitely be even more gossip in your company!

"Yes, I will contact the municipal government today and try to restore the water as soon as possible."

The group continued strolling and turned to the "Bing-Ding Fire Position" on the south side of the building.

This place is right next to a commercial street. The ground floor shops facing the street in the building are rented to two high-end restaurants, one is Sichuan cuisine and the other is Japanese teppanyaki.

Fourth Uncle asked, "Manager Liang, how's business at these two stores?"

"I heard business hasn't been very good lately," Manager Liang said with a worried look. "A food street opened up not far away and has taken away all the business here."

The teppanyaki restaurant owner complained to me that he hadn't had a single customer in three days, and hadn't even turned on the stove. He wanted to ask me to reduce his rent.

"Hmm, I see..." Fourth Uncle nodded meaningfully.

Even with his very limited knowledge of feng shui, Shang Muchen could understand it; the matter couldn't be clearer.

The feng shui layout of this magnificent building has been completely disrupted.