At the Book of Changes Hall in the County Seat, a red LED sign on the left flashed [Naming, weddings, funerals and grave relocation]. On the right was a bagua diagram painted gold. Whenever inspections grew strict, the LED sign was unplugged and the bagua diagram covered with red cloth.
Then the place became an agency again.
Inside this rather "rustically" decorated shop, a shrine stood in the Kan-water position. It housed a familiar image of Guanyin Bodhisattva—Fish-Basket Guanyin.
Clear water had been offered below it, with two electronic candles beside it. Good grief, they were even dragon-and-phoenix candles.
An electronic Buddhist chant played underneath: a famous female singer's rendition of the [Heart Sutra].
Apparently, this man was a devout believer too.
Only, this devout believer was saying the people dying on television deserved it.
That was rather bad karma for his tongue.
The man eating was named Zhou Tao. He watched the scenes on television with malicious delight.
Soon, however, he shut his mouth. He was afraid someone might come in. If they saw him acting like this, it would hurt his business.
As a "master," he was quite famous. People from all the surrounding villages came to him to "look into things." Especially before the high school and university entrance exams, people would drive six hours to have him take a look at their children.
Each visit brought him a handsome profit.
But Zhou Tao knew perfectly well that his abilities amounted to nothing. Everything he did depended on the blessings of the "Fish-Basket Guanyin" behind him.
As for where this Fish-Basket Guanyin had come from, Zhou Tao dared not tell anyone.
Behind their mountain stood a small temple in rugged terrain. It had never been commercialized, and including the abbot and all the monks, there were only