If I hadn't happened to tug on the bedroom door, I wouldn't have seen the talisman pasted behind it.
But there were rules to placing talismans. Whether they were meant to ward off evil or neutralize harmful feng shui influences, they had to be pasted either outside the door or above it on the outside.
Some talismans for neutralizing harmful influences needed to be pasted outside the windowsill, but certainly not inside the house.
Some ghost-repelling talismans could even have the opposite effect if placed indoors, making it easy to attract ghosts.
I didn't know much about Fu Lu either, so I took a photo of the talisman with my phone and sent it to Seventh Master, asking him to explain it to me.
Just after I sent it, An Ning finished setting things up outside.
Then we closed all the doors to keep the living room dark.
I took the candles out of my backpack and lit the first one.
There were rules to arranging the candles. Putting them in the wrong places could easily cause the summoning to fail.
Liu Jing had died by hanging, but postpartum depression had driven her to hang herself, and her postpartum depression was connected to feng shui, which fell under unfounded fears and strange occurrences.
Among the Six Spirits, Teng Snake governed unfounded fears and strange occurrences, and occupied the center alongside Gou Chen.
The center was the central palace position, so the first candle went in the very center of the living room.
After arranging the candles, I lit the guiding lamp as well.
Someone needed to hold the guiding lamp, because people carried yang energy, signifying that someone in the world of the living wished to discuss something with a Yin Soul.
But there were only An Ning and me.