“I’m buying this haunted house, no matter what!” The client crushed a rhinoceros-horn incense stick and put down a deposit of one million yuan.
That very night, the red embroidered shoes of the haunted-house bride kicked through the security door of Lin Mo’s home.
As a real estate agent, he suddenly remembered a rule from the Lu Ban Book:
“Anyone who demolishes a yin-yang house built for a ghost marriage must offer a living person’s bones as the beams.”
Lin Mo spent the night making a dummy: paper for bones, cinnabar for eyes, and peachwood for its heart.
When he opened the head of the substitute doll, he was horrified to find real human teeth inside.
Even stranger, the excavator bucket belonging to the demolition foreman was smeared with fresh sap from a Chinese scholar tree.
On the night of Jingzhe, the lid of an empty coffin beneath the old scholar tree slowly slid open, revealing half of an official’s shoe from the Qing dynasty.
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