The Luo family has ancestral precepts that Feng Shui masters do not enter ancient villages.
But five years ago, my father left and never came back.
A letter from Luojiazhai in western Hunan brought Luo Dingshan, a Feng Shui consultant of a construction company, back to the mountains. People in the village began to lose their memory, sleepwalk, and disappear near their ancestral graves when they were young. The town office that my father left behind was quietly destroyed, and a female corpse was dug out of the cellar with her fingers dug into the soil.
There is a rule in the genealogy that every twenty years, a name will be completely blackened with ink.
The most recent time was the year my father disappeared. And it's been exactly twenty years since the last time.
