In the late summer of 2025, in the northern suburbs of Qinchuan City, Xiahe Village.
At half past six in the evening, the sun was still hanging in the sky, but most of the heat had dissipated. Wang Yan stood in front of the door of his two-story building, holding two bags of daily necessities he had just bought from the supermarket in the town, but his eyes involuntarily drifted to the long-abandoned old house next door.
It was a house passed down from his ancestors and was said to have a history of more than three hundred years.
On the lintel of the old house, there are still traces of the wind and rain from the four large stone characters "Jinshi Ji Di", but now half of the "Di" character has fallen off, and the remaining half of the "Di" character hangs there alone, which looks a bit strange. The top of the wall was covered with wormwood, and the green bricks of the courtyard wall were covered with dark green moss. There was even an obvious crack at the root of the wall, extending from the courtyard door to the corner of the west wing.
People in the village say that the Wang family's old house has bad feng shui.
