Corpse Wealth

Old Master Zhang from the Zhang household was buried only after his coffin sat unburied for three months last year, because they had asked several feng shui masters and none could find a suitable burial site. In the end, it was only after my grandfather was invited that he walked around the Zhang ancestral grave three times, stuck a chopstick under an old pagoda tree, and said to bury him there.

On the day of the burial, Chen Erlou followed along as well. He remembered his grandfather scattering a handful of glutinous rice over the grave and muttering under his breath. He did not think anything of it then, but looking back now, every one of those actions concealed some hidden craft...