Chapter 61: A Real Feng Shui Array!
The two girls just stared at him in shock.
A potted plant is an air conditioner?
Even if he was teasing them, he could not treat them like fools.
“Senior brother!” Xiao Yu glared at him. “I am talking to you about a serious matter!”
Chen Han smiled and said, “Junior sister, don’t worry, you will understand when uncle comes. Just watch how your senior brother turns this potted plant into an air conditioner!”
Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi were even more confused.
No matter how they tried, they could not connect a potted plant with an air conditioner.
“Are you filming another abstract video?” Xiao Mi suspiciously looked around to see if he had turned on his mobile phone to record.
Chen Han did not explain further and decided to wait until uncle arrived.
This only made the two girls feel like ants were crawling in their hearts. They wanted to know what was going on.
Before long, Chen Lin arrived with Chen Dagou and Chen Shuisheng. Each of the three was holding a potted plant: the bamboo, red plum blossom, and persimmon that Chen Han needed.
With social development and the popularity of landscape potted plants, more and more plants could be turned into potted plants, and they looked very beautiful.
As soon as he arrived, Chen Lin asked, “Xiao Han, where do we put these?”
“Uncle, move them to my room,” Chen Han instructed, then went up to the attic first. At the same time, he was already thinking about how to connect the “warm in winter and cool in summer +2” attribute with the so-called family underground Feng Shui formation.
And make his junior sister and uncle truly believe that there was a Feng Shui formation beneath the Chen Clan.
If so, in the future they could blame anything on this Feng Shui formation.
Seeing this, Chen Lin led Chen Dagou and Chen Shuisheng, carrying the three potted plants into the attic. Only when they reached Chen Han’s room did they put the plants down.
Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi had been following behind. When she saw Chen Lin place the three potted plants, Xiao Yu finally could not hold back and asked, “Senior brother, stop keeping us in suspense. What exactly are you trying to do? How could these three potted plants possibly turn into an air conditioner?”
Her words even left Chen Lin stunned.
He had indeed bought potted plants, not an air conditioner.
Chen Shuisheng and Chen Dagou were also confused. They had carried over potted plants, a persimmon, and bamboo. What did that have to do with an air conditioner?
So five pairs of eyes all turned toward Chen Han.
He smiled and said, “Junior sister, I told you before about the family’s underground formation, right?”
Xiao Yu paused when she heard this. “Is it that Feng Shui formation?”
Previously, when she saw the vegetables in the vegetable garden blooming abnormally at the same time and asked uncle about it, she learned from him that there might really be a formation under the Chen Clan, and that there had even been related legends.
But it was not as mystical as her senior brother had said; it should be a Feng Shui formation.
She did believe in Feng Shui. After all, Feng Shui was part of China’s inheritance of culture, and it was officially acknowledged.
Xiao Mi was also very surprised when she heard “Feng Shui formation”.
She naturally knew about Feng Shui and had watched science programs about it. Many aspects of Feng Shui could already be explained through geography, environment, biology, physics, and other sciences.
But Feng Shui was not something an ordinary person could easily learn. It was precisely because of this that everyone could not help admiring how amazing the ancients were, using only the naked eye and some handmade tools, yet achieving so many miraculous things through Feng Shui studies.
Especially since there were still parts that could not be explained by science even today.
And now, the Chen Clan actually had this kind of unbelievable Feng Shui formation.
Chen Dagou and Chen Shuisheng also turned their eyes to Chen Han, full of expectation.
They knew about the underground formation of the Chen Clan too.
At first, they did not believe any of it, but the recent events had gradually convinced them that the Chen Clan had been truly formidable in the past.
Chen Han nodded slightly to his junior sister and began making things up. “Junior sister, you know I have been researching the matter of the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 recently because of this Feng Shui formation. So I consulted many ancient books of the Chen Clan and discovered that the magnetic field produced by the underground Feng Shui formation does more than just work on the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》.”
“In fact, when the patriarch and ancestors first built the Chen Clan, they might have already discovered that the abnormal magnetic field here could be applied to Feng Shui, and they constructed the Chen Clan Ancient Architectural Complex according to a Feng Shui pattern.”
“So, I had a sudden idea. If that is the case, the Feng Shui formation should be applicable to all aspects. I started checking ancient books and doing research, and I really did find something useful.”
His words immediately drew in all five of them, and they stared at him without blinking.
Xiao Yu quickly asked, “Senior brother, what did you find?”
Chen Han smiled and asked, “Have you noticed that in many ancient building scenic spots, like the imperial palace, Yellow Crane Tower, Suzhou gardens, Suzhou ancient palaces… some courtyards or areas in these ancient buildings stay warm in winter and cool in summer? Especially that very famous courtyard in the imperial palace?”
This made Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi nod.
They were both national style bloggers and had visited many ancient buildings when attending national style events.
Especially that courtyard in the imperial palace; it was indeed very famous.
Chen Han said with a smile, “Actually, those might also be related to Feng Shui.”
Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi were even more surprised. Their big eyes were clear, curious, and doubtful.
Could Feng Shui really achieve such things?
Xiao Yu could not help saying, “Senior brother, stop talking in fragments and leaving us hanging.”
Chen Han smiled and continued fabricating. “When I was reading materials related to Feng Shui, I wondered: if Feng Shui can create a warm-in-winter, cool-in-summer effect, would our ancestors who built the Chen Clan Ancient Architecture not know about it?”
“So I tried studying information on house Feng Shui, and I did find something. Through Nine Palaces Feng Shui, as long as you arrange a Feng Shui pattern that links: primary energy heat level, primary geographical orientation structure, and primary connection of the central hub, the house will have a special effect of being warm in winter and cool in summer!”
As he spoke, he theatrically took out that Nine Palaces Feng Shui book from the side, opened to a page, and handed it to his junior sister.
Xiao Yu took the book, and at the sight of the densely packed characters, her syndrome of feeling annoyed, nauseous, having a headache, and feeling unwell all over when reading flared up again.
She frowned and said, “Senior brother, what does it mean exactly?”
When Xiao Yu took the book, Xiao Mi leaned over curiously to look. At this moment, she spoke up. “Here is an explanation of the Nine Palaces… the one that governs the primary energy heat level is the Li Palace, because the Li Palace belongs to fire. The one that governs the primary geographical orientation structure is the Kun Palace, because the Kun Palace belongs to earth. The one governing the central linkage is the Zhong Palace…”
Xiao Yu looked at her in surprise. “Sister Xiao Mi, this is classical Chinese. You can understand it?”
“Aren’t there ancestor annotations in the book? Isn’t this how we read classical Chinese in high school?” Xiao Mi pointed to the notes written by the ancestors. She took the book from Xiao Yu and read for a while, then said, “Here is also a description of Feng Shui architecture. The Li Palace can face the sun directly in winter, and Feng Shui can draw sunlight into the building to achieve a heating effect. In summer when the sun is high, with a north-south ventilation layout, the Li Palace reduces direct sunlight and lets wind pour in, achieving a cooling effect.”
“Xiao Yu, look here again. It says the Kun Palace is designed mostly with open doors and windows to guide the southwest wind indoors, creating natural wind and helping with cooling. In winter, the southwest wind is weaker, and the position of the Kun Palace also reduces the intrusion of cold winter wind.”
“Finally, here, the Zhong Palace suppresses the center and links the Li Palace and the Kun Palace, forming a closed special aura and achieving a special Feng Shui pattern.”
Chen Lin, Chen Dagou, and Chen Shuisheng all understood.
Chen Lin suddenly saw the light and said, “So Xiao Han is talking about the Li Palace, Kun Palace, and Zhong Palace among the Nine Palaces?”
Xiao Yu was even more shocked. “Sister Xiao Mi, you really understand it? You do not feel annoyed, nauseous, or have a headache, or anything like that?”
“Why would reading a book cause those symptoms?” Xiao Mi shook her head. “Besides, the ‘ancestor annotations’ in this book are much more detailed than some classical Chinese notes in high school. Of course, I only understand these few sentences. As for what exactly the Li Palace, Kun Palace, and Zhong Palace are, I actually do not know.”
“But using the high school reading comprehension method of guessing the author’s central thought, I guess the bamboo, persimmon, and red plum potted plants should correspond to the three palaces and serve as the medium for this special Feng Shui pattern.”
Chen Han could not help applauding and gave Xiao Mi a thumbs up. “Smart. Truly a top student in the Chinese department. Now take a look at this Daoist plants book. Turn to page ”
He handed her another book as he spoke.
Xiao Mi was happy to be praised. She took the book, turned to page 45, and as she read, her eyes grew brighter. “The plants representing Li, Kun, and Zhong are exactly red plum blossom, persimmon, and bamboo. So as long as we place these three things in their corresponding positions, we can construct a special Feng Shui pattern?”
Chen Han continued nodding. “Xiao Mi, then study which positions in this room correspond to the Li, Kun, and Zhong palaces.”
Xiao Mi immediately picked up the original Nine Palaces Feng Shui book and read, “The Li Palace in the house’s Nine Palaces is the upper middle position, which is due south. The Kun Palace is in the lower right of the Nine Palaces, which is in front of this window. The Zhong Palace is the intersection point of the diagonals.”
Chen Lin understood as well. That meant placing the red plum blossom in the middle of the wall opposite the door, placing the persimmon in front of the window, and placing the bamboo at the intersection of the diagonals. With his woodworking skills, it would be easy for him to find that intersection.
He immediately had Chen Shuisheng and Chen Dagou set the red plum blossom and persimmon in place, and then they began measuring the diagonals together.
Watching this, Xiao Yu suddenly wanted to dig a hole and crawl into it. So embarrassing. She was a disciple personally taught by their master and her senior brother’s only junior sister, yet she could not understand any of this and had been outdone by Sister Xiao Mi, an outsider.
Was this not more awkward than the national football team losing to a county-level team?
But reading really did make her feel nauseous and give her a headache.
At that moment, she saw uncle place the bamboo potted plant in the center of the table, and in that instant, her eyes widened.
Not only her. Xiao Mi, Chen Lin, Chen Dagou, and Chen Shuisheng all showed expressions of disbelief.
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