In a noisy corner of the city, Mr. Zhang was deeply mired in the quagmire of financial difficulties. Once full of ambition when he stepped into the business world, he had encountered one setback after another. Failed investments and poor cash flow haunted him like demons, filling his life with gloom and anxiety.

 

One day, when getting together with an old friend, Mr. Zhang couldn't help sighing deeply and pouring out his financial troubles. After thinking for a moment, his friend recommended the Pixiu ornament to him mysteriously. In Taoist culture, Pixiu is an ancient auspicious beast with a dragon's head, a horse's body, unicorn's feet, looking like a lion, with grayish-white fur. It can fly and is fierce and mighty. It was responsible for patrolling the Heavenly Court and preventing evil spirits, demons, plagues and diseases from disturbing the Heavenly Court. Its most prominent feature is that it has a big mouth but no anus, meaning that it only takes in wealth and never lets it out. Therefore, it is regarded as a symbol of attracting wealth and treasures, capable of absorbing wealth from all directions and firmly safeguarding it without letting it flow out.

 

After hearing this, Mr. Zhang was filled with doubts in his heart. After all, it sounded like an ancient legend full of fantasy, which seemed out of place in the real business world. However, his current predicament made him like a traveler groping in the dark. Even a faint glimmer of hope was worth a try. So, with a mixture of nervousness and expectation, he carefully selected a Pixiu ornament. This Pixiu was exquisitely shaped, with superb carving craftsmanship. Every line on it seemed to contain mysterious power. Its eyes were wide open, looking majestic, as if it was ready to open the door to wealth for Mr. Zhang at any time.

 

Mr. Zhang placed the Pixiu reverently on the wealth position in his home. According to the theory of feng shui, the wealth position is where the wealth qi of the family gathers. With Pixiu sitting there, it was like a loyal guard, safeguarding the lifeblood of the family's wealth. In the early days, everything seemed calm on the surface. Mr. Zhang's life was still overshadowed by debts and financial pressures. He often looked at the Pixiu and wondered to himself whether this was really just an illusory legend.

 

However, as time passed quietly, one day a few months later, Mr. Zhang was busy in his office as usual when suddenly the phone rang. On the other end of the phone came a message that he could hardly believe. A large enterprise had taken a fancy to a project proposal he had put forward before and hoped to cooperate with him on a large-scale project. This project was like the dawn in the dark. It not only brought him a substantial advance payment, but also the subsequent profits grew like a snowball.

 

Mr. Zhang's financial situation improved rapidly. He paid off his debts, expanded the scale of his company, recruited more outstanding talents, and his business was booming. This sudden turn of events made Mr. Zhang feel incredible. His eyes once again focused on the Pixiu ornament standing quietly in his home. At this time, the Pixiu was no longer just a beautiful ornament in his eyes, but the patron saint of the family's wealth, a concrete manifestation of the mysterious Taoist power in the real world.

 

Since then, every morning, Mr. Zhang would get up early, light an incense stick piously in front of the Pixiu, put his palms together and pray silently, expressing his gratitude for the wealth it had brought him and praying that the wealth would continue to thrive. Miraculously, as his pious heart grew stronger day by day, his wealth became more and more prosperous. New cooperation opportunities kept emerging, and every project went smoothly and yielded rich profits.

 

In the profound world of Taoist thought, everything in the world is composed of yin and yang and the five elements, which are interconnected and influence each other. As a symbol containing special spiritual power, the role of Pixiu is not just a product of superstition. To some extent, it affects people's state of mind and aura, and then acts on the financial fortune in real life. When Mr. Zhang held a sense of awe and expectation towards Pixiu, his heart was filled with positive and upward power. This power drove him to be more keenly in capturing business opportunities and more firmly in facing challenges, thus unconsciously changing the trajectory of his own fate. Just as Laozi said, "The Tao that can be told of is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name." The acquisition and accumulation of wealth may not only depend on personal efforts and wisdom, but also have a subtle connection with the invisible power of the Tao. And Pixiu is the bond that connects Mr. Zhang with this mysterious power, leading him to go further and further on the road to wealth and reap rich rewards.