"Master, are you setting up a stall to read palms at the entrance of our courtyard?" I asked a Taoist priest who was on the side of the road with a sanctimonious appearance and a celestial spirit. "Are you sure that you come here to fool people? Taoist priest.
enough?"
The Taoist priest wore a blue Taoist priest uniform and a hat. He looked like he was in his 50s. He had many wrinkles on his face, dark earth-colored skin, a chin, and a long goatee. He heard me
If so, he looked at me very doubtfully, with a look of confusion on his face.
I smiled, stretched out my hand and tugged on the Taoist priest's beard. It felt stiff, and the Taoist priest had a very painful expression on his face.
"Okay, stop pretending, you goatee. On the road over there, you can buy one, get one free, and get a roll of double-sided tape for 10 yuan." Then I pinched the Taoist priest's face again, "Well, on his face.
The wrinkles are still real, but if you change your beard, why is it so hard? You are not mistaken, you are so tightly glued, it will be more troublesome for you to pick it off. And your clothes cost 50 yuan outside.
What kind of gossip, red drawings, bamboo tubes, signatures, and the ancient blue book are in front of you? It must have wasted a lot of your time. If you can't find the person you want to fool, you will lose money.
?"
Having said this, I lit a cigarette and touched the small earrings on my ears. "I don't know how to speak. People pretend to be blind to read palms for others. You are more advanced. You are pretending to be mute."
"How can you deceive people if you pretend to be mute? If you don't deceive people, how can people be fooled? How can you make money if they are not fooled? You say yes, come on, stop pretending to be mute and speak."
After listening to my words, the Taoist priest nodded thoughtfully, "Young man"
"Well?" I lowered my head, then heard what he said, looked up at him, and smiled, "Is this right? It's boring to pretend to be mute. You can't write by hand for others, right? Do you smoke?"
The Taoist priest shook his head, "You must have just experienced something tragic."
"Damn it, you cursed me. Really?" I was a little angry. "Tell you Ang, Taoist priest, I was told a fortune once when I was in school. Since then, I have been angry when I saw fortune tellers. Either you hurry up now
Let's go, or I'll call the city management. If that doesn't work, I'll destroy this stall for you. I'll pay you whatever the price is, okay." I pointed to the fortune-telling tools in front of him. "Okay, okay, put them away quickly.
, don’t fool people here.”
"I'm not a fortune teller. This is Taoism, passed down through the descendants of the ancestors of Zhou Yi."
"Stop farting. If a turtle puts on a vest, wouldn't it stop being a turtle?"
The Taoist priest touched his beard again, "Young man, look at your face, you have thick eyebrows and big eyes, fair skin, the acupuncture points in your philtrum have a faint dark color, and your Yintang is slightly red. I think you must have experienced something very unpleasant some time ago.
Regarding the matter, is Pindao right?"
I was stunned for a moment, and then I muttered in my heart, is it true or not, he is following me? What does this Taoist priest mean? How did he know, but after thinking about it, I still didn't say all that. "Taoist priest, I
Tell you Ang. Don’t let me fool you. You are not fooled."
The Taoist priest smiled and said, "Can you lend me your hand?"
"Heihei" I threw the cigarette on the ground and stamped it out. "You're still addicted. I want you to leave our house and go to other communities to fool people. Do you understand?" I said while pointing to his stall, "If
If you don’t leave, I will destroy your stall.”
The Taoist priest ignored me, reached out and grabbed my hand and said, "Wait a minute."
I originally wanted to pull my hand back, but who knew that the Taoist priest was so strong, so I pulled it hard twice, but it didn't come out. I couldn't make a big reaction because of my face. I thought to myself, just show it to him.
Let's take a look. Anyway, I just came out of the Internet cafe and spent my last 10 yuan on the Internet to redeem my membership. If I ask for money after watching it, I won't give you the money or my life.
The Taoist priest looked at it for a while, then nodded and reached out to stroke his beard. He also talked to himself and smiled at every turn.
"I said, you are a roly-poly. You keep nodding your head."
"Young man, you were frustrated emotionally before, then your friendship was frustrated, and then your studies were frustrated. You even had the idea of committing suicide. Is Pindao right?"
I stopped, and suddenly I didn’t know what to say. I was thinking about my previous girlfriend, and now I still have photos of her in my wallet. I recalled the time when she held my arm and sweetly called me Liuliu Husband.
, my eyes were sore and I couldn’t control myself.
The Taoist priest pointed to the small stool on the ground, "Come, sit down and draw lots. I will show you a clear path and I won't charge you any money. Don't worry."
I thought about it, and then sat down. Anyway, I won’t die if I stay for a while. “Just tell me.”
The Taoist priest looked at me and sat down, and then smiled in a fairy-like manner, "Tell me about your recent situation and your troubles. Let me know how to solve it." After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he looked at
He kept me silent and then smiled, "You and I have never met before, so you don't need to be so upset or cautious. You can tell me what happened to you. It will definitely solve the problem."
I glanced at the Taoist priest, and then sighed, "When I was in high school, I didn't study hard. As a result, my test scores were too low. I didn't even have the chance to apply for a volunteer. I felt nothing at first. Later, my friends around me went to college.
In a mixed society, those who work go to work, those who serve as soldiers, I am the only one left. Now I want to repeat my studies. I can't study on my own. I want to go to a private university, but my family won't let me go. Because of my schooling issues,
I’m also very anxious, and I’m under a lot of pressure. The atmosphere at home has been bad recently, and it’s already October, and I still don’t have a place to go to college.”
"Emotionally, my girlfriend misunderstood me and didn't listen to my explanation at all. I called her for a month and sent text messages for a month, but she ignored me. She completely ignored me.
After that, her brother called me like crazy and threatened me. Her brother is a big gangster and the captain of the Public Security Bureau. I was depressed because her sister didn’t want to live with me. I was so sad that I died. As a result, his brother
She also said that if she saw me again, she would kill me, and so on. She said that I had failed her sister and that he knew his sister. Now when I call, her brother answers the phone and scolds me. Or he
Threatening me. I am innocent, but now all the fingers are pointed at me. So, I simply stopped fighting and gave up completely."
"In terms of friendship, we have less contact with the brothers who were sworn to each other when we were in high school. We had more contact at first, but now we are less and less. Everyone has gone their separate ways and is no longer together, so the feeling is much weaker. I
Thinking about the past makes me very sad.”
Having said this, I felt depressed again, so I picked up a cigarette and lit it.
The Taoist priest reached out and took the cigarette away from my mouth. "Don't smoke it yet. Let's do this. I'll tell you a fortune. You draw a lot. I won't charge you. After you finish the calculation, if it comes true, just help me."
Do one thing. Do you think it’s okay?”
I thought about it, and I didn’t have much to lose anyway. It seemed like Wang Yue’s words meant nothing, so I stretched out my hand and shook the lottery tube, and a lottery fell to the ground.
The Taoist priest picked up the signature, looked at it for a while, and then smiled. He continued to touch his beard and nodded, "Within one day, the time will definitely come and go."
"It's true," I said nonchalantly, "I don't have any money to give you, so it's useless to say nice things to you."
The Taoist priest shook his head and said, "Don't take any money. My child, please remember my words, and within one day, the time will surely come to you."
I looked up and said, "What if it doesn't turn?"
"There is no loss to you." The Taoist priest said casually, "But I said that within a day, you will start to change. I have a piece of advice for you. Once the past things are over, just let them go and let them take their course.
.”
I thought for a while, "Okay, because you said such auspicious words, I won't say anything to you. I won't drive you away today. If within one day, what you said is not accurate, then I will
When I see you, I will smash your stall."
The Taoist priest continued to nod like a roly-poly, "What if it comes true?"
I spread my hands and said, "You said, if it comes true, what do you need me to do? You said, as long as it doesn't break the law, anything is fine."
The Taoist priest smiled at me and said, "If it comes true, I only need you to help me with one thing."
"explain"
The Taoist priest looked around cautiously, then put his mouth to my ear as if he was about to say something state secret, "In the south of the city, on the commercial street, at the entrance of Xujia Hutong, there is a fortune-telling monk. He is about 50 years old. In
Is it okay to smash his stall when there are many people at noon?"
"Holy shit, are you still a Taoist priest?" I was a little confused. "Did I hear wrongly?"
The Taoist shook his head: "You just need to do it. Can you?"
I smiled helplessly, wondering in my heart what kind of hatred the monk and the Taoist priest had. But since we were already here, I could just agree first, and I didn’t necessarily have to say "Okay. Then let’s do this. If nothing happens,
, then you’d better pack your bags and leave, and don’t let me see you from the door of our family home again.”
The Taoist priest smiled and said, "Of course."
I turned around to leave, then suddenly remembered something, turned around and looked at the Taoist priest, "Taoist priest, why are you trying to get into trouble with that monk?"
The Taoist sighed seriously, "The competition in the industry is too fierce now, and fake and inferior counterfeit products are emerging in endlessly. Genuine products like ours have been bullied to pieces by pirates. What's even more hateful, now I have become a pirate. So, you have to respond to me.
I will help you break your luck. Do you hear me?"
"Hey, this is fucking fortune telling." After saying that, I turned around and started walking. As I walked, I laughed, "Haha, it's so damn interesting. There are new things every year."
After I walked a few meters, the Taoist priest smiled from behind and shouted, "Destined man, in three years, I will be here to continue to calculate a hexagram for you. Remember our agreement. The cycle of cause and effect, remember it."
I ignored the Taoist priest, walked downstairs to our house, turned around, and saw that the Taoist priest was no longer at the door, went upstairs, opened the door, and went home.
My mother prepared a table of sumptuous meals and was very happy. She was humming songs in the kitchen.
"Mom. I'm back. What day is it today? Did I win five million or lost my mobile phone? There are so many meals."
