Next to the largest square in the city, under the overpass, Chujiu and I looked so out of place squatting on the roadside.
Not far away, an old man with a white beard and a Taoist robe was sitting in a small maza. In front of the old man was a curtain with a Bagua pattern. On the left was "ancestral gods" and on the right was "calculating the past and measuring the present."
Not far from the white-bearded old man is a bald man wearing a monk's cassock. There is also a wooden sign in front of the man, which reads: salvation, rituals, chanting, and blessing.
On the open space in front of Chujiu and I, Chujiu wrote crookedly with some chalk from nowhere: read Feng Shui, measure Chinese characters, read faces, and exorcise evil spirits.
When we just finished writing these words, the fake Taoist priests and monks next to us glanced at us with disdain.
As for why they are said to be fake Taoist priests and fake monks, in fact, I didn’t see much obvious things from their faces. Except for a few special cases, it’s hard to tell from their faces about their profession. Chujiu’s explanation is simpler, because from their appearance I didn’t feel angry!
The method of making money mentioned by Chujiu started to work. I even began to regret how stupid it was to spend two yuan and then take the bus for more than two hours to go out with Chujiu.
From the superficial point of view, one seems to be an immortal and the other seems to be an eminent monk. The two of them look more like they have walked into the world to solve people's problems.
And the two of us? At most we look like delinquents who skipped classes and went out to fool around!
Since I don’t have any experience and don’t know how to start, I just have the attitude of trying it first, which is better than doing nothing.
I started to look at the people passing by, trying to read something from their faces and making precise calculations. Most of them were confused and said that there had been no major ups and downs in the recent past.
I haven't met a suitable customer all morning. After all, I have to help people who really need help. Otherwise, I won't be able to save some money if I don't feel comfortable with it. I will probably spend it in other ways and just draw water from a bamboo basket. That’s all.
Just because we don't have business doesn't mean that others don't have business. For more than two hours, people stopped and sat on the small bench in front of the stalls of fake monks and fake Taoists for more than two hours, listening to them talk about how they were destined to come. I am willing to spend many years of my skills to resolve the disaster for the visitor, and in the end the customer pays the money and leaves with gratitude.
I've probably concluded that it's not that ordinary people are easily deceived, but those who deceive are too understanding of people's psychology.
A middle-aged woman in her fifties or sixties passed by the fake Taoist stall. The fake Taoist closed her eyes and said in a calm tone, as if chatting with an acquaintance:
"She is also a poor person. She looks like a lucky lady, but in fact she is an old slave at home. She has everything going on at home, but she can't sleep even if she doesn't do anything."
The middle-aged woman slowed down and stopped: "Master, are you talking about me?"
If you think about it carefully, middle-aged women are fat and often have grandchildren at such an old age. The housework is naturally heavy and they have to do their part. When you hear it, you will naturally think, hey, I am destined to work hard, and it is easy to be fooled by the words of the fake Taoist priest. The words moved me.
When I meet some fashionable young people, they say: "The money you make is like a copper shoulder, but when you spend it, it's like snowflakes flying." This often comes true.
And middle-aged men and women will say: "Although children are young, they are full of clever ideas. Although they are small, they have many clever ideas."
If these words are applied to the right person, they will think that this is what they mean, but if you look closely, they actually mean nothing.
The fake monks on the other side are a little more advanced. They were mostly math class representatives when they were in school.
After a victim in his thirties burned incense and paid homage, the fake monk stood up and worshiped heaven and read:
“xx’s marriage is not going well, please ask for a solution. The person asking for the solution is willing to offer incense money for a year, one yuan a month. If it can be solved, please send me the hexagram.”
What is the Shang Shang hexagram? It means that the Yao cup in the hand looks like a horn when put together. If it is dropped, it will be the Shang Shang hexagram if one is positive and the other is negative. Anyone who has studied mathematics knows that the probability of one positive and one negative is two.
one part.
What should I do if it is not the Shang Shang Gua? That is, the gods and Buddhas in the sky think that the incense money is too little, and the disaster is difficult to solve, so double the incense money. If it doesn't work, double the incense money.
If it still doesn't work, you have gone too far. I can only say that it cannot be solved. No matter how much money you give me, I will not solve it. Gods and Buddhas will not agree that it cannot be solved! Then recommend other resolution projects. In short, the victim's money must have escaped.
Don't fall off.
If you think about it carefully, the probability of the Shang Shang Gua not appearing three times in a row is 1/8, and the chance is very slim. Therefore, most victims are quite satisfied, at least spending money to buy something happy.
Chujiu said to me in a low voice with a depressed look on his face: "I underestimated these people. I thought these people only knew the simple trick of 'father dies before mother'. But my old man's old man said that the money obtained through fraud is
Those who are influenced by cause and effect cannot do it!"
Looking at the frost-beating eggplant expression on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, which was completely different from the high-spirited expression before coming out in the morning, I suddenly wanted to laugh, so I joked with my little round face:
"Chujiu, did your old man's old man tell you that the world is dangerous and nine out of ten people are deceived?"
"It's okay, we only have over 100 people in our village!"
In fact, I heard it from my grandfather. He told me that there are actually quite a few truly powerful gentlemen from ancient times to the present, and some of them serve some powerful people with special status. They basically do not serve ordinary people.
There are also some people who live in seclusion in the mountains and do not care about worldly affairs. Occasionally, some gentlemen happen to help ordinary people solve some problems.
As for the teachers we usually meet, most of them accidentally learned a little bit from a certain channel, or understood some folk taboos, and they are also eloquent. Most of them do some simple red and white things, choose a
Good days, good times, etc.
As for fortune-telling and fortune-telling, they are mostly made up based on the identity of the old man. If the fortune-telling is correct, the visitor will be happy and make a small amount of money, while some who make it up incorrectly will be beaten.
After all, I have mastered several kinds of words like "the father dies before the mother".
For example, "Do you plant flowers on your balcony?" If you answer that there are flowers, you have to move to another position. If you answer that there are no flowers, it means that the pot of flowers is missing and you have to plant them when you go back.
As a result, many people found that seeking a fortune teller did not have any effect. After looking back and thinking carefully, they found that they had been deceived, so there was a saying that "nine out of ten deceivers" was used to describe quack fortune tellers.
I once asked my grandfather what level he was. My grandfather replied that he was a little better than these quack fortune tellers. At least he had not deceived anyone.
I didn't take it seriously after hearing it. I preferred to listen to my grandpa talk about weird people or things.
But one thing Grandpa said is that some quack fortune tellers will ask the victim to be virtuous and do good deeds. These kind of fortune tellers are less likely to be contaminated by karma.
When I just finished telling this to Chujiu, an elderly woman passed by our stall and dropped a coin: