Qingyu whispered in the ears of Shi'an and Hongtao. After hearing this, both of them looked surprised. Hongtao's eyes flashed, and she raised her thumb and whispered, "As expected of the head junior sister."
Shi'an smiled slightly, patted Qingyu's head out of habit, and whispered softly in Qingyu's ear: "As expected of the head junior sister."
Qingyu coughed and thought to herself, where did this go? She thought back then, when she was racking her brains to make a living in Xuanmen.
With her hands behind her back, the old god chose a place a little far away and asked the others to sit down.
Everyone else looked at her in confusion, what's the point? But just as they were guessing, they saw Hongtao and Shian sitting a foot apart, sitting cross-legged on the ground, with a piece of cloth spread in front of them.
Then Hongtao closed her eyes, shook her head, and shouted in a mellow tone: "You can read faces, people's faces, family faces, grave faces, and horoscopes. You can know the bad luck and good fortune, and you can find out the pathology. You can pay twenty copper coins per person. You are not allowed to pay."
"
Shi'an glanced at Hongtao and imitated her words, but his tone was gentle and elegant. If his face were not too thin and dark, he would have looked like an elegant scholar, "Fortune telling, birth date and horoscope, leading to the past, knowing the future, tending to the future."
Good luck avoids bad luck and changes your destiny. Twenty copper coins per person, no money is allowed or accepted."
Hongtao raised his voice again: "If you want to know whether it is advisable to take a boat today, whether you will lose money, and where to go to avoid misfortune, then come and take a look and do the calculations. You must not be free of money. You are right.
It not only saves money, but also saves lives.
Not two taels, not twenty taels, just twenty copper coins. For the first ten distinguished guests, you can get another ten copper coins cheaper."
A group of people on the river bank turned around and saw the two children, then turned back without paying attention and continued to negotiate with the boatman.
As for the other group of idlers waiting to take advantage of the price reduction, they looked at Shi'an and Hongtao, and someone joked: "These days, there are all kinds of bachelors, and they are so poor that they use this method to cheat money, and they don't even look at themselves.
, if you can tell fortunes by fortune telling, how come you are in such a miserable state, even your clothes are in tatters, and you still tell fortunes with others, it is really a joke."
"No, there are a lot of magic sticks these days, but it's the first time that you come out to be a magic stick at such a young age. Baby, are you an adult? Did he abandon you and run away?"
Hahaha~~ It caused a burst of laughter, and then someone spoke up, but they were talking about their own embarrassing things, "Last month I went to Ji'an Temple to do fortune telling and spent five taels of silver. The old abbot said that I would get rich soon.
, what now? Let alone getting rich, you will lose your money soon. I don’t know where to sleep tonight, you liar.”
.....The topic got further and further away, and finally it gradually got away from Shi'an and Hongtao. The two looked at each other, one feeling embarrassed and the other helpless.
But then I thought about it, Taoism can only be achieved over many years. Generally, fortune tellers are all experts in Taoism. They are at least in their forties or fifties, so they look like that. But they are not the same.
A ten-year-old and a thirteen-year-old are indeed not that convincing.
Hongtao feels aggrieved and uncomfortable, thinking about her as the dignified elder of Xuanmen Xiangge, with tens of thousands of disciples in the sect, and even begging her for money to meet her depends on her mood. Now she is despised for twenty copper coins. It's really
She was really angry.
She glanced at the crowd and spotted a middle-aged man in gray clothes with a blue face. She walked over and grabbed the man's hand without any explanation, and looked at him for a while, and then stared at the man's face again.
The middle-aged man was shocked by the red peach, pushed her away, and cursed fiercely: "What are you doing, you little bastard, you stinking beggar, you are so filthy, get away."
Hongtao was pushed down and got up. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth and spoke even more harshly.
"You are so dirty, your heart is almost rotten. Your mother died last month, your wife died half a year ago, your concubine died a year ago, and your father died two years ago. Your family
Yesterday's pigs died, so did the chickens and ducks. Everyone who could die has died, leaving you alone. But you are not far from death. You are black and blue, and it is obvious that you will not survive tomorrow."
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then became furious, but his eyes were full of fear. He pointed at the heart with trembling fingers,
"Little beast... who are you? What do you want to do by asking about my family affairs? Who in my family dies, what does it have to do with you? Let me tell you, these things are known to the neighbors. You little beast, don't you think I'll kill you?"
you..."
The middle-aged man raised his hand to strike as he spoke. The nearby onlookers were frightened and backed away, fearing that they would also get into trouble.
But who knew that as soon as the middle-aged man raised his hand, his foot slipped for some reason. He was standing on the edge of the river bank. When he slipped, his body leaned back and he fell into the water.
Most people on the shore didn't know what was going on. They only heard a "plop", and then heard intermittent calls for help. Only then did everyone realize that someone had fallen into the water. The scene suddenly became a bit chaotic. Some people shouted for help, and others shouted for help.
He backed away in fear, fearing that he would also fall, and some people watched with gloating.
The middle-aged man was really frightened now. He looked at the peach of hearts and said, "Save me, save me, I'll give you money, save me."
But Hong Tao made a "嘘" sound, "Not everyone still has a chance to be saved. You are already hopeless. You have committed too many sins in your life. This is God's punishment for you. Just bear with it."
The middle-aged man looked at the boatman again. The boatman smiled and gestured "one", "I can save you, one hundred taels, I'll give you the money first."
The middle-aged man was desperate. His body, watched by more than a hundred pairs of eyes, sank to the bottom of the water. Only a few bubbles popped up, and then he completely disappeared.
Hongtao sat back down in her previous position with great dignity, crossed her legs, and scanned the crowd around her.
The few people who had seen the whole thing were so frightened that their faces were frozen. Probably because of the horrific death of the middle-aged man, no one dared to speak for a while, except for a few boatmen who didn't take it seriously. Seeing that everyone was silent, they were too lazy to say anything.
Yangyang asked:
"Are you still sitting down? If you don't sit down, I will leave. Now the official road is blocked and it is difficult to move forward. Qu's soldiers are sweeping the city again. I am afraid that they will be able to find this place in less than an hour, let alone twenty taels.
, even if you give me two hundred taels, I won’t carry it.”
This sentence broke the dead silence again, and the crowd began to chatter again. Some people were still trying to bargain. Some people heard that they only had one hour to escape, and they were anxious and simply decided to pay and leave.
Hong Tao held her chin with her right hand and rested her elbow on the kneecap of her cross-legged legs. Her voice was neither loud nor quiet, but just enough for everyone present to hear, "The man just now had a black face and had lost his life. Even without me,
He will undoubtedly die today.
And the man is in conflict with the water, so he will fall into the water and drown no matter what.
Many of you people are in contact with the water, but you still dare to walk on the waterway. Aren't you afraid that like the person just now, you will fall into the water and drown, and there won't even be anyone to fish out the body?"