That morning, while Xiao Wu's father was still sleeping, I asked Xiao Wu to push me to the local town in a small cart.
In fact, this town is not far from Xiao Wu's village, but it is relatively remote and the economy is not very good, so there are not many people in Xiao Wu's village.
But once we arrived in the town, the feeling was very different.
I don’t know if it’s because of the market, but as soon as I arrived in the town, there were people coming and going everywhere. Although the things sold were all cheap, there were a lot of people.
I asked Xiao Wu to push me to a relatively conspicuous place, and then asked him to help me borrow a pen from the old fortune teller next door and go to the back door of someone else's house to steal a few couplets.
The little military commander brought the pen and couplets in front of me, looked at me curiously and said, "Brother, what are you going to do?"
"You'll find out later." I always smile when I talk to Xiao Wu, which makes him smile at me too.
I asked Xiao Wu to turn the couplet over so that the back side was exposed on a white background. Then I took the old fortune teller's brush and dipped it in ink, and wrote a few big characters directly on the couplet paper.
"Xiao Wu, do you know how to read?" I asked.
Xiao Wu scratched his head, shook his head and said he didn't know.
I wrote one stroke after another and said to him: "This reading, this reading, and the following words are called no money if it doesn't work..."
"Reading a fortune teller? No money if it doesn't work?"
"Yes, smart!"
Xiao Wu scratched his head and said, "Brother, why did you write this?"
"Of course we have to make money, otherwise how can we have money to buy wine for your dad?" I said.
Immediately after writing the words, I hung the couplet paper on the trolley, then talked to the fortune teller next door and asked for some more yellow paper.
The old man who told the fortune was sixty or seventy years old. He stroked his beard and told me with confusion that he had to be professional to do anything. How could he just put up a cart and just show it to others?
What about the phase?
Faced with the fortune teller's "sincere teachings", I smiled back and didn't argue.
The old fortune teller looked at my young age and guessed that I was just here to join in the fun. Little did he know that I was not only a professional in fortune telling, but also a so-called successor to the art of fortune telling.
The old fortune teller was sitting at the small stall next to him, drinking tea and watching me in a very leisurely manner.
After tinkering for a while, when everything was ready, I clapped my hands, put the brush in place, and folded the yellow paper.
I said to Xiao Wu: "Xiao Wu, the rest is up to you."
Xiao Wu was stunned for a moment and said: "Brother, I used to come here with my father to beg for money. I don't do anything else."
I continued: It's okay, you don't have to do anything, I just need you to shout loudly."
"Shout out?"
"Well, have you seen anyone selling roast duck over there? Just shout later and I'll buy you roast duck later." I said.
A glint flashed in Xiao Wu's eyes, and he quickly agreed.
Soon, at my instruction, Xiao Wu stood next to me and immediately shouted at the top of his lungs.
Xiao Wu was only ten years old, and his voice was childish. When he shouted, he immediately seemed out of place with the noisy adults shouting around him.
“It’s a fortune teller, if it doesn’t work, no money!”
"We will only charge you for fortune telling if you are correct. You are not allowed to give up money. If you have bad luck or are weak and sick, you can come and have a look. It will help you turn bad luck into good luck and reduce your illness and disaster..."
It has to be said that Xiao Wu's voice quickly attracted the attention and attention of many people.
But the embarrassing thing is that many people are watching, and there are many stalls similar to fortune telling and fortune telling set up next to me. Compared to me, I don’t know how many times more formal they are.
Look at me again, there isn’t even a stall, and the signboard is nowhere to be seen. Even I am sitting half-sitting on a trolley, as if I’m a cripple. So when many people heard Xiao Wu’s shouts, they just held it and looked at it.
In such a lively mood, no one came forward for a while.
The old fortune teller on the side closed his eyes and watched for a long time, and couldn't help but kindly reminded: "Young man, it's useless for you to do this. You have to be more formal when you come out to work in this business..."
The old fortune teller kindly taught me for several minutes. When he saw that I was still indifferent, he had no choice but to shake his head and return to his stall.
When I saw this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. It's really not easy to make some money these days.
Since no one came, I simply looked for customers myself.
I glanced around at the crowd watching the excitement in front of me, and then my eyes fell on a man in his thirties.
"Xiao Wu, go over and give me and that uncle a few words..." I said to Xiao Wu.
I said a few words in Xiao Wu's ear. Xiao Wu was stunned for a while, but he still walked to the man's side obediently and told him what I said word for word.
"Hello, uncle, my brother asked to take a look at your face. He said that you may not live for a few days."
As soon as Xiao Wu's voice fell, everyone including the man and others were immediately taken aback.
The man's face was particularly ugly. He stared at Xiao Wudao: "Little brat, who do you think is going to die? Believe it or not, I will slap you!"
"It's not me, it's my brother who said it. My brother also said that in the past few days, your house has often heard inexplicable noises in the middle of the night, but when you got up and looked, you didn't see anything..."
The man who was still angry just now, when he heard Xiao Wu's words, his face suddenly changed!
Before the other people nearby could laugh at Xiao Wu's "nonsense", the man suddenly ran over to me.
"Daxian, Daxian, how do you know that my house has been restless in the middle of the night these past few days?" the man asked me hurriedly.
I glanced at him, and my heart moved, knowing that this was my first customer.
I said calmly: "Not only do I know that you have been restless at home these past few days, I also know that you may not live long, and have you noticed any strange shadows appearing in your home recently?"
When I finished speaking, the man fell to his knees on the ground without saying a word.
"How do you know everything, Great Immortal? Please help me, my little family has not been at peace recently. I asked several Taoist priests to look at it, but they couldn't find out the reason. Today, the Immortal didn't ask anything, but he actually knew about my home."
In this situation, please help me..."
As soon as the man knelt down, the people behind him who were watching the excitement were all so surprised that they couldn't open their mouths from ear to ear.
I raised my eyebrows and said, "Your home is not peaceful. The reason is very simple. That is because you have brought evil spirits to your door. Think carefully, have you done anything bad recently?"
Cold sweat suddenly broke out on the man's face, and he nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking rice: "When I was passing by a mountain a few days ago, I happened to see an opened coffin. I couldn't hold back my greed at that time, so I
I also took away the remaining valuables in the coffin..."