Chapter 10: The Art of Divination
"Actually, I saw your past and future as early as your first day in the warehouse, but I can't go into too much detail with you, but, to prove that what I said is true, I will tell you one thing about your past and what you will do in the future, and it will not affect your life in any way. Bai Ze said, and tapped his chest with his right index finger.
"You used to be an orphan, and when you were a child, you had a necklace engraved with the word 'Zhao', but you gave it away, a girl. ”
Then, Bai Ze stretched out three more fingers and shook them in front of him, and continued: "In three years, you will get married, and you are lucky because your wife is the love of your life. ”
Zhao Feng frowned, and then fell silent, and the shock in his heart could not be calmed down for a long time.
"It's not a secret that I'm an orphan, and it's easy to know with a little investigation...... However, I have never mentioned the necklace to anyone, and no one paid attention to the necklace in the orphanage, except for ......her, "Zhao Feng's thoughts drifted back to the time when he was still in the orphanage.
If everything Bai Ze said was really calculated by divination, and regardless of whether the prophecy about getting married in three years would come true, as far as Zhao Feng's current situation was concerned, what he was most worried about was the exposure of his identity as a casual cultivator.
"You don't have to pay too much attention to my divination prophecy, although I haven't encountered a miscalculation of the prophecy so far, but theoretically, the prophecy obtained by divination can actually be broken, after all, if you deliberately choose not to marry in order to prove my prophecy wrong after three years, it is completely fine, and there will be no other factors to force you to follow the established destiny trajectory, but once you choose to go against the fate that has been stipulated, everything that happens after that will completely change ......"
Bai Ze's expression suddenly turned grim, as if he was saying a formula, and he said word by word: "Fate, is not responsible for correcting the established mistakes, but will make you pay the due price for your mistakes in other forms." ”
Zhao Feng was silent, he didn't believe in fate, even if he became a casual cultivator, it would still be the same.
"Don't talk about these fictitious things, do you have any plans for today? If you have free time, you might as well go out with me, perhaps, some doubts in your heart will be solved. Bai Ze casually cleaned up the plastic bag on the table and sent out an invitation.
Zhao Feng was going to go to school and go home today, but after listening to Bai Ze's two divination results, he couldn't let go, he couldn't accurately judge Bai Ze's truth and falsehood, and he desperately hoped that there would be more clues to help him make a final conclusion.
"Okay, wait for me. Zhao Feng got up and went back to the room, he locked the bamboo slips and bamboo tubes on the bedside table, but after thinking about it for a while, he finally took out the mysterious bamboo tube, which had saved his life in the warehouse after all, and it was the only thing that could give him a sense of security at present.
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"When I usually have holidays, I will go to the antique street in Dongcheng District to set up a stall and divinate for people, although the income is unstable, but once a big customer comes to the door, it is often a big deal. Bai Ze explained the destination of the trip to Zhao Feng beside him on the bus, and at the same time flipped a pair of tortoise shells in his hand, which was larger than the palm of his hand, and there were seven copper coins that looked like some years in the tortoise shell.
"You said you saw my fate when we first met, and you didn't use these things for divination at the time. Zhao Feng asked.
"These are just decorations, I don't need to use any external force for divination, that feeling...... It was like a thought flashing through me, and I knew everything I wanted to know, and I knew that there was indeed a school of divination that could be used for tortoiseshell copper coins, and compared to it, my divination was more like a school of consciousness, although I didn't know if there was such a school myself. ”
"As for why you use these props, in fact, it is to win people's trust, suppose a guest comes to the door and asks me about my past and present lives, and I just glance at the other person, and then start to talk endlessly, no matter how vivid the speech is, the other party will inevitably feel that this way of divination is too Child's play', and then I can't believe it, but once I use the props, I just need to pretend to operate, so that the other party can't figure out what the meaning of my operation is, giving the other party an unfathomable feeling, as soon as the atmosphere is in place, I haven't spoken, the other party believes eight points. Bai Ze just finished explaining, and the car arrived.
In fact, modern people come to divination, more for a peace of mind, they can not force themselves to accept some facts or lies, so the final decision is handed over to the soothsayer, so the world rarely believes in those soothsayers who can tell the truth, but is willing to admire those who are good at perceiving people's hearts and can speak good ways...... Arrived, it is here, although it is an antique street, in fact, 99.9% are put out to pit people's things, all kinds of modern handicrafts have long had a mature industrial chain, but, fortunately, we are all poor, and there is no condition to be fooled. Bai Ze said, stopped at a vacant seat on the side of the road, and then spread a red carpet on the side, with the words "The last descendant of the Tianji Divine Gate is waiting for someone who is destined" on the edge of the stall, and a big "occupy" word was written in the center of the red carpet with a yellow line.
"If you are really the last descendant of the Heavenly Machine Divine Sect, if you write it so bluntly, aren't you afraid of being targeted by someone with a heart?" Zhao Feng asked a little speechlessly.
"Haha, you can take a few more steps around and look at the stalls around you. Bai Ze smiled, and glanced at a few stalls across the street, which also looked like they were diviners.
Zhao Feng stepped forward to take a look and immediately understood.
A Taimonotheistic Sect on the left, a Bagua Yin-Yang Gate on the right, and a six-god rune in it, all of the stall owners are wearing dark robes, with a calm and relaxed posture, but whenever someone approaches, they do not take the initiative to talk, but stare at the comer with an expression of "I have seen everything".
Zhao Feng walked a few more steps, and even saw another stall of the Tianji Divine Gate, but this stall was even more exaggerated, directly stating that he was the originator of the Tianji Divine Gate, claiming that he had been cultivated for thousands of years, and the stall owner was an old man with crane hair and a childish face, and his appearance was really a little otherworldly.
"How? Understood?" Bai Ze asked with a smile when he saw Zhao Feng walking back.
"The originator of your Tianji Divine Sect is over there, in comparison, your stall is low-key, the pressure of competition is so great, will anyone really come to the door?" Zhao Feng smiled bitterly and turned to the small wooden chair handed over by Bai Ze, and then sat aside.
"Hehe, that old white hair also said in the first half of the year that he was the reincarnation of a high-ranking monk, but during that time, my business was good, and he moved the name Tianji Shenmen in order to rub my popularity. Bai Ze smiled disdainfully.
"Aren't you angry, aren't you worried that he will ruin the reputation of the Heavenly Machine Divine Sect?" Zhao Feng was stunned.
"There's nothing to be angry about, everyone who comes here to set up a stall is just to make a living, just understand each other, besides, I'm the only one left in the Tianji Divine Gate, so there's really nothing that can be corrupted......"
Just as Bai Ze was chatting with Zhao Feng, a black Lincoln sedan stopped at the entrance of the antique street, and from the back seat of the car came an old man in a gray tunic, judging from his appearance, he was at least seventy years old, and although his eyes were bright, he was cloudy.
From the passenger seat and the door on the other side of the back seat, a young man who looked like a bodyguard got down, and one of them handed a leopard-headed cane to the old man.
The old man ignored the crutches, put his hands behind his back, and walked straight forward on his own, stopping every time he arrived at a divination stall, and those stall owners were definitely not ordinary people at first glance, and they all looked a little nervous, but they still maintained a good professional quality, and when they saw the distinguished guests coming to the door, they almost said all the good things about the five thousand years.
The old man shook his head after listening to each stall for a minute or two, and continued to the next stall, which soon attracted the attention of other stalls, and even some people began to summarize the reasons why the previous stalls were eliminated.
Naturally, the old man also came to Bai Ze's stall, but after only glancing at Bai Ze and Zhao Feng, he shook his head and turned around and walked to the next stall.
Bai Ze looked at the back of the old man leaving, revealing a playful smile.
"That old man, death is not far away. ”
"He looks pretty tough, not like he's sick. Zhao Feng was puzzled, he didn't even notice that he had subconsciously believed Bai Ze's prophecy to the old man.
"It should be hard to support, but I don't know how to use medicine, it may be that he died of illness, or he may die of exhaustion of his longevity, but it is by no means an accidental death, this old man is very awesome, and there are only a handful of people who can surpass him financially in China, but it is a pity that the heirs in the family are not angry, and after the old man passed away, he couldn't last long. Bai Ze shook his head, looking at the expression on his face, there was a bit of schadenfreude.
"Since he is such a wealthy person, why don't you stop him and make him your customer?" Zhao Feng was even more puzzled.
"As I said, except for divination, I am no different from ordinary people, even if I can foresee disasters, there is no way to eliminate disasters, if I stopped him just now, I told him that he would die in half a month, I am afraid that the two bodyguards around him will come up and kill us. Bai Ze waved his hand helplessly.
At this time, in the vacant seat on Bai Ze's right hand, there was another stall owner, the stall owner was a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, with a serious expression, at first glance, he was the kind of real character, but he saw that the middle-aged man spread a beige coarse cloth on the ground, and a Go chessboard was painted on the cloth.
Zhao Feng couldn't help but take a few more looks, but found that he couldn't understand the situation on the chessboard at all.
"What, do you know how to play chess?" Bai Ze noticed Zhao Feng's gaze and asked.
"No, I can only say that I am a little interested......"
With the passage of time, the antique street gradually became lively, with all kinds of asking, bargaining, and shouting voices mixed together, and the atmosphere was like an ordinary morning market.
And the old man with an extraordinary background returned the same way after walking through all the divination stalls, but stopped at the Go stall next to Zhao Feng, and showed a look of eagerness.
"Young man, how about I accompany you for the next game?"