Street competition
"Fortune teller, fortune teller!"
"Name it! A good name for a lifetime! Come and see!"
"Count marriage, career, fortune! Count your life! All only 50 yuan!"
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In the western part of Zhejiang, in an old city called Ancheng, under the shade of the trees at the mouth of the alley, a row of people are squatting in front of their stalls, facing passers-by, shouting their housekeeping skills.
At this time, a man named Qin Kai, carrying a bag and a large box of luggage, was looking down and frowning, looking at the navigation on his mobile phone at a loss - he was lost.
Qin Kai, who heard that Ancheng Mountain has good water and good scenery, really didn't expect that Ancheng was not a good road.
Seeing so many fortune tellers around him, he thought to himself that they must all be locals, so he walked over to a stall owner with a sign that said "Count Life" to ask what was going on on this road.
When the stall owner saw Qin Kai coming over, he immediately came to his senses, and quickly took out a copy of the Book of Changes from under the stall and pretended to read it, his eyes glanced at Qin Kai from time to time, waiting for him to come to the front.
"Boss, may I ask ......" Qin Kai bowed slightly and asked politely.
"Count your life, count the past, or count the future?" the stall owner interrupted Qin Kai and asked.
"Boss, I'm not here to tell fortunes, I just want to ask how to go on the construction road? I walked here according to the map, but I didn't expect it to be a dead end. ”
When the boss saw that Qin Kai was not here to tell fortunes, his face turned dark, and he immediately put down the book and shouted: "Don't come to ask me if you don't tell fortunes! ”
"Sorry for the interruption. Qin Kai said helplessly, and turned around to leave.
Seeing that Qin Kai was really about to leave, the stall owner turned his eyes slyly, then grabbed his hand and said, "The rule of our industry is that you have to pay if you come to ask, otherwise don't want to leave!"
Seeing this, Qin Kai thought that he was unfamiliar with life here, so he compromised and said, "Okay, how much money, I'll give it to you." ”
"Fifty. The stall owner pointed to the price posted on the stall and said.
"Okay. Qin Kai took out 50 yuan, handed it to the stall owner, and motioned for the stall owner to let go.
The stall owner saw that Qin Kai seemed to be honest, and asked him to take the money if he took it, so he said even more aggressively: "It's 50 words." ”
"Boss, how can you be like this? You are a fraud!" After hearing the boss's words, Qin Kai shook off the stall owner's hand and said angrily.
"Oh! someone is telling a fortune and doesn't want to pay! Seeing this, the boss shouted loudly, his movements skillful and natural.
Suddenly, the "peers" around them all stopped shouting and surrounded them. Among them, there was also a big man with a very burly figure, he stared at Qin Kai viciously, and blocked the direction he originally wanted to leave with his body.
"What are you trying to do?" Qin Kai said in a panic when he saw a group of people coming from the black pressure around him.
"If you tell your fate, you have to pay before you leave. At this time, the stall owner completely played a scoundrel and said shamelessly.
"First of all, I didn't come to you to tell my fortune, I just asked for directions. Qin Kai paused, and saw that some passers-by were also watching, and there were quite a few of them, so he deliberately said loudly, "Secondly, you people are just liars, and you don't know fortune telling at all!"
"Ridiculous, I've been in this business for more than 20 years, how can you be a yellow-haired boy who says that a liar is a liar. Seeing the passers-by talking about it, the stall owner said calmly.
"Okay, let's compare. If I lose, pay as much as I want, and if you lose, don't embarrass me again!" Qin Kai said after thinking about it.
As soon as the stall owner heard that Qin Kai was going to compare fortune telling with him, he immediately became energetic, thinking that it was not a trivial matter for him to count passers-by based on his own observation of words and expressions over the years.
"Well, you go to the street and find a random person, and we'll do the math together to see who can do the math accurately. ”
"Good!" the boss agreed without hesitation.
As soon as the words fell, the stall owner ran out of the crowd, and after observing for a long time, under the banner of completely free fortune telling, he recruited a middle-aged woman with a sad face.
"Just her. The stall owner pointed to the middle-aged woman.
"You are an elder, you count first. Qin Kai made a gesture of "please" and said to the boss.
When the stall owner heard this, he could calculate it himself, and his heart blossomed. He thought to himself that he was deceived by that kid later, and he said it first, and at that time, he could make a big fuss again.
After a few minutes of conversation, the stall owner extracted a lot of useful information from the middle-aged woman's words, and then summed up his own experience, and said to everyone: "She is a local, she has been in trouble recently, most likely emotionally, and is about to divorce, and she is about to get divorced, and she is ...... The son may not be very obedient either. Well...... That's pretty much it. ”
After speaking, the stall owner glanced at Qin Kai proudly, and then said to the middle-aged woman: "But don't worry, I have my own solution." ”
The middle-aged woman looked bitter and did not reply to the stall owner.
Seeing this, Qin Kai's face was full of disdain, so he asked the middle-aged woman kindly: "Auntie, please tell me your birthday, it is best to be accurate to the minute, minute and second, I can calculate it more accurately." ”
"November 13, 1968, 7:28 p.m. The middle-aged woman truthfully reported her birthday.
"Good. Qin Kai only thought for a second, then said to everyone in front of him, "This lady's name is Wang Meilian, a native of Baoding, Hebei Province, who came to Ancheng at the age of 17, got married at the age of 22, and had a son and a daughter after marriage, a son is 24 years old and a daughter is 26 years old. She divorced in August this year and is now on the streets to hide from her ex-husband, who has been pestering her since the divorce. I plan to leave Ancheng with my children tomorrow and return to my hometown of Baoding, Hebei. ”
Qin Kai saw that the people around him were staring at him in surprise, as if he was enjoying such a gaze, he turned around calmly, faced the middle-aged woman, and said to her: "I suggest that you go back to your hometown, in less than three years, you will have a better life there." ”
The middle-aged woman's eyes widened when she heard Qin Kai say this. He originally wanted to come to fortune telling, but he didn't expect that there would be a free one, so he agreed, but he didn't expect it to be a competition. And the big boy in front of him calculated everything about her past so accurately.
"You're still right. All right!" The middle-aged woman said admiringly, especially when she heard that Qin Kai supported her to go home, her heart was full of hope for life, and the sadness on her face disappeared in an instant.
As soon as the passers-by heard this, they began to ridicule the stall owner and his party, and said that they bullied the small with the big and did not measure their own strength, and said that they would never be deceived again in the future.
Seeing this, the stall owner and his party dispersed in a huff amid the sighs of passers-by.
After they all left, passers-by began to coax, praising Qin Kai as a god operator, and they all wanted Qin Kai to calculate for himself. And Qin Kai also excused himself one by one, using the excuse that he couldn't count many times a day, otherwise there would be a big deviation. After saying that, he left in a hurry.
A girl at the back of the crowd looked at Qin Kai's departing back, so she jumped up and followed happily.
"Come out. Coming to the riverside of Ancheng, Qin Kai stopped, did not turn around, and said.
"You found me?" said the girl, surprised, and then muttered to herself, "No wonder I'm too dazzling." ”
"What are you following me for, do you want me to do the math for you?" Qin Kai asked with a smile as soon as he turned around and saw that the other party was a beautiful girl with short hair.
"No, no, I just kind of admire you. The girl walked up to him, clapped her hands, and said.
"Admire me?" Qin Kai asked inexplicably.
"You're an enlightened person, aren't you?"
"Enlightened?"
The girl's eyes widened, and she asked, "Don't you know what an enlightened person is?" No wonder you are so bold as to dare to tell someone's fortune in broad daylight. If someone is exposed, it's over. ”
"Since I was a child, I have been able to extrapolate the situation of other people's lives through their birthdays. ”
"Can you calculate your fate?"
"I can't figure it out on my own. Qin Kai shook his head and said.
"Then you are undoubtedly an enlightened one. ”
"Can you tell me specifically what an enlightened person is?" Qin Kai asked curiously.
"Yes, you'll have to ask me something first, I'm thirsty. The girl said playfully.
"No problem. ”
On the banks of the Anseong River, a man and a woman, the girl is happily jumping and walking with a hot drink, and the boy is close behind.
"Can you tell me now?" Finally, Qin Kai couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked urgently.
"My name is Xia Xiaoai, and like you, I am an enlightened person. The girl introduced herself.
"I'm not asking who you are, I'm asking what an enlightened person is. ”
"Oh hehe. The girl's slender little hand, covering her mouth, smiled exaggeratedly, and said, "I almost forgot to tell you, look at my memory, it's really a beautiful girl who has no brains, understand." Oh hehe!"
Qin Kai gave Xia Xiaoai a blank look with a speechless expression.
"Grab my hand now, and I'll show you it. ”
Qin Kai saw Xia Xiaoai's hand stretched out, hesitated for a moment, and then held her.
"Alright, here we go, I'll count three, and you and I will turn back. ”
"Hmm. Qin Kaiying nodded kindly.
"One, two, three!
After listening to Xia Xiaoai's count to "three", Qin Kai shook his head back suddenly, and found that his eyes were chaotic at first, and then small squares like mosaics began to appear, and piled up into the shapes of various buildings, roads, and pedestrians.
"This ...... What is this?" Qin Kai asked as he looked at everything that was happening in front of him in amazement.
"This is one of the things that I am capable of as an enlightened being, and I discovered you through that. Xia Xiaoai raised her head, raised her face, and said proudly.
"Why, why did you find me through this?"
"You're not one of those little cubes, so I spotted you at a glance. Later, when I saw you and those people in the process of competing, I knew that you must also be enlightened. ”