Ma Yue approached, stretched out his left hand, and spread his palm in front of the fortune teller, the fortune teller did not reach out to touch it like other professional fortune tellers, but leaned over and pulled the sunglasses to the bridge of his nose with one hand, revealing a pair of eyes, looking at Ma Yue's palm carefully in the dim light under the bridge. Ma Yue stared at the fortune teller's cloudy eyes.

I thought that this fortune teller would look good for a long time, but who knew that after watching it for five or six seconds, the fortune teller uncle was like reading a mahjong card, retracted his eyes, nodded to himself, put his middle finger on the frame of his sunglasses, and hid the eyes that gave Ma Yue a strange feeling in just five seconds. Then he glanced at Ma Yue's right hand, Ma Yue had not let people see palmistry before, I didn't know whether to just look at one hand, or both palms, so he simply stretched out his right hand again, and the fortune teller waved his hand, which means that there is no need to do it. Whispering to himself what he was saying, because the voice was too small to hear clearly, and was about to ask out loud, the fortune teller smiled and asked, "Young man, is life going well?"

This will, this fortune teller uncle has lost the mystery and unfathomability of the moment just now, it may be because the mysterious eyes hidden behind the sunglasses have been exposed, Ma Yue instead feels that he is an ordinary, honest uncle who speaks honestly. Took out a cigarette case from his trouser pocket, took out two cigarettes, and handed one to the fortune teller, the uncle reached out to take it, Ma Yue suddenly felt a pain in his index finger, and when he looked down, a small cut was made on his finger, probably scraped by the fortune teller's nails. Squeezed twice, didn't care, stretched out his hand to block the wind across the bridge, covered the lighter and lit the cigarette, Ma Yue squatted down on the side of the fortune teller, took two puffs of cigarette and said: "That's it, it's going to be over, there is an old saying that life is unsatisfactory, if everyone is happy, then this world is the Western Elysium." The fortune teller also lit a cigarette, as if an elder in the family was teaching the younger generation, and said, "Why are you so depressed at a young age?"

"If I get married now at my age, I will already be married later. ”

"Haha, you want to please your daughter-in-law. ”

"I can't even afford a house, so what can I ask for?"

"In today's society, these rules and regulations are set by people, not only to see through, but also to be able to jump out. A dignified seven-foot man, this world is at your disposal. Isn't there a Jiang Ziya who is over 90 years old and still wants to fight the world? At your age, it's too late to do anything? An inch of time is an inch of gold, and an inch of gold is difficult to buy an inch of time. ”

Ma Yue nodded and stopped talking. After being silent for a while, he suddenly raised his head again, and said to the fortune teller with a smile: "An inch of time is an inch of gold, and it is difficult to buy an inch of time." I don't know how many people in this world want to exchange their time for an inch of gold, but they can't exchange it. The fortune teller laughed twice and said, "What about you? If you can exchange an inch of time for an inch of gold, are you willing to exchange it?" "Of course you do" "No regrets?" "No regrets." “

The fortune teller smiled again, with bitterness in his smile, like a wanderer who had experienced the bitterness of the world. The uncle stopped talking, bowed his head and smoked. Ma Yue took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, and then said to the fortune teller: "Uncle, it's not too early, I still have to go buy something, so I'll go first." As if he hadn't heard it, the fortune teller still lowered his head and smoked, probably thinking about something. Ma Yue stood up, left the fortune-telling booth, walked a few steps, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and put it out with his foot. He looked back at the fortune teller, and the uncle looked at him too, like an elder at the station seeing off a wanderer who was about to go away. Ma Yue turned his head and continued to walk, crossing the overpass, his figure blending into the endless stream of people.

The sky was dark, and at the door of the rental house, Ma Yue was holding a cake in one hand and a gift bag in the other, hooking the key from his trouser pocket with his little thumb, which had just been inserted into the keyhole, and before he could turn it, the door opened. A girl in an apron stood inside the door and said with a grin, "You're so punctual." Seeing the gift bag that Ma Yue was carrying, he said happily: "Wow, there are still gifts." With that, he quickly ran into the kitchen. Ma Yue put the cake and gift bag on the table, and heard a girl's voice from the kitchen: "When are you going to buy the cake?" "Oh, there is nothing to do with the company today, so I left a little early." "How's it going, are you tired from work?" "Same as usual, nothing tired. Ma Yue vaguely agreed.

Bring your girlfriend's prepared meal to the table, take out two tall glasses from the closet, wash them, and pour the grape juice into the glass, which looks like red wine. Then open the cake box and plug the candles one by one. While putting a candle in it, he asked, "Xiaodi, how old are you this year?" "Are you asking knowingly?" Lele, the girl who was busy cooking in the kitchen, responded, and after a while, said sullenly: "It's a year older again!" Ma Yue wanted to make her happy, and said, "It's not a year older, it's a year older." Little Didi can cook. But the girl said nothing more. After a while, when Ma Yue carefully inserted the 25th candle on the cake, the girl in the kitchen came out with the last dish, put the dish on the table, took off her apron, trotted to the table and sat down, and said happily: "It's time to celebrate your birthday!"

Ma Yue took out a small box from the gift bag, handed it to the girl and said, "Happy birthday." The girl happily took it and began to disassemble it. Ma Yue took out a lighter and lit the candles on the cake one by one. "Wow, that's beautiful, you're pretty good-eyed. Since the beginning of the relationship, she can only send these gadgets every time she celebrates her birthday, and she has not even given a genuine love token. Thinking so in his heart, he smiled and said, "No, even the salesman who sells bracelets says that I have good eyesight." "Huh~" The girl deliberately made a contemptuous tone, and Ma Yue straightened up and pretended to be angry. With a poof, the girl couldn't help laughing again, leaned over, and kissed him lightly on the cheek. His heart was no longer excited, but it still felt good.

The candles on the cake had all been lit, and Ma Yue reached out to turn off the lights. Suddenly, the atmosphere was created, looking at the candle seedlings dancing in the dark, the two people around the table seemed to have returned to their student days, Ma Yue said softly: "Xiaodi, make a wish." “

The girl closed her eyes, smiled and crossed her fingers on her chest, looking very religious. "Knock! knock!" There was an inopportune knock on the door, the girl opened her eyes, Ma Yue frowned and turned on the light, got up to open the door. There was a person standing outside the door, and when the door opened, he called: "Ma Yue's package, sign for it!" Ma Yue took the package, looked at the recipient and address, it was indeed sent to him, but he didn't shop online, and looked at the sender's information, which was blank. The one who delivered the package was impatient, and urged loudly: "You sign for it first and then look at it slowly." Ma Yue signed his name and closed the door with the package. The girl asked curiously, "What is it?" "I don't know who sent the package, did you buy something online?" The girl shook her head, looking at the candlelight dancing on the table, Ma Yue hurriedly put the package still on the table, turned off the light again, sat back at the table, and said to the girl: "Make a wish, the candle can't hold on." The girl pouted and said, "I heard that if you are interrupted when making a wish, it will not work if you make another wish." Having said this, the girl closed her eyes and made a wish, and after a moment they opened them, and the two of them counted one, two, three, and blew out all the candles together.

The room suddenly fell into darkness, like loneliness after the excitement, sadness after joy. The light turned on again, and Ma Yue asked, "What wish did you make just now?", and the girl replied, "Fool, it won't work if you say it." I don't know how many times this question has been repeated over the years. Afterwards, the two talked and laughed and ate the food on the table. Ma Yue saw the package on the table again, picked it up and opened it, inside was a carton the size of a pencil case, after the carton was opened, the red silk was wrapped in something, heavy.

Ma Yue and Xiaodi glanced at each other, their eyes were curious, and they opened the red silk, and the golden things with the thickness of three mops and the length of the index finger were displayed in Ma Yue's palm. Ma Yue chuckled in her heart, the girl didn't understand yet, and asked, "What is this?" What the girl said later, Ma Yue didn't listen to a word, and it took a long time to come to her senses and tell the girl what happened under the overpass this afternoon. The more the girl listened, the more excited she became, and after listening, she asked, "That's it?" Ma Yue nodded. The girl said: "Wow, it may be that the world's masters see that you have wonderful muscles and bones, and you are a genius like no other" The girl took a "gold bar" and looked at it carefully under the lamp, and said while watching: "Tsk, tsk, do you say this is true or fake? It can't really be a gold bar? If it's true, how much money should it have? Not to mention paying a down payment, you can buy a house directly." “

Ma Yue thought back to the scene that happened in the afternoon, he was not happy at all, a kind of uneasy emotion bothered him, he originally planned to go to a movie after a good meal, he always thought about it, and simply took a "gold bar" to a gold shop in the city center, found the master who repaired the jewelry inside, took out the "gold bar" from his pocket and handed it over, and said: "Master, please help me take a look" The word "true or false" behind it was not said, such a big thing, if it was broken copper and iron, it would be a shame. Who knew that after the middle-aged master took it, he said casually: "The things of the old people in the family, I haven't seen them in the past few years." Ma Yue was stunned when he heard this, and didn't say anything. Then the master took the "gold bar" and burned it under the soldering fire for a while, and threw it into the bucket with a clip, and after a while, he took it out and wiped it, looked at it under the lamp for a while, and said to him, "The purity is very high, and it should be more than 90 percent." “

Ma Yue didn't know how he got out of the gold store, and he didn't have the heart to go to the movies, so he took the bus back to the rental house. Xiaodi was very excited and excited, and said a lot to him, but he was always distracted, and most of them didn't listen to him. In the rental room that night, he and Xiaodi couldn't sleep for a long time.