Chapter 44: Fortune telling
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He looked up and looked, huh? There is no one in front of him, where is the shadow of Miss Nie Qi?
At this moment, Nie Siyun was sitting in front of a fortune teller who set up a stall on the street to tell fortunes for others.
The fortune teller was a man of about forty years of age, with a few locks of goatee, and a pair of eyes that were rolling and very thief. In front of his stall was a large flag with the word "Hu" embroidered on it flying in the wind.
In recent years, the fame of this master surnamed Hu has soared rapidly, and even overshadowed the master surnamed Liang at the end of the street. Because he has some fame, he is more ruthless when he puts away the money, and Rao is so, and the people who come to him to tell fortunes have not been broken.
Today, though, his business doesn't seem to be doing well.
Nie Siyun looked around, and saw the lively scene of fifteen or sixteen people lining up on weekdays to wait for the fortune telling of the master surnamed Hu, only one person from Ding Ding came to him.
The first was a slightly plump woman of about thirty years of age, wearing a light purple gold-despised butterfly gown, with a fallen horsetail combed on her head and a pair of golden hairpins. If you look closely, you can see that the clothes on her body are half-old, and the golden hairpin is also the style of previous years. She looked a little dazed, a little nervous, and looked restless.
Master Hu said with a head and a head: "The left hand looks at the congenital, the right hand looks at the day after tomorrow, this lady, please let me see your left hand." ā
The woman in her thirties quickly put her left hand in front of him.
Master Hu shook his head and said: "Your middle finger is full, bright as a mirror, this is the palmistry of the rich." But if it is not straight or bent, it means that you will lose one of your parents before the age of twenty-five. Moreover, the saffiano in your hand is connected to the end of your middle finger, which means that you have come to tell the fortune this time to calculate the money lawsuit. ā
Speaking of this, the master surnamed Hu raised his head and looked at the thirty-year-old woman: "Am I right?" ā
The woman's mouth was wide open, and her eyes looked at Master Hu fixedly, as if she was enchanted, but her face was full of doubts.
Nie Siyun thought to herself: "This woman's expression is so strange, does she think that this master surnamed Hu is right, or is she wrong?" ā
The master surnamed Hu was not in a hurry or impatient, and looked at the woman in his thirties with his characteristic pair of small eyes. Sure enough, the woman grabbed his hand and said excitedly, "Master, you are really a god, you can figure it out." ā
The master surnamed Hu rolled his eyes and said secretly in his heart: "Anyway, I also studied "Zhou Yi" for a lifetime, do you think my name was cheated?" ā
"How do you crack that?" The woman in her thirties said eagerly.
Master Hu then asked the woman in her thirties to shake the hexagram in the form of a copper plate, and after throwing it six times, she began to arrange the hexagram. The hexagram is from the bottom to the top, the first time is the first line, drawn at the bottom of the hexagram, and rises in turn, and the sixth time is the sixth line, drawn at the top. The master surnamed Hu is serious, and the thirty-year-old woman is serious, in Nie Siyun's opinion, it is tantamount to a waste of time.
If you continue to grind like this, you will die!
At this time, another person came, leaning forward, panting three times in one step, and coughing non-stop. Nie Siyun looked at this person's face, and her brows furrowed.
That person also came to tell the hexagram, and the calculation was still a whimsical hexagram, so he had to calculate when he would be able to be named on the gold list, and since then he has been on the rise and prosperous in his official fortune.
He saw that the master surnamed Hu was busy, and Nie Siyun happened to be standing aside, he thought that Nie Siyun was the little apprentice of the master surnamed Hu, and he had to pester Nie Siyun to calculate it for him.
Nie Siyun said unceremoniously: "If your Yin Hall is black, there will be bad luck, and I am afraid that your life will not be long." Don't think about it so much, go home and spend the rest of your life. This hexagram is given to you by me, and no money will be charged. ā
The man cried and left.
At this time, the master surnamed Hu also sent away the thirty-year-old woman, and was putting a piece of silver into his sleeve pocket, when he heard the last sentence Nie Siyun said, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Why don't you collect money?" ā
Nie Siyun asked him rhetorically: "You're not afraid of losing your life?" ā
Master Hu thought for a while and said: "The rules in our fortune-telling line are that there are three types of life money that cannot be collected, one is not to accept those who are about to run out of life, the second is not to accept those who are unavoidable in the face of catastrophe, and the third is not ......to accept those who have no good luck."
He suddenly came to his senses, "You mean he's going to die?" ā
Nie Siyun snorted coldly: "Do you think he can survive for three days?" ā
Master Hu looked at Nie Siyun in surprise, and finally looked up to the sky and sighed: "Xu Guzi's old man's eyes are really poisonous, where did he find such an apprentice?" It seems that even if he dies tomorrow, he will not have to worry that his mantle will not be inherited. But my life is miserable, and I haven't even received a little apprentice ......."
Nie Siyun ignored his self-pity and self-pity, took out the package he was carrying, untied the veil, and poured all the things inside on the table: "Master Hu, I invite you to eat." My master is still waiting for me on the other side of the street, and I have to go back to serve his old man. ā
Master Hu's eyes widened. What does this little apprentice of someone else's family mean by this? Isn't this a clear scorn of him?
He gritted his teeth and said, "Little doll, you tell your master to go, and I will take in an apprentice when I go back, and see if he dares to show off in front of me!" ā
Nie Siyun ignored him, turned around and walked away, and even forgot to take the handkerchief.
Behind, Master Hu's call came: "Old man Xu's little apprentice, why don't you bring me the drunken duck from the Zuixiang Building, the tofu chicken nuggets from the Sijiao Building, and the stuffy prawns...... What did you bring me, jujubes, peaches, you know that my least favorite thing to eat is jujube peaches......"
Jujube peaches?
Early escape?
Master Hu was silent, and his face changed. He looked around, quickly packed up the tables and chairs, removed the flag, carried the belongings he had eaten, sneaked into the deep alley, and disappeared in an instant.
Before leaving, he didn't forget to sigh heavily: "I met someone unladylike, I made friends carelessly, I did someone a favor, and my nest was going to be served to others." ā
Tell me how aggrieved I am.
But the smile on his face couldn't be held back, it was about to overflow.
Because, in his hand, he was holding a silver ticket from Huitong Bank.
Just now, the silver ticket lay quietly under the veil.
Weining Hou Mansion.
Mother He didn't stop and hurriedly transferred to Lanting Courtyard. The second lady, who was leaning on the pillow and closing her eyes, heard the footsteps and immediately opened her eyes.
"How's it going, do you hear anything?" The second lady asked eagerly, "Is Nie Xiaoqi's words credible?" ā
Mother He nodded solemnly.
"Smack!"
With a loud bang, the teapots and teacups on the plum blossom table were all damaged, and they were all swept to the ground, and the tea splashed all over the ground.
"The big house actually hurt my Yao'er so much, I want them to look good!" The second lady gritted her teeth.