The weather is still very bad tonight, my mood is also not good, the rain and fog and other people's cold faces can always affect my mood, the store is playing "It's not as easy as promise", I leaned on the counter, watching the coffee brew, lost my mind.

The rain lasted for a week, intermittently, with little sunlight, and in the early hours of the rainy morning, the woman always came to order a glass of American.

Every night around the same time, if the weather is still this bad, I start making coffee, and after that she always comes as promised, and we talk very little.

But tonight, she took the initiative to ask me if I wanted to do astrology.

She took out her tablet, and when she woke up the screen, I saw the screen with the glacier in the background, and then she tapped on it, and the fluorescent blue circle appeared on the tablet, like a clock, but there were other symbols that I couldn't read where there should have been hour numbers, and she said, this is the astrolabe.

The astrolabe floated in the night of the broken stars, and she asked me my name and age, and then gave me nine marbles of various sizes and colors, like planets.

She gestured to me with her gaze, and I seemed to understand what she meant immediately, and I tossed it lightly, letting go of the cold, rounded marbles, which landed on the tablet's astrolabe, bounced a few times, and then smoothly entered their respective orbits

Like, just like the solar system, the yellow marble slipped to the center of the astrolabe, slightly rotating, and other small marbles of different colors, silver, blue, red, purple, orange, white, green, etc., revolved around the yellow marble, and at the same time rotated

The ordinary marbles that I threw down on the virtual astrolabe were shining like crystals at the moment, moving like real planets, and I kept watching, fascinated, as if its operation could bring answers to my life and make my stagnant life run again.

"Looks like it's going to take a little time."

"Huh?"

"You, it seems that the situation is more complicated."

I was stunned for a moment when I heard this, but I was relieved, maybe the result was postponed.

"That's what it feels like to wait for divination!" I sighed, my stiff back loosened.

"How?" She took a sip of coffee and asked

"Well, probably," I looked out the window at the streetlamp in the rain, thinking about the wording, "it seems like I've gone back a long time ago, or a long time later, hating the unreal feeling, but what are you expecting?" ”

"So, what are you expecting?" Her eyes were unclear in the steam of coffee

"Maybe it's some guidance! Probably human divination is such a thirst, longing to get some signs from heaven, at the beginning I want to ask God what the weather is, will it rain? Is it suitable for seed sowing? The earliest soothsayers were supposed to be weather forecasters, looking at the change of seasons, natural phenomena, clouds, and stars, and slowly, they could guess accurately. ”

"So divination is still the origin of the earliest meteorology?" She quipped

"Well, I think so, because the weather has rules to follow, plus the process of recording and observing year after year, constantly revising the phenomenon and deriving conclusions, this work is very important, if you don't get a correct weather forecast, whether it is the grain harvest, or the conquest of the Quartet, it will bring a lot of trouble, so ah, it must be that the ruler of every ruling period will need such a skywatcher, perhaps, the earliest ruler is the skywatcher itself." I seem to be getting verbose, but I just like to enjoy discussing it. "You think, officially because this person knows how to watch the sky and get the correct weather forecast, he can let the clansmen sow seeds at the right time, fish and hunt at the right time, and slowly harvest the grain, and this skywatcher has also become a person who can communicate with the will of heaven in everyone's hearts, it is God who tells the skywatcher everything, and the skywatcher begins to take control of other controls with this trust, and finally, controls everything."

"So, knowledge changes fate?"

"Ha, hahahaha, indeed, but it should be, after important knowledge is monopolized, you can even control the fate of others."

"If the soothsayer is the messenger of God's will, and man can rely on God to show the way, then who can God ask for guidance?" She asked a question I hadn't thought about.

For a moment, I didn't know how to answer, as if she was the god who had troubles that I couldn't solve, which was obviously a very strange thought.

There was a song called "Time Tunnel" playing in the store, the melody and lyrics were just right, we were quiet in the time tunnel, we didn't speak to each other, the astrolabe was still running, the rain outside was getting more and more violent, and the yellow weather warning was still hanging high tonight.

Heavy rain and fog have swept through the city, and the temperature is now only about 15 degrees, and the weather forecast says it will drop by 3 a.m

The rain is like a needle of ice.

Suddenly, it seemed that the siren of an ambulance in the distant center of the city was heard, which was rapid and faint.

The ambulance with the alarm sounded was running wildly on the empty road, the flashes of yellow street lights and traffic lights penetrated with the rain, a man in a light purple long-sleeved shirt in the car was watching the every move of the paramedics, one first aid was paying close attention to the breathing of the little girl on the stretcher, and another first aid was arranging the end of the machine that measured the heartbeat, and the complex wires connected the little girl's heart and the machine, as if pulling away her life.

The little girl, who was only about ten years old, was pale, and the oxygen mask covered almost her entire little face.

The rain pounded sharply against the ambulance, as violently as the man's heartbeat, his hands clenched into fists, he didn't know whether it was sweat or rain, and his shirt was soaked.