Chapter 1 The Old Man of Fortune Telling
The summer city gives people an almost perverted feeling of suffocation. The quiet, occasional speeding cars on the streets also fled the city as quickly as they burned their butts.
At this moment, a thin figure flashed on the street. A pure white short-sleeved shirt, black trousers, and a tie hung diagonally around the neck.
"Why is the boss so dragged now? Or is the diploma a piece of broken paper? You can get me a piece of broken paper and take a look! Anyway, I'm also out of 985, why do I look like 255? Alas, it is really a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs, and there is no place for me to stand in the world! ”
Lin Xiao wiped the sweat from his face and said hatefully. Scolding and scolding, but Lin Xiao understands his situation very well, majoring in history, and everywhere he goes, he is a difficult household to find employment. But the failure of the interview again and again still made his frustration more and more intense, it has been almost a year since graduation, but the work is still like a flower in the mirror, the moon in the water, obviously close at hand, but the end of the world. used to laugh at Lanxiang Technical School, but the reality was a slap in the face.
"The child who left home, wandering outside, without those good clothes and no good cigarettes......" Lin Xiao took out his mobile phone, looked at the caller ID, and his little heart was entangled again.
"Hey, Dad!" How to listen to this sound is like a mouse seeing a cat.
"Mm-hmm, the interview is okay. Dad, it's okay, I feel that the boss still likes me very much, and I guess the work is a matter of these days. Lin Xiao's mouth was full of bitterness.
"I know, you and your mother pay attention to your physical ......" In the end, Lin Xiao didn't know how to hang up the phone.
Lin Xiao, like the protagonist in most stories, is a child who came out of the countryside, he is serious and cheerful, responsible, and his parents belong to the kind of peasants who have guarded the one-third of the land all their lives and relied on the sky for food.
Lin Xiao has been all the hope of his parents for the outside world since he was a child, of course, Lin Xiao has lived up to expectations, and has passed all the way from elementary school to high school under the baton of exam-oriented education, and finally entered a higher education institution as he wished.
For a period of time, Lin Xiao was the talk of all the people in the village after dinner, regardless of men, women and children, when it came to Lin Xiao, they couldn't wait to use the big toe as a thumb. In the past, a few peers in the village who did not learn and did not know how to give Lin Xiao's glorious image were miserable, but since he learned about Lin Xiao's current situation, it can be regarded as "I, Hu Hansan, are back again".
Sometimes how high you are praised by others, the fall will hurt more than ordinary people.
"It's useless to have good academic performance, isn't it the same as my brothers?"
"Brother, what you said is wrong, how can Lin Xiao's kid compare with us. Does he have this day of our leisure? He may not be where to gnaw on books to fill his stomach, how can he have the taste of the plate of fried snails in front of him? ”
"Fortunately, my brothers are insightful, and they got out of the sea of suffering early, and 'reading to change fate' is more fake than the chest of the little daughter-in-law of the Li family."
"Your words have reached the hearts of my brothers, it's a pity for Lin Xiao, and it's a pity for the little daughter-in-law of the Li family, she looks pretty good, but that chest is really a horse and a flat river, and it doesn't have a little arc."
"Hahahaha......"
The ideal is very full, but the reality is cruel. Haizi said, I have wasted my years, and I am tired. It is probably Lin Xiao's state of mind at this time.
"Look at the palmistry, predict the good fortune and the evil, and measure the ...... for those who are destined" A burst of shouting pulled Lin Xiao back from his sluggishness. Following the prestige, in a shady place on the corner of the street, an obscene-looking old man with sunglasses and a Taoist robe sat leaning against the wall.
The distraught Lin Xiao actually walked over with a ghost.
"Fortune telling?" The old man felt that there was someone in front of him, and suddenly came to his senses.
"Do you want money?" Lin Xiaoshi came to the sentence in shock. It's no wonder that Lin Xiao doesn't have any spare money in his pocket.
The old man was a little stunned by Lin Xiao's words, I am a nymphomaniac with such a sun, and I tell fortunes for free? The old man had the urge to scold his mother. He tried his best to calm down, and warned himself in his heart not to destroy the appearance of his immortal wind bones.
"The little brother laughed, fortune telling pays attention to fate, money is something outside the body, and it is just a dispensable thing." The old man played Tai Chi.
"Oh, you don't need money, then let me do the math." Lin Xiao is also a master who can pretend to be stupid.
When the old man heard this, the flesh on his face twitched. Is there such a shameless person, let out a fart, others praise him, he really thinks that he is a lotus fart. The fire in the old man's heart burned uncontrollably, and he was about to scold him.
Suddenly, his eyes froze, and the words that had just reached his throat were swallowed instantly. The old man slowly took off his sunglasses and looked at Lin Xiao in a daze.
"You're not blind?" Lin Xiao was stunned.
The old man didn't have the heart to be angry with Lin Xiao anymore, and his tone was unexpectedly serious: "Little brother, can you listen to me?" Regardless of Lin Xiao's answer, the old man continued, "As the saying goes, 'the moon is cloudy and sunny, and people have good fortune and misfortune'. Little brother, don't run around outside these days, I have a charm for you, don't want money, you take it with you, I hope you can remember my words. The old man sighed, took out the talisman and handed it to Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao was stunned, and a trace of emotion rose inexplicably in his heart. It wasn't because of the old man's heartfelt words, but the concern in the old man's words made Lin Xiao feel a little close. For no reason, Lin Xiao was ashamed of his unreasonable attitude just now. He didn't answer it, but went straight to the small shop on the street to buy a bottle of water, and gently placed it in front of the old man.
"Thanks, look at my downfall, what else has to lose." Lin Xiao smiled wryly and waved his hand, "Let's go, it's hot, you can go back and rest early." ”
Looking at the water on the ground, a trace of struggle flashed in the old man's eyes under the sunglasses. Is this fate, or fate? Alas, I'm still as soft-hearted as ever! There was a wry smile on the old man's face.
When he woke up, the whole person was in the dark, Lin Xiao rubbed his groggy head, and his stomach announced his protest in time. What time is it? Twelve. The glaring phone screen shows the time. Let's go out and find something to eat!
The street at midnight was unusually cold, and Lin Xiao's body kept surging goosebumps. What the hell the weather, barbecue during the day, quick-freezing at night!
After looking around, Lin Xiao didn't find a snack bar that was open. The dim neon projected a lonely and hungry figure.
I don't know how long I walked, I don't know how far I walked, and the neon was gradually moving away behind me. Hey, there's a home to eat in front of you. Lin Xiao, like a traveler who was dying in the desert and suddenly found an oasis, suddenly rushed into the store.
At this moment, a figure flashed behind him, one hand stiffly stuck in the air. It was an old man who told Lin Xiao's fortune during the day. So fast? Eaten? Damn, I didn't catch it, a pure!
So many people? Business is booming! Lin Xiao swept away the decadence in his heart, what could be more important than eating? Throughout the ages, the two most important things for animals to live are eating and mating, and it has been the same truth.
"Beauty, let's have a bowl of shredded pork noodles!" Lin Xiao found an empty seat and shouted at a waiter. A gentle smile appeared on the corner of the waitress's mouth, and she quickly served a bowl of steaming shredded pork noodles. This speed, this looks, beautiful and delicious.
Lin Xiao's evil gaze unconsciously crossed the waitress's chest, and Harazi "Zizi" bubbled out. Beast, Lin Xiao scolded himself silently.
"Little brother, can we sit together?"
"Is that you? Lewd fortune teller? Lin Xiao looked surprised.
"Who's lewd? You're lewd, your whole family is lewd! The old man once again learned Lin Xiao's stinky mouth.
"Old man, I'll invite you to eat noodles, waiter, another bowl!" Lin Xiao looked like an adult who didn't care about a lot.
"I don't dare to eat this, damn it!" As soon as the old man's words came out, the face of the waitress in the distance immediately became strange.
"If you don't eat me, you come to the noodle shop in the middle of the night and don't eat noodles, do you pick up girls? Looks like you shouldn't be able to do that, right? ”
When the old man heard this, he almost fainted, and for the first time, the old man felt that it was a mistake for him to come today, didn't he find fault for himself? I'm sure there's a wrong tendon in my head, and treating this kid as a good stubble is really kind and killing cats. The old man's face was full of remorse.
Lin Xiaoke didn't care about the old man, picked up the noodles, took a bite, "poof", a rough hand and Lin Xiao's mouth came into close contact. "Bah, bah, bah, what are you doing, old man, why do you have so many special hobbies?" Lin Xiao was furious.
The old man's old face turned red, and he immediately became serious: "That's it, that's it, I don't have the same knowledge as you." See for yourself. ”
After speaking, the old man's fingers quickly tapped Lin Xiao's eyebrows.
Lin Xiao's eyes instinctively closed, and when he opened his eyes again, the previously warm noodle restaurant became a ruined wall, and those charming waiters were all wearing hair at this time, with a white robe and black hole eyes staring straight at Lin Xiao. And in his noodle bowl, there is a fishy black snake spitting letters.
Lin Xiao asked the old man with a trembling voice: "This is the legendary ghost?" ”
The old man nodded and asked, "Can you bear it?" ”
"What do you think?" Lin Xiao rolled his eyes and fainted.
The old man patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder, stood up, and looked at the waiters: "People and ghosts have different paths, and there is a separation between yin and yang." You have already done things in this life, and you should find a good reincarnation in your next life. How can you harm people's lives here for no reason? Let's go, all of you, and go back to where you are going. ”
The old man's words did not make the ghosts flinch, only a loud roar, and the ghostly figure flashed in front of the old man in an instant, and the miserable white nails seeped with a cold glow in the moonlight.
The old man shook his head gently, and the momentum on his body suddenly became fierce: "Since you are obsessed, don't blame me for doing the right thing for heaven." ”
"Heaven is the way of the world, and there is a difference between yin and yang. The law of the world is self-determined between good and evil. Sky Fire Reincarnation Mirror, Now! Appear! Appear! The old man pointed to the sky and drew a circle, the originally ghostly sky was full of light, and the ghosts who were shrouded in the light suddenly burned, and the firelight and screams filled the surroundings, and the radius of several miles became a purgatory on earth.
Looking at the scene in front of him, the old man also sighed, and turned around to help Lin Xiao, who was fainting on the ground. Suddenly, the old man frowned, and his robe was puffed up without wind.