Volume 2 Southern Yunnan Secret Gu 29 After years of old photos, Huaizuo Park encountered a scam
Mu Chen immediately sat up vigilantly, he had no relatives and friends, and he had no friends, who would knock on the door at this time.
When the door opened, it was a strange man. Seeing Mu Chen, he asked politely, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Mu Chenmu?" โ
Mu Chen glanced up and down, this person was dressed and behaved very formally, with a professional smile on his face, and eighty percent of them were helping people run errands. "What's the matter with me?"
"A gentleman asked me to give you this letter!"
Mu Chen took the letter, which only had his name and address on it, and it was in print, and there was no other information.
"Who told you to send it?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know."
Mu Chen returned to the house and carefully opened the envelope, there was only one photo inside!
This photograph was taken at least 20 years ago, but it is very well preserved and seems to be valued by the owner.
There are a total of nine men, one woman and ten people in the photo, with a wide age distribution, young people, middle-aged people, and old people. They are very different from each other, they are by no means members of the same family, and they are all dressed in fine clothes, and they are all together to participate in some grand event.
There is not a word on the back of the photo, but since it was sent to myself at this time, there must be a special intention.
Mu Chen stared at the photo and looked at it carefully for a while, and finally fixed his gaze on a young man.
This man looks to be in his twenties, and his eyebrows are quite similar to Mu Chen. Counting the time, Mu Chen's breathing immediately became short, could this be his father when he was young? It turns out that before he had plastic surgery, he looked like this!
Looking at the smiling man, Mu Chen's nose was sour, and a big tear fell.
The father in the photo looks young and frivolous and unruly. There is a huge difference from the image of Mu Chen's memory who is timid and afraid of things, and is at peace with what happens.
So, what did my father go through back then? If it weren't for the huge change, how could even the personality have changed dramatically? He told himself that his name was Mu Ran, and was he also the name that he changed after the accident?
Mu Chen noticed that there was a round object hanging on his father's left wrist. But this thing is so small and a little reflective that it is impossible to see clearly.
Look at others again, some are hanging around their necks, some are falling under fans, and basically everyone can find something similar!
Fortune teller, round object, could it be that my father used to be a hexagram person? If this is the case, then many things can be explained.
Like a drowning man seeing a ship, Mu Chen suddenly found hope. He wanted to find the person in the photo and ask about the year.
However, since these people got started decades ago, most of them have now become high-level hexagrams, and if they want to get in touch, they have to climb up!
Because he didn't want to attract attention, Mu Chen put water in the introductory test, and the rating was Ding Ding and so on.
etc. refers to qualifications, once determined, and cannot be changed. However, the level can be applied for upgrade with the improvement of ability, and if you pass the assessment, you can be promoted to the next level!
In order to ensure the quality of talents, the hexagram gate has strict control over the number of upgrades.
If you want to upgrade, you must apply at least a week in advance, and when the number of applicants reaches five, the hexagram will assign the promotion task. Regardless of the strength of the five people, only one person can be promoted at most, which is determined by the accompanying examiner. At the same time, the examiner will evaluate the strength of the unpromoted person and determine the time when he can apply next time, which generally ranges from one year to five years!
Due to the long cooldown time after failing to pass, everyone will apply when they are riveted and their strength is relatively strong, so every upgrade mission is a big battle.
Of course, there is never absolute fairness in the world, and there has always been no shortage of people who have enough strength, but lack of luck, and every time they meet someone stronger. Therefore, there is also a rule in the hexagram gate, if you fail to pass the assessment for three consecutive times, and your strength does reach the upgrade level, you can be upgraded.
Mu Chen believed in his own strength, but thinking about the luck of this paragraph, he still took off the copper coin hanging around his neck and calculated a hexagram. Sure enough, there was an accident, the brothers' palace and the descendants' palace were secretly moved, the former was born, and the latter was chongke.
Mu Chen couldn't figure it out, if he wanted to talk about friends, he could be regarded as having a few, what does this descendant mean? Ex-girlfriend pregnant? Mu Chen hurriedly shook his head, he hadn't seen her for a long time, even if she was pregnant, it had nothing to do with her.
Although Mu Chen has always had no quarrel with the world, but what is the matter, this time, no matter how powerful the opponent is, he will block and kill the gods, and the Buddha will block and kill the Buddha, and he must be upgraded!
Ten days later, Mu Chen came to a park in Huaizuo, and the meeting point mentioned in the notice was at the park's rockery.
As soon as he got out of the car, Mu Chen saw two old men arguing.
One is a fortune teller who runs the rivers and lakes, with a mustache and a god-like face. Spread a piece of cloth painted with Tai Chi Bagua on the ground, put it in the style of a guy, and sit under the shade of the tree and wait for business. Although there are not many such fortune tellers now, one or two can be seen occasionally.
Looking at this gentleman, Mu Chen remembered his father again, he used to run around with him like this.
The other is a slightly wealthy old man, with a face full of words written about the quiet years, quite like the private school gentleman who practiced calligraphy every day to tease birds in the past.
The old man was obviously not good at arguing with people, and his face was red in the other party's continuous words, "You, even if you lie to others, why do you still speak badly?" โ
"I lied, why do you say I lied? I'm not sure I'm going to do it, everyone is looking at it. I've just counted several, is there one wrong? โ
"I think you just don't want to give money, so you deliberately said that it was wrong. I've seen a lot of people like you who love to be cheap! โ
"Big guy, you are judging, I have worked hard for a long time, and I only charge him twenty yuan. He even wants to take advantage of this advantage, isn't he afraid of being punished by God? โ
"You, you actually, who took advantage of it! The old man just, I don't want to, I don't want to see you deceiving people! The old man's angry words were almost speechless, and Mu Chen was afraid that he wouldn't be able to fall in one breath and faint there.
Looking down twice, Mu Chen roughly understood what was going on.
There were several pieces of paper on the ground, and all the surnames were densely written on them. Generally, this routine is to let you find the piece of paper where your surname is, without telling him which one it is, slap it down, cover the piece of the surname, or just give him the whole piece of paper, and then he can calculate what your surname is from dozens of surnames! There is no charge for calculating the surname, if the calculation is accurate, then you can choose to give money, and then count something else, or you can go directly.
This kind of thing has been encountered by many people, and it is indeed very accurate. Seeing the other party accurately say their surnames, many people feel very powerful, and then obediently pay for it, and then count something else.
Actually, it's just a very simple trick, and it's very easy to debunk!
Although there are many surnames in China, there are only a few common ones, and the proportion of these types is very high. So, he just needs to spread out the common surnames. Pull a random person on the street, choose a piece of paper, the probability of being a common surname, if not seven or eight percent, at least five or six percent. So this kind of deception doesn't even require strength, just relying on luck, it can be regarded as the lowest level.
Nowadays, people are less and less convinced of fortune-telling, in addition to the development of science and technology, many things have been explained, there are too many charlatans of this kind, and there are few people with real skills is also part of the reason.
Some people may have discovered that the richer people are, the more they believe in these. That's because they've come into contact with people who really have real skills.
These things are too obscure to drill through, and it can take decades of hard work at every turn. Those who meet on ordinary streets and villages, and can chat with you for a long time for a few or twenty yuan, if what they say is true, unless you meet a master who travels all over the world and is indifferent to fame and fortune, otherwise this knowledge is too worthless.
Mu Chen never liked to meddle in things, and he had something to do, so after a few glances, he turned around and was about to leave. The fortune teller saw him staring at his stall and thought that Mu Chen was interested, so he didn't care about arguing with the old man, and quickly stopped Mu Chen.
"Young man, don't go, I see that your Yin Tang is black, maybe there has been something unsatisfactory recently, do you want to calculate a hexagram and see your fortune in the future?"
To tell the truth, as Mu Chen is now, anyone with vision can see that his family is dead.
Mu Chen glanced at him, and was about to open his mouth to refuse, but the old man also opened his mouth. He saw that Mu Chen seemed to be a sensible person, and he was surrounded by uncles and aunts, and it was difficult to explain to them, so if he wanted to prove his innocence, he could only hope for this young man. "Young man, if you come to judge the reasoning, he can just lie to people, and he also slandered him, saying that something is going to happen to my family, and he is so angry with the old man!"
At the level of this fortune teller, eighty percent can't see the situation in the old man's family, but if you say that your children and grandchildren are full of happiness and health, how can you be deceived into paying more money and asking him to help crack it?
Both of them stared at themselves, and there was a circle around them to watch the lively people, and now Mu Chen wanted to leave, but he couldn't go.
He took out twenty dollars and handed it to the fortune teller, "I will pay for this old gentleman." โ
Seeing this, the old man was so angry that he almost didn't jump up, "The old man is short of these twenty yuan, he, he is a liar!" โ
Mu Chen ignored him, and said respectfully to the fortune teller, "Please help me do the math." โ
The fortune teller took the money and smiled like a flower, the more this kind of person does not go well, the more he wants to ask God to worship Buddha. "What do you want to count, young man?"
"Count my last name first!" The surname Mu is not common, Mu Chen has just observed that Mu is on the same piece of paper as Wang, so he will say that his surname is Wang nine times out of ten.
"Good to say, good to say, come, you take a look first, and then tell me which piece of paper your last name is on."
Mu Chen quickly pointed the paper to him.
The fortune teller stroked his beard with one hand and pinched it with the other, a picture of a chattering and thoughtful look, "I'll count you ยทยทยทยทยทยท"
"Sir, I have studied fortune-telling for a few years before, and I have studied this Tao a little. It's better to do this, sir, you write the calculated surname on a piece of paper, and then I will count what you calculated! โ