Chapter 8: Mind Reading

Shi Zuocai asked Li Lijuan to take out the most important thing in the bag as usual to take a look, Li Lijuan rummaged for a while, and carefully took out a wallet from it, which contained a photo.

There is only a boy in the photo, sunny and beautiful, smiling brightly at the camera.

Shi Zuocai took the photo and glanced at it lightly, and said:

"Your child is no longer alive, is he?"

Li Lijuan's body trembled slightly, lowered her head and gritted her teeth:

"Yes."

Shi Zuocai closed his eyes, and after a while, he said:

"Is it a vain death if resentment accumulates and does not disperse?"

"Yes." Li Lijuan was almost speechless.

The young Daoist in front of him turned over and lowered his voice:

"What I'm going to ask you about may have nothing to do with fortune-telling...... Can you remember what he did on the last day? ”

"We ...... There was a fight. Li Lijuan had tears in her eyes and began to choke.

"Well, and then what?"

"He ran away from home...... I went up the mountain by myself, and I heard it from the woodcutter in the town later, saying that he saw my child on the mountain, and that he was still alive and well...... It doesn't seem right...... In the evening...... It's gone......"

"Ms. Li." Dao Ye looked at her intently:

"I hope you will be able to seriously recall what the woodcutter said to you at that time. On the day your son went up the mountain, did you tell anyone what he wanted to do or what he planned to do......

Liu Yan's eyes flickered slightly, and he pulled the corner of Shi Zuocai's clothes without a trace, only to feel that such a question was too indifferent to the feelings of the parties, and Li Lijuan was already crying. Liu Yan couldn't bear it, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve robe and handed it to her.

After crying for a while, Li Lijuan eased up slightly.

"Otherwise...... I didn't say it...... However, the woodcutter said that when he saw the child, he was still wearing a pair of binoculars...... It was bought by himself with his own savings. ”

Shi Zuocai's eyes lit up slightly, but his face was silent:

"And when I found him later, were the binoculars still on me?"

"It's gone...... He was fished out of the river...... I'm afraid it's already drifted away. ”

Shi Zuocai took a light breath and closed his eyes:

"I see. Ms. Li, I'll give you another hexagram at the end. ”

He turned around and nodded to Liu Yanshi beside him, who handed her the stick holder on the table. Li Lijuan took the sticker, pursed her lips, her eyes were red, she shook it vigorously, and a bamboo skewer fell out of it. Shi Zuocai took it and looked at it, and said:

"The bell must be tied to the bell, and this matter is not asked. It has nothing to do with calamity, only the knot of the heart. Ms. Li, praying to God and worshiping Buddha cannot bring the dead back to life, and spending money cannot buy peace of mind. ”

"Yes...... At that time, I dreamed every day that my child would not be at peace after death......"

"Your child's death has nothing to do with the gods and Buddhas, and he is not a terrible ghost who begs for his life, and he will not do evil to you." Dao Ye sighed and said:

"I have explained the hexagram of this hexagram to you, within three days, the incense money you donated in vain will be lost and recovered, and the Si people have passed away, after that, please live according to your own will."

Li Lijuan felt like she had been beaten up, and she got up and left in despair.

However, as soon as she walked with her front feet, another person came across the table—he sat down on the chair with a golden knife, crossed his legs, and said in a very flirtatious tone:

"Master Dao, give me a hexagram."

Shi Zuocai felt interesting, raised his eyes to look at the man, and a smile appeared in his eyes: the man looked more than thirty or forty, thin as a monkey, but he was wearing a wide robe, and when the autumn wind rolled up, the bloated robe swayed with the wind, like a flag waving in the wind, and when he laughed, he could see a few gold teeth embedded in his mouth.

Liu Yanshi frowned slightly—she had visited so many households in Hejia Town using the sampling method, but she had never heard of this person's origin, but she could occasionally hear words like "why is this person a little familiar" from the muttering voices of onlookers.

She felt bad in her heart, and secretly tugged Shi Zuocai's sleeve, indicating that she couldn't pronounce his surname, and Shi Zuocai smiled calmly:

"It doesn't matter. You follow the rules and take out the most meaningful thing from your bag and show it to me. ”

After hearing this, the big golden tooth smiled mockingly:

"Yo? What, aren't you going to guess what my last name is? Or is it impossible for you to guess? ”

As he spoke, he took out a wallet in the inner lining of the robe, threw out a wallet, and slowly opened it in front of Shi Zuocai, Shi Zuocai's eyes moved up to the wallet - at the moment when it was about to be opened, the gold tooth closed the wallet again and sneered:

"Master Dao, you can't hide your trick of reading words coldly."

Shi Zuocai was not surprised, and said lightly, "Oh? "Yes.

The golden tooth crouched on the table, and when he looked at Shi Zuocai, his eyes were full of provocation:

"On the surface, you say that everything is animistic and asks someone to open the bag and take out things, but in fact, you want to take advantage of the fact that people are rummaging through things to peek at the placement of the objects in the bag, and then guess the behavior and habits of that person by analyzing the clues...... That's not a good thing to do. ”

Shi Zuocai didn't speak, shook the fan in his hand lightly, and looked at him fixedly.

Golden Fang narrowed his eyes slightly, and lowered his voice:

"Friend, it's not me who said, there are rules in one line, you are a peer, but you have to step on other people's reputation to get to the top, this is smashing people's jobs, lack of morality, understand?"

Mr. Demon still didn't speak, and the smile in his eyes grew stronger.

Golden Tooth grinned dryly and continued:

"If you know each other, you know each other a little, where to fight, where to go back, this place has recently been given to us, you have to pay attention to it after you come, otherwise, if you are unkind, you will not blame me for being unjust......"

Shi Zuocai was not in a hurry, and said lightly:

"If you ask for a fortune telling, follow the rules, and there will be people waiting behind."

Hearing this, the golden tooth raised his eyebrows, spat thick phlegm to the side, suddenly became difficult, got up suddenly, stepped on the chair, slammed the table, turned around and shouted:

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have to take a look, others can't understand it, but I can see it clearly - these two bastard Taoist priests are just a charlatan who deceives people everywhere under the guise of flying to watch! Don't let that lard be blinded, you can't see the truth clearly! ”

"Please also think about it, what is the thing that this Taoist master asks when he tells your fortune?" He rolled up one sleeve and reached out and pointed:

"This lady, he said that you have something unpleasant recently, these three or five days can be regarded as 'recent', and three or five months is not considered 'recent'? The eldest sister over there, he said you like to be tidy and often do housework - I can fuck it, nine out of ten women in Hejia Town are housewives, who doesn't often do housework? There is also a sister-in-law, he said that you have recently had a noble person to help, this month Master Zhong has been widely kind in Hejia Town, but anyone who does not bring a handle is looking for him for guidance, who has not been helped by a nobleman? To put it mildly, ambiguously, this is not a solid and wilted charlatan, what else can it be? ”

"It seems like that......"

"Makes sense......"

"That's what I found out ......"

The crowd of onlookers began to talk about it, and more and more suspicious eyes turned to the two Taoist priests in the middle, and the atmosphere suddenly became solemn - from time to time, I could hear someone remember that this golden tooth was originally the protector of Master Zhong.

At the moment when the atmosphere was gradually tense, the Daoist Master in the middle finally stood up unhurriedly:

"Don't panic, and listen to me."

The surroundings immediately quieted down, waiting for the "Taoist Master" to give an explanation, but the golden tooth sat down on the chair and hugged his arms gracefully, looking like he was eating melon seeds and watching a play.

"Although the poor Tao is not deep, but the admonition of the ancestor is always in mind, the monks do not speak, and I am not advanced in fortune-telling skills, more or less I still have it."

Shi Zuocai's words were not very convincing, and people only farted when they heard it, and the golden tooth had already begun to sneer and pick the gap between their teeth. But who knows, the next moment, Shi Zuocai turned around again, looked at the gold tooth with deep meaning, and continued:

"There is no evidence, we might as well go back to the original point and start with this gentleman."

Liu Yanwei blinked, the worry in his eyes flashed, and the sneer on the golden tooth's face became stronger and stronger, waiting for his dying struggle.

Mr. Demon held a fan in his hand and gently knocked on the corner of the table, and the whole person immediately leaned down and met the four eyes of the golden tooth. The golden tooth was startled by this, and even shrank back with the chair, and just a trace of bad things just came out of his heart, the Taoist master had already straightened up, walked out of the seat gracefully, walked slowly around the golden tooth, and cleared his throat:

"This gentleman's real name is Liu Jinyi, a native of Foshan, Lingnan, and a junior high school student. At the age of fourteen, he dropped out of school and learned the craft with the master of the candy man, and at the age of sixteen, he drifted north alone, and stayed in the imperial capital for twenty years, during which he changed countless jobs, was deceived into a pyramid scheme, and also worked as a thief and pickpocket......

When Shi Zuo said his name, the gold tooth was already dumbfounded. The further he spoke, the more he behaved trembling, cold sweat, his previous arrogant demeanor disappeared in an instant, and the whole person collapsed in the chair, and even breathing became difficult.

After a general account of Goldfang's life experience, Mr. Demon had just finished walking around him, and then he leaned down in front of him and looked at him with a smile:

"Am I right, Protector Liu?"

Liu Yan's eyes blinked, full of incredulity - even she had no way of knowing, how did Mr. Demon get all the information about this person, did he really have the ability to read minds?

The Golden Tooth was almost frightened:

"You...... How do you know......"