Chapter 11: On Destiny

Goemon's idea was simple.

Since the other party claims to "know fate", then ask him to calculate my future!

If he calculates that my future fate is good, then surely he will not kill me again in order to fulfill his own divination, and if he calculates that my fate is not good and that my life is short, then I will have the cheekiness to beg him to help me change this miserable fate. Then, to show that he is strong enough to change his fate, he will definitely not kill me again......

This is the last glimmer of light that Goemon can see in a short period of time to keep himself alive.

Tang Zeqian naturally didn't know that in just a few seconds, so many inner dramas had been bred in the hearts of the guests, and he didn't realize that the word "fate" meant irresistible power to Goemon.

He just said according to the usual practice: "There is naturally no problem with divining fate, tell me your four pillars and eight characters!"

"Dead pig target?" Goemon looked confused.

All right!

Tang Zeqian couldn't help but roll his eyes, he realized that he had made another low-level mistake, because the four islands of Yingzhou did not have the inheritance of the five techniques of Xuanmen, so the other party was afraid that he would not understand the professional terms.

So, he decided to change the way and ask the other party to write down the specific date of birth, and then deduce it himself.

Goemon was worried, on the one hand, he was worried that he would be cursed after writing it, and on the other hand, he was afraid that if he revealed his true emotions, he would be fed to the cat on the spot!

So, he didn't dare not write.

Tang Zeqian saw his movements and expressions when he wrote his date of birth, and slowly made some inferences in his heart.

First of all, this person was very suspicious, just writing about his birthday, and he actually stopped four or five times intermittently, and from time to time he raised his head and looked at the ocelot in his arms in horror.

Although the ocelot is stronger and more ferocious than the average domestic cat, it is not enough to scare an adult like this, right?

This man must have had some childhood shadows.

Suspicious and sick, lacking love, and having a heavy shadow in childhood...... It seems that most of them had a very unhappy childhood!

However, looking at the clothes he wears are all high-end goods, it seems that his financial luck is still good when he becomes an adult.

Combined with some obvious data in the eight characters of his birthday, Tang Zeqian's mind gradually outlined the life trajectory of Goemon.

"Your eight characters are afraid of water and wood, which means that you had a very unhappy childhood, a difficult life, and a displacement. All of this has to do with the lack of parental affection, the father died before the mother, and he (she) died early and you were devastated, wasn't it? Well, you should have been raised by relatives in the family...... When you grow up, you leave home, you want to be independent, you meet the help of powerful nobles, you learn a very good craft, and your life is getting better and better......"

I actually hit it all!

Goemon was dumbfounded.

His mother died very early, and his aunt raised him, and in order to be able to find a job to support his family as soon as possible, he came to Kyoto from Nagoya, only to meet Hiroshi Akamatsu and was absorbed into the shadow shogunate to practice ninjutsu.

Although his qualifications are a bit poor, and it took him twenty years to become a B-level ninja, ninjutsu has indeed changed his fate and made his life better and better!

But how is it possible to see these things so clearly from a simple date of birth?

- Could it be that there really is an existence in the dark that can control the fate of mankind?

- Perhaps, the young man in front of him is a ...... who can control his fate

Goemon involuntarily sat up straight.

If he was more afraid of Tang Zeqian before, then at this moment, it has turned into a heartfelt awe.

Tang Zeqian saw all the changes he had just made, and he had stronger confidence in his ability to summarize and sort out information in a short period of time.

Some people scoff at fortune-telling and call it charlatanism, while others respect it and take it as a mantra.

But no matter who you are, you have to admit that this craft does have a very unique life, so it can survive thousands of years.

This is mainly because fortune telling is actually addictive, whether it is for testing or for others.

If the calculation is not accurate, it is enough, once the calculation is extremely accurate, then it will involuntarily give birth to a mysterious feeling of "what a Nima lying groove is", and I can't help but continue to go further and further on this road.

Of course, as a "fishy hand", Tang Zeqian's routine is actually a bit redundant, such as the sentence "The father dies first before the mother", in fact, because he was worried that he was not sure who would die first, so he left a button. This sentence actually hides two different meanings according to the different sentences.

Goemon, who was hiding something in his heart, was really shocked, and he didn't notice the small flaws in it, he was trembling at this moment, and all he was thinking about was how to save his life under the hands of this terrifying boss and the murderous ocelot.

He asked tentatively, "What about ...... What is my fate in the future?"

"Future fate?" Tang Zeqian suddenly laughed, he knew very well that most people didn't actually understand why they predicted fate: "Then it depends on how you understand the word fate!!"

His smile was originally just a little proud, but in Goemon's eyes, there was an indescribable weirdness.

That feeling is like his fate and future are all in the other party's control, as long as the other party pinchs it a little harder, he has no future to speak of!

"When the neighbors, relatives and friends gossip and gossip among the neighbors, we often hear someone say who has a good life, a virtuous wife, filial piety, and a full house of children and grandchildren, or who has a bad life, gambling addiction, wife separation, family ruin......

"Many people feel that fate is very mysterious, as if there is a pair of invisible hands that tightly choke everyone's throat!"

Goemon shuddered violently, swallowed involuntarily, and felt a little frightened in his heart: Is he warning me? means that he has already choked my throat, hoping that I will be more interesting?

"But that's not the case!" Tang Zeqian continued.

- What does that mean? What does that mean?

Goemon felt like he was sitting on a roller coaster at the moment, going up to the sky for a while, and going to the ground for a while, and his mentality was about to collapse.

His face unconsciously showed some irrepressible emotional changes!

Hey?

Tang Zeqian suddenly perked up, and felt that his words were not in vain, they must have poked the tip of Goemon's heart and resonated with him, so there would be such an obvious emotional change on his face!

"Some guests come to fortune telling, but in fact they only come with a utilitarian heart, he just wants to calculate whether there is something in his life that he desires...... For example, if so, when will he be able to become an official, when will he be rich, and when will he be favored by beautiful women?

But can this be called divination of fate?

Of course not!

At most, this is just seeking psychological comfort, no different from going to the temple to kowtow and burn incense, and begging the Buddha and Bodhisattva to bless oneself for promotion and wealth.

It's so utilitarian!

If he knows that he has such things as official luck, financial luck, and peach blossom luck in his life, he will be psychologically satisfied; if he knows that he does not have these things in his life, he will never try to resist fate, but will find an excuse for himself to be lazy - since I am destined to have these things, then what is the use of me trying hard? It is better to spend my time playing games and watching dramas......

So, strictly speaking, these are not fortune calculations at all, at best they can only be regarded as opportunistic tricks!"

In fact, when he listened to his tirade, Goemon's heart was already anxious, did it have something to do with him?

However, he didn't dare to interrupt Tang Zeqian easily.

Because he always felt that Tang Zeqian had something to say, and always felt that his various schemes seemed to have been seen through by Tang Zeqian.

- Isn't his act of pretending to be interested in "fate" and asking questions about "fate" in order to escape the catastrophe is an attempt to take advantage of it?