Chapter 1: Believe in science
In the center of the city, most of them have a small street or a small district, the street is very old, the houses are very old, and it does not fit in with the surrounding high-rise buildings.
Generally, this kind of place is a scenic area or a local indigenous settlement, neither poor nor rich, and it contains the rhythm of life that does not belong to the modern city but has the bizarre nature of the modern city.
The city also has such a place, the old neighborhood in a prime location, no matter how the world outside changes, it is always old and quiet.
An electric car stopped as it passed through the alley, and a little girl got out of the car and went straight to the place where burritos were sold nearby.
"Brother Zhang gets out of school every year?"
At the fortune-telling booth at the entrance of the alley, the radio was broadcasting some news and news of the day, and the fortune teller with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks sat there with a smile on his face and greeted the young man next to the electric car.
The young man's name is Zhang Jiachang, the owner of a bubble tea shop in this alley, although he is not very old, but because he has been relatively old since he was a child, even if he is three or five years older than him, he will call Brother Zhang.
"I haven't seen your girlfriend in the past few days?"
Zhang Jiachang was obviously more familiar with this fortune teller, and when he spoke, he was like an old friend, he took a stick from the stall, and it was blank, Zhang Jiachang shook his head helplessly.
"It's yellow." The man known as the mouse pointed to a sign behind him: "People dislike me for being a stinky fortune teller, what do you say?" Brother Zhang, don't smoke it, you smoke one every day and it's a white stick, isn't it interesting? ”
Zhang Jiachang smiled helplessly but didn't say anything, other people's things are like people drinking water and knowing themselves, and he himself is not much better, who can still live in this place in this era, who is not guarding an ancestral business. As for fortune telling, of course he knew that his life could not be calculated and no one dared to calculate it, and drawing a lot was just a debt of hand.
"Well, I heard that there has been a murder in our city recently?" The fortune teller looked up at Zhang Jiachang: "It is said that he specially picks young girls to start." ”
"I don't know about this, I'll go back first, there's no one in the store." Zhang Jia smiled and waved his hand, and then suddenly changed his words: "Don't trouble me if it's okay." ”
The mouse smiled and nodded, and didn't say anything, just sat there and continued to support his "one hundred and twenty years old" fortune-telling booth.
In fact, although Zhang Jiachang said that he didn't know, how could he have no news in such a place where people came and went. Recently, the city has not been peaceful, and there have been several cases in a row, and the modus operandi is cruel and strange.
These things should not be spread randomly, because they are likely to cause panic, but there are no impermeable walls in the world, and there is still some news that will come out.
But curiosity is curiosity, this kind of thing is still left to professional people to solve, and he, a milk tea seller, doesn't need to know anything.
Not long after Zhang Jiachang went back with Nian Nian, when the rat poured out a glass of water from the thermos and was about to make some coffee to drink, a girl with a bag sat on the stool opposite him with a smile on her face.
"Fortune teller, are you spiritual?"
As soon as the mouse looked up, he glanced at the girl and laughed: "Be respectful, and be sincere." Does the girl tell fortunes? ”
"How's that counted?" The girl looked at the mouse curiously: "Do you want to take the unsigned?" ”
"You don't need money to sign a lot, but you can release it depending on your mood." The mouse handed over the sticker: "Three and five pieces are not too little, and three thousand five thousand is not too much." ”
The girl pursed her lips and took the holder, and began to sway. Looking at her technique, it should be that the family believes in this, and the kind of child who has often followed his family to the temple since he was a child is very proficient.
"Ah, girl." The mouse suddenly reached out and pressed the sticker: "I have a new way to play, do you want to try it?" ”
"What's the way to play?"
"Draw blind lots, you can draw as you like, I'll give you a solution, and if you think it's working, turn around and make a wish. Blind draw five bucks. ”
When the girl heard it, she also thought it was funny, after all, she had only heard of drawing blind boxes before, but she had never heard of drawing blind lots. She happily gave the mouse five dollars, and then drew a lot.
"Hey! I can't watch it. ”
The rat pressed the girl's head again, stopping her from flipping her wrist. And took the sign from her hand, and after seeing the signature, he looked at the girl's face, and the mouse frowned.
"Come, girl. Give me my birthday. ”
"June 6, 1998, at 11:45 p.m., from City G."
The mouse's brows tightened, and a finger pressed on the inverted stick, and pursed his lips: "Sincerity is spirituality, right." ”
"Hmm." The girl's face was also full of curiosity: "Is there any problem?" ”
"I said you do." The mouse's fingers tapped lightly on the table: "Follow this road all the way inside, see a small Taoist temple or milk tea shop, walk in." And then don't come out until seven o'clock tomorrow, whatever happens. ”
"Why! I made an appointment. The girl was visibly dazed: "I made an appointment to meet tonight." ”
The rat didn't speak, just smiled all over his face, reached out and put the five dollars on the table into his pocket, and let the girl go like a mosquito repellent.
And after seeing the girl leave with a confused face, he opened the stick, and there were two lines written on it: Thinking about it and turning over, life to Quanguan is bitter and sad.
Combined with the girl's eight characters, it is the posture of "thinking hard and having no cure, and the general trend is about to go", but her life is eighty-seven, and she should not be extinct at this time.
This shows that someone has used the art of changing her life against the sky, this person is an expert, and he is extremely vicious.
However, the method of cracking is also like pediatrics, as long as the girl listens to the faith, then today is the time to break the law. If she doesn't listen, it can only end up with a new grave in the loess.
The girl hesitated for a long time, she believed in this since she was a child, so when the stinky fortune teller said this, she couldn't help but feel a little more pimples in her heart. Seeing that the time was still early, she simply followed the path pointed by the fortune teller.
It's quiet on the road, after all, it's not the peak season for tourism at this time, and this place is not a point for Internet celebrities to check in, so there are not many pedestrians.
After walking for less than ten minutes, she saw a small Taoist temple, next to the Taoist temple there was a milk tea shop as said, and the door of the Taoist temple was hidden, so she pushed the door and walked into the small courtyard.
There is nothing special in the small courtyard, but there is a small bamboo forest next to it, and there is a well in the bamboo forest, which looks quite like the scene of a midnight bell, which makes people unconsciously feel hairy.
Go further inside, it is a "big hall", it is said that the main hall is only about a hundred square meters, there are three Qing carvings in front of the door, there are fresh tributes on it, and there are three futons under the offering table.
But other than these things, there is nothing like a Taoist temple here, because there are televisions, computers, and even a washing machine in the corner, which is clearly someone's home.
And just when she wanted to leave here, a seven or eight-year-old girl walked in with a schoolbag on her back, she entered the "main hall" just to look at the stranger who suddenly broke in, and then climbed up to the offering table by herself, touched two apples from the plate of fruit, rubbed them on her clothes, and after rubbing them on her clothes, one took a bite of herself and the other handed it to the strange girl.
"Little sister...... It's a tribute, isn't it? ”
The little girl didn't speak, but while eating apples, she pointed to the small notes on the pillars on both sides of the hall, and wrote eight words: If you have a heart, you will eat the tribute.
Seeing this, the girl knew that this small view was really a righteous god, not the kind of worship of evil gods, she took out three sticks of incense from the incense bag next to the offering table and lit them respectfully, knelt on the futon and incense the statue.
After the incense, she turned around to leave, but at the moment when she just went out, her feet slipped and slipped for no reason, and then the whole person fell to the ground, hit her head on the door frame, and fainted in front of her.
And at this moment, the stick in the mouse's hand suddenly burned, and the original signature disappeared completely, and was replaced with: When it comes to natural nobles, the silver wall is ironclad and easy to live in.
The next lottery also became the winning lottery in that inexplicable spontaneous combustion.
But the girl who fell didn't think so, she felt like she was being dragged up when she lay on the ground, but she was dizzy and dizzy, and she couldn't even speak, so she could only open her eyes with great difficulty and watch the person in front of her help her up and put her on the chaise longue in the main hall.
"Did she fall on her own?"
Zhang Jiachang, who rushed over after hearing the sound, looked at the little girl next to him who was still eating apples with a curious face: "Forget it, let her lie down for a while." ”
And at this moment, Zhang Jiachang's phone rang, and he picked it up and found that it was actually a mouse's phone.
"I'm busy, I don't have time to play cards. I just had a fall and I had to take her to the hospital. ”
"Brother Zhang...... Brother, that girl is fine, you listen to me......"
The mouse told this person the general process, and then he understood the cause and effect of the matter, and then scolded on the phone: "You are really a bad thing, you don't want to bear the cause and effect and push it on me?" ”
"Brother Zhang! You are your own son, cause and effect can't be your turn, besides, if you could really punish you, you would have been crushed and scattered. As the saying goes, if there are more lice, it is not itchy, and if there are more debts, there is no worry. Do you care a little more about your causal debt? I'm different, I'm still going to be damned, don't I have to trouble you then, I'm your biggest customer, okay, can't we be tolerant and tolerant in the past? ”
"If you have medical expenses, you pay for it."
"Okay...... I have done good deeds and accumulated virtues. The mouse sighed: "Don't talk about it, it's business." ”
At this moment, this made the man squatting next to the girl who had fallen and was injured, took a towel and put a cold compress on her forehead, and then took a pinch of mint from the potted plant next to him, twisted the juice out of his hand and fed it to the girl's mouth.
"Nian Nian, you look at her, I'm busy, if she doesn't wake up after half an hour, you go call me."
The little girl next to her nodded, then dragged the small table and small stool over, and began to write her homework in this hall.
Zhang Jiachang got up and walked out of the other door, and came to the bubble tea shop in front of him and began to get busy.
"Haha, I knew you were there."
At the same time as he handed the freshly made milk tea to the takeaway brother, a person came in at the door: "A cup of herbal tea." ”
"Are you off work or skipping work?" Zhang Jiachang raised his eyes and glanced at the visitor.
"I won't wait! I'm going to start my own business from tomorrow. Alas? The person who came suddenly raised his nose and sniffed closer: "Zhang Jiachang!" You have femininity on your dog's body! Where did it come from? Say! ”
"You dog's nose! Can this smell too? ”