Chapter 128: Charlatanism
Before the Zhou family left, Xiao Banxian also specially told the Zhou family that he would go to Zhou's house with Xiao Mo in the afternoon.
Xiao Banxian pondered for a moment, and replied with a smile: "Although Zhou Lingyun seems to be cured of this disease, she is young and weak. ”
"I shouldn't have talked much, but I'm so deaf that I can't help but be surprised. Ling Ai still closes her eyes and recuperates, and waits for the injury to heal. As for what you want to ask for advice, there are a lot of things, and the days are long, so I'm not in a hurry. ”
Seeing the little half-immortal say this, Zhou Yuxuan also hurriedly replied with a smile: "I didn't believe that there was really a half-immortal in this world, but I only thought it was a person in vain, and there were many faux pas, and I was fortunate to forgive the sin of ignorance." “
Xiao Banxian smiled: "There are too many charlatans in this charlatan, all of them are swaggering and deceiving in the name of our half-immortal family, and now it is normal for the world not to believe it, how can I blame you for being rude?"
For example, the little half-immortal also knows that there are too many people pretending to be half-immortals now.
A sparse goatee, a pair of triangular eyes half-open and half-closed, and a pair of slender feet exposed under the flowing robe.
There are too many fortune tellers who are swaggering and deceiving the fairy wind bones.
The so-called five hundred years of knowledge before and five years of knowledge after five years have long been regarded as the ability of immortals.
For ordinary people, Xiao Banxian feels that being able to roughly judge the direction of things and predict certain trends can already be called foresight.
Knowing what happened in three days and living a life of wealth shows how valuable a foresight based on prediction is.
Throughout the ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, for tens of thousands of years, in countless long history, people who can have excellent foresight and even the ability to predict within a certain range can be counted on ten fingers by a little half immortal.
But for what is about to be faced, you can make point-in-point, generalized judgments.
Those who can do this are the best among human beings, and they can be regarded as masters, sages, and gods.
But it would be incredible if someone could make concrete, nuanced predictions.
But it's this incredible thing, some people claim to be able to do it, and make it a career.
This kind of person is a fortune teller.
Fortune teller, a social character full of mystery.
Each profession has its own recipes, and each character has their own reason for being.
There are a very few fortune tellers who have some real skills and real knowledge, but the vast majority of them are just charlatans who are swaggering and deceiving.
There are three levels of the fortune teller's business:
The next one relied on Meng, and Meng was right to mix up some food money, and he was beaten and ran away by mistake;
The middle one relies on the mystery, and the words in the clouds and fog are ambiguous, vague, and unfathomable, making people nowhere to go;
The above sets up a bureau to control the situation, control the situation, and control the parties, so that things go according to the "prediction" or plan.
Xiao Banxian once rescued a senior charlatan, and he revealed his practice methods to Xiao Banxian;
In addition to using a set of formulas and "secret tips" to walk the rivers and lakes, a fortune teller relies on setting up a situation to truly maximize benefits.
The greater the energy invested and the greater the time span, the greater the benefits that may be obtained.
The largest bureau in the life of this veteran fortune teller took ten years to complete.
They are an organized gang with the fortune teller at its core.
In advance, the gang will always negotiate the division of labor and the sharing of profits in the future.
The object they chose was a rich man who never believed in fortune-telling, divination, or the like.
Of course, the main reason for choosing is that the rich man has a very rich family.
The reason why I chose a person who does not believe in fortune-telling and divination is because such people often have little contact with such things and people, lack experience, and lack room for other choices, and the possibility of interference and competition in the same industry is small.
At the same time, such people are often paranoid, and paranoid people admit that they are dead, and once they let him identify you, they will die to the other extreme, from complete opposition to respect from the bones.
In order to get close to this rich man, it took them about four years to set up and operate.
They sneaked into the compound and buried a strange-looking stone in an unobtrusive corner.
They sneaked into the backyard again and secretly put poison in the manger and pigsty, killing six horses and ten pigs in one night.
These characters are just beginning to show up. One day, a fortune teller knocked on the door of the house on the grounds that he was thirsty and begged for water.
After drinking the water, with a very grateful tone, he sighed that this building is good, but unfortunately there is a problem with feng shui, and the evil qi is entangled in evil qi, which is causing disaster to the family, first the livestock are damaged, and then the people are worried.
When the words reached the ears of the rich man, of course he would not believe it, but this was just a "stone throwing and asking for directions" in the whole bureau, and the person who set up the bureau did not need the parties to enter the set.
The setters deliberately caused a simple, petty car accident and injured the housekeeper with a horse-drawn carriage.
Although the damage is small, at this time the rich man will inevitably mutter in his heart, and his former observance will begin to waver.
Hired kidnappers kidnapped the rich man's little wife. The next day, just after dawn, the rich man found that his pillow man was gone, and his first choice was, of course, to report to the official.
Naturally, the authorities could not come up with an answer to this premeditated and organized kidnapping.
The rich man who looked like ants on the hot pot would naturally rush to the doctor in a hurry and begin to have other ideas.
At this time, it is natural that someone will, intentionally or unintentionally, hint or remind the rich man that a certain fortune teller in a certain place has great powers and can ask for help.
Naturally, I invited you into the urn. In the face of the rich man who took the initiative to come to the door, the fortune teller of course had to put up a score, negotiate the price and the like.
Putting on the score and asking for the price are all necessary, and the other party must not be suspicious.
After some pretentiousness, the fortune teller will, of course, be anxious about the difficulties of the people, and make a calculation very deeply, saying that the kidnapped person is suffering in flesh and skin, and his life is worry-free, and he is trapped in a certain direction, how far away from this, and the trapped place is steaming white.
The rich man sent people to look for it according to the instructions of the gentleman, and sure enough, by a river, he found a small boat, on which water was boiling for cooking, and it was really white, and the rich man's little wife was being tied up in the cabin.
Encore supernatural powers.
At this time, the rich man was naturally grateful to the fortune teller, and remembered some of the husband's judgments about the family home, so he sent the fortune teller to the house and asked him to regulate feng shui.
The fortune teller held a compass, walked east and west, occasionally measured a few steps, occasionally closed his eyes in contemplation, and occasionally wrote and painted.
Then the fortune teller mysteriously pointed out that in a certain direction or place in the courtyard, there was a foreign object with evil spirits buried, which was the root and seedling of all misfortunes.
The rich man took people to dig it, and it was so.
No matter who it is, seeing such "miracles" happen again and again, and everything is experienced and seen by himself, he naturally does not dare to doubt it anymore, and he has nothing else to think about from then on.
In this way, the bureau has been running step by step, and ten years later, this fortune teller has become a well-known "half-immortal" or even a "living immortal".
The son of this fortune teller also inherited the family business of the rich man as a wealthy man.
The whole process seemed reasonable, legal, natural and natural to everyone.
It can be seen that there are times when the reputation has changed.
Although these people deceive themselves for their own benefit,
But at a height that they don't fit into, they will feel dizzy, or they will feel like they are just a fake.
And the little half-immortal is not the kind of person who is very sharp.
So he replied with a smile: "After this, we are also familiar with it, like Wu Biao, it is okay to come to our feng shui hall often, you can go home quickly, Xiao Mo and I will go to the house at noon to solve the root cause of Ling Ai Zhou Lingyun's illness." ”
Zhou Yuxuan heard this and said, "I'll pick up Mr. when I arrive." ”
Xiao Banxian said: "Don't bother, we can just go over by ourselves." ”
After the Zhou family left, Xiao Banxian handed over the silver to Mo Liunian: "You changed this reward." ”
Mo Liunian has ten taels of silver per month, she has never spent much money, she has saved a lot in the past three years, and she is not as persistent as Xiao Banxian about silver: "No, I have enough." ”
"If you want to take it, you will take it. The little half-fairy shoved the silver into her hand.
Mo Liunian held forty taels of silver and asked, "Why do we have to go to Zhou's house in the afternoon?"
The little half-immortal said: "Do you really think that the matter is settled? Why did Zhou Lingyun suddenly fall into evil? Who is behind the trouble? If you don't get rid of the source for a day, Zhou Lingyun can't be safe." ”
Mo Liunian heard the same in his heart, and he forgot these things when his emotions were too complicated last night: "Why don't you take back half of this silver?"
Xiao Banxian smiled: "Take it, take it, it's an encouragement to you." ”
Mo Liunian returned to the room with the silver and put it away.
Wu Biao came again at lunch, and he obviously knew about the Zhou family, and the admiration in Mo Liunian's eyes became more and more obvious.
When Mo Liunian inadvertently turned sideways, when he saw Wu Biao's reverent gaze and looked at him upright, Mo Liunian also immediately showed a bright smile to Wu Biao.
When Wu Biao first saw Mo Liunian, he used a surprised gaze, marveling at Mo Liunian's whiteness and mystery, and staring at Mo Liunian with expectant eyes.
When Wu Biao saw Mo Liunian neatly knocking down the two family members in the Wangjia Flower Pavilion for the first time, Wu Biao's eyes at that time were also full of admiration......
If life is only as it first sees, all the glimpses of the beautiful pictures that will never be forgotten will keep everything in the original state of curiosity and freshness.
The newborn calves are always so vigorous, and the shy desire to speak has many mysterious possibilities, and everything is as crystal clear as the morning dewdrops, and as bright and brilliant as the morning sun.
It's just that after a glimpse of the back, all the memories seem to be revived in an instant.
Mo Liunian's delicate eyebrows and eyes, Mo Liunian's flexible and thin lips, Mo Liunian's long millet hair, and Mo Liunian's grinning and scolding bit by bit, Wu Biao still remembers it vividly.
Mo Liunian put down his chopsticks and looked out of the window with his eyes through the window, as if that would relieve his embarrassment.
Wu Biao's gaze fell back on Mo Liunian's face, with a careless attachment to the past and a fascination for the unknown.
Mo Liunian raised his head, and Wu Biao happened to be sitting opposite Mo Liunian, so Wu Biao could see Mo Liunian's face very directly.
At this time, Mo Liunian, who had a side face, looked full of embarrassment, and Wu Biao's praise and exclamation seemed to come from the heart, which caused the curiosity in Wu Biao's heart to quickly overpower the tension.
And Mo Liunian also looked out the window in embarrassment, and the room immediately fell silent.
Xiao Banxian coughed three times before Wu Biao withdrew his gaze and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Mo Gongzi to be so powerful." ”
This Wu Biao only ate two meals in the Feng Shui Pavilion, why is he so affectionate.
Mo Liunian said lightly: "I just did what the owner ordered." ”
Wu Biao said with a smile: "That's not simple, ordinary people are not scared to death when they see that scene." ”
Mo Liunian finished his last bite of food: "You eat slowly." Mo Liunian withdrew directly.
Today I will talk about two main topics:
1. The four commonly used forms of dialogue and their use of punctuation
The reason why I want to write the content of the chapter is because I found that many friends have not even mastered this most basic knowledge, and everyone must have encountered the situation of someone misusing punctuation when reading books. For many people, maybe this small mistake will make him jump the play and make a negative evaluation of the author.
A conversation consists of two parts: the content of the speech and the prompt.
The content of the speech: refers to something that someone says.
Prompt: It is a sentence that plays the role of a prompt, which plays the role of a prompt, that is, to tell the reader who said it, under what circumstances, how to say it, etc.
According to the different positions of the prompt in the sentence, the form of the dialogue is also divided into four types. The punctuation marks used in each of the four forms of dialogue are also different.
The first form: the prompt comes first, the prompt is followed by a colon, and the content of the speech is in double quotation marks.
Error example:
Chen Ergou saw him, smiled and waved his hand, "Big star, why are you so idle, don't you have to shoot TV series."
The comma after "greeting" is wrong and should be replaced by a colon. The punctuation marks after "Why is it so idle in the back" and "Don't you have to shoot TV dramas" should also be changed to question marks.
Correct demonstration:
Chen Ergou saw him, smiled and waved his hand: "Big star, why are you so idle, don't you have to shoot TV series?"
The second form: the prompt is in the middle, preceded by a pair of double quotation marks, followed by a comma, followed by a pair of double quotation marks.
Error example:
"Huh?" Jiang Han was surprised, thinking that he had misheard. "Sir, you, what did you say?"
The full stop after "I thought I heard it wrong" was used incorrectly and should be replaced by a comma.
Correct demonstration:
"Huh?" Jiang Han was surprised, thinking that he had misheard, "Old man, you, what did you say?"
The third form: the prompt is at the end, the content of the speech is in quotation marks, and the prompt is followed by a period.
Correct demonstration:
The Queen Mother's face began to twitch.
"Move to him. She said.
The fourth form: there are no prompts, and the content of the speech is in quotation marks.
Correct demonstration:
"It's not. is a journalist for a magazine
The four forms of expression, in fact, all have their own necessity, the role is different, when you read the book, you should figure out more: why do you use this kind of instead of the other?
For example, in the second form, a sentence can be taken apart, and the speaker's movements and demeanor can be inserted in the middle, and then continue to speak.
Of course, many of the articles that are written in a relatively white way nowadays only use the first form directly, and there is no explanation to describe the words.
This is actually a lazy approach, or a more petty approach.
It can't be said that this is wrong, because in fact the basic elements have already appeared, and the reader can go smoothly, but it is too monotonous.
If the premise of fast update, readers can actually tolerate these flaws, and how to grasp it depends on the author himself.
Personally, I prefer to use the four forms interspersed, so that the reader will not look monotonous, just like calligraphy, to give the reader a sense of beauty of "corresponding size, length and shortness, virtual and real, swaying and turbulent, and varied".
Feel free to share your opinions.