Chapter 40: Temptation
Zhou Cheng is not a Jiangxiang faction (Jianghu Xiangshi, also referred to as a liar), he does not need to be tried first and then knocked, he is eager to fight thousands of rivers and lakes, and he can figure out the identity, purpose, and past and future of the person from the words and clothing of the person who looks at the appearance, the expression of bearing, and some casual actions.
The old man will let Zhou Cheng leave, isn't it that Zhou Cheng didn't say a superfluous word after he came in, and he didn't make a single superfluous action. Let the old man feel that the dog bites the hedgehog and has nowhere to put his mouth, so he has to give up Zhou Cheng's business?
Where does the real art of fortune divination need so much foreplay? The person's appearance, skeleton, Shenggeng Bazi, and so on are all there, and whether they open their mouths or not will not change the slightest.
But Zhou Cheng showed his master in someone else's feng shui shop, which was too "too deceitful".
The old man's beard immediately turned up, not only his face was extremely ugly, but even his eyes began to be a little unkind.
But Zhou Cheng didn't care what the old man thought, and while helping the little black cat who was sleeping in his arms to smooth the back hair, he said unhurriedly: "Stop the three lines to see your parents, you will break the sky pattern first, and lose your father when you are a teenager." There are horizontal lines among people, when a young man loses his wife, there are miscellaneous lines in the hall of tears, when father and daughter become enemies, and there are women who have no support. The only advantage is that there is meat on the tip of the nose, which seems to have the meaning of reversal, which can make you immortal and have more than enough food and clothing. It's just that your ears are shaved back, so sex likes to speculate, and it's easy to go sideways. Young people don't think about the right way, middle-aged abandons their wives and daughters, and in their later years, they are naturally lonely and helpless, even if they don't lack food and clothing all their lives, but they don't even have a person to cry and mourn, am I right or not?"
Zhou Cheng said it easily, but he scared the old man opposite. Looking at what fortune-telling is all about, there is no better understanding than this old guy who has relied on this "mixed rice" all his life. The old man looked at Zhou Cheng as if nothing had happened, and his face changed.
"You investigate me?" "The older the rivers and lakes, the less daring they become. For an old Jianghu, he will not trust anyone. So the old man's first reaction was that Zhou Cheng deliberately went to investigate his past, and Zhou Cheng came prepared.
"Do I need this?" replied Zhou Cheng with a smile. Knowing that the old man has seen everyone in the north and south, he naturally won't easily believe in himself. Immediately, with a move of his right hand, there was an extra cup in his hand. A cup full of hot tea. The boiling water is still hot, and the green tea leaves are loaded and floating in the boiling water.
The old man was suddenly a little startled, and looked at Zhou Cheng with a look of disbelief, a little unable to believe his eyes.
"Please drink tea!" Zhou Cheng smiled and pushed the cup to the old man opposite. Then continued to beckon, and a teacup appeared in Zhou Cheng's hand again, and the fragrance of tea was overflowing, just right for the usual. Zhou Cheng raised the teacup with one hand and lifted it gently, and after making a gesture to invite tea, he tasted tea to himself.
The old man couldn't speak anymore at this time, whether it was in front of him or the teacup in Zhou Cheng's hand, the old man was too familiar. That's his most precious pair of purple sand teacups. And what floated in the teacup was also the "tea before the rain" that the old man himself was reluctant to drink, and it was just like that, and now that Zhou Cheng didn't ask about it, the old man felt like blood dripping in his heart.
But now the old man no longer has the heart to feel sorry for the tea cups, and the old man is now doubting his eyes or life. A pair of eyes stared at Zhou Cheng with a pair of eyes, as if he wanted to see Zhou Cheng as a flower.
"Since ancient times, the five techniques of Taoism, the mountain doctor's life divination, there is not only the art of divination, but also the secret of the art of climbing in the mountains. Speaking of which, it's not easy for you to live a life of wandering for so many years! Now your sect doesn't still think that I came to lie to you after investigating you, right? You are now nested in this small county town, have you ever thought that father and daughter will recognize each other and return to their hometown when they are old?" Zhou Cheng put down the teacup and said calmly.
The old man has been wandering for half his life, losing his father at a young age, no one to supervise him, and he has no interest in either studying or working. In the 60s, he was forced to go to the countryside, and then met a fortune teller in the old society who was being renovated on a remote farm in the southwest. Fate changed because of a steamed bun. The old man learned a set of skills from the fortune teller to cheat and deceive, and also created a restless heart.
The old man got married in the countryside with just an ordinary peasant daughter. A year later I also had a lovely daughter. But after a few years, the old man began to be unable to endure the hard life in the countryside. He misses the city and longs for a life of freedom and prosperity. The old man began to jump up and down for the job quota in the city. In order to get some money for gifts, he did not hesitate to find some old ladies in the countryside to experiment with his newly learned Jiang Xiang technique.
It's just that how can you meet ghosts when you walk too much at night, and the old man was exposed. Cast into another place, he began a grueling career of rehabilitation. His wife fell into a ravine on a slippery day in order to give him a few nests for the labor reform site at the water conservancy construction site.
The wife is gone, leaving behind the daughter who is waiting for the breastfeed. Feeling the cruelty of fate, he ruthlessly abandoned his young daughter and hurried across the border desperately.
The old man didn't die at that time, just because he was cautious enough, and the old man was able to survive later, relying on that set of Jiang Xiang's ability to cheat and deceive.
The old man is getting older, and he has long forgotten the memories of the city when he was a teenager. His mother died, and the city in which he was born no longer meant anything to him. On the contrary, the small village where he left his daughter became the most memorable place in his life.
The old man went back, but he only dared to look at it from a distance. Then for many years, I didn't dare to recall the old years, but deliberately ignoring it doesn't mean that I really forgot it.
Zhou Cheng's promise easily opened the old man's heart, for an old man who dared not see his relatives and did not dare to return to his home, everything Zhou Cheng promised had an irresistible fatal temptation.
"I don't know what you need me to do?" the old man had wandered all his life, and naturally understood that there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world. Since the other party has revealed such a skill and made such a promise, he naturally has his purpose. The temptation is also very happy to answer.
"It's nothing, I just want you to send me a message!" Zhou Cheng replied unhurriedly.
"It's that simple?" the old man was a little incredulous.
"It's that simple!" Zhou Cheng replied affirmatively, and then gently handed over a note and said, "This is the address." ”
"I trust your skills, and there must be a way to help me get the letter delivered. Isn't it?" Zhou Cheng asked with a smile while pinching the ears of the kitten in his arms.