Chapter Ninety-Seven: Fortune Telling
Temple Street, located in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong, is a prestigious night market in Hong Kong, and it is also a very distinctive street in Hong Kong, famous for selling affordable goods, known as Hong Kong's civilian nightclub.
Temple Street got its name because of a Tin Hau temple here.
Tin Hau Temple is located at Yung Shuk Tau in Yau Ma Tei, dividing a temple street into two places. Leaning against the south wall of the temple, it is relatively quiet, and there are stalls for looking at faces and fortune tellers. The stall owners put on a half-immortal appearance one by one, and some people really sat down to ask about the future, and there were also young men and women who came to ask about marriage.
"Come, young man, do the math! ”
Wu Ziyu came to Temple Street the morning after the auction ended, because the news he heard from Li Zeju last night that the Buddha's relics had not been delivered to the auction house for the time being, that is, the relics were now in the hands of the Xin'an Society, and even if the relics were not in the Xin'an Society, then at least the Xin'an Society would know its whereabouts.
Wu Ziyu didn't ask Li Zeju about the Xin'an Society, because he didn't want people to know that he was paying attention to the relics, because now the relics have attracted the attention of all parties. After all, the process of obtaining the relics at that time was not so glorious.
The Singapore Ann Association is one of the leading triad forces in Hong Kong. The industries involved in the Xin'an Association cover all walks of life in Hong Kong, such as casinos, nightclubs, drugs, and legitimate industries such as real estate and department stores.
If you want to find the Xin'an Society, for Wu Ziyu, who is unfamiliar with Hong Kong, he can only search from the bottom to the top, the underworld, now called the community, its structure is like a pyramid, the big guy is only so three or two, and the one who is responsible for the big guy is so three or five, these three or five are also big brother-level figures in the real sense, these three or five big brothers, each with a younger brother, these little brothers with a younger brother, layer by layer relationship, with the structure of pyramid scheme to explain this relationship is the most vivid.
The industry of the bigwigs has become regular, but the lowest level of the younger brother is still living a life of hanging children, today he spends all day drinking, tomorrow he is hungry and full, Wu Ziyu came to Temple Street to find these lowest brothers.
The movie "Crazy Boy", Wu Ziyu reviewed it several times when he was in college, and at that time Pheasant and Haonan were the idols of many young people, so Wu Ziyu's purpose for looking for these Crazy Boys was naturally chosen on Temple Street.
Wu Ziyu came to Temple Street in the morning, he walked around Temple Street, and he didn't see a strange boy, only claypot rice and all kinds of noodle shops everywhere, constantly soliciting Wu Ziyu's business.
After sitting down and eating a bowl of wonton noodles, Wu Ziyu slipped to the south wall of Temple Street and met an old man who grabbed him and insisted on telling his fortune.
Wu Ziyu wandered for a long time and asked the owner of the wonton noodle shop, only to know that these old boys are generally nightlifers, they generally go out at night, play late at night, and get up late in the morning.
"How effective?" Anyway, being idle is idle, Wu Ziyu simply sat down and bragged to the old man.
"Hehe, young man, it's from the mainland, right? You may not believe this in the mainland, but in Hong Kong, feng shui physiognomy has penetrated into all corners of our lives. ”
"Other countries in mainland Hong Kong, the country is artificially divided by people like you. ”
"Hehe, it is a good thing for young people to be patriotic, but some status quo is not recognized, then there is no need, one country, two systems are formulated by the state, which shows that there is still a difference between here and the mainland, we also have a lot of mainland tourists here, you see how fluent I speak Chinese? Besides, I don't want to split the motherland, I just"
"Come on, it's still a fortune teller, since you are a fortune teller, then what do you say I'm here for?" The old man was very talkative, and he couldn't bear Wu Ziyu's patience so well, so he interrupted.
The old man looked at Wu Ziyu deeply, and said slowly, "You have something to do when you come out." ”
Wu Ziyu listened to the old man's words, and couldn't wait to knock him down with one punch, nonsense, of course there is something to do when he comes out, can he come out and wander around!
Wu Ziyu listened to the old man's words, and was about to get up and leave, for such a foolish old man, Wu Ziyu really didn't want to talk nonsense.
"Most of the people who come to Temple Street are wandering around with nothing to do, I said that you have something, is it wrong? Do you dare to say that you didn't come with a clear purpose? And your purpose is hidden very deeply, your real purpose is still hidden under the purpose of your visit to Temple Street, am I wrong?"
The old man's words made Wu Ziyu sit down again. I did come with a clear purpose, my purpose was the Buddha's relics, but I didn't come to Temple Street directly for the Buddha's relics, I came to find Gu Chaozai and inquire about some news from the upper echelons of the Xin'an Society, but my ultimate purpose was indeed hidden under the purpose of this visit.
This old man is a bit of a Taoist!
"May I ask the old man, how sure am I of success?"
"It's okay to come to Temple Street, but your ultimate goal seems to be a bit twisty and turned. Wu Ziyu didn't ask about the certainty of finding the ancient troubled boy, but asked about the certainty of finding the Buddha's relics.
"You can find that thing. ”
As soon as the old man said this, Wu Ziyu was really a little surprised. Because the old man's words happened to answer what Wu Ziyu wanted to ask. Wu Ziyu only asked how sure he was, but the old man didn't answer him directly, but said that she could find the thing, which showed that the old man knew what he was looking for.
"May I ask the old man, where is the thing I am looking for?"
Wu Ziyu has a memory of a great Confucian and immortal cultivator in the Ming Dynasty in his heart, and he still believes in the physiognomy very much in his heart.
The old man pointed to the white cloth under his feet, which read, "A vein of the Ghost Valley, measuring words to solve life." ”
"Is it the Guigu Xuanwei real person Wang Chan? Xuanwei Zhenren has many disciples, Su Qin Zhang Yi inherited the vertical and horizontal lineage of Xuanwei Zhenren, Pang Juan Sun Bin inherited Xuanwei Zhenren's art of war, but because Xuanwei Zhenren has learned very large, and complicated, although Xuanwei Zhenren has many apprentices, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Pang Juan, Sun Bin, Le Yi, Mao Sui and others are all handsome at that time, but they can only inherit some of the spells of Xuanwei Zhenren, but to say that the person who really inherited all the skills of Xuanwei Zhenren is a cynical person in the eyes of the world, only he can be called the true heir of the Guigu lineage, is the old man Xu Fu Yimai?”
The old man nodded, "The young man is knowledgeable, not bad, not bad." For your sake, for the sake of your understanding of my Guigu lineage, I will test a word for you for free today, please. ”
The old man pointed to the brush and rice paper on the ground, and motioned for Wu Ziyu to write on it.
Although Wu Ziyu is excellent in calligraphy and painting, he doesn't know what to write when he lifts the pen.
After thinking about it for a long time, I wrote a "house".
The old man stared at the words written by Wu Ziyu, and was silent for a long time, "This is what you wrote?" Good words, good words, now there are fewer and fewer young people who can have your words, the old man Xu Zhuo has been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, and he has never seen such a good word. ”
"The old man is so praised, let's decipher the words!"
Of course, Wu Ziyu knows his own words, and writing has penetrated into his bone marrow, and when he lifts the pen, it is natural.
"Okay, unravel, what do you want to measure?"
"I asked the old man, where is the thing I'm looking for?"
"The word "She", the top is a person, which means that your things are man-made and stolen, and the bottom is the mouth, which means that you will get the news through the mouth of the people, and the people are on it, which means that people will conquer the sky, and your things will definitely be found. ”
"The old man hasn't said where I'm looking for anything?"
"In the middle of the word is a king, and the word king is both dry and kun in the gossip, dry is the sky, and kun is the earth, which means that your thing comes from the ground, but it comes from the sky. This thing is amazing, you have to give to get it, you give it up, you have to get it. ”
Maybe ordinary people can't understand Xu Zhuo's words, but Wu Ziyu can understand them. The Buddha's relics come from the underground palace, which shows that in the underground, when he got the relics, he was on the Laoshan Mountain, just like the heavens high above, so the old man was right. After losing his relics, he got two treasures - the Qiankun ring and the colorful spirit stone, which is what you can get.
"As for where the thing you are looking for, I can't see for sure, but since someone has a mouth, it means that the thing must be on the person, if you have to ask the direction of this thing, then I can only say that it is in the middle of the world, between heaven and earth. ”
If the old man said this sentence at the end, Wu Ziyu would definitely turn around and leave, things are between heaven and earth? Isn't this nonsense, the Buddha relics did not fly into space in a spaceship, they must be between heaven and earth.
But with the words in the middle, Wu Ziyu believed the old man's words again.
If he could see where the relics were, Wu Ziyu didn't believe it, because the Buddha's relics are not ordinary things, they are Buddha's relics, with the Buddha's mysterious mind, such things are definitely not so easy to find. Ordinary people want to see the gods, of course, they can't see it, if it's Guiguzi who tells their fortunes, then of course there is another matter, but others, it's normal to not be able to see this thing.
"Thank you, old man. Wu Ziyu took out all the cash in his pocket and was just about to stuff it into the old man's hand, but found that there was no one in front of the stall, leaving only a signboard that read "Guigu One Pulse, Measuring Words to Solve Life".
Wu Ziyu looked left and right, but the old man was nowhere to be seen.
"His name is Xu Zhuo? ”
God-man always sees the beginning but does not see the end, and it takes chance to meet God-man. Wu Ziyu put the money back in his pocket, and was just about to stand up and go to Temple Street to have a look, look for the old boy, and ask about the Xin'an Society, when he heard a shout, "Which of you just came, you didn't pay the protection fee, and the acquaintance quickly took the initiative to hand it over, I tell you, my boss is Brother B." ”
Wu Ziyu was about to sleep, someone came to bring him a pillow, and when he looked back, he saw three old boys with open arms and dyed hair walking towards the street where they were setting up a fortune teller.