Chapter 2: The Birthday Paradox

At noon, Linru City Huiji Restaurant.

There is a lot of traffic in front of the restaurant, and the business is very prosperous, with people coming and going. In the hall on the second floor of the restaurant, there is a table, surrounded by many people, in the middle of which sits a middle-aged scribe, dressed in green clothes, holding a folding fan of mountains and rivers painting paper, and taking a leisurely sip of tea.

"Sir, go on, I'm dying. Suddenly, a man in the crowd spoke.

"Hu Laosan, don't interrupt, didn't you see that Mr. was drinking tea!"

"That's it, don't make trouble, it's ruining everyone's interest. ”

It looks like a group of people are surrounding a storyteller, waiting for the storyteller to tell the story. The crowd quarreled for a while, and the middle-aged scribe slowly put down the teacup, calmly, and cleared his throat, and everyone was immediately silenced.

"The Frost Sword and the Wind Divine Sword are rare attribute swords in the world, what is the 'Attribute Divine Sword'? For example, this Frost Sword contains the wind attribute, and there is also the sound of the wind howling under the wielding of ordinary people, not to mention that the use of the cultivator is a rare peerless treasure. It is rumored that the treasures born in Tianyuan Pavilion this time are this Frost Sword and Wind God Sword. ”

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. I saw that at another table not far from this table, there was a beautiful girl in red and a young man in coarse cloth, who were Meng Ni and Congtian. "From the sky, did you hear that, that group of people said, there is a treasure born!

From the sky, I only care about eating and drinking, where can I care about listening to others.

I glanced up over there, and saw a big fortune-telling flag behind the middle-aged scribe, with the word "count" written on it, and said casually: "It's just a liar who tells fortunes in the rivers and lakes, senior sister, don't take it seriously, let's eat quickly." ”

As soon as the words fell, unexpectedly, the middle-aged scribe heard the conversation between the senior sister and brother as if he had thousands of miles of ears. Immediately got up and lined up the crowd, grabbed his cane, and walked towards this direction with a pestle.

From a distance, the scribe looked elegant and extraordinary, but he was a blind man, the blind man grabbed the blind cane, sat down in front of the senior sister and brother, put the blind cane aside, and arched his hand: "Under the 'Shenji Gate' Sun Blind, dare to ask the two of you He Gao's surname?"

"My name is Monnie, and this is my junior brother. Monnie replied casually.

A group of listeners interrupted their interest when they met someone, all of them looked unhappy, and when they saw that Sun Blind actually ran to the Congtian table, they also gathered around at the moment, and someone said in a strange manner: "Two stinking children, don't go out to inquire, how can you insult the name of the gentleman?"

"That is, Mr. is well-informed, and the name of God is calculated, who in this Linru City does not know who does not know?"

"Boy, quickly apologize to Mr., or ......"

There was a chorus of echo in the crowd, and some people made disrespectful remarks, and Mengni's face suddenly became extremely unsightly, and she pulled out her sword at the moment, and she wanted to attack.

But he saw that the blind man arched his hand at Mengni again and said, "Miss Mengni, you must all be cultivators! Don't get me wrong, they are all people of the market, and there is no malice. ”

"Then what do you want to do?" Mengni saw that Sun Blind had an extraordinary demeanor, upright and polite, and most of her heart was unhappy.

"Walking the rivers and lakes below, I have never deceived anyone. If this little friend from the sky doesn't believe it, he only needs to calculate a hexagram for you, and he knows the result, what do you think?"

Hearing the words from the sky, he put down the dishes and chopsticks, and said casually: "Then you come and calculate a hexagram for me to see what my future is." ”

"Fortune telling is a trivial matter, but this ......" Sun Blind twisted his hands and looked embarrassed.

"Hmph, if you want money, forget it, go and go!" Congtian waved at Sun Blind with a disgusted face.

"Flutter!"

But Monnie smiled when she saw this, and knocked it from the sky. Then he casually took out a piece of silver from his bosom and put it on the table: "Is this ingot enough?"

"Enough is enough!" the blind man smiled all over his face, and his heart was overjoyed.

It's just that the hand just stretched out, but it grabbed empty.

It turned out that he was quick from the sky, took the money, and sneered: "You stinky old man, you are swaggering and deceiving with fortune-telling signs, do you think I don't know?!"

Sun Blind is more than forty years old at most, and he is known as a stinky old man, and his old face suddenly turned red, thinking that the cooked duck was about to fly away, and hurriedly said: "Since Xiaoyou doesn't believe it, why don't you do this, I'll calculate a hexagram for each of you and only charge a piece of money, how about it?"

When Meng Ni heard this, she pushed it to the sky and said angrily: "What do you care about so much? Take it!" and took out another ingot of silver and threw it into the arms of the blind man.

Sun Blind Man accepted the money, and his heart blossomed.

stopped speaking at the moment, approached Congtian's side, stretched out his hand and touched Congtian's face, and then held Congtian's hand and pinched it for a while. His brows furrowed, and he suddenly exclaimed: "Xiaoyou Yintang has a hidden black gas, and the qi is not smooth, and I am afraid that there will be a bloody disaster in seven days!"

Hearing this, Congtian was furious, "I just fused the precious memories left to me by my father, how can there be a bloody disaster?"

At that moment, he roared angrily, stood up and scolded: "Phew, you stinky old man, what nonsense is talking to me, I see that you are angry and broken, and you have the appearance of the collapse of the atrium, and you will be imprisoned in less than half a month!"

Sun Blind was frightened, and secretly said bad!

Fang Cai only cares about touching the bones and looking at the appearance, saying it all according to the truth, and does not take into account the feelings of the employer, which is a taboo in the fortune teller.

But the scene has to go on, otherwise wouldn't this signboard be smashed?

At that moment, he hurriedly put away the folding fan and said: "Xiaoyou, don't be angry, you are under the master's 'Shenji Gate', and the fortune-telling is reasonable." I see that you are depressed and depressed, as if you have a dark disease, your face is burnt, you will be trapped by something, and within seven days, you will have great trouble, this is the truth. ”

"Don't believe it or not!" shook his head from the sky, but inadvertently saw the talisman on the waist of the blind man, and he was happy in his heart.

At that moment, he took out a handful of first-grade spars from his bosom and put them on the table, ignoring Sun Blind's explanations, and said: "Hmph, my senior sister's money is so profitable! A few nonsense words can give you a silver ingot, which is a full ten taels! In Linru City, it is enough for a family of three to live beautifully for a month! And in the land of Nanyi, it is enough for a family to live for a year!"

"My money is better, though. ”

As soon as the words turned, he played with the spars in his hand from the sky, divided ten of them, smiled hehe, and continued: "I have ten first-grade spars here, which are equivalent to one hundred taels of silver." Do you dare to make a bet with me, as long as you win, these ten hedrons will be yours. ”

The people around couldn't help but gasp when they heard this, this rough-clothed young man didn't seem to be good-looking, and he couldn't imagine that he was more generous than the girl in red, and he didn't know which young master came out to have fun?

Meng Ni also looked surprised and asked, "Where did you get so many spars from God?"

"Hey, secret. ”

Seeing the spar shining in Congtian's hand, Sun Blind couldn't help but hesitate in his heart: "Looking at these two people's dress, there is no doubt that they are monks, but I don't know what bet to bet with me......?"

Immediately, even the title was changed: "In this case, how can the young man bet?"

"It's very simple, you see we have about 50 people on this floor. I bet at least two of those 50 were born on the same day and month. How's that, do you dare to bet?"

"There are 365 days in a year, and there are only 50 people here, so it's impossible to have a birthday on the same day!"

"Yes, sir, bet with him!

"Hey, the children of rich families are losers, and it's not like this kind of play......"

The crowd suddenly rounded, and they all supported Sun Blind's bet.

Even Monnie thought it was unlikely, and kept making her eyes stop Congtian, but Congtian didn't see it.

Sun Blind's face was cloudy, there were only 50 people, and his birthday might not be so easy to get together, right?

"I want that talisman from you. Congtian said calmly.

"Okay!" the blind man took the talisman with a cheerful face and put it on the table.

In order to exchange for material cultivation, many cultivators in Yunhai will sell some small but practical magic weapons. Therefore, there are a lot of cultivation products here. Like Sun Blind, this talisman is used to save life, and it is only worth about 80 taels of silver, and a slightly wealthy family will have it.

Sun Blind thought that he was still more profitable, and then asked: "Shaoxia, how did this bet start?"

After calling the guy in the shop and giving some instructions, the guy went to the back of the counter and took out a gong.

first counted the number of people with a pen and paper and reported it to the people at the table from the sky: "This young master, including you and me, there are a total of 53 people on this floor. ”

Hearing the words from the sky, he took out a piece of broken silver and rewarded it to the man, and turned around and said: "In this case, let's make up 50 integers, my senior sister and me, and this guy don't count, how about it?"

"It's up to you. ”

Then the shopkeeper stood beside Congtian, struck the gong twice, and said loudly: "Delay everyone, this young master wants to know everyone's birthday, and select a few lucky people, each of whom will send five taels of silver!"

When the people who were eating heard about such a good thing, they gathered around them, and the scene was very lively.

Seeing that everyone was coming, he said from heaven: "Let's start!"

The shopkeeper began to ask loudly, answered one, and took a pen and paper to record one.

The crowd didn't know how to pick the lucky ones, so there was little to no random answers.

The shop guy asked seven or eight in a row, but none of them had the same birthday. Blind Sun's expression gradually relaxed, and even the few people listening to the book behind him thought that they had won.

Monnie is also not optimistic about Congtian.

When more than 30 people were asked, there was still no one born on the same day. Congtian's face changed slightly, "Although I haven't figured out what the 'birthday paradox' is for the time being, Daddy won't be, right?"

But in the end, what was surprising was that there was a group of 3 people born on the same day, and a group of 2 people born on the same day.

When the shopkeeper read out the statistics, Sun's blind man's face changed, he stood up abruptly, grabbed the shopkeeper's collar, and said angrily: "Impossible! Stinky boy, are you fooling us?!"

"Like, what's going on?!"

"It's too exaggerated! There are even three people born on the same day! I don't believe it!"

Everyone listening to the book exclaimed, and they all looked at the shopkeeper in disbelief.

The shopkeeper's face turned green with fright, and he hurriedly explained: "How dare I! Sun Shenshuan, you are a frequent customer here, and no one dares to fool you if I fool you! And all the guests present can testify, how dare you fake this matter!"

There was a lot of noise and pushing, and it wasn't until the shop guy found and confirmed the answers to the same birthday people one by one that Sun Blind let the shop guy go.

Grabbing the talisman and spar on the table, he laughed and said: "Stinky old man! The young master is a personal disciple of the Brahma Sect, who knows astronomy and geography, if you can't even figure out this math problem, don't come to the fortune-telling business!"

Meng Ni covered her mouth and snickered, and said, "Phew! pretending to be my master's personal disciple is really shameless." ”

Sun Blind looked shocked and exclaimed, "You are actually a disciple of the Phantom True Man?!"

Seeing that Congtian didn't answer, he said blankly: "Also, what is 'mathematics' you are talking about? Isn't it some kind of magical magic?"

From the day to the same birthday of a few people sent silver, lazily said: "This kind of profound thing, you can't understand." ”