"This..." Ms. Liu was stunned.

Gu Zhisang asked: "How is your best friend's son? He is also a very smart child?"

When asked this question, information about the boy emerged in her mind.

Her best friend's son Xiaohong is indeed the smartest child she has ever met.

Although Niu Niu is not bad, she attends the best primary school in the city, her grades are among the best in the school, and she is also studying Olympiad mathematics, but she is still far behind Xiao Hong.

That boy can be said to be a child prodigy, smart enough to participate in "The Brain".

Like Niu Niu, he is just over nine old years and is already learning the knowledge of the first and second grade of junior high school. In addition, he has been exposed to programming, mental arithmetic, mnemonics... and other art studies under the cultivation of his family.

Moreover, this child is not only smart, but also very good-looking. When he was put together with Niu Niu when they were young, they looked like a pair of New Year picture dolls.

Since childhood, her best friend always favors Niu Niu, but Xiao Hong rarely gets angry. Instead, he says like an adult: "Niu Niu is a girl and my sister. I will protect her when she grows up."

When Ms. Liu chatted privately with her husband, she would also say that although her best friend had a hard life in the first half of her life, she finally had her happy ending.

As for Xiaohong, his health is indeed weaker than Niu Niu's, and it is common for him to catch a cold during the change of seasons.

Ms. Liu vaguely remembers that a long time ago, when her two children were probably two or three years old, she heard from her best friend that Xiaohong had a serious illness.

I haven't had any serious illness since then.

After listening to Ms. Liu's brief account, Gu Zhisang raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't you think these situations sound familiar?"

The audience in the live broadcast room also said:

[The boy is precocious, has outstanding looks, and is weak and sickly. Isn't this the standard of a 'virgin life' as just mentioned? This boy is definitely a 'virgin', right? ]

[Two children were born on the same day, one is healthy and the other is seriously ill and dying, but the boy's mother always lets her child give in to the girl... What can I say? I may be more selfish. If the two children quarrel, if it is not my child's fault, I will definitely favor my child. Are mothers really so selfless? Maybe I am a conspiracy theory, anyway, I think this best friend is weird. ]

[I feel the same as above, this is simply a living Bodhisattva. And Sangsang said she is a "villain", so she must have done something bad. ]

Seeing that Ms. Liu was still unwilling to believe it, Gu Zhisang said:

"Do you have a photo of your best friend and her son? I need to deduce their information. What if that boy is also destined to be a virgin? He will also face disasters in the future."

Ms. Liu nodded and said, "Yes."

As she spoke, she took out her cell phone and looked through it.

But after searching for a long time, I only found photos of my best friend.

Only then did Ms. Liu realize that she had not had a frontal photo of Xiaohong for such a long time, even though their two families would get together once or twice a week.

She remembered what her best friend said: "Children's privacy is very important. It's best not to post photos of their faces on WeChat Moments. Who knows if there are people with bad intentions?"

Although she felt that her best friend was too cautious, she also agreed with her point of view and usually protected Niu Niu's privacy.

For example, in my best friend's circle of friends, there are only photos of Xiaohong holding the trophy, his silhouette and back standing on the podium, etc. There is really not a single frontal photo.

Even when the two families get together, it is the best friends who act as photographers.

In the photos sent to her, there was only Niu Niu, and Xiaohong's body was basically the only thing in the picture.

Ms. Liu had never noticed these things before, and now she felt strange about them.

She handed the phone to Gu Zhisang, on which were the photos her best friend had posted on WeChat Moments.

The woman in the photo is well-maintained, wearing expensive clothes, with red manicure and carrying a famous brand bag. She is sitting in the driver's seat of a luxury car with a proud smile, showing the wealth and happiness of her current life.

Although the camera's beauty function changed her facial features, Gu Zhisang was still able to piece together this woman's life from several photos taken from different angles.

She raised her head and said to Ms. Liu:

"Your friend had a difficult family background when she was young, and the relationship between her parents and relatives was not good. I won't go into the details. She and you met after you were divided into different classes in high school. After graduation, you were admitted to the same university and have always had a good relationship."

"At that time, your family hadn't had any accidents yet, and your family was well-off. Your living expenses were much higher than those of ordinary students. You knew she was in a difficult situation, so you wanted to take care of her. When we went out to play, you usually paid for our meals."

Ms. Liu was a little surprised to hear this, because Gu Zhisang described their boyhood so accurately.

My best friend's family is indeed very poor. When she was in college, her family was only willing to give her 600 yuan a month.

As a result, every time they went out to play, she was embarrassed to let her best friend spend money, for fear that she would not be able to afford food after her living expenses ran out.

It was also because of their friendship during their school days that when her best friend lent her money and asked her to pay for Niuniu's medical expenses, she said: "You always helped me back then, and now I have money to help you, what's so unacceptable?"

Ms. Liu continued to listen:

"Your friend's current husband is in real estate. He has a big business and is very rich. She is now a full-time housewife. But they are not destined to be together. When your friend married him, it was not smooth, and she also used some tricks."

Gu Zhisang spoke in a cold tone, and Ms. Liu felt a little embarrassed when she heard it.

Only she herself knew that her best friend's love history was indeed not very glorious.

When she was a junior in college, something happened in her family. Both her parents passed away and her family's financial situation plummeted. So she was busy working part-time to earn tuition and living expenses for those one or two years, and her time to go out and play was greatly reduced.

It was around that time that she discovered that her best friend had become wealthy and her clothes and food were different from before.

When she asked, her best friend told her that she had a rich boyfriend. Although she didn't approve of her best friend spending too much of her boyfriend's money at the time, she was too busy with her own affairs to take care of her best friend.

It was not until she was about to graduate that she found out that her best friend's rich boyfriend was a real estate owner who was ten years older than her.

The man had been married once and even had a daughter. The girl was particularly averse to her, so the real estate owner had never been able to make a commitment to her.

Ms. Liu felt that this relationship was unreliable and advised her best friend to break up many times, but she didn't listen.

The real estate boss did not marry Ms. Liu until she got married and became pregnant, and her best friend found out she was pregnant at about the same time.

It was only after the ultrasound confirmed that the baby was a boy that the boss and her got a marriage certificate.

To put it bluntly, he actually relied on his son to get to the position.

While in the hospital, Ms. Liu met the real estate boss more often.

The other party always talked about real estate projects and looked down on her husband, a lawyer, and herself, a white-collar worker. They also heard that this man had owed the hard-earned money of construction workers, so her husband, a lawyer, didn't like him either.

After her two children were born, Ms. Liu could feel that her best friend was distancing herself from her.

After almost half a year, the two of them had almost no contact.

I just often see in the circle of friends that my best friend is getting luxury cars and jewelry, and her life is getting better and better, and her husband's net worth is soaring as his property value increases, etc.

At that time, Ms. Liu comforted herself that friends always come and go, and besides, she and her bestie did have different social circles, so it was normal that they couldn't play together.

Unexpectedly, a year or two later, her best friend contacted her again and the relationship was rekindled.

It has been going on well till now.

Ms. Liu was stunned for a moment when she thought of this.

How did the two families get back together?

She remembered that when her best friend contacted her, she scolded her for not looking for her for such a long time and asked her if something happened at home.

They hadn't been in contact for a long time, and Ms. Liu felt a little embarrassed when she heard the other party's intimate and blaming words.

She said that she had looked at the other person's circle of friends and felt that her best friend was very busy, traveling, visiting exhibitions, and shopping everywhere, and she was afraid that she would bother her and delay her business.

My best friend said: "Why am I so busy? You see my circle of friends is so glamorous, but it's just to please outsiders. In fact, I am so worried! My kid is sick every other day. He just had a serious illness last month. It's not easy for him to get better recently. I have some free time, so I thought of contacting you. You are such a bad friend. If I don't take the initiative to contact you, you won't come to me! By the way, how is your daughter?"

Ms. Liu didn't expect that the boy who was born on the same day as Niu Niu would have poor health.

Hearing her best friend's scolding, she felt a little embarrassed, and the two of them made an appointment to meet while chatting about their two children.

Then they resumed frequent communication, often bringing their two children to see each other, and their relationship became even better than before when they were in school.

At this time, Gu Zhisang's voice continued:

"From her face, some of the shortcuts she took were actually tainted with bad luck. These bad luck will not manifest when she is young, but from her fate, she will be lonely and helpless in the middle and later stages of her life, and all the money she has worked so hard to accumulate will be lost... and her philtrum is short and deep, which is not good for having children. Generally speaking, people with this kind of face are not destined to have children."

"But the line for children in her fate is surprisingly solid and strong, with no sign of breaking. This is a conflict, and one of them must have been changed."

No one would change their appearance for the worse.

What's more, from the photos taken very early on, this woman's philtrum, Xianku and Chengjiang - that continuous area is fixed and unchanged.

She has always had a face that indicates she will not have children.

Now the solid, running-through children line in her fate palace must have been modified later in life.

As fate would have it, the woman would lose the overly clever boy.

If the boy named Xiaohong was really destined to be a virgin, then she had found someone else to replace the virgin.

Gu Zhisang raised the corners of his lips and said, "Ms. Liu, are you sure your best friend is so nice to you?"

"Of course." Ms. Liu affirmed subconsciously.

"Think about it carefully. Who is she being kind to?" Gu Zhisang said, "She is not being kind to you, her best friend. She is being kind to your daughter."

Ms. Liu opened her mouth but couldn't say anything. Gu Zhisang's words were like a bolt from the blue, making her suddenly think of some unreasonable situations.

Xiaohong's intelligence delighted his father's family, who thought highly of him;

And it was because of Xiaohong’s birth that her best friend was able to successfully get married to her current husband. In fact, Xiaohong is her sweetheart.

Although her best friend dotes on Niu Niu, she often advises her to have a second child in private, so that she can have a younger brother...

With all these things in mind, why is my best friend so good to my daughter even though she prefers boys to girls?

Gu Zhisang: "Well, let's do an experiment."

She said in a sad tone: "Call your best friend and tell her that you have found a way to cure Niu Niu."

Ms. Liu:?

"this……"

"Since you believe she is a good person and think she has nothing to do with your daughter's affairs, why are you still hesitating?"

Ms. Liu thought about it and agreed, so she took out her cell phone and called her best friend. After the other party answered, she said as Gu Zhisang had taught her:

"Yanzi, I have good news for you. Niuniu is saved!"

"What?! How is this possible?" The woman on the other end of the phone seemed startled and screamed in disbelief.

"No, I mean didn't the doctor say that Niuniu...?"

Ms. Liu clenched her fists, glanced at Gu Zhisang and continued:

"It's like this. Didn't the doctor say that Niuniu's disease can't be cured? I really had no other choice, so I sent a letter for help to the "Spiritual Matters" program team a few days ago. It's a metaphysics program, and the contestants in it are all very powerful masters."

"Now all the masters have come to the hospital. After examining Niu Niu, they said that she was not sick at all, but was harmed by someone! Someone swapped a 'virgin life' with her, which is why she is like this now. I am really angry!"

My best friend Yan Zi on the other end of the phone said, "Why didn't you tell me about participating in the show?"

Ms. Liu smiled bitterly and said, "I can't always rely on you for everything. I have caused you a lot of trouble in the past six months. To be honest, I didn't expect the program team to choose us so quickly. I was also afraid that the masters would not be able to solve the problem after seeing it, so it would be a waste of joy to tell you."

"But now it's all right. A master said that it can be solved. As long as a ritual is performed to exchange the 'boy's life', Niu Niu's illness will be cured. But the child who was secretly exchanged will suffer. The master said that 'changing the boy' is against the will of heaven, and the child will suffer backlash. Once he is exchanged, he will die immediately..."

"No more talking. The master is going to perform a ritual. It will be healed in one or two hours at most. I'll call you to let you know the good news when I can get it back. I'm hanging up now..."

Before he could finish his words, the woman on the other end of the phone screamed, "No!!"

Ms. Liu was frightened by the sound that pierced her eardrums.

Yan Zi's tone was panicked and even a little incoherent: "You can't do this, absolutely not... No, I mean, the child opposite is innocent, he will definitely not change this kind of thing by himself, it's too cruel for you to let him die suddenly!"

"What about my daughter?!" Ms. Liu gritted her teeth. "My daughter's organs are failing. She has trouble eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. She has pain all over her body when she is touched for half a year. Why should she endure all this torture? When the people on the other side 'exchanged the boy', didn't they think that their methods were too cruel for a child?"

"Niuniu wasn't the one who should have died. They brought this upon themselves."

"Sister, you can't do this. Besides, all the psychics on the Internet are scammers. The psychics I consulted before all said that there is nothing they can do. Can you please stop torturing the child? I'll be there now, wait for me..."

Ms. Liu looked at Gu Zhisang's silent mouth shape of "hang up", and before Yanzi could finish speaking, she hung up the phone.

As soon as she lowered her hands, her legs went weak and her whole body felt powerless. If her husband hadn't supported her in time, she would have almost fallen backwards.

Gu Zhisang clapped his hands and stood up from the stool.

"Okay, the net has been cast, let's see if there will be any big fish caught."

She took out some talismans from her bag and pretended to set up a formation around Niu Niu, her movements slow and ponderous.

Glancing at Ms. Liu, whose eyes were dull and her face was pale, she held her chin with her slender white fingertips. "Ms. Liu, do you still think your good friend is pure and innocent?"

No.

She knew her best friend too well. The scene just now was enough to prove that her best friend at least knew about the "boy exchange" matter.

Niu Niu has suffered a lot in the past six months. When she and her husband were running around buying a house and a car, she appeared to be anxious but actually concealed the truth.

Until now, I am still preventing myself from changing it back.

Is this true love for Niu Niu?

Why is Yanzi so panicked when the topic of changing it back comes up?

Gu Zhisang smiled lazily and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this hospital was also arranged by your good friend, right? Oh, by the way, many of those psychics should have been found by her for you, too?"

Ms. Liu said in a hoarse voice: "Yes..."

She never suspected that Yanzi would harm Niuniu.

Yanzi helped her contact the master, arrange a bed and famous doctors for her, and she was grateful to this good friend from the bottom of her heart.

In fact, Ms. Liu already has answers to many questions in her mind.

But when the panting woman rushed into the room half an hour later, she was still trembling and her eyes were red.

The person was wearing high heels and carrying a small sheepskin bag. Her wavy hair was a little messy, and she was holding the hand of a boy who looked dazed.

"Godfather, godmother? Sister Niuniu..." The boy called out when he saw someone in the house, but got no response.

He was doing his homework at home when his mother dragged him to the hospital like a madman.

His usually gentle godmother had red eyes and looked at him with a very complicated look, and he felt a little scared.

Seeing Gu Zhisang holding the yellow talisman in front of Niu Niu's bed, the woman rushed over to snatch it, but was held back by the staff nearby.

"What do you want, ma'am?"

Gu Zhisang pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "Ms. Liu, what do you mean? The ritual is only one step away and cannot be interrupted."

Yanzi turned her head and looked at Ms. Liu, who had a cold expression on her face. She gritted her teeth and said, "Sister, what on earth are you doing? Niuniu is in such poor health, and you asked these people to make trouble for her. You want her to have no peace!"

"The doctor has said that there is no cure, but you insist on believing these quacks. Brother-in-law, why don't you try to persuade her?"

Her scalp was numb from being stared at by Ms. Liu, but Yanzi still managed to stay calm and said through gritted teeth, "You are not conscious anymore. I am Niuniu's godmother, and I will not let you get confused no matter what I say!"

"Why are you still filming? Believe it or not, I will call the police right away and report you for spreading feudal superstition!"

Ms. Liu's eyes were cold. "You are Niuniu's godmother, and I am her biological mother. I must do this today."

The woman named Yanzi does not watch "Spiritual Matters" nor does she use the app "Da Yan Zai", so she does not know that the program team is currently broadcasting live.

In addition, her mind was now full of how to stop the "ritual" from continuing, and her facial expression was a little grim, all of which was exposed in front of the camera.

While she was making a fuss, Gu Zhisang had already scanned the face of the boy behind her.

She knew Niu Niu's horoscope, so she could easily deduce the horoscope of Xiao Hong, who was born on the same day.

When she got the exact time, she sneered and confirmed her guess.

The so-called eight characters refer to the year, month, day and time of a person's birth. The last "time" is often the least accurate.

Many people don’t know the exact time of their birth, they only know that they were born in the evening, early morning or noon.

A capable mystic can deduce the exact time and even the minute and second of a person's birth.

Niu Niu's birth chart was deduced by Gu Zhisang based on her fate:

Yin time, eight quarters.

That is, after 4:50, close to but not yet the Mao time - that is, 5:00 in the morning.

Logically speaking, she was born later than Xiaohong, and Xiaohong was born only a little earlier than her, so Xiaohong’s birth time should be before 8:15 am.

Judging from their horoscopes alone, they all have the fate of being boys.

But the time of birth that Gu Zhisang deduced from Xiaohong's fate was the first quarter of the morning!

That is, he was born after 5 o'clock.

Even though it is just a small change in time, which may only be less than ten minutes, it is a revolutionary change in terms of fate!

Just based on the two children's current fates, Xiaohong, who was born earlier, was actually born late at the hour of Mao, while Niuniu, the younger sister, was born at the hour of Yin, so she should be the older sister.

The hospital keeps records of every child's birth and generally does not make mistakes.

There is only one possibility, that is, someone changed the horoscopes of the two children.

Gu Zhisang told about Rizhi's abnormality.

Yanzi's expression froze, and Ms. Liu could no longer hold back. She stepped forward and grabbed her best friend, questioning in a hoarse voice:

"So the real 'boy's fate' is not Niuniu, but your son? You knew it a long time ago, right? You exchanged Niuniu's healthy life for your son's premature death for Niuniu, and you poisoned the child who called you godmother every day. Who is so cruel?!"

Yan Zi struggled, "What nonsense are you talking about? My son is so smart, he is a genius! Why would I have to exchange with your daughter?!"

Gu Zhisang sneered and suddenly said, "Yes, it is because your son is a genius and a true 'virgin' that you cannot attack other people, but have to 'exchange virgins' with Niuniu."

"How could you want him to become a mediocre person? You want him to be healthy, but you also want him to be smart. Aren't you afraid of starving yourself to death?"

Although Niu Niu is not destined to be a virgin, she can also be considered a virgin.

It's the 'Shadow Boy'.

The eighth quarter of the Yin hour is not her day branch, but the first quarter of the Mao hour is.

As the saying goes: Spring meets Bing, Ding and Gui, Summer meets Wu, Ji and Geng; Autumn meets Yi, Mao and Xin, Winter meets Yin, Zi and Wu, and the boy is the shadow body. ①

Like Xiaohong, she was born in the golden autumn of October.

But for a child born in autumn, if the month branch and day branch include Yi, Mao and Xin, he is a "shadow boy".

There is a saying in Taoism that nine out of ten children have shadows.

That is to say, a real "boy" is very rare, and most of the so-called "boys with destiny" are actually "shadow boys".

The reasons for the formation of this kind of "shadow boy" are very complex and varied, and the personality and talents they manifest after reincarnation as adults are also different.

Some "shadow boys", as the name suggests, are the shadows of real boys.

Perhaps they had interactions with real boys in their previous lives and were contaminated with a hint of boyish aura, so they had a little spiritual aura after reincarnation.

And Niu Niu, this "shadow boy", is very special. Her soul glows with a faint golden light, and she is undoubtedly a "boy".

But she is a child of the underworld.

Those "boys" who cannot return to the immortal seat for various reasons can only enter the underworld after death.

Some who do not want to reincarnate want to become a minor official in the underworld, just like the ghost official that Xi Haihong saw. Some who hate the eerie atmosphere of the underworld and are nostalgic for the prosperity and wealth of the world of the living choose to reincarnate as humans again.

This kind of 'shadow boy' has already left the immortal family, so naturally he won't suffer sudden death like a 'boy with a life'. At most he will suffer from some minor illnesses and disasters.

On the contrary, they still have some residual wisdom and are much smarter than ordinary people.

Gu Zhisang guessed that Yan Zi had already discovered the special features of the two children's fate, which was why she contacted Ms. Liu again and became Niu Niu's godmother.

She had already set her sights on Niu Niu.

The reason why Xiaohong is so smart is because of his "virgin life". If he were to be born as a virgin with an ordinary person, he would still be able to survive healthily, but his intelligence would gradually disappear in the future.

But Niuniu is different, she is a "shadow boy" and her IQ is higher than that of ordinary people.

By exchanging "boys" with Niu Niu, Xiao Hong can still have the wisdom to maintain his cleverness.

The reason why Yanzi is so nice to Niu Niu is probably because he feels guilty and is self-righteously compensating Niu Niu.

This "compensation" is so hypocritical that it makes people feel disgusted.

The author has something to say:

① The Shadow Boy Algorithm comes from Baidu

Nine out of ten children are shadows, and there are very few real children, so don't believe in the idea of ​​​​exchanging children easily qwq