Li Zhiyi looked ahead and saw several fortune-telling stalls not far away, but few people visited them. Obviously, this old man was the most accurate fortune teller in the area, which is why people would come specifically to him for a reading. In this way, word spread and he gained some repeat customers.

"Master, master, please tell me if I can become rich?"

"Please don't worry, benefactor. Write your birth date and time on this piece of paper." The old fortune teller had a kind and benevolent face.

After the old man saw the birth date and time on the paper, he frowned, scribbled something on the paper, and then sighed and said, "Young man, your fortune is not good, but do good deeds and don't worry about the future."

The young man, probably obsessed with getting rich, immediately asked, "Master, how much is a wealth-attracting talisman here?"

"That stuff is all a scam. While good fortune isn't something you're born with, it also depends on your own efforts. Just focus on your work."

The young man was clearly very dissatisfied with the result and said, "Master, what do you mean by that? Are you saying that I was born poor and will never be able to turn my life around?"

"That's not what I meant. I meant..." Before the old man could finish speaking, the young man immediately stood up angrily.

"I think you're just a charlatan, spouting nonsense!" The man threw down two hundred yuan and turned away angrily.

The old man shook his head helplessly and sighed, "Sigh! Young people these days are too impetuous."

She had initially mocked the old man for not being very accurate, but seeing that he was a decent person and at least wouldn't cheat people, she realized that other fortune tellers who draw a few lucky charms for you and charge you several hundred yuan is quite normal!

She was itching to set up a fortune-telling stall immediately, but then she noticed that each fortune-telling stall had a fortune-telling cloth laid out in front of it.

Li Zhi walked up to the fortune-telling stall across the street and asked, "Master, where did you buy this Bagua cloth that you've laid on the ground?"

The fortune teller saw a young and beautiful girl and immediately became interested, thinking she was a sucker who could be easily fooled.

"Miss, would you like your fortune told? No charge if it's inaccurate! Pay whatever you want if it's accurate." The master's confident tone piqued Li Zhi's interest.

Is it true that you can't get a full refund?

“It’s absolutely true. Please sit down and let me see your palm.”

"Master, can you tell fortunes by reading palm lines?" Fortune telling actually comes in several forms. Some require the birth date and time to calculate the annual fortune, while others look at facial features, palms, or even names.

Li Zhiyi's forte is divination using the Six Lines method and face reading.

"Then could you tell me my destiny?"

The master carefully examined Li Zhiyi's palm lines, which were different from others. He was a little unsure. "Can you tell me your birth date and time? That would be more accurate."

Li Zhiyi really didn't know her birth date and time. Not only did she not know, but even her master didn't know. When her master found her, she was so young, and there was no note or anything with her birth date written on it.

She always knew she was an abandoned baby, so her master never thought of finding her family over the years.

"I don't know my own birthday."

The master thought Li Yi didn't trust him, and chuckled, "Miss, how could anyone not know their own birth date and time? Are you joking?"

"I really don't know, just look at my face."

"Alright, judging from your appearance, you are destined for great wealth and honor. You should be a rich young lady, with no shortage of servants and maids to take care of you, and you have no worries about food or clothing. You have been pampered since childhood, right?"

Although this person was inaccurate in fortune telling, he was good at reading people. Just by looking at the shiny gold hairpin in Li Zhiyi's hair, he knew that she was very wealthy, so he tried his best to say nice things to flatter her.

Usually at times like this, these young girls, for the sake of their own face and vanity, will give you some money, after all, who doesn't like to hear nice things?

"No!" Li Zhiyi already knew at this point that this person was a charlatan.

"Miss, where did I say something wrong?"

"Nothing is right. First, I'm not a rich heiress. Second, I don't have any servants to take care of me. Third, I have no money at all; I'm very poor." This person got every sentence wrong.

"Miss, are you trying to avoid paying? Just because you say it's wrong doesn't mean it's wrong. You say you don't know your own birthday, but ask anyone if they'll believe you? Besides, your clothes don't look like those of a poor person at all!"

He'd seen girls like this before—rich but unwilling to pay for fortune telling, trying to renege on the deal. At that point, he'd put on a tough front, since he also relied on this for his livelihood.

Li Zhiyi knew this person wanted money, and said helplessly, "Fine, since you said you could give me whatever you want, I'll give you twenty."

As she spoke, Li Zhiyi took out twenty yuan and handed it to the fortune teller, who was stunned. Why was such a beautiful and elegant young lady being so stingy?

However, since he himself said he would give it away freely, there was no going back at this point, so he could only accept it.

Before Li Zhiyi had even left, he heard someone causing trouble at the stall of the old man who was queuing behind him.

"You have to pay me back today. The other day you said I wouldn't have any disasters, so how could I have driven my car into the ditch? My wife is still lying in the hospital in a coma."

"Yes, isn't this master usually quite accurate in his calculations? How could he make such a mistake?"

"I don't know. Is this some kind of fortune teller? Never mind, I won't bother."

"I'm not counting anymore." In an instant, the group of five or six people who had been surrounding the stall dispersed.

The old man was furious. He saw all his lucky charms had run away, and he was still waiting to earn money to pay for his grandson's medical treatment.

"Hey, don't go! I'll give you a discount later." His words only reinforced everyone's belief that he was a fraud. If someone truly had the ability, they wouldn't be asking others to tell their fortunes.

The winds suddenly shifted, and everyone was now criticizing the fortune teller.

Seeing that he had achieved his goal, the troublemaker smiled smugly and said, "You pay me ten thousand yuan now, and we'll call it even. Otherwise, you'll probably be out of business as a fortune teller. I'll come and bother you every day, and we'll see who dares to believe you then."

The old man said angrily, "You're going too far! What did I tell you the other day? I told you that you should have good intentions to turn bad luck into good. Before I could even finish speaking, you stormed off without paying me. Now you've come here to ruin my fortune telling. What are you really up to?"

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