"You've been spouting nonsense in front of my wife, trying to stir up trouble in our family, haven't you? I'm going to beat you to death today!" Song Baogen punched him again and again. "You were so accurate, did you know I was going to beat you up? Did you know I was going to beat you to death today?"
Others who were having their fortunes told or waiting to have their fortunes told rushed over to stop them.
"If any of you dare to stop me, I'll beat you all up!" Overwhelmed by the pressure, Song Baogen just wanted to vent his anger by hitting someone.
"Young man, don't be impulsive. The old master's calculations were very accurate. Look at the walls of his room, they're covered with thank-you banners from customers. You have to accept reality, young man!"
A customer who had been scammed by a fortune teller who boasted that his son would marry a rich and beautiful woman from the city and become incredibly successful stood by and kindly offered some advice.
"I'm perfectly fine, and I'm about to marry my wife. You're telling her she's destined to be a widow? Are you cursing me to die?" Song Baogen wouldn't listen to anyone and just kept hurling insults at the fortune-telling swindler. "Which eye of yours saw that my older sister is a jinx? My whole family depends on my older sister to support us. You're saying my older sister is a jinx who will bring death to the whole family? I'll send you to your death right now!"
The old master's yellow teeth were all knocked out.
"Young man, stop hitting her! If you keep fighting, someone will die. Your wife is heavily pregnant. For your wife and unborn child, you can't act impulsively!"
"This old swindler ruined my whole family. Today he's preparing his coffin, and I'm going to jail!"
The fortune teller was so frightened that he quickly told the truth.
"Someone paid me to say that!"
Song Baogen quickly withdrew his fist. "What did you say? Who told you to say that?"
"All I know about the old man is that his surname is Tang, his son is named Tang Youliang, and he has a granddaughter named Wang Yunyun. She came to me for a fortune telling."
The fortune teller was beaten to the ground by Song Baogen and was panting heavily.
"No, no, no... Stop hitting me! It's not that I want to harm your family. That old man surnamed Tang gave me ten yuan to say those things to her."
The swindler pointed at Li Wenxiu.
Li Wenxiu asked in shock, "Then everything you said was false? You lied to me? Am I not destined to be a widow?"
"It was that old man surnamed Tang who made me say that. He wanted you to sow discord between your husband's family after the marriage, so that they would all target Song Yinhua."
The master craftsman had a deep impression of this name.
Old Tang would grit his teeth in anger whenever he heard that name.
"You said my eldest sister is a jinx, destined to bring death to the whole family, and you're right..."
"Your older sister, Song Yinhua? It was that old man surnamed Tang who made me say those things. I don't even know your older sister. Why would I say these things about her? I'm not a god. How would I know who is the reincarnation of whom!" The swindler was filled with regret. He shouldn't have harmed someone for ten yuan, causing them to come to his door and get beaten up like this.
The person who had only read half of the fortune and the person waiting for the fortune telling discovered that it was a scam and was furious.
Someone asked, "How did you know this young man's wife would come to you for fortune telling?"
"The old man surnamed Tang said that his granddaughter would bring the girl over in a little while."
Song Baogen was taken aback and asked Li Wenxiu, "Qiuxue had already recognized her great-uncle back then?"
“I don’t know.” Li Wenxiu shook her head. “I was at work that morning when Qiu Xue came to the textile factory to find me and asked me to take her to town. She spent my entire month’s salary. She ordered a table full of ridiculously expensive dishes, but only ate one bite and then stopped. The restaurant wouldn’t let me take the leftovers home, so I had to finish them all. When I got home, I had diarrhea and vomited. After dinner that day, she brought me here to have my fortune told.”
Speaking of this, Li Wenxiu felt sorry for her salary and also had some complaints about Song Qiuxue.
But then she remembered that Qiu Xue had said that once she had a child and it grew up, she would go to study in the provincial capital and live at Qiu Xue's house.
For the sake of her child, she endured it.
Among the onlookers, some quick-witted ones said, "You've been tricked by that old man surnamed Tang and this woman named Qiu Xue!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than the police arrived.
"We just received a report from the public that someone is causing trouble here?"
The swindlers have been using fortune telling to cheat people for decades, but they are afraid to deal with government officials.
"No one's causing trouble." The conman, whose teeth had been knocked out and whose face was covered in bruises, insisted that no one was causing trouble.
What happened to your face? Who hit you?
"I..." Song Baogen was about to speak when the swindler stopped him.
"No one hit me, I fell down on my own."
The government officials glanced into the shop, their eyes sweeping over the thank-you banners on the wall, which described the fortune teller, the savior of suffering, and the person of high moral character. They roughly guessed what had happened.
Since the parties involved have said that they fell, they should pretend not to know and leave.
"Wait, I'm calling the police!" Song Baogen suddenly shouted, pointing at the swindler and saying to the government officials, "He's using feudal superstition and fortune-telling to cheat people, and he's also accepting bribes to deliberately harm people!"
The conman, whose face was covered in bruises, was so angry he almost jumped up. "You beat me up like this and I didn't even pursue the matter. How come you're complaining to the authorities about me? I just told you, it wasn't me who harmed your family, it was that old man surnamed Tang who wanted to harm your family!"
"Gentlemen, let's talk about this at the police station!"
Several people were taken away.
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Inside the space, Song Yinhua had finished making two new outfits and was hemming the trousers when she heard Li Wenxiu's voice coming from the end of the space.
The black wolfhound barked at Li Wenxiu, scaring her so much that she stood outside the yard, too afraid to go in.
"Big sister, are you inside?"
She had just searched Huojiabao Village but couldn't find anyone, so she went to the new house at the foot of the mountain to look for them.
Song Yinhua then came out of the house.
"Wenxiu?"
"Big sister, it's so good to see you here!" Li Wenxiu wanted to go in, but when she saw the black wolfhound next to Song Yinhua, she didn't dare to go in. "I've finally found you."
"Did you need something?"
“Baogen was arrested, Dad is lying unconscious in the health center, and Mom just keeps crying. I... I don’t know what to do.” Li Wenxiu started crying as she spoke.
"What happened?" Song Yinhua walked over.
When she left the health center last night, her father and Baogen were both fine.
Li Wenxiu gave a general account of the situation.
"Big sister, I'm sorry, I was also deceived. I didn't know that Qiu Xue was the old uncle's granddaughter. She helped the old uncle's family to harm you and used me to sow discord between you, Mom and Dad and Bao Gen."
"Let's not talk about this now, let's go to the health center first."
As soon as Song Yinhua arrived at her father's hospital room, Qiao Guilan rushed over and grabbed her arm tightly. "Yinhua, Mom is counting on you now. You have to save your dad and your brother!"
Qiao Guilan didn't sleep all night, and her eyes were black.
The whole person looked extremely charred.
Song Yinhua couldn't find any words to criticize him. "On the way here, I heard Wenxiu say that Dad suffered a head injury from an external object, resulting in intracranial hemorrhage and he needs to have surgery at a major hospital in the provincial capital."
Qiao Guilan nodded tearfully, "I also went to look for Qiuxue..."
She wanted Qiu Xue's help so she wouldn't have to go to the eldest girl who was said to bring bad luck.
After all, Qiu Xue studied in the provincial capital and was familiar with it.
But Qiu Xue no longer recognizes her and is letting the Tang family drive her away.
Song Yinhua guessed that her biological mother had been rebuffed by Qiu Xue, which is why she thought of asking Li Wenxiu to contact her.
"Who hit Dad last night in Qiuxue's hospital room? Especially Dad's head."
"Hanwen!" Qiao Guilan blurted out, "And Tang Dafei! Yes, it was Tang Dafei who hit your dad on the head with a chair, the chair was broken, and Tang Youliang grabbed your dad from behind and grabbed his neck."
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