Chapter 110 Chapter 110 is the only genuine version...
Ji Nanke's carriage slowly left.
The blind man also hurriedly packed up his fortune-telling stall, his movements extremely efficient.
Zheng Si walked over: "I think..."
Before he could sit down and finish what Gu Zhizhuo had told him, the blind man excused himself, saying, "Old blind man, I just had a fortune-teller read, and everything looks bad today. I'll close my stall now. Please come back tomorrow."
After he finished speaking, he took out a stick, tapped the ground with it, pushed the stall away, and left Zheng Si behind.
Zheng Si wanted to ask the attendant to stop the man, but then he remembered what Miss Gu had said: he should pretend to be down and out. If he hesitated, the man would walk away. His confused mind was still slowly thinking: Isn't he blind? How can he walk so fast?
He shook his head, staggered back to the pub, and said vaguely, "Sister, the person is gone."
Gu Zhizhuo didn't bother to pay attention to the drunkard. She stared outside and asserted, "It must be him."
She could clearly see Ji Nan Ke and the old blind man talking, although she couldn't hear what they were saying, but the old blind man gave Ji Nan Ke a red lucky bag with the word "marriage" faintly written on it.
Is Ji Nan Ke here to ask for a marriage talisman?
For Xie Jing? Gu Zhizhuo rejected the idea in her mind as soon as it occurred to her. Xie Jing was devoted to her, so there was no need for her to do such a thing, unless it was for someone else. For example, Ji Shi.
This is interesting!
Zhou Liulang's breath caught in his throat when he heard this. He leaned over to look in the direction where the blind man had left and hurriedly asked, "Sister, was it that old blind man who gave Scholar Zhang the talisman?!"
Gu Zhizhuo nodded.
She picked up the messily folded lucky bag on the Eight Immortals Table and said to Zheng Si, "This should also be what he gave to the Liu family's young master."
The hair inside belongs to the groom. With this hair, through the blessing spell of the marriage talisman, Miss Zheng Liu will fall in love with the groom. Then he will be the first to complain and force Miss Zheng Liu into a desperate situation.
Zheng Si was stunned.
Zhou Liulang knew more and pulled him aside to explain.
Zheng Si: Really?!
Zhou Liulang nodded heavily: "Think about it, how could Sister Lin do such a stupid thing!"
Zheng Si held the wine cup tightly, and it broke with a snap. The broken porcelain pieces pierced his fingers, and the pain made his messy head suddenly clear up.
The kid named Liu!
"Liu Ling is holding a grudge against that concubine and is deliberately seeking revenge!"
Zheng Si gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go and get that blind man back."
Zhou Liulang's hatred was no less than his, and he wanted to go too.
"Wait." Gu Zhizhuo intervened, saying, "Mr. Zhou, find any excuse and ask the waiter where the blind man lives. Remember, don't act like you're ready for a fight."
Gu Zhizhuo was thinking that Ji Nan Ke had not gone far, and if he made too much noise and attracted Ji Nan Ke's attention, things would be in trouble later.
Zhou Liulang left quickly and returned just as quickly. As soon as he returned, he said, "I live in Yanziwei Lane. I told the waiter I wanted to ask the old blind man for a marriage talisman. I gave him a silver coin, and he told me right away."
After he finished speaking, his eyes were burning, and he couldn't wait for Gu Zhizhuo to speak.
Gu Zhizhuo nodded: "Brother, let's go together."
Not too many people could go, so apart from Gu Yican, only Zhou Liulang and Zheng Si, the two people most deeply involved, were brought along.
Gu Yican casually sent everyone away. The playboys didn't have the habit of going home so early, so they went to see a play together in groups of three or four.
"Brother Can, when you're done, come find us at the Xiangxilou!"
Okay!
"Let's drink together tonight."
Gu Zhizhuo went downstairs and mounted his horse.
Yanziwei Alley, not far from Maoer Street, sits at the intersection of East City and South City. Thousands of people live in this crowded alley. Entering from the alley's entrance, you'll find a crisscross of alleyways, large and small. Most of the alley's buildings are low-rise, with a few featuring courtyards, often housing seven or eight families.
At this time, many people are working outside, and only children are running around in the alley.
The woman washing clothes in front of the house looked up at them from time to time. They were just standing in the alley, and they looked like a patch of silk and satin on a piece of cloth, which was particularly glaring.
"How do I find this?"
Zheng Si couldn't believe that there was such a place in the capital.
"Haven't you heard that the south is poor and the north is humble? There are many poor places in the south city. Don't make a fuss." Zhou Liulang came here to find Zhang Xiucai and was mentally prepared, which made Zheng Si look like a worldly-wise person.
He stopped a child carrying a bucket to the well to fetch water, gave him some candies, and asked, "Do you know where an old blind fortune teller lives? Take me there, and I'll give you all these."
The child was covered in dirt and had spots on her face. It was only when she spoke that we could tell she was a girl.
She shook her head: "I don't want candy, can you give me a copper?"
A young man like Zhou Liulang would not carry copper coins on him. He felt around and took out a silver ingot in the shape of a lotus.
"Is this silver?" The girl had never seen silver before, so she happily accepted it. "I know, I know! Come with me."
“It stinks.”
Zheng Si covered his nose. The alley was filled with a strong stench and there were unknown water stains on the corners of the walls. He turned around and saw Miss Gu turning into the alley as if nothing had happened. Her beautiful embroidered shoes with pearls on them stepped on the muddy ground.
Zheng Siyi gritted his teeth and quickly caught up.
After all, I'm here for Sister Lin, and it's really not right for me to be so hesitant.
The alley was even dirtier, with rats scurrying around and the ground was slippery. Gu Yican gave her his hand to support her, his brow furrowed, "Sister, can I carry you?"
"don't want."
She'd even been to a funeral cemetery filled with the dead. Was there any place she couldn't go? The stench of rotting corpses was far worse than here.
The little girl led them through many twists and turns and finally arrived at a small courtyard.
She pointed inside and said enviously, "This is it. Blind Chen is so rich, he lives in a yard all by himself." Her eyes were full of longing. "When I grow up, I want to gouge out my eyes and become a blind fortune teller."
"Nonsense." Gu Zhizhuo said softly, "Is there no one else doing other work in your alley?"
"Yes," the little girl counted on her fingers, "there's a scholar living upstairs, but he can't pass the imperial examinations and can't make any money. There's also a toilet cleaner, an embroiderer, and a curtain hanger..."
What does it mean to hang half a curtain? Gu Zhizhuo didn't understand and turned to look at Gu Cancan.
Gu Yican hesitated for a moment and said, "A prostitute." His sister was different from other girls and didn't have so many taboos.
The little girl said happily, "But none of them earn as much as Blind Chen. Blind Chen can live in a big yard."
To her, a yard that is not even accessible is already a big yard.
Gu Zhizhuo: “…”
Gu Zhizhuo tapped her forehead lightly with his fingertips: "What's the point of gouging out your eyes and becoming blind? With these eyes, you can find a job as a medicine boy in a pharmacy, and then become a doctor in the future, and live in a big courtyard."
"Pharmacy?"
There was no doctor in this alley, so the little girl asked naively, "Will the pharmacy accept baby girls? My father said that baby girls are a loss-making commodity and are useless even when they grow up. It's better to hang up half the curtain early and earn some money."
But she didn't want to do that, because her father took away all the money that Sister Zhou, who lived across the street, earned to buy alcohol.
She wanted to earn a lot of money, so that even if her father took some of it away, she would still have enough to pay for her mother's medical treatment.
"Of course." Gu Zhizhuo felt a little sympathetic. "If you want to be a doctor, go to Baijitang on Zhuque Street and find a shopkeeper named Su. Tell him I sent you there. My last name is Gu."
The medicine boy beside Su Zhan has become a master, and he is planning to recruit another medicine boy recently.
So what if she is a girl? Not only can she be a nurse, she can also be a doctor.
The little girl's eyes lit up and she nodded repeatedly, "I want to be a doctor. I'm going now."
She ran away with the silver ingot given by Zhou Liulang. Even if the clinic did not accept girls, she had the money to ask a doctor to see her mother.
Gu Zhizhuo stared at her back, thoughtful.
"What are you looking at me for? Knock on the door." Gu Yican deliberately raised his voice and said, "We finally heard that Blind Chen's amulet is very effective. Hurry up."
This is said to the neighbors around.
Zhou Liulang knocked on the door. Soon, an old woman bent over and opened the door a crack.
She had already heard their shouting while she was inside. Chaos' eyes peeked through the crack in the door, and she said with a high attitude, "My immortal..."
"Go inside and talk, go inside and talk."
Gu Yican squeezed in through the crack in the door.
The old woman shouted angrily: "What are you doing? Who let you in? Get out now..."
Before he could finish his words, the door slammed shut and Zhou Liulang bolted it skillfully.
The old woman suddenly realized something was wrong, but it was too late.
Zheng Si's eyes were filled with displeasure, and he placed his unsheathed sword on her shoulder.
Robbery? The old woman was terrified. Although her family was the richest in Yanziwei Lane, all their wealth combined was not worth the jade ring on this young man's hand.
"Don't make noise."
The old woman quickly covered her mouth and shook her head vigorously, indicating that she could not say a word.
"Where's the old blind man?"
"Inside, inside." The old woman was a hired helper hired by Blind Chen to help with laundry, cooking, and so on. Seeing that they were there to cause trouble, she wisely didn't dare to make a move.
Zheng Si pulled her in.
He was filled with anger and kicked the door open.
Blind Chen was hiding golden melon seeds when the sudden noise startled him so much that he jumped up and dropped two golden melon seeds to the ground. He angrily shouted, "What are you doing? I told you not to come in."
He turned around and saw that it was not the old woman who came to help. He quickly rolled up his eyes, revealing most of the whites of his eyes. He reached forward and groped around a bit, then tilted his head and said hoarsely, "Who are you? What do you want from me, an old blind man?"
Zheng Si locked the door and let the old woman go.
Gu Zhizhuo walked towards Blind Chen and asked, "Can't you see?"
Blind Chen's heart pounded, and beads of sweat covered his forehead. Seeing their hostile intent, he wondered if he had offended anyone. He feigned deep emotion as he said, "I, old blind man, have been blind since birth."
"How pitiful." Gu Zhizhuo sympathetically said, "Fortunately, I studied medicine as a child and am best at treating the blind."
Blind Chen:?
What's the meaning?
Gu Zhizhuo took out a silver needle that was as long as her palm. She pinched the end of the needle and without any hesitation, stabbed it into Blind Chen's eyeball.
Her movements were so fierce that a silver light flashed in Blind Chen's pupils. He was so scared that he screamed and fell to the ground.
He no longer rolled his eyes, his right eye oozing bloodshot as he looked at Gu Zhizhuo in horror.
"Is it cured?"
Blind Chen's lips trembled as he said tactfully, "Okay, okay. I can see now. You are a truly skilled doctor, young lady."
Zhou Liulang silently took half a step away, his eyes feeling a little painful.
Gu Zhizhuo dragged a wooden stool over and sat down, saying, "I have something to ask you."
Blind Chen stood with his hands behind his back, his right eye half-closed, and said cautiously, "Ask whatever you want. I, an old blind man, never lie." He added, "I tell fortunes just to make a living. I've never, ever harmed anyone."
Zheng Si was about to speak, but was stopped by Gu Yican's look.
Gu Zhizhuo held his chin with one hand and looked at him.
He claimed to be an old blind man, but he looked no more than forty years old.
The little girl said that he was the richest man in the alley, but there were several patches on his blue cloth clothes in inconspicuous places. His eyeballs were cloudy and his cheeks were sagging. His hands were placed in front of him, with thick and short fingers, rough and bruised skin, and he didn't look like a Taoist disciple at all.
It’s definitely not Taoist Changfeng!
There is no need for Taoist Changfeng to pretend to be a blind man.
"Is your marriage talisman very effective?" Gu Zhizhuo spoke in a clear voice.
Blind Chen was stunned for a moment: "Miss, are you here to ask for a marriage talisman?"
"I ask, you answer." Gu Zhizhuo knocked on the wooden table, "Do you understand?"
Blind Chen shrank his neck in fear, as if he were being stared at by some wild beast. He smiled ingratiatingly and said, "I understand. The old blind man's marriage talisman is indeed effective."
"Who gave it to you?"
"yes……"
"Don't say you drew it yourself." Gu Zhizhuo crossed his hands on his knees, "I don't believe it."
The old blind man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said tremblingly, "It was given by a real person."
"What does he look like?"
"He's about forty or fifty years old, about this tall, and looks like a living immortal from a painting..." the old blind man said, "He said his Taoist name is Changfeng."
When Gu Yican heard his sister talk about Taoist Changfeng, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a dangerous light flashed in his eyes.
Gu Zhizhuo said coldly, "Go on, where did you meet?"
"In the suburbs of Beijing. I, I met him by chance. Master Changfeng said I had a connection with Taoism. He felt sorry that I didn't enter the Daoist sect early in life and that I had lived a muddled life in this secular world. He asked if I was willing to accumulate merit for my next life. Later, he gave me ten marriage talismans."
"Where's the talisman?"
“No more.”
Gu Zhizhuo asked, "No more?"
Blind Chen nodded vigorously, with cold sweat on his forehead: "It's really gone. I gave them all away and didn't take a penny." Except for the last one, the girl gave him so many gold melon seeds, and he was greedy for a moment.
He emphasized: "Old blind man, I am helping people."
There's nothing wrong with helping others, right? He didn't do anything harmful.
"Help someone?" Zhou Liulang was almost laughing in anger. "Who did you help, Mr. Zhang?"
Blind Chen nodded and said confidently, "Mr. Zhang, he's a poor man. He has only an old mother at home and no land to make a living. Every day his mother washes clothes for others to earn him some money. Now his mother is old and broke her leg a while ago, so she can no longer wash clothes. Mr. Zhang can only go out to set up a stall to sell calligraphy and paintings, but he can't earn a few cents a day. They both go hungry every day."
Gu Zhizhuo looked strange when he thought about the divination he had done.
Blind Chen: "If he could find a wife, wouldn't his life be better?"
Zhou Liulang angrily said, "He's having a hard time because he's incompetent and can't support his own mother. He deserves to die!"
"That's not the way to say it," Blind Chen argued. "If he gets married, she'll bring a dowry to supplement the family income, and she can also take care of his mother. At the very least, she can do some extra work. Mr. Zhang just needs to study hard. Maybe he'll pass the imperial examination next year."
Zhou Liulang:!
His fourth sister has been surrounded by a dozen maids and old women since she was a child, and her fingers have never been touched by women. He would be grateful for half a year if someone made a purse for her.
According to what this blind man said, his fourth sister, who was well-dressed and well-fed, deserved to be treated badly?!
Zhou Liulang clenched his fists, and veins bulged on the back of his hands.
Blind Chen blinked his aching right eye and said matter-of-factly, "A woman's duty in this world is to take care of her husband and children. She can't be so arrogant just because she has a good life in her parents' home."
Gu Zhizhuo tapped his forehead lightly with his fingertips.
Zhou Liulang couldn't bear it any longer, so he rushed over in two steps and punched him twice in the face.
Zheng Si's face was also gloomy. He went over to fend Zhou Liulang off, grabbed Blind Chen's collar, and asked through gritted teeth, "What about Liu Ling? Why did you help Liu Ling harm my sister?"
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