Chapter 005 The Fifth Melon
"Xiao Gu, are you guys setting up a stall here?"
Lin Jianyi brought Sun Zhaogan over, glanced at the bare table, then looked at the simple two words "fortune telling" on the banner next to it. For a moment, he felt like complaining but didn't know where to start.
"Yeah, Brother Lin, are you guys patrolling the streets?"
Gu Xicao greeted Lin Jianyi and asked Lin Yuan to call him brother.
The two of them are weak and alone, so they should build a good relationship with Lin Jianyi to avoid trouble from the gangsters.
"Brother Yi, come on, you're not going to tell me that the fortune teller is this little girl?"
Sun Zhaogan sipped the soda until his eyeballs were about to pop out.
Lin Jianyi said helplessly: "Ability has nothing to do with age. You are the one who asked. He is indeed capable."
"Sir, are you this little girl's savior?"
Wang Laoshi beside him couldn't help but complain: "What master? I don't even dare to brag about myself."
"Master, he is indeed very capable. I never lie." Lin Jianyi said in a good-tempered manner, "Don't underestimate Xiao Gu. He helped me catch a drunk driving bastard who hit someone yesterday."
"Is he really that arrogant?" Wang Laoshi sneered with disdain, believing that Lin Jianyi was here to help Gu Xicao.
Sun Zhaogan blinked and suddenly said, "If it's really that effective, why don't you help us tell our fortune and find someone?"
"Okay, but my divination is not cheap, it costs 188."
Gu Xicao said this without even blinking.
"188? Ahem."
Sun Zhaogan almost choked to death. He turned around and coughed for a while before he caught his breath.
Wang Laoshi laughed out loud: "Sir, people think you are nothing but fish in water. You are not so stupid."
Although Mrs. Liang asked him to help look after Gu Xicao, they were enemies in the same industry. What's more, Wang Laoshi didn't believe that this pretty girl Gu Xicao could tell fortunes, so he didn't help at all and even tried to sabotage them.
"188? I'll give it to you, but you have to calculate it accurately."
Lin Jianyi was moved.
He took out his wallet from his pocket, counted out two bills and handed them to Gu Xicao.
Gu Xicao took it and found the money. Sun Zhaogan looked at Lin Jianyi as if he had seen a ghost: "Brother Yi, do you have too much money to spend? Why don't you give me 188 and I will help you catch the robber in the gold shop!"
"The gold shop robber, is that the Zhou Daliu robbery case?"
Wang Laoshi was immediately attracted to it. "That case has not been solved for a week. The man has already fled to Malaysia. How are you going to catch him?!"
Lin Jianyi was stunned. What Wang Laoshi said did make sense.
The robber stole more than three million worth of gold and jewelry and there was no news of him since then.
The police force also had similar speculation, suspecting that the robber had smuggled out that night.
"Let me do the math."
Gu Xicao pretended to pinch her fingers, seemingly calm, but in fact she was harassing the melon-eating system in her mind: "System, please help me quickly, where is that robber?"
System: I am a melon-eating system, not a detective system.
Gu Xicao: What’s the difference? We should help others. I never blamed you for being useless before. And you had a bug that caused me to not even be able to eat my own melons. I had to wait for you to fix it. I didn’t blame you either.
The system felt embarrassed by what Gu Xicao said and had to reluctantly agree to help.
Wang Laoshi was watching Le from the side and thought that the way this little girl pinched was completely wrong.
Most people think that fortune tellers are just randomly pinching their fingers, but this is not true. Finger-pinching fortune telling belongs to Liu Ren. The index finger, middle finger, and ring finger of a person's left hand are divided into two sections. The lower section of the index finger is called Da An, and the upper section is called Liu Lian. The upper section of the middle finger is called Su Xi, and the lower section is called Kong Wang. The upper section of the ring finger is called Chi Kou, and the lower section is called Xiao Ji. These six finger joints just form a circle on the fingers, and when fortune telling is done, the fingers are counted around this circle. [1]
When fortune-telling, whichever knuckle your finger stops on last corresponds to which hexagram!
But this little girl is really messy.
This was calculated so accurately that Wang Laoshi would take her surname from now on.
"Have you received news about robbers a few times before? You went out to catch people, but failed every time."
Gu Xicao suddenly stopped and asked.
Lin Jianyi was stunned for a moment, and Sun Zhaogan said in astonishment: "How do you know? This is a secret from our police force. Our sergeant said such a shameful thing, and no one should know it."
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Wang Laoshi sat up straight and looked at Sun Zhaogan suspiciously, "Is it true? Maybe your colleague told this girl."
"No, I wasn't familiar with Xiao Gu before."
Lin Jianyi was also surprised.
Gu Xicao said calmly: "There is good news, that person did not run away. But..."
Sun Zhaogan asked, "But what?"
"But that person is hiding in a place that none of you can guess." Gu Xicao said with a strange expression, "Every move you make falls into his eyes. He knows everything about how you plan to set up a trap to catch him."
Sun Zhaogan and Lin Jianyi's heads buzzed.
Sun Zhaogan was timid. He shivered and rubbed his arms. "Pretty girl, it's not July 15th. Do you want to scare us to death? Does that robber have such ability? Does he know everything about our police station's actions?"
Gu Xicao smiled and looked at Wang Laoshi, "Master Wang, have you heard enough?"
Wang Laoshi’s ears were almost close to this side. When Gu Xicao pointed it out, he said shamelessly: “Meh, can’t I listen to it?”
"Okay, I'll lend you a piece of paper and pen as a fee for your gossip."
Gu Xicao pointed at the things on Wang Laoshi's desk very rudely.
Wang Laoshi was speechless, but he still borrowed paper and pen. He would never admit that he also wanted to know where the robber was hiding.
Where can I know what the police are doing?
Gu Xicao quickly finished writing, folded the paper, and stuffed it into Lin Jianyi's hand. "Here, I've figured out where the person is. It depends on your ability whether you can catch him."
If they can't catch this, it only shows that the Hong Kong police are really useless.
Lin Jianyi took the note, curious and puzzled. Sun Zhaogan urged him to open it, but he refused. He nodded to Gu Xicao and said, "Okay, thank you. There is a bonus for this robbery case. If you catch the person, I will try my best to get it for you."
Gu Xicao was pleasantly surprised. "Really? Zhong Youhuahong, then you guys go quickly, be careful, and pay attention to safety. By the way, Mr. Sun, remember to bring a bouquet of flowers when you get off work. This divination is from me to you."
Lin Jianyi and Sun Zhaogan were both speechless.
This master is too greedy for money.
After Lin Jianyi and the other man left, Wang Laoshi sighed and leaned back: "Sister, it's fine if you cheat other people's money, but it's hard to do business if you cheat the police."
"That's not necessarily true, Master Mi."
Gu Xicao said with a smile that today was a good start and she earned 188 yuan at once. She immediately took out money to buy Bo Zai Gao for Lin Yuan.
Wang Laoshi, who was standing by, sneered and was about to look up the horse racing manual when he suddenly realized something was wrong.
This little girl just called me Master Mi?!
No one in Hong Kong knows my original surname!
Wang Laoshi looked at Gu Xicao in surprise and doubt, unable to figure out whether she called him the wrong name or did it on purpose.
"Hey, you two went out so early in the morning and didn't come back. You went out to pick up girls!"
At noon, when Sir Zhou saw Lin Jianyi and his companion coming back from outside with a bunch of lunch boxes in their hands, he made a sarcastic remark.
Lin Jianyi didn't want to make things awkward with him, so he said, "Brother Zhou, I wasted some time buying lunch for everyone on the way. Have you eaten? We bought a few extra lunch boxes, so I'll give you one."
"Damn, what the hell is this lunch box? We have to go to a meeting now. Who has time to eat leisurely like you?"
Sir Zhou rolled his eyes, spat the toothpick in his mouth onto the ground, pulled his belt with both hands, and swaggered towards the meeting room.
Lin Jianyi clenched his fists, feeling furious.
A senior sister in the office poked her head out and said, "Xiao Lin, ignore him. Hurry up and bring the lunch box in. Let's eat quickly. We'll be busy this afternoon."
“Here I come.”
Lin Jianyi and Sun Zhaogan hurriedly brought in the fast food and milk tea.
While eating, Lin Jianyi asked, "What's going on with Brother Zhou and the others? What are they busy with this afternoon?"
The senior sister picked up the lunch box and said, "It's still about that robbery. That boss Zhou Daliu is pushing us hard. His bonus has been increased by NT$100,000. The boss is under a lot of pressure and wants us to go sweep the streets. Old Zhou and his friends are fine. They can enjoy the air conditioning and drink coffee in the office, but we are miserable. We have to sweep the whole Mong Kok. Damn it, where is that bastard hiding?"
Hearing this, Lin Jianyi and Sun Zhaogan looked at each other.
Before Lin Jianyi could speak, Sun Zhaogan said impatiently: "We know where the person is."
"Meh, do you know where the robber is?"
The office door suddenly opened, and Chen Shazhan, Zhou Sir and several other veteran policemen outside looked at Sun Zhaogan in surprise.
No one in the office expected that the boss would be eavesdropping outside, and no one expected that these bigwigs would come down instead of being in a meeting upstairs.
They quickly swallowed the food in their mouths, stood up and saluted.
Chen Shazhan waved his hand and walked towards them with a swift step. "Sun Zhaogan, what did you say first?"
"I, I..." Sun Zhaogan spoke quickly when talking to his senior sister, but when talking to his boss, he began to stutter.
"You, you, the new guys just love to brag. Sergeant, don't believe their nonsense. If you really have the ability, just let them capture the person!"
Sir Zhou said with disdain.
Lin Jianyi was about to reply when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure walking in the corridor outside. His breathing tightened, and his pupils contracted as he thought of the words on the note. He then saw the large bag in the man's hands and clenched his fists involuntarily.
Seeing his expression, Mr. Zhou thought he was angry and embarrassed, and sneered, "Lin Jianyi, what's your attitude now? Did I say something wrong? Don't think that just because you solved a case by chance yesterday, you can pretend now..."
Before he could finish his words, Lin Jianyi rushed towards him.
Everyone was startled, including Sir Zhou, who instantly dodged to the side in fright.
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