Chapter 8 It’s okay to reveal a little secret to an ordinary mortal
At night in City C, neon lights are dazzling and people are flowing endlessly.
Meizi Street is the most prosperous commercial street in the center of City C. From nightfall until four or five in the morning, you can hear the honking of traffic horns.
The bars are just opening and the nightlife is just beginning.
Li Chengfeng was walking aimlessly on the street holding Li Ping'an, until he saw young men and women in fashionable clothes rushing to the door of the bar, and then he realized that he was back near Meizi Street.
After being released from the correctional facility, he wanted to take Li Ping'an home.
But he didn't expect that after twenty years of changes, his hometown has changed a lot.
The appearance of Chinese cities has undergone tremendous changes in the past twenty years. The accelerated urbanization process has led to the demolition of large numbers of rural areas around cities and the construction of high-rise factories.
The rural areas around City C are no exception.
The former Lijia Village has now become an industrial park, and the villagers have been relocated to other places by the government and have disappeared.
The residential land of Li Chengfeng’s original hometown has now become a green belt outside the factory.
The world has changed dramatically, and things and people are no longer the same.
Without any psychological preparation, Li Chengfeng became a homeless vagrant with no money in his pocket and had to feed Li Pingan, a cub who had no survival skills.
This is a devastating start, and even the sword master would sigh.
Li Chengfeng looked apologetic and said to Li Pingan in his arms: "I'm sorry, uncle was inconsiderate. We don't have a home to return to for the time being."
He thought deeply for a moment and proposed a solution: "How about I send you back to the correctional facility first, and then pick you up when I have saved enough money to buy a house?"
If the director of the correctional institution were here and heard such brazen words, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit three liters of blood.
If the correctional institution is run by your family, you can come and go as you please? I don't want to save face!
Li Ping'an shook his head and hugged Li Chengfeng's neck tightly.
Looking at the soft and tender ball in his arms, expressing obvious resistance to correction, Li Chengfeng knew the other party's choice. He thought about it and discussed with Li Pingan: "Since there is no bed to sleep on tonight, we can find a bridge hole to make do. Tomorrow, my uncle will find a way to make money."
Li Pingan then raised his head and answered with sparkling eyes: "Yes!"
Unfortunately, ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel.
A "gurgling" sound came from Li Ping'an's stomach, and Li Chengfeng realized belatedly that his niece must be hungry.
Not only was he hungry, he had probably been hungry for a long time.
But Li Ping'an was too obedient. Knowing that Li Chengfeng had no money, he never asked him when he could have food. He just starved all the way from the suburbs to the city center.
Li Chengfeng was silent.
"Sorry, uncle forgot that you haven't fasted yet."
It seems that we have to put aside the issue of making money to buy a house and find something to eat for Li Pingan first.
After all, if you don't have a house to live in, you can travel anywhere, but if you don't have food, you will starve to death.
Li Pingan hugged Li Chengfeng's neck tightly, "Pingan is not hungry, uncle, please don't abandon Pingan."
Li Chengfeng patted her back soothingly, "No, uncle won't abandon Ping An."
After getting the assurance, Li Ping'an's hands relaxed a little.
My stomach started to growl again.
The two were in Meizi Street, the most prosperous street in City C, surrounded by snack stalls. Li Ping'an smelled the fragrance and drooled, but he didn't dare to ask for food.
Li Chengfeng thought about it and felt that it might be too late to make money now, and the fastest way was to barter.
He walked to the nearest Jianbing Guozi stall and said to the stall owner, "Boss, can I exchange a Jianbing Guozi with you?"
Pancake vendor: "How do I change it?"
Li Chengfeng pondered and said, "I can tell you a fortune for free. The reward is a portion of pancake."
It is said that Li Chengfeng has not told fortunes for anyone for thousands of years. It is not because he is not good at the art of fortune-telling. On the contrary, everyone in the world of immortal cultivation knows the name of the Sword Immortal and the Divine Calculator. There are even rumors that he has already comprehended the laws and workings of the way of heaven, and is omniscient and omnipotent.
Taoist Qingxu once gave him a thousand-year-old fire Ganoderma lucidum, just asking for a divination from him, but he flatly refused.
There is no other reason. Although he has cultivated the art of heaven's secrets to perfection, this art is used to obfuscate the secrets of heaven and change fate for others, which is very likely to be contaminated by cause and effect and bring backlash.
Unless he had no choice, he didn't want to be involved in the karma of others.
Now, if he didn't see that Li Ping'an really wanted to eat Jianbing, he wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate measure and got involved with a stranger for no reason.
However, in this world, the way of heaven is not clear and magic has been cut off. It would be okay to reveal a little bit of the secret to an ordinary mortal.
Li Chengfeng nodded, thinking that he had thought of everything.
Unexpectedly, the pancake stall owner not only did not show a happy expression, but instead looked at him with an idiotic look.
"What the hell, you liar? If you want to eat for free, you should come up with a more reliable reason."
"Is the cost of deceiving people so low now? You don't even need to set up a stall to tell fortunes?"
"Go, go, go, don't interfere with my business."
Li Chengfeng was driven away by the pancake stall owner. Before leaving, he looked at the pancakes that had just come out of the pan with regret, shook his head and sighed, "We are just mortals after all."
Forget it. Ordinary people don’t understand how rare it is for him to have a fortune-telling opportunity, so there is no need for him to explain too much.
It seems that bartering is not feasible here, so Li Chengfeng had to give up the idea of exchanging fortune-telling for food and think of other ways.
He casually made a gesture of hexagram, and suddenly his expression changed.
"I didn't expect the turning point would be here." He muttered to himself, lowered his head and said to Li Pingan: "Ping'an, if we want to have free lunch boxes, we can only be flexible and change our thinking, and occasionally get something for nothing."
Li Ping'an blinked his big eyes and looked at Li Chengfeng in confusion.
Li Chengfeng taught: "If you want to get something from others without any effort, you must first pretend to be someone they like and act cute. Do you understand?"
Li Pingan thought for a moment and said, "Eat, I'm hungry."
"Very good." Li Chengfeng touched her head, "Go ahead, remember to use your heterochromia to find the right person."
Li Ping'an nodded, climbed down from Li Chengfeng, and stared at the men and women passing by with wide eyes.
Not long after, a target object was targeted.
She trotted all the way to a snack stand, where two little girls were scanning codes to pay.
One of them had a faint golden light shining on his body. When he was in the welfare home, people with this light on their bodies would usually give Li Ping'an delicious food.
Li Ping'an stood beside them, raised his head and stared at the food in their hands, with strong desire in his eyes.
After the two girls paid the money, they turned around and saw the little girl next to them.
"What a lovely little sister, why are you alone?"
"Have you lost your master?"
Li Ping'an didn't say anything, just stared at the eggs in their hands and swallowed hard.
The two little girls were melted by her cute appearance.
"She seems to have lost her family. What should I do?"
"She looks very hungry. So pitiful."
"Buy her something to eat..."
"Little sister, are you hungry?"
Li Pingan nodded quickly like a chicken pecking at rice, "Eat, eat, I'm hungry."
The two little girls were instantly overwhelmed with maternal love, and one of them quickly handed the food in her hand to her, "Here, eat it quickly."
Li Pingan took the egg and said, "Thank you, beautiful sister~"
The beautiful sister seemed to be shot by Cupid, with pink love bubbles appearing all over her body.
"What a sensible little sister! What should I do if I really want to have a daughter?"
After Li Ping'an got the food, he turned around and ran away.
The two little girls were stunned for a moment.
"Hey, little sister, why are you running?"
"Don't run, watch out for the cars!"
They didn't even have time to eat the eggs, and hurriedly followed Li Ping'an, watching her trot to a middle-aged man with long hair, and handed the food in her hand to the man in a flattering manner.
"Uncle, eat."
Li Chengfeng took the egg handed to him by Li Ping'an, but before he could even warm it up, he was slapped to the ground in the next second.
"You've gone too far! A grown man with hands and feet actually lets a little girl beg for food. What a scumbag!"
Li Chengfeng, the "scumbag" who was pointed at and scolded, did not get angry. Instead, he slowly picked up the egg that fell on the ground, patted the non-existent dust on it, and took a bite.
“It’s quite delicious.”
The two little girls were stunned by his actions.
Li Chengfeng still had the mood to educate Li Pingan.
"Ping An, we can't waste food, understand?"
Li Ping'an stared at the egg in his hand and uttered "hmm" heavily.
Li Chengfeng took another bite of the egg and continued to teach: "The strong are respected. I am stronger than you, so I will eat first. Do you understand?"
Li Pingan swallowed and nodded obediently, "Uncle eats first, Pingan will eat later."
"good."
Two little girls: ...
"It's such a jerk. I'm so pissed off!"
They witnessed the whole process of the scumbag PUAing ignorant children and were so angry that their souls almost left their bodies.
One of them said, "No, I can't bear it anymore. Let's buy some more food for the little sister."
Another one stopped her: "No, no matter how much you buy, it will all be eaten by that uncle, and the little sister won't be able to eat it at all."
"What should we do then?"
"I think this little girl might have been abducted. How could an adult treat their own child like this?"
That’s right, from childhood to adulthood, in which family isn’t food and clothing always taken care of by the children? They had never seen elders letting children go out to beg for food or snatching food from the children.
One of the little girls pulled the other girl a little further away and whispered, "Let's call the police. The little girl must have been abducted."
"Yeah! I also think that man is not a good person at first glance."
"The police station? This is Meizi Street..."
While the two little girls were calling the police, Li Pingan was asking in confusion: "Uncle, they just scolded you, why didn't you hit them?"
Li Chengfeng glanced at the two girls not far away and said nonchalantly, "Showing weakness appropriately can avoid a lot of trouble. We are just trying to make a living, there is no need to waste energy fighting. A few scoldings won't cost me a thing, it's nothing."
Li Pingan nodded, not quite understanding.
"But they also threw our food on the ground. Uncle, you are so powerful, why don't you go and grab their food?"
"Ping An, your uncle is powerful, but there is no need to use force to solve many problems. Do you think it is easier to pick up something on the ground or to snatch something from someone else's hand?"
Li Pingan tilted his head and thought for a moment, then raised his hand and replied, "It's easier to pick up the ones on the ground."
"Bingo, correct answer!"
Li Chengfeng snapped his fingers. "Continue to ask: Since there is food on the ground, why should we spend energy to grab it from others?"
It seems unnecessary.
Li Ping'an nodded with sudden realization, and the door to a new world opened to her from then on.
Li Chengfeng finished the last bite of the egg waffle and threw the garbage bag into a nearby trash can. He moved his ears slightly and heard the sound of sirens coming from afar.
The fortune he predicted finally came true.
He turned around, squatted in front of Li Pingan, looked at her and said, "Pingan, to reward you for answering the question correctly just now, uncle decided to give you a free lunch, okay?"
Li Pingan's eyes lit up instantly, "Okay!"
Li Chengfeng smiled at Li Pingan.
I was thinking, what method can I use to provide the free lunch boxes stably and long-term?
In a society ruled by law, we cannot kill people at will. It's really a headache.
The police car finally drove over and stopped nearby. The two policemen in the car got out and confirmed with the person who reported the case before walking up to Li Chengfeng.
"Someone reported you for suspected child trafficking. Please come with us."
Li Chengfeng picked up Li Ping'an and thanked the two young ladies who reported the case: "Thank you for your hard work."
Then he happily went forward and said, "Comrade police, you are finally here, please take us away."
Policeman:? ? ?
Miss sister:? ? ?
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