It's already quite good that her mother agreed. Before Su Wei and Chen Hong met, there would have been no chance at all. In the year or so since they met, Chen Hong has already become the son-in-law that his parents approve of.
Everything depends on timing. If the timing is not right, parents will react differently, and they will oppose it all, because feudal ideas are deeply rooted in their minds.
This is the reason why Su Wei has been delaying telling her parents. The sooner her parents find out, the faster things will fall apart. She can only give them enough time to accept Chen Hong from the bottom of their hearts. Once they accept someone from the bottom of their hearts, nothing else really matters.
Su Wei was secretly delighted after hearing her mother's words. There were only one or two fortune tellers in the surrounding villages who could tell marriages. As long as she secretly bribed two of them to stop them from talking nonsense, everything would be fine.
Su Wei said "okay," stood up, and walked out of the house.
Su Wei didn't even go to the tricycle factory to find Chen Hong. Birth date and time were not important. She rode her bicycle directly to the two fortune tellers' houses, gave each of them 10 yuan, and then went straight home.
As for Chen Hong's birth date and time, you can just make one up at home.
When Su Wei returned home, she knew Chen Hong's birthday. She said, "Mother, I went to the machinery factory to ask. Chen Hong was born on the 26th day of the ninth lunar month, at the time of drinking everyone's soup."
In the context of time, "having drunk everyone's soup" is a common saying, meaning that most families have already eaten dinner. Babies born at this time are commonly referred to as having drunk everyone's soup.
The mother said, "Okay, I'll have the fortune teller take a look this afternoon. If he says there's nothing seriously wrong, then we can get engaged."
Su Wei understood what her mother meant. As long as her husband said that Chen Hong was not destined to bring misfortune to his wife, nothing else mattered. Even if they were incompatible and argued frequently, she would not object.
My mother came to my husband's house in the afternoon. He asked her which village she was from, and she said she was from Su Village.
After hearing this, the gentleman immediately recognized the girl who had delivered the gift that afternoon. Moreover, the mother and daughter looked very similar. If he could still make a mistake like that, he was truly an idiot.
If you take someone's money, you have to solve their problems. You really don't need to put any thought into this; you can fool them however you want.
In reality, most fortune tellers are just charlatans. It's not that they don't know anything; they might be okay at choosing a wedding date, because choosing a wedding date is a fixed process, calculated based on the birth dates of the two people and the year, month, and day of the wedding, according to the perpetual calendar.
Calculation and fortune telling may seem similar, but they are actually quite different. The wedding date is calculated using a method that anyone who knows how to read fortunes can understand. For fortune tellers, this is child's play.
Fortune telling is based on the birth date and time (Ba Zi), which is calculated according to four elements: the year, month, day, and hour of a person's birth.
If you look at a marriage like Su Wei's and Chen Hong's, you have to believe it's a lie. The idea that a man is cursed to bring misfortune to his wives is superstition, and who knows if he will bring misfortune to his wives after remarrying?
In addition, everyone's birth date and time are different, and it is not possible for a fortune teller to see through everyone. Some fortune tellers may understand, while most of them are just bluffing. They may say they understand nothing, but they may also say they really do not.
The fortune teller claimed the child would grow up to be a county magistrate. Could that really be true? By the time the child grows up, the fortune teller will probably be gone. He can't possibly care whether the child becomes a county magistrate or a beggar.
He only cares about the present and doesn't care about the future, because the child's future has nothing to do with him; only money matters to him. People will only give money if he says nice things.
If someone's son is destined to be a beggar when he grows up, let alone giving him money, he probably won't even get a beating.
Therefore, whether it's fortune telling or face reading, people always pick up what to say during New Year's greetings, saying whatever sounds pleasant, as flattery is always well-received.
Su Wei's mother told the fortune teller about her daughter and Chen Hong's birth dates and times, but she didn't mention that Chen Hong had lost his wife. She wanted to see if the fortune teller could predict the future accurately, which could be considered a way of testing him.
In fact, her probing was useless, because her daughter had already betrayed her by taking 10 yuan earlier, and her husband knew everything about Chen Hong's past marriage.
The man pretended to calculate for a long time, then said, "Your son-in-law was married once, and his wife died during her postpartum period. Do you think I can predict that?"
Su Wei's mother said, "The fortune teller's calculations are too accurate. It's indeed true. Does my son-in-law have a 'wife-killing' fate? In other words, will he kill my daughter after he marries her?"
That's the key point the old lady wanted to know; nothing else matters.
The man said, "He is indeed destined to kill off his wives; if he can kill off the first one, he can kill off the second."
Empress Su's mother was completely heartbroken; no matter how outstanding such a son-in-law was, she couldn't accept him.
The fortune teller continued, "However, your daughter's birth chart also indicates a very strong destiny; he simply cannot overcome it. This is what is meant by harmony in divination."
After hearing this, Su's mother's wildly beating heart finally calmed down. She said, "You scared me to death, sir! Could you please finish what you were saying all at once?"
The man said, “Don’t be in such a hurry. I haven’t finished speaking yet. Some people are destined to clash. Your daughter and son-in-law’s fates are actually compatible. But I’ll say something you may not like to hear: your daughter is also destined to bring misfortune to her husband. If she marries a husband with a weak fate, she can still bring him to his death after marriage.”
However, even though their fates are incompatible, neither of them can overcome the other. This is called "harmony in fate." Don't worry, he can't overcome your daughter, and your daughter can't overcome him. To put it bluntly, their fates are like fighting fire with fire, or scattering dirt and sand. After their marriage, your daughter will be the head of the household for life.
The gentleman received favors from Su Wei, so he heard everything that was pleasant to hear, and his words were always comforting to listen to.
The old lady was even more frightened by the man's last words. She never dreamed that her daughter would have such a fate. This is what is meant by "dragons mate with dragons, phoenixes mate with phoenixes," and "blue stone is not afraid of white stone." To put it bluntly, it's all about hard against hard.
The man's way of deceiving her was to make her give up and abandon the idea that her son-in-law was a jinx to his wife. He then said that her daughter was also a jinx to her husband, implying that her daughter's fate wasn't entirely clean either, and that she shouldn't look down on him. This time, the man really managed to deceive her thoroughly.
Su Wei's mother was half happy and half scared after hearing this. She praised him and gave the man two yuan as a token of appreciation.
In this day and age, donating two yuan is already quite a lot, and there are even a few people who donate 50 cents.
She could never have imagined that her daughter had already come to the house and thrown 10 yuan at her husband before she did. The two yuan she threw out were just to make up for the 10 yuan her daughter had thrown out. In effect, the mother and daughter became the husband's benefactors.
When consulting a fortune teller about marriage, people usually start with a well-known one. Since the fortune teller said that the daughter's birth chart is very compatible with Chen Hong's, there is no need to consult a second fortune teller.
Of course, she was willing to pretend to be confused. Her main concern was that she had taken a liking to Chen Hong as her son-in-law. As long as she felt comforted, she was content. She left her husband's house and went straight home.
Actually, her thinking and actions were correct. Look at the second husband, the result was the same, both were a waste of money, because her daughter had already paved the way for her.
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