Everyone understands the meaning of this statement: once the favor is done, both the favor and the favor will be gone.
Zhou Jiao's eyes narrowed slightly when she heard this, and after calming herself down, she said softly, "I don't need it. I'll give the two hexagrams to the old lady."
Old Lady Liu looked at her with admiration in her eyes. "This is the first time I've heard someone refuse something in front of me. Do you know that a divination from me is worth a thousand gold?"
Zhou Jiao nodded solemnly.
She could still tell whether the other party had real ability or not. Although she always believed that fate was in one's own hands, it wouldn't hurt to get some advice.
The old lady nudged her and said with a smile, "Children are ignorant. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. But let's each have our own fortune-telling."
Old Lady Liu smiled and shook her head without saying anything. This was their business. After the two divinations, she didn't owe anyone any favors. Just like the divination that year, she had offset a debt.
Old Mrs. Cheng took out a piece of red paper from her pocket, placed it on the Eight Immortals Table and pushed it in front of her, then signaled Zhou Jiao with her eyes not to refuse.
Zhou Jiao nodded in understanding upon seeing this.
This time they also need the eight characters, which is completely different from last time. I guess they are going to use a big trick.
Zhou Jiao gave Old Lady Liu an apologetic smile, then stood up and left to go to the courtyard to look for her nephew. Although she didn't know what the old lady was, since it was related to the Cheng family, she just wanted to avoid suspicion.
When she left and returned to the yard, a middle-aged woman in textile factory worker's clothes came in pushing a bicycle, and the middle-aged man came forward to take the dishes.
When he saw Zhou Jiao, the middle-aged man whispered something to his wife, and the middle-aged woman just smiled at her.
Seeing this, Zhou Jiao walked forward and greeted him, then sat down on the cold stone bench and took out a pen from her shoulder bag. After thinking for a while, she used the bag as a cover to pull out a piece of red paper.
Fortunately, red envelopes are now wrapped in red paper, otherwise she really wouldn't have any way to get one.
Seeing how serious the old lady was just now, I guess I would be criticized if I wrote it directly on a piece of white paper. Not only that, some things are better to be believed than not.
When she picked up the pen, she couldn't think of anyone's birth date in her family to write down. Her father was fine; her husband was fine too; her mother was fine too.
All three sons are her treasures, and she cannot be partial to any of them.
Moreover, she was unwilling to reveal her family members' birth dates to these sorcerers. Human hearts are unpredictable, and who knows if they will be used for evil purposes.
Finally, Zhou Jiao wrote down her birth date.
It's not that she doesn't worry about herself.
She is an exceptional person and very blessed to have lived two lives.
If we really want to have our fortune told now, she is the right person.
From point to surface, layer by layer, only by calculating her life destiny can we know her parents, her lover in the middle, and her children and grandchildren.
After finishing writing and rolling up the paper, Zhou Jiao could feel the cold air coming out of her little butt. She packed up her paper and pen and stood up.
Sigh...this hospitality is so disappointing.
She thought about how she had always been turned away, and how she had always been welcomed with open arms. She hoped this so-called old man hadn't let her down, otherwise she would be laughed at when she got home.
The door to the main hall was covered by a cotton curtain, and Zhou Jiao had no idea what was going on inside. The middle-aged couple had already rushed back to the small kitchen in the corner of the yard.
She was so bored that she could only stroll around the yard, relying on a few physiognomy books she had read, secretly observing the yard's feng shui. Maybe she could even compare and learn something.
The old lady spent nearly an hour on this divination. In Zhou Jiao's opinion, she might have even finished telling the whole story about the fifth generation of the Cheng family.
But compared to that quick divination twenty years ago, it seems that the size of the favor is quite proportional to the time. I just wonder what debt did Old Lady Liu owe the old lady back then?
When Old Lady Cheng lifted the door curtain, Zhou Jiao didn't wait for her to put it down, but trotted forward and pushed her inside. What a joke, she wanted to avoid suspicion, but she didn't really want to avoid suspicion with her own elderly.
What's more, let alone the fact that a fortune-telling from the other party is worth a thousand gold coins, what would it matter even if it is worth tens of thousands of gold coins?
My destiny is in my own hands!
Zhou Jiao pushed the old lady to stay in her original position, moved her stool closer to her side, took out the red paper she had just prepared from her pocket, placed it on the table, and respectfully pushed it in front of Old Lady Liu with both hands.
As she expected, she received an admiring look from the old lady.
Well, she didn't notice it just now. Wow, this old lady Liu is from a wealthy family - the eight-immortals table is made of genuine Ming Huanghuali wood, and even the old lady is sitting on a Ming Huanghuali four-cornered official hat chair.
Old Lady Liu took the red paper, her eyes narrowed slightly, and then she glanced at Zhou Jiao, who was sitting upright. She collected herself and said after a moment, "This seems to be your birth chart?"
Zhou Jiao nodded after hearing this.
The old lady interjected, "The timing was wrong last time. This time we need to ask a master for divination."
When Zhou Jiao heard her even address her as "Master", she unconsciously held her breath and looked at Old Lady Liu.
Old Mrs. Liu was silent for a while, then reached out and moved a small rectangular wooden box from the corner of the table.
Zhou Jiao sensitively felt that the old lady next to her suddenly relaxed her body.
When Old Lady Liu opened the box, there was a bunch of black chopsticks inside. Zhou Jiao looked at Old Lady Liu thoughtfully, but she couldn't take it lightly.
If I'm not mistaken, this is the best alternative to yarrow divination - the ebony plan.
At this moment, Zhou Jiao saw that Old Lady Liu not only took out the chips, but also saw her holding a brush and writing on the four pillars of her birth date and time on the red paper, stroke by stroke.
She realized that she had misunderstood just now.
——The old lady had only been in there for an hour, which wasn’t a lot of time.
This is fortune-telling, divination, and using a Bagua plate...
"Alright, she hasn't even spoken yet, and the game won't be over in less than half an hour." As expected of a disciple of her master, she's probably on par with her master's old friend, Taoist Master Ma. It's a shame the other person is a complete slacker, having not even read his fortune for his own great-grandson's work in the countryside for twenty years.
According to her master, the Taoist priest was really afraid of the saying of "five disadvantages and three shortcomings".
It is said that people who are good at fortune telling, feng shui and physiognomy cannot escape the fate of "five disadvantages and three deficiencies".
Just because people like them leak too many secrets, God punishes them and prevents them from enjoying the complete destiny like normal people.
——Some live in poverty all their lives, some live in hardship all their lives, some die young, and some even live alone all their lives.
So from the moment they understood this, many practitioners began to carefully understand and compare their own destiny, for fear of making any of the mistakes.
The so-called five evils are nothing more than "widowhood, widowhood, loneliness, solitude, and disability." To put it bluntly, the three deficiencies are "money, life, and power."
So when Ma Laoyi returned to secular life, he had his fortune told for himself, and after that he got married and had children, he never asked for fortune telling again.
He was undoubtedly lucky. As the only son of a family, he committed the crime of three deficiencies. Therefore, he knew that his descendants would not be able to become officials for several generations, so he just sent them to the countryside.
Similarly, Zhou Jiao just heard the middle-aged man say that Old Lady Liu was his aunt, and guessed that she was an orphan who had suffered five disadvantages, so she also began to retire from the underworld.
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