Chapter 196: God’s Guidance
The master's words were very clear, and Xu Chuchu understood them.
The easiest way to prevent the evil spirit from coming into the world is to kill the medium, that is, to kill Xiao Yu.
Once Xiao Yu died, the resurrection technique would be unable to proceed because it would lack the most important "prop".
Evil spirits will not appear in the world, no major disasters will occur, and the people will not suffer... If we sacrifice him, everyone will be safe.
But this kind of thing is difficult for ordinary people to do, let alone Xu Chuchu.
Seeing that Xu Chuchu was distracted, the master gently stroked her back.
"Chu Chu, remember the paradox we discussed before?" she said, "A train's brakes failed, and five people were tied to the tracks, about to be crushed to death. You can pull the control to change the track, but there's also a person tied to the other side of the track. What will you do?"
"I remember." Xu Chuchu nodded. "My first reaction was to turn off the power because five lives were more important than one. But then I felt that wasn't right. That person was also a living being with his own family and life. He had done nothing wrong. Who was I to let him die for the other five?"
The master nodded with a smile: "That's right. That's why we say that human life is priceless. It's not just one plus one equals two. One person's life is as important as five people's and cannot be given up at will."
"But what if we increase this number further?" Xu Chuchu suddenly asked, "Fifty people, five hundred people... five hundred thousand people? Will we still make the same choice?"
The master shook his head. "That's not how you make a choice, Chuchu. Because this person is Young Master Jinlin Anaconda, with whom you have a past relationship, it's even more difficult for you to make a decision. What if it was someone else, a stranger, a death row inmate? Would you be able to act without hesitation against a death row inmate?"
"I..." Xu Chuchu's mind became even more confused.
Of course, she didn't want to see natural disasters and the destruction of lives, but was killing Xiao Yu the only way to stop it? Why couldn't he live? Why should he die for others?
But if we do nothing, and the evil spirit really comes into the world, the world will have to endure countless years of suffering and sin!
Suddenly, Daju's cheerful voice came from behind: "Hey, isn't this a simple matter? Is it worth it for you to worry about it for so long?"
Xu Chuchu and his master looked over quickly and asked in unison: "How do we solve this?"
Daju swaggered in between the two of them, rubbing against them left and right. "Why don't you just tell that Xiao the whole story? If he has a clue, he'll definitely end it on his own. There's no need for you to do it yourself."
Xu Chuchu, Master: "...Big Orange!"
Xu Chuchu held his forehead with his hand. It turned out that he couldn't expect Daju, with his cat-like brain, to come up with any good solution.
The master frowned directly: "Daju, how can you have such an idea! You are using moral kidnapping, using public opinion and morality to force him to commit suicide, which is even more cruel than killing him directly!"
Daju shrank his head in fear: "I, I was just joking..."
"You can't even joke! You're not normal for thinking this way!" the master said anxiously. "You're such a worrying child! I need to have a serious talk with you!"
"No, no, I was wrong! I won't dare to do it again, Master!" Daju turned into a cat and ran away.
"Stop!" The master stood up and chased after him.
She ran two steps, then came back and patted Xu Chuchu, who was sitting on the ground: "Don't think too much, Chuchu. No matter what the final outcome is, remember that this is not your fault."
"Also, don't forget we're fortune tellers." She smiled. "When Master is confused about something, he consults the stars. Your attainments in divination are higher than Master's. If you really can't figure it out, ask the ancestors to interpret your confusion."
"...Okay." Xu Chuchu nodded blankly, "Thank you, Master."
"Big Orange..." The master turned and chased after him, "Where have you been hiding? Come out! The thought you just had was very dangerous. The master wants to correct you! Big Orange..."
…
Yes, you can also tell fortunes.
Xu Chuchu hadn't told fortunes for a long time. Now thinking back, all her fortune-telling tools, those Taoist talismans, yellow paper, ointments... were all left in the Xiao Mansion. When she left, she only took the most important compass and floating umbrella.
As a result, the umbrella was broken.
Fortunately, fortune-telling does not care about the value of props, so she casually cut some bamboo sticks, which can be used as a substitute.
At this time, when she was fortune-telling, it was not so much that she didn't know what to do, but rather that she wanted to ask God to make a decision for her, which would be better than her struggling with it all the time.
She closed her eyes and threw the bamboo sticks on the ground one by one according to the steps of divination.
Logically speaking, a fortune teller needs to empty her mind and accept God's will wholeheartedly, but now she can't calm down and just keeps hoping that she won't get the worst result.
She opened her eyes and counted all the bamboo sticks and put them in order.
...is the Li hexagram.
The Li hexagram is the easiest to understand among the forty-eight hexagrams. It does not require in-depth analysis. It means to escape and give up.
Nowadays, many businessmen like to ask fortune tellers to tell their fortunes, asking "Should I do this business?" or "Should I choose this investment?" If the result is the Li hexagram, it means to give up early and don't pursue the idea.
At this time, Xu Chuchu got the "Li Gua", which was exactly advising her to give up and leave early.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered the last time she had fortune-telling.
That was when she and Xiao Yu were still investigating the case of the Queen's death in the palace. In order to stimulate Xiao Yu, Chen Zhaozhi deliberately stuffed a note on Xu Chuchu's door, saying that if she wanted to know the truth, she should meet alone at night.
At that time, in order to reassure Xiao Yu, she took the initiative to tear up the note and said that she would tell a fortune herself, and maybe she could find the clue faster than Chen Zhaozhi.
The hexagram I got when I divined that time was exactly "Li".
At that time, she was influenced by Chen Zhaozhi's note and thought that the "Li Gua" asked her to leave in the middle of the night to see Chen Zhaozhi. Because she was worried about Xiao Yu's illness, she disobeyed the instructions of the Gua for the first time in her life and stayed in the room all night without leaving.
As a result, Xiao Yu fell ill again the next day, and she was drugged and locked up.
Everything happened so suddenly at that time that she didn't think much about it.
Now looking back at that divination, she realized that it didn't tell her to leave the room and look for Chen Zhaozhi...
Instead, he was reminding her to "leave" Xiao Yu quickly!
The night wind was howling. Xu Chuchu slowly picked up the bamboo sticks on the ground, hugged them to her chest, and shed a few tears.
Even though she has been a fortune teller for so many years, she still doesn't know the principles of divination and doesn't know who is guiding her in the dark.
Was it the omnipotent god in heaven, or the ancestors who knew the past, present and future... She only knew that her hexagram was considered for her alone from beginning to end.
It never suggested that she shoulder great responsibilities, nor did it ask her to be a national hero. It always advised her to stay away from danger and live a good life.
This time was the same, advising her to leave before the evil spirits descended and natural disasters struck.
With her abilities, it is not difficult for her to find a place to live in peace.
From then on, everything in the capital, whether it was the evil spirits or Xiao Yu, had nothing to do with her anymore.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
