Chapter 463 Jiji Extra (6)
Knowing that nothing would happen tonight, Xun Pei'er breathed a sigh of relief, wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, and fell asleep.
The next morning, the two were awakened by the sound of falling rain.
Gigi opened the window and saw raindrops hitting the roof and leaves, falling down with a patter. She didn't know whether to feel excited or happy.
This shows that Xun Pei'er is really capable and I can ask her for advice!
The person who was naturally happier than him was Xun Pei'er.
"I was right, wasn't I?" She jumped off the bed happily.
Her husband will definitely think highly of her.
"Pei'er!" Gigi was startled and quickly pulled Xun Pei'er back to the bed, covered her with a quilt, and closed the window.
"The weather is cold now and you are weak, so don't catch a cold," he warned.
"Oh." Xun Pei'er nodded obediently, "Then my husband, you should be careful too. You haven't even worn shoes."
Jiji hadn't been cared for for a long time, so he smiled slightly and said, "I'm fine. I'm a fortune teller."
A fortune teller who is not as good as you in reading horoscopes...this sentence was not said out loud.
Although she only looked at it for a short while yesterday, Gigi was sure that Xun Pei'er would be of great help to her astrology.
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The rain stopped in the evening, and Jiji asked Xun Pei'er to take him to watch the stars, which made Pei'er very happy.
The temperature dropped and it became a little chilly at night, so he asked his servants to bring a thick cloak and put it on Xun Pei'er to prevent her from catching a cold.
Xun Pei'er wrapped herself into a ball, leaving only her little head exposed, looking very cute.
She looked up at the stars and nodded, "It's the bunnies and birds that are coming out tonight."
"Ah?" Gigi's head was shaken again when he heard that.
"Where, where?" He rubbed his eyes quickly.
Still nothing. Rabbits and birds? Alive or dead? Could it be that Xun Pei'er is the successor of his Shen family?
Come to think of it...it doesn't seem to be a problem.
"Look." Xun Pei'er pointed to the sky, "The stars over here are like little rabbits, and the stars over there are like little birds."
"Connect them?" Gigi tried to connect the stars with a string.
Isn't this just an irregular rock? Where did the rabbit come from?
"Oh, you have to imagine, imagine! You can't just look at the surface." Xun Pei'er looked at his stupid face and said anxiously, "Look, the rabbit's head is on the west side, its tail is on the east side, and its ears are stretched backwards, not standing up. And the bird, look at its wings..."
Gigi: “…”
He discovered that he really had no imagination, and realized that he had not been able to understand astrology before because he had no imagination at all.
"Wait a moment." Guiji suddenly rushed back to the study and took out his torn copy of "The Essentials of Astrology".
"Come on, rabbit, bird..." He flipped the pages and asked Xun Pei'er to continue identifying them.
Which direction is the rabbit facing? How many stars are there on the bird's body? And so on... Xun Pei'er answered whatever he asked.
"Zhongfu hexagram, nine two." Jiji chose the simplest hexagram.
"The cranes are calling in the shade, and their young ones are singing along. I have a good title, and I will share it with you."
"Xiang says: His son is in harmony with it, which is the wish of his heart."
Now it was Xun Pei'er's turn to be dumbfounded: "Husband, what do you mean?"
"Oh, it's just a simple divination based on the astrological signs you see," Gigi explained. "If someone asks about their fortune, the answer will be 'host and guest are of one mind, and the interaction will be profitable.' It means this deal is possible and will be profitable."
"If someone asks about their health, and the result is 'contagious disease,' it means they should be careful about contracting diseases from others."
"If someone asks about the family, the answer is 'A noble family has filial sons, the husband sings and the wife follows...the wife follows'."
How embarrassing! How could you say "husband sings and wife follows" so haltingly?
Before Xiao Pei'er could react, Ji Ji immediately became serious: "Go back to your room quickly. Didn't you hear the hexagram say 'contagious disease'? Maybe you caught a cold and passed it on to me."
Xun Peier: “…”
How come my husband changes his attitude faster than turning the pages of a book?
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From that day on, as long as it didn't rain at night, no matter if the moon was bright or the sky was dark and windy, Jiji and Xun Pei'er would sit in the courtyard and watch the stars together.
They progressed from the initial single-day hexagrams to the complex and varied multi-day hexagrams and multi-phase hexagrams.
Some of the records in the hexagram books are vague and require two people to think and identify them together.
What surprised Gigi was that Xun Pei'er was particularly talented in this area. She was not as smart as Gigi in arithmetic, but she understood the descriptions of the hexagrams in the book much faster than Gigi and could identify them very accurately.
They divided the work and cooperated with each other, learning from each other's strengths and weaknesses, which made Gigi's astrology grow faster and faster.
In order to be able to start astrology with Xun Pei'er on time every night, he turned down all social engagements and told others that he was going home to be with his wife, which gave everyone the opportunity to tease him about how he was reluctant to be separated from his newlyweds.
Fortunately, no one dared to say anything to him even though he turned down the social engagement. Why? Because Pei'er's grandfather, Old Man Xun, was in the court.
When they heard that Gigi couldn't bear to leave his wife, they praised him highly and no one dared to offend him.
Soon, Jiji's astrology skills improved by leaps and bounds, and could be said to be comparable to Senior Sister Xu Chuchu's divination skills.
But there is a difference between astrology and divination.
Divination focuses on details. A strong fortune teller can find the exact location of a person or an object through the hexagram, which is something astrology cannot do.
The cleverness of astrology lies in that it can predict what will happen in the next year, or even several years or a hundred years from now, which is something that fortune-telling cannot compare to.
And what Gigi can't control now is this cleverness.
If Jiji's astrology cannot predict the future, then it has no advantage over Xu Chuchu's astrology, and is even worse.
It’s a pity that he is the successor of the Shen family.
"Pei'er, I might be going on a long journey." One night at dinner, Gigi said to Xun Pei'er.
Xun Pei'er's chopsticks, which were picking up food quickly, suddenly stopped and she said "Oh" blankly.
"Did the emperor ask you to go out?" she asked.
"No," Guido replied. "I want to go to the Far West, where I can see even more amazing constellations."
Gigi has been thinking about this for more than a day or two.
It is recorded in "The Essentials of Astrology" that every successor of the Shen family will go to the far west, and after returning, astrology will make great progress.
As for what was seen, no one recorded it in the book, saying that it can only be understood but not expressed in words.
The reason why Gigi didn't go before was because she knew nothing about astrology and thought it would be useless to go.
Unlike now, with the help of Pearl, I already have a certain understanding of astrology.
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