He Jianping moved to the next room and didn't show any intention of coming back for a while.

Tan Muxing asked tentatively: "Should we wait?"

"No, there's no show today. They want to talk for a long time." Chu Qianli picked up the snacks on the table and suggested, "Let's go eat hot pot."

He Jianping just said that the old hotpot across the street was delicious, and Chu Qianli couldn't help but feel a little interested.

Tan Muxing was confused: "Are we going to eat now?"

"Yes, do you still want to wait for them?" Chu Qianli said slowly, "I just made a random divination, it will take at least four or five hours to finish."

Tan Muxing decided to leave decisively after hearing this. He went over to say hello to He Jianping. After the two exchanged pleasantries, He Jianping let the two children go first.

Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing went downstairs together. Tan Muxing walked behind her and said hesitantly, "Uncle Jianping also said that he would treat you to dinner another day."

He Jianping didn't believe Chu Qianli, but he was quite polite. As for Tan Muxing, he felt a little awkward as he didn't please either side.

Chu Qianli: "It will probably take some time."

Tan Muxing asked worriedly, "Are you okay?"

Chu Qianli was quite distressed just now, but now she has calmed down again, which makes Tan Muxing confused.

Chu Qianli walked out of the teahouse and sighed, "So luck is very important. Some things just can't be rushed. If the time is not right, it's useless to bother with them."

Chu Qianli did not stay and wait for He Jianping because he knew very well that going up was not a transaction. As long as the right opportunity did not come, he would not be able to convince the other party no matter how much he talked.

People always have regrets and remorse, and they love to say "I wish I had known" the most. However, some things are useless even if the time has not come yet.

"Fortunately, I can always wait..." Chu Qianli looked around the street. She pointed at the ancient archway and asked, "Is this the old hot pot restaurant?"

In the traditional hotpot restaurant, the bright red soup is bubbling, the chilies are swirling in the soup, and the aroma of the broth is wafting.

Chu Qianli was gasping for breath due to the spiciness. She gulped down a mouthful of sour plum soup and felt like she couldn't even speak clearly.

While putting meat into the pot, Tan Muxing reviewed the lost business and said helplessly: "Uncle Jianping may think we are too young. The masters I have met are all old."

"If you're talking about rhetoric, I can still improve, but age is really something I can't do..." Chu Qianli hissed at the spiciness, "It's funny, I can't even see myself getting older."

Chu Qianli might die in two or three years. If He Jianping insisted on having an older master, she would have to crawl out of her coffin and do the calculation for him. She could adjust her language, but she couldn't control her age.

Tan Muxing heard her slurred speech and asked in confusion, "What did you say?"

Chu Qianli's lips were now red, and the spiciness was so intense that tears were streaming down her face. She began to frantically use tissues to wipe her eyes.

Tan Muxing was at a loss. He hurriedly called the waiter: "Let's order something else. We should have chosen the duck."

When the two entered the store, Tan Muxing talked about the nightingale hotpot and Chu Qianli talked about the nine-square grid, which made her cry because of the spicy taste.

Chu Qianli wiped her tears with a tissue and said stubbornly, "I didn't cry because of the spiciness."

Tan Muxing complained quietly: "You are so spicy that your eyes are red."

Chu Qianli sobbed, "I'm not crying because of the spiciness. I'm crying because of the lost golden sundial!"

She must have her own golden sundial before she dies, and when she is buried, she asks He Shichen to bury both the Hun Tianyi and the sundial next to her.

Tan Muxing: "..."

Tan Muxing added a plate of brown sugar rice cakes and crispy pork. Seeing Chu Qianli was about to throw the crispy pork into the pot, he hurriedly stopped her and said, "Don't put it in, don't put it in. You can't eat spicy food either. Why did you order the Nine Grid?"

Chu Qianli picked up some food from the pot with chopsticks. She started drinking again and said in a gurgling voice, "Because the Nine Palaces are like a hexagram plate. This is the dignity of a metaphysics enthusiast."

Tan Muxing: "...That's not necessary."

Not long after, Chu Qianli was completely full. She regained her speech ability and was finally able to communicate normally with Tan Muxing. She ate brown sugar rice cakes intermittently, and the burning sensation on her lips gradually subsided.

"Is it true what you just said about translating it into classical Chinese?" Tan Muxing asked as he cleaned up the remaining battlefield. "Replace the planet names into classical Chinese or something."

"It's not a simple direct translation, but there are similarities between the two." Chu Qianli pointed to the nine-square hot pot in front of him and explained, "Just like many schools of fortune-telling can tell fortunes, their horizontal and vertical coordinate axes are different, but they all establish a cosmic model of the unity of time and space."

"If you want me to do Liu Yao or Plum Blossom Divination, I definitely can't do it because the main coordinate axes are different. But if you build the axis based on the star system, it's fine. For example, Zi Wei Dou Shu is a numerology that is as famous as Bazi."

Chu Qianli added: "My grandfather is in this business. We both use stars as our system, so we can get along well. The only difference is the details, but the essence remains the same."

Tan Muxing was surprised and said: "This actually sounds quite scientific."

Chu Qianli felt very aggrieved: "It's just very scientific, just like the formula or the steps to solve the problem are different, but the answer will not be wrong. Some people like to simplify the steps and only want the result, while some people like to see the process and the steps are long. It's just that the focus is different."

"But outsiders like names that sound impressive, like Plum Blossom Divination, Qimen Dunjia, Taiyi Divine Numbers. No matter what the content is, the name has to sound fancy!" Chu Qianli held up his chin helplessly. "I've also heard that some beginners think Four Pillars and Eight Characters sound old-fashioned, and they like the fancy ones."

Chu Qianli would feel numb sometimes. She earnestly told the laymen that metaphysics was a discipline, but most laymen were more superstitious than the experts.

Chu Qianli: "Some people still complain that fortune tellers are deceiving people, but that's because we are deliberately trying to deceive them. It's easy to be deceived just by hearing the name!"

Tan Muxing: "..."

Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing went home after eating the hotpot. They didn’t contact He Jianping for a while and no longer talked about this matter at school.

Tan Muxing was worried that Chu Qianli would be unhappy, because her deskmate liked to brag about being the best in the world, and was intercepted and returned to others to make people angry. However, Chu Qianli had a good attitude, and he still laughed and joked every day when he went to school, and it seemed that he didn't take anything to heart.

In late spring, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the grass is green.

In the class, Tan Muxing always felt that his deskmate had been well behaved for the past month. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "You haven't mentioned the golden sundial recently. Don't you want to buy it?"

"Of course I want to, it's not that I don't have money." Chu Qianli flipped through the book calmly, "Don't worry, it's just a small event, I'll have money soon."

Chu Qianli was sobbing and rolling around when she had no other options, but now that she had found a way out, she was extremely calm.

Tan Muxing didn't understand her change and was confused for a moment.

Within two days, Tan Muxing suddenly understood Chu Qianli's attitude. He actually received a message from He Jianping, who hoped that he could bring his friends out for dinner as an apology for his haste last time.

Tan Muxing is not good at making friends, but that doesn't mean he doesn't understand interpersonal relationships. In fact, he is sensitive to other people's emotions and immediately realized that it was not a simple apology.

If He Jianping really wants to make amends, there's no need to wait a month. It's obvious that something is wrong.

After reading the message, Tan Muxing began to choose his words carefully and asked tentatively: "Are you free this weekend? Didn't we go to a teahouse last month? Do you remember that an uncle wanted to..."

Tan Muxing was afraid that Chu Qianli had a prejudice against He Jianping, so he planned to make an invitation in a euphemistic way.

Chu Qianli clapped his hands excitedly before he finished speaking: "Golden sundial! Golden sundial!"

Seeing her joyful look, Tan Muxing immediately realized that he was worrying too much.

At the entrance of the teahouse, Chu Qianli was not very serious when talking to Tan Muxing, but when she saw He Jianping, she became well-behaved and dignified, revealing her excellent professional qualities as an astrologer.

The three of them never mentioned the unpleasant ending last time, as if there was no barrier between them and the atmosphere was always happy.

He Jianping smiled and said, "What do you two want to eat? You have the final say today!"

Chu Qianli stood beside Tan Muxing and acted like a lady. She casually said that she could eat anything.

Tan Muxing thought about his tablemate's ability to resist spicy food and said awkwardly: "... Just don't eat hot pot."

He Jianping brought the two people to a Huaiyang restaurant. The three of them found a private room by the window and started chatting as soon as the door was closed.

Not long after He Jianping sat down, he started talking about business, saying, "I asked the little master to calculate last time. I wanted to cooperate with a company for business, but I was not sure whether I could get it. I was hesitant about whether to stock up on materials in advance. The raw materials were cheap at that time, but I was afraid that the price would rise later..."

People who do business always have some capital flow. If the cooperation between the two parties is reached, He Jianping's low-priced raw materials can be consumed in one go and turned into money for continued investment; if the cooperation between the two parties is not reached, the low-priced raw materials can be consumed slowly, but the funds will be trapped in the short term.

Time is money. If this money cannot be circulated for a long time, it is actually a loss.

"Then a friend of mine came over that day, and we were interrupted in the middle of our conversation. Then you said you were going back first," He Jianping apologized. "I felt really bad about it, and I thought I had to treat the young master to a meal!"

Tan Muxing didn't understand what "Little Master" meant. It might be that there was a generation gap between He Jianping and the two of them. He felt it was wrong to call him "Master" directly, so he added another word in front.

Chu Qianli waved his hands quickly and smiled kindly, "It's okay, it's okay. In the end, the cooperation was achieved. As long as the work is done, it doesn't matter who counts."

Tan Muxing looked at her hesitantly. He had no idea that she was so considerate and not the same person who was unreasonable and noisy in her seat in class.

When He Jianping heard this, he immediately complained, "It didn't work. The problem is that it didn't work!"

"As soon as I reached a cooperation agreement with that company, a foreign company came to us specifically, wanting to cooperate with us for a long time, but the funds in the factory were already tied up."

Domestic companies cooperate by consuming material A, while foreign companies cooperate by consuming material B. He Jianping has been hoarding material A, and now has no funds to purchase material B. Even if he has material B, he has no production capacity.

If He Jianping completed the orders of domestic companies first and then took the funds and manpower to look for foreign companies, the opportunity might have been lost. Business is about timeliness, and changes will occur once the battle line is extended.

It was for this reason that He Jianping wanted to find someone to do the math in order to find the best solution, but he still got into trouble.

"You said they were harming people, and I went to argue with them, but they told me there was nothing we could do!" He Jianping was furious. "I paid money at the beginning, but now they are turning their backs on me!"

He Jianping had a heated argument with his friends about this matter, and then he remembered what Chu Qianli once said, "Think carefully whether what you are asking is the same as what you want." Only then did he figure out the meaning of the matter.

However, the mistake had already been made. He Jianping really didn't believe Chu Qianli at first. She was sitting in the teahouse and could still be let go. This matter was ultimately his fault. He was not sure if he could call out two more people. Fortunately, Tan Muxing and Chu Qianli gave him face.

Chu Qianli said kindly, "Uncle He, I didn't mean to make you angry. The main thing is that the calculation was correct. You asked whether the cooperation could be successful, and the result given by the six yao was correct."

Liu Yao's fellow divinationist did not fail in fortune-telling. He did not fully understand people's hearts, so he was probably wronged by He Jianping. He only predicted whether the cooperation could be achieved, but he did not predict the aftermath.

Of course, that person may not have learned the hexagram well enough, and everyone's interpretation of the hexagram is vague, and the amount of information read by each person is different. The art of divination itself is correct, the key is to look at the person.

This is the truth that man proposes, God disposes. There are always people who believe that metaphysics can explain everything, but they don’t realize that those who study metaphysics have limitations.

He Jianping said angrily, "Then there is really no other way?"

Chu Qianli: "Ah, that's not the case. It's just like playing cards. You may play the wrong cards at the beginning, but some things can be saved later. You may win without knowing it."

"But the playing time has changed, and there are fewer good cards in hand, so it will be harder to win." Chu Qianli added, "But it doesn't mean that it's impossible to win!"

He Jianping hurriedly asked: "Can you help me calculate again and see if there is any way to solve this problem?"

Chu Qianli smiled and said, "Of course you can, but can I ask first, which system do you like?"

"What system?"

"Eastern or Western? You didn't seem to like Western astrology last time. How about we try Eastern astrology this time?"

After listening to Chu Qianli's explanation of the differences between the schools, He Jianping showed a confused expression, and said decisively: "Any one will do, as long as there are no omissions and it can solve the problem!"

Chu Qianli praised: "That's just like me, use whatever works best."

"It's not just my fault, I just hope there won't be any more such things happening. I really can't stand this kind of stimulation..." He Jianping added hurriedly. He was afraid that if he missed anything, he would be really upset.

"I understand, I understand. Party A doesn't know what they want. This is something we, Party B, have to figure out." Chu Qianli responded casually while telling the fortune.

He Jianping slapped his thigh and exclaimed in delight: "Oh, it's so easy for me to talk to you! I spent a long time explaining to that fortune teller, and it was so confusing that my head hurt in the end!"

He Jianping always talks at cross purposes with the fortune teller. He doesn't understand why communication is so difficult. They have to argue for a long time over a small matter, and in the end both parties are unhappy.

Chu Qianli sighed: "Hey, you can't blame him, he probably didn't realize that fortune-telling is a service industry."

The thinking of these big bosses is always different from that of ordinary people. My fellow Liu Yao practitioners never expected that they are the second party.