Just then, an old lady happened to pass by on the overpass.
As soon as the old Taoist saw her, he stopped chatting with Wei Mian and straightened his expression. He took a few steps forward and stood in front of the old lady.
"Believers, would you like to have your fortune told?"
The old lady was stunned at first, then looked hesitant. She looked at Wei Mian next to her and saw that she had a fair and tender face and a fortune-telling sign in front of her.
The price was clearly marked as one thousand yuan per divination, but there was no price written on the other side where the old Taoist priest had just sat.
“Not really.”
The old lady refused.
Before the old Taoist priest could say anything else, she had already walked over and sat down in front of Wei Mian.
The old Taoist priest's self-proclaimed smile immediately froze on his face.
Wei Mian wanted to laugh, but she forced herself to hold it back. She turned to look at the old lady with a troubled face and asked, "What do you want to calculate?"
The old lady stared at Wei Mian's face for a long while, and asked uncertainly, "Little girl, are you the fortune teller who used to tell people's fortunes in Beishan Park?"
Wei Mian raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect that she would become so famous. She hadn't been to Beishan Park since she moved. Now that she heard the old lady mention it, she felt a little nostalgic!
"Yeah, it's just that I moved so it's closer to here."
When the old lady heard Wei Mian admit it, she immediately clapped her hands and laughed, her joy beyond words.
"I told you, there aren't that many young ladies out there who tell fortunes, and the price is easy to remember! You might not know me, but my sister once asked you to tell her about my missing niece. You figured out she was murdered, and you even calculated the location of the body. Remember?" (Chapter 39)
The old lady's surname is Song. She is a sister of the old lady Song who had previously asked Wei Mian to have her fortune told. When the old lady Song asked Wei Mian to have her fortune told, she was at her daughter's home in Sanya.
Later, when she heard that Tingting's body was really found, she realized the miracle and started to pay attention to Wei Mian.
However, she went to Beishan Park several times but didn't see him. She heard that the little master didn't come every day, and whether she could meet him depended entirely on fate.
Isn't fate here now?
The old Taoist priest had been listening pretending to be profound. He felt relieved after hearing the conversation between the two. It turned out that it was a former customer who introduced them. It was no surprise that they went to the girl instead of him.
The old lady rubbed her hands and spoke a little embarrassedly.
"Little Master, I'm a little undecided about something, and I'd like you to give me some advice."
Wei Mian made a gesture of invitation.
The old lady organized her words and recounted the whole story.
To put it simply, the old lady's husband died early, and she became a widow before she was fifty. She didn't find a partner in the first few years, but later she felt that it would be hard to be without someone who understood her, so she found an old man through an introduction.
The two lived in harmony for the first few years, but later they had some unpleasantness over money. That's how couples are, once money is involved, some unhappiness is buried, and the rift will only get bigger and bigger.
So when the old lady was sixty years old, she separated from the old man surnamed Xu, but there was some financial transactions between the two. After all the calculations, the old man owed the old lady nearly 100,000 yuan.
The old lady went to ask for it several times, but the old man always made excuses saying that he didn't have it. Recently, she heard that the old man had found a new partner, so she wanted to try again, but she was afraid that it would be in vain again.
"I just want you to help me figure out if I go to him today to ask for the money, can I get it back?"
The old Taoist priest glanced at the old lady and thought to himself, I really didn't realize that she is just a fashionista. I'll find another one after the old man dies.
Then his curious eyes fell on Wei Mian, wanting to see what the little girl would say.
Wei Mian took out a pen and paper from his bag and handed it to the old lady, "Let's try a different approach today. Just write something!"
The old lady was having her fortune told for the first time, and she didn't quite understand why she had to write words. Before Wei Mian could say anything, the old Taoist couldn't help but speak, "Just think of any word and write it down. We Taoists can predict the result based on what you write. Yes, I can do that too."
The old lady found it quite novel to hear the Taoist priest say this. She took the pen and thousands of words flashed through her mind, but she didn't know what to write. After struggling for a long time, she finally wrote the common and simple word "人".
Wei Mian looked at the characters in his hand. "The character '天' (Heaven) minus two represents 人 (human). '天' (Heaven) represents 乾 (stem), and the incomplete '乾' (stem) represents 钱 (money). That's why it's not fully repaid. If you go and ask for the money today, you can get some, but not all."
Wei Mian calculated the old lady's face and said, "The good news is that we can get half of it back, but there is also bad news."
When the old lady heard Wei Mian say there was some bad news, she immediately looked up at her and asked, "What bad news?"
Wei Mian pointed at the character for "person," and said, "The bad news is that your significant other won't come back. Not just this time, but in the future, too."
"Is there any way to get it back?"
"Do you have his birth date?"
“Yes, yes, yes!”
As the old lady spoke, she pulled out a small notebook from her bosom. She squinted her eyes and flipped through it for a long time before she found it. She handed the horoscope to Wei Mian and said, "This is it. This is the old man's horoscope. We had someone compare it with ours when we were dating."
Wei Mian took a look and pinched his fingers quickly, but stopped after two breaths. "Old lady, if you go to collect the debt, you have to do it as soon as possible. If you go today, you can get half back. If you go after today, I'm afraid you won't get even half back."
"What's the matter?"
The old lady actually doesn't have much time today. Her daughter said she wanted to eat the beef jerky she roasted, so she was thinking of buying some today and roasting it at home, and then sending it to her tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
"Because this old man's horoscope tells me he won't live more than three days. Once he's gone, who can you ask for the money from?"
The old lady was shocked when she heard this. "How is this possible? Old Man Xu looks very healthy!"
The two of them were together before because she was attracted by Old Man Xu's physique. He was in his sixties, but he could climb a mountain in one breath better than a young man. He had been healthy for all these years. How could he die just like that?
Wei Mian shook his head. "If you believe what I say, go and ask for it today, otherwise your money will be wasted!"
The old Taoist saw that the notebook containing the old man's birth date was not closed, so he stretched his head over and wrote down everything he saw, then took a notebook and a pen and secretly calculated.
The old Taoist priest had also learned the algorithm for calculating the horoscope, but he was not very skilled. He calculated it repeatedly on paper for a long time, but it was still wrong. He made the same mistake again and again and had to recalculate again and again, and finally had to give up.
Afraid that Wei Mian would see him and laugh at him, he secretly crumpled up the paper with the horoscope and stuffed it into his pocket, continuing to look at him with a sidelong glance as if nothing had happened.
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