Chapter 2 Operation Success
When I saw the words "No bargaining", my face turned from red to white.
The Taoist priest laughed and said, "Your first words were - I was curious and came in to take a look, right?"
I nodded.
"This shop is centered around your sister. You and your brother-in-law are just two helpers, right?"
I nodded again.
He pondered for a moment and said, "I may say it without meaning it, but the listener may take it seriously. This store can be expanded, but I need to go to the site to see if there are any conflicts or anything like that."
"Is there any mystery in what I said?"
"Think carefully about the word curiosity."
I had never learned the art of fortune-telling at that time, so I couldn't figure out any clue.
The Taoist priest wrote the word "good" as "female, son" on the paper.
Write the word "奇" as "大、可".
"Women are welcome. Does that mean that as long as a woman is in charge, things will develop smoothly?"
The Taoist priest smiled at me kindly.
"How much does it cost for one visit?" I was afraid that he would ask for too high a price, which would make my sister sad and she would give up halfway.
The Taoist priest asked, "Do you have perseverance?"
I was bewildered. What did price have to do with my perseverance?
If a store has to run for a long time before it can make money, then I have to ask my sister if she has perseverance.
My sister is always in a bad mood when it comes to making money. If she loses money for one day, she will be in a bad mood. If she loses money for two days, she will blame me indirectly. If she loses money for three days, she will quarrel with me. If she loses money for four days, she will definitely tell me to get out.
My heart was pounding.
The Taoist priest asked, "After your new store opens, can you give me a month's supply of soup powder?"
So it was this "perseverance" that they were referring to. I let out a long breath and immediately said, "No problem, two months will be no problem."
The Taoist laughed and said, "I won't take your money. Ask your sister to treat me."
I thought there was something wrong with my ears, so I asked again: "If I give away the soup powder for a month, can it be free?"
The Taoist priest nodded with a smile.
"Sister, the Taoist priest is willing to come and see me. He doesn't charge any fees, as long as I send him a month's worth of soup powder."
"Are you that capable?"
My brother-in-law joked, "Maybe the Taoist priest has a daughter and he's attracted to Shanhong."
"You're dreaming. He can't even lift anything. He's a high school graduate, and the Taoist priest has a fortune. How could you be interested in him?"
When my sister scolded me, she was both opening up my wounds and stabbing me in the back, doing whatever she wanted to do.
I suppressed my temper and said, "Don't say such harsh words. The Taoist priest said that as long as you invite him, he will come."
My sister looked at me and said, "Fulfill your wish. If the Taoist priest says no, then don't complain every day."
The next day, my sister and I stepped into the Taoist priest’s home, “You’ran Ju”.
The Taoist priest was reading a fortune for someone. We didn't dare interrupt him. When he finished, my sister said, "Teacher Hong, we..."
The Taoist priest was stunned for a moment.
I hurriedly said, "Master, this is my sister..."
Hearing my sister's strange address, he smiled and said, "It's better to call me teacher. I will teach you and answer your questions."
My sister was about to speak when a woman in her thirties dressed in red came in.
The Taoist priest said, "There are two people here waiting for me to check their Feng Shui."
The woman in red smiled and said, "I'll only take up a few minutes of your time. I'm looking to change jobs and go to Guangzhou to work. I'm going to have a 'heart' reading."
The Taoist priest muttered something, indicating that the paper and pen were on the table.
The woman in red wrote the word "heart" and handed it to him with both hands. The Taoist priest glanced at it and said with half-closed eyes:
"Let me be frank, you've jumped ship at least five or six times. It's hard to stick with one thing for a year. You have to focus on it wholeheartedly, otherwise you won't accomplish anything. You can't go to Guangzhou."
The Taoist priest stood up after he finished speaking. The woman in red nodded, counted the money and left.
I listened, stunned. The Taoist priest knew she'd changed jobs five or six times based on a single handwritten word? And when he told her she couldn't go to Guangzhou, the woman in red didn't ask why.
With just a few words, the woman in red counted out a hundred yuan and left. Wasn't this money too easy to come by?
The Taoist priest said, "Let's go."
My sister said as we walked, "Teacher, we run a small business and we only have an old Buick. We're sorry to bother you." After that, she led the Taoist priest towards the car.
The Taoist priest said nothing and walked towards a BMW. A fat man got out and opened the door for him.
I said to my sister, "The master has a lot of fans. They've been waiting for him in their cars for a long time."
After a while, two cars stopped in front of the "Fat Brother Noodle Shop" one after the other. The man quickly got out of the car and covered the Taoist priest's head with his hand, fearing that the master's head would hit the top of the car door.
The Taoist priest got out of the car, waved his feather fan, and stood in the front yard.
"We want to buy this scrap yard and expand our noodle shop." My sister said anxiously.
The Taoist priest was very frugal with words and said only four words: "I guarantee you will get rich."
He turned around and got into the car, which sped away.
The onlookers kept asking my sister, "How much did it cost to hire Master Hongyi to look at the feng shui of your small shop?"
My sister said, “It didn’t cost any money.”
The onlookers almost fainted, saying, "You are going to make a fortune."
My sister was reassured. Three days after the Taoist priest reviewed the feng shui, she signed the contract with the landlord and on the fourth day, she began decorating the store.
I said, "Since we are expanding our store, we need to let people know that there is a Buddha statue on this tree."
My brother-in-law said, “Get a TV station to film it.”
I shook my head. "Why invite a TV station? Everyone has a cell phone."
In the afternoon, I called Dongzi and asked him to come over for dinner.
Dongzi and I are from the same village and are both seniors at Wuxiang Normal University.
Dongzi came early. I invited him to play badminton, and after a while, people gathered around to watch.
When it was my turn to serve, I stuffed the badminton into my trouser pocket and made a fake move. Dongzi didn't even see the ball.
I said, "It flew away and landed on a tree."
I repeated the incident of deceiving my sister.
When Dongzi went to get the ball, he shouted, "There is a Bodhisattva growing on the tree, a Bodhisattva."
I moved a ladder, climbed up and took a look, then pretended to be frightened and stood there motionless.
The friends next to me climbed up one by one and were all stunned.
One person tells ten, ten people tell a hundred, a hundred people tell a thousand.
Overnight, everyone in Wuxiang City's social media circles was buzzing with this bizarre incident. It made my shop an instant internet sensation. People flocked to see the wonder day and night.
Especially at night, people who come to see the novelty come in groups, and they all order a plate of fried noodles. They sit down and eat slowly and chat slowly.
My sister then realized that no matter how hard we tried to fry the noodles, we could not satisfy the customers’ needs.
And the customers said that the fried noodles are tasting better and better.
Holy crap! It turns out hard work is useless. In the internet age, turning things around happens in an instant. Traffic is money. We had to hire two chefs to make noodles.
Forestry experts and TV reporters are here.
Experts concluded that it was a growth on the tree surface, and its appearance was a bit like a Buddha, so it was not worth making a fuss about.
Television stations also repeatedly broadcast expert opinions.
The citizens refused to believe it and questioned the experts on the spot: If it is a growth, why don’t other trees have such growths?
The experts were also left speechless by their questions.
In order to prevent people from climbing, the municipality built a stainless steel fence around the tree.
It’s better not to set it up, the more you set it up, the more attractive it will be.
I suggested to my sister and brother-in-law: quickly name the new store "Foshu Powder Shop".
This time, my words carried weight. My sister immediately hired someone to make a new sign.
Since this sign was hung up, there were two less masters, so we had to hire two more.
The noodles in my family are still the same noodles, and the chefs’ craftsmanship is still the same.
But others believe that if they eat the fried noodles from Foshu Noodle Shop, the Bodhisattva will bless them.
In the summer of the second year after I came to Wuxiang, the "Foshu Noodle Shop" was doing a booming business.
I no longer stir-fry noodles.
I believe that everyone has a destiny. Otherwise, how could the fortune teller predict that I would be famous and rich?
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