Chapter 398 I Finally Cracked the Code
After dinner at home, I went to my study. Actually, I rarely use this study. I spend most of my time reading in 1701.
Tomorrow is New Year's Day, and no one asked me to do fortune telling or chat, so I didn't go to Xuri.
My whole family thought I was weird. Why did I go to the study to read today?
My mother came in with a cup of tea and saw me sitting there with a string of numbers written on a piece of paper. She asked, "Hasn't the money been settled yet?"
I shook my head. "It's settled."
"What does that even mean to you?"
I smiled and said, "Don't worry about it..." I suddenly felt that I couldn't go on.
"You can't be too involved, right? If I don't care about you, who should I care about? Should I care about Mr. Chen from your company?"
I was amused by her and said, "Business matters."
She left, and after a while my father came in again. No need to guess, he was sent by my mother.
After coming in, my father said, "Shanhong, you don't seem very happy after coming back. Tell us what's on your mind."
"Dad, it's really nothing. Maybe I got a little tan in the Philippines, so you think I always have a dark face."
"No, you met the master today and gave him money. You should be happy, but why do you seem worried?"
I drawled out my words, "Dad—I really don't have anything on my mind. It's just business stuff. For example, there are three drawbacks and five flaws in fortune-telling, but they're also numbers, so I need to study them."
"Oh, then you can explain it to your mother so that she won't worry."
"Dad, I'm an adult and I have to guide others. Don't worry about me. Give me some freedom. If I have to explain everything, won't my life be very depressing?"
My father had been a section chief, after all, and he said, "That's right. I'm relieved, but your mother isn't."
"You should talk to her more often and give me some respect. If she keeps controlling me, I won't be able to hold my head up in front of Xiaolin. She also thinks I'm a 'mama's boy'."
My father nodded and said, "You are busy." Then he left.
About ten minutes later, Xiaolin came over with a water bottle to refill my water bottle. Needless to say, this was the "Second Spy" assigned by the old woman.
Xiaolin poured me more tea and didn't leave. He asked me, "What do you mean by writing this string of numbers? Are you writing down a phone number?"
I didn't want to discuss this with her, as she had never been interested in fortune-telling or anything like that. So I smiled and said, "Do you have a six-digit phone number?"
She said, "What's wrong with you? Do you think others can't see it? Your mother, your father, and I all think you're worried. It's okay to tell me."
I laughed and said, "Tell it out, don't let my parents know."
"Okay. Go ahead."
I said, "This involves my reputation and that of my master. I didn't want anyone to know about it." I touched my head and realized that Lao Xiao hadn't told me anything yet.
I called Lao Xiao and said, "Don't tell anyone about today's fortune telling. It's okay if I don't care about face, but my master cares more about face as he gets older."
Lao Xiao said, "Don't worry, as someone who has been in the underworld, I know what to say and what not to say."
After hanging up the phone, Xiaolin guessed it: "Did you make a mistake in predicting someone's fortune today?"
I said, "It's not that the test was wrong, but that we encountered a difficult problem."
So I told him the whole process.
Xiaolin also found it strange. She was helpless in this matter. She said, "It's very common to encounter numbers in books. It's just an unexpected event."
"You don't understand. You lose your prestige unexpectedly."
Xiaolin looked at the numbers I had written and suddenly said, "Isn't this pi? 3.14159."
"Ah——" I screamed.
I stared at the six digits: 314159. I said, "3.14 is pi, I know. What about the rest?"
Xiaolin said, "Yes."
I said, "Go out and close the door for me. Let me think about it."
Xiaolin left, and I began to reason: When Mr. Deng mentioned this string of numbers today, he hardly paused - Reasoning 1: He is very familiar with this string of numbers.
Reasoning two, he counted the numbers in his mind and it was exactly six digits.
Reasoning three, he really didn't think much about it and just reported the number he was most familiar with.
Oh, and there's another detail. When he counted, he was counting with his fingers upside down. On page 314, line 15, the ninth number: 3.14159.
I called Mr. Deng.
"Mr. Deng, were those numbers you said today just random?"
He said: "Yes, because I can't count all the provinces, my son taught me: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Hunan, and Henan..."
"No, I'm talking about the origin of this string of numbers."
"He also used numbers as an example. He said the way to record pi is: a temple on the top of a mountain and a pot of wine. I can't remember the rest of it."
"Oh, three o'clock, one four, one five, nine. A temple on the top of a mountain, and a pot of wine."
"You asked me to give you a number, so I ran it through my head: 314 pages, 15 lines, and the ninth word. Just right. And you're holding the 'Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine,' which is so thick, so it must be over 400 pages."
"Mr. Deng, I'll call you back later."
After hanging up, I immediately looked up the value of pi on my phone.
My grandparents, the value of pi is 3.14159 (26) 5358979...
I didn't call Mr. Deng immediately. Instead, I called my master and told him what he had said and this astonishing discovery.
I said, "The first number he found was 2, and the next number is 6. The number he casually said is actually related to the number he found. The entrance and the gate are in harmony, so this business is a natural progression and can definitely be done."
The master asked, "Are you sure it's 26?"
"I'll take a screenshot and send it to you."
"If it's really 26, he'll just go for it."
I said, "Wait a minute. I want him to call you and you to explain it to him. I just said I asked you and that's what you said."
Master understood what I meant and said, "Shanhong, you always take care of my face."
I laughed and said, "Master's authority is my face."
After hanging up the phone, I called Mr. Deng.
"Don't worry, the hospital will handle it."
"Why?"
"I don't know either. I told my master why you chose those six numbers. He said he could do it. Just call him and ask."
Ten minutes later, Mr. Deng called and said, "That's a very good prediction. However, I don't believe it was made by Master. At his age, he wouldn't even think about pi."
I said, "It was really him who broke it."
Mr. Deng said, "Thank you and Master for your wise words. I have made up my mind to open a hospital now."
“I wish President Deng great success in his ambitions.”
I wonder if such coincidences exist in the world? Perhaps they do. Some people are born with good luck; when it rains, someone will give them an umbrella.
As I walked out of the living room, I actually started humming a tune.
The whole family was surprised.
My mother said, "It's cloudy and sunny now, what's there to be happy about?"
I said, "It's mainly because you found a good daughter-in-law. I'm happy and humming a little tune."
Xiaolin gave me a blank look.
Not all eye rolls are hateful. Sometimes, when a woman rolls her eyes at you, it means she likes you.
At this time, the phone rang.
"Master, have you decided on a time for tomorrow?"
"Okay, Captain. I'll come to your place. It's been a while since I've been to your Qingya Pavilion."
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