Chapter 427 When I was five years old, he told me my fortune?
On the tenth day after returning to China, I received a call from Mr. Dong.
He said, "I'm in Xizhou Ancient Town, Dali. Come over."
This call was so sudden. How did he know I'd quit my job and was currently at home? Like a god, he'd calculated that I was fine.
I immediately said, "That's great! I really wanted to see you."
I told my family that night. My mother said, "Go meet him and give him some money."
Xiao Lin closed the door and said, "Should we transfer the money to him now?"
I said, "We'll see when the time comes. It's not certain whether he has an account or not. He's truly one of those people who only has one umbrella under the sun, and he can't save even if he's well fed."
The next day, I boarded a plane to Dali. When I got off the plane, I realized this airport was built for tourism and looked rather shabby compared to the airport upstate.
But then, a surprise appeared: a woman in her thirties was holding a sign that read: "Jie Wanshanhong".
I couldn't believe it. At this moment, the phone rang. The woman was holding a sign in one hand and talking on the phone with the other.
"Yes, it's me. I saw you holding the sign."
When we got outside, the woman told me her name was Siyu.
"Erdong Chen, Si (missing) and Yu (gold) with a jade character added to the side, Chen Siyu."
"Who are you……?"
"The landlord, Mr. Dong's landlord, has lived in my shop for a year."
"Oh, why didn't Mr. Dong tell me that someone was coming to pick me up?"
"How about giving you a surprise?"
We walked outside while talking and got into her car.
"Is this your first time in Dali?"
"right."
"Xizhou Ancient Town is still some distance away from the urban area."
"Oh, Mr. Dong has lived with you for almost a year. What does he usually do?"
"I tell fortunes and interpret characters. When I have nothing to do, I read."
I thought to myself, Mr. Dong is a bit strange. The last time I met him in Jiangxi, he also lived in an ancient town. This time, he lived in an ancient town again. The owner of the shop last time was a beautiful lady, and the owner of the shop this time was also a beautiful lady.
Siyu said, "Isn't the scenery outside beautiful?"
In fact, I didn't even look at the scenery, and just responded, "It's beautiful."
"You guys also have to be quarantined for seven days, right?"
"Not yet. As long as you have a green code, you'll be fine. There will be a checkpoint when you enter the town later."
The two of us talked all the way and arrived at the town entrance in about an hour. We got out of the car and scanned the code. Siyu parked the car in a square. She took me on foot.
The so-called ancient town is just an ancient town in the past, and most of the houses are antique buildings built in recent years.
Two wooden doors opened to a courtyard with a patio.
Mr. Dong even likes this kind of house - the B&B in Jiangxi has the same layout.
Siyu took me through a winding corridor and came to the backyard.
The backyard was much quieter. There was a bungalow. Siyu pushed open the door and said, "Mr. Dong, your guest has arrived."
I went in and called out, "Master, Shanhong is here."
Mr. Dong was meditating. He opened his eyes slightly and said, "Please sit down."
Siyu poured me some tea before leaving and closing the door. Mr. Dong got off the bed, looked at me and smiled, "Thank you for your hard work."
I said, "You're always so elusive. This time, I'm free, so I'll definitely stay with you for six months."
He said slowly, "I want to get together with you, too. I want to discuss academic matters with you."
"Can I discuss academic matters with you?"
"Then who can discuss this with me? You are the successor I chose more than 20 years ago."
"You chose me more than 20 years ago?"
Mr. Dong nodded and slowly recalled:
"That year, when I was in my forties, I passed through a village where many women were sitting in a courtyard east of the village. I held an abacus and shook it from time to time, a fortune-teller's trick to attract customers.
As soon as the abacus started to ring, the women would call me, "Sir, tell fortunes, sir, how much do you charge for a fortune?" I went over and someone brought me a stool. I started to tell fortunes.
"The village's east yard? What are the characteristics of the yard?"
"There's a big pond in front of the ground, and the pond looks like a pig's kidney."
I blurted out, "Yes, it's Pig Kidney Pond."
I was sure Mr. Dong was telling the truth. I hurriedly asked, "How many fortunes have you read?"
"Five. One of them is a woman with a black mole on the lower left corner of her face who insisted that I tell your fortune. That woman is your mother."
I almost fainted. My mother has a mole on the left side of her face. I exclaimed, "Yes, that's my mother."
"Your mother asked me to tell your fortune, but I refused, saying that it was not your destiny yet, so what was there to tell your fortune?
Your mother said that she had a fortune teller tell your fortune when you were three years old, and the fortune teller predicted that you would be a laborer in the future. So your mother asked me to do another fortune telling.
I said, "If you calculate it for me, you'll say I'll be famous and rich in the future, right?"
"right."
"So that fortune teller can't tell fortunes, right?"
"He wasn't wrong. Aren't you a fried noodle?"
"How did you calculate it?"
"Your fate is called 'a noble person in the hour column'. It can only appear in the hour column, and only this person can be a noble person.
If it appears again on the year, month, and day, it means that the person will be a laborer. He did not make a mistake in his calculations.
I took this risk because I saw that your ears are unusually shaped and suggest a connection with the Dao. This means that if you pursue the Dao, you will have a bright future.
Think about it, if the fortune teller had advised your mother to send you to study Taoism, wouldn't she have scolded him and forced him to walk away? In the eyes of ordinary people, studying Taoism is not the right path."
I sighed deeply. "Oh, I see. You didn't tell me everything—if I learn Taoism, I'll gain both fame and fortune."
"Yes, I thought at the time that if you really did become a laborer in the future, I would come and take you in as my apprentice. Later, I heard that you went out to work and learned fortune-telling from a Taoist priest, so I felt relieved."
"Did you come to our place later?"
"Yes, there was a woman among them, only twenty years old at the time, a new bride who had come to marry into your country. I also read her fortune."
I said, "Master, please stop for a moment. Let me tell you about this. This is something my mother often tells me, and it turns out she was talking about you.
They said you told the fortune of that woman in her twenties, whom we call a new confinement sitter, but you just turned the abacus a few times and then said no more.
The confinement nanny stopped you from leaving. You said my plan was over. Everyone, including my mother, surrounded you, and you said the confinement nanny wouldn't be over 40. As a result, you were scolded by the confinement nanny.
Mr. Dong laughed heartily and said, "Twenty years later, I went back to visit again."
Siyu pushed the door open and said, "Mr. Dong, it's time for dinner."
I have countless questions in my mind, for example, he saw me when he was five years old, and after more than 20 years, how could he recognize me in Jiangxi?
For example, he has told fortunes in our area, and his accent sounds like he is from Fujian. He is not from our area, so why did he go to our area?
For example, why does he always appear in my life at critical moments?
Okay, let’s eat first. We need to sit down and have a good chat about these things before we can figure them out.
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