Chapter: 2773

Ma Ke asked urgently: "Grandpa, what do I need to remember?"

Ma Chengxing said solemnly: "You must remember: each family sweeps their own doorstep, don't worry about others' roof tiles!"

Ma Ke's eyes widened in surprise: "Grandpa, isn't this just a witty saying?"

"Is it?" Ma Chengxing chuckled and said: "This is the true wisdom of our ancestors!"

"It's only natural that you sweep your own doorstep, and there's no room for complaint. Who can blame you if you sweep away the snow from your own doorstep? However, if you really go out of your way to help others, I ask you, who do you plan to help?

If you kindly helped your neighbor, then the neighbor next door will ask why you didn't help him too. If you take pity on someone for a moment and decide to help him as well, his neighbor next door will think it's unfair that he was excluded.

So, what's the point of sweeping away just one snowbank? Wouldn't you have to clean up all the snowbanks in the entire community, including every single house?

Mc Ke suddenly fell silent.

Ma Chengxing continued: "As people who control the flow of luck and fortune, we must not let our compassion get out of hand!

Just like my grandfather, he was an expert at reading fortunes. If he walked through the streets of Beijing, he could tell from a glance which person would soon suffer a calamity or even lose their home; sometimes, one sentence can save someone's life."

However, we cannot let our compassion get out of hand and go out of our way to help every single person. There are billions of people under heaven; if you start helping everyone, you'll feel like you have responsibility towards all, but how can you possibly take care of them all?"

"As it's like going out to read fortunes for people, when we're hired by a family to tell them their fortune on this road, we might see dozens or even hundreds of ominous houses. If we went to each one and told them, could we really do that? And even if we did, would others accept our words?"

"That's why, as practitioners in this line of work, we must remember that once we step out of our own doors, we only care about the master's life and death, and don't go deep into other people's hearts. This is the 'way' in fortune-telling techniques, and what time will you truly understand this point? What time will you finally enter the door?"

Young Mac was full of enthusiasm and had a strong sense of justice, so when Ma Chengxing spoke those words, he couldn't help but feel some discomfort.

But when he really sat down to think about it, he felt that his grandfather's words were indeed very reasonable.

The greatest difference between a fortune-teller and an ordinary person is that they can predict someone's future by reading their face, by reading the wind, or by divination. This is an ability that ordinary people would consider absolutely divine.

And the more skilled one becomes at this kind of skill, the more one should decisively eliminate the "motherly" heart, because once you open up to sympathizing with others, you'll get dragged into the mud.

He finally figured out why professional hitmen in movies and TV dramas always need to be paid before they do anything.

Even if he truly sympathizes with the other party, really willing to take risks with his life to avenge the other party, but also needs to symbolically receive something from the other party, no matter how small.

This is their professional code of conduct, an unshakeable professional code of conduct.

As for the fundamental reason, it's just as Grandpa said - they only have their employer in mind and serve their employer alone. The lives or deaths of others are irrelevant to them.

This one piece of money, or a single penny, is the key that distinguishes ordinary people from employers.

If there were no such piece of money, or a single penny, the number of pitiful people who can't help but be pushed to their limits would be too many. Who else could come to their aid?

After thinking through this layer, he looked at Meng Chengxing with a devout expression and said: "Grandpa, I understand what you're saying. From now on, I will surely remember your teachings!"

Meng Chengxing nodded slightly, looking incredibly serious, and said: "You can grasp this principle - that's all the better." JrNovels.com