Chapter: 2795

Ye Chen smiled slightly and said, "Well, I don't have anything urgent to attend to, so I'll accompany you over there."

Ha'er Jiang didn't think much about it, nodded slightly, and together with Ye Chen, they arrived at the fortune-telling stall.

At this time, an elderly man with dark skin, white hair, and a gaunt appearance sat in front of the stall. He looked to be around 70 or 80 years old, sitting alone in front of the stall, leisurely plucking his beard and exuding a mystical aura.

Ha'er Jiang arrived in front of him without saying a word, but the elderly man began asking him, "Sir, do you want to ask about good or bad fortune?"

Ha'er Jiang nodded slightly and said, "I'd like to ask for my daughter. Is she safe?"

The elderly man nodded and pushed an bamboo tube filled with bamboo slips towards Ha'er Jiang, saying, "Come, think of your daughter, then shake out one slip."

Ha'er Jiang quickly did as instructed, thinking of his daughter while shaking the tube. The bamboo slips inside the tube kept emerging outside as he shook it, until one slipped out first.

Ha'er Jiang opened his eyes wide and hastily picked up the bamboo slip, looking down at the characters on it. He opened his mouth to say, "What does this mean? 'Heard that tonight is Mid-Autumn Festival, silver lanterns illuminate long nights; unexpectedly a gust of wind blows, extinguishing countless lamps, breaking strings...'"

The elderly man smiled slightly and said in a mysterious tone, "This is the 32nd lot of Zhong Kuan's spiritual bamboo. If you want to interpret it, please pay five hundred yuan and consider it as buying blessings."

Ha'er Jiang's heart had already been determined to be a scam artist. Divination and fortune-telling are concepts in Daoism, while blessings and karmic rewards are Buddhist ideas. It's illogical for a disciple of Daoism to say such things, just like a monk saying that donating money can get you to heaven.

However, Ha'er Jiang didn't know these details.

He listened as the old man asked for 500 yuan without hesitation and pulled out his phone, asking, "Can I pay by scanning the code?"

The old man pulled out a pre-printed receipt and smiled, saying, "Come on, scan this. WeChat Pay or Alipay are both fine."

Ha'er Jiang hurried to pay by scanning the code, but Leaf Chen tried to stop him. After some thought, he decided not to intervene, simply watching the situation unfold.

Soon, Ha'er Jiang completed his payment, and the old man's pocket beeped with a prompt saying "WeChat account received 500 yuan." He smiled and said, "The divination text is: Heard that tonight is Mid-Autumn Festival, silver lanterns illuminate long nights; unexpectedly a gust of wind blows, extinguishing countless lamps, breaking strings..."

He took a deep breath and continued, "This really is the worst of the worst. Whatever you ask, it can be summarized in four characters."

Ha'er Jiang's emotions were intense, and he asked, "What are those four characters?!"

The old man shook his head and sighed: "'Everything's not auspicious, I fear!

"Is everything not auspicious?"

Ha'er Jiang heard these four characters and subconsciously asked: "What does this mean?!"

The old man looked at him with disdain and asked: "You haven't calculated your destiny yet, have you? These four characters mean that nothing is auspicious! It means nothing good happens!

As he spoke, he continued to say seriously: "That is to say, the divination text has been drawn, and whatever you ask, it will be inauspicious! If you ask about a couple's feelings, it portends that they will definitely break up; if you ask about career or wealth, it portends that they will definitely encounter setbacks; if you ask about fate, it portends that they will definitely fall from a great height; if you ask about family safety, it portends that someone in the family will definitely face a major disaster!

"What?" Ha'er Jiang heard these words and suddenly became agitated, asking anxiously: "Sir, do you have any way to resolve my daughter's disaster?!"

"This" the old man lamented: "If I were to draw another divination text, perhaps I could think of a way to deal with it, but since this one has been drawn, it means that this matter is too difficult!

As he spoke, his tone changed and he added: "However, if I make a concerted effort to do something about it, there might still be a glimmer of hope!" JrNovels.com