Lu Fanxing: “The store owner thinks something is wrong with him”

This statement immediately confused the store owner.

"Taoist Priest, I'm only 3 years old, so I can't be called an old man." The store owner said a little embarrassed, even shyly.

Lu Fanxing was silent, swallowing his words of "looking a little anxious", and only said: "Master Dao still said the same thing, I will give you a hundred copper coins, and Master Dao will give you a fortune telling for the shopkeeper."

"One hundred coppers?" The boss hesitated.

Lu Fanxing didn't push him, he just said: "To seek good luck and avoid bad luck, one hundred copper coins is very cheap."

"This, Taoist Priest"

The boss hesitated, obviously not willing to use a hundred copper coins to make a fortune.

It's not that he doesn't believe in Lu Fanxing's ability, but it's a small business. He works hard from morning to night every day. Excluding stall fees, the money he earns every month is only a few taels of silver. He really can't bear to part with a hundred coppers.

Lu Fanxing knew that the store was reluctant to part with it, but the fortune-telling business was a one-stop deal, and there was no way the price would be reduced midway. There was no way, Lu Fanxing had no choice but to say, "Then the store will waive the meal fee, and the Taoist will give you a fortune."

I'm not afraid of fortune tellers, but I'm afraid that the fortune teller won't take your money after telling you your fortune. After all, seek good luck and avoid disasters, lose money and avoid disasters. Not taking your money only means that your disaster is inevitable. The boss is obviously

Understanding this truth, he hurriedly said it.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Tao. I will give you a free bowl of spicy soup and ten meat buns. Mr. Tao will be able to fortune tell."

"It's easy to talk about."

Lu Fanxing asked about the birth date and pretended to count it with his fingers. He thought he couldn't calculate anything, but in the end he figured out the character for '人'.

this

Lu Fanxing looked solemn. Could it be that when he went to bed last night, he lay on his side facing the window instead of facing the wall. He absorbed the essence of the moon in his sleep and gained the ability to communicate with heaven and earth.

Oops, why didn't he realize that he had become so capable?

Lu Fanxing shamelessly boasted in his heart, but put on a solemn expression on his face. Shao Qing then sighed quietly and said, "If the shopkeeper trusts me, he should close the stall and go home to take a look. Although

It was a man-made disaster, and it could have been avoided if it was discovered in time."

Lu Fanxing's expression was too solemn, and so was his tone. For a moment, the store owner was in a panic, not knowing how to make a decision.

In front of the food stall, apart from Lu Fanxing, a "freeloader" customer, there were other customers. There were not many, only three to five people, but they could clearly hear the conversation between Lu Fanxing and the store owner.

The shopkeeper was hesitant and indecisive, but the customers were making noises and urging the shopkeeper to go home and take a look. The Taoist priest in front of him said it seriously, fearing that something good might not work or something bad would work. So the shopkeeper would go home and take a look, and the best thing would be

Nothing could be safer.

The words of the guests were not very pleasant to listen to, but they made sense. The shopkeeper apologized and hurried home.

Yangzhou has beautiful scenery, beautiful mountains and clear waters, and is a paradise on earth. The store's home is not far from the Calabash Temple in Renqing Lane, Shili Street, Yangzhou, which means it is very close to the Calabash Temple.

The houses in Renqing Lane are all civil structures and are densely connected in a row. Most of the houses are one- or two-in courtyards, and the residents are complex, including traffickers and lackeys, as well as merchants and students.

The store is located at the entrance of Renqing Lane. It is a courtyard building with one entrance. It has a civil structure. As soon as you enter the gate, you will find a yard that is not spacious. There are three main rooms and two side rooms on the left and right. They all have windows, wooden structure windows.

, furnishings with the same wooden structure will ignite when exposed to fire when the weather is dry.

Lu Fanxing counted with his fingers and figured out that the character "人" refers to man-made disaster.

What kind of man-made disaster? The word "人" plus two dots is the word "fire", which can be interpreted as two people preparing to set fire to the Calabash Temple.

Lu Fanxing had no memory of Jia She, so he naturally didn't know that the fire in the Calabash Temple was the beginning of "A Dream of Red Mansions". Zeng Shiyin, who lived just across the wall from the Calabash Temple, was about fifty years old and had only one daughter, Zeng Yinglian, at his knees.

She was about three years old. She was born with a lovely child named Yuxue. On the day of the Lantern Festival, she went to the street to watch the lanterns. Due to the poor supervision of her slave Huo Qi, Zhen Yinglian was abducted by a kidnapper. Zhen Shiyin and his wife Feng Shi were nowhere to be found and fell ill one after another.

Not long after, a fire broke out in the Calabash Temple next door, and there were many concerns. The house in Zhen Shiyin's house and the houses in Renqing Lane were all burned to rubble.

Lu Fanxing had seen the blackened hall of the store before and suspected that it was suffering from a bloody disaster. In fact, it was not that the store owner himself was involved in the bloody disaster, but his family members. Lu Fanxing's book on cultivation is "The Self-cultivation of the God Stick". As the name suggests, it tells how to disguise

Become a magic stick.

In short, you know everything, but you don't seem to understand anything. Whether you can become a fortune teller from the street depends on your mouth.

Lu Fanxing is now barely working as a teacher, and he is considered to be half a magician. He can see through a person's face, and can even predict a person's destiny through his birth date. He always likes to use his unusual wisdom to understand.

Fortunately, he was right this time. The store owner got Lu Fanxing's warning and rushed home in time. He also happened to encounter two sneaky thieves who were planning to set fire to the Calabash Temple.

One thief has sloping legs and the other has a scabby head. They both look ugly and do not look like normal people.

"What do you want to do?"

The store owner was shocked and angry, and shouted loudly to arrest the two thieves who were trying to set fire to the Calabash Temple.

The two thieves did not think that their attempt to set fire to the Calabash Temple would be discovered by others, and they were not very worried about being repaired by people who heard the news. They only glanced at each other and disappeared decisively.

They were so elusive that no one would have noticed it if they didn't think they had set fire "secretly". They did it so blatantly that the store owner was reminded by Lu Fanxing and hurried back, only to catch the two thieves with malicious intentions.

The two thieves disappeared and were so sneaky that they caused an uproar.

They all said that the two thieves were not human beings, but must be uneasy and well-intentioned monsters. Because they hated the prosperity of the Gourd Temple, they took on human form and prepared to set fire to the Gourd Temple.

The store owner, who was reminded by Lu Fanxing and averted a 'man-made disaster' in time, didn't feel that way.

"He is a human being, but his mind is as evil as a demon."

The shopkeeper cursed angrily, and was even more glad that he came back in time. Otherwise, the hall would turn black and a bloody disaster would happen, and he would be the only one left alive for three generations.

"I have to thank the Taoist Priest properly." The store owner said with lingering fear. "If the Taoist Priest hadn't reminded me, I would have allowed those two thieves to succeed and harm the whole family and neighbors."

The houses in Renqing Lane are closely spaced and have civil structures. When a fire hits the dry weather, it will quickly engulf the Hulu Temple and the houses in Renqing Lane. This is just to allow Zhengshi, who has lost his daughter, to retreat.

The homeless man had no choice but to seek refuge with his father-in-law, and then saw through the world of mortals, leaving his wife to become a monk. The lame thief and the scabby thief were really very sinister.

"Yes, yes, Lao Shitou, I want to thank the Taoist Priest."

"Let's go and find the Taoist priest together to say thank you."

A group of people followed the store back to the intersection where the food stall was located. Unfortunately, after Lu Fanxing had eaten to his fill, he did not stop any longer and continued to walk around the streets carrying Fuchen and the signboard of 'Tiekou Shensuan'.

Of course, meal money was not provided.

This is the rule of the fortune-telling business. Fortune-telling is not allowed for free. If a fortune-teller wants to tell people's fortunes for free, either they are about to encounter irreversible misfortune, or they will die immediately in the next moment, and there is no need to save them.

Lu Fanxing considered himself to be a very principled person. Even if he was in trouble now, he could not change his principles casually, so he left simply and did not ask for the ten meat buns originally promised by the store.

When the store owner patted his legs and felt annoyed, Lu Fanxing had already walked away.

It was taken to the center of Yangzhou City.

Listening to leisurely pedestrians, there is a new salt patrol censor in Yangzhou, surnamed Lin. There is only one wife and a concubine in the family. Both the concubine and the concubine are sick, and they have lived in the north for a long time.

This time, I followed Mr. Lin to take office and came to Yangzhou from the capital to live. I was afraid that he would not be able to adapt to the climate and his life would not be long.

"Master Lin?"

Lu Fanxing stayed where he was and pondered, obviously very interested in deceiving Mr. Lin, the Salt Patrol Censor who everyone said had just taken office.

How much does it cost for him to tell fortunes for ordinary people? The dignitaries are all wealthy people. To earn a sum of money by himself, it is estimated that he has to tell fortunes for ordinary people for more than a dozen times, or even more.

"I can't think about it anymore. The more I think about it, the more excited I become."

Lu Fanxing was unable to stroke his beard because he was carrying floating dust in his hands and holding the sign of 'Iron-spoken Divine Calculation'. All he could do was dazzle and start thinking about how to approach Mr. Lin and give him some guidance.

"Otherwise, let's make a scene about a traveling Taoist priest passing by this place. When he came to beg for water, he found that the evil spirits were rising, and he prepared to subjugate the demons."

Lu Fanxing laughed and said that to be a magician, you need to have special talents that ordinary people can't understand. It's just acting, and he believes he can do it.

After making up his mind, Lu Fanxing changed his route and walked specifically to where the government office was.

Yangzhou City is very prosperous. Not only is the government office located in the center of Yangzhou City, it also has the General's Palace and the Censor's Office. For example, the Censor's Mansion where Mr. Lin lived just after he took office has just been tidied up and has not had time to change.

The plaque with "Zhu Mansion" written on it was replaced by the plaque with "Lin Mansion" written on it.

Yes, the last salt inspector's surname was Zhu. As his name suggests, he was as stupid as a pig. He was originally a retainer of Concubine Zeng's mother's family, and he made a lot of property for the ninth prince who was the daughter of Concubine Zeng. Later, the late prince committed suicide and died.

The prince lost again in the battle with the fourth princes to seize the throne, and the new emperor ascended the throne. Even if the Supreme Emperor was suppressing him, the new emperor had to do something to get rid of the other brothers and replace them with his own cronies.

Master Lin was a member of the new emperor. He was first a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, then a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and a doctor of Lantai Temple. Now he was entrusted with an important task by the new emperor, taking over the Yangzhou Salt Company, which had been ruined by Master Zhu and made many mistakes.
Chapter completed!