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Chapter 2 Grandpa Chen Banxian

Seeing the thick banknotes in Grandpa Xiao's hand, Xiao Yu was stunned: "Ten thousand?"

"Almost." Grandpa Xiao raised his lips to his ears: "Eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. Yuan."

"…How did you get it?"

"Of course it was calculated by me, your grandpa." Grandpa Xiao was very happy.

"It's my great achievement!" The girl holding the roast duck took a big step forward, her chin almost raised to the sky: "I found those two bastards!"

"Bullshit! What a complainer!" Grandpa Xiao's face changed: "That's called a customer!"

"Yes, clients." The roast duck girl changed her words: "I found those two resentful clients."

"What did you give them?" Xiao Yu took the banknote from Grandpa Xiao's hand and checked whether it was real or not: "I actually gave you so much money?"

"Marriage prediction!" The roast duck girl pointed at the hat with "Fortune-telling Goddess" engraved on her head and interrupted in a noisy manner: "The process was like this. I was shopping this afternoon and I turned around and saw them. I walked up to them and said - Uncle and aunt, I counted with my fingers and found that there are problems in your marriage."

"And then?" Xiao Yu asked.

The roast duck girl's eyes sparkled. "Then the two resentful customers were astounded! They said my predictions were too accurate! I said my master's predictions were even more accurate. So they brought them to my grandfather's stall."

"Yes." Grandpa Xiao nodded: "Then, with the help of this half-immortal's eloquence, the eight thousand dollars will naturally be in your hands."

"Oh." Xiao Yu returned the banknotes to Grandpa Xiao. He looked at the roast duck girl again, looking her up and down: "Then how did you know that there was a problem in their marriage?"

"I saw them getting a divorce at the Civil Affairs Bureau," the Peking Duck girl replied.

Xiao Yu: “…”

"Now, the economic environment is not good, and more and more people come to me for fortune-telling." Grandpa Xiao put away the money and smacked his lips in satisfaction: "Even if you don't count the big money today, this month's income is much higher than usual."

As they were talking, another person pushed the door open and came in.

This time, it was a beautiful girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, who was just about to bloom.

She was also wearing yellow Taoist robes, and on her hat were four characters engraved: [Fortune Telling Goddess].

She had Buddhist beads hanging around her neck, a cowhide bag on her left shoulder, a soul-calling banner in her right hand, and a tube stick, a whisk, a tortoise shell, a compass, a copper bell, and a crystal ball on her back.

There are also two sets of tarot cards on the waist.

With so many things added together, the weight is naturally not light.

The thin girl had sweat on her forehead and was slightly panting.

Xiao Yu immediately stepped forward and helped take over the soul-calling banner and the heavy cowhide bag. He turned around and scolded, "Why don't you help your sister get some."

"I'm holding the roast duck." The roast duck girl held up the roast duck.

"I... I'm too small." The jelly girl held up the jelly: "I can't lift it."

"I took it all myself." The girl smiled gently and took off the burden on her body: "Is dinner ready?"

"Half done."

"Okay. I'll do the rest." The girl took off her hat, rolled up her sleeves, and walked into the kitchen: "You take a rest."

Xiao Yu stared at the girl's back for a while, but didn't say much. He turned around and prepared the table, chairs, bowls and chopsticks for dinner...

The four who came back were Xiao Yu’s relatives.

Needless to say, the head of the family is the grandfather who makes a living by fortune-telling. Nicknamed Chen Banxian, he claims to be the only inheritor of the Taoism sect.

He knows everything about gossip, fortune-telling, preaching, the Book of Changes, divination, feng shui, astrology, and tarot cards.

In this field where everyone is calling for a boycott, he has a great reputation.

And the other three women.

The girl, about seventeen or eighteen years old, was named Xiao Guanguan, which means "champion".

The slightly younger roast duck girl is named Xiao Yaya, which means "runner-up".

The youngest jelly girl’s name is…which means “third place”.

In terms of age, Xiao Yu is the second oldest in the family, but he is the youngest in terms of generation.

That's right.

The three girls are all his elders.

Xiao Guanguan is the eldest aunt.

Xiao Yaya is the second aunt.

Xiao Jiji is the third aunt.

They were all left behind by Xiao Yu’s grandfather, the athlete, after he lost his integrity in his later years.

Until four years ago, my grandfather died regrettably, happily and unexpectedly at the hands of a woman.

His old relative, "Chen Banxian", adopted Xiao Yu as his grandson. At the same time, he couldn't bear to see the three girls, Guan, Ya, and Ji, wandering around, so he brought them back and accepted them as his disciples in the "Wendao Sect".

In order to make it easier for each other to address each other in daily life, Chen Banxian also suggested that everyone should call each other casually in the future.

When grandpa calls Xiao Guanguan his daughter, Xiao Guanguan calls grandpa uncle, and grandpa calls Xiao Yu his son.

When Xiao Yaya calls Xiao Yu nephew: Xiao Yu calls Xiao Yaya second aunt, and Xiao Yaya calls grandpa big brother.

When Xiao Yu calls his grandfather "Big Brother", his grandfather calls Xiao Yu "grandson", and his grandson calls Xiao Jiji "Third Sister".

And this is the composition of Xiao Yu’s current family.

……

About ten minutes later.

Xiao Guanguan cooked the meal and brought the dishes to the table complete with dishes and chopsticks.

The whole family sat together neatly.

"pat-"

Turn on the old tube TV and play some good background music.

Chen Banxian took out a pipe from his bosom, lit it, took a puff, and said, "Today is different from the past. Today our family made a lot of money. So I want to say a few words before dinner. First of all, thank you Xiaoya for finding two for me among ten thousand people... Yaya, where is the roast duck I bought? Put it up. There are not enough dishes."

"I ate it all." Xiao Yaya, the roast duck girl, said calmly, "Didn't you buy it for me?"

"You're lying." At the side, the four or five-year-old jelly girl Xiao Jiji immediately raised her hand: "I saw you...you hid the duck behind the toilet...uh uh uh..."

"Shut up!" Xiao Yaya grabbed Xiao Jiji's tongue.

"Xiao Ya!" Xiao Guanguan was shocked and rushed forward to stop the fight: "What are you doing! Let go!"

"I'm going to pull her tongue out!"

"Uh uh goose goose goose--"

"..."

Chen Banxian glanced at the three youngsters who were bickering with each other daily, and ignored them. He looked up and thought for a moment, then asked, "Where was I just now?"

"Thank you, Xiao Yaya." Xiao Yu replied.

"Oh, yes! Thank you, Xiao Yaya. I'll do this in the future! Bring me more high-quality clients like this. Secondly..." Chen Banxian paused, exhaled a thick breath, and patted his thigh with emotion: "Thanks to the good policies of our Dongda District Government, everyone's economy will get worse and worse. I believe that more and more people will come to me for fortune-telling in the future."

Xiao Yu: "...Old man, if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense."

Chen Banxian: "Anyway, our family's wealthy life is just around the corner."

As he spoke, he took another puff of his pipe and began to fantasize: "If I can maintain this month's income, I might be able to save tens of thousands of yuan by the end of the year. Plus I still have some savings, let's move to a new house next year! This house is too old and too small. There is one bedroom, and the five of us have to sleep on top of each other. There are also problems with the water supply, electricity supply, and sewer. Look at the hole in the wall! Wow, it's such a big hole. When winter comes, the cold wind will be howling..."

"..."

"When did there get a hole in my wall?!!"

……

(End of this chapter)