Not a god

Chapter 21 Master Zhou

In recent years, the street stall economy has recovered, and Jiangcheng has also planned many street vendor areas, and the banks of the Minjiang River is a major area.

Every afternoon, near dusk, all kinds of small vendors would come and set up their stalls.

It's winter now and it's quite desolate. Even so, many small vendors come out to set up their stalls at four in the afternoon. There's nothing you can do about the cold; you have to eat!

There was a small stall with a lot of people gathered in front of it, but this stall didn’t sell food or clothes, but fortune-telling.

The stall owner was a forty-year-old man with a kind face and small eyes. He was wearing a Taoist robe and sitting on a stool with a sign next to him.

"Suddenly, the golden rope was untied, the shackles were torn off, and I came to the bank of the Minjiang River to have my fortune told. Today, I finally know who I am."

Two graduate students from Tianfu University came out to the riverside with milk tea in hand to relax. One of the girls with short hair saw that there were many people over there, so she hurried over to join in the fun:
"There are so many people here, let's go over and take a look... It looks like a fortune teller, Qinqin, do you want to have your fortune told?"

The girl named Qinqin took a look and lost interest: "Feudal superstition, what's so good about it."

The girl with short hair tilted her neck back, frowned, and looked like how dare you say such a thing.

"Who is it that has to perform rituals in the lab, kowtow three times and nine times, and offer tributes to Mendel and Crick before every experiment?"

"One thing at a time, how can it be the same?"

"Don't you want to calculate whether you and your boyfriend can last long?"

"This, this...what if it's figured out?" Feng Qinqin was a little shaken, but also afraid.

"Alas, these fortune tellers only say good things, so you should just listen to the auspicious words to make yourself feel at ease!"

Feng Qinqin was speechless.

You know that she is just picking nice words and they are definitely fake, but you still let her be treated as an innocent and go for fortune-telling.

An old lady nearby heard what the two students said and suddenly became unhappy: "You two little kids, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. This is Master Zhou, not those charlatans!"

Master Zhou had a kind face, laughed heartily twice, and waved his hand nonchalantly.

"Hahaha, the little girl is right. I just said some nice and auspicious words to make a living."

It's so straightforward, without any pretense, which gives people a good impression.

But Feng Qinqin still felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by this person.

As a good-looking girl, Feng Qinqin has never lacked attention from others since she was a child.

Admire, admire, covet, fantasize about, sometimes you can feel it without even looking, just by feeling.

She felt that the uncle's eyes were very obscene.

An auntie next to the stall was unhappy, "Master, please don't say such things! If you don't have the ability, then there are no masters in the world."

She said loudly, "If you hadn't told me to go to the hospital for a checkup last week, I wouldn't have known that I had such a serious problem with my body!"

"The doctor said at the time that fortunately the examination was done in time. The incubation period of this disease is asymptomatic. If it was ten days or half a month later, it would be too late to save the patient!"

Some people around were immediately surprised. The woman took out a thick red envelope from the bag she brought:

"Master, please don't think I'm vulgar. You may think it's just a random instruction, but it actually saved my life. I've been here for many days. You have to accept the money for saving my life today!"

What the woman said immediately caused a huge uproar. It turned out that many people around her had had their fortunes told and came today to fulfill their vows. They all expressed their desire to compensate Master Zhou for his rites.

Everyone was excited, and those who didn't know thought they were here to collect debts.

Master Zhou was helpless and waved his hands: "I won't accept your money. We agreed to charge fifty yuan per divination. Why would I change my mind and charge you again? How about this? You can use the money to do charity work, give it to the children in the mountain villages, and give it to the refugees in the disaster areas. There are many people who need this money more than me."

"Master, Master, I know you are not interested in money. These are wax apples from my hometown. Even if you don't want money, you should at least take my basket of fruits." An old lady came out with a basket of fruits, and Master Zhou laughed.

"I'm just thirsty. Thank you. Thank you. Don't send me next time!"

Seeing that the master accepted this man's gift, everyone else was annoyed, wondering why he didn't think of giving something else.

When the lady gave the gift, she immediately became proud and said with gratitude:
"Master, you are really effective. I took the medicine you prescribed last time and boiled it into water for my daughter-in-law to drink. She got pregnant in just one month!"

Next to the old lady was a pretty young wife, who also had a rosy face. She thanked him with gratitude and said to the people around her:

"I have been married to my husband for three years and I still can't have a child. My mother-in-law and husband don't say anything, but the neighbors and relatives are pointing fingers and saying that my husband married a hen that doesn't lay eggs.

I really didn't know what to do at the time. I went to every hospital and couldn't solve the problem. What kind of woman am I if I can't have children? I even planned to divorce my husband."

The young wife was crying as she spoke, and her mother-in-law felt so distressed that she hugged her for a long time to comfort her. The young wife continued to say to the passers-by:

"It was also by chance that my mother-in-law and I knew Master Zhou, and Master Zhou prescribed three doses of medicine, which my husband and I drank..."

Her face suddenly turned red. The young girls and wives around her knew why she was blushing and made fun of her. There was a happy atmosphere around them.

The young wife didn't care about these anymore, she touched her belly with a happy face:

"Next year, I will be a mother."

People around congratulated him one after another, and some passers-by were so impressed by what they heard that they couldn't help but go find Master Zhou to tell their fortunes.

The two female college students were stunned.

"Qinqin, you are so amazing, why don't you go and have your fortune told?"

Feng Qinqin still felt that Master Zhou, who would glance at her from time to time and look at her with strange eyes, made her feel very uncomfortable.

She whispered, "You can figure it out yourself. Maybe it's a trick. I don't believe it..."

"Okay, I'll go and calculate it."

Seeing that she really wanted to go, Feng Qinqin quickly pulled her back: "Forget it, Xiaoyun, let's go."

But Tu Yun was not afraid of these. She went over to have her fortune told with a playful smile. She squatted in front of the stall and said, "Master, are you really that accurate?"

The master still looked like a master: "Haha, just saying something auspicious."

She smiled and said, "Master, you were just peeking at my breasts and legs, right?"

"..."

"To tell you the truth, I'm from the Public Security Bureau. If you can't figure out what's going on, I'll tell my old man that someone is practicing feudal superstition and gang fraud here."

Even in the middle of winter, two drops of sweat appeared on Master Zhou's forehead.

Tu Yun is not a brainless girl with big breasts. She has always felt that this person is weird and the signs that the aunties and grandmas around him are acting as his agents are too obvious.

Maybe it was a fraud gang, Tu Yun decided to give her father some boost in performance.

Master Zhou swallowed and smiled, "Little girl, what are you going to do?"

"You are so capable, can't you figure out what I want to calculate?"

"Haha, if he's really that powerful and knows everything, I wouldn't have to set up a stall here to make a living. I could just trade stocks."

"That's right, then let's follow your rules. Master, what do you think is the correct answer?"

(End of this chapter)