People paying attention nearby were all displeased, they felt whether they should also do something special, create some strange banners to attract others, perhaps tomorrow they would be the ones earning these five taels, and earning them for free without cost.
What cost could fortune telling have, just moving one's lips.
"Please write your name and birth date," the youth took out a red paper, providing brush and ink.
That young master frowned, thought for a moment, then wrote his name and birth date.
"You were born into an official family, both parents alive, your father is a person of high position and great power, your mother is also not simple, should be extremely wealthy, and you have one elder brother, one younger sister."
When that youth said these things, everyone's eyes showed a trace of surprise, obviously these things were all correct, but soon they showed an understanding expression, then some disdain.
"Although you come from an official family, you prefer martial arts, in future you will have achievements in the military. Your marriage will appear soon, regarding offspring, you will definitely have a son before age twenty-three, after that there will be more..."
"Bullshit," that young master slammed the table and stood up angrily.
"No one has farted, please don't interrupt," the youth frowned, then prepared to continue speaking.
"..." Everyone was speechless again.
"I said you're talking nonsense," that young master said angrily.
"No, if I passed farted I would admit it, if I never did how could I admit it. Alright, now continue listening to me, don't interrupt," the youth said indifferently.
"..."
"Haha, you're really interesting, he said you're talking bullshit, spouting rubbish," Xiao Ai laughed again, making this originally speechless scene gain some liveliness.
"Oh, so you don't believe my words, actually believing or not is up to you, I took the money so I must tell you what I have to say, these are all spoken according to books, there might be differences but shouldn't be too much," the youth said indifferently.
From beginning to end, the youth's tone and attitude were all this bland, even his reactions seemed overly bland, making people feel somewhat slow, but perhaps this was just because he simply hadn't thought about it.
"Speaking according to books, then it seems you haven't read thoroughly," that young master said coldly.
"I have read thoroughly," the youth still replied in that bland way.
"Definitely not, because what you said is completely inaccurate, the front part was accurate but anyone knows these things, asking people around could also learn about my situation."
The middle-aged uncle nearby nodded at this time, this young master in front was quite a prominent figure, really not many people here didn't know about him, finding out wasn't very difficult, could even be said to be too easy.
"But what you said after, that's all nonsense. Me having a son before twenty-three, aren't you joking? How old am I now, I just gave you my birth date, can't you calculate?"
"This year you are twenty-three years and two months old," the youth said.
"..."
At this time, even those who didn't understand the situation grasped what was happening, what this youth said had already occurred, and that young master saying it didn't happen meant this matter was already incorrect.
"Then where is my son? How come I don't know I have a son," that young master sneered, his smile full of mockery.
"You not knowing doesn't mean there isn't one," at this time when that young master wanted to say something more, the youth waved his hand, interrupting, "Alright, since you don't believe anymore, then I won't say the unimportant things, I won't take your five taels for nothing, your seal hall is darkened, today you will have a bloody disaster."
"Haha, I've heard this saying many times, many people said my seal hall is darkened, recently will have bloody disaster, exactly the same as yours. But those people were all frauds," that young master laughed loudly, the mockery in his eyes was self-evident, already obvious to the extreme.
"I'm not a fraud, also I said today, not recently," the youth said very calmly.
"Haha, today, then let's wait and see, I'll see what can happen in the remaining two or three hours that could give me a bloody disaster. Hope you're still here tomorrow," that young master sneered.
"I'll still be here tomorrow, these few days I'll keep being here," the youth casually replied, "If the customers have nothing else, then I won't see you out."
The youth made a gesture of invitation, then began reading his book, at this time sharp-eyed people discovered the book in the youth's hands seemed to be about architecture, could it be he also had this aspect of "talent," or was he planning to write about designing houses in future.
Everyone's lips showed traces of mocking smiles, they wouldn't believe this youth could learn this, they believed this youth would very likely use this to deceive people.
Xiao Ai was stunned at this time, she had some doubts in her heart, she felt she had seen the book in this youth's hands somewhere before, but couldn't remember where, and she felt as long as she figured this out, she would discover something.
But she just couldn't figure out this matter, also didn't know what kind of thing she would discover.
Like this, Xiao Ai and that group of young masters and misses all left, when leaving some young masters and misses didn't forget to mock that youth, but that youth was very calm, completely ignoring these young masters and misses' actions.
"Little brother, you should quickly pack up and leave, you also cheated... no, earned five taels of silver, that's enough. These young masters and misses, although they're not the kind of willful, unreasonable, and domineering types, they're also not to be trifled with, tomorrow they'll definitely come find you to settle accounts, at that time not only will your five taels be gone, you might also get into trouble," the middle-aged uncle nearby said to the youth after people left.
"No need, I just spoke according to books, if I was wrong then there's no help for it, can only blame my insufficient learning, they can smash my sign and make me return the money," the youth said indifferently.
"..." The middle-aged uncle was somewhat speechless, this youth was too individualistic in doing business, definitely some wealthy young master here to play, absolutely not really here to do business.
The next evening, the youth still came to set up his stall, same as usual, shouted a slogan then sat down to read, didn't do anything else.
"You really came," although the middle-aged uncle thought it was possible, when it was really in front of him, he was still somewhat surprised.
"Yes, still have a few days, nothing to do, so continuing," the youth raised his head to reply, then continued reading with his head down, although this was nighttime, it was brightly lit.
The middle-aged uncle sometimes suspected this youth beside him might come here because of this bright lighting, just to be able to read books.
In this, the middle-aged uncle really guessed correctly, there was indeed such a reason.
Time passed in a flash, half an hour went by, the middle-aged uncle sold over ten pounds of nuts, while the youth's business was still zero, the middle-aged uncle kept watching the youth's side, somewhat worried.
However, what he worried about wasn't the youth's business volume, yesterday's five taels was enough for him to sell nuts for a month, and precisely because of these five taels, he worried yesterday's young master would come to demand them back, come to smash the sign, most worrying was hitting people.
Hopefully they wouldn't come, five taels of silver was a lot for people like them, but wasn't much for that young master, might just be drizzle, hopefully that young master wouldn't hold grudges.
The youth nearby continued reading, he completely didn't know the middle-aged uncle beside was still worried about him, he even bought a pack of almonds to put in his mouth, crunching as he ate.
"They're coming," the middle-aged uncle suddenly said, his expression somewhat tense.
He saw yesterday's group of young masters and misses appeared, today there were even more people than yesterday, coming aggressively toward this direction, this made the middle-aged uncle feel this matter was troublesome.
At this time, the middle-aged uncle didn't dare be too obvious, just quietly called, "Little brother..."
"What?" the youth raised his head to look at the nervous uncle, somewhat puzzled, but soon he understood what the middle-aged uncle wanted to say, because he had already seen that group of young masters and misses.
Looking at this group of young masters and misses coming aggressively, the youth's expression was very calm, but others weren't so calm, they all felt something was about to happen.
Some were happy, some worried, the happy ones could basically be described as gloating, they wanted to watch the excitement, wanted to see someone cause trouble and smash stalls, and such people made up the vast majority.
A minority were more conscientious, worried the youth would be dealt with too harshly, encountering such a group of young masters and misses, each one here had great weight in this New Moon capital, therefore not to mention so many coming together, even just one would be more than this youth in front could handle.
Just when everyone was waiting for the next development, waiting for this thing everyone felt should happen, the direction of events made people drop their jaws, this was development they absolutely never thought of.
They saw yesterday's fortune-told young master come before the youth, clenching his fist, this still relatively matched everyone's guesses, but what came next was different, that young master wasn't clenching his fist to smash the stall, but lowered his head and said, "Sorry, sir, I wronged you yesterday."
What?
What was he saying, he was saying sorry? And respectfully calling that youth sir?
The surrounding audience was momentarily confused, couldn't figure out what happened, but soon understood, since this young master apologized, that meant what the youth calculated yesterday was all correct.
But this matter seemed somewhat incredible, yesterday the youth calculated this young master had a son, also a bloody disaster, bloody disaster was still possible since it could happen later, but how to explain the son?
If that young master didn't know, that should mean there wasn't one, people who don't know about their own sons should be very few.
(End of Chapter)