The Tale Never Ends

Chapter 25: Yuan Chongxi

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Among us at the table, you looked at me and I looked at you. Old Uncle Chen spoke first: "Yes, let the master do the math for you." I said to myself that you can do the math. If you talk like this now, it means you Don't worry, just leave it to others

The child's grandmother didn't know why. After hearing what the old blind man said, she turned to look at the other people on the table: "Oh, that's a lot of trouble. Can any expert do it for me? Look at me, I'm so anxious. Almost!" The old blind Uncle Chen is obviously unwilling to do it. The only ones who can calculate are my father, me and Chong Xi, but if I want to say that the master can calculate, it can only be my father. However, at this moment, my father actually pointed at Yuan Chongxi and said, "Hey, Master. This is Master, let him do the math."

What Dad said made everyone present, including Yuan Chongxi herself, stunned. The child's grandma probably didn't know how to react, so she could only stay there with a smile on her face. She must be thinking at this time: "This doesn't look very high, but it's quite pretty..." (Yuan Zhong Xi's actual height is 160cm, with a typical short figure.) Yuan Chongxi was stunned for a long time before reacting: "Ah, oh. Okay, let's go to your house and have a look?"

It turns out that this child’s grandma graduated in the late 1980s. The graduation certificate at that time was not like the red hard cover we have now. Her diploma at that time was just a piece of cardboard. It looked like Like a certificate of award. So this aunt used a square box to hold all her documents, including her graduation certificate. However, when I wanted to take it out for use this time, I opened the box and found that there was no missing document in the box, only her graduation certificate was missing. Because the matter was urgent, she hurried back to the store to ask her husband. She didn't want her husband to take her granddaughter to a barbecue, and then she arrived at the food stall in a hurry.

His chain store is located at the bottom of a community, and the uncle and his wife live in this community, not far from the food stalls.

A group of us entered the house under the leadership of the old couple, while Chongxi turned left and right in the house, and then took out the compass. The blind old Uncle Chen scolded him: "You still need a compass? It's embarrassing!" When Chongxi heard his master scolding him, he quickly took the compass back. After walking around the room a few times, Chongxi sat on the sofa and asked her aunt about the graduation time, approximate storage time, etc. Then she raised her right thumb and started rubbing it on the other four fingers. As he rubbed it, he heard Chong Xi say "Huh?", then glanced at the aunt, and then started to stare at his right hand again. Apparently after rubbing it for a second time, Yuan Chongxi looked at her aunt with confusion and said: "Auntie, this hexagram shows that your things are not lost. They are still in the box." The aunt was also stunned when she heard this. , and then took out the box from the cabinet. The box had a top and bottom lid. After the aunt opened the box, she said, "No, look, there's nothing in this box."

Chongxi also looked puzzled. At this time, his master Lao Chen said impatiently: "You are stupid! Take a good look at the hexagrams! How is it different from ordinary hexagrams!" Yuan Chongxi looked confused. He looked at his right hand and said hesitantly: "Uh... This, this gossip is backwards..." "So!" Old Uncle Chen was still enlightening Chong Xi. However, Chong Xi still said with a confused look: "No more."

Old Uncle Chen took a long breath and said to my dad: "Brother Hai, look at how my apprentice can do this!" Dad also couldn't laugh or cry. He held his shoulders and pointed at Yuan Chongxi's right hand with his chin. Said: "Chongxi, look, what does this gossip mean?" Yuan Chongxi looked at my dad with a confused look on his face: "... Huh?" My dad also had a wry smile on his face. , "Chongxi, isn't the reverse of this gossip the inversion of yin and yang?" Yuan Chongxi nodded: "... Hmm." Dad then enlightened: "Then you say this inversion of yin and yang... Where should this thing be?" Yuan Chongxi still looked at my dad with a confused look on his face: "... Uh." Dad and Uncle Chen shook their heads at the same time, and Uncle Quan started laughing on the side. The flowers are gone.

Finally, Dad patted Yuan Chongxi on the shoulder to signal that everyone could leave. As he walked out, Dad said to the couple behind him: "Turn over the lid of the box and take a look." With that, everyone had already left. down the corridor. At this time, Yuan Chongxi came to his senses, patted his thigh and said: "Oh! I understand! The thing is indeed still in the box, but the position is reversed, so the hexagram shows that the yin and yang are reversed! That thing is a piece of paper, It's wider than the box, and it's just stuck on the lid of the box!" Old Uncle Chen was so angry that he jumped up and hit Chong Xi on the head with his cane: "Horse ass! I won't bother anyone else when I see you. !" Chong Xi rubbed her head and muttered in a low voice: "You can't see it either!" After saying that, she ran away, and everyone laughed. Is it accurate to say that fortune-telling and fortune-telling are accurate? It is indeed accurate. It can be said that Yuan Chongxi is a genius in this area. But the problem is that although he can accurately calculate what he wants to calculate, his brain is not strong enough, and even if he calculates and interprets the hexagram, he can't solve it correctly.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, I have been an intern at my father’s Chinese Studies Center for a year. It’s graduation season again, and I think my graduation certificate is coming soon.

After returning home from the food stall, looking back on my experiences in the past few years, I thought I had gained a lot of experience. So I said to my parents: "Mom and dad, I have an idea." My dad held a cigarette in his mouth and picked at his feet and asked me: "Okay, okay, just tell me, should I change my phone or my computer this time?" . If you want to change the car, you don’t have to say anything, just go to sleep.” I thought to myself, what the hell is this, I haven’t said it yet! So, I sat upright and said, "No, no, Mom and Dad, listen to me, this time it's business!" Dad glanced at me sideways: "Can you have business?" But then my father looked at me I sat up for a moment and asked, "Did you go out with a girl and kill someone?" I almost spit out a mouthful of blood: "Dad, I told you this is business! Can you be more serious?" Dad then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Well, it's okay if it's not, it's okay if it's not."

"Dad, Mom. I want to open my own Yin Yang Pavilion..." Before I could finish my words, I heard my dad laughing loudly: "Just you?" I immediately said: "It's not just me, I also I want to call Brother Lin and have Chongxi, the three of us can definitely be together!" Dad touched his chin and looked at me, and after a while he said, "Are you sure you can handle those things?" I shook my head: " It’s not just me, there’s Chongxi and the others!” Dad sighed and said, “Okay, let me think about it before we talk.” I thought there was a way, and I could almost win if I find someone to light the fire! He hurriedly said: "I have already chosen the location of the store. The newly opened building in the north of the county is very good." Dad waved his hand and said: "You first have a plan, and I will carefully consider the specific matters. One step before deciding!"

Dad was a little bit more alive, and I was a little more motivated. It happened that the next morning the college called me and told me to go back to school to get my diploma. This was really a good thing. I said hello to my family and drove straight to the city. However, I didn't know that I would encounter difficulties again when I returned to school this time.

At around ten o'clock that morning, I drove to the campus gate. The old doorman waved to me: "Shi Yan is back, are you here to get your graduation certificate?" I quickly stepped forward and handed me a cigarette and said, "Yes, sir, I graduated in the blink of an eye." The old man smiled. Lighting a cigarette, he said, "Hey, hey, that's right. I remember when you little bastards jumped over the wall to go to the Internet bar every night, and I had to wait until midnight to open the door for you. In a blink of an eye, you bastards have become adults." I laughed. He said, "Look at what you said. I was a kid when I was a freshman. I was ignorant, and I bothered you to open the door in the middle of the night every day." The old man laughed and scolded: "Little brat, you were ignorant in your freshman year, but you are sensible in your sophomore year? That's the same. Ah, I came back in the evening of my freshman year, and I only stayed overnight when I was in my sophomore year. I don’t have to hold the door open for you.” I chuckled and said, “Uncle, look at what you said. You have worked hard, you have worked hard.” The old man said to me I waved my hand and then said, "You graduated early. If you were a year late, you would have suffered." I smiled and said, "Oh? Is there any new policy in the school recently?" Unexpectedly, the old man shook his head. Said: "I remember you play the guzheng, right?" I nodded in affirmation. The old man added: "I don't know what's going on these days. All the students and teachers who play the guzheng in our school are sick one by one, and they all have the same disease! You think it's strange or not, but it's only the guzheng player who has something wrong. Everyone else is fine."

My heart skipped a beat after hearing what he said, and I quickly asked, "Oh? What disease do they have?" The old man shook his head, "Strange disease!"