I was both angry and amused. You can tell people's past and future lives by fortune-telling. I am the one who revealed the secrets of heaven. Isn't it like the officials are allowed to set fires but the people are not allowed to light lamps? I ignored him and took the 500 yuan to follow Uncle Yinzi to the restaurant. The crowd dispersed. Some admired me, while others were dissatisfied. They whispered that I shouldn't have scared this gentleman away because it wasn't their turn to have their fortunes told. Some even chased me to the restaurant and asked me to tell their fortunes. I told them that I was talking nonsense and they shouldn't take it seriously, so I sent them all away.
Uncle Yinzi asked me if I wanted to have a drink. I had just had lunch and had no appetite, so I asked him to make a pot of tea and we sat there drinking and chatting. Uncle Yinzi was eager to ask about his past life, and I smiled and said, "If you believe it, it's true, if you don't believe it, it's false. Fortune telling can't guarantee that it's absolutely true."
Uncle Yinzi nodded and didn't talk about it anymore. He told me about a man who came to the restaurant two days ago and asked for food. The couple were both kind-hearted people, but the man's arrogant tone made them feel disgusted, so they refused to give him food. Unexpectedly, the man took out a black pearl and said that it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and he would exchange it for a meal.
Although the couple didn't know much about jewelry, they thought the beads were indeed extraordinary and could be sold for ten or eight yuan even as decorations, so they gave him a few steamed buns and a plate of leftovers. The man wiped his mouth after eating and left, acting very arrogant all the time, as if he was a high-ranking official in the past.
My heart was beating fast when I heard that, and I quickly asked what this person looked like. Uncle Yinzi described him, damn, it could be Ling Peiqiang. Since Zheng Yutao and Bai Xinyu died last time, we haven't found the whereabouts of Black Pearl and him. We begged the dead rat and sent out the pointed ghost, but we couldn't find any clues. He disappeared without a trace, just like he evaporated from the face of the earth.
Thinking of this, I hurriedly asked Uncle Yinzi to take out the black pearls for me to see. Sure enough, they were the black pearls refined by our Xi family, because there are differences between beads made of ghost teeth and naturally formed ones, but the difference is so subtle that even antique dealers may not be able to see it, but I can recognize it at a glance. There is a hint of chill in it, which is something that natural black pearls do not have.
I asked him to keep it, saying that this thing was not worth hundreds of thousands as the man said, but it would be no problem to sell it for 100,000 or 200,000. Uncle Yinzi almost fell off the stool when he heard this. Although the income in the countryside has increased now, this amount is nothing, but in the minds of farmers, it is still a huge sum of money that is out of reach.
Uncle Yinzi quickly and carefully put the beads away. I asked him if the man had come again. He said no, he had only come once. He happily said that if the man came again, no matter how many times, he would be given free food and drink. I told him to notify me if the man came again.
Coming out of the restaurant, I was thinking that it seemed that Ling Peiqiang was still staying near Shangcheng Town. Since Zhang Yunfeng had fled to Mangshan, no one cared about his life or death, so he was so hungry that he took out the black pearl to exchange for food. He was really generous. One black pearl could buy Uncle Yinzi's restaurant several times.
It was still early, so I planned to go around the town to ask around and find out the whereabouts of this old bastard. Just as Shen Bing and I walked to the south of the town, a car suddenly rushed towards me. It was too fast and I couldn't avoid it in time. I pushed Shen Bing away and was hit by the front of the car!