Siheyuan Fortune Telling: Starting from a Buyer to Become an All-rounder

"Dongsheng, are you ready to go out?"

Xu Dongsheng originally thought that no one would pay attention to him, but he didn't expect that just when he locked the door and was about to go out, feeling the scorching sun without shadows, a voice came from under the eaves opposite.

"It's Teacher Yan. The results of the high school entrance exam are out. I didn't pass, so I plan to go out and look around to see if there are any opportunities. Are you not working today?"

It was Yan Bugui. Originally Xu Dongsheng thought he was not at home because today was only Wednesday and classes were held for six days with one day off. Logically, Yan Bugui should be at school instead of basking in the sun here.

Xu Dongsheng called Yan Bugui "Teacher Yan" instead of "Uncle". This was because Xu Dongsheng attended Hongxing Primary School and Yan Bugui was a teacher there. Although he had never taught Xu Dongsheng, all students in school called all teachers "Teachers". So the original owner Xu Dongsheng was used to it, and the new Xu Dongsheng would not change it without permission.

"Well, that's a shame, but it's enough for junior high school graduation. At least it shouldn't be a problem to find a job. I didn't have classes today, so I didn't go to school and wasted the school water."

Yan Bugui nodded, fanning himself with a leaf-leaf cattail leaf fan, expressing regret for Xu Dongsheng's failure to pass the exam, and encouraged Xu Dongsheng, then explained why he didn't go to work for the sake of the school. It didn't seem like he didn't want to waste energy going to school. After all, he didn't have a bicycle yet, and it took him more than an hour to walk to school every time. Besides, the school cafeteria wasn't free at noon, so why waste food stamps and money?

"Oh, is that so? Then you continue to enjoy the cool air. I'll go out first. The sun is really hot."

Xu Dongsheng did not expose Yan Bugui's thoughts. He smiled and sighed that the sun was too strong, then prepared to leave the courtyard.

"That's right. Today is the end of the dog days, but the weather hasn't cooled down yet. I hope it will be cooler tomorrow. Okay, go do what you need to do."

As the elders in the courtyard, Yan Bugui and the other two did not have any power, but they had responsibilities. They needed to unite the neighbors, help mediate some simple conflicts, assist the street office in controlling the situation of the people in the courtyard, and prevent enemy agents and terrorists from infiltrating the courtyard. So after Yan Bugui understood the purpose of Xu Dongsheng's going out, he did not say anything more.

"By the way, Dongsheng, if you want to find a job, you can go to the street office first. After all, you only graduated from junior high school."

Xu Dongsheng was about to turn around and leave when Yan Bugui suddenly seemed to have thought of something and told Xu Dongsheng that he could go to the street office to look into work matters.

"Thank you, Mr. Yan. If I go to the street office later, I will go and take a look."

Xu Dongsheng didn't care what Yan Bugui was thinking, at least his suggestion was good, and he thanked Yan Bugui and left. Although Yan Bugui was stingy and calculating, he couldn't just do anything about Xu Dongsheng's family now, because everyone knew everything about the courtyard, not to mention that Old Xu didn't understand because he came from the countryside, but sometimes people from the countryside often know the most.

So Old Xu is honest, but not a fool. He doesn’t like to talk, but he knows everything in his mind.

Xu Dongsheng passed through the gate of the courtyard and his destination was the grain station.

"Om!!"

Just as Xu Dongsheng stepped over the threshold of the courtyard, the yellow list suddenly vibrated in his mind. Xu Dongsheng hurried to the alley between the courtyards of No. 95 and No. 96 Nanluoguxiang. His consciousness came to the consciousness space and he saw the yellow list.

The first of the six gray hexagram sentences on the yellow board, "Tongren Yumen, no blame", was painted gold, the same color as the hexagram. And after this sentence, there was an image of a blooming grass. The image looked like an orchid.

Apart from this, there were no other changes on the yellow list. Xu Dongsheng did not gain anything else and immediately regained consciousness.

"Hmm? Orchid grass?"

When Xu Dongsheng regained consciousness, he suddenly felt something in his hand. He raised his hand and saw that he was holding an orchid, and it was an orchid that had already bloomed. Xu Dongsheng quickly picked up the orchid and looked at it carefully. Wasn't this the orchid that he had seen on the yellow list that looked like it was drawn with a carbon pen?

"What you mean is that for this new hexagram, the hexagram statement is the general direction, and the line statement above it requires me to fulfill or experience the line statement above before I can get something?"

Looking at the orchid in his hand, Xu Dongsheng had a hint of speculation in his mind, because recalling the process of his reaction to the yellow list just now when he went out, it seemed that this process just met the words of the first line.

Because from the time he left home to the time he was discharged from the hospital, he communicated with Yan Bugui, and finally Yan Bugui gave him a suggestion. He agreed, and then as soon as he went out, he received the changes on the yellow list and got an orchid.

"Then look again."

Xu Dongsheng threw the orchid into the hemispheric space. Although he didn't know whether this thing was precious or not, it was very commemorative.

After Xu Dongsheng had his guess, he was about to conduct an experiment when he suddenly felt someone coming from the street.

"God is really helping me."

Feeling someone coming, Xu Dongsheng was delighted, because the key to the third hexagram was the word "Fu", so he just had to hide. Thinking of this, he quickly hid at the corner of the alley. He had just hidden himself when a head popped out from the shadows and saw two children carrying a soy sauce bottle and running past the entrance of the alley where he was.

After the two children ran over, Xu Dongsheng's consciousness once again felt the changes in the yellow list. When his consciousness came to the yellow list, as expected, he saw that the third line of the yellow list also turned golden. There was a thumb-sized round black dot behind the line. The orchid pattern behind the first line had disappeared.

Xu Dongsheng regained consciousness and felt something in his hand again. He picked it up and saw that it was a black pill with a special fragrance. When he smelled the fragrance, Xu Dongsheng felt cool all over and felt very comfortable.

"Gudu!"

Feeling the comfort in his body, Xu Dongsheng knew that this was a good thing and swallowed it immediately.

"what!!"

The black pill melted instantly after entering his mouth and penetrated into his limbs. Then Xu Dongsheng felt as if he was soaking in a hot spring, with thousands of beautiful women massaging him, making him relax from the inside out. He couldn't help but let out a sound of comfort. Fortunately, he was hiding in the alley and no one saw him, otherwise people would have thought he was a mentally ill person.

A moment later, Xu Dongsheng stood up limply from the alley, holding on to the wall. It took him a while to recover from the comfort he had just felt.

"One word, cool!"

“Two words: awesome!”

“Three words, so cool!”

After recovering, Xu Dongsheng exhaled, touched his new eight-pack abs and powerful biceps, and exclaimed three times in a row. He now felt that he could beat ten people, but this was just imagination. He understood that this was just a psychological expansion after the sudden increase in strength.

"I finally understand most of the uses of this golden finger."

Feeling the changes in himself, the heavy weight in Xu Dongsheng's heart dissipated a lot. If he got a golden finger for no apparent reason, it would be troublesome.

After getting the key information, Xu Dongsheng began to ponder the remaining four hexagrams. The second one could wait until Old Xu came back in the evening to study it. The fourth and fifth ones were not very difficult, but the sixth one, "Together in the Suburbs", required someone to go to the suburbs with him.

"By the way, in that case, after going to the grain station, let's go to the Pigeon City."

This pigeon market is actually equivalent to a rural fair, which is located just outside the Dongzhimen suburb. It is a spontaneous fair where people from the countryside want to buy things from the city, so they sell some local specialties to the city. Then the people in the city also need some things from the countryside. This is not legal, but it is semi-legal, and it is something that the government will not run unless the people report it.

But generally speaking, there won't be anyone today, because the pigeon market usually opens on Sunday morning and ends at noon.

Xu Dongsheng just wanted to try his luck. As for whether there was anyone there, generally speaking there was someone, because after all, it was right under the imperial city, how could there be no one?

After making up his mind, Xu Dongsheng went around to the back of the alley. When he came out, he had already left Nanluoguxiang and went straight to the grain station.