I want to be innocent, but they don't allow me

Li Mu calmed himself down, raised the corner of his mouth, looked at the man in a profound manner, and said slowly:

"If you don't want to know, Mr. Liu, just pretend I never said anything. Please do as you please."

After saying that, he turned around, winked at Shanshan, and prepared to leave.

"You've been exposed. Are you planning to run away?"

Someone in the crowd noticed that Li Mu was about to leave and started shouting.

Hearing this, the onlookers were immediately in an uproar, and all of them began to blame Li Mu. Invisibly, they surrounded Li Mu.

Li Mu listened to the accusations of the crowd, but he didn't care. Seeing that he couldn't leave, he simply continued to squat on the side of the road, with a firm mind.

"Three, two, one, come on."

At this time, the man surnamed Liu squeezed out of the crowd with a serious expression, slowly walked in front of Li Mu, and after a moment of silence, he spoke:

"I wonder if you could make your point clear, sir."

Hearing this, the crowd was quiet at first, and then instantly became excited.

"No way, is what this person said true?"

"That's impossible. Young Master Liu hasn't married yet, how could that happen?"

"Can't I have a confidante or something?"

Suddenly, someone in the crowd said something that seemed to clear up everyone's doubts, and they all turned their eyes to Li Mu, wanting to know what he would say next.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, Li Mu knew that it was time, so he waved his hand and signaled the man to squat down.

Seeing this, the man did not hesitate and squatted in front of Li Mu. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Li Mu slowly open his eyes and said:

"In the apricot garden, the lady in green clothes sings and dances gracefully, and puts on red makeup."

When the man heard this, his pupils shrank and he stood up suddenly.

"Sir, do you really mean what you say?"

"Go in half an hour, and you will know the truth."

Li Mu did not raise his head. He pretended to close his eyes and spoke lightly.

Hearing this, the man turned around and rushed out of the crowd.

Seeing the man was about to leave, Shanshan dodged and blocked his way, and stretched out a hand in front of the man:

"Gold!"

The man looked up at Shanshan and was about to reach out for money when he heard Li Mu behind him say:

"No need, Mr. Liu, go and do your business first, and it won't be too late to come back and settle the divination money later."

Seeing Li Mu speak, Shanshan had no choice but to make way and go back behind Li Mu, complaining.

"Sir, what if he doesn't come back?"

Li Muxin said,

"It's up to him to come back or not. Since such a big thing happened at home, just consider it as charity."

When everyone saw the man leaving, someone in the crowd said,

"Let's go take a look too."

A group of people who were looking for fun and excitement rushed after the man.

Li Mu saw that everyone had dispersed and his stall had become deserted again. He sat down on the ground and thought to himself,

"Anyway, there is indeed an apricot tree in front of the house, and the woman is indeed wearing green clothes. There is no way I can be wrong about this. But why are all these people gone? Oh my god, I was too pretentious just now."

----

In the blink of an eye, an hour passed.

Just when Li Mu and others were getting a little nervous, they saw a group of people walking towards Li Mu.

The leader was none other than the man named Liu.

"No, there are still more good people."

Li Mu looked at the approaching crowd and smiled at Shanshan.

Shanshan finally breathed a sigh of relief, her expression excited, and the wooden sign in her hand creaked.

The man named Liu walked up to Li Mu, clasped his hands and bowed.

"Liu Shouping, thank you very much, sir. If it weren't for you, I would have been kept in the dark and let that bitch use my money to support a gigolo outside."

Although Liu Shouping had not yet married, he had a mistress in the city.

The woman was originally a singer in a brothel. After being redeemed by Liu Shouping, she was kept outside.

The so-called adulterer was actually the woman's former benefactor. At first, the two of them only talked about poetry and songs, but after a few exchanges, the couple became a passionate couple.

Li Mu was not interested in the affair between Liu Shouping and the brothel actress, so he raised a finger.

"One tael of silver, and we'll settle. Otherwise, Master Liu will have to bear the consequences of leaking the secret."

Hearing this, Liu Shouping did not hesitate, took out ten taels of silver from his pocket, handed it to Li Mu, and flattered him.

"This tael is the money I paid to you, sir. The remaining nine taels are to apologize to you for my rude words before."

Li Mu didn't reach out to take it, but coughed dryly.

Shanshan behind him immediately understood and snatched the silver from the man's hand.

The people behind him finally couldn't sit still anymore and came forward one after another, wanting Li Mu to tell their fortunes.

Seeing the money in his hands, Li Mu suddenly lost interest in setting up a stall to tell fortunes.

He immediately stood up, cleared his throat, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said loudly:

"This matter of revealing the secrets of heaven is a matter of fate. Unless it is a matter of great importance, I advise you to stay away from it."

As he spoke, he bowed to everyone.

"I will give you three divinations a day. The first one will solve your worries, so I will only charge you one tael. The second one will solve your doubts, so I will charge you ten taels. The third one will solve your difficulties, so I will charge you a hundred taels."

When they heard the last hundred taels, everyone gasped.

Some people who were eager to try were hesitant about Li Mu's theory of "cause and effect" and stopped moving forward.

After all, unless they are really desperate, most people would not want to seek help from ghosts and gods. This is also the effect Li Mu wants.

He just wanted to collect some money to avoid sleeping on the streets, and he didn't want to get involved in such trivial matters. If someone really needed help, he would be happy to lend a hand.

After waiting for a while and seeing that no one came, Li Mu stood up, dusted himself off, and said to the person behind him:

"You must be hungry, let's go eat."

Shanshan heard this and said reluctantly:

"Sir, why do we have to make that kind of rule? Isn't it good to make more money?"

Li Mu was actually a little depressed. He felt helpless. He could not do this job with the divination technique of "telling things but not fortune-telling".

"It's not that I don't want to work hard, it's just that my fortune-telling stall is a bit tricky. Most of these people will come up and ask questions like, 'Can I become rich?', 'Can I have a son?' I really have no idea what I want to do."

Before Li Mu could answer, he heard someone next to him say:

"Without rules, there will be no order. Divination and calculation are the cycle of cause and effect. Are you a Taoist from my sect?"

Li Mu and the other man looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the person who spoke was a middle-aged Taoist priest, about thirty years old, with an easy-going face, and gave people the feeling of an immortal.

Li Mu raised his eyebrows and thought

"Who is your Taoist sect? Don't try to be pretentious right away."

"I wonder which lineage you come from?"

In a blink of an eye, the middle-aged Taoist priest had arrived in front of him. He raised his hand to salute Li Mu and asked.

Li Mu didn't know where the person in front of him came from, and he didn't want to offend him, so he returned the usual bow and said in a kind tone:

"I am not from the Taoist sect, please do not blame me, Taoist Master."

"But can I see this divination technique of my friend?"

The middle-aged Taoist looked at Li Mu with some doubt and asked tentatively.

Li Mu smiled and made up an excuse to fool him:

"It was given to me by a wandering Taoist when I was a child. I don't know where it came from."

The middle-aged Taoist nodded, without dwelling on it any further, and said:

"I wonder if you, my friend, could tell me a fortune for me?"

Li Mu looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest with some surprise, thinking,

"Your wife is also cheating on you?"

Then he looked at the white cloud above the middle-aged Taoist priest's head and said lightly:

"Okay, ten taels."

The middle-aged Taoist priest shook his head, took out a bamboo slip from his bosom, and said with a smile:

"I wonder if this can be used as my divination fee."

Li Mu now had a physiological reaction to this kind of bamboo slips with a simple appearance. He looked at it subconsciously and his pupils suddenly contracted.

On the side of the bamboo slip, there were two words engraved in Chinese: "藏锋".