"It's over, it's over. Don't worry, I won't take it seriously."
After giving the captain a reassurance, Song Xi and I left together.
"What did you do?" Song Xi asked me.
"There is no one left in Fengyang County. It has become a dead city. If you continue to stay there, you can only dawdle." I paused and said: "I have ideals and ambitions. I couldn’t live in Fengyang County, so I decided to come to Yudu and open a branch of Xinsheng Pavilion.”
“Is setting up a street stall a branch?” Song Xi asked me.
"Shops in Yudu are so expensive, and after I left Fengyang County, I couldn't read faces and could only read words. I was afraid that after renting a shop, I would not be able to make ends meet, so I decided to try setting up a street stall first," I said.
“Didn’t you say before that a fortune teller must walk on two legs, and fortune telling and calligraphy must be done at the same time?” Song Xi looked at me seriously and said, “Your master is here. I must have explained it to you before I left!”
“Forget it, I’ll just test the words!” I said.
Song Xi is right, Master did explain it to me. I can only use yin and yang money to divination in the Xinsheng Pavilion. After leaving the Xinsheng Pavilion, I can read fortune telling without using Yin Yang money. However, because there is no instruction from God, and fortune telling no longer distinguishes between men and women, it is easy to cause karma.
Causation, if it is small, can save money and avoid disaster; if it is big, it can kill me. To put it more bluntly, there is no yin and yang money to make judgments. After looking at people’s photos, I don’t know what I will encounter.
Isn’t it just to make some money for me? Why put your life on the line for something external?
“Even if it’s just a word test, you have to find a store!” Song Xi frowned and thought for a while, then said, “Otherwise, I’ll contact you to see if there’s any suitable store. The store. If you find it, the rent will be mine, but the money you earn from the calligraphy test will be divided into dividends."
"How much?" I asked.
"It depends on your conscience." Song Xi said with a smile.
Don't say it's just a calligraphy test, even if I don't fear death and use it for fortune telling, I won't be able to make much money in a month.
This little scumbag money must have no weight in Song Xi's eyes. After all, she is the general manager of an investment company, and her monthly income is tens of thousands. With the year-end dividend, she can earn millions in a year at least.
Song Xi invited me to dinner. I sent her back to Yushui Bay, and then returned to the rental house by myself.
The next afternoon, Song Xi called me and said that there was a store in Guquan Old Street and asked me to take a look.
I have heard that Guquan Old Street is a ghost market in Chongqing, with a mixture of fish and dragons and everyone. A characteristic of that place is that it is deserted during the day and lively at night. After all, a ghost market is a place for that kind of business. Doing business during the day is very inconvenient.
To be honest, my original intention of coming to Chongqing was to establish a foothold in Guquan Old Street. If I could gain a foothold there, I would not be the first-year junior high school master in Fengyang County, but truly the first-year junior high school master in Chongqing.
Master always said that if he were twenty years younger, he would definitely move Xinsheng Pavilion to Guquan Old Street. He has been saying this since I was a few years old, and he is still saying it when I am in my twenties.
On his deathbed, although Master never mentioned Guquan Old Street to me again, I knew in my heart that it was his last wish for Xinsheng Pavilion to be established in Guquan Old Street.
The store Song Xi was looking for was at the end of Guquan Old Street. It was a small storefront on the first floor, with an opening of just over two meters. The entire store was about ten square meters, and there was a room on the second floor that could be used as a bedroom. .
Businesses are done on the first floor, and people live on the second floor. Although it is a bit remote, the rent in this store is cheap! I decided on the facade without even thinking about it.
After finding the store, the next thing to do is to simply decorate it and buy some furniture. After all, I have to live on the second floor! The room is empty now, not even a bed.
Song Xi drove the Prado and accompanied me to the market to buy everything I needed. The Xinsheng Pavilion on Jiuquan Old Street was almost ready for business.
I wanted to write the name of the store as Xinshengge, but because I could only read characters and not read faces, I was afraid of ruining the Xinshengge signboard, so I didn’t dare to write it like that, so I just did a piece of writing. A signboard with the word "testing" was hung on the lintel.
"Okay!" Song Xi smiled at me slightly and said, "I've helped you with everything I can. It depends on whether you can make a name for yourself in Guquan Old Street. It's up to you. I believe in your ability to read fortune tellers. I have no idea. Therefore, if you only test words, I won’t dare to introduce you to any business. You have to rely on yourself.”
“Even if you introduce me, I won’t do it. I dare to test it!" I replied to Song Xi with a smile.
"Then I'll leave first. If you need anything, call me." Song Xi said goodbye to me, then got in the car and drove away in her Prado.
Since Guquan Old Street is a ghost market, it naturally feels a bit spooky! It's still broad daylight, and I feel a little cold even sitting in the store. After nightfall, wouldn’t it get colder?
The calligraphy store won’t open until tomorrow. It’s not interesting to sit in the store now, so I went out for a walk and got familiar with the environment of Guquan Old Street.
Most of the shops in Guquan Old Street are closed. Judging from the signs of these shops, there are those who pawn, those who make paper figurines, those who sell incense and candles, and even those who sell Imp's.
Other old streets sell snacks and other things, attracting tourists. Here in Guquan Old Street, just looking at the names of these shops can make people run cold down their spines.
After wandering around for a while, I felt that it was not interesting, so I went back to the calligraphy shop.
As soon as I went back, a woman wearing a black cheongsam with a slightly high slit and her big white legs swayed a little with every step walked into the store.
"What do you want to do in this shop?" the woman asked me.
"Isn't it written on the sign?" I looked at the woman and said, "Test the characters."
"To open a shop in Guquan Old Street, you must have real skills. If you You're here to show off, so I advise you to close the door and leave." The woman said.
"What do you call beauty?" Although this woman is in her early thirties, she is still quite beautiful. It cannot be said that it is against her heart to call her beauty.
"Just call me Sister Shaoyao." The woman said.
"Han Xiangyun drunkenly slept with Shaoyao Yin, sister Shaoyao's peony, is that peony, right?" I asked with a smile.
“Are you trying to tease me?” Sister Shaoyao asked me.
"How dare I? I just thought of that sentence when I heard the name Sister Shaoyao." I said.
"It's no use trying to make me happy. To open a shop in Guquan Old Street, you must have real skills." Sister Shaoyao looked at me lightly and said, "Why don't you give me a test first? Try it and see if you are right.”
"Opening a store to test calligraphy cannot be done for nothing." Although Sister Shaoyao is somewhat pretty, she has to pay for the calligraphy test if she asks me to test her calligraphy.
"You want to charge me money?" Sister Shaoyao asked.
"The purpose of opening a shop and doing business is to make money. The rent, water and electricity of my shop all need to be paid for in real money. Of course, the rules for character testing are what they are, and what are the rules!" I road.
“How much does it cost to measure a word?” Sister Shaoyao asked me.
"Let it go." I paused and said, "After I finish the test, you can give it as much as you think it's worth. Three to five hundred is not too little, and three to five million is not too much."< br>
Living in Yudu is not like living in Fengyang County. When I was in the county, the house was my own and I didn't need rent. When I read the photo, I would pay as much as the other party was willing to pay. I didn't force it. It's different in Chongqing. I can't make a loss-making business! Therefore, I said a minimum price of three to five hundred.
“Three to five million? Are you really too generous?” Sister Shaoyao said to me coldly. "Although it's just a simple word, different people will have different results when measuring it. If the measurement is accurate, you can turn disaster into good luck; if the measurement is inaccurate, you may suffer disaster." I paused and said : "Small disasters cost small money, big disasters require high prices. I won't force it, everything is decided by the person who comes."