The building of Qianzhuang was magnificent, with a three-story-high marble column at the main entrance. The entire wall group of the building was decorated with granite, and there was a circle of granite around the building. It was already eight o'clock in the evening, and the gate of Qianzhuang had been closed. There were still lights on the fourth floor, but it was unknown which colleague was working overtime. Bai Shaofeng's mood was complicated, and he wandered aimlessly to the back of the Qianzhuang building, a small alley behind two high-rise buildings. Many people sat on the marble base of the wall at the back of the Qianzhuang Building, which happened to be a platform that could sit and rest. Bai Shaofeng sighed inexplicably and sat down there in a daze.
"Are you young enough to be fortune-telling?" Bai Shaofeng was lost in thought when he was suddenly awakened by a voice. He looked up and saw a girl standing in front of him. The girl was not very old, with curly hair that reached her shoulders, wearing a pale yellow long dress. The little girl's eyes were big, with bright and spirited black pupils. When Bai Shaofeng looked up, he saw her blinking her long eyelashes, staring at him curiously.
"Are you younger? Are you older than me?" Bai Shaofeng didn't react in time and subconsciously asked a question back.
The little girl seemed to be somewhat indignant, raised one hand and pointed in front of him, saying: "It's not me who said it, but you. You're so young, yet you know how to tell fortunes and cheat people out of their money? Why don't you go find a proper job?"
Bai Shaofeng's eyes followed her hand to the ground in front of him, and the first thing he saw was a pair of slender legs, tender and delicate like lotus roots, with ankles that sparkled adorably - this girl wasn't wearing socks, and on her pink sandals were two cute cartoon characters. In front of her toes, or rather, in front of Bai Shaofeng, was a large white paper filled with writing and drawings, the content roughly being "Divine calculations, predicting marriage and career prospects..." and so on. This definitely wasn't something that belonged to Bai Shaofeng, so how did it end up in front of him?
Bai Shaofeng looked around again and found that he had sat in the wrong place. Although it was behind two high-rise buildings, it was close to the city center and not far from the pedestrian overpass on the main road, so there were many people coming and going. Many people were sitting on this side of the wall, with a small stall in front of them. There were many selling various sundries, collecting old mobile phones and ink cartridges, playing ring tossing and guessing games, and setting up chess puzzles to lure people into spending money.
Next to Bai Shaofeng was probably a fortune teller who took advantage of the evening patrol's shift change to set up his stall and swindle people out of two cents. He might have gone to relieve himself, and a gust of wind blew that piece of paper in front of him right into Bai Shaofeng's face, still neatly arranged, which led to the misunderstanding.
Bai Shaofeng just lifted his head, wanting to explain a couple of sentences, when he heard a man's voice say: "Little sister Xia, I told you not to come to this kind of place and wander around aimlessly. You still came, what's the point of dealing with this kind of person?"
Bai Shaoliu only then noticed that behind the young girl stood a man, twenty-five or six years old, wearing a high-end suit with straight pants that could cut tofu. He was clearly out of place in this small street. What's more, there were people standing behind them, all dressed in dark suits, quietly observing the people in front and around them without moving or speaking. It was likely that this man and woman were from a wealthy family, Bai Shaoliu observed carefully, noting that the man had two bodyguards behind him, while the young girl had four. This lineup was quite impressive!
The little girl asked Bai Shaofeng why he didn't go find a decent job. Others might hear it as a joke or teasing, but Bai Shaofeng only smiled bitterly. He could tell that the little girl's tone was serious, and when she looked at him, it was full of curiosity, with a sense of responsibility in her heart, but not teasing. This was an ignorant rich young lady who didn't know the hardships of life, for whom "self-reliance" was just a paper motto, naturally thinking that as long as everyone worked hard, they would succeed.
Why doesn't Bai Shaoliu want to find a decent job? He was just laid off from the wealthy Zhuang's house, and today he spent the whole day at the job market. If it were in a different setting, Bai Shaoliu would have just smiled and shook his head, not bothering with her. But now it's different, because he saw that man. The way that man looked at the little girl was gentle and considerate, but Bai Shaoliu felt the true emotions in his heart were like a fly looking at a piece of fat meat, which made him feel nauseous. And when that man glanced at him, his expression was like someone with mysophobia looking at a pile of trash, making Bai Shaoli very uncomfortable. Since that bizarre car accident, Bai Shaoliu spent two months recovering in bed and learned three months' worth of Xing Shen Xiang He's skills, making his perception of people's hearts more direct and sensitive.
"Little sister, how did you know I was cheating people out of their money?" Bai Shaofeng replied as gently as possible, not even glancing at the man beside her, because Xiao Bai simply didn't want to bother with him.
Little girl: "My sister said that misusing abstruse theories is misleading oneself and others. In fact, misusing abstruse theories harms oneself even more."
She brought up another Gu sister, and even mentioned a term - Xuanxue! This time it was Bai Shaofeng's turn to be curious: "So you believe in fortune-telling? Then what do you say I do? Which eye did you see me cheating people out of money with?"
The little girl's words were stuck, because Bai Shaofeng just sat here and put a piece of paper in front of him, he hadn't even started fortune-telling yet. The little girl couldn't possibly see him cheating people out of their money. She blinked her eyes seriously and said: "Aren't you sitting here telling fortunes? My cousin said that Qimen Tui Su cannot be used casually in public, if it is, either harm yourself or cheat others."
The little girl spoke more and more seriously, and Bai Shaofeng smiled and replied: "I don't know you, Sister Gu. What she says has nothing to do with me."
The little girl hadn't spoken yet, but the man behind her was clearly impatient. He stepped forward and shouted at Xiao Bai: "Hey, what's with all this nonsense? You think you can cheat people? Get out of here... Little sister, let's go."
Bai Shaofeng replied without lifting his eyes: "I wasn't talking to you!" Little White had always thought that no one was born more noble than anyone else, unless they had a good reason. Since he didn't have any dealings with this stranger and didn't need anything from him, there was no need to care about his expression, especially since the man was quite detestable. The best way to deal with someone who thinks they're superior to you is to completely ignore them, which would make them feel most uncomfortable. Little White had known this since he was young. For some reason, he was in a particularly bad mood today, so he deliberately provoked the man, who didn't seem too pleased either.
The man was indeed enraged, unable to bear the small swindler who sat on the street like a piece of trash, speaking to him with such disdain. If it weren't for Xiaojie's presence, he might have called security to beat him up on the spot. The man took another step forward, his face darkening as he said to Xiao Bai, "You're not just a fortune teller, are you? Well, I'll let you calculate something - will I give you money or not?" As he spoke, he pulled out a beautiful wallet and waved three banknotes in front of Xiao Bai with two fingers.
The man looked somewhat complacent when he spoke, and secretly glanced at Xiao Xi, as if to say: "Look, I've got this swindler cornered! If he says I gave him money, I won't give it to him; if he says I didn't give him money, I'll throw it in his face, and expose this swindler on the spot!" He was already thinking about how Xiao Xi would look at him with admiration.
But Xiao Xi didn't look at him, instead she scrunched up her cute nose and stared at Bai Shaofeng, wondering what he would do. Bai Shaofeng looked at the man and woman, and suddenly had an idea to play a trick on them. He remembered when he was a kid, during a festival, the village chief's son met him at the village entrance and said: "Little White, guess whether I'll give you this red egg or not?" Little White replied: "You're such a stingy person, of course you won't give it to me." As a result, the village chief's son immediately threw the egg at him, shouting: "I'm not that stingy!" Then Little White ate the egg. This kind of childish trick, and yet this man was trying to bully him here.
"Three hundred yuan is too little, I reckon you won't give me three thousand." Xiaobai replied calmly, trying his best to hold back a laugh.
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