"What's wrong with being a human being? Look at how happy these people are in the square!" Mingli said to the hanged man.
The Hanged Man in red glanced at the people in the square and said, "Are they all happy? You see the woman wearing a pink skirt and carrying a heavy backpack, she is not happy!"
"How can you see that? It seems normal to me!" Mingli retorted to the Hanged Man.
"Happiness? A foreign woman must have something on her mind when she is alone in a sea of strangers!" The Hanged Man led Mingli to the woman.
Mingli saw the woman with a haggard face and swollen eyelids, standing in front of a fortune teller and hesitating to speak. Finally, she squatted down, picked up the bamboo tube containing the fortune-telling sticks in front of her and shook it gently. After a while, one of the fortune-telling sticks fell to the ground. The fortune teller quickly picked up the fortune teller and read it over: "A traveler is lost in the mountains and does not know north, south, west and east. There are many immortals to guide the way, so he will definitely be in trouble. This is a lucky fortune!"
"What do you mean? Please explain to me!" the woman said urgently.
"I'll tell you slowly." The fortune teller said seriously: "In the past, Liu Xiu was walking in Nanyang, and he got this hexagram on the way. Sure enough, he encountered a tiger, and Liu Xiu jumped on the tiger and left. It is also a sign of wealth and happiness. A humble person will give in, and there will be immortal guidance. The symbol of the road is that a person is walking in the mountains and is in trouble, and suddenly an immortal shows him the way. If you divine this hexagram, you will turn it into auspiciousness. The cold moon will gradually strengthen. I don't know if the woman fully understood the meaning, but the sadness on her face disappeared. She stood up, thanked her, took out a fifty-yuan note and handed it to the fortune teller, then turned and left.
Looking at the fortune teller with a smile on his face, he quickly put the money into his pocket.
"Is what the fortune teller said true?" Mingli asked the hanged man next to him.
"Humph, this is called lying nonsense!" said the hanged ghost, "A dead person can be told to live, these fortune tellers are the best at deceiving people!"
"Don't say that, how dare you set up a stall here, have you seen that woman, you are so happy when the fortune is right!"
"Humph, fortune tellers are all psychologists, the best at observing people's emotions and speaking according to the mood. If you don't believe me, go and try to make a fortune!"
"Try?" Mingli suddenly became interested.
"Remember, stay calm!" The hanged man in red told Mingli.
Mingli picked up the bamboo tube containing the hexagram sign and shook it a few times, and a hexagram sign fell out from it. The fortune teller picked it up. He glanced at Mingli and then at the fortune teller, "The one the eldest sister drew is the top one!"
"What do you mean?" Mingli became interested.
"The hexagram says: A traveler is lost in the mountains and does not know the north, south and west. If there are many immortals to guide him, he will definitely be in trouble." The fortune teller glanced at Mingli and then said: "In the past, Liu Xiu walked to Nanyang -"
Mingli thought: "Isn't this the same as before?" Mingli interrupted him, "Tell me quickly, where is my guiding immortal?"
"It's far away and yet so close. It depends on whether you believe it or not!"
"Now that I'm here, of course I believe it. Sir, please tell me!"
"Well, from now on, on the first, eleventh, and twenty-first day of the lunar month, clean yourself and eat fast for three consecutive months. This will ensure that your husband changes his mind and that your husband and wife will love each other!"
The most confusing thing for a pampered middle-aged woman is that her husband has a mistress. She wants to save face and suffers. She has her teeth knocked out and swallowed in her stomach. She hates her but cannot love her. She lives an uncomfortable life and is unwilling to leave her. She listens to the sound of rain and the crowing of frogs and feels pity for herself. She secretly hurts herself when looking at the missing moon. Fortunately, Mingli was a young widow, and her husband died in a car accident long before her daughter was one year old. So, after listening to the fortune teller's lies, Mingli really believed the man in red. Really, sometimes lies told by living people are scarier than true lies.
