believe your evil

Xu Xinning's business failed, and after owing millions of debts, he mortgaged the house to Zhou Jin and moved to another small house of his own, but he didn't want his mentally ill father to kill Zhou Jin's aunt.

Even though the dutiful son knew the truth of murder for life, he still spent all his money to hire the best lawyer to defend his mentally ill father who had no full capacity for civil conduct. In the end, he really got what he wanted. Xu Hao was not arrested and sent to jail, but The money that should be compensated cannot be less.

Xu Xinning had no choice but to give Zhou Jin's family his last source of livelihood - a stationery store in front of the school.

This time, he has nothing to worry about. He can only rely on the last little money in the bank card to live with his mentally ill father. Fortunately, he is still hungry for the time being. Xu Xinning found another job as a courier and started working without a wife or child. There is only one old father, and two mouths are enough to eat.

"That's right, that's him. I remember very clearly. He was in the place where I was telling my fortune. He was a well-known filial son. If you have seen his palmistry, you will know that there is no wealth in the four pillars, the fate of monks and Taoists, relatives, There is no marriage or children, this kind of people, if they want to live a smooth life in the second half of their lives, they should go to temples or Taoist temples to cut off the world."

The person who said these words was a tall, thin man in gray gown and trousers, a pair of cloth shoes on his feet, and a pair of round eyes on the bridge of his handsome nose. If he was carrying a cloth bag on his shoulder at this moment , holding a "fortune-telling and fortune-telling" pole in his hand, he is a quack magic stick.

But magic sticks can also be divided into liars and those who are capable. Those who are capable can understand the fate of others, and can indeed tell fate for others. Then use the four-pillar, five-element, six-yao and eight-diagram techniques handed down by the patriarch to conduct a survey, even if it is the ghosts and ghosts in the nether world. You have to call big brother.

In Nether, those capable of fortune-telling in the human world are called demigods.

Since they are demigods, they will naturally have special treatment after death. They will not be sent to reincarnation like ordinary people. They will be sent to the Wangchuan River and cast as fish in the river. The people of the Netherworld call them river officials.

But at this moment, this young man in gray is a river official in the river of Wangchuan.

The river official’s real name is ominous, but his stage name of sweeping the streets and reading fortune-telling back then was well-known in the Wangchuan River. His name was Zuo Manguan. Famous, so it is called Zuo Slam.

Zuo Manguan has been eating from the ancestors since the fourth, fifth and sixth generations of his ancestors. In Zuo Manguan's generation, he has an extraordinary ability to read divination and fortunetelling in his early 20s. Many, before 25, he hung up clean and came to Netherworld to become a river official.

Zuo Manguan actually refused to return to the human world after "coming out of the rivers and lakes" this time, and hid at the bottom of the Wangchuan River without moving, but Yan Wuchang asked someone to fish him out with a net.

As soon as it came out of the water, the fish spit out a row of bubbles coldly and slapped everyone's faces, followed by an angry shout from the bubbles and hit everyone's eardrums: "The river officer also has the right to refuse fish! I want to sue you!"

Yan Wuchang, who was thrown with water all over his face, pinched the crucian carp's neck: "It seems that Nether is really free, equal and has human rights. Even monsters have no demon rights. You, a river official, still want to have fish rights? Wait until I meet the boss Let’s talk when you don’t have to kneel down.”

Zuo Manguan had the face of a dead fish about to be sent to the cutting board.

At this moment, across a non-motorized road, Zuo Manguan looked at the figure of Xu Xinning who was delivering a courier not far from the floor-to-ceiling window, said what he just said, and then bowed his head and sipped the milk tea straw in front of him. He sucked in a big mouthful, half a cup of milkshake went into the belly of the fish, and raised his eyebrows: "Well, this taste is quite delicious."

And the one sitting opposite him was not Yan Wuchang, but Ji Jiuyou who was swiping his phone with an idle face.

Ji Jiuyou didn't raise her head, noncommittal.

Although Zuo Manguan didn't know his identity, he was also a fortune-teller after all. Looking at his demeanor, he knew that he was not an emperor, but at least a general. He guessed that he was a senior leader of Senluo Palace at the same level as Yan Wuchang.

Seeing that Ji Jiuyou ignored him, he quickly stood up, ran to the cashier and ordered two more milkshakes, and pointed to Ji Jiuyou at the cashier's little sister when he paid the bill—he will pay for it later.

The younger sister of the cashier gave an OK.

When he came back again, he left a glass of milkshake in each hand, took a sip on the left, and took a sip on the right, eating very satisfyingly.

Ji Jiuyou was still looking at his phone, and still didn't raise his head, but after Zuo Mansan sat back, he tapped his hand wearing a white ring on the table: "Go ahead."

Zuo Manguan: "Oh," three cups of milkshakes piled up in front of him, and then he opened his mouth in satisfaction, "I saw that he was a Taoist monk, so I advised him to drop everything and become a monk. I was sick and ignored me at all, I was arrogant at that time, ignored me and left, when I met him again, he actually started a business and made a fortune."

Ji Jiuyou suddenly said, "Stop."

Zuo Mansan: "Huh?"

As he said that, the door of the milk tea shop was pushed open, and a soft voice of "Welcome" sounded from the sensor at the door. Ji Jiuyou looked back sideways, and the person at the door also looked over.

Sheng Lian walked over sweating, pulled a chair beside Ji Jiuyou and sat down, Zuo Manguan looked at Sheng Lian suspiciously: "Who are you?"

Sheng Lian took the initiative to reach out his hand: "Oh, hello, I'm from Division 9, and I'm here to deal with this case."

If it were someone else, Zuo Manguan would complain indignantly that public officials took advantage of him, but Sheng Lian was in the age of beauty, and his skin was better than the effect of a beauty camera. Zuo Manguan couldn't bear to complain when he was so handsome. .

He stretched out his hand hahaha, and held it with Sheng Lian: "Hello, hello, I'm He Guan Zuo Manguan."

Ji Jiuyou glanced coolly at the hands they held.

Back to topic.

Zuo Manguan repeated what he just said to Sheng Lian, and then said: "People who are ordered by Taoist monks will get rich. Obviously, they have been changed by others. In my job, I can find solutions for others. Or avoid disasters, but change your fate, but violated the taboo of the ancestors, and you will be punished. I was really curious, and I followed this Xu Xinning, secretly looked at the situation around him, and found that his fortune is so good, it seems that he has a support ghost."

Sheng Lian: "Raising ghosts?"

Zuo Manguan nodded: "He goes to the cemetery to visit the grave every week. At first I thought he was just thinking about his dead relatives, but later I found out that the one who went to the grave was his biological mother, but I found out that his biological mother died of dystocia when she gave birth to him. Then I felt something was wrong, suspected that he was raising ghosts, so I opened my eyes once and looked around him, and sure enough there was a young female ghost lying on his shoulder."

Sheng Lian was puzzled: "Can raising ghosts change people's fortune?"

Zuo Manguan said: "It is indeed possible, not only wealth, marriage, studies, etc. can have an impact. When I found that young female ghost, I actually wanted to kill her. There are rules in the Heavenly Master. Most of these ghosts are evil ghosts, they can harm people, and it is good to get rid of them early, but I am not capable enough to get rid of that female ghost, so I can only find a way to confine her in Xu Xinning's house and prevent her from coming out with others, in case she harm."

Sheng Lianxin said, this is Luo Yu, no wonder Xu Xinning and Xu Hao have moved away and she still stays in that old house, so there is still such a relationship.

Zuo Manguan sipped the milkshake with three flavors in front of him, and frowned again: "The mortals who teach monks to raise little devils to change their lives, the celestial masters who teach this method are really wicked. But this kind of wicked celestial masters, I am alive It’s not uncommon at that time.”

Sheng Lian immediately said: "I heard that you used to tell people's fortunes in Dongshan Town for a while, so have you seen an old man who is very accurate in fortune-telling in a vegetable market over there?"

Zuo Manguan sneered: "Yes, the Qi family. The celestial masters are all ancestral family businesses. This family surnamed Qi was unknown in the industry before, but 20 years ago, it suddenly became famous for being a looker for a giant businessman." , their family was already very famous when I died, but it is unclear what the situation is now."

Ji Jiuyou said casually: "Since you are one of the best in the industry, you will go to a place like the vegetable market to show people?"

Zuo Mansan: "I was also very strange at the time, but I don't know what the purpose is."

Every question Ji Jiuyou hits the nail on the head: "How do you know it's the Qi family?"

Zuo Manguan pointed to his wrist: "They have words on their wrists, and they can have a relative tattooed."

Ji Jiuyou raised his hand, revealing his wrist under the cuff: "Like this?"

Zuo Manguan and Sheng Lian looked down together and saw a "Qi" on Ji Jiuyou's wrist.

Zuo Manguan looked at the familiar font, and raised his finger to Ji Jiuyou in disbelief: "You, aren't you the leader of Senluo Palace? How could you be the Qi family?"

Sheng Lian also stared.

Ji Jiuyou pulled down his cuffs, instead of explaining, he said, "Now you are too."

Zuo Manguan only felt a tingling pain in his wrist, and when he looked down, there was indeed a small black "Qi".

Sheng Lian didn't feel any pain, but his wrist was itchy, and he lowered his eyes, and there was also a relative on his wrist.

The Qi family is very prestigious in the world of feng shui celestial masters now, and there is even a saying that out of ten masters and nine relatives, it means that ten people look for celestial masters, but whoever knows how to do it, nine of them know to find the Qi family.

The Feng Shui world is based on families, unless there is no suitable descendant, it is basically passed on from inside to outside, but the Qi family can inherit from the master, so most of the Qi family are the disciples and grandchildren of the master. They changed the stage name of Qi and kept their real name. There are not many people with the Qi surname in the family, and their status is much higher than those of the masters, and the descendants of this generation, both male and female, are all celestial masters.

It is not difficult to find the Qi family to do things and look at the physiognomy. As long as ordinary people have money, the Qi family who have been taught by them are willing to come forward.

However, if you want to invite your own family, at least you have to be either rich or expensive.

Sheng Lian originally thought that Ji Jiuyou wanted to find out the old man who gave Chen Hui the root of the tree, so he could invite Qi's family as a domineering president, but then he thought that since he was looking for the old man, he should naturally go inside. More convenient.

As for how to break in, Sheng Lian couldn't think of a clue until Zuo Manguan told him that the Celestial Masters Expo, which was held every three years, was about to begin.

When Sheng Lian first heard about the "Tianshi Expo", he thought he had entered the channel of exploring science. He wondered how such an identity as a Tianshi could hold an expo. Later, he found out that this is actually a newcomer in the Feng Shui world every three years. Fighting skills selection conference, to compare who is the best among newcomers who have been in the industry for less than four years.

The location of this exposition is in the neighboring province. Ji Jiuyou thinks it’s a waste of time to take the plane, so he goes directly by water, first to the gloomy Jile River, then from the Jile River to the next province, from boarding the boat to the shore where they parked in the next province It's only an hour before and after, how convenient and convenient it is.

Zuo Manguan, an industry insider, was not very excited to return to the human world. He knew that he was going to participate in the Angel Expo, but he was so excited that he was so excited when he was on the boat.

Sheng Lian was very puzzled: "What exactly is this fight?"

Zuo Manguan: "Anything is fine. The six lines and gossips depend on their abilities. Generally, we start from the horoscope. I participated in the third session at that time. I read palmistry for a child and wrote out his future life in as much detail as possible. "

Sheng Lian was very surprised: "Can you watch it in your life?" He spread his palms to the left and slammed, "Then can you see mine?"

Zuo Manguan didn't even look at the hand: "Ordinary people, I'm talking about ordinary people, you are not a human being."

Sheng Lian is right when he thinks about it, he is not a human being, he is the noble and holy Father of Snow Mountain.

As long as he wants to, there is nothing Ji Jiuyou can't do in the human world. The Tianshi Expo was held in a very low-key manner, but in the blink of an eye, three invitation letters were held in his hands.

Ji Jiuyou took Sheng Lian and Zuo Manguan to participate in the exposition in the deep mountains. After crossing the suspension bridge, they entered a hidden mansion in the mountains.

It is said that today is the largest number of newcomers in history, because the organizer of this year's expo is the Qi family, and the Qi family has opened a back door, as long as they are enrolled in their own division, they can participate in this year's expo without any conditions.

Sheng Lian entered the mansion relying on the invitation letter and the word "Qi" on his wrist. As soon as he entered, the black awl tied on his wrist jumped up. Swipe around.

Zuo Manguan sighed softly: "That's not right."

The three of them had just entered the mansion, and it was inconvenient to communicate at the door, so they went directly to the hall of the expo site. When they entered the hall, they saw a room full of people of all kinds, and Zuo Manguan whispered: "This house It's kind of weird, it doesn't seem clean."

Sheng Lian couldn't see why, so he raised his eyes to look at Ji Jiuyou, who said indifferently, "Look first."

Zuo Manguan: "I'm curious, how could the exposition be held in such a remote mountain and old forest? Moreover, using such an unclean house to host the exposition does not conform to the previous rules."

Sheng Lian whispered: "Maybe the rules have changed?"

Zuo Manguan shook his head, looking particularly aloof during this time when he was not drinking milk tea.

There were a lot of people in the hall, basically a small circle gathered in twos and threes. Soon, a voice came from the stereo: "Everyone, please look above your heads."

As soon as the voice fell, the hall fell silent.

Sheng Lian then raised his neck, and suddenly found that there were black cracks on the original white ceiling above his head, and vine-like objects pierced through the ceiling, and soon formed a huge black net on the top of his head.

Everyone in the hall was approaching, but the "net" fell towards the top of the head, and soon hung at a height of two meters, as long as you stretch out your hand, you can touch it.

Sheng Lian's height of 1.8 meters is not white. Seeing the black net falling in front of his eyes, he stared at it carefully and observed that the tangled "vines" were different from the vines in his impression. , it feels more like——

Sheng Lian suddenly turned his head to look at Ji Jiuyou, just as Ji Jiuyou also took his eyes back from the "net".

Sheng Lian silently moved his lips: the root of the tree, the root of the tree of rebirth.

Ji Jiuyou tapped his chin lightly.

Zuo Manguan was still wondering, what kind of thing is this, how is it the same as black magic?What kind of heresy did the celestial masters of this generation follow?

The male voice in the stereo came again: "Everyone, I will only say the following words once, please listen carefully. Wait a while, this net will bear various fruits, please pick your favorite fruit, each person can only choose one This fruit determines whether you can enter the next round."

Everyone in the hall suddenly started talking.

The Ten Thousand Years Expo is not without its unorthodox topics, but at least half of the first half are related to fortune-telling and divination. How could this be the case this year?

Is it too different and too unexpected? The Qi family is the organizer of this year. What do they mean?

However, no matter how loud the voice of the crowd is, it cannot overwhelm the decider.

After the man finished speaking, it didn't take long for green leaves to emerge from the "net" above everyone's heads. The leaves grew from buds, and quickly grew into large clusters of leaves. kind of fruit.

These fruits are all round, big and small, with different colors, hairy ones, and smooth ones. If you count carefully, there are about a dozen kinds, but the number is definitely enough for the industry insiders present to choose their fancy ones. up.

Sheng Lian didn't know what kind of fruit the others saw, but after seeing these fruits, he almost buried his head in his mouth and spit them out——

It does look like fruit to the naked eye, but in Shenglian's eyes, these fruits are actually human organs, namely eyeballs and human brains, which are dotted under the black net and green leaves, which are terrifying and vicious.

Looking at these, Ji Jiuyou was no different from looking at big white rice, so he raised his eyes and glanced leisurely.

Zuo Manguan was a physiognomist in his lifetime, but he was a river official after his death. In his eyes, these fruits were naturally prototypes, but he did not restrain himself. He took a look, bent down, and spit out a mouthful of acid water.

Sheng Lian patted him on the back: "How many months?"

Zuo Mansan couldn't hold back, and took another bite.

Sheng Lian: "I didn't let you eat, and you vomited."

Zuo Manguan straightened his waist: "Say it as if you don't want to throw up."

Sheng Lian joked, "I can't vomit, I'm so good-looking, I have to maintain my handsome image."

While Zuo Manguan and Sheng Lian were asking and answering, Ji Jiuyou reached out and picked a fruit. It was neither an eyeball nor a human brain, but a fruit.

The people around who participated in the expo were also picking, but most of them were groping in the dark, and the fruits they picked were either eyeballs or human brains, and they held them in their palms with a deep face. Only a few people got the fruits.

Seeing that everyone around them had picked the fruit, Sheng Lian and Zuo Manguan hurried to pick the fruit. Soon, the net above their heads went up and disappeared on the ceiling.

The male voice in the stereo continued: "Next, please look down at the fruit in your hands. If the fruit in your hand turns red, please stay. If it doesn't change, then I'm sorry."

The expositions in previous years were not like this at all. Many people began to discuss on the spot, not understanding why today is so special, but no matter how much they discuss, it will not change the reality that most of the people here will leave——

Soon, nearly four-fifths of the people in the hall left, and the remaining one-fifth amounted to no more than a few dozen people. These dozens of people were all invited into a small hall at the back. This time, there was no need to stand Then, there is a seat for everyone, and these seats are arranged around an arched platform.

Not long after, a well-dressed middle-aged man walked into the room, faced the seats under the stage, glanced around, and said with a smile: "Good afternoon, colleagues."

Sheng Lian felt familiar at the middle-aged man at the first glance, but at the second glance, he was stunned——

Although he has never seen this face with his own eyes, he has seen it in the briefings on the killing of the wandering soul Luo Yu and Aunt Zhou Jin. It was Luo Yu's husband, Xu Xinning's father Xu Hao, who was mentally ill Human Xu Hao!

How could he be here?

While watching Xu Hao on the stage, Sheng Lian took out his mobile phone. Although the old forest in the deep mountains could not make calls, the memo needed neither internet nor wifi. He typed a line and quietly handed it to Ji Jiuyou and left slam --

"He is Xu Xinning's father."

Zuo Man was surprised, Ji Jiuyou raised his eyes and squinted towards the stage.

Xu Hao on the stage finished exchanging greetings, and then said: "Maybe everyone is also curious about why this year's industry expo is held in this way, and I can't explain too much, I can only tell you that those who can stay must be first-class celestial masters in China , Even if some of you are not right now, you must be very talented, and you will be the backbone of this industry in the future."

Someone in the audience laughed a bit: "Are you kidding me? I can't even read a picture now. My dad says I have no talent at all, and he has no hope for me at all. It's just picking a fruit. You just say I am the pillar of the future, it is too light, so what's so great about the fruit?"

Xu Hao on the stage was not angry when he was interrupted, but asked the person with a smile: "Then, how did you choose your fruit just now?"

The man said: "Almost all the fruits in that bunch are smelly. I step on my feet and smell them, and only the ones I picked are fragrant."

Xu Hao nodded: "Then let me tell you, your father is wrong, you are not mediocre, you are very talented, please believe me."

Different from the mentally ill murderer in the photo, Xu Hao at the moment not only has strict attire, but also has a graceful demeanor, and is also very polite, speaking to everyone here——

"Not long ago, that is, when you picked the fruit, I already got the list and information of you. I counted your situation and found that most of you are currently in a bad situation in the industry, and only a few of you True masters, but trust me, you guys are more talented than those who left."

"Then, please take a pen and paper from the table in front of you and write down how you identified the real fruit just now. I will give you 10 minutes."

The industry insiders present are probably like the person just now. Although they can't see the real problem, they can at least tell the good from the bad, but Sheng Lian and his group actually saw the human brain and eyeballs on top of their heads. However, how to write it has become a new problem in front of us.

Zuo Manguan deserved to be the one who chased people's fortunes on the main road. He had a lot of nonsense skills, and immediately wrote on the paper: "Among the fruits I saw, many were stained with blood. I picked one that was not good. bloody."

Sheng Lian glanced at Zuo Manguan's answer, and decided to imitate a similar one according to this idea, so he took a pen and wrote that he saw that all the fruits were rotten, so he picked one that was not rotten.

After finishing writing, he also checked for typos, punctuation marks, and grammar mistakes. Like a student who is about to hand in a test, he glanced at what Ji Jiuyou wrote next to him - pick and choose.

Sheng Lian: "..." Throw it at school, this is a scumbag, and a scumbag with his nostrils in the air.

I don't know what's going on in this link, I saw Xu Hao walking down from the stage, like a head teacher, with his hands behind his back, looking all the way over, there are small discs of two colors in his hand, every time he reads an answer, give Take out a small disc, some people take red ones, some people take black ones.

When it came to Ji Jiuyou, Sheng Lian always felt that after Xu Hao read the four words on the paper, he would point to the door to let Ji Jiuyou, a bad student, go out, but in the end Xu Hao put the black and red little circle Handed over all the pictures, smiled at Ji Jiuyou and said, "Since that's the case, you can choose whatever you want now."

Ji Jiu stretched out his hand leisurely, and picked out black.

Xu Hao came to Sheng Lian again, took a look at the answer, and gave him red, while Zuo Mansan got a small black circle.

After reading the last person's answer and handing out the last small circle, a curtain in the hall went up, revealing two doors that had just been covered, one door was written red, and the other door was written black.

Xu Hao clapped his hands and said to everyone with a smile: "Everyone, everyone must know which direction to go. Please don't go wrong. See you in the third hall."

Everyone in the small hall stood up one after another and walked towards the doors on both sides. After Sheng Lian stood up, he grabbed Zuo Manguan beside him: "I will trade with you."

Zuo Manguan squeezed the small wafer in his hand: "Give me a reason."

Sheng Lian stared deeply at Zuo Manguan, and asked him a question: "Do you love Mr. Ji?"

Zuo Manguan: "You...I want to complain about your nonsense during business hours."

Sheng Lian: "You don't love it, right? I do!"

Zuo Mansan: "...?"

Sheng Lian silently picked out the small round piece from his palm, then stuffed the red one back in his hand, and patted him: "You go and complain to me, and the salary and bonus will be deducted at will. I am a rich second who drives a sports car and is loved by the president." Dai, I'm not afraid!"

The author has something to say: Ji Jiuyou: What love?

Sheng Lian: Father's love.Do you recognize each other?

Ji Jiuyou left without looking back.