Chapter 30 Do You Believe in Fate?
"Brother Fang, we both picked up a big gold ingot!" Haitao looked excited. If he hadn't been driving, he would have danced.
"As for being so happy?" I smiled and looked at him. "Looking at you like this, I'm really afraid that you will drive the car to the telephone pole and have close contact with the wire stalks, and then we will be in trouble."
Haitao chuckled, "Do you know why I am so happy? Does Fengchi Auto know?"
"I have never eaten fat pork and seen fat pigs running. How come I haven't heard of it?" Because I am familiar with it, I often joke with Haitao now, "You really think I am a native leopard from the countryside and don't know anything! Isn't it the largest private automobile company in the country?"
"Yes!" Haitao laughed happily, "It is the largest private automobile company in the country! Then what do you think they need to do an advertisement? It's developed!"
"There will be five or six million, right?" I guessed randomly.
"Tsk! You really dare to say that it is a big deal? Let me tell you, at least it is a tens of millions of advertisements! Now it is really going to be developed! Haha, if this is a big deal, the commission alone is enough for me to buy a three-bedroom and one living room!" Haitao's face turned red with excitement, "Brother Fang, this is a blessing for you. If you hadn't advocated saving people, how could this great good thing fall on us? I really thank you very much. Yes! I didn't say that, I'll treat you at noon today, so let's go to the restaurant for a good meal, how about it?"
I asked him curiously, "I won't go back to the company anymore? Don't you still have to go back and report quickly?"
Haitao was very happy, "Do you know what fake public welfare means? It's okay to go back later. If the boss knew that we had such a big deal, even if we didn't work for a month, I promise he wouldn't say a word. That's tens of millions of advertisements!"
"Okay, I'll listen to you. But I feel guilty and disrespectful." I said with a smile, "Let's go, let's be corrupt in public and private affairs!
"Let's go! Go corruption!" After Haitao said that, we both laughed at each other.
At the dining table, Haitao was still so excited that he couldn't help himself.
"Brother Fang, do you think this car advertisement will be given to us?" He suddenly asked me with some concern.
I shook my head, "How do I know? Maybe someone will change his mind temporarily and stop giving us it may not be necessary."
Haitao said with a bitter face, "Then we will be miserable! If the duck we got flew, I will die of sadness."
"Forget it, don't think about it. Sometimes you have to be in your destiny, but don't force it if you don't have time to be in your destiny. Hold on to your normal mind, it's very tiring to be too persistent in some things."
"Yes, it's useless to think about it if you can't get it."
"Young man, can you say a few words to you?" A voice interrupted my conversation with Haitao. When I turned around, I found an old man standing beside me. He was dressed in white silk Tang suit, rosy face, snow-white beard, and especially his eyes, so bright that he was a little afraid of people. His snow-white clothes and beard were slightly moved by the wind brought by the ceiling fan on the restaurant roof, making me feel that the old man looked like a Taoist immortal from ancient times.
Out of respect for the elder, I stood up and asked him, "Old man, are you doing anything?"
The old man laughed and then asked me seriously, "Do you believe in fate?"
I confused the old man's words and looked at him in confusion, "What do you mean?"
"Haha, frankly, I'm a fortune teller!"
I looked at the old man up and down, but no matter how he looked, he didn't look like a fortune teller on the street. But since he said that, I couldn't say that he didn't believe it, "Do you have something to ask me for?"
The old man pointed to the chair on the side and asked me, "Can you sit down and say?"
I quickly pulled away the chair, "I'm so rude, please sit down."
Haitao suddenly snorted coldly, with contempt on his face, and looked at the old man with contempt. I understand what Haitao meant. He must think that this old man was a liar who traveled around the world and wanted to come here to deceive us. But I always feel that this old man is full of immortality and does not look like a liar. Besides, even if he is a liar, hasn't he started to fool me yet? Then we should treat him with courtesy. This is a matter of one's cultivation, and we can't seem to be uncultured, right?
The old man didn't seem to care about Haitao's contempt, and still smiled heartily and said to me, "Young man, how old are you this year?"
I felt disappointed. I was really a fortune teller. I immediately started to fool me. I smiled and replied, "Old man, I don't want to bother you. And I don't believe this either."
"Fate is a very mysterious thing." A flash of light suddenly burst out from the old man's dazzling eyes. He looked at me carefully and said, "Do you believe it or not."
"Old man, come on," Haitao, who was on the side, interrupted the old man impatiently, "I have seen you for so many things. I just want to cheat a few dollars to spend money? Okay, stop spitting here, go!"
The old man was not angry, but just looked at Haitao indifferently, "Young man, don't draw conclusions easily, that will make you easily make mistakes. Haven't you suffered a big loss? Why haven't you learned a lesson?"
Haitao's face changed and glared at the old man, looking surprised, "How did you know?"
The old man smiled and did not answer his question. He raised one hand and quickly calculated for a while, "Don't worry, this festival will be untied. What is lost will come back."
"Do you really know?!" Haitao opened his eyes wide in surprise.
"If it's yours, you can't run away, and if it's not yours, you can't chase after it." The old man smiled faintly, with a mysterious smile on his face, "You meet a noble person this year and you will be very happy at the end of the year. You will know then."
Haitao anxiously asked the old man, "Can I really get it back?"
The old man nodded slightly and ignored Haitao and said to me, "Tell me even if you were born?"
The old man was so surprised that Haitao was impressed so quickly. I wonder why Haitao suddenly believed him, but I don’t believe this. I always think that fortune telling is just a form of psychological comfort that people need when encountering setbacks. There is no such mysterious and magical place. Besides, life is like playing a game. The more you don’t know the final result, you will be very interested in it. Fortune telling is to let you know the result of the game in advance. If you know the result early, will you still be interested in playing this game?
"Old man, I don't want to tell fortunes. I said I don't believe in this mysterious thing. Thank you."
The old man suddenly said something, which shocked me!
"You have a new wife recently, but you are not your real wife. Simply put, you have a lover!"
I was really shocked this time! I have also seen those fortune tellers on the street who fooled those who longed for psychological comfort. But I have never seen this old man so straightforward. Of course, this didn't shock me the most. What surprised me the most was that he actually told me about Wan'er and me in an instant!
The old man smiled confidently, "I'm not wrong, right? And her is not the only one of your lovers, there will be many more in the future. Do you believe me?"
Haitao was even more surprised than me, and his mouth was wide open and he looked at me with incredible eyes, "Brother Fang, do you really have a lover?"
In fact, he didn't have to wait for my answer, my expression told him that it was true.
"How do you know?" I calmed down for a long time and asked the old man.
"Because I'm a fortune teller." The old man still smiled, "Some things are not something that you don't believe in, they don't exist. Do you believe in the thing with fate now?"
I thought about it carefully and answered him, "Even if I believe it, I don't want you to calculate it for me. If you know everything, there is still any fun in life. Whether it is good or bad is irrelevant. I only believe in my own efforts and my own struggle. Even if this has no effect on changing my destiny, I at least have the fun of fighting. So I don't want to know my destiny."
The old man nodded, "You are right. In fact, fate is not a constant thing, it is full of variables. It is not unchangeable. Do you really want to know?"
"Let it keep a little mysterious," I smiled openly. "I admire Li Bai's poem, which is right, 'You must have fun in life'. I just want to live a happier life every day, and there is no hope for anything else. Knowing it will only make me worry in vain, but it is better not to know it."
"The child can teach you!" The old man smiled with relief, "There are not many people who can think so. Child, remember one of my words, "It's not a waste of time, and being passionate is not a heartless person! Be kind to the people around you."
The old man stood up and said, "Okay, I'll say that. Let's take a step first."
"Have you not asked your name for your surname? Let's sit for a while." Haitao seemed to not want the old man to leave.
The old man smiled freely and easily, "The name is just a person's code name. Meeting is fate, but you can meet again in the future if you are destined. What's the use of asking for a name?"
After saying that, he patted my shoulder and laughed and left.
Haitao looked at the old man's back and sighed helplessly, "This old man is so weird. He ran away halfway through his words. I don't know which god it was."
Chapter completed!