Chapter 71: Divine Stick 01

  Qin Fei was taken aback at first when he saw the young man dressed as a Taoist priest, feeling that his facial features seemed slightly familiar, then noticing the other's gaze fixed on him, indicating that his words were directed at him.

  Has your romantic luck been thriving lately? Speaking of which, he was indeed confessed to by two people yesterday, but those two people were both males. Can this even be considered romantic luck?

  Qin Fei's mouth twitched almost imperceptibly at the corner.

  "Can you really calculate one's fate and marriage?" Song Meng looked at the young Taoist priest with suspicion.

  The young man smiled mysteriously and made a pinching gesture with his fingers, then looked up at Qin Fei and said slowly: "Your destined marriage will be among the people who have recently expressed their feelings to you."

  Gu Yin looked at the Taoist priest and raised an eyebrow, but didn't intend to speak.

  Qin Fei was taken aback by the young Taoist priest, who had recently revealed his heart to him? Was it Gu Yin and Xie Zhe? That would mean he would be with men no matter what? Qin Fei couldn't help but glance at Gu Yin beside him, although he indeed had a special affection for Gu Yin, Gu Yin was his destined partner, yet somehow it felt a bit off.

  "Sorry, I'm not very interested in these things." Qin Fei smiled at the young man and was about to pass by him when he was blocked by the young Taoist priest with a misstep.

  "This gentleman, I'm usually very accurate in calculating marriage destiny. If you miss this opportunity, you may not have another chance to meet me again."

  Looking at the young Taoist priest's attitude of insisting on calculating his own marriage destiny, Qin Fei couldn't help but laugh and cry as he looked at him. "Why do you have to calculate mine?" Song Meng and Gu Yin were also there, why didn't this person go calculate theirs instead?

  The young Taoist priest glanced at Gu Yin with a cautious expression, "He doesn't need me to calculate."

  Indeed, Gu Yin Neng can communicate with ghosts and spirits, and is likely skilled in divination and fortune-telling. Even if he isn't, he probably knows more reliable fortune tellers than the ones met on this road.

  The young Taoist looked at Song Meng again, this glance was more reckless than when he looked at Gu Yining, "As for him... looking at his face, he doesn't seem to be able to afford my fortune-telling fee."

  Qin Fei: "......"

  "Hey! What's with the way you're talking?"

  Young Taoist: "Can you afford it?"

  Song Meng was grinding his teeth, Ye Cheng's entrusted gold was taken away by Gu Yin, he had been in a tight spot recently. But being in a tight spot was one thing, being spoken to like that by this stinky Taoist priest was another, so he turned his head and said to Qin Fei without hesitation, "Qin Xiao Fei, forget it, this person is definitely just a swindler from the jianghu!"

  "I wasn't planning on counting anyway," Qin Fei said.

  "Then you have to give me half the money, I just calculated it for you and gave you a 50% discount." The young Taoist priest swept away his previous profound appearance, no longer referring to himself as "in inferior", but instead very bluntly stretched out his hand towards Qin Fei asking for money.

  "Are we going to let you get away with this? You're clearly cheating us!" Song Meng angrily exclaimed.

  "Sir, do you think I'm wrong? I don't think I made a mistake. You're not giving me money, that's not right!" The young Taoist priest ignored Song Meng and turned to Qin Fei, saying, "I won't charge you much, how about 150 yuan?"

  Gu Yin was delighted to hear the young Taoist priest say that Qin Fei's destined marriage would occur with someone who would confess to him soon, and since Xie Zhe had already been rejected by Qin Fei, wasn't this destined marriage referring to him? So he didn't speak up, thinking that this kid was talking nonsense, but that didn't mean he would be happy about this kid pestering Qin Fei.

  Gu Yin narrowed his eyes slightly, just about to give this impudent young Taoist a lesson, when Qin Fei spoke up.

  "I remember where I've seen you before."

  The young Taoist priest was taken aback.

  Song Meng turned his head and looked at Qin Fei, asking: "Where else have you seen this kid?"

  "You've also seen it, in Ye Cheng's study, that portrait of God painted by Ye Cheng, which cheated him out of 5,000 yuan."

  As soon as Qin Fei's words fell, the young Taoist priest suddenly widened his eyes and then reacted extremely quickly to turn around and run.

  "I'm going! It's really that little brat!" Song Meng said, chasing after him without thinking, "You stinky little brat, wait for me! I'll send you to the police station and collect the reward!"

  Qin Fei: "......"

  Looking at the young Taoist priest and Song Meng's figures disappearing one after another in front of the corner, he shook his head helplessly and said to Gu Yin: "Song Baozi probably won't be back for a while, let's go get the book first."

  Qin Fei and Gu Yin arrived at the book bar, Qin Fei found that Xie Zhe, who was supposed to be on duty in the morning, was not there, but Shen Wei, who was on duty in the evening, was.

  "Xie Zhe called me last night and said he's busy for a while, asking me to cover his shift or have you, boss, find another part-time job." Shen Wei relayed Xie Zhe's words to Qin Fei.

  "Xie Zhe... may not come back again." Qin Fei said in a low voice. As for Xie Zhe's departure, Qin Fei didn't feel unexpected, but still couldn't help feeling a little lost. Although he couldn't respond to Xie Zhe's feelings, he had always treated him as a friend.

  "Why? Although Xie Zhe's tone of voice sounded a bit unusual last night, I thought he didn't mean to not come back!" Shen Wei said.

  Qin Fei shook his head and didn't answer Shen Wei's question, nor could he. Xie Zhe would stay at Weichen Bookstore, only because of Qin Fei. From the moment he rejected Xie Zhe's confession, he lost the reason to continue staying. Staying longer not only had no meaning but also made both of them feel awkward. So Xie Zhe left without directly telling Qin Fei, instead choosing to let Shen Wei convey the message.

  Qin Fei held a book in his hands and sat in his usual spot, his eyes fell on the pages of the book, but he didn't take anything in.

  After a while, the book in his hand was pulled away by Gu Yin opposite him, and then closed and put aside.

  Qin Fei snapped out of his daze and looked up at Gu Yin opposite him.

  Gu Yin looked straight at Qin Fei, his mouth pursed tightly, making his expression seem somewhat icy.

  "Can't you bear to part with him?"

  Qin Fei understood that the "he" in Gu Yin's mouth referred to Xie Zhe.

  "I've known Xie Zhe for almost two years now, he left so suddenly, I'm a bit unaccustomed to it..." Qin Fei said slowly.

  "You've known him for two years, but in this life, you've only known me for a few months, not even half a year." Gu Yin sneered at himself.

  "I didn't want to let him go, it's just that he left like this, and I always feel a bit uncomfortable in my heart..." Qin Fei explained helplessly.

  "He's called spineless, once rejected he immediately ran away with his tail between his legs like a beaten dog." Gu Yin snorted and then looked at Qin Fei with his deep eyes, saying in a low voice, "I... even if I need to wait for thousands of years, I will absolutely not give up on you."

  Qin Fei's heart throbbed violently, feeling the pain in his chest as if his heart was aching for Gu Yin's words. Gu Yin spoke in a hypothetical tone, but Qin Fei felt that he had truly waited for him for thousands of years.

  In Gu Yin's gaze, Qin Fei was dazed for a moment. He came back to his senses and forced himself to shift his line of sight, continuing to stare at Gu Yin. He feared that he would be tempted into giving an affirmative answer to Gu Yin. That would be irrational, and an irrational response would be irresponsible. He had to first figure out whether he truly felt that way about Gu Yin before responding.

  The copper bell at the entrance of the book bar rang, Zhou Jun limped in with his cane. He greeted Shen Wei and walked towards Qin Fei, choosing a seat close to him.

  "Song Meng's kid said he was going out to buy breakfast, but who knows where he ended up buying it from, and now he still hasn't come back."

  "He went after that scammer who cheated Ye Cheng out of 5,000 yuan. We happened to run into him on our way here," said Qin Fei.

  "What a coincidence! The world is really small." Zhou Jun stroked his unshaven stubble, saying with great interest.

  "But I think Song Meng will probably fail to catch that person." Qin Fei said with a smile.

  "Indeed, his physique is S-class in difficulty."

  Zhou Jun waited in the book bar for about half an hour, when the copper bell rang again and Song Meng walked in with a big sweat. He panted heavily and shouted at Shen Wei to get him a bottle of iced black tea from the refrigerator, and after drinking half a bottle, he floated over to sit down near Qin Fei.

  "Did you catch him?" Qin Fei asked with a smile as Song Meng sat down.

  Song Meng waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it, that kid looks like a thin bamboo pole, but when he runs, he's like a gust of wind."

  "Racing with a bamboo pole is really hard for fatty." Zhou Jun teased Song Meng.

  "Humph! Old Zhou, don't look down on Fatso's potential, I'm telling you, I chased him for three streets and he never ran out of my sight!"

  "Go ahead and blow! Still three streets!" Shen Wei interrupted.

  "Really! If it wasn't for that little brat jumping over the wall, I would have almost caught him!"

  "Alright, you lost at climbing over the wall." Qin Fei said with a suppressed smile.

  When Song Meng finished drinking the bottle of iced tea and finally caught his breath, he looked at Gu Yin and asked: "Gu Da Shen, you said that little guy is really a godly stick? Then how did he figure out I couldn't afford to pay for fortune-telling?"

  "I can see some superficial things, and this kind of appearance is not difficult to discern." Gu Yin said, "If Ye Cheng was deceived in that situation, it means that this person still understands a bit of mysticism, but doesn't understand much."

  "So he's just a swindler." Song Meng said, "But since Qin Fei recognized him and I chased him for three streets, he'll probably change his location to another city."

  That Taoist priest in S city probably can't be met again, Song Meng thought with some regret. But unexpectedly, two days later, Qin Fei went to the supermarket to buy things, Gu Yin followed Qin Fei as a matter of course, and Song Meng and Zhou Jun planned to buy a bunch of instant noodles to hoard, but before entering the supermarket, the four of them saw that Taoist priest again.

  That Taoist priest was sitting in the small restaurant across the street, talking to a middle-aged woman about something, and it was clear that he was doing his job without noticing Qin Fei and his group.

  Song Meng: "......"

  Zhou Jun: "......"

  Qin Fei: "......"

  Song Meng: "This guy actually didn't run away?"

  "Zhou Jun: 'Suddenly felt that this world is small to the point of being outrageous.'"

  Qin Fei: “……I think he might be having a bit of bad luck.”

  Song Meng and Zhou Jun stared at the Taoist priest opposite, their figures had already quietly blended into the crowd waiting for the traffic light on the zebra crossing.

  "Are you going to catch him?" Qin Fei asked.

  "Of course!" Song Meng said, "Even if we can't get the police reward, there's still Ye Cheng's side!"

  "One of you is fat and the other is lame, can you catch up with that kid?" Gu Yin said coldly.