(42) Beast fortune teller

  Eight o'clock one moment tonight.

  At this time, I was wrapped in a bath towel in the bathroom, waiting anxiously, and as soon as I thought about helping my naked sister scrub her back, I had an irrepressible urge. Closing my eyes, I quickly muttered "Amitabha" in my mouth, and my will also began to firm up.

  "Brother, I'm here." The sister pushed open the door excitedly, also wrapped in a bath towel, but still unable to conceal her skin as white as jade.

  I turned over to avoid my mischievous little sister tempting me with evil things, "Hurry up and wash, I'll help you scrub later."

  "Haha, brother is shy." The sister teased, but also didn't do anything too out of line, and obediently took a shower to wash up.

  Listening to the gurgling sound of water, I still swallowed a mouthful of saliva heavily. No way, I must shift my attention! So my mind started thinking about some more terrifying and bloody movies: The Walking Dead, Piranha, Wrong Turn, etc.

  Recalling the scene from the movie, I was almost scared out of my wits, but now I can finally face my sister properly.

  "Brother, I've finished washing, hurry and help me!" My sister said with a smile. I turned around to see my sister sitting naked on the small stool.

  I accidentally touched her shoulder, and my heart rate actually accelerated. I silently cursed myself as a beast. Then I heard my sister say: "Brother, do you remember? When we were young, we often bathed together like this. But since you went to middle school, Mom and Dad didn't let us get close to each other anymore."

  I nodded and sighed in the happy fragments of memories brought by my sister: "Indeed, after entering high school, I had my own little partner, playing games and basketball every day, and doing homework at night, sorry, Xiaojing."

  "Brother, don't say that, you haven't done anything wrong to me." The sister scolded in a sentence: "After all, we are of different sexes, whose child is not like this? So brother doesn't need to blame himself."

  "Ah, I was just being paranoid." At that time, I had already been immersed in the happy words, "Later on, when there's time, brother will take you out to play together."

  "Don't lie."

  "Of course not. Having such a gentle younger sister and not cherishing her properly would lead to gossip outside, after all, brother is someone who cares about his reputation." I joked.

  "You're so poor-mouthed." Her sister pretended to be angry, but was actually overjoyed. "Brother, don't just talk, scrub my back for me!"

  "Okay, okay." I responded with a sound, and quickly helped her wipe it off with a towel. The two of us chatted for a long time, and people who didn't know us must have thought we were a couple, and even had an impure relationship. Ha! Me, Hao Shuang, so pure!

  I was carefully scrubbing my sister's back, and I even started singing that song "Wash Wash Wash" by the Flower Band. Unintentionally, I caught sight of a mark on my sister's arm.

  "Xiao Jing, what's this?" I curiously pointed at her right arm. My sister said: "This is a birthmark, brother, you've even forgotten about this?"

  "Oh, I see." I thought back and remembered that my sister indeed had a birthmark, but this birthmark now seems a bit strange. Generally speaking, the shape of birthmarks is quite irregular, with no particular pattern, but hers is round, with some sort of texture on top, like something I've seen before.

  Maybe I was overthinking, so I said nothing and didn't pay much attention to it. After finishing my bath, I wanted to hide in my room, but my sister dragged me to watch a movie, which was "Let the Bullets Fly". As soon as I heard the title, I thought it sounded a bit too artistic for someone like me who's not refined, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

  In short, being with my sister feels pretty comfortable, and she's not like her usual irritable self at all. Sometimes I even wonder if my sister has become a different person?

  I slept very comfortably at night and slept until 8 o'clock the next morning. Until my annoying alarm clock shouted to wake me up: "Hao Shuang, Hao Shuang, your sister wants you to go home for dinner!"

  After waking up and washing, I immediately put on the Ling Shi mirror and Ling Yin earphones, asking if Xiaogou Xia Qian had woken up. As a result... Xiaogou was still sleeping.

  So I shouted loudly: "Little dog, your concubines have come to find you, hurry up and get out of bed!"

  The voice had barely fallen for less than a tenth of a second when the little dog suddenly woke up, looking around, "Where? Where is my harem?"

  "Haha." I burst out laughing. Upon hearing my laughter, the little dog realized it had been tricked again, "Damn it, you're fooling me again! I'm going to kill you!"

  He was about to pounce on me, I didn't dare let him bite me again, so I quickly changed the subject, "Stop messing around, little dog, is Xiao Qian awake?"

  The little dog looked at the soul-capturing bottle behind him, closed his eyes and felt it for a moment. "It should be about time to wake up, let's wait a bit longer."

  During the waiting time, I went to get some food. More than half an hour later, Xiao Qian finally woke up and hugged me as soon as she saw me: "Hao Shuang, I thought I wouldn't be able to come back. If you hadn't asked Thirteen Lang to help, I might not have seen you again."

  I comforted her saying: "Haha, it's all right now, have you found any clues?" I got straight to the point, but what was strange was that I seemed to be able to feel the warmth of Xiaoxian's hug?

  Xiao Qian's face was a bit pale, but she said seriously: "We have a lead, we must find someone as soon as possible."

  "Who?"

  "Qin Shou!"

  "Beast?" I shifted my gaze to the little dog, thinking that we have one right here. No need to rush.

  "Yes, Qin Shou is a fortune teller, you may not know that he's quite famous on Long Street." Xia Qian said: "Let's hurry up and go."

  After she finished speaking, before I could figure out what was going on, she flew out the door. My sister had left for class early, and today I played hooky again.

  After catching up with Xiao Qian's pace, I asked: "Xiao Qian, why did we look for a Feng Shui master if nothing is wrong? Is he the murderer?"

  Xiao Qian said: "He is not the murderer, but he knows a lot of information. By the way, take out 10,000 yuan on the road, he values money as his life."

  "It's going to cost 10,000 yuan." I thought to myself, "This is a total rip-off. Have you ever seen a fortune teller charge 10,000 yuan? You might as well sell pancakes!"

  "A mere ten thousand is considered little, if it were someone else, they would have been cheated out of tens or even hundreds of thousands." Xia Qian covered her mouth and laughed, I thought to myself that I didn't care, the money came quickly and went just as fast.

  Withdrew 10,000 in cash from the bank and followed Xiao Qian who was floating in mid-air. After trekking for over half an hour, they finally arrived at the legendary Long Street.

  Chang Street is not Chang'an Street, it sounds good to say, but in fact it's just an alley in a poor area of the southern city, with vendors setting up stalls along the road and a vegetable market nearby, the sanitary conditions are not very good.

  "Right in front of us, the one setting up the fortune-telling stall is Qin Shou." Xianglian quickened her pace and I swiftly followed, finally arriving at the front of Qin Shou's stall.

  Heavens, Qin Shou really looks like a beast. His beard is so long, his hair is so long... In short, the long hairs are very long, those who know him think he's a fortune teller, while those who don't think that "The Ape Man" has started filming in our city.

  Just as I was about to go forward and ask about the situation, I saw Qin Shou giving a middle-aged uncle a fortune-telling, but he seemed somewhat unprofessional: others who tell fortunes look at facial features or palms, but he takes people's pulses? What the hell, are you kidding me, are you sure he's reading fortunes not diagnosing illnesses?

  Xiao Qian seemed to understand my confusion and whispered to me: "Master Qin's method is quite unique, but the result is very effective."

  "It's really effective." How can I not be quite convinced? He took another step closer and could hear Qin Shou and the middle-aged uncle's conversation.

  Qin Shou shook his head at the middle-aged uncle and said, "Mr. Liu, you are a heavenly calamity and a lone star, and your fate is also guilty of peach blossoms. Hasn't it been worrying about women's affairs recently?"

  The middle-aged man exclaimed: "You know all this? Master, you're too amazing! Ah, to be honest, my mistress and my fourth concubine got into a fight, and were discovered by my fifth concubine. My fifth concubine told my wife, and my wife is very angry. The consequences are severe."

  Qin Shou smiled like a beast: "That's right, if this situation continues, the things you hide will surely be exposed."

  The middle-aged uncle was frightened: "Leak? What can be done about this? Master, please show me the way."

  Qin Shou stretched out his right hand, smiled but didn't speak. Ni Ma, this is really shameless, now you want money? The middle-aged uncle rummaged through his bag and handed over 300 yuan to Qin Shou. Qin Shou took it, shook his head again, then snapped his fingers and calculated, "Alright, if you drive Xiao Si away, the matter can be settled."

  Middle-aged uncle was overjoyed: "Really? That's really thank you, thank you Master Qin Shou, I'll go back and expel Xiao Si now."

  Qin Shou watched as his middle-aged uncle left, and a strange glint appeared in his eyes. Xiao Qian sighed: "Alas, that uncle is finished."