Chapter 0017: Asking for a Sign (1 / 2)

Chapter 17: Seeking a Sign

There was a young monk in the temple, smilingly watching the two men enter.

Su Xiao asked, “Master, if I ask for a signature, do I need money”

“No need, the monk only needs to bow with a sincere heart, then silently recite his name, birth date, and what he is seeking, then shake the sign cylinder and wait for the sign to fall.”

Su Xiao thanked the monk and then solemnly knelt down and kowtowed three times towards the Buddha statue.

Hands are folded together, and you carefully give your name, birth date, and what you are asking for.

Finally, cheerfully and expectantly, he picked up the signing cylinder and shook it.

This shook out seven or eight of them and they fell to the ground.

He said with some anxiety, “Oh, what can we do? Which root to count?”

The young monk smiled and said, “It’s okay, count the one that fell first.”

Then he came forward, picked up one of them, and said, “This is the one, which the poor monk has just watched for the monk.”

Su Xiao was happy again, “That’s good, what’s written on the signature, can master help me see it”

The young monk stared at the signature and suddenly frowned slightly.

Then he asked Su Xiao, “What is the almsgiver asking for?”

“Academics, that is, whether or not you can get into your desired university this college entrance exam.”

The young monk’s brows became more and more tightly frowned, pondered for a second, and after playing a ventriloquist, he said, “This sign …… poor monk will say it as it is, if it is to seek education, this is a lower sign.”

Su Xiao immediately looked disappointed and unhappy, and asked, “What is written on it?”

The young monk handed the sign to Su Xiao, and when Gu Yun saw this, he also walked up to have a look.

I only saw that it was written on the top, “The clouds open without seeing the moon, the fire burns without seeing the wind. The reeds paint the sand, the straw raincoat hoes the new field.”

It really doesn’t look like a good signing.

The young monk explained, “Clouds open without seeing the moon, meaning that although the clouds have dispersed, there is still no moon coming out, and the fire without seeing the wind is a metaphor borrowed from Zhu Geliang borrowing the east wind, which here refers to the fact that although there is a plan to burn even the ship, it can’t be accomplished if the east wind doesn’t come. The latter line of reeds painting the sand, we all know that the painting on the sand will eventually be erased …… So, the first three sentences are all about one thing, that is, a lot of efforts may be in vain.”

Su Xiao’s face became even more ugly, and she sullenly didn’t say a word.

The young monk continued, “The last line, Demoiselle hoeing a new field, is a bit of a turnaround.”

Su Xiao regained some hope and asked, “How to turn back?”

“It should …… get you ready to repeat, again. Maybe after repeating, it will turn out great.”

“Repeat,” Su Xiao was even more disappointed, “How can that be!”

Su Xiao’s mood became more and more depressed, and she unconsciously bit her lip again, with a hint of indignation in her eyes.

Gu Yun, who hadn’t said anything on the side, saw Su Xiao in this state and felt cute on one side and a bit unbearable on the other.

She had her heart set on getting into Marina University.

Having lived for so long, Gu Yun knows that although fortune-telling may not be accurate, there is one thing that is very accurate, and that is that it can give people psychological hints, thus affecting their behavior.

In 636 B.C., he accompanied Prince Chong Er, who had been in exile for a long time, back to Jin. When he arrived at the Yellow River, Chong Er suddenly hesitated, worrying about whether he could come to power after returning to his country and whether he would be killed.

So he consulted with his minister Dong Yin and gave Chong Er a fortune-telling sign. Dong Yin, who was also a good talker, told him the fortune and concluded that Chong Er would be able to rule the state of Jin when he returned to his country, and Chong Er’s confidence was greatly boosted.

After returning to his country, he swept away his hesitation and fear, showed strong political self-confidence, and swept away all obstacles with a destructive momentum, eventually killing Duke Huai of Jin and becoming Duke Wen of Jin, one of the Five Hegemons.

You can see how much this mental suggestion thing affects people.

The college entrance exam was just around the corner, and no matter how much this kind of hint affected Su Xiao, it was always negative, so it was necessary to help her eliminate it.