Chapter 16 Chickens and Eggs
The five brothers and sisters of the Chen family, three men and two women, all of them were rich and powerful. The ancestors had been doing business for generations, and the family's businesses were becoming more and more prosperous. But the so-called "no business can be achieved without evil", these people are by no means good people. At this moment, the five of them were sitting in the large living room, with a bit angry expression, as if they had just had a fight.
When they saw me coming in, they immediately gave up their seats to me and served tea and water.
The second son Chen Shide looked sly and said cautiously: "Mr. Fang, thanks to your magical power, our family's Feng Shui fate is really thanks to you... But, we negotiated the price and price in advance, and this is the five brothers and sisters who are still talking about it..."
I had a "boom" sound in my mind, and I had a little idea, but my consciousness was a little unacceptable. As the saying goes: I will deceive anyone but not deceive carpenters, and I will deceive anyone but not cheat fortune tellers. It means that anyone can bully people, but not bully carpenters who build houses for their own homes; anyone can cheat, but not deceive masters who know fortune tellers. For these people, the price negotiated in advance cannot be changed later, otherwise, they will take revenge.
According to legend, carpenters build houses for a family. If the owner deceives the work, he can cast some spells and tricks on carpenters such as beams and rafters. These spells can bring bad luck and various terrible things to the owner, making it impossible for the owner to move in with peace of mind, and can only apologize to the carpenter; and once they offend fortune tellers and Feng Shui masters, they will take revenge.
First of all, I am not a top-notch fortune teller or Feng Shui master. Secondly, I am never more likely to be bullied and deceived than them.
I had already realized something, took a sip of tea and asked, "So, Mr. Chen, what are you and your brothers and sisters planning?"
"This, we, that..." Old Chen stammered for a while, unable to speak, and his face turned red. When I saw him at first, I knew that he was a philanthropist and good at calculating, and his brothers and sisters were especially so, but they were my customers after all, so how could I turn them off and not do their business?
Seeing that Old Chen couldn't speak, a stingy middle-aged woman next to her whispered: "Mr. Fang, my second brother is embarrassed to say, let me say! Mr. Fang, we have discussed it. Your price is really amazing. We have hired several Feng Shui masters before, and the highest price paid is only three or four thousand! Once you open your lion mouth, you will have two million! My God! Two million, how much do I earn in a year? Shanghai's per capita GDP is only more than 30,000 yuan, and your price is really not kind!"
I could only smile helplessly when she said such words. Chinese people like to compare themselves with the trend. The question is, have the Feng Shui masters they hired before brought them any practical benefits?
"If you do our business, just take the word "Xinyi". Since I have guaranteed you, your family will inevitably have three to four people admitted to college within ten years, and two of them will be hired as national civil servants! You can doubt my 'greed' personality, but you cannot doubt my ability." When I said this, without waiting for them to defend, I turned to Old Chen, "Then, Mr. Chen, you invited me, what do you think?"
Old Chen buried his head and said, "I am willing to pay you 400,000, but my brothers and sisters don't want it. What do you think I will do..."
It turned out that when the five brothers and sisters discussed my remuneration afterwards, they had a huge disagreement and unanimously overturned the previous agreement. Old Chen's son was admitted to university, so he was naturally very happy. He paid 400,000 yuan to me and he had no objection. However, his four brothers and sisters completely disagree. It was very simple. It was impossible for them to ask a Feng Shui master to take a look at Feng Shui and make a platform for 2 million. They were really unacceptable. Regardless of whether the Feng Shui quantity of the family had been changed, they were reluctant to give 400,000 yuan in the end, and they only agreed to pay me 10,000 yuan for each person, that is, a total of 50,000 yuan.
When I heard this, I stood up, looked around the five brothers and sisters, and sighed: "For those of us, the rules for thousands of years are to comply with oral agreements. We never sign documents and contracts with customers, so it is inevitable that we will suffer a little loss. However, I was surprised that your family is a wealthy family within a radius of dozens of miles, but they are so untrustworthy. Alas! I don't deceive people or fortune tellers, but I am not a fortune teller... Then, everyone, you will definitely not pay me two million, right?"
"Mr. Fang, you should not be so greedy. You are a Feng Shui master. You have collected so much money. You are so young. You will sooner or later something will happen..." The boss of the Chen family is a fat man in his fifties. He stared at me with a smile without a smile. "We think you are indeed capable. Let's do this. Each of us will add 10,000 to you. The five of us will be 100,000. You can earn 100,000 in the blink of an eye. You can buy a Santana with one bag of cigarettes! Is this okay?"
I can clearly judge their thoughts. In their opinion, 100,000 yuan would be a huge fortune for a young and poor Feng Shui master. In their opinion, I could not be obsessed with 2 million and give up the 100,000... But there is one thing they would never think that money is just like a passing cloud for me. Although sometimes it is hard to move away from money, such as me now. However, when I used to face billions of dollars in cash every day and didn't care about its meaning, how are they, the township entrepreneurs, still working hard to start their own businesses? They only think that I am a lion and a big boom.
They are greedy for them, but they will never think that if I get their 2 million, I will donate 1.98 million to the World Charity Fund or the International Red Cross Society. Doing our business is to change our destiny and easily be punished by heaven. We must not be greedy for money. We collect huge rewards just to donate a lot, so that we can resolve and dispel the invisible punishment we receive. At the same time, most of the money of these unscrupulous merchants is due to the blood and sweat of the poor. We collect huge rewards from them and donate them. On the other hand, it is also accumulating good deeds for them, but how can these unscrupulous people understand it?
I did not answer the words of the boss of the Chen family in a positive way: "As for this reason, you have already decided. You have never considered paying me 2 million?"
"2 million? Fuck 2 million!" The youngest man in the Chen family is Chen Shiying, who is about 30 years old. "You are so young, can you get 2 million for you? I respectfully call you a sir, because you have some skills. According to my old personality, boy, let alone 2 million, I won't give you 2 million," he said. "
I nodded and looked at Old Chen again and said, "Then, Mr. Chen, I will say goodbye. Since you can't bear to leave, how can I force me? Please prepare an umbrella for me, I see that it is about to rain."
"Mr. Fang..." Old Chen stood up, his face turned red, "Actually, I am willing to pay me 400,000 to you. Then, you can accept my money. This is not a small amount. I am sorry..."
I shook my head and said, "Old Chen, I understand your state of mind. However, if you do not pay me 2 million incompletely, it will be useless even if you pay me 1.99 million in person. Only then did I see your face clearly and completely. Let me tell the truth. Your family has no life to bear the "fame and honor". The life of your family is too light. Even if someone of your tribe is admitted to university and becomes an official, it will be very unhappy and will cause ominous disasters. I can change my fate for you, but I cannot reverse your destiny... So, I am sorry, I can't accept you for a penny now. I am leaving, it's going to rain. Please give me an umbrella."
Everyone looked at each other. They would never have thought that the person who had vowed to ask for 2 million a minute ago would not be able to take any money!
Old Chen gave me an umbrella, stared at me and walked out of the hall, and then looked at the sky. The sun was shining, so how could there be any rain? I slowly walked towards the Phoenix Platform built by me, gently stroked it, turned around and said to the Chen brothers and sisters: "Everyone, take care of yourself!"
As soon as I took two steps, I heard the Chen family shouting: "Which family raised the chicken jumped onto the Phoenix Platform! This is for worshiping ancestors, hurry up! Drive it away!" Then everyone rushed to scold and crow the chickens.
I smiled softly and said to myself: "The phoenix is flying, and it turns into a hundred birds; the phoenix is living, and it turns into a skylark... I have no other words: the phoenix is falling into a ground, and it turns into a chicken."
"Oh! The chicken lays an egg on the Phoenix Platform! What a big egg..."
Then I heard a crisp "po" sound again, and the egg should have rolled down on the 24th level ladder.
"I told you to catch chickens, and you go and pick up eggs! That's fine, the eggs are broken all over the ground, polluting our ancestors' worship platform!"
"Isn't it a bit weird, brother?"
"Let me find Mr. Fang to come back and see it?"
"Huh? The egg is broken all over the floor. How could so many egg yolks flow out in the small egg?! Third, fourth, fifth, come and take a look! This egg is so evil! One egg flows out the egg yolk capacity of dozens or hundreds of eggs! My God, the entire level 24 ladder was washed away by the egg yolk!"
"Mr. Fang, Mr. Fang..."
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Hearing Lao Chen’s call, I speeded up. They must have asked me to go back and explain the vision to them. What else can I explain?
I finally decided through their situation of not admitting their confession afterwards: the Chen family should not be a profession. They have no life to get fame and officialdom. Even if they study as masters and postdoctoralists, and become officials as chief ministers, they will not only bring great disasters to themselves, but also to the country and society - either to embezzle and bribe, or to escape with money.
This is the case with everything in this world. You must follow the laws of nature and the creation of heaven and earth and make a living in a hurry, or you may become successful. Don’t envy the kings, princes and ministers, or despise begging and begging for beggars. Everything has its own destiny and energy, and cannot be changed. The Chen family can only do small business and cannot make a big business, nor can they accept a single official or a half position.
In just a moment, the darkness was turning, dark clouds filled with them, mountains and rivers changed color, and the sudden rain was coming.
The raindrops had hit my nose, so I opened my umbrella and accelerated my pace.
After more than two hours of heavy rain, the water level of the river in front of the Chen family soared rapidly. After the Phoenix Platform, the entire foundation high ground was soaked by floods and landslides. Four houses in the Chen family courtyard collapsed one after another, fortunately no one was injured or killed. The four buildings, including various furniture and appliances, were scrapped, and the losses were more than 2 million yuan.
"Who can bully me if I am the only one who is bullying me?" I held an umbrella, and my trousers were soaked. Suddenly, my eyelids twitched, and a wave of ominous feelings surged into my heart. I couldn't calculate my future, but I felt a little: I would have something wrong.
Chapter completed!