We Chinese there is an old saying called: The king of Yama told you to die three times, who dares to keep people until five more. This kind of statement is generally regarded as superstition by everyone, but sometimes some things make everyone feel very strange. For example, the protagonist of our story today, because of his fortune telling, was said to die in an air crash, which frightened him so much that he did not dare to take a plane and closed the door for half a year. But half a year later, he was killed by the plane that was killed.
The protagonist of the story is a Belgian named Max. We Chinese have fortune tellers, looks, and bones, while foreigners have their own astrology or other means of divination. Although Belgium is a developed country and the technology is already very advanced, many people are still very curious about these ancient divination techniques and are convinced of it. Max is such a person.
It was in 1989, and Max had just graduated from college. This time means hope and infinite possibilities, but it also means confusion. Although Max was also very serious about his studies in college, he didn't know what he was going to do when he came out. Where should he go in life, and where will he go in the future? These questions plagued the teenager and made him sigh day and night.
Along with him were many of his friends, all of whom were confused about the future. I heard that there was a fortune teller on the street who was very powerful, so everyone met together to find the fortune teller. In fact, everyone has a suspicious attitude towards divination, but after going there, they began to believe in it, because many things said by the fortune teller are very consistent with their own lives, so Max also decided to let the fortune teller see it for him.
What was supposed to be a lively scene became silent because of Max's arrival. Because when Max asked about the fortune teller's own marriage, the fortune tells him that there will be no marriage in this life. This surprised everyone: the fortune teller generally does not say bad things about others, after all, everyone hates him when he says bad things. Therefore, even if the result is really calculated to be bad, it will be very euphemistic, and you can look at the process of divination by Xu Negative as the Wei King Leopard during the Han Dynasty:
"And the princes of Pan Qin, Wei Bao was made the King of Wei, and Wei Mi's daughter was in the Wei Palace. Mi Zhi Xu Negative Phase, Xiang Bo Ji, Yun Dang Sheng Tianzi. Leopard Chu and Han attack Chu, and smell Xu Negative Words, the heart is happy, because of the back of Han, neutral, and even more with Chu Lian. ”
Yes, Xu Negative was not wrong at all, Bo Ji, the wife of Wei Wangbao, did give birth to Tianzi, but Tianzi's father was Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao. It is estimated that when Xu Negative told the fate of Wei Wangbao, there was an unspeakable embarrassment and helplessness in his heart, and poor Wei Wangbao was still happy. But Xu Negative can't say: Your wife will be robbed by the Son of Heaven to give birth to a son as the Son of Heaven in the future. Couldn't she be retaliated against by Wei Wangbao?
So she said: Your wife will have a son of heaven in the future. That sounds a lot better. Therefore, these diviners are very powerful psychologists, and they will not easily say ugly things. But the fortune-teller directly told Max that he had never been married in his life, and the atmosphere suddenly cooled down. Max was surprised, desperate, skeptical, and then asked him: Why do you say that I have never been married in my life?
The fortune teller what Max wanted to beat him up: "Because in half a year you're going to die, in an air crash." Max's face changed on the spot and he hurried away. One by one, his friends advised him not to take it to heart, this fortune teller's words were not very reliable, so why should they go to their hearts? Max ostensibly listened to his friend's comfort, but his heart grew more and more nervous—because in fact he was panicked and convinced of the diviner's ability.
In order to prevent himself from dying in the air crash, he decided not to fly again for half a year. But he felt that this was still not OK, what if he encountered something urgent and accidentally got on the plane? So he wrote off all his information about himself in the airline and directly left himself out of touch with the plane. In order to prevent himself from being hijacked on the plane, Max decided to keep himself away from the city.
He went to an abandoned farm in his hometown and wrapped his wooden house in a thick layer of iron and even barbed wire. He also dug an air-raid shelter for his house to prevent him from being bombed by planes — which seemed to be an air crash. After all his tossing and turning, Max's home was difficult for even a small army to enter.
However, fate is so merciless. Half a year later, Max saw that he was still alive and well, and felt that the fortune teller must be alarmist. Angry, he decided to run to the fortune teller's trouble: Aren't you kidding me? Almost scared me to death! He hesitated for a moment, but finally walked out of his room, looked left and right, did not find the danger, and walked out.
Then a plane just fell from the sky, and he finally died in an air crash.