"The Edge World - Divine Calculation"

This is a real experience told by a restaurant owner from Jilin Province. For the sake of immersion, the article takes the first person. In 1968, I was born in a small village below Jilin City, Jilin Province. My father left early, leaving me and my mother and my sister, and the three of them to live together. One year, a wanderer came from the village, who was over the age of flower armor and his clothes were worn. While begging for food, the old beggar gave fortune telling to the countrymen and earned some pocket money.

At that time, my mother and I passed by and saw someone watching the fortune telling. Therefore, I also went to "see the hilarity". The mother saw that the old beggar was very clever in fortune telling, so she also took out two cents and took a share. The old beggar looked at the three copper coins on the ground, then at the bamboo sticks in his mother's hand, and murmured, "Bad fate, I lost my father in my early years, I lost my husband in middle age, and I had four children in my life." The most surprising thing is the eldest son, who can be an official. The second son has wealth, but he can do business..." After saying these few words, he shut up.

"Nonsense!" "Pure blindness says!" "There are only two children, where are the four children?" "I didn't count this time!" The onlookers talked and despised. "Sister-in-law, I want that dollar back, but I can't calculate it accurately!" The aunt hugged and beat her unevenly. "Well, he's not easy!" The mother sighed and left silently. On the way home, I looked confused: "I have a sister, where are the other brothers and sisters?" All are feudal superstitions, net fool people! "More than thirty years have passed, and the matter of counting the gua has faded into oblivion."

The year before, my mother was gone. Before dying, my mother told me: "The old beggar is right, I do have four children in this life, and you have an older brother and a sister in front of you..." In order to meet my mother's dying wishes, my sister and I worked hard to find my brother and sister who had never met. Although he is a "half-brother", there is still a continuous flow of blood.

After that, the four of us cried in front of my mother's grave. As the old beggar said, the brother was very prominent. With his own ability, he became a county magistrate before the age of forty. I can also count, although I did not "make a fortune", I also opened more than a dozen stores... To this day, what has always puzzled me is that the old beggar could deduce so many things just by relying on three "copper coins" and a "bamboo stick", as well as the so-called "eight characters". There is a past, there is a future, there is privacy... How exactly did he do it? Perhaps, this is just a "coincidence".