Divine Arithmetic (Folk Tales)

I was still in my third year of high school that year, and it seemed to be a Sunday with good weather, and my homework was almost done, so I pulled the five and six brothers in the dormitory to go shopping.

Walking the streets, the shops are full of money piled up with everything we need, and we can only feast our eyes. Tired of walking, we plan to find a cool place to rest.

We came to a corner of the park, and before we could find a place to sit, we saw a few people gathered under a large willow tree. As I strolled up, I saw that a few people were surrounding a fortune-telling stall with several strange symbols painted on it, and three or five broken books on the symbols. There was an old lady who was asking the fortune teller to see. The fortune teller's gray hair was sparsely poured on his head, and a pair of black-rimmed flower glasses were set up on the bridge of his nose, and he was explaining to the old lady in a good way, saying that the old lady's eyebrows were gradually stretched.

"This old man is accurate!" Someone next to me gave a thumbs up to the fortune teller.

Looking at the evil that the old man said, but it seemed to be quite accurate, my heart also moved, so I encouraged the two brothers to let the old man see it together.

Old Fifth had no interest in this and said, "This is not credible, it is feudal superstition." ”

"It's superstitious or not superstitious, just watch and play." Old Six said.

"Yes, yes." I replied with a full mouth, in fact, I want to calculate the most in my heart, during this time I worked hard to review, but the grades are not long, and there is no bottom for the entrance examination to the university.

At this time, the old lady was already optimistic, and she walked away with a smile on her face and a smile on the fortune teller with ease.

"God calculates." After the old lady left, only these two words were left.

For a moment no one asked the fortune teller to look at it, and I crouched down at this empty moment and said softly, "Old sir, we want to see?" ”

The old man looked at me, then looked up at the fifth and sixth elders behind me, covered a few beards on his chin with his hands, and said, "Is it to see the future?" ”

Listening to the old man's words, I nodded and said, "Yes, yes." I turned to look at the two brothers again and smiled at them, meaning to say to them that this old man was a god.

"I want to ask the three of us about the situation in this year's college entrance examination?" I said to the old man.

But the old man did not speak, was silent for a moment, and held out a finger to us.

I didn't understand what I meant, so I asked him. The old man sold guanzi and said, "Seeing that you are students, I will not charge you money for this trifaction, but if you want to ask again, please pay the money first." ”

I really wanted to ask again, but the fifth old man behind me pulled me up and said, "Let's go, this old man can't believe it." ”

Although I didn't want to leave, I touched my pocket but didn't touch the money, so I had to leave sadly.

On the way back, I have been wondering what this old man means by sticking out a finger, is it that we only passed one exam this year? Thinking about this, I was like a deflated ball, and my heart was lost, because the three of us counted my poor grades, and it seemed that I was no longer playing this year.

Since there is no drama, I am no longer so serious, I should play, I should sleep, and I will raise my body to be fat and fat. I also advised the sixth elder in this way, saying that his grades were also average, and he could not bear it, so he would give up this year. The sixth old man felt that I was right, just like me, and the rest of the third year of high school passed the fastest under such circumstances. On the day of the college entrance examination, I did not see my name, and the old sixth also fell off the list, only the old fifth high school. In fact, it is a pity that the sixth and I are only a few points away from the score line.

On the day that the fifth elder received the college admission letter, he invited a few of our brothers to dinner, and although a few of us who did not pass the examination were happy for the fifth, this happiness was not from the heart. I raised my glass to congratulate the fifth elder, thought of the previous calculation, and said to the old fifth, it seems that the fortune teller is really a god, and really counted us to pass only one.

It is reasonable to say that the fifth elder should comfort us at this time, but he said a word that made my heart more painful. He said, "The fortune teller is not really a god, and if we can't pass the test, one of his outstretched fingers will be accurate, and the meaning of that finger can be that none of us have hit." ”

Then the sixth elder asked rhetorically, "What does that one finger mean that we can all pass the exam?" ”

Old Sixth didn't wait for Old Fifth to answer him, so he slammed the wine glass in his hand on the ground and scolded, "Fuck, I was deceived by that fortune teller." ”

I looked at the old sixth who was angry, and found that the old sixth was also looking at me at this time, his eyes were full of anger that was about to burn, and I knew that the old sixth could not hide from this beating me.