Chapter 5: Touching the Bones and Determining the Life

Pulling Xirou, whose face was full of excitement, Yuxuan walked directly through the crowd.

Xirou was all focused on the hosta at the moment, and she didn't care about the other stalls she passed by. She let Yuxuan pull her to a street tea stall with fewer people.

"Hoo~"

With a long breath, Yuxuan untied Chunxue from behind, put it upright on the table beside him, took out a few coins, and called out in a low voice: "Xiao Er."

"Come on, guest~"

As soon as Yuxuan finished speaking, a young man hurried out from inside, wearing a gray servant hat and a long piece of shoulder-length cloth draped over his shoulders.

He came over and wiped the table in front of Yuxuan skillfully. When he saw Haruyue, his eyes were surprised and he quickly changed his words, "You two young heroes, what do you want?"

Nodding with satisfaction, Yuxuan looked at Xirou, turned his head and told the waiter: "It's very hot, bring a pot of herbal tea and two portions of egg noodles in clear soup."

"Okay, you two young heroes, just wait a moment, we'll be back soon."

The waiter wrote down the order, immediately turned around and ran inside.

"Brother Yuxuan, what does this old man next to you do?"

Just as Yuxuan wiped the sweat from his forehead, he heard Xirou asking in a low voice.

Xirou was already interested in hostas, and when she looked around, she happened to see an old man sitting on the ground next to him, with a vertical flag stuck in the open space in front of him.

"To death by touching one's bones, God knows half of it!"

Xirou read the words on the flag word by word, while Yuxuan looked at the other person with his eyes.

Wearing gray linen clothes, worn shoes with holes, and disheveled hair, he looked very gray.

He crossed his arms in front of his chest, lowered his head and snored. There was a rag spread in the open space in front of him, with various gossips and the like painted on it.

"What a strange grandpa."

Like Xirou, Yuxuan became very curious about this sloppy old man.

Ordinary fortune tellers only understand the principles of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, read birth dates, and understand the meaning of fortune-telling by shaking buckets in order to earn money from the people.

This kind of people are all decorated with an air of immortality and a noble demeanor, and their conversation is obscure and difficult to understand, making people half-believing and half-suspicious and falling into a delusion.

The old man in front of me was completely out of line with common sense.

He is dressed slovenly and slovenly, hangs banners without opening them, and sits alone and sleeps soundly. I wonder if normal people would avoid him, so how can he talk about business?

"Brother Yuxuan,"

Xirou put her right hand gently on her mouth, whispered to Yuxuan, and pointed at the old man with her left hand.

How can we not know each other's thoughts despite having been together for many years?

Yuxuan shook his head helplessly and glanced into the shop. The waiter hadn't brought out the tea yet, so he must have some time to do so.

After thinking about it this way, and also feeling a little curious in his heart, Yuxuan couldn't help but stand up with his sword.

He deliberately stopped his steps and walked quietly to the old man to look at him.

When Xirou saw this, her face was filled with emotion. She stepped closer and naturally held Yuxuan's arm, curiously poking her head.

"Destroying one's life by touching one's bones?"

Looking at the words "vertical flag", Yuxuan rubbed his chin with his right hand, frowned and thought deeply, and looked back and forth at the hexagram diagram on the ground, although he couldn't quite understand it.

If it's about marriage, fortune telling, etc., it's normal, but the method of touching bones, I've seen some secrets in the library, but it's weird.

But to die is a bit exaggerated.

"Have you seen the two little dolls?"

Suddenly, an old voice sounded impatiently. Yuxuan was so startled that he quickly pulled Xirou back two steps and looked at the old man in front of him cautiously.

I saw the other party slowly raised his head, revealing an old face, opened his mouth and yawned widely, and stretched his arms.

Then he opened his eyes, revealing a pair of eyes with only the whites of the eyes. He looked at the two of them blankly and said mysteriously: "What do you mean by disturbing the old man's dream?"

"blind?!"

The two people's first reaction was shock, and they looked at each other in surprise. Unexpectedly, the old man was blind.

Xirou was so shocked that she covered her mouth, she couldn't believe it.

Could he really know how to touch bones?

"Sorry, I don't mean to offend you, I'm just a little curious, so I'll leave now."

Although he knew that the other party could not see him, Yuxuan still felt uncomfortable in his heart. He pulled Xirou to bend down and salute the old man, and prepared to leave.

This person always gave him an indescribable feeling.

"Yo?"

With a low sneer, the old man seemed to know that Yuxuan and the others wanted to leave. The whites of his eyes were facing Yuxuan's position, his ears moved slightly, and his mouth opened to reveal slightly yellowed teeth.

"We are destined to meet each other, so why are you in such a hurry to leave? Are you, a boy who is a dignified person in the first level of heaven, still afraid of a slovenly old man like me?"

"What?"

Yuxuan's body was shaken violently, and his heart was filled with turmoil.

If the opponent is obviously blind, how can he know that he is capable of martial arts and know exactly what level he has reached?

Unless, this person is a peerless master!

He stepped forward, pulled Xirou behind his back, and gently held the end of Chunxue's sheath with his right hand.

Jing Jing watched the old man smile at him and said in a low voice: "Junior has no ill intentions. I have disturbed senior, so I hope Mo will blame me more."

At this moment, Xirou also knew that the old man was acting strangely. Her face turned pale with fright, and she pulled Yuxuan's clothes nervously.

"Tsk tsk tsk, you little baby is so funny."

As if he had a clear view of the scene in front of him, the old man rubbed his messy hair and waved his hands.

Then, he groped with his hands on the rag, as if to determine whether it had been blown away by the wind. When he was sure, he nodded with relief.

He continued casually: "Don't worry, the old man is just making a living in the world, and he won't make any grudges for no reason. You are too careful, baby, it's boring, it's boring."

The old man looked calm and showed no ill intentions.

Yuxuan breathed a sigh of relief, awkwardly let go of his hand from Chunxue, and reached out to pat Xirou's nervous little hand.

He took two steps forward, walked to the old man, held his sword in his arms and apologized: "You are a newbie, so it is inevitable that you will be a little nervous and make your seniors laugh."

Saying this, the old man showed the same expression as before, smiling and saying nothing.

After they relaxed, their previous curiosity began to take effect again.

He looked carefully, squatted down and looked at the hexagram diagram, and asked the old man: "Senior, are you really capable of touching your bones and cutting off your life?"

"Yes, grandpa, can you really tell your fortune by touching bones?"

Xirou said more directly, which made Yuxuan's face twitch.

"this……"

Listening to the questions from Yuxuan and others, the old man shook his head first, then nodded, smoothed his beard, and did not answer.

The two of them were confused by this performance, and Yuxuan tried to call out again: "Senior?"

The old man responded this time.

His nose twitched towards the tea shop, and he said with a smile: "If you believe it, you have it, but if you doubt it, you don't have it. Your face will be better."

Sure enough, as soon as the old man finished speaking, the servant came out with tea, put it on the table, and came over to ask Yuxuan and the others.

Yuxuan waved his hand to let him put it aside and eat it later.

The young man understood his intention and left respectfully. He just looked at the old man with disdain as he left, fearing that he might think him a charlatan.

Yu Xuan and the others don't care what the young man thinks, they are even more curious about the old man at this moment.

When he said the noodles were good, the noodles were really good. It was so strange and must have been an extraordinary skill.

Yuxuan couldn't hold himself back, and finally stretched out his right hand in front of the old man, and said excitedly: "Senior, why don't you try it for me?"

Seeing this, Xirou was also ready to make a move. She rubbed her hands and stared without blinking.

The old man raised his eyebrows, grinned and showed his yellow teeth, and reached out his hand at will.

Yuxuan suddenly felt a tension, and his right hand fell into the old man's hand uncontrollably.

The old man took Yuxuan's right hand and touched it one by one from the back of the hand to the palm of the hand and the knuckles and wrist bones.

Yuxuan only felt warmth in his right hand and could clearly feel the beating of his meridians.

The old man kept this action motionless for half a stick of incense. Yuxuan looked expectant and spoke dryly.

Finally, when Yuxuan's arm felt sore and numb, the old man took his hand back.

He sighed and nodded and said: "The bones are straight and the fortune is good. It is like the golden scales in the pool praying for the wind and clouds."

Not much to say, concise and to the point.
To be continued...