The Charismatic Charlie Wade

“Sounds good, Uncle Riley.”

Mr.Riley was about to leave when he caught a glimpse of a small fortune-telling stall on the side of the road not far away.

Aurous Hill itself is an ancient city, and most of the people here have the habit of seeking fortune-telling, so there are a lot of fortune-tellers on the streets and in the alleys.

During the spring season most every street in the old city is overrun with fortune-teller booths spaced every ten steps along the road.

In addition, there are also many fortune-tellers who run their business from their homes.

These kinds of tellers generally use the so-called gimmick of inviting the upper body of the gods, specifically to help people see gossip of their fortunes, and sometimes to help people drive away evil spirits.

They also do the most work to exorcise evil spirits from children.

The older generation is much more superstitious, fearing their children will be frightened when they encounter the unclean of the world, and then cry uncontrollably.

So they look for a fortune teller.

In general however, the younger generation does not believe in these superstitions.

Some of the older intellectuals are also dismissive.

Originally, Mr.Riley was dismissive.

He’d been abroad for so many years, and never cultivated a belief in superstition, but today his right eye kept jumping and twitching.

With his daughter participating in a military operation in Syria, he was very anxious.

Seeing the fortune-teller, his mind suddenly focused on a hexagram.

So he said to Charlie “Charlie, if you have something to do, please go ahead, I’ll take a look over there.”

pointing toward the fortune-telling booth, “Uncle Riley, are you

sighed “I guess I know why so many people have strong

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else, maybe it will comfort

smiled slightly and said “Well, my plans aren’t important,

nodded, and accompanied Charlie

of the booth was a lean old man with leathery dark

looked to be in his 70’s or 80’s, rubbing

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him, but before he could speak, the old man asked him “Does

“I want to ask if my daughter

and said, “Come

and thought of his daughter while shaking

of bamboo sticks rattled around the tube as he shook, until

his eyes and quickly picked up the bamboo

looked down at the words on it, and said, “Tonight is a night of the Lantern Festival, with

the lantern…? What

smiled slightly, and said unpredictably “This is

this fortune,

nullify the fortune you drew and grant a better fortune

old man was

is a

blessings, this

impossible for a Tao Sect disciple to say

be like a monk saying he donated

itself

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heard the other party say it would cost