132: Chapter 132: Divination for Senior Schoolmate 132: Chapter 132: Divination for Senior Schoolmate The restaurant before them was a Sichuan cuisine restaurant, its gold-lettered sign for “Old Xichuan” immediately catching the eye.
“Are we eating here?” Chen Hai asked before getting out of the car.
“Yes, Changchang is from Xichuan.
This restaurant is like a taste of home for him.”
“Chen Hai, you’re from Xiangnan, so you should also be the type who can’t live without spicy food.
If we went to any other restaurant, I’m afraid you’d find the food tasteless and hard to stomach!”
Ye Qingqing replied as she spoke, already expertly parking the car and pulling out the keys, stepping out ahead of anyone else.
Although she was a female driver, her handling of the car was exceedingly skillful.
It looked like she must have had a lot of contact with cars; otherwise, she couldn’t have developed such skillful driving.
“Qingqing, don’t use me and Chen Hai as an excuse.
When you eat Sichuan cuisine, you’re also the one who cries about the spice while slurping down the oily food!”
Liu Chang teased Ye Qingqing while also stepping out of the car.
The new school year had recently started, and many parents had come along with the freshers.
Business at Old Xichuan Hot Pot Restaurant was booming.
By the time Chen Hai and the others entered, the main hall was fully occupied, with not a single empty seat to be found.
“Shall we go upstairs to a private room?” Liu Chang looked at Chen Hai and suggested.
The two women seemed to be frequent visitors to the Old Xichuan Hot Pot Restaurant.
Compared to the main hall, the consumption in a private room would certainly be slightly higher.
Liu Chang’s gesture was obviously a way of asking Chen Hai’s opinion.
“Sure, let’s take a private room.
Just wait a bit, I’ll go ask at the bar!” Chen Hai nodded.
His financial status certainly couldn’t compare to a rich and beautiful girl like Ye Qingqing, but a meal wouldn’t bankrupt him.
Although the main hall was overfilled with people, there were still some private rooms available on the second floor.
“Ladies, what will you have?
Go ahead and order,” Chen Hai said after they had settled in a private room upstairs a few minutes later.
To call it a small private room was an understatement.
A long table in the middle with a row of wooden sofas on either side—this kind of room could accommodate five or six people at most.
“Let’s get a spicy fish head with chopped peppers, a tripe hot pot…”
Taking the menu from Chen Hai, Ye Qingqing was unabashed.
She was familiar with the process and began ordering straight away.
Compared to the more reserved Liu Chang, Ye Qingqing was always straightforward.
But overall, the two were good-natured and easy to get along with.
“Chen Hai, your Astronomy Department at Capital Political and Legal University has been proposed to be discontinued several times.
Why did you even choose it?”
“My grades were average.
Getting into Capital Political and Legal University was already a blessing from my ancestors, how could I be picky?”
You must have been busy with a girlfriend during high school, right?”
“I’m just an ordinary country kid, who would like me enough to date me?
I went to a rural high school with a low college entrance rate!”
“But in terms of studies, I indeed didn’t try hard enough.
At that time, my mind was preoccupied with some odd and bizarre things.”
“Exorcising evil spirits, geomancy, divination… I actually know a bit about that, even have some insights!”
“Ladies, would you be interested in letting me do a divination reading for you?”
While waiting for the dishes to arrive, they engaged in casual conversation.
Conversing casually, before anyone realized, a few of them had gotten onto the topic of Chen Hai’s Divination Skill.
The unknown always has a way of piquing one’s curiosity.
As university students, Liu Chang and Ye Qingqing were essentially atheists.
However, after hearing that Chen Hai had a bit of understanding of divination, they were immediately full of interest.
“Chen Hai, come on, cast a divination for your sister Qingqing first!”
“If it’s accurate, sister has a reward for you; if it’s not, hmm hmm…” Ye Qingqing immediately came closer, putting on an arrogant and spoilt act, half jokingly speaking to Chen Hai.
“Others ask me for divination, and that’s definitely one Gua for a thousand gold!”
“For sister Qingqing, I’ll do it for free, that’s for sure.”
“However, I should say first, no matter if my divination is accurate or not, you’ve got to take it calmly, okay?”
Chen Hai responded with a big laugh and a smile.
To casually cast a divination and just patch one up was of no real effort to him.
Even though the results from putting his all into divination would be much more accurate, at the moment, there wasn’t anyone in the Capital City willing to pay the price of one Gua for a thousand gold.
Since he was idle anyway, agreeing to perform a divination for Ye Qingqing, he prepared to just casually cast one to see.
“What are you two chatting about?
You seem so enthusiastic about it?”
Just having returned from a restroom break, Liu Chang sat down across from Chen Hai.
When she heard Chen Hai was going to do a divination, she hurriedly spoke up, “Qingqing, I want to be divined too, let me go first!”
“Do you mean to say seeing something that interests our Changchang, alright, let Chen Hai perform a divination for you first?” Ye Qingqing chuckled and replied.
Asking Chen Hai to perform divination for them was merely a playful act to both girls; they had never seriously considered it.
Who went first or second really made no difference to them!
Since Liu Chang wanted to be first, Ye Qingqing naturally wouldn’t object.
She, too, wanted to see what sort of result Chen Hai could divine for Liu Chang! Orıginal content can be found at 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⟡𝘧𝙞𝙧𝙚⟡𝘯𝘦𝘵
“Okay then, let’s just perform a divination for Senior Sister Liu first!”
Smiling and nodding his head, Chen Hai flipped his hand and three Copper Coins appeared in his palm.
Casually tossing them on the table, they landed as one yin and two yang – the Lesser Yang Gua.
“Chen Hai, what have you divined?” Both girls looked on curiously as Ye Qingqing asked first.
Carrying the divination Copper Coins with him, the two girls seemed to truly begin to believe that Chen Hai might actually have some insight into the art of divination.
Divination is the art of Liuren; I need to cast the Gua five more times, and after combining the Six Gua, only then can I come up with some results.”
With a light smile, Chen Hai picked up the three Copper Coins from the table and continued his divination.
“Gold fades when fortune wanes, but joy springs forth when the time is ripe, with the moon’s sign most favorable, one must rejoice in abounding peace and contentment.”
This Gua was an altered one, the Lake Over Mountain, the Cordiality Gua.
Below was Gen, mountain, and above was Dui, lake; with gentle Dui above and firm Gen below, water seeping downward, weighing soft over hard, mutual sensing happens, and through sensing, reality is formed.
Chen Hai observed the Gua and closed his eyes to ponder for a while.
When he opened his eyes and saw Liu Chang and Ye Qingqing looking at him expectantly, he smiled faintly and spoke, “Senior Sister Liu, this Gua is an above-average one!”
“In the next one or two years, your fortunes will be incredibly strong, almost to the point where you can say whatever you wish for comes true!”
“However, what puzzles me is that according to the Gua, today there seems to be an impending calamity of bloodshed for you…”
Before Chen Hai could finish his sentence, Liu Chang sitting opposite him gave him a shy, severe glare, darting a fierce look his way.