Chapter 18

Hearing Qi Tiezui assert that the assistant would face a great disaster, the audience at Sancheng Garden frowned.

"How did this Qi Tiezui calculate that? On what basis did he say this assistant would have great retribution?"

"I don't understand either. He just sold an incense burner and did a bit of reselling; does that offend the Ancestor?"

"I want to know, who is this Ancestor? Do tomb raiders and antique sellers have an Ancestor too?"

The crowd discussed it one after another, all feeling that Qi Tiezui was being a bit alarmist.

Others were very curious about the Ancestor Qi Tiezui mentioned.

At this time, Zhang Lin said: "The Ancestor Qi Tiezui mentioned will be discussed later."

"Let me first tell you all what Qi Tiezui actually calculated on the assistant to dare to say such things."

"That assistant was also a superstitious person and knew how powerful Qi Tiezui's Strange Gate Eight Calculations were."

"So, upon hearing that a great disaster was imminent, he quickly knelt down and begged Qi Tiezui to provide a method to resolve it."

"And Qi Tiezui, considering that the assistant had worked in the shop for several years, couldn't bear it and gave him a method."

Hearing this, Huo Hongxiu turned her head and looked at Old Lady Huo with curiosity.

"Grandma, is Qi Tiezui really that magical?"

"Not only can he perform Strange Gate Eight Calculations, but he can also defy heaven and change fate?"

Old Lady Huo closed her eyes to rest and said: "Defying heaven and changing fate is not the right term; it's just using some means to avoid the risks he has already foreseen."

"Just like this assistant, Qi Tiezui pinched his fingers and calculated, and he knew what would happen to him."

"Naturally, he could think of a coping method based on the situation he calculated."

"However, this kind of cracking method is sometimes not 100% effective."

"It depends on the timing, the location, the people, and many factors combined."

Hearing this, Huo Hongxiu nodded thoughtfully.

Old Lady Huo meant that Qi Tiezui could see it, calculate it, and even crack it.

But whether it was effective in the end had to do with the person executing it, the executor's luck at the time, and unexpected situations.

However, Zhang Lin being able to tell this story while storytelling.

That meant Qi Tiezui succeeded!

Sure enough, Huo Hongxiu heard Zhang Lin continue: "At that time, this assistant had to go down to the village to collect rent."

"Because of the assistant's request, Qi Tiezui performed a divination."

"Then he frowned and took out all the money the assistant had stolen from selling the incense burner."

"He handed it to the assistant and told him to carry this money on his person."

"He also instructed him to put the collected rent money at the bottom of the box."

"Finally, there was one instruction: to exempt the melon farmers from their share of the money!"

"Although the assistant felt strange in his heart, he still set off according to what Qi Tiezui said."

"When he arrived at the village, the assistant discovered that there had been heavy rain this year, the melon farmers had no harvest, and they couldn't pay the land rent at all; even if he forced them, he couldn't collect it."

"Thus, he just happened to exempt the melon farmers from the rent and returned with the collected rent."

The audience below heard this and couldn't help but sit up straight.

They knew that the change was about to happen, and the great disaster Qi Tiezui spoke of must be on the assistant's way back.

Sure enough, Zhang Lin didn't pause for long before saying: "On the way back, this assistant encountered robbers on the road. All the money on him was robbed, but the other party didn't harm his life, nor did they search the box before running away."

"Not long after returning to the Qi family incense hall, the robber was caught, and it turned out to be a melon farmer from the village!"

Wow—

As the storytelling reached this point, the quiet theater suddenly began to buzz.

Smart people had already connected the dots of Qi Tiezui's instructions when they heard this result.

Even though the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams are lost in today's Xia Kingdom, some old sayings have been preserved.

For example, cause and effect, planting good causes leads to good results!

Isn't this assistant exactly like that?

Heavy rain fell from the sky, the melon farmers had no income, so they were driven to desperation and became robbers.