fifth form

Chapter 2282: Fake Face

Physiognomist belongs to one of the hundreds of schools of thought, which is further divided into several factions.

As one of the hundreds of schools of thought, the target groups of fortune tellers were monks and the ruling class.

After the Qin Dynasty, the tradition of fortune-tellers was broken and the number of fortune-tellers was greatly reduced.

The most famous person in this century was a female monk named Xu Fu, who was named Ci Ting Hou by Emperor Gaozu.

But apart from a few successful cases, the remaining fortune tellers are mostly those who try to take advantage of the situation and will never regain their former glory.

It was difficult for these people to climb up the social ladder and join the monastic community, so they had to lower their targets and start targeting ordinary wealthy people.

But rich people don't have so many life and death stories, which leads to some fortune tellers directing and acting out their own stories in order to make money. Some of them were imprisoned or even killed after their stories were exposed.

Fortune tellers have had a bad reputation since the Qin Dynasty. Even people with a certain level of insight, like Zhang Baojia, know that fortune tellers are often good at deceiving people.

"Is this my real ability?"

Zhang Xuezhou had to show off a little bit of his skills.

Zhang Xuezhou has the real skills of identifying people and locating acupoints. The technique of identifying people can analyze the content of the person's memory fragments, so as to unearth secrets in the past, while the technique of locating acupoints is the ability to break the formation.

The reason why these two skills are mentioned is that the ability he showed has nothing to do with the skills of a physiognomist.

Using abilities for actual combat and using abilities for performance are two different things. Many actual combat techniques are not pleasing to the eye, and ordinary people cannot understand them. Even the energy fluctuations of the techniques cannot be seen.

The routine Zhang Xuezhou uses is pseudo-psychological content.

These contents are not surprising. After all, the continuous development of society towards civilization will inevitably involve psychological content.

But to say that these contents are not rare is also very rare. Pseudo-psychology does not bring practical capabilities, and monks rarely study these contents, resulting in a lack of sufficient system.

Ordinary people are busy making a living and it is difficult for them to even learn to read, let alone study these contents.

"Think carefully and see if the person I drew looks like this!"

If he doesn't make any guesses, Zhang Xuezhou can only rely on physiognomy based on a combination of data to let everyone make their own judgment.

Physiognomy is not metaphysics, but rather a statistical discipline that involves judging the corresponding temperaments of people with similar appearances.

This is no different from astrology, zodiac, etc., where you choose a framework in advance and then add identifying symbols.

Facial appearance is the framework, and the corresponding temperament is the symbol.

As long as you know someone's temperament, you can judge his or her style of behavior and infer the other person's behavior based on this character.

"Zhang Laosan, the butcher in the West Market, seems to have this kind of face. He seems to be generous, but when he sells meat, he often shortchanges people by weight. He is indeed a treacherous person..."

"There is almost no difference between people's limbs and internal organs, only their faces are different. Appearance has become the most important part of identification. If you understand the science of physiognomy, it is no problem to predict wealth, honor and disgrace!"

Zhang Xuezhou took a branch and sketched on the ground.

His painting skills were quite good. With just a few strokes, he was able to bring the appearance of a face to life. He also asked everyone to find relevant face readers to match their faces. There were also some cases where Zhang Baojia suddenly realized something and mentioned people he knew.

"My cousin's painting is much better than the pig I drew. I can even charge money for drawing a portrait for someone!"

Rong Tianding, who came over to join in the fun, widened his eyes and felt that the skills Zhang Xuezhou demonstrated this time were a little different.

This is not a magic trick of the cultivators, but a thing that Rong Tianding cannot describe.

He felt that what Zhang Xuezhou was doing was a kind of ability, but this ability did not involve magic power and the power of qi and blood, and was not a real technique.

"It's a fake technique!" If one has the ability but it does not involve the techniques that only monks can perform, then it can be classified as a fake technique.

But Zhang Xuezhou's fake surgery does not require dexterity of fingers, but only requires a template.

As long as you fit these templates based on a person's appearance, you can get the result of the analysis, which is much easier than fake surgery.

"I'll draw a few more facial pictures for you. After I tell you the standards, think about whether you know anyone who looks similar!"

In the Zhang family's house, Zhang Xuezhou took a branch and drew several pictures on the ground.

"Cousin, if appearance can determine a person's life, doesn't it mean that his fate is determined when he is born?" Rong Tianding asked puzzledly.

"My cousin, you are wrong. A person's appearance will change constantly due to life opportunities and diet. It is not what you are born like." Zhang Xuezhou said with a smile: "It's just that most people's personalities and living conditions stabilize as they get older, and their appearance also stabilizes and does not change, so it is possible to judge their appearance throughout their lives."

"I see. I was wondering why your appearance always changes. You look almost the same as before, but I feel like there are some differences!"

Rong Tianding's doubts were cleared up, and he couldn't help but look at Zhang Xuezhou carefully.

He just felt that Zhang Xuezhou's appearance seemed to have been changing over the years since his debut. Although Zhang Xuezhou's appearance seemed to remain the same, there were too many differences in it without him noticing.

Zhang Xuezhou has had youthful, weather-beaten, old, young, gentle appearances, etc. But at this moment, Rong Tianding only felt that Zhang Xuezhou had a face as handsome as jade, and his appearance remained largely unchanged while having a sense of peace and approachability.

Logically speaking, people who haven't been together for months or even years are bound to feel unfamiliar, and there will also be a sense of strangeness brought about by long-term absence, but this is not the case with Zhang Xuezhou.

But the moment he saw Zhang Xuezhou's face, Rong Tianding vaguely felt as if he had met Zhang Xuezhou just a few days ago, and there was no sense of strangeness at all.

"Cousin, what kind of facial expression do you have now?" Rong Tianding asked.

"Cousin, your question brings up something interesting," Zhang Xuezhou said with a smile, "Face-readers never read their own faces, nor do they easily seek out people in the same trade. I can't read myself well, and my peers don't like to read my faces either, so I still don't know what my face means!"

"Look at others and don't look at yourself!"

"That's right!"

Rong Tianding summed up and Zhang Xuezhou nodded again.

This made Rong Tianding come back to his senses vaguely. He felt that Zhang Xuezhou's fake technique seemed to have some style of a school, and was even bound by rules and regulations. It was not just a random fabrication by Zhang Xuezhou on impulse.

"Zhouzi, how many different facial features do you have?" Zhang Baojia asked excitedly.

"I can currently recognize 192 types of facial features," Zhang Xuezhou said with a smile.

"Your face reading is not difficult to remember, can you draw more?" Zhang Baojia said excitedly: "I feel that your face reading is very skillful and not picky. As long as the brain can remember, you can learn it!"

"Uh!"

"I'm too old to go on hunting trips," Zhang Baojia said awkwardly, "If I could learn this physiognomy from you, I wouldn't have to eat for free all the time!"

"So I want to learn it too," said Zhang Houtu, who was lame. "I have been eating for free all these years. Even if Zhouzi and Changgong support me, I have no face to eat this meal!"

"That's true," Zhang Zhong said thoughtfully, "Er Baozi's ability doesn't seem to be selective about whether someone enters the country or not!"

"This is what scholars like me aspire to learn!"

Jia Zhiyuan also shouted that he felt that reading and painting were useful after all. As long as he learned from Zhang Xuezhou, he would be able to put what he learned into practice.

He shouted with joy and only stopped when Rong Li pulled his ears.

Zhang Baojia and others had previously worried that Zhang Xuezhou was showing off and deceiving people, but when they found out that Zhang Xuezhou's ability was simple and easy to learn, with no threshold, and could be verified, they couldn't help but want to get involved themselves.