Day and night tour

Chapter 86 Zhou Family Past Events

"Insight into the future?"

Yuan Buyu's heart suddenly tightened, and he asked Zhou Xuan: "What did you see when you asked about the divination at the Blood Well?"

Zhou Xuan wanted to describe the scene of his own death, but as soon as the thought came to his mind, the feeling of being watched became extremely strong.

"Um, I saw a picture from... the future, about myself." Zhou Xuan changed his wording, and the feeling of being watched disappeared.

He now understood a little bit. He could describe everything he saw in the blood well, but he couldn't be very specific. It could only be some vague concept.

This is somewhat in line with the fortune-telling rule that "heaven's secrets cannot be revealed" - it can be told, but only a little.

He signed to Yuan Buyu, first pointing to his eyes and ears, then to his mouth, making a gesture for silence.

Yuan Buyu was very experienced in strange and mysterious theories, and immediately understood what Zhou Xuan meant: "You can see and hear it but not speak it? That's normal! If it's really as you said - you saw the picture from the future, this blood well can really see into the future. If you regard it as a White Walker, it is one of the most powerful White Walkers in the world."

"This kind of insight is different from the principles of fortune-telling, deduction, and secret realm omens, right?" Zhou Xuan wanted to understand it more clearly.

"Very different." Yuan Buyu said: "Fortune-telling, deduction, and omen are all based on the same principle. Based on the current situation, the future situation is calculated.

The so-called "know the cause and infer the consequence"!
In order to calculate the "consequences" accurately, you must know enough "causes". The bigger the matter to be calculated, the more complicated the causes involved.

Ordinary fortune tellers only predict trivial matters, and even then, nine out of ten times they are wrong.
If one reaches the level of Feng Shui dragon-hunting, and wants to find a huge dragon vein that runs through the well country, the causes that need to be calculated here are as numerous as the stars, and the amount of calculation is extremely large. There cannot be any obvious mistakes in the process of calculation. Only the top-level gods can do this.
If one wants to calculate the fate of an era, the fortune of a country, the causes involved are so huge that it is not something that can be done with human power. It is impossible to calculate or deduce it! "

"Then about insight into the future..." Zhou Xuan asked urgently.

Yuan Buyu didn't rush to answer. He pulled open the curtains, pointed at the bamboo forest outside the window, and asked, "What is that?"

"A small bamboo forest."

"Look, you can see the bamboo forest without any calculations." Yuan Buyu said, "Seeing into the future is similar to seeing the bamboo forest, but if the bamboo forest is the future, there is a layer of fog between you and the bamboo forest."

He paused, took a puff of hookah, and blew the smoke toward the windowsill.

The smoke was so thick that it blocked Zhou Xuan's vision and made it impossible for him to see the bamboo forest clearly.

Yuan Buyu said: "This layer of fog blocks your eyes from seeing the bamboo forest, but if you activate your perception and penetrate the fog, you will be able to see the bamboo forest! This is the principle of seeing into the future!

With a strong sense, I can penetrate the fog between the present and the future and see the future situation. "

"Deduction is calculation, insight is observation, but calculation is far inferior to observation! Now, you know why there are so many crazy great yin people and great gods in the Well Country. Even if they have stopped exploring the secrets of the Blood Well, they are still madly studying the Blood Well psychic.
In front of the extremely strong perception of the Blood Well Spiritual, any sophisticated deduction method is nothing more than a dish of dog meat that is not worthy of being served at the main table."

At this moment, Zhou Xuan finally understood why the Blood Well Psychic was so coveted. He was used as food by the White Walkers, used as a human experiment by Crazy Old Deng, and was bewitched by the Blood Well to "fill the well"...

The more this happened, the harder he would work to accumulate incense.

As a psychic of the Blood Well, without strength, you are just a piece of meat that everyone wants to take a bite of!
Although he becomes more likely to go crazy as the level of his incense becomes higher, and his body's dual consciousness becomes stronger, he still has to chase after it!
Chasing incense is chasing madness, but giving up incense is equivalent to giving up everything.

"Dreams, blood wells, divine revelations, whether it's foresight into the future or deduction of cause and effect, all signs indicate that I will die when I'm promoted! This has become my fate.

Although there may be a new life after death! What the new life will be like, only God knows! Maybe I will still be in the Zhou family, or maybe I will go to a place that no one knows... I will never see my sister, master, or senior brother again...

But I can't give up the promotion! Losing the incense is like losing everything."

Use the time before the promotion to have a good look around the Zhou family, chat more with my sister and master, perform well in the storytelling of Lady Lotus and win big clients for the Zhou family. Just regard all this as the final silent farewell...

Zhou Xuan made up his mind and reconciled with the omen of "living towards death". As for what the new life after death would be like?

Make plans when it appears!

……

Zhou Xuan was no longer depressed. After leaving Yuan Buyu's dormitory, he found the ancestral tree under the moonlight much more pleasing to the eye.

Under the tree, Zhou Lingyi was lying on a bamboo rocking chair, gently fanning herself with a round fan and resting her spirit.

Zhou Xuan was in a good mood. He also moved a rocking chair over and lay down next to his sister.

"Brother, when we were little we often lay like this and looked at the stars in the sky together. So much time has passed in a flash. You have grown up and become much more sensible. You are different from before."

Zhou Lingyi picked up the rice wine glass on the small wooden table next to the rocking chair and handed it to Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan took a sip and asked, "What was I like before?"

"Um, let me think about it."

Zhou Lingyi looked at the moon and said, "Some time ago, there was a young man named Shuisheng, who was a clerk in the Qiu family's powder shop. He served his young master to smoke opium. Because he was a little slow in handing over the pipe, the young master was scolded by his father. He was very angry and took this opportunity to hit Shuisheng's head with the pipe more than ten times. The pipe was broken and the man was beaten to death." "Didn't Shuisheng's family report to the police?"

"How dare my family report it?" Zhou Lingyi said, "All the families with a little bit of influence in Pingshui Prefecture are extremely vicious! How can ordinary people defeat them! Therefore, it is not uncommon to see evil young men from wealthy families. You used to be an evil young man too."

Zhou Xuan smiled. Having been in the Zhou family for a long time, he knew that the original owner was very cruel to the people in the Zhou family.

"You were actually very cute when you were little, but my stepmother, your biological mother..."

"Ah? It turns out that my sister and I are half-siblings?" Zhou Xuan knew this for the first time.

"Second Mother is very kind to you, but too kind! She is always worried that I will threaten your position in the Zhou family, so she always instills some twisted ideas in you and teaches you to attack me with vicious words.

Over time, as a younger brother, I felt that it was justified to verbally attack me, my sister.

One moment I said I wanted to please my father in order to get a piece of the Zhou family pie.

Sometimes I feel like I am a basin of water destined to be thrown away, and any penny the Zhou family spends on me is a loss.

At that time, I loved my brother very much.

I protect him more than I protect myself.

But every time he ridiculed and humiliated me, it was like a knife cutting a piece of flesh from my heart."

In Zhou Lingyi's story, the word used to refer to her brother has changed from "you" to "he".
Zhou Xuan finally understood that his sister had actually known for a long time that he was not her real brother!

But what if he’s not my real brother?

If the sister didn't regard Zhou Xuan as a brother closer than her own brother, how could she have revealed her past scars so easily?

"Sister, I originally thought that your life was smooth sailing. Now, after listening to you, I know how hard your life was in the past... In my heart, you are a genius and the most suitable person to be the helmsman of the Zhou family." Zhou Xuan also revealed his cards, but he did not break the last layer of window paper.

Zhou Lingyi was stunned for a moment, then smiled brightly, reached out and stroked Zhou Xuan's head, and said tenderly but somewhat unconfidently: "I'm not as good as you say!"

"You said it better than I did."

"If my brother had been as good-tempered as you, I wouldn't have left the Zhou Clan for so many years."

Zhou Lingyi talked about the past again: "My younger brother and my second mother humiliated me every day, and gradually I got used to it and accepted it. I even began to doubt myself, wondering if I was really of no help to the Zhou family!

When I was thirteen years old, I took the initiative to become the backdoor of the Zhou family, doing the most shameful and bloody work for the team.
I did this for a full year and a half, until the Nuo Festival, when I went to worship the Nuo masks of my ancestors and the tablets of the Nuo gods. The brothers and masters of the Zhou family gathered in the Luoying Hall at that time.
My younger brother suddenly stood up and accused me of having blood on my hands and human lives on my hands!

He told everyone in public that I was the secret door and the most disgraceful person in the Zhou family class.

I was very embarrassed at the time. In public, all the masters and brothers looked at me in astonishment and surprise. I didn't know what to do.
Escaping from Luoying Hall seemed to be my last choice.

I fled to my room and sat under the eaves in a daze. It was raining heavily that day, but I could not feel it at all.

Until an umbrella covered me, I raised my face and saw that it was my grandfather holding the umbrella for me.

When Zhou Lingyi talked about her grandfather, her expression was finally touched, and it was a warm remembrance of her family.

"Grandpa told me at that time - girl, I don't like my brother, stepmother and your inactive father, but the ancestors are putting pressure on me and I can't breathe. Your brother is the one chosen by our ancestors' Nuo mask, although he has not yet established a connection with the Nuo god. Grandpa is useless and has no ability to make you the next head of the class... Hey... If you want to beat or scold me, vent your anger on grandpa!"

"I don't blame grandpa, he's the only one who protects me. If he sees my brother and stepmother humiliating me, he will throw away his dignity as a superior and curse and beat us with his cane. But he can only curse and beat us. He is a conservative person, and the ancestral system is a thousand-pound scale in his heart.

Beating and scolding could not change my brother who had become naughty, could not change my stepmother’s mean heart, and could not change my father who was a blockhead and afraid of his wife!
I chose to leave, and before leaving, I kissed the ancestral tree. The tree was my childhood and the best time I had ever had.

Then I went to the old palace in Mingjiang Mansion and didn’t go home for six years.”

Zhou Xuan felt distressed, but he knew that what his sister needed was not comfort, but a caring person to listen to her talk. She had been holding back these words for a long, long time...

"Then you came back." Zhou Xuan said with a sigh.

"I had to come back. After I left, my grandfather started to become drowsy within half a year. He was an expert in fortune-telling and had told fortunes for many people. He revealed too many secrets of the world, so in his later years, God punished him by making him speak less.

Grandpa has become confused, really confused. Although he would be clear-headed for a short while occasionally, he would soon become confused again.

The boss of the Zhou Clan became the father. The father was afraid of his wife and indulged his younger brother in his wrongdoings, but he had a limit. He at least knew that the prosperity of the Zhou Clan depended on the hard work of every master, senior brother, and apprentice. If his younger brother did something too much to the master and senior brothers, he would still intervene. At that time, his younger brother was just a villain, not a bad boy. "

"Another half a year passed, and my father was contaminated by a drop of blood from the eyebrow of a White Walker."

Zhou Lingyi poked her forehead...

(End of this chapter)