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There is a lot of traffic here, and they are all tourists traveling from north to south. There are many small businesses in this alley, selling mineral water, melons and fruits, fortune tellers, and many selling sex toys. This is prepared for men and women who enter a row of small hotels in the alley.

The main road next to the train station is not allowed to set up stalls, so this alley has become a paradise for small vendors.

Tang Zhendong was sitting boredly in front of his fruit stall, watching the people passing by.Neither yelling nor soliciting, just buy if you want to buy, and push back if you don't.

However, because Tang Zhendong has red lips, white teeth, and cleanliness, even though he doesn't shout, there are always people who bypass the vendors who actively solicit and go all the way to Tang Zhendong's three-wheeled fruit cart to buy. In their words, this guy is clean.

The location of Tang Zhendong's stall is not good. In the words of Master Ye, the fortune teller next to him, it is just crappy.Also, if someone has a good location, they have a fixed stall where they pay the city management. When the city management here comes, they pay two yuan. If they don’t come, they don’t have to pay a penny.However, the vendors here are generally fixed. They occupy the corner closest to the train station, so business is good. Only when you dig in can you find Tang Zhendong, but most people in his place don't come to set up stalls.Why?

There is a saying that goes: Eat to gain weight, walk to lose weight.Who doesn’t buy it at a convenient place so that they can take it to the train station hall to wait for the bus?There are chairs, air conditioning, and you can sit and eat.

Therefore, although Tang Zhendong's business is not very good, he is still hungry. Some people always prefer to go far away, so Tang Zhendong can earn forty or fifty yuan a day. Excluding the windy and rainy days when he cannot set up a stall, it is not a problem to have thousands of yuan left in a month.In addition to the small bungalow he rented for 150 yuan a month in the urban-rural fringe area, apart from food and drink, he could still save three to four hundred yuan a month.

There was a fortune teller setting up a stall next to Tang Zhendong. His surname was Ye, and he claimed to be Master Ye. According to him, he was the fifty-first successor of Ma Yi Shenxiang.

However, Tang Zhendong knows best whether Master Ye is good at divination or fortune-telling. This man who calls himself Master Ye is actually a complete liar.

Tang Zhendong's stall is located next to Master Ye. During the breaks between selling fruits, the two often chat and laugh. In Master Ye's words: These are all businessmen, so help if you can.However, Tang Zhendong did not help Master Ye a lot. Sometimes a sentence or a half could get the point across.

On the contrary, when Master Ye comes to visit Tang Zhendong as a customer, he can always tell him something.

Fruits that are sleek and smooth are said to be good-looking, ugly-looking fruits are called crooked melons and cracked jujubes, and fruits with worm eyes are called green and pollution-free.In short, no matter what kind of fruit it is, as long as it reaches Master Ye's mouth, it will be unique and good.For this reason, although Tang Zhendong never shouted when setting up his stall, his business was able to maintain food and clothing.

But Master Ye is different. He is exactly what he said: If you don't open for three years, you will only be able to survive for three years after opening. Master Ye's deception skills are really beyond repair.Although Master Ye has no business all day long, once a business comes to his door, whether Master Ye coaxes or scares him, he can make people obediently take out their money.And he didn't hesitate to spend all his money on it.

Tang Zhendong did not take care of Master Ye's business at all. It was not that he did not know how to reciprocate politely, but that he did not cheat at all. Tang Zhendong's ability was to have an honest face. As soon as Tang Zhendong sat there, anyone who saw this young and clean guy would feel that the clean things sold by others must be good.

When Tang Zhendong had no business, he also liked to chat with Master Ye. In fact, Tang Zhendong was secretly learning Master Ye's verbal skills. In the past, Tang Zhendong didn't know that this person who was less than a foot square in front of him was doing horoscopes and reading palmistry.How much is the turnover of Baibu? However, after becoming familiar with Master Ye, Master Ye also boasted to Tang Zhendong, saying that he just ordered a small piece of cloth and his turnover in January was at least 5,000 yuan. If any month was good, it would be 30,000 to 20,000 yuan.

The turnover is 30,000 to 20,000 yuan, and the net profit is also 30,000 to 20,000 yuan.Friends who have been in business know what this means.

Master Ye often laughed at Tang Zhendong: As a young man, you just guard such a fruit stall, what future can you have?Tang Zhendong always smiled and then asked, "I don't sell fruit, so why should I tell fortunes with you?"

When Master Ye heard what Tang Zhendong said, he grinned and said, "Haha, you can consider going to fortune telling with me. With your honest appearance, I guarantee that your monthly income will not be lower than mine, but you have to be my apprentice for three years first."

Tang Zhendong really laughed in his heart, but he didn't say anything.

Just looking at Tang Zhendong's appearance, he does give people an image of being honest, honest and easy to trust. In fact, Tang Zhendong's psychology is not as honest as he appears on the outside.For Master Ye, who is a pure liar, Tang Zhendong is indeed a man of true talent and learning. Tang Zhendong is the direct descendant of the Guigu lineage.

Speaking of Guigu, we have to mention Guiguzi, the founder of Guigumen, and his several beloved disciples Zhang Yi, Su Qin, Sun Bin, Pang Juan, Mao Sui, Xu Fu and others.Su Qin and Zhang Yi were famous strategists during the Warring States Period, while Sun Bin and Pang Juan were outstanding military strategists. I will not mention the idiom about Mao Sui recommending himself, but I will tell the story of Mao Sui.And Xu Fu is even more amazing. With one mouth, he can make dead people talk about life, and living people can talk about death again, making people live and die.

Tang Zhendong is the descendant of Xu Fu's lineage. However, due to the changes of the times, Xu Fu's lineage is gradually declining. But how can the descendants of Guigu be taken lightly?If Xu Fu was just an ordinary alchemist, how could he fool the talented Qin Shi Huang around?Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Zong and Song Zu, Qin Shihuang ranked first, and his martial arts and martial arts were unparalleled in the world.Whether he was a hostage in Zhao State or returned to Qin State to take power, destroy the six kingdoms and unify all directions.The situation that Qin Shihuang faced was more difficult than any other monarch, but the achievements he accomplished impressed all the monarchs.

How could such an invincible commander, a famous monarch, and a powerful ruler be just an idle person?And Xu Fu deceived Qin Shihuang again and again, fooling him around. How could Xu Fu be as simple as a simple magic stick?Xu Fu was Gui Guzi's most proud disciple in his later years. Gui Guzi passed on everything he learned to Xu Fu.

Tang Zhendong often watched Lao Ye tell people's fortunes when he had nothing to do. Lao Ye told people's fortunes with nothing more than two points: one is to observe words and colors, and the other is to be specious.

Observing words and expressions is Lao Ye's specialty. He talks nonsense to people, making them listen to vaguely understood words while reading people's faces.For example, just now an aunt was passing by in a hurry, and Lao Ye stopped her, "Sister, even if you are worried, you have to walk slowly and watch the road!" The aunt walked very fast, but after hearing Lao Ye's words, she paused and turned to look at Lao Ye's fortune-telling stall, "Do you know that I am worried?"

At that time, Tang Zhendong also took a peek at the side. You were not anxious in your heart. Your anxiety was written on your face. Anyone can see it.

But Master Ye did not answer the old lady's words, he just sighed, "Hey!" Old Ye's sigh made Tang Zhendong worried. Could it be that Old Ye also saw that the old lady's wife was not going to die soon?He is a direct descendant of the Guigu Sect, and what he has learned is earth-shaking, but he lacks practice.Lao Ye, a deceitful man, could actually tell that this old lady's wife would be dead soon just by looking at her face?

But what Lao Ye said next made Tang Zhendong immediately understand that Lao Ye was deceiving again.

"Sister, come and sit." Lao Ye touched the small bench opposite him and asked the old aunt to sit down.

The old aunt was extremely anxious, but Lao Ye took his time and said, "Sister, is your family seriously ill?"

The reason why Lao Ye didn't say that Auntie's family was seriously ill at the beginning was because he hadn't figured it out yet.You should know that there are many reasons for being anxious: family members are sick, losing children in old age, losing money, children being unfilial, etc.

But everything has its own priorities. The grief of losing a child in old age must be a hundred times heavier than it is now. It can almost completely defeat a person.And if you lose money, it's not a big deal and it won't make the old lady lose her mind.If the child is unfilial, the expression will be sad and angry.

Lao Ye is excluding one item and thinking one item after another.Either that or why he speaks so unhurriedly, it's because his brain is running at high speed.

"Did you see it?" The old lady spoke very quickly and seemed very anxious.

Tang Zhendong almost couldn't help but kick Lao Ye twice. Nonsense, if it was easy to cure, would he still be so gloomy?

"Master, can you please give me some advice?" The old lady said "Master". The corners of Lao Ye's mouth curved in an unnoticed arc and called "Master", which meant taking the bait.

People nowadays have a very thick wall in their hearts towards so-called masters, because there are too many scammers now, and no one wants to be deceived.But the actual situation in this society is: there are too many liars and not enough fools.

The old aunt who took the bait, under the guidance of Lao Ye step by step, slowly figured out the situation of the patient in the old aunt's family. Even during the whole process, Lao Ye did not dare to tell who was sick in the old aunt's family because he was not sure. If he made a mistake, even if the previous reasoning was correct, the person would turn around and leave.

But Lao Ye does have this ability. Even if he doesn't say it clearly, this old lady just believes him.In the end, the old aunt spent 3,000 yuan to buy what Lao Ye called a miracle medicine that could cure all diseases, and left happily.

If it were Tang Zhendong, he wouldn't take this kind of business at all, because he could clearly see that the troubled couple's palace in the corner of the old aunt's eyes was the inevitable outcome of being widowed.This is the way of heaven and cannot be stopped by human power.

"Do you want to do it with me?" Lao Ye excitedly shook the three thousand yuan he had just received and said to Tang Zhendong with a wink.