An Rugu initiated the video call, and a man in his twenties appeared in front of everyone in the livestream channel.
He had short hair, square-rimmed glasses, and loose clothes and trousers. Behind him were the green mountains and waters of the countryside, as if he was not in a city.
<Step Into Science> pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose and said politely, “Hello, host.”
He spoke in a clear and rounded tone, speaking at a slow pace, with a rigorous aura to his face.
[Welcome the third unlucky guy!]
[Welcome the third wronged person!]
[Say what makes you unhappy and make us happy.]
An Rugu has been livestreaming for more than three hours now. She took a sip of tea, moistened her throat, and said, “Hello, please pay the divination fee, a high-powered gun salute.”
“I will pay now.”
<Step Into Science> didn’t seem to watch the livestream very much. His operation was very slow, and it took him a long time to buy the gift.
After receiving the divination fee, An Rugu closed her eyes and made calculations for this predestined person. “The year of the injured official, regardless of whether you dislike it or not, your ancestors are growing distant. You were born in the countryside, and your family was ordinary when you were young. Your father is still alive and you have a younger sister. Is this right?”
<Step Into Science>’s eyes grew very wide, and they were filled with deep surprise. He has been having bad luck recently. When he was talking to a friend about it, his friend mentioned this fortune teller.
Seeing that his friend was so superstitious, he couldn’t help but share a lot of scientific points with him, proving that fate did not exist.
But his friend retorted, “Well, aren’t you having bad luck these days?”
<Step Into Science> thought for a while and finally clicked onto this livestream channel.
Originally, he didn’t believe that divination could possibly be accurate. He never expected that the other person would be able to tell him about his family circumstances.
He considered himself as an ordinary person and the host was unlikely to have known about him. Was fortune telling true then?
He was troubled in his heart and nodded, “I was born in a northern village. My family was very poor when I was a child. I was a left-behind child1 for a long time, but I’m doing okay now.”
Hearing this, An Rugu began talking again, “Your wounded official has a yin pattern. People with this kind of fate are generally experts and scholars. Your body is strong; it likes metal and water, and avoids wood and fire. Your luck has not been going well for the first four years. After the child’s luck, the water transport will be good, and your career will be very smooth, that is, the career has been good since 2020, right?”
Step Into Science was completely stunned, his worldview shaken. After a long time, he calmed down and said, “I am a physics researcher. Things were really not very good 4 years ago, and my experiments frequently went wrong. But there was a breakthrough in my experiments in 2020. “
Everything An Rugu said clicked with his circumstances, which surprised him beyond measure.
“Then what do you want to ask me?”
An Rugu glanced across his body, and in her sight, a trace of yao qi2 as thin as smoke lingered on his body, surrounding his body and entangling his limbs.
After pondering for a moment, she had the answer.
Sure enough, <Step Into Science> took a deep breath and said, “I have been very unlucky recently. I don’t know how to deal with it. My car would be punctured by a nail, and I would walk into a pit. It’s been really weird.”
All kinds of bad luck had piled up one on top of the other, which gradually changed his mindset of not believing in luck.
Somewhere… it seemed like there was an invisible force that made him unlucky.
“Have you encountered any strange people recently? Especially after you returned to your hometown.”
<Step Into Science> pondered for a long time. He suddenly remembered something, “If you put it this way… I didn’t do much in my hometown except drink wedding wine, but there was one incident that was quite special.
“A few days ago, my family and I came back to attend my cousin’s wedding banquet. Because it was a happy occasion, I drank more wine that day. On the way back, I encountered a child wearing a yellow costume.
“The child said to me, do you think I look like a human or not?”
[This kid is so cute.]
[Is the yellow costume a duck? The more I think about it, the funnier it becomes.]
<Step Into Science> saw these barrages and shook his head, “I drank too much and can’t remember clearly. But it wasn’t a yellow duck. I wonder if you have ever seen a big yellow dog out in the countryside?
“It looked like a very skinny, yellow dog costume.
“The child seemed to be wearing a small melon-skin hat; a furry, yellow dog costume; and a small jacket. He had round eyes and bowed to me, his long tail wagging behind him.”
[Hahahahahaha, kids are so interesting.]
[Maybe it’s because I’ve watched too many TV series, but I keep feeling like it’s not a child, but a monster.]
[They are definitely not monsters. We have people here who cosplay as the Monkey King and take pictures with others to make money. They wear similar costumes.]
<Step Into Science> gritted his teeth and recalled, “I thought at the time that he dressed up like this on purpose to amuse everyone and ask for red envelopes. After all, someone in the village was getting married that day, which was considered a big celebration. In the past, children often came out to ask for money, but they were not so grandly dressed up as this one.
“My cousin got married and I was very happy, so I stopped to chat with him for while.
“I asked the child who asked him to dress up like this. It was really interesting. He seemed confused and told me that he was born that way.
“I thought he was really into the play, so I smiled and asked him which family he was from.
“He said that he lived in the mountains seven or eight miles away from our village.”
Speaking of this, <Step Into Science> was filled with emotion, “This kid was quite funny. I touched my pocket and gave him a hundred yuan, but he didn’t take it, which made me a little confused.”
He didn’t understand, but he didn’t take it too seriously.
Thinking of this now, he asked curiously, “Host, why are you asking this? Is it that child that has caused my bad luck recently?”
After he said this, he laughed to himself, feeling that his idea was outrageous.
However, An Rugu’s eyes moved slightly, “That was not an ordinary child. That was a weasel who came to you to be acknowledged3.”
<Step Into Science>: “???”
Audience in the livestream channel: “???”
[So it wasn’t a child wearing a costume? It was a little weasel?]
[Help, why are weasels looking for people? Do they want to eat people? So scary!]
Seeing that everyone didn’t understand, An Rugu explained further, “The five spiritual animals in the north are also called the Five Immortals4. They are Whiskers, Yellow, White, Willow, and Gray. The Yellow is the Weasel. The weasel’s way of cultivation is quite special. After it cultivates enough, it would find someone and ask for a title.”
I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com
T/N: I missed posting this past week. I wasn’t sick this time; my laptop died on me 😭. I couldn’t buy a new laptop just yet so I brought the old one to the shop for repairs and only just got it the other day.
If you’ve been thinking about buying me ko-fi, now would be an EXCELLENT time to do it 🥰
A melon-skin cap
Chapter 52 — EASTER EGG (only for ko-fi supporters)
Chapter 56.1 — Weasel Asking for a Title
Chapter 56.2 — Weasel Asking for a Title
Chapter 56.3 — Weasel Asking for a Title
Chapter 56.4 — Weasel Asking for a Title
FOOTNOTE:
- This is a modern social phenomenon where the parents go to far off urban cities for better work opportunities, leaving their children to be raised by other elders of the family such as grandparents. ↩︎
- It’s usually yin qi which means ghosts or the dead. This is yao qi—energy from ‘strange beings’. ↩︎
- The word used by An Rugu can mean ‘to title’ and also ‘to seal’. From context, it likely means to give a stamp of approval. ↩︎
- Here’s a link to the Wudaxian or the Five Great Immortals. They are 5 zoomorphic deities associated with specific compass points, element, time of year, and area of guardianship—medicine, birth etc.. Some of the animals get rotated out depending on region and era but the Fox and Weasel are consistent. ↩︎
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