Teacher of the World (5)

Zhao Yueniang failed to follow Ji Changze for such a short time, and he made Zhao Ernie fainted from anger.

Zhao Yueniang was still a little confused when she saw someone struggling to lift the fat second wife to the second room.

Ji Changze stood aside as if it had nothing to do with him, watching Ernie Zhao being carried away, and sighed: "Children are all debts, and Ernie doesn't seem to have a weak mental capacity." , he actually fainted from anxiety."

Zhao Yueniang: "...She fainted in anxiety?"

"No, it's for your cousin." Ji Changze replied naturally: "I can understand it. After all, she is her biological daughter. She has developed a habit of stealing. Naturally, she is anxious as a mother."

After finishing speaking, he said to Zhao Yueniang with emotion: "If we have children in the future, we must educate them well."

Zhao Yueniang blushed.

Before she could answer, someone from the side suddenly interrupted: "I'm afraid the scholar doesn't know yet. Yueniang asked the fortune teller to tell her that she was destined to be childless."

This man had bad intentions at first glance, but Zhao Yueniang ignored him. Her face turned pale and she looked at Ji Changze nervously, for fear that he would dislike her.

As a result, Ji Changze didn't blink an eyelid: "Fortune teller? But the one who lives nearby has a good reputation for accurate fortune telling accumulated over the years? Or does he tell the fortunes of other people in the village accurately?"

The person who answered the conversation looked embarrassed: "Well, that's not true. He was just a passerby. He left after the calculation."

"Since he has never predicted anyone before, uncle, do you still believe him?"

This man could also see that Ji Changze didn't believe it, and his expression became more and more embarrassing.

He didn't dare to offend the scholar, so he had to bite the bullet and explain: "The fortune teller didn't take the money..."

"If all the fortune tellers in the world are efficacious if they don't charge money, then if I take a banner to the streets and don't charge for money, wouldn't I be an efficacious fortune teller?" Ji Changze looked at this man with pity in his eyes. , shook his head with regret.

He didn't say it directly, but his words, demeanor and even his eyes conveyed the meaning: "How can a person who looks quite normal be a fool?"

"Skills are specialized. Only doctors can tell you accurately about pregnancy and childbirth. Why don't you trust doctors and trust a fortune teller who doesn't even know how to diagnose illnesses?"

The man was stunned.

That's right, the fortune teller doesn't know how to treat doctors, and he didn't have much reputation before. Why did they believe his words?

Ji Changze: "Uncle, it's not your fault. There are few scholars in the north and they rarely go out to socialize. It's normal if you don't know this. In my hometown, if there is such a fortune teller, people will not go to see a doctor. We should also leave people behind to see if the others are correct."

The man nodded awkwardly: "Yes, that's what the scholar said."

Seeing that he was still a little unconvinced, Ji Changze added, "My uncle just said that the fortune teller is not good at his studies."

Uncle: "...?? Did I say that?"

Ji Changze: "Didn't you just say that the fortune teller doesn't want money? If his prediction is accurate, how come he doesn't want money? It's precisely because he knows that his prediction is inaccurate that he doesn't dare to ask for the money. Otherwise, if he pays the money, he will have the final say. If he gives an inaccurate answer, isn’t he afraid that people will chase him?”

The village has been gossiping about the fact that the fortune teller gave Zhao Yueniang a fortune for free and found out that she was destined to be childless.

But really no one has ever thought about it from the perspective of “don’t charge money because the calculation is inaccurate”.

At first glance, it seems a bit confusing.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems to make sense.

Seeing that this man was deceived, no, he gradually saw the truth. Ji Changze continued: "Uncle, you are a carpenter in the village. This is just like you doing carpentry work. If you are skilled in craftsmanship, you can create beautiful Are you willing to take the tables and chairs away for free?”

The uncle shook his head.

"Then if you are not good at learning skills and want to make tables and chairs, but you only end up with a bit of scrap wood. These things cannot be sold, and they are of no use and take up space, then you will throw it away casually or maybe Give it away for free, or sell it for money?”

The uncle answered very quickly: "How can you sell this?"

"That's exactly it."

Ji Changze nodded with satisfaction and concluded: "It is precisely because of poor academic skills that we don't charge money. If the calculation is really accurate, then we must charge money."

The uncle who was still hesitating just now felt that this was the case.

is not that right?

If someone was really capable, who would be so kind as to give things for free or help tell fortunes.

You can obviously make money, so why not use your skills to make money?

Isn't it because I'm not good at learning and know that I can't calculate accurately, so I don't charge money?

There is nothing wrong with this logic.

Ji Changze added: "I have been around our village these days. Only Mr. Hu and his son can read in the village. Let me ask you, has anyone in Mr. Hu's family ever mentioned that Yueniang was destined to be childless? Did you say they believed it?”

He shook his head.

Ji Changze: "It is precisely because there are people in Hu's family who study and are familiar with these things and know that this fortune teller is not good at academics, so they never mention this matter. It is also you who work hard every day and have no time to expand your knowledge. Let others be deceived.”

“So that’s it!!”

The carpenter clapped his hands, and was angry that he actually believed in a fortune teller who was not well-trained.

"No wonder he not only didn't charge money, but also ran away very quickly after the calculation. It turned out that he knew that his calculation was not accurate and was afraid that we would cause trouble!!! This guy didn't even explain clearly that his calculation was not accurate!!"

Seeing that he agreed with what he said, Ji Changze turned around and said to Zhao Yueniang: "There are not many people who can read in the village. It's really hard for you to bear these rumors in the past few years."

Zhao Yueniang was completely stunned.

She knew in her heart that the fortune teller who told her fortune was from the second house, but she couldn't refute it.

She didn't get married or pregnant, so she couldn't say that he was a liar.

After all, the fortune teller didn't charge money.

Scammers are all scammers. Who would tell your fortune for free without charging money?

So this fortune teller must be real!

As a result, Zhao Yueniang had been feeling aggrieved for so long that she thought that she could only explain this matter when she got married and pregnant. But when it came to Ji Changze, he said that not charging money meant that he was not skilled enough.

The key point is that it sounded very reasonable, and people could not help but nod in agreement.

Not only was Zhao Yueniang a little confused but strangely convinced, but the villagers nearby also listened to it and went from believing firmly at the beginning to thinking about it and nodding at the end.

Yes, if they were in their place, how could they tell fortunes for free if they had the ability.

And they came to their small village. If they were good at fortune-telling, they would definitely go to the big city and tell fortunes for those dignitaries!

They had only so much vision, so naturally they could not imagine that there would be real masters in the world who were not interested in money. They only knew that they had to make money. Since they could make money by talking, they would never talk for free.

Of course, Ji Changze knew this, but the fortune teller was really incompetent, so he let the villagers think so.

Zhao Erbo was just enjoying the cool air at home, but his wife went out upright and was carried back horizontally. He was reluctant to find a doctor to pay for the treatment, so he simply took Zhao Erbo's wife to sleep in the house.

Zhao Erbo's wife fainted and fainted until the next day.

When she woke up, she found that she was not covered with a quilt. She was starving and no one at home left her food. She got up weakly and made some food for herself. As a result, as soon as she went out, she found that the villagers were actually condemning the fortune teller who had told Zhao Yueniang's fortune.

Mainly condemning him for not learning well and telling people's fortune blindly, which made them dare not let the men in the family marry Zhao Yueniang.

If Zhao Yueniang had married someone from the village, wouldn't they have had a share in Ji Changze, the rich son-in-law?

Zhao Erbo's mother, who had paid a lot of money to bribe the fortune teller to get this result: "..."

After listening to the villagers' logical genius answer of "It's because they don't learn the skills well that they don't charge money", she almost fainted again.

"What is this? ! ! Do you know the hermit master? He is a real hermit master, not interested in fame and fortune, and he only looks at whether there is a predestined relationship, not whether there is money or not."

After all, she has been to the town several times, so she can still pull out these words.

In the end, she was dragged out, but the villagers couldn't understand it at all; "How could someone not love money? He only looks at whether there is a predestined relationship, not whether he is rich or not. If he is really capable, he must be charging money to tell fortunes everywhere. Who would tell fortunes for free, and come to a small place like ours? People with ability must go to places like the capital."

"No, why don't you understand? He is a real master. Real masters go to remote places."

"Come on, it's so hard to go to remote places. There are many wild animals and nothing fun. Which master is so idle? He is a person who has not learned well. You are uneducated. Look at the old Hu family. No one in the family has ever said that they believe in the fortune teller. Why? Because they have knowledge, vision, knowledge, and can read."

Zhao Erbo's mother didn't understand.

Why, how can believing in the fortune teller be related to being uneducated.

And the old Hu family never talked about this matter. Isn't it because they like Zhao Yue Niang very much? How could she have the nerve to say that Zhao Yueniang was predicted to be childless?

She had worked so hard to find a fortune teller and spent a lot of money to have him help her tell Zhao Yueniang's fortune, but she fainted for a whole day and the whole world changed.

She had originally hoped that Ji Changze would know about this and give up marrying Zhao Yueniang, but how, how could it change all of a sudden?

Zhao Erbo Niang didn't believe in evil.

She hurried to Hu Lao's house, wanting to get an answer from him that "what knowledge can tell is completely nonsense".

When she went there, everyone in the yard was there.

Ji Changze was bragging: "Everyone, the more knowledgeable a person is, the less likely he is to be deceived. This is the case with Hu Lao. Although he is old, his mind is more flexible and knowledgeable than some young people. I can't compare with this."

Suddenly being looked at by so many people with envy and admiration, Hu Lao almost drifted no matter how steady he was.

He touched his long beard, and nodded with pride in his eyes: "That's right, reading is wise. When the fortune teller came, I could see that he had no ability, and I once told the villagers , but no one believed it, so I had no choice but to give up.”

In fact, he didn't even bother to laugh at a little girl with the villagers.

In addition, she sympathized with Zhao Yueniang's family situation, and his wife had the same views as him, so naturally her children and grandchildren did not dare to say anything.

But, even though he knew the truth in his heart, Ji Changze said that the more knowledgeable a person is, the more he can see the truth of a matter, and he praised him so much.

How could he admit that he actually believed it in the first place?

Isn't that a slap in the face and saying that you are uneducated?

So, he said quite confidently, "Yes, Ji Changze is right, only uneducated people believe that fortune teller."

Ji Changze achieved his goal and stood aside slowly, thinking that his literacy class should go smoothly.

The villagers were all angry that "I was fooled" and "I still believed in him so much", and they talked about how they should keep their eyes open next time they encounter this kind of thing, and so on.

In just one night, it was reported as false news that Zhao Yueniang was pregnant and had no children.

And it also comes with a "Whoever believes it is stupid".

At the same time, everyone in the village began to pay attention to their own cultural level.

"Master Xiucai is right, but isn't it because we don't study that we can be deceived so easily about many things?"

"If you don't know how to read, you will really suffer a big disadvantage. When I was working in the town, I heard people say that some people can't read and were tricked into signing a contract of sale when they were looking for work."

"Didn't Master Xiucai also say that? Even if you don't know how to read, your cultural level is still very different."

Everyone was discussing and discussing, but they didn't know who saw Ernie Zhao.

"Hey, you're here too. You believed in the fortune teller the most back then, right? I must have remembered correctly. You kept saying this every day, so I couldn't believe it!"

"Then it seems that she is the most uneducated one."

Not only did she hire a fortune teller in vain, but she was also labeled as the most uneducated person in the village. Mrs. Zhao said: "..."

She felt that she needed to lie down for another day.

Either she is crazy, or the world is crazy.