Chapter 49 Choice
Seeing Shen Qiumeng catch up, Liu Haoyu was a little surprised.
Little Qin Liu showed a doubtful gaze.
“No need to look at me like that,” Shen Qiumeng said, waving her hand at Qin Liu’s stare, “I’m not here to ask you for money.”
Hearing her say that, Little Qin Liu put down her doubts.
After all, she really had no money on her.
Liu Haoyu then said to Shen Qiumeng.
“Extend your hand, let me see.”
“Okay.”
Since Shen Qiumeng said she was here to have her fortune told, she placed her hand in front of Liu Haoyu.
The latter gazed at her palmistry.
He had initially thought this was just a normal fortune-telling, but Liu Haoyu’s expression became a bit solemn.
This young girl… had an evil aura about her.
This meant that her identity was definitely not as simple as a small cook.
“Is there anything wrong with my palmistry?”
“It’s not a problem, your palm lines are clear and your life line is long, you are a person with deep blessings.”
Liu Haoyu pointed his finger at the crossed lines on her palm, his voice a little low.
“But here… you will encounter a choice that will affect your life in the near future.”
Shen Qiumeng was slightly stunned. She had intended to take it as a joke, but from Liu Haoyu’s serious expression, it was not hard to tell.
Was he telling the truth?
Recalling her father’s repeated dissuasion before she left, Shen Qiumeng’s breath hitched slightly.
The wind by the roadside blew leaves past her tense body.
“What… what kind of choice?”
Shen Qiumeng subconsciously asked, not noticing that a talisman had been placed on her wrist.
Under the sunlight, the talisman emitted a faint yellow glow.
“This choice concerns your life… no.”
Liu Haoyu’s voice suddenly stopped.
He noticed that the end of her palm line had suddenly forked, as if it had been cut off by something.
This break had just happened, and it was very slight, barely visible if one didn’t look closely.
Worse still, her life line had been unknowingly wrapped by a faint black aura.
This meant she had already made that fated choice…
Liu Haoyu’s fingernail lightly brushed over the black aura, making Shen Qiumeng’s hand tremble violently.
It was as if she had been pricked by something.
“Is there any problem, Shen Qiumeng?”
Facing Liu Haoyu’s solemn appearance, Shen Qiumeng, who had only intended to remind him to be safe, suddenly became flustered.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu slowly spoke.
“When you were coming over just now, did someone say something to you? Or, to put it bluntly, did someone tell you not to come?”
Shen Qiumeng’s pupils shrank, and her fingers subconsciously curled up.
When she left the house, her father had indeed told her many things, and repeatedly warned her not to interfere with the man in front of her.
But at the time, she couldn’t bear to see Little Qin Liu, who was by his side, in danger, so she wanted to chase after them to remind him…
However, that was not the issue. When she was talking to her father, she clearly saw Liu Haoyu walking far away. That person couldn’t possibly know what she had said to her father.
“How did you know?”
Liu Haoyu did not reply, but continued to look at her palmistry.
“What did he say?”
Facing Liu Haoyu’s question, Shen Qiumeng began to talk about the real reason for her visit.
“Because my father said that your forehead was dark, and you were likely to encounter extremely dangerous things, so… I wanted to remind you…”
As she said this, Shen Qiumeng seemed to remember something and lowered her voice.
“By the way, please don’t spread this word.”
Although it was the 1980s, superstitions and such still existed.
Therefore, her father, a Daoist priest, had to change professions and do other work to disguise himself.
Even Shen Qiumeng was a little confused as to how Liu Haoyu dared to set up a fortune-telling stall.
Wasn’t he afraid of being arrested?
However, Liu Haoyu raised his head at this moment, stared into her eyes, and said word by word.
“Listen, for your good intentions,”
“I give you one piece of advice,”
“Please go back immediately, and do not linger here,”
“If you have a dream in the middle of the night, someone calling your name from behind,”
“No matter what you hear, no matter who is calling you,”
“Never look back.”
Hearing this, Shen Qiumeng froze, an unspeakable unease washing over her.
“Why?”
She subconsciously wanted to find out, but Liu Haoyu did not explain. He only took a talisman from his sleeve and placed it in her palm.
“Take this with you. Before you sleep tonight, soak it in water and drink the talismanic water before you can fall asleep.”
Liu Haoyu did not explicitly state what would happen if she didn’t, but Shen Qiumeng dared not gamble with it.
She knew clearly that the man who was about to turn and leave, like her father, was a true Daoist priest, not some fraudulent charlatan.
Looking at the talisman in her hand, her eyes were a little complicated.
Perhaps she shouldn’t have come.
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Seeing that no one was around, Liu Haoyu took out the black book from his backpack and wrote in it.
“Has Gu Qianyang discovered our whereabouts?”
He had considered several possibilities for his darkened forehead.
The most likely one was Gu Qianyang, that old bastard.
But it was not impossible for other things to come looking for him.
Holding the mirror and looking at his darkened forehead, it made Liu Haoyu think of Qin Liu and the Red Gate.
When he had crashed into the Red Gate, his forehead had not been this dark…
In response to Liu Haoyu’s question, the black book quickly provided an answer.
“Although Qin Liu’s departure was beyond Gu Qianyang’s expectations, for him, it was still within controllable limits.”
“This is the other party’s territory, and it’s not difficult for him to find you.”
“So if you want to take Qin Liu away, you have to go to a much, much farther place.”
“But at this moment, it’s basically impossible.”
“He will find you soon, so you need to be fully prepared as quickly as possible.”
Although Qin Liu’s fate was hazy, it was not difficult for the black book to see Liu Haoyu’s fate clearly.
And as Shen Qiumeng’s father had said, he seemed to have attracted a very terrifying fate of bloodshed.
Furthermore, ever since he brought Little Qin Liu away, the blackness on his forehead had become even more gloomy, and now it was like a patch of ink spreading.
Listening to the black book, Liu Haoyu began to ponder.
“In other words, the other party doesn’t know where I am currently?”
“Yes, he doesn’t know where you are now, but he already knows that Qin Liu has left.”
“I see…”
Liu Haoyu’s face showed deep thought. No wonder Shen Qiumeng’s palmistry appeared so strange.
If it were through someone else to find him, it would indeed be very easy.
After all, ever since he entered the town, not to mention anything else, the town mayor would definitely know his whereabouts.
