Urban Soldier Young Master

Chapter 1041 - 1040: Copper Coin Divination

In fact, after Chu Ge woke up from that seven-day and seven-night coma, he began to have this doubt.Because since that time, Chu Ge clearly felt that there were significant changes happening to him, not just physically but mentally as well. It was a transformation from the inside out.

His ears were sharper, his eyes clearer, every sense became more acute, and his body's recovery ability greatly improved. Perhaps this was a good thing, but it also made Chu Ge feel less and less like a normal person.

Besides, there were even more worrying changes in him, such as his emotions becoming harder to control, especially when negative emotions arose, there was always an indescribable restlessness inside him.

Such changes could already be called bizarre, and Chu Ge can still vividly recall every detail of that dream, which is even more eerie. Yet, these strange things didn't stop there but grew more intense.

This naturally made Chu Ge start to wonder, is he still the same person as before?

As Chu Ge finished speaking, this time, Su Luo could be sure he did not hear wrong.

Seeing Chu Ge's serious and sincere expression, Su Luo smiled reassuringly, "Alright, I understand. Let me take a look for you. Bring over a chair and sit in front of me."

"As the saying goes, 'live long and see much.' Su Luo had lived to ninety and had studied the I Ching for decades. Moreover, he had practiced a Spiritual Technique, regarded by ordinary people as pure fantasy. No matter how strange or peculiar the matters were, nothing seemed unacceptable to him anymore.

Chu Ge brought over a plastic stool and sat directly across from Su Luo, looking outwardly calm while meeting his gaze. Inside, however, he felt uneasy, and his muscles were slightly tense.

Chu Ge wanted this old man to see something, yet feared Su Luo might indeed find something. He even worried a bit that Su Luo might hypnotize him. In short, the feelings were indescribably complex.

Su Luo looked at Chu Ge for a few seconds, then raised his hand and patted Chu Ge's shoulder, "Don't be nervous, relax, take a deep breath."

To be honest, the moment Su Luo raised his hand to lower it, Chu Ge felt an impulse to grab that hand and give Su Luo an over-the-shoulder throw. Fortunately, he managed to suppress this impulse, forcing a smile and nodding.

Chu Ge took a few deep breaths, finally making his body a bit less tense, but he still couldn't completely calm his mind. It felt as if he was a person suspecting himself of having a serious illness, undergoing tests at a hospital and facing the doctor.

Chu Ge and Su Luo's eyes met, and he felt time passing indescribably slowly, each second was so long. As he noticed Su Luo's expression becoming increasingly serious, and those eyes seemed to grow deeper, time felt like it passed even more sluggishly.

Chu Ge didn't know how much time had passed when Su Luo slightly furrowed his brow and said in a deep voice, "Young man, tell me your birthday."

Chu Ge shook his head, "I don't know, I'm an orphan. According to our director, when he found me at the orphanage gate, there was only a name, Chu Ge, on my swaddling clothes."

Chu Ge's mood was quite heavy now. He knew that when Su Luo read Qin Ruoying's fortune, he never asked anything nor took this much time.

"No birthday... Alright, wait a moment."

Su Luo rubbed his temples, left the chair, went to a cabinet, opened a drawer, and took out a bamboo tube and three ancient copper coins.

"Put these three copper coins into the bamboo tube and shake until all three coins fall out. Do this six times."

Chu Ge nodded, took the coins and the tube, and shook as Su Luo instructed.

For this method of divination using coins, Chu Ge was somewhat familiar. It's relatively well-known, though he knew little about the specific calculations and interpretations involved in it.

With a few dings, Chu Ge quickly shook out the three coins for the first time. Su Luo watched them without blinking and jotted something down on a piece of paper. Once he finished writing, he motioned for Chu Ge to continue.

Chu Ge continued to do as instructed, and the notes on the paper beside Su Luo grew as well.

When Chu Ge completed all six coin tosses, Su Luo didn't speak immediately. Instead, he focused on the paper where words like "Lesser Yin" and "Lesser Yang" were scribbled, occasionally glancing at Chu Ge, seemingly calculating something.

However, the more Su Luo calculated, the heavier his expression became. The paper beside him was filled with densely written notes, and as he calculated back and forth, fine sweat appeared on his forehead, and his eyebrows tightly knitted.

The sensation was as if he were a student in a college entrance exam room, determined to get into college, painstakingly working through a particularly difficult math problem.

As for Chu Ge, sweat also appeared on his forehead, feeling utterly unsettled. His feeling was like a patient awaiting a doctor's diagnosis, a process that could truly be called torturous.

From the moment he met Su Luo till now, he had formed a very good impression of the old man. He didn't think Su Luo was playing tricks; it seemed even to Su Luo, this issue posed quite a challenge.

As the saying goes, ignorance is fearless, and those without desires have no wants. When Chu Ge first returned to Lidu, he had nothing, and nothing bizarre like what's happening now had ever occurred around him. He could afford not to care about anything and be indifferent to everything. But the situation now is vastly different. The fact that he now has a family means he has to be responsible not only for himself but also for the woman he loves.

Therefore, he couldn't help but be nervous.

Su Luo kept writing and drawing continuously, and his glances toward Chu Ge grew more frequent, his brows furrowed more tightly, and the duration of each stare became longer.

Without Su Luo speaking, Chu Ge did not speak rashly either; instead, he quietly waited, waited.

Even though Chu Ge's heart was now filled with more and more doubts, he found the previously pleasant air in the room becoming almost tangible, inhaling it made his heart feel heavier and heavier.

In Su Luo's living room, Qin Ruoying glanced once again toward the tightly closed door, but unfortunately, like before, the door remained firmly shut with no sign of opening.

"Sis, why haven't my brother-in-law and Mr. Su come out yet?"

Qin Ruoying was not so much asking Qin Ruojing as she was talking to herself, during this waiting period, she'd asked this question more than once.

Qin Ruojing patted her sister's hand, "Your brother-in-law isn't out yet means they're not done talking, be patient and wait."

"Sis, there's been no sound for half a day inside. Do you think something might have happened to them?"

"Don't think nonsense, everything is fine, what could possibly happen?"

Although Qin Ruojing said this, she was actually quite concerned too, but with Chu Ge not coming out, what else could she do? Chu Ge had specifically said earlier he wanted to chat alone with Su Luo, she couldn't very well go over and knock, could she?

"No, I have to go listen," Qin Ruoying whispered, and ultimately stood up from the sofa.

"Listen to what? Just sit here and wait properly. It wouldn't be good if your brother-in-law and Mr. Su found out."

Qin Ruojing reached out wanting to grab her sister, but missed the movement, falling short.

"Don't worry, I'll sneakily listen for a moment and come back right away." Qin Ruoying turned back with a smile, "I'll make sure they don't notice."

Though a bit helpless, Qin Ruojing merely furrowed her elegant brows slightly and said nothing more, letting Qin Ruoying go.

Watching her sister's sneaky silhouette, her stealthy movements, Qin Ruojing couldn't help but recall Qin Ruoying's repeated attempts at eavesdropping on her and Chu Ge before, seemingly never succeeding without being caught by Chu Ge. This time would likely be no different, would it?

To avoid making any footstep sounds, Qin Ruoying tiptoed with a shoe in each hand, sneaking to the side of the door, stopping against the wall to listen carefully, but unfortunately, even with just a door between her and the two inside, she couldn't hear any sound.

What are these two up to? Is Mr. Su still reading my brother-in-law's fortune?

Qin Ruoying wondered in her heart, stepping a bit closer to the door.

At that moment, footsteps could be heard suddenly from the hallway, growing from vague to clear, startling Qin Ruoying, who was already feeling guilty; she nearly dropped the shoes in her hands, her raised right foot suspended in the air for several seconds, too scared to land on the ground.

After a few seconds of tense pause, Qin Ruoying gradually realized she was overreacting. What did the hallway footsteps have to do with her? The building had so many residents, footsteps in the hallway were quite normal, weren't they? She was being overly jumpy, wasn't she?

Secretly blaming herself for a moment, Qin Ruoying lowered her right foot to the ground and subtly pressed her ear against the tightly closed door.

Just two more seconds passed when suddenly a sound broke the silence of the air.

"Pfft!"

This sound came from within Su Luo's bedroom.

Almost simultaneously, another sound came as well, coming from the entrance: the sound of a key being inserted into the lock, then quickly turning and opening the door.

Upon hearing these two sounds successively, Qin Ruoying shivered slightly and was bewildered, not knowing whether to run back or to open the door and take a look.

What was that "pfft" sound just now? And who is the person at the door about to come in?