Si Tian had originally planned to ask for five hundred taels of silver, but after sizing up Jiang Yunsheng, he decided to make a big haul and named a price of one thousand taels instead!
Jiang Nuan's eyes widened when she heard that he wanted a thousand taels. A thousand taels for this lousy peace talisman that did absolutely nothing?
[Guagua! Quick, give me the dirt on him. I'm going to play fortune-teller today too!]
To stop him from continuing to swindle people with his fortune-telling, Jiang Nuan decided to teach him a lesson.
*[All right, host, let me tell you. His original name is Si Tian, and his family came from Jinling. His parents died in a famine when he was little, so a fortune-teller adopted him. He learned all sorts of tricks for reading people and swindling them.*
Later, his master died of old age, and he officially embarked on a life of deception. Perhaps because he knew he had no real skill, he moved somewhere new every so often and never dared marry or have children. Whenever he got a little silver, he squandered it on eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling. Once it was gone, he moved on and kept scamming.
But his luck is about to turn. Someone he swindled before happens to be passing through here. Seeing the crowd, the man comes over for a look, spots him, and gives him a beating.
*So the one truly facing a bloody calamity is actually him.]*
Guagua said this, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
After hearing Guagua's account, Jiang Nuan had already worked out what to say. She addressed Si Tian:
"Sir, as it happens, I have a master who taught me a little fortune-telling too. How about I tell your fortune?"
Si Tian laughed