Qi Guowen was only five or six years old at the time, and these memories had been completely sealed away in dust, irretrievable from his consciousness.
Had Jiangli not mentioned them, he wouldn’t have recalled them at all.
So it turned out that everything had been predetermined back then.
No wonder, he and his wife were perfectly healthy, without any issues, yet it wasn’t until their thirties and forties that they had a daughter.
Qi Guowen had originally thought it was due to his focus on earning money in his earlier years.
Now, it seemed there really was predestination.
Indeed, you can’t have it both ways.
But it didn’t matter anymore.
These days, Qi Guowen had a more open mindset. In this society, it didn’t matter whether you had a son or not; daughters were also the same.
Upon this thought, Qi Guowen squeezed his daughter’s hand beside him.
He then looked towards Jiangli and said, "Thank you for your guidance, Abbot."
"It’s nothing. I admire your grandfather, though. It seems he was quite skilled after all," Jiangli remarked after having seen too many unskilled fraudsters since his return. But from what he could see now, Qi Guowen’s grandfather had real talent.
Qi Guowen felt a pang of emotion.
Unable to help himself, Qi Guowei interjected, rubbing his hands and pushing up his glasses with an apologetic smile, "Abbot, could you, perhaps, give my sister Chang Hong a detailed reading?"
Qi Guowei hastily added, "We, we can pay you!"
Gu Min chimed in, "Right, right, right, we can pay, any amount is fine! As long as the Abbot is willing to give Chang Hong some advice, we’re willing to go to all lengths."
Jiangli scoffed, not even glancing at Qi Changhong, whose face was flushed, and said, "I won’t do it."
Gu Min and Qi Guowei immediately became anxious.
"Abbot, I know it was all Chang Hong’s fault earlier, it was our family’s problem, and my failure to educate her properly, but could you please be magnanimous and help us out?" Gu Min pleaded with joined hands, bowing repeatedly as if she were about to kneel before Jiangli.
The incident with the coffin today, and the words Jiangli had just spoken, had convinced them all the more that Jiangli wasn’t a reputation-seeking charlatan.
That meant Jiangli’s earlier words to Chang Hong were all the more terrifying.
As parents, how could they stand by and watch their son face a potential prison disaster?
Jiangli said coldly, "I’ve already said I won’t do it. And I’ve already given some advice. Whether he can avoid it depends on his own destiny."
Gu Min wanted to say something else.
Qi Changhong, unable to contain his anger, grabbed Gu Min, "Mom, why waste words on her! I don’t believe she’s any kind of master! She’s just trying to make things difficult for me! It’s useless no matter how much you plead with her."
Jiangli snorted derisively, "Didn’t I warn you earlier? If I wanted to make things difficult for you, or if I wanted to see you ruin your future, I wouldn’t have wasted my breath on you. If you have no brain, better not to speak."
Qi Changhong hadn’t responded.
Jiangli then looked at Gu Min, "You as parents, too, didn’t think things through when having children. If you’re going to have children, have children. Why, at the time of birth, did you throw the child away and raise the placenta instead?"
The family of three had three different expressions.
Jiangli didn’t bother to look at their changing expressions and turned to Xia Xin, saying impatiently, "Is it done yet?"
Xia Xin, who had just walked back with golden dust on his hands, hurriedly replied, "All done, ancestor."
Jiangli nodded, then took out four Purification Talismans and handed them to Xia Xin, "Take these, stick them on the four corners of the coffin."
Understanding, Xia Xin immediately went to do it.
Jiangli didn’t idle either. He was about to set up a Purification Array to assist when his phone suddenly rang.