Chapter 3. An Early Gift

"Aunt Jiang, please don't be polite. It will only take five minutes at most."

"How do you know my last name?"

"Of course it was divined. Not only do I know your last name is Jiang, but I also know your name is Jiang Hong. You are fifty-five years old this year, and you live in harmony with your spouse and have a son and a daughter." Jiang Hong was completely stunned when she heard this. Jin Jiu didn't wait for her to react and continued, "It's your birthday in two days, right?"

"Am I right?"

Jiang Hong calmed down and looked at Jin Jiu deeply. Although she was still skeptical, she nodded: "Yes, little girl, you are right."

Although Jiang Hong was very shocked just now, she is not an ordinary person. Due to the special status of her children, she is used to all kinds of scams in her daily life, so she was not fooled by Jinjiu.

She was obviously a little interested in Jin Jiu, and Jin Jiu saw this, so he struck while the iron was hot: "Aunt Jiang, I really just wanted to thank you for giving me two apples, so I thought of fortune-telling for you. I'm going to tell you something you may not like to hear, but I can see that you have bad luck recently, and you will soon encounter a disaster."

Normal people do not like to hear people say that they are unlucky, especially when they are told that they are going to have a disaster. Regardless of whether such a thing happens or not, it always sounds unlucky.

But Jiang Hong knew that Jinjiu was right. She had been having really bad luck recently. She was losing things all the time. The worst thing was that she almost cut her hand while cutting vegetables. She was almost killed by objects thrown from high altitude while walking. Even the fact that she almost fell just now was proof of her bad luck.

"Then I'll do your divination once." Although Jiang Hong still suspected that Jinjiu was a liar and this might be some novel scam, perhaps because everything that had just happened was too coincidental, or perhaps because Jinjiu's smile was a little bewitching, in short, she agreed.

"I won't bully you, little girl. I don't know whether you are in big trouble or not. If what you said is true, then auntie will still pay you when the time comes." These days, scammers are only after money. Since Jiang Hong thinks Jin Jiu is a scammer, it is natural that she mentioned money not unintentionally, but intentionally.

She thought that scammers always have flaws, especially since this girl looked young. Even if she was a scammer, she probably hadn't been one for long and might not be very good at acting. If she heard her mention money, she might be exposed.

"Let's do the divination first, and everything will depend on the result." Jin Jiu did not give a direct response to the question about money, which made Jiang Hong feel a little regretful, but also a little fortunate.

Although she didn't believe in these metaphysical things, she also didn't want the girl in front of her to be a liar, so she followed Jinjiu's words and stretched out her hand.

Seeing Jin Jiu taking a bead and placing it on her hand, Jiang Hong couldn't help but ask, "Little girl, what are your beads made of? They feel very comfortable to touch."

Isn’t it comfortable!
In this weather where an egg can be cooked even if it is cracked on the floor, the beads feel icy cool, just like touching ice cubes, but not the irritating coldness of ice cubes, but a soothing coolness that makes people feel comfortable all over.

If the timing wasn't wrong, Jiang Hong would have wanted to buy a pair of beads.

"Nothing special, just ordinary glass beads, ten for one dollar on the shopping app." Jinjiu replied with a smile.

She said this perfunctorily. Jiang Hong didn't believe it and thought she didn't want to talk about it, so she didn't continue asking.

In just two sentences, Jin Jiu had seen something, but she didn't say it directly. Instead, she asked, "I know you still don't believe me. How about this, just ask a question that can be verified, and I can tell you the answer first."

Jiang Hong thought for a moment and said, "Little girl, you know that my birthday is in four days. My son has already sent the gift and my husband has signed for it. The gift is at home right now. Please help me find out what the gift is."

Jiang Hong had a good idea. It was unreliable to calculate the past. If someone really set a scam against her, they would definitely investigate her past thoroughly.

But if she were to calculate things in the future, it wouldn't work either, because things in the future haven't happened yet and are uncertain, so she couldn't immediately judge whether they were right or wrong.

It just so happened that the gift her son sent had already arrived, so she asked this. After Jinjiu gave the answer, she could call her husband directly.

"No, your son's gift hasn't arrived yet." Jin Jiu didn't expect Jiang Hong's question to be so appropriate. At this time, the faint smile on her face had disappeared, and her tone was slightly cold.

Jiang Hong was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously retorted: "Impossible, the gift has been delivered. I just received a call from my husband, so I thought about going home to open the gift."

After she said this, she thought she had guessed the truth. She believed that Jinjiu was unable to make up a story, so she said that the gift had not arrived.

She sighed, and then advised earnestly: "Little girl, forget about this matter today, and don't do such deceptive things again in the future... If you have any difficulties, you can tell your aunt, and your aunt can help you find a job."

Jin Jiu sighed that he was indeed a kind person whose life was stolen, and pointed to the phone in her pocket: "Auntie, if you don't believe me, you can call and ask."

"Of course, I meant to call your son, not your husband."

……

the other side.

The man, who was frowning and thinking hard in front of the two photos, heard a knock on the door.

"Enter."

"Captain, your phone is ringing."

The man took the phone and saw the caller ID, his brows softened.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

"Gift? Wait, let me see..."

"My gift will be delivered around noon tomorrow... What? You've already received the gift? That's impossible!"

The man was stunned, then seemed to have thought of something. He sat up abruptly, his voice suddenly became louder, and his tone was obviously serious and anxious.

"Mom, don't touch that gift. I'll send someone to check at home right away!"

Jiang Hong, who heard her son's continuous and complicated instructions, had already realized that something was wrong. From time to time, her eyes glanced at Jinjiu who was chewing an apple seriously, while she responded to the words on the other end of the phone repeatedly.

"Okay, okay, I won't hang up. Your dad..." After knowing that there was a problem with the gift, Jiang Hong immediately began to worry about her husband at home.

She knew there was something wrong with the gift, but her husband didn't know!
Although she knew that the gift was hers and her husband would never open it without her permission, she was still worried.

However, the other party seemed to say something, and Jiang Hong immediately felt relieved.

"Okay, I'll go home right away."

Jin Jiu also heard this. She looked up at Jiang Hong and said sympathetically, "I see that Auntie has something urgent to do. Why don't we talk about it later?"

(End of this chapter)