Lu Heng smiled faintly and said, "Is Young Friend Cai asking if you want me to help you figure out about that distant relative?"
"Or to find out about the girl who was sent away by the Liu couple?"
Old Cai hesitated after hearing this, then replied, "I would like you, respectable Daoist, to help with the girl."
Actually, he also wanted to see how that girl, who was sent away back then, is doing now.
"Alright, let me calculate about that girl for you then."
Lu Heng nodded slightly and then said, "Young Friend Cai, the fortune-telling here, if itâs not the person themselves, then you need to provide the fortuneteller with identity information."
"So you need to provide the girlâs name and birth date."
"Uh..."
Upon hearing this, Old Cai was a bit troubled.
Seeing this, Young Cai immediately said, "Master, my dad has the girlâs birth date, but now she might have changed her name."
"If we only have the original name and birth date, can you still calculate?"
Lu Heng frowned slightly upon hearing this.
This was the first time he encountered such a situation.
So even he didnât know if the system could account for someoneâs name change.
"Let me give it a try then!"
After thinking it over, he decided to give it a shot.
"Alright, please wait a moment as I find the information!"
Old Cai, showing a hint of joy, hurriedly went to find the girlâs information.
After Old Cai left, as usual, the jokesters started commenting again.
"Wife, your dad is really a warm-hearted person!"
"Donât call me âwifeâ! Never call my wife âwifeâ, or I will get mad, and we canât even be brothers!"
"Donât worry bro, brothers are like limbs and women are like clothes! Even if clothes get torn, a limb lost, at worst I become disabled and get a prosthetic!"
"Girls shouldnât get too absorbed in showing off their looks. You should study more, expand your knowledge, let me test you with a geography question: where do you live?"
"Man! The map of the Yan Kingdom is really too short!"
"My wifeâs blushing face is just so beautiful!"
"Enough said, give your phone number! Iâm willing to accept you as my girlfriend now!"
"I devote myself to the Dao, yet I canât escape the two words for beauty... ultimately, itâs hard to dispel the demons in oneâs heart!"
"Hello Miss Cai! Iâm a worker from Ă Treasure, thereâs an issue with the address you used to shop on our platform, could you send me your WeChat ID so we can verify it?"
"Bro, your abacus beads just jumped into my face."
"Young Cai, if I may be frank, I am actually the first disciple of the head Daoist! I see your facial glow is a bit dark, seems like you are haunted by vengeful spirits, why not leave a phone number so I can do a proper calculation for you..."
Seeing these messy and comical comments, Young Cai shook his head speechlessly.
"Guys, my dad is a police officer!"
"Your outdated tricks wonât fool me!"
Young Cai pouted with disdain, mocking these jokesters.â
While Young Cai was interacting with the audience, Old Cai hurriedly returned with a photocopied paper.
Seeing him return, everyone tactfully deleted the comments they were about to send.
Then, everyone started sending "1111", "2222" and similar numbers in the comment stream, successfully covering up the previous joking comments.
Seeing the screen full of "1111" and "2222", Old Cai wondered, "What does this mean?"
"Itâs meaningless."
"Just everyone testing the comment function."
Young Cai smiled sweetly and said.
"Oh!"
Old Cai nodded, unknowing of the real intent.
Then, he aimed the photocopied paper at the computer camera.
"Esteemed Daoist, this is the girlâs previous identity information."
"Can you see it clearly?"
Old Cai asked.
"Yes!"
Lu Heng nodded lightly, saying, "Next, please be patient, young friend, let me calculate carefully."
After saying that, he silently summoned "the system" in his mind.
As the system interface appeared before him, he mentally requested, "System, find this personâs past information!"
[System prompt: Querying past information will require consuming three days of hostâs life span, do you wish to continue?]
"Yes!"
In the blink of an eye, everything about the girlâs past experiences appeared before Lu Hengâs eyes.
Seeing Lu Heng close his eyes to calculate, Young Cai couldnât help but ask, "Dad, do you think the Daoist can calculate it?"
"I hope so!"
Old Cai also wasnât sure what the result would be.
After all, no one knew the girlâs current situation.
Not to mention if she had changed her name, birthdate, etc.
"Dad, do you think the old Liu couple looking for their daughter is because they truly miss her, or do they have some other motives?"
Young Cai asked again.
"How would I know?"
"Iâm not a parasitic worm inside them."
Old Cai shook his head and said.
The audience, hearing the father and daughterâs conversation, was instantly intrigued to discuss.
"Brothers, why do I feel like all that talk about missing their daughter, wanting to see her one last time before dying, is all nonsense?"
"Haha! To put it simply, if they truly missed their daughter, where have they been all these years?"
"For two or three decades after sending her away, they didnât care, not a single bit of longing. And suddenly they remember her, once they get cancer?"
"For such heartless people, I think the reason theyâre looking for their daughter definitely isnât just nostalgia."
"If we assume the worst intentions from this Liu couple, could it be theyâre looking to have their daughter cover the cancer treatment costs?"
"Damn, thatâs too absurd, isnât it?"
"Itâs possible, it really is possible!"
"If they havenât thought about her before, and now suddenly, in late-stage cancer, they do think â itâs probably to get her money."
"Why should she pay up when they didnât raise their sent-away daughter?"
"Well, never mind, as long as they find her, Iâm sure theyâll find a way to get the money."
"What way?"
"What else? Itâs our Dragon Countryâs traditional old ways: crying, making trouble, and threatening to hang themselves!"
"Well, the method may be old, but itâs effective!"
"I reckon even if it escalates to the police station, itâll still end up with the daughter paying."
"You are good at smearing things."â
"Sigh! Good people always end up at gunpoint."
Seeing these comments, Young Cai opened her mouth slightly, eyes wide in disbelief.
She could hardly believe that such people existed in the world!
But thinking about it, it really wasnât impossible!
If they genuinely missed their daughter, they probably wouldâve seen her long ago, why wait till now?
Now this so-called "missing their daughter" seems more like an excuse, an excuse to find their daughter and ask for treatment money!
In contrast to Young Caiâs shock, Old Cai was much more composed.
As a grassroots policeman, he had encountered similar situations many times.
Therefore, he was no longer surprised by them.