Chapter 1576: Confused (2)
Yang Peili’s brow furrowed. "Didn’t you say back then that it was the monk who offered to predict North River’s fortune?"
"I..." Yang Anshi didn’t dare to respond.
"Go on."
"After that old monk took the flatbread, he saw me... saw me scolding my daughter-in-law, and instead of leaving, he said to repay the kindness of the flatbread, he could reveal a bit of heavenly fate..."
"Heh..." Yang Peili let out two cold chuckles. Scolding? More like spitting the nastiest insults you could muster, wasn’t it? But now wasn’t the time to dwell on that. He took a drag from his pipe, letting out a click of his tongue. "What heavenly fate?"
"He said that the Yang Family will produce a distinguished person, someone with an extremely noble destiny who could bring monumental fortune to the Yang Family..."
"Did he say it was Baihe?"
Yang Anshi shook her head. "No, but he did say... he said our family’s distinguished person is a girl, and that she was born at the hour of Mao. Isn’t our Baihe born precisely at that hour? Who else could this distinguished person be if not her?"
"Cough, cough..." Yang Peili sucked in a mouthful of smoke but ended up coughing violently. It took a while for him to calm down before he stood up. "But did you forget? Dani was also born at the hour of Mao, just during its early part."
In the old days, people were deeply superstitious, believing wholeheartedly in the fortune-telling of monks or daoists. So when Yang Peili heard this, he didn’t suspect that the monk might have been speaking nonsense. Instead, he began pondering where else there might have been a mistake.