I Am A Big Villain Chapter 44

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Daoist's words made translating hard T^T (always tripping there)
So his words meaning placed in footnotes, cause Daoist talk cryptically, right? (Monsan, help… TAT)
I couldn't imagine myself translating the ancient world or worse the cultivation world @[email protected]

Translator: Kies.h.i.+

Editor/Proofreader: Mona

Status: Edited

“He has a high nose bridge and Five Sacred Mountains is well developed, which shows that he is rich in wealth, promising in future, bright in appearance and elegant in the bones. This is also a symbol of loyalty and integrity. Heaven is wide and the court is round[1]. How come it looks like the image of his wife and child's early death, ah? It's really strange.”

The Taoist robe worn by the old Daoist was shabby, and his hair was half-white. However, such a slovenly Daoist had some sense of immortality.

Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi were very happy when they heard the first few words from the Daoist. Their younger brother was the kind of person who was loyal to justice and had a bright future. But when they heard the second half of the old Daoist's words, they were not happy at all. They took the old Daoist, who was shaking his head and sighing, going to leave, to let him explain clearly.

This major New Year celebration, the mad Daoist, who they did not know where he came from, appeared in front of them and said that their younger brother would die early, and his wife had no choice to continue to have the child. They were angry, ah. Wasn't this a curse?

Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi were born in such a remote and poor village without much education. They were still superst.i.tious. They believed that there were supernatural beings in the world. Every New Year, Yan Zhaodi and her sister went to the temple to add joss papers. Before the two sisters got married, they did not have much money at home. Even so, they always brought some rice to the temple to give kindness, which was enough to show the two sisters' trust in this nihilistic existence.

The Daoist's words were not pleasant to hear, but his hidden and n.o.ble temperament made Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi not dare to say too much for a while. They just stopped him and asked him to explain why their brother's life was like what he said in the second half of his sentence.

The old Daoist was not angry. He pointed to Yan Chu's eyebrows: “The wife uses her nose as her husband's star, the husband uses his outer appearance as his wife's palace[2]. You can see his treacherous door of depression that is evidently harmful to his wife's fate. Just now, I calculate divination for him. His future wife is the image of a woman will make her husband smooth and wealthy, but he is fated to commit a love affair, and he will inevitably have entanglement with other women in the future. Once his wife's star is damaged, his good fortune is most likely destroyed.”

The old Daoist seemed somewhat capable. It was clear and logical.

“I sense the strong energy of love affair in him, it's very likely that temptress already takes shape. I'm afraid that the one who will take his life in the future is the one who he has an extramarital relations.h.i.+p with. That woman will break his wife's fate, cut off his kins.h.i.+p, and ruin his life. Wouldn't that be the premature death of his wife and child?”

The old Daoist was very detached. Even though Yan Zhaodi and her sister stared at him, he was not angry.

“I didn't want to say it at first, but this little brother has happiness, good fortune, long life, and wealth. He is originally a millionaire who benefits one side. Besides the help of his wife's star, he is definitely going to make a great achievement in the future. Unfortunately, because of the temptress, he made a mistake and destroyed his good hand.”

“If I'm right, the palace of your three siblings' parents are dull, your parents are not present in the world of the living. Your eyebrows are dense and long, your siblings are harmonious, and your affection is far superior to ordinary people. This elder sister, your nose is too sharp, and your husband has a disability. This elder sister, your philtrum is too short, and your husband is unable to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss with you, according to the old principle, I'm afraid it's because your husband is older than you. The old principle can be wrong.”

The old Daoist clamored a lot, and Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi's eyes were staring out.

“Eldest Sister, Second Sister, this old Daoist may have asked for information about our family before. Now, there are a lot of scammers like this. Do you think I'm the kind of person who has married his wife and still spends his time outside?”

Yan Chu frowned and was about to pull Eldest Sister and Second Sister away, but at this time, Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi were not willing to leave. This old Daoist said everything so accurately, and nothing was missing.

This was about their younger brother's future. Even if the chance of something happening was small, they must take precautions[3].

“Old Taoist, tell us, what should my brother do about this?”

Yan Zhaodi was about to take out her wallet.

“Ah, I'm now practicing Secular Buddhism. I don't need money if I don't touch the worldly things. This little brother who i saved said that I was a liar.”

The old Daoist waved his hand and did not even look at Yan Zhaodi's wallet. It was really an extraordinary att.i.tude.

He did not require money. Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi believed his words even more. The other either didn't want their money or is a swindler who could stay idle. It was a waste of saliva to say such a long paragraph.

“In my opinion, the star of this little brother's wife is dim and involved with you two. I'm afraid that it will be harmful to his wife's fate in the future. I can't get rid of the relations.h.i.+p with you two. The old principle has divulged too many mysteries known only to heaven today, so I can't speak too much. I can only tell you that this little brother is fated to have only one daughter. If you demand it insistently, just wait to collect his and that child's bodies.”

The old Daoist shook his head and left with a sigh.

“Eldest Sister, Second Sister, there is no such thing as supernatural beings in the world, so don't listen to that Daoist's nonsense.”

Yan Chu seemed very angry, holding Eldest Sister and Second Sister's hand to prevent them from following him.

“Gouzi, you are still young and don't understand these things.”

Seeing the old Daoist turned around and walked into an alley, Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi quickly waved their younger brother's hand and hurried to catch up.

But it was clear that the front foot had just seen the man walk into a long, perfectly straight alley, astonis.h.i.+ngly they could not see his shadow.

Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi were stunned. Their first reaction was that the old Daoist was the legendary amazing man. Did he say that their younger brother could only have one daughter in the future, and it was likely that his wife and child would die together with their younger brother, because of them?

This made Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi able to accept this fact.

Even though Yan Chu had been persuading them and told them that the Daoist was a liar and not to believe those stories, Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi just split hairs[4] and did not buy the New Year's goods. They went home looked miserable.

“You say, how can it be we're harming Gouzi? That's our younger brother, ah.”

Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi locked themselves in a room, leaving Yan Chu to take care of three children outside.

“Elder Sister, did you hear what the Daoist just said? There will only be one daughter in Gouzi's future. Do you think because of this matter we are not satisfied with Gouzi's wife, so…”

Yan Laidi did not mind her husband looking for some mistresses[5] outside, but that did not mean that she did not mind her younger brother doing the same. Their Yan family had always behaved with integrity until now. From the grandfather's generation, no men had let down their wives. It took a lot of effort to teach this to their brother, Gouzi, from her and Eldest Sister. If their younger brother was looking for a woman outside behind his wife, it was. .h.i.tting her and Eldest Sister's face, because they could not teach their younger brother well.

“Our Yan family has only Gouzi as the sole scion. If he doesn't have a son, wouldn't our family's incense be broken?” Yan Zhaodi was almost worried to death. Her eyes were red, and she was sniffing. She was about to cry.

But if they were not satisfied with that niece as that Daoist said, they would lose their younger brother altogether.

“If worst comes to worst, the niece incurs the superfluous. Didn't the Daoist say what our brother must not do in the future? In the future, we will find a drop-in son-in-law[6]. If we can't find one, let two nephews and girls, one of whom to go with our old Yan family's surname.”

Yan Laidi was more flexible and understanding than her elder sister. Compared with that nothingness of the nephew, she loved her younger brother for more than 20 years. She was still clear which one was more important.

“But we can't all listen to the old Daoist. Elder Sister, pack up your things. Let's go to the Tamsui Temple and ask the old monk if he can calculate whether our brother has only one daughter in his life.”

It was not so simple to let one give up the doctrine that had integrated into her for more than 20 years. Yan Laidi also wanted to have a look. Perhaps the old Daoist was wrong in calculating it.

Yan Zhaodi listened to her younger sister's words and thought it was very reasonable. She wiped her tears, took her bag, and rushed out with her younger sister.

“Gouzi, look after your nephews and niece. I'll go out with your second sister.”

Yan Zhaodi thought that she could not let their younger brother follow them when they went to Tamsui Temple this time. That was a sad thing for a grown man fated to have only one daughter in the future, ah. Their family's younger brother was excellent in other aspects, but he lost to most men in China on this point. They definitely could not stand it.

Eldest Sister Yan felt that her younger brother fiercely had shown his distrust of the old Daoist because he could not accept this reality.

She had to look at it again. If even the old monk in the temple sentenced her younger brother to death, she, as his elder sister, would be strong and thought of a good way to let her younger brother accept this reality.

Yan Zhaodi's eyes were firm. She looked at her younger brother with compa.s.sion. She resolutely turned to go out with her second sister.

Yan Chu looked at the appearance of his two elder sisters and could not help but touch his chin. His play should not perform too much, right? Eldest Sister and Second Sister looked very wrong, ah.

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“Master, can you help me figure out if my brother can have a son?”

The master of the Tamsui Temple was helpless. He did not know why the pilgrims nearby seemed to think that as long as they were a monk, they should be able to figure it out. Especially at the abbot level, they should be more powerful than other monks.

The abbot of the Tamsui Temple, Master Zhiyin, was only 30 years old this year. The reason he became the abbot was that he graduated from the Harbin Inst.i.tute of Buddhism or HB for short. With a diploma, the Buddhist a.s.sociation let him become the abbot of this small temple.

Now the business in the temple had been diversified with the times. People nearby like to invite them for funeral affairs and happy occasions like foundation laying. Every time he takes this temple monks with him, he not only eats and takes but also earns 800 to 1,000 income, accounting for two-thirds of the temple's financial revenue.

Because he came from a famous school, every time he recited scriptures, his voice was louder than other monks, and his reading aloud was also pleasant to hear, which made people thought that he was an eminent monk.

Master Zhiyin himself did not know what was the relations.h.i.+p between them. Looking now, he did not know how many admirers who came to ask him to calculate whether their younger brother could have a son or a daughter. He really wanted to tell them that their younger brother could not give birth to a child. It was their sister-in-law who could, ah.

“Master, my younger brother is the only male in our family. If he can't have a son, our family's incense will be cut off, ah. Please help us figure it out.”

Yan Zhaodi handed her younger brother's birthday, and 1,000 yuan to him. This was an extremely generous expense for Yan Zhaodi, who was unwilling to open the bank's SMS fee of 2 yuan a month.

Amitabha. Master Zhiyin looked at that generous amount of donations to a temple. He could only help her with the calculation reluctantly.

This kind of family was the typical, preferring boys over girls. As a man who had studied at HB, Master Zhiyin naturally disliked this kind of bad habit. He knew he could only say he could that at this time, and the two people on the opposite side would like to hear the most of it. He was afraid that after he said yes that the other side's sister-in-law would only have a daughter, it would harm the benefactress who he had never met before.

“Looking at his birthday data and the faces of the two benefactresses, I'm afraid that your younger brother has only a father-daughter relations.h.i.+p in his life, ah. But everything is not absolute. He has acc.u.mulated a lot of merit and done good deeds, and maybe there is a ray of life.”

Master Zhiyin pondered and said, “Don't force it, or you may hurt yourself.”

He did not say that he would die. If the other side believed, their younger brother's wife would give birth to a daughter, which was also their younger brother's destiny. If they had a son, it was also because they acc.u.mulated merit and did good deeds, and the Buddha let them get what they wanted. There was no problem with this statement.

According to Yan Zhaodi and Yan Laidi, this was tantamount to the fact that their younger brother could not have a son in this life, especially the words that the master said later, for fear of hurting himself.

That was what the old Daoist just said, without exception, it fit one into the other. Now, they could not lie to themselves.

Let's Talk Corner:

Yan Chu looked at the appearance of his two elder sisters and could not help but touch his chin. His play should not perform too much, right? Eldest Sister and Second Sister looked very wrong, ah.

Kies.h.i.+: YC's fake Daoist is really convincing, give him bonus later~
Mona: YC good job!

Before edit aka raw MTL:
The abbot of the Tamsui Temple is only 30 years old this year. It is considered younger in the temple. The reason why he became the host is because he is a Harvard Buddhist University, graduated from Harvard for short. He has a diploma and the Buddhist a.s.sociation only let him come. This little temple became the host.

Kies.h.i.+: Harvard has Buddhism version or major?? Harvard graduate become a monk???
Mona: i think it's a way to show just how special it is?

After edit aka good MTL:
The abbot of the Tamsui Temple, Master Zhiyin, was only 30 years old this year. The reason he became the abbot was that he graduated from the Harbin Inst.i.tute of Buddhism or HB for short. With a diploma, the Buddhist a.s.sociation let him become the abbot of this small temple.

Progress:
哈尔滨佛教大学 [hā ěr bīn fójiào dàxué]: Harbin Inst.i.tute of Buddhism
哈尔滨 [hā ěr bīn]: Harbin
佛教 [fójiào]: Buddhism
哈佛 [hāfó]: Harvard (Kies.h.i.+: nope, changed it to HB)

Kies.h.i.+: (•ˋ _ ˊ•) da h.e.l.l?! It's Harbin
Mona: lol, it must have been difficult. Good job!

Master Zhiyin himself did not know what was the relations.h.i.+p between them. […]. He really wanted to tell them that their younger brother could not give birth to a child. It was their sister-in-law who could, ah.

Note: 生孩子 [shēng háizi]: had child(ren); give birth

Kies.h.i.+: Hahaha, true logic ｡･ﾟ･(´∀`*)ﾟ･･｡ Men can't get pregnant after all
Mona: i like this man. He actually has logic~

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[1] For the Daoist's words in the first paragraph:
鼻梁丰起, 五岳丰满 [bíliáng fēng qǐ, wǔyuè fēngmǎn]: a high nose bridge and Five Sacred Mountains is well developed; the wealth of men is good, and they can really become the backbone of the family so that their wives and children are not too economically embarra.s.sed.

Five Sacred Mountains: forehead, nose, cheekbones on both sides, and chin.

天庭额宽, 地阁丰圆 [tiāntíng é kuān, de gé fēng yuán]: heaven is wide, the court is round; represent the degree to which men attach great importance to their families and men who are well rounded and generous can attach importance to family happiness and share the delights of the family.

[2] 妻以鼻为夫星, 夫者以眉眼外侧为妻宫 [qī yǐ bí wèi fū xīng, fū zhě yǐ méiyǎn wàicè wèi qī gōng]: the wife uses her nose as her husband's star, and the husband uses his outer appearance as his wife's palace. It is commonly known as the treacherous door or soul spirit. A man of peace and contentment will help his wife. A man of depression will damage his wife's fate

[3] 不怕一万就怕万一 [bù pà yī wàn jiù pà wàn yī]: fearless of 10,000 only to be afraid of 11,000; even if the chance of something happening is small, it may happen again, and ones must take precautions

[4] 钻牛角尖 [zuān niú jiǎo jiān]: lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem; to bash one's head against a brick wall; a wild goose chase; a blind alley; to split hairs

[5] 小三小四小五 → some mistresses
小三 [xiǎo sān]: little three; third party
小四 [xiǎo sì]: little four; fourth party
小五 [xiǎo wǔ]: little five; fifth party

[6] 上门女婿 [shàngmén nǚxu]: a drop-in son-in-law; a man who is married and settles in a woman's family