An Ning and the other two continued hiring. The three-day recruitment period passed in a flash, and all the positions were filled.
Five days later, the shop was still preparing to open. An Ning used her half-baked Feng Shui knowledge to divine an auspicious date.
It was another five days from now: the twenty-second day of the third lunar month, which was April twentieth on the Gregorian calendar. The almanac deemed it "auspicious for opening a business."
In the shop's backyard, An Guoming watched An Ning pick up a few pebbles from the ground. Filled with disbelief, he stood up and asked, "An Ning, can you really divine a date with just a few stones?"
"Of course. A truly skilled person could do it with just a few blades of grass."
An Ning tossed the stones aside. An Guoming started to nod in agreement, but stopped halfway, realizing something was off. He looked up and said, "Wait a minute! Didn't you say you were just a dabbler?"
