In the past few days, a major event has happened in Nanshan County, Nanshan Mansion has come to a good news official errand, just stepped into the small county town of Nanshan County, and the gongs and drums in his hands were jingled, and the older old man heard the gongs and drums, some tears flowed down his face, and muttered to himself: "How many years, I haven't heard a sound." I don't know whose boy has this blessing. ”

The ignorant child next to him felt very strange and innocently asked, "Grandpa, grandpa, why are you crying, and what is that person knocking?"

The old man heard the child's immature words, touched his head, and said in a choked voice: "Silly child, grandpa, it's not crying, grandpa is happy, this person is knocking on the gong to tell everyone a good news, tell us the folks in Nanshan County, we have a 'case head' in Nanshan County, but I don't know whose kid has such a deep blessing." ”

The child was still puzzled and asked, "Grandpa, what is the 'head of the case', and why do you want to tell everyone?"

The old man explained to his grandson with an amiable smile: "This 'case leader' is the first place in our Nanshan Mansion examination, also called Huiyuan, and I want to be a big official in the future, so I want to tell everyone, so that everyone knows that our Nanshan County is going to have another big official." The old man said this as if he were talking about his own business, and felt proud and proud.

When the child heard what his grandfather said, he said innocently: "Grandpa, when Xiaoliu grows up, he will also be the 'head of the case' and a big official." ”

When the old man heard his grandson's words, he smiled happily and said, "Okay, good, when our little six grow up, we will also be the 'head of the case' and be a big official." ”

It turns out that this Nanshan County has not had a "Huiyuan" for almost 20 years, and the township test is once a year, and the first place is also called "the head of the case", which is just "Xie Yuan", which means that he has finally formed a fate with the door of the government, and he will participate in the government examination in the future, and he will have the opportunity to be a petty official if he wins the examination, and this township test is held in the county and is held every year, so everyone does not feel strange, and does not give too much attention;

But this is only twice in three years, that is, in the spring and autumn of the third year, there are nine counties in Nanshan Prefecture, and only the top six people are taken each time, that is to say, there will be twelve people in the lift, called lifting people, but this competition is very fierce, from the beginning of the competition of more than a dozen people to the competition of hundreds of people who have been accumulated before, and only one hundred people are set up in the examination room for each examination, people who do not have a letter of recommendation, if they want to refer to it, they must register before they have the opportunity to take the exam, of course, for the sake of fairness, each candidate can only participate once in six years;

And these six people took the opportunity to enter the Kyoto palace examination, although the palace examination is every three years, that is, the autumn season, but the competition is the national candidates, and there are candidates who failed in previous years, and only 36 people are taken, although the competition is intensified, but these 36 people can definitely be officials, and the difference between the government examination is that the government examination is only a chance.

Nanshan County, which has not been out of the government examination for nearly 20 years, has finally been lifted today, and the people in the small county town can not be happy? They all followed behind the gong beater, wanting to see whose kid did this glorious ancestor's affair; in less than a moment, the gong beater followed most of the people from Nanshan County to see the excitement, of course, by the way, to ask for money, and follow the feng shui blessing of this family;

I saw that the gong beater entered the Shenjia Hutong, and shouted like a magpie: "Good news, Shen Wenqiu, Nanshan County, Nanshan Prefecture, Shen Juren, the first in the spring examination of Nanshan Mansion." He shouted all the way, at the door of Shen's house.

The happiest thing was Shen Wenqiu's father, Shen Facai, wiping his tears and muttering over and over again: "I didn't expect that my son Shen Facai would be so competitive, but it can be regarded as giving me the glory of my ancestors." "I also hurriedly asked my subordinates to prepare happy money.

Shen Wenqiu was still sick and did not come out to greet him.

Everyone didn't see the new lifter, and felt that it was a pity, so they asked the Shen family for more happy money, hoping that they could get more joy from the new lifter.

The person who struck the gong took the happy money, and explained to Shen Facai beautifully: "Shen Juren, lucky, just in time for the autumn season, you don't have to wait for another three years, you can prepare to enter the Beijing Palace to test, and then take a champion home, when I shout harder, I just ask Master Shen to reward me with a happy drink." Shen Facai was very happy with the auspicious words of the official who struck the gong, and happily accepted it.

In the past few days, Shen Wenqiu has become the talk of others after dinner, and he doesn't know which good thing guy has spread the news of Shen Wenqiu's tryst with the flower boat, adding a touch of romantic history to this sixteen-year-old newcomer; for a while, everyone went to Wen Yanlou to see what Shen Gongzi's confidante looked like, and Wen Yanlou in Beicheng District also rubbed a wave of popularity of this new man, and business was booming for a long time;

Shen Wenqiu, who was ill, naturally didn't know these things;

On this day, a Taoist from Nanshan County came to Nanshan County, and set up a stall at the door not far from Shenjia Hutong in Nancheng District, and counted his fate;

This Taoist priest is a rare thing in the Nanming Kingdom, all over the country, there is such a Bailing Taoist temple in Bailing Mountain near Kyoto, which is also allowed by the monarch to exist, therefore, some people can not see a Taoist priest in their lifetime, just like the existence of the monarch of the Nanming Kingdom, so for these people in the Nanming Kingdom, the Taoist priests are immortals who are familiar with the heavens;

A few years ago, there was also a Taoist priest in Nanshan County, who told fortunes here, and he had his own set of skills for mixing rice, that is, he replaced all the 100 and eight lots in the lottery holder with the upper sign, and hid three signs in his sleeve, one was the next sign, one was the next sign, and the other was the upper sign;

Originally, these people have never seen a real Taoist priest, so he doesn't need to take the initiative to take the business, someone will come to him to tell his fortune, this person wanted to make enough money here and leave to another place, everything was originally good, he judged the situation, saw people talking about people, and told ghosts, and coaxed the people here to believe that it was true, but no matter how good the deception is, there will be a time when it will be exposed.

Once this Taoist priest, the three sticks in the sleeve were shaken down, and the person who came to find him for fortune telling, knowing that he had been deceived, shouted out, everyone knew that this was a liar, tied him up and sent him to the government, the county ordered to report the matter to the government Yin, and the government Yin reported the matter to Kyoto, the king was angry and asked for the person's life, and issued the engraving seal and the seal to Bai Lingguan, after that, the Taoist priest went out to tell the fortune must show the special seal of the imperial court, in order to set up a fortune telling. And informed the world of this matter.

Since then, no one dares to pretend to be a Taoist priest, because if the government investigates it, he will lose his head if he can't get the Dharma seal, and no one will joke with his own life; this old Taoist priest set up a stall here, thinking that business would be booming for a while, at least he would not be starving; but the old Taoist priest was good, set up a stall, and erected a signboard: "Those who are dying will get a hexagram, and wait for the fate of the earth"; It means that you don't have to come to me to tell your fortune, if you are dying, I will send you a hexagram and pull you, if you really can't pull it back, tell you something you want to know, it is a matter of helping you.

At the beginning, many people came over, wanting the old Taoist priest to calculate their marriage and fortune for them, but the old Taoist priest waved his hand and told them to go away and not do their business.

They didn't understand why the old Taoist priest didn't tell their fortunes, and scolded him in their hearts; later, after an explanation by knowledgeable people, they were shocked, where was they looking for him to tell fortunes, they were obviously looking for the Lord of Yama to tell fortunes!

It turned out that this Taoist priest was the legendary "fortune telling" in Nanmingguo, but in this poor and remote country, I am afraid that not many people know his name;

"The living king of Hades, counting death, a hexagram of yin and yang determines life and death, but the dust is at ease. This is a popular saying, so to speak, everyone knows the existence of this old Taoist priest "counting death", but has never seen it; many people have only heard of this sentence, and do not know the origin of this sentence, so only where the old Taoist priest has been, people will understand what this sentence means.

At this time, the young man brought two jars of good aged wine and left the Shen Mansion, thinking that he had come to see Mr. Qi;

When passing by the old Taoist priest's stall, the old Taoist sniffed, and Goldman Sachs said:

"The champion is a son of the world, but it is troubled and far away;

The name of Sun Mountain is seen through, and the Yue Nu Lake meets the red face;

Hongyan has become a lonely widow, so that the king has mercy and fate;

Isn't it a good time to love the mountains and rivers, and a leisurely year;"

When he saw that the boy had no intention of stopping, he stopped and stopped talking, and sure enough, the boy was really attracted to him, stopped, turned back and asked, "Sir, why don't you continue?"

The old Taoist priest beckoned to him and called him over.

The young man waved his hand and said: "The living king of Hades, counting death, a hexagram of yin and yang determines life and death, but the fate of the dust is at ease." Sir, I can't help but think that there are so many beautiful scenery waiting for me in this world. ”

The old Taoist priest said: "Childe, don't worry, Poor Dao doesn't mean to give you a death hexagram, Poor Dao just wants to give Gongzi a hexagram in exchange for a sip of wine." ”

Shen Wenqiu said: "But sir, I only gave half a hexagram. ”

The old Taoist priest scolded in his heart: "If you had stopped earlier, would I have only given half a hexagram?"

Of course, he can't say this, otherwise his image of this fairy wind bone will be ruined, and I saw him say unceremoniously: "Isn't the child's wine still in his hands?"

Shen Wenqiu placed a bottle of wine on the table.

Xu is this old Taoist priest has not been addicted to alcohol for a long time, completely ignoring his own image, picking up the wine bottle and putting it in his mouth, a whole bottle down, but his face is slightly ruddy, and he said in a loud voice: "Good wine, good wine, thirty years of bamboo leaf green, it is really good wine." ”

Then, regardless of the image, he wiped his mouth with his robe, and looked at the other bottle of wine in Shen Wenqiu's hand with a smile.

Shen Wenqiu saw what he had in mind, put the wine on the table, and said, "Sir, you can talk about the second half of the hexagram!"

The old Taoist priest picked up the wine bottle and drank it, and said, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." There was a pause, "Cool!"

Again:

"The wife is not a thing in the pool, and she almost wants the king's life;

The sword starts from the slaughter of Rong, and it is not my intention to bring disaster to the people;

However, heaven and earth are not benevolent and righteous, and they change their lives against the sky;

is the most proud and angry, full of beautiful women;

I am not afraid of the gains and losses of floating life, and I am most afraid of burning my heart. ”

After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he burped and said, "Good wine, I haven't drunk it for many years." ”

Shen Wenqiu repeated again:

"The champion is a son of the world, but it is troubled and far away;

The name of Sun Mountain is seen through, and the Yue Nu Lake meets the red face;

Hongyan has become a lonely widow, so that the king has mercy and fate;

Isn't it a good time to love the mountains and rivers, and a leisurely year;

The wife was not a thing in the pool, and she almost wanted the king's life;

The sword starts from the slaughter of Rong, and it is not my intention to bring disaster to the people;

However, heaven and earth are not benevolent and righteous, and they change their lives against the sky;

is the most proud and angry, full of beautiful women;

I am not afraid of the gains and losses of floating life, and I am most afraid of burning my heart. ”

Some didn't understand and asked, "Sir, what does this hexagram mean?"

But the old Taoist priest was already drunk and lay on the table and fell asleep. Seeing this, Shen Wenqiu thought, "Forget it, let's come back tomorrow!"