Huang Zhizhou was very resolute in implementing the methods taught by Qi Langzhong, so in the next two days, there were no new patients who vomited and diarrhea, which made him finally breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, but then the news came that Qi Langzhong and his wife had died of illness, and Qi Langzhong's family members had also fallen ill one after another, but because they were locked in the house and not allowed to come out, several people had died, and the people of the yamen piled them up in the open space in the backyard and burned them. Heaven's Voice'.2.

There were no new patients, which made Huang Zhizhou finally breathe a sigh of relief. However, he was very grateful to Qi Langzhong for telling him this important news before he died, and he decided to go to the City God Temple to pray to God, so that God could shelter the people of Limin, and at the same time protect his black gauze hat, and let the kind-hearted Qi Langzhong ascend to heaven.

He took his wife and staggered to the City God Temple in an official sedan chair under the escort of the officials.

The City God Temple is also called the Ox Head Temple, because there is a huge bull head hanging above the temple gate of the City God Temple in Yinzhou, and I don't know who put it up, some people say that it represents the bull head and horse face, some people say that it is black and white impermanence, anyway, no matter what the reason is, the common people call this City God Temple the Ox Head Temple.

The incense of this city god temple is very prosperous, and people come and go every day, and there is an endless stream.

Zhizhou is a very close to the people, and he doesn't want to let all the people avoid because of his arrival, he has just experienced a false alarm, an impending plague was nipped in his bud, and the feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe under the surprise made him extraordinarily generous, so he himself asked the official servant to stop the official sedan chair outside the City God Temple, so as not to directly carry it in and disturb the people who were incense.

Because according to the rules of the temple, all the carriages to worship the gods must be parked in the courtyard outside the Chenghuang Temple, of course, he has been here a few times before as a Zhizhou, in the end, it is the official master, so of course his palanquin is a long drive straight into the door of the Sanqing Hall of the Daxiong Treasure Palace. This time he stopped in the courtyard outside the City God Temple, since Zhizhou was unwilling to swagger, of course he would not wear an official robe, so he changed into a robe and a casual dress and a hand-cranked folding fan, and his wife followed him, as if a wealthy businessman brought his wife to offer incense, such people have seen a lot in the City God Temple.

Huang Zhizhou cranked the folding fan in his hand, but he was still accustomed to shaking it three times at his feet, pacing the square steps and walking inside, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he heard a blind man say loudly there: "Look at the face and touch the bones, if you don't work, you won't give money." ”

Huang Zhizhou glanced at it and saw a hexagram stall next to the gate, a blind man sitting next to him, his eyes were gray and rolling, his body was very sloppy, holding a handful of thatch of different lengths in his hand, and a pair of thin hands like chicken feet were gently knocking on the table, and his mouth was nagging and saying, "Touch the bones and look at the appearance, and if you don't work, you won't give money." ”

Mrs. Huang is very convinced, the events of the past few days scared her enough, because Huang Zhizhou came back and told her about the general thing, although the matter gradually calmed down, but the heart has not been completely put down, since this fortune teller blind man is so determined, can preach that fortune telling is not allowed not to give money, it is indeed to hook her curiosity, so he said to Huang Zhizhou: "Master, I will go and let him calculate a hexagram, see if the spirit is not spiritual, and by the way, the master said the thing, and then calculate to see if it is calm, and there is a good number in my heart." ”

Huang Zhizhou was still in a good mood, shaking the folding fan and nodded, so the two walked to the stall, Huang Zhizhou coughed, and said slowly: "Blind, how can it be counted?"

The blind fortune teller said with a dry smile: "The old man is different from people, the old man has a handful of thatch in his hand, you just take out a few and throw it on the table, let the old man touch it and know the good luck." ”

"That's so wonderful, then you can do the math for me. ”

When the fortune teller saw the customer, he was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "But I don't know what this guest officer is going to be?"

Huang Zhizhou turned his head and glanced at his wife, his wife nodded at him slightly, both of them thought the same, they just wanted to see if this terrible plague would not be reborn anymore? Of course, he couldn't say it directly, so he rolled his eyes, thinking that even if he had his own luck, if this plague broke out, his official fortune would definitely be affected, and if it didn't explode, then his official fortune would be prosperous, so he could know if the plague had completely gone away.

So Huang Zhizhou said: "Calculate my fortune and see if everything will go well in the near future?"

The blind man handed him a handful of thatch in his hand and said, "Please draw a few sticks at will, and then throw them on the table at will, and leave them untouched." ”

Huang Zhizhou glanced at the thatch in the blind man's hand, it was trimmed very casually, it may have been pulled from the field, of different lengths, so he closed his eyes, reached over and grabbed a few from the thatch he was holding in his hand, pinched and grabbed a few with his fingers, pulled it out, threw it on the table, and the thatch was scattered on the dining table, and then opened his eyes and said, "Okay." ”

The blind fortune teller smiled at him, put his thin hand like a chicken's claw on the table, slowly groped through, and after touching the whole thatch, he was suddenly stunned, and his whole body was shaking.

Huang Zhizhou was a little strange and said, "What's wrong with you, blind man?"

The blind fortune teller held down his left hand, which had been shaking, with his right hand, took a deep breath, rolled his gray eyes and said: "It turned out that the big man came, the villain has no beads, I don't know that the big man came to my stall, I really offended, and I ask the big man to forgive me." ”

Huang Zhizhou was surprised and delighted when he heard it, shook his fan, and said to the lady next to him: "Yes, this blind fortune teller has two times, and he actually recognized my identity, he hasn't seen me." ”

Madame Huang burst out laughing and said, "He is a blind man, how can he ever see the master?"

Huang Zhizhou nodded frequently and said: "Then he is really capable, and he can really calculate my identity from the fortune telling, amazing." ”

Huang Zhizhou turned around and said to the maid and housekeeper who followed, "Reward." ”

The maid quickly took out a string of money and gave it to the blind man.

"How can a villain ask for a reward from the master. Said the blind fortune teller.

Mrs. Huang pursed her lips and smiled: "If you give it to you, you will keep it, you are a person with Taoism, can you tell me how our master's fortune is?"

The blind fortune teller's hand seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and it took a long time to slowly lift the right hand that was pressed on the left hand, and slowly put it on the knee, and the careful Mrs. Huang saw that his hand was trembling, and she couldn't help but be a little puzzled, because she saw that this tremor was not because of nervousness, but because of fear, she saw infinite horror from the face of the blind fortune teller and the gray white eyes, and this fear was definitely not the kind of awe and panic that ordinary people showed when they saw the officials, but a very terrible thing that came out of the bottom of their hearts, like death。

Mrs. Huang couldn't help but look up at her husband with some worry, and saw that he was smiling and waiting for him to speak.

The blind man took a deep breath again, and then said: "The old man has prosperous official luck, and he will be prosperous in three days, and there will be happy events in less than three days." In the future, the official will soar, the official will reach the third grade, and finally return to his hometown in fine clothes, glorify his ancestors, and the life of the official master is really envious of ordinary people. ”

Huang Zhizhou, who said these few words, was overjoyed, laughed loudly, and said loudly: "Reward!"

The maid took another string of money and handed it over, but Huang Zhizhou glared at it a little unhappily and said, "Reward hard!"

The maid hurriedly sighed, reached into her bosom and took out a large ingot of silver, which weighed five taels, and put it on the table with a bang.

The blind fortune teller looked frightened, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for the reward, thank you for the reward, thank you for the reward, may the eldest lord and his wife be a fairy couple, raise their eyebrows." ”

Mrs. Huang pursed her lips and smiled, and said to her husband: "It's really interesting, I didn't speak, he actually knew that I was the master's wife, so it can be seen that I really have some ability." ”

Huang Zhizhou nodded and said: "This person is a Jianghu artist, and we can produce such a character in Yinzhou, and we can be regarded as outstanding people." Let's go in and burn incense. ”

After that, he took Mrs. Huang and a few servants and maids in civilian clothes behind him, and walked into the Niutou Temple.

As soon as they entered the Niutou Temple, the blind fortune teller stood up with a bang, ran away, ran a few steps, and then remembered that he didn't take his bamboo pole, how to explore the way without a bamboo pole, and quickly groped his way back, grabbed his bamboo pole from the square table, and staggered forward all the way to the ground, and almost fell down several times, which shows the anxiety in his heart.

He was in a hurry, and he forgot to take the big ingot of silver on the table, or he didn't know that the maid behind him had rewarded him with a large ingot of silver.

The blind fortune teller staggered all the way back, and finally returned to his house, pushed the door in, and heard a middle-aged woman's voice from inside: "Yay, why did you come back early today?"

Lying on the bed in the room was a middle-aged woman, with a thin body, her legs had been severely atrophied, and they were as yellow as bamboo poles.

The blind man came to the bedside, fumbled and grabbed her hand, and said, "Go, quick, run with me for your life." ”

The lady of his family was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "You tell me clearly, what's the matter? What kind of life is this headless and brainless escape? What's wrong? Could it be that there are bandits who come to rob it? Shouldn't this run to Yinzhou City?"

The blind fortune teller said tremblingly: "Just now I was telling a hexagram at the gate of Niutou Temple, and a middle-aged couple came. ”

"That's good, you can tell the fortune of Lord Zhizhou, that's not a great blessing. ”

"Don't disturb my words, my later words are the most important, you listen carefully, it is related to the life and death of both of us. ”

The blind fortune teller stomped his feet and said.

His lady had never seen a blind man so anxious, so she put away her smiling face and hurriedly asked, "Then what the hell are you talking about?"

The blind fortune teller swallowed hard, gasped and said, "I tell the fortune, and now the eldest master of Zhizhou will only have three days of life at most." ”

"Three days' life, what's the matter? Will he be beheaded?"

"Not beheaded, but sick and dead, and plague. The blind fortune teller said word by word: "Lord Zhizhou will die of the plague, and within three days, that is to say, there has been a plague in Yinzhou City, and the magistrate is strictly forbidden to leave without the will of the emperor, since he will not leave Yinzhou, it can only mean that there will be a terrible plague in Yinzhou within three days, and we will not escape What are we waiting for." ”

His lady's hand holding his chicken-clawed hand also began to tremble, trembling like chaff and saying, "Then what shall we do? Where shall we flee?"

"It doesn't matter where he escapes, the farther he runs, the better, quickly! I'll carry you, and hurry up and bring everything I can eat and use at home." ”

His wife hurriedly agreed, the blind fortune teller sat on the edge of the bed, carried his wife who was a high paraplegic on his back, and then according to his wife's instructions, put the light things that he could bring at home into a bag, put it on his shoulder, and then staggered out with a bamboo pole.