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β¦β¦ Hi.
Yun Yao subconsciously wanted to say hello to the other party, but thinking about it with her toes, she knew that it was impossible. Her current identity is the palace maid of the Qin State, the half nurse and master of the prince of the Qin State, Fusu, and it is really strange to run to greet others in this situation.
So she could only watch as the sorcerer, holding the bronze tripod and carrying the bone staff, left from her.
She stood there for a long time, and suddenly remembered that it was time for her to teach Fusu, so she turned around and took two silks and went to Fusu's dormitory. But before she could enter the door of the dormitory, she was stopped.
"Not today." The little yellow door at the door said respectfully. He knew who the girl in front of him was.
"Why not?" Yun Yao was a little surprised.
"Back to the girl, someone came to the palace just now." Xiao Huangmen pointed to the palace, and raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's a lady, wearing gold and silver, and her appearance is beautiful, similar to the king." Did the girl guess that? β
Naturally, she guessed it at once. It's Fusu's mother.
The king of Qin has not been established for a long time, and a few days ago he suddenly called someone to go over to tailor clothes, saying that he wanted to seal a lady in the palace as the queen, and the ceremony of establishing the queen was extremely hasty, which was extremely inconsistent with the status of Qin. But as a small character in the Qin Palace, she was naturally not qualified to discuss it, so she skipped it.
"That lady is ......"
"It's the Queen."
Xiao Huangmen simply admitted it, and pointed to the top of his head again, making a gesture to wipe his neck.
Yun Yao hissed softly, shrunk her head, and waited beside the palace with Xiao Huangmen. After a while, a strong aroma wafted from the palace, and a young woman came out with Fusu's hand and stopped at the palace gate.
"Go back with your mother." She said.
Fusu lowered his head and pursed his lips tightly, his fingertips tense nervously.
The queen looked at him, sighed softly, and rubbed her hand over the top of his head, but did not force it. Fusu still kept her head down and didn't speak, she waited for a while, and then left disappointed, her long skirt grinding slightly against the steps.
Fusu raised his head, and there was a faint glow of water in his round eyes, which fell on the steps one by one.
When the queen's figure disappeared into the depths of the flowers, he sobbed and turned back to the palace. Yun Yao slowly walked out of the shelter, looked at Fusu's back, and wondered if she should go in today.
"Why doesn't the girl go in?" The little yellow door began to urge.
She pondered for a moment, and decided that it would be better to go in. Xiao Huangmen had already seen her, and it would not be appropriate to go back to the house. She lingered at the gate of the palace for two quarters of an hour, and then hesitantly took the hem of her skirt and went into the house.
She deliberately slowed her pace, for fear of bumping into Fusu's sad sceneβshe didn't know how to comfort the child.
However, when he saw Fusu again, he was already sitting upright behind the desk, holding a beautiful wolf hair, writing on the bamboo slip one by one. There was a faint reddish glow in his eyes, as if he had just cried.
She didn't ask more, only took two steps forward, spread out the two pieces of silk in her hand, and spread them softly in front of Fusu.
Immediately, she took two steps back and asked with a smile, "Is Childe still energetic today?" β
Fusu put aside the wolf's hair and smiled reluctantly: "Naturally, there is." β
His voice was a little choked, but it covered the past well, got up and packed up two pieces of silk, his eyes inadvertently swept over the back of Yun Yao's hand, he was suddenly stunned, and said softly: "I went to my father's palace this morning and saw a sorcerer. β
"Huh?" Yun Yao was puzzled.
"He also has this strange pattern on his body." Fusu pointed to the back of her hand and continued, "On the shoulders, back, and ankles, there are faint lines everywhere. The father said that the man was a descendant of the priests of the Yin Shang period, and the ancestors were in charge of divination and questioning when they were in Pangeng, and it has been more than 1,000 years now. You ......," he hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Are you all the way with that man?" β
Yun Yao was slightly stunned for a moment, and slowly, shook her head.
"I don't know." She replied honestly. Ever since she was a child, she had never seen her own kind again, except for a strange master and some peers who appeared out of nowhere. As for the descendants of the priests of the Yin Shang period? She didn't know anything about it.
Eight hundred years of Yin Shang and eight hundred years of Zhou, a full 1,600 years have passed, and even if there was really something at that time, it has long been forgotten.
When Fusu saw her like this, he didn't mention it again. He had only just met the sorcerer, and occasionally mentioned a few words. Yun Yao's relationship with him is not an outsider, and he naturally doesn't want his father to know that he is secretly learning divination from Yun Yao.
But now, Fusu Gongzi has been able to get started vaguely, and the accuracy rate is about forty percent.
You must know that this is not an ordinary boring probability question of "auspiciousness and evil is 50% probability" and "I won't choose C in the college entrance examination", because in addition to the word auspicious and evil, there are also some other gifts attached to the divination. For example, how to avoid disasters and how to seek good fortune.
Yun Yao waited for him to pack his things, then got up and smiled, "Let's go." β
They would go outside and harvest a new batch of yarrow for teaching.
They had only walked two steps outside the palace gate when they were stopped.
It was the sorcerer who stopped them. He was still holding the big bronze tripod, but the bone staff was nowhere to be placed. The man was very tall, and as soon as he stood in front of them, he was firmly blocking most of the sunlight. The sorcerer lowered his head, his big eyes staring at Yun Yao, looking up and down for a moment, his gaze resting on the back of her hand.
An inexplicable stream of heat spread on the back of her hand, and the depths of her soul were slightly hot, faintly inexplicably anxious.
"You have practiced the divination of my people." The sorcerer's voice was a little hoarse, like a saw on a piece of wood, making a Zrazra sound. The big bronze eyes stared at her firmly, up and down.
"You've learned it too." The sorcerer looked down at Fusu again, and calmly stated a fact, "But your attainments are not high. With all due respect, your talent isn't here, at least not as good as the one next to youβ" He pointed at Yun Yao and said with some confusion, "I've never seen a witch with such a high level of talent, not even my clansmen. β
Yun Yao quietly kept smiling, unmoved.
The sorcerer waited for a moment, but did not wait for Yun Yao's reaction, then shook his head and sighed, "...... That's it. β
He turned around and walked away with the bronze tripod in his arms, looking back at Yun Yao step by step, as if waiting for her to say something.
But Yun Yao didn't say anything, just stood there quietly, until he seemed to give up and walked back with the bronze tripod in his arms, only to hear an imperceptible "wait".
The sorcerer stopped, holding the bronze tripod, waiting for her words.
She hesitated for a moment before asking softly, "I heard that you are the priests of the Yin Shang period?" β
The sorcerer said, "Not bad. β
She asked again, "Don't you wonder why I ...... with you," she looked down at the back of her hand, which had a faint line on it, faintly hot in the sun, "...... Have you ever learned the same thing? β
The sorcerer smiled, "We are not the only priests. There were also sorcerers in the former summer. β
Yun Yao keenly caught one word: "Qianxia? β
Before the Xia, it was naturally the Xia Dynasty. The sorcerer also said that his ancestors were sacrificers in the Yin Shang era, and he had followed King Wu of Shang Tang until the last king of Zhou. They lost some of their people when Pangeng moved to Yin, and after the fall of the Shang Dynasty, they were scattered everywhere, and some intermarried with the sorcerers of the Xia Dynasty, and now, it has developed into a very strange situation.
It seems to be connected to the whole world, and it seems to be outside of this world.
When Yun Yao asked again, the sorcerer shook his head and refused to say anything. He pointed to Yun Yao's hand and said with a smile: "You are the most talented. Our ancestors once said that the most gifted person can be called a god, and you must be the one closest to God. β
It is obviously not an appropriate thing to say "closest to a god" Yunyun in the Qin Palace.
Fusu frowned slightly, and was about to interject, when he heard the sorcerer say: "I have a hunch that you will experience a fateful miracle, you may go through it smoothly, or you may fail, but that is the closest threshold to God after you have smooth sailing." β
He bent down slightly and made a strange salute to her: "You will dwell on the earth forever." β
This sentence is a little strange, but what is even more strange is that a tall man, holding a bronze tripod, made a strange salute to a palace maid in the Qin palace and a former witch of the Chu State. The sorcerer said that this was the etiquette of their clan, and when Yun Yao asked again, he refused to reveal it again.
"When you dwell forever on the earth, you will know." He laughed. The implication was that she wasn't qualified to know yet.
Yun Yao stroked the faint lines on the back of her hand, feeling it dim little by little. The sorcerer walked away with the bronze tripod in his arms, leaving behind only those two strange words: you will cross a threshold, and you will live forever on the earth.
Crossing a threshold, she could vaguely guess something, which was about a threshold that she had to pass through later in her cultivation.
But "dwelling on the earth forever"? What kind of strange thing this was, Master had never told her.
She frowned and thought for a while, but couldn't think of a reason, so she simply stopped thinking about it.
Together with Fusu, she picked some fresh yarrow and folded them clean, leaving no side branches. Fusu is very studious, especially in the matter of divination, he shows quite strong stubbornness, as long as he can't divinate the future of himself and his father for a day, he will follow Yun Yao one day after another, practice tirelessly, and never complain.
Not at all like a seven-year-old, she was ashamed of herself in front of him.
Fusu followed her for a while, memorized today's new mantra proficiently, and suddenly pinched a grass stalk and said, "I'll calculate a hexagram for you, how about it?" β
He looked sideways at her, a faint alienation in his glass-colored pupils.
Yun Yao didn't know why, but she still nodded and said, "Okay." β
Fusu held sixteen yarrows and flew between his fingers, like butterfly wings drawing a light trajectory in the sun. He was still young, and halfway through that complex set of gestures, he was a little struggling. A bead of sweat slid down the tip of his nose and landed in the dirt with a click, slowly melting in.
He didn't realize it, he was still engrossed in turning over the yarrow in his palm, and his expression was extremely focused.
After the last set, he snapped the yarrow on the ground, his lips were slightly pale, but he evoked a smile, a little gratification, and said, "I'm done." β
He slowly raised his hand, and Yarrow made a sharp hexagram.
Its position, its potential, the upper and lower shocks, thunder and thunder.
Move in the face of danger.