The bearded man turned his head, looked at Yun Kai with interest, and glanced at Yan Xiaoyi again. As soon as Yan Xiaoyi saw that there was a play, he immediately invited him warmly and said, "Freshly roasted leg of mutton, do you want one for the eldest brother?" ”

The bearded guest tilted his neck and poured another large sip of wine. Yan Xiaoyi secretly swallowed her saliva, and said in her heart that Nima left some for her brother, how could it be that eating alone was done by a good man in the rivers and lakes? So he quickly ordered the shopkeeper to add an extra set of utensils, put the hot roast leg of lamb on a clean plate, and warmly invited the bearded guest to take a seat.

Yan Xiaoyi's actions fell in the eyes of the bearded guest, like a weasel grabbing a handful of rice and saying to the chicken: "Brother chicken, please eat!" However, he stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling man, he had no choice but to sit down, but he held the gourd in his hand tightly, and stared at Yan Xiaoyi vigilantly, obviously aware of the motives of this drunkard.

Yan Xiaoyi smiled, poured a cup of two pots for the bearded guest, and asked very doggedly: "Little brother Yan Xiaoyi, my friend Yunkai." What do you call Big Brother? ”

"Himemakino!"

"Good name!" Yan Xiaoyi continued to give full play to the talent of an insurance salesman, and did her best to flatter herself, and complimented her without hesitation: "The surname Ji is rare!" Eight surnames in ancient times, the Great Zhou royal family, that is the descendants of the Yellow Emperor of the serious eight hundred, even our Yan surname is mostly from Ji Xing, speaking of which we are still our own family, disrespectful and disrespectful! Come, Brother Ji, little brother toasts you! ”

Ji Muye just drank the good wine in the gourd, and now he wants to drink more than a dozen yuan of Erguotou, which is really difficult to swallow, and after barely drinking a glass, he feels bitter in his mouth, frowning and not speaking. Yan Xiaoyi pretended not to see it, poured another cup for Ji Muye, and chattered endlessly: "Brother Ji, are you going out to visit relatives and friends or travel?" The eldest brother is a master at a glance, don't dislike the wine on this boat, as the saying goes, wine is less than a thousand cups of confidants, as long as you meet the right person, even tap water can be drunk as fine wine, Brother Ji, you say yes? ”

Persuading people to drink, especially bad wine, is no different from selling insurance in Yan Xiaoyi's eyes, maybe the other party will be stunned, and one can't resist the nagging and buy it. Yun Kai also stepped forward to toast, Ji Muye finally couldn't help it, sighed and said, "Still drink my bar......"

"Brother Ji is bold! We men, we have to drink wine and eat meat in large chunks......" Yan Xiaoyi saw that the goal was achieved, laughed and instructed the shop guys: "Dude, your wine glass is too small, change three big wine glasses for us!" ”

Ji Muye was dumbfounded, looking at the guy in the store who brought three big beer glasses, and pitifully shook the few remaining wine gourds, finally confirming that he was cheated by these two boys. Fortunately, he is also a free and easy person, shaking his head, he took the gourd and poured wine into the wine glass, and before the three glasses were full, the wine gourd was empty.

The two took the wine glass, Yan Xiaoyi couldn't wait, and quickly raised it to the end of his nose to smell it, and took a deep breath intoxicated. Yun Kai raised his glass and said honestly: "Brother Ji, junior brother to be honest, we are indeed greedy for your good wine, but it is also because of the kindness of the eldest brother that we invite you." The ancients said that when Pingshui meets, they are all guests from other places, this cup of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, counting our brothers to make amends, please! ”

"You two wine worms are selling and buying meat, thinking that others can't see it?" Ji Muye raised his glass and took a big sip, put down the cup and said, "Big brother has been a good wine since he was a child, and he used to be much more skilled in this matter than you!" However, Brother Yan just sang well, a pot of turbid wine is happy to meet, and drinking is to have a good time......"

This is not a pot of turbid wine, but an aged wine worth tens of thousands, the degree of the wine is not low, but the taste is pure and soft, and the aftertaste is long, it is indeed a good wine. Yan Xiaoyi took people's soft hands and ate people's short mouth, and listened to Ji Muye say that he couldn't bear it when he sang, and he slapped it again, and at the end he gossiped about where he bought this wine, and he had never drunk such a delicious wine.

"It's a long story, I'm afraid I won't be able to drink this wine anymore. This last cup can be drunk with the two little brothers, and it can be regarded as our fate......" Ji Muye leaned on the side of the boat and looked up, the green mountains on both sides of the river slowly retreated, he did not answer the origin of the wine, but tapped the side of the boat with chopsticks and sang: "Thirty merits, fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon." Don't wait for the young man's head to be white, empty and sad......"

Ji Muye's face is full of beard, a strong short hair, and he has a posture of rushing to the crown railing, his words and actions fell in the eyes of Yunkai and the two, speculating that this Brother Ji is a person with a story, but it is not easy to inquire when they meet in Pingshui. Ji Muye's singing voice became lower and lower, and gradually only the sound of the rushing river and the whistling river wind remained, Yan Xiaoyi and Yun Kai glanced at each other and raised their glasses: "Good song!" How can you see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain, Brother Ji, little brother respects you! ”

After a few big sips of liquor, the emotions of the two gradually rose, and the loneliness on Ji Muye's face dissipated, and he asked with a smile: "The two little brothers are going to Padang, right?" ”

Yun Kai said suspiciously: "We are going to Padang, how does Brother Ji know?" ”

"Do you believe in physiognomy?"

"Brother Ji knows physiognomy?" Yan Xiaoyi said curiously: "Then what do you calculate what we are going to do in Padang?" ”

"If the eldest brother is not bad, you should go into the mountains to collect medicine......"

"God, God! Can this also be calculated? Yan Xiaoyi was so shocked that she almost jumped up from her seat.

Yun Kai was also taken aback, he was not as babbling as Yan Xiaoyi, but he looked at Ji Muye with some vigilance. This bearded guest looks like Brother Ji, either as he said, he knows physiognomy, or he is someone who understands their heels, if the former is fine, if the latter, eighty percent of the good ones don't come, and the ones who come are not good.

Ji Muye glanced at Yun Kai, obviously seeing the suspicion in his heart, and said with a smile: "Physiognomy is not as magical as you imagined, I'll explain it to you later." Brother Yunkai, you should be a pharmacist, right? ”

"Huh? Do you even know this? Yan Xiaoyi, who didn't know how to perceive, opened his mouth widely.

"You don't need physiognomy to see it, it's the same as looking at it in medicine." Ji Muye waved his hand and explained: "Brother Yun, you have a faint medicinal fragrance on your body, this kind of smell can only be found by people who have been dealing with different medicinal materials all year round, such as Chinese medicine practitioners or pharmacists. The most important point is that the bracelet on your wrist ......"

Yan Xiaoyi dragged Yun Kai's left hand, staring at his antique bracelet, except for a few gems of different colors on it, he didn't see anything famous, and asked suspiciously: "Is this bracelet swollen, don't you see anything?" ”

Ji Muye asked again: "This kind of bracelet is not common, it is the ancestral heirloom of your family, right?" ”

Yun Kai understood that he had indeed met a master. No wonder the old man often said that the Chinese people are outstanding and spiritual, and I don't know how many hidden dragons and crouching tigers there are, and people only rely on the smell and bracelets to shake their own details, probably even guessing the origin of his Yun someone, and quickly stopped the topic and said: "Brother Ji doesn't need to say it, the little brother is convinced!" Let's drink, haha......"

Yan Xiaoyi didn't seem to understand the situation yet, and still asked endlessly: "Even if he is a pharmacist, how does Brother Ji know that we have to go into the mountains to collect medicine?" ”

Yun Kai suspected that this product was pretending to be confused, and glared at him fiercely and said, "A pharmacist is wearing this outfit, and he also took a stupid assistant to Padang by boat, what do you say can you do besides collecting medicine?" ”

"Damn, where is my brother stupid? Does Brother Ji know that we are going to Patong? ”

"Brother just remembered that a certain stupid thirteen said that he was going to Padang when he just bought a barbecue!"

"I'll go!"

"Hahaha...... Brother Yun is not simple, it is thorough at all. Ji Muye interjected: "Physiognomy is magical, to put it bluntly, it is just to speculate on the unknown situation based on the known information, and the ancient physiognomy has developed to this day, and it has become a science of prediction, which is similar to solving multiple equations in mathematics." Two little brothers, have you read the "Base" series of science fiction novels? ”

"Yes, it seems to have been written by Asimov."

"This is it. In the Base series, Asimov describes a mathematician named Shedong who pioneered a far-reaching science, the history of the mind. Himekino went on to explain: "The history of mind treats the future as a historical study, which is essentially a science of statistics and prediction. It is difficult to predict the behavior of individuals, but if the number of individuals in the group exceeds a certain size, their behavior must show certain patterns that can be predicted. If you put it on a certain person, his living environment, family situation, social relationships, personality habits, etc. can be used as research objects, these objects themselves are random, but when combined into a whole, there are rules to follow, which is the basic principle of physiognomy......"

Yan Xiaoyi questioned: "Brother Ji, spiritual history is just science fiction, can it really be applied to reality?" ”

"It's science fiction, it's true, but you can't deny the logic." Ji Muye nodded and said, "Modern weather forecasting and artificial rainfall are science, right?" But if it had been placed 500 years ago, would it have been considered a witchcraft that called for wind and rain? ”

"That's a certainty."

"Yes, can you say that the history of the mind will not be a real science in the future?" Ji Muye said eloquently: "There is an idiom called 'everything is available, only the east wind is owed', which is exactly this logic. In the Battle of Chibi, Zhuge Liang built the Seven Star Altar in Nanping Mountain, pretending that he would call for wind and rain, but in fact, he predicted the coming typhoon with technology far beyond the time, so he designed a tactical strategy of burning the company camp......"

Yan Xiaoyi was completely stunned, what is Nima, metaphysics or mathematics?

"Ancient scholarship that has been passed down for thousands of years always has its raison d'être, such as Feng Shui, which in modern science is environmental psychology." Ji Muye held his wine glass and said: "Abandon the superstitious component, physiognomy is not so much about predicting fate, but about analyzing character, because character determines fate, which is the first principle in physiognomy. The saying that character determines destiny was first said by Jung, the famous founder of analytical psychology, and later deduced by Jack Hodge in the book "The Power of Habit", that is, behavior forms habits, habits form character, and character determines destiny - this sentence is correct, right? ”

"Well, that seems to make some sense." Yan Xiaoyi thought for a while and replied.

"The second principle, which is born from the heart, is the basis of face reading." Ji Muye continued: "The allusion to the heart originates from the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Pei Du, Pei Du was poor when he was young, and when a master found that there were longitudinal lines at the corners of his mouth extending into the entrance, they said that he had the misfortune of starving to death, and persuaded him to practice hard. After Pei Du struggled for many years, he met a master again, and the master saw that his eyes were clear and his face had completely changed, so he said that he would definitely be able to become the prime minister in the future, which shows that the relationship was born from the heart. The difference in temperament determines the decency or obscenity, uprightness or insidiousness of appearance, etc., and American President Abraham Lincoln also said that when a person reaches thirty, he must be responsible for his appearance......"

Yan Xiaoyi couldn't help but interrupt: "Well, when a woman reaches the age of thirty, she should indeed take good care of herself or go for plastic surgery!" ”

Yun Kai made a movement to wipe his sweat, and then listened to Ji Muye continue: "The third principle, Wen is like his person. Su Shi said in "Answer to Zhang Wenqianshu" that "he is a person who does not want people to know, and his writing is like a person", which means that when you look at this person's work, you will know how this person is a person, this is the principle of word measurement, and there is nothing profound and mysterious. You can write a few words, and I will be able to see what your character is, and I will predict your fate......"

"Really? Then Brother Ji hurry up and test us a word! ”