There is an old tea shed in front of the bamboo forest on the official road, which has been repaired no less than a hundred times, and has changed generations of tea herders, ushering in how many knights and wanderers have been sent, but it is the first time to receive such guests.

Dressed in robes and clothes, he is destitute and his face is terrifying.

The old woman stood at the intersection and watched for a while, slowly walking to the teashed with a bamboo cane.

The bamboo cane broke, knocking on the stone slab to make the sound of the bamboo strip cracking, attracted the sideways eyes of the tea customers.

The old woman ignored the eyes of others, staggered to the tea cooking place, and asked the tea-seller for a bowl of tea soup, the tea-seller has always been powerful, waved her sleeves to drive her away, seeing that the old woman was still indifferent, the tea-seller picked up a broom to sweep her out.

A kind-hearted young tea guest next to him stopped in time, paid for the old woman's tea, and invited her to the same table. The old woman sat down on the young man's straw mat without excuse or thanks, and the young man, not only did not mind the woman's rudeness, but asked softly about her origin and whereabouts.

"It's just an old woman who lives in the world, begging for a living, and it doesn't matter who has a surname, don't mention it." Hearing the other party ask about her origin, the old woman let out a sigh, and there seemed to be thousands of depressions in her heart that could not be sorted out.

They met here, one looked at the past and was a hurried passerby, Hui Jun was not good to continue to ask, so he quietly accompanied the old woman to eat tea, and the two chatted about the tea, but for a moment, Hui Jun was surprised to find that although the old woman's tone was not close to people, the answer was the first to say, sharp and alert, every word is deep in the edge, which is convincing.

Due to an unexpected situation, he and his subordinates fell into the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and they were quite unhappy along the way, but they met a person of great wisdom at a critical juncture without a clue. Hui Jun was overjoyed, and immediately expressed to the old woman her intention to seek talent, promising her daughter to invite her to return to Xichuan with her, and willing to allow her to be rich and noble, and support her for the rest of her life.

The tea-man who added tea from the side dissuaded him. She is just a beggar who is full of nonsense, not to be gullible, not to mention spending a lot of money to support her in old age. Hui Jun ignored the teaman's kind dissuasion and invited the old woman to accompany him. The old woman was very grateful to the young man for his kindness, but said that they had no chance, and thanked the daughter for the invitation.

Hui Jun begged but couldn't, no longer forced the old woman, but felt a little lost in his heart, drinking tea in a daze.

After a long journey, the tourists who took a break drank tea sullenly, and from time to time raised their eyes to look at the sky outside the shed. At this time, the stars were already rising high in the eastern sky, and the sky gradually opened up. A group of guests walked in the tea shed, and new travelers were ushered in.

The old woman and the young man sat opposite each other, silently listening to a few tea drinkers talking about the current situation.

The world is in a hundred years of turmoil, internal and external troubles, the imperial courts of various countries are turbulent, Liang is located in the Middle Kingdom, surrounded by states, the world is called Liang, Emperor Liang is weak, the sky is weak, followed by the Jin State located in the hinterland of the central and southern regions, at the end of the twilight of this year, the Yueshi besieged Weishan Pass, and the North was in an emergency. Since the violent death of the king of the Yue clan, his brother King Gao expelled the eldest son of the king to lie the leaf, supported the young son to succeed to the throne, and took the new monarch as the regent **** in the name of the young king, ignored the admonition of the ministers, openly broke the promise, and began to station in Weishan Pass from last winter, and confronted the Jin Shi in the border from afar.

The weak eat the strong, the arrogant Yueshi is like a cat, the Jin Kingdom Beisai is a rat that survives under the cat's paws, the cat is playing, occasionally stretches out its claws to scratch it, and when it is enough, the cat stretches out its claws and pounces on the rat to devour. Yue's raid on Weishan Pass, the two armies fought day and night, the Jin soldiers resisted stubbornly, Weishan Pass finally fell behind, Yue's all the way south to capture the city, the north was in danger, the Jin State was in danger, at this critical juncture, the famous general Yong Princess of the Jin State who went north to reinforce was suddenly ill.

The courage of the princess of Yongguo in the war is far above that of her grandson, but it is a pity that she died young. Accompanied by the regret of the tea guests, Hui Jun couldn't help but sigh for a generation of female celebrities.

Hui Jun is a native of Longxi, Shu State, this trip to Lin'an, and the tea herd after several inquiries, only to know that the official road outside the tea shed is the only way to the capital Lin'an. It was not too early, and he had to arrive at Lin'an within the agreed deadline, so he got up and waved his sleeves goodbye to the old woman, and ordered his entourage to go on the road at once.

At this time, the tea-seller welcomed a group of passing guests, each of whom asked for a bowl of good tea to quench their thirst and relieve fatigue.

It was an ordinary high roller, but the old woman's ruthless face was fixed on one of them the moment she saw the visitor, and the bowl in her hand poured out the tea.

These men did not look like ordinary wealthy horsemen, for the leather sashes around their waists wore primitive swords, not swords for decoration. Under the loud shouting of one person, they came in with a girl in bright clothes and sat down on a straw mat not far from the old woman.

Hui Jun also noticed that someone was coming. What is the origin of that girl? Letting so many attendants and masters follow the guards made the old woman look so excited.

Seeing that she is only about thirteen years old, her body and appearance have not yet grown, but her makeup is extremely peculiar. The long hair is black and shiny, obediently draped behind the shoulders, hanging straight down the table, the broad and full forehead is decorated with gold leaf, and the corners of the eyes are slightly haloed with rouge, delicate and lovely, but also graceful and generous. The corners of her mouth are smiling, her eyebrows and eyes are shining, and she has a noble and luxurious Southern Dynasty atmosphere. The servants who were around were also all wide-dressed and big-sleeved, with gold and jade waists, and they were imposing, and they were by no means idle.

"Mother-in-law has seen the old man?" Hui Jun was curious about why the old woman suddenly lost her temper.

"Huh? Sort of. The old woman regained her face, put down the tea bowl, and glanced at the girl from time to time.

Yuan Lingjun, who has changed into a new outfit, is no longer a village girl living in the fields and hunger, at this moment she is more like a family girl who requires fine and picky makeup, even if she returns to Baboon Village in this appearance, I am afraid that no one will recognize her.

Yuan Lingjun was accustomed to being looked at by others, but the old woman made her feel uneasy. I've been staring at her since I entered the door, and it's indescribably weird.

If you want to know why, why not ask for yourself. After thinking about it for a while, Yuan Lingjun couldn't help but stand up and walked towards the old woman under the surprised gaze of everyone.

She stopped and sat cross-legged on the straw mat next to the old woman, unreserved. The two also seem to be friends who haven't seen each other for many years, and they meet here today without any embarrassment.

"Old woman, you will see your fate."

"Why do you say that?" The old woman was dumbfounded.

"I'm sure you will. You've been staring at me from the moment you entered, so why don't you just be bright? Mother-in-law, take advantage of this trip for me, I want to go to Lin'an to visit my father. After thinking about it for a long time, Yuan Lingjun finally determined this. The old woman looked at her exactly the same as the people on the rivers and lakes who pretended to be surprised when they deceived people.

She thinks things in a different direction than others, but her move is not really for the sake of looking, she just thinks it is funny, and she feels uneasy and wants to find a sustenance.

The old woman didn't think so. She smelled something unusual, coming from the girl in front of her. Her slender right eye narrowed slightly, and she passed away with a confused look.

"Yikes!" Yuan Lingjun's eyes slowly widened the moment he saw the old man clearly. She...... She only had one eye.

The old woman was blind, and could only see with her right eye, and her left eye seemed to have been gouged out by some sharp weapon, hollow and terrifying. What a vicious enemy she has offended. Yuan Lingjun didn't dare to face up to that terrifying blindness, but she was also used to seeing it, and after being surprised, she pretended to smile calmly, put on a look of imperativeness, and waited for the old woman's reply.

These people look unusual, but they are all crazy like demons. The teaman shook his head incredulously and walked away.

"The little lady is the first one who took the initiative to look for me." A flash of sharpness flashed in his right eye.

Almost no one in the Southern Dynasty knew that she would meet, it must have been just a coincidence. The old woman wondered.

"Tell me, what do you want to ask me?" The old woman looked at each other, hoping to see the one through her eyes.

"It's my father, he's sick, I heard that the condition is very strict, I have to rush to Lin'an, I think if he is an old man, ......"

"I want to know Ling Zun's illness. If it's all right, you'll turn around and go back immediately, right? The old woman interrupted.

How does she know? She saw through her own thoughts. Yuan Lingjun was in a state of panic, and an unprecedented sense of fear instantly hit his heart.

Yes, she was going to turn around and go back. If it weren't for the will of Ai Ai, it would be very likely that she would not go to Lin'an in this life. Her mother died, her third sister died, and her involvement with Lin'an was completely severed.

"You are also destined for the old woman, and it is not impossible to ask, but why does the old woman want to sue you." The old woman said again.

"Weird and weird, doesn't it mean that you and I are destined?" Yuan Ling was puzzled by this.

"It's one thing to have fate, it's another thing to sue you or not, it's not feasible to leak the way of heaven, old woman, I regret my life!"

The tea bowl was at the bottom, and the old woman had not quenched her thirst, so she took out a bamboo slip in her tattered sleeves and called the tea herdsman, "A bamboo slip for your pot of tea soup, you want a good tea." ”

With a sharp sweep of his right eye, the teaman shuddered and stretched out his hand tremblingly. The old woman impatiently tapped on the heart of his hand, "Take it!" ”

The bamboo slip "snapped" and fell on the hand of the tea man, the tea man was illiterate, and looked at it again and again for a while, it was nothing more than a broken bamboo slip full of seal characters, and was about to get angry, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the last cinnabar sketch, and suddenly his expression changed greatly: "God! This is, this is ......."

The old woman waved her hand and signaled him not to make a noise, and the tea-seller agreed, hurriedly took the bamboo slip into his arms, thanked the old woman happily, and ran out to cook the tea with a gust of wind.

Few people know, the old woman crisscrossed the north and south by a pair of broken clogs and a pen under her feet, the bamboo slips are not worthless, but the seal characters on it are the words and sentences in the "Eight Strategies of Vertical and Horizontal", the words are gold, outsiders think so, but in the eyes of the old woman, those words become worthless after she leaves her hometown, if she wants, the peddler pawn can give, if she doesn't want to, the prince and nobles are hard to find.

Yuan Lingjun understood the severity of the matter, and immediately ordered the attendant to go back to the convoy to get the makeup.

"You can take as much gold and silver as you want from the carriage, but please give me the following advice." Yuan Lingjun straightened his sitting posture and bowed his sleeves in front of this old beggar who he didn't know.

The old woman was deeply surprised, and her entourage was even more amazed, you know, this young gentleman has never taken anyone in his eyes, even when facing the emperor, he always looks careless. Ministers were worried.

The waiter returned to the tea shed with her makeup reduced, and Yuan Lingjun opened it and pushed it in front of the old woman, full of jade huang, Yingluo, precious stones, colored glass, gold chuan, and jade...... Among them, the casual ones are enough for the ordinary people to use in this life.

Everyone exclaimed Yuan Lingjun's boldness and magnanimity.

"With gold and silver in my body, I am afraid that my life will not be guaranteed, and the old woman will cherish her life very much." The old woman once again emphasized the importance of her life, with a somewhat stern look between her eyebrows.

In the troubled times, if you take these on the road alone, you will inevitably be worried by thieves, and if you are robbed by gangsters, you will not have to worry about your life. Everyone suddenly realized, and they also felt that the old beggar was hiding deeply, and they all pricked up their ears to listen to her divination.

The old woman carefully selected for a while, took out a silver coin and put it in her sleeve, nodded contentedly, closed her eyes for a long time, and then spoke: "The world is hard, life and death are unpredictable, but if you don't continue to move forward, the turmoil will not stop." Providence arranged for you and me to meet here, and the old woman had nothing else to say, so she gave you a word. ”