In the afternoon, Lei Jiao returned from the countryside of Yiling with the newly purchased autumn tea.

In this way, everything is ready to go.

At dinnertime, Yang Yun deliberately inquired about the thieves yesterday from Ruan Yue, Ruan Yue said: "Yiling is located in the north and south, there are merchants from the south to the north and in and out of Shu, the quality is complicated, the place where the thieves make trouble is not in the city, and it is estimated that they have fled far away if they commit something, and if they haven't been caught now, they can't be caught anyway." ”

There was a guard next to him who quipped: "Ruan is in charge, do you want to go to the Emerald Green Pavilion tonight?" ”

"Tea leaves come in and back, fill the yard, and at night the big boss has to negotiate with the merchants from the south, and the task of the escort is very heavy, and everyone is not allowed to leave without permission...... One or two cheered me up. Ruan Yue said.

Lei Jiao was not allowed to be idle when he returned to the inn, as the steward of the Liu family's caravan of the Shuzhong family, the past merchants were all supplied, and there was no need for Lei Jiao to pay for dinner at all, and some people set up banquets to entertain them.

The banquet was all about business matters, and Yang Yun, as an outsider, didn't want to get involved, although Lei Jiao sent an invitation, Yang Yun politely declined.

He stayed at the inn, had nothing to do, made a dice, and taught some of the girls how to play checkers, and the girls had so much fun that they refused to go back to their rooms until late to sleep, and had to lie in their rooms.

Yang Yun went to the window from time to time to check the situation outside.

Lei Jiao didn't come back until the second watch, he was drunk, and Zhang Lin, who was traveling with him, seemed to be very angry, and he kept complaining about something.

Yang Yun released his spiritual power, investigated carefully, and only heard Zhang Lin's voice: "I heard that the business in Huaiyang is very prosperous this year, since there are goods delivered, we will take it, no matter how he came...... Boss Lei, you are too rigid to calculate the accounts, this batch of goods will be sent to Luoyang next, and it will be twice the profit......"

Lei Jiao said: "The origin of this batch of goods is unknown, if it is found to be related to bandits, it will cause big trouble for the family." We must not make our own decisions about things that the Lord's family has not ordered, as long as we do not lose money, the most important thing is to go down smoothly and steadily. ”

Then Lei Jiao and Zhang Lin entered the lobby, and Yang Yun did not continue to listen to their conversation.

Yang Yun asked a few little loli to go back to the room to rest, while he continued to meditate and try to improve his mental strength.

In a blink of an eye, the drum sounded in the third watch, and it was determined that there was no movement downstairs, and the man in black had not come to harass him again, so he lay down and prepared to sleep, but before he could close his eyes, he heard an official outside slamming the door.

The old-fashioned blackmail routine, the innkeeper went out to carefully send the official errand, and the inn and outside the inn regained tranquility, and frogs and insects could be heard everywhere.

Yang Yun closed his eyes and didn't come back from his thoughts for a long time.

Thinking of the man in black last night, he went to the luggage again, took out the wooden card, and looked at it again, but he still couldn't get the point.

Thinking about his thoughts, Yang Yun fell asleep unconsciously.

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Starting from the wharf market on the north bank of Yiling, the caravan went north along the official road, passing through Dangyang and Lexiang, and heading all the way to Xiangyang.

There are official roads along the way, but because there are many waters, you have to cross rivers such as Mishui and Zhangshui along the way, and you can only travel forty or fifty miles in a day.

The caravan crossed the Han River in Xiangyang and continued to Nanyang, with more and more caravans along the way.

For two days in a row, there was a caravan in front, totaling sixty or seventy carriages, which was not small.

The two caravans almost walked together, and Yang Yun understood that even if they were running merchants on the official roads in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, they might encounter bandits or chaotic people, and the caravans agreed that they would support each other as long as they were on the same road.

After resting in the afternoon of the next day, Lei Jiao took Liu Tong to visit the other party, greeted the other party, and brought back a message when he returned: "It is a caravan returning from Jiangnan, belonging to the Luoyang Mi family...... The steward is the second lady of the Mi family. ”

Yang Yun didn't know the origin of the Mi family in Luoyang, but listening to Lei Jiao's tone, the Mi family was a relatively prestigious family in Luoyang, and the two sides went together and took care of each other.

The other party guarded nearly 100 people, as for why it was a woman leading the team, Yang Yun didn't know much, this year, the Rite Sect did not form a strict constraint on women, and it was not uncommon for women from merchants to go out.

Yang Yun had several meetings with Miss Mi Jia in the past two days, all of them were when the caravan was resting, and after seeing her, she only knew that it was a young woman, who seemed to be unmarried, dressed in a short dress, coming and going in a hurry, because she was wearing a hat, Yang Yun couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly.

On August 12, the group arrived in Nanyang County and entered a market town located at a three-way intersection, which was very lively.

Both the Liufu caravan and the Mijia caravan arranged for the team to enter the town to rest, and then set off in the afternoon, as if to discuss business here, and buy or sell goods depending on the situation.

Yang Yun got out of the carriage with a few little lolias, and didn't go far, but went to the shop on the street to buy some hu cakes and came back, and then sat on the side of the road to watch the scenery.

There are a lot of people in the market town, the day is the market day again, there are a lot of people who come to the market town to buy and sell and exchange goods, there are Taoist priests on the side of the road who set up stalls for people to divinate hexagrams, an old Taoist priest of about fifty years old sits on the stone platform, holds a cloth banner in his hand, from time to time to solicit business, no one patronizes for half a day, then the target is Yang Yun who sits on the side of the road and is brightly dressed.

"Little brother, come here and count a hexagram, if it doesn't work, you won't take a penny."

Lao Dao has a shrewd face, and his accent is not like that of the Central Plains generation, mixed with Wu Nong's soft language, it is not surprising that he should have brought it from Jiang Nanyi.

Yang Yun observed before that this old road was dusty, probably walking here, and seeing the prosperity of the market town, he stopped to open a hexagram stall to supplement the entanglement that was about to run out.

Lao Dao was not alone, but there was a little boy by his side, about ten years old, with pigtails and a face covered with dust from the road, unable to distinguish between men and women.

Yang Yun finished eating the cake in his hand, clapped his hands and walked to the stone platform where Lao Dao was sitting, squatted down and looked at the words "Tianming Zhengdao" on the cloth flag, and said with a smile: "Okay, since it doesn't work and doesn't give money, then you can calculate it for me." ”

Lao Dao hadn't opened for a long time, and he was very relieved to see Yang Yun coming, and asked with a smile: "What does the little brother want to be?" ”

Yang Yun said: "Anything can be done." ”

Lao Dao is not like Songmei, his face has a heroic righteousness, his smile is a little kind, and there is also a little cunning in the game, he asked: "The little brother is going to Luoyang to join relatives and friends!" ”

"You're right."

Yang Yun took out a copper coin from his arms and threw it over, saying, "Calculate it again." ”

Lao Dao said: "If you count it again, you have to ask the heavens." ”

He no longer asked for money, as if a penny was enough to break the sky, took out a turtle shell and shook it, and the hammer in it sounded, and when he stopped, two copper coins fell out of it, one yin and one yang.

Lao Dao stretched out his right hand, clamped up the two copper coins and put them in the palm of his left hand, and talked eloquently: "This hexagram is yangyao, which means that the dragon is trapped in shallow water." The little brother has studied, it should be after the official eunuch, but unfortunately the family is in the middle, but he has also accumulated a little bit of money to Luoyang, and it should not be his parents who defected, but he also has blood and kinship. This trip should be very smooth, and it will be rich and rich in the future, and the hidden dragon will ascend to heaven after all......"

Yang Yun listened to it, what the old Taoist said was roughly accurate, and he also knew that the hexagram was just a matter of observing the words and feelings, which may not be accurate, but it was still quite interesting.

Yang Yun himself also cultivated, but he didn't know anything about divination and hexagrams, and now there is an old god stick who walks the rivers and lakes to "show the way", listen to the old god stick's hexagrams, and also pave the way for the things that he may involve in divination after he arrives in Luoyang.

Spend a few pennies to buy a few sample essays, and draw a gourd in the future, just copy it.

Yang Yun threw another penny over and asked, "Then when will I be able to ascend to heaven?" ”

Lao Dao did not expect to meet the "rich man" here, there are always a few people who are willing to spend money these years, and there are even fewer people who spend two pennies to listen to his divination.

Lao Dao did not use the turtle shell again this time, but pinched his fingers as if he looked like him, and said after a long time in his mouth: "I want to go through some twists and turns, in short, we must guard against arrogance and rashness." ”

Yang Yun smiled, he didn't continue to ask, got up and walked back to a few little loli and sat down.

Seeing that Yang Yun was gone, Lao Dao didn't sit and wait, but got up and held the banner cloth, and took the little boy to the market town to find a wronged boss who was willing to spend money.

Yang Yun ate another piece of Hu cake, looked sideways, and saw that the people of the Mi family's caravan were sitting in the tea house not far away drinking tea, and the second miss of the Mi family, who had not communicated with him before or even looked at each other, looked around, and occasionally collided with Yang Yun's sight.

The distance is not too far, and when the sun is abundant at noon, Yang Yun has no intention of avoiding it at all, and after looking carefully, the second lady of the Mi family is quite beautiful, but it is a pity that the hat covers her forehead, and she doesn't see it very really, and even if she is in a hurry, she has no time to take care of her face, and it is difficult to distinguish between beauty and ugliness.

Yang Yun saw that a few little loli were eating about the same, so he greeted them and took them back to the convoy.

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After noon, the caravan of the Liu Mansion and the Mi family still had not set off.

Lei Jiao was negotiating a deal with a merchant who was going south, and he was delayed for a while, while the Mi family had finished resting early and had not set off for a long time, as if they were waiting for the Liu Mansion caravan to accompany him.

A few little Lori returned to the carriage and continued to play checkers, and just as they were happy, Yang Yun heard a commotion in the distance.

Yang Yun didn't care about what was happening in this town, he was just passing by, there was no need to make extraneous branches, who knew that the noise was getting louder and louder, he came to drive the curtain, and at a glance saw that among the focus of the pushing and shoving conflicts in the market town, there was an old man who had just given him a divination.

Lao Dao and Xiao Tong were blocked by several strong men, and a strong man with a long face and a fierce appearance grabbed Lao Dao's collar, and raised his casserole fist high, and the threat was clearly revealed.

"When you come out to open a hexagram stall, you really have to be careful and careful, if you are not careful, you will cause trouble." Yang Yun thought in his heart, gave an order to a few little loli, got out of the carriage, and walked towards the place where the conflict occurred.

When he was approaching, he only heard the strong man who grabbed the collar of Lao Dao shouting: "You old miscellaneous hair, saying that Lao Tzu has a bloody disaster, you guys give comments, isn't this sincere pouring dirty water, and Lao Tzu is not going to go?" You old bastard, either give me money and compensate me for my mental damage, or don't try to get out of here vertically......"

The strong man is very arrogant, and he speaks with an accent from the Central Plains, which is different from the Guanzhong dialect.

This strong man seems to be the head of the local market, the nature is similar to the ruffian sitting on the ground, the old way in the market to give people divination, was the head of the pit money, the vendors and passing merchants, the people are just watching the lively, no one went up to help.

Lao Dao was grabbed by the collar and lost his temper, but he still tried to defend himself: "Little Lao Er just counted that you have a bloody disaster, if you believe in Lao Dao, there is a way to resolve it......"

Yang Yun wanted to laugh when he heard it, he knew that when the fortune teller saw the fierce and vicious ruffian, he scared and said that there was a disaster of blood and light, and then said that there was a way to resolve it, but he was just taking advantage of people's fear and making a fortune from it. It's just that this time he hit the steel plate, and the strong man didn't eat him.

Yang Yun stood outside the pile of people and watched all this, he didn't want to get involved, but when he saw the frightened gaze of the little boy next to Lao Dao, he felt compassion in his heart.

Picking up a stone from the ground casually, Yang Yun held it in his hand, did not make an obvious movement, just used a flick of his fingers to shoot the stone bullet into the air, and then added a powerful force in the air, and the stone fell and smashed on the top of the strong man's head impartially.

"Ouch!"

The strong man was caught off guard, and he didn't expect to be attacked by someone on his own territory.

With a cry of pain, he wiped his hand on his head, feeling wet and hot, and when he looked at it, his hands were full of blood.

"Which turtle grandson did it?"

The strong man looked around for someone, and naturally he didn't expect that it was Yang Yun, who was a few feet away, who did it, but glared at the people around to watch the excitement.

The old Dao said: "Poor Dao has long said that you have a bloody disaster, and you still don't believe it, but now it has come true, right?" ”

The strong man was even more annoyed, and was about to call a group of followers to deal with the old man, Yang Yun was a dark force applied to the strong man's legs, the strong man was about to take a step forward, the upper body had been tilted out, but the legs were fixed in place, the huge body fell to the ground with a "poof", the nose and forehead were in direct close contact with the ground, and now his face was full of blood.

This time, there was no one around him, and even if he wanted to be angry, he couldn't find a target or a cause.

"It's really a living immortal, it's really accurate."

"Accept your fate, if you offend the Taoist Master, this is a curse."

The onlookers next to him were persuading the strong man to stop.

The strong man was helped up, and he thought that he was guilty of the gods, so he didn't dare to step forward and deal with the old way, so he hurriedly saluted the old man with his fists to show his reparation, and left with the people in a gray way.

Lao Dao and Xiao Tong were able to get out, and the onlookers next to them instantly regarded Lao Dao as an unknown prophet, and a group of people surrounded him and asked for a hexagram.

When the transaction came to the door, Lao Dao smiled more and more happily.

When Yang Yun saw this scene, he also smiled, turned around and was about to leave, when he found that the second lady of the Mi family not far away kept looking at him, and the surprised eyes made Yang Yun's heart furious.

Yang Yun didn't think that the second miss of the Mi family could detect that he was secretly sabotaging, so he turned around and walked back to the carriage, only to see that the second miss of the Mi family had already come over.

"Your Excellency is also from Liu's Mansion?"

The second miss of the Mi family has a crisp and capable voice.

Yang Yun smiled and shook his head: "I walked with my family and the caravan, and I had a good idea on the road." ”

"Oh."

The second miss of the Mi family nodded, and then raised her eyebrows, "You taught that person a lesson, what you did was inappropriate, but it is understandable." ”

Yang Yun was stunned for a moment, and then realized that it might be that his action of picking up stones was discovered by the second lady of the Mi family, and said in his heart: "At that time, everyone's attention was on that old Dao, and you actually noticed that I was picking up stones?" What is the intention? ”

Yang Yun smiled but did not speak.

The woman said, "Don't take it as an example." ”

After speaking, he took people to his own caravan, leaving only a shadow for Yang Yun.