In a pavilion outside the city of Hunan, when the prisoners were being tied together to rest sullenly, they began to talk softly again, taking advantage of the fact that the pavilion guards and the guards were not paying attention.

"I don't know when the opportunity to flee ......"

"The pavilion chief is arrogant, the pavilion pawn is vicious, and he is afraid of being caught and killed......"

"The weather is getting colder and colder, we are only wearing brown clothes, and further north, I am afraid that we will freeze to death, how does the evil of the pavilion chief and the pavilion pawn compare with the cold winter?"

"I heard that north of Yan County, there are three waters, also known as Canglang water, and when the time comes, they will cross the water by boat, so why not throw themselves into the water and hide?"

"When I enter the water in winter, my hands are tied again, and I am afraid that I will die faster!"

While the prisoners were secretly talking, a man suddenly came out from behind the tree, startling them! In case their words are reported, a whipping is indispensable.

The person who came was the Bu Cheng with his hair scattered, and the Bu Cheng waved his hand to reassure the prisoners.

"Don't worry, the second and third sons, if you hear it just now, I will never say it."

While speaking, Bu Cheng also walked among the crowd and chatted with them almost, and after letting everyone let down their vigilance, he smiled and said: "I know the meaning of the second and third sons' death, but those who succeed are one in the human and the other in the sky." On top of the personnel, the second and third sons have been exhausted, but what is the ghost of the foot? ”

"The ghost of divination?" Everyone looked at each other, indeed, they hadn't asked the ghosts and gods about the matter, could this be the reason why the two had failed to flee before?

So the people with the organic spirit said to the divination: "I have heard for a long time that the divination is the day of the water township, and the generation is divination, can you calculate the divination for us?" ”

"Yes."

Bu Cheng stroked his sparse beard and said, "One person and one money, I will divinate for you." ”

Although everyone was a prisoner, but also a little private property, one person and one penny can be taken out, after the divination received the money, he took out the yarrow in his arms, and put twelve on the ground......

"I should use the Book of the Day to destroy the twelve gods, and ask the ghosts for the second and third sons."

The so-called "Book of Days", to put it bluntly, is the imperial calendar of this era, which is full of feudal superstitions such as fortune-telling, feng shui, yin and yang, and faces, but it is deeply believed by most people.

Many years later, the Qin State began to control speech and burned all the poetry books and folk books, but the "Book of Days" was spared, because the people of the Qin State had reached the point where they could not live without the Book of Days.

The "Book of Days" divides the days of the year into twelve categories, namely, "building, eliminating, full, leveling, stabilizing, persistent, breaking, dangerous, accomplishing, harvesting, opening, and closing", which is called "building and eliminating the twelve gods". These 12 gods are associated with the month of December, and when combined with the 12 earthly branches used to record the day, they can tell you exactly what you can and cannot do on a certain day of the month of the year, so as to seek advantage and avoid disadvantage.

For example, if you are an officer and open the "Book of Days" and find that the corresponding place of today's day reads, "If you are in a field battle, you will win the prince", then you should quickly prepare for battle, looking forward to capturing the leader of the enemy country in one fell swoop in today's field battle, and then returning home with official and knighted clothes.

If you are a farmer and see that the Book of Days says, "He Ji Day, Ji Longyin." Ugly, rice, wheat ......", this means that every "Yin" day should not be planted millet, "ugly" day should not be planted sorghum, "Hai" day should not be planted rice, "Zi" day should not be planted wheat...... So you pinch your fingers and calculate, today is the "child" day, then don't plant wheat, plant millet!

If you are a small official, you should be even more optimistic about your life, which is closely related to your official fortune. Because the "Book of Days" says that if you go to see the leader to report your work on the "child" day, if you go in the morning, he will listen carefully to you, if you go in the evening, he will not listen, and if you go at dusk, the leader will definitely let you go again. When you go to see the leader in the morning on an "ugly" day, he will be furious, but if you go in the evening, you will get his praise......

There are also a lot of taboos in travel, such as the first month, May, and September, going east will be fatal, and going southeast will be separated from the family, and going south is also ominous.

In short, marriage, childbirth, funerals, farming, and travel, the guidance and prophecy of the "Book of Days" for the lives of the people are almost to the extent of no detail. For the people of the Qin State who believe in divination ghosts and gods, it is really difficult and helpless to open their eyes every morning without looking at the "Book of Days......

However, except for a small number of wealthy people with lords, not everyone in the Qin Kingdom was literate, so there was a special industry for people to read the "Book of Days" divination, which can be called diviners, or "day people", and the historical records also made a "Biography of the Day" for this group of people

And Bu Cheng is a folk day man in Anlu County.

To the officials, he may not be worth mentioning. But for the superstitious prisoners, this diviner who can recite most of the "Book of Days" is a great character, who can help them, communicate with mysterious ghosts and gods, and see the good luck and evil in the future......

Therefore, when divination was calculated according to the 12 of the Book of Days, the prisoners were silent, as if they were facing a serious matter.

After thinking for a while, Bu Cheng's originally relaxed face became extremely solemn, and he couldn't stop shaking his head and said, "It's not good, it's not good......"

The prisoners suddenly became nervous and asked, "Diviner, what's wrong?" ”

Bu Cheng got up sweating profusely, pointed to the yarrow that the prisoners couldn't understand at all, and said: "According to the number in the book of days, throughout October, November, and December, the escape will be ominous!" I asked the ghost in detail for the second and third sons, and the ghost said......"

"What the hell said?" The prisoners were nervous.

"The ghost said, don't try to escape, otherwise you will die unexpectedly, your body will be in a different place, and your family will be punished!"

"Ahh The prisoners were frightened and strangely frightened, and it was common for them to threaten them with legal orders, but the same words were said as the words of demons and gods, and the group believed them.

Even if there were a few who were skeptical, they did not dare to openly question the results of the divination of the Japanese.

What they didn't know was that at this moment, Heifu had already deliberately set aside the other guards, and he himself was watching this scene from a distance from the back of the house.

From the perspective of modern people, these prisoners' belief in the "Book of Days" seems to be a bit absurd. But thinking about the fact that more than 2,000 years later, many people still have to rely on the imperial calendar handed down from their ancestors to choose a house to see feng shui, and choose an auspicious day for marriage, it is not surprising that Heifu is not surprised.

The next day, when they arrived in Yan County, the head of the Heifu Pavilion suddenly announced that everyone was about to leave the boundary of Nan County, and he wanted to take out some money to buy fish and reward everyone.

"The soldiers eat meat, the prisoners drink soup, and everyone has a share."

Hearing this, everyone was naturally overjoyed, so they took Heifu's money and bought dozens of catties of fish in the Yanxian market, and everyone cleaned up together.

When a soldier was holding a knife to cut open the belly of the largest grass carp, he suddenly let out an exclamation!

"What is this?"

When the soldiers heard the news, they gathered around, but they saw that the soldier actually took out a small piece of wood from the belly of the fish, cleaned the fish blood on it, and saw that there were words carved with a knife on it!

Most of the soldiers and prisoners were illiterate, and when they looked at each other, Bu Cheng also squeezed in, held it in his hand and read: "Don't run away, serve as the pavilion chief, make meritorious service, and atone for your sins......"

He hurriedly held the wooden stump high and said: "This is the ghost and god hiding the book in the belly of the fish, and the message is sent to us, don't run away, serve the pavilion chief, make meritorious service, and atone for your sins, this is the meaning of the ghost and god!" The second and third sons should be remembered! ”

"The will of the ghosts!"

The convicts thought of the divination of the divination when they were in Yanxian County, coupled with the fish-belly book in front of them, as if they had fulfilled each other, and they were terrified for a while, except for a few who did not believe in evil, most of the convicts were convinced of this.

After drinking the fish soup, the prisoners no longer whispered about how to escape, but eagerly discussed the second half of the book in the fish belly.

"Feng Pavilion Chief, meritorious service, atonement for sins......"

They looked at Heifu who pretended to be nothing, and at this time, the prisoners began to remember Heifu's experience of successive meritorious service after he took office, maybe he could really survive by obeying the orders of this pavilion chief, and even make meritorious atonements?

……

"Thanks to the help of the divination, the prisoners are really honest, and they are really a great day."

According to the agreement, after the matter was completed, Heifu handed over the remaining 150 coins to Bu Cheng in the dark. Bu Cheng is naturally grateful, so much money is enough for him to buy a thick set of clothes, so that he can survive this difficult winter.

At the same time, Bu Cheng said flatteringly: "Pavilion chief, the villain will not only recite the Japanese book, count the good and the bad, but also meet each other, does the pavilion chief also want to try?" “

Heifu smiled: "How much does it cost?" ”

"No money this time, no money."

"Okay." Heifu nodded, and turned his face to Bu Cheng: "You can take a look for me." ”

Although, he didn't believe in the art of face-to-face at all.

Bu Cheng looked at Heifu's face carefully for a while, and his mouth was amazed.

"The pavilion chief has a wide forehead, is a wise man, has big ears and thick ears, and is a blessed man, with a pair of tiger eyes, majestic and heroic, and is the talent of an official. The pavilion chief will definitely have a smooth career in the future, and ten years later, he may be able to ......"

"Oh, what will I be in ten years?"

Bu Cheng wanted to say the county order and the county lieutenant, but when the words came to his lips, he looked at Heifu's expression, shrank back again, and simply blew it up!

"Ten years later, be a county guard!"

"The county guard?"

When Heifu heard this, he laughed: "Okay, Bu Cheng, you have said what I think in my heart, I really want to be a county guard, so that I can be a political religion, so that I can establish a reputation, so that the world will know it...... Guarding a county under the command of the king? Well, my ambition is also! ”

However, there was a hint of disapproval in Heifu's eyes, and he did not believe the compliments of the diviner.

However, Bu Cheng was secretly speechless, and after Heifu left, he scolded and said: "This Heifu Pavilion Chief, I just said casually, he actually responded, just a pavilion chief, but he expects to be a county guard?" It's too arrogant! ”

……

Heifu didn't know that when he was copying the "Fish Belly Danshu" more than ten years later, hundreds of miles northeast of Yancheng, Yangcheng County, Shangcai County, Chu State, which had been occupied by the Qin army, a son of the Chen family who was about the same age as Heifu and followed his clansmen to leave his hometown and migrate to Huaibei in order to avoid the spread of the war, suddenly sneezed several times without warning......

Looking back at his hometown, which was getting farther and farther away, the young man tightened his brown clothes, his eyes full of worry.

He was just a side branch of the Chen family, no different from a servant, and after arriving in Huaibei, he didn't even know what to rely on to make a living.

"Honghu flies south, there will be a return date, but I don't know if Chen Sheng will be able to return to Yangcheng in his lifetime?"