In the three years since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the world has been peaceful, the wind and rain are smooth, and everyone lives and works in peace and contentment.

In Woniu Village, outside Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, there was a family surnamed Zhang who gave birth to a child, and it happened that a family in the same village also had a child.

The thunder struck the locust tree in the courtyard and gave birth to a daughter.

This scene was seen by the wandering Taoist priest, and he said in his heart, this child was born at the same time and in the same place, why did the neighbor's child not see the auspicious clouds, but instead attracted thunder.

I couldn't help pinching my fingers and laughing.

On the side, Zhang Chengsi, who was on the other side to take shelter from the rain, was inexplicable, but it was Zhang Chengsi who understood the thunder, the heavy rain was pouring down, and the lightning was sandwiched with thunder. A bolt of lightning struck the locust tree in the courtyard of the Deng family, so that it didn't hit Deng Chang, and seeing that the Taoist priest could actually laugh, he asked, "The immortal chief is not close to people, Zhang Cai's thunder is so good that it was split on my neighbor's body, and he almost died, and the immortal chief can still laugh, is it laughing at my neighbor's embarrassment?" Then he shook his head again and again, this Taoist priest is five or six people on the surface, but in fact, he doesn't know the warmth and coldness of human feelings, and he is a person who doesn't understand human feelings.

If he hadn't begged for something, he might have kicked him out of the house.

Taoist priest said, "Little brother misunderstood, I didn't laugh at the little brother of the Deng family, I was laughing at the Zhang family's birth, and the Deng family also gave birth in a hurry. Poor Zhang Cai pinched the trick, the Zhang family gave birth to a boy when the sun was shining, and the Deng family gave birth to a girl, if my guess is right, your family is afraid that the Deng family will give birth to a girl. Moreover, Poor Dao also dared to assert that the children born in these two families have similar temperaments and temperaments, and they live next to each other, and the two children will grow up in the future, maybe they can become Qin Jin's good. There is an enviable fate. This girl is your nephew's destiny, and she is here to chase your nephew. That's why there is such a smile, the little brother misunderstood. ”

Zhang Chengsi didn't believe it, and said, "Taoists can't talk nonsense, how can you know that my neighbor has a boy or a girl?" ”

Taoist priest, "You don't believe it? ”

Zhang Chengsi, "If you can see the life of boys and girls, it must be a Da Luo immortal, I heard the storyteller in Chang'an City, Da Luo immortal can not only predict the prophet, but also drive the clouds and rain, the sky and the earth are flying, these rains are trivial things in the eyes of the gods." You said that you had a daughter, but I didn't believe it. ”

Taoist priest, "Let's make a bet." ”

Zhang Chengsi, "Bet on what? ”

Taoist priest, "If the family is born of a boy, I will not charge a penny for the little brother's divination, and if it is a girl, the little brother will promise to give me double the divination." ”

Zhang Chengsi, "Okay." ”

The two bet on high-fives.

The rain was heavy, and there was thunder, and it was just the right door to give birth, and this side of the car couldn't hear it clearly. But the Taoist insisted on giving birth to a daughter in the family, so he bet and high-fived.

The rain was too heavy, and it wasn't early, if it weren't for the fact that there was a stranger at home, Zhang Chengsi might have knocked on the door to ask.

After the two made a bet, Zhang Chengsi's face was full of doubts, the Taoist priest said that he was right about the protégé girl, and he also said that the girl and his nephew were a good match, but he didn't believe it. Talking with the Taoist priest, I learned that the Taoist priest's common family name is Jia, named Jia Tian, whose ancestral home is Wengjia Village, Huilai County, the capital of Daofang Prefecture, Guannei, because his parents died when he was a child, and he lived with his uncle.

When I got older, I heard a lot of fairy legends, so I came to the capital Chang'an City to see the Xuanxuan Dao, and I had some ability to read the hexagrams.

While speaking, Zhang Chengsi asked to go out to do business for him, and Taoist priest Jia Tian asked Zhang Chengsi to pick up sixty-four straws.

Zhang Chengsi took some straw from the stove in the house, counted it carefully, and picked up sixty-four.

Jia Tian also asked Zhang Chengsi to take out some of the sixty-four straws at will, and the remaining straws were Zhang Chengsi's hexagrams.

Zhang Chengsi couldn't help but be even more puzzled.

Jia Tian told Zhang Chengsi that this is a set of algorithms that he explored from the Book of Changes, with sixty-four straws, and the remaining few are the first hexagrams of the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes.

Zhang Chengsi didn't believe it, and said, "I see that the Taoist temple in the capital is to tell fortunes to people, either to let people shake copper coins or to divinate people, you Taoist priest deceives people, I won't miss you for hexagrams, you just picked up some straw for me to calculate." ”

Having said that, he still took out some straws according to Jia Tian's method, and counted the remaining straws, and only thirty-five were left.

Taoist priest Jia Tianyan said, "This hexagram is a Jin hexagram, and the hexagram is like a sign that the morning sun is coming out and the dawn is about to rise." The little brother goes out to do business, just go, it will definitely be fine. ”

Zhang Chengsi didn't believe it even more, "The immortal chief is joking with me, just a few straws, you will cut me off from going out to buy and sell good luck." ”

Jia Tian laughed, "Little brother doesn't believe in monks. I said that you don't believe me, and now I calculate the good luck for my little brother, and you don't believe me, I can still make a bet with you. ”

After all, Zhang Chengsi is a hairy guy in his twenties, "What are you betting on?" ”

Taoist Jia Tian, "If you don't believe me, if you go out to do business, if you make a lot of money, you have to go to the capital Chang'an City to repay your wishes." ”

Zhang Chengsi nodded, "It's okay." ”

High-fived with Taoist priest Jia Tian.

The sky gradually darkened, although Zhang Chengsi did not believe in the words of Taoist priests, but the Tang Dynasty since the emperor was convinced that religion was close to obsession, and the people could not be without influence. Although he deliberately did not believe it in his heart, and the peasant family believed in etiquette, he still gave up his bed to the Taoist priest to live in, and took a few beds of straw and made a bunk in the house.

It was a stormy night, and the two went to bed early.

There was nothing to say that day, and the next morning, the sky was clear.

Zhang Chengsi invited the Taoist priest to breakfast, Zhang Chengsi did not wait for the Taoist to speak, brought a few handfuls of millet from his own house to knock on the door, and went to visit the boy and girl.

Yesterday's bet was in my mind.

After knocking on the door, it was Deng Chang of the Deng family who opened the door.

First he said goodbye, and then asked if he was born yesterday as a boy or a girl.

Deng Chang sighed and said, "Your sister-in-law has a bad stomach and gave birth to a girl." ”

Zhang Chengsi couldn't help but be stunned, this Taoist priest must really be a living immortal, near Chang'an, the capital, I haven't heard of anyone who can take advantage of the birth of a boy and a girl, and I am afraid that my words yesterday will collide with the immortals.

I didn't have time to say goodbye and ran back, and when I returned home, the Taoist priest was sorting out his clothes in front of his house, preparing to say goodbye to Zhang Chengsi.

Seeing Zhang Chengsi coming back, Taoist priest Jia Tian stroked his beard with his hand, looking calm.

"Little brother is back?" Taoist priest Jia Tian was the first to speak, "Do you see that your family still says that you will give birth to a girl who is a protégé boy?" ”

Zhang Chengsi took out a cloth bag from the clothes on his chest and took out ten copper coins from it, and said ashamedly, "Immortal Chang is really a god, yesterday you counted my neighbor's birth to a girl, you really calculated it right, I lost yesterday when I bet." ”

Jia Tian nodded again and again, and said, "Yesterday I gave the little brother a good fortune, and the bet on double divination was just a joke, I want to thank you for your hospitality yesterday, and I don't want any hexagram money." ”

Zhang Chengsi said, "Where can this be, the immortal chief violates yesterday's bet agreement if you don't want hexagrams, and if you don't want hexagrams, you will scold me for being a dishonest villain." ”

Jia Tian had no choice but to accept the copper coin, pick up his own fortune and stride away.

Zhang Chengsi looked at Jia Tianyuan's figure, and still thought to himself, this Taoist priest can see that the boy and the girl in life are really gods and men.