Speaking of which, His Royal Highness King Fu was originally the uncle of Emperor Chongde. It was Emperor Chongde's grandfather when he was the son of heaven, and he was the most favorite son. even once for him, he had the idea of abolishing the elder and the young. Later, although he ordered him to go to the kingdom, the reward given to him was far more than that of ordinary princes. Over the years, because of the heavy taxes, many people have invested their own industries in the name of King Fu in order to avoid taxes, and as a result, there is almost no place in this Luoyang City that is not the property of King Fu.

Since the inauguration of this blessed king, he has not been doing his job all day long, but he is greedy for money and goods, and he is beautiful. In addition to the things that gather every day, in fact, I don't care about anything, just blindly drink and have fun.

A few days ago, King Fu was drunk and had a nightmare, and woke up, only vaguely remembering that he seemed to be being chased by a big snake in a dream, but since then he has often palpitated. King Fu felt that this dream that he couldn't remember clearly was really an ominous omen. Let people find someone to interpret the dream. It's just that those offerings in the palace, although the interpretation of dreams is fantastic, but they can't make King Fu feel at ease. Someone told King Fu that the Xuanfa Taoist people in the Ziyun Temple outside the city were good at helping the people, and they could invite the gods. King Fu himself had heard about helping the beggars to invite immortals before, but he had never played it himself. Since he heard people talk about it, he became interested again, so he asked people to invite the Xuanfa Taoist to enter the palace to help him with divination.

Fuping is a very popular method of divination. In fact, the so-called "pen immortals" or "disc immortals" of later generations are all simplified and deformed of this method. The method of supporting the sand generally requires the preparation of a wooden plate with fine sand or fine ash, and a pen inserted in the basket. The whole process requires six people to operate.

The person who presided over this ceremony was called "Zhengluan", and his assistant was called "Vice Luan". In addition, there are two singers and two records. These six people are called "three talents and six departments".

Before performing divination, these six people need to fast and bathe to purify their bodies and minds. This is followed by the burning of incense charms to gain the attention of the gods. Then the "Zhengluan" and "Vice Luan" each hold up the basket with one index finger, so that the pen just touches the fine sand on the wooden plate. When the pen moves on its own, it means that a god has descended, and the diviner can ask questions to the spirit. And the god will write his answer on the sand with a pen. The singer reads out what the gods have written, and then records the words. Then it is time to burn incense to send the gods. Of course, it is said that "it is easy to please God and it is difficult to send God". When helping the people, sometimes the invited spirits are not necessarily serious, and even most of the time they are evil spirits and ghosts, and the result may cause a lot of losses to the diviner. Therefore, if people with status want to do this thing, most of them have to invite those high-level (highly cultivated Taoist masters) to preside over it.

When the Xuanfa Taoist arrived at the Fuwang Mansion, he told the disciple his identity, and the disciple asked Xuanfa and Qingfeng to wait in the gatehouse, and he took the worship post to go in. Xuanfa and Qingfeng waited in the gatehouse for about half an hour before a Qin steward came over and took the two of them in.

The two followed Steward Qin through several courtyards and arrived at a small courtyard to the east. In this small courtyard, there are already things such as plates, pens, incense, fire, runes, and papers, and a group of small servants are busy there. Steward Qin asked Xuanfa and Qingfeng to wait here. After another tea time, I heard someone outside shouting: "The prince has arrived!" ”

The little guys hurriedly knelt down to greet them, and Xuanfa also knelt down with the breeze and waited. After a while, I heard footsteps and a voice that was out of breath: "Flat!" ”

Xuanfa stood up with a breeze. But I saw a white-faced fat man in front of him wearing a black gauze winged crown and a red four-group dragon round-necked dragon robe. Xuanfa knew that this was the Blessed King.

"Poor Dao Xuanfa to meet King Fu Chitose, Chitose!" Xuanfa took the breeze and bowed two more times. King Fu smiled and said, "The Dao Chief is an outsider, so there is no need to be so polite. Xiao Wang has had a nightmare recently, and since then he has always been in a trance. Xiao Wang worries that this is a bad omen. I heard that the argument between heaven and man is long, and he is good at being sincere and to the gods. Therefore, Xiao Wang took the liberty of asking the Taoist chief to help the immortal to resolve Xiao Wang's doubts. ”

The Xuanfa Taoist arched his hand and said: "The king has an order, and the small path should serve itself." However, the prince is a nobleman and has his own dragon energy of the imperial court. Since ancient times, the law has not been applied to nobles, not because they don't want to, they don't want to, but they can't. Unless the prince himself makes a decree and allows Xiaodao to cast spells, otherwise, this little magic of Xiaodao will not be used at all under the suppression of the imperial court's Huanghuang dragon qi. ”

When King Fu heard this, he was amazed and said, "There are still such things? Watching "Journey to the West" alone, the soul of the Dragon King of Jinghe entered the palace at night to harass Emperor Taizong, and the underworld also detained the soul of Emperor Taizong to the underworld to ask right. Is this all nonsense? ”

The Xuanfa Taoist listened to it and said: "The king also knows that this "Journey to the West" is just a novel. It also said that Master Xuanzang and Emperor Taizong swore brothers, and went west to seek scriptures at the holy decree of Emperor Taizong. But if you look at the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" written by the master himself, you will know that the master should not talk about such things as worshipping Taizong, in fact, even when he went out of the customs, he was not ordered to go out of the customs, but secretly crossed the border by himself. So novels and things like that can't be trusted. ”

When King Fu heard this, he reluctantly smiled and said, "What the Taoist chief said is true. Then he turned to a eunuch who was following him and said, "Go and get pen and ink!" ”

The eunuch answered, and turned away. But after a moment's effort, the pen and ink came. King Fu took the pen and wrote the words "Licensing Xuanfa Daoist Casting Spells", and stamped it with an idle seal. Then he asked, "Daoist, is this possible?" ”

The Xuanfa Daoist hurriedly replied, "Your Highness the King, with this will, Xiaodao can cast spells. ”

King Fu then handed this decree to the eunuch, who took it and handed it to Xuanfa. The occult law knelt down and gave the will. began to burn incense and burn talismans, and then the three talents and six parts were in place. Xuanfa Taoist and Qingfeng served as "Zhengluan" and "Deputy Luan". The two of them held the basket, and after a while, the pen moved slightly on the sand table. This is the manifestation of the coming of the gods.

King Fu then asked, "I don't know which god it is?" ”

The pen moved on the sand table by itself, and in a short time it was written out one word after another. The "singer" standing next to him hurriedly followed and reported these words one after another: "I-Nai-滈-Chi-Jun-also-"

Hearing this divine name, King Fu couldn't help frowning. Kuike-kun is an ancient god who has not shown any supernatural powers for more than a thousand years. But this deity has left a mark in the history books. When Qin Shi Huang was in the past, there was a Qin sent from Waishan to return to Xianyang, and met a person on the road, and presented a piece of jade, and told him: "The king of Zhuchi returned to this bi, and the ancestral dragon died this year." With that, the man vanished into thin air. The Chin sent back to present it and told the First Emperor what he had said. The First Emperor asked people to check this jade and found that it was the jade that sank when the imperial court sacrificed to the king of Zhuchi the year before last. And this year, Qin Shi Huang did die. Now Fu Ping has invited this god who predicted the death of the ancestral dragon, which really does not seem to be an auspicious omen.

King Fu settled down and asked, "I had a nightmare a few days ago, and I don't know the Lord and the good and the bad, so I asked God to give a lecture." ”

As soon as the words fell, the pen moved, and it was extremely fast. "Singing Sheng" hurriedly reported these words, and recorded them, but it was a poem:

"Prosperous things scatter the fragrant dust, and the flowing water is ruthless and the grass springs.

The east wind complains about the birds at dusk, and the falling flowers are like people falling from the building. ”

He finished writing this poem, but then wrote: "Burn incense, my god will go." ”

The crowd hurriedly burned incense, and after shaking the pen twice, they stopped moving. As you know, according to the rules, this is the departure of the gods.

King Fu looked at the poem recorded in the record, and his face was full of worry. No one else needs to understand, he also knows that this poem is the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "Golden Valley Garden". sighed is the story of the rich man Shi Chong in the Jin Dynasty. At that time, Shi Chong was rich and extravagant, and once played the game of "the fragrance of crumbs sinking into the water is like dust, and the cloth is like a bed, so that the loved ones practice it, and the untraced ones give real pearls", which shows his wealth and luxury. Later, after Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, launched a coup d'état and seized power, his henchman Sun Xiu relied on his power and went to Shi Chong to ask for the favored Ji Luzhu. Shi Chong refused to give it. Sun Xiu then proposed to Sima Lun that he wanted to kill Shi Chong. Shi Chong was drinking with Luzhu in the Jingu Garden, and when he saw the Jiashi coming to the door, Shi Chong knew that it was not good, so he said to Luzhu: "I am going to be unlucky today for you." When Luzhu heard this, she cried and said, "I should die before you to repay you." He jumped off the building and died. At that time, Shi Chong thought that his bad luck was exile at most. Who knows, but he was sent directly to Dongshi to be beheaded. When he was dying, Shi Chong sighed and said: "Slaves benefit my family wealth. The recipient replied: "Knowing wealth causes harm, why not disperse it early?" Shi Chong was speechless, so the whole family was killed. Now, the invited god gave such a poem, and the blessed king is famous for his wealth, and the meaning of this is naturally unknown.

"Thank you, Chief, for your help." It took a long time for King Fu to reluctantly say such a sentence, "Zhang Bandang, you go and get some silver for the Taoist chief, which is considered the sesame oil money I gave." After speaking, without waiting for anyone else to react, he turned around and left.

A eunuch asked Xuanfa to wait here, and after a while, he brought an ingot, about ten taels of silver, and handed it to Xuanfa. He asked for the will given to him by King Fu just now from the hands of Xuanfa, and let people go out with Xuanfa.

After leaving the Fuwang Mansion, Xuanfa didn't even eat lunch, so he rushed back to Ziyunguan directly. As soon as I entered the temple, I met Hu Yidao who was helping to chop wood in the yard.

Hu Yidao saw that Xuanfa's face was wrong, so he asked, "Dao Chief, is everything going well?" Isn't something wrong? ”

Xuanfa said: "Things are going well. It's just that Lao Dao has encountered something in his spell cultivation. ”

This kind of thing, Hu Yidao can't help, so he just smiled, and after a few more random sentences, he re-chopped the firewood, and Xuan Fa went directly into the inner courtyard.