In the spring of 2019, as a post-90s generation who was about to run for three, I chose to go to the countryside to farm.

Get up in the middle of the night to clean the pigsty and chicken coop, learn agricultural planting and breeding techniques, drive three jumpers on the country road, and live a simple and ordinary life.

For my decision, 10,000 percent of my family did not support it. But there was no way, I was Zhang Fei eating scales at the time, and this guy was hard-hearted, so even if my family didn't understand, I still insisted on taking this road.

In fact, when it comes to insisting on farming, the reason is not just to escape the curse of working dogs.

We'll have to start at the beginning.

My name is Su Yan, born in the 90s, born and raised in Jincheng, the capital of Gansu Province in the northwest. In his early years, his life had been uneventful, with average grades and no early love.

When I was in college, like most northern dolls, I left my hometown to study in another city.

I ate hot dry noodles for four years in Hankou City, Dongting North Province, and lived a mixed life. When it was time to graduate, he slapped his hands, looked confused, hummed and dared to ask where the road was, I didn't know where to go, and finally chose to go to the southern hemisphere kangaroo country to study, and it was two years later, and finally returned to the arms of my ancestors at the end of the two zodiac reincarnations, and went to work in a hospital in Pengcheng, Southern Province.

Maybe it was because I was born in turmoil and my life was uneasy, but I resolutely quit my business after I started my job, and then I was unexpectedly cold. Then, around mid-2018, I moved to Wuguan City, next door to Pengcheng, and officially became an unemployed returnee.

That's where the story begins.

According to the eight-character numerology, it must be my destiny to carry a canopy, and I can't hide from the monk's Xuanmen. Although I worship the teachings of fortune-telling, I haven't shown myself the eight characters, but I can't leave ten when I think about it.

When I was a child, I liked to study some gods and ghosts, probably romanticism in my bones, and I felt that if the world was not a little invisible and untouchable, it would be monotonous and boring.

Therefore, I have listened to the teachings of the Lord, studied the Buddha's Zen machine, and later devoted myself to Taoism, so that Lao Tzu's Taoism is very Taoist. Ordinary people dream of ticket house girls, people with lofty ideals dream of scientific and technological innovation to serve the motherland, what about me, and Qin Shi Huang have a mind, immortality, Taoism, and immortality.

In the past few years in college, I haven't read much books and now I can't draw a clear line, but all kinds of numerology feng shui and the like, I really touched the doorway. Later, the teacher gave a lecture on it, and I showed the characters to my classmates below. Coincidentally, my undergraduate major at the time was psychology, and I became a representative of professional self-blackening.

Later, when I studied abroad, some people went to work in restaurants, and some buddies began to buy milk powder***. I'm a lazy and troublesome person who can't do those jobs. In the end, there was a flash of inspiration in my head, and I slapped my thigh excitedly, come on, buddy, I will give full play to my strengths and specialties, and set up a stall to tell fortunes.

It doesn't matter if I can give birth a few years earlier, have a white beard, and hang on to my body, it is estimated that people will have to call me an old fairy. It's a pity that after all, he was too young, and the immortals didn't get mixed up, and they became demons.

When I came back from Kangaroo Country, I decided to wash my hands and stop being a fortune teller. First, I, a cultivator, have broken my cultivation for the sake of petty profits, which is really not worth it; second, the work of fortune-telling is indeed a lot of brains, not the kind of eyes that outsiders think can be seen as soon as the eyes are closed, and I can know five hundred years before and five hundred years later, but I need to keep calculating, in order to consider that little hair, after returning to China, I am ready to start working, and I plan not to do it.

Originally, I might just be an ordinary metaphysics lover in the future. As a result, until the business failed and I was unemployed in Wuguan City, I was forced to work again and had no choice but to start my old job again.

But this is done, and if we say that we will no longer tell fortunes, then we can't self-destruct the image of the master and go back on our words. So as soon as I changed hands, I started a business of selling talismans and reading feng shui.

When it comes to charms and feng shui, we have to briefly mention one or two words here.

As soon as it comes to spells, all the officials may already have a scene in their minds, in the first zombie film of the last century, the big zombie wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty has a ghost talisman pasted on the door of his head. In places where Taoism is more popular in the south, there will be people who go to the Taoist hall to ask for a peace charm during the New Year's Festival, which is generally folded into a triangle by the master in advance. Of course, there are also some supernatural stories that are indispensable to them, burning talismans and water to swallow, curing diseases and driving away evil spirits.

But in fact, in fact, the two words of charm should actually be taken apart.

Let's start with the symbols. This talisman, or talisman and Danshu, is a representative of Taoist culture and folk magic. There are different genres and styles, generally in the form of yellow paper and red letters, yellow paper and black letters, red paper and black letters. In terms of its own structure, it is usually composed of talisman heads, talisman galls, talisman feet, etc., and there are roughly general rules and systems in the drawing method.

As for the efficacy of the talisman, in recent years, it has become more and more omnipotent. Open a certain treasure, eat the little vixen who broke the iron and wanted the Huohuo family, the boys and girls who rebellious rock and roll in adolescence and explode when they touch it, the male gods and goddesses who love to take a bath with your cold work and rest rules, and the masters in it all have charms to govern. As for the efficacy, I haven't tried it anyway, and it's no wonder that the contemptible people are sparse and halfway to become a monk, and I really don't know which old immortal family in this ancient time could still think of these governance methods for the sake of the marriage and family life of future generations.

As for mantras, they refer to mantras. Somewhat similar to the Harry Potter spell, it refers to the use of secret sounds to manipulate some mysterious power. The more well-known ones are the eight divine mantras of Taoism, as well as some Buddhist Buddha names, Tantric mantras and so on. Some are similar to ancient texts or verses that you can recite as long as you know the words, while others are more like the Tibetan Buddhist form of mantras, with syllables as the main constituent elements, such as "moo".

The reason why the charms are connected together is that I think it is related to the use of the charms. Usually Taoist drawing, the steps are quite cumbersome. First of all, you have to choose a good day, bathe and change clothes, pay attention to it, and you have to avoid meat in advance, after all, a mouthful of garlic stinky tofu smells, and people don't have to dislike it. It is also necessary to set up an altar to invite God, incense to worship God, and there is piety when drawing talismans, and it is necessary to receive the altar to send God after the talisman is completed, etc. During this period, many steps need to be accompanied by different spells, and each talisman also has its own drawing and mantra, and it is even said that it is necessary to step on the gang, pinch the fingers in the hand, and visualize in the heart.

It can be said that charms are inseparable things, even if you look through the manuscript full of worm eyes at the bottom of the box, and draw a talisman from the top in a regular manner, then you can expect it to be good.

The origin of charms can be traced back to the ancient Wuzhu period, and after many years of evolution, it has become a very important part of Taoism and folk beliefs. If you have to point a gun at me and ask me if I am spiritual, hey, it's still the same sentence, don't ask if you don't believe me.

The charm will be mentioned for the time being, and if there is a need in the later story, we will continue to talk about it.

Next, let's talk about feng shui. Feng Shui, the high-end point of the saying is called Kanyu, in our modern popular terms, it is a technique for investigating astronomy and geography. The formation of the real system of feng shui is relatively late compared to the mantra, Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty said in his "Book of Burial": "The burial person, take the qi by the qi and the wind, and the boundary water is stopped, the ancients gathered to make it not disperse, and the line is stopped, so it is called feng shui, the law of feng shui, the water is the first, and the Tibetan wind is second", which is the first time to put forward a clear definition of feng shui.

The core content of Feng Shui is a qi character, and this qi must be written as having rice in it, just like the qi of cultivating immortals and refining the inner pill must be the qi at the bottom of this qi character, which is exquisite, and also has its inner meaning. The role of Feng Shui is to seek good fortune and avoid evil, and to conform to nature. People who believe in feng shui believe that the deceased will be buried in a feng shui treasure, which can bless the descendants of the people, and the living can live in a place with good feng shui, and they can also accumulate blessings and avoid evil.

From a practical scientific point of view, Feng Shui is a combination of environmental sanitation and physical geography. If the burial person encounters some landslide termites in a place with poor natural geography, and the coffin is gone in two days, the designation of that thing will not be better. As for the living, if they stay in a dirty and messy environment all day long, it will definitely be harmful to their physical and mental health.

At the same time, there are many differences between the various schools of Feng Shui. In the same place, different schools may come to different conclusions, and it is generally impossible for a Feng Shui master on the market to use only one school of theory, but based on experience, flexible judgment, and comprehensive evaluation. Most of the contemporary people believe in the true biography of Yang Gong Jiang, which family looks at feng shui if they come out of Sangong Village, then when they meet ordinary peers, their noses must be facing the sky.

In fact, whether it is spells, feng shui or fortune telling, its core theory lies in yin and yang, which is an extension of the early naïve dualistic philosophy, and the core should pay attention to dialectic. It is a pity that after thousands of years of development, the world only knows how to pursue a set theory, but forgets the standard of seeking truth from facts and combining it with its own situation, which violates the core of the original yin-yang dialectic.

This is the end of our unscientific science popularization, and let's go back to the fact that I was unemployed in Wuguan City and started to draw talismans to see feng shui.

At the beginning, there were also sporadic fortune-tellers who came to the door to ask for charms, but relying on this drizzle, buddy, sooner or later I had to starve myself.

Everything is fate, and nothing is up to anyone. Just when I was worried, a business came to my door.