Chapter 4 Setting up a stall to tell fortunes
The fourth thing is that this apprentice who left his body and part of his memory, under the teaching of Gongsun He since he was a child, he also knew how to read and break words, and in terms of fortune-telling, he was carefully taught by the old man, and the fortune-telling he learned happened to be the plum blossom easy number that Yi Xingchen was good at, that is, Mei Xinyi. It's just that the knowledge about fortune-telling in these memories is far less than what Yi Xingchen learned from books in modern society.
In the modern network society, there are many books and materials such as fortune telling, as long as you want to learn, it is naturally much more convenient than the Ming Dynasty people who are closed to information, and the knowledge learned by the Ming Dynasty people cannot be compared.
It's just that in modern society, Yi Xingchen learning hexagram is purely a hobby, learning to play, of course he will not think about being a feng shui master of hexagram telling in the future, but honestly study to take the university entrance examination and find a job. Now, he has to use the hobby of fortune-telling to make a living. He couldn't help but smile wryly.
While Yi Xingchen was thinking nonsense, the two neighbors had already invited Lang Zhong here.
Huang Langzhong was a tall middle-aged man, wearing a long robe, and when he came, his face was full of surprise, obviously he had heard about Yi Xingchen's resurrection from the dead from the neighborhood. He hadn't really seen this kind of thing yet, he stepped forward to look at Yi Xingchen carefully, grabbed his hand and cut his pulse, rolled his eyelids, asked him some questions, and looked at his tongue, and finally, he came to a conclusion,—— Yi Xingchen was indeed alive, and his physical illness was gone.
Gongsun He was very happy, thanked Huang Langzhong, and personally sent him out of the courtyard.
When he arrived at the door, Huang Langzhong didn't leave, just looked at him with a smile.
Gongsun He came to his senses and should pay for the consultation. Hurriedly reached out and took out the money bag from his pocket, pinched it, deflated, pulled the opening, and poured it out, only less than ten cents.
took out five of them, handed them to Lao Langzhong, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, there is only this amount of money left, the apprentice just came back alive, today is the Neutralization Festival, I want to buy him some food for the festival, I can only give you so much, I'm really sorry." ”
Huang Langzhong took the five cents, shook his head with a wry smile, and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Gongsun He turned around and returned to the courtyard, thanked the neighbors who came to help, and sent them out of the door one by one with smiling faces.
These neighbors are talking about it, and they feel that such a rare thing as the resurrection of people is really a strange thing for them to encounter, and it just appeared in the house of a fortune teller, it seems that Mr. Gongsun, the fortune teller, still has some ability.
Hearing them talk like this, Gongsun He secretly rejoiced in his heart, if this matter can improve his popularity, it will also help him a lot in the future fortune telling, maybe he can make his business better, and let himself and his apprentice live a little better.
The neighborhood was sent away, and the courtyard fell silent.
Gongsun He hurriedly took down the white paper banner hanging from the door, and tore off the yellow paper of the evil charm he drew with his own hand on the door, crumpled it into a ball, and stuffed it into the kitchen stove.
He looked up at the sky, and it was already noon.
He was going to be buried at noon, but he glanced at the thin fir coffin in the corner of the courtyard, which was intended for the burial of the apprentices. The coffin cannot be returned, even if the person is resurrected from the dead, the coffin is not used, and it is impossible to return it to the coffin shop.
I can only put it away and see if anyone else wants it, and sell it cheaply. If no one wants it, I'm afraid that it can only be used as firewood. Although this is the lowest-grade coffin, it also costs him a lot of money. He talked about his apprentice with him for more than ten years, and died without a good day, so that he could at least have a coffin to bury, so he gritted his teeth and borrowed a loan shark to buy this thin fir coffin. I didn't expect it to be useful.
Of course, if you don't use the best, you can survive in vain, which is better than anything else.
When he returned to the house, he saw Yi Xingchen still lying on the bed, looking at the ceiling in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking, so he pulled a stool over, sat next to him, and said, "Are you hungry?" I cook and eat. ”
Yi Xingchen was lying on the bed just now, thinking that he would never be able to see his parents, relatives and friends again in the future, and he couldn't help but feel very sour.
After feeling sad for a while, he felt confused about his future in ancient times. His academic performance is actually good, although he has offended the head teacher recently, but to be fair, with his grades, it should be no problem to take the undergraduate exam, and if he is lucky, he may be able to get on the main line. He also hoped to go to a good university, find a good job in the future, marry a good wife, and honor his parents, but now, everything is in vain.
Not only has his ideal life come to naught, but he also has to stay in this ancient world where he can't surf the Internet, watch movies and television, play basketball or football, and even have no electricity, so he can only rest at sunrise and sunset, and live by telling fortunes to others, what is this?
If I had known that God would let me cross, at least let myself bring some high-tech things over, and I would be able to transform history and become a hero, but now there is nothing, nothing, except for the useless knowledge of the exam, which is really sad.
He felt a wave of sadness, a wave of frustration, and a wave of depression in his heart. It wasn't until Gongsun He walked in that he tried to regain his composure. This fact must be accepted.
Hearing Gongsun He say that he wanted to cook and eat, the memory of the apprentice in his head let him know that Master Gongsun He's words were simply a joke, because their days were very poor, basically there was no overnight food, and the money earned by the hexagram that day was barely enough to buy food that day, and if they didn't count the hexagram for a day, they had nothing to eat, so they could only borrow it from their neighbors.
In the two days since the apprentice died of illness, the master has been busy with the funeral, and has not gone out to tell fortunes. Now the master actually said that he wanted to get food, obviously comforting him, and he must be going to borrow some more rice from the neighbor to come back and cook. But those memories told him that there were no rich people in his neighbors, almost all of them were poor like them, and they had nothing to eat, so how could they lend him any surplus food?
So, Yi Xingchen sat up and said to Gongsun He: "Master, I'm fine, let's go to the street to set up a stall first, and only after earning money can we come back for the festival." ”
In fact, Gongsun He said that just now he also had no bottom in his heart, he was thinking about who to borrow some rice to come back to cook, to make up for the apprentice who had just come back to life, but the neighbors had borrowed it all, although the neighbors who were doing funerals came to help, but if they really wanted to borrow money and rice, it was another matter, they were all poor, who had surplus food to lend him! Some of the neighbors who were a little too far saw him coming and quickly closed the door.
He was worried about what to do about this, but the apprentice got up very sensibly and said that he was fine, saying that he was going to set up a stall on the street to make money, and he couldn't help but be moved, stood up and said, "Hexagram, are you really okay?" Otherwise, you can rest at home, and Master will set up a stall on the street, and after earning money, we will come back for the holidays. ”
Yi Xingchen shook his head and said, "I'm fine, let's go to the stall together, and I'll have nothing to do when I'm lying at home." ”
So, relying on those memories, Yi Xingchen carried a wooden box for setting up a stall on his back, and took a pair of white cloth signboard banners carried by bamboo poles on his shoulders, and put the two benches together on his shoulders. His master, Gongsun He, took a gourd filled with water and followed him out.
The two went out of the courtyard, and Gongsun He locked the door. In fact, their home is surrounded by walls, and even if they don't lock the door, they have nothing to steal.
The two walked along the alley called "Sweet Water Hutong" for a while, and then came to the main street, and laid down their burdens in a vacant lot next to the alley.
This is the place where their master and apprentice come to set up a hexagram stall every day. Yi Xingchen tied the bamboo pole with the banner on it to the foot of a long bench according to those memories, and the white cloth signboard banner was waving in the wind, making a loud noise. On the banner is written "plum blossom easy to count Gongsun crane" seven big characters, the following line of small characters, written "sincerity is spiritual, each hexagram five words".
Yi Xingchen put another bench sideways, which was for the guests to sit on.
If the two benches are facing each other, the person who comes to the fortune teller has some things on his mind, and directly facing the person who tells the fortune will cause pressure, and placing it obliquely can relieve this pressure, help the customer to say more things, and let the person who tells the fortune tell more relevant information, which can improve the accuracy of the fortune telling.