The two princes were angry and wanted to drive Meng Ranhao away, but Meng Ranhao didn't care about this, and said disdainfully: "Don't rush, I'm about to leave!" While walking out slowly, he said: "The autumn is higher than the talent, and the mouth is causing trouble; Everything is inferior, but the whiskers are high!"

Zhao Xinghe pointed at Meng Ranhao and said to Zhao Xingjiang: "Hmph, he still wants to be an official?" It's only worthy of giving me research ink!" When Zhao Xingjiang heard that his brother was crazy, he didn't show weakness, laughed wildly, and said: "He, he can only give me a crown and a belt, take off his boots to tickle, and fan a fan!"

Meng Ranhao walked out of the examination room and returned to Wang Ke's store, Wang Sihai stepped forward and said, "Congratulations to Mr." How did Mr. Meng do in the exam?"

"Take a trip for nothing."

"Mr. Meng, isn't there no list yet?"

"Nope." Meng Ranhao asked to prepare two pots of wine and four dishes, and the owner of the store was not good to ask again. Three days passed, Wang Sihai went out of the store to inquire, ran back and said, "Mr. Meng, let's go to the outside of the literary field and have a look!" Which of the lifters won the high list and which one fell off the list, all posted out. Let's take a look, is it the champion, is it the leader, is it Tanhua? ”

Meng Ranhao said: "Don't say that there is no me in the three. Even if there is no one in the three hundred and sixty-five, the examiner will kick me out. ”

When Wang Sihai heard this, his face sank, and he said, "In this case, you can't live here with me any longer, let's settle the score." ”

Meng Ranhao: "When I left home, I brought a lot of money, except for food, I gave it to poor friends. ”

"You're coming back, let's settle the score."

"It's all new friends, how can I open my mouth to ask for it? You settle accounts with me. I don't have a penny. When I go home, you still have to lend me Panchuan, and when I come back to the capital in two years, I will pay it back, what do you think?"

Wang Sihai was also worried, he felt sorry for the money in the store! After pondering for a long time, he asked; "Do you know how to tell fortunes?"

"I can measure words."

"Word measurement is also a hexagram, you can count the hexagram, and then leave after the hexagram is paid."

"Where do you tell me to go to the divination?"

"There are two houses next to our store, and one has the front door facing the street. The back door of that room leads to the store. Previously. In this house lived an old Taoist who made a living by telling fortunes, but unfortunately died of illness. He had nothing, after death. I buried him. His robes, his fortune-tellers. I'll put it away. I've kept it all the time. You wait, I'll take it. ”

After a while, Wang Sihai came with a burden. Open it and ask Meng Ranhao to watch. This Taoist uniform is quite new, and there are also slips, signs, hexagram boxes, and bamboo hexagram boards...... Meng Ranhao put on the Taoist uniform and tried it, it was quite decent, and said, "Okay." Shopkeeper Wang, you clean up the small door, we don't look like three points, you prepare pen and ink, red paper, I write a pair, and then prepare a plate and a few blank papers. ”

"Okay, I'll buy another hanging whip, let's put it away, and take an auspicious place." Wang Sihai thought: I'll write a little bit first. As soon as Meng Ranhao changed his clothes, he looked like he really had a half-immortal body, and there were many people who came to tell the hexagram! Wang Sihai instructed the men to clean up the doors of the two rooms. The front room is divided, and the back room is resting. Meng Ranhao said to Wang Sihai: "I finish the hexagram every day, as soon as I retreat to the back room, you will put a table for me, serve four dishes, two pots of wine, and simply prepare some food." Calculate the hexagram money for this day, no matter how much, except for what I eat, you save it all, and when you will pay off the account, you tell me. ”

"Okay." Meng Ranhao cut sixty small strips of white paper, took a pen and wrote a word on each note, rolled the written slips of paper into a paper roll, and put them on a plate. Meng Ranhao's fortune teller does not shake the tube to draw lots, but grabs the slip of paper to approve the words.

He only counts thirty hexagrams a day, and more does not count. Taibai wrote a pair, the guy took it and posted it, and many pedestrians came up to watch, and the last couplet wrote: I like to hear the false words and take the side words; The next couplet writes: If you love to listen to bluntness, please talk about your heart; Four words in horizontal batches; No flattery.

The guy lit the firecracker, and after a crackle, Meng Ranhao began to tell the hexagram in his robe.

On the same day, Meng Ranhao counted thirty trigrams. Wang Sihai saw that Meng Ranhao's fortune calculation was prosperous, and he was very happy, and ordered his men to close the door. Taibai retreated to the back room, and some men had already set up four dishes and two pots of wine. Meng Ranhao sat down, picked up the wine jug and drank it.

Meng Ranhao's hexagram etiquette is indefinite: the rich want more, the poor want less, and those who have no money don't. The number of people who have counted hexagrams is spread ten, ten is passed on to hundreds, more and more, and Meng Ranhao's hexagram shop is becoming more and more prosperous.

On this day, Meng Ranhao finished counting more than 20 hexagrams and squeezed in a person from outside. This man was a blacksmith, wearing an apron, and when he saw Ding Taibai, he hurriedly said: "I am an ironsmith, I am frugal, and I saved ten taels of silver, but I lost it." Sir, you should do the math for me, help me get it back, or how will I live!"

Meng Ranhao said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, where is your silver?"

"I left it in the furnace room yesterday. Because I'm always afraid that someone will steal, I have to move several places a day. I wanted to move another place this morning, but I couldn't find it!" As he spoke, tears flowed.

Meng Ranhao: "Don't worry, don't be sad, I'll calculate it for you first." You can get a roll of paper. ”

The blacksmith took a paper roll and handed it to Meng Ranhao, opened it and looked at it. It's a "unitary" character. Meng Ranhao pondered for a moment: "Nine times out of ten, you haven't lost your silver. You put it in the bellows, right?"

"Oops. That's right!" The blacksmith screamed, and he didn't even bother to give the hexagram, turned around and ran away. Quite a few people say; "This daredevil, he didn't give money to the hexagram, and he didn't thank him even for it."

Meng Ranhao: 'When he was happy, he forgot to give the hexagram money, it's nothing. After two more hexagrams, the blacksmith came back happily, gave the hexagram gift, and asked with a smile: "Sir, how do you know that my silver is in the bellows?" When everyone heard this, they thought, "Yes, everyone wonders about this!" Listen to Mr. Meng's answer.

Meng Ranhao: "You're a blacksmith. If you lie down with the word "unitary", isn't "unitary" the same as the bellows, and the iron is inseparable from the bellows. There are chicken feathers in the bellows, and they can't be pulled up without chicken feathers. String monkeys and chickens, chickens are connected, according to this unitary character, calculate your silver and put it in the bellows. ”

When you hear it, it makes sense. The blacksmith went away happily. As he walked, he said: "Immortals, what living immortals"

As soon as the blacksmith went out, another man ran in: "Sir, give me the math quickly!" Meng Ranhao panicked at this person and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I lived in a ten-mile shop outside the city, and when I went into the city to buy something, my neighbor gave me ten taels of silver, and told me to buy a silk horse when I entered the city, and on the way, I drank in a tavern. Finished drinking. The silver is gone! ”

"Where did you put the money?"

"In the money."

"Where did you put your money when you were eating and drinking?"

"It looks like it's on the table. I didn't go anywhere else. ”

"Okay, you can grab a word." The man took a scroll of paper, and Meng Ranhao opened it to take a look. It's still a 'unitary' character. People who read the fortune tellers discussed: "It's another 'unitary' character." Look at how the old way is calculated this time! ”

Meng Ranhao finished reading "Unitary." Word. smiled slightly: "Nine times out of ten, you haven't lost this silver." Think about it. Is there a chicken coop or a water tank at the table where you eat?' 'unitary' plus three drops of water is the word 'wine'. If you throw it away while eating, you can't make wine without water. You just go and look for it.

If you eat wine and there is no water tank near the table, and there is no chicken coop, your money may be lost. If you have any of these things, look for them, and they will either fall into the water tank or the chicken cage. The man turned and ran, and went back to the tavern, and found the space between the chicken coop and the wall behind the table. He hurriedly returned to Meng Ranhao's hexagram shop: "Oh, the Taoist is really a god!" Found it!" He gave the hexagram and went away rejoicing.

At this time, the people watching the excitement were already completely convinced by Meng Ranhao, and felt that he was really clever! In fact, it all depends on his intelligence, knowledge, willingness to use his brains, and good at speculation. The blacksmith was always afraid that the silver would be stolen, so he moved several places a day. To hide the silver, you have to drag it to a place that is not easy to be discovered, and you ask, this time the hiding place has not been hidden before, so it is not easy to remember it.

Meng Ranhao traveled north and south, and saw some blacksmiths put copper coins in bellows. So, he speculated that the blacksmith might have put the silver in the bellows, and the blacksmith found the silver and came back to ask him how he had calculated it. His brain came quickly, and when he saw that the word "unitary" was put down and shaped like a bellows, he explained the word "unitary", and everyone felt reasonable after listening to it.

In addition, Meng Ranhao never said it to death, as soon as he said it, "nine times out of ten it can't be lost", which is not only significantly modest, but also leaves room for it. Meng Ranhao finished calculating the hexagram, and the shopkeeper said, "Everyone disperse, come back tomorrow." And when the crowd dispersed, the men closed the door and hurried to prepare the food and drink.

Meng Ranhao was just about to enter the back room, when someone pushed the door open. Meng Ranhao turned around and saw that the person who came in was more than nine feet tall, with broad shoulders, a big belly, wearing a carefree scarf, wearing a carefree scarf, a pair of eagle eyes under the eight-character eyebrows, a collapsed nose, a square mouth, three locks of black hair under the chin, a face full of arrogance, and a murderous aura.

Meng Ranhao looked at it, saw this person, and had an idea in his heart, and said, "Is there something wrong with the donor?"

'Fortune telling!'

"Don't count it today, after the thirty hexagrams are counted, two more hexagrams have been added."

"Old Dao, you can add one more hexagram!"

Meng Ranhao was helpless, and took the plate containing the paper roll: "Please take a paper roll from the donor." ”

The man stretched out his hand and took one, but he didn't show it to Meng Ranhao, he opened it himself, and when he saw that it was the word 'ask', the man thought: The words on these notes, how you criticize them in your old way, all have dead rules, I will make it a little difficult for you, see if you have real skills. Thinking of this, he grabbed the word "ask" in his hand: "Old Dao, you can count it." ”

Meng Ranhao smiled and said, "Donor, I can't see what words you are taking, how can this be calculated?"

The man said, "Good." He tore the word apart, tore off the right half-pull, and left the left half-pull door and the word. He clamped most of the words with his index finger and middle finger, and just clamped them on the horizontal side of the door, so that Meng Ranhao looked at it and said, "That's it, you can count it!"

Meng Ranhao looked at it and thought: What a cunning old thing! The mouth shouted: "Donor, the original word measurement is a complete word, you tear off half of this word, take half of it, and count half of the poor road, I'm afraid it can't be measured." Please give me one more word. ”

The man didn't go to get the paper roll, brush! Shake off the joy, cang! Draw your sword. It turned out that the sword had been hidden in the sword all along. He drew a line on the ground with his sword and said, "Old Dao, come and see, this is the word I took." With that, he plunged his sword into its sheath. Stared at Meng Ranhao with those pair of eagle eyes.

Meng Ranhao secretly said in his heart: Old boy, you really want to embarrass me! Hmph, you want to stump me? It's not that easy! Thinking of this, brushed, brushed, dusted off the robe, picked up the robe, and made it look like he was going to kneel and worship. The man hurriedly stopped: "Old Dao, what are you doing here?"

Meng Ranhao didn't want to bow down, he just wanted to make a show. It was expected that the man would stop him. As expected. So as soon as the man stopped, Li Zi got up and said, "I don't know that the king has arrived." The man said, "Old Dao, how do you know that I am a king?"

"Judging by the words you are holding and the words that are written on the ground. You are kings. ”

"I am a king from these two words. You have to make it clear!"

"You have the word 'Jun' in your hand. The word 'king' is written on the earth, aren't you a king?"

"Not true. Come and see, this is a half-pulled 'door' in my hand. If there is only one word on the ground, how can he be a king?"

"Take a closer look, there is a 'mouth' word under the right half-sliding door, and you use your fingers to clamp the half-pulled 'yang' word when asking a horizontal, this time, the left and right are out, it becomes a 'Yin' word, Yin' has a 'mouth' word under the word, doesn't it become a 'Jun' word?"

"So, what about the word on the ground, obviously I wrote the word 'one', how can you say the word 'king'?"

"Where do you write the word 'one'?"

It was written on the ground. ”

"What is this land?"

"Land."

"Yes, does not adding 'one' to 'earth' read 'king'? Therefore the poor way calls you king. ”

"Gao Cai, really Gao Cai!"

"Donor, can you tell the poor Dao your surname?"

"Zhao Changyong."

It turned out that after Xie Xian and others set off to the capital, Ning Wangfu received a letter sent by the Ministry of Rites in the capital to watch the ceremony, Zhao Changqing thought that he had won a big battle and captured so many fierce Huns, it was necessary to call those brothers to the capital to gather, first, to contact and contact feelings, and second, to teach the princes a lesson, so as to teach them to know who the world is, don't have two hearts, as for Zhao Changyong, it is necessary to be present. Who made him the most restless?

After Enke ended, Zhao Changqing was dumbfounded: the selected champions, lists, and tanhua couldn't solve the table and recognize the pearls, and the masters who opened the bow and descended the beast didn't visit, how could I, the emperor, be such a wretch! So, he was furious and asked the civil and military officials to quickly search for the people who solved the table, recognized the pearls, opened the bow, and descended the beast, and if they could not be found within ten days, they would wait for the fate.

Zhao Changyong didn't take this seriously, anyway, he was ordered to eat, drink, have fun and travel. And he wished that Bohai would send troops to attack, so maybe it would be easier for him to usurp the throne. Although he also knew that with Bohai's strength that could not be put on the table, it seemed a bit fantastical to defeat Dahua.

As a prince, Zhao Changyong has a special mansion in the capital. After rushing to the capital, without the emperor's summons, Zhao Changyong naturally could not enter the palace, so he could only stay in the palace, and after the banquet, he asked his subordinates: "What news have you heard in Beijing recently?"

When he asked, someone told him: There is an old Taoist in Wang's shop on South Street, who is very good at divination, and if he has more than one day, he only counts thirty hexagrams.

When Zhao Changyong heard that there was such a thing, he thought in his heart: I'll try it, if the old Taoist is a true spirit, let him calculate for me if I can be the emperor, get him back, and give me a military advisor in the future, wouldn't it be beautiful? So, he changed into civilian clothes, secretly wore a sword, and asked the four entourages to also put on the peasant clothes of the common people, secretly brought weapons, and the five people went out of the house and came to South Street.

Zhao Changyong came to the door of Meng Ranhao's hexagram shop, and when he saw that there were a lot of people, he squeezed forward to listen. Meng Ranhao counted the two hexagrams that he threw silver, he heard it with his own ears and saw it with his own eyes, and when everyone dispersed, he entered the door and asked Meng Ranhao to tell him the hexagrams. The four attendants were all standing guard outside the door.

This old thief wants to embarrass Meng Ranhao, try if Meng Ranhao has any real things. Although he didn't stump Meng Ranhao, he was very happy in his heart. Therefore, as soon as Meng Ranhao asked him his name, he said it casually.

Meng Ranhao: "Chitose, please take a seat." ”

Zhao Changyong sat down, and Meng Ranhao was not polite, and also sat down. Zhao Changyong said: "Dao Chang is clever, how about you test my name?"

Meng Ranhao heard that Zhao Changyong was ambitious for a long time, and the two words he came out just now were confirmed, so he planned to tease and tease the old thief, and said, "Yes." ”

After some teasing, Zhao Changyong was amused and asked again after learning that he could be the emperor: "Dao Chief, look, when will I be the son of heaven?"

"Oh, this is a heavenly opportunity, the poor road really can't be calculated, the poor road only knows, if you can follow the heavenly principles, the period will not be too far."

Zhao Changyong rubbed his hands excitedly: "What you and I say, only God knows, the earth knows, you know, I know, and you must not leak it." ”

"Just rest assured."

"The Taoist noble surname is high, where is the ancestral home? Why do you come to this point? ”

"My surname is Meng Haoran, I traveled everywhere, came to the capital, ran out of silver, and owed the owner of the house, so I put on a Taoist uniform to tell fortunes."

Zhao Changyong pushed open the door, called in four entourage, and said, "Go and call the shopkeeper to the lonely king!"

"Yes."

The congren found Wang Sihai and said, "King Ning told you to go, you have to reply well." ”

"Yes."

Wang Sihai was so frightened that his legs and stomach were turning, he pulled his thighs in the aisle, and fell to the ground with a plop when he entered the house: "Xiaomin didn't know that the Chitose Lord had arrived, and he couldn't meet him from afar, guilty, guilty!"

Zhao Changyong said: "You don't know, the lonely king is not to blame. ”

"The prince is here, is there anything wrong?"

"The Lone King has a friend who came to the capital, I don't know where he lives? Special private visit. (To be continued......)