1. Fortune telling
On April 22, the valley rain had just passed.
Walking on the street, you can see the faces of adults and children full of joy, as if last year's deep winter has been a memory of the past, and everyone has expectations for good things in the new year.
There was a light rain last night, it came fast, it went fast, the raindrops in the middle of the night were sparse, and it also made Jinling City seem to be washed in the morning, the grass grew and the warbler flew, which made people feel happy.
Jinling City these days is quite lively.
Like Luoyang a year ago, the scene before the opening of the Heroes Meeting, among the peddlers and pawns selling along the street, there were many Jianghu people with swords and swords, and most of them were young people.
There are also some awe-inspiring masters.
Some seniors in the rivers and lakes, holding their own identities, will not get up early in the morning to parade the streets with great interest.
They are more inclined to invite three or five old friends, find a restaurant, order morning tea, and talk about family life while reminiscing about the past.
Of course, not all the predecessors are famous, and some of them are not well mixed, so they choose to be in some old shops, and also order a pot of turbid wine and a plate of fennel beans.
Pour yourself a drink and have fun.
When the interest comes, he will pretend to point out the young people he meets by chance, and make a "martial arts story", in case those stupid boys mix well in the future, his identity can also rise.
Of course, there are also overturned.
For example, if you find a young man who is well hidden, or a low-key son of a family, not to mention any high-profile demeanor, it is unknown whether you can leave an old life.
These Jianghu people gathered in Jinling on such a large scale, of course, something happened.
In the past half a year, there have been rumors of secret treasures everywhere in the rivers and lakes, and there are turmoil everywhere in the world, and there are often tragic weapons fights because of some secret treasures.
However, the gathering of Jinling in the past few days is not because of the call of the secret treasure.
It's a big deal!
Just like Suzhou three years ago, Luoyang a year ago, Quarry Rock half a year ago, and Taihang a few months ago, there will be major events in this Jinling City.
The Evil Convention.
A few months ago, the ruins of Taihang Xianmen were in an uproar, attracting thousands of people to go to Shanxi to hunt for treasures, and it was rumored to be a martial arts event for a while.
As a result, the treasure was not found, but it caused a shocking disaster.
The self-proclaimed unrighteous and evil Left Dao demon, since the Demon Sect was shattered, the new big devil of the rivers and lakes, the former Heluo hero Shen Qiu, and his group of accomplices set up an ambush in Taihang Mountain.
With yin and poisonous tricks, in one night, he ruined the martial arts practice of thousands of fellow people in the rivers and lakes.
It is really an evil thing in the world, which makes all the righteous heroes listen to the righteous indignation, and they can't tolerate this devil going perverse and reversing black and white.
Led by Tang Jiusheng of Taihu Serial Dock, Xuancheng Ghost Knife General Sa Rilang, Lishui Yunxiu Woman Zhou Jin'er, Huzhou Shenquan Zhang Xuanzhu, Puyang Hero Liu Hai and many other Jianghu masters in the south of the Yangtze River.
Under the call, the evil spirit conference in Jinling City kicked off.
And where people from the rivers and lakes gather, it is natural that there are three religions and nine streams, and there are mixed fish and dragons.
These days, the beggars in Jinling City are called Huazi, half-hidden door prostitutes, killers of Wuxingmen, and there are more eyeliner in the hidden building.
Even on the streets of Jinling City, there are a lot more fortune tellers, which makes the competition in this industry more and more involuted for a while, and many fortune tellers are not good at learning and are set up by the Jianghu people.
There are also people who can speak well, and they took advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money.
Early this morning, outside the venue of the Evil Punishment Conference, a new fortune-telling stall was erected on the side of the street, outside a tea stall.
A delicate wooden stool, a folding table, and a bamboo stick that can be used as both a stick and a banner are inserted on the side of the street, on which is hung a black cloth, and two lines of large characters are written on it.
"Since ancient times, success or failure has been determined by heaven, and numerology is not forcible."
Under the black cloth banner sat a middle-aged man in a blue cloth robe, who looked like a Taoist priest, with a strange cloth crown, and his hair was extremely short and gray.
Holding a white paper fan in his hand, there is a small purple sand teapot on the table, and he does not shout to attract customers, let alone ask for fortune telling.
Just sit on that stool, drinking tea, closing your eyes, shaking your fan, and being content.
There is no hexagram on the table, no tortoise shell or anything, it looks very concise, and there is a sub-script on the table, and there is a line of words written on it.
"Yin and yang can be determined, fortune and misfortune can be relied on, those who are destined do not take a penny, and those who are not destined do not count."
All of the above is normal.
But it's not surprising that on the fortune-telling stall, there is something that is not normal, just under the line of big characters in the poster, there is a line of fly-headed small letters, if you don't look at it carefully, you can't see it.
"Observe the right and wrong of the world and solve the injustice of the world?"
A passing white-clothed knight, probably drunk last night, will just wake up, dizzy, holding a sword, passing by the fortune-telling stall here, looking strange, then leaned over to take a look.
As a result, when I saw the small print, my eyes widened, and the smell of alcohol dissipated a little.
He stopped in front of the stall and looked at the middle-aged man with his eyes closed, and said:
"You fortune teller, you don't have a big stall, and your tone is not small.
The fortune tellers on this street who cheat money, no, the fortune tellers in the whole world, even the Taoist Ziwei who is known as the 'stargazing and approving fate', I am afraid that they are not as angry as you. ”
"Oh? Is this still a big breath? ”
The fortune teller narrowed his eyes and smiled like an old cat, he took a sip of tea from a small purple clay pot, and said slowly:
"The old man still wanted to write 'The way of observing the sky, the journey of holding the sky', but he thought that the words were too ostentatious, so he changed this. But you, a young man, are young, and when you open and close your mouth, you are a Ziwei Taoist priest and a member of the Jade Palace.
Ordinary people in the rivers and lakes, how dare they talk about the leader of the martial arts in the world that day.
It seems that you are not from an ordinary background, Shaoxia? ”
"Tell me?"
The young man in white laughed, and simply didn't leave, but squatted in front of the stall and said to the fortune teller:
"I won't tell you, you people, just rely on this mouth to cheat people out of money, if you have the ability, just tell me about my origins, right?
If you say it, I will do it to you. ”
"How much of a benefit?"
The fortune teller didn't say anything, he looked at the young man in front of him, and asked with a smile.
The latter took out a silver ingot of white flowers from his sleeve, put it on the table, and smiled without saying a word.
"Yo, the young man is very generous."
The fortune teller smiled.
The ingot of silver in front of me is the official silver style of the Southern Dynasty, and there are ten taels of an ingot, which is already a lot of money for people who do small business.
"Okay."
The fortune teller sat up straight, picked up the silver unceremoniously, and did not look at his wooden table, which was pressed by the money.
He put the silver ingot in his sleeve, coughed, and said to the young man in front of him:
"Since you want to hear it, then I'll gossip with you for ten taels of silver."
"Say it."
The young man's voice was a little colder, and his eyes looked straight at the fortune teller's limbs, as if he was thinking about what to do for a while.
He said:
"If what you say is not accurate, I will force it, and I will beat you for ten taels of silver."
"Hahaha, you young man, you are very domineering.
However, he spoke with a bit of Wu Yue accent, this look is not an ordinary person, and the material of the underwear is from Suzhou, which should be from the south.
I see the dragon walking in a tiger step, every step is two feet accurate, not the slightest difference.
It can be seen that the young man also has a good body method. ”
The fortune teller took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said:
"Although I have a sword in my hand, I don't have a cocoon on my left fingers to sharpen the sword, so this sword is also a decoration, hiding people's eyes and ears, a real kung fu.
should be on hand.
Shaoxia is four feet away from me, but I can feel a trace of the sea weather, looking at the face of the young man's numerology, the practice is water, and the sea is really wonderful. ”
Speaking of this, the fortune teller paused, glanced at the neck of the young man in white, and then stopped on his chest.
He said:
"Shaoxia, uh, no, the woman's surname is Lu, from Ningbo, and belongs to Tibetan Villa.
Right? ”
Every time the fortune teller said a word, the face of the young man in white changed a point, and when he said to the end, the young man stood up, stinked face, did not say a word, and turned to leave.
This action made the fortune teller laugh.
I have long heard that Lu Guizang has a brother, but I don't know that the righteous actually has a sister who likes to dress up as a man and a white dragon fish?
I guess I was worried about my family, so I didn't disclose it.
However, this little lady of the Lu family is really big-hearted, although she changed into men's clothes, and deliberately made a manly manner, which can fool others, but his Lu family genes are too strong.
This girl's face is too similar to Lu Guizang's handsome cheeks.
You can't hide it from someone who cares.
There is also the vicissitudes of the sea brought by the water dragon chanting method, which ordinary people can't recognize, but for people with vision, they only need to feel the majestic qi of the river entering the sea, and they can distinguish the roots.
However, this kind of secret affairs in the rivers and lakes, fortune tellers naturally do not talk too much.
Seeing the little lady of the Lu family leave, she sat on her stool again, holding the teapot, closing her eyes and recuperating.
It's not over yet.
Half an hour later, a group of people came from the street and surrounded the stall, and the leader was dressed in black clothes and black robes, hung with jade rings, and held a folding fan, just like the son of the turbid world.
looks very good, and is completely like a monkey version of Zhang Lan.
He led people around the fortune teller, but he didn't do anything.
Obviously he was angry, but he had to pretend to be light-hearted, and with a wave of his hand, a fierce and vicious fellow came forward, threw out a tael of silver, and said to the fortune teller:
"Fortune teller, I heard that you are very accurate, come and calculate for Lao Tzu."
"What do you want to count as a guest?"
The fortune teller put away the money, rubbed his hands together like a businessman, and asked:
"Fame? Marriage? Or is it a look?
It's not me who blows, my palmistry is passed on by the master, looking at the number of people's lives, measuring blessings and murderers, it is quite accurate, especially for the people in the rivers and lakes, it is particularly accurate!
Highly recommended. ”
"Then let's look at physiognomy."
This group of people clearly came to stir up trouble, and the fierce man's face was full of flesh, and he sneered, rolled up his sleeves, pointed to his face, and said:
"Come, look."
"Yo, you don't need to look closely at this evil spirit."
The fortune teller smiled, half-squinted, and clenched his fists and said:
"Today, there should be a bloody disaster, it is not appropriate to go out, go home and hide."
"You fart!"
The man scolded, smirked, and was about to hit with his fist, knocking the fortune teller who had disturbed the young master's distinguished guests to the ground.
But just as he raised his fist, the man stopped in place as if he had fallen into an evil spirit.
The whole face was shaking, and if you looked closely, the whole body seemed to be restrained by something invisible, and it was very stiff, and I wanted to shout, but I couldn't shout.
"I don't have a lot of skills, and my voice is not small, so I scared the children on the side of the road and didn't say it yet."
The fortune teller grimaced and scolded:
"What if it disturbs my business?
I'm a small family, I finally found a business to do, I still have a beloved wife and sister at home, and a few brothers with big appetites to support, and I was smashed by you reckless man, and the family is going to starve.
It's really hateful to smash people's jobs!
You evil beast, don't sit down with me! ”
The man said something casually, and the big man who came to make trouble stiffened like a puppy and squatted obediently to the side.
This outrageous scene frightened the others.
This brute is a well-known unobstructed man in Jinling City, specializing in the business of bad guys, although he has only practiced two or three third-rate ends, he has not been able to practice at home.
But on weekdays, he bullies and dominates the market, and he has a rather lifeless hob meat momentum.
It's just that he didn't punch out today, and he was restrained.
The others immediately knew that they had disturbed the master, and were about to sneak away, but the next moment, when they raised their steps, they found that there seemed to be a light wind flowing in front of them, and a layer of energy blocked the way, like a wall.
The fortune teller behind him took a sip of tea, coughed lightly, picked up the folding fan, and said:
"The guests are here, isn't it a hexagram? Isn't it just here to entertain me? Alas, don't look at me like this, I was also mixed up in the rivers and lakes back then.
Temper is not good. ”
"Fortune telling, fortune telling."
The black-clothed young master who came with people laughed miserably, turned around, took out a stack of silver tickets from his sleeve tremblingly, put them on the wooden table, accompanied by a smiling face, pointed to his cheek, and said:
"The master also calculates a hexagram for Xiaosheng."
"Yo, this son."
The fortune teller counted the silver tickets, then nodded with satisfaction, raised his head, looked at it casually, and said:
"You have a bloody disaster today, don't go, come and come, stay by the old man's side, at noon, when this evil meeting opens, the old man will solve this calamity for you."
With a flick of his fingers, the face of the man in black changed, and his whole body seemed to be tightly wrapped in silk threads.
He is just a rich boy, who has been clothed and fed since he was a child, and does not practice martial arts, where is the opponent of such strange means.
For a moment, it's like a marionette.
also squatted obediently in front of the fortune-telling booth with the brother just now.
The fortune teller did three transactions in a row in just half an hour, and he was very satisfied, he glanced at the large venue that was being arranged not far away, calculated the time, and made up his mind.
waved the folding fan, took a sip of tea, and said to the group of people who came to make trouble in front of him:
"Old Zhang Cheng doesn't deceive me, this job is good, and the money is really easy to make."
"Next!"