Chapter 7 It is difficult to have immortal fate
Wandering around the East Market all the year round, and needing to go to Simenguan every day, Li Hongru rarely goes to other areas of Chang'an.
Yuan Shoucheng, mentioned by the blind man, was also a fortune teller, but Li Hongru was not familiar with it.
can be admired by the blind, the other party must have some real ability.
Li Hongru looked at the sky, and his pace sped up by a few points.
If it weren't for the exhaustion of the wooden wheel, he really wanted to build a bicycle.
In Chang'an, the wealthy families travel in horse-drawn carriages, and even the wealthy families also have good horses.
It is not difficult for Li Hongru to buy a horse, but the daily feeding, the place where the horse is placed, and the horseback riding pass that needs to be handled are all obstacles.
For example, if he is 16 years old and has not practiced martial arts training in a special venue, he is not allowed to ride a horse on the streets of Chang'an.
Even Rong Caijun needs to follow these rules and rely on the coachman to control the horse.
Li Hongru ran sullenly.
Without tools, he travels entirely on his legs.
But over the years, he ran pretty well.
If he encounters any risk, Li Hongru feels that he has a certain ability to escape.
From Dongshi to Ximen Chunxi Street, the time required to walk is about two hours, and at this time, running a little faster, Li Hongru feels that he can catch up with the other party's stall.
It was half past three in the afternoon, and the streets were bustling with people and pedestrians.
The side is a sidewalk, and there is a horse path in the middle.
When there are many people, some people shuttle to the road, thinking of taking shortcuts.
Occasionally, a rider passed quickly, which immediately caused a burst of shouts and dodges.
The original worldview has been changed, and Li Hongru once again examines this familiar and unfamiliar world.
When he ran past a team of rivers and lakes playing acrobatics, several big men also waved to him.
Li Hongru has played fake blind people, and he has also played some juggling with these people.
The acrobatic skill is to work on the stage for ten years for one minute, unlike a blind man who purely fools people with his mouth, Li Hongru did not lift the other party's stall.
Today's performance is 'Swallowing Snakes into the Belly', in which a spotted poisonous snake about one meter long keeps burrowing into a woman's mouth.
By the time he ran past, the viper had already penetrated most of it.
Li Hongru was stunned for two seconds, and then ran away again.
He had performed sword swallowing in this team, and he didn't know what strange snake the other party had found, which could be temporarily put into his throat, which looked much more dangerous than his sword-swallowing technique.
When the sun weakened and the sun set, Li Hongru was sweating profusely, and at this time he also stepped into Chunxi Street.
This is a street with a completely different scene from Bowang Street.
Bowang Street is lined with shops such as cloth shops, silk shops, clothing stores, rouge gouache and other shops, and this street is mainly selling rice noodles, fruits and vegetables.
As the stall closes, some people shout and try to sell the last of their goods.
There are also some people who come at this time, thinking of picking up some bargains and going back.
The bargaining in Li Hongru's ears was endless.
"Is there a hexagram master named Yuan Shoucheng on this street?"
"Fortune telling is not the same as grocery shopping, you came a little late, Master Yuan is probably in the last hexagram at this time."
When Li Hongru asked a sister-in-law who bought peas for directions, the other party also muttered and pointed.
This fortune teller seems to have a very good reputation on Chunxi Street, and when Li Hongru asked, the other party's face still had a respectful look.
As the other party pointed out the way, Li Hongru quickly ran forward.
What the sister-in-law said was quite accurate, when Li Hongru rushed to the place where Yuan Shoucheng often came to set up a stall, the other party had disappeared.
This made Li Hongru a little disappointed.
He pondered for a while, and asked several people again and again, before chasing in the direction of Yuan Shoucheng's home.
In the morning, he needs to go to Simenguan to study, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth from Simenguan to Chunxi Street, not to mention that he does have some doubts in his heart and wants to seek a confirmation.
The collapse of the worldview, in addition to giving birth to a strong mind of seeking immortals, Li Hongru couldn't help but feel a little panicked in his heart, and it was difficult to find out the way ahead.
When people are confused, they will pursue some ethereal beliefs, or turn to the way of ghosts and gods.
Li Hongru had doubts in his heart, and he was also unwilling.
Rong Caijun still accepts his fate, his conditions are far inferior to how much better he can be under the other party.
Eighteen years old is the threshold.
But the difficulty of mastering the Nine Classics is too high.
Li Hongru has only been able to recite part of the content of the "Nine Classics" so far, and it is difficult to know the true meaning.
With the level of teaching in the four gates, if you want to comprehend the avenue from it, it will be very difficult.
If the teaching assistants and direct lectures of the Simenguan are compared to ordinary teachers, they are special teachers in Taixue, and super teachers in Guozixue.
Naturally, the results of the two sides are very different.
The Simen Pavilion, the highest institution of learning that civilians can enter, but this is also where the children of the powerful and unsuccessful in Chang'an City come to study.
Even Li Hongru has a sense of powerlessness.
It's not that he doesn't want to study, but the teacher is difficult to parse and understand, and he just reads every day, and rarely sees through.
The "Nine Classics" is obscure and difficult to understand, and Li Hongru is difficult to understand.
After years of repeated learning, even if the patience is good, it is worn out, and there is not much interest at all.
"Uncle, Emperor Tang really had an order to let Wei Zheng hold the emperor's sword and slash the old dragon Ao Lang of Jinghe, and now this line has been ignited."
"I know."
"Although the Jinghe Dragon King is small, he is also the official of the Immortal Court, let's embarrass the Immortal Court, can the Western Buddha really intervene in the power struggle of our Tang Dynasty?"
"Although the Tang Emperor and the Empress are strong, they are invincible in Chang'an City only with the help of the momentum of national fortune, and they will inevitably bear the pressure of the Heavenly Court this time, and they need to pull other forces into the game to balance."
"This is just a dispute between our Taoist and Confucian courts, will the introduction of a third party to break the situation cause unpredictable changes?"
"At this time, it is only the beginning of the game of chess, at most I can speculate three steps backwards, how can I get a glimpse of the whole picture, I always have to take a few more steps to know, not to mention that Taoism has a previous dynasty, at this time it is a slump, and it is also a good thing to activate the drainage."
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When Li Hongru continued to run in the direction of Yuan Shoucheng's stall and leaving, he suddenly heard a small whisper.
He slowed down slightly, and he could hear a few words.
As soon as the pace was close, the two whispering in front of them suddenly stopped their voices and just bowed their heads and walked forward.
Li Hongru raised his head, only to see a person in front of him holding a hexagram flag, writing 'eight-character fortune-telling, iron mouth straight break', and below the hexagram flag, the number of the hexagram master Yuan Shoucheng was marked.
Li Hongru was overjoyed, he could be regarded as catching up with people.
"Master Yuan, I have a question I want to ask you!"
Li Hongru walked quickly past the two people in front of him, and asked each other directly.
When he asked, he noticed that the appearance of the Taoist was extremely strange and extraordinary, and he looked a little elegant, and he was several levels higher than that of the blind man.
By Yuan Shoucheng's side, it was Li Hongru who once overlooked the first master of Guozixue, Yuan Tiangang.
Li Hongru's arrival interrupted the whispered communication between the two, and Yuan Tiangang frowned slightly, and when he looked at Li Hongru, there was a strange light in his eyes.
This made Li Hongru keenly aware of some danger.
It's roughly that he's just heard something he shouldn't have heard.
At this time, it was still daylight, and it was difficult to kill people on Chang'an Street.
But the spell is weird, and Rong Caijun mentioned that the spell has all kinds of lethal means.
When encountering Yuan Tiangang's scrutiny, Rao is Li Hongru also had a little palpitations, and cold sweat couldn't help rolling down.
"Born ordinary, difficult to climb the avenue, difficult to have immortal fate, and the future is not bright."
Before Li Hongru could ask, Yuan Shoucheng, who was holding a hexagram flag, had already spoken.
His opening made Yuan Tiangang suddenly restrain his hostility, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.
If it is a grasshopper that can't get up, no matter how much you know, it will not help.
The help of Yuan Shoucheng's words allowed Li Hongru to avoid a trouble.
But the other party's words also made Li Hongru's heart sink to the bottom.
You don't need him to ask, the other party knows what he meant.
This hexagram master really has real skills.
Everyone is pretentious and wants to get ahead, and Li Hongru is no exception.
What he wants to ask about is nothing more than the perception of the world and his personal future.
But Yuan Shoucheng's real ability feels too bad.
This was an early death sentence against him.