Volume 1 Chapter 13 Two halves are counted
A thatched hut suddenly appeared in front of Mei Wangchen's eyes.
Mei Wangchen rubbed his eyes, a little unsure of what he saw in front of him.
He had just come out of the third hut where he had played chess with Mr. Bai, and after just one step, he found the fourth.
There were no thousands of turns, no searching, and the fourth thatched hut appeared in front of him in such a grand manner.
Mei Wangchen touched his chin a little unconfidently, thinking: Is his luck already so good?
Raise your hand and push the door.
The door opens gently.
The scene in front of Mei Wangchen was brilliant at that moment, and then shattered like gravel, drifted away with the wind, and then regrouped together in an instant, and a new scene appeared in front of him.
In the fourth thatched hut, there is no fragrant scene of fragrant shoulders and jade feet, pink makeup and jade, and there is no terrifying picture of yin qi surrounding and owls crying ghosts.
It's just an ordinary Taoist temple.
In the Taoist temple, there can naturally only be an old Taoist priest with gray hair standing, and the old Taoist priest is standing with his back to him, and his face cannot be seen clearly.
From the first time Mei Wangchen saw the old Taoist, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth that could not be dispersed.
If there are a few people he doesn't want to see when he goes to the Hidden Mountain, except for the domineering girl of the Yun family before, this old Taoist priest is definitely one of them, and he may have to add a most important word.
Zhou Liangyi, the lifelong honorary worship of the Jing royal family, the current national teacher of Jingguo, the current enlightenment teacher of King Jing, worships the first-class duke, and is called "Taifu".
If not many people have heard of this name, as long as they say the words "count as a celestial", I am afraid that children as young as six or seven years old, as old as eighty or ninety years old, everyone knows it.
How many generals and officials in the military and political circles of Jingguo have to respectfully call him "sir" when they see him, and even the contemporary King Jing, the lord of Jingguo, will respectfully call him "Taifu". In the eyes of the people of Jingguo, he is the pillar of the country, and in the eyes of other countries, he is the evil spirit that wants to get rid of it quickly.
But in Mei Wangchen's eyes at this moment, he has only one identity - the contemporary dean of Hidden Mountain Academy.
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"Judging by the look you had just now, you must have remembered me, which surprised me a little, after all, the last time I saw you, you were still very young, and you should not remember. A pleasant male voice came, and there was no sense of old age at all.
The wry smile on the corner of Mei Wangchen's mouth was even stronger, it seemed that the other party was not ready to play tacitly, hypocrisy and wrongful with him, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he actually went straight to the point.
"Tai Fugong is such an immortal, even if it is a turbid thing like me, it is admired and admired, since I have met once, where can I forget it casually?" Mei Wangchen said a little shamelessly.
Zhou Liangyi smiled and turned around.
Words such as "handsome" and "handsome" are rarely used to describe the elderly, but they are appropriate for Zhou Liangyi. Under the wind and frost, there are slight wrinkles on the face, but it adds a bit of vicissitudes.
If Mei Wangchen is a handsome little white face, then Zhou Liangyi is a quiet and elegant old uncle. If you push back a few decades, I really don't know which of these two people is more handsome.
"Three halls...... Mei Gongzi laughed, and you don't need to pat my ass, although the appearance of an immortal is not bad to describe me, but you should know that I don't like the title of Taifu Gong very much. ”
Mei Wangchen grabbed his hair and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to slap the horse's leg on the horse's leg, it seems that I really don't have any talent in this area, Lord Dean, forgive me, forgive me." ”
Zhou Liangyi no longer continued to say anything on this issue, but raised his arm slightly, his sleeves flew up, and his palm went to a tea table next to him.
"Please. ”
There are many ways to say it, such as inviting you to drink tea, inviting you to eat, asking you to mourn, asking you to forget, and so on.
But Zhou Liangyi's invitation is a side meaning.
A hexagram appeared on the tea table where the two were sitting.
This is the Taoist temple, and there are hexagrams in the Taoist temple, so the word "please" in Zhou Liangyi before naturally thought that it meant "please tell fortunes".
There is a special Hongyun Lane in Jingdu, and there are countless Jianghu Fangshi who beg for a life on the street, measuring words, taking names, calculating good luck and evil, and breaking fortune, as long as they can make money, those charlatans...... No, celebrities and celebrities in the rivers and lakes do everything, Mei Wangchen also found it interesting in the first two years, and made a special trip to travel, after he threw out dozens of taels of silver, those so-called celebrities swarmed like flies smelling, and they all called themselves what kind of half-immortals, and they were willing to live for ten years, and leak the heavenly secrets, so that Mei Wangchen could turn evil into good fortune...... In the end, Mei Wangchen could only throw his head and flee......
And today, in the fourth thatched hut of the entrance examination of Hidden Mountain Academy, if Mei Wangchen hadn't known the true identity of the old Taoist priest opposite in advance, he would have thought that he had strayed into Hongyun Lane again.
But even if he already knew the identity of the other party in advance, he still felt that Zhou Liangyi's eyes looking at him at this time were no different from those who were half-immortals before, just like a hungry weasel saw fragrant rabbit meat.
Mei Wangchen sighed, "Can it not be counted?"
Zhou Liangyi seemed to smile and answer the question, "You still played chess in the end." ”
"Playing chess and fortune telling, is that the same thing?"
"It's really the same in essence. ”
"I'm choking on Hongyun Alley to be fooled by your filial sons and grandchildren. ”
"They and Zhou are not from the same school, and those are all famous people in the rivers and lakes, cough cough, Mei Gongzi, please be cautious. ”
"Anyway, I just don't want to count, you might as well take the test something else. ”
Zhou Liangyi was silent for a while, and said with a smile: "Although I am notoriously good-tempered, but you are not afraid that I will not let me count, I will announce my personal vendetta and do not want you to enroll? ”
Mei Wangchen's smiling eyes narrowed slightly, "Is this a coercion?"
"No, no, no, it's just a lure. ”
Mei Wangchen didn't answer, but looked at the clouds outside the Taoist temple, and said with a smile: "It's really good today!"
The chat stops at the wise, the wise, and the mentally retarded.
Zhou Liangyi was not surprised by Mei Wangchen's pretending to be crazy and stupid, the two were silent for a while, but he suddenly mentioned a side sentence without warning, "That girl from the Yun family has been here before." ”
"......" Mei Wangchen stared at the sticker on the tea table and was silent.
"You don't want to know, what did she ask?"
"A hexagram counts the destiny of heaven, and a question knows a thousand years. She can ask you a question, it seems that this trip to the Hidden Mountain, she is also worth the trip. Well...... If you don't sign it, I won't shake it, I'll just ask you a question, and you can answer a few sentences randomly, how about it?"
Zhou Liangyi shook his head slowly, still chuckling and said: "I can't answer many questions in this world, after all, I'm just a fortune teller, not a real immortal, for example, I can't answer the questions of the Yun family's girl, and I naturally can't do anything about your questions, but well, you can think about the questions in your heart, and then I'll help you calculate them......"
Since Mei Wangchen walked into this Taoist temple, this is the third time that Zhou Liangyi has offered to help him tell his fortune, or coercion, or temptation, or Zhengda, or bluffing.
An old man with this status, in this almost tricky way, is only willing to calculate Mei Wangchen's life, it seems that the dean of Hidden Mountain Academy really wants to help him calculate, even if it is only a bamboo stick.
After repeated repeatedly, Mei Wangchen's expression gradually became solemn, knowing that it would be a little difficult to refuse again, "Didn't you go to see me when I was a child?"
Zhou Liangyi gently stroked his already sparse beard twice, and smiled like a fox who finally saw the oily, "It's just because it's so good-looking, so I want to see it again." ”
Because it is good-looking, I want to take a look again, this is what a teenager who falls in love with for the first time will say to the girl he loves, Zhou Liangyi is the dean of the Hidden Mountain Academy who has been famous in the world for decades, of course he is not a teenager, and although Mei Wangchen is good-looking, she is not a girl after all.
So what Zhou Liangyi said, Mei Wangchen naturally didn't believe it.
Believing it or not, he still raised his hand and held the holder lightly.
Boom.
In the quiet Taoist temple, the sound of bamboo sticks hitting each other in the bamboo tube.
A little, a bamboo stick fell to the ground.
Mei Wangchen bent down to pick it up, looking at the complicated rune patterns on the bamboo sticks, stunned.
He naturally can't understand it, the so-called bell must be tied to the bell, and the signature is naturally needed by the signer.
Zhou Liangyi was about to take the bamboo skewer with his hand.
There was a soft sound of "pop", but it was so loud in this quiet Taoist temple.
Mei Wangchen's thumb, index finger, and middle finger were suddenly forced, and the bamboo stick broke in response.
"I begged for the sign, but this bamboo skewer is really not the style I like, so I broke it. ”
Zhou Liangyi looked at the two halves of the broken lot on the ground, was silent for a while, and smiled a little reluctantly, "It's okay, then come and ask again......"
Mei Wangchen interrupted and said: "I only agreed to your request once, and besides, this kind of thing is unique, and it may not be possible to ask again, you may not be able to see it clearly." After speaking, he handed the green bamboo on his waist to Zhou Liangyi, "This phantom array is good, I'll go for a walk." ”
Zhou Liangyi took the green bamboo and looked at the first three sections that had been engraved on it, which were three horizontal, three vertical, and four horizontal, "Since you have already played chess with Bai Lao, and you have come to me to count half of the lottery, don't go anywhere else." After speaking, he raised his finger and drew two horizontal and vertical strokes on the green bamboo to form a symbol, somewhat similar to the word "well".
Then he broke the green bamboo from the fourth bamboo joint, and handed back the part with the horizontal and vertical markings to Mei Wangchen.
Mei Wangchen's eyes were rarely annoyed, and he didn't reach out to pick up the remnant bamboo.
Zhou Liangyi looked at Mei Wangchen's annoyed appearance, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
The reason is very simple, since one does not let the other tell fortunes, then the other will naturally not let this one go and see more, which is really a fair thing.
"The dean, you really hold a grudge......
"The fairest and most impartial dean of the old Taoist Hidden Mountain Academy never holds grudges, I just think that Mei Gongzi has come to this point. ”
Mei Wangchen's thin willow eyebrows trembled slightly, laughed at himself, and reached out to catch the remnant bamboo, at the moment when his hand was about to touch the remnant bamboo, his face suddenly changed, and he said with a wicked smile: "I just finished playing chess with the old gentleman surnamed Bai, and you can't wait to send this thatched hut of your own to me, Lord Dean not only holds a grudge, but also is a little shameless......
When Zhou Liangyi heard this, he stopped in the air with his hand on the remnant bamboo, "Hehe, it must be a little convenient to be the dean, if you like it, you will be the one after I die?"
"Dogs are the only ones to do!"
"If it's not right, it's not appropriate, why scold people, you must know that between the founding of Jingguo for more than 500 years, there was a generation of King Jing, who had no intention of power, and faked his death and abdicated to Yinshan Academy as the dean for a few years, so you scolded yourself just now. ”
"The fifth generation of King Jing - Chen Sekui, that old guy who has read and read?"
"Oops!" Zhou Liangyi's old eyes widened, a little surprised at Mei Wangchen's audacity, and then he laughed in a low voice, I don't know what I remembered, my expression was a little complicated.
Zhou Liangyi seemed to have lost Yaxing, who was chatting with Mei Wangchen, and directly slapped the remnant bamboo in his hand.
Mei Wangchen's eyes were dark, and he fainted, but before fainting, he seemed to hear Zhou Liangyi sighing in a low voice, "It's okay to go and play chess with Bai Lao, but you'd better not get too close to him, this is my ...... Your advice......"
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There was a wind in the Taoist temple, but there was no figure of Mei Wangchen, Zhou Liangyi walked to the tea table, picked up the two halves of the bamboo sticks that were broken by Mei Wangchen, looked at the rune patterns on it, muttered a little, and finally turned into a low sigh: "After all, I still can't see clearly, I don't know how many ...... the four elephants have seen."