"Useless is a scholar."

Qin Wuming, who was squeaking and screaming with hunger, thought of such a sentence.

As a scholar who knows astronomy, geography, people, and yin and yang gossip, he hasn't eaten anything for two days.

It's not enough to just drink cold water, and I'm hungry when I go to the thatched house.

Qin Wuming knows everything, but he can't make money and doesn't know how to make a living.

On the bustling street, Qin Wuming couldn't move in front of a scone stall.

Scones are ordinary, just multigrain cakes with thick flour and millet rice.

However, the cake was scorched and browned on the fire, and the fragrance it exuded, Qin Wuming was desperately swallowing his saliva.

"Little brother wants to eat scones?"

Seeing Qin Wuming's eyes shining brightly at the cake, the uncle who sold the cake greeted Mimi with a smile.

Qin Wuming smiled dryly and nodded.

The uncle stretched out his hand, "Two pennies a penny." ”

Qin Wuming was embarrassed, it was so cheap, but he didn't have a penny.

For the first time, he felt ashamed!

A dignified eight-foot man, but he doesn't even have a penny to buy two scones.

He is not a lazy person, and he tried to work for people two days ago, went to restaurants, and chopped wood.

But when I was working in a restaurant, I couldn't get used to seeing a fat-headed and big-eared guest eat a bully meal, and beat people up, but I didn't get the salary, but was scolded by the shopkeeper, and finally paid the only ten cents left by the family to make soup and medicine.

When I was chopping firewood, I didn't encounter any trouble, but when I was selling firewood, I met an old man, who couldn't bear to accept other people's money, so I gave it away for nothing.

"Little brother doesn't have any money?"

Seeing Qin Wuming's embarrassed and cramped appearance, the uncle who sold cakes wondered.

Qin Wuming shook his head and said with a dry smile: "No." ”

The uncle didn't say anything evil, but took two cakes and handed them to Qin Wuming: "Eat." ”

Qin Wuming was stunned and didn't answer.

The uncle stuffed the cake into Qin Wuming's hand, "Take it, you should be hungry like this." ”

Qin Wuming was moved, his eyes turned red, "Thank you, old man!" ”

The uncle waved his hand: "Look at what you are wearing, you don't look like a white eater, why are you down like this?" ”

Qin Wuming was wearing a long robe, his face and hands were clean, which was completely different from those poor people who were unclothed and had dirty hands.

Qin Wuming took a big bite of the cake, swallowed it and hurriedly replied: "Don't hide it from the old man, I have been cultivating in Kunlun Mountain for twenty years, and I have just come down the mountain, and I don't know how to make a living." ”

"Oh?"

The uncle was slightly surprised, "You are a monk who cultivates on the mountain?" ”

Qin Wuming paused to bite the cake, and said with a dry smile: "Sort of." ”

"That's strange, aren't all Fang Shi masters who can catch ghosts and demons, I heard that they can turn stones into gold, why don't they have any money?"

Uncle said curiously.

Qin Wuming was even more embarrassed, although he had been in Kunlun Mountain for twenty years, his master had not taught him any spells to catch ghosts and demons, and only let him read.

In addition to the knowledge of astronomy and geography, he only learned some divination in books.

It can be said that he is a fake alchemist who does not know any spells.

However, the master said that he was a general, and when he went down the mountain, he could pay homage to the prime minister.

Who knows, let alone the marquis and the prime minister, he can't even eat.

"Old man, I don't practice spells." Qin Wuming could only stubbornly reply.

The uncle who sold the cake changed his eyes, and said disdainfully: "I can't do spells, what kind of alchemist, you have to have the ability to tell fortunes and read the face in order to be a alchemist." ”

Hearing this, Qin Wuming's eyes suddenly lit up, "Old man, I can tell fortunes and look at faces!" ”

The uncle said suspiciously, "Don't brag, I think you look like an honest person who gives you bread." ”

Qin Wuming swallowed the cake in two bites, "I didn't brag, I won't lie to you." ”

"Then why don't you set up a stall to tell fortunes for people, you can calculate accurately, and you are still worried about money?" The uncle waved his hand and said, believing in his heart that Qin Wuming was a dishonest guy.

Qin Wuming was choked and burped, and hurriedly explained, "Fortune-telling is a matter of revealing heavenly secrets, and if you do too much, it will not be good for me or people." ”

The uncle pouted and said: "What is not a heavenly opportunity, you will not pick something that is not a heavenly opportunity, looking white and pure, why is your brain so stupid." ”

Qin Wuming was stunned for a moment, yes! Why didn't he think of that!

"Thank you for your advice."

After figuring this out, Qin Wuming immediately bowed to the uncle.

After that, he wrote eight big characters in stone on the open space next to him, "Fortune telling, two texts per hexagram!" ”

"Are you really good at fortune telling?" The uncle who sold the cake was suspicious.

Qin Wuming said with a serious expression, "Yes, when I earn the hexagram money, I will definitely give the old man cake money." ”

The uncle shook his head, "I'll give you the cake, but you can't deceive people, I don't want to give my cake to the liar." ”

Qin Wuming said, "I never cheat people, maybe I won't take money." ”

The uncle didn't look like he was joking, and said with great interest at the moment, "Okay, then you can calculate a hexagram for me first." ”

Qin Wuming saw that he was trying to test himself, and chuckled, "What does the old man want?" ”

The uncle thought for a while and said, "How long do you calculate how long I can live?" ”

Qin Wuming hurriedly said: "Yangshou is a heavenly opportunity, I can't tell the old man, but the old man, you are kind and kind, and you will die well." ”

The uncle said: "What you said is too fake, it is obviously a compliment, then you say, what is not a heavenly opportunity." ”

Qin Wuming thought for a while and said: "The past has passed, it's useless to forget it, the things in the future are basically heavenly opportunities, I can't say, if the old man really wants to calculate, I'll calculate for you what is going to happen today." ”

Strictly speaking, today is also considered the future, but it is only a matter of the day, and the impact is not great, and it is not a leak.

Qin Wuming decided, and fortune-telling in the future will be counted as the matter of the day.

Hearing him say this, the uncle was happy, "Okay, you can calculate it for me, what will happen to me later, is it good or bad?" ”

Qin Wuming's expression was straight, he stared at the uncle carefully, then pinched his fingers, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the old man, you have a double happiness today!" ”

There was a puzzle in the uncle's eyes, "What joy?" ”

Qin Wuming replied: "Wait a minute, someone will come to buy your remaining fifty scones, and the old man can go home early, but the old man will only sell him forty-eight cakes." ”

The uncle's eyes were full of disbelief, the rich family looked down on the baked cake, and the poor family was reluctant, if the business was the best, he sold fifty in a day, fifty at a time, and he had never encountered it.

What's more, when others buy bread, how can he not sell it, why should he only sell it to forty-eight people?

"What about the second joy?"

The uncle decided in his heart that Qin Wuming was an unreliable liar, so he said angrily at the moment.

Qin Wuming smiled and said, "The old man will be able to be a grandfather today, congratulations to the family." ”

The uncle was stunned when he heard this, and said in surprise, "How do you know that my daughter-in-law is pregnant!" ”

Qin Wuming said lightly: "Calculate it." ”

The uncle was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "You can calculate that my daughter-in-law is pregnant, and she does know some fortune-telling methods, but my daughter-in-law will not give birth until a month later, and you still can't be sure." ”

After saying this, he no longer cared about Qin Wuming.

Qin Wuming knew that he didn't believe it, so he could only smile bitterly.

However, after a while, suddenly a little boy hurriedly ran from the bazaar, and after looking around, he ran to the stall of the baker who sold cakes.

"How do you sell the cakes?"

The little guy asked a little anxiously.

The uncle quoted the price: "Two for a penny." ”

The little guy counted on his fingers and said, "Fifty of them." ”

The uncle was stunned, wondering if he had heard it wrong, and hurriedly said: "Little brother, this cake will be hard after a day, and it won't taste good, so you better ask for less." ”

The little servant waved his hand and said, "My master is feasting on relatives, and fifty is not necessarily enough." ”

The uncle hurriedly said: "Okay, but there are still five that haven't been baked yet, can the little brother wait a little longer." ”

The little guy snorted: "Hurry up." ”

The uncle didn't dare to delay, so he quickly made five more cakes with the remaining noodles and baked them on the fire, but, in a hurry, two of them fell into the fire at once, stained with ashes.

"Little brother, I'm really sorry, these two can't be eaten, I can only sell you forty-eight." The uncle said with some annoyance.

The little guy frowned, "Forget it, then forty-eight, the money will be given to you." ”

So saying, he took out a handful of copper coins from his bosom and counted them, and after handing them to the uncle, he took the forty-eight cakes and left.

"Daddy!"

At this moment, another young man ran from the crowd and shouted at the bread seller.

"Why are you here?" Seeing the young man, the uncle asked.

The young man took a few breaths and said excitedly: "Xiaohua was born prematurely!" I have given birth to a son, so come home with me. ”

"Shhh

The uncle couldn't help but gasp, and his gaze turned to Qin Wuming: "You said it all!"

Qin Wuming arched his hand and said, "Congratulations to the old man." ”

The uncle laughed heartily, "Young man, you are simply a living immortal!"

As he spoke, he took out another two pennies and handed them to Qin Wumingdao, "Little master, this is the hexagram money for you!" What a god! ”

Qin Wuming only took a penny, and said with a smile, "I owe the old man the money for the cake and pay it off."

The uncle was in a hurry to go home to see his grandson, so he didn't continue to push Qin Wuming, put away the stall, and hurried home.

Qin Wuming smiled and shook his head, why didn't he think about the fact that he could tell fortunes and make money.

In the afternoon, he calculated what would happen that day for the three of them, so that he had seven cents at once!

With these seven dollars, Qin Wuming finally had a full meal.

It's just that the problem of eating has been solved, but the problem of living has not been solved.

For the past two days, he slept under the tree.

"Fortune teller, if you really don't have a place to live, if you are brave enough, go to a cave twenty miles outside the city, so that you can shelter from the wind and rain."

Seeing Qin Wuming squatting under the big tree and preparing to spend the night, a well-wisher reminded him.

Qin Wuming's eyes lit up, he lived in a cave when he was in Kunlun Mountain, so what was there to be afraid of.

He immediately asked the specific address of the well-wisher.

The good Samaritan told him that all the way to the south, the cave was on a small hill twenty miles away.

However, ordinary people do not dare to go at all.

Because, that cave is called Xuanyuan Tomb......