The breeze dances and the moon shines, and the dreams fall among the flowers.

As I had in my dreams tonight, it was obvious that falling asleep was the best way to avoid a toothache, but I didn't have that beautiful dream, no chic scenery of the breeze and moon, no beautiful natural scenery, just non-stop trekking and running.

Although sleep is the most important way for the body to rest, I feel that after falling asleep, I feel strangely tired, leaving behind the physical and mental exhaustion, and bringing more fatigue to the depths of my soul.

At five o'clock in the morning, I woke up from my sleep, the tooth also began its painful work for a day, I was a little upset, because I didn't eat last night, there was some pain in my stomach, so I simply washed up, pushed open the door of the scum brother's room, and saw that he was still sleeping sweetly, so I came downstairs, found a breakfast shop, and asked for a bowl of black rice porridge.

As soon as I took a sip, that damn tooth flares up, and I break out in a cold sweat in pain, and I curse in my heart, fuck, I won't even be allowed to drink the porridge, forget it, wait until this tooth is pulled out.

I looked down at my watch, at six o'clock in the morning, the scumbag brother should not have woken up yet, so I followed a path in front of me and walked towards the park.

The morning air is exceptionally fresh, I sniffed my nose and walked to the cobblestone road at the edge of the park, there is an artificial lake not far ahead, the rockery by the lake is lined up, the pavilions and water pavilions are all complete, and the exquisite pavilions are quite old, like an old man who has gone through vicissitudes, standing by the lake, looking at the high-rise buildings in the distance, the prosperity and retro form a sharp contrast.

The rapid development of urbanization has covered the original natural fun, artificially repaired lawns, pavilions, retro attics, has been mixed with too many modern elements, the blue sky in the past, but also covered by the exhaust fumes of cars, the exhaust smoke of factories, the expansion of urban areas, the occupation of farmland, annihilation of people's illusions of green grass, green mountains and clear water.

I walked to Hushui, there are many people exercising here, most of them are old people, from time to time there are a few young people panting running by, I sat down next to a rest chair, rubbed my swollen cheeks, took out a cigarette case from my pocket, took out a cigarette, and put it in my mouth, only to find that it was too hurried, I didn't bring a lighter, I stood up, looked around, and saw an old man sitting on the north side of the pavilion, so I walked to him stupidly.

This is an old gentleman who tells fortunes, he sits on a small horse, his head is full of white hair, his face is wrinkled, his expression is gloomy, he is wearing a gray undershirt on his upper body, a pair of black trousers on his lower body, and a pair of brown cloth shoes on his feet, he is completely dressed as a peasant family, and he cannot tell how old he is, but from those cloudy eyes, it can be roughly judged that he should be over seventy years old.

There was a waterproof atlas in front of him, about two feet square, printed with a lot of incomprehensible patterns, like a gossip map, and like Zhou Yizhong's various hexagrams, the four corners were pressed with small stones, the breeze blew, and the waterproof atlas flickered restlessly.

I walked up to him with a cigarette in my mouth, smiled and said, "Uncle, can you borrow a fire?" ”

The old man looked up, glanced at me, and said, "I don't smoke, and smoking is not allowed here." ”

Rather disappointed, I stuffed the cigarette into the cigarette case and said, "Uncle, listening to your accent, doesn't you look like a local?" ”

The old man was holding a bamboo fan in his hand, although the temperature was not very high, he still habitually shook it twice, and said lightly: "You are not a local either." ”

I covered my cheeks and said, "I'm from the north, and I've been here for a while. ”

The old man sighed and said, "Did you come to this city to work?" ”

I nodded and said, "Yes, make a little money, don't seek to be rich and rich, just starve to death." ”

The old man squinted his eyes, looked at me carefully, and said, "Judging from your face, you don't look like a poor life, do you want me to help you calculate a hexagram?" ”

In fact, I am very rejecting this kind of fortune-telling doctrine, but if you believe it, you don't believe it, you don't believe it, I remember listening to my mother say that I had a strange disease when I was a child, taking medicine and injections didn't work, shouting all day long about headaches, fever is very serious, but the family is anxious.

It was Sun Kai and his father who said: "This kid must have rushed to something, it's better to let the goddess come over and take a look, some crooked diseases really have to be treated through the method of side doors." ”

At that time, my family lived in a small bungalow, and I needed to burn a stove for cooking, and the remaining coal ash was usually thrown away as garbage, which is now one of the raw materials in the cement factory and the miracle medicine that saved my life back then.

The goddess pinched a pinch of soot, sprinkled it into the bowl of water, and muttered in her mouth, in the sound of a spell, I drank all the dregs in the bowl, and within a day, I was cured of a serious illness, so far I don't believe that it was the credit of the soot, nor the goddess's spell manifestation, it may be the cold medicine or anti-inflammatory medicine I took before, which played an effect, and only got rid of the disease.

"Young man, I'll come early today, so I'll give you a hexagram for free."

When the old man saw that I looked sluggish, he said softly.

I smiled awkwardly and said, "Then it's troublesome old man." ”

I sat down on the pony across from him, sighed again, and said, "Do you need to say the eight characters of the birthday?" ”

"No, I don't."

He picked up a hexagram in front of him, and in his hand he was still holding an object the size of a pebble, I couldn't understand what it was, and he gently rubbed it in his hand, which seemed mysterious and meaningful.

He shook it in the hexagram, handed it to me again, and said, "You can draw any one." ”

Without even thinking about it, he pulled out a hexagram, looked at it and said, "You have been divorced once." ”

"Huh?"

I exclaimed, how did he see it? Countless questions arose in my mind.

The old man didn't ask me if I was right, but squeezed my palm and looked at it for a moment and said, "You have recently suffered a disaster, but now you are over." ”

I thought to myself, there is really such a thing, the business trouble some time ago, coupled with the divorce with Wang Ling, this is a disaster, but they have all passed it safely.

I looked at the old man with a curious look and said, "Sir, do you have any suggestions for me?" ”

He let go of my hand and said lightly: "I don't have any suggestions, there are thousands of paths for you to choose in life, how can you listen to the words of the god stick and take the wrong path?" ”

"Stick?"

I didn't expect that from his mouth, since he said such a word, he was a fortune teller, but he did not admit this feudal superstition, which really surprised me.

"Fortune-telling for others is my hobby, and I am bored at home when I retire, so I come out to pass the time, and I don't rely on this profession to earn money to support my family."

He said lightly, rubbing the object in his hand again.

I asked him, "Then why do you say that you are a god when you can tell fortunes for others?" ”

"Isn't it?"

He asked me rhetorically, and there was a solemn expression on his old face.

I was a little confused and didn't understand why he was doing what he did.

He seemed to see my confusion, so he sighed and said: "People's destiny is in their own hands, poverty and wealth, although it is only two simple words, but when applied to the world, all kinds of people, there will be a world of difference, if a poor man comes to me to count a hexagram, saying that he wants to change his fate, wants to become a rich man, do you think he can achieve it?" ”

I shook my head in a daze, and whispered, "Definitely not." ”

"That's right, not only can't, but it also adds to the laziness of the poor, and if I say that one day you will make a fortune and get an inexhaustible fortune, will you still work hard?"

The old man shook the bamboo fan lightly twice, and looked at me with a light face, and his old and rough face was like a wise man at this moment, showing a bright brilliance.

I smiled and said, "Naturally, I won't go to work, just wait for that to come sooner than wealth, and sit back and enjoy it." ”

"That's right, fortune telling can save people or harm people, there are different opinions, it depends on what those seekers think, for example, I say you are poor, how do you feel?"

The old man pursed his lips and smiled, looking at me intently.

I thought for a moment and said, "Then I may give up on myself, and then think to myself, no matter how hard I try, I am also a poor man who lives hard, and I don't want to drink wine today and get drunk today, no matter how cold water tomorrow is." ”

"That's right, so I never draw conclusions to others, those are nonsense, fate is different, the pattern of life is quite different, I don't go to other people's life and death, and I don't make comments, life is to be at peace with the situation, just be comfortable, instead of complaining about your own background, it is better to change the unfair fate through hard work, take care of your family, maintain social relations, be a filial child, a person who loves life, instead of relying on fortune telling to change your origin."

The old man said unhurriedly, these words are like a philosophy of life, so that I have a strong emotion, I sighed at the painful tooth, stood up and said: "Listening to the old gentleman's words, it is really better than reading for ten years, I have a fate to meet today, I will keep the old man's words in mind, I still have something, you have to take care of your body." ”

After saying that, I looked down at my watch again, and at seven thirty in the morning, I hung up at half past eight in the hospital, and I couldn't even eat without pulling out this disturbing tooth.

The old man waved his hand, lowered his head and sorted out the bamboo sticks in the hexagram tube, I licked my teeth, and hurried back to the apartment.

When the scumbag brother saw that half of my face was swollen, he said with a worried face: "The company has nothing to do in the morning, you go and get rid of that tooth first." ”

I nodded and said, "It's half past eight." ”

Brother Scumbag put a plate of bean paste buns on the table and said, "Why don't you have breakfast first?" ”

"I can't eat it, this tooth hurts when I touch it."

I sat down on the couch, lit a cigarette and said, "I just met a fortune teller in the park." ”

Brother Scumbag asked curiously, "Fortune teller?" What does it look like? ”

"He has white hair, dresses very plainly, and speaks very well."

I muttered.

After hearing this, Brother Scumbag raised his eyebrows and said: "That park is forbidden to tell fortunes, if you meet an old man who tells fortunes, it is Director Li." ”

"Director Li?"

I looked at the scumbag with a puzzled face, and I didn't understand how the fortune teller could hook up with the director.

Brother Scumbag smiled and said: "That's the retired Director Li of the Education Bureau, when you were in the branch, I often went to the park to chat with him, and later learned that he used to be a director, retired for many years, and liked to watch "Zhou Yi", so he put a fortune teller to pass the time." ”

After listening to this, I realized that it was no wonder that the old man was different from other fortune tellers, and he was originally engaged in the education industry.

I chatted with the scumbag for a while, and then drove to the city hospital, intending to get rid of this damn tooth.

As soon as the hospital came to work, I saw that the outpatient building was already crowded with patients, and the smell of disinfectant water rushed to my face, I sneezed, and the rest chairs were staggered and filled with crowds, men, women, and children, and it was very noisy.

There was an unfamiliar face sitting in the registration window, the girl who poked bubble wrap last night was gone, I took out the registration slip and walked in the direction of the dentistry.