Chapter 33: The rebellious boy fights the demon
A few days ago, Liu Ruotian was admitted to the hospital for rain because of impulse, but soon after he was infected with wind chill and had a high fever that did not go away. Fortunately, after timely treatment, he finally recovered, and his health was fine. But as a result, Liu Ruotian's resentment towards the fortune teller deepened day by day, and he vowed to ask him for an understanding.
One morning, the sky was high and the clouds were light, and it was a good time to find that person to settle accounts. After some inquiry, Liu Ruotian finally found this person under the guidance of passers-by.
When I looked around, I saw a middle-aged man who looked like a person was leaning sideways and humming a little song at the long table in front of him, looking very relaxed.
Seeing this, Liu Ruotian walked forward quickly, and then sat down on a bench next to the long table.
Then he kept staring at the man with a very subtle look, and he stared at the man with a stick of incense, and stared at the man until his hair straightened.
Seeing this, the Taoist immediately asked Liu Ruotian why he came. But no matter how people asked Liu Ruotian, he was unmoved, still staring at him tightly.
Seeing this situation, the Taoist immediately felt that Liu Ruotian must be a bad person, so he had to deal with it carefully.
At the same time, Liu Ruotian was also carefully observing the person in front of him.
Although he is nearly middle-aged, he can also be called a clear-eyed and kind-eyed person. Slightly gray hair, dark thick eyebrows, and a beard that floats in the wind. No matter how you look at it, this person doesn't look like a treacherous person who likes to play tricks and deceive people.
Having said all this, where did this person come from? Yes, he is the so-called master who conspired with Wang Ruxue to kill Xu Yuanwei back then-the Taoist of the Heart.
Dispelling the heart of the Taoist, his background is unknown. Soon after his birth, he was ruthlessly abandoned in front of a dilapidated Taoist temple in the middle of a mountain, and was raised by the only old Taoist in the Taoist temple.
Lao Dao saw that he was so pitiful, so he took him under his door and taught him all the things he had learned all his life, and then gave him the Dharma name "Dispelling the Heart".
A few years later, the old Taoist returned to the west, and only the Taoist who dispelled the heart lived in the temple.
Because of the lack of due care and love since childhood, he gradually developed a withdrawn and cunning character, coupled with his innate resentment complex and distorted outlook on life, which made him gradually deviate from what a monk should be.
Shortly thereafter, the Mind Dispelling Daoist began his journey of more than 20 years.
During this period, he went to many states and counties in the Central Plains, got acquainted with many idle people in the rivers and lakes, as well as all kinds of martial arts scum, and then learned a lot from them. Among his so-called skills, he is most proficient in alchemy and poison making.
Under the continuous instigation and inducement of the general environment, he has long abandoned the ethics and cultivation that a Taoist priest should have, and began to become greedy for money, lustful, insidious and vicious. Today, although he still considers himself a Taoist priest, he has long been completely detached from the essence of a Taoist priest.
Five years ago, he had to leave Luoyang because of the murder of Xu Yuanwei, and then began to travel again, arriving in Chang'an City a few months ago.
After coming to Chang'an City, he searched everywhere for shelter, but all failed. In desperation, he remembered that he still had the ability to make a living by telling fortunes for others, so he began to return to his old business.
After several days of hard work, he has gained a lot of prestige in the hearts of some people in Chang'an City, and has become a so-called fortune teller respected by everyone.
But although this master has the ability to play tricks on the void, he has no talent to go through the heavens and latitudes, and you see, the so-called master is about to be revealed.
Seeing that Liu Ruotian was still staring at him intently, the dispelling Taoist finally couldn't hold back and asked the first question.
"What is Childe's intention here?"
After Liu Ruotian heard this, he immediately replied: "I heard that the Taoist chief is known for fortune-telling and divination, and this time I came to bother the Taoist chief to calculate it for me, where did I come from and where will I end up, I don't know if the chief is willing to serve?" ”
Seeing that Liu Ruotian was extraordinary, he was dressed very decently, and he must have been from a noble background. At this moment, seeing that he took the initiative to inquire about his fate, the heart dispel Taoist immediately decided that he had to knock him hard.
"The annoying boy will first offer the eight characters of his birthday, and the poor party will be able to answer your questions."
At the moment when the heart dispelling Taoist saw Liu Ruotian's birthday, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised, this person was indeed Liu Ruotian.
Because he had just seen this birthday a few days ago, it was exactly the same as the one Liu Xinyu provided to him.
"How is it, Dao Chief, where did I come from and where did I die?"
"From where you come from, where you go. Everything has a cause and effect, everything can be done according to fate, and there is no need to know. ”
The Taoist still doesn't know what the purpose of Liu Ruotian's trip is, if he comes to find trouble, it will be a big deal, so he just said some ambiguous words to fool him first.
Liu Ruotian knew that he would deal with it like this, because he didn't know what Liu Ruotian's past and present lives were, so he had to say some seemingly profound words to pretend to be deep, wanting to use this to fool him through.
"Dao Chief, I'm just an ordinary man, and I really can't understand your unfathomable truths, so let's talk about something practical."
"Oh? What is practical? "The Mind Dispelling Daoist was a little curious about this.
"The so-called reality refers to the objectively existing things or situations, not your false tricks." Hearing Liu Ruotian say this, the heart dispelling Taoist was a little angry.
Although Liu Ruotian tried all kinds of temptations to dispel the mind, he finally tried his best to avoid any questions raised by Liu Ruotian, and always avoided the truth and answered falsely for fear of leaking anything.
"Since the Taoist Chief doesn't want to reveal half of my life experience and fate, then I'll change another question that you can answer."
The Mind Dispelling Daoist thought that he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect that the next question would further put him in a dilemma.
"I heard that the Taoist knows astronomy and geography, and knows five hundred years above and five hundred years below, which can be described as a wide range of ancient and modern knowledge, but is so?" Liu Ruotian asked.
"That's nature, I don't dare to boast about it, but all kinds of things in the past and the future, I can deduce one or two by pinching my fingers." Speaking of which, the Dispelling Mind Daoist seems to be very satisfied with his proud achievements.
I only heard Liu Ruotian ask: "I just want to ask you, what was the general situation of our Central Plains in the first thousand years AD?" ”
The Taoist never expected Liu Ruotian to ask him such a question, so he said a fortune teller's signature words, and the secret of heaven must not be revealed.
"I know that the secret of heaven cannot be revealed, and I didn't let you go into details, I just asked you to give you an overview. Dao Chief, you are so perfunctory, don't you know anything at all? ”
The two chatted here for so long, attracting many local people to stop and watch. I was already secretive about Liu Ruotian's questions, and if I couldn't say anything valuable, I was afraid that it would be difficult to convince the public.
"Joke! How could I not know? At that time, the land of the Central Plains will naturally be ...... Naturally...... Under the rule of Daomingjun in our dynasty, the national strength became stronger and stronger, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. ”
From the moment the Taoist said this, Liu Ruotian could make up his mind, the so-called masters, half-immortals, are pure nonsense and self-deception.
Others don't know, doesn't Liu Ruotian know? In the first millennium AD, it was clear that the Song Dynasty was already ruling the Central Plains, and the people of the Heart Removal Dao actually said that the Central Plains was still under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
It can be seen from this that his tricks are just tricks used to coax those ignorant people, whether he can really pinch the Bogu Tongjin and know it himself.
"Hahaha...... No, I'm laughing to death! Hahaha...... "Liu Ruotian couldn't stop laughing after hearing the words of the Taoist of the Heart, and slapped the table with his hand while laughing, tears were about to burst out of laughter.
"That's it! Let's get down to business. I have come for the sole purpose of exposing you for what you really are in front of everyone! Liu Ruotian smiled and suddenly turned his face, which caught the people of the Heart Dispelling Dao a little off guard.
"What heavenly secrets can't be revealed, you're not afraid of revealing the so-called heavenly secrets at all, but you don't know anything at all, just playing tricks there! For those things you don't know, you will only make up nonsense, and the ignorant people who have been deceived by you also don't know anything about it, so naturally they will believe what you say! ”
"You ......" The heart dispelling Taoist was so angry with him that he couldn't speak.
Subsequently, Liu Ruotian said: "At the beginning, I respected you as a monk, so I treated you with great courtesy. I expected you to be able to stop in moderation, but I didn't expect you to get worse, and in the end, you shamelessly called yourself a so-called half-immortal, which is really self-deception! In life, you should know what to mean by the word shame, and where does your shame go! I'm afraid it's already gone! ”
Although the heart dispelling Taoist was already red-faced at this moment, he still forced a smile and pretended to ask calmly: "This son, the poor Dao has no grudge against you, why did you humiliate me in public, isn't there anything wrong with the incident a few days ago?" ”
Speaking of this, Liu Ruotian became even more angry, and hurriedly said: "Yes, you are right. There is no evidence, why do you dare to ask my father for twenty taels of silver! I don't care if others believe it or not, anyway, everything you say to me here is grossly wrong and baseless! Ever since I came to this unfamiliar place, it has been difficult for me to have a peaceful life, but now I can't even sleep, all thanks to you! Today, I'm going to get it back with interest, so that you don't hurt people again in the future! ”
When the heart dispel Taoist looked at this formation, it seemed that there was no way out, so he resolutely decided to give Liu Ruotian some color.
It is said that the heart dispelling Taoist did not directly attack Liu Ruotian at the beginning, but kept circling him, trying to take him down when he showed his flaws. And Liu Ruotian was also keeping an eye on every move of the Heart Dispelling Daoist, holding the folding fan tightly in his right hand, ready to face the battle at any time.
I saw that the Taoist slowly walked behind Liu Ruotian, and when he was unprepared, he slashed at Liu Ruotian with the dust in his hand, and Liu Ruotian immediately unfolded the folding fan when he heard the sound and then put his backhand behind his head to make it moment. Seeing that the heart dispel Taoist saw that a trick failed and wanted to do it again, Liu Ruotian turned around and changed the folding fan to horizontal and swept it quickly in front of the heart dispelling dao person. The edge of the fan was only more than half a minute away from the neck of the Mind Dividing Daoist, but fortunately, the Heart Removing Daoist leaned back slightly to escape the catastrophe.
After getting up, the heart dispelling Taoist first used a whisk to sweep in front of Liu Ruotian, but when he saw no effect, the heart dispelling Taoist started the idea of some objects around the two.
I saw him flash sideways to Liu Ruotian's side, and he took advantage of the situation to roll up a bench on the ground with a whisk and smashed it towards Liu Ruotian, Liu Ruotian hurriedly flashed sideways when he saw this.
Just as Liu Ruotian was dodging the bench, the Heart Dispelling Daoist used a whisk to throw all the teacups and other items on the long table in front of him at Liu Ruotian. Seeing this, Liu Ruotian quickly blocked it with the folding fan in his hand.
Seeing that something was wrong, the Heart Dispelling Daoist actually took this opportunity to launch several hidden weapons into Liu Ruotian's face. Just as Liu Ruotian unfolded the folding fan to block the hidden weapon attacking his face, the Heart Dispelling Daoist took advantage of his unpreparedness and jumped behind Liu Ruotian, and then strangled Liu Ruotian's neck with the part of the animal hair in his hand, and then dragged him back hard, wanting to put him to death.
Just when the last moment was blowing, Liu Ruotian was in a hurry, quickly reflexively lowered his waist and supported the ground with both hands, and successfully stood upside down with the help of the force of the heart dispel Taoist dragging backwards, and his instep was in the middle of the head of the heart dispel Daoist, and the force was so great that he instantly kicked him dizzy.
Although the heart dispel Taoist is good at alchemy, his martial arts attainments are commonplace, and he can deal with ordinary small thieves, but he is vulnerable if he encounters a strong enemy. However, it is worth noting that although the kung fu of the heart dispelling Taoist is mediocre, he is often unguardable with his habitual yin tricks.
In the process of the two fighting, there happened to be a guard from the General's Mansion hanging out here, and they immediately recognized Liu Ruotian.
The man was afraid that Liu Ruotian would lose, so he hurriedly went back to the house to find Liu Xinyu. After Liu Xinyu arrived when he heard the news, the fight was over.
Not only that, Liu Ruotian also ordered him to return the twenty taels of silver that had deceived Liu Xinyu before, and also warned him not to appear in front of him again.
When Liu Xinyu saw the scene in front of him, before he could speak, Liu Ruotian spoke first.
"Dad, do we still need to hide and tuck between father and son? Despite your repeated concealment, don't I know everything in the end? So, if you don't know, you can't do it unless you do! You can rest assured, Dad, your son and I are very good, and we will live a long life without illness or disaster, so you don't have to worry about it. After saying that, Liu Ruotian left, and Liu Xinyu was stunned for a while and then turned around and went home.
But the words that come out are like water being spilled, and the marriage will still be consummated.
For the sake of today's plan, Liu Ruotian can only sit and wait for the wedding date to come, and then improvise.