Chapter 1: Out of the Palace
After the rain in the valley, it rained for several days in a row, and the weather finally cleared up today, and the concubine secretly went out of the palace with her personal maid Caiyue.
"Caiyue, we should have come out a long time ago, I was bored in the palace all day, I was about to get sick," the concubine twisted a piece of osmanthus cake held by a snow silk handkerchief, threw it into her mouth, and complained to Caiyue behind her, but her eyes were not idle for a moment, lingering on the various food stalls on both sides of the street.
Cai Yue pouted and muttered in a low voice: "Princess, you are happy, if the queen mother knows, we will have to have a board." ”
The concubine didn't notice Cai Yue's words, she was attracted by a twisting and turning line in the distance, a small square table was set up at one end of the team, an old man with gray hair was leisurely sipping tea, and the other end was lined up to the door of the restaurant, blocking the guests coming in and out, about a hundred people.
"Let's go, let's go over and have a look," she said, taking Caiyue's hand and running towards the end of the line.
"Gong ...... Miss, there are a lot of people there, let's go ......" Caiyue wanted to persuade her to go elsewhere, but after all, she was pulled by the concubine at the end of the line.
They inquired about the people in line, and then they learned that the stall in front of them was the famous Sai Banxian in Jin Du, this person was quite accurate, but he only came out of the stall once a month, and only gave three people a time to tell the hexagram, although there were many people queuing up today, but they were all rejected.
"This man has a weird temper!" Concubine Yan nodded, and continued to say to Cai Yue: "Cai Yue, let this half-immortal calculate our identities later, and see if he is accurate!" ”
Cai Yue couldn't, so she had to stand with her, her eyelids couldn't stop jumping, and she was always a little uneasy in her heart.
After a while, more than half of the people left in front of him, and the concubine suddenly felt that this old man was too unkind, so many people waited for him for a long time, he shook his head and let the family go, and the shelf was quite big.
"Is this hexagram really accurate?" As soon as the person in front of the concubine left, she sat directly in front of the half-immortal, staring at him, this person's face was full of furrows, but his eyes were extremely clear, he looked at the concubine, and said with a smile: "The girl will be the first hexagram of the old man today." ”
The concubine was not polite, so she wanted to ask him to calculate his identity, she was sure that this person was an unruly warlock who was here to cheat money.
But before she could speak, the old man picked up a tortoiseshell-like tube with inscriptions on his body, placed three copper coins in it, closed his eyes, and shook it in a good manner.
Looking at his posture, it seems that he has some kung fu.
I saw that his eyes suddenly widened, and three copper coins fell on the table, he lowered his eyebrows and said, "Within a year, the girl may have a bloody disaster!" ”
The concubine coughed twice and held back her laughter, in fact, she guessed that he would say this, just because she had also told her fortune a few times before going out of the palace, and the other party was like this every time, and then asked her to buy a talisman to go back to solve the disaster, she heard too much, and it was not a good thing.
"Oh? How so? The concubine pretended to be surprised, she wanted to hear how he would be rounded.
The old man stroked his beard, and his tone was not slow: "This is a hexagram,
The one who is reluctant is also difficult, the danger is ahead, the danger is stopped, and the knowledge is ......"
"What do you mean by that?" Cai Yue listened to his tirade, and finally couldn't bear to ask.
"It means that the girl can no longer go forward, and now she should go home immediately, and she will not be allowed to go out of the boudoir for a year, and this disaster can be solved."
"Don't need to buy a talisman to go back?" The concubine asked.
"Not necessarily."
This made the concubine a little puzzled, "Give him the money," the concubine instructed Caiyue.
Unexpectedly, this person waved his hand, pointed in the direction of the east, and persuaded: "Go there, go straight for five miles, and you will see a vermilion gate of three zhang, the girl must be from there, right?" ”
The concubine was shocked, could this person guess that she was from the palace. She began to look at the old man carefully, but she didn't notice anything unusual about him.
But the concubine was a troublemaker, she listened to him to tell the truth, although she had palpitations, but she really wanted to see what the calamity was, after all, she had spent sixteen years in the palace peacefully and smoothly, which made her life uninteresting, as long as it could stir up a little wave, even if it was a cost, she was willing to try.
"Thank you, Master," said the concubine, bowing to the man, almost believing what the man in front of her said, and she continued, "but I have not been in danger in the past sixteen years, and I really want to experience it today, and if I can be safe in a year, I will come to thank you." ”
The concubine said that she left a silver ingot, and went west with Caiyue, and the old man looked at them, smiled and shook his head......
"Princess...... Let's listen to the man," Cai Yue tugged at the sleeve of her concubine's coat.
"What are you afraid of, is there anyone who dares to bully us in broad daylight?" The concubine took Caiyue's hand and tightened it.
……
The market was bustling in the end, and after a while, the two of them became obsessed with a trick at the end of the street, and forgot all about it.
The two of them pushed through the layers of the crowd and finally squeezed to the front, so that they could see the man breathing fire.
I saw a man in red clothes with thin pigtails on his head, facing a fist-sized torch, exhaling a long breath, and a raging fire burst out, lighting the entire torch, and the concubine couldn't help but clap her hands and cheered with the people around her: "Good! Good! I heard a crackling sound, and a lot of copper coins were thrown into the copper plate, and the concubine also threw a silver ingot into it.
"Folks, we've recently had a new trick that has changed people," the man said with a laugh. I saw a sallow woman push out a long wooden box with a height of a man, she stood in it herself, the man closed the door, and then covered the box with a black cloth, everyone saw this trick for the first time, and they all waited with bated breath, and the crowd that was still noisy suddenly fell silent.
"Now that I've lifted the black cloth, guess where they've gone!" I saw that the man lifted the curtain and opened the door, but there was no one inside. At this moment, people all stared at each other, looked left and right, and were puzzled for a while.
"I'm here!" Suddenly, there was a voice from behind the crowd, and the woman was waving at everyone on the other side of the street!
"Good! Good! The concubine became more and more excited, she slapped her palms red, and threw silver on the plate with the crowd......
"Who wants to come up and give it a try," the man asked the crowd with a sudden smile, his eyes glancing at him unintentionally, of course she didn't want to miss such a fun thing, so she raised her hands and shouted, "I'm coming!" ”
Although there were many people around who were eager to try, the man pointed to the concubine and said, "Let this girl come first!" ”
The concubine really walked up, and Caiyue was also infected by this warm atmosphere, so she just clapped her hands and applauded, so she didn't stop her.
The concubine walked into the wooden box, and looked at the box quite curiously, wanting to see what the mystery is, if she learns it, she can still show it to the queen mother when she returns to the palace, and she is thinking about it, as soon as the door of the box is closed, there is only darkness left in front of her.
Suddenly, her feet were empty, and she lost consciousness before she could scream......
There was another burst of cheers outside, and it was only then that Cai Yue was shocked to realize that the concubine was gone, and she was anxious to come forward to ask, but the man who played tricks hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, this time I will change her to the front tavern, girl, you go there to find it." ”
Cai Yue ran over without thinking about it......