"Aunt Lu, please make a pot of tea and take it upstairs, thank you!" Walking out of the ancestral hall, Sun Ting led Zhang Guozhong to the terrace on the second floor and sat down at the round table, while Airxun had already brought a large leather box at some point, and when the box was opened, it was full of calligraphy letters, notes, black and white photos, old books and other things in the old society.

"You are the head of the Maoshan Dao Sect?" Sun Ting personally poured tea for Zhang Guozhong.

"It's like a fake." Zhang Guozhong didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Sun Ting's gourd at the moment, "Ma Chunyi, the family teacher, is the head of Maoshan and Quanzhen, and the master of the next step, the one hundred and fifty-first generation of Maoshan master Ma Sijia died early due to the war, so the Maoshan master was handed over to the family teacher temporarily, and later the family teacher fell in order to save the next immortal, and the position of the two sects is now temporarily appointed by the next." ”

"Oh, the two sects are in charge, do you recognize this person?" Sun Ting picked up an old yellowed photograph and handed it to Zhang Guozhong, the photograph of a Taoist and a foreigner, from the foreigner to the bearded sideburns, this photograph should have been taken in the 18th century.

"I don't know." Zhang Guozhong was about to cry, even if he was the head of the two religions, it would be a bit too much to take a photo from a century ago to admit it.

"This man's name is... Yun Lingzi..."Sun Ting sighed, as if there was something unspeakable.

"Yun Lingzi!?" A strong sense of déjà vu immediately surged into Zhang Guozhong's heart, "This name... Why is it so familiar? After thinking for a while, Zhang Guozhong suddenly remembered that the master had mentioned a person back then, and he was very sure of his cultivation, and even had a little admiration, but the conclusion he made was "recognize the thief as his father, betray the country and seek glory", and denounced it as "the scum of the Taoist sect, insulting the ancestor", but when Zhang Guozhong asked about the cause and effect. Ma Zhenren shook his head vigorously, unwilling to elaborate, only saying that he helped the devil steal the national treasure and led the soldiers to die inexplicably.

"This guy seems to be... Chinese... jiān？ I remember, it seems to be..."Zhang Guozhong also doesn't know if the Yun Lingzi in Sun Ting's mouth is the same person as the Yun Lingzi that the master said, because looking at this photo, it was probably taken in the eighteenth century, this Taoist priest seems to be quite young, and it seems that Rì himself has not launched an invasion of China at that time. If you say a wrong word at this time, there is only one consequence, which is to be embarrassed.

"Yes, that's right..."Sun Ting said helplessly. It's this person, Zhang Zhangjiao didn't remember wrong. ”

"Oh..."Zhang Guozhong let out a sigh, "This person... My master's evaluation of him..."As soon as he saw that the number was right, Zhang Guozhong was just about to take out all the words that the master scolded this Yun Lingzi back then, when he suddenly felt that Lao Liu was kicking himself with his foot, "My master... The evaluation of him is not very good..."Zhang Guozhong is not stupid, he looks at Lao Liu Tou's eyes wrong. The conversation was taken back, and he didn't say much about the curse.

"It's okay, I understand..."Sun Ting smiled, "But, Zhang Zhangjiao, there are some things that you and your mentor imagined. Since you are the Tao

Doorman, I would like to take this opportunity to tell you a story, I wonder if you are interested? ”

"Listen up!" This sentence can be in Zhang Guozhong's arms, Zhang Guozhong has no other hobbies, he just likes to listen to stories, especially to inquire about some unknown secret history, this kind of mentality, if placed in today's society. It should probably be regarded as a relatively "gossip".

"Do you know anything like a 'corpse furnace'?" Seeing that Zhang Guozhong seemed to be very interested, Sun Ting also relaxed a lot and immediately opened the conversation.

In Hubei Province, Shi'en County, near Xingdou Mountain, there is a small mountain village called Changjiaying, the whole village has a total of 48 people, can be regarded as a real small mountain village, Pingrìli, the village people plant some land by themselves, dig some medicinal materials from the mountains, pick some mountain goods to sell in the county or directly exchange things with others, it can be regarded as living a paradise-like life, in this perennial self-sufficient small village, even the sense of currency is not very strong, see the gold ingots, do not see the sacks of rice - the village has seen the ingots basically no; Most of the daily necessities are directly exchanged for medicinal materials or mountain goods, there is no so-called landlord in the village, not even the village chief, the major events in the village are the most senior people in the village have the final say, if the senior person dies, he will change to the second largest generation, in Changjiaying, but the generation is big, no matter what the IQ is, as long as you are not a fool, one day you can survive to the position of the top leader, in fact, to put it bluntly, their so-called major events, nothing more than weddings, funerals, marriages and children, forty people in a small mountain village, What else could be a big deal?

However, one day, something really happened, and this big event was not who married a daughter-in-law and had children, but a family.

At the end of the twenty-first year of Daoguang (1841), a carriage came to the village, and the driver seemed to be a man who had studied a book, wearing a melon skin hat and a blue satin robe, and in the carriage was a young woman with two children in her arms. The first thing this family did after arriving in the village was to find someone to build a house, and a lot of things were moved from the car with large and small pieces, many of which were the most knowledgeable things in the village and the most people who had never seen the county seat the most.

In the old society, the people in the village are very simple and enthusiastic, although they do not know, but they are very welcome to the people who have "seen the world" who have moved to the village, and Chang Laoxi, who was the head of the village at that time, not only personally sprinkled to the family to meet, but also sent the strong men in the village to build two rooms for the family, and did not take a penny, the family was also very moved, since then the "boss" of the car has opened a private school in his own house, not only teaching the children in the village to read and write for free, but also free to the village people to diagnose the pulse and see a doctor, The price is that the babies can give some food at home so that the whole family can make ends meet.

According to the car boss himself, the family's surname is Ding, named Ding Yi, because he is knowledgeable, and knows how to cure diseases, within half a year, the prestige in the village will soon be on par with Chang Laoxi after the main thing, this Chang Laoxi is also a person who loves to make friends, and regardless of his age, he directly bowed to this Ding Yi, since then, the village people began to call this Ding Yi Ding in charge, Chang Laoxi simply took a back seat, and Ding Yi took the idea of major and small affairs in the village.

In the twenty-second year of Daoguang (1842), a few people in the village went to the market to exchange New Year's goods, and suddenly saw that the three layers outside the city gate were all surrounded by people, Shi'en County is a small county, and the traffic is blocked. It's not a big deal for a long time, but now there are three layers of people here and three layers outside, could it be that there is a son-in-law in the county? A few people came forward to take a look, it turned out to be a picture of the notice of arresting criminals, and there was a bright red seal printed under the notice.

This is really like a thunderbolt from the blue for these simple mountain people, and the person in charge of the village is a prisoner of the imperial court!? Oh my mother. What crime was committed? Murder and arson? Moving a house? It's not like ah, Na Ding is a scholar, and he has no power to tie the chicken, let alone fight the house. The mountain goods in the village are hanging on the street every day, and there is no shortage of them?

One of these people is named Chang Sishan, who is more bold and bold, his father and mother are cured by Ding Dang's family, and his son is also studying in Ding's family, so he thinks that the people on the notice are at most like Ding Dangjia, and they are definitely not Ding Dangjia himself. In order to confirm his thoughts, Chang Sishan found a person who seemed to be a little knowledgeable and asked, what was written on the notice, what was the surname of the Qin prisoner who drew the picture, what was the big crime he had committed, and why did this notice come to Shi En.

In fact, the person Chang Sishan asked was also illiterate. But in front of this countryman, he was embarrassed to say that he was illiterate, so he began to make up nonsense with Chang Sishan, saying that the surname of the person on the notice was Xia (the Ding character is similar to the next word, this guy thought for a long time and only thought that the next word was about this shape), and he committed the big crime of rebellion.

Chang Sishan didn't know what a beheading decision was, but when he heard the announcement, the person to be arrested was not surnamed Ding. The heart was put down, and he changed some white noodles with a few people and went back to Chang's camp together, but Chang Sishan had an extra heart, and after returning to the village, he asked these people not to mention the notice to the people in the village, but he sneaked to the Ding family in the middle of the night and told him about it.

What Chang Sishan never expected was that this Ding master heard the announcement. also connected the nine clans, his face turned blue all of a sudden, and he sat on the chair with his ass, almost turning his back on his back. This can frighten Chang Sishan, as the saying goes, only when you are a thief is weak-hearted, could it be that the people who are on the ground are really Ding in charge?

After feeding two mouthfuls of water, Ding Yi gradually recovered his meaning, and knelt down for Chang Sishan with a plop, begging Chang Sishan with tears not to say this, and the head of the house knelt down for himself, and people were still kind to themselves, which was a matter of tormenting Yangshou in the old society.

After standing up with Chang Sixi supporting each other, Ding told a history that made people laugh and cry with tears in his eyes.

It turns out that this Ding Yi is the most famous fortune teller in Běi Jīng City, this life is xìng smart, he learned the art of yīn yang at the age of thirteen, Ding was four years old and has set up a stall on the overpass to show people, this Ding Yi is not surnamed Ding, the name Ding Yi can only be regarded as a "peeping name (the so-called peeping name, the main is a fake name used when spying on the heavenly machine)", as for his real name, Ding Yi never told anyone, except for his father and mother and a few close friends, basically no one knows, but the whole běi Almost everyone in Jīng City knows that there is such a Ding god in Tianqiao, and he looks at the face of the word Baigua Bailing.

Ding Yi looks at the appearance, first of all, to give the guests three chapters of the law, the first is not to hexagram birth and death, the second is not to hexagram heirs, and the third is not to hexagram grievances, because these three kinds of problems belong to the first class and one earth, whether it is not said or nonsense, the guests will say that you can't calculate or calculate inaccurately, smash your own family plaque, and fold your own longevity if you say it, so Ding Yi simply does not count, with a modern term, it should be regarded as "strong sense of self-protection".

As the saying goes, if you sit at home behind closed doors, disaster will come from heaven. One day in November of the twenty-first year of Daoguang, Ding had an ominous premonition as soon as he opened his eyes early in the morning, and he wanted to give himself a divination, but after hesitating for a long time, he decided to forget it, thinking that he was a fortune teller, what could be a big deal? (Fortune tellers are generally reluctant to give themselves divination, just like Chinese medicine practitioners are reluctant to give themselves a pulse) put on his shoes, just about to go down to the ground to wash his face, suddenly there was a commotion of footsteps outside.

"Open the door, open the door!" The sound of the knocker on the door was like the creditor who had found the debtor, and he hated to smash the two broken wooden doors.

"Who?" Ding Yi opened the door by himself (at that time, his daughter-in-law had just given birth and was still in confinement, so it was inconvenient), "Hey... What are you...? Ding Yi was stupid on the spot, and the two began to tremble uncontrollably...