Zhang Guoqiang has to go back to his home in Fuzhou first and say hello to his father, so that he can go to Hangzhou to stay more with peace of mind.

Tang Tianshun had no choice, so he had to go to Fuzhou with him first, and then transfer to Hangzhou.

Because he doesn't live in the main city, the place where Dongfang Bai lives is not so easy to find, but because he is very famous, it is not difficult to inquire all the way to find the past.

In the afternoon, they came to the door of the high-ranking man's house, which was a detached bungalow, unlike the modern high-rise buildings.

The area is not very large, but it looks neat and quiet from the outside, and it is the end of summer, and there are flowers blooming on both sides of the path in front of the door.

Although there were no stones on the dirt floor, there were no weeds or filth, and it was obvious that it had been sprinkled with water. It can be seen that the owner of this house is a person who is very secluded in the city and pays attention to the rules.

The two of them thought of Liu Yuxi's "Burrow" at the same time:

The mountain is not high, and there is a fairy name.

The water is not deep, and if there is a dragon, it will be spiritual.

Si is a burrow, but Wu Dexin.

The moss marks are green, and the grass is green.

There is a lot of talk and laughter, and there is no white ding.

You can tune the piano and read the Golden Sutra.

There is no silk and bamboo, and there is no case.

Nanyang Zhuge Lu, West Shuzi Cloud Pavilion.

Confucius Ziyun: "What is ugly? ”

Dongfang Bai hasn't rushed back yet, he just heard about him, and he hasn't seen the deity yet, what kind of person is Dongfang Bai? Both were full of curiosity.

I'm afraid there is no one in this world who can say clearly except himself.

Some people say that he is just a nerd with weak letters, some people say that he is a little too good to people, and some people say that he is like a hermit who does not ask about the world.

Of course, some people even say that he is a charlatan, but fortunately he is not a liar.

With so many different connotations of Dongfang Bai, which one will be the real him?

Speaking of Dongfang Bai, his sister Dongfang Xiu once commented, "You look at this all day long and deserve sympathy, and that feels pitiful, in fact, you are the most pitiful person." ”

Also, "This younger brother of mine is the richest poor man in the world." ”

Why do you say that Dongfang Bai is pitiful? Because he lost his mother since he was a child, a mother's child is like a treasure, and a child without a mother is like a grass, he really feels it, and he really has experienced it.

A few years after the death of the loving mother, there was another stepmother in the family, and the father was afraid of her and did not dare to defend his children, because of the long-term discord with the stepmother, he left home before the age of twenty to live alone.

How did he come into contact with the I Ching?

A year before his mother's death, a blind fortune teller showed him eight characters, saying that his mother's life would be in danger the next year, and that the mother really died of illness the next year.

Within a few years, my father also died.

Therefore, Dongfang Bai vowed to study Chinese medicine when he was very young, and he didn't want to watch his relatives leave him anymore, but he was helpless.

Later, he worshipped the blind hexagram master who had told his fortune as his enlightenment teacher, and followed him to learn fortune-telling techniques such as criticizing eight characters.

Why is he the richest poor man in the world?

Because his knowledge is broad and profound, and the gentleman is not worried about poverty, he is afraid that everyone will not have knowledge and teach his knowledge to the outside all day long, and his own food, clothing, and other enjoyments will be a mess.

Dongfang Bai was born in the Northeast, why did he later live in Hangzhou, Zhejiang?

It turned out that when he was a teenager, he had compared the "Weighing Bone Method" of Yuan Tiangang, a master of physiognomy in the Tang Dynasty, and added them together when he was born, and calculated that it was a total of four taels and six coins, and the sentence poem said:

The southeast and northwest are all connected,

Moved out of the surname and moved to more Juelong.

The infinite number of days of Yilu is fixed,

The middle-aged evening scene is generally the same.

This is very the same as his own fate, he has a lot of skills, and he travels all over the world to plan the two houses of yin and yang, isn't it "all the south, the south, the west, and the north"?

The facts that happened later further proved the correctness of the last few sentences of this "Weighing Bone Law" in judging his fate.

Moved to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in his twenties, and then moved to Chongqing in the southwest ten years later to live in seclusion, isn't it also in line with the "surname migration"?

and compared with the Ming Dynasty Liu Bowen's secret "Three Generations of Poultry Acting Law", the life belongs to the "crane" grid, and the sentence poem says:

Born in the shape of a crane,

Leave your ancestors to settle down.

Woman is full of calamities,

Men's clothes are even.

The prediction of the ancients is really outstanding, because here it also mentions the aspect of settling away from the ancestors, which is as implicit as the "Weighing Bone Method".

Born in the shape of a crane, it means that the person with this life has long legs and a thin body, which is in line with Dongfang Bai's thin and tall figure.

The book also pointed out that people in the "crane" pattern have religious complexes, and Dongfang Bai has had an inseparable attachment to Buddhism since he was a child.

The bizarre stories recorded in the book took place during the period when he was temporarily living in Hangzhou, when he was in his twenties.

When I walked to the door, I saw a couplet on both sides of the door, which was not a lot of words, but it was very interesting.

Shanglian is a "trace of the star",

The next link is "Xianban Golden Horse".

The two of them glanced at each other, and the expressions on their faces were confused, indicating that they didn't understand, and they didn't know what this meant?

They don't understand why it's not written on it:

Open the door to welcome the spring and fill the courtyard,

Look up and see a lot of joy.

This couplet has an allusion, originating from Dongfang Shuo, who was known as a wise sage in the Han Dynasty, and describes that Dongfang Shuo is not an ordinary person, but a god, a star descending from the earth, and his real body is a figure in the immortal class.

In Ban Guzuo's "The Story of Han Wu", there is a story that Dongjun sent a dwarf at that time, who was only seven inches tall.

The emperor thought that this was a monster in the mountains, so he hurriedly summoned the well-informed Dongfang Shuo to talk back.

Dongfang Shuo was very strange when he saw the dwarf: "Djinn, why did you come here, your mistress?" ”

The dwarf did not answer him directly, but pointed to Dongfang Shuo and said to the emperor: "The Queen Mother of the West grows immortal peaches, and they only bear fruit once in three thousand years. This boy was not of good character, and he had eaten three times, so the queen mother was not happy, so she relegated him to the world. ”

When the emperor heard this, he was shocked, and only then did he know that Dongfang Shuo was not a man in the world.

After his death, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once asked the prince: "Are all the stars there?" The prince replied, "All the stars are there, but I have not seen them for eighteen years, and I can see them again in the near future." ”

Emperor Wu looked up to the sky and sighed: "Dongfang Shuo has been beside me for exactly eighteen years, but I don't know that he is the star of the year!" ”

It is an old tradition in the past to post couplets, and each family will write famous and influential figures in their own family into the couplets.

Some people with the surname Dongfang will also write "sarcastic and witty" and "Lord Wei Zhenji". This is also an allusion from the story of Dongfang Shuo, Dongfang Shuo is not only superior in wisdom, but also witty and funny, one of his interesting things is the story of stealing the "Junshan Immortal Wine".

It is said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was deceived by the Jianghu warlock Luan Da, and claimed that Junshan had a kind of wine that could live forever. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fasted for seven days, and sent Luan Da to take the boys and girls to find them, but they brought back medicinal wine.

When Emperor Wu just wanted to drink it, he was drunk first by Dongfang Shuo.

Emperor Wu was furious and ordered him to be beheaded.

Dongfang Shuo said, "If this wine works, I won't die if I kill it; If there is no cure, then what is the use of drinking it, Emperor? ”

After Emperor Wu heard this, he understood the truth and knew that he had been deceived by Luan Da, so naturally he did not pursue Dongfang Shuo's sins, which was how Dongfang Shuo advised the emperor with his witty style.

However, Dongfang Bai felt that he was a person who was not very good at humor, so he did not use this couplet.

The door is open, and you can see the living room at a glance.

Tang Tianshun first whispered outside the door, "Is anyone there?" "No one agreed.

He raised his voice again, called for a moment, but still didn't respond.

When Zhang Guoqiang saw it, he said let's go in and have a look, maybe the owner has something to do and go out temporarily.

Tang Tianshun said, it's not good to do this, the master is not there, how can we casually enter someone else's home?

Zhang Guoqiang hurriedly went in, wanting to observe the owner's habits through the furnishings in the house.

While hesitating, Tang Tianshun suddenly saw a small note on the door, because they had been paying attention to the movement in the room just now, and the door was open, so they didn't notice it.

When I got closer, there was a small line written on it: "It's fun to have friends from afar!" The two distinguished guests are invited in first, and when they have something important to go out, they will come back to entertain them."

Tang Tianshun is going to be excited at this time, he is really a master! Not only did we know that we were coming during this period, but we also knew that it was two people coming.

He hurriedly asked Zhang Guoqiang to take a look at the note, and the two of them admired it even more.

When I got in, I sat down in the living room and waited.

I felt that the master might not be able to come back for a while, so I looked around, but saw that this living room was not very big, just a few wooden chairs on both sides of the living room, and there was no rich decoration on all sides of the wall.

However, on the top of a wall, there are four paper-cut drawings of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum cut out of red paper, which were framed by the owner with a mirror frame.

There is a plaque on the wall in the center of the living room, with three large characters "Houdetang" engraved on the black bottom, and the words are also painted with gold dust.

Both of them know a little bit about the Book of Changes and know the origin of this name.

The word Houde is from the Kun hexagram in the Book of Changes, the so-called "Tianxingjian, the gentleman is self-improving; The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue".

There are a total of 8864 hexagrams in the Book of Changes, of which the first hexagram is the Qiangua, which is the sky; The second hexagram is the kun hexagram, and the kun is the earth.

The celestial bodies have been in constant motion since ancient times, and if they are not afraid of being tired and have stopped for a moment, the gentleman must follow the way of heaven and strive for self-improvement.

The earth bears all things and gives birth to all things, and no matter how much human beings destroy it, it never complains.

A gentleman is to imitate this kind of virtue of the earth, to be broad-minded and tolerant.

Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum is the four gentlemen in the flowers, the owner of this house is called "Houde Hall", from these you can imagine how Dongfang Bai is a person, that must be headed by virtue.

The two of them sat on two chairs underneath the plaque, and directly below the plaque, in the middle of the two chairs was a mahogany desk.

On the desk is a piece of paper with a small poem written in a ballpoint pen.

Tang Tianshun picked it up and looked at it and said, this must have been done by Mr. Dongfang, and he went out before he had time to put it away.

Zhang Guoqiang said: "Isn't it? How can you be sure that he did it, and not the other day? Could it be that if you sit in the room for a while, you will be stained with immortal energy, and you will be unpredictable?

Tang Tianshun said: "Brother, this is no need to predict, there is a clear inscription under the poem, "Drafted on the morning of July 15, 1948." Wasn't that yesterday morning? ”

Zhang Guoqiang smiled, "Or you observe carefully enough."

Zhang Guoqiang picked up the poem and read it:

The small road thatched hut door flowers,

Reclining wooden bed looking out of the square window,

I wish the frost would come late,

But there are good times in the world.

This is a poem written with great love for the scene, although it is not a pure ancient style, but it also has some elegant meaning.

As soon as I finished reading, I heard someone outside the door walking in while talking, "Offering ugliness, offering ugliness, let you see and laugh."