Entering the mountain gate of Daxiangguo Temple to the east, a large woods, high and low hanging lanterns, walk ten steps and twenty steps, there is a high platform standing on the ground, or hanging on a small tray on the trunk of the tree, put pen and ink.

At this moment, almost only the lanterns were full of words, and Li Xia kept looking around, but he didn't look at the poems on the lanterns.

"There's something interesting about this poem." King Qin slowed down slightly, looked at the poems on the lanterns as he walked, looked at more than a dozen lanterns in a row, paused in his footsteps, and pointed to a lantern.

"Hmm." Li Xia glanced at it, "In August, the sixth brother got a good poem, recorded it, and no one was allowed to read it, saying that he kept it for the Shangyuan Festival to write lanterns." ”

King Qin snorted, and then laughed, "Your sixth brother still has this heart?" ”

"I didn't think about it at first, it was my uncle who taught him, and the seventh sister also planned to send all the people in the family over to invest in copper coins, but unfortunately let the eldest aunt know, and told the seventh sister that people like us can't afford to lose such people."

"In the past, there were really a lot of people who hired people to invest in copper coins, so much so that later the Ministry of Rites came forward and added the first 100 that are now picked out, and then sent them to the Hanlin Academy for evaluation." King Qin sighed a little helplessly, "But like your sixth brother, you can write this one, or a few poems, in a year, there is no way, fortunately, this poetry will look at talent, not talent." ”

"I heard that Su Ye has won the first place for two years?" Li Xia casually swept the verses on the lantern.

"Well, the first time, he was only fourteen years old, that poem is indeed rare, and the next time, it was a year before he got married, and this one was a little worse in aura, and there were rumors that he hired someone to invest a lot of copper coins. When it comes to hiring people, Su Ye probably can't pull this face, but at that time, Su Ye was already famous in the capital, and he knew a lot of people with his handwriting. ”

"Have you ever written poetry?" Li Xia stopped looking at the lantern, looked up at King Qin and said with a smile.

"After I came back from Hangzhou, I didn't write again. I'm not good at this, and the poems I used to write were very hypocritical. ”

"Show it to me."

"Don't look at it, it's all gone, it's really hypocritical." King Qin hurriedly waved his hand.

"There must be, show it to me, I don't laugh at you." Li Xia shook King Qin's hand.

"I can't really see it...... Okay, okay, I'm not good at this, it's a joke to take it out. King Qin couldn't bear to agree, and after agreeing, he felt that he really couldn't take the poem, and sighed repeatedly, he shouldn't have said that he had written poetry.

"I'm sure I don't laugh at you, I haven't written a single poem, and I can't make up the rhyme. The fifth brother's poetry is not good, according to Guo Sheng's words, the victory is stable and dignified. Li Xia laughed as he spoke.

"Guo Sheng's poetry is good, clumsy said that his poems are like his roaring songs, although rough and unadorned, but dripping and happy, natural, from Hangzhou to Fujian Road, there was a time day and night non-stop for two days and two nights, resting in a deserted post station, Ah Feng didn't know where to get a barrel of bad wine, Guo Sheng wrote a poem, very rare."

King Qin thought about that trip to Fujian, and his eyes showed a little gloomy, "Humble Yan and I originally planned to use Bai Jingning to be stationed in Fujian and clear the garrisons along the road, but it didn't work. ”

"We'll talk about it later." Li Xia gently shook King Qin's hand, pulled him through the lantern, and went to the Great Xiangguo Temple.

The two avoided the brightly lit and lively side door, walked a little longer, and entered the Daxiangguo Temple through an inconspicuous corner gate.

The temple is also brightly lit, but there are not many people. A group of people along the verandah close to the wall, into the back of the medicine king hall, Li Xia let go of the king of Qin, took the incense from the case, lit it, silently prayed, incense, wear out of the medicine king hall, entered the Guanyin hall, Li Xia prayed for incense in the same way, turned around, and saw a dense bucket on the wooden shelf in the corner of the hall.

"I remember that this bucket was placed in the Daxiong Treasure Palace, why did you move it here?" Li Xia pointed to the bucket and said in surprise.

"It's not moved, there was originally a bucket here, which was only released in the first month." King Qin looked at Lu Yi, and Lu Yi replied with a smile.

After Lu Yi's words were finished, Li Xia had already walked to the bucket, looked up at King Qin and said with a smile: "Let's draw a lot." ”

King Qin hesitated, and was just about to speak, Li Xia had already reached out and signed it out, turned it over and glanced at it, and immediately plugged it back, "This sign is full of dust, why don't you take it out without wiping it clean!" Let's still go to the Daxiong Treasure Hall to draw lots. ”

Li Xia pulled King Qin and left.

Lu Yi took a few steps behind, watched the two turn the Buddha statue, reached out and pulled out the stick that Li Xia had pulled out and put back just now, glanced at it, and threw it back like a hot hand.

Li Xia pulled King Qin, his steps were much faster, and he went straight to the Daxiong Treasure Palace, and King Qin followed her steps, "It's dark, slow down, this matter of drawing lots is just asking for comfort in the midst of difficulties, if it is really useful, everything can be known by drawing lots, then there is no need to bother with planning." ”

"Where do you want to go, I didn't see what lottery was drawn just now, there is too much ash, let's go to the Daxiong Treasure Hall to draw one." Li Xia interrupted King Qin's words, pulled him into the Daxiong Treasure Hall, rushed to the bucket for four or five steps, and hurriedly paused, shook off King Qin's words, knelt on the mat in front of the Buddha, put his hands together, prayed sincerely for a while, stood up, took out a few stars of agarwood from his purse and added them to the incense burner in front of the Buddha, closed his eyes and prayed silently for a moment, before turning around, going straight to the bucket, turning half a circle on the bucket, rubbing his hands, sighing, and solemnly pulling out a stick.

Lu Yi hurriedly stretched out his head to look over, Li Xia glanced at it, and before King Qin looked over, he snapped the sign back into the bucket.

Lu Yi's face changed slightly.

"Hey, I'm wrong again, you should pick one of our two lots, it's definitely not right for me to draw lots, you pick one." Li Xia dragged King Qin, took his hand, and pushed it to the other side where she had put the stick back just now.

"Okay, I'll do it." King Qin smiled, and without Li Xia pushing it, he pulled out one from the other side away from the stick just now.

Li Xia hugged his arm and looked over eagerly, Lu Yi stretched his neck, looked over Li Xia's shoulder, and his face turned white with a glance.

It's still the same three teachings.

"What you just said is right, the eldest aunt also said that fortune telling by lottery is all sleepy, and it is boring to ask for guidance, and it will be boring to draw lots like us." Li Xia looked at the stick, and the more he spoke, the lower his voice became.

"Draw lots to tell fortunes, one is to seek comfort in the difficulty, and the other is to ask for comfort in the difficulty, and secondly, the good or bad intentions of this lot, it depends on the person, the honey of A, the arsenic of B, and the three religions talk about us, which is not bad." King Qin's smile remained unchanged, put the sign back into the bucket, stretched out his hand to hold Li Xia's hand, and walked out of the Daxiong Treasure Hall.

Neither of them mentioned the matter of this stick, passed through the mountain gate, and went out of the Daxiangguo Temple, the moon had set and the stars were sparse outside, Li Xia yawned, and King Qin looked down at her, "I'll send you back, this Shangyuan light is there every year, let's look at it slowly year by year." ”

"Okay." Li Xia smiled brightly, "Next year, let's watch the lights along the Bianhe River." ”

The two walked forward to the royal street, got into the car, Li Xia got out of the car at the gate of Yongningbo's mansion, jumped up the steps briskly, crossed the threshold, turned around and waved his hand at King Qin, who was looking at her with the curtain, turned the shadow wall, and couldn't see it.

King Qin lowered the curtain, the car went out of the alley, King Qin lifted the curtain, looked at Lu Yi and ordered: "You saw the stick just now?" ”

Lu Yi nodded.

"In the Guanyin Palace, where is the lottery drawn by Axia?" King Qin looked at Lu Yi, Lu Yi lowered his eyelids, King Qin understood, he and Ah Xia, the two of them drew three times, they were all the same stick, silent for a moment, King Qin then ordered: "You go to the Great Xiangguo Temple, just find someone who can solve the lot, ask, just ask, no matter what you say, don't ask more." ”

Lu Yi responded, asked for a horse, and went straight to Daxiangguo Temple.

On the 16th, the lights were closed, and the bustle of the capital spread from the city to the outside of the city.

Guo Sheng and Xu Huan watched the excitement in the first half of the night, drank and appreciated poetry in the second half of the night, went back to rest near dawn, got up in the afternoon, washed and ate, and were instructing Fugui to prepare wine, food, carts and horses, ready to go out of the city, Chengying raised his voice outside the courtyard gate and pushed the door in.

"You came just in time, is your grandfather idle today? If he is free, I invite him to go out of the city to enjoy the scenery, listen to music and drink. Guo Sheng looked extremely relaxed and happy.

"My grandfather is quite idle, but at this moment he is accompanying our wife to walk around the garden and talk." Before Chengying finished speaking, he was interrupted by Guo Sheng, "How can this be called idle?" This is called busy, forget it, I'll go to Xu Dalang, by the way, do you have something to do? ”

"Yes, our lord asked the little one to come over and ask Mr. if he is free, if he is free, please ask Mr. to come to the house in the evening to talk, our lord said, peanuts and wine, are good, our lord also said, the prince said that he is empty, and Mr. has a few drinks." Chengying bowed and smiled.

"Free! I'm idle. Guo Sheng readily agreed, and Chengying surrendered his hand.

Watching Chengying walk out of the courtyard gate, Guo Sheng's eyes narrowed slightly, Fugui held his hands, looked at the courtyard gate, and then looked at Guo Sheng, without waiting for him to speak, Guo Sheng's face was flat, "How do you explain it?" I should have forgotten about it in the middle of the night! ”

"I've forgotten, I've forgotten, I've forgotten! I don't know anything! Fugui hurriedly shook his head, his eyes widened, and put on a stupid face to show that he had forgotten it a long time ago.

Guo Sheng snorted, looked at the drip, yawned, turned around and went into the house, he had to cheer up at night, he should go to sleep for a while and recuperate.

The night enveloped the capital, when Guo Sheng leisurely entered the small empty courtyard of the Lu Mansion, Jin Zhuoyan had already arrived, and Lu Yi sat in the middle of the courtyard with Lu Yi left and right, and when he saw Guo Sheng coming in, neither of them got up, Lu Yi pinched the wine glass and pointed to the empty one among the three bamboo chairs.

Guo Shengchong nodded to the two of them, sat down, stretched out his head to look at the fire, picked up the tongs, poked the fire first, and then grabbed a handful of peanuts and spread them evenly around the fire, then picked up the pot, poured a glass of wine, raised it to the two, took a sip, looked at Jin Zhuoyan, and then looked at Lu Yi, "What's wrong?" ”

"Yesterday, the prince and the nine ladies drew lots in the Great Xiangguo Temple...... Lu Yi said the lottery yesterday in a few words, "...... I went to Daxiangguo Temple, and as soon as I entered the mountain gate, I met an old ugly monk, saying that he was good at unraveling the lot, saying that this sign was a full sign, and ninety-nine would be one......" Lu Yi paused and looked at Guo Sheng with a solemn expression.

"The full sign is the next sign, however, it is not right to just say that ninety-nine is one, the so-called negative Tailai." Guo Sheng retorted.

"I also asked people to sign a round, saying that it is advisable to be quiet and slow, and accumulate good fortunes." Jin Clumsy's voice was gloomy.

"When fighting, especially in a big war, morale is extremely important, in order to boost morale, before the war, we must make auspicious hexagrams, every time is auspicious, friend and foe are auspicious hexagrams, I don't believe in this." Lu Yi leaned back in the chair, saying that he didn't believe it, but his voice was heavy.

"That's what you're talking about." Guo Sheng said politely.

"What do you mean?" Jin Zhuoyan's face was gloomy.

"It is better to believe in what is there than to believe in what is not." Guo Sheng was very simple, "The first one, this sign is weird, the girl smoked this one in the Guanyin Palace, forget it, the one in the Daxiong Treasure Palace, you saw with your own eyes that the prince drew not the one that the girl put back, a hundred sticks in the bucket, no more, no less, one for each one, did you let the number of people count the number of lots in the bucket?" ”

Lu Yi lowered his eyes and nodded, he not only asked the number of signatures, but also looked at them one by one, one hundred, one for each one.

"I'm a person who believes in ghosts and gods, and I've traveled for many years, and I've seen it many times with my own eyes. Panshi and I just arrived in Shaoxing Mansion, before we arrived at Guo's house to recognize relatives, at the door of the Confucian Temple to ask for food, there is a look at the hexagram, bought two bowls of shredded meat noodles for me and Panshi, that noodles are delicious, the best noodles in this life, I have never eaten again. ”

Guo Sheng laughed a few times, "It's far away." In addition to two bowls of noodles, the man also gave me a hexagram, this hexagram...... If it weren't for that bowl of noodles, I would have spat it on his face, but until now, he hasn't said a word wrong. ”

"What did you say?" Jin Zhuoyan's upper body leaned forward slightly.

"Say that if I want to be satisfied, I must have a proprietor." Guo Sheng laughed dryly a few times, "If I say more, it's also a leaky open-air machine." As soon as you entered the mountain gate yesterday, you met the monk who had unsigned the sign, which is a bit of a coincidence. Guo Sheng looked at Lu Yi.

Lu Yi's eyebrows raised, he was a little unprepared by this lot, it is true, the matter of drawing lots to untie the lot, the monks who are practicing seriously should not regard it, there are not many monks who can unsign and are willing to unsign, yesterday was too coincidental.

Lu Yi stood up, walked out of the small courtyard in a few steps, beckoned to Chengying, and commanded a few words in a low voice.

"Lao Guo is right, I would rather believe in this matter, the emperor is in full bloom, and he doesn't care about this year or two. It is not difficult to accumulate good fortunes, you will enter the palace tomorrow and tell the Queen Mother about this, the prince will go there, I will talk about it. Jin Cunyan looked down at the wine in the cup, and for a long time, he raised his head and drank the wine, and said decisively.

Lu Yi was stunned, he had always scoffed at divination, this time was a bit abnormal, what did he not know?

"This is very true, the emperor is in full bloom, even if he doesn't have this sign, it is better to be quiet and slow." Guo Sheng patted the chair in approval.

Lu Yi slowly turned the cup in his hand, was silent for a while, and then hummed.