Gui Manxing, the patriarch of the Gui family in Yingtanfang, sat in the front hall of the Zheng family and waited for a moment before he saw Zheng Shi come out, and he couldn't drink a sip of tea, but he was angry that the big manservant of the Zheng family, Laifu, had been standing on the corridor of the hall and glared at him with his eyes, and he didn't answer the question, looking angry.

"Rifle—"

Gui Manxing shook the big pu fan and said: "Go and urge your family to show your talents, saying that my old Gui has been waiting for a long time, your father Fugui is a deaf man, I'm afraid that I can't say it clearly, I haven't called anyone out after going in for so long, you go." ”

Rifle stared at him and didn't move a step.

Gui Manxing said angrily: "Come to bless you nerd, you can see clearly, my old Gui is here to give gifts and congratulations, these two loads of gifts, bacon, rice wine, Luxi dried fish, wick cake, Longhu Mountain chestnut...... See, there are still two pieces of money, will your young master let you treat guests like this? ”

Laifu pouted: "It's not rare. ”

Gui Man stood up angrily, he wanted to brush his sleeves away, he was the leading person in Yingtanfang, how could he give gifts to people and be cold, angrily walked back and forth in the hall twice, sat down again, pointed to Laifu and scolded with a smile: "You lazy person has itchy skin, wait and ask your young master to beat you, I don't know what to do." ”

Laifu is not stupid, and said angrily: "Who doesn't know what to do, over the years, your Gui family owes me land rent, not to mention two yuan, there are twenty yuan, you just take some wick cakes and chestnuts and want to fool the past." ”

Gui Manxing's old face flushed, embarrassed and annoyed, and was about to attack, Zheng Shi came over from the hall and arched his hand: "Daddy Gui has always been rare, why is he so red-faced, this weather is really hot, right?" Zheng Shi heard what Laifu said, and said in his heart: "Well said, happy." ”

Gui Manxing hurriedly sang a fat song and said: "My old Gui Te came to show his fair congratulations, we have produced such a literary star in Yingtan for hundreds of years, it is so rare, it is so rare, today the little old man prepared a thin gift to Zheng Xianggong to congratulate him, and tomorrow he will also prepare a table of banquets to invite Zheng Xianggong, Zheng Xianggong must appreciate his face." ”

Zheng Shi couldn't get used to Gui Manxing's deferential face, and instigated the clansmen to drive away his tenants, arrears him land rent, and wanted to buy his land at a low price, which was really hateful, and said: "I'm going to the county school tomorrow to meet the instructor, and Daddy Gui's kindness is appreciated——"

Gui Manxing nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, Zheng Xianggong will be a county student in the future, then when Zheng Xianggong comes back from the county school, my Gui clan will invite Zheng Xianggong to drink a glass of wine." ”

Zheng Shi is quite blunt in terms of being a foreigner, he doesn't want to have any friendship with Gui Manxing, and said bluntly: "I won't drink the wine, and I don't dare to accept this gift in the future, if Daddy Gui can say to the two Gui families who rented my North Shore Field, and pay me enough to pay the arrears of land rent in recent years, then I will feel the love of Daddy Gui." ”

Gui Manxing's orange-peeled old face was a little unbearable, and he said embarrassedly: "Zheng Xianggong, you also know the truth, the harvest over the years is really not good, otherwise you will be in arrears of your field rent, and you won't dare to borrow ten of them." ”

Zheng Shi said: "You say that the harvest is not good, but I don't know how the harvest is not good, I can see it here if the water rises on the other side, so lying in person is not too deceitful, take a step back and say, since the harvest is not good, the field is unbearable, let me find another tenant farmer to cultivate, but you are arrogant but occupy and refuse to let go, what do you want to do, want to take away a few acres of thin land left by my father for me to study and support my mother, this kind of thing is very lacking in virtue, do you know that Lu Dao is a lack of virtue!" ”

Zheng Shi spoke so straightforwardly, he used to question Gui Manxing like this, at that time Gui Manxing didn't take his words seriously, but now, because Zheng Shi has a reputation as a student when he goes to school, the weight of his words is of course very different from the past, Gui Manxing couldn't sit still with sweat in his head, and said embarrassedly: "Zheng Xianggong is misunderstood, misunderstood, the little old man will explain to Zheng Xianggong another day, first say goodbye, farewell." He made a gesture and got up and left.

The more Zheng Shi thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and shouted: "Lao Gui, take this burden away, lest I have to let Laifu send it back again, trouble." ”

Gui Manxing was full of shame, out of the gate of Zheng's house, two clansmen were waiting under the big camphor tree outside the door, Gui Manxing asked one of them to go in and pick up the gift back, the man who came out of the burden said to Gui Manxing: "Sixth uncle, this surnamed Zheng is too faceless, we are hot face and cold ass." ”

The other person spat out a mouthful of phlegm and said: "It's just a showman, and it's not an official master, so you are so angry, your surname Zheng doesn't give us face, and we don't want you." ”

Gui Manxing didn't say a word with a dark face, and he was very angry in his heart.

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Zeng Yu heard Zheng Shi angrily reprimand the patriarch of the Gui clan, and he felt a little worried, the three idiot brothers were still too rigid in life, the strong dragon did not suppress the head snake, there was no need to fall out with Gui Manxing, this was different from him beating Jiang Yuanrui and Xie Zidan outside the gate of Anmin in Guangxin Mansion, Jiang and Xie were bullied to him at that time, and the big fight was forced to be helpless, it was a forced last resort, not a happy grudge-

Zheng Shi didn't care, and after dinner, he pulled Zeng Yu to play chess, Zeng Yu said: "The third idiot brother is going to Guixi County early tomorrow morning to get the newspaper, and the younger brother is also a little tired, if he doesn't play chess tonight, the younger brother will record the eight sections of the brocade guidance method formula and graphic drawings for the brother." ”

When Zeng Yu wrote the eight-paragraph brocade formula, Zheng Shi watched it on the side and recited lightly: "Its method starts in the middle of the day and night in Jiazi, and no breath can be released from the mouth when walking, but the nose is slightly clear." Every day before noon, do it once in each row, or three times in the day and night, and know it over time...... Close your eyes and meditate on your mind, and meditate on God. Knock on the teeth thirty-six, and hold Kunlun with both hands. The drums of the sky are sounded left and right, and the twenty-four degrees are heard. The slight swing shook the pillar of the sky, and the red dragon stirred the water. Thirty-six gargles, the mouth is full of divine water. One bite is divided into three swallows, and the dragon and tiger run to ......"

After writing the formula, Zeng Yu drew eight more guide maps, namely: percussion and concentration of gods, shaking the heavenly pillar, tongue stirring and gargling, rubbing the kidney hall, single guan reel, left and right reel, left and right press the top map, hook climbing -

Zeng Yu used the little wolf to sketch on the familiar Xuan in Jing County, a few strokes, lifelike, Zheng Shi praised: "Wonderful, the words are wonderful, the painting is even better, nine carp, don't forget to pay the money, I want to frame it as an heirloom." ”

After explaining the Baduan Jin Guidance Method to Zheng Shi, Zeng Yu said again: "Three idiot brothers, my brother will give you Xiangyang Mansion tomorrow, see if my brother is proud of his township test next year?" ”

Zheng Shi smiled: "Nine carp and nine carp, you really want to be Mr. Feng Shui, don't give me a house first, you give yourself a good look, see if this time to Yuanzhou makes up the exam?" ”

Zeng Yu said seriously: "No matter how strong you are, you can't pull your hair and pick yourself up, do you know what the reason is for the three idiot brothers?" ”

Zheng Shi didn't understand Newtonian mechanics, of course he didn't know what the truth was, so he asked Zeng Yu, but Zeng Yu said: "This is the same as the fortune teller can't calculate his own life, and the feng shui master can't find his own acupoint." ”

Zheng Shi shook his head and smiled: "Nine carp me, you don't say anything." ”

Zeng Yu said with a smile: "Brother is also borrowing the name of my brother to find a way out in the future, if my brother fails to pass the make-up exam, he will go to Yingtan to be Mr. Feng Shui, and my brother will preach more for my brother." ”

Zheng Shi agreed with a smile.

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Early the next morning, Zheng Shi rushed to Guixi County, forty miles away, with Laifu, and said that he would come back in the evening of the first day of the fifth month three days at the latest.

Zeng Yu, who stayed in Yingtan, prepared for the trip to Yuanzhou in the morning and evening, and at other times he held the tiger bone compass around the Zheng house, on Longtou Mountain, and on both sides of the Xinjiang River.

The ancestral feng shui of the Sanliao Zeng family can be said to be a household name in Jiangxi and even the two capitals and twelve provinces, Zheng Xiucai actually invited the feng shui master of the Sanliao Zeng family to come to the house, it seems that the Zheng family is going to prosper.

Zeng Yu is building momentum for Zheng Shi, making the nearby villagers feel that Zheng Shi has a great future, and it is a matter of time before he is promoted, promoted to become a scholar, and promoted to become rich, so that Gui Manxing does not dare to have bad thoughts except for stammering.

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