Section 26 The Blind Ah Quan
Some fortune tellers around couldn't help but be surprised when they saw this, and people in the industry know that general street fortune telling is nothing more than eight methods:
The first kind of Wenwang class, Wenwang class is also called "Liuyao" or "money sixty-four hexagrams", the legend is that Zhou Wenwang Ji Dan used the gossip invented by Fuxi in ancient times as the base, and developed into sixty-four hexagrams, each hexagram is called Liuyao, also called gossip. The fortune-telling tool www.biquge.info pen ~ fun ~ pavilion is a copper coin with a circle on the outside and a square on the inside. When a fortune teller predicts good fortune and misfortune, he first throws three copper coins into a turtle shell or bamboo tube and shakes them a few times, and then pours the money on the table to predict according to the positive and negative of the money. The terminology of this line is called: two positive and one negative for demolition, one reverse and two positive for single, three are anti-weighing, three are positive crossing, this is called a line, and six times back and forth is called six.
The second kind of push, if you want to seek a good marriage and career, first report your birthday to the fortune teller, and Mr. predicts the happiness of your marriage and the future direction of your life according to this. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was a fortune teller named Xu Ziping, who found that people's birth time and fate were closely related, so he studied the fortune-telling method of the eight characters of birth. Most of the gentlemen who count the eight-character hexagram now take Xu Ziping's branch as authentic.
The third kind of money lesson, this lesson is actually the same as the Wenwang lesson, which is also to use three copper coins or six small signs made of bamboo to throw them in the bamboo tube, and then throw them on the Bagua map, according to the position of the six small cards on the map to predict the good luck.
The fourth kind of yellow finch is also called the title card and the mouth gold. This name is very strange, in fact, the fortune-telling tool in this industry is a yellow finch. When there is a guest, Mr. will discuss life with him, and he will also ask him what his physiognomy is, and then take out more than 100 small paper bags, which are black or red. Mr. asked the person to turn over the paper bags first, and then released the bird in the cage, let the bird talk about the paper bag casually, the bird turned out the paper bag, and Mr. told the person's fortune according to the physiognomy on the paper bag.
The fifth type is silent and sitting, also known as dumb gold. The fortune teller writes a sentence on a piece of paper saying "I am not deaf and dumb, I sit on the ground and do not speak", and then put on some cards with the words "both parents are complete", "there is a wife without a wife", and so on. Someone came and drew a note, and the gentleman would tell him a fortune based on the words written on the paper he was holding. Those who do this line of work are basically not eloquent, and they are not as good as those who are called "paving outlines", so they are called "dumb gold".
The sixth kind of Guanyin spiritual class, the algorithm is like this: Mr. first washes his hands and then holds the five copper coins in his hand, and then recites the words, called "Nan Wu Great Compassion, the Bodhisattva of the World who saves the suffering, the golden boy who turns the hexagram, the jade girl who bestows the hexagram, the void all these past gods, who comes to me to tell fortunes today, I worship the Guanyin Bodhisattva devoutly, and ask the Bodhisattva to give good fortune and good fortune, success or failure." "First invite Guanyin Dashi to have magical powers, and then tell this person's fortune.
The seventh kind of Liuren, the saying of Liuren comes from "Zhou Yi", legend has it that the Nine Heavens Xuannu passed this technique to the Yellow Emperor, and then the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou with this technique. The gentleman will use a wooden plate, which is divided into a heavenly plate and a ground plate, the ground is fixed, and the heavenly plate moves up and down. There are a total of 720 lessons, and then subdivided into 64 lessons, and Mr. will use this to calculate good fortune and bad fortune.
The eighth kind of Qi Men Dun Jia, Qi refers to the three Qi of B, C and Ding in the heavenly stem, and the door refers to the eight doors of rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, surprise and opening in the eight trigrams. This "escape", also known as "hidden", is the meaning of deep hidden merit and fame. And "Jia" is Liujia, Jiazi, Jiashen, Jiashu, Jiayin, Jiachen, Jiawu, and these Liujia are often hidden in the "Six Yi" such as E, Already, Xin, Geng, Ren, and Gui in the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, forming a total of nine palaces, but these Liujia cannot become a palace by themselves, so it is called "Dunjia". There will be a bamboo stick on the stall, and there will be 64 bamboo sticks inside, all of which are composed of the heavenly and terrestrial branches. Next to the tube, there are 64 small chess pieces carved from wood, on which are written the eight trigrams, such as Qian, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun six characters. Mr. will ask the customer to draw a lottery from the lottery holder and then cooperate with the chess pieces to derive the good luck, this Qimen Dunjia has a total of 1,080 hexagrams.
These latter two algorithms are too complex and too few people can do it. Seeing that this teenager did not follow the fortune-telling routine, the surrounding fortune tellers all thought that this teenager was fooling around and watching jokes happily.
Because he couldn't see, the blind boy would sit there quietly for a day without saying a word, and when he was hungry, he would sometimes take a steamed bun out of his bag, and eat it with a large plastic cup of cold boiled water.
Occasionally, in the afternoon and evening, a gray-haired old woman would come and lead him away slowly, and more often than not, he would clean up his own house and leave by himself.
For many days, no one came to him to tell fortunes, but the boy still insisted on setting up a stall day after day.
A few days later, a retired cadre who went to the park every day for morning exercise walked by his fortune-telling booth, and when he saw his dirty appearance, he felt pitiful, and threw two yuan of tickets on the cloth with the words "touch the bones of his hands to measure the good fortune" and was about to leave.
Although the young man couldn't see, his hearing was very sensitive, and he said, "This old man, please don't leave yet, I'll do the math for you." ”
The retired cadre felt strange: how could this teenager know whether he was a man or a woman if he couldn't see it, and how old he was? He sat down on the pony beside the boy and asked him.
The blind boy smiled slightly and said: "I have been blind since birth, although I have never seen the colors and images of everything in this world, but I have my own understanding and discernment, I mainly rely on hearing and smelling, and I also have induction.
The smell of men, women and children is different for me, and I can now distinguish a hundred kinds of smells on a person, so that I know his approximate age, gender, occupation, and what diseases his body will have. And my sensitivity is also increasing, so I want to support myself and make some money by setting up a stall and no longer let my grandmother worry about me. ”
The retired veteran cadre felt that what the young man said was a bit big, and said in disbelief: "Okay, then you can calculate for me what my fortune will be in the second half of this year." ”
The blind boy nodded and asked the retired cadre to stretch out his hand, he seriously touched the old cadre's hands, and then said: "The little finger of your right hand trembles slightly, the thumb of your right hand is thinner than the thumb of your left hand, and your left palm is slightly cold, and you are sweating. ”
The retired cadre was puzzled and asked, "Why is this a solution?" You just say it. ”
The blind boy nodded and said, "You are not a worker or a peasant, you have held a leadership position in the unit for a long time, but you have always been a deputy. Now your heart is not feeling good and you should have had surgery. ”
When the retired cadre heard that it was true, it was not surprising, and then asked, "What else?" ”
The young man sighed and said: "You go out today, the main culprit will be fate, meeting me is fate, maybe you give me two yuan, this is destined by God, I should crack it for you." ”
The retired cadre was puzzled and was about to ask what was going on, when the blind boy said, "Don't ask, just do what I say." ”
The retired cadre found a long bamboo pole according to the blind boy's words, picked up his clothes and walked home, and he was still half-convinced: Is this young man bluffing me?
As soon as I walked to the mouth of the alley, which was not far from my home, I suddenly heard a loud "boom", and a cement telephone pole of eight or nine meters on the side of the road was dusty and fell in front of it, smashing on the bamboo pole picked by the retired cadres.
The shock made him hurriedly throw the bamboo pole, and he was stunned: the cement pole had broken several sections and was smashing on his clothes.