Back then, after Li Yuanwai saw these records, he became interested in Shao Yong, a person with strong prediction ability. So at any cost, he collected a lot of books about Shao Yong, and the more he read it, the more he felt that Shao Yong was magical.

This Shao Yong, known as Mr. Baiyuan, may have this nickname because people think that he can see many things very thoroughly.

Shao Yong has been intelligent since he was a child, and he is very unusual, he does not farm, does not do business, and does not participate in the imperial examination, but lives in seclusion on the Baiyuan of Sumen Mountain, and studies hard. Emperor Song Renzong and Emperor Shenzong wanted to give him an official many times, but he politely refused. He moved to Luoyang at the age of thirty-eight and had close contacts with Sima Guang and others.

According to the principles of the Book of Changes and Taoist thought, he created his own science of symbols, also known as innate science. His divination is very accurate, and he is the author of books such as "Viewing Things", "Innate Diagram", "Yichuan Kik Collection", "Huangji Jingshi", "Fisherman's Question" and so on.

According to legend, before Shao Yong was born, there were many unusual visions. When his parents were walking in the mountains, the image of a big black ape appeared between the clouds and mist, much like a mirage, and Shao Yong's mother felt that she was pregnant.

When the pot was approaching, the jackdaw in the courtyard covered the sky, that is, the crow flew slowly in the yard, and everyone said that it was auspicious. Shao Yong has just been born, and it is very different from ordinary babies, it is said that it is thick hair that covers his face, and he even has teeth, and he can also call his mother.

The world in the eyes of this child is also very different from ordinary people.

When he was seven years old, Xiao Shao Yong was playing in the courtyard and found that the small anthill was actually another small world, which also had its own sky, sun, clouds, etc.

When he grew up, he traveled all over the world, visited masters, and increased his knowledge.

Late one night, he was walking on the mountain roads of Jinju. Suddenly, the horse stumbled, and he fell into the bottomless mountain stream. The servants who followed him were very anxious, so the rope climbed down the rock, ready to go to the bottom of the valley to find his broken body, but when they found him, the servants were surprised to find that Shao Yong was unharmed, but only a broken hat.

According to the History of the Song Dynasty? The Biography of Shao Yong records: Shao Yong "began to learn, that is, he was hard and self-motivated, he did not burn in the cold, did not fan in the summer, and did not sit at night for several years." Later, in order to increase his knowledge, he also traveled to Qi, Lu, Song, Zheng and other places, and truly achieved "traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books." When he returned, he said with emotion, "The Tao is here." That is, enlightenment, there is no need to run around, so from now on, there is no longer a wandering.

At that time, there was a master Li Tingzhi, seeing that he was studious and tireless, so he taught him "Hetu", "Luoshu", "Fuxi Bagua" and other easy-to-learn secrets. With his intelligence and intelligence, Shao Yong quickly understood and grasped the essence of it, and knew the laws of heaven and earth, yin and yang, and finally became a famous master of Yixue.

There are many more stories about his miraculous predictive powers.

For example, legend has it that one day in the spring of one year, Shao Yong went to the Luohe Bridge to set up a hexagram stall. Near noon, an old farmer came over to ask for good luck. Shao Yong asked him to draw a word, and the old farmer bent down and handed one to Shao Yong, unfolded it and saw that there was a word "chopsticks" on it. He looked up and said to the old farmer, "Congratulations, you will have a good fortune at noon today, go home quickly!" ”

When the old peasant returned home in disbelief, he found his nephew waiting for him at home, and when he saw him return, he hurriedly said, "Uncle, I have been waiting for you for two hours, and today is my father's 60th birthday, and I want to invite you over to drink." So the old peasant changed into clean clothes and went to the feast with joy.

In the afternoon, Shao Yong was about to clean up the hexagram stall and go home to rest, when a person jumped out of the car in the south and said: "Please stay, sir, I heard that you are clever, please see what my fate is." Shao Yong asked him to draw a paper roll, and this person picked up a dismantling that was also the word "chopsticks", Shao Yong said to him: "Judging from the word 'chopsticks', it is a bad omen, and you will be drenched in water today." ”

Seeing that the weather was sunny and cloudless, this person felt that Shao Yong must be blind. But just in case, he hurried home, thinking, "When I get home, even if it rains, it won't hit me."

Seeing that he was about to get home and the weather outside was still fine, this person couldn't help laughing: "This Shao Yong is also a bad person." Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, he was splashed on his body by a basin of water that fell from the sky. It turned out that his wife was spilling a pot of shabu-shabu water at random, but she didn't expect it to be poured on her husband who came back in a hurry.

In the afternoon of the same day, after lunch, Shao Yong had just walked to the bridge, ready to continue to put the hexagram stall up, when he saw a person standing there, waiting for him to calculate the hexagram. It turned out that the man wanted to know what his luck was that day, and Shao Yong also asked him to draw a paper scroll, and after pulling it out, it was still a "chopstick" word, so he said to him: "You will be imprisoned today." ”

The man thought to himself, since there is a prison sentence, then I will stay at home and not go out, then I will definitely not invite trouble. So, he went home, covered himself and went to sleep. Unexpectedly, when he was sleeping soundly, he was awakened by a woman's scolding. It turned out that his pigs broke into other people's vegetable gardens and made a mess of the vegetables they planted. This man was very short-tempered, and he was already angry when he was woken up, and when he heard the woman scolding him, he couldn't bear it anymore, and punched the woman, but the woman was already sick, and after being hit to the ground by this punch, she died. In less than an hour, several officials arrested the frightened and helpless man and put him in prison.

Of course, this story is more like a folklore, and the deeds about Shao Yong recorded in the history books are more reliable than these legends, because the characters involved in the history books are all famous and surnamed, and most of them are "celebrities".

After Shao Yong moved to Luoyang, he not only had a close relationship with Sima Guang, but also had a very good relationship with another minister named Fu Bi.

Fu Bi, a minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, lived in Luoyang after his resignation, and he had a good relationship with Shao Yong. Fu Bi refused to associate with the guests, but warned the gatekeeper: "If Mr. Shao comes, he must report it sooner or later." "One day, Shao Yong came to visit Fu Bi. He looked at no one on the left and right, and said, "Please bring another chair." Fu Bi was surprised, could there be any more distinguished guests? He hurriedly asked Shao Yong the reason, and Shao Yong explained: "At noon today, there will definitely be a young man in green who will come to you on a white horse." Even though you are sick, you must be strong enough to see him for yourself. Because after you die, this person must be responsible for writing a history to record the deeds of your life. "At noon, Fan Mengde came. More than ten years later, Fan Mengde was indeed appointed by the imperial court as a revision officer, responsible for writing the "Yuling Record", of course, including the writing of "The Biography of Fubi".

As the saying goes, a doctor can heal people but not himself, Shao Yong can predict future events, but he cannot control and manipulate the development of events. A person with such a strong ability to predict is helpless in the face of death.

In the summer of 1077 AD, Shao Yong began to feel that his health was deteriorating. smiled and said to Sima Guang and the others: "I want to watch all things reincarnate." ”

Cheng Yi said worriedly: "Mr. is sick and others can't help him, you have to find a way to recuperate and recuperate." Shao Yong said calmly: "It's useless to recuperate!" In the winter of that year, Shao Yong's life was like a candle in the wind, which could be extinguished at any time.

Before he died, he called his son to the bed and made three very strange requests to his son: "I have three requests, and you must meet me." First, after I die, I can't be buried in Luoyang, but in the land of the ancestors of Yichuan; Second, the epitaph should be written by your uncle Cheng Haocheng; Third, don't bury any valuables, put your head on your head, wear coarse black clothes, your clothes should be oiled, and when you are buried, don't forget to find the little bald girl of the neighbor Li family and let her watch. After saying that, he closed his eyes and passed away.

Although family and friends felt that Shao Yong's request was very strange, they all knew Shao Yong's predictive ability, and felt that the reason why he put forward three such strange wills must be mysterious, so they followed Shao Yong's will, and when they were buried, they found the little bald girl of the Li family when they were buried, and asked her to watch Shao Yong put on coarse cloth and black clothes, and smeared oil on the clothes, and then put them in the coffin, and let the little bald girl see what was buried inside, and then nailed the coffin lid and sent it to Yichuan cemetery. The coffin was carried by eight stick boys, and at first, they felt very heavy, and their shoulders were crushed.

But after going out for more than ten miles, it became lighter and lighter. The old people said that it was Master Shao who had ascended to heaven. Sixty or seventy years passed, and after the little bald girl got married, she gave birth to a son, and the son married a daughter-in-law and gave birth to a grandson. But when this grandson grew up, he specialized in stealing coffins and robbing tombs.

One day, he and others muttered that they were going to steal Shao Yong's grave, which happened to be heard by his grandmother, that is, the little bald girl back then, and the little bald girl said to her grandson: "Don't go, when Mr. Shao was buried, I could see clearly that there was nothing in it, and it was smeared with oil." Her grandson asked, "Is it true?" "It's true, I saw it with my own eyes." So Shao Yong's tomb was not robbed. It turned out that before Shao Yong's death, he expected that the grandson of the little bald girl would be a person who stole the coffin and robbed the tomb in the future.

As for not choosing the cemetery near Luoyang, but choosing it in a slightly remote Luochuan, this is because, if it is in Luoyang, it is easy to be stolen and dug by the Jin army that invaded later, because after the Jin army captured the Central Plains, it had a large-scale excavation of the tombs of the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty, and the tombs of the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty and more than 300 ministers were concentrated in that area.

Shao Yong not only used his prediction ability to ensure that his cemetery was not stolen, but also ensured the safety of future generations.

One night, Shao Yong was admiring the moon on the bridge with his son. Suddenly, the wind was blowing, the black clouds covered the moon, and the cuckoo bird was faintly called. Shao Yong's brows were tightly locked, worried. The son asked him why he was worried, Shao Yong explained: "The cuckoo is a bird in the south, it has never appeared in the north, you listen, this is the call of the cuckoo, the bird that has been living in the south, but suddenly appeared in the north, this is not a good sign." ”