Ming Tie was a little frightened, thinking in his heart that this old man was really a little scary, how did he know that I was outside?

But I still pushed the door open, and with a creak, the scene in the house was revealed.

"Excuse me..."

Ming Tie said politely, and raised his feet to go in.

The scene before me was nothing more than a simple house, with yellow-brown earthen walls and a broken table.

When he looked to the right, he saw the fortune teller in his memory, and his figure instantly coincided with the figure of the old man who appeared that night.

I saw that the old man was tall and thin, sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, holding a green turtle back in his left hand, holding a very strange stone in his right hand, wearing a simple gray cloth robe, and the back of his head was a hair hanging down with the clouds, white mixed with a few black hairs, his aging face was a little serious, and the two white eyebrows were slightly longer, slightly hanging to the corners of his eyes, and seeing those eyes made Ming Tie's heart shock.

It was a pair of clear pupils, full of endless depth, which reminded Ming Tie of the feeling he had when he looked into the well when he was a child, that is, the bottomless feeling, and even the feeling that he was about to fall into it all the time, like the word abyss.

Ming Tie immediately looked away from his eyes, not daring to look at the old man's eyes anymore, his heartbeat was obviously much faster, and he was even a little afraid, a fear of the unknown.

Ming Tie was sure that no old man in the town would have such eyes.

And the fortune teller just glanced at Ming Tie casually, and then began to fiddle with the back of the turtle in his hand again, and at the same time said softly:

"Ming boy, why do you have time to come to my side and not go to strike iron?"

Ming Tie was stunned for a moment, he inexplicably felt that this old man was talking a little strange, and then suddenly remembered that a few years ago, this old man had asked himself to learn something with him, and then he was furious after being stopped by Ming Tie's father.

After he went to take over his father's blacksmith's shop, he hadn't seen each other for a long time.

Ming Tie didn't think it was anything, since the other party had saved his life, it meant that this old man was still very good to him, after all, what kindness was greater than saving his life?

Ying Sheng said:

"I remember the night before yesterday, I was caught by those thieves, and I was glad that I was rescued by Mr., and I didn't thank me for such a great favor, but these three catties of wild beef, please be sure to accept it. ”

The old man didn't react when he heard it, he just nodded slightly, casually motioned for Ming Tie to sit down, and then fiddled with the turtle in his hand and lifted it up, his expression was extremely serious, and a little sweat appeared on his forehead.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Ming Tie gently put the three catties of fine meat in his hand on the table, sat on the side, and quietly watched the old man's movements, he was also quite interested in how that action was useful.

"Or are you counting fortune tellers? After all, he's called a fortune teller. ”

Ming Tie remembered that when he was a child, the town was out of the wilderness, the first was to find a fortune teller, the second was to buy ironware, and the third was to buy medicinal herbs, because someone once asked the old man to count before he went out of the wilderness, and when he came back, he came back with a blue leopard, and the person looked like he was unscathed, which shocked the whole town.

Because the blue leopard is a terrible beast, and half of the people who have come out of the wilderness have died in the attack of the blue leopard, it is extremely shocking that the person is unscathed.

There is also the blue leopard's fur is the most beautiful, under the sun, golden dots, printed under the blue, and the night sky, in the big city, the lowest price can be sold for five silver coins, and a coin is equivalent to a thousand copper coins, for the people of the town, this is unimaginable big money, it is simply a change of fate, these add up, it is strange not to let the town shake.

And the person who got the blue leopard said that he couldn't find a suitable prey in the wilderness, so he went to the place where the fortune teller had said, and picked up a dying blue leopard.

That man later bought a resident status in the big city with four silver coins, settled down, and now says that he is a good mixer in the big city, and he specializes in reselling goods to people who are deserted, looking for buyers or something.

Despite this, there are not many people who look for this fortune teller now, and I remember that at that time, there was a long queue at the door, and there were even more days out of the famine.

However, the truth is not as simple as people think, and no one is as lucky as that man anymore, and even a few people died in the wilderness.

The people in the town also woke up and realized that fortune-telling was not so reliable, and even the families of those dead people came to the door to make trouble, and in the end it was the mayor of the town who came forward to solve it, after all, it is too common for people to die in the wilderness, and they can't blame others, as long as they decide to take this road, they will discount their lives, and half of life and death.

Although there are also people who come to the old man to tell fortunes, but it is not something too important, it is generally some birthdays and birthdays, red and white ceremonies, etc., to find the old man to count the day.

And when that incident did not occur, Ming Tie also took this fortune teller as a bad thing, thinking that they were all fooling people, but now Ming Tie can no longer be inappropriate, that remember the figure of those big men, quite majestic, definitely a good hand out of the wilderness, is often in the fierce beast fight, and the old man instantly did not know what means, so that the first two of them fell down and wailed in pain, the means are very, quite similar to the fairy methods that I heard in the mouths of those old women in childhood, are all general magic.

Maybe at that time, this fortune teller just wanted to ask for some purity, and deliberately didn't give the calculation.

He also heard that this fortune teller was not originally a fortune teller, and he still has some relationship with Ming Tie, which was a famine of his father Ming Lan, who was rescued from some fierce beast in the wilderness by chance, and has been living in this town since then, living on some food given by his father, and then I don't know when he started fortune telling.

Just when Ming Tie was thinking, the old man's movements in his hands did not stop, and now when he looked at it, the back of the turtle had been buckled on those good-looking stones, and the old man's eyes were also slightly bright, and the corners of his mouth showed a slight smile.

After half a moment, the old man opened his eyes and slowly said something that shocked Ming Tie.

The old man looked indifferent, and said calmly: "In five days, it will be your fifteenth birthday." ”

Ming Tie nodded, but countless thoughts arose in his heart, he remembered that he should not have told the old man when his birth date was, how did he know, and finally reluctantly thought that his father told him, most of them had come to ask before.

It's just that his father and this fortune teller are not very opposed, and it is not for him to think about it if he really comes to ask, and if he thinks about it, he feels a little scary.

He smiled reluctantly and said, "Is there anything you want to say, sir, is there anything taboo on my birthday?"

The old man seemed to have guessed what Ming Tie was thinking, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "How can there be any taboos, I just say that your birthday has arrived, and I naturally want to celebrate my birthday, after all, you are what I grew up watching." ”

After a pause, he got up and got out of bed, patted his crumpled clothes, walked to the edge of a cupboard, and continued:

"Fifteen is an important age, a coming-of-age ceremony......"

Ming Tiexindao turned out to be like this, it must have been his father who came to ask, the previous conjecture was also dispelled, and the attention also turned to the old man said about the coming-of-age ceremony, and he didn't take it very seriously in his heart, not long ago he also asked about the coming-of-age ceremony, it was asked to the boss who sold meat, in East Street, not far from here, and often went to that house to buy meat, and he was also familiar with it, and the boss also told him for a while, what kind of wearing a crown and bundling hair, he listened to it probably just didn't listen, and felt that it was not interesting.

just said: "It's just an ordinary day, I want to say something coming-of-age ceremony, it's just a big move." ”

When the old man heard this, he shook his head, but in his hand he took out a yellowed book from the cabinet, which was old and unlikely, and gently flipped it in front of Ming Tie's eyes, and chuckled:

"Do you know how big the world is?"

Ming Tie was stunned for a moment, not knowing why he suddenly asked him this question, thought about it, and said: "I heard Aunt Li on the side of my shop say that our town is called Changfeng Town, south, west, The north is a great wilderness, only there is a Fangyuan town not far from the east, and then there is a big city to the east, called Sangzhu, and then the big city and the big city take care of each other, enclosing a huge range on the earth, and the surrounding area is called the national city, there is a national capital in the center, among which there is an emperor and the like, in addition to this, I don't know, and I have only been to the big city called Sangzhu, but it is also very prosperous, and there are many terrible people. ”

Saying this, Ming Tie himself found that his knowledge was too small, and his face was a little ashamed.

After listening to this, the old man looked at Ming Tie's eyes, which made the latter even more ashamed, and the old man also saw it, stroked the sheep's horn mustache on his chin, and said: "It's okay that you know these things, there are more than ordinary people, but I can tell you that even the national city in your mouth is just a piece of gravel for this land." ”

When Ming Tie heard this, he was shocked in his heart, he only knew that he was going to the Sangzhu City, followed the team, and trekked hard, and it would take a month to get there, and then this kind of distance was only for the edge of the big city, and then he thought of the national city and didn't know the geometry, if this was like gravel, the world was too vast, and even so big that it made him feel a little terrible.

Seeing Ming Tie like this, the old man smiled, stroked his white beard, and said with a smile:

"What? Interested in hearing about it?"

But for a while, I was a little more interested in my heart, and I only said: "Then I will ask Mr. to tell me, I am very interested." ”

The old man shook his head and said, "Are you interested?..... It's good, it's good. ”

"Just listen to me slowly, the ancients had a saying: 'the sky is round and the earth is round', which means that the sky is round, the earth is square, the shape is like this, but it is easy to think of it, and I don't need to say anything about the sky, you can see it when you look up, it is boundless, and you can't understand it, so I will tell you about this earth, or the great wilderness. ”

"The so-called Great Wilderness, then we have to talk about two things, at that time it was called mountains and seas!!"

The old man's eyebrows were slightly upturned, and his mind was also slightly engaged

Ming Tie also listened to it, and now he knew that the land he was in knew nothing.

At this moment, there was a bang, and the door made of dead wood was kicked open.