Chapter 63: Yarrow Hexagram

I saw that the lark bird had been flying around him, chirping and chirping, as if to attract the attention of others. Finally, he flew to the base of the wall of the different grass hall next to him, and landed on a seemingly inconspicuous grass in the corner of the wall.

"Hiss......" Ye Buyi felt that something seemed wrong, and hurriedly got up and walked towards the root of the wall......

"Huh!? Yarrow?! Ye Bu was not surprised. In the past ten years, he doesn't know how many times he has walked to this Yaochi Mountain, and he has never seen yarrow appear in any place, and it is still such a big piece! The most incredible thing is that it still grows around his house, from the root of the wall to the back of the house!

The gray-green leaves, with their small yellow flowers densely packed into the shape of a compound umbrella house, are yes, this is the legendary yarrow.

Yarrow is very ordinary, a little like mugwort, with a set of jagged leaves, like a clump of bird feathers, and like some kind of myriapod bug. Therefore, there are many kinds of nicknames in the folk, such as "sawtooth grass", "feather grass", "centipede grass" and so on. It blooms a kind of small white flower, which is not good-looking or ugly, it is just ordinary.

It prefers to grow on sunny hillside meadows, forest edges, roadsides and bushes. It is also a very good traditional Chinese medicine, which can detoxify and promote dampness, invigorate blood and relieve pain, and also has a miraculous effect on snake bites. However, it has a more important role: "Where this grass is, its stem can be used as a basket." Tao misused 楮 for it. ”

Legend has it that "yarrow is a thousand years old and has 300 stems, and it is already old, so it knows the good luck." That is to say, it is not a problem that yarrow can live to be 1,000 years old, but its old stem can be used to predict good fortune and bad fortune.

Therefore, it harvests dry prismatic stalks after autumn. Because it is straight and hard, and it is not easy to break, it is really a good material for divination.

Therefore, since the Spring and Autumn Period, the use of yarrow fortune-telling has quietly risen. Because of Confucius's admiration, it was praised on the altar and became a sacred plant, but due to the cumbersome way of divination, there are very few people who can really use it, but Ye Buyi happened to learn this divination method when he was learning Qimen Dunjia with his grandfather since he was a child, but later this herb became more and more difficult to find, and he knew a lot of divination methods, so he also. I gradually forgot about this yarrow hexagram.

And now I suddenly saw a large piece of yarrow in front of the house, Ye Buyi's excited heart swelled up, I just thought of Miss Jiu'er's fate, there were birds falling into the grass, is this a providence hinting that I want me to start the yarrow hexagram again? Is there still some turning point in this? Is the Ye family's birth gate also here?!

Well, that's it, the only turning point should be Jiu'er girl, for her, I want to reopen the yarrow hexagram!

Thinking of this, Ye Bu didn't say a word, leaned over, neatly broke off a few grass stalks that had matured and turned yellow, and walked back to the stone table quickly with a small handful.

Ye Yiyi folded the straw into small sections of the same length, cleaned the stone table, used fifty yarrows, and first removed one to symbolize Tai Chi, which was never used.

The remaining 49 sticks are divided into two parts, symbolizing the two rituals, the left representing the heavens, the right representing the earth, the left representing yang, and the right representing yin.

Take one from the right and put it below, representing the person in the three talents, that is, Jiu'er.

Group the four yarrow roots on the left, and when the final remainder is equal to four or less than four, place it on the left half of the yarrow that represents the "person" at the bottom. A group of four symbolizes the four seasons, and the remainder symbolizes a leap month.

In the same way, group the yarrow on the right, which represents the "earth", into a group of four, and place the remaining grass roots on the right half of the yarrow representing "people" below. Gather the yarrow below and put them aside for the number of roots you get, and at the same time close the remaining yarrow on the top, and then complete the first change.

Divide the remaining yarrow into two parts in your hand, repeat the action of the first change, and get the remainder of the second change and the second change and the two remainders plus the one that represents the person to get a value.

After the completion of the first and second transformations, repeat the action of the first transformation and repeat it again to obtain the value of the third transformation.

After three evolutions, the yarrow yields a value of twenty-one, and there are twenty-eight left, excluding the one that symbolizes Tai Chi. Twenty-eight divided by four is seven, so the first hexagram of the last hexagram is seven. Six, seven, eight, nine. Six and eight are even numbers, which belong to yin, six is old yin, and eight is less yin; Seven and nine are odd numbers, belonging to yang, nine is old yang, and seven is less yang.

Therefore, according to the deduction, the first line is: Shaoyang.

Three changes make one line, and one hexagram has six lines, so Ye Buyi will come six more times for a total of eighteen changes, and Kill Wentian has already looked dumbfounded next to him, and automatically consciously stood quietly in the distance, and he didn't dare to come out.

I don't know how long it took, the sky had already darkened, and Ye Buyi had already oozed dense beads of sweat on his forehead, but he didn't care about it. Finally, eight times out of ten, it becomes a hexagram.

"It's finished." Ye Buyi exhaled a long breath, his hands trembled lightly and gathered all the fifty yarrows, closed his eyes and was silent for a long time. After a cup of tea, he finally opened his eyes, silently got up, picked up the straw on the table, trembled and slowly wrote a word on the ground:

"Raw!"

"What do you mean, sir?" Kill Wentian stepped forward and didn't know what to explain after seeing it, so he hurriedly asked.

Ye Buyi sighed lightly: "Please go back to the killing master, as for the meaning of this word, I believe that the killing master will know soon." ”

After a moment of silence, Ye Buyi continued: "Today is the last hexagram I started to kill my master, from now on, you and I have ended our fate, please don't come to me again in the future, this Yaochi Mountain will also be closed from now on, and there will be no more leaves in the world." ”

Killing Wentian was shocked, and he was busy asking the reason, but Ye Buyi refused to reveal a word, just raised his hand to stop his question: "I have leaked too many heavenly opportunities for the killing master, respectively, I will send you a sentence in the end:"

"The heart turns with all the realms, and the turn is really quiet. Recognize sex with the flow, no joy and no worries. ”