In the east of the county, there is a lot of traffic and people. Street stalls, juggling, a wide variety of goods, dazzling. To say that Yu County is not a big place, if there is anything new, the posture of word of mouth is also extremely fast. There is still a piece of land on the corner of the street in the East Market, and now there is a new fortune-telling stall, but it has been placed for several days, and no one cares.

On the stall, there was a lame wooden table dragged from nowhere, and a worn-out yellow cloth towel that was washed white was casually covered on it, and three ancient coins with round square holes were spread out in an orderly and neat manner on the divination wooden case, and the sun gradually shifted at noon, and the four big characters of "Daquan Fifty" were faintly revealed between the patina.

"Criticize yin and yang to break the five elements, look at the sun and moon in the palm, measure the wind and water to survey the Liuhe, take... "Behind ......the table sat an old Taoist priest wearing a shabby pure yang scarf, holding a hat in his arms, the hat was also old, and the old Taoist priest yawned and shouted weakly. A good word, I just bit him all over the place, this old way has been shouting for almost a morning, and still no one cares.

The old Taoist priest lowered his head and turned his gaze to the shriveled coarse cloth money bag on his waist, and then took out the only copper coin with trembling fingers, "Alas, a penny can be used to make water." "If it doesn't open today, don't say the day after tomorrow, I'm afraid I'll be hungry today, although it's okay to say that I don't eat.

But the old Taoist priest was just about to start brewing his tears of sadness and sorrow, and suddenly heard a burst of whispering next to him, the old Taoist priest couldn't help frowning, turned his head and saw that it was the double girl sitting on the bamboo bench next to him, it seemed that he had already slept on the wooden case, and began to dream, and kept chattering about the braised chicken legs and fried waist flowers, which was not enough, and from time to time he sucked back the saliva that flowed out, and then smacked his mouth.

Now Lao Dao only felt that he was angry for no reason in his chest, and he raised his hand to prepare to give her a meal of "sugar fried chestnuts", and felt that he had raised it for so long, and his hand in the air shook for a long time, thinking about it, it still fell on his head, and finally it was just enough, and then he recited the words he had just shouted all morning.

Just when the old Taoist priest was depressed, he suddenly felt a figure walking towards his hexagram stall. The old Taoist priest was suddenly shocked, his groggy brain was instantly clear, and he was secretly overjoyed in his heart, and immediately shook his spirits, dusted off the white gray Taoist robe on his body, and stroked the messy goatee, and finally cleared his throat and sang again.

"Hexagram will know people and things up and down for thousands of years, and the clever plan will move the internal and external disasters and blessings!" The old Taoist priest closed his eyes, shook his head and began to groan, quite like a master who knew everything.

The little villager hesitated a little, and said hesitantly: "The old gentleman calculated a hexagram for the girl of the Song family a few days ago?" ”

The old Taoist priest felt a pang in his heart, and said incoherently: "I want to be poor since I came to this Yu County, for others...... Purify the house to drive away evil spirits, draw talismans and divination or something have done too much, the poor road is not said to give money, everything also pays attention to a fate, but as the saying goes, meeting is fate, not to mention that there are many people who come to ask for hexagrams in this Yu County, little brother, the Song girl in your mouth, the poor road committee really can't remember, you let me count, which one is she. ”

After that, the old Taoist priest's eyes fluttered, and his fingers pinched the magic trick randomly, "The little brother is asking the girl in the alley west of the city?" When Poor Dao entered the city, he did calculate a hexagram for her. ”

The little village man said with a smile: "Actually, old man, you don't have to count for so long, it's the girl who kicked your hexagram stall a few days ago." ”

The little villager's face turned red and red with shame in a word, and he was thick enough, and it didn't take long for him to recover from his embarrassment, and said, "Little brother, you can't talk nonsense!" Said like the poor road is not good at divination, swaggering and deceiving, a few days ago the poor road wanted to watch a look for this girl, and it didn't cost money, in the end, she was loyal to the ear, she even treated me, a true cultivator, it was really rude. ”

When the old Taoist priest mentioned this, he felt as if he had been greatly wronged, blowing his beard and glaring.

The little villager nodded to indicate that he understood, and with a smile on his face, he hurriedly asked the old Taoist priest not to care.

"Xiaoqing." The old Taoist priest immediately shouted the girl's name, turned his eyes to the bag, and motioned for him to take out a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

The girl named Yang Qing also understood at the moment, took out a piece of white paper from the bag placed on the ground next to her, grinded out some pine smoke ink, and then handed a thin pen to the young man, and said with a smile: "Then please little brother, you can write a word on the paper first." ”

After the little villager took the pen, he seemed to scratch his ears and cheeks. He hadn't read a book either, he didn't know a few words, his mind was impatient for a long time, and he didn't know what to write.

The little villager looked at the words on the paper, and said with a shy face: "Old man, I am just a rough man, and it is nothing to me. So I won't tell you the hexagrams, I just want to ask the old gentleman to draw two more peace charms for me for Miss Song, is it feasible? ”

The old Taoist priest smiled: "Naturally feasible!" ”

On the wooden case, the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone had already been neatly placed, but the old Taoist priest did not dip the ordinary black ink, but took out the cinnabar ink from the baggage. The tip of his wrist pen is sent and received, and the complex vermilion lines are tactfully extended, almost in one go, as for what he painted, the little villager didn't understand it at all anyway.

After the ink was dry, the old Taoist priest folded the original talisman and the two sheets he had just drawn, and handed it to the little villager.

The young man stood up, took the talismans solemnly, and blew them gently, lest one of them accidentally wipe the handwriting away. After confirming it again and again for a long time, he put it in his arms like a baby, bent down to thank the old Taoist priest, and then left with relief.

The old Taoist priest stared at the small bag of copper coins in his hand, weighed it repeatedly, listened to the "whoosh" sound between the copper coins colliding and rubbing against each other, and smiled.

Yang Qing glared at him angrily, and said, "It's a shame that you always claim to be a master of the world in Sifang Mountain, it's so vulgar!" ”

The old Taoist priest glanced at the girl with slanted eyes, and said confidently: "Yes! I'm vulgar, I'm not vulgar to feed you, a Pixiu who only eats and doesn't pull? The three talismans just now are not simple, and it is cheap to accept him so much copper plate, you see, I am old, and I don't enjoy Qingfu, even if I don't enjoy Qingfu, it's usually such a small hobby, you still talk nonsense, and you have no conscience. ”

The girl was silent for a moment, and had to cough awkwardly to cover the past.

An old man and a young man packed up their burdens, leaving the wooden case and bamboo bench that were all burned with firewood in place, and the two walked all the way down the street, every time they passed a food shop, Yang Qing had to swallow several mouthfuls of saliva. After walking straight for half an hour, Lao Dao finally stopped, "Okay, that's it!" I'll take you to eat something good today! ”

Looking at the gilded plaque of Taoyuan Building in front of him, the sense of nobility in this rich and charming eye came to his face, and then looked at himself and the old man in tatters, for no reason, Yang Qing had a bad premonition.

But the old Taoist priest didn't realize it, and rushed inside.

Sure enough, before they could enter the door, Yang Qing saw a guy coming over and stopping them, "Hey! Where did you come from? Old gentleman, if you want to eat, you have to go to the back kitchen, but you don't want to go to the place of your guests, do you know the rules! ”

The old Taoist priest was very annoyed when he heard this, looked up and saw the disgust in the guy's eyes, and immediately jumped to his feet angrily, and immediately took out his money bag, wanting to compete with the other party.

This time, the movement was too big, and it was almost to the time when there were many people at the meal, which disturbed many officials and guests to look over, and in an instant, the guy's face was flushed, and he was at a loss, and his eyes for help were thrown to Yu Nian, who was welcoming guests on the other side.

Yu Nian turned his head and handed over the guest to another little guy beside him, and immediately walked to the side of the guy, "Old man, our people are not sensible, I will compensate you for him, I hope you don't worry about him, what do you want to eat, I'll take you to a seat." ”

The old Taoist priest looked up and down for more than a while, his eyes were full of smiles, and his mouth kept snorting, "Then lead the way!" ”

Yu Nian took the two guests to sit down, and then politely asked them what they wanted to eat, and by the way, he glanced at Yang Qing a few more times, the little girl was combing her double bun, it was the cardamom years, her face was like a hibiscus, her face was beautiful with pink makeup, and her eyes were smart and tactful, like the style of an official lady.

Look at the old Taoist priest again, he is wearing a little shabby, but he also has a bit of fairy wind and crane bones.

Didn't Song Yuan invite him to catch demons? He thought about it for a moment or two, but Yu Nian's work in his hands did not fall at all, and he kept introducing a few good dishes of Taoyuan Building to the two, just as the girl listened to a few dishes recommended by Yu Nian, she was extremely excited.

The old Taoist priest coughed and asked about the price, just listening to these dishes, all of them cost several taels of silver, and the old Taoist priest's face was suddenly a little embarrassed.

For more than seven years, he has been a small servant in this Taoyuan Building for seven years, and his ability to observe words and colors is one of the best. The old Taoist priest's behavior made him beat the drum against the idea that the two masters were invited by Song Yuanwai, and he introduced euphemistically: "If the two of you have a taboo about meat dishes, we also have dishes such as somen noodles in our store, which are also very delicious, and the price is relatively affordable, as long as a few pennies have a big bowl." ”

When the old Taoist priest heard this, his eyes lit up, this kid was on the road, but his face was very steady: "Ahem, this little brother, then please give us two bowls of somen noodles." ”

Yu Nian looked at it and entertained with a smile, "I don't know if the old man is here for the monsters of Yu County?" ”

The old Taoist priest didn't seem to expect that the other party would suddenly ask him this kind of question, he was slightly stunned, and looked at Yu Nian again, thinking that most of his usual people only use talismans to keep them safe, where do they know how to kill demons and eliminate demons, but at this moment, the little vanity in his heart made him unable to say that he was just a blind fortune teller nearby, so he put on that familiar posture, cleared his throat and said: "Poor Dao heard that there are demons and evil in Yu County, and he came from the Sifang Mountain Imperial Sword to solve problems for the people. I just don't know where this evil came from and where it is hiding now. ”

Listening to the words of the old Taoist, Yu Nian couldn't help but think in his heart: I heard that Song Yuanwai paid a lot of money to invite the masters of the Quartet Mountain to catch demons, aren't they these two in front of him? It should be, Song Mansion Road is not far from Taoyuan Building, presumably the two of them should have stopped by to inquire about the news.

Growing up in Yu County since childhood, of course, I have heard of the famous Sifang Mountain within a radius of 100 miles, and for most people, Sifang Mountain undoubtedly symbolizes the holy land of the immortal family.

In the hearts of the people of Yu County, even if you can't be a formal disciple, you can become a miscellaneous servant on the mountain, as long as you can have a relationship with Sifang Mountain, it is the most amazing thing. It's a pity that the requirements for selecting apprentices in Sifang Mountain are very strict, and those who can enter the Immortal Dao Sect are all dragons and phoenixes among people or people with outstanding qualifications.

So when Yu Nian heard that the old Taoist priest was from Sifang Mountain, he was immediately in awe, and directly changed from the old man to the immortal chief, "The immortal chief can be regarded as asking the right person, I don't dare to boast about anything else in the rest of the year, just say that the big and small things in Yu County belong to me who is the most well-informed!" ”