Chapter 1 Fortune telling

Linjiang Immortal - Opening Words

Once you enter the fairy road, it is as deep as the sea,

A hundred years have passed in a flash.

Why did this body send to the end of the world.

There is no snow today,

Tomorrow's ghost town flowers.

Life and death have nothing to do with the world,

The sword light is full of glitz.

Wild song drunk drunk smoke.

Immortals and demons are difficult to separate,

The Buddha Daoben family.

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"Upper thunder and lower Ze, return to the sister's hexagram, congratulations, congratulations, it seems that good things are coming, girl"

The central part of Shenzhou, Ningzhou City, has been the central part of Shenzhou since ancient times.

The city is grand, the streets are dotted, and the high pavilions and dangerous buildings abound, which is a prosperous place that is famous all over the world.

The city is divided into four square districts according to the direction.

Nanfang is a place where the rich and wealthy gather, clothed with brocade, rich and luxurious.

Beifang is backed by Mulan Mountain, the peak of the mountain is dangerous, the clouds are steaming, it is where the Qin family of the Xiuzhen family of Ningzhou City is located, the high-walled compound under the mountain, deep and mysterious, ordinary mortals are rare to get close.

Dongfang shops gather, there are no less than hundreds, the north and south merchants come and go frequently, the immortals are miscellaneous, all kinds of treasures and spiritual materials are available, jaw-dropping.

The west of the city is mostly a place where civilians live, three religions and nine streams, fish and dragons are mixed, there are many warlocks in the rivers and lakes who set up stalls to sell elixir elixirs, and occasionally down-and-out monks call to sell magic weapons and spiritual materials, and the end is very lively.

At this moment, at the end of Longmen Street in the west of the city, close to the wall, there is an inconspicuous hexagram stall.

The green cloth is spread on the ground, and there are three copper coins, which are scattered one after another.

There are two people on the side of the hexagram stall, the old man is tall, his beard is half white, his head is in a bun, his face is thin but full of smiles, and he looks quite fairy.

Behind it, there is a pole of spotted bamboo, which has been gray and yellow because of the age. The head of the pole is tied with a cloth banner vertically, and the four big characters of "seeking good fortune and avoiding evil" are written on it, and the dragon flies and the phoenix dances, and the attitude is crazy.

There was a young man squatting beside the old man, with beautiful eyebrows and a very clever look, who was looking boredly at the stall at the moment at a pious face and an obese woman in her twenties.

"The elephant said: There is thunder on the Ze, return to the sister, and the gentleman will know forever."

The old man stretched out his hand, gently pinched the copper coin on the ground, and continued:

"The girl came to ask the old man today to find the right person, this land of China has not been able to count my heavenly son, the hexagram says that the reason is determined, just wait for the time, you will have a good marriage, the future will be a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren, people are prosperous."

"Really, I can get married, great, thank you Immortal, I'm going to go back and tell my father quickly. ”

After that, he took out three copper plates from his money bag, gently placed them on the hexagram stall, turned around and trotted towards the city.

"Today you deceived three people again, poor world, actually believe the words of you, an old liar, the hexagram of returning to your sister is obviously entrusted to a non-person, but a hexagram, but you say that it is a happy marriage."

Seeing the background of the woman's departure, the young man stood up and shook his head, and said helplessly.

"What an old liar, you kid has never known how to respect the old and respect the virtuous, the old man asks the heavens, cuts off the future, and never has a last resort, who doesn't know my name in this land of China, and besides, this is my sister, although there are many troubles, you can also get a good death, how bad. The world is difficult, and how many people are depressed all their lives, and they die with regrets, and only 12 out of 10 can get a good death."

The old man screamed strangely, and at the same time reached out to put away the green cloth, and by the way, put the hexagram money he had just obtained into the money bag and tied it tightly around his waist.

"You have it, just your sex, you can deceive ignorant women and children, and you really think of yourself as a fairy, but your Tiansuizi's Taoist name is quite appropriate, rely on the sky to eat, everything is fate, let's just roll in this wind and dust." Having said that, you are so powerful, why don't you count when we will make money, save me from following you everywhere to tell fortunes, eat and sleep in the open, can't eat enough, and can't sleep well."

The young man stood up, straightened his waist, and said lazily, looking at the old man with disdain in his eyes.

The old man took care of his own things and seemed to be accustomed to the attitude of children.

After a while, he said, "You kid also know how to eat and sleep, don't learn and don't know, haven't you heard of 'the ominous person who sees the fish in the abyss', and besides, if you count people and don't count yourself, divination for yourself is against the sky, and you want to damage your longevity, your fate is determined by heaven, it should be your natural coming, don't force it."

"It's against the sky, isn't it the same way that you help others tell fortunes, you are not afraid of a short life, you have three trigrams a day, and you are not afraid of a short life."

The child lifted the bamboo pole and teased.

"That's not the same, all the fortune tellers, how depressed in the heart, confused and puzzled, I for them to point out the maze, clear the clouds to see the sun, is to do good deeds and accumulate virtue, just like the right woman, ugly and poor, is already very unfortunate, I a little point, can make her not lose hope, although the fate is determined by the sky, but luck in man-made, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, otherwise it is very still possible to come, as long as a thought still exists, maybe one day a good marriage will really come."

After a moment of silence, the old man suddenly sighed lightly: "The way of hexagrams, regardless of the will of heaven, is measuring people's hearts."

After speaking, he closed his eyes and looked at the sky in the distance leisurely, the light in his eyes was no longer there, and it looked endlessly deep, as if he had penetrated this world.

The young man ignored the old man's strange appearance, lifted the bamboo pole and walked away.

The old man shook his head and followed, and soon dissipated into the flow of people, except for the cloth banner on the bamboo pole, which appeared and appeared in the flow of people, and was very conspicuous.

Along the east of Longmen Street about 100 zhang, is the famous osmanthus lane in the west of the city, the fragrance of flowers in the air can be faintly smelled.

At the end of the alley is a small courtyard of considerable scale, the courtyard gate is engraved with four characters of ancient seals, which is the Yunlai Inn, and the meaning of taking guests is like Yunlai.

Smelling the gradually rich fragrance of osmanthus flowers, an old and a young entered the courtyard door one after another.

Suddenly, a clear voice came, "Su Mai, came back so early today?"

The young man put away the bamboo pole, greeted a middle-aged man in his forties in front of the counter, and said with a smile: "The old man is lucky today, he finished the trigrams early and called it a day early."

The man laughed and said: "The old immortal immortal method is profound, and there is no last resort, it is very famous in this Ningzhou City, but it is just the rule of the three trigrams of this day, otherwise I am afraid that it will not be finished all day long."

"Haha, it's still the shopkeeper who understands the old man, and he has won my heart, and he has won my heart!"

There was a burst of laughter, and it was the old fortune teller who floated in, and said that it was rare to meet a bosom friend, and it was a big white thing.

The three of them talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was very strong.

The innkeeper's surname is Tong Mingshan, the second generation of the inn shopkeeper, twenty years ago he was the inn's buddy, and he was still Geng Laosan's shopkeeper at that time.

In the winter of that year, the old shopkeeper suddenly fell ill, his whole body was cold, his muscles atrophied, and in less than half a moon, he was already like a mid-autumn leaf in the wind, and his life hung by a thread.

It happened that the day with the son passed through Ningzhou City, came to stay, got this news, and then took a hexagram for it, saying that the old shopkeeper is the family of goodness, and the life is not over, and the life should be a hundred years.

It was instructed to go to the east of the city to find a wandering Langzhong, get a strange prescription, and treat it according to the prescription.

I don't know if the shopkeeper Geng's life should not be extinguished or if Tiansuizi is really accurate, within a month, the shopkeeper Geng has recovered as before, and his spirit is better than before.

So he worshiped the heavens and sons as gods, and sent immortal tablets to be worshiped day and night.

On this day, Suizi was happy for a while, and he stayed in the inn for more than half a month.

In addition to setting up a stall at the west gate every day to tell fortunes, it is to drink with Geng Laosan to have fun.

During this period, he saw that Tong Shan was clever and honest, so he made Hui Yue Lao and matched him to make a door-to-door son-in-law for the shopkeeper Geng.

Geng Laosan is also a rough man, quite a bit of the habits of the rivers and lakes, and he also attaches great importance to Tongshan, so he pushes the boat down the river, and jade has become a good thing.

In the next five years, the shopkeeper Geng handed over the Yuanlai Inn to Tong Shan and went out to travel by himself.

Ten years ago, Tiansuizi passed through Ningzhou City, came to this Yunlai Inn to find friends and reminisce, and brought a boy who was about four or five years old.

Later, I learned that I had traveled the world with my son for ten years, and met a single child at the foot of Nanyan Mountain.

Under inquiry, he learned that his parents died in a mountain fire and had no relatives at home, so he took pity on his loneliness and couldn't bear it for a while, and he took a hexagram, saying that the two were very fateful, so he adopted him.

Many villagers in the village are illiterate, and the children only have a nickname, so they follow their common surname Su, and they are given a single word for Mai, and they are called Su Mai.

Since then, he has wandered around, making a living by telling hexagrams, teaching him to read and write in his spare time, and living a hard life, but he is also happy.

In recent years, I can't stand the kneel and begging of the shopkeeper Tong, Tiansuizi takes Xiao Su Mai to live in the Far Inn, and sets up a stall to calculate the hexagram as usual, three trigrams a day, three dollars at a time, and the number of three threes.

This time the two have been in place for five days, and it is customary for them to leave tomorrow.

The shopkeeper Tong is reluctant, but over the years, he has also known that the sky follows the son's temperament, and he comes and goes, never knowing where he is going, nor where he is going.

So that night, the shopkeeper Tong personally cooked, made a few exquisite side dishes, a pot of Ningzhou City's unique drunken immortal wine, and the three guests enjoyed themselves.

When the wine is over, it is already the third watch, a crescent moon hangs lonely in the sky, several cold stars loom, the night is deep, and it seems extraordinarily cold and lonely.

The old and young had gone back to the room to rest, and the shopkeeper Tong was still holding on to the railing of the small courtyard, drunk and hazy.

Looking up at this piece of Qinghui, he said to himself: "The moon is cloudy and sunny, the old fairy game is dusty, and it is a rare opportunity to see it once a year, and I hope that there will be a time to meet in the coming year".

Early the next morning, the two did not go out to set up a stall as usual, but packed their bags early and prepared to resign.

The shopkeeper Tong had already prepared dry food for breakfast, and as usual, he personally sent it to the West City Gate, and saw the two figures disappear before he reluctantly left.