7. A thought of advancing and retreating
August is just around the corner. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoFor more than ten days in a row, Jun Li sat in the most crowded teahouse, touting business. There are a lot of people in Huizhou, and Jun Li doesn't have much time to spare, but the busyness didn't make him forget Shan Jiquan's words that day. On the day of August, he silently moved to another teahouse and found a seat on the second floor.
Not for anything else, just to be able to see the gate of the Gu family here.
Whether his stepfather was sixty-six or sixty-seven, he was not sure. Because there is a lot of real estate in Huizhou, most of the people in this vicinity have dealings, so the Gu family began to prepare a few days early, and on the first day of the eighth month, they opened their doors early in the morning. Jun Li could see clearly, the villagers who were carrying light or heavy congratulatory gifts entered and exited this gate one after another. Gu Jiazi also prepared a water mat for everyone to rest, chat, eat and drink.
Anyway, I'll leave tomorrow and leave here. That's what he thought. I stayed here for more than ten days, just to see it from a distance today.
"Why didn't you go to the birthday feast?"
Jun Li was startled unexpectedly, but the voice was really familiar enough. The woman in white was still in Huizhou, and after being driven away by his indifferent attitude that day, she appeared in front of her in an unprecedentedly gentle tone.
"Oh, me, when did I say I was going?" replied Jun Li. expected that she didn't avoid her when she talked to Shan Jiquan that day, and she listened to it all.
"If you don't go, why don't you stand up today?" The woman sat down at his table, and when she saw that there was no tea on his table, she shook her head slightly, and called Cha Xiaoer to come over and order tea.
This closeness made Jun Li really unaccustomed to it, and after looking at her several times, Fang said, "What's wrong with the girl today?"
"Actually...... It's nothing. It's just that I don't have anywhere to go. There are some things that I have nowhere to say, but I can only find you to say. β
"Could it be that you're in trouble?" Jun Li got serious. "But with the girl's skills, there shouldn't be anything difficult to defeat you, right?"
"Wellβyou can do the math for me. β
"What?"
"Help me do the math - I want to see if what I'm going to do this time will succeed. β
Jun Li looked at her for a long time. Of course, he can say teasing things like "haven't you always believed in this fortune-telling technique" or "haven't you always said that I am a swagger and a liar", but after all, the other party is a woman, and he is not so mean as such.
"Yes, yes. He answered. "But...... I'm going to collect money. β
"I've already asked for your tea. β
Although Jun Li said that he wanted to collect money, he had actually taken out the leather bag containing a few gadgets from the back box and was about to open it, but the leather bag was taken down, and with a bang, several things fell on the table. One of the disc-like things seemed to be hollowed out inside, and something was contained, but when it was knocked out, a small piece of the corner shattered, and the contents of the inside fell out in a slump. The woman in white could already see some sand.
Jun Li hurriedly picked up this thing, glanced at the plate to make sure that there was no damage, and put it down to clean up the loose sand on the table, but when his eyes swept away, his face changed slightly. Chana tea Xiao Er took the tea, and if there was sand on the table, he would have to put it down.
"Wait. Before Jun Li could think about it, he raised his hand and held the teapot, and when he saw the sand-shaped flow, he looked up and asked the woman in white, "What you said you want to do - won't you go to the capital?"
"You...... Can you see it?" the woman was surprised.
Jun Li suddenly seemed to realize that there was still Cha Xiaoer on his side, and as soon as his right hand loosened the pot, he said, "It's so hot!" and his left palm casually wiped all the sand on the table to the ground.
The woman in white didn't know what he meant, and Jun Li had already signaled Xiao Er to put the tea on the table. After he left, he looked into the eyes of the woman in white and said, "Fang Cai's sand shape is vaguely 'guilty', what are you going to do?"
The woman in white reluctantly said: "It's just that your sand leaked out, and I didn't touch it, what kind of sand shape is just a coincidence." β
And you said no. β
β...... It's not a crime, but I know that there is a fifty-stringed harp in the palace. The woman in white turned her face sideways. β
"You're looking for the fifty-stringed piano, but you're ......," Jun Li said, glancing at the case she still carried. "Did Shan Xianfeng tell you anything later that day? You didn't seem to mean that before. β
"Because I thought that if I found him, I would be able to find the whereabouts of the half of the twenty-five strings that Senior Sister Bai had taken away, but according to him, he had never seen Senior Sister Bai use the twenty-five strings once, and she didn't even play the piano, she played other instrumental music. Since Senior Sister Bai has passed away, and her only friend said that she had never seen the twenty-five strings, it is hopeless to know the whereabouts of this qin. β
"Will Shan Xianfeng hide it from you again?"
"It is not beneficial for him to conceal this matter, not to mention that he only took half of the 'Qifang', even if he took the whole body, there is no score of Lingyinmen, and it is just an ordinary thing - the qin that is now in the palace is probably only for fun, but it cannot be used for ......"
She suddenly kept silent, but Jun Li continued, "You can't play the 'magic sound', can you?"
The woman in white bit her lip, "As a fortune teller, you know a little too much!"
"The fortune teller already knows a lot, and he also knows that if you want to do such a thing as stealing the fifty-stringed qin, you will be killing yourself at all! Half of the seven directions is enough, isn't it the same as the one that your master used half of the qin ten years ago to play magic sounds to hypnotize the people of the Qinglong Sect?"
"Of course it's different--now I'm the only one left in the Lingyinmen, and the master has ordered me to restore the integrity of the fifty-stringed piano, and pass on the Lingyinmen's score and mastery to the whole -- how can I stop at just twenty-five strings?
"Have you tried?" said Jun Li. "The score must have been passed on to you by the Lingshi, have you ever tried it, is it really impossible to express it with twenty-five strings?"
When Master passed it to me that day, he said that the original score was in the hands of an old friend, and that she had played the whole piece, but because Senior Sister Bai did not have a fifty-string piano after she left, and she had to try to play it on the twenty-five strings while completely recovering it, and the master could not do it, so although the score in my hand claimed to be a full score, I am afraid that it was only the full score of the twenty-five strings, not the one of the fifty-strings in the past. I came to ask you what your master had said about listening to the piano that day, just to confirm it. β
"If so, I think the girl should still find the score, and as for the instrument, it is only a tool carrier, and when you have the score, it is not too late to find it, even if it is not entirely impossible to visit a craftsman to make a new one from this half. β
The woman in white was silent, as if she felt that he was reasonable, but thinking that after all, the fifty-stringed piano still had a goal to be found, and the score of the qin, the so-called acquaintance of the old people, did not even have a name and surname, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and she hesitated at the moment, so she said: "That's why I asked you to help me calculate a hexagram, if the real hexagram is dangerous, I will make another decision." β
"As I said, I'm just killing myself. β
"You just saw what I was going to do, and you didn't know what to do. β
"One hexagram a day, the girl is unlucky, just now my sand table was broken, accidentally measured the girl, I am afraid that the test will not be accurate today, at least it will have to wait until tomorrow. β
"Then ...... tomorrow"
"But I won't be in Huizhou tomorrow. β
"You...... You are clearly deliberate, and what you just said is probably nonsense!" The woman in white finally stood up in anger.
Jun Li was no longer annoyed by her nonsense and other words, but said: "Whether it is the sand table collision or the fact that I am leaving tomorrow, it is enough to show that the girl's luck is not good, so don't make this risk." β
"You ......" the woman in white knotted. "Well, then you say, where you are going to-morrow, I will go too, until you have calculated this hexagram - I don't believe that you will break anything tomorrow?"
Jun Li only said: "I can only decide tomorrow." β
The woman in white snorted. "I've embellished you for so many days, and I don't care about another day. β
β...... What are you doing with me?"
"Of course, I wanted to tell you from the beginning, but ...... You offended me before, and I will not come to you today, and I will never come to you before!"
Jun Li recalled that day in the tavern in the suburbs, I am afraid that she wanted to find herself to calculate this hexagram at that time, but she was forced to leave by her own words, and she gambled alone for more than ten days, which is really funny when she thinks about it.
"It was my bad day. He made a salute, but said in his heart, you gritted your teeth and followed me for more than ten days without greeting me with the strings, and I am also lucky.
The woman in white snorted lightly and said, "Then see you tomorrow!" But seeing Jun Li snorted, her eyes looked outside again, and she couldn't help but say: "You are here today for the birthday of your father-in-law, Old Man Gu, right?
"This is my private matter, so the girl doesn't have to worry about it. β
The woman in white sighed and said, "If that's the case, it's also my private matter that I want to go to Lin'an to find the qin, why don't you let me go?"
"Life is at stake, I don't want to see a girl die. β
"Hmph, I'm just going to advise you, if you don't listen, it's fine. It's just that the master treated Senior Sister Bai back then, and it was also because of a thought, she left, and you never saw each other again in your life, if you are so cowardly because of your own selfishness, then you will never see the person you want to see again, and I am afraid that no one can help you. β
"I will never see the person I want to see again" - this sentence seems to have finally stung Jun Li somewhere in his heart. Although he has always learned to break away from the world and try to forget his seven emotions and six desires, he has always been a mortal. Forcing oneself not to do something when one wants to do something, and forcing oneself not to see someone when one wants to see someone is certainly a kind of practice, but that kind of "thinking" has not been reduced because of practice. He didn't know if it was because his cultivation was too unsuccessful, or if it was as a mortal should have beenβhe didn't know, and he wasn't even sure if the Master, who had always been revered, had really forgotten the mundane in the end.
"I'll think about it again. He could only answer her - maybe - good intentions in this ambiguous way.
"It's better to count it as a hexagram. The woman in white said. "Do a fortune for yourself and see if you want to go. β
"I said, I can't do the math myself. Jun Li was a little irritable.
"I'll do the math for you. β
Jun Li was surprised, he felt that something shook the wing of his nose, and when he turned his head, he saw that it was a woman in white holding a copper coin in her hand.
"If it's this side, you don't go. The woman in white said and turned the copper coin over again. "It's this side, and you go. β
She didn't wait for Jun Li's consent, and had already flicked the copper coin lightly. The money shot straight into the air with a slight echo of fingernails. Jun Li involuntarily raised his gaze with the copper coin, and then fell with it.
Suddenly, the copper coin disappeared - and was blocked by the woman in white. He was stunned, and the copper coin was already in her palm again.
"You haven't figured it out yet?" the woman looked at him condescendingly.
Jun Li was speechless. He couldn't help but admit that when the copper coin flew in the air, he already knew what he hoped for.
What he didn't know was that the woman in white had also thrown the copper coin in the air like this, so she decided to walk up to him like this and order this pot of tea for him.