It has passed the beginning of autumn, and the weather is still the same, but the afternoon has finally been stuffy, and a rainstorm is imperative. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There is a small tea shed at the pedestrian crossing, and because of this weather, it is rare to gather about 20 customers, and the deserted shop is full. Among them, a Taoist with a long banner also found a place to sit close to the inner wall.

The Taoist is not very old, and he has never exceeded thirty, and the long banner in his hand has the words "Iron Mouth Straight Break" written on it without any new ideas, and he is obviously a fortune teller. A Taoist dress is a rare plain white, which is not so auspicious, and it is not much better to come to business, but the owner of the tea shed seems to know him, and when he sees him, he greets: "The Taoist is here again?"

The young Taoist priest also smiled back with a friendly smile and said, "I've been walking in this area lately. ”

As he was talking, there was a sudden thunderclap, thunder and lightning sounded, and both of them unconsciously went outside. Outside, it was dark as night. Before the candles were lit in the tea shed, a fire fold in the hands of the owner's family was finally lit, but it was blown by the wind and it was difficult to identify, so she had to send the child to take the candle to the stove and light the fire, and then came out to light the oil lamp, so as to ensure that the room was still visible.

After all, the shed is also a simple building, and when the wind and rain are extremely strong, it is like listening to the mountains and tsunamis, like thousands of rivers rushing and flooding, and the whole small hiding place is about to be torn off. But after all, the rain is refreshing, and some people like to taste the coolness of the rain particles hitting the face by the crack next to the door.

But the door opened suddenly, and the man was caught off guard, and as if a basin of water had been poured on his face, he screamed and staggered back. A man was coming in outside the door, and in the drowsy rain and fog, he saw a very high black shadow, and his head and shoulders could not be distinguished, but when he looked closely, he realized that it was a man carrying a very large rucksack—which should have a rectangular hard object such as a box, which rose high, much higher than the man's head, and much wider than the man on both sides.

Someone looked embarrassed before the man met, and only whispered, "I'm sorry," and then let go of his backpack and sat down at the table. There was no sound in the tea shed for a while, and even the people who didn't care about the door before had their eyes widened at this moment.

This is actually a young woman, and when the backpack is removed, her tall and slender figure is revealed, but the room is dim, but her appearance is not clear.

She was also dressed in white, and the Taoist priest in the corner looked at her a few more times. The woman was not lightly drenched in the rain, and even if she was covered by the rucksack, she was almost soaked, and her clothes were already clinging to her body. The owner of the tea didn't dare to look at it more, so he handed the pot to his woman and said, "Go, go and add some tea to her." ”

Someone at the woman's table had already come up first, and said, "Why is the girl carrying this heavy thing alone?"

Seeing that the woman didn't answer, he felt a little embarrassed, and when the tea house poured water, he said: "On a rainy day, it's time to drink hot water, be careful of catching a cold - do you want to change this clothes?"

As he spoke, his eyes looked at the woman dishonestly, and he could see that the Adam's apple was rolling several times, but he heard someone laughing in the corner. He turned his head to look, and when he saw that it was a Taoist priest, he glared at him fiercely as a sign of intimidation.

When the Taoist priest saw him looking at himself, he restrained his smile and said, "This master is here to tell his fortune, right?"

The man ignored him, and turned back to talk to the woman. But the woman drank her tea, and let him say anything, but she did not move as if she had not heard it.

There was another sound of solicitation in the corner, and the Taoist priest said: "This master, the girl ignores people and stays in vain, how about a fortune telling?"

The man was not angry, so he slapped the table and stood up. "You woman is not deaf, don't know how to lift!"

There were also righteous people among the tea guests, who pointed out that the man was a scoundrel and wanted to teach a lesson, but he was pulled back by the people around him who were afraid of things, and the two of them fought against themselves. The young Taoist priest was on the side, so he persuaded: "The two of you don't fight, look at the face of that master, I am afraid that it is bad luck today, I wanted to call him to eliminate misfortune, but he didn't appreciate it, and we don't have to be busy at this time." ”

"If he wants bad luck, I'm afraid he wants Lao Tzu to beat him, right?" The tea guest who saw the grievances on the road couldn't help but clench his fists when he saw that he had reached out to touch the woman's chin.

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the scoundrel somehow fell to the ground with a bang. I couldn't tell if it was bumped or what, he covered his calf, and it was so painful that he rolled around. Everyone was stunned at first, but then they all felt a wave of fear: blood was gradually oozing from his right calf—it was a hot day, his pants were thin, and in a short time the whole calf was already red. When they heard him howl miserably, their scalps felt numb, but when they looked at the woman, they still seemed to be unconscious, and drank tea indifferently.

Looking at this posture, anyone with a discerning eye knows that it should be the woman's hand, but when and how to do it, no one can see it clearly. This time, there was silence in the shed, and in the swaying lights, I felt that the endless "whooshing" heavy rain outside became clearer and louder, as if it would never stop.

It was the Taoist priest who stood up first and walked to roll up the trousers on the rogue calves. "What are you howling about. He said, "If the bleeding is not stopped sooner, I am afraid that the bad luck will be greater." ”

He simply tore off his trouser leg and wrapped it around his wounds, and at last the scoundrel was still howling, but his voice was weaker.

"If you can move, you better go. "The Taoist priest is very kind.

The man did not dare to neglect him any longer, got up and jumped on his left foot, and leaped into the rain.

The woman in white glanced at the Taoist priest at this time, and her cold eyes were just like a warning: Who wants you to meddle with my affairs?

The Taoist priest didn't care, turned around and walked back to the corner.

The strings of the onlookers were still tight, and the whole tea shed was still careful to breathe, and I don't know how long it took for the atmosphere to relax and more people talking.

Some people whispered to the Taoist priest about the matter, and the tea owner stepped up his collection of money, because he knew very well that when the rain eased, most of the people here were afraid that they would flash immediately.

The Taoist priest had not spoken a few words to the person, and then he felt that there was a person standing on the side. He stopped, looked up and saw that it was a woman in white who came over at some point, so he said: "Girl, I am explaining the hexagram for this son, and others may not be suitable for hearing it, so please ......."

But the man on the other side was already frightened and stood up, stammering: "I don't count, I don't count, I'll leave ......."

The Taoist priest was helpless, so he heard the woman say coldly: "Do you want to calculate it for me and see if I have bad luck?"

The tea master gave the Taoist priest a sympathetic glance on the side, and silently turned around and walked away. Although all the tea guests were silent, their hearts were beating violently, and they all pricked up their ears to hear what the two had to say, and they were even more worried about when the woman would make a move again to give the Taoist priest a good look.

The Taoist priest smiled when he heard this. "If there is business coming to the door, there is no reason not to accept it. Girl, please be seated. ”

The woman sat down, her gaze just swept to her body, and the adjacent tables retreated, suddenly vacating a large circle around the two white-clothed people. The Taoist priest couldn't help laughing and said: "That's how it should be, there shouldn't be others to disturb you when telling fortunes." ”

The woman looked at him. The person in front of her looked quite upright, and her expression was tepid, which made it really difficult for people to feel bad for a while, but the Taoist priest was also looking at her. She can also be called a beauty, even if she is so drenched in the rain, she actually suppresses her embarrassment with a proud spirit, which makes people feel awe-inspiring.

He opened his mouth and said, "The girl just said that she wanted to push her luck, dare to ask if there is anything wrong with her recently?"

The woman's face looked contemptuous. "You are known as 'Iron Mouth', do I have anything unpleasant, but you can't figure it out?"

The Taoist priest explained: "The girl is afraid that she has misunderstood. In fact, the fortune is different from time to time, and it is useless and useless to calculate the luck for no reason, so I want to hear if the girl has something important recently, so I can see how to give the girl the most advantageous. ”

The woman snorted. "Boastful people are just trying to find some reasons for their own swagger. ”

When the Taoist priest heard her say that she was swindling and cheating, he was still slightly unhappy in his heart, "Poor Taoist arithmetic is indeed not good, but if you can't calculate it, at most it will not be counted, and it will not be nonsense to deceive people." If the girl doesn't believe it, we can go our separate ways, so why force us to come and smash the field. ”

The woman sneered. "It turns out that the Taoist chief also knows that he should go his own way, and he shouldn't smash people indiscriminately. ”

The Taoist priest knew that she was looking for fault because of the matter of Fang Cai, so he said: "He only looked at you a few times, and you hurt people like that-he is not your martial arts person, do you know that this injury is ...... to him?"

Before he finished speaking, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, and subconsciously reached out and grabbed it to the side, and a sharp pain in the cracked skin suddenly came up.

The onlookers couldn't hear the two of them clearly, and they didn't see any of the woman's movements, but under the sudden grasp of the Taoist priest's movements, they saw it-the Taoist priest raised his hand, and what he brought up was the woman's hand that was originally placed in the dark, and between the hands of the two, there were several silky objects that were so thin that they were almost invisible, and between the candle flames, the light was reflected in the light flickering.

The Taoist priest's hand didn't seem to grasp the striking filament, and the silk thread was wrapped around his arm several times, which looked unusually sharp, and under the woman's slight force, it had embedded in his skin, and blood flowed down from his arm.

The woman's eyes showed disdain, "You dare to provoke here, I just say that I am a master of deep concealment, and it seems that it is not enough." ”

The Taoist priest smiled bitterly and said, "I'm just a fortune teller, girl, raise your noble hand." ”

"Okay. The woman sneered. "Fortune teller, if you can tell me three unknown things, I will let you go, otherwise you will be swaggering and deceiving, and you will not be wronged. ”

The Taoist priest said helplessly: "Then please ask the girl to tell me the eight characters of her birthday, don't say three, you can say thirty." ”

"Why, without the eight characters, you can't figure it out?" the woman looked at him with contempt.

"If you are not proficient in learning art, you can only pick the one you are sure of. ”

The woman's hand tightened. "Then you confessed that you were a liar, and I let you go if you were not guilty of the worst crimes, and if you continue to talk ......"

The Taoist priest's arm hurt, and he couldn't help but interrupt: "You are a person who learns the qin, you don't care about the strings, but you use it to hurt people and stain blood, how can you learn the qin!"

The woman seemed to be slightly startled, and her hand loosened, and then tightened again. "Okay, you recognize the strings, and guess I'm playing the piano, it's not hard - I'll be right about one thing, but there are two more. ”

"It's not because of the strings, it's because of your nails. "Daoist Dao.

The woman glanced at her fingernails. Her nails were always trimmed neither long nor short, which was needed to learn the piano. She then looked back at the Taoist priest: "Even if you say it is good, it is not because you can tell fortunes, but because it is speculated from other things." ”

The girl didn't know anything. Before fortune-telling, you should pay close attention to everything, which is also a compulsory study. Learn the essence, at a glance to know the fate of people, the past and the future, that is the highest realm, but what I have learned now is still far behind, but I can see that the girl is practicing the piano. ”

"Not really. The woman smiled rarely. "You can at least push that person to be unlucky, but I don't know if you pushed yourself to be lucky today?"

"My own fate can't be calculated, I can't push it, as for the person just now, I can only say that he is too eyeless, ordinary people should be very human when they see you carrying such a thing in. ”

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to the backpack that had been left in his seat, and suddenly seemed to be stunned for a moment, and muttered, "Could it be that you are ...... The people of Lingyinmen?"

After he finished speaking, he turned his gaze back to the face of the woman in white, but saw that her face had changed, and she stood up from her seat, so that the strings were tightened.

When the Taoist priest saw her expression, he said, "I won't guess right again?"

"Who are you, how do you know about Lingyinmen?" the woman's face was serious, and her voice implied a threat.

"Lingyinmen...... Isn't that strange?" the Taoist priest asked, "I once heard my master say that he was fortunate enough to hear a master from the Lingyin Sect play the 'Seven Directions' of the fifty-stringed qin, and that the sound of the qin is really the most incredible sound in the world. When I talked about your practice of the piano, I thought that you should have carried a musical instrument with you, but seeing the huge backpack, I thought of the qin called Qifang, so I had this conjecture. ”

"Who is your master, when, where, and who in my sect has played?" the woman was still stunned.

"Master of the fortune-telling trail...... Naturally, it is also a fortune teller. The Taoist priest replied, "When and where...... He didn't say it carefully, anyway, it should have been decades ago, and the person who played it should be a woman, about the same age as him, so it should be the girl's master and ancestor. Master traveled all over the world when he was young, and perhaps he happened to meet Master Ling. ”

He gave a hand to the woman, and his answer was so exhaustive that the woman really didn't have anything to fault with it, so he had to snort and sit down again, and said, "Okay, there's one thing missing." ”

The Taoist priest looked embarrassed. "I really can't be accommodating? Girl, this string has pinched me for so long, haven't you relieved your hatred?"

"Are you begging for mercy?" the woman's expression turned to contempt again. "I told you that you confessed that you were a liar, and I would have spared you, but if you have to be quick to speak, you will probably suffer from this flesh and skin. ”

The Taoist priest was silent for a while, and then said, "Okay, then with all due respect, did the girl just lose her loved one this year?"

The woman in white stared at him for a long time, and then said fixedly: "How do you know this time?"

"You're wearing a white dress, aren't you wearing filial piety?"

"Hmph, if you wear white clothes, you are wearing filial piety, aren't you too?"

"I'm really wearing filial piety. ”

The woman was speechless, and she didn't know how to respond for a while.

Outside, the rain had weakened, and some people had already stood up to leave, and even the guests who loved to fight and hug had left after being urged by their companions. Only a handful of people remained, wanting to see how the confrontation between the two would end. In the eyes of others, the strings of those two hands were always hanging in the air, but the blood on the Taoist priest's arm oozed out of his sleeve little by little, and it was obvious that he should be at a disadvantage. Only the gaze was parallel, and he didn't look like he was flinching.

But he felt that the strings were a little loose, just like the sky outside that was getting brighter. The storm had passed, and the woman's hostility was clearly shaken.

"If I'm really right, can I take away this string of the girl?"

The woman stood up, her hands not making any visible movements, but the strings had disappeared suddenly. "I'll let you go today. She raised her voice, then lowered it again, "But what you said isn't entirely true. ”

"Which one is wrong?" the Taoist priest asked.

"The harp -- not fifty strings. ”

"Oh?" the Taoist priest was surprised, glancing at the rucksack. "...... that?"

"The case is the case, but it's only twenty-five strings. ”

The Taoist priest was slightly puzzled. "Why—if so—what box should the seven-square piano be in it?"

"There has been no seven-square piano for a long time. The woman said. "The body of the piano was broken in half more than 20 years ago, divided into 25 strings on both sides, I have learned since I was a child, the largest is only 25 strings; ”

The Taoist priest frowned slightly. He wanted to ask why he had broken the body in half, and how he had broken it, and even more so where the other half had gone—but he knew that it was a matter of others, and if she didn't say it, no matter how curious she was, she could only ask.

He nodded. "I see, taught. ”

The woman leaned down again, whispered but not without coercion, and said: "You'd better remember that the three words Lingyinmen should not be mentioned in front of anyone." If I know you've revealed my identity to anyone......"

She didn't say any more, but straightened up with a grim expression, and turned back to pick up the rucksack with the piano case. It wasn't until she walked to the door of the tea shed that the table in front of the Taoist priest suddenly wiped and half of it fell.

The strings are beyond the reach of ordinary swords, and the broken places are neat and smooth, like tofu.