Chapter 4 Asking the Hexagram Town to Divinate the Evil Fortune

Camellia City to the north to ten miles, there is a small town standing on the mountain, although there is no green tile eaves in the town, carved railings and jade masonry. Indeed, there are deep streets and alleys with winding paths and secluded paths, and bamboo-roofed wooden buildings. In the middle of the town, a stream runs through the city from outside the town, and there are several chic restaurants and teahouses on the side of the bluestone paved streets. There are several small stalls on the stone bridge in the cloister, each selling homemade dim sum, incense bags and small bamboo pieces.

Under the stone bridge by the stream outside the town, an old man wearing a broken hat, dressed in a yellow-gray old kudzu cloth coat, silver hair and white beard, was lying on the bank, with a thatch in his mouth, his hands pillowed behind his head, his head tilted, Erlang's legs crossed, and a slender green bamboo pole between his toes, hanging above the stream, looking like a bad old man in the world.

On the path behind the old man, two people were walking side by side, the man on the left had smart eyebrows and eyes, a cyan linen shirt, and a square cyan scarf wrapped around his head, which was the eight golds. The man on the right has a purple robe and black hair, and his clothes and hair are flowing, not tied or tied. The body is dignified, the eyes are cold and light, the chest is broad, and the spirit is extraordinary. The man carried a silver-white spear with black tassels on his back, the head of the spear was sharp, and the body of the spear was carved with several dragons entangled, which was very good-looking. Bajin turned his head sideways and said:

"I said, Uncle Gun Idiot, can't you wrap this dragon gun in a rag? The hall owner instructed you not to reveal your identity, you are good, you are dressed in fluttering robes, handsome and extraordinary, ready to swagger and carry your dazzling dragon gun into this hexagram town, and I carefully disguised it in vain. Later, I will go into the town to find a cloth shop and buy a rotten linen cloth to wrap it, don't make a mistake. ”

The gun idiot didn't answer him, and pointed his finger at the old man wearing a broken hat by the stream and said:

"That old man is a master. ”

Bajin looked in the direction pointed by the gun idiot and laughed:

"Haha, uncle, when did you learn to be funny, you are a master with a fishing rod between your toes, and the fishing line on the fishing rod is not tied, and the master really can't see it, but Gao Shou Gaojiao can see it. ”

The old man laughed when he heard the eight golds, turned his head to look at the two of them with the thatch in his mouth, and stopped his eyes on the gun idiot and said:

"Thank you for waking up, I'm old, I forgot to tie this fishing line, no wonder I didn't hook a single fish today. ”

With that, he reached out to the bamboo basket beside him, took a thumb-thick hemp rope and tied it to the head of the fishing rod, and hung the fishing rod on the surface of the stream with his toes. He lay down and paid no attention to the two of them.

Bajin looked at the old man's actions, was very funny, and shouted loudly:

"Uncle, hemp rope fishing, isn't there a swimming dragon waiting for you in this stream?"

The old man didn't answer him, and the gunman arched his hand and bent down to salute him:

"disturbed the tranquility of the seniors, and the juniors left. ”

The old man waved his hand behind the two of them, as if he had heard it.

Seeing that the gun idiot was so respectful, Bajin didn't say anything more, and the two continued to walk towards the town. After walking for about five or six feet, the gun idiot suddenly stopped and said to Bajin:

"Bajin, can you not call me uncle, you called the old man uncle just now, I am the same age as you, and you also call me uncle, it doesn't seem appropriate. ”

Bajin looked at the gun idiot with interest, touched his chin and said:

"I said uncle, I didn't think you still cared about this kind of mundane thing, it's really a wonder of the ancients, your extraordinary appearance on weekdays, today is half cold in my heart. It's okay if you don't call you uncle, you will enter this hexagram town later, you just need to disguise yourself as I asked, and the title of this uncle will be picked up for you, how about it?"

The gun idiot nodded thoughtfully and said:

"Okay, since I should listen to your eight gold arrangements, I don't have a copper plate on my body today, it's noon soon, I'm a little hungry here, let's go eat quickly." When you enter this town, you can pay for the peach kernel chicken in Taoxi Restaurant and the lunch money for the roast pig on the stove. ”

Bajin stared at him with wide eyes and asked:

"Uncle has been here?"

The gunnerd shook his head, put his hands behind his back, and walked forward.

Bajin stopped behind him, snapped his palms and said:

"Eight silver, this rice bag! I was worried about eating when I found out the news, and it was spread everywhere. Old Man Huang and Bai Qi are not right, and the entire Bajin Pavilion in the lower beam is full of delicious ghosts, and even this gun idiot is a companion uncle. Before the thing was done, the dish was ordered first, hey!"

When the two of them walked to the town, Bajin saw that there was a cloth shop at the corner of the street, jumped in three or two steps, and bought a black burlap cloth two feet long, a thin hemp rope, and a purple free scarf stuffed into the hands of the gun idiot. said with a smile:

"Gun idiot, this purple scarf was carefully picked out by me, wrap it up first, it looks good with your purple robe." There are also these two zhang burlap, quickly wrap your dragon spear, although there are not many people in the town, they are afraid of revealing their identities. ”

The gun idiot nodded, wrapped the loose scarf on his head, took the burlap and wrapped the dragon gun a few times, tied a knot with hemp rope and carried it diagonally on his back, and pointed to several restaurants at the other end of the southeast stone bridge:

"The Taoxi Restaurant that Bayin said is there, you keep a quiet voice, don't call me a gun idiot, call me by my real name. ”

Bajin took a step back and bowed to him:

"Okay, Uncle Luo Xuanhai. ”

After a few words, the two walked side by side towards the Taoxi Restaurant, and saw that behind a town table on the side of the street, there was a young Taoist sitting on his head, wearing a gray and white Taoist robe, and wearing a crown of five mountains. I grabbed a chicken leg in my hand and gnawed it in a big gulp, my mouth was full of oil, and I was so unhappy. Bajin looked at it and laughed and said:

"Haha, the third strange thing today, the little Taoist priest who eats fast and cultivates himself in this door actually gnaws chicken legs on the street, look at what is written on this fortune-telling banner, the Taoist door is authentic, and Bu Ji avoids evil. You little Taoist priest is not a charlatan, right? ”

The young Taoist looked at the two of them, but his mouth did not stop, chewing and chewing. The eight gold looked even more funny, and hit the gun idiot next to him with his side shoulder and said:

"When he's done, let's see how he justifies. ”

The gun idiot didn't answer him, thinking that he felt that the eight gold were too idle, his stomach was still empty, hungry, and he had to watch this little Taoist priest gnaw chicken legs here, which was simply a crime. However, he was penniless and subject to him. I had to swallow my saliva and stand in front of the table, watching the little Taoist priest continue to munch on the oily chicken legs.

The young Taoist bared his teeth and tore off the last bit of meat on the chicken leg bone, put it in his mouth and rubbed it with his tongue, chewed it in his mouth, and then put the chicken leg bone on the town table, rubbed his stomach with one hand, wiped his mouth with the other and said:

"Two good people, the Tao is natural, you can eat if you want, you don't have to stick to these mortal rules. Are the two of you divination or looking at the appearance? Ten divinations, five readings, this good man in a green linen shirt, you need twenty texts. ”

Hearing this, Bajin was stunned for a moment, opened his mouth and asked:

"Little Taoist, why do I need twenty wen to see each other?"

The young Taoist arched his hand at him and said:

"This good man, you have a wide forehead and a wide face, and the heavens and the earth are boundless, but you can see all the things in the world, and after carefully reading your face, I am afraid it will take half a pillar of incense, which is to charge you twenty wen, which is only a good price for two chicken legs. How? divination or physiognomy?"

Bajin heard this, angry and funny. I just wanted to ask why this little Taoist priest was gnawing chicken legs on the street, but now he was really put on a counterpath, not only was he ridiculed for being nosy, but he was also forced to have a scene of divination. I became more and more interested in this little Taoist priest, so I asked:

"What do you do with this hexagram? I see that there is no turtle shell, no copper coin, and no bucket of bamboo sticks on this table except for the chicken bone you just gnawed. Could it be that you want to use this chicken bone to divinate and fortune for the two of us?"

The young Taoist nodded at him and said,

"A good man is really a good eye, this is all your unpredictable prophet, Xiaodao has to admire. ”

Bajin looked at him with a smile, only to see that the young Taoist took the chicken bone, sandwiched it in his palm and rubbed it, and read a sentence in his mouth:

"The ancestor of the Daomen came by crane, and a hexagram showed good fortune to increase my wealth."

The gun idiot standing in front of the town table, hearing him read this, sneered, and Bajin saw that the gun idiot was amused by this little Taoist priest, and also grinned.

The young Taoist scattered the chicken bones in his hand to the town table, which was still a whole chicken bone, but now it was scattered into three sections, and a hexagram was lined up on the town table that only the people of the Dao could understand. Bajin and the gun idiot stepped forward, looking straight at the young Taoist with their eyes, waiting for him to open his mouth to explain the hexagram.

The young Taoist arched his hand and said:

"Good hexagrams, good hexagrams, away from the top and bottom, there is a lot of fire. Two good people, this is a great hexagram, this trip is to suppress evil and promote good, conform to the mandate of heaven, and there will be great gains, but..."

Bajin saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, thinking that this little Taoist priest didn't want to distort the hexagram, turn good fortune into evil, and earn some money to avoid evil and beg for good fortune. Even so, naturally he didn't answer him, so he squinted at him and looked at him strangely.

The young Taoist looked at Bajin's face, laughed dryly, and then turned his head to the gun idiot on the other side, looking at him expectantly. The gun idiot was uncomfortable with him, so he pointed to Bajin and said:

"He had no silver on him, but all the money was with him. ”

When the young Taoist heard this, he laughed dryly twice, rubbed his hands, shook his head, and said:

"The blessings of the two good people are really not easy to earn, just now there is a gap in this hexagram, and only by making up for this lack can you gain a lot. ”

Bajin leaned over to the three chicken bones and took a closer look, pointing to a tooth mark groove on the longest one and said:

"What Dao Immortal said is not the tooth marks on this chicken bone that you gnawed. ”

The young Taoist nodded, bowed to him, and said:

"The Tao is natural, two in one life, two in three, three in all things, a good person looks at the world with discernment, and looks at the three self-interpreting hexagrams of chicken bones. Just remember to receive when there is a shortage, and save when there is a shortage, and this trip can be successful. ”

Bajin heard his words, and since he thought that he had abandoned the idea of turning good fortune into evil, he stopped teasing him at the moment, and took a tael of silver and put it on the town table. Before the eight gold hands could be withdrawn, the young Taoist hurriedly got up and grabbed the two pieces of silver on the town table, and took them in his hands with a smile. Seeing that the silver was white, he hurriedly put it in his mouth and bit it, feeling that the taste was slightly soft, and took it out of his mouth and saw that there were a few big tooth marks printed on it, and then he put away the two silver and hid them in the placket, squeezed a smile and thanked the eight gold in front of him.

Bajin looked at his vulgar and unbearable appearance, which was really interesting, so he also arched his hand at him and said:

"Dao Immortal's clever mouth and sharp teeth are really ashamed. Today can be regarded as an increase in knowledge, and the two of us will not bother you to add money here, so don't pass it away!"

The young Taoist covered the silver on his chest with one hand, bent his index finger with the other hand, and made a salute of gasification and three cleans, bowed with a smile on his face and said:

"Mercy and mercy, two good people are good to go, come back next time. ”

After bidding farewell to the young Taoist, Bajin and the gun idiot got on the stone bridge in the southeast and walked towards the Taoxi Restaurant.

Seeing that the two of them got on the stone bridge, the young Taoist took out a piece of yellow paper from the robe, a wolf pen, the tip of the pen was dipped on the tongue, and wrote on the yellow paper "Those who have no table and no rice at home can take it", and took out the two pieces of silver from the placket, took the two pieces of silver and pressed the yellow paper on the table. Then he took the fortune-telling banner and walked in the direction of leaving the town, muttering as he went:

"The golden line is dangerous, the dragon breaks the sea, and when there is a shortage and receives, and when there is a shortage and rescues, it can be completed. ”