Mountain Temple.

The night is faint, the rooster sings three times, the dawn ferments in the east, and the dawn comes quietly.

The stone stood behind the door panel, the original stiff body, suddenly felt loose, almost knelt on the ground, his head touched the door panel, the stone woke up from the slumber, found that he had regained the ability to move, touched the painful forehead, reached out and removed a yellow rune from the back, there was a column of phoenix seal runes on it, and below it was a "ding" Word, this is the dragon and tiger mountain is a fixed talisman, sticking on ordinary people, a day can not move, the stone original way, this is only half a day to break the charm, but the stone does not recognize this charm, put the charm in his arms, push the door panel, the hay fell again, the stone crawled out of the haystack.

Walked outside, the sky was bright, at the foot of the hill, the mountain temple was a barren grass, a path in front of the door disappeared in the mountain forest, the stone looked left and right, and found that he was lost, he only cared about chasing Liao Birui last night, and he didn't pay attention to the direction at all, and now he couldn't even go back to Longwan Port.

Shi was very depressed in his heart, and he didn't understand why Wu Yiming and Liao Birui did this to him, just like the night he was inexplicably teased a few years ago, Shi felt deeply helpless and confused, and kept asking himself in his mind, but there was no answer.

I'm kind, why don't I meet people?

The world is like frost, can we work together?

Suddenly, Shi saw a young man walking on the mountain road, the same age as himself, wearing a coarse cloth silk shirt, leggings wrapped around his calves, although wearing a square scarf, but he did not look like a scholar, sword eyebrows and phoenix eyes, hanging nose like a beam, clean face, walking a little heroic.

Shi stepped forward to stop him, and Shi Li said, "Little brother stay, may I ask, what kind of place is this?"

The man glanced at the stones, as if he noticed that there was a person on the side of the road, wearing a coarse cloth robe, stained with a lot of thatch, and his face was dirty, and he was stunned: "Oh, this is Shangxingbu, listen to your accent, it doesn't look like people in this area?"

"Oh, Shangxingbu, how do you get to Longwanbu?" Shi didn't answer, but asked again.

The man hugged his shoulders, looked at the stone with interest, and said, "Coincidentally, I'm about to go to Longwan Port, if you don't dislike it, you can come with me." ”

The stone agreed, followed the man up the mountain road, and walked forward.

Inn.

Early in the morning, Zhang Ruyi and the four of them met at the door, paid off the room money, and were about to go out, when Ruyi noticed that the stone was missing, and said in surprise: "Can you see the stone?"

Wu Yiming and Liao Birui pretended not to hear, and Liu Dianzong said, "Senior Brother Shi, he left early and waited for us in front." ”

Ruyi couldn't feel at ease, and urged the three of them to set off again and again, thinking, why did the stone suddenly say goodbye?

After a while, Shi and the people he met on the road rushed to the inn, and when he asked the shopkeeper, he learned that Shi Shi's companion had long since left, and Shi sighed, "What should I do? ”

When the two of them left the inn, Shi was about to chase them, but the man stopped and asked: "Little brother, if your companion leaves by boat, then you won't be able to catch up today, the boat from Longwan Port to Huzhou only makes one trip a day, I think you might as well find a place to stay first, and it's not too late to leave tomorrow." ”

Shi Shi was embarrassed to get up, and said in a low voice: "The silver I brought is in my luggage, and I have no money on me." ”

The man laughed and said, "What is the embarrassing thing about me, little brother, this journey is also fate, I don't know what to call it?"

Shi Shi originally wanted to give a gift of ordination, but when he found that it was inappropriate, he changed it to an arch and said: "My name is Zhao Shishi, from Jurong County, Jiangsu, I was separated from my companion last night, I don't know what to call my eldest brother?"

"In Xia Pang Yuan Town, I was originally a native of Xintang County, Taiping Prefecture, because my parents were not in the early years, I followed my uncle to do some small business here, my uncle was sick a few days ago, I sent his old man home to recuperate, and I came back today to take care of the business, let's go, Brother Shi, go to me to talk. Pang Yuanzhen grabbed the stone with his hand and strode out of the inn.

This Pang Yuanzhen was originally Lu Yunlin's youngest son, when Lu Yunlin was falsely accused by his brother-in-law and Zhou Qifeng, he was wronged, and his family property was confiscated, and Mrs. Lu died of depression not long after, Pang Yuanzhen was sent to his uncle's house in the countryside, changed his surname, and lived with his uncle.

Pang Yuanzhen studied private school for a few years in his childhood, he was familiar with literature and ink, but he didn't like books, he only loved to dance knives and sticks, kick and punch, his uncle saw that he was not good at reading, he loved to be in the limelight, he was afraid that he would make bad friends, commit the king's law, and repeat the mistakes of his father, so he took him with him, and ran around on weekdays, selling goods for a living, and later saw that this Longwan Port was densely populated, and it was a place of commerce, so he opened a shoe shop with the capital accumulated for many years, and chatted to make a living.

The two are walking on the road, the street side shops are lined up, it is not lively, there is a middle-aged man dressed as a Taoist priest sitting at the corner, wearing an ochre yellow robe, wearing a dark cloud crown, triangular eyes, a mustache, holding a dust, a wooden table is set in front of him, there is a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, three copper coins, a bamboo stick, and there is a signboard standing next to him, with eight characters written on it: iron mouth god calculation, hexagram gold Baiwen.

This person is a warlock who makes a living by telling hexagrams, learned some of the fur of the Liuren Divine Lesson, read "Ziping Zhenquan" a few times, and also knew a little about the Taiyi Divine Number, and learned the "Jiang Xiang Chapter" from the teacher, pretending to be a Taoist priest, mixing in the world, relying on the three-inch tongue to deceive money, I don't want this person to sit here for three days, but there is no business to open, and I am annoyed, so I have a bad plan to cheat people out of money.

Coincidentally, Shi and Pang Yuanzhen happened to walk in front of the hexagram stall, the Taoist priest raised his eyes to look, and saw the faces of the two, one was strange and dangerous, and the other had good luck, so he made up his mind to make a small amount of money, and hurriedly shouted: "The two of them stay, and the poor road has a word to send each other." ”

Shi looked at this Taoist person, he didn't know what he was going to do, he didn't speak, Pang Yuanzhen didn't know what to do, stopped in front of the hexagram stall, and said, "I don't know what this Taoist master said?"

The Taoist thought to himself, if you don't take the stubble, just ask like this, it is the fish that has been hooked, so he coughed, cleared his throat, and said: "The poor Dao is a Tiekou Daoist, who has practiced in Zhongnan Mountain for many years, the Liuren Divine Lesson, counting the fortunes of the world, the jade tube is according to the God Bureau, and the Tao breaks countless heavenly opportunities, I look at the appearance of the two of you, don't say good and evil, the poor Dao is vain, you two are the first acquaintance, right?"

Shi was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Pang Yuanzhen, Pang Yuanzhen nodded and said: "Dao Ye is really a god, and the two of us are indeed acquainted today." ”

Tiekou Daoren's first trick was successful, and he couldn't help but get proud, in fact, he had seen Pang Yuanzhen before, there were no stones around, and the two of them were not very close to each other while talking, so he deduced that it was the first acquaintance, not some divine calculation, this trick was based on the facts he saw, examined and reasoned, and in the hexagram gate, it was called "trial".