When Mrs. Luo arrived at Taiping Village, the sun had just risen, and Lao Xiu had just gotten up, and was watering a daffodil in the small courtyard, when she heard a knock on the door, she opened the door, and saw an old lady with silver hair and small feet standing at the door, her eyes were full of expectation, and her expression was eager, all of which surprised him.

When Mrs. Luo introduced herself to Lao Xiucai and explained her intentions, Lao Xiucai politely let him into the house. As soon as she entered the house, Mrs. Luo took out two ingots of silver from the baggage she carried, each weighing ten taels, a total of twenty taels, which was half of her life's savings, and she gave it up for her son's marriage.

Two ingots of silver were placed on the table, and they shimmered.

Lao Xiucai was shocked at first, and was surprised that this old lady was so generous, I was afraid that there was any reluctance, and whether she could catch it? Then there was a joy, and the joy was that I hadn't met such a neat customer for a long time, and it seemed that I was going to make a fortune today. But he said: "Mrs. Luo, what are you doing?" Mrs. Luo said: "The child is nearly thirty years old, or alone, the old woman has been tired for him in recent years, and her heart is broken, but there is always no suitable marriage. My old woman thanked me here. So saying, he bowed down.

Lao Xiucai hurriedly helped her up, and said, "I can't help it, I can't help it, you can torture me!" let the old lady sit down in the guest seat, and sat down in the main seat herself, and ordered the family to serve tea. Only then did he say: "Asking God to ask about the hexagram is false, you have come all the way, I am afraid that the old man will not be able to do what you wish, this silver, I think you should take it back!"

Mrs. Luo said: "The words that are spoken, the water that is spilled, how can there be a reason to take it back." Since the old woman wants to come to beg you, sir, there will be no reason to regret it. As for how it goes, I will not complain at all, you should keep the silver!" he said and pushed the two ingots back.

Lao Xiucai lowered his head and thought for a moment, sighed and said: "Okay, for the sake of your hard work, I will make a hexagram, what is the hexagram, this day depends on the will of heaven." The old lady said: "That's, that's, since it's the will of heaven, who can help it." Lao Xiucai asked Luo Yuxuan's name, age and birthday, and then stood up, walked into the back room, and took out a pair of rhinoceros horns to make a hexagram, according to legend, the rhinoceros is a sacred object, using its horns as a hexagram, and the hexagram represents the will of God, but there should be no one, and every one should be in it.

Lao Xiucai lit incense candles on a table in the middle of the main house, spread a white cloth, faced the incense candles, bowed respectfully three times, held the two rhinoceros horn hexagrams in his hands, put his hands together, his eyes slightly closed, and his mouth was full of words, looking unusually pious.

Seeing his solemn and pious appearance, Mrs. Luo couldn't help but stand up. Stand aside. Lao Xiucai hadn't paid such a solemn attention to divination for a long time, so naturally it was for the sake of the two ingots of silver.

After a while, Lao Xiu opened his eyes and whispered, "Yang!" The two rhinoceros horn hexagrams escaped and flew on the white cloth, but they saw that it was really a yang hexagram. Lao Xiucai looked happy and said, "Good omen, good omen." After a while, he opened his eyes again, and shouted in his mouth: "Yin!" The two hexagrams flew out, and when they looked at it again, it was really a yin hexagram. Lao Xiucai glanced at Mrs. Luo and said, "The hexagram is good, not bad." ”

Mrs. Luo was nervous and excited in her heart, and she couldn't help but be overjoyed when she saw that the two hexagrams were as Lao Xiucai wanted, but she didn't dare to squeak, for fear of alarming Lao Xiucai, and even more afraid of alarming the gods.

Lao Xiucai used the same method to divinate the third hexagram, when he drank the shun hexagram, his hands were raised, the two hexagrams flew out, dripping and turning on the tablecloth, Mrs. Luo's eyes were fixed on the rotating hexagram, and her heart was raised to her throat.

The two hexagrams turned a little, and finally slowly stopped, and when I looked again, I saw one facing up and the other facing down, and it was really a shun hexagram. Lao Xiucai clapped his hands and said, "Good, good, good." After saying three good things in a row, he turned back to Mrs. Luo and said, "Congratulations, congratulations, Ling Lang's marriage has been settled." Mrs. Luo was surprised and delighted, and said, "Really, old man, you didn't lie to me, did you?" The old man has been dividing the hexagram for many years, and he has never encountered such a good hexagram, nor has he ever been so smooth. Pointing to the hexagram on the table, he said, "Look, the head of the hexagram points to the northwest, and the tail of the hexagram points to the southeast." Your future daughter-in-law is in the southeast?" Mrs. Luo said happily: "If this is the case, dare to ask which girl has a surname, where does she live, is it beautiful or ugly?" He laughed.

Lao Xiucai said again: "The so-called heavenly opportunity cannot be revealed, since God has guidance, we ordinary people still need to follow his direction to find, so that what we find is a real happy marriage." Mrs. Luo was overjoyed in her heart, and she thanked her for leaving the silver before she said goodbye.

I kept in mind the southeast direction that Lao Xiucai said, and thought: "How big is this southeast direction, how to find this happy marriage." After thinking about it for a long time on the side of the road, seeing that it was past noon, I thought: "It's better to go home first and tell my son the good news, and then find a well-informed matchmaker another day, and go to the villages and towns in the southeast to find out which girls are still out of the cabinet."

I trotted all the way home, and by the time I got home, it was already thin, but I didn't feel tired at all. Luo Yuxuan got up early in the morning and disappeared from his mother, and began to think that she got up early to go out to work, so she didn't care, so she went to the classroom to give lectures to the students, and when she stayed at lunchtime, she returned to her home, but there was still no shadow, so she got up in a hurry and asked the neighbors left and right, but no one saw it.

He went round and round the village, and then came to the small river at the head of the village, but still did not see the old lady. Seeing that it was getting late, I was thinking about asking someone to help me find the surrounding villages and towns, but I saw the old lady on the road at the entrance of the village limping back. It turned out that she was excited, trotted all the way, and accidentally twisted her foot.

Luo Yuxuan greeted him, and shouted from afar: "Mother, where have you been, I haven't seen anyone all day, and I haven't said hello, I thought something was wrong, so I jumped up and down in a hurry." The old lady smiled and said, "Great joy, great joy." Luo Yuxuan saw that her foot was injured, so he hurriedly went up to help her, and said, "Why did you accidentally hurt your foot, where did you go?" The old lady waved her hand and said, "It's okay, my foot is fine." Son, your marriage is settled. ”