As for the fortune tellers who walk the rivers and lakes on the streets, they generally learn the "Iron Mouth Divine Calculation" and other quick Mongolian methods, and even more advanced ones may learn "Yuanhai Ziping" and know how to criticize the eight characters. In fact, Meixi understands in her heart that most of the fortune tellers who have learned Chinese medicine have studied Chinese medicine and can often see what is wrong with others, and they are very capable of bluffing people as soon as they open their mouths.

And this gentleman is really funny, he even wrote the word "fortune telling" on the guise, Meixi has seen all kinds of shocking people since she was a child, and she has never seen such a signboard. Either this person is a complete layman's fool, or if he is an insider, it is really strange!

Seeing that the two of them turned around and stood still, the fortune teller opened his mouth and said: "This beauty, you have a fierce face, have you encountered any evil things recently?"

In the shocking door, the first sentence of the opening is often "beating" amazing, which scares people a lot, and the name of the shocking door is also related to this. This sentence is ambiguous but very skillful, first of all, to say "rush" is to bump into a troublesome person or thing, who can not have it? If you insist on associating it, you can always associate it. As for the evil things, it may be a ghost, it may be a loss of money in business, or it may be a villain, and it can be related anyway.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, Qu Yimin was slightly drunk and flushed, but when she smiled, her eyebrows were slightly frowning and thoughtful, obviously she had depression in her heart that had not yet been resolved, and she was slightly dyed with evil spirits. Nine times out of ten, this sentence can be called accurate, and clever fortune tellers often pay attention to iron mouth skills, and when a word is spoken, people who don't know the truth are often shocked and think that they have met a living immortal.

Mei Xi knew that the doorway was not surprised, but Qu Yimin was really taken aback, and stepped forward and asked, "This gentleman, can you really see it?"

Mei Xi sighed secretly in her heart: "Sister Qu, this is simply handing over a message for people to answer, I'm afraid it's impossible to calculate accurately." Sure enough, the fortune teller smiled slightly: "Yes, I just raised my eyes and found that your heavenly court is obscure, and you have recently bumped into the Yin God, so that you have encountered disadvantages, I don't know if what I said is right?"

Qu Yimin replied curiously: "What did you say, what is the matter with stopping us?"

As soon as Meixi saw this frame, she knew that Qu Yimin was really interested, and he stood aside and watched without speaking. Anyway, with his own well-informed old rivers and lakes by his side, he is not afraid that this fortune teller will deceive Qu Yimin, and the general routine of fortune telling in the rivers and lakes is to "fight" first and then "prosper", first scare people, and finally coax people to rest assured before they can collect money, and its role is not much different from that of a psychiatrist, so let him coax Qu Yimin to rest assured.

Hearing Qu Yimin's two questions, the "fishing for loopholes" has been successful, the fortune teller instead put the shelf up, put his chin in his hand and said with a smile: "Meeting is fate, I open my mouth is fate, whether you can get married is not in me, I can't take the initiative to tell you anything, what is wrong with your heart, just ask me." "This gentleman's way of telling fortunes is different.

Qu Yimin asked something that surprised even Meixi: "This gentleman, can you tell me why there are ghosts in the world?"

What kind of fortune telling is this? It's just a metaphysical discussion, but it's not a topic that ordinary people in the rivers and lakes can talk about, and Meixi is also waiting to hear how the fortune teller answers?

Ordinary people really can't answer, but Qu Yimin knows it, and replied very succinctly: "The longevity of vitality and nature is the year of heaven." ...... What does this have to do with ghosts?"

Fortune teller: "If you die before the end of your life, by chance, or the yin god does not know that he is dead, or the resentment is difficult to eliminate in this life, you can turn into a yin spirit thing." ...... Let me tell you this, if a person can live to be eighty years old, but he accidentally hangs up at the age of forty, he may become a ghost, and this ghost can stay in the world for another forty years, and his face will not change when he appears, do you understand?"

Hearing this, Mei Xi couldn't help laughing, and interjected and asked: "What about the legendary thousand-year-old ghost? ”

The fortune teller replied without raising his eyelids: "A thousand-year-old ghost, have you ever seen it? Unless there is a great blessing, you have to pass on the method of ghost cultivation, practice and prolong life, the immortality of ghosts and the immortality of people, the principle is the same. ”

He was there with a serious nonsense, Qu Yimin naturally couldn't believe it, and laughed when he heard this: "If you die before the end of your life, you may become a ghost, and when your original lifespan is over, the ghost will also enter reincarnation, what kind of rule is this?

The fortune teller shook his head: "You can't ask me this question, you should ask the Zhengyi Patriarch a thousand years ago." ”

Meixi was stunned for a moment, it turned out that this street fortune teller had also heard of Patriarch Zhengyi, stepped forward and stood side by side with Qu Yimin, and asked, "Sir, who is Patriarch Zhengyi? What else do you know?"

The fortune teller was still shaking his head, and raised his face to show displeasure: "I said two, are you doing fortune telling or research? I am a fortune teller, not a lecturer." ”

Qu Yimin smiled: "Of course it's a fortune teller, then you do the math first, what do we want to ask now?"

The fortune teller softened his color, glanced at her and said: "Handsome men and beautiful women are willing to stay, and they usually ask about marriage, I think the marriage of the two...... Well?...... Don't ask, this guy next to you...... Not a man of the world!" His tone was a little interesting at first, but before he could say a word, his face changed, and he became very confused and serious.

Qu Yimin just heard him say the word marriage, his face was flushed and he was about to speak, but then he found that his tone had changed, revealing a very strange look, and he couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean?"

The fortune teller stood up, stepped forward two steps and stepped on his own disguise, staring at Meixi with his eyes and saying, "You are not from the same world...... Young man, you are not the face of a man of the world. ”

Mei Xi waved her hand: "Sir, you can be eye-catching this time, she is my teacher, and we are not that kind of relationship." ...... Why are you looking at me like that?"

As soon as the fortune teller stretched out his hand, he was about to grab Meixi's collar: "You didn't understand what I meant, you really don't look like a person in the world, I won't look away." ...... I see that you are very familiar, go, come with me, let me study it carefully. ”

Mei Xi dodged in a flash, but the gentleman walked around in front of him with a sliding step, and his figure turned out to be like a practitioner, and he still reached out and grabbed his chest. Meixi dodged again, and drank: "Forget it, we don't count our lives, don't be surprised, it's useless, I only have a canteen meal card and no money on me." After speaking, he picked up Qu Yimin and said, "This is a mental illness, let's go." ”

Meixi took Qu Yimin and left, and the fortune teller shouted in the back: "It doesn't matter if you don't bring money, can't I give you money?"

The accident happened suddenly, Qu Yimin didn't react, and was pulled by Meixi to walk briskly in the direction of the school, while asking: "What's the matter? What is that person mentally ill?" Meixi said angrily and funny: "Listen to what he is talking about?"

I heard that the fortune teller also followed them, and this time he did not forcibly reach out to pull people, but begged behind him: "I'll give you money, make a price, how much can you let me tell my fortune?...... Give you your credit card, and you can swipe it as much as you want!" "How can there be such a fortune teller, what is it if you don't have a mental problem?"

Fortunately, it was not far from the school, and soon entered the gate, Qu Yimin said to the doorman, and the doorman stopped the pestering fortune teller. The two of them had already walked far away, and they heard the fortune teller shouting unwillingly at the gate: "Young man, don't go, have you seen the American movie "The Terminator"?

Hearing this, Mei Xi and Qu Yimin couldn't help but smile at each other, Qu Yimin said: "This person's spirit is really abnormal, what's the matter?

Meixi: "It's not surprising, those fortune tellers who go to the rivers and lakes, all day long, people really become nervous, how to describe this - self-hypnosis?"

Qu Yimin: "At first, I saw that person's behavior was normal, not like mental illness. ”

Meixi: "Is it normal? How can normal people talk like that now, Wenyan is not like Wenyan, and vernacular is not like vernacular." ”

Qu Yimin chuckled again: "It's really true that you said that, when I first saw that person, I felt that something was wrong." ”

Qu Yimin was not in a very good mood, but after being stirred up by this nervous fortune teller, she was a lot more relaxed and smiled very happily. Meixi realized that Qu Yimin was still holding her arm until this time, and her posture looked very intimate. It was just unintentional just now, but now that I react, one arm has stiffened a lot. Qu Yimin also noticed it, turned her face away, and looked ashamed, and she wanted to let go but felt that it was too obvious, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

"Sister, it's not early, you've been in a bad mood these days, and now you're fine, you need to have a good rest, go home." Mei Xi looked at him left and right.

Qu Yimin glanced at him and said softly: "Okay, I have also caused you a lot of trouble in the past few days, and even the class has been delayed, so you can go back and have a good rest." ”

It was from this day that Meixi found that Qu Yimin's eyes had changed subtly when he looked at him, but it was difficult to describe, in short, it was a gentle touch that made people's hearts itch. This made Meixi feel a little warm, but also a little confused and embarrassed, it seems that it is necessary to keep a proper distance, and it feels a little wrong to continue such unguarded exchanges with each other.

The world is so big that there are no surprises, and when I went out, I met a person with abnormal nerves, and within a few days, Meixi met a person who tried to deceive. This liar deceived Professor Qu Zhengbo through Zhang Xiaoning, and if Meixi hadn't broken it on the side, I'm afraid the deception would have been successful.

The ancestor of the Qu family is said to be the medicine boy next to the medicine king Sun Simiao, so the anecdotes about the medicine king have always been collected by the old man Qu, and he naturally regards the relics of the medicine king as treasures. These things were learned by an antique dealer, who forged a copper tripod to his liking, and after "expert identification", it was an antiquity of the Tang Dynasty. And the wonderful thing is that the antique dealer didn't say what it was, and after it was delivered to the old man, it was Professor Qu himself who "discovered" that it was a relic of the medicine king. The antique dealer offered a million yuan, and instead of selling it directly to Professor Qu, it was sold to Zhang Xiaoning, who wanted to curry favor with Professor Qu, and after some bargaining, it was sold for 600,000 yuan.

Zhang Xiaoning took the bronze tripod and the appraisal certificate and ran to Professor Qu to offer the treasure, he had given a lot of gifts before, and Professor Qu had never confiscated it, but this time it was indeed sent to the old man's heart, and Professor Qu was really reluctant to let him take it back. The old man didn't say he wanted it, only said that he would stay for a few days to study for the time being, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that he couldn't put it down.

As soon as Meixi entered the pharmacy laboratory that day, he saw Professor Qu fiddling with a three-legged copper tripod less than a foot tall and slightly damaged, and he asked curiously: "What is this? Is the old man also collecting it now? Be careful not to let people be blinded!"

Professor Qu only looked at Ding, and replied without raising his head: "You can't blind me, I don't know anything else, I'm an expert in this thing! Meixi, I'll test you—can you recognize what this thing is?"

Meixi: "This is a red copper tripod, it should be a real antique, it looks old." ”

Professor Qu said no, "You kid don't know yet, do you? This is not an ordinary tripod, it is the pill used by alchemists in ancient times, the real pill tripod! It is impossible for ordinary people to know it, and even those who play antiques may not know it." ...... Take a closer look and guess what age this is?"

When Mei Xi heard this, she also leaned over and looked at it carefully: "Old man, congratulations, you didn't fall for it this time, it's really an antiquity." ...... If I'm not mistaken, it's something from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't know Danding, and your old words must be more authoritative than me. ...... Hey, why do you want to do it old? It's a bit strange that it's so old that it looks like it's been older. ”

Meixi is not an archaeologist or a collector, but some things he can still see the doorway, the Ming and Qing dynasties of copper incense burners he has seen a lot since childhood, most of the mutilated are not all forgery reference mold vessels, from the material to the shape he is very familiar with, all kinds of old techniques have also seen. Don't forget what his fourth aunt's family does? They specialize in imitating antiques! Now their family's main business is to imitate ancient porcelain, and they have also imitated bronze for a while, and those who can make fakes are also good at distinguishing the real from the real.

Professor Qu frowned when he heard his words, and asked nervously: "Do you identify antiques? Won't you be mistaken, is this really from the Ming Dynasty?"

Meixi: "I don't dare to say that I will identify antiques, but the bronzes of the Ming and Qing dynasties are still certain, and sometimes the appraisal is a sweeping job." There are very few red bronze vessels in the Tang Dynasty, and the shape and ornamentation of this thing are not right, it is certain that it is from the Ming Dynasty, but it is a pity that there is a little crack and the remnant of the vessel, and it can be worth tens of thousands of yuan according to the current price. ...... Why, someone told you this was something from the Tang Dynasty?"

Professor Qu will be suspicious: "There is an inscription at the bottom of the ding, do you know the small seal?"

Meixi carefully turned over the tripod, and there was no pattern at the bottom of the tripod in the middle of the three legs, engraved with a few lines of inscription: "Yonghui five years Sun Yinyan has to cast the red gold tripod inscription by the fire method" (the inscription has no punctuation). Mei Xi could barely recognize these words, read them while reading, and after reading them, she looked up and asked, "Old Qu, what's going on?" I don't quite understand what these lines are talking about?"

Qu Zhengbo: "Even you don't know, so I didn't suspect it, I don't think ordinary antique dealers can be so expert and understand such a biased research." These few sentences are talking about the matter of Sun Simiao, the prince of medicine, indicating that this tripod is the pill used by Sun Simiao's alchemy back then. Not many people know this story......"

According to Qu Zhengbo's early research, there is a documentary record of the first time in history that the fire yao formula was left behind, which is the "fire method" described in Sun Simiao's "Dan Jing", the formula is saltpeter, sulfur, and honey locust three flavors, and the black fire yao in later generations replaced the dry honey locust powder with charcoal powder that is easier to prepare. Why did Sun Simiao create the "Fire Suppression Method"? Because when refining some special elixirs, he needed high temperatures and pressures that could not be achieved by ordinary combustion methods.

According to legend, Sun Simiao was born in Liuyang, Hunan Province, and created the "Fire Method", the earliest fire yao was born in Liuyang, Hunan, and now the fireworks in Liuyang are still very famous, and there is a listed company called Liuyang fireworks. Sun Simiao's "Dan Jing" was written in the sixth year of Yonghui of Tang Gaozong, that is, in 655 AD, and this work was written during his alchemy in Liuyang.

The inscription on the Danding confirms the record of Sun Simiao's fire yao formula, and it is consistent with the historical fact that Sun Simiao made the elixir in Sun Yinyan during the Yonghui period, and the possibility of deliberately falsifying it is very low in Professor Qu's opinion. Danding is not something that ordinary people can recognize, even if they are engaged in antiques, they may not understand, and the origin of this inscription is even more incomprehensible to ordinary people. So when Zhang Xiaoning brought Danding, Qu Zhengbo was overjoyed at first sight and didn't doubt it too much.

Thinking of this, he asked: "You always know these allusions, and others may not know them, but this Ding was just sent to you, a 'person who knows the goods', and it is a bit too coincidental! If you think about it carefully, who have you told these allusions?"