Mrs. Mei made him laugh, squinting his eyes a little like a cunning old fox, looking at Mei Xi and said: "Of course I will, Master, what is the specific doorway, when I am willing to teach you, you can do it yourself." ”

Next, Mei Taigong talked about a lot of anecdotes and legends about the Jianghu art in the old society, and did not mention the matter of passing on the Fa, and Mei Xi listened to it with relish. At that time, he was just curious about two things, one was what real skills the master would teach him in the future? Second, why was the spell of copying shrimp in a rice jar called Shenxiao Heavenly Thunder, which had nothing to do with thunder in the sky?

After eating, Meixi asked again: "How did the eight gates of the rivers and lakes first come down?"

Mei Taigong looked up at Wu Meilin outside the door, and replied thoughtfully: "Therefore, according to legend, the ancestor of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes is the Qingdi Fuxi, when the flood is famine, Fuxi's painting gossip, the gossip direction is divided into shock, injury, opening, scenery, death, life, Du, and Hugh eight gates, summing up the world, and the later generations evolved into the eight gates of the rivers and lakes. ”

Mei Xi opened his mouth: "It's so exaggerated? Isn't this the Eight Gate Bureau in Qimen Dunjia?

Mei Taigong nodded: "It may indeed be far-fetched for future generations, I just told you about the eight gates of ancient times, including various truths in the world, but the most core knowledge is missing, guess what?"

Meixi shook her head: "I can't guess." ”

Mei Taigong: "It is the way of the god monarch and the emperor, which no one teaches in the rivers and lakes, and it is impossible to learn it privately in ancient times." I'm just an old country man, and I can't explain my profound knowledge. ”

Mei Xi asked again while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, "Master, how did your spells pass down, and why have I never seen anyone who really knows how to do spells?"

Mei Taigong: "Even if you see it, you don't know, because people who study the law have rules since ancient times, and these rules are set by one person, and the magic spread of our Mei family is also related to this person." ”

Meixi: "Who?

Mei Taigong: "This person's name is Zhengyi Patriarch, and legend has it that the ancestor of our Mei family is his disciple, and it is he who left this branch of heirs in the original place of Mei Jiayuan, which has been 1,200 years. According to the rules of the Mei clan, children can walk the rivers and lakes, but they can't give up this homeland, and they can't break the inheritance, which is said to be the legacy of the Zhengyi patriarch. ...... In fact, your strange background may also be related to the legacy of this patriarch!"

Mei Xi was taken aback: "Where do I come from? What does it have to do with Patriarch Zhengyi?"

Mei Taigong: "It's not time to tell you yet, what I said today about Patriarch Zhengyi, and the matter of my spells, don't spread a word, and don't ask again." Don't be in a hurry, sooner or later you will know what you need to know. ”

Of course he wanted to ask, but unfortunately Mrs. Mei refused to say more. Mei Xi only got up and put away the dishes and chopsticks and said, "What else does the master command?"

"There's nothing else, that pot of rice can't be wasted, you find Zhang Zhubian to pour out the rice and dry it in the yard, and pick up all the sand. ”

"Master, you know how to spell, why do you let me pick sand?"

Mrs. Mei waved her hand: "You poured the sand, and you also ate the shrimp, don't you want my old man to pick it?"

Although the shrimp is delicious, it is too difficult to pick out the sand again, and she knew that it was so troublesome, so Meixi would rather not eat this plate of shrimp. Since then, Mei Taigong has never mentioned the matter of teaching the Fa again, and Mei Xi is not easy to ask. In the three years of high school in the county, Meixi did not go to the rivers and lakes much, and was called home by the grandfather as soon as he was on vacation, teaching him the attention to various jianghu techniques in the eight gates, and introducing various anecdotes about the abduction and abduction of people in the rivers and lakes during the Republic of China. Mei Xi didn't understand what the master wanted to do, did he want to train himself to be a big liar? Later, he figured it out again, and it is estimated that the master was afraid that he would suffer when he went out in the future.

In this way, after another three years, high school is over, and now children have to take the college entrance examination before going to college, and one more thing is to fill in the volunteers, which determines what kind of school you can go to after what score you get. The children in the city are very cautious in filling in the volunteers, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, grandmother, grandpa will collect all kinds of information to discuss for a long time, and although Meixi's relatives are proficient in pit abduction, but they are not good at filling in the college entrance examination volunteers, Meixi of course went to consult the most learned and authoritative Mei Taigong in the village.

Mrs. Mei attaches great importance to Meixi's college entrance examination volunteers, and it is a school personally selected by the old man, and his method of choosing a school is very particular - ranked down in the order of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes. Mei Taigong was the first to provoke the door, but Mei Xi told him that the current undergraduate majors do not teach these, so he retreated to the second best thing and went to study medicine - medicine.

What kind of medicine should I study? Let Mei Taigong be the master, of course, it is to study Chinese medicine! Where to study Chinese medicine? Of course, I will go to the capital, there are many famous doctors at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and if you want to take the examination, you must be admitted to the medical school in Beijing. If someone else knows that Mrs. Mei has volunteered for Meixi like this, they will not consider the school's reputation, Meixi's college entrance examination results, whether the major is popular, future employment, etc., it is estimated that they will be dumbfounded. Although Mrs. Mei is an old man, after all, he is an old man from the countryside in the old society, and he doesn't know so much.

Meixi's college entrance examination score was good, and he was admitted as his first choice, and in this way, he was admitted to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in a daze.

Meixi's college is a big deal in the Mei family, the villagers are very partial to this fatherless and motherless and well-behaved and obedient orphan, this family to prepare clothes, that family to prepare covers, although the Mei children have a tradition of adulthood to go to the rivers and lakes to support themselves, but the meaning of going to college is different after all, uncles and aunts have also pooled together to get money, otherwise Meixi really can't go to Beijing to report.

Before leaving, Mrs. Mei specially instructed: "Child, you are from Mei Jiayuan, the money that the villagers have given you and the love you have been treated since childhood, you must not forget, no matter how much you can produce." ...... In the past few years, I have told you a lot of things about the rivers and lakes, the real rivers and lakes are the whole world, you are about to go on a journey, you must be good at cherishing yourself. ”

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One day in early September 2007, Meixi walked out of the Beijing West Railway Station alone, two days earlier than the school pick-up time stated in the admission notice. The freshmen of major colleges and universities report the opening time early and late, and if you turn around the square in front of the station, you can see the freshmen of many colleges and universities who have not yet played the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.

Now is the peak of college freshman reports, and at a glance, you can find that many parents with their children are coming and going, carrying large bags and small bags with a look of excitement, obviously adults have sent their children to Beijing to go to college. Meixi did not leave the train station in a hurry to report to the school, but stood there for a while and observed, feeling that this time and this occasion was an excellent opportunity to do "business".

When she first arrived in Beijing, Meixi thought about how to make some money by taking advantage of the current opportunity. Although the money made up by the villagers is enough for his first year's tuition, but he still has to study in college for several years, and there are many other expenses, Meixi is always embarrassed to continue to trouble the villagers.

According to the terminology of the rivers and lakes, the first thing is to "watch the shed", and after seeing it, it is necessary to "open the shed" - pick a good place to set up the scene. He chose a place, not in the railway station square, but from the square to the left and walk to the left not far from the street crossing tunnel, where the sidewalks are relatively wide, and there are no roadside storefronts, and more importantly, most of the people who come and go here are college students and parents who come and go.

Meixi's large luggage was checked in by train, and the luggage reported by college freshmen will be sent to the school in a unified manner, without the student himself going to the train station to pick it up, and he only carries a small travel bag. He took out a small bamboo pole more than a foot long from his travel bag, and a sponge was wrapped in cotton cloth at one end. He took out a canned food box and opened it, and it contained white mortar mixed with water—the pen and ink he used to write.

I forgot to introduce, although Mei Xi has just graduated from high school, he is already a small accomplished "calligrapher", and his calligraphy is derived from the true biography of the "famous master" - Mei Taigong has been taught by hand since he was a child, and he is the only one among Mei Jiayuan's children who has this treatment. He began to write works on the sidewalk with a bamboo pole pen dipped in white mortar, which is quite the style of the Song Dynasty Ouyang Duchess painting calligraphy.

"Dad, look over there, what is that person doing?"

"Huh, is this performance art? The capital is different, and as soon as you get out of the train station, you meet the legendary performance artist. ...... Good daughter, you see, such beautiful calligraphy is rare. ”

Meixi was concentrating on writing when she suddenly heard a voice from behind her. Looking back, a middle-aged man in his forties wearing glasses was carrying a travel bag with the luggage mark of a freshman of Peking University, and a girl of 18 or 9 years old in his right hand. The girl looked very beautiful in her delicate glasses, and was blinking at him with a pair of curious eyes.

"Two, I'm not an artist, I'm asking for food. Meixi explained to them with an apologetic, polite smile. At this time, his calligraphy work has been completed, which is a short essay with emotion, which briefly tells the story of an orphan from a poor village who strives for self-improvement and is admitted to university, introduces his shy situation, and hopes that passers-by will dedicate a little love, and be kind to others is also to be kind to others.

After Meixi finished writing, she found two small stones nearby, put her backpack on the base of the wall on the side of the road and sat down. He took out the university admission letter, unfolded it in front of him, pressed it with a small stone to prevent it from being blown away by the wind, and took out a hard copper paper certificate of three good students, folded it into a box and placed it next to the notice, and the center of the box was also pressed with a small stone, and then carefully placed several banknotes of different denominations in the box. After thinking about it, he took out his ID card again and put it on the other side of the admission letter.

He was not in a hurry and methodical when he did these things, but he looked the father and daughter stupid. The girl asked, "Classmate, ...... are you?"

Mei Xi made a very ashamed expression, bowed her head and said, "I'm begging, I'm sorry to make you laugh." ”

The middle-aged man pulled his daughter, signaled her not to ask, looked at it with questioning eyes for a long time, and finally showed sympathy, opened the wallet and said nothing, drew a fifty bill and put it in the carton, sighed and pulled his daughter away. Meixi immediately stood up, bowed to their backs and said, "Thank you, kind people, I won't forget your help!

The middle-aged man turned around and waved his hand, "No need, young man, let's do it for myself." ”

"Dad, could he be a liar? The girl asked her father in a whisper.

Her father also replied in a low voice: "No, I haven't seen this kind of liar, the notice, the award, and the ID card don't look like fake." ...... This young man is amazing. ”

"What's the big deal about asking for food?"

Her father smiled: "Baby, Dad asks you, if you encounter any difficulties when you go out in the future, can you pull down your face like him?"

The girl pouted: "Why should I beg for food, just call home, now the bank remittance is very fast!"

"Well, I don't mean asking for food. ”

The father and daughter walked away as they spoke, and Mei Xi took advantage of no one to pick up the banknote and take a quick look at the sun, and then put it in the wallet, and the carton was still the same as just now. Street begging has to have something to do, generally ask Hanako to hold a bowl in her hand, and always put some change in the bowl, which is also particular, not more or less.

If you put it less, it will give a hint to passers-by - "It turns out that everyone only gives this point, and I can be generous if I throw a steel hammer!" Putting too much will also give people another impression - "This is more than the money on me, what else am I pretending to be?" According to your psychological expectations and "market judgment", put a few banknotes of different denominations in the most eye-catching position as a psychological hint, for example, Meixi put two 20 bills and two 10 yuan.

It's also important to put some small coins in denominations to inspire compassion. At a glance, people think: "How can such a poor child be given such a little?" So he gave ten or twenty yuan, although the money was not much, there was also a sense of satisfaction in doing "great good", and compared those who gave coins. In short, the world is full of knowledge, and there are many important doors in the eight gates of the rivers and lakes.

Although Meixi knew the importance of begging, after all, it was his first time in a big place like Beijing, and he didn't know the situation very well. How can there be such a blatant stall begging for food as he did in the vicinity of the Beijing West Railway Station, and does this not affect the appearance of the city? Some of the people who ask for money in the railway station square and the waiting hall are all begging in the middle of the flow, and they will probably be sent directly to the aid station to beg for begging. Meixi's luck is not bad, she sat here for a long time before being noticed.

Finally, a man in a police uniform walked in the direction of the train station with majestic steps. The corner of Meixi's eyes had already found him, probably the policeman on duty to maintain order near the train station, but he still made a shameful look and bowed his head and pretended not to see it, until a pair of black leather shoes appeared in front of him, and a thick voice shouted: "You, what are you doing? Why are you asking for food next to the West Railway Station?"

Meixi stood up in surprise, but her expression was not flustered, and she did not run or retreat. If you show a panicked expression, you must not be in trouble, Meixi looked at the officer with a look of help, and replied in a low voice: "Uncle policeman, I didn't do anything, I just wanted to ask a well-wisher for help." ”

"I've seen a lot of liars like you, be honest with me, believe it or not, I can send you to Changhe to sift sand!" said the policeman in a mocking tone, bent down and took his admission letter and ID card, twisted it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, and then looked slightly surprised. How do you look at these two things and how are they not fake-they are true, although there are many fake certificates on the market now, but in the eyes of the police on duty at a railway station, the authenticity of the new version of the ID card can still be distinguished, and then look at the admission notice is this year, and the name and ID card can also match.

The small change in the policeman's expression was seen by Mei Xi, and there was still room for negotiation in the matter, so he quickly explained: "Uncle policeman, I'm not a liar, I'm just a college student who just got admitted this year, if you don't believe it, you can call the school to ask, my documents are all true." ”

The policeman's expression softened a little, threw the document back to Meixi, and stared at Meixi as if he was looking at a monster: "Are you really a student who came to report? This is the first time I have met a student like you, and you beg for food as soon as you arrive in Beijing?" What about your parents?"

Mei Xi lowered her eyelids and pointed to the ground: "I don't have a father or a mother, it's all written here." ”

The policeman moved his foot back, carefully looked at the lines on the ground that were stepped on by himself just now, and said with a somewhat unbearable look: "If what you said is true, it is quite pitiful, but this place does not allow food, and if you have difficulties, you should find the school to solve them." ...... Alas, what a good word, much stronger than my son's dog-planed word. ”

Meixi said weakly: "Uncle policeman, I was wrong and caused you trouble, thank you for reminding me." ...... Is your son also in school?"

The policeman subconsciously replied: "I am in my second year of high school, and I am about to take the university entrance examination, but unfortunately my grades are not very good, and I am naughty, and I refuse to listen to anything." ...... Kid, I don't want to embarrass you, pack your things and go. The tone was a little embarrassed.

Of course, Meixi noticed it, and immediately asked tentatively: "Uncle, I'm a little tired, is it okay to sit on the side of the road and rest?"

What's wrong with this? The policeman was stunned: "Of course you can." ”

Mei Xi pointed to the lines in front of him again: "Do you need me to erase it?"

The policeman also reacted, glared at Meixi, Meixi lowered her head and looked well-behaved, and the policeman smiled helplessly: "You don't need to rub such a good word in a hurry, you just sit and rest, rest and then leave, you can't come again tomorrow, in fact, you can apply for student loans, I heard that universities now have these policies." ”

When the police left, Meixi breathed a sigh of relief and sweated. Since ancient times, there are many wicked people in the six doors, and it has always been difficult to speak, if this policeman is to be embarrassed, Meixi will never be entangled in talking back, quickly admit his mistakes, pack up his things and leave, and reopen in a different place far away. Today is a meeting of good Samaritans!

As soon as the police left, another old man in an old-fashioned silk shirt with gray hair stopped in front of Meixi's eyes, looked at it for a long time, and pulled out a 100-yuan bill. Instead of throwing the money into the cardboard box, he bent down and put it in, and Meixi quickly stood up and bowed in thanks. The old man smiled: "Young man, don't thank me, the money is for this character on the ground, the font of Zhu Suiliang in the Tang Dynasty, it's not simple, it's not simple!"

Beijing is really big, there are all kinds of people, this is the largest denomination of money Meixi received today, and I quickly picked it up and put it in my pocket. At the end of the day, Meixi harvested a lot, and when it was dark, it earned a total of 1,328 yuan and 4 cents, which would make other professional beggars know and would be envious.

Not every beggar can ask for so much money in a day, Meixi relies on the right time, place and people, and only opens the shed when he sees it. First of all, he chose the peak period for college students to report, and near the train station, college freshmen and parents came and went. With such a picture written on the side of the road and this year's admission letter, people who come and go can't help but sympathize - this is also a child who comes to college, comparing his heart to his heart, even if he can't tell the truth from the false, he is willing to give a little kindness at this time.

No matter who gave the money, Meixi would stand up and bow politely in thanks, sit down again and again, and stand up again and again. Why didn't he bother to stand all the time? He deliberately stood up from the ground and bowed to look formal and sincere. No matter how much the pedestrians gave alms, even if it was just a dime, Meixi would stand up and bow in thanks, without the slightest dissatisfaction. There were so many ladies who didn't give much money at the beginning, so Mei Xi was embarrassed to bow politely, and threw down one more banknote with a red face and left.

The eight major gates of the rivers and lakes are divided into two kinds: "good" and "evil", Meixi is a typical good today, and the trick of goodness is to be kind to others. What is so important about this? That is, we must let the givers have a reward, and we must let them get the satisfaction of doing good deeds, instead of being deceived by their conscience! This is not only about the jobs and living space of the people in important families in the world, but also can be regarded as contributing their own strength to the building of socialist spiritual civilization.

Maybe in the eyes of some people, Meixi is ashamed to do this. But Meixi doesn't think so, it's not because he's a very thick-skinned person, he just grew up in the rivers and lakes, and he has seen through these things a long time ago. Since he accepts the money collected by the villagers, he should also be able to accept the kindness of strangers, which is not fundamentally different from accepting donations from charities, and he does not deceive people, and those who do good deeds also have their own gains. In the final analysis, it was because the money in his pocket was really not enough to pay for college, and he had no other means of earning a living when he first arrived in Beijing.

If it weren't for the pry shed (commonly known as smashing the field), Meixi's begging income this day might have set a higher record, and even the police didn't care who would come to pry the shed? Meixi was lucky to meet the counselor of her own university, Miss Qu. This accident is also among the various possibilities of Meixi's calculations.

"How can you do this? Don't look both ways, it's you! You don't lie enough to discredit our school!" When the sun had just set and the sky was slightly dark, there was a coquettish rebuke in front of him. Meixi looked up and saw a very beautiful woman.

PS: I opened a new book, and there are many friends who came to leave a message to congratulate me, and I feel and thank you! Unfortunately, the book "Lingshan" is newly opened this week, and there is no data from last week. According to the starting point, the number of essences in the author's hands per week is converted according to last week's recommendation and click data, so there are only a few essences in his hands, and he simply won't add refinement this week, and wait for the next Monday to make up.

It should be all thanked, but I really can't take care of it, thank you here, if there is any rudeness, please Haihan!

Another: The public version of this book is updated every day before it is put on the shelves, and I can't say exactly when the time is too precise, because the chapter of the novel will not be known until it is finished, but I will ensure that the update is continuous and stable.