Chapter 17: Deliverance
Pan Yu lost his smile, returned to the feeling of "faint smile", and said: "Hanwen, you must tell me the story of Zhu Yingtai tonight, see which girl makes you miss it so much." ”
Xu Xian lowered his head and drank tea, responding vaguely.
Pulling away from the topic and asking: "How do you know which day the First Snow Festival is?" The First Snow Festival is not a fixed date like Chongyang Qingming, but the first day of snow every year, but the weather is not necessarily accurate in the weather forecast of the previous life, this is the so-called unpredictable providence.
Li Siming looked at the two of them: "I think this matter will fall on you!" He sighed in his heart, it was a good thing to be handsome and beautiful, it was easy to win people's favor, and it was easier to make friends, but to the extent that Pan Yu would even move a man when he saw it, it became a shackle. And Pan Yu always gave Li Siming a strange "illusion".
Li Siming still remembers that whenever everyone gathers, Pan Yu must be the focus of the stars holding the moon, but even if he talks and laughs freely in the crowd, the feeling of ethereal loneliness has not diminished slightly, but has become more and more intense. is like a good horn on the stage, expressing all kinds of joys, sorrows, and sorrows vividly, but there is no action, an expression, even if a look belongs to him.
When the "flaws" are exposed like today, even Li Siming has not seen them for a long time.
Xu Xian leaned back in his chair and said, "Do we know how to tell fortunes?
Li Siming took a sip of tea and said: "You naturally don't know how to tell hexagrams, you can go to someone who can do it!"
"Huh?"
"It turns out that there is really a weather forecast in this world!" Xu Xian sighed deeply as he stood in front of a Taoist temple. Carrying 20 taels of public funds from the college. Xu Xian came here with an incredible task - to find a fortune teller to calculate when it would snow.
But in this world where there are snake demons for thousands of years, there is no way to do it even if the "son" comes! After all, the Four Books and the Five Classics cannot predict the weather.
There is a black plaque hanging on the door of the Taoist temple, and the three big characters of 'Xuanji View' are written on it, which looks extraordinary. I heard that this is the most famous fortune teller in Hangzhou, and the fee is not low, and it costs twenty taels of silver to calculate the weather, which really makes Xu Xian want to devote himself to the industry.
It's just that this quaint Taoist temple is not in any famous mountains and rivers, but in the downtown of the west city of Hangzhou, and all kinds of hustle and bustle are endless. There are a few people wandering at the entrance of the small Taoist temple, there are rich people in splendid clothes, and there are also poor men in cloth clothes, all of them looking at the gate with anxious and expectant eyes, but they do not speak to each other.
Pan Yu sighed: "Practicing in such a place is either elegant or vulgar, but I don't know which kind of master is here. ”
The arrival of Xu Xian and the others immediately attracted the eyes of these people who were angry with each other, Xu Xian was wondering to himself, Pan Yu explained on the side: "This is a trigram, not too much, these people are probably afraid that we will compete with them!"
"So what are we going to do?"
Pan Yu smiled but did not answer, and stepped forward. Xu Xian once again saw Pan Yu's magic, which was no less powerful than the spell. After all, spells are hard to turn people's hearts around.
Pan Yu first said to a man who looked like a fat and wealthy businessman, "May I ask if Your Excellency is here to ask for a hexagram?"
Seeing Pan Yu's graceful and extraordinary conversation, the wealthy businessman didn't dare to underestimate it, "Exactly." ”
"Fortune?"
The rich businessman said: You can't guess the way I dress, it's not a big deal. "The surname Suo tells you, I have a deal that is difficult to decide, it is related to my fortune next year, look at you like a scholar, Sage Kong can teach you the truth of first come, first come. "The expression is quite arrogant, the industry and commerce of the Great Xia Dynasty were developed, and it was not the Ming and Qing dynasties that completely emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, so the status of businessmen was not low, and they were free in front of the two poor talents.
Pan Yu was not annoyed, but then asked: "I also know a little bit about trading, but I don't know what it is." ”
The rich merchant was trying to show off and not involve any trade secrets, so he said it 1510, but he was a porcelain merchant and planned to set up a new kiln factory, but the investment was quite large, and if he lost it, he would really be bankrupt.
Pan Yu affirmed: "It will be earned." ”
The rich businessman glared at his little eyes, "Go, go, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand!"
Pan Yu just asked, "Do you know Jin Wancheng?"
"Who doesn't know the name of Jin Wancheng, a huge rich man in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and I have a lot of business dealings with him. The rich merchant said proudly.
"Did you know that he recently bought two big boats?"
"Of course I know, I was invited to go on the first flight. The rich businessman's face was full of pride, but his heart was bottomless, in fact, he only received a second-level invitation, and he didn't say a word to Jin Wancheng, just joining in the fun.
"Do you know why he bought the boat?"
"This" the rich merchant looked embarrassed, but he didn't want to lose face, "Of course, the merchant ship is for trade!"
"That's right, but he has enough boats, and he doesn't need such a big ship to transport them. ”
"You mean, shipping?" said the rich merchant's face with a thoughtful look.
"Exactly, then do you remember passing by the group of Bana envoys in Hangzhou a year ago? ”
"I remember that they were all black like briquettes, and those who didn't know thought they were rakshasa demons from hell. ”
"The envoy of our return visit has returned last month!" Pan Yu smiled slightly, as the end.
"You mean a new route, trade?" Under Pan Yu's suggestion, the rich merchant linked the clues together and came to a conclusion that surprised him, this huge rich man in the south of the Yangtze River had to take a big risk, although the risk was extremely high, the profit from shipping to foreign countries was a hundred times and a thousand times, and the price of not only porcelain, but also silk tea would rise. Of course, he wouldn't take the risk, and he didn't have the qualifications, but it was okay to take a sip of soup.
"I'm not a god, I haven't said anything, and I can't guarantee anything. ”
The rich businessman gave Pan Yu a big salute, completely losing the arrogance just now, while shouting the sedan chair man waiting on the side of the road: "Get up the sedan chair, get up the sedan chair." While rushing to Pan Yu, he said: "Mr. is really talented, I will invite you to sit at home, this is my name post, please patronize it." After saying that, he trotted all the way into the sedan chair and walked away tremblingly.
No magic calculation can compare to the information in one's own hands, and people will only rely on heaven when they are powerless, and most of the time they are still willing to believe in judgments based on real evidence.
Xu Xian exclaimed, "You already knew the news?"
Pan Yu said with a smile: "I studied behind closed doors, how could I have the leisure to care about this, but the housekeeper of the Jin family sent me an invitation and asked me to reply." "What can be delivered by the housekeeper in person is, of course, the VIP seat next to Jin Wancheng, but he can't let Pan Yu waste half a day's reading time to join in this excitement, he wants to take the career path, the broadest, most far-reaching, and most sinister road in the world.
"Why did he leave in such a hurry. ”
"There are so many people of insight in the world, the news will spread soon, and the early action is countless real money, so he can't help but be in a hurry. Pan Yu calmly explained to Xu Xian one by one.
Xu Xian muttered to himself: Is it you crossing or me crossing over, I can't understand the thinking of high-IQ people at all!
In this way, Pan Yu solved the problems of the remaining people one by one, but the last one was helpless, a thin countryman recently had a strange illness in his family, spending countless medical fees but to no avail, and the old lady of the family was already dying. Although Pan Yu is wise, he is not a doctor after all, and he is helpless.
The countryman begged for permission and said: "Please be kind to the two adults, you see that my hair is about to fall out, I have already calculated two hexagrams today, I don't know if I can survive until tomorrow, even if I can wait, the children at home can't do it!"
Pan Yu thought and thought. Finally sighed and said to Xu Xian: "This is called manpower is sometimes poor!"
"It's just that if you are sick, you should seek medical treatment, and if you can't cure it, the doctor you are looking for is not good at medical books, but you came here to ask for fish. ”
Xu Xian's heart moved when he heard this, and he thought of a possibility, and asked, "Is your illness hair falling out and your teeth loose?"
"Eh, how do you know?"
Xu Xian was even more convinced of his judgment and said, "Have you picked up something to go home recently, stones or something." ”
The villager's face tightened, revealing a defensive look, but he said, "No, no, what's there?"
Xu Xian frowned and said, "If you still want your whole family's surname, you should tell the truth." ”
After some questioning, the villager finally told the truth, a few days ago he fished out something from the field, a stone carved cicada, crystal clear, like jade but not jade, it looks like a lot of value.
"Could it be that Gu Ice Cicada?" Pan Yu interjected.