At about the end of the year, outside the gate of Liu Song's courtyard, a fortune-telling gentleman came. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 He was holding a banner with four words written on it, "Fortune Telling and Measuring Characters", and this gentleman wore an old felt hat and a Taoist robe, and three long strands of hair fluttered on his swarthy face. After walking around the door for a long time, he said without a word:

"If you can count the first life for 500 years and predict the next generation for 800 years, you can't do without money!"

And Liu Yuanwai's wife, an old woman who was nearly seventy years old, felt that life was strange and strange, and that there must be gods and ghosts in the underworld; therefore, whenever a fortune teller passed by, she would invite them to come in and test and calculate. In this way, the gentlemen who measure words and fortunes, even if they don't go anywhere, must go through the door of their house!

At this moment, Mrs. Liu was sleeping unsteadily in bed, and suddenly heard a voice outside the courtyard gate, calling without a sound:

"If you can count the first life for 500 years and predict the next generation for 800 years, you can't do without money!"

Therefore, she sat up as if spring-springed, and hurriedly put on her clothes and got up, but she alarmed Liu Yuanwai, who was sleeping soundly on the side, and so he complained:

"What are you doing here, three watches in the middle of the night, and what are you going to do with these charlatans!"

"Hey, you sleep with your head covered every day, what do you know," his wife muttered, "Now, Young Master Fang is hiding at home, we should ask a good gentleman to test the good fortune and misfortune!"

"Let's go, let's go, let's go! I'm too lazy to argue with you," Liu Yuan turned over and continued to sleep, and said, "You can count whatever you like, go quickly, I want to sleep!"

Seeing the old lady get up in her clothes and walk to the hall, the housekeeper Zhang Ji hurriedly greeted and asked:

"Old lady, do you want to calculate a hexagram? Why don't I go and call the fortune teller in to measure the good fortune and the bad fortune?"

"Yes. Madame frowned, and said worriedly, "In the past few days, my right eye has been beating non-stop, and I can't sleep at night.

"Yes, ma'am, wait a minute, I'll go and call the gentleman. The old housekeeper Zhang Ji said and walked out.

The gentleman was holding a banner and sitting beside the big stone lion outside the courtyard gate, shouting carelessly without saying a word. Like a wild cat in heat, squatting there, moaning and complaining one by one.

"Sir, please come in and tell us the old woman's fortune teller," said an old and gentle voice behind him, the fortune teller.

He immediately turned around, and saw Zhang Ji, the old housekeeper of Liu Yuanwai's family, standing beside him with his back bowed and hunched, "Your old lady wants to tell a hexagram?" he asked, "Isn't your old master a hexagram?"

"Oh, sir," said the old butler Zhang Ji, "our lord is busy with business during the day, and I am afraid that he will fall asleep at this time!"

"Oh, I see. ”

The fortune teller got up and brushed the banner in his hand, straightened the sackcloth on his body, and said:

"Lead the way!"

followed the old housekeeper Zhang Ji and walked into the courtyard gate, and then the old housekeeper squeaked and closed the courtyard door again. As soon as he entered, the fortune teller could not help but look around and take a look at the large family, which was a small and tidy courtyard, with some unknown flowers and trees on the east and west sides, neatly trimmed, and in the night it looked like a small square wall.

Looking up, the eight pillars under the corridor are painted with vermilion wood lacquer, thick and high, completely revealing the momentum of this solemn house; under the corridor, on the middle beam corresponding to the position of the gate, there are two bright lanterns, on which a big crimson "Liu" character is written, which is quite solemn and magnificent.

When I walked into the door of the house, I saw a graceful and rich old woman sitting in the hall, she had a kind face, and said with a smile to the fortune teller who followed the old housekeeper Zhang Ji and walked in the door:

"Sir, I didn't find a place to stay, why are you still busy so late?"

"The old Bodhisattva is really fiery and gold," said the fortune teller, "and you are really right, the poor road has been busy, and he missed the night." ”

"Oh, I see. The old lady smiled and said, "Then it's okay, if the gentleman doesn't like the simplicity of the house, you might as well stay at the old house for one night!"

"No, no, of course not!" the fortune teller hurriedly said, "The prodigal person is very pleased to have a place to live, not to mention that it is a privilege to be in a rich and noble family like you!"

The old lady was full of joy when she heard this, and laughed again and again, "Then please ask Mr. to help me calculate a hexagram!" She said, "These **** right eyes are always jumping, and they are flustered at night, and they can't sleep for a long time!"

"Oh, I see!" said the gentleman, "then now the poor road will calculate a hexagram for the old lady, and the fortune of Bu Ji will be good and evil!"

"Good, good, good!" said the old lady excitedly.

So, the fortune teller took out a pair of trigrams from his coat, Kara, Kara, and shook them a few times in his hand! At this moment, there was a murmur outside the door, accompanied by the barking of dogs in all directions, getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, the lady panicked, and called the old butler Zhang Ji who was standing beside her and said:

"Zhang Ji, go and see what this door is turning upside down, what is it for!"

"Yes, ma'am!" said the old butler, and turned to go out of the house.

And the fortune teller observed the words and saw accurately, so he said:

"Old woman, please draw lots!"

So, absentmindedly, the old lady went to draw a lot in the lotter, and just as she handed it over to the fortune teller, there was a bang, bang, bang! Even Liu Yuanwai panicked, got up from the bed, put on his clothes and rushed to the hall to ask:

"Madam, what's going on, isn't it the officers and soldiers who are here!"

While talking, I only heard the courtyard door outside, babbling open, and I heard Zhang Ji shouting repeatedly:

"Master, there are a lot of officers and soldiers......"

In the meantime, the gentleman exclaimed:

"Madam, it's not good!"

When Liu Yuanwai and his wife heard this, they looked at the fortune teller in amazement, and asked:

"Sir, why are you afraid?"

"The ...... that Mrs. drew just now"

"What's going on?" asked Liu Yuanwai in fear.

"I'm afraid there will be alarming news!"

"What's the alarming?"

At the same time, when he saw that the officers and soldiers had already broken into the courtyard, the fortune teller hurriedly whispered:

"Don't panic outside the staff, watch me break these officers and soldiers!"