Five miles northwest of Xiangyang Town, there is a small village with only sixty or seventy households, and the small house in the courtyard of the east head of the village has been living in it since the end of February half a year ago, when a blind fortune teller came to wander around.

However, tonight, the blind fortune teller did not stay in the small room of the sub-courtyard, but was invited to his home by Sui Tongzhi.

The husband and wife prepared three side dishes and talked while drinking with the blind fortune teller.

"Sir, nothing will happen to you, will you?"

"No, the old lady of the Sui family has always believed in it. ”

At this time, Sui Tongzhi's daughter-in-law couldn't help but interject and ask:

"It stands to reason that it's time for Xia Er to come back. ”

As he spoke, he didn't forget to look twice into the bright moon field outside the house.

"Sister-in-law of the Sui family, don't worry, there will be no accidents. ”

As soon as the blind fortune teller's voice fell, he heard a rush of footsteps from far and near outside, and at the same time, a voice like a broken gong came in.

"Don't let me catch you, that damn blind man. ”

"Xia'er, what are you talking about, Mr. has been waiting for you to come back. Is everything done?"

Sui Tongzhi also asked anxiously:

"Xia'er, did Sui Jingchun agree?"

The one who stepped into the house was the thin figure who was scolding on the side of the path behind Xiangyang Town. I didn't pay attention to the questioning of Sui Tongzhi and his wife, and saw the blind fortune teller sitting there drinking, and went up to kick the blind man's big crotch, almost kicking the blind man to the table.

scolded loudly in his mouth:

"You old deceitful old thing, you actually deceived the master. ”

"Xia'er, what are you doing?!"

Sui Tongzhi stood up, hurriedly pulled his son aside, and apologized to the blind man who was kicked and his face was full of anger, saying:

"Sir, don't be like a child. ”

The woman grabbed the son who was about to step forward to kill the husband, and after complaining for a few words, she asked anxiously:

"What's wrong, didn't it work out?"

"What is it?, you ask him, what about the rabbit?!"

The blind fortune teller also heard it at this time, and after taking other people's money and eating other people's wine and food, how could it not be done if he really hoped to be sure of nine out of ten? In a hurry, he even forgot that he had just been kicked, and said in his mouth:

"No, the hexagram is very clear. The hexagram is the same person, and it becomes not. Homo Yu Ye,Heng。 No, the bandits are not conducive to the gentleman's chastity, and they come and go. ”

Thinking this, the blind man suddenly raised his head and asked:

"Did you go north of the town at the end of the day, as I said?"

When asked by the blind fortune teller, Sui Xia, the only son of Sui Tongzhi and his wife, who had no flesh on his cheeks and sunken eyes, couldn't help but stand up. Under the repeated urging of the blind fortune teller and his parents, he said without confidence:

"I, I was delayed for a while when I encountered something on the way, but I ....... ”

"No, you definitely didn't rush over at the unitary time, you must have gone after the unitary time, and the rabbit in the quilt had been picked up, didn't you?"

"I only arrived after the unitary hour, how can you be sure that someone picked it up, not that it was not trapped?"

When the blind fortune teller heard this, he snorted angrily, stood up, ignored Sui Tongzhi and his wife, who apologized repeatedly, touched the bamboo pole leaning on the door, knocked on the ground, and walked step by step.

It turned out that Sui Tongzhi had been working part-time at the Sui family in Xiangyang Town in recent years. Although it is now after autumn, there is no urgent work to do, but there are constant things in the crops all year round, such as transporting spring fertilizer to the fields before the heavy snow closes the road after the autumn harvest, so Sui Tongzhi still goes over every day to do a morning, and only goes home in the afternoon to work on his own affairs.

Seeing that his son Sui Xia will be eighteen years old after the New Year, according to local customs, he should have married a wife and separated his family to live another life, but Sui Xia didn't even say anything about his daughter-in-law. Because of this one child, although the family is not wealthy, Sui Xia has been pampered by the couple since he was a child, and he has developed a bad problem.

It's lazy not to mention, and in recent years, I've learned to play with money. Sui Tongzhi and his wife naturally would not take their hard-earned money to spoil him, so Sui Xia actually began to steal chickens and dogs, disturbing the neighbors. As a result, it is even more difficult to talk about family affairs.

It just so happened that the eldest grandson of the Sui family, that is, Sui Jingchun's eldest son, was going to study in the city recently, and he planned to take the Xiucai exam next spring, and he needed to find a scholar to accompany him. Sui Tongzhi, who heard the news, couldn't help but move his mind.

When Sui Xia was six years old, Sui Tongzhi also sent him to school, but after less than a year, Sui Xia said that he would not go. Fortunately, for most of the year, I can remember a few words, and I am not blind.

Although Sui Xia's age no longer meets the requirements of the old lady of Sui Jingchun's family, just because Sui Xia is small, Sui Tongzhi went home and discussed it with his daughter-in-law, and still planned to let his son try it. What the couple likes even more is that their son, who has always been disobedient, nodded happily in agreement this time.

So, the family worried about it.

First, he invited the blind fortune teller to his home and calculated a hexagram for his son, and when he saw the blind fortune teller shaking his head, the couple's originally eager hearts cooled down for a while.

Or Sui Tongzhi had an extra heart, and tentatively asked the blind fortune teller and said:

"Sir, is there no hope at all?"

"It's not that there is no hope at all, isn't there a saying that things are done by people?"

Seeing hope, the husband and wife hurriedly asked what was going on, and after the blind man said the following words, the couple finally smiled.

"If you are sincere, the old blind man can help. ”

There are not many people who really don't want to get rich, especially the blind who wander around and make a living from fortune telling. Seeing that winter is coming, if you don't want to find a way to get some money, this winter will be really difficult. Therefore, knowing that Sui Tongzhi and his wife were anxious to find a good way out for their son, the blind fortune teller also started to think crookedly.

The three of them discussed the rhetoric, and also agreed on the reward for the blind man, a total of two taels of silver, eight cents in advance, and another one tael and eight cents after the deed was completed (at that time it was a hexadecimal system).

The next day, the blind fortune teller went to Xiangyang Town to wander around, and the old lady Sui, who was concentrating on the fame of her eldest grandson, invited the blind man to her home without accident. After a moment of pretense and calculation, the blind man spoke:

"Your son is a tiger, and it's the end of autumn. Autumn is also killed. The future of the noble son is worrying, and it is inevitable that there will be a bloody disaster. ”

This sentence alone tightened the heart of the old lady Sui, and she didn't even think about whether the blind man was deliberately scaring people, and hurriedly asked:

"Sir, is there a way to crack it?"

The blind man deliberately paused for a moment before he said in an extremely reluctant tone:

"It's not nothing, just ask your son to have a companion to read, but it's ....... ”

The blind man's following meaning was originally to say that the eight characters of the birthday that he invited to read to solve Sui Xing's so-called bloody disaster. Unexpectedly, the old lady Sui was anxious for a while, and mistakenly thought that the fortune teller was going to talk about the reward first, so she immediately interrupted the conversation and said:

"Sir, rest assured, as long as the grandson is safe and sound, a little silver tael, our Sui family can still get it. As it happens, we are also looking for a suitable companion for our grandson. ”

Isn't it just money for a blind fortune teller? When I heard this, I also came to my senses.

"Judging from the genus of your son, it is suitable to find a pig companion to read. Yin Tiger Hai pig, Yin Changsheng in Hai. Therefore, if there is danger on the way, it is natural that there is also a pig companion instead. ”

"Pigs? Pigs are thirteen years old this year, less than fourteen, and the age is appropriate. Just in a hurry, where can I find such a suitable person?"

Listening to Mrs. Sui's words, the blind man couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart, and sure enough, it was all as he had guessed in advance. So he pondered for a while before he read the following four sentences:

"When the moon rises and the moon rises, the sky lights up according to people's wishes.

The figure of the hare in his hand is thin, and the people from the north of the town are in the shadow of the moon. ”

Worried that the old lady of the Sui family would not understand, she explained it carefully again.

"Sir, do you mean that the children who are suitable for my grandson's companions will not come from the north of the town until after the moonrise on the evening of August 16, and they still carry rabbits in their hands?"

"Yes, yes. ”

I sent away the fortune teller with great expectations, and naturally I didn't give less money.

Therefore, before the time of August 16, the old lady Sui ordered someone to light a candle, sat and waited in the hall of the main house, waiting for the pig boy who was suitable to be the eldest grandson Sui Xing's scholar to come to the door. Only then did Wu Zheng appear that he was inexplicably dragged to his home and became a scholar of Sui Xing in a daze.

Speaking of which, the blind fortune tellers who walk the streets and alleys all the year round are not all nonsense, such as whether Sui Xia can catch a rabbit on the evening of August 16 and other small things, it can still be calculated accurately.

The reason why they have to spend so much time is naturally that Sui Tongzhi and his wife are worried that the old lady of the Sui family will not look down on their son Sui Xia, so they begged the blind fortune teller to help him, so that the old lady of the Sui family is superstitious, and the child who appears according to the words of the fortune teller is the destined companion of the eldest grandson Sui Xing.

After all, Sui Xia is seventeen years old, almost eighteen years old, and no one would look for such a big scholar. It was only because of his small size that he deliberately made up a reason for a child who was a pig to read to Sui Xing, who was a tiger, and planned to let Sui Xia hide his age and appear as a pig.

But people are not as good as heaven, and the Sui Tongzhi family, who worked hard, didn't expect anything, and after working for a few days, they spent money and invited the blind to drink, but they let Wu Zheng, who happened to appear, pick up ready-made.