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> (Part II)

The affairs of the world are in line with the old saying: no book is made without coincidence.

If Beimen Yunfei and the others had passed through the boundary between the east and west streets in the city a few minutes earlier or a few minutes later, which was also the crossroads of the road that Dingyuan City passed through the city from south to north, then they would not have met the old Dao and the old nun who had been searching for them for a while.

However, what should happen will happen, there are no ifs; It's like if Jing Ke stabbed the King of Qin to death, if Liu Bang died at the Hongmen Banquet, if Ma Jian didn't lose the street pavilion, if Li Shimin didn't kill his brother and prisoner father, if Li Zicheng didn't commit adultery with Chen Yuanyuan...... Maybe there would be no Qing Dynasty and the people and things in this story.

But history never ifs.

The thing is---

Almost ten days ago.

Phoenix Town, "Fortune Inn".

On that day, Shen Tianpeng, Li Yulong and others left the inn one after another.

The hall of the inn was in shambles, with more than a dozen dead bodies lying in pools of blood on the ground.

The shopkeeper and Xiao Er took the silver and went out to find someone to bury the body, and they haven't returned to the store yet.

The other tenants of the inn closed their doors for fear of getting into trouble.

As mentioned earlier, Li Yulong and his son had not yet walked out of the inn, when suddenly, in the hall of the inn, a "dead corpse" with no marks on its neck was resurrected like a "fraudulent corpse".

But he still didn't move, just opened his eyes slightly, and secretly glanced at the figure of Li Yulong's father and son moving back and forth.

As soon as Li Yulong's father and son left the inn, he immediately got up and looked around, and when there was no one, he staggered out of the door. Judging from his faltering gait and painful expression, it was clear that he had suffered serious internal injuries.

He is Hu Wei'e, a disciple of Zhuge Hong, the leader of the Zigong Salt Gang, formerly known as Hu Qiushan. Because people are short and ugly, with sharp-beaked monkey gills and roe deer rats, they are always bullied when they are young. After he couldn't stand his bitter begging, a Jianghu artist who played monkeys and acrobatics saw him pitiful and taught him some boxing and kick kung fu for free. fantasized about getting ahead and raising his eyebrows, so he practiced extremely hard. After a long time, he really practiced a little bit of a whirlwind with broken brick legs with his bare hands. Later, he worshiped under Zhuge Hong, the leader of the Zigong Salt Gang. Because of his growing skills, others are clever and resourceful, and he is good at flattery, so he won the trust of the helper Zhuge Hong and was appointed as the master of the Yunnan branch.

When he was full of ambition, he thought that the name of Huqiu Mountain taken by his parents was not good, so he found a sour Confucian and changed it to Hu Wei'e.

It's a pity that not long after, he was poured a basin of water on his head by a fortune teller: "Towering, good-sounding, good words, tall and magnificent, majestic...... But there's always something wrong. ”

This fortune teller's surname is Jiang, claiming to be the descendant of Jiang Ziya, known as "Jiang Tiezui", in the "thousand-year-old salt capital" Sichuan Zigong downtown opened a life hall, according to the gourd to draw scoops, with the ancestors of Jiang Ziya used couplets to decorate the façade---

A couplet outside the door: "An iron mouth can see through the evil and good in the world; Two strange eyes, good at the world's defeat and prosperity. ”

A couplet inside the door: "Only say a mysterious and a group of truths, not ordinary half a sentence." ”

Moreover, this "Jiang Tiezui" is by no means an ordinary warlock who has lost his name.

He has been familiar with Taigong > since he was a child, and he has studied > carefully, and has been widely involved in reading "Sushu", "The Secret Purpose of the Heart", "Five Elements Phase", "Three Worlds Phase", "Yuan Tiangang Called Bone Song", "Mai Phase", ...... Like many famous fortune tellers, he is not only good at reading the mind of the face, but also has some special functions of the unpredictable prophet. He can often predict in advance in his sleep the good fortune and bad luck that will happen. Because he didn't dare to guarantee that he could be 100% accurate in reading the hexagram and solving the fortune telling for others, he played some mathematical probability tricks for fortune telling: if the fortune telling is inaccurate, he will not receive a penny; If the lesson is accurate, Xie Yin will be doubled. With his fame, and some doorways and abilities, as long as he gets a few right every day, he will naturally earn two silver. Besides, in the face of his articulate speech, he used specious words to trick things around, and in half an hour, most of the people who begged him to read the hexagram and solve the fortune teller would inadvertently and without confessing to himself, and poured all his privacy such as joy, anger, sorrow, worry, and concern on his birthday, so there were few people who were completely inaccurate in a year.

Hu Wei'e also came here, wanting to get some good words from "Jiang Tiezui", but he didn't want to ......

But he was poured on his head by a basin of water from "Jiang Tiezui": "Majestic, good-sounding, good words, tall and magnificent, majestic...... But there's always something wrong. ”

"What's wrong?" Hu Wei'e was a little nervous.

"Although the name of the guest officer is good, but there is ominous hidden in the word, please look at the word towering: the word Wei, there is a ghost under the mountain; Ezi, I'm on the side of the mountain. To put it bluntly, guest officer, you and the female ghost in the straw at the foot of the mountain are neighbors, 'Woe and blessing rely on, and fortune and misfortune lie in wait.' 'Being neighbors with female ghosts is a blessing or a curse, it depends on the creation of the guest officer. Jiang Tiezui said. Then he strangely pinched his fingers and said to himself, "Towering, towering...... Feed the geese, feed the geese...... How do you feed a big living person? Chop it up with a knife?"

"Feed the goose after chopping your mother to pieces!" Hu Wei'e was listening to "Jiang Tiezui" saying that he was going to chop him up with a knife and feed the goose, he couldn't help but be angry, and he smoked from his seven orifices, and stepped forward to grab "Jiang Tiezui" and was about to do it, but fortunately he was persuaded by others to pull it away.

"If it weren't for everyone's faces, Lao Tzu would have demolished your life hall today. Old immortal, is this the place where you are talking nonsense on the ground of Zigong? Don't look at whose territory it is......" Although Hu Wei'e overturned the table of "Jiang Tiezui" and tore up the couplets, runes, charms, and stickers in order to vent his anger, he could not help but be afraid and fearful in his heart. Because he was telling fortunes, and "Jiang Tiezui" was counting, he wouldn't believe it all, but he couldn't believe it, he also wanted to leave quickly, and find a master to crack it in the future, so as soon as everyone was fighting, he also left along the steps given by others and scolded.

"Strange! Strange! Yu Guan This person will eventually fall into the mouth of the livestock, because what?" muttered in his mouth, "Jiang Tiezui" pinched his fingers and counted, and then sighed and sighed: "Alas, they are all sins created in the previous life, and it is the turn of this life to survive, and there is no way to hide. Towering, towering...... What could it be like a goose but not a goose? Alas, after all, my generation is still superficial in skill, and I can't guess the mystery and mystery of heaven's will!" Looking at the back of Hu Wei'e's departure, Jiang Tiezui was puzzled, and he was unwilling, but he was helpless.

Everyone thinks that "Jiang Tiezui" is an indignant statement, and they don't think so.