Xun is number four. To put it simply, it comes from Luo Shu, and actually comes from the image of its hexagram.

After saying the word, the next step is fortune telling. The number four has many meanings in life, such as fourth child, four rooms, four taels of silver, four hours, etc. The meaning may also be more secret, such as Ding, in counting

It's number four inside. Not to mention these things, the character for Ji looks like Shang He and Xia Mu, but it's actually Shang Mu and Xia Zi. The character for He is Mu. Old Luotou, let's see if your surname is Luo, which is also a compound of Shang and Xia.

The word, the top is four, and the bottom is dimension. Doesn’t the four correspond to the number four of the word quarter? You are destined to have no children in this life. The child is pressed by the tree and cannot get out or go up. The nephew leaves at the fourth watch, and the bride is the fourth.

Four days have passed since then. The two characters are mutually reinforcing and incompatible with each other. The confusion is really due to hexagrams...

After Wu Banxian vomited fragrance and opened his eyes to tell lies, Lao Luotou finally asked, "Isn't this obvious? So what?"

"Hey! Let's put it bluntly, at this age, marrying a younger one is out of the question, and besides, your surname is Ji."

At this moment, Old Luo Tou finally understood. He had been working as a clerk in the yamen for decades. If he couldn’t understand anymore, wouldn’t he be blind? He grabbed Wu Banxian’s lapel and said, “Well, you Wu Banxian is spreading rumors and causing trouble. You are telling lies.”

Lianpian, today I want to let you know that the water and fire sticks in the Yamen are not vegetarian." At this time, Old Luo Tou was still running errands in the Yamen. He seemed to have forgotten that he had already resigned and let his nephew take his place. But this momentum was really intimidating.

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I saw that Wu Banxian was also not giving up and said with his head stubbornly: "Old Luo Tou, can you do it but not say it?"

Old Luotou continued: "If I don't speak clearly today, I won't be done with you." This was related to his reputation. Old Luotou became anxious. As he spoke, he greeted Wu Banxian with a fist on his skinny monkey-like face. Wu Banxian immediately

Tears, nosebleeds, and tears came out.

Wu Banxian covered his nosebleed with one hand, grabbed Lao Luo Tou's hand with the other and shouted: "Everyone, come and see, Lao Luo Tou is disrespectful and eats ashes. Today he committed a crime in the street and beat people!"

With one voice, all the people on the street came.

Lao Luotou angrily pushed away Wu Banxian's hand, glared at him fiercely, and walked towards the Yamen regardless. Wu Banxian was not idle on this side either, covering his nosebleeds and talking to the melon-eaters who were watching the excitement.

Looking at what happened just now, what he said in the end was as unpleasant as it sounds, which immediately satisfied everyone's curiosity. However, some people advised that harmony is more valuable, why should it be like this? Some people said: "Old Luo Tou actually did it.

That’s not bad. It’s not just about picking up ashes at home. After being over fifty years old and having no children at home, it’s not just thinking about someone to accompany you at dusk. Someone is asking whether the porridge is warm. These are all human nature.” People who say these things

, in the past there were people who benefited from Lao Luo Tou, but on the other hand, there were also people who were afraid of the world being in chaos and not afraid of big things, so they encouraged Wu Banxian to make things big.

How to make it big? Lao Luotou used to be a public servant. He was just a fortune teller on the street. If he didn't ask for trouble, he would be too open-minded. He could only admit that he was unlucky and seek happiness.

Wu Banxian is also a scholar, so he can still see these things clearly. Thinking about how he failed in the government examinations every year after he was a child in the county examination in his early years, he had no choice but to put up a fortune-telling sign to make a living, but he just couldn't stand it.

Those things in the world are unfair, coupled with the desire to be a teacher and the scholarly spirit, I can't stop talking when my brain gets hot.

In addition to setting up fortune-telling stalls, there are also ghost-writing petitions, ghost-writing family letters, etc. There are many kinds of business projects. I also often write down various gossips I heard at the fortune-telling stalls, and record them every day, especially about some bizarre things. He was very interested in things or some trivial things in the market. For no other reason, he wrote them and sold them to booksellers and storytellers. Therefore, even though Wu Banxian was just a small table on the street, he could still support his family.

Wu Banxian's greatest specialty was the pen in his hand. He was so angry that he wrote a joke about his father-in-law removing ashes that night, adding more fuel and jealousy and secretly referring to Lao Luo Tou. Generally speaking, such short erotic jokes are the favorite of storytellers in some small shops. Wu Banxian was also a ruthless person, and he would write a joke whenever he wanted, but the father-in-law in the joke didn't even change his name, he just called him Lao Luotou.

Regarding the origin of the word "picking the dust", there are various versions of the legend. But the general meaning is the same. Anyway, it means that the husband and his daughter-in-law have such an affair! Of course, this "picking the dust" is just nonsense. A humorous saying. A more reliable version is the legend of the great scholar Su Dongpo. In ancient times, there was no family planning, and there was no late marriage. Therefore, in the land of China, men who have grandchildren at the age of 40 can be said to be everywhere.

The origin of the story is probably that Su Dongpo's son went to the capital for business and did not return for several months. On this day, early in the morning, Su Dongpo didn't know which muscle was wrong! He suddenly ran into his daughter-in-law's room. He only saw his daughter-in-law, who had a fat buttocks. It was laid out horizontally, facing the wall, lying on its side in the gauze tent. Su Dongpo pondered and decided to tease him! After all, he was a literati, so Su Dongpo wrote two lines of poetry with his fingers on the dusty table:

There is a pipa in the red tent,

I thought I was not good at playing the piano.

When I was about to write the last two sentences, I heard my wife shout: Mr. Master! Where did you die? Come and have breakfast soon...

What must be explained here is: in the old-fashioned houses in the past, the tiles were exposed. Whenever the wind blew, the old dust would fall all over the table and the ground. It happened that the wind blew all night long the night before. Therefore, the table was covered with dust. A layer of dust...

When Su Dongpo heard his wife shouting, he hurriedly exited his daughter-in-law's bedroom and went back to eat as if nothing had happened. However, he was worried about whether something might happen to the two lines of flirting poems on the table. So, After breakfast, Su Dongpo hurriedly returned to his wife's room. Hey, when Su Dongpo looked at the table, he was immediately dumbfounded! Because he found that the last two lines of the poem had been continued by someone. The whole poem was completed. Here are four sentences:

A pipa in the red tent

I think I’m not good at playing the piano

Lend my father-in-law to play a song

Don’t let the rich water fall into other people’s homes

Obviously, the last two lines of the poem were continued by his wife. Of course, this made Su Dongpo extremely happy. But just when he was so happy that his wife suddenly appeared behind him.

"You old thing, staring at the table, what are you looking at..."

This "greeting" from his wife suddenly woke up Su Dongpo, who was immersed in his dream of peach blossoms. He hurriedly picked up the dust on the table with his hands to cover up the love poems on the table...

So, "grabbing ashes"! This classic word that people talk about came into being.

This is a story that uses the influence of celebrities to explain the story. Generally speaking, the story should not be taken seriously. The story may be a random fabrication by literati, just for everyone's amusement, just like those pornographic jokes on the Internet now. Because later, some people blamed Wang Anshi for this story of removing ashes, saying that Wang Anshi was lustful by nature. These four poems about removing ashes are Wang Anshi's stunning masterpiece.

However, there are also some theories. A lot of tin foil was burned in the temple, and it grew into large pieces over time, so some monks took it out and sold it. Because tin and daughter-in-law have the same pronunciation, people also extended it to a lingo for father-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Another version is that the daughter-in-law's daily task is to clean the ashes under the stove. If the father-in-law wants to invite his daughter-in-law, he will put some broken silver in the ashes of the stove. The daughter-in-law will see it when she is removing the ashes.

"Pick up the ashes", using the simplest two words, explains the incestuous behavior...

In the Ming Dynasty, this was a dirty joke. Let’s not talk about whether other people used it as a curse. If it did, it would not lead to lawsuits. Just like many descriptions in "The Red Mansion", describing the relationship between men and women in ancient times.

Chaos.

But he said that that day, Lao Luotou couldn't find his nephew Chu Guiping, and he made trouble with Wu Banxian. He was very angry. After a few days, it was really hard to live alone at home with no one to serve him, so he prepared some "gifts" and went.

Jijiazhuang invited Ms. Ji to go back to her husband's house, thinking that since Ms. Ji had passed away, if she didn't go back to her parents' home, where would the old Luo family lose their face?

In fact, Old Luo couldn't find Chu Guiping that day, and Chu Guiping deliberately avoided him. Chu Guiping's life had been relaxed and unrestrained these days. The old madam sent Mr. Turtle to bring food and utensils, but he stuck to him and entangled him.

If you don’t let go of Chu Guiping, you’re a handsome man. Old women in the Ming Dynasty prefer young girls. Women under forty years old were old and yellow in the Ming Dynasty, but in the future, such mature women will be more attractive.

man.

In Juancheng, Zhang Zian took his wife, children and family to visit his aunt Cao Yuanwai's house. Over the years, Zhang Zian would sometimes pass by his aunt's house when he went out on business, and would stay here for a few days. It can be said that he is familiar with the road, and Cao Yuanwai has become familiar with it.

It's not annoying for Zhang Zian to come often, and I'm looking forward to it. The reason is for no other reason than to let Zhang Zian talk about the outside world, that is, some outside news to relieve his boredom.

The ancients were very particular about the division of different ages in life. Confucius said: "When I am fifteen, I am determined to learn; when I am thirty, I am established; at forty, I am not confused; at fifty, I know the destiny; at sixty, my ears are obedient; at seventy, I follow my heart's desires.

"Don't break the rules." It means "I am determined to study at the age of fifteen; I can stand on my own at the age of thirty; I can not be confused by external things at the age of forty; I understand the destiny at the age of fifty; I can treat all kinds of opinions correctly at the age of sixty.

, I don’t feel uncomfortable; at seventy, I can do whatever I want without going beyond the rules.”

Yuan Cao's family was considered a prominent figure in Juancheng. They not only had a wife but also two concubines. However, they were not rich after their death. They had six daughters and one son. Why was such a large family called not rich? Because in ancient times, daughters were not counted in the family.

, so even though Cao Yuan’s family has many children, they are actually very thin. This single Miao Miao has been Cao Yuan’s baby since birth, and she is extremely doted on.
Chapter completed!