This young man was Zhu Kui. After arriving at the Maoting, he put down the burden on his shoulders and sat on the stone pier. He crossed his legs slightly, took off the water bag from his waist, and raised his head to drink.
He raised the sleeves of his Confucian robe and wiped it hard. On a cold day, if you don't wipe the edge of your mouth, the water stains will freeze into ice, and the skin will easily crack.
Suddenly, Zhu Kui felt that someone was staring at him. He looked up and then remembered that there were two people in the pavilion. If he was careless and made a fool of himself, he would be laughed at.
The young man surnamed Zhao and the young man surnamed Wu were chatting when they suddenly saw someone approaching. They immediately stopped talking. When they saw that it was just a child, it was not a taboo. They decided in their hearts that children knew nothing.
However, the boy Zhu Kui's dress and movements really impressed him. The neat scholar's clothes, silk and satin, could be seen at a glance to be of good quality. However, the burden on his shoulders and the way he sat with his legs were so sloppy and casual.
Suddenly it became extremely weird.
These are all gentlemen and scholars from wealthy families, or wild boys from mountain people's families.
"Well, I'm sorry, gentlemen, please continue. I'll take a break and leave." Zhu Kui said awkwardly and sat aside to show that he would not disturb them.
The young man surnamed Zhao was suddenly startled when Zhu Kui turned around. His eyes flashed, as if he had discovered something. His hands folded in his sleeves to keep warm, his fingers inadvertently bounced a few times, and his eyebrows flickered.
He immediately picked it up and was about to ask something.
The young man surnamed Wu interrupted his thoughts and continued chatting: "Brother, you just mentioned that Master Shan Fu said that there are three signs in the stars in the sky, which means that there are three disasters in the world? Is there any evidence?"
"Destiny is unpredictable. Teacher can only observe the sky and feel it vaguely. To be more specific, he can only calculate that three parts of the dragon's energy are in the southeast."
"Southeast?" the young man named Wu asked tentatively.
"Yes, my dear brother, do you remember that four hundred years ago, the First Emperor went on patrol five times to Jinling, the capital of Chu?" asked the young man surnamed Zhao.
"Of course we know that in the past, some alchemists saw the steep mountains and dangerous terrain around Jinling, so they told the First Emperor that Jinling had the spirit of the emperor, so he was tabooed by the First Emperor, and ordered people to dig Fangshan to make the Huaihe River flow through Jinling.
He vented his anger and changed Jinling's name to Moling. "Mo" means fodder, which means that this place should not be called Jinling and can only be demoted to a horse ranch. Now four hundred years have passed, brother, what do you mean?" Wu
The young man obviously guessed the answer and asked.
The young man surnamed Zhao nodded and explained: "Although those alchemists carved out Fangshan Mountain, the dragon energy they removed did not dissipate. Instead, it secretly gathered in the Zhongshan Mountains next to it. The four hundred years of dragon energy...
The gathering and transformation of Qi caused the entire mountain range to become a kind of winding dragon. The mountains, water and county are integrated into one, majestic and majestic. The teacher called it "a tiger sitting on a dragon's plate."
"If the world is divided into three parts, Moling County is the seat of one of the three parts of dragon energy."
"Haha." The young man surnamed Wu suddenly laughed after hearing this and said: "In the past, the Xiang family squandered all the dragon energy in Jiangdong and killed himself in the Wujiang River. As a result, Jiangdong has not been able to enter the center of the world or the center of the imperial court for four hundred years.
Without vigorous development, most of Jiangdong is still a wasteland."
"If Jiangdong becomes an independent country, it will have much better prospects and be more prosperous than if it belonged to the Han Dynasty."
Zhu Kui listened to the conversation between the two and secretly laughed in his heart. These two people are so bold. Although these alchemists and fortune tellers dress up as Confucian scholars, they only have destiny in their hearts and have no loyalty and benevolence. Dragon Qi? Stars? These are the opposite. It sounds so real and illusory that ordinary people can hardly understand it.
Superstition cannot be disbelieved, nor can it be fully believed in. Zhu Kui maintains this mentality no matter in his past life or in this life.
During this period of time, he has been studying the eight groups of symbols of Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, Dui in Bagua, various arrays, or how they are related to various elements in the world, which is mysterious and mysterious. , I wonder if he was influenced by science in his previous life, but he is very good at reciting, algorithms and other skills, and can quickly and easily understand and analyze any organized and logical knowledge.
It's a pity that the Yi Jing is very mysterious. Although there are arrangements and algorithms, the results obtained are not unique. For example, what is one plus one? In the Yi Jing, the answer can be one, or it can be two, or even more Mysterious and mysterious things, the answer can change again and again depending on what any calculator thinks.
Dragon Qi, Five Elements Feng Shui, Zhu Kui naturally asked Zhang Jian for advice on these terms that he had heard in his previous life, but Zhang Jian gave him an unexpected answer...
Alchemists and sorcerers are completely different from scholars who are proficient in the Yi. Although they all study the Yi Jing and can do divination, these alchemists have an innate ability. According to the teacher, they can use their eyes to condense the hexagrams arranged in the universe and eight trigrams. As images, of course these images can only be seen by themselves. As teachers, they do not have this talent, and of course, teachers do not disdain this talent.
The sage said that if a gentleman is magnanimous and upright, he has nothing to fear from gods, ghosts and destiny.
Zhu Kui was gifted with extraordinary talent. He thought about it and wondered if there was something different from ordinary people. After some thought, he thought that maybe the crystal spheres in these people's eyes were different from ordinary people, more convex or concave, resulting in some variation in the three-point imaging. Under certain circumstances, your eyes will see illusions. Just like what the two young men in front of you said about a tiger perched on a dragon's disk or about a dragon aura filling the air, they were actually all illusions.
The more Zhu Kui thought about it, the more it made sense. Because of this "extraordinary talent", the so-called Feng Shui Warlock has always been a rare profession.
Zhu Kui secretly took a look at the eyes of the two young men and dug out the four eyeballs to see if they had strange shapes, which would prove his conjecture, Zhu Kui thought evilly in his heart.
Being watched secretly and thinking in secret, young men Zhao and Wu were unaware that their conversation was almost over. The young man surnamed Zhao said, "Dear brother, do you know that Ma Yuanyi?"
"Huh? What's wrong?"
"He is actually the nephew of my mentor's friend, Mr. Yu Ji. He came here in the name of paying homage. At the same time, he asked my brother if he knew the whereabouts of Mr. Zhang Jian, one of the Eight Horsemen of Jiangxia." said the young man surnamed Zhao.
"Oh, I returned home from the north. As soon as I entered Guangling County, I felt that Taiping Dao believers in various counties were extremely active. I also heard that Mr. Zhang Jian lived in seclusion in Guangling County to avoid being arrested by the court. But Ma Yuanyi also came to inquire, but why? "The young man surnamed Wu said while thinking.
"Well, maybe I didn't know the reason just now. When I heard about my virtuous brother going north to the Central Plains to peep at the bloody destiny, I finally understood that since the second party ban, a large number of party members have been expelled and persecuted by the imperial court. That Taiping If Taoist people have rebellious intentions, they must want to recruit these frustrated party members for their own use. Zhang Jian is a famous person in Jiangxia, and he has been accused of rebellion. It must be much easier to recruit him. If there are famous people in the world to help him, it will be of great benefit to the great cause."
The young man surnamed Zhao expressed his guess, but in his heart he did not believe that these party members would vote for Taiping Dao. You should know that the party members were mostly Confucian disciples.
A celebrity, on the other hand, would expose Taiping Dao's ambitions in the scholarly community and make a huge miscalculation.
It seems that Zhang Jiao is just like this. The difficult celestial phenomenon shows that the dragon energy is divided into three parts, rather than the yellow sky coming to the world.
"No matter what Taipingdao wants to do, I benefited a lot from discussing it with my brother today. Since Jiangdong is protected by dragon energy, hiding in Jiangdong for refuge is really the best choice." The young man surnamed Wu said hahaly, looking disgusted.
Li Hongchen was cold, looked at the time in the sky, and said goodbye: "It's getting late, and it's time for my dear brother to set off back to Kuaiji County. My brother sent me to the pavilion outside the city. My dear brother will bear in mind his great affection.
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"You and I have known each other since we were young. It's only right to send you out of the city. After I finish keeping vigil for my teacher, I will go to Kuaiji County to look for my virtuous brother." The young man surnamed Zhao said in farewell.
"Take care of yourself!"
"Take care of yourself!"
After the young man surnamed Wu left, the young man surnamed Zhao watched his friend disappear on the official road. He turned around and was about to leave. Suddenly he came back to his senses and looked for Mao Ting. He was actually looking for Zhu Kui.
figure.
"When did that young man leave?" The young man named Zhao looked surprised. Without paying attention, the whole young man walked away from him without even knowing it.
He sighed and murmured: "High nose, long eyes, and five pillars on the forehead. These are jade pillar bones. I am different from Brother Wu Xian. I only inherited the Nine Palaces physiognomy from my teacher. The young man just looked at it,
The bones of the jade pillar actually gave me the feeling of a real dragon coming to the world, surrounded by that golden light, which shocked the mind."
"Hey, I don't want to be careless and miss this young man. I will go back and take a bath to do my fortune-telling again. I met him by chance today, and there will be a connection with him in the future. This is something that cannot be avoided. I hope it is not a bad divination."
Zhao thought about it and quickly returned to the city, continuing to comprehend the illusion seen through those "strange eyes".