Yipin Danxian

Chapter 8

After Wu Sheng rushed to Suoyun Road, he chased after Dacaowei, and he continued to pursue it all the way.

But there is also an advantage, the farther away from Cuiyun Valley, the fewer people who know him, and the less risk of exposure when inquiring about news.

But Jin Wuhuan's whereabouts are still lost, and no one has seen him in this area.Wu Sheng was very worried. If he couldn't find Jin Wuhuan, how would he open the door of his practice?
After thinking hard, he came to Hongshanji, which is already the north entrance of Daze. After leaving Hongshanji, he left Yunmengze.

Hongshan Market is a small market. It is cold winter, and there are few people traveling, so it becomes more and more depressed.Wu Sheng came to a shop carrying wine, ordered a bowl of dried salted tofu, ordered half a can of rice wine, and served the wine with smoked fish.

The wine shop was very simple, with only half a broken wall and half a bamboo fence. The old man selling wine was leaning against the stove in the corner, warming Wu Sheng's wine. Besides, there was no one else in the shop.

After Wu Sheng ate two pieces of crispy rice, with something in his stomach, he slowly sipped rice wine and looked at the row of houses, large and small, across the street.Most of these houses are simple, usually with simple earthen walls and wooden doors, only one has a courtyard wall, and the door is covered with tiles.

Wu Sheng has only been to Hongshanji a few times, and they are all passing by without stopping, so he doesn't recognize it, but based on experience, he still locks on the house with the yard and observes quietly.

After sitting for a whole afternoon, I didn't observe any tricks. The gate of the courtyard was closed and no one came in or out.

After thinking for a moment, Wu Sheng turned his head and looked at the old man by the stove: "Old man, I'm asking you for someone."

The old man turned his head: "Who does the guest want to ask?"

Wu Sheng said: "Bu thirty."

The old man warmed up another bowl of wine, came over and poured it for Wu Sheng: "Is there anything the guest wants from him?"

Wu Sheng pointed to the small courtyard diagonally opposite: "Does he live there?"

The old man nodded: "Yes, but he is not at home and has gone out."

Wu Sheng was very disappointed. He had heard of the name of Bu Thirty, and it was said that he was very good at divination. People often came from far away to ask him to do fortune telling.

In the past, Wu Sheng didn't quite believe it, but now Wu Sheng believed it a little bit, so he came here to figure out where Jin Wuhuan was going.

"When can you come back?"

"The guest is trying to make a fortune?"

"Yes, I have a friend who can't visit me, so he left. I want to know where to find him."

"Bu Thirty will not come back."

"What do you mean by not coming back?"

"It means leaving."

"Why go?"

"The technique of divination has been banned by the Jixia Academy. I heard that recently there is an Academy walking around Daze. Why won't he leave and wait to be questioned?"

Wu Sheng was stunned, extremely depressed, he drank the wine in the bowl and put it heavily on the table, feeling like he had a lump in his chest.

The old man suddenly said: "However, the little old man can also pinch and count. If the guests don't mind it, the young old man can give it a try."

Wu Sheng's heart moved, and he stared at the old man: "The old man also understands divination?"

The old man shook his head: "I don't understand divination, but I know a thing or two about Qimen Dunjia."

Wu Sheng asked, "How much?"

The old man replied: "Thirty yuan."

Wu Sheng nodded slowly: "Okay, I would like to ask the old man to do the math."

The old man tapped the wooden table with his fingers, and Wu Sheng happily counted out thirty ant nose coins from the package: "Don't worry, it's not short of money!"

The old man wiped his sleeve, took the money, and asked, "Your friend's last name? Is it male or female?"

Wu Sheng said: "Jin family, man."

The old man touched his bosom, shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity that I didn't bring a gossip compass, it's better to keep it simple..."

He got up, bent down and walked around the door twice, pulled out a large handful of yarrow, looked outside vigilantly, and quickly pointed out fifty stalks with his fingers.He asked Wu Sheng to randomly choose one from the inside and put it aside.

Fifty is the number of Dayan, one is taken as Taiji, and the remaining 49 are also divided into two piles by Wu Sheng at will, which is called Liangyi.Then let Wu Sheng choose one from the random pile and put it next to it, which means "one life two, two begets three", which means that heaven, earth and man have all three talents.

After Wu Sheng finished dividing, the old man started to take over, his gaze was still scanning the outside, and his hands moved quickly, arranging the yarrow in groups of four...

Wu Sheng couldn't figure out the following steps and techniques. The old man kept fiddling with the yarrow, and at the same time directly memorized various runes on the ground with his fingers.

After a while, the old man said: "Di Shanqian."

Wu Sheng asked: "Why?"

The old man nodded: "What you plan to do will be successful."

Wu Sheng understood: "I can find it? Great! Then what? Where can I find it?"

The old man stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The grass is the divination first, and the tortoise is then the divination. No, the number is determined first, and then the image is obtained. This is the strange art of Dunjia."

Wu Sheng cupped his hands: "Then seek an image?"

The old man continued to tap on the wooden table with his fingers, and Wu Sheng was displeased with the sound of tapping: "Why do you want more?"

The old man smiled and said, "Chenghui, thirty dollars a time."

Wu Sheng came to his senses: "Oh——, it's been a long time, this is two times?"

Cursing inwardly, "You profiteer", I still had to pour out another [-] yuan, which rolled all over the table.

The old man wiped his sleeves, and the table returned to its original state, and then he started to touch his arms again: "Oh, there is no gossip compass." After saying that, he bent down, went to find a piece of tortoise shell under the earthen stove, dusted it off, and put the grass on it just now. The result of the divination was engraved on the shell of the tortoise and thrown into the stove pit.

There was a crackling sound, and the old man used tongs to pull the tortoise shell out of the pit, put it on his palm and looked at it, and Wu Sheng was shocked when he saw it, he was really not afraid of being burned.

"Northwest, three days."

"Northwest direction, walk for three days?"

"Is there another explanation?"

"How do you go? Fast or slow?"

"Whatever you want, anyway, it takes three days to walk fast, and three days to walk slowly, it's up to the guests."

So mysterious?Wu Sheng couldn't understand it. Looking at the old man, he didn't know whether to believe in his evil.

The old man was still circling around to observe the cracked lines on the tortoise shell, frowned and said: "The white tiger is heavy, it's fierce!"

Wu Sheng: "Can't find anyone?"

The old man smiled and shook his head: "Want to know?" There was another tap of fingers on the wooden table.

Wu Sheng's face darkened a little. Zou Qi gave some [-] ant nose money. He had already spent some before, but just now he took out [-] yuan twice, and he would be penniless if he gave it again.

"Old man, can I owe you first?" Wu Sheng began to lower the price.

"No more money?" The old man's expression turned pale.

Wu Sheng kept [-] for his family, and took out ten: "That's all, I'll give it to you when I come back next time?"

The old man shook his head: "I don't owe you anything on credit here." After finishing speaking, he swept his sleeves and wiped away the ten coins. After pondering, he took out a stick of incense from the leather pouch behind the stove: "This incense Count your ten dollars, keep it for self-defense, and have a pile of mud pills, put it away. Have you finished drinking? Go away quickly after drinking, walk around"

(End of this chapter)