Chapter 53 Xiajun Prefecture (5)
This Taoist priest who can calculate and calculate looks only in his early thirties. His small eyes were half open and half closed, and he looked at Liu Yixuan and Ling'er walking in front of the stall.
The Taoist priest saw Liu Yixuan also looking at him, thinking in his mind that this might not be a business that was delivered to the door again, so he shook his head loudly and said, "You can know life and death, you can count misfortunes and good fortunes, and you can sign and divine things, and you can do everything!"
When Liu Yixuan heard this, he became interested and hurriedly walked to the front of the hexagram stall with Ling'er.
When the Taoist priest saw that the business came to his door, how could he be unhappy? He quickly asked him enthusiastically: "This guest official? Are you going to tell fortunes?"
"you guess!"
"I...I guess? I saw that the young master had a little worry in his eyebrows. I guess...I think I must have encountered something upset!"
"Wow, what a living god! You're so accurate!" Liu Yixuan praised in surprise, which scared the Taoist priest and wondered: "What's wrong with this person? He was shocked! I just said something, and he praised this, and I guess he was also an ignorant boy!"
"Haha, the young master has been awarded too much. I have returned from learning art in Zhongnan Mountain. I can know life and death and be considered a blessing and good fortune. What trouble do you have? How about I give you a divination?"
"Okay, do you want money?" Liu Yixuan asked him deliberately.
"Young Master is joking, right? Although I have learned some skills in asking for divination, I am still a flesh and blood body, so I have to make a living, right? Haha, if the young master thinks that Xiao Dao is accurate, I can only give me some money to pay for me!"
"Haha, you Taoist priest is easy to satisfy, but it's not easy to have a meal? I'll invite you to have a good meal today. What do you think?" Liu Yixuan saw that although this Taoist priest was a liar in the world, he was also honest and cute.
"Haha, young master, don't play tricks on the path. How could you let the young master treat you for no reason?" The Taoist priest obviously didn't believe it after hearing Liu Yixuan's words. In the past, the guests would give people hundreds or eighty copper coins. Even if they met a generous person, they would just give him a hang of money. Today, when he met Liu Yixuan, although he looked like he was dressed as a rich young man, he would not invite him to dinner for no reason.
"How could I play tricks on you? Did you see the prince's mansion over there? The old prince has always liked to seek immortality and asked, I will take you to their house for dinner today!" Liu Yixuan said, pointing at the high wall of the prince's mansion in the distance.
After hearing this, the Taoist priest felt that it was unreliable, so he smiled and said, "Young Master, don't joke! The old prince likes to seek immortals and asks the Tao. How can the villain not know? But the people who can visit the Prince's Mansion on weekdays are Taoist priests with profound Taoism, or famous scholars who travel here, and those who make money on the streets like the Taoist priests can enter the Prince's Mansion?"
"Why can't you get in? Is it okay? As long as you follow my instructions, I'll keep you from getting in!" Liu Yixuan had a plan and wanted to use this Taoist priest to sneak into the Prince's Mansion.
"I won't go. If you are telling fortunes, I will give you a fortune. If you don't, please go somewhere else." The Taoist priest shook his head as he said, not willing to follow him.
"This... you are so timid! You don't even have this courage. No wonder you can only live by cheating!" Seeing that the Taoist priest refused to help, Liu Yixuan said, "Since you don't want to help me, I will go by myself. I have one or two silver patterns here. I want to rent these outfits for use. Do you see enough?"
When the Taoist heard this, he became energetic. His divination stall had a broken table and a signboard, and he sold it for only five cents of silver. When he heard that Liu Yixuan wanted to rent it for one tael of silver, how could he not be willing? This tael of silver could be exchanged for one thousand copper coins, which would be enough for him to eat several meals.
"Haha, that's right, Xiaodao can consider it. I wonder what the young master wants to rent my ancestry for?" The Taoist asked him with a smile.
"Don't you calculate it? Come and ask me! You took off your Taoist robe, I want to borrow it!" Liu Yixuan pointed to the worn Taoist robe on the Taoist priest's body.
"Xiaodao's robe is dirty and torn, so why did the young master wear it?"
"Don't worry about that. Since you don't have the courage to go to the Prince's Mansion to have a meal, then we'll go!" Liu Yixuan said, while covering the Taoist robe of the Taoist priest, which was fresh and fun. He took off the Taoist priest's head with two holes and put it on himself.
Liu Yixuan changed his clothes and turned around on the street. Seeing that he was holding yin and yang and wearing gossip, he felt interesting. He even deliberately bowed to Ling'er and said, "I am extremely grateful to Buddha! I am polite!" Ling'er made him laugh at him.
Liu Yixuan said to the Taoist priest again: "You can have a day off today. At this time tomorrow, I will return your outfit to continue practicing!" Then he took out a tael of silver and gave it to him.
This Taoist priest was still confused after taking the silver. Are these young men so idle all day long? Why do you lend me this torn clothes for me? Is there something good in the prince's mansion? This Taoist priest really regrets when he thinks about this. If there is really something beautiful, wouldn't he have missed it? While thinking about it, he saw Liu Yixuan and Ling'er have already walked away.
The Taoist was touching his head and was confused, but he felt someone patting his shoulder. The Taoist looked back and saw a man dressed in a servant. The man was mysterious and had long been hiding in the corner next to the divination stall. When he saw Liu Yixuan and Ling'er leaving, he came out to inquire about the news.
"What did those two people just said to you?" the man asked.
"Who are you? Why do you want to tell you!" The Taoist priest felt that this person was very rude. He patted his shoulder without saying hello and asked him about other people's news.
The man took out a tael of silver from his sleeve and said, "Tell me, this is yours."
When the Taoist priest saw that there was silver, he immediately felt that he had a great fortune today. He earned two taels of silver without calculating one fortune. He quickly told the man what had just happened.
But Liu Yixuan and Ling'er left the decoction stall and came straight to the gate of the County Prince's Mansion. Liu Yixuan asked Ling'er: "Look at how I wear this outfit? Does it feel like I am so fairy-like?"
Ling'er stuck out her tongue and said, "It's so ugly! This Taoist's clothes are torn and dirty. Why is Brother Xuan wearing them?"
"You don't understand, it's called to be on his own preferences! Since this old prince likes Taoist priest You Fang, I dressed up as a Taoist priest. If I don't believe that he won't see me!" Then he walked into the mansion.
Several servants at the door of the royal mansion were dozing off. Liu Yixuan almost walked in with a swagger, but was seen by a younger servant and stopped him quickly.
"Hey hey! How can you follow your door to your house? Yes! This is the Prince's Mansion, you can't just enter casually! Let's go away quickly!" The servant shouted, awakening the other servants, and hurriedly walked over to stop them.
"I'm sorry, please come in and report it. I'm a Taoist priest from the capital. I heard that the old man likes to find immortals and ask, so I'm here to visit me!" Liu Yixuan tidied up his clothes and looked like a master.
The servant looked at Liu Yixuan's outfit, which was dirty and broken, and it looked like that from the capital. He said, "You Taoist priest, you dare to come to see our master in such a dress? I'm afraid you are a wild Taoist priest who cheats food and drinks! If you come to Huazhai and invite him to the west corner gate, where will anyone give you vegetarian food!"
After hearing this, Liu Yixuan felt angry, "It's really a puppy to see people as lowly. People should not behave like appearances, and the sea water should not be measured. Damn, the gate of the county prince's mansion is harder to enter than the municipal government!"
Although Liu Yixuan was angry, he had to ask for good words on his face. "I am not here to Huazhai, I just want to visit your master, and I also ask the boy to come and report it."
The servant looked at Liu Yixuan and Ling'er. They were all fair and clean. They didn't look like people from the mountains and fields who ate vegetarian all day long. They might not be able to come to pay their respects to their masters. Besides, the princes of Junzhou are not allowed to insult monks and slander Taoism every day. Any monks and Taoists who come to beg for alms will give them some vegetarian food.
"You Taoist priest, I'll ask you, which Taoist temple you are placing an order? What is the Taoist number? Since you are visiting my master, will you submit a message?"
When Liu Yixuan was asked this, he was not prepared for a while and could only talk nonsense.
"I am the real person Shaoxu from the Blue and White Temple in Kaifeng Prefecture. Because I came in a hurry and never brought a message to you!"
When this servant heard "Shaoxu True Man", it was quite mysterious. He might not be a famous Taoist priest. He just didn't have a reply to his master for a while.
"You have not paid a visit, why should I tell our master? Anyone who comes to pay a visit to our master must present the visit!" said the servant.
"This...it's not difficult. I will use the four treasures of the study in the gatehouse of your mansion to write a greeting!" Liu Yixuan heard the servant ask him for a visit, and probably believed that he believed in his identity. At this time, only one visiting book was missing.
When the servant saw him say this, he agreed to his request and took him to the doorman. Any such rich family had to keep records in the doorman when they were traveling, so a gentleman who could read and read had to be specially arranged in the doorman.
Liu Yixuan took the paper and pen, but he didn't know what format the Northern Song Dynasty prayer book was, whether to start with spaces? Should I call it a colon? I just regretted that I didn't listen to the class carefully, and I couldn't even remember the format of writing the letter.
He suddenly remembered a calligraphy work by Wang Xizhi - "Quick Snow Shiqing Tie". This work was the favorite of Emperor Qianlong. It is now the treasure of the Forbidden City in Taipei. The first four words are: "Xizhi paused his head", so he also picked up his pen and wrote: "Shaoxu paused his head". He couldn't write it any further, so he had to compile a lilac poem to express his purpose.
Liu Yixuan wrote the post and looked at it with satisfaction. He boasted proudly: "I am a talented man, and it turns out to be true!" He blew the ink marks with his mouth and handed them over to the servant, saying, "Then I'll have a hard time!"
The servant received the letter and instructed him: "I'll go and inform you now, don't walk around casually!"
Liu Yixuan quickly agreed, "You go quickly, I won't run around!"
The servant ran into the mansion gate and headed straight to the study of the prince of Junzhou. At this time, Xiang Zhonghui was enjoying porcelain in the study, but heard a servant at the door report: "Report to the master, a Taoist priest came outside the door, saying that he wanted to see you?"
"Taoist priest? I didn't invite Taoist priest to the mansion today?"
"He said he came from the capital, and his name was 'Zixu Zhenren', and he said he was here to visit the master!"
"Zixu Zhenren? I haven't heard of it! Did he send a message to him?"
"Yes, the little one is here!"
"Oh, let's show it to me."
Xiang Zhonghui opened the greeting letter, and saw that the ink trace was still new. He was probably written in the doorman, but then he looked at the content, but it was a poem:
A letter from the door was dumbfounded.
Don’t talk about scriptures or Taoism, just for the map of the river on the Qingming Festival!
When Xiang Zhonghui saw the handwriting of this prayer book was sloppy and had no beauty at all. He originally wanted to refuse to see it, but when he saw the five words "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", his heart skipped a beat again.
Xiang Zhonghui took this letter of worship and could see that the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was secretly given to him by Emperor Huizong in the sixth year of Xuanhe. No one in the prince's mansion had known this painting except his two sons. Since Xiang Zhonghui got this painting, he had always hid it in the secret room of the study and never mentioned it to any outsider. He couldn't help but ask: "This painting was secretly given to me by the Emperor of the Supreme. Who is this Taoist priest? Where did he know that this painting was in my hands?"
"Hurry up and invite me!" Xiang Zhonghui decided to meet the uninvited guest outside the door. It was precisely: a stone stirred up a thousand layers of waves, and a painting reopened the dream for a thousand years. After all, what kind of ups and downs will this "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" cause? Let's wait for the following!
Chapter completed!