Chapter 15 Pavilion Soap Puppet
Chapter 15 Ge Zao Puppet ()
Things suddenly changed, and Xu Changqing was willing to make an exception for himself to call a divination and criticize his fate. The merchants were so happy that they couldn't stop, and bowed and thanked him. Xu Changqing asked him to stand up, look at his face, and call him a divination according to his luck direction on his face. Then he divided his body into three levels with the neck and waist as a line, observe his five elements of fate, and finally placed the determined hexagram and fate in his palm, and determined the heavenly stems, earthly branches, six gods, and eight gates to calculate the general process of fate and the details of his fortune.
Xu Changqing's master has three methods of fortune-telling and fortune-telling. Among them, Xu Changqing is best at determining the universe with one palm. Although the calculation is extremely accurate, it can only be considered short-term. The other is the Zhoutian Ling Tag method. This method is an ancient method of the Tang Dynasty. It is said that it originated from Yuan Tiangang. It can use the true essence of the natal world to promote the peach wood spirit sign, connect the qi veins of heaven and earth, be on top of the qi veins of heaven and earth, and observe the fortune of the people, and you can capture the general trend of the world in your eyes. This method calculates
The world's trend lasts for a hundred years, and can be used to measure personal connections, and can also be used to measure family fortune and national fortune. Although this method is very powerful, every time you calculate it, you will lose most of the true essence of the Golden Pill, which cannot be recovered without a hundred or two hundred days. In addition, the peach wood spiritual signs made must be the wood heart of a hundred-year-old peach wood, which is much more precious than ordinary century-old peach wood, and can only be used once. In Xu Changqing's opinion, it is really not cost-effective, so this Zhoutian spiritual sign is rarely used.
The method of placing fate and making hexagrams used by Xu Changqing now is the Xiao Dun Jia Liuren method. This fate method can only be considered as the fate of life and the fate change. Since only looking at the fortune from the local area, there will obviously be some deviations, but it will not hurt the fate of the fortune.
After carefully calculating, Xu Changqing felt a little surprised and thought to himself that people should not behave like a person. It turned out that this merchant not only had great luck, but also had an official fortune. It was not an ordinary person, but a high-ranking official in charge of life and death. After this, Xu Changqing decided to win over this person for life and death. When he encountered any disasters in the future, he would have another way to help him block the disasters and eliminate them.
Xu Changqing took back his mind, smiled kindly at Xingshang, and said, "This time your business is destined to lose, but it will not lose much, nor will it shake your roots. The luck in the south is not suitable for you, and you should go to the north. In addition, your luck is excellent. Although there are some twists and turns, there will be no danger of breaking fortune. There will be a turning point in your life and fortune. If you walk through it, you will have great luck. If you don't walk through it, you will not have any worries about your life and life. I will give you four words to criticize you here. When you feel that you have reached the critical moment of life and death, follow these four words to criticize you, and you will be able to turn bad luck into good luck and survive this turning point."
"Sir, please give me a message!" Xing Shang listened with a focused look.
Xu Changqing said slowly, "Stop when encountering a horse, resist when encountering a bow, retreat when encountering a 300, and kill when 100,000!" Seeing that Xing Shang was memorizing these four words, he did not disturb him, and took out a bronze mirror of Eight Trigrams and Evils from his sleeve and handed it to him, and said, "In addition, I will congratulate you on your happy son tonight. I will give you a bronze mirror of Evils to exorcise. I hope you don't dislike me."
Xingshang was recording criticisms, but he didn't hear Xu Changqing clearly. He just reached out to take the bronze mirror reflectively. After recording the criticisms, he looked up and saw that Xu Changqing had already walked away. It was not until this time that he remembered Xu Changqing's words just now. In addition, he remembered that his wife was seven months pregnant before leaving home. It was not much that was the time for giving birth. He immediately showed joy and kowtowed to Xu Changqing's back for a few times, got up and rushed to the carriage, and rushed towards the door. Everyone around him looked at Xingshang's leaving enviously. In their opinion, how lucky it was to get Xu Changqing's life approval. You must know that even on the Lantern Festival, Xu Changqing only criticized ten people for their lives. The good luck of Xingshang made many people in the Chen Family Chong decide to take a carriage at the foot of Taohua Mountain when they had time. Maybe they would meet Xu Changqing going down the mountain to take a ride.
"Old man Zhang, aren't you dead yet?" Xu Changqing walked all the way to the largest paper shop in the north of the city, and shouted loudly outside the door.
"Shut up your crow's mouth, even if you die, I will not die!" The thin old man in a short shirt walked out of the inner room, glared at Xu Changqing fiercely, glanced at the chair, and signaled him to sit down. Then he turned around and took out a can of tightly wrapped tea from under the counter, carefully picked up a little tea, put it in a teacup, and put it in front of Xu Changqing. Then he asked with a cold face: "You kid are you going to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing, what else can you come to me, the old man today?"
The owner of this paper shop was named Zhang, and he forgot his name himself, and others would not know it. Everyone just knew that he was called Zhangren Zhang. This man was a strange man. He used to live in Beijing City. The craftsmanship of paper-cutting people passed down from his ancestors was more vivid in his hands. It is said that the paper-cutting people he had made was vivid and like a real person. Later, he learned the long-lost Gezao Mountain puppet technique from there, and used this technique to do unfounded transactions, controlling the paper-cutting beauties to lure the children of the Eight Banners, defraud or steal the property in their homes. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. His Taoist craft was broken by a master living in Prince Chun's mansion. The deceived Eight Banners children were entangled and wanted to light the sky lanterns with him. He fled from the capital overnight and hid everywhere. Finally, he hid in the Chen family, and was protected by the Chen family, so that he could spend his old age.
In order to steal the puppet technique of Xu Changqing, Xu Changqing pretended to be an orphan and entered the paper shop of the paper shop as an apprentice. He only revealed his identity until he got all the unique skills of the paper shop. He was so angry that he fell seriously ill at that time, but later he recovered under Xu Changqing's careful care. Although the paper shop had forgiven Xu Changqing for learning his unique skills, he always felt a little awkward, so when he talked to Xu Changqing, his tone was always very striking.
Xu Changqing had long been accustomed to the tone of paper man. This atmosphere made him feel a little bit more friendly, so after a while, it became the best adjustment for his life. He did not immediately answer the question of paper man. He sniffed the fragrance of tea, blew a light breath to blow away the tea leaves floating on it, and exclaimed: "It's indeed the best-quality Longjing in front of the rain. After taking a sip of tea, people can't help but see the scene of a girl in the boudoir holding tea leaves and making the tea fragrance of milk in her mind."
"That's the lustful thought that your yang fire is too strong!" Zhang Zhang said angrily: "Where can you pick tea like this? Even if there is, the tea they pick will not be the best." He said with a cold smile and said: "You will have such an illusion because you need a woman to adjust the yin and yang in your body to vent the fire. I heard that a Suzhou top brand came from Wanhualou in the south of the city. Anyway, you are a idler who doesn't have to quit sex at all, so just go and have fun!"
"Fuck!" Xu Changqing snorted coldly and said, "I am not solid in my Yuanyang, but you have made me ejaculate my yang. It is obvious that I have ulterior motives. For the sake of your and I have always known each other, I will forgive you this time, but the price of this business will be reduced by half!"
"Dream! I knew something was wrong when you came." Zhang Zhang immediately refused, with a firm expression and said unanimously: "The price of the things your owner of the charity house is ten times that of ordinary people, and it is not bad. If you want it, go to another house if you don't want it, I can still survive if I don't do the business of your charity house."
"You..." Zhang Zhang is one of the few people Xu Changqing could not deal with in the Chen family. Zhang, the master of Taoism, was extremely exquisite in Gezaoshan Golden Alchemy, and was no worse than his own Taoism. In terms of human nature, he was also one of Xu Changqing's masters. Although Xu Changqing is a selfish master, he will still abide by this respect for his teacher. Seeing that the paper man had no room for bargaining, Xu Changqing could only accept it. After drinking all the hot tea in his hand and the tea leaves in one breath, he placed the tea cup heavily on the table next to his hand, and said, "Tonight I will send those resentful souls to the road. I will give me two thousand three hundred and seventy-six white paper lanterns, nine cranes, and nine pairs of boys and girls. You can take someone to the charity village to arrange the lanterns."
"Don't worry, as long as I collect the money, I will definitely do it for you!" As he said that, a smug smile appeared on the paper man's face, and he called the abacus so loudly that he sounded like he was deliberately calling Xu Changqing. After calculating the price, he handed the abacus to Xu Changqing and said, "Pay cash, no credit!"
Xu Changqing looked at the numbers on the abacus and immediately jumped up, shouting: "Even if it is ten times, it won't be so much more than usual! You're too damn it! You're not even prepared for a fig leaf."
"You have to speak with conscience. Who will cheat you?" Zhang Zhang, a paper man, retorted coldly: "If you hadn't made such a big noise in the Chen family's house two days ago and played with a golden body craft, all the apprentices in my shop went to attend the water and land rituals. I would have asked people for lanterns at double prices! All of this is your own grievance and you can't blame others."
"Damn it!" Xu Changqing had the urge to suck his mouth, and did not say anything more. He took out the ticket that the old Taoist priest gave him not long ago, handed it to the paper man, and said, "The rest, be ten peach wood men for me, my peach wood men have already used up!"
"The rest is not enough for ten peach wood people!" Paper man looked at the numbers on the market ticket, his eyes smiled, but immediately put away his smile and said.
"Old man Zhang, don't go too far!" Xu Changqing thought that he had always taken advantage of others. Once upon a time, he was taken advantage of so much, so he didn't get angry. He glared at the paper man and said, "Some things should be stopped in time. It's enough to get a little sweetness! After playing, it annoyed me. Do you think I dare not burn your shop in one go?"
Zhang, a paper man who knows Xu Changqing's character, knew that his cheapness had already made Xu Changqing's heart bleeding. If the wound was expanded, it would definitely anger Xu Changqing. Xu Changqing, who was completely angered, was not something he could resist. So he stopped when he saw the news, put the ticket in his arms, smiled and calmed the atmosphere, then mysteriously came to Xu Changqing's side and said, "I'll give you a message. After hearing this news, you will feel that your money is worth spending."
"What news?" Xu Changqing asked after calming down his resentment.
"Hasn't your Yi Manor's lineage been looking for a geomancer who knows how to find dragons and acupoints?" Zhang Zhang slowly lit the dry tobacco and said, "I know that there is a geomancer family in Peking that has lived for many years and is proficient in this kind of dragons and acupoints. Their family offended the emperor in Peking. It was said that it was implicated because of Yuan Da's head. Now he has fled to the Shanghai Concession and is preparing to move his family to the south to avoid disaster. I can write a letter to suggest that he come to Chen Jiachong to live."
"The Meng family in Beiping's geography family?" Xu Changqing suddenly turned aloof and asked extremely seriously: "Have their family always done things for Yuan Shikai?"
"It seems yes, their family was an imperial guard of the Qing court. Later, because they were not favored by Cixi, the old witch, so they were taken off and sent to the rehe-dry coolie." Zhang, a paper man, took a deep breath of cigarettes and said, "Before Yuan Shikai went to Tianjin to form the Beiyang New Army, he asked them to do some staff documents under his command. I heard that Yuan Shikai's betrayal of the reformists was also influenced by them."
"So they were!" Xu Changqing tapped the table with his fingers and murmured: "Before Liu Bowen died, he passed on his own knowledge to three disciples, one of whom was surnamed Meng. If the Meng family was proficient in the search and acupoint-finding technique, he would definitely be the descendant of the descendant of the Meng family." As he said that, he looked up at the paper man and said: "The Meng family not only offended the old lady Cixi, but was afraid that the person who wanted them to die the most was Yuan Daming, who was under house arrest in Peking. According to my calculations,
They had some secrets of Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai was afraid that the Meng family would tell their secrets, so he would try his best to kill the Meng family to silence them, so as not to leak the secret to Cixi, so that Cixi would make up her mind to deal with him. The Beiyang New Army controlled most of the Yangtze River Basin, and Yuan Shikai had a good relationship with foreigners. The Meng family would never escape from Yuan Shikai no matter what. They pointed at the acupoints against the will of heaven, and they should be destroyed. You should not interfere with them. Anyone who touched the edge would die in a sudden disaster."
Paper man's face changed. He didn't expect that the Meng family would be involved in such a huge disaster. He knew that although Yuan Shikai seemed to be out of power now, if he really wanted to kill the Meng family, no one or one force could save them in the entire land of China. Perhaps the Chen family could, but the Chen family would never completely turn against Yuan Shikai for such a family.
"Oh! Mr. Xu, you are here!" At this moment, a person walked in outside the store and immediately came forward to greet Xu Changqing when he saw him, "You haven't come to my teahouse to listen to books for a long time. During this period, Boss Zhao, a famous actor in Tianjin Kuaibans, was invited to our teahouse to talk about the Three Kingdoms for half a month. Today, it happened to be about Huarong Road. If you catch Cao, don't you go and listen?"
Xu Changqing looked up and found that it was Li Sanyuan, the owner of Sanwei Teahouse that he often went to. He hugged his fists and said, "I haven't been busy with some things during this period. Today I happened to be a little free. It's good to go to your place to listen to books. I just don't know if there is any place for Brother Sanyuan to give me?"
Chapter completed!