How remote and remote in the small mountain village, an old man with gray hair was going down the mountain with high firewood on his back. He fell just now, but fortunately it didn't hurt much. It took a long time to pick up the firewood again.

When I walked halfway up the mountain, I suddenly found a man standing on a big rock next to the path.

He should have a Taoist robe, his sleeves fluttered by the wind, and he was looking down at something with his back to the old man.

"Young people, here is a cliff below, it's dangerous, come down quickly."

When the man turned around and saw his face clearly, the old man couldn't help but be stunned. He had lived for more than 70 years and had never seen a man as beautiful as this young man.

"Old man, what is under the cliff?"

The old man was stunned for another second when he heard the light and beautiful voice, "I don't know what it is. There is no village below, and it is difficult to walk on the road. No one has ever been there."

"I heard that there is a river, I don't know if it's true."

Wei Mingyan nodded, stood on a high stone, and took out a tortoise shell from his sleeve, "Thank you for giving me the way. If you meet, you are destined to be together. How about I'll tell you a fortune?"

"Tell fortune?"

The old man had seen fortune telling. When he was young, his father took him to the old blind man who lived at the foot of the mountain to tell fortunes. He calculated that he would be rich and noble in his life. When his father was happy, he gave him two more eggs.

So many years have passed, and his wife died early in his early years and he didn't want to marry again. He lost all his sons and half of his daughters, and he was not rich or powerful. Unfortunately, the old blind man had already left before he got married, otherwise he could still say that he was not sure.

Because the old blind man, the old man didn't believe in these fortune tellers. He carried firewood on his back and shook his head with difficulty, "No need, I don't have money to calculate."

"It's almost dark, it's hard to leave this night, so you'd better go down the mountain quickly."

"I'll calculate for you, no money will be charged."

"No, no, I don't believe this..."

The handsome Taoist priest seemed to have not heard him, and laid a big stone, threw the turtle shell, looked at the copper coins falling on the stone, raised his eyebrows slightly, "I lost my mother at the age of three, lost my father at the age of sixteen, lost my wife at the age of twenty-seven, lost my son at the age of twenty-nine..."

His lips opened, and he didn't say the rest.

The old man was about to continue walking forward and stopped walking. He turned to look at Wei Mingyan, his eyes full of disbelief, "How do you know that my wife was pregnant when she died?"

The Taoist priest picked up the turtle shell and put it in his sleeve, "Old man, you have a granddaughter relationship, but you are not a biological child, your fate is a little shallow."

"So accurate, really accurate..."

The old man murmured, "I picked up a child before, and she was thrown into the mountains. There was only a little bit of father or mother. I looked pitiful and stayed and raised like a granddaughter."

"The fate is shallow, which means that this granddaughter has left you. Can you ask why?"

"I'm incompetent and too poor. My little granddaughter suffers with me. Her uncle has a family he knows in the city. The family wants to adopt a child. He told me that I'll let him take her."

"She looks good and well-behaved. After going to that family, she can go to school at least so she won't be able to endure hardships with me, the old man."

Wei Mingyan slowly walked to the old man, looked at the tall firewood on his back and the scratched back of his hands, and asked in a warm voice, "After sending him away, have you not contacted her again?"

The old man shook his head, "You can't contact me. Her uncle said that people want to adopt a child because they are afraid that she will remember it. If I don't contact me, she won't remember, so they will regard her as a child."

He finished speaking, and said, "You are really accurate in your calculations, you have real skills."

Wei Mingyan raised his eyes slightly, looked at the firewood, and chuckled, "Then are you willing to let me tell you a fortune?"

The old man hesitated, "Don't you really charge money?"

Seeing this, the Taoist priest smiled and said warmly, "If you feel sorry for it, please take me in for one night tonight. It just so happens that I have no place to stay."

"That's fine, but my family is poor and there may be nothing good to entertain you."

"Then thank you, let's go down the mountain first."

"Okay, okay... By the way, this dog can eat human food, right? I heard that young people nowadays eat dog food, so they don't let human food."

Looking at the old man in front of him who was bent into shrimps with firewood on his back, Wei Mingyan touched the rhubarb who was following him obediently and said softly, "Don't worry, I'm ready for food."

The old man hesitated and glanced at the young Taoist priest who had nothing but a dog, and swallowed back what he wanted to ask.

***

"Uncle, what's wrong with your face? The black and blue face looks so scary." They met a villager with a hoe on their backs on the way down the mountain. When they saw the old man, they were stunned at first, and then they saw it clearly and hurriedly came up.

"It's okay, didn't it rain last night? I slid and fell down. It's nothing big, it doesn't hurt much."

"It doesn't hurt? It looks so cunning. I have medicinal wine, so I'll bring it to you later."

"It's okay, I have thick skin and flesh, and it doesn't hurt anyway."

The villagers looked at the black blood marks on the old man's face with a little lingering desire, and then looked at Wei Mingyan who was slowly walking over in confusion, "Uncle, is this?"

"Oh, this one is..."

"Hello, my surname is Wei, I am a fortune teller. I will live in the village tonight." Taoist Junmei answered without waiting for the old man to finish introducing the old man.

"Fortune-teller?"

The villagers looked at Wei Mingyan. They were indeed wearing Taoist robe, but they were too young.

He heard from his eldest son that monks now have to go to college and have a diploma. The monks in the temple are all young, and it is estimated that this fortune teller is similar.

The villagers and the old man had the same idea and didn't believe it much, but they didn't say what they thought.

"Okay, uncle, please go back first. I'll ask the boy at home to bring the medicinal wine over later."

Wei Mingyan turned around and glanced at the villager, "Wait a minute."

The villagers turned around in confusion, and said to the strange Taoist Master, "You have a blue eyebrows and a loss of your son. It is best not to let your son go out today, especially not to get close to a place with water."

Hearing these words, the villagers' expressions changed suddenly. Who would like to hear that their son would die? But this man was a Taoist priest. Although he didn't believe it, he was still a little worried.

"Lao Liu, you have to say to Master Xin. He just forgot it for me. It's very accurate. Don't let Caicai go out today. My wound is fine and it doesn't hurt at all."

The old man believed it quickly, after all, he had just experienced it personally.

The villagers nodded hesitantly, still disbelieving in their eyes, but because of the old man's words, he said, "Then I'll look at Caicai and don't let him go out. Uncle, if you hurt, just call me. I just soaked this medicinal wine this year, it works."

He hesitated and looked at the handsome man who looked more like a star than a Taoist priest, "Thank you too for the Taoist priest for your reminder."

Seeing the villagers leave, the old man said to Wei Mingyan, "The sixth son is in college and he also believes in science, so he doesn't believe it very much. Don't be surprised. Others are pretty good. When he was a child, I helped send it to the town when his mother was sick. I always remember this love and I always like to help me."

"I know."

Wei Mingyan listened to the old man's explanation and smiled and looked at the villagers' backs, his eyes as if he was thinking, "Good intentions will be rewarded."

***

The villager, who was called Lao Liu, returned home with a hoe. Her wife was cooking and placing vegetables on the table. When she saw her husband coming back, she said casually, "Wash your hands and have dinner."

Lao Liu looked around the yard and saw that his son was not in front of the pile of sand that was always playing. Thinking of what the young Taoist priest said just now, he felt inexplicably panicked for a moment.

"Where is Caicai?"

"You are watching TV in the room. After washing your hands, you called him out. This little thing is unwilling to eat after having TV."

"Look at it, I will definitely not go out all day after dinner."

Hearing his wife's answer, Lao Liu breathed a sigh of relief and found it funny that he actually believed these words.

Cai Cai likes watching TV so much, especially these days, she squats in the house every day and refuses to go out. How could she go to the waterside? It turns out that she is a liar in the world.

His son said that he should believe in science. Fortune telling and other fortune telling are feudal superstitions and have no scientific basis at all.

Lao Liu went to the house to call someone. His wife was about to get the dishes and chopsticks. A young man stood outside with a big bag on his back and shouted, "Mom!"

"Huahua!!"

The woman who had just left the table raised her head in surprise and hurriedly came up to help her son untied her big bag. "Why are you back without saying a word? Let me tell us in advance that your dad will pick you up."

"What should I connect to such a long way? Where are my dad and Caicai?"

The young man smiled and strided forward, and said as he walked, "I saved up a month's leave, plus applied in advance, I can stay at home for ten days this time and spend a good time with you."

In the room, the little boy who was unhappy and pouted because he was not allowed to watch TV was about to cross the steps when he heard his brother's voice. His eyes lit up, and the unhappiness on his face was swept away. He ran out with his short legs.

"elder brother!!"

"Caicai!" The young man smiled and picked up his younger brother and teased him, "Have you listened to your parents? Is there any?"

"Yes, yes! Brother, don't tickle me..."

The woman smiled and went to add dishes and chopsticks. Lao Liu also looked at the eldest son and the younger son with a smile on his face, his eyes full of love for the two children.

The family sat together having a meal happily. Listening to his eldest son talking about his work in the city, Lao Liu smiled and remembered what happened today.

"Just just now, I met a Taoist priest who said that I had a blue eyebrows and wanted to lose my son. I also said that I should not get close to the water. I was shocked when I saw Caicai when I came back."

"Bao, what are you talking about this? Even if our vegetables are good, you can't say it well." The wife glanced at her husband in anger and picked up a chopstick dish for each of her two sons.

"Eat more and grow your body."

The eldest son was a little helpless. He had been working for a year and could not grow up. But thinking about this, he still happily ate the dishes he cooked.

Their family is a rare happy family in the village. The relationship between husband and wife is harmonious, and they are always concerned about everything. The husband is considerate of his wife and caring about his husband. The eldest son was admitted to a key university and added electrical appliances to the family after working for a year. Although the younger son is a bit naughty, he is also considered a well-behaved elf. He is very active in using him to run errands and other things.

The family is harmonious and beautiful, I don’t know how happy it is.

After dinner, the younger son took the older son to the house and whispered, and Lao Liu helped his wife clean up the dishes. Although his son was happy when he came back, he felt uncomfortable for some reason.

"I'd better watch Caicai later. Don't let him go out. I always feel uncomfortable."

"You are just a soft-hearted person. This kind of thing is not accurate. Before I got married, my second aunt's sister got married. The fortune teller said that she and my brother-in-law made a marriage together. What happened? In less than half a year, she went home to divorce after crying."

"I know, but the man doesn't look like a liar, he looks like a god in the painting, and Uncle Genzi also said he is accurate, you know Uncle Genzi never lie."
To be continued...