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Chapter 6 Taoist priests

The morning market in Liuli Lane was full of steaming scenes. At this time, the biggest shouting was to sell breakfast. After nearly an hour of continuous journey, both of them were also exhausted. They found a breakfast shop to have some breakfast for a while and had some rest.

This is the ancient market. The fifth prince felt emotion. After breakfast, he walked all the way and felt that there was novelty everywhere. Even those who blew candy would stop and wait and see for a long time. At this time, the market was not like the shopping malls in later generations. There were stores everywhere, and countless vendors on both sides of the streets, including books, calligraphy, painting, head rope, flower drum, rouge, water powder, mirror paper umbrellas. It was really full of everything, but some high-end items such as gold, silver, jewelry, silk, and satin still had to be selected in the store.

Before they knew it, it was noon. At this time, the two of them were still empty-handed. Most of the time, the fifth prince looked at each stall and touched each other, but they didn't buy it. They were despised by several vendors. They looked like a rich young man and were actually a poor man. At first, Li Jinzhong was still pointed and pointed at the side with great enthusiasm. Later, when he saw that the fifth prince was approaching which stall he was just a few steps away because he couldn't stand those contemptuous eyes.

The fifth prince did not expect that a man had such potential for shopping. He could not stand Li Jinzhong's sorrowful eyes, and his legs and feet were a little sore, so he found a restaurant to rest and eat some food. The two of them came to a restaurant called Haiwanju, and they saw that there were people inside and the business was booming, which looked good.

When the two entered the lobby, they saw that the seats were full, and went to the second floor. There were only a few tables on the second floor that were not yet full. They picked up a table and sat down. Not far from the stairs, a bull-nosed Taoist priest wearing a greasy Taoist robe was talking about a mandarin with a strong Shandong accent and was talking about it.

The fifth prince saw something new. It was the first time that the Taoist priest saw the storyteller in the tavern. Moreover, it was even more strange that the storyteller was not in a place with a large crowd on the first floor but was in a place with few tables of guests on the second floor.

The waiter saw that the two were well-dressed and hurried forward to greet him. The fifth prince asked about the Taoist priest. It turned out that this Taoist priest was a Taoist priest from Qingyun Temple in Qingyun Peak, Yunlong Mountain. Although they were in Yunlong Mountain, the incense of Qingyun Temple and Yunlong Temple were incomparable. Taoist priests were the hottest profession during the Jiajing period, and then they were in a slump. There were only two Taoist priests and one special old ones. The incense of Qingyun Temple could not even afford to support the incense of Qingyun Temple. The very old Taoist priest named Lan and Daoxing. Because during the Jiajing period, he attacked Yan Song and commanded the Jinyiwei Commander Lu Bingjin.

In the case of elixir poisoning, he was framed by Yan Song and was persecuted and was disabled. He is now ninety and ninety. Another old Taoist priest is the one who is now a storyteller. He fled from Shandong to the capital in early years and learned some of the skills of writing spirits and zodiac signs with Lan Daoxing. The incense is not good, and Lan Daoxing is unable to move. The pressure of survival falls on this old Taoist priest. He is said to be an old Taoist priest, but he is only in his thirties. He is only in his thirties and is greasy in his Taoist robe, and has a handful of horns and messy hair, which looks a little old.

This old Taoist has been working in Haiwanju for more than ten years. His business of writing spirits and Zhanluan was not good, so he took the position of a shopkeeper's tavern. A few years ago, he also started a storyteller business to help the shopkeeper attract some business. People in the lobby on the first floor generally cannot afford spare money to divine and ask questions. Because of his identity as a Taoist, the old Taoist said on the second floor.

The shopkeeper of Haiwanju was a peddler before, and the focus was on making friends with four doors, so whether he begged for the shopkeeper of begging for alms, he would give some convenience. At first, this old man just changed some food, but later he hung a stall in Haiwanju. The shopkeeper knew the situation of Qingyun Temple, which was convenient.

After the waiter talked about the origin of the scholar, the Taoist priest ordered a table of wine and food for the fifth princes. Just as a table of guests next to him left, the waiter left and asked to check out the bill.

The old Taoist priest told the story all morning, but no one came to tell fortunes. At noon, the Taoist priest was a little hungry. Seeing someone leaving the seat, he ended the storytelling passage. He sat at the table where the guests had just left the seat with the fortune telling banner and sand plate, borrowing some leftover food to fill his stomach. The waiter had already become accustomed to it. When the old Taoist priest came to Haiwanju, the waiter got greeted by the shopkeeper, and he was not in a hurry to clean up, just waiting for the Taoist priest to finish it.

The old Taoist priest sat next to Zhu Youjian. As the emperor's grandson, the fifth prince couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable when he looked at the old Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest was also embarrassed to be seen. After all, eating leftovers is not a glorious thing, but he also felt that this person was a little rude. If you eat your delicacies and seas, I will eat my leftovers, why bother like this?

The old Taoist priest was a little wronged by Zhu Youjian. The fifth prince was just worried about the world. "I wonder if I would like to come to me to have some tea?"

"Young Master, do you want to do a fortune?" The old Taoist priest decided to do business after hearing someone's greeting. The two tables were close to each other, and the old Taoist was not polite, so he took the opportunity to cook. Who would be willing to eat some good wine and food?

"Oh? I don't know what I call you? What are you good at? I'll refine alchemy and talismans and see fortune-telling or what?" Although the fifth prince didn't believe in these things, he became interested in it when he was free.

"I can understand a little bit about the refining and painting talismans, reading and divination, but I can say that I am good at it is to help the phoenix and get the spirits." The old Taoist said as he helped the fortune telling banner, which really had four big words "Fuluan Qi spirits". The old Taoist continued to say with serene satisfaction, "The family teacher Qingyun Guan Lan Daoxing, is known as the Blue God Fairy, and the art of Zigu's spirits is magical. I am not talented. Although I have not reached the level of a family teacher, I have learned 80% or 90%."

The table of wine and food was already complete. Before Zhu Youjian and Li Jinzhong moved, the old Taoist Hong Xinghe was naturally not good at moving first, but his hungry belly was really not good. The fifth prince looked at the old Taoist priest staring at the wine and food but pretended to be fairy-like.

"Since the Taoist priest has this supernatural power, why did I hear that the Taoist priest has calculated the promotion of a man who was pregnant and a woman?" Li Jinzhong couldn't stand it anymore. This old Taoist was too sarcastic.

The old Taoist looked at the waiter with dissatisfaction. It must be the guy's mouth that said it again. The waiter shrank his head guiltily. Since the old man was revealed, the old Taoist Hong Xinghe no longer held it. He picked up the chopsticks and picked up the wine glass and said to Zhu Youjian and Li Jinzhong, "Two donors, let's have a meal quickly, it will be not delicious when it is cold." Then he ignored the two of them and started eating and drinking on their own.

The fifth prince Xiaoxiao didn't care. He was here to eat and rest. The old Taoist just met by chance. Whether he would calculate or not is just a few adjustments. It is harmless and does not affect his mood of eating and drinking.

The fifth highman and Li Jinzhong were already finished eating and drinking tea soon. The old Taoist priest was still stuffing it into his mouth. It seemed that he was really hungry, and the two of them were not in a hurry. They waited for the old Taoist to eat and drink and greet the waiter to pay the bill.

After eating a smear of oil on his mouth, the old Taoist priest said, "I will not eat my two banquets for nothing, so I will help you to raise a spirit to reward you."

The fifth prince knew that this was just a wise man who was fooling his livelihood. There was no need to take it seriously, so he ruthlessly said, "Then please calculate for me when the people in the world can have enough food and clothing to live and work in peace?"

Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, the old Taoist looked at the young master sitting next to him from top to bottom. He walked around the world and deceived Hong Xinghe with a pair of eyes. He saw that the young master was dressed in extraordinary clothes and had a few clusters of gold threads embroidered on the collar, which showed that this man was not only rich but also noble. A bright yellow color could be seen from his cuffs. He became calculating in his heart. He dared to wear bright yellow satin and use gold threads. He asked the people of the world again. With this age, Hong Xinghe already had a clear understanding of the young master's identity. "I don't know what the donor is called?"

"This is my fifth master, and I can call him the fifth master with a bull's nose." Li Jinzhong hurriedly answered, afraid that the fifth prince would let go of his identity, because after hearing the old Taoist's background and seeing the old Taoist's behavior, Li Jinzhong owed any respect to Hong Xinghe.

"The fifth master's hexagram is too big, so I can't calculate it." Hong Xinghe stood up and bowed and said regretfully, "It's better for me to meet the young master first. If I say it correctly, how about I re-create the spirit for the young master?"

"The Taoist priest is right, so please tell me." The fifth prince did not refuse.

Hong Xinghe pretended to look at Zhu Youjian's face and said excitedly, "It's not worth talking about, it's not worth talking about!"

The fifth prince said nothing, but Li Jinzhong was a little surprised and thought to himself, could this old Taoist really be able to do it? He asked, "How can you be a high-quality method?"

The old Taoist picked up the sand table of the spirit and placed it on the table, stretched out his index finger and wrote three words "City in the City" on the sand table, and then said mysteriously, "Did the young master come from here?"

Zhu Youjian smiled and said nothing, but Li Jinzhong was surprised. He put away his contempt for the old Taoist and asked in confusion, "Since the Taoist master can calculate why it makes a joke about a man who is pregnant and a woman who is promoted?"

"The secret of heaven cannot be revealed." Hong Xinghe gently stroked his beard and held up again. "I used to start with ten taels of silver for people. Now the market is not good. I have a fate with the two, so I have to invite them at a banquet. I will give one of them free of charge, and the other one only charges five taels of silver?"

Before Li Jinzhong entered the palace, he often hangs in the casino. He is good at eating, drinking, and gambling, but he is not very familiar with the tricks of these martial arts warlocks, so he believed it after being talked about by this old Taoist god. So he took out a silver note of 100 taels and said, "The old Taoist priest will start with a spirit for the man. Is it possible that the man will accept your sign? It is accurate that the silver note is your reward. But if you dare to deceive my fifth master, you will definitely not be able to take it away."

The fifth prince didn't want to get entangled with this Taoist priest, so he just invited him to have some good relationships after a meal. However, when the old Taoist priest came, Li Jinzhong also came, so he just let it go.

Although I have never left the palace in this life and have never seen any world, I have seen many people in my previous life. The old Taoist did not look at any face, just look at his clothes and behavior, and the servant who followed him looked like a eunuch could guess.

"I wonder what this donor wants to ask?" The old Taoist set up the props and asked Li Jinzhong.

"I want to ask"

"Mo Yan, Mo Yan, write it down and say it won't work." The old Taoist priest stopped Li Jinzhong from continuing and took out a piece of talisman paper from his arms and said.

Li Jinzhong took the talisman paper and the pen given by the old Taoist with cinnabar, covered the sleeves of the robe and wrote down the matters to ask, and folded them a few times and returned them to Hong Xinghe.

The old Taoist priest took the talisman paper robe and shook his sleeves, formed a handprint, and intersected the talisman paper with his right hand for several times and then looked in front of Li Jinzhong. With a whirl of fire, the talisman paper spontaneously ignited.

Not only Li Jinzhong, but also the diners on the second floor were surprised, and they all looked over to see it. Then they saw the old Taoist Hong Xinghe shaking his head and seemed to have epilepsy. His already messy hair became even more dispersed. The old Taoist priest covered his robe sleeves, his hair was disguised, and he muttered something in his mouth, just like Zi Gu possessed him.

The old Taoist priest looked forward with his hands and had his head and face leaked out, but he saw his eyes turning white and black, and the spirit pen that had started to stand up without warning on the sand table. As the old Taoist waving his hands in the air, no one held the pen, but it seemed like someone was holding the pen to control it. The spirit pen on the sand table was written with four big words "Loyalty, Power, and Tsingling". The four characters were completed. The old Taoist seemed to have lost all his strength and collapsed on the table, and the spirit pen also fell down.

Li Jinzhong's cultural level is not very high. Although he knew these four words and had a general concept in his mind, he still didn't dare to confirm it. He still asked the old Taoist priest to explain it. But the old Taoist priest was so anxious that Li Jinzhong was so anxious. Li Jinzhong shook the old Taoist swayed a few times and did not respond. He simply poured a cup of tea and poured his head and face. The old Taoist priest woke up in a panic, thinking that it was a good thing that was not boiling water.

The old Taoist Hong Xinghe finally paralyzed himself. Although he was poured into tea, he still had to act completely. He woke up as if he was tired and asked, "Will the donor ask for the result?"

"There was a result, but what do these words mean?"

"Is the master of Shi to explain it here? I would rather advise the donor to go back and comprehend slowly." These words are not difficult to explain. Li Jinzhong's talisman paper is asking for a future. It is indeed not good to explain it thoroughly in front of the fifth prince. The old Taoist also grasped this point and made a mystery. Li Jinzhong said it was accurate, and it was not accurate, but the talisman paper was burned directly to Zi Gu Shen, and the word "the bar" should not be fake.

"Then I will listen to the Taoist master. If you have the Tao, the secret of heaven cannot be easily shown to others. I'd better go back and comprehend slowly." Li Jinzhong had already made plans to go back and find someone to explain the signature.

"Since this donor is right in the face of the result, let me take a break and then start a spirit for the fifth master." The first step was fooled, and the old Taoist was preparing to earn the one hundred taels of silver bill. This hundred taels was enough for the two years of food for the master and disciple of Qingyunguan, and even some decayed walls could be repaired.

The fifth emperor waved his hand and approached the old Taoist priest and said softly, "Three immortals return to the cave, white phosphorus spontaneously ignite, hanging silk to start spirit, Taoist priest is good."

After hearing the words of this young master, the old Taoist Hong Xinghe was immediately embarrassed. It turned out that his tricks of fooling others were seen through. This was the first time he had been walking in the world for so many years. "Fifth Master, you are very proud. Xiaodao makes some profits by making some livelihoods, don't expose them to us." Hong Xinghe begged to Zhu Youjian softly, and then pushed the silver note to Li Jinzhong, saying, "If I have received the favor of the two masters, how can I take money? The donor quickly put away the yellow and white things, otherwise I will alienate our fate in vain."

Li Jinzhong didn't understand why the Taoist priest who had seen the silver bills shining before suddenly changed his temper. "How can the things the man took out have a reason to take back? The Taoist priest quickly set up a spirit for my fifth master."

Hong Xinghe looked at Zhu Youjian with some grievance and thought to himself that you can do it, so let me get a spirit. Zhu Youjian ignored it and stood up and prepared to leave.

Hong Xinghe suddenly remembered what his master Lan Daoxing told him when he went out in the morning. Lan Daoxing is nearly 100 years old and will write a spirit word when Hong Xinghe goes out every day. Today, Lan Daoxing also started a spirit word and handed the hexagram to Hong Xinghe. At the same time, he specifically explained that if Hong Xinghe meets a noble person today, he will use this hexagram word to show it. Don't say too much. Hong Xinghe doesn't know what the hexagram word meant by the master, and he can't say too much. But now he has met the person hexagram that the master said is expensive?

Seeing that the noble man was about to leave, Hong Xinghe quickly grabbed his sleeve and said, "Fifth Master, wait for a while." After that, he picked up the spirit pen and closed his eyes and wrote words on the sand table.

Zhu Youjian turned around and looked at him. This time, the old Taoist priest did not pretend to be a god or a ghost, nor did he ask what others wanted, nor did he burn paper, nor did he possess Zi Gu, and he didn't even have to hang silk to activate the spirit. He just closed his eyes and wrote a three-character hexagram quietly. However, it was these three words that shocked Zhu Youjian because there were three words "Tianmen Cave" written on the sand table.

Seeing that the fifth master looked wrong, Hong Xinghe didn't know what the master's three-character hexagram meant, so he had to apologize, "Fifth master, please forgive me, Xiaodao can only have these three-character hexagram words. What is the specific meaning, Xiaodao can't understand it."

Zhu Youjian's face was pale at this time, his palms were sweating. He held the Taoist priest's hand tightly and asked with an unkind look, "The Taoist priest really doesn't know what this hexagram means?"

Hong Xinghe's hand was pinched by Zhu Youjian a little painful, and his eyes were even more furious when the teenager was staring at him. His eyes flashed unconsciously, avoiding Zhu Youjian's gaze, "I don't know, I don't know, Xiaodao really doesn't know."

"Is the Taoist priest deceiving something? It can be seen that if I think, your Qingyun Temple can recreate the glory of the time of Master Jiajing, and it may also be destroyed at any time." Zhu Youjian was not very patient at this time, and was approaching to warn the Taoist priest. Even Li Jinzhong was shocked by Zhu Youjian's expression. He was fine just now, but why did he suddenly look like a different person?

After hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Hong Xinghe felt very distressed. If he didn't answer well, this young master really didn't know whether he was a noble or a villain. "Return to the fifth master, the little Taoist cultivation is shallow. If the fifth master is free, he can come to my Qingyun Temple in the future and let my master explain the hexagram for the fifth master."

"Please convey it to the Taoist priest. If you have the chance in the future, you will definitely go to Qingyun Temple to ask for advice from the fairy Lan." Zhu Youjian can't see the depth of Hong Xinghe now. Sometimes he is stupid and sometimes profound. It is a miracle that he can come to this era, and what is absolutely impossible in this world? Starting from seeing the three words "Tianmen Cave", the fifth prince doubted his worldview.

Zhu Youjian took out five hundred taels of silver bill from his sleeve and placed it on the table. He hugged Hong Xinghe and said, "Save some silver 2 for tea. I hope the Taoist priest will reserve it when he is telling the story in the future." After that, he turned around and went downstairs. Li Jinzhong followed him inexplicably.
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