About me traveling to the world of immortality but finding ways to surf the Internet

Although it was a bit regretful that Yang Yuyao and He Qianqing were unable to meet when they visited the Xuanxing Sect because Jiang Hong was away practicing medicine, the trip to the Xuanxing Sect was still very smooth. After all matters were discussed, Yang Yuyao and He Qianqing did not stay in the Xuanxing Sect for a long time and returned to Yugui. And received news from Yang Ningxiu.

And this news naturally asked Yang Yuyao and He Qianqing if they were willing to get married on an auspicious day before the New Year. The dates given by Yang Ningxiu were said to be good days to get married based on their birth dates, which made Yang Yuyao confused. There was no doubt that his parents in this world knew his birth dates, but even Yang How did they know He Qianqing's birthday and horoscope, which both Yu Yao and Yu Yao knew?

"Your mother asked about it when I sent your younger brother and sister home last time." He Qianqing replied.

"Can people of the same sex be counted?" Yang Yuyao was surprised. Thanks to his colleagues in that world, he had some knowledge in this area. Even if they have exactly the same birthday, men and women will calculate the results differently.

However, the deduction techniques he learned did not involve this aspect of knowledge. Although it can be called fortune telling, fortune telling is a different branch. In the past, Taoist Master Huang Yun even said that many people who mastered the art of deduction would avoid and refuse to help others calculate their marriages. So he didn't teach Yang Yuyao this knowledge.

However, calculating marriage is different from combining horoscopes. Calculating marriage may cause some people to take the initiative to find someone with whom they are related by marriage, while others may find that the person with whom they are related is someone they do not like or even hate. Deliberate destruction. In the end, fate was messed up, and neither side ended well. After all, for two people to truly come together, they often have to go through a lot of things.

After experiencing these things, maybe both parties will realize that their original impression of the other party was wrong, or maybe their personalities will change in the process, so that they can accept each other. If you avoid these events, you will mess up your own destiny, and may even ruin other people's marriages. Therefore marriage does not count.

But the combined horoscope is for two people who are about to get married to confirm whether the other person will conflict with them. If the horoscopes are incompatible, it will be difficult for the husband and wife to have a harmonious relationship, and may even kill each other and even the other's family. Therefore, even if the two people who are getting married don't care, people in the family have to confirm it.

But even if he didn't study it specifically, Yang Yuyao could guess that marriage calculations consider the integration of yin and yang and the five elements. As for him and He Qianqing, there is no principle of yin and yang in the first place. How to calculate this horoscope marriage?

"About this matter, as far as I know, there is indeed a special algorithm." He Qianqing said with a subtle expression. Under Yang Yuyao's curious gaze, he began to explain. "About 1,500 years ago, Jiyang was popular in some areas at that time. To put it bluntly, in the name of marrying men, beautiful young men from poor families were recruited and trained into furnaces for cultivation."

"Can mortals make furnaces?" Every time He Qianqing talked about things that Yang Yuyao didn't know about the world, Yang Yuyao would feel that his knowledge of the world was too shallow.

"Xiao Yao, why do you think these people are called furnace tripods?" He Qianqing asked.

"It's analogous to refining alchemy in an alchemy furnace, removing impurities and refining the essence." Although he knew the meaning of this word and had seen or heard it mentioned by others, Yang Yuyao, who had never seen its precise definition, speculated based on the literal meaning. .

"Yes, this solution can indeed be done." He Qianqing nodded and said, "Using a furnace is a trick for practice. I should rely on self-improvement but cannot do it, so I use the furnace to assist my practice. There are various types of furnaces. There are all kinds of stoves, including good stoves and not-so-good stoves. What kind of stove these people who want to use the stove to practice will naturally depend on their abilities. Whether they can raise a stove."

"In other words, the purpose of calculating these horoscopes at that time was to find a furnace more suitable for one's practice at the same level?" Yang Yuyao, who understood He Qianqing's metaphors, felt the hairs on his body stand up.

There are various kinds of stoves, and the men and women who are chosen to be the stoves naturally have differences in each individual, so they are all kinds. Just like some people prefer woks, some prefer soup pots, and some prefer to use frying pans. With different needs, naturally the stoves chosen will be different. Whether a good stove or a bad stove is related to whether the person's physique is suitable for making a furnace. And monks, because of their spiritual roots, are undoubtedly superior to mortals.

Those who are suitable for making a furnace cauldron are equivalent to a blank, which must be transformed into a real furnace cauldron by taking medicinal liquids and taking medicinal baths. This process is called raising a furnace by those people. Yang Yuyao estimated that mortals could be selected after being transformed in this way and realize the function of the furnace, right?

"Yes, this calculation...should be the physical fit." He Qianqing nodded and confirmed. "Despite this reason, if it is a same-sex marriage, this method will be used to calculate the horoscope."

"Well, this seems to make sense." Yang Yuyao thought for a while and said, "In the world I lived in before, there seemed to be a view that imperfect sex life would seriously affect the relationship between husband and wife."

"Is there anyone in that world who studies this kind of research?" He Qianqing was surprised.

"Yes, because that world can produce more crops, livestock and poultry, more people do not need to produce food, so there are people who study all kinds of weird things." Yang Yuyao replied, and then he Something puzzled him.

"Master, why did those monks at that time choose to marry men instead of directly buying male slaves when they were looking for furnaces?" Yang Yuyao asked in confusion.

"I also asked my master about this issue. He told me that at that time, the price of three slaves was equivalent to the price of a cow." He Qianqing replied.

"You must have thought about it, Xiaoyao. The price of slaves in that period was extremely low. A farm cow costs about two taels of silver now. A slave at that time only cost six hundred coins. Such a low price made it difficult for those poor families. Parents will not easily sell their son who can be used as a labor force. After all, if you sell your son, you cannot buy back a cow that can plow the land, so it is better to keep your son and let him work."

"So during that period, there were very few male slaves in the human market, and they were basically sin slaves. There were more female slaves, and they were very young. If a monk wanted to find a young male slave suitable for Ji Yang from the human market, the probability Very low. But if they are taken back as wives and the bride price is higher than what can be obtained by selling a slave, the parents of those young people will naturally agree."

"In other words, those people are not reluctant to sell their sons, but they think the money is not enough?" Yang Yuyao felt chilled again.

"Yes, when people are poor to a certain extent, it is difficult to talk about family ties. At that time, the so-called marrying a male wife, although called a wife, was actually the same as taking a concubine, or even worse than a concubine. This way of collecting high gifts, Of course I sold it. I just used such a name so as not to offend some people and not buy a slave at a high price." He Qianqing said with certainty.

"..." Yang Yuyao couldn't clearly know whether the poor parents who sold their sons for high bride prices during that period really had no feelings for their children, but if this practice was popular in that area, even ordinary people would, as long as they Without being isolated from the world, everyone should probably know what will happen to these young men who are sold as "male wives" and are actually high-priced slaves.