Record of Yin and Yang

Bao Fugui leaned against the corner, clutching his money bag, there were only a few copper coins in it, and the money for the next meal today has not yet been settled.He stared at the small town with people coming and going, screening suitable targets.

His eyes fell on a fifteen-year-old boy.

The boy was wearing gray and white cloth clothes. It was already June, and it was already very hot outside. When everyone else was wearing a thin coat, the boy was wearing two layers of clothes, which showed that he was afraid of the cold.He looks good, but his height is quite satisfactory. Standing in the crowd, he doesn't stand out, and he looks thin. His lips are a little pale, which shows that he is weak.

The young man was holding a black cat with missing ears and a tail in his arms. One person and one cat passed in front of Bao Fugui.Bao Fugui hurried forward to stop the boy.

"Sir, wait a minute!"

Gu Jiu stopped, looked at this person, saw that he was wearing Taoist robes, glanced up and down, and smiled, "Is there something wrong?"

Bao Fugui put on a pose, calculated with his left hand, looked at Gu Jiu, and walked around him, chanting words while turning his mouth, but his voice was barely audible.Gu Jiu was not in a hurry to leave, he just stood there and let the Taoist scrutinize him.

Bao Fugui stopped, and looked at Gu Jiu solemnly: "My lord, you have to be careful these days, and don't go out if you have nothing to do."

Gu Jiu lightly smiled and said, "Where do we start?"

Bao Fugui shook his head, his eyes were meaningful, "My son's ears are dark, his roots are gray, and his hair must be blue. Is it because he has been weak and sick since he was a child, and there have been many disasters?" Seeing the boy nodding, he twitched the corners of his mouth proudly, and continued to ask deeply : "The poor Taoist sees that the son's Yintang has turned black, and there is fear of bloody disasters in the near future, so he reminds the son, don't go out when you have nothing to do, and hide from home to avoid goods."

Gu Jiu said: "Really? But I happen to be going out with the elders in my family recently, what should I do?"

Bao Fugui's eyes flashed with joy, and then he took out a yellow talisman from his sleeve, and said hesitantly: "Today, I have a fate with you, so I will give you a peace talisman to keep you safe from calamity, it's just my Taoist rules, it's not empty Gua, so..."

Gu Jiu: "So you want to give money?"

Bao Fugui said: "The so-called saving money and avoiding disasters is good for the young master."

Gu Jiu looked at Bao Fugui and said with a smile: "Well, I will also make a calculation with the Taoist priest, so that the balance between the two sides will not be considered empty."

Bao Fugui looked at Gu Jiu in surprise.

Gu Jiu looked at Bao Fugui's face, "The well and stove are exposed, and there is no room for food in the kitchen; the forehead is narrow, and I have been poor all my life. The bottom is long, narrow, sharp, and thin, and my family has no fields and houses. I have been poor all my life, old and hard." He touched his younger brother and said with a slight smile, "Let me see that your seal has turned black, and there may be a bloody disaster in the near future."

Bao Fugui looked at Gu Jiu's eloquent words, but was intimidated by the other party for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he was very annoyed: "You are talking nonsense, and you have tricked me, Bao Daxian!" He grabbed Gu Jiu by the collar, "The hexagram has already Forget it, give me the money!"

Before he could be more aggressive, he heard a meow, and his hand felt a tingling pain. It was actually a few bloodstains from being scratched by the black cat.Bao Fugui met the cat eyes that were looking at him quietly, and shuddered unconsciously, and took a step back abruptly.

Gu Jiu straightened his collar, but was not angry, "The priest doesn't know me, he just came here."

Bao Fugui's expression froze, "How do you know? You, you really know fortune-telling?" Could it be that this is meeting someone who really knows how to do it?

Gu Jiudao: "The people in this small town and even nearby only recognize my hexagrams from Taiyuan Temple for fortune-telling. I saw you here yesterday. Has anyone come to you for fortune-telling from yesterday to today?"

When Bao Fugui thought about it, he realized that it was true. No one asked him for fortune-telling. Even if he "proactively attacked" like before, the people he approached would wave their hands again and again, break away from him and walk away in a hurry.

Just as Bao Fugui was thinking, he saw Gu Jiuyi turned around with a smile and was about to leave, he seemed to stop him in a hurry to ask for help: "Master! Then, look at my bloody disaster, is there a solution?"

Now Gu Jiu took out a safety talisman from his sleeve pocket, handed it to Bao Fugui, and when Bao Fugui was about to reach out to pick it up, he took it back, and reminded in a loud voice: "If you lose money, you will avoid disaster."

Bao Fugui's face froze, and he poured the copper coins from the purse into the palm of his hand. There were only two of them without counting, "I only have so many coins in my whole body..."

Gu Jiu didn't think too little, put away the two copper coins, gave Bao Fugui the safety talisman, and was stopped when he was about to leave.

"Master Daoist, mine is old and hard, I don't know if there is a solution?"

Gu Jiudao: "Do more good deeds and less deceive people."

Gu Jiu hugged the cat and left. Bao Fugui stood at the same spot, holding the safety talisman over and over to look at it. For a while, he felt uneasy because of the hexagrams the other party said, and for a while, he suspected that the other party was a liar with more sophisticated methods than he did. Finally, he found nothing. When he was worried about the money for the next meal, he suddenly saw his hand that was scratched and bleeding, and he was shocked: didn't he see blood.But why did the other party charge me two copper coins to buy a peace talisman after seeing the blood? Could it be that he is really a liar?Or is it that his disaster has not passed yet?

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Gu Jiu brought his younger brother to the largest incense shop in the town, and happened to see a tall, long-legged, stern young man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes coming out with a bag in one hand.

Gu Jiu smiled, "Brother."

At the beginning, because of the imbalance of Yin Qi, Gu Jiu had to stay in the Taoist temple with Shao Yi, waiting for his master Fang Beiming to find him a magic weapon that could suppress Yin Qi. It took nearly eight years for him to wait for this.Now he is sixteen years old, Shao Yi is also twenty years old, and has grown into an adult.

Gu Jiu asked the little brother to climb up his arms and squat on his shoulders, and he stepped forward to help Shao Yi carry a bag.

Shao Yi handed him a soft one, and like before, he frowned and asked impatiently, "Why did it take you so long to come here?"

Gu Jiudao: "I met a fortune teller liar on the road."

Shao Yi twitched the corner of his mouth, then took out a bag from his arms and threw it to Gu Jiu.

Gu Jiu caught the bag and weighed it, "This time there are so many."

"The master has money."

Fang Beiming has been walking around in the past few years, looking for the blood evil dragon formation and catching ghosts to make money for people. Every time the money will be divided into two parts, one part will be distributed, and the other part will be split in half. The merchants brought them back to the apprentices as living expenses. Sometimes there was too much, and they could have a hundred taels of silver, and sometimes they had no money to bring back for half a year.

Gu Jiu and the others actually don’t need Fang Beiming to bring money back now. Shao Yi can catch ghosts, tell fortunes and treat people. Now that they stay in the Taoist temple, people will come to offer incense every now and then. There are always hundreds of people in the Taoist temple every month. text income.There is also a private plot in the Taoist temple. Usually, they grow their own vegetables and eat them. They don’t spend much on their own, and the most common props are talisman paper and cinnabar.

Yesterday, the villagers at the foot of the mountain came back with a letter, saying that the owner of the incense shop in the town said that their master had returned with a letter, so they came to the town today.Gu Jiu is now in charge of the Taoist temple's expenses, and every time he gets money, Shao Yi directly hands it over to Gu Jiu.

The two carried their shoulders and carried their hands, and took the villager's ox cart that came out together and went back down the mountain.

"Two trail chiefs, let's go up after lunch." The driver is called Chen Liang, who was the one who brought chicken soup to Gu Jiu and the others on the first day they visited.

Gu Jiu declined to thank him, "Don't bother Big Brother Chen, it will be the birthday of Dou Lao God in a few days, and there are still things to do in the temple."

Chen Liang didn't stay any longer and told them to go up the mountain slowly.

When they went up the mountain, they met Chen Liang's wife and daughter, Chen Yushi and Chen Yinling.

Chen Yinling was born just a few days after Gu Jiu and the others returned to the Taoist temple.There are few residents at the bottom of the mountain, and there are not many people as big as Yinling. Yinling often runs up the Taoist temple, and is familiar with Gu Jiu and Shao Yi. She likes Gu Jiu very much. The picked wild flowers ran over, "Uncle Xiaojiu."

Gu Jiu hugged the little girl around, put her down and rubbed her head, straightened the talisman hanging around her neck, "Where did Yinling go to play?"

Children with weak yang energy are prone to seeing ghosts, and they are not too defensive. They can’t tell whether it’s a human or a ghost. When Chen Yinling was three years old, she followed her parents to visit relatives, and when she was staying at a relative’s house, she suddenly spoke to a cloud of air. , but the couple were terrified. After returning, they went to the Taoist temple to ask their daughter for a talisman to prevent her from being hurt by ghosts.

Chen Yinling touched the talisman and said, "My mother and I went to pick wild vegetables."

Chen Yushi handed Gu Jiu a handful of tied wild vegetables, "When she first picked them, she was thinking about giving some to you."

Gu Jiu took it with a smile, and handed a handful of candies to Chen Yinling in a courteous manner.

Chen Yu's smile was even bigger. The Taoist priest in front of him had been peeing like this since he was a child. He looked young, but he was very considerate in doing things. Every time he met Yinling, he would always bring out some candy. It was obviously prepared specially. Hello daughter, the mother is naturally happy to see it.

Several people chatted on the mountain road, and Chen Yushi agreed with them to go up the mountain again on the birthday of God Doulao, and then took Chen Yinling away.

When Gu Jiu and Shao Yi returned to the Taoist temple, they saw two men standing at the entrance of the Taoist temple.There were only Gu Jiu and two people in the Taoist temple. When they went down the mountain, there was no one in the Taoist temple, and the door of the temple was closed.

When the two heard footsteps, they looked over immediately, and the older one hesitated and said, "Are you two Taoist priests of Taiyuan Temple?"

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi nodded at the same time, "We are."

The young one said: "Why are you so young?" As soon as he spoke, the older one glared at him.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi are used to it, and they are doing well now. I still remember that when Fang Beiming just left, he and Shao Yi stayed in Taiyuan Temple for more than ten days. Except for the villagers at the foot of the mountain who occasionally came up, the villagers in other places Because there was no one in Taiyuan Temple all the year round, I have forgotten this place, and I would not think of coming to Taiyuan Temple to pray for divination if I have something to do.At that time, he and Shao Yi were short of money and couldn't wait for anyone to come, so they had to go down the mountain to set up a stall.The oldest, Shao Yi, was only 12 years old. Who would have believed that he could tell fortunes, catch ghosts, and his cultivation was not bad. Those people looked at them like they were monkeys.

At the very beginning, Shao Yi was like being teased by others, someone lost their chickens, cows, and pigs, and they all came to Shao Yi for fortune-telling.Gu Jiu thought that Shao Yi would be angry, but he didn't expect that the other party didn't get angry, and he figured it out with a calm expression, which surprised those people. Later, when someone heard about it, they came to Shao Yi dubiously. In the past two or three years, Shao Yicai has gained a little reputation in the surrounding area with his ability.

Now that eight years have passed, Gu Jiu is quite proficient in Taoism. There are senior brothers who have opened the way, and there are quite a few people who know him now.