prosperous national teacher

Su Yi didn't expect that he would go to face saint the next day after he arrived in the capital.

It was going so fast that he couldn't bear it.

Su Yi, former rich second generation, tech geek, rice bug, died in an explosion at the age of 23.

When he closed his eyes and opened them again, Su Yi, the rich second generation, turned into a little Taoist priest who had just been recruited by the emperor and went to Beijing to pray for the prince. His age had shrunk to sixteen or seventeen.

Su Yi thought about his own age, no matter how he thought he was just making up the numbers.Just when he was thinking about how to behave, let alone stay and be offered delicious food, at least get some rewards to go home and afford to eat fine grains and wear fine cloth, he was actually one of the first batch of face saints to be accepted by the monks. Called into the palace.

On the eve of the face-to-face, Su Yi nervously recalled his life, recited the "Tao Te Ching" silently, practiced the face-to-face etiquette just taught by the servant, and then went to sleep early.

I don't know if it's because of his youth, although Su Yi was nervous, he slept well.On the second day, Su Yi bathed and changed his clothes, and followed the escort into the palace in good spirits.As for the accompanying Taoist monks, they were more or less black and blue at the moment.

The waiter glanced at the crowd and thought, originally he underestimated the Taoist leader because of his age, but now it seems that the Taoist leader is the one with the most indifferent mood.No wonder he was named by His Majesty at such a young age to pray for His Highness the Crown Prince.

Su Yi followed the servant into the palace gate on foot.Before entering the palace, Su Yi thought about which one was more magnificent than the Forbidden City he had visited.When he entered the palace, he had to lower his head all the way, so he could only see the road under his feet.

Su Yi walked for an unknown amount of time, and when his calves felt a little sore, he came to a small palace.After the servant informed them, the group of people were taken to the side hall and continued to stand with their heads bowed, waiting for the summons.

Not only did Su Yi's calf aches, but his neck also ached.

He regretted going to Beijing a little bit. If things go on like this, he won't have hunchback and cervical spondylosis, right?But at the thought of fine grains to eat and fine cloth to wear, Su Yi's heart shrank immediately.

Forgive him for being the kind of coward who bends his waist for five buckets of rice.If there is a chance, I still want to stay in the Taoist temple enshrined by the royal family, eat and wear well.

While Su Yi was thinking wildly, the monks around him were called out one by one, and soon he was the only one left.

"Su Daoist." The servant finally called Su Yi, "The emperor announced your audience."

Su Yi, who was distracted, immediately came back to his senses. He tidied up his appearance, and then said to the waiter: "I'm sorry."

The waiter smiled and nodded, this little Taoist leader is quite polite, unlike the previous few Taoist leaders who deliberately pretended to be arrogant, pretending to be something.

From the dim side hall, Su Yi walked to the main hall with good lighting conditions. Following the etiquette taught by the servant before, he knelt down and kowtowed: "The poor Taoist Su Yi sees the emperor."

Su Yi's body after time travel is very miraculous, not only his face is exactly the same as before, but his age is younger, even his name is exactly the same.For some reason, Su Yi's master didn't give Su Yi a Taoist name, so Su Yi called himself by a layman's name.

However, many Taoist priests use their own lay names, and there are quite a few who don't use their Taoist titles. It's not awkward for Su Yi to call himself so.

As soon as Su Yi finished speaking, a kind voice came from above and said, "Give a seat to Taoist Su."

Su Yi was a little surprised, the emperor was quite easy to talk to.He quickly thanked him, and then found that he couldn't sit down.

At this time, although there were already prototypes of chairs and stools, they were not too popular.The so-called bestowing a seat is to give Su Yi a soft cushion so that he can change from kneeling on the ground to kneeling on the cushion.

"Daoist, please raise your head, don't be restrained." The emperor said with a pleasant face.

Only then did Su Yi look up, and found that not only the emperor was sitting in the first place, but also a woman with a phoenix hairpin, probably the queen.On both sides of the emperor and empress, there were several ministers sitting on their knees, looking at themselves.One of the ministers did not hide the disgust on his face, which made Su Yi very puzzled.

Where did I offend him?

The minister snorted coldly, raised his hand and said: "Your Majesty is worried about the crown prince, and the heart of a loving father is so touching. But the so-called monks and Taoists are just people who deceive the world and steal their names, so they cannot be trusted."

Su Yi understood immediately.It turned out that the minister was not dissatisfied with himself, but dissatisfied with all monks and Taoists.

If he is not a Taoist now, he will definitely give this minister a thumbs up.Indeed, feudal superstition is not desirable.But now that he is a Taoist priest, he can only keep smiling and silently bear the verbal attacks from the other party.

Su Yi didn't know how those monks and Taoists responded, anyway, his response was to smile and keep silent.In fact, he quite agrees with what the minister said in his heart.

"Gu Qing, that's enough." The emperor said displeased.

The minister surnamed Gu still refused to give up, and said aggressively to Su Yi: "Master Su, you started practicing Taoism at a young age, where are your parents at home?"

As soon as Su Yi heard it, he knew that Mr. Gu wanted to use filial piety to suppress himself.If the parents are still there, it is unfilial to become a monk and practice the Tao.

If both of his parents died, this is just an "ordinary" question, Mr. Gu can find another topic.

Su Yi said: "Pin Dao is alone."

His parents were fine, but he was right to be alone.

Mr. Gu really wanted to find another topic. The emperor didn't know if it was because Mr. Gu didn't listen to him and was still chattering. He was furious and ordered Mr. Gu to shut up.Only then did Mr. Gu shut up indignantly, and stopped talking.

After the "farce" was over, another minister smoothed things over with a smile and asked: "Just now, the masters of Taoism are somewhat capable, and they have profound insights into Taoism and Buddhism. There are also a few masters who performed divination with flying pigeons, and dripping water turns into ice." The magical method. Is the Su Daochang preaching, or casting spells?"

Su Yi has been secretly observing the emperor's expression.When he heard the minister say "magical means", Su Yi caught the emperor's flashing look of contempt with his keen eyes that had been courting his elders for many years.

Su Yi suddenly understood.Although the emperor reprimanded the minister surnamed Gu, since he brought people here to put on a bad face, and now he showed this look, he obviously didn't believe in the so-called magical methods, and he didn't necessarily trust the monks too much.

Su Yi originally wanted to memorize a few passages of Daoism classics that appeared in later generations to pretend to be coercive - here he would like to thank his elders who liked Daoism, but he suddenly thought that there might be another way to win the emperor's trust.

But it's just a little risky and a little offending.

But since His Majesty the Emperor doesn't believe in those magical methods, it's no big deal to offend those Taoist monks who know magical methods.Maybe they were dealt with by His Majesty the Emperor before they came to take revenge.

Su Yi smiled neither humble nor overbearing: "Your Majesty is probably tired of listening to so many lectures on Buddhism. I don't know much about magic, but I can talk to Your Majesty about those magical methods. It's all to amuse Your Majesty and wake him up." Wake up."

The emperor was really interested, and the surrounding ministers were even more surprised.Although they knew that there was definitely something wrong with the magical method, since those people dared to show off in the palace, it meant that the tricks would not be exposed.Even if the emperor and ministers don't believe it, they can't be convicted of deceiving the emperor.

Now that Su Yi has said this, does he know what those magical methods are all about just by hearing the name?

The emperor asked curiously, "Does the priest already know the methods of those people?"

Su Yi said: "Poverty is not a foretelling. However, I only know a little about the two methods of divination by flying pigeons and ice from dripping water just now. Please explain the rest in detail, maybe the poor You can still hear something familiar."

The emperor said: "Let's talk about the divination by flying pigeons first."

Su Yi said: "Your Majesty, please send someone to explain in detail about the divination by flying pigeons."

The emperor nodded, and asked his servants to explain the situation of the flying pigeon's divination.

When Su Yi heard it, it was indeed a street scam that is common in modern society.

This flying pigeon divination is not divination, but guessing the surname.

The Taoist took out a gossip map full of surnames. The tester only needs to tell which areas his surname has appeared in. The Taoist will use three pieces of paper to write the three surnames and cover them, and then the flying pigeons will land on them. On which piece of paper, open that piece of paper, is the last name of the tester.

This is actually a problem of permutation and combination, and the mystery lies in the "region", which is the number of the surname in the picture.Binary is mostly used in modern deception. After all, many people have learned binary and it is easy to use.

The "number" of the priest is also binary.But at this time there is no binary term, probably by mistake.

Su Yi was so determined that he could act like this: "This is just a trick, and the biggest difficulty is probably training the pigeons. Can I ask Pindao to borrow the props from the Taoist chief?"

The servant said sharply: "The Taoist priest and masters who came before have already left the palace, and the magical artifacts have also been taken away."

Su Yi was puzzled.They came together, shouldn't they go together?How to face saints one by one?Like an interview?

Su Yi smiled and said, "That's okay, I'll just make a simple one now. Please give me a pen and paper from Your Majesty."