Chapter 4 Chapter Three

The busy Kang family saw the movement, left the room and rushed over to help Mr. Zhan. "Demon! Monster! Monster! Where did you get it? Hurry—quick—please go!" Mr. Zhan pointed at the wooden plank that fell to the ground with trembling hands. "It was washed out of the well." The lady of the Kang family picked up the plank and ran to the well as she said that. The lady of the Kang family opened the manhole cover and was about to throw it down. Mr. Zhan broke free from the support of the boss of the Kang family and shouted: "No! No! Don't throw it, it will break the Feng Shui if you throw it at home!"

"Then what should I do, sir? Or should I burn it in the field outside?" the boss of the Kang family asked. "Hurry up and get the red cloth and wrap these two things that have washed away the gods of the earth. I'll take them away." The lady of the Kang family stood by the well, stunned for a moment, holding two wooden boards in a daze, and was scolded by the boss of the Kang family: "Hurry up and get the red cloth bag, let Mr. Zhan take this monster away." "It seems inappropriate to build a house and break ground these days. I'll show you some other day, and then choose an auspicious day before it's too late to break ground." Mr. Zhan was terrified, and explained weakly to the boss of the Kang family beside him.

This is the first time that Mr. Zhan has done something against his will in his very dedicated career. Zhou Yuan's Fengshui Mr. Zhan, since he got the wooden tablet, his behavior has become very secretive and weird. He urged the servants and the cook to kill all the poultry and a watchdog in the house, and personally went to the neighbors' houses to persuade the neighbors to also kill all the poultry and poultry. dog. During this period of time, Zhan closed his door to thank guests for several consecutive months, stayed at home, and even ignored his newlywed wife. He asked his wife to lock him upside down in a secret room in the inner room under the pretext of secret cultivation, except for telling his wife to eat every meal. He was sent in and out of the window, and no one was allowed to approach his HOS casually.

Zhan ruled out all the noise and interference, drilled in the secret room day and night and devoted himself to deciphering the mathematical code on the wooden tablets. The stars are moving, the sun and the moon are reincarnating, and almost a year has been spent in the secret room. On the morning of the first day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar in 1890, my wife told me from the window when delivering meals that last night, the eldest family of the Kang family suddenly got a strange disease, and they all died of foaming at the mouth. I saw a toad as big as a cow jumping and screaming strangely in the courtyard of the Kang family.

Zhantou didn't turn back, so he said to his wife, "Go ahead, I knew about this last year." Madam didn't find it strange that Mr. answered in this way.Many things were unforeseen for his husband. "I'm probably going into labor soon, and my stomach is moving a lot these days," said the lady. Zhan turned his head and smiled kindly: "Congratulations, Mr. Zhan has a baby, thank you Madam, go get ready, I will come out in a while, the child will be born tonight! But when he is born, I don't care. I'll talk to him!" Mrs. Zhan was puzzled by Mr. Zhan's words, shook her head, and left the window resentfully.

On the morning of the first day of June in the 16th year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1890), Zhan finally walked out of the secret room and was busy arranging for his wife’s delivery. He also sent his family servants to ask his old aunt not far from Zhan’s home to help. . Since the death of his parents, the elderly aunt has become the only relative living in the world. At about five o'clock in the afternoon that day, the wealthy gentry of the village, Bi Pu, the eldest of the Bi family, prepared generous gifts, and came to ask for a divination in a hurry. Yan Ben's mother suddenly became seriously ill, and she didn't think about eating or drinking. The second child, who runs the Bi family's salt business, hurried home. The mother really wanted to see her youngest son, Bi Du, for the last time.

Zhan measured a hexagram for Bi's old mother and said: "There is no need to worry about the sign of auspicious hexagrams. My mother is a blessed person, and she is good at serving. She will wait for Bi Du to come back." The eldest of the Bi family asked for auspicious hexagrams, and was getting up to leave, Zhan said: "Bi Du was my former student, and I happened to go to Sichuan a few days ago. At this time, I am writing a book. How about I take it to him?" Just push the pen and paper. The boss of the Bi family was so happy that he didn't know what to do. He immediately spread out the paper, picked up a brush, dipped it in ink, and started writing.

At midnight, Zhan's son fell to the ground with a loud cry, which tore apart the silent night of Zhou Yuan. It was at this moment that Zhan put the wooden trunk in his arms, picked up his luggage, and opened the door of his house. Then the elderly aunt who chased after him grabbed his skirt: "Don't you take a look at your son? Where are you going? You can't go, what are you carrying in your pocket?" "Earth!" Zhan only said one word, then broke free from the hand of his old aunt, and quickly disappeared into the vast night of Zhouyuan. In the early morning of the next day, the convoy carrying salt from Bijia, Sichuan, set off early in the morning. A long line of carriages and horses left the warehouse and drove onto the official road near Guanghan, Sichuan.

Due to the large volume of transport and the newly opened route, Bi Du, the big shopkeeper of Bijia Salt Industry, had to go out to call the battle himself, and he has been walking in the front of the convoy. The sun has just risen, the smell of rice is wafting along the roadside, and the green grass is in the distance.Although the permeating fog had not completely cleared away, Bi Du, who was riding on the horse with sharp eyes, still found a person crawling in the middle of the road ten steps away.He reined in the horse's head, waved to the convoy behind, made a gesture to stop advancing, got off the horse, ran to the man's side quickly, put his hand on his back, and immediately felt his even breathing and warmth body temperature.

The people crawling on the road were covered in dirt, as if they had just been drilled out of the ground, apparently still in a deep sleep. Bi Du turned the man's face, looked at it carefully for a moment, then stood up in surprise, Mr. Zhan, how could it be his first teacher?Why did the teacher come to Sichuan?Bi Du didn't have time to think about it, and shouted to the back: "Come on, get on the car quickly! Hurry up! Water! Water! Bring water first!".