Chapter 60 Chapter Thirty-Third
This afternoon, in front of Li Tiezui's character testing hall, two small sedan chairs left one behind the other.The mother and child got out of the first sedan chair, and a blessed old man got out of the last sedan chair.At this time, there are people coming and going on this side street, those who carry the burden of shaving their heads, those who carry the sharpening stool, those who play monkeys, those who sell fresh sweet-scented osmanthus, and small vendors of all kinds are hawking along the street.The children who got off the sedan chair felt very fresh after seeing this.Their gorgeous clothes also attracted the attention of the people on the street, and some snack sellers gathered around: "Bean cakes, delicious bean cakes that are hot and refreshing, and sell for two tubes for a copper coin." "Candied haws, candied haws, a bunch of copper coins, not sweet, no money."The child looked greedy, looked at the dignified young woman and said, "Mother, what is candied haws?"The woman replied: " Candied haws are candied haws, sweet fruits.”
"We want to eat a bunch." The child begged.
"How can this be done?" The woman shook her head and refused, "Dirty ones will cause diarrhea after eating." As soon as this sentence was uttered, the old man who sold candied haws refused to listen, and came closer and shouted: " Your lady’s speech is not pleasant, if you don’t buy it, you don’t buy it, why do you say we are dirty?” The woman glanced at the old man and said angrily: “Look at the gaps between your nails. Some black mud, still not dirty?" "Yo, is this called dirty?" The old man seemed to have encountered a monster, "Even a little mud is considered dirty, so you have to live in the imperial city, the imperial dining room Only the things made here can be said to be clean." "Go, go, don't do it here anymore." The fat old man waved the old man away, bowed and said humbly to the children, "Young master , let's go to the word testing hall." The child nodded, looked at the old man selling candied haws who walked away, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, followed the woman into the Li Tiezui word testing hall.People on the street only thought that the behavior of these three people was unusual, but they never imagined that these three people were the Empress Dowager Li, the Little Emperor and Feng Bao. Why did they appear in front of the word testing hall in disguise? There is a story to tell. On that day, the little emperor had a feast this autumn, and Empress Dowager Li ordered Feng Bao to meet Zhang Juzheng.After the meeting, Feng Bao returned to Qianqing Palace to report the situation to Queen Mother Li.After all, Queen Mother Li is a woman, and she believes in the gods in everything.Zhang Juzheng's suggestion to choose an auspicious day was in line with her wishes.So let's not talk about other things, just ask this: "Mr. Zhang said, should we choose an auspicious day for the sutra feast?"
"Yes." Feng Bao replied.
“He said who should he choose.”
"Mr. Zhang did not say anything to the Queen Mother."
"Then who should I turn to? To Qin Tianjian?"
"I'm afraid the people from Qin Tianjian are unreliable," Feng Bao suggested cautiously, "I'm afraid I have to find an expert outsider for this matter."The Empress Dowager Li smiled slightly and said: "We also know that we should look for This kind of person is an expert, but you can’t find this kind of person just by looking for it.” Feng Bao followed the Queen Mother Li’s words and replied: “Yes, it’s really hard to find an expert. However, I heard that there is a Li Tiezui is very good at character testing." "Testing characters? Are there gods here?"
"Yes, you tell him a word, and he can analyze your good and bad fortune clearly.""There are such people." Empress Dowager Li was moved immediately, and ordered , "Tomorrow, you can try to find him, and bring Eunuch Qiu with you, and the two of you will go together." If he could not come out, he went on to say, "The Queen Mother, please make a decision." "Let's make a decision? That's fine." Seeing Feng Bao standing there like a wooden stake, the Queen Mother Li said, "Just make a decision." Let's set up the characters." The next day, Feng Bao made an appointment with Qiu Deyong, and the two changed into casual clothes and took a sedan chair to this side street next to Qipan Street, where they found Li Tiezui's word testing office.After sitting down, Li Tiezui immediately asked, "You two guests must have heard my name, Li Tiezui.
Come here specifically to ask questions? "
"Yes," Feng Bao felt that Li Tiezui was too conceited, but seeing that his white-haired and childlike face was a bit fairy-like, he couldn't help complimenting him, "Your calligraphy shop is a time-honored brand.""Of course, the signboard The older you are, the higher your reputation, guest officer, what do you want to ask?" "Ask..." Feng Bao thought for a while and said, "Ask about auspiciousness." "Okay, then tell me a word."
"Stand up, stand upright."
"Stand up, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, and dot," Li Tie muttered, getting up and walking to the portrait of Cangjie on the front wall, slowly stroking his white goatee , pondered for a while, then turned around and asked Feng Bao, "Guest officer, what do you do?" "Guess?" Feng Bao asked back.
"The old man can conclude that you are not an ordinary person."
Feng Bao was startled, and looked at Qiu Deyong.Then he asked again: "Why do you see that?" "You ask Li Zier, this guest officer," Li Tiezui pointed to Qiu Deyong, "he is sitting on your left, and there is a person on the left of Li Zi, Together it is a word, you are a person with a seat." "What seat does he have?" Qiu De asked with his mouth.
Li Tiezui smiled and said: "The person next to the standing character speaks, and what people say is trustworthy. This person is related to the word letter. In a big family's house, the person who uploads and distributes is the letter. The person sitting in this seat is the housekeeper. When it comes to the imperial court, the yamen related to Xinzier has the Secretary of General Administration outside and the Supervisor of Rites inside. I don’t know where this old gentleman is sitting, and I don’t dare to guess.” That said, but judging by his demeanor, he seems to know everything, but he just refuses to reveal the mystery.Feng Bao was already so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. He realized his gaffe, so he quickly picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. "This guest officer, is this old man correct?" Li Tiezui asked. We are doing the housekeeper's business, you are right about this. Fearing that Li Tiezui would continue to speak, Feng Bao quickly pointed to Qiu Deyong and said, "Now, it's Mr. Li's turn to test him." " "What word do you test?" " Li Tiezui turned to Qiu Deyong.
"Like him, he is also a character."
When Qiu Deyong said this, he met a young servant carrying Choshi up to refill his teacup.Li Tiezui's face immediately changed when he saw it, and he folded his hands behind his back, without saying a word. "What's wrong?" Qiu Deyong asked worriedly.
"Alas, it's hard to say."
Li Tiezui shook his head, his face turned gray.His expression made Qiu Deyong more and more uneasy.Feng Bao was also full of doubts, and asked: "Mr. Li, what is there to say. We reported Li Zier, and he also reported Li Zier. The same Li Zier may be different. The explanation?" "Yes," Li Tiezui let out a long breath, and sighed, "there is a world of difference between the two of you. When he made up the word "li", when he said "li", there happened to be someone next to him refilling the water, and the word changed." "what did it become?" Qiu Deyong asked.
"Add water next to Li character, what word do you mean?"
"Weeping." Feng Bao blurted out.
"Yes, crying, crying," Li Tiezui stared at Qiu Deyong, and said with concern, "Guest officer, there must be something heartbreaking in your heart at this moment." Since the death of his nephew Zhang Dalang, Qiu Deyong has been in pain.He wished he could tear up Wang Yan, the son of Wang Song who killed his nephew, but he heard that although Wang Yan was detained by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the progress of the investigation was slow.After inquiring from many parties, I found out that Zhang Juzheng deliberately let the Ministry of Punishments delay, so I hated Zhang Juzheng to death in my heart.He always wanted to find an opportunity to sue in front of Queen Mother Li, but when he was in front of Queen Mother Li, he couldn't say anything.Therefore, he pinned his hopes on Feng Bao, hoping that he could be behind Mrs. Li. I don't see him doing business... This moment, when Li Tiezui uttered the word "weeping", Qiu Deyong was stimulated and forgot his feelings, and his mouth deflated and tears fell down. "Qiu..." Feng Bao was in a hurry and almost called out Eunuch Qiu, but thanks to him he stopped quickly, "Qiu, ah, Lao Qiu, what are you doing?" Let him bleed." Li Tiezui said sympathetically.Seeing that Qiu Deyong was unable to talk about things like this, Feng Bao called for someone to help him out.He himself got up and was about to say goodbye, touched five taels of silver and put it on the table, and then asked: "What is the meaning of the word weeping?"
"As I said just now, there is a world of difference between crying and sitting. If you want a stable seat, you have to stay away from the crying person." "Thank you for your guidance, sir."
Feng Bao bowed his hand, went out and boarded the sedan chair and returned to the Forbidden City.Immediately reported to Queen Mother Li in detail what happened in the character testing hall.Empress Dowager Li did not expect that there were such miraculous people in the capital.With a flash of thought, I decided to take the little emperor for a private visit in a micro-service.In order not to cause any accidents, except for Feng Bao and Qiu Deyong, no one knew about this operation.As for Qiu Deyong, because of the word "weeping" and his distraught appearance, Empress Dowager Li refused to let him participate in the second trip. Let's say that Queen Mother Li and her party entered the character testing hall, and Li Tiezui was already waiting in the living room.He saw the mother and son brought in by the fat old man who came yesterday. They were graceful, luxurious and elegant. He knew that a big customer was coming, so he hurriedly piled up a smile, cupped his hands and said: You are polite." The Empress Dowager Li nodded, seeing the bright and clean windows and elegant furnishings in the living room, she had a good impression before she could answer. After being seated, Feng Bao said: "My lord's wife and young master, I heard about your name, Li Tiezui, and I'm here to pay you a special visit today." "Madam is too polite." Li Tiezui somehow, He lost his usual arrogance and became humble.She asked, "Madam came here today, what do you want to ask?" "Ask about family affairs." Queen Mother Li replied, then turned to Zhu Yijun who was still looking around and said, "Son, tell me something."
Zhu Yijun looked at the sunlight cast on the table from the patio, and wrote the word "日" by hand. "Japanese characters?" Li Tiezui was pondering, when suddenly he heard a few barks from the street.Immediately stunned, she asked Empress Dowager Li, "Madam, did you hear that?" "What did you hear?" Empress Dowager Li was engrossed in waiting for Li Tiezui to explain the mystery, but she didn't hear anything. "The dog is barking, there was a dog barking on the street just now." Li Tiezui said.
"Really? We didn't hear it." Queen Mother Li said.
"Mom, we heard it." Zhu Yijun proved.
"Old..." Feng Bao almost said the old slave again, thanks to his alertness, he immediately changed his words, "The old man's words are true, we also heard the dog barking just now." What does it matter?" Empress Dowager Li muttered. "Ma'am, it has a lot to do with it," Li Tiezui replied plausibly with a flash of his eyes, "Young master said the word '日', and there was a dog barking over there, which just answered a sentence... Alas!" After all, Li Tiezui did not break away from his habit of being a busker, and when he got to the critical moment, he would be tricky.The three people present were all in a hurry, and Queen Mother Li asked: "Which sentence?" This means. Madam, this old man can see that the future of your family rests with this young master. But right now, someone wants to bully him!" "Who?" Queen Mother Li asked vigilantly.
"We don't know who it is," Li Tiezui looked at Zhu Yijun, "However, I have a piece of advice.""Please tell me."
"There must be a lot of servants and maidservants in your mansion. If there are any of them who belong to dogs, it's better to get rid of them as soon as possible.""Who is a dog?" Feng Bao asked, "What do you belong to?""It belongs to chicken."
"Oh," Empress Dowager Li nodded slightly, and asked again, "What is Mr. Zhang's genus?""This year is his birth year, so it should be a rabbit."
"It's good if you belong to the rabbit." Li Tiezui interjected, "The essence of the sun is the dragon, and the essence of the moon is the rabbit. For the son, the rabbit is auspicious."
Empress Dowager Li pursed her lips and said with a smile: "The old man can really talk." ?” Queen Mother Li asked.
"Qiu...he is a dog."
"Really?" A trace of doubt flashed in the eyes of Empress Dowager Li.But she didn't continue this topic, but asked Li Tiezui, "You just said that dragons are the flowers of the sun, and our son is not a dragon." "But the one he wrote to the old man The word is '日', what is a day? Xihe drives six dragons to survey the sky, we mortals look at the sky. Can we see dragons, but only the sun. Madame, don't you want to ask auspiciousness? ?As long as you get rid of the dog, how auspicious and auspicious your son will be." "Thank you for your good words." A rare smile appeared on the face of Empress Dowager Li, and said, "We still have to ask One thing.""What?"
"My son is studying,"
"Then please tell me a word."
Zhu Yijun thought for a while, and added a horizontal line to the word "日" before, turning it into the word "目". Li Tiezui thought for a while, then suddenly sneered, and said to himself: "The question is obviously about reading, so how can it be related to money.""Money?" The first sutra banquet will definitely cost a lot of money.It's just that I couldn't tell Li Tiezui about this, so he asked, "How did you find out the money?""Add a character horoscope under the word "mu", what is it?" Li Tiezui asked. " word." Zhu Yijun replied.
"That's right, the ancients used shells as money." Li Tiezui asked puzzledly with a suspicious expression on his face, "Accordingly, for a rich family like Mrs., the son studies and studies, and there is no problem of money. However, there are signs of lack of money in the house now." "My son wrote the word "mu", why did you pull out the word "bei?" Feng Bao asked. "My son wrote the word "mu" is true. But it is August now, so I have to add a character "horoscope". Ma'am, do you think so?" Empress Dowager Li was noncommittal, and asked the previous topic: "Li Sir, where do you see that you have no money?" "It's still the horoscope. August asks the eyes, so it's done. But after all, the octopus is hidden. Therefore, there is nothing to say about August." Li Tiezui talked nonsense in a cloud of fog, but the Empress Dowager Li felt that every sentence was a mystery, and she had great admiration for Li Tiezui in her heart.At this time, he said with a little melancholy: "We originally planned to choose an auspicious day for our children to go to school, but now it seems that it is not in accordance with God's will."
"When should I choose?"
Empress Dowager Li was in a completely negotiating tone, and Li Tiezui met her inquiring eyes and replied: "This, I have to ask you to write a word."
"Just this word, I won't write it anymore." Zhu Yijun said.
Li Tiezui shook his head and explained: "Young Master, if you ask one word for one thing, it is a secret. If you ask for a single word for several things, it is not a secret." "Son, write another word." Queen Mother Li said. Zhu Yijun obeyed his mother's order, picked up the brush again, and wrote a big "Chao" on the paper. Looking at Zhu Yijun's brushstrokes, Li Tiezui praised, "Although the young master is young, his calligraphy is so sophisticated, and he will definitely be a character in the Phoenix Pond in the future. Congratulations, congratulations."Congratulations. The Empress Dowager Li did not take this issue, but said: "Mr. Li, please determine the auspicious day."Li Tiezui looked at the word "Chao" carefully, and asked: "Excuse me, my lord, why did you write the word "Chao"?" "What's the point of asking this, let's write it if we want."
Zhu Yijun spoke domineeringly, and Li Tiezui choked for a moment. Not only was he not angry, but he looked more humble, and said: "I dare to guess, you son, are you a descendant of Zhu Hongwu, the founding emperor of Ming Dynasty?" "You?"
Zhu Yijun was dumbfounded.Empress Dowager Li was also taken aback, and asked calmly, "Mr. Li, where did you see it?" "In the word Chao, if the double ten is removed, it is a clear word. Therefore, the old man asserts that this young master is the empress of Zhu Ming. Not a queen, but at least a descendant of a county king." "As expected of Li Tiezui, I guess it looks a bit like it." Empress Dowager Li smiled slightly, and then asked, "What about the auspicious day?" "Auspicious days are also included in this word," Li Tiezui picked up the piece of paper with the word "Chao" written on it and pointed it to the Empress Dowager Li, "Look, Ma'am, the word Chao is actually composed of four characters One day, one month, and two crosses, so the auspicious day you want to do is October 10th." As soon as Li Tiezui finished speaking, Queen Mother Li couldn't help sighing, "It's incredible!"