When I came, it was still snowing heavily. After leaving the Zhao family, the snow fell slightly.

Liu Wenyang hummed a small song along the way, carrying midnight snacks, and leisurely rushed home.

If it weren't for the cold weather, the road was too slippery, and people returned home on a windy and snowy night, and enjoying the snow scenery along the road, it would be very petty-bourgeois.

At the door of the house, my father Liu Da was not sleeping, so he put his hands in his arms, stamped his feet, and stood outside the door to visit the road from time to time. Seeing his son coming back, Liu Da shouted from afar, "A Yang, why are you back so late?"

"Something happened halfway through, delayed! Stop talking, it's such a strong wind, go in!"

The father and son entered the house, and Liu Wenyang took out the food. Liu Da was amazed and said that Aunt Jin was so crazy that she would be so generous. She also said that it would be even better if she had two sips of wine.

There are no tables and chairs at home, and the father and son are not outsiders. They sit on the ground, not caring about eating styles, and then they candied fruit, bean paste buns, and osmanthus cakes if they eat voraciously.

My father Liu Da touched his belly, but he was still unsatisfied. He asked about Liu Wenyang's repayment of the debt. Liu Wenyang told him about Aunt Jin's permission to repay the debt until the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.

"What, I've paid back the debt on the 18th day of the 12th lunar month, and I've only been given ten days?" Liu Da couldn't sit still. "Repaying twenty taels of silver in ten days means that I have to earn two taels of silver in a day! My God, what should I do?"

Seeing his father jumping anxiously, Liu Wenyang couldn't help but comfort him and said, "Don't worry, there must be a road before the car arrives at the mountain, and there will be a solution!"

"Yes, living people cannot be suffocated to death by peeing. We will definitely come up with a solution... Otherwise, we should find a way to borrow money from someone!" Liu Da murmured, but after saying this, he sighed again: "We have borrowed all relatives and friends. Now they will hide when they see me, as if they see a plague!"

In fact, Liu Da wanted to borrow some from his brother Liu Neng, but when he thought of his extremely fierce wife, Liu Da was so determined to die.

"Dad, don't worry too much. Now the Chinese New Year is coming soon. There must be many people burning incense and worshiping gods in the City God Temple. As long as we work together to do a few more businesses, we may be able to pay back the account!"

"Yes, yes, our father and son work together to overcome the difficulties!" Although he knew that his son was comforting himself, there was no other good way at this time, Liu Da had to deceive himself, "Okay, it's not too early, so he should take a shower and go to bed quickly!"

...

Liu Wenyang climbed onto the bed, curled up in the quilt in a jacket, shivering from the cold, and couldn't sleep. He said it was easy just now, but he also knew that it was not easy to earn twenty taels of silver in ten days. Now the living standards of the Ming Dynasty are low, and twenty taels of silver are enough for ordinary people's annual expenses. You can imagine what kind of "huge money" this is.

Since he couldn't sleep, Liu Wenyang and Suo stood cross-legged and leaned against the wall, wrapped himself around with a quilt, and then leaned against the corner of the wall, listening to the quiet outside the window, looking at the gray light outside the paper-patterned window, which was the light reflected by the snow on the ground. He felt very heavy. He came from modern society and had more than 500 years of knowledge than the Ming Dynasty, but he could not help his family get out of the predicament. I feel ashamed to think about it.

What to do?

Liu Wenyang kept thinking about it, but suddenly remembered the "miracle" that happened to him today. He could see a person's complexion and luck through observing appearances. Could it be that this is not a very magical skill? What if he used this skill to help his father see his appearances for others?!

Suddenly, Liu Wenyang seemed to see hope of repaying the debt.

...

The ninth day of the twelfth lunar month.

It was a rare good weather, and the heavy snow that had been swelling stopped. Liu Wenyang opened the door and saw that it was covered in silver and the whole world was dazzling white.

He stretched his waist and didn't sleep well last night, but he was still shocked when he saw such a silver world.

Pick up a broom to sweep the snow.

The heavy snow was beyond the knees, which made Liu Wenyang amazed. You must know that I had never seen such heavy snow in my previous life. Those snow was always thin, which made people worry that they could crush them with just a lift of their feet.

It is definitely a very difficult physical job to clean up the heavy snow. Liu Wenyang spent all his efforts, so he finally cleared a road.

After a busy morning, after having breakfast, my father Liu Da asked Liu Wenyang to carry the fortune telling sign, and the father and son went to Chenghuang Temple to do business together.

If it were in the past, Liu Da would definitely not have his scholarly son show up in public to do such a humiliating business. You should know that if you can pass the scholarship, you will have the chance to pass the imperial examination, pass the Jinshi, and become a disciple of the emperor. If you do a fortune teller in a stall, what will people think of you when they stand in the Golden Palace?

But now, the son was dismissed from scholarship and his family was owed a lot of money. If the father and son still worked together, they would probably not have even had a year.

Liu Wenyang didn't think so much about following his father to set up a fortune teller. After all, he was not from this dynasty and did not have the belief that "everything is inferior but only studying is high." On the contrary, he was seriously corrupted by the "money concept" in his previous life. Not only was he not disgusted with fortune tellering, but he was looking forward to it. You should know that those fortune tellers in his previous life were all fat and oily, and money was easy to come. When he was whispered, he would have a lot of money and sex. Sometimes, he could get both wealth and sex when he was transported. It can be said that he was even more refreshing than being a white-collar worker or an executive.

Therefore, along the way, Liu Wenyang fantasized that he would use his perfect tongue to fool a few big customers, and then become a rich man, lying under the vine like Ximen Qing to eat grapes...

Seeing his son giggling all the way, his father Liu Da thought he was too excited and was "forced to smile", and couldn't help but sigh, "I'm such a miserable child! It's all my fault, my dad is useless, it's so damn!" He slapped himself with a slap.

Seeing his father slapped his face, Liu Wenyang was stunned. Liu Da hurriedly said, "Mosquito! Kill a mosquito!"

Liu Wenyang was surprised. Does it mean that the mosquitoes in the morning are so powerful that they pretend to be immortal Xiaoqiang in the middle of winter?!

...

In ancient times, people liked to worship gods, so there were many kinds of temples, temples, and temples, such as Dragon King Temple, God of Wealth Temple, Guanyin Temple, and Mazu Temple.

The most famous place like Taohua Town is the City God Temple. Of course, the City God Temple worships the City God Master. Zhu Laoba, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, highly praised such a land god.

Because before Zhu Laoba became emperor, he was once surrounded by the Yuan army and survived the disaster by staying in the City God Temple. After becoming emperor, he issued an order to enfeoff the City God God and ordered the construction of high-standard City God Temples in various places. For a time, the City God Temples in various parts of the Ming Dynasty grew up like mushrooms after a rain.

The place where Mr. Liu set up a stall is located on the left side of the foot of Chenghuang Temple. According to Mr. Liu, the Feng Shui on the left is good, and there is a big tree surrounding it. As the saying goes, "It is good to enjoy the cool under the big tree." What's more, the green dragon on the left and the white tiger on the right. The green dragon is stronger than the white tiger. This shows that the left is better than the right.

However, in Liu Wenyang's opinion, his father had no choice, because the one on the right was a thatched house!

Since you want to set up a stall, you need tables, chairs, benches, paper, ink, pens and inkstones. These things cannot be brought temporarily from home. Who has ever seen someone who has carried a table, bench and told fortunes? That's stupid!

Liu Da was not stupid. He had already stored all his things in the incense and candle shop not far away. Of course, the female shop owner did not help him like this because he was handsome, but because he had to charge him a "storage fee" of three cents every month. In addition, the female shop owner also operated the toilet directly opposite Liu Da, responsible for cleaning and cleaning, and also charged a "toilet entry fee". It can be seen that many business deals have been around for ancient times, and the female shop owner was undoubtedly very business-minded.

The table, chair, bench, and the paper, ink, pen and ink were prepared. The fortune teller was pulled away and leaned against one side. The couplets were written on the guise of attracting customers. The first couplet: a bamboo stick to paper life and death, the second couplet, and a three-in-one copper coin asking for future.

It can be said that it is concise and clearly marked with price.

Liu Da and his son came early, and there were not many people setting up stalls nearby, and there were even fewer people burning incense and worshiping gods.

Although the heavy snow had stopped and there was no wind, Liu Wenyang still felt a little cold after standing for a long time. On the contrary, Liu Da seemed to have been used to suffering. He held his hands, shrank his neck, sat in front of the table, leaning against a big tree, humming a small song on his own, waiting for the business to come.

"It's a bit cold, I'll go around nearby!" said Liu Wenyang.

"Don't go far, maybe you need help if you get busy later."

"knew."

After Liu Wenyang finished speaking, he walked along the mountain road toward the Chenghuang Temple.

The gate of the Chenghuang Temple was wide open. A young Taoist priest wearing a coarse sacrificial robe and a moon-white cloth shoes were running while taking a broom to clean the snow near the threshold.

Liu Wenyang looked up and saw that the City God Temple was really big, three floors high, with five rooms. A large black brown flat hanging above the gate, with iron-painted silver hooks on it, and three big characters written in regular script - City God Temple.

On both sides of the gate are exquisitely carved window lattices, and six carved doors with long fans are open. Two statues of gods can be seen vaguely sitting in the middle, with a majestic expression. In the incense burner in front of the statue, there are a few incense candles, and the incense is swaying, and sandalwood comes to the nose.

"Ah snee!" Suddenly entering from outside, the temperature difference was not adapted to, Liu Wenyang couldn't help but sneeze. After wiping his nose with his hand, Liu Wenyang began to look around at the interior of the imperial temple in this small town.

Spacious, bright and atmospheric!

It was much better than the dilapidated house where he and his father lived. After glanced at the city god sitting upright, Liu Wenyang couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that being a human being is worse than being a clay figure. At least there is such a decent place for a clay figure!"

"Everyone sighs that the gods are good, but who knows that the gods have troubles!" Suddenly, someone said.

Yi Feiyang turned his head and saw that he was a wise man with a bull's nose, in his forties, with a tall crown and a green beard, and was wearing an expensive silk Taoist robe. Unfortunately, his appearance was very disproportionate to this outfit. He mainly had a crooked mouth, which made the whole face look crooked.

"Xianchang's words are very Zen!" Liu Wenyang said with a smile.

"Haha, I dare not take Zen skills, but there are too many ordinary people. I only know how to envy the life of gods, but I just want to get something for nothing..." The crooked old man looked at Liu Wenyang with a smile. Needless to say, that "the ordinary person" and "the one who won for nothing" were of course him.

Liu Wenyang didn't understand why this old man with a bull nostalgia mocked him. He had dug his ancestral grave or stole his coffin board, so he rushed like this!

"Haha, Taoist priest is so humorous, but I wonder if you and I have had any grudges in the past?"

"No complaints!"

"Do you have a grudge on weekdays?"

"No revenge!"

"Then I don't understand. Since you and I have no grudges or grudges, your mouth is so smelly, why bother?!"

The crooked-mouthed Taoist was stunned for a moment, and he didn't seem to expect Liu Wenyang to be so sharp-tongued.

"Do you say... don't you know me?" asked the old man who crookedly said.

"Ha, it's ridiculous! Why do I know you?!" Liu Wenyang looked at the other person with his eyes scatteredly, then raised his eyebrows, "Besides, you are not a woman, I am not interested in old men, especially the kind with a crooked mouth..."

After hearing this, the old Taoist face turned red. It was not because he was insulted by the young boy in front of him, but because Liu Wenyang didn't even know him!

He has always thought that he was very famous in Taohua Town. It can be said that everyone knows him, and no one doesn't know him, but today, he is defeated.

After a dry smile, the old Taoist pointed at a place with a crooked mouth and said, "Let's see what that is?"

Liu Wenyang looked at it and found an inner room with tables, chairs and strips, similar to a doctor's clinic, but there was also a narrow and long plaque on the inner room, with the letter: Iron Mouth God's Calculation.

On both sides are a couplet, the first couplet: Count Yin and Yang to cut off the five elements, look at the sun and the moon in the palm; the second couplet: measure Feng Shui and Liuhe, hold the sleeves to the universe.

I have to say that this couplet is much stronger than the "three-money-money-one hexagram" written on my father's guise. It is not the same level in terms of meaning or momentum.

Seeing Liu Wenyang staring at the couplet in a daze, the old Taoist couldn't help but smile proudly, "Now, you should know who I am, right?"

Liu Wenyang nodded, no wonder there was no grudge or grudge. When this old guy met, he mocked him. The saying "People are enemies" is really correct, but he didn't know how his father offended him.

It turned out that the old Taoist named Zhang was originally named Zhang, and claimed to have come from the capital. After being guided by experts, he boasted that he knew astronomy and geography. He was very good at divining astrology in Qimen Dunjia, and was very good at everything.

At first, everyone thought he was bragging, but over time, because fortune telling is really good, he was called "Iron Mouth God Calculation" and also called "Zhang Tie Mouth".

Zhang Tiezui also set up street stalls at the beginning, but at that time he had some minor frictions with Liu Da because of robbing customers to start a business. Although the two were not young, they were stubborn and almost moved their fists.

However, as Zhang Tiezui's reputation as a "magic calculation" has become increasingly famous and his status has risen, he no longer takes Liu Da as an opponent seriously, or simply says "disdainful of such charlatans who cheat and drink."

Especially before the New Year, Zhang Tiezui was invited to set up a stall in the City God Temple, completely leaving the street business, and the cost of fortune-telling increased from three cents to ten cents today, even thirty cents, fifty cents, and hundreds of cents...

At this time, Zhang Tiemou was no longer hungry and cold, but instead had a rich and frugal life, and felt that he had become a top-notch person. Therefore, he was very afraid of others mentioning the past, especially when he was in a fortune teller on the street. However, recently, it has been leaked that he picked up steamed buns on the street when he was in a down-and-out period, was beaten by a green-skinned scoundrel, and was thrown away by someone.

The first thing Zhang Tiezui suspected was Liu Da. Only he would say bad things about him behind his back. Needless to say, his business was good, his business was bad, and he became a "Iron Mouth God's Calculation", but he was still a "street charlatan". In comparison, anyone could not help but slander him.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Tiezui hated Liu Da. Of course, he would not look good when he saw his son today.

At this moment, Liu Wenyang knew the cause and effect. The iron mouth pointed to the plaque "Iron Mouth God Calculation" and asked proudly: "How is it, now you should know who I am!"

Liu Wenyang really didn't want to cause trouble, but looking at the other party's proud face, Liu Wenyang felt unhappy, so he glanced at the other party's "respectful appearance" and said seriously: "I know I know, but I always feel that this word should be changed, not "iron-mouthed magical calculation", but "wrong-mouthed magical calculation"!"

"I didn't expect that Liu Da would have a sharp-tongued son like you, but I don't know how many days your ragged business can last!" Zhang Tie's flaws were used to being ridiculed, so he didn't care.

"You don't have to worry about this. Maybe we can move here to keep warm at that time. If you move outside, you may be able to get cold!"

"Hahaha, ridiculous! This is ridiculous! It turns out that besides sharp teeth, you also like to speak loudly!" Zhang Tiezui looked at Liu Wenyang with a mocking and disdainful look, "If your father was really capable, he would not have fallen into the field of today!"

"Have you never heard of it? Things are unpredictable!"

"Then I will open my eyes and wait!" Zhang Tiezui sneered, "Look at how you, a boy who has not grown all over, drive me out!"

At this point, there was nothing to say, so Liu Wenyang raised his middle finger provocatively, "Okay, let's take a look!" He turned around and left.

Open your mouth, "Hand up your finger? What do you mean?...I am the first one!"
Chapter completed!