Taoist Pingxin obviously believed deeply in Lin Ji's statement.
After the food was served, he didn't notice anything and ate all the meat and vegetables without any rush.
Seeing this, Lin Ji had no intention of talking nonsense to him.
You can't cook a table of delicious food only to have it all fall into someone else's belly.
So Lin Ji also started to work hard.
During this period, Lin Ji had to send the housekeeper to the restaurant to buy two roast chickens, and then he finally ate to his satisfaction.
After the meal, a maid served tea, and Lin Ji was happy to enjoy it.
Sitting lazily on the chair, he casually asked Pingxin: "Where did the Taoist priest go after he left last time?"
"Walking around in Liangzhou, I'm just a wild crane, so I can take care of myself wherever I go." Taoist Pingxin said with a smile.
"So you returned to Liangcheng again?"
Lin Ji narrowed his eyes slightly.
He had just arrived in Liangcheng and this Taoist priest came to visit him immediately. This did not seem like a coincidence.
"If Lin remembers it correctly, the last time we met in Qingyang County, the Taoist priest mentioned that he had no choice but to escape from Liangcheng. How come he has thrown himself into the trap again and suffered the consequences when he came back?
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Taoist Pingxin smiled slightly, as if he was well prepared for Lin Ji's cross-examination.
"Pindao is here to repay brother for the favor of having a meal in Qingyang County."
As he was speaking, Pingxin smiled bitterly and said: "Who would have thought that the kindness from last time has not been repaid yet, and today I have another meal with my brother. This is really... really..."
"Don't be serious, I can still afford a few meals! To put it bluntly, what does Taoist Priest want from Lin?" Lin Ji was not in the mood to have a fight with Taoist Pingxin here.
Taoist Pingxin still had a smile on his face.
He put his hand into the tattered Taoist robe, took out five copper coins, and put them on the table.
"Brother, please give me a toss."
Seeing this scene, Lin Ji was stunned.
"Are you really here to tell fortunes? Isn't that your trick?"
Lin Ji still remembered when he met Taoist Pingxin in Qingyang County. This Taoist was not honest. He closed his eyes and pretended to be blind. He kept mumbling about five hundred years in advance and five hundred years in the future. He looked like a god.
stick.
If he hadn't known that this person was a cultivated person, this trick was probably his hobby. If he was just an ordinary charlatan, Lin Ji would have had his subordinates take care of him long ago.
But who would have thought that Taoist Pingxin was not joking at this time.
"Please give it a try," Taoist Pingxin repeated with a smile.
Lin Ji took a deep look at Taoist Pingxin and said with a smile: "Then Lin calculated the last hexagram and let's see if your calculation is accurate."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Ji grabbed the copper coins on the table and threw them into the sky.
The copper coins quickly fell down and kept spinning on the table, and they stopped after a while.
But one of the copper coins accidentally landed in an inconspicuous depression far away on the table. It was half toppled and half upright, which looked quite unsightly.
Lin Ji also saw this scene, shook his head and said: "What a big deal, I'll throw it again."
"No need, everything is fate." However, Taoist Pingxin stopped Lin Ji's movements and his eyes remained on the few copper coins on the table.
Lin Ji didn't bother him and just waited aside.
A full quarter of an hour passed, and just when Lin Ji was getting impatient, Taoist Pingxin finally spoke.
But it's not a hexagram.
"Brother, do you know what I mean about these five copper coins?"
"I don't know."
Taoist Pingxin chuckled and said: "I have some origins in these copper coins, but I see that brother is a little impatient, so I won't go into details... Brother, don't be anxious, put down the tea cup! These copper coins
It’s called Sanshengqian.”
"Three cents of money?"
"Two coins count for the past, two coins count for the present, and two coins count for the future."
"Shouldn't there be six? Why are there only five?" Lin Ji asked curiously.
Taoist Pingxin did not explain, but looked at the copper coin hexagram on the table.
"Everything was stable in my previous life, but it died halfway..."
Lin Ji was stunned and remained silent.
"There is only one copper coin in the future, so it is not accurate...but the copper coin happens to fall between the present and the past, which is interesting."
"What should be the explanation?" Lin Ji asked.
Taoist Pingxin laughed twice.
"This kind of hexagram is not uncommon, but it often appears in those who are reincarnated and reborn, or who are reborn. The past life is not cut off, but the current life is restarted, so the future is connected to the two, and the future is unclear."
Lin Ji took a deep breath and was noncommittal.
Taoist Pingxin also said: "Of course, it's just a piece of future money. Whether this hexagram is accurate or not is a matter of debate."
"What about now?" Lin Ji asked again.
"It was supposed to be smooth and stable, but there were waves again." Ping Xin said, pointing to the copper coin that was still shaking in the depression.
But when Lin Ji looked at it, the copper coin suddenly stopped shaking and stabilized for some reason.
Seeing this scene, Taoist Pingxin was also a little surprised.
He continued: "The position of the five copper coins vaguely coincides with the current number of days. Brother, I have great luck."
"It's great luck again." Lin Ji laughed dumbly.
Master Xingchi also said this.
His great luck is the book of cause and effect, isn't it?
But just when Lin Ji thought Taoist Pingxin would say something complimentary, Taoist Pingxin shook his head and changed the subject.
"The way of success is the way of heaven, the way of failure is also the way of heaven. Brother's destiny coincides with the way of heaven. He should be a heavenly being descending to the earth. If he is an official, he will be a minister of the world; if he is a businessman, he will be rich in the world; if he is a practitioner, his cultivation will be astonishing.
!but..."
"but?"
"Now that heaven's changes have occurred, this is the general trend...Brother, this destiny is mixed with the general trend, but it is not like the heavenly beings descending to the earth in the prosperous age."
"How to say?"
"The general trend is like a violent storm. You, me, and even all the people in the world are nothing more than duckweeds under the violent wind and rain. My brother and I have a profound blessing, but in the general trend, we only have a little more foundation."
Hearing this, Lin Ji smiled and said: "Having a foundation is better than others not having one."
"In the storm, there is no difference between a rootless duckweed and a rootless duckweed." Taoist Pingxin sighed softly.
"So the Taoist Master is asking me to go with the flow and leave it to fate?" Lin Ji asked back.
"How you choose is up to you, brother."
Lin Ji thought for a moment and shook his head.
"The Taoist priest's calculation is not accurate."
"Why not?" Ping Xin was quite curious.
"I have roots. I dare not say that I will grow in the face of wind and rain, but I can always find a place to take shelter from the rain and stand firm."
Lin Ji tapped his finger on the desktop.
"Jian Tiansi seems to be in a precarious situation, but behind the scenes there is the imperial court controlling the world. Where else can there be a better place to take shelter from the rain than Jian Tiansi?"
"It makes sense..." Pingxin began to think deeply.
Lin Ji added: "The imperial court fell and the world was shaken. It doesn't matter whether it has roots or not. It's just a situation of overthrowing the nest."