The fast travel is too late

Chapter 31

"Let's draw a lottery!" The old man handed the lottery to Cen Shen, and said with a smile.

"After the lottery is drawn, will grandpa help you untangle the lottery?" Xin Wu glanced at the stick in the stick. The characters on the bamboo stick were so small that you couldn't see the words on the stick from the outside.

When the old man wooed the guests, he agreed to give a chance of fortune-telling as a gift, but he didn't know whether the solution of the lottery counted.

Xin Wu once asked for a lottery in a temple. The rule at that time was to pay once to ask for a lottery, and to pay again for resolving the lottery.If later on the old man said that fortune-telling was just a lottery, and the solution of the lottery was not included, then wouldn't the lottery be a free draw.

"The signatures here are all easy to understand. You don't need to explain them." The old man shook the lottery and spoke in a good-tempered manner.

"And after you draw the lottery, I will add a piece of advice, you don't have to worry."

Obviously, Xin Wu was not the only one who asked this question, and the old man answered very carefully.

Cen Shen took the lottery tube, shook it a few times in his hand, and casually pulled out a lottery from inside.

A lot of words can be engraved on a small stick. Xin Wu squatted on Cen Shen's shoulder and saw the words on the bamboo stick right away.

It was a poem, and one she had read.

"The Lord did not cross the river, but the Lord actually crossed the river.

Falling into the river and dying, what a shame! "

Xin Wu can't remember where the title of the poem "Kong Hou Yin" came from.She also remembered the story behind the poem.

A man wanted to cross the river when he was drunk.The man's wife followed him and advised him not to cross the river, but the man would not listen.He insisted on crossing the river and died of drowning.The man's wife cried and said the above poem by the river. After returning home, the bystander told his wife what he heard. up.

Xin Wu only knew this, and she was not clear about the connotation and metaphor of the poem.

He stared at the old man opposite him intently, waiting for the advice.

Cen Shen also saw the signature, and he also knew the superficial meaning of the signature, but he really didn't know the metaphor inside.When drawing lots, he didn't think about anything, so naturally he didn't know what kind of problem this poem corresponds to.

The old man's face changed, and he no longer smiled.He reached out to take the bamboo stick in Cen Shen's hand, and stared at the sign for a long time.He raised his head and stared at Cen Shen for a long time, the fingers of his right hand were still counting.

He didn't say what he had figured out, but his gaze towards Cen Shen became more and more amiable.

Sighing, he said, "little son, if you can listen to the old man's advice, then you should disembark and go back to your hometown. The life outside sounds like a thousand good things, but in fact they are all unsatisfactory. Happy life in my hometown. I give you a piece of advice, Yanshi will not cross the river."

Yanshi?

When the old man spoke, Cen Shen didn't take it seriously, but when he heard the word Yanshi, he really looked at the old man in front of him.

Not to mention that there are very few legends about Yanshi from the outside world. After the old man appeared, he did not touch Yanshi's means. It can show that he belongs to Yanshi. In this way, the old man is undoubtedly the fortune teller.He should also take a good look at the signatures he has approved, and should not take it lightly.Whether that advice is true or not is debatable.

"Can he really tell fortunes?" Xin Wu whispered, she also found that the old man was indeed strange, otherwise she would not have known that Cen Shen was a Yanshi.

If the literal meaning of the signature was true, wouldn't it mean that Cen Shen would have to stay far away from rivers, lakes and seas in the future, and don't even think about crossing rivers, Linjiang City would also be impossible.

The best way is to go back home.

"I've heard a saying that in terms of fate, believers are determined by their fate, and those who don't believe it is determined. This statement is somewhat true and somewhat false. May I ask the old man to clarify for me." Cen Shen cupped his hands, sincerely asking for advice.

The old man stroked his beard, he felt that he had already said all he could say, and the young man was too young and energetic to believe what he said, so he couldn't help it.

It is not easy to change other people's thinking, not to mention fate, he cannot change it with a few words.

The reason why he said the last sentence was just to remind them kindly because he still has a predestined relationship with them.

"You don't have to take my words seriously. It's better to believe in everything than to believe in nothing. If you insist on crossing the river, I can only send you. You won't die immediately, but you won't live long either. .” The old man still persuaded Cen Shen, but he still didn’t say a word about what he had calculated just now.

Cen Shen believes in fate but does not believe in the art of divination. It is remarkable that those magicians can calculate the past.The trajectory of the future will be different, and what can be calculated is not fate.

He didn't mention the matter of getting off the boat, but turned around and asked when the boat left.

Xin Wu on the side listened with a bit of fear, she believed the old man's words, and she knew that even if she persuaded Cen Shen, Cen Shen would not listen.So she also kept silent.

"My boat is very big, and it travels fast on the river. I am not afraid of wind and waves. It only takes a stick of incense from one bank to the other." The old man began to praise his boat, from the wood used for the hull to Which master was invited when making it, said the same thing.

While speaking, the old man was standing on the deck like them.Xin Wu noticed that the boat had moved unknowingly, getting farther and farther away from the shore.

Xin Wu saw that the boat didn't seem to be able to move by itself, there should be someone rowing in the cabin.

The other side of the river was getting closer and closer, and Xin Wu was still worried about the signing of the document just now. She didn't feel anything wrong now, but her intuition told her that what the old man said was very important.For a moment she couldn't think of what to do.

Cen Shen was different, he didn't take the signature paper seriously at all, and he was chatting with the old man vigorously.

The pier on the other side of the river will arrive soon, and not far from the pier is the gate of Linjiang City.

There are no people on the pier here, and there is no big boat on the riverside. Some of them are small fishing boats for fishing, the kind that can hold two or three people at most.It was in stark contrast to the crowded scene seen before.

Xin Wu has good eyesight and can still see the scene at the gate of the city.

At the gate of the city, two city gate officials in official uniforms stood there with their guns in their hands. Not far from them was a set of tables and chairs, on which were placed the Four Treasures of the Study.It should be a place to register the information of people entering the city.

Unlike Xin Wu's imagined scene of long queues at the gate, there was no one outside Linjiang City, nor were there any demons.

It was empty like a dead city.

From far away, only the sound of the rushing river can be heard, and the city not far away is not at all as good as Cen Shen's introduction.

"Ah Yan, is this Linjiang City?" Xin Wu couldn't stop the disappointment in his heart, and his tone was also weak.

"It should be here." Cen Shen also saw the empty pier, and he knew that this was their destination without looking at the map.

It's just that Linjiang City is different from the one in the legend.

But it's true, isn't it hard to say what's behind Nanling's praise.Maybe it's different in the city, you can't judge the quality of a place by its appearance.

"Are you going to settle down in Linjiang City?" The old man also looked into the distance with them, and found that both of them were a little disappointed, so he couldn't help defending Linjiang City, "Don't look at it outside, there are people in the city. .There are many interesting places.”

(End of this chapter)