Record of Yin and Yang

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Gu Jiu was not moving, the restaurant owner asked in a panic.

"It's okay." Gu Jiu shook his head, treated the man's wound and applied wound medicine.

The man was dizzy for a while before waking up. Faced with repeated apologies from the owner of the restaurant, the depressed man was very magnanimous, waving his hands to say that he was fine if he was not dead.The owner of the food shop was quite kind, he took out five taels of silver and asked the man to take it to mend his body.

The man declined several times, but still accepted.The owner of the restaurant learned that he was here to buy meat, so he packed some meat for free for the man to take home to eat.

The man showed gratitude, thanked him, stood up on the stool next to him, shook it a bit, and then left.Gu Jiu and Shao Yi took the meat from the owner of the restaurant out of gratitude, and chased after the man and walked out.

Gu Jiu said: "Brother, please stay."

The man turned around, his brows seemed to be frowned habitually, and when he saw Gu Jiu and Shao Yi, he smiled gently and asked in confusion, "Is there anything else you two need to do?"

Gu Jiu looked at the man's face and slowly approached him, "Brother, have you ever been rich?"

The man was stunned, "How does little brother know?"

Gu Jiu didn't answer, and continued to ask: "Did you have many chances to make a fortune, each time you looked at it with great hope, but in the end you always missed it?

The man smiled, "Who are you, how do you know so clearly?"

"Me?" Gu Jiu pointed at himself and smiled, "I'm a Taoist who specializes in catching ghosts, telling people's fortunes and looking at Feng Shui."

The man froze for a moment, "Is that so... Does the priest think there is something wrong with me?"

The man did not doubt Gu Jiu's words and identity like some people in the past.Gu Jiu didn't talk nonsense, and directly pointed out his problems.

Gu Jiudao: "Your forehead is high and broad," pointing to the protruding bones under the corners of the man's eyes, "The cheekbones are round and have no edges and corners, connecting the jade-shaped bones and going straight to the temples. Generally, people with such a face will not be able to meet their fate in this life." It's too bad, but I think your jade bone is also very round, which is a noble appearance. The appearance of jade bone shows that you have more opportunities and you will not work hard in your life. Even if you are not rich and powerful in the future, your family will be small I have money to spare."

The man didn't directly question Gu Jiu, "Did the Daoist see it wrong?" He spread his hands and let Gu Jiu see his clothes. He was dressed in a coarse cloth bunt, and his feet were old shoes that were sewn and sewn and left open. , he looked at Gu Jiu with a wry smile on his face, as if he was asking, if he really looked rich like he said, how could he have fallen into such a situation.

Gu Jiu said again: "Your original appearance was very good, but now your face is gray, which means that your luck is dark and stagnant; your cheekbones are black, may I ask, is your wife still alive?"

The man was stunned again, "The Daoist's calculation is really accurate, my wife is indeed seriously ill in bed, and time is not long..."

Gu Jiu understood it, and pointed to the place where the man's cheeks and ears meet, and said, "In physiognomy, this position is the two places. The middle school and the old age are dilapidated, and your two places are also dim. Seeing that you have passed your age and reached middle age, have you been very unlucky in recent years, things like getting knocked out by a plaque while walking often happen?"

The man completely believed in Gu Jiu. As a person who would fall and bleed when walking on flat ground, he was very clear about his own situation. His reaction was so flat because of what happened to him. If he and the owner of the restaurant really wanted to discuss it, the owner must have suffered an unwarranted disaster.

Because of his bad luck, his family prayed to gods and worshiped Buddha for him countless times, and he drank countless glasses of Fushui. Although he didn't believe 100% in Gu Jiu's identity at first, he never questioned it.

Hearing what Gu Jiu said, the man felt something in his heart, "The Taoist priest thinks, how should I solve my problems?"

Gu Jiu pondered for a while, "If you don't think we're meddling in other people's business, we'll go back with you first, and it won't be too late to untangle it for you after we've settled on some things."

The man agreed without even thinking about it, but he was embarrassed and said: "It's just a humble house, will you wrong the two Taoist priests?"

Gu Jiu said with a smile: "We have stayed in the sky and the ground before, where can't we live?"

So carrying a few packets of meat, Gu Jiu and Shao Yi followed the man back home.

The man's name is Zhong Kaiji, who happens to be 35 this year, and he has two sons and a daughter with his wife Zhu Caiyun.According to him, his wife Zhu Caiyun has been ill for nearly half a year, and the family has no money to see a doctor. Now the doctor has told them to start preparing for the funeral.This time Zhong Kaiji worked hard outside for a month, and the head of the payroll gave him half of the wages, but because he had to rely on the other party to find work, he could only swallow his anger. He took the money and wanted to continue to take medicine for his wife Yes, but my wife has been tortured by illness for so long, saying that she doesn't want to suffer any more, and she doesn't want to drag them down anymore, and she wants to have a good meal before leaving.

Because of poverty, it is very rare for the Zhong family to eat meat. Zhong Kaiji looked at his wife who was so thin that she was out of human shape, and agreed with tears. He came directly with the silver, but didn't want to be knocked unconscious by the falling plaque when he entered the door, and then met Gu Jiu and the others.

Zhong Kaiji came here on foot, Gu Jiu and the others had a donkey cart, and drove the donkey cart back to Zhong Kaiji's village, and it was noon.

There was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl squatting in front of Zhong's house, poking the ground with a wooden branch in boredom, looking up from time to time, and frowning curiously when she saw Gu Jiu, waiting for the donkey cart to stop in front of the door. After seeing Zhong Kaiji getting off the carriage, he happily went up and hugged Zhong Kaiji's arm, "Father, you are back!"

Zhong Kaiji patted the little girl's head, and introduced to Gu Jiu and Shao Yi: "This is my youngest daughter, Zhong Fangfang."

Zhong Fangfang looked at Gu Jiu and the others timidly, and politely called her brother twice.

Zhong Kaiji glanced at Gu Jiu and Shao Yi worriedly, seeing that they answered with a smile, he felt relieved, and thought that the two Taoist priests were really kind and amiable. In the past, when he went to pray to the gods, which one of the Taoist priests and witches he met was not arrogant. , I want people to respectfully call them Immortal Elder and Immortal Po.

Zhong Kaiji put away his thoughts, led Gu Jiu and the others into the yard, asked Zhong Fangfang to pack a room for the two priests to rest, and then went to see his wife on the hospital bed.

Zhu Caiyun was indeed very ill, her cheeks were sunken, and her wrist exposed on the bed was covered with bones. When Zhong Kaiji came back, she raised her hand tremblingly, and put it down weakly, her breath was like a silk thread. Said: "Master, you are back."

Seeing his wife like this, Zhong Kaiji's eyes instantly turned red, he turned his face to the side to wipe away his tears, and was about to walk over to hold his wife's hand, but saw Gu Jiuyi sitting on his butt first, putting his hand on his wife's wrist, Can not help but a little at a loss.

"Taoism and medicine are not separated." Zhong Kaiji didn't bother Gu Jiu, but Shao Yi explained.

Gu Jiu took Zhu Caiyun's pulse, his face was a little serious, and he asked Zhong Kaiji to go out and talk.

"And judging from the pulse condition, it turns out that your wife is suffering from common typhoid fever." Gu Jiu said.

Zhong Kaiji nodded: "The doctor who came to see the doctor also said the same thing, but my family has no money to see a doctor, so it dragged on like this."

"However, when I look at your wife's face, it is an ancient and rare face."

It is rare to live in the 70s, Zhu Caiyun looks like someone who can live to [-] years old, which is a long-lived face in this era.Although a person's fate is not fixed, nor is the number of life immutable, because any small action in life may bring about great changes, but Zhu Caiyun's face is not a hateful person, which can make her original seven It is not normal for the ten life span to be shortened to thirty or so.

Zhong Kaiji's face turned pale, and he first blamed himself, "I'm unlucky, is it because of me that I've hurt her?"

"You husband and wife are one, you are not good, she will naturally be implicated, but it is not so serious." Gu Jiu did not directly express her conjecture, but asked Zhong Kaiji to call her two sons back, Look at his face.

Afterwards, Gu Jiu took out the pills and dissolved them in water for Zhu Caiyun to drink.

When eating at noon, Gu Jiu took out their few packets of meat and asked the Zhong family to cut it up and serve it to the table.On the table, Zhong Fangfang kept swallowing, but she didn't pick up any food. She just stared at the bowl of pickled vegetables in front of her, and ate the gruel that was so clear that she could see people's shadows all night.

Shao Yi pushed the meat in front of her.

Gu Jiudao: "The little girl is growing up, eat more meat."

Zhong Fangfang turned her head to look at her father, saw her father nodding, then carefully picked up two chopsticks, ate a little bit, and then stopped chewing. After eating by herself, she took the rice to feed her mother.

Zhong Kaiji didn't eat any meat either, saying that he would save his share for his two sons.

Zhong Kaiji's eldest son, Zhong Xiude, and his younger son Zhong Xiuye, one sixteen and one fourteen, both work outside for others.Because of his young age and thin body, he couldn't find a good job. All the money Zhong Kaiji earned was used to treat Zhu Caiyun's illness, and the wages of the two children were kept for family expenses. They managed to live on. I will come back from work in the evening.

In the afternoon Zhong Kaiji was not idle. He went out and pulled a basket of weeds and came back, chopped them up and fed them to the chickens and ducks.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi sat on a three-legged bench under the eaves, Gu Jiu asked the busy Zhong Kaiji, "What was your family like when you were rich?"

Zhong Kaiji put down the cut knife, rubbed the frostbite on his hands, and said slowly: "Don't go hungry or cold, eat meat every now and then, have servants around you, don't have to work, guard a few shops, A lot of money comes in every day.”

"How did you have no money after that?"

Zhong Kaiji recalled, "It's just unlucky, and you will pay for what you do." The family business accumulated before was scattered little by little, and finally became an ordinary farmer. Now it is not even ordinary. Looking around , there is no one poorer than his family nearby.

Gu Jiu asked again: "Then, in your neighborhood, or in other words, Renzhong you know, is there anyone who got rich overnight?"

Zhong Kaiji said without thinking, "My cousin's house."

Gu Jiu raised her eyebrows, "When the other party gets rich, and when your family loses, which one comes first and which one comes after?"

Zhong Kaiji paused while chopping grass, and replied with certainty: "My family is in front, and his family is in the rear."

"How long is the interval?"

"It's not long, between January."