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Chapter 55 The Fake Taoist Asks the God of Wealth
The theory of proverbs, the theory of experience; there has been a cloud since ancient times, the road cuts the house, sees the casualties, the ghost carries the sedan chair, and the disaster arrives; In the place of the land, the spirit of defeat is hard to dissipate, so it is to avoid the road rush; burn paper and burn wealth, call the four ghosts to carry the coffin like a sedan chair, and move it to another place, so as to avoid the evil in twos and twos; this name is: ghosts Lift the sedan chair. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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To the east of Tianning Town, there is a mass grave.

It is said that 'going to the water and backing the mountains' is a good place for burials, but this mass grave is not a treasured place of geomantic omen by mountains and rivers.

Wealthy people are buried on the mountainside; it is because the word "廾" under the word "burial" is pronounced as offering, the so-called meaning of "holding" with both hands, relying on mountains and rocks as bones, and the flow of water is a sign of wealth, paying attention to a "gathering wind". Monopoly'.The mass grave is a spacious depression at the foot of the mountain. From the perspective of funeral feng shui, it is called "sand", which means a place with few stones. Although this place cannot "gather wind and wealth", it can also make future generations "prosperous." 'Cross in peace and ease.

"It's really bad luck! The sun-poisoned tomb is smoking, and it's a hot day to come here to hell!" The county magistrate shrugged, sweating profusely, while wiping the sweat from his forehead with his hands, he kept complaining.

"Stop rambling, and do as I please!" When the fake Taoist came, he took off his Taoist robe, put on a blue silk mandarin jacket, and put on 'one water black' cloth shoes. He looked like a peddler boss.

When the two were approaching.

The fake Taoist blinked his eyes and looked at the mass graves, small raised graves, and white paper and money scattered all over the place.Next to the two solitary graves, a small thatched shed was built, with a cover but no door, supported by four pillars. It looked like a gazebo, exactly the same as in the dream last night.

There was a dilapidated Eight Immortals table in the thatched shed. On the table was a piece of yellow paper with dominoes (Pai Gow) on it. There were two people beside the table. The 'business' of a gambling stall.

"Ah! This is not..."

The county magistrate looked at the gleaming silver under the stools of the two, and pointed to the old Taoist priest with some familiarity.

The fake Taoist shook his head, walked forward, pretended to be passing by and said: "It seems that there is a fire this day, and the green shoots are all roasted and wilted..."

It sounds like nothing, but it's actually the slang words of gangsters who talk about 'asking for directions', 'fire' and 'group', asking which group these two are from, and 'qingmiao' also represents The fake Taoist himself means that he has already "taken root" here, and now he is a little angry at being roasted by this "uninvited fire"!

The fake Taoist priest saw that the two were calm, turned his head and whispered to the county magistrate: "It seems that these two people are not from the Tao!"

The county magistrate asked in a low voice, "How do you know?"

"The people on the road sleep with their ears pricked up, and when they die, they keep their eyes open! Not only did these two people not understand what I meant, they also fell asleep unguardedly. It seems that they may not be able to figure out where they came from for a while... "

The county magistrate anxiously said: "Damn it, you're playing tricks here, I'll wake them up and ask them to understand!"

The fake Taoist stopped the county magistrate and said, "Before you find out, don't act in a hurry..."

To say that the two sleeping in the thatched shed were Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei.

In fact, the two of them had already seen the county magistrate and the fake Taoist priest coming, the county magistrate, they had met in the mourning hall, and the other man was blind in one eye, even if he changed clothes, they could guess it.So he pretended to be asleep and watched the changes.

Bang bang bang!
The fake Taoist stepped forward, knocked on the table of the Eight Immortals, and shouted to Bai Shibao and the other two: "Two brothers, please wake up! Ask you something!"

Bai Shibao woke up startled, rubbed his eyes, looked at the fake Taoist priest blankly, and said, "Who are you?"

The false Taoist lied and said: "I am from the town next door. My family has a funeral. I want to choose a geomantic place to bury my family. I heard that there is a Taoist temple in Nanshan here. There is a Taoist priest in the Taoist temple. I don't know if it is in this place On the mountain?"

Bai Shibao secretly smiled and said: Play stupid with me, come to trick me?I will play with you too!After thinking about it, he pushed Yan Zifei beside him with his hand, and said, "Brother, wake up, someone is here to ask for directions!"

Yan Zifei also pretended to be awake, frowning, and shook his head to express his ignorance after hearing the fake Taoist say it again.

Seeing Bai Shibao and Yanzi flying the money under the chair, the county magistrate was so angry that he walked to the Eight Immortals table with a sullen face, grabbed a domino on the table, and said with a sneer, "Why? Are you two not from the local area? Lian Nanshan Taoist Temple Do not know at all?"

Bai Shibao shook his head and said, "We both came from the north to do some small business, and we just came here this morning..."

The fake Taoist took a look at Bai Shibao, then looked at Yan Zifei, walked to the table of the Eight Immortals, touched three dominoes, arranged them into a tower, then pushed them down with his hands, and said with a sneer, "Small business? How about setting up a gambling stall?" Can you earn that much money?"

"Yo! Dare to show Bai'er!"

Startled, Bai Shibao glanced at Yan Zifei, and covered Yin Zi with his gown.

The fake Taoist laughed and said, "I'm afraid the source of this money is unknown, brother?"

Yan Zifei's expression darkened, he hurriedly protected Yin Zi, shaking his head non-stop.

The county magistrate angrily said: "Hurry up and recruit, or I will be arrested by you!"

"Brother, don't report it to the officials!" Bai Shibao took out the silver from under the chair, wrapped it in a gown, looked around, put it on the table of the Eight Immortals, and said to the county magistrate: "Everyone makes money by harmony, and I will share half of the silver with you. I hope you two don’t make any noise, if the government is alarmed and the money is confiscated, you won’t get any benefit, don’t you think?”

The county magistrate felt very cordial when he touched the silver, and then looked at the pile of silver behind Yan Zifei, feeling uncomfortable, thinking: I am an official, I will arrest you first and then torture me!After thinking about it, he was about to speak, but was stopped by a fake Taoist priest.

The fake Taoist returned the money to Bai Shibao and said, "We don't want this money, and we won't report it to the officials!"

Bai Shibao was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Then you..."

The fake Taoist laughed and said, "I just want to know how the money came from?"

Bai Shibao hesitated for a moment, and Yan Zifei shouted from the side: "Brother! Can't say..."

Bai Shibao replied: "If you don't talk about the matter now, I'm afraid you will face a lawsuit. I think these two elder brothers seem to be people who keep their word, and they can ask for safety!"

Yan Zifei sighed repeatedly at the side, and said to himself: "If I said it, wouldn't it provoke the anger of the ghosts, and I'm afraid it will be a death penalty..."

The fake Taoist priest hurriedly asked, "Ghost? What's going on?"

Bai Shibao sighed, and said: "Hey! I'm telling you the truth! We are dealers who resell ceramics in the north. Our business has lost money and we are penniless. Last night we spent the night at the Yepu Temple outside the city, but we didn't want to be betrayed by someone. The female ghost had a dream, and the female ghost said that she was the star king next to the God of Wealth, named: Female Wealth Lord, who was demoted to the mortal world because she violated the rules of heaven, and now she has to raise 3 taels of silver and turn it into money to fill the vacancy , need our help..."

The county magistrate angrily said, "Could it be that she told you to steal it?"

Bai Shibao shook his head and continued, "It's not stealing, it's just moving!"

"move?"

"That's right! She used the two ghosts' fortune-telling technique to let the two ghosts go to find rich and noble families, gamble for wealth, and put the money from the bets in this hut, and then asked us to move the money from the bets to Ye Bo Temple Go, wait until the money is enough, her soul will return to the heavens to keep us rich and honored for the rest of our lives... At first my brothers didn’t believe it, but when I came here and saw the money, I believed it!”

The county magistrate asked: "Why do you set up a tent here to gamble?"

Bai Shibao was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said: "The reason for building the shed is to hear from the female ghost that there will be a game of gambling here at night, so I told my brothers to get ready, but there is no gambling. I fell asleep here when I was tired; besides, there is no one alive or dead in this place, how can anyone come here to gamble?"

The fake Taoist priest lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then asked Bai Shibao: "Is that female ghost really descended from a fairy?"

Bai Shibao nodded, pointed to the silver coins and said, "There are silver coins to prove it! In my dream last night, I saw her summon the two ghosts, each dressed in black, with their feet on the wind, kneeling in front of the female ghost and saying, The Goddess of Wealth..."

The county magistrate turned his head to look at the fake Taoist priest, and said in surprise, "Aren't these two ghosts?"

The fake Taoist stared at him, bowed his head in thought for a moment, and said to Bai Shibao: "Brother, can you take the two of us to meet that female ghost at night? Oh no! The female God of Wealth?"

Bai Shibao pretended to be slightly embarrassed and said, "This..."

The fake Taoist took out some oceans from his bosom, stuffed them into Bai Shibao's hands, and said in a low voice, "Trouble two brothers, there will be a lot of money to give away after the matter is completed. Of course, you can use the money, and I will make up for it for you." What do you think of this deficiency?"

After Yan Zifei heard it, he shook his head aside and said, "This is the money of that female ghost. If it moves, I'm afraid that female ghost won't let us off lightly..."

The fake Taoist laughed and said: "Brother, what you said is wrong. If you don't tell me, who will know if I don't tell you? Besides, what the female ghost wants is money, why don't I give her the money?"

Bai Shibao lowered his head and thought for a while, then said to Yan Zifei: "What's wrong with such a good thing?"

Seeing that Yan Zifei thought about it for a while, the fake Taoist also nodded in agreement, then laughed happily, and said, "If the two brothers appreciate your face, I will invite the two brothers to have a meal in the town, and we will visit that place together in the evening. A fairy!"

Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei looked at each other, laughed together and said, "You're welcome!" After saying that, they wrapped their money in a piece of clothing, and followed the two of them to the town.

On the way, the county magistrate complained to the fake Taoist in front: "What's the matter? I haven't got the money back, so why should I pay them more?"

"You don't understand..."

The fake Taoist shook his head and said: "Even if we get back the money from the two of them, we can't hide the Goddess of Wealth telling ghosts to move the money. At that time, we will still end up with nothing. I didn't hear from that person that the Goddess of Wealth needs 3 Ten thousand taels of silver to fill the vacancy?"

The county magistrate asked, "What do you want to do?"

"Why don't we send 3 taels of silver to the temple in person, not only can we avoid being stolen by ghosts, but we can also gain benefits from the female God of Wealth, and she will return to the fairy world in the future. Didn't we invite a God of Wealth to be the master? There will be plenty of gold and silver at that time, do you still care about this now?"

"Is this safe?"

"We all dreamed about ghosts yesterday, and the money was in their hands for no reason. Can this kind of thing be faked? If they stole it, they would have run away long ago. Can you wait for us to come to the door?"

The county magistrate nodded and said yes when he heard it, and said, "You still have enough brains, why didn't I think of it?"

The fake Taoist priest chuckled, pointed to Bai Shibao and Yan Zifei behind him, and said, "Let's offer them food and drink first, and after introducing us to the Goddess of Wealth, it's nothing to do with them. The God of Wealth will definitely thank us!"

The county magistrate smiled and said, "Your trick is really clever! This time I worship the God of Wealth, but I won't be afraid of ghosts stealing my money!"

The county magistrate thought for a while and continued: "Do I need to bring a few people with me tonight?"

The false Taoist said: "What are you bringing people for? We went to worship the gods to give money, not to fight. If there are too many people, the Goddess of Wealth will be angry. I'm afraid she will tell ghosts to take away all our money. Where can we return it?" Go find her..."

"Uh-huh!"

(End of this chapter)