My years as a fortune teller

After taking a break at the Pao Mo Restaurant, we drove towards my residence.Along the way I had images of the old village and the location of the graves in my mind.Especially "Si Tai Nai". Although I have never met this old man, I know that this old man must know a lot.

When I got home, I finished offering incense to Patriarch.After making tea, she sat across from Tian Ruifu and handed him a talisman, saying to him, "Seven days later, if there is no major event at home, I will stick this talisman on the door of the main house."

Tian Ruifu immediately asked: "What if something happens within seven days? Am I going to come again, please go and have a look?" He said and cast a helpless look at me.I really want to slap him in the face, why is this so, I don't have any confidence at all.

After calming down for a while to calm my mind, I said to him: "That's right, I can give you this talisman to guarantee that nothing will happen within seven days. I said this because I was afraid that something would happen. You can rest assured Okay, now tell me about your ex-wife's suicide."

"Oh!" Tian Ruifu said with a complicated expression while putting the talisman into his pocket: "Actually, I'm also to blame for this matter. I just made a name for myself back then. Although my wife never gave birth, I made a lot of money. It's just that I was playing games at that time." I play cards fiercely, and I can win almost all hands. When Zhaodi was born, it happened to be the worst time in my career. You also know that men have no money, and I gave birth to a girl again. I just told Zhaodi her mother She said something that shouldn't be said. Her mother was not yet confinement, and she felt a little unhappy, saying that she always saw a woman standing in front of her. I asked her, but she couldn't explain clearly, so she had arguing about this matter Many times. Not long after confinement, he hanged himself on the beam of the main house just like my mother.”

Hearing this, I frowned, which is supposed to be a bit like postpartum depression.But it's not enough to leave the newborn child and run to commit suicide!Thinking of this, I stroked the beard on my chin and fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Erye Cui suddenly patted me and said, "What are you thinking? We are all waiting for you to talk, but you don't fart. Tell me, did you think of something?" He stared at me while talking .

When I was in a trance, I lost my mind when I was shot by Cui Erye.I scratched my head and said, "I had some thoughts just now, Erye's slap is gone. Hey, you should pay more attention when you slap me next time."

He looked at his watch and said, "What time will it be? How about we go to dinner! My treat is to treat you to a big plate of chicken today. Let's go!" Standing up, he dragged Cui Erye to Walk.

Gao Shengwen stood up, looked at me and said, "Okay, my little master Zhang, you still want to treat us to eat, knowing that we can't eat anymore; I really don't know if you are kind or malicious, but we appreciate it. We will go back to each other. Home, hurry up and catch up on sleep, I'm almost trapped to death." He stretched his waist as he spoke.

Cui Erye also said: "Yes, Xiao Zhang, I will definitely not be able to eat this. Let's stop here today and go back and have a good rest. When you are not busy, can you treat us to a big plate of chicken?"

I watched Cui Erye nodded, sent them all out and closed the door, washed the apples brought from Tian Ruifu and offered them in front of the patriarch.Then he took an apple, sat on the sofa and read the book he brought while eating.

These books are not so much the notes of Grandpa Tian Ruifu, but a complete set of diaries.I looked carefully at the above content, it was all the records left by Tian Ruifu's grandfather when he explored various geomantic omens. ,

There is a passage in it that caught my attention: "Yu Song kowtowed at Kou Fuzhen, the patriarch, and his disciples have been running around for many years to pass on the way of the patriarch. Although there is a desire to prosper, there are many resistances. The disciples have repeatedly invited the patriarch to come to tell the disciples about the funeral. ..”

The handwriting on the back is blurred and I can't read it at all, but it is this passage that surprised me; because the ancestor Kou Fuzhen in it is a well-known high Taoist in the history of Taoism, and in my master's words, he is also a sad person.

Kou Fuzhen, whose full name is Kou Qian's word Fuzhen.The famous Gao Dao during the Northern and Southern Dynasties also changed some rules of Taoism at that time by himself.So when it comes to him, it may be more of a tragedy!

Kou Qianzhi has been good at Taoism since he was a child, but he is mainly self-study.Once when I went to my aunt's house to play, when I used the "Zhoupi Suanjing" to calculate the operation rules of the sun, moon and five planets, I was always wrong, and my heart was burning.At this time, Cheng Gongxing, a helper from my aunt's house, accidentally walked up to him to have a look, and found that his calculation was wrong, so he pointed out and corrected it.As a result, Kou Qianzhi dismissed him at first, and after using Cheng Gongxing's method to calculate correctly, he immediately worshiped Chenggong Xing as his teacher, but Chenggong Xing refused to agree with anything and instead wanted to worship Kou Qianzhi as his teacher.

Although Kou Qianzhi was very strange, he still accepted Chengxing.Not long after Kou Qianzhi received Taoism, Cheng Gongxing said to Kou Qianzhi: "Sir, if you want to learn Taoism, you should follow Gongxing and hide in the mountains." Kou Qianzhi readily agreed.So, after three days of clean fasting, he left home to practice Taoism with Cheng Gongxing.Kou Qianzhi first went to Huashan with Cheng Gongxing, and picked the elixir, and he didn't feel hungry after taking it. Soon, the master and apprentice went to Songshan to practice Taoism with great concentration.

Seven years later, Chenggong Xing Dao has been completed, and he tells Kou Qianzhi that he is the apprentice of the gods in the sky; because he violated the commandments, he was driven down to the heaven to suffer, so Cheng Chengxing accepted the punishment mainly by teaching Taoism.He also said to Kou Qianzhi: "You have devoted yourself to Taoism, and your ambition is commendable, but the mortal relationship is not over, the seven emotions and six desires are still unbroken, and it is difficult to go to the immortal road. However, you need to work harder. In the future, you can be a teacher of the emperor, and it is also a great tool." He taught the secret of comprehension to Kou Qianzhi.

After successfully ascending to the top, Kou Qianzhi began to accept disciples.And entrusting the words of the Supreme Master, while recruiting disciples wantonly, he tried his best to reform the way of heavenly masters.The first is to abolish the title of Shu Tu Zhai Zhi, and no longer follow the management system of Wudou Mi Dao, which is ruled by teachers; It is to abolish the system of renting rice and money and taxes during the three-period period. Taoists only need to hand in thirty sheets of paper, one tube of pen, and one ingot of ink for repairing watches and saving salvation; "Xinke Zhijie" advocates etiquette, and adds Taoist precepts and fasting rituals according to Confucian ethics and morals; sixth, absorbs the teachings of "reincarnation, life and death" in Buddhism, and preaches the theory of retribution for good and evil; Forbidden mantra techniques such as alchemy, talisman, medicine, divination, and prophecy are combined into one; the eighth is that Taoists recite Taoist scriptures, changing "straight recitation" to "music recitation", that is, chanting with music accompaniment.

Following Kou Qianzhi's rectification, he immediately attracted the attention of Tuoba Tao, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty.But at this time, he did not reuse Kou Qianzhi, but sent someone to support him; so Kou Qianzhi became good friends with Zuo Guanglu doctor of Emperor Taiwu, the famous Confucian White Horse Gong Cui Hao.

Later, under the strong recommendation of Cui Hao, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty accepted Kou Qianzhi; so Kou Qianzhi officially became the "Emperor Teacher" and "National Teacher".Kou Qianzhi lived in the palace without eating grains, and he was full of energy; he helped the spirits to invite gods, and there were many astronomical signs; he painted talismans to suppress disasters, hoping for peace;

Especially in 425 AD, King Helian Bobo of Daxia died of illness, and his son Helianchang succeeded to the throne.The courtiers had different opinions on whether to attack the Great Xia in the west.So Kou Qianzhi's "Heavenly Master" was invited to decide good or bad.Kou Qianzhi first agreed with Cui Hao's opinion, and thought that the people of Great Xia had always been poor and expanded wars, and the people were uneasy; and the new monarch was lost, and the political situation was unstable.If you send troops to conquer, you will surely kill three birds with one stone, and you will return victorious.Therefore, Kou Qianzhi performed rituals in the palace, praying for victory.Later, he said to Emperor Taiwu: "This battle must be overcome. Your Majesty will use martial arts to respond to the fate of heaven. You should use soldiers to conquer Kyushu, and then literature and martial arts to become the true king of Taiping."

Sure enough, the battle was won. In 440 A.D., Emperor Taiwu also changed the name to "True Emperor of Taiping" according to Kou Qianzhi's suggestion, and then at the request of Kou Qianzhi, he went to the Taoist altar to receive the talisman in person.Since then, when the emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty came to the throne, they all went to the Taoist altar to receive the talisman, which became a legal system and used it as a basis for the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei to rule the Han people.

In this way, Kou Qianzhi not only gained a foothold in the court of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also became a "National Teacher" with one person under one man and over ten thousand people.And there are more and more reforms to the way of celestial masters. At this time, the way of celestial masters in Longhushan has entered a low ebb...