after little snake

Chapter 206 Volume Two Hexagram
The waning moon is like a hook, and the stars are like dust.The cold light shrouded the earth; the night wind blew with coolness.


In an ordinary bungalow in the Moon Flame Imperial City, the lights were dim, and the tall sycamore trees swaying in the wind made the courtyard feel a bit eerie and cold.


At this time, it was the end of Sishi, and there were no pedestrians on the street.A sapphire blue soft sedan chair was carried into the house by four porters in green cloth shirts. After the sedan chair stopped, a middle-aged man stepped out of the sedan chair. There is calmness in the pupils of the eyes, wearing a purple shirt with gold trim, exuding a restrained but not negligible royal aura.


"My lord, you are here. The national teacher has been waiting for you for a long time."


A man in black came out and bowed respectfully to the middle-aged man.He is tall and has deep facial features, he does not seem to be from the Moon Flame Nation.


The middle-aged man nodded, and walked towards the main building through the winding corridors led by the man in black.


"Master, the prince has arrived."


The man in black led the middle-aged man to stand outside a room. The lights in the room were reflected on the windows, and a tall figure was vaguely visible behind the desk.


"come in."


A cold and slightly sad voice came from the room.


The man in black pushed open the door, then stood aside, stretched out his hand and made an inviting gesture towards the middle-aged man:


"My lord, please."


The middle-aged man nodded towards him and walked in.


With a creak, the door closed behind him.


"Prince Deqing, it's been a long time."


Behind the desk was a [-]-year-old man in a white robe. His long gray hair was tied up with a hosta, and a few strands fell down his temples.On a slightly thin face, a pair of dark and wise eyes looked at Prince Deqing, with a slight smile in his eyes.


"Yes, National Teacher, we haven't seen you for two years. I didn't expect the Emperor of Zhaonan to send you here this time." Prince Deqing approached, clasped his fists at the National Teacher and smiled.


"This is our fate." The old man came out from behind the desk with a smile on his face.Then he stretched out his hand to invite him to sit down, and ordered someone to serve tea.


"Haha, what a fate." Prince Deqing smiled heartily, knowing in his heart that the Emperor of Zhaonan was also very interested in this cooperation, otherwise he would not have sent the national teacher himself.


"I don't know how the prince is preparing? When will the incident happen?" The national teacher sat beside him, looked at him and asked. "The monarch hopes to complete the big plan as soon as possible, so as to avoid more troubles when the emperor of our country comes back."


"Is your lord worried about this king?" Prince Deqing raised his eyebrows with a natural majesty. "This king has been keeping a low profile for so many years and cares more about the success or failure of things. Please let the national teacher tell your lord. After three days, we will cooperate with each other according to the agreed plan. This king leads the army to control the Moon Flame Imperial City. I also ask your country to send troops to block the outside world. Those who may have received news to come to the rescue, after the matter is completed, this king promises to cede Youzhou, Liangzhou, and Fengxian to your country, and sign a friendly agreement with your country..."


"Very good." The national teacher stroked his beard, "It's good for everyone to get things done as soon as possible." To avoid long days and long nights.


Prince Deqing nodded, he naturally understood.In particular, there is a general Zhenbei in the court who always goes straight and doesn't know how to turn. If he doesn't settle the matter early, I'm afraid this big Lu Han will become a stumbling block.


"By the way, National Teacher, I have heard that you are proficient in divination and divination. Now may I ask you to calculate the divination first, so that our affairs are going well?"


Prince Deqing thought of the title of the Zhaonan National Teacher's "God's Fortune", and couldn't help but have a whim.If it is an auspicious hexagram, it can also inspire the morale of the army and make most people surrender automatically.


The national teacher stroked his head and nodded, then stood up, walked to the desk, and picked up the gossip plate that he carried with him.After counting a hexagram with concentration and holding his breath, he suddenly looked in the direction where the stone needle fell, and his expression changed drastically.


"National teacher, what do you say about the hexagram image?"


When Prince Deqing saw the expression of the national teacher, he also had a very bad premonition in his heart.He even regretted why he mentioned divination just now, and the atmosphere was a little heavy for a while.


The national teacher raised his head, his slightly sunken brown pupils were full of disbelief.Looking at Prince Deqing and shaking his head, his lips moved but he just kept repeating:


"How is it possible? How is it possible?" He seemed quite shocked.


"National teacher, what exactly is it?" Seeing the appearance of the national teacher, Prince Deqing was startled.


The national teacher shook his head, then sighed and said:

"It's an ominous hexagram." It's so strange.


"What?" Prince Deqing's expression was also twisted by his words, "We will fail this time?" He didn't believe it, and there was some strength in his deep eyes.It was hard for him to hope that the emperor and empress would leave the palace, and the emperor had entrusted himself with the affairs of the interim court, so how could he make mistakes?


"It's so strange." The national teacher looked at Prince Deqing and murmured, "Then when the old man tested the hexagram, it was clearly a good hexagram. Why did it become a bad hexagram today? It seems that everything has changed in the dark." It is really unprecedented, how could this happen?


"It was an auspicious hexagram at first, but now it has become an ominous hexagram?" Prince Deqing didn't understand even more than him, why there are two kinds of divination results when they all count the same?


"Maybe it's a miscalculation." Prince Deqing said after a while of silence.But even though he said that, like the national teacher, he had knots in his heart.


"I hope." The national teacher sighed, he never hoped that his hexagram would be wrong than this time.If they are really doomed to lose money, then the consequences they face are too heavy.What's more, he still doesn't understand why there are two hexagrams with the same result?Could it be that someone deliberately sabotaged the whole thing so that the results changed?
(End of this chapter)