After resigning, I switched to fortune-telling

Chapter 13

Master Zhang Xian spoke politely and wanted to have a friendly conversation with Xie Tangru.

After understanding the meaning of the other party's words, Xie Tangru raised his eyebrows lightly, "Please, Taoist priest."

Master Zhang Xian's beard trembled.

This elder son can still be so calm about matters related to his future. How could his stupid apprentice be able to play with such a character.

He put away the whisk, whispered the Daoist name, and followed Xie Tangru's pace.

Jianshuang smiled and served tea to the two, then backed out and closed the door.

The room is quiet, you can hear each other's breathing.Master Zhang Xian took a heavy breath suddenly, and then made up his mind to speak: "Your Majesty should have finished reading that book."

Xie Tangru just looked at the fairy teacher with a smile, with a noncommittal attitude.

"My son may have already guessed that what is recorded in that book is what will happen in the future." Zhang Xianshi told Xie Tangru a legendary experience in his past.

It turned out that Zhang Xianshi was a decent cultivator when he was young, and he was also very talented, maybe the kind who could shatter the void and ascend to immortality.On the way of an adventure, his ship encountered a storm, and when he woke up that day, he found himself in a very mysterious place.

——There is no change of seasons here, the grass and trees are green all year round, the birds and beasts will never die, and even the night will never come.

Time stands still here.

Is it scary?Maybe.But for the young Master Zhang Xian, he only felt that this was an opportunity bestowed on him by the gods, and he was full of curiosity about everything in this place.

One day, he came to the end of this small world, which was a crystal clear river, like a jade belt tightly surrounding this paradise.

Zhang Xianshi approached, and the clear river did not reflect his face, but lines of words slowly appeared, occasionally interspersed with a few moving images.

Obviously, what Zhang Xianshi saw was what happened from the perspective of the protagonist in the book.

"At that time, I thought it was a chance that God gave me." Zhang Xianshi sighed at this point, with a sad face, "Until..."

Master Zhang Xian was shocked when he saw those words, because what was written on them was the time in the future.He hastily took out the pen and paper he carried with him and copied it. Just as he finished copying the last word, a white light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes.

When he came back to his senses, he found himself lying on the shore. If the paper on his body was not covered with densely packed words, he might have thought he was having a dream.

Strange to say.

The papers had been soaked in seawater with him for a few days, but there was no trace of moisture.And at that time, he obviously didn't have an inkstone at hand, but his pen was able to write words continuously.

Zhang Xianshi believed even more that he was guided by an immortal.

Immediately after he went back, he rearranged the things recorded on the paper into a book.Since what he saw in Wonderland happened from the perspective of a certain character, he also faithfully adopted this recording method.It just inevitably makes it look like a storybook.

Master Zhang Xian regarded this booklet as a treasure and studied it every day.

Until one day, he discovered that this booklet mentioned a plague, which caused countless deaths and injuries among the people.Zhang Xianshi was kind-hearted, and immediately decided to prevent this from happening. He reported the plague to the local magistrate.The magistrate attached great importance to it, and quickly controlled the plague within a small area without causing chaos.

Master Zhang Xian was very happy.

He believes that he has saved countless lives, which is a great merit.

But what he didn't expect was that a month later, a heavy rain suddenly fell and swept through the city. The flood burst within five hours, submerging nearly ten cities in a row.

After the flood receded, the plague still spread silently.It was accompanied by mass displacement and famine.

Things are getting worse than ever.

And this accident has never been recorded in the brochure. On the contrary, the brochure says that this is a year of good weather.

Only then did he vaguely realize that he made the future worse because he rashly changed what was going to happen.

And the "plague" he wanted to save did not succeed in the end.

Even though nearly 30 years have passed, when he mentioned this incident, he was still full of pain and self-blame.

—he thought it was his own fault that caused the flood and the plague.

Xie Tangru was very calm, she didn't seem to be moved by it, she just tapped on the table to signal him to come back to his senses.

"continue."

Master Zhang Xian snorted twice at Shizi Xie's disrespectful behavior, and then continued.

The next development is even more clichéd and clichéd.

He found that the result of this change was so bad, in order to verify his guess, he did several small experiments using the things mentioned in the brochure.

as predicted.

Every change that deviates from the booklet will eventually lead to worse things happening, and the final result will not really change.

This discovery made Zhang Xianshi feel unprecedented pain.

——If you can know the existence of fate, but cannot shake it in any way, it often means a tragedy.

For Zhang Xianshi, this booklet is such an existence.

He sat quietly on the cliff for one night, and before the sun rose, he had a great enlightenment, sealed the booklet in the bottom of the box, and ascended to the fairyland by himself. From then on, there was another crazy Taoist priest in the world.

Until many years later, Master Zhang Xian handed over the booklet at the bottom of the box to his apprentice.Later, this booklet fell into the hands of Xie Tangru.

Fate seemed to be playing a bad joke with him, going around and around, and meeting again in this way.

Master Zhang Xian looked at Xie Tangru silently after talking about the past.

For a long time, Wei Guogong's son, who was famous all over the imperial capital for his appearance and the same famous incompetence, provoked a sharp and unclear smile.

"The immortal master told me such old things, why?"

"Pindao has no other intentions, but just wants to remind the son—"

Master Zhang Xian lowered his eyelashes, his tone was gentle and compassionate.

"Even if the son is a great talent and his ambition is in the world, he cannot defy the will of fate. If he withdraws as soon as possible, there may still be a glimmer of life."

Xie Tangru laughed loudly when he heard this. The folding fan painted with splashed ink landscapes in his hand was lifted at some point, "The Daoist priest appreciates me so much? I don't even know what great talent I have."

Master Zhang Xian still looks gentle, Xie Tangru finds it more and more interesting watching it, if Master Zhang Xian didn't chase his apprentice all over the yard yesterday, Xie Tangru would really think that Master Zhang Xian has always looked like this.

Zhang Xianshi said: "Your Majesty should be clear about some things. If you really insist on fighting with His Highness Cheng Wang, you will only end up like in the book. You are not fighting with people, but with the destiny!"

How can people compete for the sky?

Master Zhang Xian said sympathetically.

Become king again.

Xie Tangru narrowed his eyes.

"Then tell me, since I will surely die if I fight against the sky, how can I survive?" When he said this, he was a little contemptuous for no reason.

"If the prince withdraws from the vortex of imperial power now, and never loves power from now on, maybe he can still be saved."

This "maybe" is really interesting.

Xie Tang thought about it.

He closed his fan and "slapped" it on the palm of his hand, the smile on his lips closed, "If it wasn't for that booklet, I'm afraid the immortal teacher is a lobbyist sent by King Cheng."

Master Zhang Xian said nothing.

"The immortal master believes so deeply in the destiny, how can he know that the great flood in the 31st year of Chongwu that the immortal master said was never a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster."

He looked at Zhang Xianshi meaningfully.

In the 31st year of Chongwu, Qin Tianjian had already observed that there would be a heavy rain in the southern states, and there were even signs in various places. If the government had prepared early, there would be no casualties at all.

However, in order to overthrow the prince's party, the first emperor, who was still the prince at that time, deliberately made people conceal the matter, and destroyed a section of the river embankment in advance.

So the flood burst quickly.

The common people are devastated.

As the local governor of the prince's grandfather and the backbone of the princeling party, in order to calm the anger of the world, he apologized with death.And this also made the prince's party slump and lost the favor of the emperor.

So the first emperor succeeded to the throne logically.

It is common sense for the plague to appear after the flood, and it has nothing to do with what Zhang Xianshi did before.

That was not a ruthless natural disaster, but a man-made disaster created by the superiors.

Master Zhang was silent for a moment: "However, if there is no arrangement by the destiny, how can there be a man-made disaster? I think it is a punishment from the destiny, and it just happened in a reasonable way."

Xie Tangru smiled, but his eyes were cold, "The immortal master believes in the destiny, but I am a stubborn guy. After I send His Royal Highness Cheng Wang into the Palace of Yama to be the emperor, I will discuss with the immortal master whether the destiny is credible or not."

"These days, I will invite the immortal master to stay in the mansion for a while."

Immortal Master Zhang raised his whisk, "Your Majesty, you can do it yourself. If your Majesty thinks it through, you can come to find the poor Taoist at any time."

.........

Sending Master Zhang away, the smile on Xie Tangru's face completely disappeared, as if frozen.

You can believe some of the old Taoist's words, but not all of them.What's more, Master Zhang Xian didn't mention why he passed the brochure to his stupid apprentice since he had already fully realized it.

Master Zhang Xian knew much more than what was written in the booklet.

It's a pity that Wei Guogong's mansion is not the Ministry of Punishment, so he can't torture people at will.

Xie Tangru sighed regretfully.

Although Xie Shizi abides by the law, some people obviously think that he can override the Ministry of Punishment - after all, he is going to be the emperor soon.

For example, His Highness the Third Prince.

The third prince is titled Duan Wang, but he is not a Duan Fang son, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a hungry ghost.

What's more terrible is that His Royal Highness Duan Wang is not afraid of men and women, as long as they are good-looking, they can enter his mansion as the No. 30 eight-bedroom concubine.

Duan Wang's eyeballs wished to stick to Xie Tangru's body, if he hadn't taken into account the status of Wei Guogong's heir, he might be able to snatch him back to the mansion immediately today.

"Xie Shizi, this king is arresting the imperial court criminals, please cooperate with your house in the search."

"Of course." It's hard for Xie Tangru to laugh, "I just don't know if His Highness has any official documents from the Ministry of Criminal Justice or Dali Temple to handle the case?"

Duan Wang: "..."

Duan Wang really did not.

The Ministry of Punishment is in the hands of his elder brother, so where did he get the approval from the Ministry of Punishment?

King Duan put down his teacup: "Isn't this king's decree not enough?"

"Not enough." Xie Tangru spread his hands, "You know my father is the Duke of Chaopin, and it is only useful if the emperor orders it."

Duan Wang: "..."

How amazing is it to have a good father?If it wasn't for his father's death!

Duan Wang angrily dropped the cup.

"Will you let me in? If you don't let me, I will ask Wei Guogong to marry you and take you back to be my concubine!"