After Li Lu's expedition to the west, Li Dingguo was ordered to govern the country in Broken Leaves, and he liked to go out of the palace like his father Li Lu to understand the people's feelings.On this day, he called Qin Sheng again, changed his clothes, and slipped out of the imperial city together.As the imperial capital of the British Empire, Broken Leaf City is naturally very lively, which makes Li Dingguo linger, walking and watching, not feeling hungry, Li Dingguo saw that the business of a restaurant in front of him was particularly prosperous, so he rushed over with Qin Sheng.It turned out to be a Lantern Festival seller, Li Dingguo felt very strange, in the people, generally only the Lantern Festival eats Lantern Festival, it stands to reason that this business can't be done, why is this store so prosperous?
It seems that this Lantern Festival has its special place.It was an old couple who sold the Lantern Festival, the old man invited Li Dingguo and Qin Sheng to sit down, and brought two bowls of steaming Lantern Festival, Li Dingguo looked at the things in the bowl, it was soft and white, and his appetite increased greatly.Not long after, Li Dingguo ate a bowl of Lantern Festival cleanly, and seeing that Qin Sheng hadn't eaten it yet, he even ate his bowl together.After eating, Li Dingguo asked Qin Sheng to take ten English dollars to the old man, and the old man saw that he was so generous, so he hurriedly came over to thank him.Li Dingguo listened to his accent, like someone from the Bashu area, and couldn't help but be interested in him.The old man told Li Dingguo that his surname was Zhou, he was a native of Shuzhong, and he only had one son under his knees, and he was doing business in Broken Leaves, but there was no news for five years.After tasting all kinds of hardships to reach the broken leaves, how did they know that the imperial city was so big, and the old couple didn't know where to start, so they decided to wait for the rabbit.They rented a shop and started a business, the son used to love to eat Lantern Festival, and the old couple sold Lantern Festival, this Lantern Festival represents reunion, many strangers in Broken Leaves because of homesickness, all come to eat a bowl, plus this Lantern Festival tastes very good, so business is good.The biggest hope of the old couple is that one day their son will come to the store to eat Lantern Festival, and the family can be reunited.Li Dingguo thought that his father had gone west to Eastern Rome and stayed away from the broken leaves, so he felt sorry for the old man.As the old man was talking, a guest over there suddenly shouted, "Come here, old man, what's in the bowl?"
The old man hurried and cautiously ran to the guest, who pointed to a hair in the bowl and slapped the table angrily, which was terrible.Li Dingguo hurriedly asked Qin Sheng to come forward to persuade him.The old man kept bowing his head to admit his mistake, and promised not to accept the money for the Lantern Festival, where would the guests listen, pulled out their hair and put it on the table, and picked up the bowl to splash it on the old man's face.It was too late, it was too fast, Qin Sheng grabbed his wrist and said sharply: "Don't cheat, this hair is obviously your own!"
The man saw that there was someone helping, and his arrogance was half a cut shorter, but he insisted that the hair belonged to the old man.Qin Sheng didn't say a word, grabbed the old man's headscarf, the guest froze, the old man was full of silver threads, and what the man pulled out of the bowl was a black hair!
The guest had nothing to say, put the Lantern Festival money on the table, turned around and left.Li Dingguo smiled at Qin Sheng, and the two went out one after the other.As soon as I walked more than ten meters, I saw a blind man with a long beard in front of me, shouting at the passing crowd: "Fortune telling!"
Fortune telling!
Free fortune telling!"
As soon as Li Dingguo heard about the free fortune telling, he became interested, and was about to walk towards the blind man, but he didn't expect the blind man to take the initiative to speak: "Two guest officers, count a hexagram?"
Qin Sheng was puzzled and asked, "How do you know that we are two?"
The blind man laughed and said, "This ......
I'm blind but my hearing is acute, and since I know fortune telling, can't you count that the two of you want to come to me to tell fortunes?"
After the blind man finished speaking, without waiting for Li Dingguo to speak, a panicked look appeared on his face: "The two guest officers are in a very bad state, what did they eat just now?"
Li Dingguo smiled slightly: "I just ate the Lantern Festival of the delegation's reunion."
The blind man shook his head again and again and sighed three times.Li Dingguo asked him what he meant by sighing, and the blind man said, "How can you eat indiscriminately during the Lantern Festival?"
Lantern Festival is the homonym of 'Yuan Elimination', representing the dissipation of vitality, can a person still survive if his vitality dissipates?
If you think about it again, when you bite into the Lantern Festival, does the contents flow out like intestines?
It's exactly what it means to disembowel!
Moreover, the Lantern Festival is white, and white represents the funeral, the big murderer!
What a murderer!"
Li Dingguo's heart sank when he heard this, and when he thought of the feeling when he bit the Lantern Festival, he only felt a stream of sour water coming out of his stomach, and he was so disgusted that he wanted to vomit.Qin Sheng was not convinced, and asked: "In this way, the Lantern Festival is a murderous thing, so why does everyone eat the Lantern Festival during the Lantern Festival?"
The blind man said, "On the day of the Lantern Festival, people put up lanterns and set off fireworks to suppress the evil spirit, so they can eat the Lantern Festival on that particular day!"
As soon as Qin Sheng heard the reason, he looked at Li Dingguo, whose face was pale, and was very anxious, and asked the blind man if there was any way to extinguish the disaster, and the blind man asked Qin Sheng to stretch out his head and whispered in his ear: "Completely get rid of the root of the curse!"
After saying that, he strode away.Qin Sheng accompanied Li Dingguo back to the palace, he said that the blind man was full of nonsense, and suggested that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately send someone to arrest him, Li Dingguo smiled and ignored him.He thinks that it is not strange for those who do not know, and the blind man does not know that he is His Royal Highness the Prince, so he is angry and can't be more serious with him.Saying so, but Li Dingguo is still uneasy in his heart, he reminds himself all the time not to think about this matter, but the more he deliberately forgets some things, the more he will remember, and this is still a matter of life and death.Li Dingguo couldn't sleep for several nights, and on the fifth day, he fell ill.Asked the imperial doctor to come and see, but he couldn't see any clues, Qin Sheng knew it, and hurriedly sent someone to find the blind fortune teller, but he couldn't find it after looking for a few days.Seeing that His Royal Highness the Prince's spirit was getting worse and worse, Qin Sheng repeatedly pondered the blind man's words: "Completely get rid of the root of the curse", the Lantern Festival was made by the old man's family, it seems that only by killing the old man's family, His Royal Highness the Prince's condition can improve!
Early in the morning, Qin Sheng went out of the palace again, and he came to the old man's shop, the strange thing was that the old man did not do business today.When he saw Qin Sheng, he was very happy, and hurriedly let him into the house, and there was a heroic young man in the house.The old man happily told Qin Sheng that the young man was his son Zhou Xianggui, and he had finally found his son!
The family is going to go back to Quzhou Mansion in Tianzhu Province, where they have settled, and when they go, they will open another Lantern Festival shop and continue to do business.Seeing the nobleman, the old man was grateful, and he had to cook another bowl of Lantern Festival for Qin Sheng to eat.Qin Sheng thought, he came at a good time, if he came later, where to find them, and when the old man cooked the Lantern Festival, Qin Sheng closed the door of the store and took out two things from his waist, one was the gold medal in the palace, and the other was a package of poison.Seeing that the old man's family was honest and kind, Qin Sheng wanted them to be enlightened after death, so he told them everything one by one, and then put the poison into the Lantern Festival and asked the old man's family to eat it.