Long ago, when there were still emperors, each of the nine city gates of Beijing had a tomb.
The monument of Fucheng Gate is a plum blossom carved on the left wall of the urn gate.
Because Fuchengmen transports a lot of coal, all the people living under the city are coal black people, and many coolies who pull camels also live there.
There are not many decent houses, just "fence lamps".
Fence lamps are not lamps.
Poor people cannot live in brick houses.
They erect a few wooden pillars, put up beams, raise a frame, spread straw mats on the roof, and coat straw with white ash as the walls.
People live inside.
This is It's called "fence light".
Among the "fence lamps" where the poor live, there is a fortune teller.
The fortune teller was in his early thirties.
He had been a wealthy man for many generations.
Jizu had opened three pawnshops, one selling antique calligraphy and painting, one selling gold jewelry and jade, and one selling silk and satin.
However, when the news came to him, it failed.
Wan Guan's family fortune was gone, and he took his children with him to sell divination in the capital, relying on his knowledge to make ends meet.
Opposite him was a cobbler who mended boots.
He was about thirty years old and had a tiger-like face.
His hometown was in Shanxi.
He suffered from famine and had to move to Beijing to move coal, sew shoes and mend boots.
I wake up early and stay up late all day long, reluctant to eat or wear clothes.
I plan to save some money and send it back to my wife and children.
The fortune teller was kind-hearted.
Seeing that the cobbler was helpless and couldn't set up a stall on cloudy and rainy days, he always asked the cobbler to come to his house to have dinner and spend the night.
After going back and forth, the two of them developed a friendship.
One day, the cobbler got a treasure from his fellow villager.
His fellow countryman was a thief who dug out graves.
Not long ago he took out an emerald finger ring, which was shiny and green.
The princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty used to shoot arrows on horseback, and they all had wrenches on their hands, which ordinary people could not afford to use.
The goods are good, and the money is urgently needed.
I have a few money to escape, but under the emperor's feet and the law of the king, who is not afraid of lawsuits and can't find a buyer for a while, so I have to ask my fellow countrymen.
Thinking that he had an opportunity, the cobbler took out the hard-earned money he had saved for three years and exchanged it for this ring.
He stopped setting up a stall and went all the way to find fortune tellers.
After closing the door, he asked the fortune teller to light the lamp and candle, took out a cloth bag from his arms, wrapped it in three layers, and opened it layer by layer.
As he opened the bag, he said: "I am a cobbler.
I have no friends in Beijing.
Thanks to you, brother, for looking up to me.
I was so kind to you, but I didn’t know how to repay it.
I was lucky enough to get a thumb ring from a tomb robber.
This thing is amazing.
It is one of the top ten treasures of the Qing Dynasty.
King Lao Han led the Eight Banners Army into the pass, with one horse and three horses.
The arrow determines the world, and the finger is used to pull the string."
The fortune teller was startled: "It is no small matter to steal the treasures buried with the princes from the tomb.
It should be noted that flesh and blood have feelings, and the king's law is ruthless.
There are most public servants in Beijing.
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If someone with a sharp eye and quick hands catches it, the whole family will be killed."
"The sin of the ancestral grave."
But under the candlelight, he took a look into the opened cloth bag.
He felt relieved and said to the cobbler: "You, go out and buy a piece of ice quickly.
It's in town."
The cobbler was puzzled: "What do you mean, why do you need ice?"
The fortune teller said: "I bought it.
It's made of rock sugar.
If you don't put it on ice, you won't be afraid of it melting."
Beijing is full of "fools".
Even if you are a living god, you may make mistakes and think you are picking up a bargain, but in the end you will only suffer a loss and be fooled.
The cobbler had lost all the money he had earned for three years.
He was narrow-minded and couldn't think of anything else, so he went out and jumped into the moat.
The fortune teller caught up with him, asked someone to borrow a hook, and dragged him up the river.
He gave him some persuasion and gave him some money to stop him from seeking death.
In the blink of an eye, the twelfth lunar month has arrived, and the cobbler bid farewell to fortune-telling and returns to his hometown to celebrate the New Year.
Besides, the fortune-telling business was not easy to do.
He heard that the cloth in Shanxi was strong and cheap.
He wanted to buy a batch of cloth and make some extra money at the end of the year.
He made up his mind and went to Shanxi with the money.
Unexpectedly, he caught up with the fighting and was delayed for more than ten days.
He ran into rebel troops on the way.
He panicked and hid in the barren mountains.
He walked for several days without seeing the road.
It was the thirtieth year of the New Year, but I saw dense clouds, a sudden wind blowing, and snow flying all over the sky.
The mountains overlapped and there was no trace of people in the desert.
The fortune teller was so cold and hungry that he couldn't walk anymore.
He thought he would freeze to death here, but he saw a cold kiln with broken tiles in the wind and snow.
Someone might be living there, and there was a faint light.
Seeing a way out, he rushed forward and called the door.
As soon as the door of the house opened, someone came out.
Unexpectedly, it was the cobbler who lived here.
When the cobbler saw that it was a fortune teller, he looked hungry and cold.
He hurriedly let him into the house and cooked hot soup for him to drink.
The fortune teller then returned to the sun.
When the two of them talked about the reason for their separation, they were each sighing.
The cobbler called out his wife and children to kowtow to his benefactor.
His wife was an ordinary country girl who had never seen much of the world.
The child is about seven or eight years old.
He has a tiger-like head and a tiger-like brain.
His nickname is Huwa.
He is embarrassed to speak to strangers.
The fortune teller fled here all the way, and everything he brought was gone.
He still had a small piece of broken silver on him.
People in Beijing pay attention to etiquette.
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When they meet their juniors during the New Year, they always give some lucky money.
The fortune teller had nothing else, so he took out this piece of silver and gave it to Huwa.
Huwa shook his head and refused.
The fortune-teller said to the cobbler: "Look at how well behaved your kid is.
I don't want to give him any money."
The cobbler told Huwa: "Your uncle is not an outsider, so you can just take the money he gives you."
Huwa still shook his head and refused to reach out to take the money.
The cobbler said: "You have never seen this before, so you can't understand what this is.
This is called silver."
Huwa said: "There is plenty of this thing.
What do I want it for?"
The cobbler said, "You idiot, you can say anything.
If you had money, why would your father and your uncle be so poor?"
Huwa said: "There are so many.
I went up the mountain to collect firewood a few days ago and saw a cave full of these things."
The cobbler and fortune teller were dubious, so they finished their dinner that day and rested without talking.
Then the wind and snow stopped, and the cobbler asked Huwa to take them to see it.
After visiting the village, I went up the mountain and meandered to a place where I saw a stone tablet buried halfway up the mountain.
Due to the age, the middle of the stone tablet had cracked, and wormwood grew around it, covering it tightly.
Huwa pushed aside the tangled grass, and there was a tomb underneath.
The cobbler asked the tiger boy to wait outside.
He and the fortune teller lit candles and carried hatchets.
They went in one after the other and held up the fire to shine.
There was a word on the inside of the stone tablet: "If you encounter a tiger, you will open; if there is a dragon, you will prosper."
The two of them looked at me and I looked at you, both of them silent.
Then they saw four lying boxes with their lids half open.
They wiped away the dust and found that they were full of gold and silver ingots.
They were both stunned when they saw them.
There was no coffin in the tomb, only a dead body scattered on the stone platform.
It was unknown who it belonged to.
There was a leather box next to it, which was full of dust.
The two of them looked at the withered bones and bowed a few times, then stepped forward and opened the leather box.
Inside the box was an ancient book with yellowed pages and tatters.
The cobbler couldn't read a few big characters, so he just looked at the gold and silver in the box.
He said to the fortune teller: "God made my father and son rich.
If you hadn't saved me, brother, I wouldn't be where I am today.
Four boxes of gold and silver.
It should be divided equally between you and me.”
The fortune teller looked up and saw the cobbler's face by the candlelight.
It was clearly an evil tiger that wanted to eat people.
Fortune-tellers are people who understand.
As the saying goes, "Listen to the voice when speaking, and listen to the sound of gongs and drums."
He could hear all the meaning behind the cobbler's words.
The fortune-teller suddenly lost his mind and said hurriedly: "Brother, what are you talking about?
It wasn't you who took me in.
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I also froze to death on the mountain, so you don't owe me anything.
Since it was the ancient tomb your son found, the things inside it, They all belong to your family, this is how their fate should be, how can it be left to others to care about."
The cobbler repeatedly said that he would divide it equally: "You have to take as much as you want.
If you don't take it, you will look down on me."
The fortune teller had no choice but to say: "Let's do this.
The four boxes of gold and silver are all yours.
Give me the ancient book in the box."
The cobbler asked him: "Is there a way in the book to spread the beans and make an army?"
The fortune teller rummaged through the pages under the candlelight, all looking for dragons.
It seemed that the withered bones in the ancient tomb were a "Heavenly Official" during his lifetime.
There has always been a local legend of "Heavenly Official", which is equivalent to a Taoist real person.
Ming Ming Xiao Bagua, secretly communicating with Yin and Yang, has the art of finding dragons.
The cobbler didn't know.
He was "a frog at the bottom of a well, and he can't see much; the light of a firefly can't shine far."
When he saw that it wasn't a magical method, he didn't want to take it, and he just gave it to the fortune teller.
The things that come out of the ancient tombs are against the king's law no matter how you say them.
If you give the fortune teller a share, you won't have to tell him about it, so he can feel at ease.
The two of them made an agreement, bowed to the dead bones three more times, dug up the earth to bury them, and took four boxes of gold and silver down the mountain.
The lying box mentioned at that time was a large box placed on the kang in the countryside.
One end was flush with the rim of the kang and the other was pushed up to the back wall.
It could fit two adults inside.
It was filled with gold and silver and could not be moved directly. , the two of them carried one load after another, and it took them several days to finish.
The fortune teller didn't dare to stay long, so he left the cobbler alone and set off overnight.
When he returned to Fucheng Gate, he was still afraid.
He was born as a housekeeper.
When my mother gave birth to him, she had a dream about a tiger coming to snatch him away.
It was unclear whether he would be good or bad, so he was named Zhe, with the Chinese character "encountering a tiger".
The first half of the sentence "encountering a tiger and leaving" engraved on the stone tablet refers to He can see who the cobbler is even if he is not him.
When he is poor, he can do anything.
Don't let such a person see money.
There is nothing he can't do if he gets motivated by money.
After returning home, he was still doing fortune-telling in Fuchengmen.
When there was no business, he looked through ancient books and memorized each word in his mind.
There were only four sentences on the last page: "To find the true form of the True Dragon Temple, the Yin and Yang hexagrams should be hidden in the chest.
Six There is no way to identify the fourteen hexagrams, I'm just afraid that the search for the dragon will end here."
There is a hexagram picture underneath.
There is also an official seal hidden in the leather box, with two lines of ancient seals on it, "Heavenly officials give blessings, and there are no taboos."
He is a man of wisdom.
Others cannot understand it, but he can see it clearly in his hands, but he does not know the origin of the dragon-seeking technique.
After arriving here, he not only told people's fortunes, but also showed Feng Shui to others.
It can be said that Yin and Yang are accurate, and he is quite famous in Beijing.
Unexpectedly, one day, the cobbler came to see the fortune teller again, saying that after getting rich, he would have everything a living person should have, and he would have endless happiness.
He also thought of his ancestors, and not only wanted to build an ancestral hall, but also Move the coffin in the ancestral grave and ask the fortune teller to find a geomantic treasure land for him.
The fortune teller heard from outsiders that "the cobbler is rich, unkind and greedy" and did not intend to associate with this person anymore, but he could not afford to offend him.
He pondered for a long time and then said: "Every treasure land comes with a blessing.
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If you don't have enough blessings, you can't occupy it.
For those who are not blessed, it is useless to bury their ancestral graves wherever they are.
You have to think about it carefully.
If you really want to touch the ancestral graves, you will still be able to occupy them in the future."
Do more benevolence and righteousness, you don’t have to look far.
The mountain to the east of our county is like a dragon vein.
To welcome gods and avoid ghosts, the grave is uncertain.
Don't move rashly when you move the coffin.
Carry the coffin out at the time I told you, and just go up the mountain.
When the rope carrying the coffin breaks, the coffin falls to the ground.
The place is the dragon’s lair”: