My weird life

For example, if you help the stall owner interpret divination, you can not only save yourself the cost of a drink, but also get a lot of rewards. Under the greeting of the stall owner, a few ladies were eager to give it a try, but they all kept their status and did not take the initiative to walk out of the crowd. Waiting for the stall owner to come and invite you.

At this moment, an old man with some age spots on his face walked out of the crowd wearing a ragged feather coat. He snatched the tortoise shell from the stall owner and said to the stall owner: "I'm here to relieve you. Bu it."

Seeing that he was so old and just an ordinary person with no status, the stall owner hesitated for a while and wondered whether he should invite him to interpret the divination.

But the old man winked at him and whispered in his ear: "I only charge you ten shell coins.

The old man's divination is very accurate. "

When the stall owner heard that he only accepted ten shells, he immediately became happy and without hesitation, he asked the old man to interpret the fortune for him.

The old man, wearing clothes made of bird feathers and animal skins, sat on the ground. He glanced at the pattern on the tortoise shell - even though Su Wu was far away from there, he still saw the cracks on the tortoise shell that had been burned. You must be clear - it is a crossed stroke and stroke. From a distance, it looks like the word "fierce".

Su Wu secretly thought that the result of the stall owner's divination must be bad.

However, the reality was beyond his expectation——

The old man looked at the tortoise shell with a smile. His fingers rubbed the intersecting cracks on the tortoise shell. Under that crack, a horizontal stripe parallel to the cracks appeared. Suddenly, the cracks on the tortoise shell appeared. The meaning of the texture has completely changed!

The cracks artificially created by the old man and the cracks caused by the previous flames together formed the character "Shi".

And under the word "Shi" are some of the original lines of tortoise shells, which looks like the word "吉"!

Turn bad luck into good luck!

But, would this interpretation of divination be accurate?

Could this old man be a liar?

Su Wu was whirling with his thoughts when he saw the old man stand up and said to the stall owner: "Is it possible for a real person to explain such a divination?

It’s a ‘lucky’ aspect.

The wine you brew must be rich and sweet! "

The stall owner took the tortoise shell from the old man and saw that it was as the old man said. There was a word "lucky" on the tortoise shell. He was overjoyed and took out nearly twenty shell coins and gave them to the old man.

Then, the stall owner opened the seal of the pottery jar, scooped out a cup of wine and tasted it. As the old man said, it was rich and sweet!

The old man drank another free glass of wine at the stall owner and then walked to the next stall.

He repeated his old trick and successfully asked the second stall owner to hand over the tortoise shell to him for divination at the price of ten shell coins. Su Wu saw that the lines on the tortoise shell were light and almost non-existent. He and Qu learned that in this way, The divination often indicates that a matter is mediocre and there will be almost no progress.

If it should be above wine-making, it means that the level of wine-making is bland - which is also close to failure.

However, the old man said: "Your wine must be very clear, almost like water, comparable to sweet springs, it must be sweet and mellow!"

The owner of the second stall was equally overjoyed. He opened the seal and tasted the wine. It was indeed sweet and mellow, exactly as the old man said!

Su Wu was surprised that the old man's predictions were so accurate, and the conclusions were often very different from what the "Zhenren Nuo" around him said, so he asked him to stay where he was and went to the third place where the old man went. After the old man made a divination and said that the wine from the third stall owner must be sweet and rich, he bought a glass of wine from the stall owner to taste it - it was indeed a little sweet, but it was not the same as the wine he drank before. Not much difference.

The old man's divination is indeed similar to the wine sold by the stall owner.

Later, he followed the old man to drink wine from the fourth, fifth, and sixth places. In fact, the quality and smell of the wines in the four places were basically the same. It was just that the fortune tellers displayed on the tortoise shells when the old man got them often had All kinds of differences.

The divination results given by the old man are always the same as before, and they are all auspicious and good divination.

Su Wu roughly understood from this that the quality of the wine brewed by the stall owners was only related to their craftsmanship. They all made a living by brewing wine at the gate of the city. Their craftsmanship and brewing skills were very different from each other, and the quality of the wine was also quite similar. There is no clear distinction between high and low.

And the results of their divination before drinking each time, in fact, according to the divination of real people, the results must be different, or even very different.

So, maybe divination is actually dispensable when it comes to brewing wine.

Divination cannot affect the "factual quality" of wine pulp, but it can affect people's subjective evaluation of wine pulp.

Or maybe the divination is deeply related to the quality of the wine, but the old man, who looks ordinary and seems more of a liar than a chaste person, reversed the divination without Su Wu being aware of it, thus affecting the true quality of the wine. .

No matter what, the old man finally reached the stall where Qu and Su Wu were.

He still explained a good hexagram to the stall owner.

The stall owner happily opened the seal and after tasting the wine, he brought a glass of wine to the old man and asked him to taste it for free.

The old man got his reward, looked around with the glass of wine, and then turned his attention to where Su Wu and Sui were.

He held the wine cup, walked to Su Wu and Qu with a smile, and sat down on the floor.

"Hello, two friends." The old man had a sincere smile on his face. He raised his wine cup and gestured to the two of them, "My name is Chang, and I am from the Zhou Kingdom. I wonder where you are from?"

Hearing the sound, Qu looked at Su Wu.

He had seen all the divination done by the old man before, and now he was willing to debate with the old man. But now that the master is around, he won't speak rashly.

"We came from the 'Hungry Land', my name is Wu. This is my servant, named 'Qu'." Su Wu responded to the old man.

Xingdi is a big clan near Yindu, with 'Xing' as its surname.

Su Wu did not tell the old man the truth.

They came from Ge Chang, but the entire Ge Chang clan had already surrendered to the Zhou Kingdom. Without knowing the specific identity of the old man, they rashly told the truth. Maybe the other party would follow the clues and learn more about the situation, especially since the old man was named 'Chang'. ', if the old man's surname is 'Ji', then the identity of the other party is almost ready to be revealed.

"It turns out to be Wu Yuqu from Hungry Land.

Let's drink together, noon, Qu. "The old man picked up the wine cup again. After drinking half of the wine, he sighed with an intoxicated look on his face, "The wine is sweet but not too intoxicating, so it is loved by people.

If it were more intoxicating, more people would love it.

People who live under the gaze of the sky are in too much pain. With the help of such a drink, it can make people numb for a while. But the reality has never changed in any way because of drinking.

Therefore, Zhou State banned brewing and drinking.

Only after leaving Zhou Di can you secretly drink a glass of wine. "

"People already know the sweetness and intoxication of wine, so how can they resist it? The prohibition on alcohol in Zhou State can only be banned for a while, but it can't be like this forever, right?

Moreover, the common people of the Zhou Kingdom were not allowed to drink it. I guess the nobles of the Zhou Kingdom could drink the liquor in private, right? "Su Wu smiled and asked the old man.

The old man chuckled and said, "You see clearly.

Some things can never be completely banned, but if those in power do not do things to ban them, that would be a dereliction of duty on the part of those in power.

People are originally ignorant and chaotic. Only education can help them escape from beasts like monkeys and roe and truly grow into adults. "

"How can people be born ignorant and chaotic?" Qu couldn't help but say, "We are born with the spirit of heaven and earth, and we are born different from wild beasts.

The acquired education only makes people smarter, but it cannot make people essentially different from when they were babies. "

"Are you capable of offering sacrifices since you were born? Do you know how to ask the heavens for divination?" Chang, a native of Zhou, asked him.

He frowned and shook his head.

"Did the heaven allow you to suddenly know how to perform sacrifices and become a pure person?" Chang Zai asked.

He still shook his head.

"Then why do you think that you were born with the spirit of heaven and earth?"

"Because only people have become chaste beings. Beasts like pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep have never become priests. Because of this, it means that we are born in accordance with God's will." Qu responded naturally.

Zhou Guorenchang shook his head and laughed, and asked him again: "Why did the gods of that day look like hundreds of wild beasts at first, but gradually grew into human shapes as they were sacrificed again and again? "

Qu's face froze when he heard this, and he suddenly didn't know how to answer Zhou Guorenchang's question.

He tightened his eyebrows, his mind was racing, and this question attracted all his attention - yes, why did the gods of heaven initially have the characteristics of cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, and various beasts, but after sacrifices again and again, they became Turned into a human form?

If people were born adhering to the spirit of heaven, they should also look like cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs, possessing the characteristics of various beasts!

On the contrary, does that mean that the gods of heaven are actually born to uphold the aura of humans and are gradually taught by humans?

Man has enlightened heaven? !

As soon as this idea flashed out of his mind, he was immediately filled with fear. He was frightened by his sudden thought and did not dare to think further!

At this time, the Zhou man spoke up and expressed his opinion: "Humans are actually just one of the thousands of animals in the world. In fact, there is nothing unique about them.

But because of "enlightenment", humans are separated from other animals and gradually become different.

And because people are different, geniuses will choose people. Among the crowd, there began to exist people who specialized in offering sacrifices to heaven.

The gods of heaven were no different from humans at first, and were just one of the thousands of animals in the universe. However, people worshiped them, so they allowed them to grow rapidly and gradually became more important than people.

This kind of offering is actually a kind of enlightenment from man to heaven.

Therefore, I believe that there has never been any way of heaven—"

Zhou Guorenchang turned his gaze to Su Wu, his eyes sparkling: "Humanity is the road that tolerates everything, what do you think?"

There has never been any way of heaven, there is only one way in the world, which is the 'way of humanity'!

Su Wu was shaken by the words "Chang", and there was a gleam in his eyes - he had now confirmed that this person from the Zhou Kingdom, Chang, was none other than Ji Chang, who was revered as the "King Wen of Zhou" in later generations. , the King Wen who evolved the 'Sixty-Four Hexagrams of King Wen'!

With a smile on his face, he looked at Chang and said: "So you are doing divination and explaining the divination for the wine stall owners, in order to educate them?

What divination is, it never really matters.

What is important is the soothsayer, the teacher? "

"Although the sky is powerful and holds the authority of the world, making everyone in the world submit to it, it is only powerful, and its consciousness is still ignorant like a beast and chaotic like a child. It cannot take care of many aspects of the world and cannot fully grasp them." Chang said with a smile, "We have educated the present sky, but it tries to completely control us and feed on us. It can be seen that the nature of 'sky' is evil and cannot be changed after education.

So we must take the initiative to master those aspects that the sky cannot take care of, and use our education to replace the control of the world by the sky.

But people nowadays believe in the sky too much, and it is impossible to replace the sky immediately.

So we need to use the name of the sky to gradually erode the control of the sky over the world, and even finally make everything easier.

This so-called 'way of change' is the principle I am following now, and it should also be the right way of humanity today.

Humanity is the way of education.

Although the sky is powerful, it is not omniscient. How can it know how to make wine?

People have learned it themselves The art of brewing wine depends on the sacrifice to the sky for the quality of the wine. Isn't this transferring the power to the sky and letting the sky control it?

Now the sky doesn't care about the winemaking industry and doesn't have control over them for the time being.

But once the sky notices the winemaking industry and asks them to offer living people as sacrifices, won't they have to kill people for sacrifice when the wine is opened in the future?

So we have to take advantage of this time and use the name of the sky to grasp the power that it has not yet grasped.

From today, people will think that there is a Zhou Guozhen named "Chang" who is quite correct in divination for the winemaking industry. Then day by day, "Chang"'s position in the winemaking industry will gradually become unshakable. At this time, it will be completely impossible for the sky to try to erode the winemaking industry.

Because at that time, they believed in "Chang" more than "Heaven" itself! "

The old man had clear thoughts and strict words. There was a gleam of wisdom in his eyes. After he told his ideas, Su Wu was very impressed.

This kind of divination on behalf of the gods and the method of interpreting divination can be used in the wine industry today, in the Ming Dynasty it can be used in farming, and then in war, and finally - the sky will even become a "false sky", and the "sky" presided over by humanity will become the real sky!

However, this method also has a key point that needs to be overcome.

Su Wu's thoughts flashed in his mind, and he asked Chang: "You may be familiar with winemaking, so you can judge the quality of the wine made by the stall owners, and give corresponding divination interpretations.

But if you make such divination interpretations in areas you are not familiar with, once you make a mistake, how can others believe you?

No one can ensure that they are completely correct and always correct.

You always make mistakes, and sometimes, even if you make a mistake only once, it will cause all the previous efforts to fall apart."