Three Kingdoms

Why many fortune tellers in later generations like to sit on overpasses is because the geographical location of overpasses is very special. The top does not connect to the sky, and the bottom does not touch the ground. It belongs to the "two no matter" zone where the gods can't see and the king of hell can't care about it. People sit on it On the overpass, even those who talk about running for the train will feel more at ease.

The Han Dynasty was still an era of mysticism, otherwise proverbs would not have been so popular. From princes and nobles to common people, there were many people who believed deeply in the gods of heaven and earth.

However, for Fei Qian, is there such a thing as a god...

hehe.

To be honest, I don't believe it at all. So when Zuo Ci said that there was a bloody disaster and a sign of great misfortune, Fei Qian's first reaction was that the routine was coming again.

Is Zuo Ci an immortal?

Obviously, not really.

Even most of the immortals exist through hearsay.

Zuo Ci was rumored to have some miraculous deeds, such as being able to feed hundreds of people with a piece of dried meat and a jug of wine. In fact, it was just the best way to seduce the common people who had been hungry for a long time. Compared with other magical powers, this ability is enough to make people excited and eat endless food. This is the greatest dream in the minds of people who have been hungry or semi-starved for a long time. Naturally, they talk about it more, and then The purpose of spreading religion is achieved.

What's more, most of these deeds appear in the books of alchemists or Taoist documents. Just look at the descriptions of the great flood to see how much these religious documents have.

So when

Fei Qian looked Zuo Ci up and down, was silent for a while, and suddenly said: "Xianren Zuo, please have some tea."

"I am a poor Taoist..." Zuo Ci waved his hand and said slowly with a slightly proud look, "... it is enough to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, there is no need for tea..."

Fei Qian's expression remained unchanged, and he insisted on extending his palm to signal: "Xianren Zuo, please have some tea."

"This..." Zuo Ci looked at Fei Qian's expression and hesitated for a while. Perhaps he felt that Fei Qian's firm attitude and repeated refusals were somewhat inappropriate, so he slowly picked up the tea soup again and dipped it symbolically. Lipstick.

Fei Qian looked at Zuo Ci's movements, suddenly smiled, and said, "Immortal Zuo, I wonder how these 'golden elixirs' taste in your belly?"

Zuo Ci was still holding the tea bowl. Hearing Fei Qian's words, his hands couldn't help shaking. He could not hold the tea bowl firmly, and the tea soup in the bowl almost fell onto the table.

"Ahem, what the general said..." Zuo Ci quickly put down the tea bowl and said seriously, "This... poor Taoist, I don't know what he means..."

Fei Qian smiled and said: "For no other reason, tea has the effect of refreshing the mind and cleansing the body. I also have good intentions... Come here, bring me a few more bowls of tea and invite Immortal Zuo to have a drink!"

Zuo Ci's expression finally changed, he stood up, flicked his sleeves, and said angrily: "Pindao came here with good intentions, but unexpectedly he was ignored and teased by the general! In this case, Pindao takes leave!"

Fei Qian also slapped the table and said: "I kindly invited you to drink tea, but you turned out to be rude! You can leave if you want, but you can finish drinking before leaving! Come, bring me a can of tea and serve Zuo Xianren to drink tea!"

Although Huang Xu, who was guarding the side, was a little confused and didn't know why Fei Qian was so angry, the habit he had developed over a long time made him immediately follow Fei Qian's instructions and say hello, and immediately led a few guards to Zuo Ci was surrounded by people.

Not long after, the attendant came with a jar of tea and stood aside with some trepidation.

Fei Qian pointed to the earthen pot in the attendant's hand, and then said to Zuo Ci: "Immortal Zuo, don't say that I don't know how to treat guests... When a distinguished guest comes to visit, he doesn't even drink a bowl of tea. Speaking of which, he is still Zuo Ci. Immortal looks down on someone! I asked Immortal Zuo to drink this pot of tea carefully..."

Zuo Ci bulged his eyes and glared at Fei Qian angrily.

Fei Qian just looked at Zuo Ci with a smile...

In the Han Dynasty, not all of them believed in these immortals, and a large number of people still held a skeptical attitude. But when verifying whether these immortals have supernatural powers, they may not necessarily adopt some extreme methods, such as tying them to pillars and piling up some dry firewood and thatch to light a fire...

Perhaps it is because Easterners are more restrained, and most of them like to use some bloodless methods. The simplest and most direct way is to imprison them, cut off food and drink, and send soldiers to guard them for a few days. If they can still survive, then that is If a real person with some magical powers is starved to death, then he is naturally a liar.

You can tell the truth from the false without even fighting, and even if you take a step back, you can still have an excuse to find a quiet room for real people to practice. They are obviously well-intentioned, how can they be said to be under house arrest?

Right?

Therefore, using diet to test has become a simple and effective method...

As soon as Zuo Ci came up, he said a few words and then said that he already had the body of an immortal, he could eat the wind and drink the dew, and he could not eat the fireworks of the world. In fact, he gave Fei Qian an anchor, although Zuo Ci might not know it. Anchoring such a theory of psychological effects, but it is completely useless for its specific application.

However, the so-called "bigu" must have flaws.

A person can still survive for two or three days without eating, but if a person completely cuts off water intake, a large amount of toxins will accumulate in the kidneys for three days and cannot be excreted through normal urine. Failure of the kidneys, and this kind of kidney failure is often irreversible even in later generations, let alone in the Han Dynasty when there was a lack of medical treatment and medicine?

So not drinking water is absolutely impossible no matter what.

But now Zuo Ci actually refuses to drink a bowl of tea. Despite Fei Qian's repeated invitations and insistence, he just wets his lips to show off...

To be honest, not to mention a bowl of tea, even a pot of tea soup is actually not a big quantity. Although tea was still mainly cooked in the Han Dynasty, it was not that bad. At most, it was like a traditional Chinese medicine decoction.

But looking at Zuo Ci's appearance, the tea soup was like poison, or drinking the tea soup would destroy Taoism and break up the practice. He avoided him like a snake and a scorpion. This was the case just now, and it is the same now.

Reluctance to drink tea or water, combined with what Zuo Ci said specifically before, there is only one possibility. Zuo Ci has made preparations for "fasting" in advance...

There are many types of inedia. People who choose a complete hunger strike have basically become immortals early on. People who choose partial dieting are not so resistant to drinking tea and water. So the only possibility is People who take so-called "pills" for fasting. Anyone who has eaten compressed biscuits in the future will know that if you drink a piece of biscuit with a glass of water, you will feel full of bloating. The reason is that these compressed biscuits will expand rapidly when exposed to water... …

Driven by curiosity in later generations, Fei Qian also approached Du Niang to get some information about immortals. One of them was about a special method of immortal Zuo Ci Zuo that could keep him from being hungry for a long time. Because during the Jian'an period, there was famine everywhere, in order to prevent many people from suffering the pain of hunger, Zuo Ci spread his special way of eating to his followers...

"Eating beans and grains", ahem, this name was of course invented by Fei Qian and is not an official name.

The operation is not complicated. Just eat a lot of raw beans. Note that these raw beans cannot be chewed and can only be swallowed raw. In order to make these beans easier to swallow, Zuo Ci also specially instructed to "touch them with your hands to make them shine"...

Stop eating beans when you feel full. At this time, pay special attention to the fact that you must not drink a lot of water!

Then in the following days, try to stay as still as possible, that is, just sleep as much as possible, drink a small amount of water every day, and you will not need to eat a second meal for ten days and a half...

Therefore, whether you take pre-refined "compressed biscuit" type pills or eat a full stomach of raw beans, you have the same disadvantage. You cannot drink a lot of water, otherwise it will not only be a problem of fullness, but also a problem of fullness. You might even die from it!

Zuo Ci looked at the earthen jar in front of him. After being silent for a while, he finally didn't dare to gamble with his life. He also understood that Fei Qian might have seen through the trick he used, so he asked helplessly. : "...General, what do you want?"

Fei Qian waved his hand and asked the soldiers and attendants to retreat, then motioned for Zuo Ci to sit down again.

Seeing Zuo Ci's somewhat embarrassed look, Fei Qian said, "Immortal Zuo, um... do I still need to call him Immortal?"

"Uh, no need, no need," Zuo Cigong said, cupping his hands, "Just call Pindao by his name..."

"Shan." Fei Qian nodded, then thought for a moment and said, "Let's call him Zhenren... Zhenren Zuo, are you Zhengyi, Maoshan? Or Taiping, Tianshi?"

Taoism in the Han Dynasty has been divided into many schools, each with some differences.

Zhengyi Sect was founded by Zhang Ling, and then extended to Zhang Lu. However, when Zhang Lu came here, there were some changes, and the method of "Five Pecks of Rice Master" Zhang Xiu was used instead, so it was also called Tianshi Sect. , or the Five Dou Rice Cult.

As for Maoshan Taoism, which was more widely accepted by later generations, it was earlier. During the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the Taoist priest Mao Ying and his younger brothers Mao Gu and Mao Zhong collected medicine and made elixirs in Juqu Mountain to help the world and save the people. The people felt their merits and changed the name of the mountain to "Maoshan". The three Mao brothers were also called Maoshan. The founder of Taoism.

Taiping, of course, is Zhang Jiao, but now Taiping is positioned as an anti-government and counter-revolutionary organization, so most people don’t dare to claim that they are followers of the Taiping Religion...

Zuo Ci cupped his hands and said: "This... General is really familiar... To be honest, Pindao belongs to the Maoshan sect..."

"Maoshan?" Fei Qian nodded and asked, "If it is Maoshan, why do you come here?" Maoshan is located in Yangzhou, Han Dynasty. Although it is not far away, it is still some distance from Pingyang.

Zuo Ci smiled slightly awkwardly and said: "Pindao was originally from Luoyang... but unexpectedly, Grand Master Dong moved the capital, and during the war... he had no choice but to live here..."

Zuo Ci was a little hesitant in what he said, and Fei Qian could see that not all of it was true, but thinking about it, it was probably 70% true.

In Luoyang, it is relatively reliable.

After all, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty also asked a lot of alchemists for elixirs and other things in his later period. In order to gain glory and wealth, it was normal for many alchemists to rush to Luoyang to offer so-called golden elixirs. Moreover, within the circle of the Han Dynasty gentry, like Jin Pills, or high-end "supplements" like Wushi Powder, are not available to ordinary people...

After generally knowing Zuo Ci's history, Fei Qian asked: "In that case, what does Zuo Ci want to do here?"

What do you want?

Zuo Ci is indeed good at everything, whether it's fortune telling, scriptures, tricks, or even some martial arts, but none of these things can replace food...

Although the fools in the countryside are easy to fool, these farmers don't have much to begin with. Zuo Ci is really tired of eating bowls of mushy sticks here and there.

so……

But if you want to have a boyfriend, you must naturally pursue some goals.

The Sanfu area in Guanzhong is in a state of decay, and it has not stopped yet...

Hongnong was crippled by Dong Zhuo before, and now he heard that in order to welcome Emperor Liu Xie, he was recruiting hard labor everywhere to rebuild Luoyang. If he goes there and is caught...

Hedong, of course, is pretty good, but how can it be compared to Pingyang? When Zuo Ci was in Hedong, he often heard people talk about the prosperity of Pingyang. Even the dishes that were renovated in Pingyang spread to Hedong and set off an unprecedented craze in the food industry...

Therefore, Zuo Ci finally chose to come to Pingyang. Unexpectedly, even after all his careful preparations, he fell in front of Fei Qian before he could fully use them.

Zuo Ci said with a slight embarrassment: "I have heard for a long time that General Zhengxi Pingbaibo defeated Xianbei and restored Yinshan Mountain. I have been interested in it for a long time... Therefore, I want to come here to see the majesty of General Zhengxi... That's all. That’s it, nothing else…”

Fei Qian smiled and said nothing.

"I also know that real people are detached from the world and regard glory and wealth as passing clouds..."

Can you say something nice? Who can’t?

Fei Qian looked at Zuo Ci, saw the corner of his mouth twitching slightly, smiled, and continued: "...However, a certain place really needs the real person, and there is also a heavy responsibility that he wants to entrust to the real person... Now the real person is It is such an honor to have Dharma come here in person..."

After hearing what Fei Qian said, Zuo Ci couldn't help but feel overjoyed, and finally a stone fell to the ground. However, Zuo Ci still had to maintain a reserved expression, and said slowly: "I am an outsider, and I should not care about worldly affairs... But since the general is so sincere, it must be beneficial to the people's livelihood, and it can be regarded as A meritorious deed... I am willing to listen to the general's orders..."

The word merit is not a Buddhist term. As early as in the Book of Rites, there is a text saying: "Those who have merit for the people will be added to the law." However, in later generations, it was mostly used in Buddhist affairs, and the origin was gradually forgotten.

"Good!" Fei Qian nodded, and then said, "...It's getting late today, and Master Zuo is also tired from the journey. Why don't we rest first, and wait until tomorrow for a banquet with Master Zuo to discuss it carefully..."

Zuo Ci nodded and said, "Everything will be subject to the general's arrangements."

Since we want to cooperate, we can't press too hard. Although he knows that Zuo Ci is not worthy of his name, Fei Qian still smiles, gets up and sees Zuo Ci out, and personally arranges for Zuo Ci's accommodation, so that he can treat Zuo Ci well and not slack off. , which can be regarded as giving Zuo Ci some face...

Just as he was about to leave, Fei Qian suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, Mr. Zuo, is there anyone in Nanhua?"

Zuo Ci was stunned for a moment and said, "Well, Nanhua is the nickname of Yu Ji Yu Zhenren..."

"Oh?" Fei Qian suddenly had a strange idea in his mind, and he couldn't help but asked, "This... Yu Zhenren, is he a person with lustful eyes?"

Zuo Ci looked at Fei Qian and suddenly felt a little palpitated. He wondered in his mind, how much does General Zhengxi know? However, he still replied respectfully on the surface: "Exactly, Yu Zhenren is a descendant of Semu..."

Since the opening of the Western Regions, there have been many barbarian people coming and going, among which the Semu people are also common. Later, the Qin Kingdom, that is, the Roman people came from the direction of Burma, and they also presented music to the emperor, performed magic, and made great changes. Dismembering the bodies of living people, changing the heads of cattle and horses, etc. Anyway, according to the records of the Later Han Dynasty, at least in the Han Dynasty, thousands of Semu people settled in the Han Dynasty, so everything is possible...

As he thought about it, Fei Qian couldn't help but look a little weird.

Something like this...

No wonder Yu Ji and Sun Ce would be beaten and killed by Sun Ce as soon as they met. This is really...

Forget it, it’s better not to think too much…