Outside the door, all the men wearing bright yellow satin short collars (Imperial Guards) had surrounded Ding's family. Ding Yi was just a fortune teller. He had never seen this situation. He was so scared that he knelt down on the spot. A man wearing a top dress asked Ding Yi to quickly clean up the fortune teller without saying a word, and then someone put Ding Yi on a ventilated sedan.

On the sedan chair, Ding Yi secretly calculated a fortune teller for himself, and finally he calculated the sign of "black clouds covering the sun, rivers breaking the flow, wild fire burning mountains, and white waves overturning the boat". Ding Yi was so scared that he almost had to incontinence on the sedan chair, but now that things have come to this point, he can only take one step at a time.

In a garden that I had never seen before, a man who claimed to be "Prince Kun" claimed that he had just entered the Military Affairs Office. He wanted to make the country's fortunes between the Qing Dynasty and the British, saying that the Qing Dynasty and Britain had fought two battles, and both ended in failure. The emperor was very worried whether to fight the third battle or admit the loss or the compensation. So he thought about Ding Yi asking for a divination and calculated that if he continued to fight, what would the chances of the Qing Dynasty win?

What is Ding Yi doing? He looks at the face. Although the man in front of him regards himself as a prince, in Ding Yi's eyes, this man has a wide forehead, a round corner, and a shuttle, and his eyes are like a shuttle. This scared Ding Yi. At that time, the British launched a large-scale military campaign for the removal of cigarettes from Lin Zexu, Humen, and Fujian and Guangdong. The ending of the battles between Fujian and Guangdong can be said to be one-sided. The Qing Dynasty's army was almost wiped out, and the British casualties were only single digits. According to the huge gap in strength, if the third battle was fought

In other words, the ending is whether it is a victory or a defeat, and you can basically guess it without divination. However, there is a problem with the Chinese, that is, they are very happy with merits. Ding Yi is not a fool. He said that he will lose the third battle in front of the current Long Live Emperor, and his brain will definitely not be able to be saved. Moreover, the fate of the country is the secret of heaven, and the consequences of venting this secret are not as simple as shorting life. So if you tell the truth about this hexagram, no matter whether the emperor is happy or not, it will be a death. After a period of ideological struggle, Ding Yi decided to tell a lie to the emperor for the sake of his and his wife and children's lives.

In order not to arouse doubts and not to reveal flaws, Ding Yi's hexagram is used to divine the innate hexagram (the innate hexagram is full of "innate hexagram", which means evolution and genius. According to legend, Fuxi created the innate Eight Trigrams. When King Wen of Zhou was imprisoned by King Zhou, he evolved the innate Eight Trigrams into the sixty-four acquired hexagrams. The real innate hexagram is said to be the most difficult method to master, but it is also the most accurate). Needless to say, the results obtained by Ding Yi and the emperor were the opposite.

When Ding Yi heard that he could win this third battle, although the emperor was skeptical, he was still very happy. After rewarding 1,000 taels of silver, he asked Ding Yi to leave Beijing City and never come back, and he had to keep his mouth shut about this matter. This made Ding Yi's thoughts. After being sent home, Ding Yi left Beijing City with his wife and children overnight, and after many twists and turns, he arrived at Changjiaying.

Later, China and Britain fought again, but the result was still ended with a disastrous defeat in the Qing Dynasty and signed the "Treaty of Nanjing" that was deprived of power and humiliated. Although Ding Yi did not know this news, judging from the original hexagram of "one person caused thousands of bones to be undone, and one soul caused thousands of lives to be sacrificed" in the innate hexagram, maybe many soldiers died because of his lie.

Whenever I think of this, Ding Yi would beat his chest and stamp his feet all day long. In just over a month before he arrived in Changjiaying, Ding Yi seemed to have suddenly become ten years old, with white hair and a lie to ruin the country. Not to mention the devastation of life, this incident alone is a serious crime of deceiving the emperor and killing the nine clans. How can an ordinary person bear such conscience rebuke and ideological pressure?

Speaking of this, Chang Sishan understood a rough idea, but as an illiterate mountain citizen, the terms of deceiving the king and destroying the country had no idea in his mind. He only knew that the head of the family was kind to him, so at Ding Yi's plea, although he knew that the person to be arrested on the notice was Ding Yi, he did not promote this matter. Over time, the other people who had seen notices in the county town forgot about this matter. Ding Yi still taught his children to study and read and take the pulse of the villagers every day, as if nothing had happened, and the people in Changjiaying should do what they should do as usual.

"It's really ridiculous..." Zhang Guozhong was very amused and crying when he heard Sun Ting say this, "How can you listen to a fortune teller in such a military and national affairs?"

"The chief tutor is a bad word!" Sun Ting said, "The Chinese are seriously influenced by Confucianism, and the emperor has strong ideological dependence. The people rely on the yamen if they have problems, and civil and military officials rely on the emperor if they have problems. If the emperor himself has problems, who should he rely on?"

"This..." Zhang Guozhong did not expect that although Sun Ting was not very old, he had a unique view.

"Besides, at that time, the pro-war faction had the upper hand," Sun Ting continued to analyze, "The pressure of Emperor Daoguang not only came from the ministers of the pro-war faction, but also related to the unique self-esteem of being a ruler. The Qing Dynasty always regarded itself as a country in the Celestial Kingdom and always looked down on Westerners. Moreover, in the traditional Chinese concept, defeat and surrender were completely different concepts. If he surrendered without a fight, the court would be disgraced. In addition, the reason why Emperor Daoguang decided to continue the third battle when the two major battles in Dinghai and Guangdong were defeated was another reason, that is, Daoguang himself did not understand the real gap between the Qing army and the British army at that time. The defeated general who came back alive described the failure of the two battles as accidental with various excuses. This is also one of the reasons why Emperor Daoguang fought the third battle with a lucky mentality..."

"Mr. Sun, are you a historian?" Zhang Guozhong began to wonder if Sun Ting was also an archaeological madman like Qin Ge. The story told by Sun Ting was not even considered a grain of sand in the vast river of history, and Sun Ting knew so clearly.

"No, I am a lawyer. It is because of this story that I became obsessed with history and archaeology..." Sun Ting took a sip of tea and thought, "These are just introductions. I believe that you will be interested in the story afterwards, Master Zhang."

"Mr. Sun, I have always been very interested. Your story is very attractive... Can I smoke?" After listening to Sun Ting's verbal words for two hours, Zhang Guozhong suddenly became addicted to smoking.

"Please..." Sun Ting drank a cup of tea and began to continue talking.

He lived in Changjiaying for about ten years. Although it was not short, Ding Yi's inner self-blame and fear were still gone. In the past, he would even dream that the wronged souls of soldiers who died in battle came to settle the score with him. Or he dreamed that the officials in the yamen caught him, and the whole family was beheaded together. In the past ten years, Ding Yi's hair turned completely white. The person who had just nodded at the age of 50 looked no different from an old man in his seventies.

On this day, Ding Yi was feeding chickens in the yard. Suddenly someone was crazy about his family. He said that something happened to Chang Sishan's family. The family of four was hanging together. Now they were rescued, but they had no breath or pulse. They asked Ding Yi to see if he was saved. He heard the news. Ding Yi immediately found a needle bag and told the person to report the news to Chang Sishan's family. At that time, Chang Laoxi was taking several people to rescue people while analyzing the situation. The Chang family camp has never had much contact with the outsiders and never borrowed money from outsiders. You said that life is good, and if you can't think about it, the whole family will hang themselves? Once you marry an uncle, the peach blossoms are blooming.

Ding Yi looked at the situation of the four people. In addition to Chang Sishan's chest, his father, his wife and son were sure to be out of salvation, and everyone was hardened. Later, although Ding Yi tried his best, Chang Sishan's life was still not saved. This was a mess. The villagers talked about everything, saying everything, owing money and owing money, smoking cigarettes, etc., but Ding Yi felt that this matter was not that simple. In the evening, Ding Yi made a divination about this matter, but he was shocked. Chang Sishan's family died of a bad life.

Not all accidents can be considered "death from a non-life". In the true sense, death from a non-life means that it is not until the end of life. The reasons can be roughly divided into three categories: offending ghosts and gods, leaking the secrets of heaven and touching the stars (touching the stars is offending the stars that hurt the earth). However, in such remote mountain villages, a total of forty people look up but not looking down. It is impossible to touch the stars. As an illiterate mountain citizen, it is even more impossible to expose the secrets of heaven and gods. Moreover, leaking the secrets of heaven will not die together. For Chang Sishan family, there is only one reason for "death from a non-life" that is, committing ghosts and gods.

How could this Changjiaying have no graves or temples within a radius of twenty miles? Ding Yi was not asleep all night and couldn't figure it out. The next morning, the person who reported the news yesterday ran away again, saying that Chang Laoxi's family had also hung it. This time the family was still quite thorough. When Ding Yi arrived at the scene, he was basically all hard.

At this time, Changjiaying was immediately panicked. There were more than 40 people in total, and more than a dozen families died in the village. At this speed, it would take only a few days to die in the whole village. At this time, something even stranger happened. The whole village had a chicken, duck, cat, dog and other small animals ran overnight (most of the villagers in Changjiaying raised chickens, but they were free-range, surrounded by fences. I don’t know where the chicken got such great skills, and they actually flew out). It was even said that even a mouse could not be found in the village. For a moment, every household began to pack their luggage and prepare to flee. In two days, except for a lame old lady, Chang and Ding, the whole village basically ran away. Changjiaying, which had smoke from cooking two days ago, immediately became a dead village.

Chang's family did not leave because he lost his husband in his early years and had no children. He had been raising some chickens and ducks and the villagers Zhou Ji for years. Now the chickens and ducks are gone. He is old and thighs and feet are not good. Thinking about it, he has been quite miserable in his life. As soon as this happened, he simply wanted to die at home and ended up killing the nine clans. Ding Yi did not dare to go out, and the matter of killing the nine clans was always a ill. In the evening, Ding Yi digs out another divination for himself, and the result was roughly the same as ten years ago. The dark clouds covered the sun, the rivers cut off the rivers, the wild fire burned the mountains, and the white waves covered the boats. But compared with the hexagrams ten years ago, it seemed that there were more different things. The clouds blocked the sun, the rivers blocked the eyes, the rivers cut off the water and the rivers did not walk on the bridge, the mountains burned the fire and turned off the dead grass, and the small boat did not cover the big boats.

"What does this mean?" Although the hexagram is still a Jue Gua, the tail of the hexagram seems to have the meaning of dark willows and bright flowers. Ding Yi has calculated the hexagram for decades, and he has never seen such a strange hexagram before. "Could it be... in the dark, there is a noble person who protects me, Ding's family..."

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