Qi Ning already knew from the Beggar Gang that the Donghai Navy suffered losses several times at the hands of the Black Tiger Shark, and that the majestic Imperial Navy suffered continuous losses at the hands of a group of pirates. This was of course a great shame for the commander of the Navy. .
Putting himself in his shoes, Qining could feel the shame in Tantai Zhilin's heart.
There is no doubt that after these incidents happened one after another, the navy still tried their best to cover up the truth of the matter. At least I had never heard of the humiliation suffered by the navy in the capital.
Once such a thing spreads widely, although it will not shake the Tantai family's position in the empire, it will certainly be a heavy blow to the Tantai family's military reputation.
Qining could imagine the pressure in Tantai Zhilin's heart.
If the black tiger shark can be captured as quickly as possible after the incident, the Tantai family's military reputation can be restored to a certain extent, but in fact, up to now, the black tiger shark is still at ease in the East China Sea, and the East China Sea The teacher couldn't even get a hair from him.
If you are a person who attaches great importance to reputation, your inner pressure will of course become heavier and heavier.
Tantai Zhilin was a battle-hardened general. Could it be that he was unable to withstand the pressure due to continuous humiliation and committed suicide
As the pillar of the Tantai family, Tantai Zhilin really doesn't care about his heavy responsibility in the family, and even abandons his wife and children to die
Riding on the horse, Qi Ning was deep in thought when he suddenly heard a voice beside him saying: "Master, please hurry up!"
Qi Ning was startled, turned around and looked over, only to find that he was walking on a long street without knowing it. There was a fortune-telling stall on the street. It was very simple. There was a canvas hanging on the side of the fortune-telling stall, with the word "divination" written on it. , The fortune teller sitting behind the divination stall had eyes as dull as death, and he was actually blind.
Qi Ning looked back and forth, and found that he was passing by the man's hexagram stall at this time. Wei Yujiang was lagging behind him, while Wu Dalin and others were separated by a distance. In fact, it was also to be less conspicuous, otherwise five or six horses would walk together. , is inevitably too ostentatious.
The blind man obviously couldn't see anything, but his face was facing Qining.
Qining reined in his horse and asked a little strangely, "Are you talking about me?"
"Do you want your fortune told?" the blind man asked directly.
Qi Ning smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "I don't count my fortune."
"You don't count your fortune, is it because you don't believe in fate, or because you don't believe in me?" the blind man asked.
Qining thought the blind man's words were interesting and said with a smile, "What's the difference?"
"If you don't believe me, you won't find anyone in this city who can help you with your disaster." The blind man said slowly, "If you don't believe in fate, you will probably die."
Qi Ning frowned slightly. Of course what the blind man said was not good. No matter who heard such words, he would not be happy. He got off his horse and walked to the hexagram stall. The blind man had already raised his hand and said: "Please sit down!" He looked very calm.
Qi Ning also sat down on the edge and stared into the blind man's eyes.
This blind man was already blind, but he seemed to be very clear about the things in front of him. Qining was a little surprised. He thought that this old guy was deliberately alarmist to attract people to stay and tell fortunes. He even thought that this man might be pretending to be blind, but the fortune tellers were both His eyes were lifeless, like the eyes of a dead fish, and he knew that there was no way he could pretend to be like this.
"Sir, are you saying that I am in danger?" Qining stared at Busy and said, "You and I are strangers. We have never even spoken a word before. How did you know that I would be in danger?"
"Do you know evil spirits?" The blind man said: "People with evil spirits on their bodies are often very close to disasters. If they are not careful, they will die without a burial place."
"Oh?" Qi Ning sneered: "You mean I have evil spirits?"
The blind man calmed down and said softly: "Just now when you were still some distance away from me, I felt the presence of evil spirits. Just waiting for you to pass by my hexagram booth, the evil spirits were extremely strong...!"
"That's why you asked me to stop?" Qining heard what he said was mysterious, smiled faintly, and asked: "Then sir, why don't you help me calculate, when will I encounter disaster?"
The blind man sighed: "Since you don't believe it, you don't need to ask any more questions."
"oh?"
"If you tell fortunes sincerely, I may be able to help you break the bad luck." The blind man sighed: "But if you don't believe it, I will help you, but it will be useless." He raised his hand and said, "You can go."
Qi Ning was amused, thinking that the blind man's tricks were no different from those of ordinary fortune tellers. He would first attract people with scaremongering, and then talk about how to solve disasters. However, this blind man looked so serious that most people would really be fooled by him. .
Qi Ning originally didn't believe in the theory of ghosts and gods, but his own soul traveling through time was the most unexplainable thing. However, he didn't believe in destiny either.
However, he can understand that the blind man in front of him is blind. If he wants to survive, he must have a job. Setting up a stall on the street to tell fortunes is also a way to make a living. There is nothing urgent at the moment anyway. Listen to him It's okay to say that you can leave him a piece of silver when you leave as a financial aid.
Since he was acting like this, he became patient and said with a smile: "Sir, you are kind enough to help me break the evil, so naturally I will not be ungrateful. May I ask, sir, what kind of disaster am I in?"
"The secret must not be leaked!" The blind man said: "I ask you, have you come across anything dirty these days?"
"Dirty things?" Qining held his chin and said, "What do you mean by unclean things, sir?"
The blind man pondered for a moment and then said: "If you leave here today, you may be able to avoid the disaster, otherwise...!" He shook his head and even frowned slightly.
"Leave here?" Qi Ning's eyes flashed and his body leaned forward slightly: "Why should I leave here?"
"This is a place of right and wrong. Wherever you come from, you go back there." The blind man said: "When you leave this place, if the direction changes, the evil spirits will naturally leave you."
"How do you know I'm not from the East China Sea?" Qi Ning frowned, but as soon as the words came out, he knew it was unnecessary to ask.
Donghai is located in the southeast, and the taste of speech is very different from that in the capital. Just from the accent, the other party can tell that he is not a native of Donghai.
This is an obvious thing, so a blind person won’t say much.
Qi Ning felt that there was something in the blind man's words. He came to the East China Sea this time to find out the mystery behind Tantai Zhilin's death. At the moment, everything was still shrouded in clouds and mountains, but the blind man's words were clearly trying to persuade him. Leaving the East China Sea, he even directly said that the ancient city of East China Sea was a place of right and wrong.
Qi Ning didn't know whether he had a deep meaning in his words or was deliberately pretending to be a ghost. He said calmly: "Sir, you asked me to leave the East China Sea, but it's a pity that I can't leave now."
"So, you don't even care about your own life and insist on staying in the East China Sea?" The blind man "looked" at Qi Ning with a calm expression.
Qi Ning smiled and said: "Didn't Sir just say that you can break the evil for me? Isn't the only way to break the evil is to leave the East China Sea?"
The blind man pondered for a moment and then said: "There is still a way, but...!" He stopped talking and raised his hand to stroke his beard. Qining smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you say it!"
"Although the other method can also break the evil,... it will reveal the secret of heaven." The blind man sighed: "If the secret of heaven is revealed, it will destroy his life, this...!"
Qi Ning was amused. After all, the ultimate goal of the blind man was to get some money. He took a piece of broken silver and put it on the table. He said with a smile: "It's just a small gift, it's not respectful. Please teach me, sir." The way to break evil spirits.”
The blind man reached out and touched the broken silver, hesitated for a moment, and then sighed: "Well, at my age, it's just a loss of life. You are young, and I can't just watch you die when a disaster is coming." He put the broken silver into his sleeve and said: "I will write you the method to break the evil spirit. Just take it back and follow it." He waved his hand slightly and ordered: "Turn around."
Qi Ning turned around. Wei Yujiang and others saw Qi Ning fortune-telling and did not come close, but waited not far away.
The blind man touched the paper and pen, and actually wrote down the method of breaking evil spirits on the paper. Then he blew on the ink, reached for an envelope, put the method of breaking evil spirits into the envelope, and then sealed it with rice paste. He stood up and said: "There is a method to break evil spirits inside. It can only be opened after the unitary hour today. If it is opened in advance, this method of breaking evil spirits will be useless. Remember this!"
Qi Ning turned around and took the envelope. He saw that although the blind man was blind, the envelope was sealed very well. He was obviously an experienced hand. He felt funny and said with a smile: "Thank you very much, sir." He stood up without saying much. He walked straight over and got on his horse. The blind man shouted to himself from behind: "Don't take it apart before the You hour, otherwise a disaster will come, and even gods coming down to earth will not be able to save it."
Qi Ning laughed and urged the horse to go. Wei Yujiang and others quickly followed the horse.
The group returned to the post house and after entering the hospital, Wei Yujiang asked: "Does the Marquis believe in hexagrams?"
Qi Ning smiled and said: "I can't say that I don't believe it, but I don't believe it all. But the fortune tellers who set up stalls on the roadside all use the same routine, and there is nothing clever about it." He took out the evil fortune teller written by the fortune teller. When the law was about to be opened, Wei Yujiang immediately said: "Master Hou, when we left earlier, the fortune teller seemed to have said that we should not open it before Youshi. You...!"
"Life and death are destiny, wealth is in the sky. I want to know what disaster will happen to me and how to avoid it." Qi Ning smiled faintly, opened the envelope, took out the paper from inside, glanced at it, and saw There are four lines written on it, but it is a poem.
"The fortune teller's eyes are invisible, but the words he writes are neat." Qining said: "There is no need to tell fortunes, and selling calligraphy for a living is not bad."
He did not shy away from Wei Yujiang. Wei Yujiang looked at him and whispered softly: "I was lying drunk on the Qingfeng Terrace, with red flowers reflected under the willows. Listen to the sound of the tide, and the fragrance comes into the ordinary house!" He said doubtfully: "Master Hou, this... What does this mean?"
Qi Ning read it carefully twice, but couldn't figure out why. He thought that the blind man claimed to have written down the method to break the evil, and he had to follow the method to break the evil, but this was just a poem, but it was How to break evil spirits according to this poem? Could it be that the blind fortune teller was just entertaining himself