Zhang Hefeng is a good teacher. As a famous scholar in the world, he did not let him go because his newly admitted student was a student who had just passed the provincial examination. Instead, he became more and more attentive to Xu Cang.

After seeing some of his shortcomings, Zhang Hefeng proposed that Xu Cang come to his house to listen to his lectures every day during this period. Xu Cang naturally agreed to this. Such a famous teacher can be guided in person and taught in a targeted manner, which is a great opportunity that any candidate who is interested in the imperial examination is unwilling to miss.

As for Li Ling, Zhang Hefeng also admitted that he might not be able to teach him too much, because the path of imperial examinations he took was a deviant move, which was completely inconsistent with his system as a great scholar. Of course, if Li Ling wanted to come to listen to the lecture, he would naturally welcome him.

So in the next two days, Li Ling and Xu Cang came to Zhang's house to listen to the study. However, after listening, he found that although what Zhang Ru said was all about the great teachings of the Confucianism, it was indeed not helpful to him. At least he could not make a qualitative improvement in the imperial examination in a short period of time, so he did not go again on the third day.

In this way, Li Ling, who still has to wait for the list, will have a few more days of free time.

I definitely can't read the books these days, and Li Ling didn't want to be stuck in the inn, so he simply took Li Moyun to wander around inside and outside Xuzhou City. To be honest, although he has been in Xuzhou for almost half a month, he hasn't visited this ancient city except for a limited number of places.

As a famous city with thousands of years of history and today's Huaibei Provincial Capital, Xuzhou City naturally has prosperity and accumulation far beyond Hengzhou Prefecture City. In two days, Li Ling first wandered around the streets and alleys in the city, and then went to several famous attractions to enjoy. Although it was not as good as the development of the tourism industry in later generations at this time, the local area with many historical celebrities still developed related things.

For example, Liu Bang, the Emperor of Han Dynasty, and Xiang Yu, the King of Western Chu, and Zhang Daoling, who has more legendary colors... Some traces of them can be found in this city. However, when Li Lingzhen found a place to look carefully, he felt that under the wave of time, the traces of these historical celebrities had long been blurred and difficult to distinguish. As for the era hundreds of years later, these things were naturally even more fake.

However, walking around the streets and alleys gave Li Ling some unexpected gains. His book market is much better than Hengzhou Prefecture. There are as many as three large-scale bookstores alone, and there are five or six other smaller bookstores. Even so, the entire market is still edible.

This made him very interested. If his family could open a bookstore here, the business would naturally be much stronger than in a corner of the city. Li Ling couldn't help but have the idea of ​​working with the bookstore here first. After all, now that there are more people in his family and more expenses, he has to open up a broader business path.

But after having a little contact with several of the bookstores, he found that it was not easy for him to talk about cooperation here, even if he might have the identity of a juren, he was deeply rooted here and was not something that a juren could suppress.

At the end, I heard a person from the book market say: "If the young master really wants to find someone to cooperate, it will be difficult for several major bookstores in the city to reach an agreement. However, Baiyunguan Bookstore outside the city is better to speak."

Li Ling frowned slightly: "How come this Baiyunguan Bookstore sounds like a person outside the country?"

"It is a small family property of a group of Taoist priests who practice cultivation. After all, monks also have to live."

“This is rare.”

"It's rare, but because they are monks and have less fame and fortune, they prefer to do business with outsiders like Gongzi. If Gongzi really wants to do it, Baiyun Temple will be located on Bailin Hills southeast of the city. When they pass by, they can still come back before dark."

With such enthusiastic introductions, Li Ling became the idea of ​​going to talk about it. Calculate the time, the first time the listing must be released will be the next day, so it would be fine even if you can't go back to the city today.

At this moment, Li Ling no longer delayed it. He went back to the inn to get the first two books of Bao Gong's case, and then left Xuzhou City with Li Moyun, heading straight to the small hill in the southeast that was not even a mountain.

There are almost no mountains near Xuzhou, which is called Bailinqiu by the locals. This hill, which is only fifty or sixty meters high, is considered a commanding height. For this reason, there are no scenic spots here. Even if there are Taoist temples, they cannot attract any believers, so the Taoist priests here can only rely on other livelihoods.

However, this has become a good thing for Li Ling. It not only means that he has a partner who can do business, but more importantly, he doesn't have to spend too much effort to climb the mountain. After all, this untapped hill looks low, and it is not easy to reach the top.

Fortunately, Li Moyun was helping him, otherwise Li Ling would have worked harder to go up the mountain. After walking along the slightly steep and difficult mountain path for more than half an hour, Li Ling felt a little tired, but found a small pavilion standing in front of him. There was a simple stone table and bench facing the stool at the entrance of the mountain. At this moment, there was a torn robe and sloppy look. It was impossible to tell how old the old Taoist priest was resting there.

Seeing Li Ling and the others entering the pavilion, the old man laughed and bowed: "Young Master, please, why are you thinking about coming here to Bailinqiu?"

Li Ling looked at the old Taoist with some surprise, and replied casually: "I have nothing to do, come here to visit. Is the Taoist priest a monk from Baiyun Temple on this mountain?"

"That's right. Is this the young master here for business?"

"The Taoist priest has good eyesight..."

"Haha, I always have an ordinary ability to say goodbye, but I still have a lot of experience in calculating the cause and effect of people. Young Master, you and I will be destined to meet you, so why not let the old Taoist calculate a fortune for you?" The old Taoist said, taking out a dark turtle shell from his wide sleeve, shaking it in his hand, making a rustling sound.

"This...no need." Li Ling smiled and waved his hands. He had always disagreed with the theory of numerology, believing that they were all tricks of scammers who read the words and expressions and then scammers dizzy and cheating people.

"It seems that you are not very confident in the old Taoist, but because you dislike the old Taoist's outfit?" The man was straightforward and patted the ragged clothes and said, "But the style of respecting Luo Shang first and then respecting others is not something you should do as a person who is well-read in poetry and books like you."

"The Taoist priest misunderstood. I don't believe in you, but I don't believe in this so-called saying of fate." Li Ling said, then glanced at Li Moyun, "I always thought that relying on heaven and fate is worse than relying on myself. If you really believe in those things, it will only add to my troubles." Li Moyun nodded deeply: "What the young master said is that I had believed in these things wrongly before, but now I don't believe in them at all."

"So that's it, but the way of heaven in the dark is ultimately the ultimate principle of heaven and earth. It's always no harm when you hear it." The old Taoist was really persistent and was still trying to persuade him.

Li Ling smiled and shook his head: "Master Taoist, I will only ask one question below. If you can give me a satisfactory answer, I will naturally ask you to calculate this fortune."

"you say."

"Since Taoist priest, you say that numerology is a good idea, it is destined to be everything. In this way, a person's life, death, success or failure has long been determined. Then we only need to write a fortune in the world, so there is no need to work hard anymore. Anyway, everything is destined to be studied hard for ten years before. As long as I am destined to be able to pass the exam, I don't have to spend this time without this fate. And those who do business and farming can do it according to their fate, and do not have to work hard. Do you think this can really make people live a good life?"

"Young Master's words are too biased. The numerology of heaven and fortune has never been unchanged. The 50th day of heaven and heaven and the 49th day of heaven and man escapes one of them. This one is a variable, and it is also the key to the human being able to go against the heaven and change his fate. The Fuxi hexagram learned by the old Taoist can indeed calculate the cause and effect of people before and after, but the final result will sometimes change due to your own behavior."

"Then it's going to end. Since even the final result may be changed, why should I spend this effort? It will only add to my worries."

"That's not what it means, just like this river of history that has been around for thousands of years, everything has been determined, but it suddenly caused waves because of a person, and even divided a branch in the original river of history. Do you think this is controlled by the way of heaven?"

"Huh?" Li Ling hadn't taken the old Taoist's remarks too much, but now his expression suddenly changed a little. Is this arguing whether it was a sign of intention or was it a coincidence to say something?

The old Taoist looked at Li Ling with a smile: "And this young master, I look at you very much..."

"Master, you say that when you meet anyone?" Li Ling grinned, for fear that this person would suddenly take out a stack of secret books and tell him that the important task of maintaining peace in the world would fall on his shoulders...

"Haha, the young master is still too cautious, but according to reason, with your experience, shouldn't it be so resistant to my theory of heaven? After all, your life is not yours, and your fate has long changed."

The next sentence immediately changed Li Ling's face. His biggest secret was really seen through by the other party? Who is he? This style is wrong!

It was obviously time traveling, but did I suddenly change the theme, become a cultivator? I became fantasy, or became spiritual energy and revived? Li Ling's mental state was very nervous at this moment, and even his breathing became a little rapid.

The old Taoist still looked like a smile: "Young master, don't panic. This is just an inference based on your face, but that's all. If you want to calculate more carefully, you can only tell the old Taoist's birth date and horoscope and make calculations. However, it must be the real birth date!"
Chapter completed!