According to folklore, the King of Hell will look through the book of life and death on the first day of the first month, and randomly click on the name of anyone who will go to the underworld within the year. As everyone in the world of wind and water knows, that year King Yan selected only one person's name, PI Jianqing, which is my name. Hearing the news, my parents cried loudly, saying that people who were also pointed by the king of Hell would stay at home, which would bring bad luck to the family, and the child could not want it. After hearing this, my grandmother scolded my parents with a serious face and said: "This child has come, it is the flesh and blood of our skin family, you are afraid of this and that, I am not afraid, this child is raised by me." After saying that, grandma picked me up when I was not yet full moon and left the village. After taking me to the Chinese medicine shop located in Xijiang Old Street, Grandma made a decision and booked five marriages for me. Grandma gave a big gift to anyone who was willing to sign the marriage contract. After the news came out, the day was not bright, the people of ten miles eight streets lined up outside Grandma's medicine shop with cock and pig's head, in that era when only the New Year could eat meat, this was already a very valuable gift, and the crowd lined up all the way to the main road outside the old street, there were not thousands but hundreds. It was at that time that my family knew that grandma Wan Taojin was a famous doctor goddess. Unlike other Feng shui masters, Grandma can change a person's numerology by checking the pulse and running a needle, and it is said that Grandma's needle method can accurately calculate any divination teacher. Finally, among the people who came to propose marriage in ten miles eight streets, grandma chose the daughter of five ordinary people, and accepted the marriage of five people at the same time also gave them conditioning, so that even the marriage was set down. Since then, although I have been sick and ill along the way, I have survived. When I was nine years old, my grandmother took me to the Wanshou Palace, the most famous Taoist shrine in Xijiang. Before the God Xu Xun, my grandmother solemnly announced to me that from today on, she would teach me everything she had learned in her life, and that after I turned 18, I could only marry one of the five people she had chosen. Grandma said I had no choice, because after I left the palace, I had to start pretending to be crazy until the time of the marriage at eighteen, when the five families came to me. I'll pick whoever doesn't break the deal, and if all five families break the deal, then I'll just have to keep acting crazy. After I heard, I asked grandma, I am a good person, why do you want to pretend to be crazy and stupid? Grandma looked solemn, said that when the king of Hell is far from the end of things, the king of Hell will be on the first day of every nine years of random points, in my nine years old, 18 years old, 27 years old and so on the multiple years of nine, the Lord of Hell will also point my name, this year I have been nine years old, only from now on pretend to be crazy, I can pass these disasters. I have some doubts, since it is random, then why is it me every time? Looking at my panic, grandma comforted me and said that I didn't have to worry too much, as long as I learned her skills and married the person she chose, it would be OK. That is, from the beginning of this day, I know that grandma is a school of pure Ming Dao doctor, and Xu Xun Heavenly Master is the first generation of pure tomorrow teacher, Grandma is the 26th generation of pure tomorrow doctor. Day doctor to save two way lonely ghost, pull out ten casualties of the soul, solution in October pregnant, mother lost son died. The practitioner of medicine can accumulate the highest merit. It can be said that the technique of celestial medicine plays an extremely important role in the field of wind and water. Grandma said that I have eight characters with the sky doctor star, which is a kind of god evil star, ordinary people can not stop, easy to die early, and I want to live, only like grandma to become a day doctor, in the wind and water world to save the wounded, in order to control the god evil star. I asked grandma, is it hard to study medicine, can live? Grandma shook her head, saying that my life is bitter, is the king of Hell who wants to live well, not only to learn the way of heaven medicine, but also to think about feng shui. Day doctor evil, feng shui town evil, only two proficient, I can spy on the sky, completely change their fate. After the Wanshou ancestral court came out, my life trajectory began to change, in the study of natural medicine at the same time, I began to pretend to be crazy and silly days, meet people giggle. I vaguely remember that on the night of my ninth birthday, two strangers came to my home, black and white, and they asked grandma, where am I? When they saw my crazy and silly look outside the door, their brows were wrinkled, but they still wanted to come in, until Grandma took out five engagement books, the two strangers turned and left with a dark face. Grandma said that they are black and white, is to take me to the world to report, this time she helped me to save a bullet, wait nine years later, that is, when I am 18, they will come back, then life or death, only on my own. Since then, I have tried my best to learn the art of natural medicine and the secret method of Feng shui. Others learn feng shui is to make money to live a good life, and I learn feng shui is to save my life, so I learn to work very hard, plus the talent, grandma learned most of my life to feng shui, the way of heaven medicine, I have mastered in nine years. Maybe it was too much like pretending to be a fool. The five families who made a marriage contract with grandma came to visit me a few times and never came again. Even my parents knew what a fool I had become, and they broke off their relationship with me on the spot. Over the years, it was painful to pretend to be crazy, but my grandmother's meticulous care made me have a good time. But when I was 17 years old, my grandmother was ill, and I had to give my grandmother a diagnosis.
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