Lu Yu turned around with an unfriendly tone.
His pair of almond-shaped eyes were filled with frost. He looked at Li Lezhi coldly, his hands clenched tightly in his sleeves.
Lu Yu asked coldly: "Is my case your doing?"
He had also heard of the abilities of this Taoist priest named Li. There were different opinions, some said he was accurate, others said he was just a person promoted by the Ministry of Justice.
This also led to Lu Yu not knowing whether the other party figured out that he liked men through skill or just coincidence. For the sake of Prince Pingyang, they used a trick to slander him and did not know that he liked men.
This incident had a huge impact on him, so Lu Yu didn't dare to gamble.
Things got so stagnant that Li Le just looked up at him and said calmly, "Mr. Lu seems to have a lover outside."
These two people were in an affair when they were classmates. Li Le just gave Lu Yu some face and didn't tell this matter in public.
He really wasn't curious about the other person's private life.
Lu Yu's body suddenly tensed up. After Li Lezhi told him that he had a lover in secret, Lu Yu's hands in his sleeves trembled slightly, his pupils constricted, and he looked in Li Lezhi's direction in disbelief.
He didn't expect that this Taoist could really calculate.
Lu Yu swallowed nervously. No one knew that he had a lover in secret, let alone the Ministry of Justice finding out. He was extremely careful whenever he met that person.
There is only one possibility for this matter, that it was calculated by the other party.
This frightened Lu Yu, and he didn't dare to stay here for long. He didn't even say hello to the two men. He staggered twice and fled immediately.
Prince Pingyang looked at his fleeing back in surprise, grabbed the melon seeds on the table and cracked them. After the sound of the melon seed shells was heard, he looked in the direction of Li Lezhi in disbelief.
At this time, the shopkeeper and the waiter had already left this place of trouble and closed the door. No one could hear their conversation except the secret guard who was hiding in the dark to protect Li Le. The secret guard pricked up his ears and recorded everything that happened that day.
In the tea room, Prince Pingyang recalled Lu Yu's escape and asked in surprise: "Master Li, does Lu Yu really like men?!"
Isn't it you who spread the rumor outside?
Li Le just said: "Well, yes."
Prince Pingyang still couldn't believe it. How could Lu Yu like a man? Although he was usually a little cold towards girls and they could understand his slightly cold temper, but... how could he like a man?
Prince Pingyang couldn't figure it out. He was cracking melon seeds and still couldn't believe it. After a cup of tea, he had no choice but to believe that Lu Yu was just a man-loving woman.
After accepting such shocking news, Prince Pingyang slammed the table in anger. Such a girl was his love rival, and he almost married Tao Wan home.
This is intolerable.
Prince Pingyang frowned and said, "Master Li, you just said that he has someone privately. Who is that person?"
I’ll see if he doesn’t kill these two bitches.
Li Le only figured out that Lu Yu had someone secretly, but he hadn't figured out the other person's identity. Seeing Prince Pingyang angry and thinking about Lu Yu's behavior, he didn't want to cover up for the two. For him, liking a man was not a mistake, it was just falling in love with a person of the same sex, although he didn't accept it.
I have encountered these things, but I can be tolerant of the other party's sexual orientation. However, what I cannot tolerate is that the other party, knowing that the person I like is a boy, still dares to cheat on marriage and cheat on other girls.
If the two families knew that the girl's family was trying to marry into a rich family, Li Le would not want to get involved in the matter. However, the girl's family was not interested and were deceived by his superficial appearance and thought that he was a good man.
This is what is infuriating.
Li Le was unwilling to cover up for the two. As for their future fate, no matter how high the status of Prince Pingyang was, he would not take their lives. He would only teach them a lesson.
Li Le just did some calculations and didn't expect that the other party's lover was not ordinary, and was a young marquis... No wonder the two of them could be classmates.
The man's name was Yin Xuan, and he was the son of Marquis Qu'an.
Li Le only told the other party's name to Prince Pingyang and let him handle it. After all, it involved the son of a marquis, and it was not an easy task to suppress the two of them.
When Prince Pingyang found out that the other party was Yin Xuan, he frowned and asked, "Master Li, are you sure you didn't make a mistake?
It's no wonder that he was suspicious. In fact, Yin Xuan had married a year ago and had a son not long ago. The thought of this made him feel uncomfortable.
Prince Pingyang picked up the tea on the table. He was really disgusted by these two people. And he remembered correctly, this Yin Xuan married the half-sister of Lu Yu. With this relationship, these two people hooked up with each other, which made Prince Pingyang, who was knowledgeable and knew a lot of palace gossip, feel embarrassed.
That's why I confirmed it again, hoping to get a negative result from Taoist Li.
Li Le just looked at him in confusion and nodded again. The result he calculated was indeed Yin Xuan, not anyone else.
However, he did not go into the details. Even if he could, sometimes he did not want to know too many secrets of others. This would be too intrusive on their privacy.
Therefore, Li Le didn't know that Yin Xuan's wife was Lu Yu's half sister.
Prince Pingyang knew about it, but since it involved such a dirty matter as Marquis Qu'an and the Lu family, he couldn't do anything just because he wanted to. At least the affairs of Marquis Qu'an and Yin Xuan couldn't be exposed. As for Lu Yu, he could still bully Lu Yu by taking advantage of Tao Wan's matter.
Prince Pingyang said, "Master Li, what you calculated today, you and I only need to know."
Li Lezhi also knew that if he got involved in this matter and offended another marquis, it would not be good for him, so he nodded to show that he understood.
Unbeknownst to the two, the matter had already been brought before Emperor Zhao. After hearing about it, Emperor Zhao became furious because Lu Yu was also his favorite candidate for a son-in-law. If it weren't for the marriage negotiation between the Tao and Lu families, he would have had a better candidate for a son-in-law and would have already chosen Lu Yu.
And now tell him that Lu Yu likes men.
This was like a slap in the face of Emperor Zhao, telling him clearly that he had misjudged people and almost pushed his daughter into the fire. How could Emperor Zhao not be angry?
Emperor Zhao had a sullen look on his face. He picked up the strong tea, took a sip, then put the teacup down heavily, making a crisp sound.
The eunuchs serving Emperor Zhao dared not breathe, secretly glanced at his expression, and said nothing.
After Emperor Zhao calmed down, he wanted to punish Lu Yu, but he had no legitimate reason. But this could not stop Emperor Zhao. Fortunately, he had a very useful brick - Censor Qiu. Although this old man did not know how to read people's faces, he was still a straightforward person. Fortunately, at this time, this old man came in handy.
Emperor Zhao gave a slight hint.
On the way home, the sect's people mentioned Lu Yu's homosexuality to Censor Qiu, but they didn't expect that Censor Qiu was still thinking about Taoist Li and didn't take the matter to heart.
This made Emperor Zhao annoyed with the old man's stupidity, so he had to send someone to tell the old man that this matter was related to Taoist Li.
Upon hearing that this matter was related to Taoist Priest Li, Censor Qiu immediately stopped the man. After asking for clarification, he was extremely angry. How could a little Lu Yu dare to go against Taoist Priest Li?
Lu Yu's father was the Minister of Guanglu Temple, so Censor Qiu submitted a memorial to impeach the Minister of Guanglu Temple. Emperor Zhao had been eagerly waiting for Censor Qiu to submit the impeachment memorial, and now he received it, he knew what Censor Qiu had written.
He immediately sent someone to reprimand the Guanglu Temple Secretary, and also sent someone to Lu's residence to reprimand him in front of everyone, including Lu Yu, to vent his anger.
Of course, this was only on the surface. Secretly, Emperor Zhao had no intention of employing someone like Lu Yu. What's more, the other party's talent had not yet reached the point where he needed to condescend to invite him. He could easily grab a talent like Lu Yu.
This also led to the fact that Emperor Zhao was unhappy and others did not dare to get close to the Lu family, and the Lu family became deserted in an instant.
The wind direction in the capital was changing rapidly. Before Prince Pingyang could take action against Lu Yu, the other party's family was in trouble. But that didn't stop him from adding insult to injury.
In addition, Li Lezhi became famous among the ladies in the capital. Who doesn't have a son or daughter? What people fear most is that their children will marry into a bad marriage or marry a bad one.
They had also heard about what happened in the Tao family. The Tao family canceled the marriage proposal from the Lu family and was able to marry the Prince of Pingyang. This was all thanks to Taoist Master Li's ability to predict the future. If Taoist Master Li had not figured out Lu Yu's affairs, they would have been kept in the dark and thought that the other party was a good person.
As a result, from the palaces of kings and marquises to the homes of officials, invitations like snowflakes flew to Xuanping Lane, and each of them wanted to invite Taoist Li to come and take a look.
Li Lezhi didn't know what was going on. For him, dealing with so many families meant not just one but hundreds of them. How could Li Lezhi dare to attend the banquet? He refused them one by one.
It was not until he went on duty that even Minister Zhou invited him to his house for a chat. Only then did Li Le realize that he had become famous and that no other Taoist priest could compare to him in the business of matchmaking.
so?
Did he take the wrong path earlier?
He has stepped out of such an unpopular track, and is trying to steal the job of the matchmaker? But if he really has to count them one by one, he will be exhausted to death. Besides, this is not a game of Candy Crush. There are only so many men and women of marriageable age in Beijing, and it is rare for them to be a perfect match.
Most of the time, it's just that the guys who are pleasing to the eye, acceptable, self-disciplined and like men are rare. It's extremely rare to meet one.
With the vision of those ladies, they can choose good families for their children, so he doesn't need to settle for anything.
So Li Lezhi didn't take these things to heart until one day, not long after he returned home, there was a knock on the door.
Li Lezhi was teaching Qian Xi and Gao Mingli the skill of fortune-telling. After hearing the noise, he guessed that someone might be looking for him again, so he asked his two disciples to disperse and went back to his room to rest.
He walked to the door and opened it. As soon as he opened the door, he saw a very handsome man in his thirties, dressed in fine clothes, standing outside.
In front of this man was a pale-faced servant, and it was this servant who had knocked on the door just now.
Li Le just looked at the two of them and frowned, "Who are you?"
Could it be that someone living in Xuanping Lane who wanted to visit knew he was here and wanted him to predict the marriage fate of their children?
Li Le only thought so and asked, "What do you want to do?"
After he finished speaking, the man in fancy clothes raised his eyebrows, as if he was surprised that he could guess the other party's intention.
The reason why Emperor Zhao came to see Li Lezhi was because Li Lezhi was the right person for him. Choosing a son-in-law was not a difficult task. Anyone who had a noble family background, talent, and good looks could become his son-in-law as long as they met the requirements. But at this juncture, he knew that Lu Yu liked men.
Whenever he thought about this incident, it seemed like he was laughing at his lack of vision. Even if he could send people to investigate everything thoroughly, he would only know that the other party was a good one. But just knowing that he was a good one would not make his daughter happy if she married him. He could ignore his other daughters and marry into a noble family, so they could each have their own way.
But his daughter, who was now of marriageable age, was the child of him and the empress, and whom he had raised like a treasure. Naturally, he hoped to give her all the good things in the world. For this reason, Emperor Zhao could not bear it a bit, especially when he knew that Li Lezhi had not calculated marriages for others afterwards, and he did not want to summon Li Lezhi and expose Taoist Li in front of everyone.
Therefore, Emperor Zhao could only disguise himself as an ordinary citizen and come to see Taoist Priest Li for a calculation. However, he knew that Taoist Priest Li had some abilities, but...
Is it a bit too much to be able to tell his intention at a glance? In this regard, is it the same as if the other party already knew that he was the emperor the moment they saw each other?
This made Emperor Zhao frown.
It was not a pleasant feeling to be known and seen through by others. Emperor Zhao did not want to think too much about it. Someone might easily figure it out and know everything about him, but he could not control him. This feeling was no different from exposing his weaknesses to the enemy.
Emperor Zhao had already thought of how to imprison Li Lezhi, or place his own people near Li Lezhi to prevent Li Lezhi from telling anyone after figuring out his affairs.
Emperor Zhao was thinking about this, but he said calmly, "I want to calculate the marriage fate for my daughter this time. Can you please help me, Taoist priest?"
She really came to him to find a matchmaker. There was only one person who came to his door. Li Lezhi secretly looked around the neighbors and saw that no one had noticed, so he said, "Come in first."
After the others came in, Li Le simply closed the door and led the two of them to the small courtyard inside. There were some books, tortoise shells and other items on the table that had not been put away.
Li Le just packed up and put the book aside, leaving an empty seat, and said to the two people behind him, "Sit down."
The eunuch came forward and wiped the stool, and then Emperor Zhao sat down. He looked around the extremely small courtyard and saw the ladder in the corner. Emperor Zhao also knew about this ladder, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances at it, and then looked to both sides. There were some green plants on both sides, lush and verdant, which showed that Taoist Li took very good care of it.
The small courtyard was simple, with simple furnishings and not many valuable items. It was obvious that the Taoist priest was not a person who liked luxury, but rather a quiet and peaceful one. As for Li Lezhi's temperament, Emperor Zhao had a general idea of it by peeping into his room.
Although he is only a young man, he lives like an old Taoist priest. He can see through fame and fortune and is not swayed by external things. Perhaps only such a person can go further in Taoism.
Emperor Zhao saw Li Le again and only used
Emperor Zhao had seen many divinations using tortoise shells. He had even seen divinations with bare hands, which were more difficult than using tortoise shells. However, ordinary people could not get so much information using tortoise shells. Could it be that this Taoist priest Li was gifted and could see things that others could not see?
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Li Lezhi's various actions aroused the great curiosity of Emperor Zhao, but Emperor Zhao did not make any noise to interfere, but just watched quietly. ?
After Li Lezhi stopped, Emperor Zhao asked, "Master Li, what's the situation?"
Li Le just frowned and said: "Marriage is full of twists and turns, it is not advisable to marry early."?
When he was calculating, the other party had already told him the daughter's birth date and eight characters. Based on this birth date and eight characters, Li Le only calculated that the girl's marriage line would be late, and she would meet bad people in the early days and would not have a good ending. Fortunately, the other party was a person who loved the child and was able to let the child marry three times. However, these three times happened within five years, which shows that the marriage had many twists and turns. It was not until five years later, after she married again, that she finally settled down. However, she had many twists and turns before, and had already hurt her body. It was a beauty with a tragic fate.
Li Le could only see that the other party was someone who loved children, otherwise, he would not support a girl's divorce and would not marry his daughter off four times. But what Li Le didn't understand was that after one misfortune, why would the other party marry his daughter off so frequently and insist on finding a home for the girl? In this case, it would be better to keep the girl at home than to marry her to someone else's family, where she could still be treated as the apple of the eye. No matter what, going to someone else's home would not be as comfortable as at home.
Li Lezhi also understood that in ancient times, there was no one who did not get married. They did not have this idea yet. They just followed the times and felt that when their daughters reached a certain age, they could find a good family for them. It was also possible that the population in ancient times was small and life expectancy was short, so getting married earlier could also allow them to have offspring earlier and pass on the family line from one generation to the next.
It could also be for the sake of social stability. Anyway, these are not the things Li Le should consider. He just tells the other party the results of his calculations. All he can do is give the other party some advice.
After hearing this, Emperor Zhao was shocked and asked, "How could this be? Did you make a mistake in your calculations?"
Li Le only had six things to say when he was suspected of having made a mistake in his calculations. However, he also understood the other party's feelings. Although he was a little bit skeptical when hearing such a divination, he would not hide it and said something good to reassure the other party.
Li Le just didn't say anything.
In the eyes of Emperor Zhao, even after he said this, the other party did not give him face and kept silent with a cold face. Emperor Zhao was also unhappy. He came out to tell fortunes to give his daughter a good home, not to suffer bullying.
He actually said that his daughter would marry four times, and the first three times she would marry the wrong person. Doesn't that mean he has poor taste in choosing people?
Emperor Zhao began to suspect that the other party had already known his identity and was saying such things to irritate him. He couldn't get angry about it, so he could only hold it in his heart.
Emperor Zhao said unhappily, "The person I contacted earlier didn't seem to be able to figure out this kind of thing..."
Li Le knew that the other party didn't believe what he said when he saw his expression. He said calmly, "Maybe the other party is not skilled enough to calculate it."
Worship Hall: ...
Emperor Zhao was so upset by this statement that he almost exposed his identity. He retorted: The one who calculated for me is a Taoist priest from the Gongfeng Hall. How dare you, a little Taoist priest, say that he is not well-trained? You are simply ignorant of the world.
Li Le fantasized in his mind that the Taoist priest who told his fortune was from the Worship Hall and was a Taoist priest whom he could not reach. Only then did Emperor Zhao feel relieved when he knelt down and begged for mercy.
No wonder Emperor Zhao is so careful
If it was any other Emperor Zhao, he might not be so angry, but he was talking about his beloved daughter, the apple of his eye. It would have been fine if he knew that she was not happy after marriage because of his arranged marriage, but it happened three times in a row. As an old father, how could he bear such a blow? He even suspected that the fourth arranged marriage was not the candidate he chose.
"Then tell me, what's the problem with this person?"
Emperor Zhao took out another birth chart, which did not have anyone's name written on it. Emperor Zhao did not want Li Le to only know the other party's identity. This was the good son-in-law he had carefully selected.
Li Le just took it and looked at it. He counted with his fingers and knew that this birth date and time was the other party’s first marriage.
Li Le just pretended to think that this person likes men? "
The shocking words frightened Li Le so much that he stopped holding his hands and all the copper coins in the tortoise shell fell out.
Emperor Zhao, who had always asked others questions all his life, was a little uncomfortable when Li Le suddenly asked him questions back. However, this also made him feel relieved. He was not nervous and it was the other party who was bold.
In the other party's eyes, he was just an ordinary person who came to calculate his marriage and had something to ask for.
Emperor Zhao felt relieved and picked up the teapot to pour himself a glass of water. However, he did not expect that the teapot was empty and not even a drop of water could be poured out. Embarrassed, he could only put the teapot back and said, "I was afraid that this would happen."
Li Le just nodded, thinking to himself, it turns out that people in ancient times were so open-minded, and it was very common for men to like men. On the contrary, he seemed to be a conservative person, not as open-minded as the ancient people.
Complaining about himself did not stop Li Le from calculating. He saw that it was much closer, so he raised his hand, collected the copper coins on the table, put them into the tortoise shell, and then said, "This man will be favored by a noble person. If he becomes an official, he will be remembered in history. But unfortunately, this man's fate is a little incompatible with your daughter's, which will endanger her and make her die young."
"You mean, my daughter is unlucky?" Emperor Zhao's face was as black as ash. He forced himself not to say the word "bold" to Li Le. However, there was still a trace of anger between his brows, but he kept it to himself.
Li Le just shook his head and said, "It's not that your daughter is unlucky for her husband, it's that her husband's fate is not strong enough. She needs someone with a gentle fate to complement her. Your daughter's fate is too precious, not everyone can afford it. Do you know how precious your daughter's fate is?"
"What do you say?" Emperor Zhao sneered in his heart. His daughter's fate was naturally precious. She was his daughter, so he wanted to see what the Taoist priest would say if he didn't know his identity.
"That's not something you can say," Li Le hesitated for a second before saying, "If you say it, you'll lose your head."
"Tell me, I promise your head won't fall off," which aroused Emperor Zhao's curiosity, and he wanted to know how precious her daughter's fate was.
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