The Yuan family, renowned for their geomancy skills, is undoubtedly a prominent family in Sichuan and Chongqing.
However, despite their family tradition of learning, even the Yuan family could not escape the five deficiencies and three shortcomings.
The Yuan family's five major problems and three major deficiencies manifested in the difficulty of having offspring.
No one knows how arduous it was for the Yuan family to maintain its tradition for a thousand years.
Especially in Yuan Tiansuo's generation, Yuan's father married five wives and concubines before finally having him.
Therefore, Yuan Tiansuo was given high expectations from birth.
It is truly remarkable for a prominent family to maintain its lineage for over a thousand years, especially a family like the Yuan family, which is a renowned family of geomancers and shoulders a special mission.
A family's long-standing tradition and millennia-old heritage, when poured into the education of a single child, is no easy task, therefore...
Yuan Tiansuo had no childhood.
When he was two or three years old, while other children were crying and fussing, he was already being forced by his family to learn to count yarrow stalks.
When he was four or five years old, while other children were running around the yard, he was already reciting the Book of Changes and memorizing tortoise shell patterns.
...
He has a lot to learn.
From astronomy and geography to the I Ching and fortune telling.
If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight.
The Yuan family's crown is truly heavy.
Yuan Tiansu was overwhelmed by the burden.
Especially during a time of chaos, when his grandfather went out and never returned, the young Yuan Tiansuo, who had been taught by his grandfather, felt as if the sky had fallen.
Although at that time, Yuan Tiansuo had already deduced his grandfather's lifespan based on his own knowledge.
But.
Knowing is one thing, but actually experiencing it still hurts deeply.
Yuan Tiansu...
For the first time, I began to question what I had learned.
Since fate cannot be defied, what use are these people?
What ancestral heritage, what family of imperial advisors...
The Qing Dynasty is gone, what good will it do for him to learn these things?
A scholar is useless in every way, and Yuan Tiansu felt that this "charlatan" was even more useless than a scholar!
But……
What he thinks is unimportant.
As the only direct descendant of the Yuan family, he had no choice but to shoulder the family's legacy.
Even if a cow doesn't want to drink water, someone will force it to.
After handling his grandfather's funeral, his father didn't even wait for him to recover from his grief before pushing him back into the library.
With a history spanning a millennium, the Yuan family's collection of books numbered well over ten thousand volumes.
Yuan Tiansu, under his father's earnest teachings and the fervent expectations of his clan, remained trapped in an ivory tower, until...
He was fifteen years old.
For the first time, the gates of the Yuan family's house were opened to him.
"Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles! Learning ten thousand methods is not as good as experiencing ten thousand lifetimes!"
His father tossed out a sentence and stuffed a bag into his arms.
Ancestral teachings must not be disobeyed.
With his mother and aunts bidding him a tearful farewell, Yuan Tiansu joyfully left the ivory tower that had confined him for fifteen years.
This was the first time he had left home.
The outside world was full of new experiences for him.
However, this novelty did not last long.
In those chaotic times, the people suffered, and disorder abounded.
Yuan Tiansuo, who had been raised in an ivory tower, was robbed not long after leaving home.
His luggage was stolen.
"I told you learning this stuff was useless, didn't I?"
Despite being robbed, Yuan Tiansu remained composed, pursing his lips in a complaining manner.
He had foreseen this calamity, but...
So what?
Under the constraints of destiny, the idea that human effort can achieve anything seems so insignificant.
Even though he changed his route repeatedly in an attempt to avoid this calamity, what was the result?
He was still robbed.
The Yuan family motto is: Only after enduring trials and tribulations can one return home.
Therefore, even if his luggage was robbed and he lost all his money, Yuan Tiansu could not go home.
Of course, having finally escaped the ivory tower, he didn't want to go back.
His journey as a charlatan began at this point.
It must be said that the Yuan family's education of him was undeniably successful.
Those who work in this line of work still have the ability to survive.
With just his mouth and his fortune-telling skills, he can make a living.
Even if all else fails, he can still figure out where wild rabbits or something like that might appear, and find a way to survive.
so……
Although the path of training was arduous, Yuan Tiansuo persevered.
He traveled over mountains and valleys, from south to north, and from east to west.
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