During the years of Tang Xuanzong's first birthday, there was a Mr. Du in Xuzhou who was very accurate in calculating and was particularly good at finding people, and whenever someone asked him for help in finding someone, his words always came true.
A man who ran away from the maid went to ask Mr. Du, and Mr. Du immediately got up and said, "You just have to pick up the avenue and go back, and when you meet the messenger on horseback, you will beg him to sell you the horse whip." If he refuses to give, you will tell him the details and say that Mr. Du asked you to ask him. If you do as I say, you will find your maid. ”
Sure enough, the man ran into a messenger and rode his horse on his way. So he stopped the messenger and pleaded with him to buy the messenger's whip. The messenger began to refuse, and the man said that Mr. Du had asked him to do so.
The messenger said in amazement, "Mr. Du is really a god, and he even knows that I am passing through this road today." The whip can be given to you, and I don't need money, but I can't hurry without the horse, so you go to the side of the road and fold a branch for me, and I'll give you the whip. ”
The man went to the side of the road to break branches, and just in time to find the escaped maid sleeping under the tree, he captured him. Asked why she was hiding here, the maid said, "Just now I walked along the avenue and saw you in the distance, afraid that you would find out, so I hid here and somehow fell asleep." ”
Another man who had run away from the house slave went to ask Mr. Du, and Mr. Du told him according to the guaxiang: "You go home and take five hundred dollars, wait on the official road, and when you see a messenger who has entered the imperial court to offer harriers passing by, you beg him to sell you one, so that you can find your house slave." ”
The man waited by the road according to Mr. Du's words, and soon saw a messenger who delivered harriers coming, and this man pleaded to sell him a harrier, but the servant refused, saying that it was a harrier offered to the imperial court, and did not dare to buy and sell privately.
No matter how much the man pleaded, the servant was determined not to sell it to him. As soon as he was in a hurry, he reached out and grabbed it, and just as he was about to get his hand, the harrier suddenly flew away and landed in a bush in the distance. The man hurried over to catch him, but the fleeing house slave was crouching under the bush and bumped into him, so he caught the house slave.
The messenger came forward to theorize and demanded compensation for his harrier, just five hundred dollars. This man was very surprised by Mr. Du's magic, and he paid the money very happily and escorted the servant home.
Someone asked Mr. Du why the calculation was so magical, and Mr. Du said: "Among the eight doors of the Qimen Dunjia, there is a Dumen, which has the meaning of avoidance, and I just happen to be surnamed Du, so I am good at finding people." ”
Everyone was very dissatisfied with this explanation, and always felt that Mr. Du was deliberately hiding something, and when he asked again, Mr. Du always laughed and did not say anything, and refused to answer anymore.