During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a year, and every three years, students from all over the country flocked to Lin'an, the capital, and the hotels in the city were already overcrowded.
He Menggui Juren, a student from Wenchang, Muzhou, the capital of Yanzhou, had left Shixia Academy as early as three months ago to come here to study for the exam. There was a saying that "no one knows in the cold window of ten years, and he became famous all over the world." He Juren was busy studying while counting the approaching exam dates with his fingers.
Just three nights before the exam, he suddenly had a strange dream. He dreamed that he was holding a few cabbage seedlings in his left hand and holding a hoe in his right hand to dig a hole in the wall of his yard to plant cabbage. After a while, it began to rain in the sky. He remembered that his parents were still working in the fields, so he put on a bamboo hat and umbrella and went out to send rain gear. When he got home, he pushed open gate of the yard and saw his cousin Lu Xiuying standing in the yard. He couldn't help but be surprised and happy, because his parents had set a baby kiss for him and his cousin in his early years, and the two parties agreed to get married after the exam. At night, he and his cousin slept together back to back, but for some reason, no matter how hard he tried to turn around and make out with his cousin, he couldn't move. He was so anxious that he couldn't help but feel very annoyed and sighed "alas."
Unexpectedly, this long sigh woke He Juren up. Only then did he know that he was dreaming, and he couldn't help but feel strange. Because he rarely dreams, he didn't know what the omens were when he dreamed of this big test. After dawn, He Juren finished grooming, and went to the street to find a fortune-teller to interpret the dream. After walking for a while, he met a man on the street who wrote "Tiekou Straight Li Banxian" on the hexagram stall. Although Li Banxian was blind, he knew much more than people with discerning eyes. Juren told him about last night's dream. After listening, Li Banxian pondered for a while and shook his head: "Juren, you dreamed that you planted cabbage on the wall, which is not a clear omen that you can't plant (medium), which means that you are hopeless in this expedition; you wear a bamboo hat and hold an umbrella above your head on a rainy day, which is the so-called unnecessary move; since you and your cousin sleep in the same bed naked, but you can't do that cloudy and rainy thing, isn't it empty joy? Juren, do you think it is appropriate for me to interpret my dream like this?"
He Juren heard this and felt that what he said was very reasonable, so he paid Xie Yin and turned away. Along the way, he thought, I am one of the best students in Shixia Academy in Muzhou, the capital of Yanzhou, and everyone thinks that I will definitely be able to go to high school this time. If it is really like a dream that the cabbage planted on the wall will not be "successful" and spread, wouldn't it be discredited? Since high school is hopeless, why do you have to take this exam and do that useless work? I'd better get home early and find a school to teach and live in.
He Juren had made up his mind, and immediately went back to the hotel to pack his luggage and prepare to go back to his hometown. Seeing this, the owner of the hotel, Yang Chenglong, was surprised and quickly asked, "He Juren, why are you packing your luggage when the big test is imminent? Do you think the store is not well-received and wants to stay elsewhere?" He Juren saw that Boss Yang had misunderstood, so he could only explain, "Boss Yang's words are bad, the students have no other intentions, but they don't want to take this exam and plan to go back to their hometown." Hearing this, Yang Chenglong asked, "Why is this?" He Juren recounted the dream of last night and Li Banxian's words on the street just now. He Chenglong didn't want to laugh when he heard it. He Juren asked, "Why is Boss Yang laughing?" Yang Chenglong said seriously: "He Juren, He Juren, you are really smart for a lifetime. Do you think that a dream can determine your life? You also believe that Blind Li made up nonsense in order to make a living, so you have read these ten years of books for nothing? Besides, the dream you had seems to me to be a good omen. If you don't believe me, please listen to me explain this dream?"
He Juren listened to it with a grain of salt and said, "Then what do you think?" Yang Chenglong answered slowly with his beard in his hand: "You dream of planting cabbage on the wall, which means that you will definitely be able to be high (medium) in this scientific expedition; when it rains, you wear a hat and an umbrella to go out, which means that you are quite prepared for the review, as the saying goes; you and your cousin sleep in the same bed back to back, which means that the time when you turn over and face your cousin is not far away, and your marriage will be a full moon soon. He Juren, this dream interpretation is also very reasonable, don't you think? Besides, let's put aside this dream, the big exam is right in front of you. This is the moment that many students dream of. If you don't take this exam, you won't have the chance to pass the exam at all.
After listening to Boss Yang's words, He Juren suddenly felt his eyes light up. After thinking about it, he felt that it made sense. If he had reviewed so careful, how could he run away? So he immediately gave up the idea of going home and continued studying hard at the "Auspicious" Hotel. On the day of the exam, he walked into the exam room with confidence.
Hard work paid off. He went to high school to find flowers.
The same dream, due to two diametrically different interpretations, made He Juren change his destiny, and also made him understand the truth that destiny depends on his own control.