Li Dsing told him how it had occurred.
“And where do you wish to go now?”
“To Taiyuanfu,” was the answer.
Said the stranger: “You do not seem to be an ordinary fellow. Have you heard anything regarding a hero who is supposed to be in this neighborhood?”
Li Dsing answered: “Yes, indeed, I know of one, whom heaven seems destined to rule.”
“And who might he be?” inquired the other.
“He is the son of Duke Li Yuan of Tang, and he is no more than twenty years of age.”
“Could you present him to me some time?” asked the stranger.
And when Li Dsing has assured him he could, he continued: “The astrologers say that a special sign has been noticed in the air above Taiyuanfu. Perhaps it is caused by the very man. To-morrow you may await me at the Fenyang Bridge!”
With these words he mounted his mule and rode away, and he rode so swiftly that he seemed to be flying.