Chapter 12: Eight Immortals Li Ningyang (I)
The three of them casually found a bubble tea shop and sat down.
"I want a cup of vanilla milk tea!"
"I want it too!" Ning Shanshan and Murong Xue asked for the same cup.
"Bring me a cup of oolong tea, on the rocks!" Liu Yi said lightly.
"Hello, a total of 25 yuan. The beautiful waitress said sweetly to Liu Yi.
Liu Yi took out a fifty sheet and handed it to the beautiful waitress.
"Looking for you for 25 dollars. β
"Thank you!"
"It should be!" the beauty replied politely to Liu Yi.
Liu Yi took the milk tea and did the opposite side of the two beauties, "Two beauties, please eat!" Liu Yi looked at the two of them respectfully.
"Liu Yi tell us a story, we haven't heard you tell a story yet!" Murong Xue glared at Liu Yi with a pair of watery eyes.
"Then tell a story about Ultraman fighting a little monster!"
"Ahem, there was an Ultraman ..... once upon a time."
"Go away, go away!" Ning Shanshan and Murong Xue looked at Liu Yi with disgusted expressions.
"You're too embarrassed to speak, look at the little boy next to you and dislike you. Murong Xue pointed to the child next to Liu Yi and said with a smile.
"Mom, that weird Shu is so stupid, it's the era of the Pleasant Goat and the Big Big Wolf, and he also tells the story of Ultraman. β
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Liu Yi has a black line of melon seeds......
"Okay, let's tell you a story of the Eight Immortals, and I'll tell you a story of the Eight Immortals one day after that. "Let's talk about the story of Tie Guan Li today, I won't talk about the character introduction, you all know it!"
"Hurry up, talk quickly, I can't wait!" Murong Xue stomped her feet anxiously, looking like a bird.
"It's on, listen. Liu Yi cleared his throat and sat solemnly.
According to legend, during the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, one of the eight immortals, Tie Guan Li, once traveled to Jiangxi, passed by Rongfang Village, Tengqiao Town, and saw that there was an ancient camphor tree in the village that grew very strange, and couldn't help but blurt out: "Wonderland". So he pressed the head of the cloud and sat down under the tree. Not far from Guzhang, there is a private school. In the room, an elderly gentleman could be seen teaching more than a dozen disciples to read: "Ziyun Poems" and the like. Tie Guan Li couldn't withstand the cool breeze, and fell asleep after a while. Passers-by saw that he was an ugly old man, unclothed, with an open chest and back, and a festering lame leg crawling with flies chasing rot and stinking, buzzing, and walking away disgustingly. β
"Alright, that's it!" Liu Yi is cheap.
"Liu Yi wants to die, right?" Ning Shanshan raised her small fist and looked at Liu Yi. It seems that Ning Shanshan is fascinated by listening.
"Ahem!" Liu Yi cleared his throat.
After a while, the private school was dismissed, and a group of children were scared away when they saw Tie Gui Li like this. β
Only a few bold people shouted around Tie Guan Li: "Call Huazi, rotten legs." After screaming a few times, Tie Guan Li gave a long yawn, which sounded like thunder, and scared away several children, until at last only a teenage boy stood in front of him.
When Tie Guan Li saw that it was a naΓ―ve child standing in front of him, he said, "What's your name? Did you wake me up just now?"
Instead of answering his question first, he asked him instead, "Who are you and how do you sleep here?"
Seeing the child ask him, Tie Guan Li smiled again: "Who am I? You can't guess, but I can guess your name, can you believe it?"
"I don't believe you can guess my name, you lie. The child quickly waved his hand and replied. Tie Guan Li said, "Don't believe it? Then we bet." β
The child said, "Bet on it, bet on it, and if you can't guess, give me a horse to ride." β
Tie Guan Li said, "Okay, if I can guess your name, you can lick this rotten leg for me, how about it?"
The kid nodded and replied, "Yes!" because he thought, this kidnapper must be a foreigner, how can he know my last name. The child was afraid that he would repay the debt, and he also hooked up with him, "Whoever deceives people, who is a puppy." β
In fact, how did he know that the crutch sitting in front of him was a god.
Tie Guan Li pointed to the child and said, "Your name is Wang Qin, and you are ten years old this year, right?"
Wang Qin's eyes widened suddenly, hey, how did he really know his name. Alas, this time you can lose, you have to lick his horrible rotten legs. But he had already sworn in advance that he had pulled the hook, Wang Qin was a child who talked and counted, and he didn't want to repay the debt, so he leaned over and licked Tie Guan Li's rotten legs.
Xide Tie Gui Li smiled, held Wang Qin's little head and said, "You are an honest child. Wang Qin originally wanted to lick one or two bites on Tie Guan Li's leg and forget it, and the bet would be over. Who knows, the taste he licked was sweet, like honey and sugar, so the more he licked it, the more flavorful it became, and he actually licked all the pus and blood under Tie Guan Li's entire leg before he got up.
"Okay, thank you, Wang Qin, we'll meet later. After saying that, Tie Guan Li got up and limped away.
Liu Yi picked up the water cup and took a big sip, "Goodong!"
"Do you want to listen? or be here today. Liu Yi was a little dry-mouthed.
"Don't, don't! Tell me what happened to Wang Qin. Murong Xue shook her head vigorously and motioned to continue.
"Later......" An unfamiliar boy's voice sounded behind Liu Yi.
A man in rags and with a sour smell on his body stood behind Liu Yi, as if he had been standing for a long time, but Liu Yi, Murong Xue, and Ning Shanshan didn't notice it at all.
The man also sat down on the other side of the table unceremoniously and continued, "Originally, Wang Qin studied in a private school, and his grades were not good, and among more than a dozen classmates, he was the second-to-last. After licking the rotten leg of Tie Guan Li, he has made great progress in his studies, and in less than half a year, he has changed from the penultimate to the first. The gentleman was very surprised, one day, he left Wang Qin behind, and asked him what was the matter, so Wang Qin told him the story of the old man he had met with a crutch, and finally said, "Since licking the rotten leg of the crutch, my memory is very good, so I can remember the books that Mr. taught me." β
"Oh," the gentleman asked, "what kind of man is the old man you met?"
Wang Qin also described them to the teacher one by one. The gentleman is an old man, and he has naturally seen a lot of legends about the gods. He thought that Wang Qin must have met an immortal, but the secret of heaven could not be leaked, he did not ask about this matter again, nor did he tell others, but he worked harder than before to teach Wang Qin, he thought that Wang Qin must be a promising person in the future. β
The man was not tired, and continued to speak, as if he was reminiscing, as if he had experienced it himself.
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Wang Qin is already fifteen years old. In the autumn examination of this year, he won the second list of jinshi in one fell swoop, and was appointed by the imperial court as the prefect of Chongqing Prefecture in Sichuan Province. Glory Township. At the beginning of the second year, Wang Qin took office. β
After Wang Qin arrived, he was ambitious, and wanted to take advantage of his young age to do something good for the people, who knew that things backfired, and Chongqing Mansion, which has always been smooth and rainy, and had abundant grains, has suffered a severe drought for three consecutive years after Wang Qin took office. In this place of Chongqing, there are hungry prisoners everywhere, and the people are miserable. In this regard, some hooligans and ruffians seized the opportunity to make trouble and took advantage of the fire to rob, and the whole of Chongqing became a miasma. There was no way, Wang Qin had no choice but to lead the civil and military officials to build an altar and worship the temple, asking for help from the sky to rain. β
A month later, a tall earthen altar was built. According to the instructions of the sorcerer Taoist, Wang Qin fasted and bathed for 7749 days, and then went to the altar to pray for rain. A day or two passed, and the sky was still cloudless. The angry hungry people, instigated by some people, said that Wang Qin was a monster and that he had done some evil in his previous life, so that since he took office, he has brought disaster to Chongqing. Therefore, when Wang Qin went to the altar to pray, he brought bundles of dry firewood and piled them under the altar, preparing to set fire to him and burn him alive when Wang Qin begged that it would not rain, so as to relieve the hatred in his heart. Wang Qin, who was standing on the altar, looked at the dry firewood everywhere under the altar, and understood eight or nine points in his heart. He knew that if it really didn't rain, his fate would be over. He couldn't help but lament, knowing that he had nothing to do with the drought, how could he explain it to the people, and how could the people believe him. Alas, today we have come to the point where there is no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the earth. Thinking like this, he unconsciously complained about the old man he met when he was a child, and he thought that if he hadn't met him back then, bet with him and lick his legs, and make himself smart and studious, he wouldn't be able to get into the jinshi and become an official, and it would not be his turn to encounter this trouble, and he began to hate the old man. β