Chapter 7: Joy in Suffering
Seeing that he was so difficult, the Taoist leader did not rush in. When the time came, they sold a few baked cakes on the road outside the city, and after everyone ate them, they returned to the city gate.
At this time, a person came from the noise of the big street, they didn't pay much attention, the person was very handsome, his face was like amber crystal, about twenty years old, his hair was quite messy, he was wearing a yellow and colorful clothes, his hair was combed with a dark jade crown, and his feet were wearing a pair of Dianhua boots, which showed that his identity was extraordinary.
Falling crookedly and bumping to and fro, a jar of aged wine in his hand dangling, drinking as he walked.
When the people in the streets saw his decadent eating and drinking, they all avoided him. He touches the east and points to the west, and scolds the north to the south. Those who are praised are not easy to do much, because they look at him in luxury, either rich or noble, or hairpins, and they are reading the body.
When he approached the city gates, all the soldiers stood in awe and knelt down on one knee in salute. He drank himself and went into the city, regardless of what others thought of him.
"This man is full of alcohol, and he has such a hobby at a young age, and he will pay it back later. Don't cherish the situation in front of you, sell drunk and scold the street at will, waste money for the nobility of fame and power, and lose the state of flying and flying. Xiao Nizi said secretly At the same time, she didn't feel a pain in her heart, and suddenly she was sad and mourned.
The Taoist Master noticed her and asked her why. Xiao Nizi said that her father was greedy for wine and wasted farming, and every meal had to be eaten with wine, and when the alcohol addiction became more and more addictive, the three watches were still drunk and dreamed of death. Ignoring family affairs, losing the ability to make a living, and the family is becoming more and more poor. Every time she and her mother were sad, she and Gu Huazi dissuaded her many times to no avail.
Once, her father stole the white jade twin spirit horses out and used them as a restaurant, and the object was her parents' belonging. Her mother was naturally angry, and found a figure in the wine shop, and the two had a big quarrel, and the white jade twin spirit horses were known all over the alley.
Because the pawnshop saw that the goods were not from the hands of the poor, they urgently reported to the magistrate, and the official went out to arrest the pawn. The sent Baojia saw the two arguing and scolding, and they were convicted together.
After interrogation, it was learned that the mother was from the deep palace maid and was named Mei Donghan. His father was a farmer named Cheng Ke. One day, the plum winter of the palace curtain was idle, and the flowers were in the pool. Seeing a thing on the ground, it is a pony white jade, exquisite and ingenious, lifelike, not comparable to other treasures. Then I picked up the details and saw that there were five words on the edge: white jade double spirit horse, so it was hidden. In the past, I heard rumors that the bottom of the pond could lead to a moat, so there was a submersion.
At night, dive with his belongings and get out of the palace. After three days, he was exhausted and committed. Jiuwan Huangtian, accounting for two acres, is a Ke person. When it will be in the evening, it will become a Ke He hoe to return, and I saw a woman in the distance, thinking that she was negative to the home, and poured ginger juice. The woman's voice was wriggling, and Cheng Ke criticized what she had done. The reason for Fu Chen was that he was sold by thieves, and the thieves were lax in their feasts and fled quietly, so they were hungry and thirsty. Cheng Ke is a victim of the world, so he is Fu Zhi.
Yu Yan, every woman is holding a dust, and she is diligent at home. First of all, Cheng Ke was less lonely, and he was lost in the examination, and he worked hard to open up the wasteland, and he plotted to open up the branches and leaves. The strange fate of the woman, so she accepted it as her wife, and the woman did not refuse it, and Cheng Ke was overjoyed. There is no place to live, the piano is harmonious, and the respect is like a guest. Within two years, she gave birth to a baby girl named Cheng Ruping.
In another five years, the female view became Ke Shidu, so there was nothing to hide, and she spit out the truth of Huaibao, and when she was young, she was a token. Cheng Ke is different from his coaxing, the woman will show the jade horse in a few, Cheng Ke is poor, he has not met the wonders, and he is amazed. When I was a woman before, I was happy, and I was happy. So I went to the night of the entropy of my friends, worked hard, and the woman regretted not being at the beginning.
Gu Huazi is the brother of Cheng Ke, and every time he is in charge, he lives in the wine yard. The next day, as before, I listened to the persuasion. refuted the fallacy, Cheng Ke was unbearable, and cut off his blood relationship with Gu Huazi. Drowning in wine all night long, couples fighting for tongues and fingers in the morning and dusk, and erection day and night are indifferent to each other.
Cheng Ruping told the story, her eyes began to be wet and red, her left hand was on Yu Yu's face, and her right hand covered her sleeve and rubbed her eyes. The Taoist chief sighed and said: "Okay, don't cry, there are many gold fans in ancient times, the deceased is gone, and the comer can still be chased." Listen to your uncle, and he will feel better. ”
At the moment when her mood stabilized a little, the Taoist leader of the key was still going to ask her mother how it was in the end. At this time, an extraordinary-looking man came out of the city, dressed in a luxurious silk yellow robe, about forty or fifty years old. He was followed by several red-clothed soldiers and four white-clothed swordsmen wearing purple dragon trims, each with a sword at his waist, and strode out of the city gate, and the soldiers guarding the city saluted solemnly and knelt down in unison.
When the yellow-robed man saw the six of them, he led the team to speed up. Ru Ping thought that the yellow-robed man was going out of the city, and pulled the few haired children standing in the middle of the city gate and the three locks of their heads to the side, and the two children were looking up at the white-bearded and snow-haired old men on the city, and those old men stretched out their heads from time to time to look at the city. They were pulled by Ru Ping's small hand before they came back to their senses.
The yellow-robed man bowed his hand and asked, "Dare to ask where the question comes from." ”
Lu Keyzi replied: "The poor road has never been observant, and he takes the world as his home. ”
The yellow-robed man then asked, "In that case, why is it inconvenient for the cultivator to carry a group of children by his side? "Obviously the edges are on the other.
Suddenly, the key knew that he was suspicious, so he stopped hiding it. After sighing, he said: "The world is full of smoke, and frequent disasters are extended. The devil is evil, and Shu Li is crippled. The soldiers are full of fire, and the lamentations are heard. The thieves are repeated, and the ten rooms are empty. ”
As soon as these words came out, the yellow-robed person was stunned, and he tacitly knew that the five people had succumbed to the catastrophe, and their hearts were in turmoil. More solemn salutes. Micro point Jade Mountain and then cross-examine, why visit the land of the Heavenly Tiger.
The Taoist chief told the truth, and the yellow-robed man was amazed, but when he was young, he said: "I will investigate this matter one by one, and then the children in this class can stay so that they can visit the hometown and ask Lu." You don't have to go to Heavenly Tiger City!"
The person in the yellow robe is the current deputy city lord of Chongguang City, named Qiu Songhe. Since the founding of the city, all of them have been diligent and thrifty, and have been self-funded to alleviate poverty. The prestige in the city is very high, and there are many people who respect and love it.
"The burning earth corpses, if we don't bear to see them, the children left behind have no shelter. Today's things are not the same, and I am afraid that the same will be the case again. I feel pity and containment. I wanted to accept him as a disciple, so that I had no worries about the mantle, but my ambition to cultivate the truth cannot be abandoned, and their journey to find the sound is unmovable. That's why I went. Elder Dao said angrily.
"Bold! The lord of my city, please wait, the old man, don't be ignorant. The soldier next to him scolded.
Because the soldier shouted directly, the people in purple and white clothes were quite dissatisfied. The anger of a lock of belly is like a star, but because of the face of the autumn pine crane, it has not burned its sexual roots.
It is necessary to know that it is not easy to establish a lonely city, and it is inevitable that demons, foxes and ghosts will be self-operated when they are deserted in the past. Qiu Songhe invited Xia to visit the Tao, and it took a lot of effort to expel the evil worship, and the Taoist is here, and his self-esteem can be known. The people's cultivation of immortals and the cultivation of the Tao is prosperous, especially those who are born with the spirit of chivalry,
Qiu Songhe made a soldier who retreated for a while, and he paced calmly towards the children in yellow clothes, and some of those children dodged backwards to Cheng Ruping's side, a little shy.
Qiu Songhe went to the front of the haired child, squatted down and asked a few questions, but ignored it, then held the haired child's wrist and guided a trace of true qi to explore the spiritual sense, wanting to trace back to the origin.
"It's useless, you have to be strong and true!"
The city lord threw his hand and shook it deeply, and after a long time, he looked straight at him and said: "What the Taoist chief said is very true, I think the Taoist chief is magnificent, and he is definitely not a villain. Some cities are offended, and I hope they don't be surprised. So, he stretched out his hand and let him go.
And when he had given thanks, the servants went into the city. Qiu Songhe said to the four purple-clothed people next to him: "That child's spiritual sense is not blocked, but I still feel that this group of people is a little suspicious. As for Jing Shao and Wei Yan, they will follow this group of people, and if they find anything, report it immediately!"
The city lord said: "There is no need to call like this in the future, you and I are both brothers in the same sect, and the old love is better than friendship." ”
Tong Sha said: "Chongguang City was established by your advice, and everyone in the city is grateful to you for your respect, let alone us? You gave up the opportunity to practice twenty years ago, just to participate in the construction of the city. With such righteousness, how dare we call you brothers and sisters?"
The deputy city lord sighed and said: "So what, I can't stop the flood in Fengjianhai, which shows that I lack awareness in governing agriculture and mulberry, which has caused the people of many villages to suffer. If it weren't for the prince's good strategy, I'm afraid that I, the deputy city lord, would have taken it off. The man in white comforted Zi Tian a few more words, and the old men in the city went down the steps to report to the ears of the city lord, and with a soft voice, they retreated to the city and returned to their original positions. The four Zidian and white-clothed people bowed their hands and then went their separate ways.
"Grandpa, why are there a few white-haired grandfathers looking at us?" asked the hairy boy in parallel.
"It's not to look at it, but to depict us, Chongguang City has very strict laws and disciplines, and every half moment, the paintings on the city paint the entire inside and outside of the city, so as to facilitate the arrest of the lawsuit. The key smiled and explained.
The key man took the five of them to find an inn, and after entering, the diners were very depressed. Introduced by the shopkeeper, he either nodded or placed his luggage to rest their feet. At the same time, the six of them felt bored before they had a meal, so they came out of the store to hang out and sell some daily things by the way. When the four children first entered the city, they had already paid great attention to the food and play on the street, and they either asked Cheng Ruping and the Taoist chief to buy that or buy this. They don't have much to give, and they don't give it. In order to prevent the children from crying, I plan to go back to the store early.
When I entered the store, there was already a lot of noise, and there were people who wanted to serve wine and food. Guess the hand and stroke the fist, the order of the melon vine, shouting like a bee. The shopkeeper hurriedly greeted them: "Yo! Now the meal is ordered, and the food is bare. There are several tables that have not yet been served, and I am going to sell some dishes for the chef to cook! Oh! There are no seats downstairs, and there are just a few waiting customers upstairs, so will you go upstairs to eat or let us send them to the room to eat?" The Taoist said, "Upstairs!"
The shopkeeper dealt with the diners and went around the table. They went back to the room and put their belongings and went up, stepped up the wooden ladder, and sat down at a table in an open place. There are a few windows on the second floor that can overlook pedestrians on the back street of the store, which is very narrow in the back street on the shore of Changhu Lake. There were two sets of tables and chairs next to them, both on the left, and the first one leaning on the left were two young men in dark clothes, who had already served wine and food, and were chatting happily and chewing slowly. Cheng Ruping's eyes were projected on another set of tables and chairs, and it turned out that there were also two young people sitting at the table and chairs, who were the purple-and-white swordmen who had just followed the city lord at the city gate. It seems that the customer stack is relatively slow, and the food is not rushed to the table.
The shopkeeper who was busy shouting with his hands and feet couldn't cope with it, and yesterday he suffered from some wind and cold, and his head was quite heavy, and he didn't feel that the phlegm was from the jaw and palate, and the snot was about to flow. In a hurry, he coughed up the phlegm and spit it out at the door. The phlegm was splashed right on the face of a young beggar, who thought he was dreaming or teasing by his companions.
Who would have thought that he would be slippery with his hands. The shopkeeper pretended to have nothing to do, and entered the store to greet the guests without paying attention to it. The beggar with messy hair was simply angry, and he had no choice but to wake up without anyone, and some of his companions identified him as the shopkeeper. The beggar angrily said to his three companions: "Yesterday I was begging here, and he didn't eat anything to be a living Buddha, but now he is humiliated like this, this bullying cannot be tolerated, brothers!
The three beggars who were with him also chimed in, and urged him to go into the shop to provoke. The promiscuous beggar is a staggered and double-bowed foot, with his legs and ankles bent forward, and he walks undulating and proportionate. The yellow-clothed hole next to him, unable to see the three lights, relied on the promiscuous beggar to put a long stick and touch the lead. The second was a beggar with a broken left leg, who walked with a long stick in his hand as a prop for his left leg. The other beggar, without an arm, and the one with a plate of begging for food, followed the begging procession into the shop.
The shopkeeper was cleaning up the leftovers of the guests who had just gotten up, and the air was blowing a few smells of sweat and sourness, and he also smelled a bad smell when his nose was stuffy. He saw the four beggars at the threshold in a blink of an eye, and hurriedly stepped forward to drive them away: "What are you doing, stinky beggars!" Obviously, the beggars would not be allowed to spoil the appetite of the diners.
"The lord of the country sent me to collect the rent," said the handless beggar with one arm stretched out his arm and teased. When the shopkeeper saw that it was them, he pushed and drove for a long time, and the beggars were willing to leave, but not only did they not leave, but they also made a lot of noise. The keystone sitting upstairs and the diners at the table looked at it very clearly, and it was estimated that they would not go without giving some leftovers. The attention of diners drinking soup and vegetables is a little on the shopkeeper.
So, the shopkeeper ignored the sour smell and grabbed the dirty chest of the promischieval beggar with his head, and went out as if he were dragging a prisoner. The beggar knew that the shopkeeper was stingy, and he did not come to beg, but to mischief. He lay down on his back and played a joke, holding the stick in his hand against the threshold, no matter how the shopkeeper dragged and pushed, like a mayfly shaking a tree, the other three smiling beggars teased the shopkeeper next to him, either humiliating with dirty clothes, or rubbing with a sour body, teasing as a monkey.
At this time, the diners pointed and pointed, some said that this group of beggars was shameless, and some said that they would give him something to get rid of. If it weren't for the store, the shopkeeper would have started beating people a long time ago.
This hotel is one of the best in Chongguang City, and all the peddlers, pawns, businessmen, and farmers are almost gathered in it, and the fish and dragons are mixed. There are even some people who come here for famous dishes and old wines. When the shopkeeper was angry, a person came in leisurely at the door, and the man brought the wine jar, burped and drank the wine, knocking down the two people who were pulling aimlessly.
The shopkeeper patted his ass and remembered to insult the visitor, but as soon as he met the drunkard, he was frightened. After receiving Fang Cai's strength, he nodded and bowed his waist to compensate the drunkard, and the shopkeeper at the counter was also shocked and came to admit his mistake for the shopkeeper, and said in a speech: "The visit of a big and noble person to the ugly place has added glory." After that, he deceived Ai Ai and couldn't speak. The drunkard burped and asked, "Why are you arguing so much?"
The shopkeeper said that they deliberately disrupted the business and made trouble for no reason. The beggar said that the shopkeeper bullied some of them before they had a meal, and they spat on people. After shouting for a while, the drunkard joked: "I also understand the matter, so let's do it! Don't quarrel, each of you is at fault, your shopkeeper took out a tael of silver, and I also took out a tael of silver, and gave it to the four beggars together."
The spitting thing is over, and so is the thing I hit you about. Wouldn't it be better to kill three birds with one stone?" The shopkeeper agreed directly, he knew that the character in front of him couldn't be provoked, and besides, there was such a good way to round the field, why didn't he agree? So, give one or two to each and the beggar. The beggars who received two taels of silver were so happy that they all laughed out with yellow dog teeth.
Since the drunkard came into the store, the noise and the sound of eating in the store have decreased significantly. The two people in purple and white clothes at the table upstairs looked at the drunkard, and then turned their eyes to stare at the table of keys, and they were very uneasy.
When the beggars had received the money, they were full of desire to go back and reward their deeds, but the drunkard deliberately said to the beggars in a loud voice, "Wait! I have settled my debt to you, so what do you say to you appetites?" The diner with good deeds interjected, "What this official said, Silver cannot be taken for nothing!" The beggar laughed and said, "What does this master say?"
The upside-down drunkard pointed at the beggars and said, "Singing and dancing, this is the only way to make up for it!" When the shopkeeper heard this, he asked them to sing and dance, which was broken! Forgetting that this noble drunkard who could not be provoked was also a madman, but he was a madman with status, so he had to endure it in every possible way. The lame beggar laughed, "We're not women, that's all these things." I'll sing you a few beggar's songs to help you drink!" The drunkard took a big sip of wine and said leisurely, "Sing well before leaving!"
The lame beggar sang:
We are so happy, we sing when we go out.
We don't plow or plant, and we have nothing to do as officials.
The beggar with the broken arm sang:
My mother gave birth to me without a hand, so I joined this profession to study.
I ate 100 rice in one meal and got up all day to travel.
The blind beggar sang:
The local people did it for us, and the emperor didn't have a good life.
The emperor bothered his nerves and brains, as long as we did our best.
The beggar with a broken leg sang:
In the past, the ancestors opened a pawnshop, and only now do they come to collect rent.
East, West, North and South owe me debts, and the sky is rich until dusk.
It gives people the feeling of being happy in their own suffering.
At this time, a large number of people applauded, and the beggar left after singing. It took a long time for the drunkard to come back to his senses, and he took a big sip of wine, as if poured into the regret of some years, and swirled into a faint melancholy in his heart. When he was young, he staggered up to the second floor. Cheng Ruping recognized at a glance that it was the drunkard boy she saw at the gate of the city when she crossed the city, and she couldn't be wrong with the smell of alcohol.
At the other table, the man in purple and white saw the drunkard and sighed. The two young men in dark clothes got up and went downstairs, and there was not much to eat. In a moment, the drunkard had climbed the stairs and sat down in the seat of the young man in dark who had just come down. He just drank and talked drunk, and when he was young, the shopkeeper who took the time to buy vegetables and came back quickly came up to collect the leftovers on his table, and didn't ask him if he wanted to serve the food, he might be familiar with the taste of the drunkard, so he even served the food on the table of the key to the house.