Chapter 4: Magical Powers
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Hearing that someone was stealing wine in the tavern, there were many spectators around him. Liang Lan felt bored, and just wanted to learn more about the world, so she also followed.
There is a wine flag outside the tavern, with the four big characters "Qingyun Tavern" written on it, the scale is okay in the vicinity, in addition to the tavern owner, two additional miscellaneous guys are also hired.
At this moment, the boss with a tall appearance and a big beard was pointing at an old Taoist priest with a shabby and sloppy robe, and he was scolding.
Seeing that there were more onlookers, the tavern owner was more confident, and the scolding became louder.
"The thief Dao is bald, you don't have the money to come to my house to eat and drink, this Tian is shameless, you must be cultivating the Dao of Beasts!"
The tavern owner scolded unpleasantly, but the thin Taoist priest didn't care much, but raised the gourd in his hand, and said with a smile: "Donor, you have so much wine at home, I only need such a small gourd, why can't you give me some charity, and let the old man and me survive this bitter cold." ”
The owner of the tavern shouted: "I'm sorry, I don't have any money, what kind of wine do I drink, if everyone is like you, then my tavern will be directly changed to a charity hall." ”
Seeing that the old man was still going to speak, the tavern owner pointed to his nose and scolded: "I have survived the bitter cold, I think I will freeze to death tonight, you shameless old thing!" ”
The old Taoist looked embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "The donor is so unforgiving, not a blessed person." ”
"Are you blessed, you still use your old thing to say, I stole a glass of wine while I wasn't resting just now, and I haven't settled this account yet......"
The tavern owner was about to scold again, and suddenly heard a person ask: "Shopkeeper, it's just a bowl of wine, why are you so unforgiving, how much does this Taoist master owe you?" ”
The tavern's face turned cold, and he was about to see who was doing so much, but when he turned around, he found that it was a young man dressed as a scholar, and his clothes still had the logo of the Liang Academy.
The Liang family also has some power in the county town of Qingshui, and this restaurant did not dare to offend rashly, so he had to reply angrily: "A bowl of wine, two pennies." ”
A bowl of wine, two pennies?
The onlookers were a little staggered, a bowl of wine in an ordinary tavern only costs a penny, but the asking price of this Qingyun tavern is twice as high, which is too unauthentic.
Hearing the commotion around, the owner of the tavern also blushed slightly, in fact, it was because he saw that Liang Lan was from the Liang clan, and he intended to pay for Lao Dao, so he deliberately said more.
Some good people recognized that the owner of this tavern was named Wu Dabao, who was the most picky, and everyone in the back called him Iron Rooster, and immediately laughed loudly: "Iron Rooster, your wine is really expensive!" ”
"What is expensive," Wu Dabao was exposed, his slightly red face suddenly turned red, but he was still arguing with himself: "Of course, ordinary wine is a bowl for a penny, but this bald drink is my treasured Qingyun Brew, and a bowl of two pennies is already a conscience price!" ”
"Okay, two articles are two articles," Liang Lan didn't bargain, took out two copper coins from his pocket, and put them in Wu Dabao's hand: "I'll pay for this Taoist chief's money, I see that the Taoist chief still has a gourd, it's also full, count it on my head." ”
"Then there will be another six cents", Wu Dabao stretched out his finger.
Although he is funded by the fourth uncle Liang Zhengxin, Liang Lan is not generous, and his life is tight, and the eight cents is not a decimal amount for him.
But just now I saw this thin old man being insulted like this, and I felt very angry in my heart. This old Taoist reminded him of his grandfather who also loved to drink in his previous life, and then looked at the old man's shabby and thin clothes, although it is early spring now, the temperature is still very low, and no one can say whether the old Taoist can survive it.
Maybe with wine to keep out the cold, the old Taoist can survive the winter safely, so this eight cents to achieve a merit, it is also worth it.
The onlookers recognized Liang Lan's identity and knew that he was not a young master, and when they told the people next to him, everyone praised Liang Lan's pride.
The old Taoist priest made a gesture towards Liang Lan to express his gratitude. Then he grinned and took out the wine gourd and asked the tavern guy to start filling the wine.
This gourd looks plain, just a black and yellow wine gourd, only the mouth of the gourd has become extremely oily because of the perennial drinking.
The tavern guy estimated that it would only be two scoops of wine to fill it, who knew that one scoop of wine after another, four scoops of wine, and the gourd still did not mean to be full.
"Boss, this ......"
The tavern guy knew that this gourd was not ordinary, so he didn't dare to continue loading it, and stopped to wait for Wu Dabao's meaning.
"It's a demon, don't give him any more wine."
Wu Dabao said to his buddy, his heart was not afraid, he had not seen the demon Dao, in fact, he did not have any magical skills, but used some unsightly tricks.
"Say a good gourd and six texts, this is only half a gourd, you say that if you don't pretend to be wine, you won't pretend to be wine, what is the legal principle?" The old Taoist priest did not forgive.
The crowd that watched the excitement just now did not disperse, but at this moment, because of the magic of the old Taoist gourd, more and more people gathered.
Liang Lan also thought that the old Taoist priest had used a trick, similar to a magic show, but he didn't see the reason after watching it for a long time, could it be that this old Taoist priest was actually the legendary person who attained the Tao?
Liang Lan's eyes rolled quickly.
Wu Dabao did say a gourd of wine for six cents in front of so many people just now, but now he can only admit his loss, and said dejectedly: "Then you say, what should I do?" ”
"The old way is not difficult for others, the donor can get me back a penny."
"It's not difficult," Wu Dabao was afraid that the other party would make unreasonable demands, and now that he heard that as long as he returned a penny, he immediately took out a copper plate from his body and threw it on Lao Dao.
Liang Lan watched it for a long time, except for the magic of the gourd, there was no magic in this long, and his heart was immediately calm.
This is Liang Zhu, not Liaozhai, where will there be any masters, even if there is, where is it so easy to meet? Now seeing that the matter was satisfactorily resolved, he turned around and was about to leave, when he suddenly heard Lao Dao calling him from behind.
"This son, please stay!"
Liang Lan stood up, turned his head to look at the old Taoist priest, but saw that he was holding the copper coin that Wu Dabao returned to him in one hand, and looked at himself with a smile on the corner of his mouth, not knowing what his intentions were.
"Dao Chief, this ......"
"Thanks to the kindness of the son, let the old Taoist I have passed the alcohol addiction, there is no way to repay, just a few years ago when I traveled all over the world, there are Taoist masters taught me to plant a cash cow, specially take this copper coin as a seed, the son's eight copper coins, the old Taoist is willing to repay a thousand times."
Cash cow?
The crowd watching the excitement suddenly booed, this old man didn't have a poor son just now, and now he claims to be able to plant a cash cow, this is not a big joke in the world!
Even Liang Lan felt that the old words were too unbelievable.
The reaction of the crowd seemed to be expected by Lao Dao, he didn't care at all, he just dug a pit, threw the copper coin into it, buried it carefully, and then smiled at the people around him: "The tree needs water to grow, and the poor Dao planted this seed, I don't know which donor is willing to give a bowl of warm water." ”
Next to it is the Qingshui River that runs through the county, and there have long been good people who have taken a bowl of Qingshui and brought it over. The Taoist priest thanked him, sprinkled the water on the place where he had planted the copper coins just now, and said something in his mouth.
After a while, a strange seedling emerged from the soil.