Volume 1 Crossing the Tang Dynasty Chapter 8 Torture
Every day after breakfast, the immoral ghost would force Lu Xiaoxian and Zhang Meng to climb trees.
Two ten-year-old children, who have no strength, can climb the towering trees that are extremely thick.
It won't be long before the two of them will fall from exhaustion, falling on all fours, grinning in pain.
Every now and then, Bai Gongzi was like a demonstration, happily wagging his tail in front of Lu Xiaoxian. Then, climb the tree with a quick "snort".
"It's not as good as a white-haired beast, you two ask for mercy, let's just give up!" In the hypocritical tone of the immoral ghost, there is clearly a joke.
trampling their self-esteem under their feet, this kind of thing, the lack of virtue ghost likes it the most.
Even if he dies here, Lu Xiaoxian will not beg for mercy from the ghost who lacks virtue, he stubbornly climbs up the tree again and again.
Two hours later, the Lack of Virtue finally let them go. When he turned to leave, the immoral ghost left a sentence: "Are you tired?" It's right to be tired, because comfort is reserved for the dead. ”
Lu Xiaoxian and Zhang Meng were lying on the ground like a pile of mud, and they didn't want to move their fingers, they were tired like dogs.
No, to be precise, the dogs are not as tired as they are.
Lu Xiaoxian lamented in his heart: Mencius said that the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first work hard and work their muscles and bones. But the heavens have not descended on me, why do you still suffer my mind and strain my muscles and bones?
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Every afternoon, the ghost of lack of virtue would take Lu Xiaoxian to his wooden house to study together. At this time, Zhang Meng followed the wind to practice martial arts.
The wooden shelves are full of books, almost all of them are history books, and there are various editions.
Lu Xiaoxian was very strange to bring so many books to this deserted mountain, and he didn't know how to do it.
After graduating from college, Lu Xiaoxian hardly studied much. Sometimes he even went into a trance and used the cabin as a school library.
In later generations, Lu Xiaoxian liked the Tang Dynasty, so he knew more about Tang history. He basically didn't dabble in the history before the Tang Dynasty. Now, he is forced by the ghost of lack of morality, and has to read the obscure history books one by one.
After reading a book, the immoral ghost would ask him questions and let him express his opinions. Lu Xiaoxian didn't want to be looked down upon by the ghost of lack of morality, so he could only keep thinking and often say something unique.
"From the successes and failures of the ancients, we can make fewer mistakes by constantly summing up lessons and correcting our own behavior. As the saying goes, 'the car in front is overturned, and the car behind is a lesson'. ”
Lu Xiaoxian had to admit that the words of the ghost who lacked virtue were very reasonable. I also have to admit that the knowledge and opinions of the ghost who lacks virtue are much stronger than those from later generations.
Despite the admiration in his heart, Lu Xiaoxian did not say it, he had to maintain the last bit of his pitiful dignity.
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The immoral ghost is really perverted, and will arrange countless things for the two of them to do every day. Whatever the immoral ghost asks him to do, Lu Xiaoxian will do it, and encourages Zhang Meng to do it together. In his opinion, this is a kind of silent resistance, and he doesn't want to be looked down upon by the immoral ghost.
Despite their hard work, there are always times when their strength is not enough. At this time, of course, it is indispensable to be punished by the ghost of lack of morality.
The punishment for the immoral ghost is very simple and brutal: one is to stand upside down, and the other is to be hung upside down from a tree.
When he was first punished, Lu Xiaoxian would glare angrily at the immoral ghost to show his dissatisfaction. Gradually, as the number of punishments increased, Lu Xiaoxian figured out that they were in a weak position, and if they couldn't resist, they had to learn to enjoy. As a result, he no longer cares about the lack of morality, and his posture when he was punished became more and more leisurely, his complexion became more and more flying, and his smile became more and more bright.
Lu Xiaoxian resisted the torture of the immoral ghost with stubbornness, and adapted to natural selection with the inferior nature of the creature. The ghosts of lack of virtue hate them so much that they can only think of better ways to torture them.
Although he chose to go against the grain, some things are not subject to human will. For example, for the matter of rolling dice, Lu Xiaoxian was very repulsed in his heart.
He didn't understand why the ghost who lacked virtue only let him practice throwing stocks, but Zhang Meng didn't have to practice.
The first time he practiced throwing dice, looking at the absent-minded Lu Xiaoxian, the immoral ghost couldn't help frowning, and knocked the dice in his hand to the ground.
"If you can't calm down, what's the use of practicing? It's better not to practice! It's still the same sentence, if you ask for mercy, you won't practice! ”
The ghost who lacks virtue has a very accurate grasp of Lu Xiaoxian's character, and knows that Lu Xiaoxian will definitely not bow his head, so he will not be happy with this method.
It was the first time Lu Xiaoxian saw such a big anger from the ghost of lack of virtue, and he was a little stunned. But let him say "no", but he couldn't open his mouth.
"Dice rolling is a kind of gambling, a science of intrigue between square inches. In the eyes of ordinary people, rolling dice relies on skill and luck, but in fact, it is strategy that really fights! ”
Speaking of this, the Lack of Virtue Ghost looked at Lu Xiaoxian with contempt, "I know, you have been unconvinced in your heart, and now you are giving you the opportunity to practice the dice to be proficient and skillful, and see if you can defeat me with the same opportunity, if you can't even do this, how can you defeat stronger opponents in other fields?" ”
The words of the immoral ghost shocked Lu Xiaoxian very much. He didn't expect that a simple dice roll would have such a deep meaning.
"Rolling the dice is gambling and a form of resourcefulness. In life, people are faced with choices all the time, every choice is a gamble, if you want to control your own destiny, you must constantly improve your resourcefulness! ”
After that, Lu Xiaoxian began to practice dice rolling seriously.
Learning to play Go is the same, Lu Xiaoxian didn't dare to slack off.
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Day after day, every day Lu Xiaoxian and Zhang Meng will not have a moment of leisure. finally stayed up until the night, and they were already exhausted, and they wanted to fall asleep, but the ghosts who lacked virtue still didn't let them go.
Until now, Lu Xiaoxian can still clearly remember the scene of that night.
At the end of the day, the ghost of lack of virtue held a torch and led him and Zhang Meng out of the door. The firelight flickered back and forth, illuminating only a three-to-two-step radius.
Lu Xiaoxian and Zhang Meng followed behind the Lack of Virtue Ghost, their mood was like firelight, and they couldn't settle down at all.
Along the deserted path, he came to the entrance of a cave, and the ghost of immorality stopped, and in the shadows, he could vaguely see that the entrance of the cave was covered with moss, wild penny, and thatch.
Just as he was hesitating, the immoral ghost had already walked into the cave with a torch. It was suddenly dark in front of the two of them, how dare they stay here alone, and hurriedly followed.
The strange wind whistled in the cave, and it was cold to the bone, and between the cracks in the stone walls were dense and opaque moss. By the faint light of the fire, Lu Xiaoxian raised his head and looked at it, and couldn't help but gasp: there were dense bats hanging upside down on the rocks above his head.
These bats are black, oily, with soft fluff, small round heads, large ears, and tiger-like fangs, and a row of small, spiky teeth beneath the fangs, like vampires.
On such a night, seeing such a scene, the two of them unconsciously felt a chill down their spines.
"Stay in the cave and come out when I call you!" The immoral ghost commanded the two.
Leave them alone in the cave?
Lu Xiaoxian thought about so many bats, and suddenly felt that his scalp was numb, his teeth were fighting up and down, and he asked in a panic, "What are you doing here?" ”
"Count the bats!"
"How can you see a bat when it's so dark?" Lu Xiaoxian blurted out.
"Who says you can't see when it's dark? You don't have to use your eyes to count bats! "The lack of virtue ghost has a word.
Lu Xiaoxian opened his mouth wide, and the lack of morality and ghosts was clearly a strong word.
"People's eyesight and hearing become very sensitive after training, and you have come here to train your eyesight and hearing!"
How did the head of the immoral ghost grow, and he would actually come up with such a method of practicing.
Lu Xiaoxian, who came from a later generation, knew that bats have a keen auditory orientation system, which can emit ultrasound waves through their throats, and then use the ultrasonic responses to identify directions and detect targets.
The immoral ghost uses this method to practice hearing and eyesight, which is indeed very imaginative.
"You two are not allowed to speak, but close your eyes and hear with your ears!"
After saying that, the ghost of lack of virtue went out with a torch, and the cave fell into darkness.
It is human nature to be afraid of the dark, especially Zhang Meng, who can even hear the sound of his upper and lower teeth chattering. Before the crossing, although Lu Xiaoxian was an adult, it was the first time he was in such darkness, and the fear in his heart was self-evident.
finally survived for two hours, and the ghost of lack of virtue let them out. After returning to the wooden house for a long time, Lu Xiaoxian still felt like something was filling his heart, pressing, hooping, tight, and even breathless.
But they couldn't take too much care of it, and they fell asleep. At this time, there are only two hours left for them to sleep.
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