On the streets of Jizhou City, it was another refreshing morning, because there was some light rain last night, and there was a faint smell of fresh mud in the air.

In a pyre, the old Taoist raised his eyebrows with some emotion, why can't he even make money if he is not by his side?

In the past, when the little guy was there, there was no shortage of business, and he could make money even if he walked in such a chaotic place in the land of seven counties, but now in this prosperous city, there are glamorous and decent people, why is there no one to tell fortunes?

He was wet, and there was nowhere to hide, so he could only carry it, not that there was no eaves to shelter from the rain, but he didn't dare to let people see it at night, he was so unkempt now, and he would be arrested directly if he was seen by the night patrol.

Imprisoned in a big prison, waiting for a suitable day, I don't know who to take the blame for being pulled out and cut off my head, and the only gain should be to have a severed head meal.

This is not uncommon in Da Chu, and it abounds.

Coming out of the pyre, the old Taoist shook the clothes on his body, and subconsciously stretched out his hand and gestured a few times towards the air in front of him, as if he was sorting out his clothes.

Then he smiled, very proud.

"It's good, it's good, it's good, Didiu'er won't be like me anymore."

He took out his hexagram from the pyre, which was already worn-out, and at this moment he suddenly realized that it was because he looked so depressed that no one asked him for fortune telling.

Which person in this city would think that such an embarrassed Taoist was about to starve to death, and would really help people take a look for ten years?

Even if they want to divinate fortunes, they will go to the Taoist temple, where are there decent-looking Taoists, how much is a stick of incense, how much is a peace charm, and how much is the future.

The old Taoist thought, could it be that he wanted to leave Jizhou and go back to the seven counties? Let's see if I can make money today, if I can't, it's really time to go, I have to live.

The people of the seven counties still believe in him, at least they have something to eat, they haven't eaten for two days and two nights, and he is still guarding the final bottom line, not reaching out for food, not stealing, not begging, not picking up vegetable leaves, this is the respect for the Daomen.

After tidying up the wet clothes on his body, still looking at the air in front of him, the old Taoist smiled at the corner of his mouth, and called out to himself: "Lose your ......."

Ben was still laughing, and suddenly he burst into tears, and the tears could not stop flowing, and the old man hid his face and wept, and his shoulders trembled from crying.

"Master misses you."

The old Taoist dragged his steps out, walked a little and then turned back, as if looking forward to seeing Xiao Li Diudiu running towards him at the moment he turned around, and shouted that he missed you.

Four Pages College.

Li Didiu sat there a little worried, not worried about what to eat, but suddenly there were more people in the canteen, there were only a few people here during dinner yesterday morning, including that Xiahou Zhuo, and there were dozens of people here this morning, so that even Aunt Wu in the canteen was surprised.

"It's him, it's him, that little guy may have eaten it, and the thief is happy."

A young student immediately became excited when he saw Li Diudiu, he pointed at Li Diudiu and said, "This guy ate eighty dumplings yesterday morning!" ”

Li Didiu shook his head and whispered to himself: "Seventy-nine." ”

At this time, Xiahou Zhuo walked over, looked at Li Diudiu and said, "Today is the same, I still want to see you eat dumplings, four portions, eighty money." ”

Li Diudiu said: "One hundred." ”

Xiahou Zhuo frowned slightly, and there was a faint disgust between his eyebrows.

"Why?"

Xiahou asked.

Li Didiuu replied: "I just asked Aunt Wu, the price of vegetables and meat have risen. ”

Xiahou Zhuo looked at Li Diudiu like a monster, and said in his heart What does it have to do with you if the price of vegetables and meat has risen, you eat free meals in the canteen, and no matter how much the price increases, it will be free.

But I don't know why, but the more I think about it, the more reasonable it becomes.

"Okay, just a hundred dollars."

Xiahou Zhuo took a few steps back and made a gesture of please, Li Diudiu asked Aunt Wu for four dumplings, and then asked Xiahou Zhuo: "Are there many people who usually ask you to do something?" ”

Xiahou replied lazily: "There is nothing to ask for in this academy. ”

Li Diudiu was silent for a moment and shook his head: "Yes." ”

Xiahou Zhuo asked, "For example?" ”

Li Diudiu said: "For example, if I want to go out of the academy, I need to wait a few more days, but I can't wait any longer, I want to ask you, how can I ask for leave." ”

Xiahou Zhuo looked at Li Diudiu more like a monster, and he said seriously: "You only need to talk to Mr. if you want to go out of the academy, don't you even know this?" ”

Li Diudiu said: "I know, but I am different from you. ”

"What's the difference."

"I'm poor."

Li Diudiu raised his head and looked at Xiahou Zhuo's eyes: "If I make a mistake, I will be kicked out of the academy, if I go to ask for leave, I will probably be humiliated, if I am humiliated, it is good to take leave, but I know that I can't take leave if I am humiliated." ”

Xiahou Zhuo asked, "What are you going to go out for?" ”

"Find my master."

Li Diudiu took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "I dreamed last night, he didn't have a good time. ”

Xiahou Zhuo nodded and said: "I can help you, I will say please go out and help me, I have a good relationship with Mr. Yan Qingzhiyan, he will agree, but ...... Two taels of silver. ”

Li Didiu took out all the silver from his arms, the broken silver and the 100 coins made yesterday, he didn't have a money bag, so he stuffed them in his arms, took them out and pushed them to Xiahou Zhuo.

"It's all for you."

Xiahou Zhuo took back the two taels of silver, and pushed the rest back: "Don't have more." ”

He looked at Li Diudiu, and after being silent for a while, he said, "Accepting two taels of silver from you is to tell you that there is a price for begging someone." ”

Li Diuti lowered his head and said, "I know, I knew it before I entered the academy. ”

Aunt Wu sent four servings of dumplings, Li Diudiu picked up the chopsticks and ate them, and said while eating: "Aunt Wu, help cook four more portions...... No, five servings. ”

He put a hundred pieces of money on the table: "This is dumpling money, because I don't eat it but give it to others, so I have to buy it, I asked you in the morning, you said that the price of vegetables and meat have risen, and these five dumplings need about one hundred and twenty-five dollars to wrap up, and I owe you twenty-five dollars." ”

Aunt Wu was stunned, hesitated for a while, and then said, "Childe, there is no reason to accept this money from you, there are no such rules in the academy." ”

Xiahou Zhuo said: "I accepted him, because what he said is reasonable." ”

Aunt Wu seemed to be very respectful of Xiahou Zhuo, as if she was afraid, so she nodded hurriedly, and put away the hundred coins very tangledly, as if her hands were very hot, and her hands trembled slightly when she held them.

Li Didiu stopped talking, ate in a big gulp, and soon ate the four dumplings cleanly, those onlookers who watched him eat were all shocked, most of them had never seen this meeting yesterday, who would have thought that the thin and small person could eat so much.

Xiahou Zhuo waited for him to finish eating and said, "Now I can take you out." ”

Li Diudiu snorted and looked back at Aunt Wu: "I will make up for the twenty-five coins as soon as possible." ”

Xiahou Zhuo took out the money bag, counted a hundred coins, and handed it to Li Diudiu: "The copper money that was specially asked to go out to change, you don't have to owe it, this is the money I used to watch you eat today, you have to count what you say, otherwise you are not a man." ”

Li Diudiu was stunned and remembered this sentence in his heart.

He counted out twenty-five coins and handed them to Aunt Wu, and then bowed to Xiahou Zhuo: "Thank you." ”

Xiahou Zhuo turned around and walked out: "No need to say thank you, I took your money." ”

As he walked, he said, "You have all seen it, and each of you will give him a hundred dollars, and I will not say it a second time." ”

The onlookers hurriedly took out the money, and they seemed to be very afraid of Xiahou Zhuo, but how could these sons and brothers have so many copper coins on them, who didn't have the silver on them, Xiahou Zhuo looked at those people with a sad face, and took out a piece of silver of about five taels from his money bag and handed it to Li Diudi.

"One hundred yuan per person, there are about seventy or eighty people here, is it okay to count five taels?"

Li Diudiu nodded: "Yes." ”

Xiahou Zhuo gave him the silver: "From tomorrow onwards, I will not allow anyone to come to spend money to watch you eat, I don't know if anyone will dare to give you money." ”

Li Diudiu didn't ask why, but just responded: "Okay." ”

Xiahou Zhuo said to those people: "Count one of you who owes me a tael of silver, and send it to me tomorrow." ”

"Yes yes yes ......"

"No problem, no problem......"

A group of people nodded hurriedly and avoided the way out.

Xiahou Zhuo took Li Diu out of the door, he seemed to be very famous in this academy, most of the people he met on the road nodded and greeted him, and occasionally some didn't greet him and just pretended not to see it.

When he arrived at the gate of the academy, Xiahou Zhuo said to the gatekeepers: "His name is Li Qi, I will let him go out to help me do something, and you can make a note for him." ”

One of the gatekeepers hurriedly answered and wrote a note to Li Diudi: "You can come back whenever you want, Prince Xiahou told you to do something, you have to do it well." ”

It's like Li Diudian has become Xiahou Zhuo's attendant, and because of the identity of this attendant, even these gatekeepers are impressed by him, and looking at him is even a feeling that this kid has climbed a high branch.

Li Didiu didn't care so much, he rushed out with five dumplings and five taels of silver, he just wanted to see the master as soon as possible.

Half an hour later, the academy Shulin Building.

Xiahou Zhuo put his feet on the table with a big grin, and he didn't look like a student at all, but he didn't even care about the collection of books and teaching in the Shulin Building.

Yan Qingzhi sat opposite Xiahou Zhuo, he squinted at Xiahou Zhuo, and asked after a while: "Why?" ”

Xiahou Zhuo shrugged his shoulders and said, "You know that I do everything casually, I like that little broken child, just think I picked up a little wild cat and gave him something to eat." ”

Yan Qingzhi was silent for a long time and then said in a heavy tone: "You will destroy him." ”

Xiahou Zhuo still looked indifferent: "I know what Mr. means, are you afraid that such a special person will become a little follower, a fox and a tiger, and a bully......

He withdrew his legs from the table, pressed forward, looked at Yan Qingzhi, and said seriously, "Is Mr. tired of pretending to be a bad person?" You're not me, I'm really bad...... The old man deliberately asked you to torture that child, I heard that the little girl couldn't look at it and smashed a dirt in your face. ”

Yan Qingzhi said: "You can't control it. ”

"I'll be able to manage it later."

Xiahou Zhuo got up and walked out, and said as he walked: "He is my little brother, I will cover him in the future." ”

After walking a few steps, he stopped and looked back at Yan Qing: "On the way out of the academy, I heard him talk about him and his master, and people like me actually softened." ”

Yan Qingyi waved his hand: "Get out." ”

Xiahou Zhuo smiled: "Let's go, sir." ”

After he got out of the Shulin Building, he whistled while walking, and he wanted to go back to his residence, he didn't go home, he had a single courtyard in the academy, not like the row of houses that Li Diudian lived in, although Li Diudiu's one was also a single room, it was too far from the single courtyard he lived in.

When he was halfway there, Xiahou Zhuo stopped, and he saw Li Diudiu, who was already convulsing while crying on the side of the road.

He walked over and sat down next to Li Diudiu, and looked at the bag that Li Diudiu was still clinging to, which contained five dumplings.

"Didn't find it?"

"Hmm."

"Wuwei is a place where the eyes are too high, how can they take in people like your master, and they will be driven away if they go."

Xiahou Zhuo plucked a hairy grass and put it in his mouth, but it still didn't matter with that face.

Li Didiu glanced at him and asked, "You guessed it a long time ago?" ”

"Hmm."

Xiahou Zhuo said: "Sitting in the Taoist hall and wearing gorgeous clothes to welcome the send-off, the Taoist in the Wuwei Temple is no longer a Taoist, and your master is barely a ......."

Li Didiu sobbed and said, "I lost my master. ”

Xiahou Zhuo got up and patted Li Diudou's shoulder: "When you go back in ten days, you will see him, if you ...... Your affection is true. ”