Volume 1 Bead Curtain Twilight Rolling West Mountain Rain Chapter 2 Greed for Money
"Master, are you hungry?"
Xiaodao boy Li Didi'er asked his master Changmei Daoren, and Changmei Daoren looked down at his belly and shook his head: "I'm not hungry." β
Li Qi turned out most of the cake from his arms as if he was juggling: "Well, then I'll eat it myself." β
The old Taoist was stunned: "Where did you get the cake?" β
Li Qi pouted and said, "Will you hide?" β
He broke the cake, compared it carefully, determined that it was about the same size, and then handed it to the old Taoist: "I have said that you must be fair, can you learn like me?" You're so old, what if I'm going to burp you halfway through when you're hungry. β
The old Taoist took the cake, looked at the cake and sighed: "Aren't you hungry?" This is what I gave you yesterday. β
"I'm hungry, but I'm losing weight."
Li Diudiuer shrugged his shoulders: "Losing weight is a thing that requires perseverance, most of the unsuccessful weight loss in this world is because of perseverance, I am different, I don't have that condition to be unsuccessful." β
The old Taoist looked at Li Diu'er's thin appearance: "You? Why lose weight? β
"It's nice to lose weight."
"Why are you looking good?"
"What if the young lady of a big family doesn't marry me!"
"Uh......"
The old Taoist walked forward with half a piece of bread, shook his head with a wry smile: "You have suffered a lot with me, and you haven't even eaten a decent meal." β
Li Diudiu'er was curious: "Then don't you think your conscience is not going?" β
"Why doesn't your conscience go away?"
"Master, you have money in your bag, why don't you plan to treat me to a good meal? Let's move forward, and if I come across a restaurant you can treat me to something good. β
"Spend money?"
The old Taoist snorted: "There are no doors." β
Li Diudi'er sighed like an adult: "Is money so important?" β
"Of course it is."
The old Taoist patted his backpack: "You are still young, you don't understand, you don't understand what money can buy, in your opinion, money can only buy delicious things, beautiful clothes, you have not yet reached the age to understand the real use of money, money, can buy life." β
"Buying a life?"
Xiao Li Diudi'er is indeed not old enough to understand these, his master said that money can buy lives, all he can think of is to buy other people's lives, how many people in this world want money and want to go crazy, as long as there is enough money to buy their lives, let them do whatever they want, kill people, set fires......
So in Xiao Li's opinion, money is not a good thing, and all the good things are just being able to buy delicious food and new clothes.
"Yes, buy your life."
The old Taoist said as he walked: "Buy life, people are different." β
Xiao Li Didiu'er asked, "Master, whose life do you want to buy?" β
The old Taoist paused for a moment, and then realized that the little apprentice should have misunderstood his words, so he smiled and said, "You don't understand it." β
"I don't understand before I ask you, you are the master, and the master is the one who teaches karma and solves doubts, so you have to teach me."
"Buy your life."
The old Taoist knocked on Xiao Li's skull.
Xiao Li Diudi'er rubbed his head: "Buy my life? Isn't that easy? Roast chicken, roast duck, roast goose, stew tofu, these are my life......"
The old Taoist saw that he was drooling while talking, so he laughed: "Out of breath! β
He asked Xiao Liqi: "Apprentice, do you have any ideals?" β
"Ideal?"
Xiao Li Diudi'er replied seriously: "I said it just now." β
The old Taoist snorted and laughed: "Sure enough, it's not promising." β
He looked up at the sky: "Buy your life...... Actually, it's not that difficult, just enough silver, and it's almost enough. β
Xiao Li Diu'er didn't understand, thinking that the master didn't really want his life anyway, he was just curious about where he was going to go all the way, and the master had been walking back and forth within the seven counties of Youzhou all these years, and rarely went to Youzhou.
The master said that you can't go more than that side of Youzhou, there is a prosperous and splendid life, and the rich people in the city live a life of fine clothes and jade food, and it is not good for Xiao Li to see too much, and the people of the seven counties are living similarly, and see how the people are living, and it will be useful in the future.
But yesterday the master said that he would not continue to wander around the seven counties of Youzhou, and that he would take him to a very big city, he thought it was Youzhou, but he remembered that the master said that Youzhou was in the north, and they were going southwest.
"Master, where are we going?"
"Jizhou."
"Jizhou?"
Xiao Li Diaodi'er had only heard the name of Jizhou, and the impression and concept of Dacheng in his mind was probably that of Youzhou, so he asked: "The same as Youzhou?" β
"It's much more than Youzhou."
"Why did you go to Jizhou?"
"Jizhou has your life."
"Master, you picked me up in Jizhou?"
"It's not."
"Then why do you say that Jizhou has my life......
"Silly boy."
The old Taoist said as he walked: "I have never hidden it from you, you are not my child, I picked it up." β
Xiao Li Diudi'er smiled: "I believe you were picked up by me...... I'm here, I picked it up by you, how can there be a woman like you, which woman can look up to you! β
The old Taoist knocked on his skull again, as if he remembered something, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"More than ten years ago, I cheated money in Fangcheng County...... Phew, when I was preaching in Fangcheng County, I was catching up with a plague, there were too many people who died, your father and mother died of the plague, and at that time probably people thought that you would definitely be covered by the plague, so they threw you and your family's corpses outside the city, there was a mass grave outside the city, and people didn't understand what to do with people who died of the plague. β
"I thought, someone has to do it, so I hired a car, pulled a cart of lime, took a hoe and went out of the city, but you were so hard, the dead were crying in the pile, I buried the body and covered it with lime, and then took you away, at that time I thought that I was probably going to be plagued by the plague anyway, and you were the same, an old man and a young man died together and had a companion."
He looked at Xiao Li Diu'er, and his eyes were doting: "But our grandfather and son are both very motherly." β
The old Taoist was inexplicably proud: "I also took your name, I only know that your family name is Li, so I will name you Li Diudiuer, the name is lighter, and the life will be longer, and when I finish the big thing in Jizhou, I have to change your name seriously, I also think about it, I will call it Li Qi, the one who is the most powerful, phew, yi." β
"Phew."
Xiao Li Didiu'er smiled: "I don't even have a fart in my stomach, and I can't make a fart in my stomach, can I still dominate in this world?" β
"I'll just say, what are you really doing? But when it comes to Jizhou, a serious name is very important. β
The old Taoist shrugged his shoulders: "You, just live well." β
He once again subconsciously touched the backpack behind his back, the money bag was in the backpack, bulging, he had saved money for several years, it was really enough, as long as he saved enough money, he could buy a different fate for this stinky boy, but of course he wouldn't explain anything to this stinky boy, let him understand so much what to do, just hurt him.
An old man and a young man walked along the official road, and no one was encountered after walking for more than an hour, the seven counties were rampant, and the common people either fled or died, or became a member of the rogue, they hated the rogues when they were not rogues, and they did all the evil of killing and setting fires, but after they became the rogues, they also killed and set fires for all evil.
People, it's fucking complicated, and it's fickle.
"Master?"
"Huh?"
"I'm hungry again."
"Drink water."
"Hmm......"
Xiao Li Diudi'er took a sip of water, raised his head and looked ahead, it was the afternoon, the sun was too hot, so the world seemed to become distorted, and he vaguely saw something in front of him coming out of the distorted space, and was startled.
Before he could react, he was pulled aside by his master, and then he heard a thunderous sound coming to the ground, the old Taoist reached out and pressed Xiao Li Diu'er's head to make him bow his head, and then the old Taoist put his hands together and lowered his head, and a team of armored cavalry roared over the official road, and the wind brought up by the war horse was like a dragon's roar.
The cavalry laughed at the sight of the yellow-skinned, thin, sloppy appearance of the two of them as they passed by, and the dust and smoke from the horses' hooves made the two of them look even more embarrassed.
"It's not the right thing in this world."
A war horse stopped in front of two people, and on the horseback was a young man who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, he was wearing a very delicate and beautiful leaf armor, and the armor on his body sounded like a heavenly sound when he strangled the war horse.
Young Admitten frowned and looked at them, as if he was a little distressed.
"The Taoist is prosperous and cultivated, and only in the troubled times came out to help the people, these two Taoists are about to starve to death, how can they help the people?"
He stretched out his hand: "Give me the dry food!" β
The soldiers around him took off the package and handed it to him, he leaned over and threw the package at Xiao Li's feet: "Take it and eat, leave when you are full, go back to your Taoist temple to cultivate, you can't save people when you enter the world and walk, it's not people who are sick, but this world, you Taoists can't cure this disease, it's better to read a few Taoist scriptures in the Taoist temple to pray for Dachu." β
The old Taoist hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Pray for Da Chu, and pray for the benefactor, please ask what is the name of Shangguan, and I will ask for a lantern for you when I go back." β
"No need."
The young man laughed: "I don't know how long I can live, the everlasting lamp will be spared, a soldier, life and death on the battlefield...... However, you can ask for an ever-bright lamp for my team, my name is Luo Jing, the general of Youzhou, Luo Geng's lieutenant, after you go back, you will light the ever-bright lantern for my Youzhou Yanyun Iron Cavalry, and pray for my Iron Cavalry Swinging Flatur Kou! β
The old Taoist nodded: "Write it down, thank you for your kindness." β
The young man laughed: "In this world, there are not many people who can remember Enshi. β
The old Taoist hesitated: "May I ask ......?"
"What?"
"Can I tell you a divination?"
"I never believe in ghosts and gods, so why bother divination, you...... Why do you want to divinate me? β
Luo Jing asked curiously.
The old Taoist was a little embarrassed, but he also said a little reasonably: "After all, it's not good to ask for money directly." β
Luo Jing was stunned for a moment, and laughed: "It turned out to be a greedy guy, I thought you were a virtuous Taoist, and you want money?" I never bring money with me when I go out, you can ask someone else for it. β
He hit the horse: "Ride! β
The blood-red war horse neighed, and galloped out with all its strength, and hundreds of cavalry also accelerated, with hooves like thunder and momentum.
Seeing him leave, the old Taoist sighed: "The family is so good that I am reluctant to give some money, it's really picky." β
"Who is he?"
Xiao Li Diudi'er asked, and then added: "What a majesty!" β
"Didn't he mention Youzhou General Luo Geng just now? That's his Lao Tzu, he is the invincible young general Luo Jing in the north, and it's better to be famous than to meet...... Bad face. β
Xiao Li Diudi'er asked, "What's wrong?" β
"There will be blood and light disasters in the prosperity of the spirit."
The old Taoist sighed and picked up the bag of dry food: "Aren't you hungry?" Eat! β
He looked in the direction where the cavalry had disappeared, and after being silent for a while, he asked Xiao Liqi, "Do you envy him?" β
Xiao Li Diudi'er nodded: "Envy." β
The old Taoist snorted: "Let's go, eat while envious." β
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