Chapter III. 78. The birth of the sect leader Zhang Yuan
Undoubtedly, no matter what kind of civil society organization it is, for the initiators, perhaps they did have a sincere public heart at the beginning; But as long as it grows to a certain scale, it will often fall into a vicious circle of chasing wealth and fame either actively or passively.
Zhang Yuan, the founder of this mysterious organization, Huashen Sect, was originally just a small official in his hometown county government and responsible for guarding Dengwengu. His status is low, and his income is even lower than his; In addition, this 'drummer' was originally born in the market, and he can really be described as a person who 'eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, smokes', and has all kinds of poisons. Therefore, the income brought to him by this errand can only be described as 'better than nothing' for his lifestyle.
If 'eating' and 'drinking' can be lowered by some grades, then the other three hobbies are real 'hard sales' for Zhang Yuan! Therefore, before the age of thirty, this sect leader of Zhang had a very unbearable life, and it can really be said that there is no overnight rice at home, and there is no pest food at night! And if his mother hadn't forced him to die, maybe he would have stolen the thin-skinned longevity materials that his father had prepared in advance and sold them!
Of course, after the death of his parents, this dutiful son did 'vacate' a pair of longevity materials in exchange for a happy night.
Judging from the trajectory of his life before the age of thirty, he has been wasted to the point where he can no longer be wasted; But there are times when it's really hard to talk about opportunity......
One day at dusk, as the 'Dengwen Drum Custodian' at the Yamen, Sect Master Zhang, who didn't know which door he had taken to get a lot of money in the gambling house! Of course, based on his consumption concept, this windfall is only ten days and half a month at most.
Since the sect leader is the foundation of the market, when he suddenly made a fortune, he immediately called his friends, went to the restaurant to pick up powder, and then lit a pot of cigarette paste, and fell into the depraved life of drunkenness and gold together. However, it so happened that among these friends who were invited, there was a little fat man wearing Suzhou embroidered satin, but he sneered at Zhang Yuan, who was 'making a lot of pride'.
In fact, judging from the performance of this little fat man alone, this person is definitely not a person with a belly! Even if today's Zhang Yuan is limited by his vision, the place where he treats is not of high grade; But since you are also a companion who comes to eat with your friends, you should not lose the proper etiquette to the family that treats you. If you really can't look at it, it's a big deal to turn around and leave, why bother to be weird here?
Even if life is embarrassing, Zhang Yuan is also a somewhat stubborn person, otherwise he can't be nearly thirty years old, and he still only mixes in with an idle errand of 'watching drums'!
Now he faced this little fat man who 'didn't want to eat but didn't like to eat hungry', and with the strength of the punch, he lifted the table on the spot!
The little fat man in the Su embroidered robe avoided the mess on the ground with a smile, walked in front of him, looked at Zhang Yuan in anger, and patted him on the shoulder quite 'generously'!
This little fat man who has seen the world is actually a local, and although he is not very familiar with Zhang Yuan, it can be regarded as an old acquaintance with a half-open face; If not, he wouldn't be in the middle of the meal. But the same people don't have the same fate, this little fat man was twenty years old, after he came out of the apprenticeship of the warehouse, he followed his uncle who ran a single gang to go south and make a lot of money. Don't look at this little fat man, he is also in his thirties, but he has already taken root in Gusu City in Nankang. And this time, he returned to his hometown.
As long as this person is broad, he will naturally have a lot of benefits. For example, he made great achievements in Nankang, and he didn't need to bother with his own lips at all, and he had people who came to 'persuade him' to brag for him!
So, this was originally a party where Zhang Yuan invited guests, but in the end, the protagonist became the noisy little fat man. And the most infuriating thing is that this half-eaten wine and rice account is still the silver that Zhang Yuan paid!
However, the person who paid for the silver naturally also had the benefit of taking out the silver. This little fat man is really not a mouthful of words that can't be practiced! On the pretext of making amends, he invited Zhang Yuan and a few friends who were good with him to the best green building in the city, and launched a new round of 'fancy touting conference'!
Maybe this little fat man came with the idea of returning to his hometown, and as for the bad luck of looking for Zhang Yuan, it was just to show his self-worth. However, for Zhang Yuan, who had just made a windfall and was now drunk, under his ridicule and belittlement, a door to a new world was opened!
This person, as long as he listens to the right words, he can not only save a lot of trouble, but also capture some of the information he needs!
Zhang Yuan heard a lot of ways in the left sentence of "you can't" and the right sentence of "Beiyan can't" in the left sentence of this little fat man! Feelings, those Nankang people are so arrogant? For the sake of the Pomeranian smile, he sprinkled gold leaves on the river! In order to keep a scholar, there was a big empty yard in Lin'an Mansion! On weekdays, the common people eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, drink tribute wine from all over the world, and don't even need to sew their clothes when they are torn, and buy a new coat when they walk to the street and put them on!
In fact, you can also hear it from the conversation of this little fat man, and you know that this little fat man who 'returns home' must be a second knife! Maybe he doesn't even have a serious place to live in Gusu City, let alone have a very close personal relationship with the Nankang Imperial Court, and he is like walking on the ground when entering and leaving the palace gate'!
As the so-called man stands in his thirties, and now the old bachelor Zhang Yuan, who has passed the age of standing, was so provoked by him, jealousy and envy spontaneously arose! After 30 years of confusion, he suddenly had the idea of changing his lifestyle! So, Zhang Yuan abandoned the little fat man's boasting and listened attentively to the customs of Nankanggu Sucheng. As the wine jar slowly bottomed out, the throbbing in Zhang Yuan's heart could no longer be suppressed! At this time, his chest was like the Dengwen drum that he had watched for more than ten years, and he kept stirring.
He staggered to his feet, pushed away his friend who had come to support him, and staggered out of the box door, shouting loudly about the unsatisfactory things he had encountered in his previous life!
He scolded the gambling house, the tavern, the yamen, the county officials, those who once looked down on him, the hooligans who beat him because they couldn't afford to pay the money, the bastard world, the little fat man who raised himself and belittled him, and the fan who thought he had a smell of sweat and was always a few steps away from him......
As he roared out of his anger in a hoarse voice, the depression in his chest was finally temporarily relieved. Immediately afterwards, the door of the van was pushed open, and seven or eight guests came out of the 'hula' to watch the excitement......
The two middle-aged men at the end of this line, one is the criminal master of the county, and the other is the county master who is entertaining several officials......
When Zhang Yuan woke up the next day, he realized that he had cut off his retreat in advance under the drunkenness last night, and now he could only fight against the water! So he sold his family's ancestral house, scraped together dozens of taels of silver, and followed the little fat man to Gusu City, starting a new chapter in his life!
This little fat man is indeed a useless look-at-your-looking goods! His maternal uncle was originally just a guy helping a big merchant ship in Gusu City; And after he went to Gusu City, he just took over his mother's uncle's job; As for his maternal uncle, because of his old age and frailty, he became a watchman who took care of the warehouse, and his salary was naturally reduced by sixty percent!
It is not easy for this old and young to have a good diet in Gusu City, let alone take care of Zhang Yuan, a fellow villager!
In all big cities full of gold and silver, the most important thing is manpower! With a person of Zhang Yuan's age working hard, he has neither a skill nor any age advantage at all. In desperation, he could only travel through the splendid city of Gusu City, and had nothing to do all day long......
In fact, the word 'all day long' is not very accurate. Because he has only been idle for seven days, Zhang Yuan has already spent a 'hairy claw net' with the money collected from the sale of the house! Of course, after all, in this Gusu City, he still has fellow villagers who can take care of him. So before he was kicked out by the uncle and nephew, he also got the hard steamed buns left over from five people's families.
So no matter what industry it is, it's not so easy to do! Zhang Yuan, who had no way out, was taken to a Guandi temple by the beggars in Gusu City on the third day of asking for food. Because he intends to enter the flower line, according to the rules, he should worship the mountain gate first. However, the beggars in Gusu City are still very benevolent and righteous, and in the face of Zhang Yuan, who did not worship the mountain gate and stepped on the boundary, they only broke one of his legs!
A day later, Zhang Yuan, who dragged a bloody stump leg, finally crawled back to Gusu City.
But everything has to be seen dialectically. Zhang Yuan, who had been extremely unlucky, finally ushered in the biggest turning point in his life on his most unlucky day!
His blood-drenched lame leg touched a Celestial God Sect monk with blue eyes and a high nose, and it also made this foreign monk who 'sincerely worship the gods' move a heart of compassion. This 'Fan Bangyang monk' not only cured his stump leg, but also saw that he was young and his figure was quite powerful, so he left him in the Heavenly God Sect to help! On weekdays, he helped carry the wounded and did some hard work; Occasionally, he would drive a carriage and send a few monks of the Celestial God Sect to preach, and by the way, he would be a 'local bodyguard' to scare the thieves.
As the saying goes, the east is not bright and the west is bright, before Zhang Yuan came to Nankang, he was planning to learn to do business and make a windfall; Unexpectedly, he was originally full of poisons, but in the end, he was absorbed into a 'pious' 'Heavenly God Cultist'. After about five years of assessment, he was also eager to integrate into the local Celestial God Sect, as a 'typical case' on the Huayu Continent, and sent this 'living advertisement' to the Northern Yan Dynasty, which was suffering from floods, to spread the gospel of the Celestial Gods and save the victims by the way......
Zhang Yuan, who was Chinese New Year's Eve six years old at the time, finally ushered in the glorious moment of his return to his hometown! In the past six years, he has a large number of silver tickets in his pocket, and behind him stands a foreign monk of the Heavenly God Sect, and the gold seal of the envoy issued by the Nankang Imperial Court is also printed on the car! He was in the limelight, and vigorously returned to the hot land where he was born and raised, and his radiance was full of brilliance, and he also blinded those neighborhoods and towns who once looked down on him!
And the first big thing he did when he returned to this small county town was to smash the Dengwen drum at the entrance of the county government!