Wang Wuyuan likes to buy lottery tickets, but he has never won the jackpot, and the lottery tickets he has won are often only five yuan. He thought it might be because his name was wrong, and he had considered changing his name, such as Wang Million.

Later, he was still called Wang Wuyuan, and the idea that he could make a fortune by changing his name would feel ridiculous if he thought about it carefully. As for the lottery, he feels that as long as he buys it, it is possible to win the jackpot, and it is possible to turn his life upside down, although this possibility is relatively small, but it absolutely exists in theory, so he is still deeply in love with the lottery. In a popular phrase, it is - my brother does not buy lottery tickets, but hope.

Hopefully, you need money to buy it, and that's because the reality is too confusing. As a post-80s generation, Wang Wuyuan had just had a happy childhood for a while, and he became a melancholy teenager under the joint destruction of his parents and teachers. While he finished a second-rate high school and a third-rate university, he also completed the quiet transformation from a melancholy teenager to a decadent youth. Later, he joined a large state-owned enterprise and became a worker. In the factory, he could not endure hardship and anger, in his own words: "There can only be two animals in state-owned enterprises, one is a dog that can wag its tail, and the other is a cow that does not gnaw, I don't want to be a dog or a cow, I just want to be a person!" ”

In the foreseeable future, he may read novels, play games, eat cigarettes and drink for a few years, marry a wife and have children as a house slave, and slowly transition from a decadent youth to a sad middle-aged, but a chance event changed the trend of his life, and the person related to this accidental event was his uncle, known as the "false Taoist".

The "fake Taoist" is not surnamed Jia but surnamed Long, the big name is Long Junjie, with small eyes and a fat face with a few traces of brute meat, not like Junjie at all, but like a hero. In the 80s of the last century, when the chief designer of reform and opening up proposed to let some people get rich first, villager Long Junjie couldn't sit still, and he began to engage in special breeding, such as raising white-fleshed snails, American bullfrogs, beaver rats and other treasures that can make people get rich quickly. At the same time, in order to drive more people on the road of common prosperity, he also teamed up with several colleagues to open a second career, such as fortune telling, physiognomy, and helping people change their future. The former business did not stand at the commanding heights, lost more and earned less; In the latter business, all the tools of the township government police station were confiscated during the joint law enforcement campaign to crack down on feudal superstition, including the paper used to draw lots, the paper and pen used to measure characters, and a small bench that he used to sit on when he committed fraud.

As the saying goes: "Those who know the times are Junjie", since Long Junjie's name is Junjie, of course he knows the current affairs, and after reflecting at home for a few days, he figured out the truth that "the arm can't twist the thigh", and after learning from the pain, he decided to stop the precipice, get lost, and prepare to change his mind and be a new person. He pulled a little junior brother who followed him closely before and after the deception, and ran to a small mountain village more than 80 miles away in one go, and went to a distant cousin of his own.

The eldest cousin is the head of the village, although the village is close to the mountain but there are no minerals, there are trees on the mountain but the state does not allow them to be cut, the whole village, including the eldest cousin, is used to being poor, and even the office of the village committee is in an old house, which was called the Heavenly Master before liberation.

The history of the Heavenly Master Temple is not long but it is also very long, probably built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that at that time, there was a group of Taoist priests in Longhu Mountain, who fooled the common people and felt that it was not enjoyable, so they entered the palace to fool the old emperor. Who knew that the old emperor confessed to it and forced them to find a way to make themselves immortals, this joke is a bit big. The Taoist priests had no choice but to refine the pill every day, treating the emperor as a guinea pig to test the medicinal properties, and living in fear while refining the medicine. Among them, there was a smart man, under the pretext of finding medicine for the emperor, he rolled up a sum of money and ran from Beijing to Sichuan in one go. The old emperor was busy becoming an immortal and disdained to take care of these trivial matters, but after the emperor died, none of his brothers ran away. This smart man has been lurking until he confirmed that there is no danger before he changed his appearance and came out to act, except to deceive people, he didn't know anything else, so he paid to build the Heavenly Master Temple.

In the hundreds of years since the completion of the Heavenly Master Temple, the scenery has been dilapidated, and it has been patronized by the fire god several times on the way, and it has become a small school after liberation. Now there are fewer people on the side of the mountain, and the students have gone to the neighboring village to study, and the houses are vacant, and now the village committee of the village occupies a few rooms, and a few Wubao households with no children and daughters occupy a few rooms, and a few rooms are occupied by rats.

Long Junjie came to the Heavenly Master Temple, he knew that the country prohibited feudal superstitious activities but allowed freedom of religious belief, and he wanted to create a future in the Heavenly Master Temple, because one of his uncles was a true Taoist here, and he could be regarded as a family scholar with confidence.

For the noble purpose of common prosperity, Long Junjie and his eldest cousin came together, and the two sides hit it off, and after bargaining and intrigue in the dark, the two sides reached a final agreement: the village committee moved to a small room at the door to wait for dividends, and hung out the sign of the public security committee to come to the town; Long Junjie and his little junior brother left home half-truths and half-truths, and officially moved into the Heavenly Master Temple.

After going up and down and colluding in all aspects, the two charlatans turned into religious people on the spot, and while continuing their old business, they also recruited a few old bachelors to develop new businesses, such as selling some accessories such as incense wax paper money, as well as food such as cold powder and melon seeds. Now that people are living a prosperous life but their spirits are empty, there are gradually more people who come to Tianshiguan for vacation and play by the way.

Long Junjie is rough-looking, and there are no two Dao bones on his body from any angle, but the surname Long gives him a bit of fairy wind, so he is called "Long Zhenren". The two brothers and sisters held a ceremony together on the first and fifteenth days of the new year, and after the ceremony, they divided the dirt, and usually worked for half a month. Being a Taoist priest for half a month and then going home as a villager for half a month is also in line with China's agricultural concept of fallow and rotation for thousands of years. However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and when there are more people who know the truth, everyone calls him a "false Taoist" openly or secretly, and he doesn't think it's wrong.

At the end of the first year of work, Wang Wuyuan went home to visit his parents, but he didn't go home for half a year, and there was still no change at home. Wang Wuyuan's mother's name is Long Junxiu, when she saw her son coming back, she was busy and put together a table of good dishes, and after the meal, she watched her son eat with a smile while eating by herself, and kept giving Wang Wuyuan vegetables, which made Wang Wuyuan's father feel very disappointed. After eating for a while, Long Junxiu said:

"Five yuan, you are earning money now, you have time to go and see your uncle, when you were in college, your family was tight, and your uncle often sent money, saying that he was afraid that you would lose your body outside." When Wang Wuyuan's father heard his wife say this, he also nodded and said, "Yes, your uncle has no son, he has treated you as a son since he was a child, and he is not thin in our family, so let's go and see it tomorrow." Wang Wuyuan nodded and agreed.

The next day, Wang Wuyuan went to the street to buy a bottle of Jian Nanchun, as well as a bagged Shifang duck and a boxed Guanghan silk rabbit, plus a few handfuls of Zhongjiang noodles, to visit his uncle and earn some face for his mother by the way.

The fake Taoist priest has no son, only one daughter works in Guangzhou, homesick for three years and has no time to go home to reunite with her parents, the old couple is a little lost, and now the nephew is visiting in a high-profile manner, and suddenly feels the old and happy, and hurriedly asked his wife, who is Wang Wuyuan's aunt, to cook, and prepare to have a good drink with his nephew.

Sausage bacon is indispensable for the New Year, this thing can be eaten after cooking for a while, which is very simple and convenient. The fake Taoist priest asked while drinking with sausages: "Five yuan, are you still used to working for half a year?" ”

Wang Wuyuan said casually: "That's it, now everywhere is being exploited, and forbearance will pass." ”