After another bag of cigarettes, Zhu Deren took the porter team into Wenyang Tianzhai and came to the door of Wu Laoer's house.

Wu Lao Er greeted him and said to Zhu Deren: "You are finally here." ”

Zhu Deren was anxious, and when he went up the mountain, he was also in a hurry, making the atmosphere gasp, and even the overnight wind stove could be blown. The weather was very hot again, and he wiped the beads of sweat like soybeans on his face, and said, "Harvest early, I'll collect the money from you now, and I have other things to do later." ”

Huineng's words were piercing: "For you, what is bigger than the matter of collecting the money today?" ”

Zhu Deren pointed to the team of porters he brought and asked Wu Lao Er: "Look, the people I hired to pick the grain have all brought, and your four hundred buckets of grain should be ready." ”

Wu Lao Er nodded and replied, "Ready." ”

Zhu Deren slapped his thigh happily, stretched out his thumb again, and praised: "Keep your promises, Wu Lao Er, Wu Lao Er, you are really a good man." ”

Wu Lao Er said lightly: "I am willing to lose the bet." ”

Zhu Deren stretched his neck, looked around with triangular eyes, but did not see the mountain-like pile of grain, so he asked, "Where do you put the four hundred buckets of grain?" In the yard, or in the warehouse? ”

Wu Lao Er pointed to the basket of valley placed at the door and replied, "It's all here." ”

"All here?" Zhu Deren stretched out his fingers, and in front of Wu Lao Er and Huineng, he calculated seriously: "I have already calculated when I returned home last night, one bucket of grain is twenty-five catties, and four hundred buckets of grain should be ten thousand catties." Your basket of grain can hold up to fifty catties of grain, how can all the four hundred buckets of grain I came to collect this time be in it? ”

Wu Lao Er pointed to the basket and affirmed: "Yes, all the four hundred buckets of grain you want to collect are in this basket." ”

Huineng: "Uncle Wu is telling the truth. ”

Zhu Deren: "I see that this basket can only hold two buckets of grain, how can there be four hundred buckets of valley in it?" ”

"Bucket? Are you referring to the bucket that is used to measure things on weekdays? Wu Lao Er gave his reason, "The fight I was referring to when I bet with you on the ruins is not that kind of fight!" ”

Zhu Deren: "So, what else is there to fight?" ”

Huineng pointed to the long-stemmed bamboo pipe in Liang Diqing's hand and replied, "It's this kind of bucket." ”

Zhu Deren: "You're talking about pipes?" ”

Liang Diqing put the long bamboo pipe in his mouth, deliberately took a big puff, spit out a few light blue smoke rings, and then patted the pipe with a handboard, and said proudly, "Yes, this is the pipe!" ”

Zhu Deren was not reconciled: "Is there such a strange fight in the world for measuring grains?" ”，

Huineng snatched the pipe from Liang Diqing's hand, bent down and knocked the pipe to the ground a few times, knocking out all the burning tobacco, and then handed the pipe to the tip of Zhu Deren's nose and shook it: "This is what Uncle Wu talked about when he made a bet with you on the ruin!" He deliberately raised the voice of the word "fight" high.

Zhu Deren didn't expect such an abrupt situation, stared at the triangular eyes, and asked, "What?" You bet with me that you're referring to the pipe? ”

Wu Lao Er said loudly: "Yes! At the time, I was referring to the pipe. ”

Huineng used what he said yesterday to hit back at him: "Zhu Deren, I was also present when you made a bet with Wu Lao Er yesterday. You bet on replacing the dragon's eye with a pig cage and say it's a peculiar cage. You only said that the bet was 400 buckets, but you did not say whether it was a bucket for measuring things or a pipe for smoking after winning or losing. Nowadays, Wu Erbo's bamboo pipe is also a weird bucket. In short, there is nothing wrong with matching the accent of 'Dou'! ”

Zhu Deren heard from Huineng's words that he was applying the trick he used yesterday, and now what reason can he use to refute him? Zhu Deren had to knock out his front teeth and swallow it in his stomach this time: "I...... I ......"

Hui Neng saw Zhu Deren's demeanor and knew that he was running out of words, so he took advantage of the victory to pursue, and continued to hold a pipe in front of the tip of Zhu Deren's nose: "Let me ask you, is the pipe a bucket?" ”

Zhu Deren's face turned like a dry bitter melon, so he had to nod his head reluctantly: "This ...... This can barely be called a fight. ”

Huineng's words were full of edge: "When you made a bet on the ruins, you said that no matter what kind of dragon it is, in short, this is a cage eye. We're just learning from you now, let's cook a bowl on a plate, we don't care what kind of bucket this is, in short, it's a bucket. This time, your 'strange cage' has encountered a 'strange fight'. Isn't it even between the two of you? ”

Zhu Deren's face rose: "This ...... This ......"

"Since you also admit that it is also a bucket, then, it is also worthy of the name to use it to measure the valley for you?" Seeing Zhu Deren's embarrassed look, Huineng turned to Ding Wenju, "Township Chief Ding, yesterday you were a notary public in the market town, and today you should also be a notary." I hope that you will be impartial and impartial in your approach to justice today. ”

Ding Wenju knew that Hui Neng used his way to govern his body, walked in front of Zhu Deren, shook his head helplessly, and said: "What he said is indeed reasonable, Deren, Deren, yesterday in the ruins, you used the 'cage' of the pig cage to replace the 'dragon' of the dragon's eye, and you were able to hide from the sky and the sea." But this time, they did the same thing. To be honest, even if I want to help you, I can't help you in the face of the facts. ”

Huineng: "This Township Chief Ding is admirable for upholding justice!" ”

Ding Wenju made an announcement: "The bet between the two of you, I think it's a tie." ”

Zhu Deren beat his head in remorse and sighed: "Alas! ”

At this time, the porter standing behind Zhu Deren heard their conversation, understood the reason, and couldn't help laughing.

One of the porters whispered, "I think this time I can be benevolent." ”

Someone else chimed in: "Yes, Hengzhu Zhu Deren has already given us his salary this morning. Let's just wait here and see the excitement. ”

Huineng: "Uncle Wu, you can quickly cash in with him." ”

Wu Lao Er took the pipe in Huineng's hand, and then scooped it from the basket of grain in front of him, and handed the little grain held in the pipe to the tip of Zhu Deren's nose: "Zhu Deren, I'll give you four hundred buckets of grain." This is a bucket of grain, so ask your porter to come and load the grain. He pointed to the large group of porters behind Zhu Deren.

Zhu Deren looked at the pipe in Liang Diqing's hand, frowned, and said, "Your bucket of grain is less than a penny, what's the point of accepting your four hundred buckets of grain?" ”

Wu Lao Er didn't care at this time: "In short, I will fulfill my promise now, and it is up to you to pretend or not." ”

Alas! Taste the bitter fruit of your own sowing. Zhu Deren's triangular eyes drooped, and he complained in frustration: "I gave 200 catties of grain this morning to the remuneration of Township Chief Ding as a notary, and spent more than 2,000 catties of grain to invite these 100 porters to come and pick the grain, and now I go back empty-handed, didn't I lose my wife and soldiers, and I lost in vain?!" ”

Huineng pointed out sharply: "If you want to get rich, you have to take it in the right way." But your bad brain has come up with too many crooked ideas, and what you get is retribution! ”

Ding Wenju opened his tone and said: "Deren, this time you are to blame. ”

Although Zhu Deren came with seven or eight fierce and vicious entourages, he also had to speak a rational word when he started, and he couldn't shout and kill in public, his face changed from the original red to iron gray, and he muttered to himself: "Alas, you are right." I can only consider myself unlucky this time. ”

At this time, Wu Lao Er became happy: "Zhu Deren, this time you will do the first year of junior high school, and we will do the fifteenth year again." ”

Liang Diqing said to Zhu Deren: "In the past few years, you have relied on the pit trick to swindle and cheat everywhere, but you have made some windfalls, and now the gods have retribution, and you are stealing chickens and not eating rice this time." ”

Huineng's voice was a little stern: "Zhu Deren, I hope you will remember the lesson of this time from now on, so as to avoid more troubles in the future." ”

"Yes, yes," the greater the hope, the greater the failure. Zhu Deren was smart this time but was mistaken by cleverness, which was in response to what his wife said, "The final result is that the dream comes to nothing". He had no choice but to pat his head, cry and cry, and shouted, "Go back." ”

The group of porters saw that they didn't have to carry their weight down the mountain, but just returned with empty baskets, and they were all happy and applauded.

Zhu Deren thought he would eat the sugar melon, but in fact he bit the bitter melon, so he had to take the long line of porters who followed him to "go home".

Looking at Zhu Deren and his party drowning in the deep twilight, Wu Lao Er held Huineng's hand tightly and said gratefully: "Ah Neng, if I hadn't met you this time, I really don't know how I would have ended." ”

"The monkeys in the mountains are caught by you because they are greedy for a mouthful of food, and they will lose their freedom and even their lives. The road of life is full of dangers. Like those monkeys, people will be calculated and bankrupt because of greed. You have to dig deep into the roots from here. Huineng pointed to Wu Laoer's head.

Wu Lao Er: "I want to dig deep into the root of my mind?" ”

"Yes," Hui Neng admonished in a straight voice, "people inevitably have greed, which is not only a taboo in Buddhist practice, but also the root of our troubles as human beings. Wu Erbo, I hope you will learn a lesson from this, quit gambling addiction, work diligently, and be an honest person. ”

Liang Diqing also accosted: "Ah Neng is right. Second Brother Wu, how many times have I persuaded you before, but you always don't listen. It is better to be a man and be content with his duties and get rich through labor. ”

After this time, Wu Lao Er had a heartache: "The lesson this time is profound enough. I will take your words to heart. From today onwards, I won't gamble with anyone anymore. ”

Huineng: "Do you really have the determination?" ”

Wu Lao Er raised his finger and pointed to the sky: "I swear to the sky and poison, if there is any more betting, I will be thundered." ”

Huineng pulled his hand down: "You don't need to make such a poisonous oath, just remember it in your heart and use it in your actions." ”

Wu Lao Er held Huineng's hand tightly and said sincerely: "You are really my good brothers!" ”