On the way back to Tianlu Mountain Wenyang Tianzhai, when drinking water and resting at the "Fountain of Youth", Liang Diqing sighed while smoking with his pipe: "The second brother Wu lost this game is really miserable, since he lost the bet in front of everyone, the gambling must be repaid." I think about how his family will live after he sells his land, land, and house. ”

Huineng's words were subtle: "I think that after today's incident, Wu Erbo's life will be better in the future." ”

Liang Diqing reproached Huineng and said: "Hey, so far, not only did you not think of a way for him, but also hit him with a heavy hammer." ”

Huineng: "If his gambling nature does not change, it will be a bigger curse in the future." ”

Liang Diqing turned to Huineng and took out the words in his heart: "Ah Neng, you have the most strategies on weekdays. Anyway, this time you have to think of a good way to save him."

Huineng laughed: "I have already done it. ”

Liang Diqing turned to Huineng and asked, "What good way do you have?" Speak up! ”

Huineng glanced at Liang Diqing's pipe tied to the waistband of his trousers, and smiled slightly: "I'll go to Uncle Wu's house with you later, and then I'll tell you in detail." ”

Liang Diqing: "Look at your mystery, okay, I won't ask more questions now." In short, you can solve the problem for Second Brother Wu. ”

At noon on this day, Wu Lao Er carried two empty baskets back to Wenyang Tianzhai's house, picked up the wine bottle and drank it up, beat his chest and cried, and then returned to the room and lay on the bed with a sheet covering his head.

The people in the family asked him what the reason was, but he was only shouted loudly by Wu Lao Er, which frightened them into a mess, and they didn't know what was going on.

Just when they were helpless, Huineng and Liang Diqing came to Wu Laoer's house.

Wu Lao's wife asked Liang Diqing: "Brother Diqing, all the mangoes that my second child picked up on the market were sold out, it should have been a happy thing, why did he seem to be crazy when he returned home?" ”

Liang Diqing had no choice but to say bluntly: "The mangoes that Second Brother Wu picked up on the market were indeed sold out, but he made a bet with others in the market and lost. ”

Wu Laoer's wife: "Ah, it turns out that he lost all the money from selling mangoes, no wonder he went crazy when he went home." ”

Liang Diqing: "Hmph, if you just lose two baskets of mangoes, you have to burn incense and worship God, thank God." ”

Wu Laoer's wife is a smart person, and when she heard Liang Diqing say this, she knew that her husband had a big incident in the ruins today: "Could it be that Wu Laoer has lost a lot of money?" ”

Liang Diqing stretched out four fingers and shook them: "Four hundred bucket valleys." ”

When Wu Laoer's wife heard this, her eyes widened: "Four hundred bucket valleys? You're scaring me, aren't you? ”

Liang Diqing: "You know my character, this joke is unacceptable." ”

Huineng: "Yes, Uncle Di Qing is telling the truth, he and I were at the betting scene in the market town at the time. ”

Wu Laoer's wife roared: "No wonder Wu Laoer, the dead ghost, went crazy as soon as he came home, no, I must make it clear to me in front of me!" With that, he picked up a flat pole in the corner of the courtyard, walked into the room angrily, and slashed at the buttocks of Wu Lao Er, who was covered with a sheet.

Wu Laoer, who was lying on the bed, couldn't imagine that his wife would be so angry, his buttocks were beaten by the flat shoulder, and the pain was so hot, he lifted the quilt covering his head, jumped off the bed, snatched his wife's flat shoulder, and threw it to the ground with a "snap", and then walked out of the room and saw Huineng and Liang Diqing in the yard.

When Wu Lao Er saw Hui Neng at a glance, his anger did not subside, and he sprayed all the resentment in his stomach that was beaten by his wife at him: "Ah Neng, since you came to Tianlu Mountain, what am I sorry for you?" But this morning, you reversed that pig's intestines were, and helped that Zhu Deren speak. Aren't you afraid that I'll beat you up hard?! With that, Chao Huineng raised his fist.

Liang Diqing raised his hand to stop him: "Second Brother Wu, don't burn and hurt your liver, Huineng is here to rescue you now." ”

Wu Lao Er didn't believe it: "Come and rescue me?" Does he have the land and the land to count for me? ”

"I don't have a field or land in Tianlu Mountain, but I have this." Huineng pointed to his head.

Wu Lao Er snorted, and said angrily: "You have a head? I have a brain, too! ”

"Don't blame me for stabbing you with a needle, Second Brother Wu, you have a pig's head, but Ah Neng has a smart head." Liang Diqing saw that Wu Lao Er looked at him unconvinced, so he pointed out, "Ah Neng has thought of a good solution for you." ”

Wu Lao Er still has no confidence: "I'm dying, what else can I do?" ”

Huineng was very relaxed when he spoke: "There is a plan to eat, but there is no plan to eat mud." Wu Erbo, this method doesn't require you to sell your land and land, let alone sell your house. ”

"Hey, there's such a good way?" Wu Lao Er's demeanor became calmer, and instead urged, "Ah Neng, tell it quickly!" ”

So, Huineng told his method,

Liang Diqing nodded frequently after hearing this, and finally said: "Ah Neng, I didn't expect you to come up with such a good solution." ”。

Wu Lao Er was the party concerned, stretching his neck to listen, listening, listening, first the gloomy clouds on his face gradually dissipated, and finally he smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth, held Huineng's hand tightly, and apologized: "Ah Neng, your method is really good, it can be regarded as saving the lives of my whole family." I blame you for being so angry at you on the ruins this morning. ”

Liang Diqing pointed at Wu Lao Er: "Look at the pitiful appearance of your lost soul after losing the bet on the ruins today, and now it has become tofu scum and falls into the water - your body is loose." ”

Wu Lao Er said apologetically: "Ah Neng, I hope you are an adult and have a lot, don't worry about me as a villain." Anyway, now I'm replacing wine with tea, and I'm toasting you. Come! ”

The three of them talked, talked, and laughed openly.

Besides, Zhu Deren, this guy, made a bet with Wu Lao Er in the Xuting this morning, and won the four hundred buckets of grain promised by both sides with a little trickery, and returned to Wudong Village and said to his family proudly: "The cultivators are too hard, and they are exposed to the sun and rain every day, how many catties of grain can be harvested all year round?" Today, I made a little trick and made a lot of money all at once. ”

That night, he had a sweet dream in which his family's granary was suddenly full of grain, and he laughed "card, card" in the dream.

Zhu Deren's wife was woken up by the dream words, slapped his ass violently, and asked, "Are you stupid to laugh like this in the middle of the night?" ”

Zhu Deren rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "Am I stupid? No! I'm dreaming a lot! ”

His wife said in a sarcastic tone, "Sweet dreams, sweet dreams." What a beautiful dream wakes up and just gets an orange. ”

Oranges are round. The phrase "get an orange" means "equal to zero" locally.

Zhu Deren is still diligent: "This time I am a dream come true. Wait and see, I'll come back from Tianlu Mountain tomorrow afternoon, and I'm sure you'll be smiling and shaking your teeth! ”

Early the next morning, Zhu Deren ran around to hire a porter.

The people around knew that Zhu Deren was an iron rooster who was a dime a dime, and they were afraid that he would repay his debts when he crossed the bridge and drew the board, so he was unwilling to go to Tianlu Mountain to pick grain for him. Therefore, he had to pay a higher salary, and claimed that those who went up the mountain to help him pick grain would get twenty pounds of grain each, and they would cash it out first. In this way, it was not easy to get together enough for a hundred porters. In order to ensure that Wu Lao Er would not repent, he also rewarded Ding Wenju with a special reward of 200 catties of grain, and asked him to go up to Tianlu Mountain to testify on the spot.

The total amount of wages and rewards cost Zhu Deren more than 2,000 catties of grain, which really made him feel distressed for a while, but later, he used the iron abacus to dial back and forth a few times, and calculated that even so, he earned more than 7,000 catties of grain in vain. "Yo, this is a big pie from the sky!"

The cloudless sky was as blue as transparent crystal. The sun poured countless heat waves down on the ground, and the earth rose like a steamer. The air was so hot that it froze. The dragonflies, which usually like to fly and chase, now retreated to the shade of the trees, not daring to move, as if afraid that the fierce sunlight would burn their thin wings.

Zhu Deren wanted to wait until the afternoon to come up the mountain, but his greedy desire made it impossible for him to sit still, so he couldn't wait to take Ding Wenju and seven or eight entourages from his family, followed by a hundred porters hired by him, each carrying two large empty baskets, and went to the sky and dew the mountain, pointing directly at Wenyang Tianzhai.

Zhu Deren's feet are not very good, and he walks with a limp, but money can make the ghost grind. Thinking that so many grains were about to arrive, he didn't feel bitter or tired at this time. On the way up the mountain, he was so excited that he hummed a mountain song as he walked.

And on the side of Wenyang Tianzhai, Wu Lao Er went home yesterday and heard the "good way" that Huineng told him, the gloomy clouds on his face were swept away, this afternoon he was ready, put a basket of grain at the gate of his house, and also placed a bamboo tea table under the shade of the magnolia tree in front of the door, with a tea tray on it, brewed the camellia picked before the Qingming Festival, and drank slowly with Huineng and Liang Diqing in the shade, waiting for Zhu Deren's arrival.

The sun gradually shifted to the west, and Wu Lao Er couldn't help but walk to a high pier in front of the stockade and look down the path down the mountain.

When he saw the team of hundreds of people carrying empty baskets from the bottom of the mountain slowly squirming up like a long snake, Wu Lao Er ran back and said to Huineng that Zhu Deren was coming to the village soon.

Huineng laughed: "Yao Fubo, the sky dropped a big pie for Zhu Deren, where would he let it go?!" ”

Liang Diqing raised his long bamboo pipe, took a sharp puff, then spit out a few wisps of smoke, and said coldly: "He is an iron rooster and refuses to pull out a single hair on his body, but as soon as there is oil and water, he immediately flies over like a rope." ”

Wu Lao Er said to Huineng: "I'm a good handle for working in the mountains, but it's not okay to argue with others." Ah Neng, you have a way to speak, you are reasonable and measured, and you will stand up and speak for me later. ”

Huineng nodded in response: "Don't worry." I still said on the ruins yesterday morning, that is, to help the relatives and not to help the relatives. Now it's not on Zhu Deren's side, of course I'll do my best to help you. ”