Lao Zhang was shocked: "You're crazy, what are you doing here?" As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed the scissors from her hand.

"Get the hell out of here." With Zhang's angry reprimand, the tip of the scissors turned its head to aim at Lao Zhang, almost stabbing his hand. Lao Zhang knew his wife's temperament, and now she was really moving, so she shrunk and didn't dare to step forward again, but muttered in her mouth: "Why bother, why do you bother......."

"If I don't cut off one of your fingers today, you will take your life in the future, don't blame my mother for being ruthless, blame you for not taking the right path." Zhang said as he gritted his back molars.

At the last moment, Simao suddenly said: "Mother, I swear that I will not gamble for life." ”

Zhang's plain seems to be a typical good wife and mother, with a gentle temper, but her bones are stubborn and ruthless, Simao knows very well that she can really do it, and he can also guess Zhang's thoughts, so in a word, Zhang's scissors finally declined.

"Next time, I don't have to chop your hands, my mother cut herself off, lest I see you walking in front of me, and the white-haired people send the black-haired people. Mother does what she says, you weigh it yourself. Zhang's tone was surprisingly calm, and she slowly let go of Simao's hand and put the scissors on the table. Simao was shocked into a cold sweat, and couldn't stop responding: "Mother, I will do what I say." ”

Zhang nodded: "Send the money you earned today, as well as the things you bought, to the Yizhuang Temple, and send the prepared meals to Yanzi, and you are not allowed to keep a single bit." ”

"Hey, listen to you, listen to you, I'll send it." Simao quickly stood up, took out the remaining silver from his arms, and stretched out his hand in front of Lao Zhang.

Lao Zhang's face was blank: "What is it?" ”

"Pretend, give me back pretend, you deliberately rubbed in the teahouse, and only came back after me, thinking that I didn't know your mind? What about the silver that Xu Sandao gave me? Give me all of them. "Four cents hit the nail on the head.

"No, he didn't give me any silver, I don't have any silver, I don't believe you search." Lao Zhang spread his hands and replaced them with an extremely innocent expression.

Simao looked Lao Zhang up and down: "Take off your shoes for me." ”

Lao Zhang muttered: "Why do you take off your shoes, it stinks weird and smells." ”

Simao threatened: "Hurry up, you can't take it off?" If I don't take it off, I won't raise you. ”

Lao Zhang was helpless, took off his shoes and stood on the ground barefoot: "How can there be any silver, look, look, even your father doesn't believe it......."

Simao glanced at the shoes that Lao Zhang had taken off, bent down, and pulled out the insole, and sure enough, there was a silver ticket of fifty taels under the insole, which was still a new cluster, which happened to be the other half of the amount that Xu Sandao promised to give after the completion of the matter, and Simao held the silver ticket in his hand.

Lao Zhang's flesh hurt: "You can leave me some loose silver assembly, just leave a little ......"

Simao was angry and funny, and he didn't bother to take care of him, so he found a basket and put all the food in the basket, and went to the kitchen to bring all the things he bought back today to the hall: "Mother, I'm going to deliver something, what should you do for dinner tonight?" ”

"You don't have to worry about me, I still have some dried pickles and bud noodles at home, which can deal with it for a few days." Zhang waved his hand and signaled Simao to go quickly.

The construction and establishment of Yizhuang began with Fan Zhongyan, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, and then was imitated by everyone, and the imperial court also strongly supported and commended, so that Yizhuang was distributed and prosperous in various places. As the name suggests, Yizhuang is actually a non-governmental charity, and its purpose is nothing more than "disaster relief and compassion for orphans and widows".

Different sizes and types of farms actually play different functions. The large Yizhuang has functions such as helping the people, subsidizing tuition fees, caring for orphans and widows, handling loans, including stopping the spirit and burying, while the small Yizhuang is mostly because of the decline of the family power, which is unsustainable, and finally fell into ruin, leaving only a mortuary function. The reason is very simple, the land and houses in Yizhuang are generally public property, there are too many people involved in property rights, the transaction is complicated, and most importantly, who will buy the mortuary? Therefore, even if Yizhuang is dilapidated, the house must still be there.

There is such a righteous village in the distance of a few miles to the south of the exile lane, which was built by a nouveau riche surnamed Zhou in the early Qing Dynasty in order to become famous and united with the clansmen, of course, the big head belongs to him, and there are ancestral halls, family temples, council halls, spiritual houses, etc., and they are still decent. Later, the rich man surnamed Zhou lost his family within a few years, and the operation of Yizhuang was unsustainable. Later, there was a traveling Taoist who walked here, borrowed the ancestral hall and family temple to settle down, and at the same time gave people medical treatment, and did a lot of good things. After coming and going, the people surnamed Zhou felt that Yizhuang was also barren, and there were people who didn't spend money to help take care of the property, take care of the cemetery, collect the abandoned corpses of the ownerless, and treat the disease, why not? So he pushed the patriarch to come forward and signed the paperwork, and the property was still owned by the people surnamed Zhou, but the Taoist was promised that he could use this place as a dojo and use it for free, on the condition that the Taoist would help the clansmen take care of the ancestral hall and the spiritual room. Since then, this person has taken root, accepted offerings from all directions, and also accepted apprentices to inherit medical skills. By this time, Simao was already the third generation, and this place name that was originally called Yizhuang was gradually renamed Yizhuang Temple by the locals because of the temple and incense.

There is a very strange thing about this Yizhuang Temple, that is, each master only accepts one apprentice, and this is the case for three generations. Now the temple is called Wang Zhonghe, all call him Wang Daochang or Wang Lao Dao, about fifty years old, familiar with Simao, often want to abduct Simao to him as an apprentice, Simao replied: "One day if I really have no food, I will give you an apprentice, and you will be a fire Taoist priest (one of the Taoist priests, a cultivator who does not prohibit drinking, meat, and marriage), but there is one condition, you have to help me marry a daughter-in-law." Wang Laodao said: "you, I'm still an old bachelor, and if I can marry my daughter-in-law, I would have married myself a long time ago, and I want you, an apprentice, to do the ball." ”

Simao smiled and said, "Then you can ask for another master." ”

Wang Laodao touched his beard with a smile and said: "You are a good hand at cheating, your talent is very high, I have rules in my door, and I can only accept one apprentice, so I want to keep the position for you." ”

Simao said: "Why do you only accept one apprentice in your door? The rules are dead, people are alive, you can accept one first, in case I don't give you an apprentice when I am developed in this life, won't you die in the temple and no one will know? ”

Wang Laodao thought seriously for a few days, and finally said to Simao: "No, the rules are the rules, they can't be broken, there are too many apprentices, and the offerings are not enough, I'm still waiting for you to change your mind." If you don't change your mind until I die, then you will send me to the end. ”

Simao also scolded Wang Laodao with a smile, saying that he would simply change his name to Lai Pidao.