Chapter Twenty-Three: Life Is Not as Good as a Dog
The next morning, Chu Qi opened his eyes, and there was a soft snort in his ears, and a faint fragrance of virginity rippled in the air.
The stiff right arm is like an old tree, being held by a certain sloth, and the arm is sandwiched by two pieces of soft flesh, and there is a soft, firm touch. Chu Qi slowly withdrew his hand, pulling the tendons in his shoulders for a while. His arms rubbed the green twin peaks, changing several shapes repeatedly, Li Xiangzhi muttered, turned his head and continued to fall asleep.
Chu Qi straightened his clothes and paced out the door. The morning light is faint, and the mountain breeze is slow, blowing the slightest chill on the neck. The man had gone to work in the field, the little daughter-in-law was collecting firewood in the fence yard, and the old man Li had been sitting at the door smoking a dry cigarette for ten thousand years, his eyes smiling and narrowing into a slit.
"Dao Ye is early, Dao Ye is blessed, the villain has seen Dao Ye. ”
Chu Qi waved his hand and signaled not to be polite.
"Master Dao, did you sleep comfortably last night?" Li Quanfu said with a smile.
Chu Qi frowned and said in a muffled voice, "Hmm." ”
"Very good, very good, I'm also worried that Xiangzhi girl is inexperienced, and she doesn't serve well, which will make you unhappy. ”
"Fu... Old man Li. ”
"It's... Yes," Li Quanfu bent down and replied.
"Xiangzhi will go with me today" said and turned over his hand to show a silver ingot, looking at the size should be as much as ten taels.
Li Quanfu's eyes were fixed on the silver in Chu Qi's hand, thinking that the whole family of four would not be able to eat it for many years, and said in a trembling voice: "Dao... Master Dao, this is unacceptable, how dare we have your money, we can serve you comfortably, old man, I will be satisfied. Xiangzhi's girl can follow you, that's the blessing she has cultivated for several lifetimes, how dare she accept you... Where's your silver? ”
"Too little?" asked Chu Qi.
Li Quanfu knelt down on the armrest and said: "Give the old man ten leopard galls, I don't dare to be too little, it's just that every time the township comes to collect tribute, the family can't hide the money, if this is found out, it will be a big crime of private hiding." ”
Chu Qi didn't bother to help this old man Li again, he would worship if he wanted.
"It's my old immortal at home, who is sick in bed all the year round, if the Taoist master has the heart to show kindness, can you show my old lady?" After speaking, he raised his head slightly and glanced at Chu Qi secretly, for fear of offending him.
Chu Qi was stunned, he didn't expect him to make this request, and he thought a little higher of Old Man Li in his heart.
"Then take me with you. ”
"Yes, thank you, thank you. Li Quanfu kowtowed excitedly.
Li Quanfu led Chu Qi into another room, the room was pitch black, surrounded by earthen walls, emitting feces and urine mixed with the smell of mold, stinging his eyes a little bit.
"This is where people live?" Chu Qi frowned, and finally couldn't help it, and there was a faint anger in his voice.
"Dao Ye is angry, Dao Ye is angry. My son went to work during the day, and at night he was too tired to look like a man; I was afraid that the tribute collector would see it and take her as an official prostitute, so I kept locked up and didn't let her come out; I was old, and it was inconvenient to move, and I was powerless to take care of the toilet and hygiene; my daughter-in-law had to let her marry after all the hard work, and she didn't want us to say that she couldn't move. ”
"That's it, let's take a look. ”
There was no bed in the room, only hay on the floor, and a human figure could be faintly seen in it. Up close, the skin was black and purple, the body was withered, a layer of old skin was tightly covered with bones, the clothes were wet with light mildew, and the red jacket was white, and the stench wafted from here. If it weren't for Chu Qi's excellent ear power and faint snort, ordinary people would only regard it as a rotting corpse.
Chu Qi was not disgusted, the two fingers of his right hand were put on the dry bone wood, and his wrist was so cold that he couldn't feel the flow of blood.
"There is no help, just prepare for the aftermath. The pulse was cold, the bad disease was in the marrow, the five organs were dead, and he was unable to return to the sky, Chu Qi was too lazy to explain, and felt that the family was hopeless, so he stood up and prepared to leave.
Li Quanfu threw his hands forward, and cried on the ground: "Dao Ye is merciful, Dao Ye is merciful, I and my wife, childhood sweethearts have been more than 70 years now, I feel uncomfortable when I see her like this." Dao Ye... "Dao Ye" Li Quanfu picked up Chu Qi's Dao robe, and said with a handful of snot and tears: "The villain is brave, the villain is brave and begs the Dao Master, and begs the Dao Master to give me the elixir, so that I, my wife, don't be so painful." ”
Chu Qi looked down at Li Fuquan, seeing that he was sincere, his snot and tears were smeared, although he was a little exaggerated, but it didn't seem to be contrived, he groaned for a long time, found a pill from the placket, and said, "Give it to your wife, you can end this pain." ”
Li Quanfu took it with both hands, knocked his head with a bang, and said in his mouth: "Thank you, thank you, thank you." ”
Chu Qi turned around and flashed over, but this kowtow was not accepted.
Li Quanfu held the pill in both hands and pressed his face up. The body of Dan is jade white, containing a faint luster, smelling it, only to feel that the smell is clean and elegant, which is refreshing. Li Fuquan was excited, peeked at it, and saw that there was no one outside the house, so he sent the pill to his mouth with a "whoosh", and swallowed it before he could chew it. Li Quanfu closed his eyes, feeling the transparency of his limbs, his mood was extremely comfortable, and he admired the efforts he had made before, which were indeed not in vain.
Li Quanfu was intoxicated, his wrist was clutched, and when he looked at it, it was the old lady in the haystack, who actually woke up at this time, humming in his mouth, but he couldn't speak, and his eyes were full of resentment.
"You old immortal, don't blame me for eating your elixir. You also heard it, Dao Ye said that you can't go back to heaven, it's better to cheapen me and let me live a few more years old man. Moreover, this elixir is not simple, after taking it, I feel dozens of years younger, maybe I will embark on the road of cultivation from now on, and when the time comes, I will burn more paper money at your grave, and you can go with peace of mind. ”
The old woman hummed and persevered, Li Quanfu turned his heart sideways, held on to the earthen wall, and kicked down with one foot.
"You are old and immortal, you are old and immortal, I see that you will not die, I will not die if you will die, whoever dares to hinder me from becoming an immortal cultivator, I will let him die a good death, not a good death. After a few steps, the old woman let go of her fingers and was out of breath. Li Quanfu was so angry that he almost couldn't get up, so he secretly glanced outside the house, saw that there was no one, and sat down softly against the earthen wall.
"Wife, wife, why did you leave like this, ahhhh
"Mother, mother, mother......" Seeing this, Jing Lihua hurriedly ran to the ground and called Li Youfu back, Li Youfu touched his tears left and right, crying very sadly, but he didn't take a step forward, and he was about to stand at the door.
Li Xiangzhi heard the crying, walked out in a daze, looked at the situation, understood what was happening, covered her mouth and cried. Although I don't have much to do with my grandmother, I can't help but be sad when I know that my relatives have passed away.
Chu Qi stood beside him and watched silently. The old man's time is short, and he is happy from suffering earlier, and he suffers less from living sins, but he is separated from suffering but sad.
There was no money and silver in the family to do white things, so they only invited people from the township and neighbors to help carry the corpse, and each person was given two dollars of food, and everyone was smiling.
Chu Qi asked: "Everyone is a cropper, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, the mountains and rivers here are rich, how can they be so short of food, everyone is malnourished." ”
Li Quanfu said while crying: "Dao... Master Dao, don't you want to shake me, don't you know this. ”
Li Quanfu was tired from kneeling, changed his posture and sat cross-legged, and said: "Our source township belongs to Cangtou Town, Jiulong County, Longjiang County, Qianlong Prefecture, and Jialan Kingdom. There are hundreds of states and counties in the country, and there are countless towns and villages, all of which are under the rule of the royal family. If a man wants to occupy his land, he must give his food, if he wants to live in his house, he must sacrifice a weak woman, if he wants to cook his fish, he must cut your flesh, and if he wants to cut his grain, he must take your life, unless he ......."
"Unless what..."Chu Qiqi said.
"Unless it's a monastic. Li Quanfu looked left and right, and whispered: "After all, this royal family is just the royal family of the Daomen, like the Fengcheng Mansion, but the exercise of the Daomen is ordered, if you meet a cultivator, how dare you be blatant and powerful." Suddenly, he suddenly apologized: "Dao Ye forgives sins, Dao Ye forgives sins, villain... The villain lost his words, the villain lost his words. ”
"You know a lot. ”
Li Quanfu smiled flatteringly: "When the villain was young, he worked as an errand outside, so he knew a little more. Our situation is roughly the same everywhere, and the Taoist is not surprised. ”
Chu Qi let out a faint "oh", and sighed secretly in his heart, people are not as good as dogs.