We all watched blankly as the principal finished worshipping Master Zu and sat down opposite us again.

We waited with bated breath for the principal's next move.

I saw the principal re-glance at the three dishes in front of us, nodded, and asked:

"Are you ready?"

The fat man nodded hurriedly:

"Mmmm, ready, Headmaster, we've been ready for a long time."

"Okay, then let's get started! Choose carefully, you know? ”

However, the fat man didn't care if he was cautious or not, and immediately brought the plate of steamed whitebait worth seven or eight thousand to himself, picked up the chopsticks, and stuffed it into the sea.

Xiaobai, they also started one after another.

But at this time, I saw that Teacher Liu Ke, Teacher Jiu Fengzhe, and our principal, all of them stretched out their heads and looked at the few of them with solemn faces.

Even though they tried to suppress their emotions, I could see that they were nervous.

It's strange, we're eating, what are you nervous about?

After Xiaobai and the others had almost finished eating a plate, they all turned their heads in unison and focused their eyes on me.

That's when I realized that so far, I'm the only one who hasn't moved my chopsticks.

Anyway, if I don't eat it again, looking at the headmaster's sharp eyes, I'm afraid my heart will be eaten.

But I really didn't dare to eat snake meat, and I didn't want to eat whitebait, so I had no choice but to eat braised pork.

But looking at those pieces of greasy and fat meat, I really don't have an appetite!

As soon as I gritted my teeth, I grabbed the smallest piece of braised pork, put it in my mouth, and swallowed it into my stomach without chewing it.

Okay, I'll eat it!

But what I didn't expect was that the principal and Teacher Liu Ke Jiu Fengzhe's faces changed drastically, and even I saw that Teacher Jiu Fengzhe clenched his fists and hammered hard at the stool sitting under him.

What's going on!

I don't eat and you're not satisfied, why do I eat, you're still not satisfied!

What do you want me to be satisfied?

Suddenly I felt that this was not a dinner, but a Hongmen banquet.

There is no return!

"No, no, it's not like this, it shouldn't be like this, it must be something wrong, something wrong."

At this moment, the headmaster suddenly screamed inexplicably, not knowing whether it was disappointed, angry, or angry.

The fat man who was eating the last piece of snake meat on the side was so frightened that he quickly swallowed it into his stomach, and asked meaningfully:

"What's wrong, Headmaster? What's wrong? Is there another dish that you forgot to make? It's okay, it's okay, we'll just wait, you go and do it! ”

However, the headmaster did not pay attention to the fat man, but stared at the plate of dishes left in front of us, and fell into deep thought.

But the headmaster's face became more and more ugly, and it took him five minutes to get up, turn around, and enter the dining room again.

"I'll just say, there should be a dish, the principal really treats us well."

The fat man looked like a foodie, and as he spoke, he secretly took a piece of my plate of snake meat and stuffed it into his mouth.

It didn't take long for the headmaster to come out of the cafeteria, not with any new dishes, but with a bunch of things.

Seven pieces of yellow paper, one word by one, were placed in front of the seven of us, and then with a brush, dipped in cinnabar, write and draw on the yellow paper symbols, I don't know what is written, and I can't understand what is drawn.

When he had finished writing, the headmaster put his things away and said to us:

"Pick it up, one for each person."

I took the talisman in my hand, and only then did I see the appearance of the yellow paper talisman.

I really can't understand what kind of charm is drawn on it, it's similar to the yellow paper charm we see in TV and movies, but I'm sure it's not a corpse charm, and it's not a ghost charm.

But I understood the following line:

Lonely, young, poor.

Lonely, short-lived, poor.

Isn't this the fate of snakes, silverfish, and pigs!

I turned my head to look at the talisman in the fat man's hand, it was exactly the same, and there were also these three words underneath.

What do you mean?

What to do?

I saw Yang Bin Wenjie and them, like me, they were also confused, and they didn't know what was going on.

But I made a special observation of Xiaobai.

Xiaobai seemed to have expected such a thing to happen, put down the yellow paper talisman in his hand, and still calmly ate the plate of fried snake meat in front of him.

It seems that this Xiaobai is really a person with a story!

Since we don't understand, we have to listen to the principal.

But before the principal could speak, he was interrupted by Teacher Liu Ke:

"Senior brother, does it have to be like this?"

This is the first time we have heard Mr. Liu Ke call the principal, it seems that although Maoshan Zhengdao has been changed to Maoshan College, Mr. Liu Ke's title to the head of Maoshan Zhengdao has not changed.

And this also let us know the relationship between Mr. Liu Ke and the principal:

Senior brothers, senior brothers of the same sect.

What about Mr. Jiufeng?

I guess it's the headmaster's younger brother.

It's just that what does Teacher Liu Ke mean by what he said to the principal?

Does it have to be this way?

What does it have to be?

As I was thinking about it, I heard the headmaster say to us with a look of hatred that iron is not made of steel:

"What if not?

You look at a few of them, what they look like, one by one.

One doesn't eat anything.

One eats everything.

The rest eat indiscriminately without understanding anything.

Don't you think about it before you eat it!

Didn't I tell you to choose carefully!

I talk so much, don't you listen!

You guys are joking with your fate, you know! ”

I heard my head buzzing.

Mr. Chancellor, could you please explain this clearly?

We, we're still kids.

Our thinking can't keep up with your rhythm!

What is this?

I, the fat man Yang Bin Wenjie, and Yin Mo, the two rich second generations, could only stare at each other with big eyes and not say a word.

The headmaster was helpless and finally said slowly:

We are on the right path in Maoshan, and every disciple of Maoshan needs to choose their lives when they enter the Tao.

The so-called choice of life is actually the choice of "life shortage":

Lonely, young, poor.

Must get a word!

To be lonely is to never marry, to be lonely and helpless all your life, to have no wife, no children and no daughters, and to endure the pain of misery.

Young, that is, died young, rich and noble for half a life, no matter how hard the life is, it can't escape the fate of early death.

Poverty is a lifetime of poverty, no money and no wealth, suffering from lack of food and clothing.

This is also the price paid by every Maoshan Taoist priest when the ancestor traded with the underworld, in exchange for the conditions for the people of the yang world to increase their lifespan. ”

It dawned on me that what the aunt next door and teacher said in class was that the price paid by the Maoshan Taoist priest and the underworld to increase the life span of the people in the underworld was these three.

But where is the price, this is human life!

Lonely, young, poor, which is not asking for human life.

At this time, I understood why the Taoist priests we saw in TV series and movies were either lonely, died young, or were poor, it turned out that they chose to die.

The principal went on to say:

"Each generation of Maoshan disciples chooses their lives by choosing snake meat, whitebait meat, and pork, snake meat represents the lonely life, whitebait represents the untimely life, and pork represents the poor life.

The original Maoshan disciples' choice of life, said to be a choice of life, is actually carried out in a kind of unconscious, unconsciously, three dishes, which dish to eat first, which life is chosen.

Although it is said that the disciple chooses his life, others are not allowed to interfere, but gradually later, as a master, he does not want to see the disciple regret after choosing his life, so he tries his best to remind him to be cautious, cautious, and must be cautious before choosing.

But you little rabbits, I told you to be cautious and choose carefully, and in vain I still told you about snakes, silverfish, and pigs, and I told you about fun? Don't listen to them all, don't eat, eat them all, eat indiscriminately! ”

Pay attention to your identity, Principal Lady, and pay attention to your identity!

The little bunnies are all out, and if they continue to talk about it, they may be able to say some swear words.

You are not much different from a resentful woman now, and the image of the majestic temperament formed at the welcome party yesterday has been ruined.

Still, I was scared by the headmaster's words.

It's a little scary to think about.

If it weren't for the fact that the principal had just stopped me from giving my two snake meat and whitebait to the fat man, and if it hadn't been for Mr. Liu Ke sending those two dishes back to my table, my fate would have been decided by the fat man.

No wonder, no wonder the aunt next door and the teacher said to us earnestly when they were about to get out of class, eat well, eat more, eat carefully.

It's no wonder that the headmaster told us a lot of things that didn't seem to make any sense.

No wonder Mr. Liu Ke said that he eats his own things and cannot be replaced.

It turns out that all this is a reminder to us to choose our lives carefully.

"It turns out that we didn't eat vegetables......"

"It's a lonely ......"

Before I could finish talking to myself, I was interrupted by a fat man.

"Lonely your sister, you heartless foodie, your life is going to be gone, and you still have the heart to joke!"

The fat man stuck out his tongue, and then listened to the headmaster's words:

"But everything in the world is given and gained, and since it is a lack of life, there will naturally be life to make up.

People who choose to live alone, have no worries in their lives, have few desires, and can concentrate on cultivating the Tao, this kind of person often does not worry about money, the Tao is profound, and he will naturally live a long life, which is also the choice of the vast majority of people who pursue the Tao, for example, your teacher Liu.

People who choose to die have the original lifespan of a lifetime, but it has been converted into half a life, creating half a life of wealth and wealth, and there is no shortage of fame and fortune, but no matter how developed they are, they can't change the fate of dying after all.

As for the person who chooses to live a poor life, although he can marry a wife and have children, he is poor all his life, and he has no clothes, and in the end he will only end up in a violent corpse wilderness, but this kind of person is also the person with the highest Taoism, and his lifelong poverty has honed his will, lamented the injustice of fate, and practiced a super high Taoism, such as ......"

As he spoke, the principal glanced at Mr. Jiu Fengzhe, but then flashed and changed the topic:

"But everything is not relative, maybe you chose Lonely, but you just committed a bad life, all of this, can not escape a "life" word, in the final analysis, all this, must be decided by your life. ”

I kind of understand, the headmaster is not satisfied with the fate of a few of us.