Although Xiaobao was amused by Wang Tao's sloppy apprenticeship, he didn't bother him, but first put away the few pages of secret art fragments that had been left on the ground before, and then turned around and came to his side again: "Brother Wang Tao, when are you going to knock your head down?" ”

"What do you mean?" Wang Tao turned around and asked puzzled.

Xiaobao pointed to the portrait on the wall: "In case the ancestor on the portrait doesn't speak for a year, do you still have to kowtow here for a year?" Besides, even if Master Zu is willing to take you as an apprentice, how can he teach you skills? Do you want him to jump out of the painting and teach you? ”

Frankly speaking, as for whether the ancestor in the portrait can be revealed at any time, in fact, Xiaobao has no bottom in his heart, because he knows that the ancestor is just a wisp of remnant soul now.

I remember that the old Taoist priest once told him that the remnant soul refers to a wisp of incomplete soul that is isolated after a person dies, and of course it can also be called a lonely soul.

At this moment, the old Taoist priest only relied on the power of Taoism to protect this remnant soul, and hid it in the picture scroll all day long, so that he could keep his soul alive.

Not to mention the limited mana of his remnant soul, he is always facing being found to hide by the difficult monster before, and if he doesn't get it right, his soul will be scattered.

In this way, Master Zu's current situation is not optimistic at all, he himself is facing many difficulties, how can he have extra energy to accept an apprentice as stupid as Wang Tao?

Xiaobao thought evilly in his heart: If Master Zu really dared to accept Wang Tao's stupid apprentice, it is estimated that eighty percent of his angry soul would be scattered.

When he was in deep thought, Wang Tao had already gotten up from the ground, only to see him move a shabby wooden table in a hurry, and put incense burners, water and other things to worship on it.

I thought he was just joking, but seeing his seriousness, Xiaobao couldn't help but grab his arm suspiciously, and once again confirmed whether he really wanted to apprentice.

Wang Tao said seriously, "Whoever lied to you is a puppy." ”

After saying this, he told Xiaobao about his motives for injuring the yellow skin in the first place, according to him, his concept of hating such a thing as a yellow skin is deep-rooted, and I am afraid that it will not change in this life.

If you want to say why he hates the yellow skin thing to the core, the source of the matter can be traced back to six years ago.

In other words, six years ago, there was a severe drought in Tuli Village, and the grain output was extremely low, and there were many children in every family in the countryside, so life was even more difficult.

I remember that the most children in the village at that time were Zhou Guangcai's family, counting him and his wife, a total of 11 people.

With so many mouths waiting to eat, how could there be enough food to eat with just the little food obtained from farming, there was no way, Zhou Guangcai had to lead a large family up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and come back to satisfy hunger.

But don't forget, every family has a hard time, so things like picking wild vegetables have long been watched by all the villagers.

After a long time, not to mention wild vegetables, even fresh weeds are becoming less and less, and the villagers are hungry, so they are forced to stuff even weeds and bark into their stomachs like jujubes, in order to prolong the onset of hunger.

Just when the whole village of Tuli Village fell into gloom, Zhou Guangcai's mother-in-law became pregnant again at this juncture.

For this upcoming child, Zhou Guangcai can't say whether he is happy or worried, although his mood is very complicated, but since his mother-in-law is pregnant, he has to give birth, even if he smashes the pot and sells iron, he has to raise it, because after all, this is a major event related to the rise and fall of the entire family.

At that time, rural people valued the number of heirs the most, and whether a family was prosperous or not, it had to be said according to the head.

may be bound by this kind of thinking, even when he was about to run out of food, Zhou Guangcai still decided to give birth to this child......

When Zhou Guangcai's tenth child, his youngest son, was born, the whole family fell into a brief period of joy.

To say that this little son was white and chubby when he was just born, especially the pair of big eyes that flashed very cute, plus he was the youngest son in the family, so Zhou Guangcai loved him outside.

But after a short period of joy, Zhou Guangcai began to worry, the life of the whole family was already hard enough, and he added a new ding to his home, so where should the rations for the younger son come from?

As soon as he thought of this headache, Zhou Guangcai couldn't sleep at night, he stayed by his youngest son's side for several nights, but he began to secretly calculate in his heart: To say that this Tu Grain Village is just a very ordinary remote village among the many small villages in the north, not only the roads are rugged and difficult, but also the products are not rich, so it is a really poor village.

Especially when it comes to this day of drought, the life of the old and young in the village is not easy, almost every family has not enough food to eat, so it seems that Tuli Village has no resources to ensure the survival of the family, so...

Yes! I can take a long-term view! If Tuli Village can't support a large family, then maybe there may be some way out of the town or county town outside of this to make a living!

After making up his mind, the next day, Zhou Guangcai carried two corn buns and a pot of water with a pot of water, and went straight to the town and county seat outside Tuli Village.

His idea is actually very simple, as long as he can get a relatively stable job, it is enough to earn some rations to support his family.

Although his requirements were not high, who knew that he went to several shops to find a job, but they were all refused.

It's good to politely decline, but once he meets a short-tempered person, Zhou Guangcai will inevitably be scolded angrily, and his punches and kicks will be light.

Just when Zhou Guangcai was beaten and kicked out of the store, he happened to be met by a passerby.

This person helped Zhou Guangcai up, asked the reason for the matter, and finally recommended him to go to Wu Yuanwai's house in the town to try it, saying that Wu Yuanwai's family was recruiting family members recently, and he might be able to take the test.

Zhou Guangcai, who was already disheartened, saw that there was still a turn for the better, and after thanking this person, he went straight to the nearby town without stopping.

Xu was lucky, or because Wu Yuanwai was in a hurry to recruit people, Zhou Guangcai went there to explain his intentions, and was soon recruited into the Wu family as a housekeeper.

He said that he was a housekeeper, but in fact, he did all the dirty work.

However, Zhou Guangcai didn't care about this, what he cared about was a considerable amount of money and food every month.

With the support of this money and food, the living expenses of the whole family have finally been settled.

It didn't take long for Zhou Guangcai to be promoted to a kitchen helper because of his serious and careful work.

went to the back kitchen, Zhou Guangcai was secretly surprised, he didn't expect that in this year of famine, the rich family was still rich in food and clothing, and even some wine and meat were about to become moldy.

So after a long time, Zhou Guangcai secretly took some leftover wine and food from the back kitchen home to improve the poor life of the family.

Even in the days when there was a shortage of food and clothing in Tuli Village, Zhou Guangcai's food was still good.

With the continuous improvement of Zhou Guangcai's cooking skills, so much so that the Wu family's later banquets were all in charge of him alone.

Zhou Guangcai became famous, and even in these surrounding villages, no matter which one organizes the banquet, the first thing he can think of is to ask him to help with the kitchen, and afterwards as a thank you, the employer always has to give him some food as a reward, which is an important reason why their family can barely solve the problem of food and clothing.

Zhou Guangcai is kind-hearted and has the ability to solve his own food and clothing, and at the same time, he often distributes the food brought out from Wu Yuanwai's house to all the people in the village.

It is also for this reason that Zhou Guangcai has an excellent reputation in Tuli Village, and whenever people mention him, they will always say something grateful to him from the bottom of their hearts.

But who knows, it is such a kind-hearted and simple honest man, but recently encountered a strange incident, and he had to talk about it from a few days ago.

It was noon on a sunny day, Zhou Guangcai helped the villagers in the neighboring village to finish a wedding banquet, and on the way back home with some food, he encountered a weasel from the crack in the stone to block the road, and Zhou Guangcai was startled when he was defenseless, and only after relieving himself did he bend down and pick up a stone to scare the weasel away.

Looking at the back of the weasel fleeing in the wilderness, Zhou Guangcai couldn't help but feel funny, it seems that there is really a shortage of food these years, but he didn't expect a little weasel to dare to come out and block the road and rob.

Although there was such a small episode halfway, Zhou Guangcai didn't care, and still happily carried the food and went straight home to return.

That night, Zhou Guangcai personally cooked a good meal, mixed with the wine and food he got back at noon, and put it on the table.

These dishes are very rare in ordinary farmhouses, because there are five plates of meat dishes on the table.

At that time, the rural conditions were very difficult, and there was not enough food to eat, let alone eat meat.

As expected, this meal was a happy meal, full of oil, and it was also a rare full meal.

At night, when everyone fell asleep, the youngest son suddenly cried without warning, Zhou Guang just wanted to go over and hug him, but who knew that he was bitten on the arm by the youngest son.

Caught off guard, Zhou Guangcai was bitten firmly, and Zhou Guangcai, who was in pain, gasped from the bottom of his heart, and had no choice but to shake off his youngest son, and then jumped off the ground from the kang in a panic.

The cry of the youngest son woke up the family a long time ago, and everyone gathered around to take a look, only to see the baby scanning everyone with a fierce look, as if he was looking for the next target to bite.

The younger son's crazy appearance frightened the family, and although everyone thought that something was wrong, they had no clue.

Zhou Guangcai also muttered in his heart: What's going on? Could it be that this baby has provoked something unclean?

The reason why Zhou Guangcai thinks this way is because there are often similar strange incidents in the village, and with those previous half-understood experiences, the first thought in Zhou Guangcai's mind is that his youngest son is entangled in something unclean.

Standing in place and carefully looking at his youngest son's eyes full of hatred, Zhou Guangcai became more sure of his previous thoughts, and only then did he realize the seriousness of the matter.