058 Is it brain-dead or a liar?

Not long after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Bai Poria reluctantly said goodbye to Lu Ying, and the Bai family's motorcade set off for the capital.

It should be said that a family of three does not carry much luggage, but there are a lot of people with it, so the number of carriages, horses, etc. is a little scary.

Only eight of the eighteen guard leaders of the Bai family were left to guard Baili Mountain, and the remaining ten all set off with the team, and they also brought their respective disciples a total of fifty people, twenty chief stewards, hired workers and male servants including Bai Pingzi and Fang Hai, as well as sixteen female stewards and maids, and a total of ninety-nine people even the three members of the Bai family.

Except for the thirty people who rode horses, the rest of the people were in the carriage, plus luggage and sundries, a full fifteen carriages. Bai Pingzi took two servants to take care of the food and lodging along the road in advance, and the convoy followed slowly behind.

The servants of the Bai family are all well-trained, and the three members of the Bai family basically don't have to bother, and all the big and small things are properly arranged.

With such a huge convoy, it is difficult to keep a low profile, it is okay within a radius of 100 miles from Beiguan City, there are basically few cottage thieves under Lu Ying's control, even if the general bandits have never heard of the name of the Bai family, they dare not provoke when they see the Bai family guards on horses who look very difficult to get along with.

There was nothing to say all the way, and on the third day after leaving Beiguan City, he gradually left Lu Ying's sphere of influence, and the road began to be uncalm, and there were often small groups of robbers who wanted to attack them, but the Bai family's guards were not vegetarians, so Bai Poria only watched a few more "martial arts movies" by chance to relieve her boredom.

On this day, the convoy finally left Yongzhou, where Beiguancheng is located, and entered Lushan Town, the first village in Pingzhou.

The town is small, with only a wide dirt road that runs from the beginning to the end, and all the shops in the town are gathered on both sides of the road. The arrival of the Bai family attracted the curious attention of many people in the town.

There is not even a decent inn here, Bai Pingzi rented a few vacant houses of the rich in the town, and asked someone to clean the house well, prepare fresh meat, vegetables and rice grains, after Bai Poria they arrived, the maids took out the pillow quilt and made the bed, boiled water and waited for their family of three to wash up, served tea, and sent a delicious meal after sitting for a while.

Bai Poria praised the ability of the stewards and maids, and finally praised her leadership well, and finally even her father and mother couldn't stand her narcissism, and sent the maids to eat by themselves, so she gave up.

Because Bai Poria "since childhood" did not like to have people watching her family when she was eating, so in informal occasions, a family of three never had to be served by a maid when eating, nor did she pay attention to food and sleep, and the three of them chatted and ate freely, and were happy.

Not long after they finished eating, they suddenly heard a commotion outside the house, and Hongqu walked in to report: "There is a mother and daughter outside, saying that they are passing through here, and their father is seriously ill and died...... Ask the young lady to be fulfilled. ”

Bai Poria glared and said: "Don't buy it, this kind of obviously bad brain and willing to degenerate, what do you buy it for." ”

The red yeast was suffocated, and Mu Peilan, who was a mother, couldn't help but poke her daughter's forehead, and said righteously: "People sell themselves to bury their fathers, but they are filial piety, how can you say that you are willing to fall?" ”

"Isn't that how filial piety is expressed, her father and mother finally raised her as an adult, is it that she was asked to sell herself as a slave for such a little difficulty, and she can't hold her head up for the rest of her life?" White Poria disagreed.

It makes sense to say this, but the red yeast still can't turn a corner, but the look of disagreement on her face can't be hidden, but she can't hide it if she has ten dares to confront Bai Poria in front of the Bai couple.

Bai Poria glanced at her and said, "I know you must be unconvinced, you think that she should be responsible for her father's funeral and it is very difficult, right?" ”

Of course, it was impossible to answer yes to the red yeast, so I had to remain silent timidly.

Bai Poria said: "To be a man and do things, you have to do what you can, if you have money, you can naturally bury your father, and if you don't have money, buy a coffin, and carve a wooden tablet is good." How much does an ordinary thin plate coffin cost plus a board to make a wooden tablet? It doesn't cost 500 yuan! Selling yourself as a slave for such a small amount of money, isn't it brainless? ”

What she said has a point, but in terms of customs and feelings, most children in this era hope to be able to let their father settle in peace and prosperity for filial piety.

Hongyi couldn't think of how to refute her "crooked reasoning", so she said: "As the saying goes, a penny forces a good man to death, and they really can't even take out 500 yuan, so what should they do?" ”

"Cold salad!" Bai Poria said angrily: "Two people with good hands and feet, neither encountered a famine nor landed in any wilderness, and they can't even earn 500 yuan in this town, and they can't do it very much, what do such people buy for?" Don't say any nonsense about the inconvenience of women to show their heads, they are going to sell themselves into slavery, and they are afraid of showing their heads?! As long as you find a temporary worker such as a laundry maid and the head of the household in this place, it is not very difficult to sign the work deed and ask for a salary of 500 yuan on credit. Hum! I think it's fake to sell my body to bury my father, and it's true to take the opportunity to win people's sympathy and cheat money, or to find a family to eat and drink for nothing! ”

Now the Bai couple and the red yeast have no words, and after thinking about it calmly, the more I think about it, the more I feel that what Bai Poria said is reasonable.

When people are faced with the weak for help, they are always prone to habitual sympathy for assistance, and rarely consider the problems and truths behind their humble weakness.

Hongqu put away his soft heart and paused and said: "I'll let people send them away, so that they don't have to cry outside." ”

Mu Peilan said: "Ling'er, we have to make merit anyway, why don't we help them by the way, just a little money, let's make a good fate." The closer she got to her daughter's "deadline", the more uneasy Mu Peilan became, and she always had a glimmer of hope - maybe King Jizo Bodhisattva would give her daughter another miracle when he saw that their family had done a lot of merit? So recently, she has been doing good deeds without blinking, and her enthusiasm has been unprecedentedly high.

Bai Poria was also unwilling to disobey her mother for this little thing, so she wrinkled her nose and said, "Then you can take a tael of silver for them and send them away." ”

Mu Peilan shook her head: "If it's a good deed, let's give a little more, they also need some money to turn over after the funeral." ”

Bai Lingbian flattened her mouth and said, "I'm afraid that this money will come too easily, which will make them crooked." Although she does not fully agree with the law of the jungle, she always thinks in her heart that people who do not know self-improvement and self-reliance in adversity are not worthy of help, even if they are eliminated, they deserve it.

And instead of receiving the gratitude of the recipients, the rotten good people usually stimulate their greed. So she never helps people regardless of pay, everyone who is subsidized and cultivated by the Bai family, sheltered and cared for, must give the Bai family material or labor remuneration in some way within her ability, but that's all, the Bai family will not ask for more, and never expect to help people, people must always remember their kindness, and always be ready to go to the soup and fire to repay for a lifetime.

In Bai Poria's view, saving people is just a task, a transaction, and even a career, which does not involve any emotional likes and dislikes, only the difference between completion and failure.

"Then listen to you, just one or two." Mu Peilan nodded and said, for so many years, as long as their daughter insisted, the two couples were accustomed to accommodating.

Hongyi took the order and left, and soon came back with a bitter face: "The two mothers and daughters refused to leave, saying that they were grateful for the kindness of the old lady and had to stay to repay the kindness......"

Bai Poria looked proud: "I'll just say it, and sure enough, I fell on it!" Hum! ”

Red yeast rice is difficult: "Do you really want to turn your face and drive people away...... These people, how can this be? ”

"No, just tell them to hurry up and go to the funeral, and come here to find us when they're done." Bai Poria said with a smile.

"Huh?!" Red Yeast understood that Bai Poria was planning to release their pigeons, but this was also a good way to get rid of their entanglement without being verbose, so she smiled and went.

"This little girl is still too tender!" Seeing that she was walking away, Bai Poria turned her head sideways and said to her father.

"It's you, you're a big ghost! I don't know where you got so many crooked theories! Mu Peilan's mouth fell, and the expression on her face was clearly proud, such a smart and precocious daughter was born to her!

The episode of selling himself to bury his father passed like this, and no one in the Bai family paid attention to it, but at dawn the next day, when they were about to leave, they were very surprised to see the two mothers and daughters in front of the door.

The eldest of these two mothers and daughters is about thirty years old, and the younger one is slightly older than Bai Poria, with upright facial features, but her eyes look a little fluttering, and she looks bitter, and Chu Chu pitifully threw herself at her feet and cried when she saw the red yeast.

Bai Poria was just going out to get into the car, and when she saw this scene, she said impatiently: "You must follow, then follow." ”

The two mothers and daughters sobbed and stopped their tears, stepped forward and respectfully kowtowed to Bai Poria three times, and obediently followed Hongqu to the car behind.

Bai Poria said to Bai Shao, who came with her, "Do you think they are strange? ”

Bai Peony is a lot older than Bai Guo, and her temperament has never been cold and silent, so naturally she will not ask her "what's strange" as much as Bai Guo, just quietly watch her and wait for her next step.

Bai Poria was bored, and automatically revealed the mystery and said: "They were too calm when they saw me, and they didn't know that they thought they had seen me a long time ago." ”

It's okay to say this narcissistically, but I have to admit that it is indeed the truth, Bai Poria's appearance is the people who are used to seeing around her, and sometimes they are unconsciously stunned, not to mention the two country women who meet for the first time?

Bai Shao frowned, and said matter-of-factly: "They don't know martial arts. If she hadn't seen this, she wouldn't have been able to let these two women get close to Bai Poria at all.

"A liar is a spy or something, and he can do martial arts." Bai Poria winked at Bai Shao and said, "Go ask Fang Hai to get some of that medicine, we'll be prepared!" ”