Long road to the north, there is a shop with cloth and bamboo poles on the side of the road, the shop sells tea, and the tea seller is an old man. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The stone's hair was long and unkempt, and it was covered with animal skins and no cotton at all, like a wild man coming out of the mountains. Stone swaggered and sat down on a stool, imitating the people of the city and shouting, "Serve tea." ”

The old man didn't pay much attention to the appearance of the stone, and carried a large pot and poured him a large bowl of hot tea.

The wind and dust rushed all the way, and he was already thirsty, so he hurriedly drank it, poured it into it violently, spit it out, and hurriedly stuck out his tongue, and kept fanning the wind with his hands. This tea is too hot, enough to scald the pork skin.

The old man was amused by the stone.

The stone slapped the table and said, "What are you laughing at?!"

"You little devil, you still have such a hot temper. ”

"Hurry up and add tea. The stone squinted at the old man.

"Didn't your father teach you to respect your elders?"

"My mom and dad died. ”

"It's pitiful that my father and mother are dead, so are you going to go to your relatives?"

"I have no relatives, I'm going to Donglai Mountain to learn art. ”

The old man laughed and said, "Donglai Mountain is in the east, but you are going north, you have heard of the north and south, but you have not heard of the east and the north." ”

"I don't know that Donglai Mountain is on the east side, isn't there a half-sea lake? ”

"Little ghost, where are you from?"

"Zhangzhou City. ”

"Zhangzhou City?" the old man thought for a while, added a new bowl of tea to the stone, and continued, "Zhangzhou City is five thousand miles away from here, and you came here by yourself?"

"What else would it be, I could still fly here?" the stone held the tea and kept blowing, hoping to drink it sooner.

"How can you walk 5,000 miles alone, not to mention what you eat, how did you come here with those 800 miles of mountains and rivers?"

"I can't fly if I crawl here. ”

"Then why didn't you fall to your death?" the old man began to carefully look the stone up and down.

"How do you talk, old man?"

"Don't call the old man, call me master!"

"Old man, do you want to teach me a lesson?" the stone slammed the bowl and glared at the old man. The hot temper of the stone can be fried at a point, and there is no room for the slightest grievance. If you can't beat a strong man who grabs a horse, can you still be afraid of an old man?

The old man didn't know where to take out a rattan and immediately hit the stone's body, and said: "Little ghost, your father and mother didn't have time to teach you the rules when they died, I'll teach you the rules." ”

The stone immediately stopped doing it, and immediately pulled out the firewood knife from his waist, but before he could take out the firewood knife, the old man's rattan hit it on the wrist again. If an ordinary child immediately let go of the firewood knife in pain, but the stone, who had experienced a fight with wild beasts, still pulled out the firewood knife in pain after receiving a rattan stick. But even if he drew the wood knife, it would be useless, the rattan kept falling on his wrist, and the stone had no chance to cut the old man.

Shi originally wanted to pull out the firewood knife to scare the old man, but after receiving so many whips from the old man, he really became angry and said loudly: "Old man, I really cut you!"

The old man laughed and said, "You can pay for the broken cup, and it is light to hit you twice, and I will keep you to work here." ”

When the stone heard this, he became even more angry, and immediately slashed at the old man.

The old man hit the wrist of the stone with a rattan, but this time he used full strength, and the wrist of the stone hit directly did not have a trace of sensation, and the firewood knife in the hand of the stone fell to the ground with a "clang".

"Boy, be honest and help me sell tea, or this rattan will always fall on you. ”

"Don't deceive too much, old man!" said Shishi, who was about to pick up the wood knives on the ground.

"I want you to learn the rules. The old man said and struck him with rattan again.

The stone was really on fire, one grabbed the rattan, and with the other hand, he picked up the firewood knife and cut it at the old man. The old man gently pushed, skillfully pulled the rattan and pulled the stone to the ground, and the old man immediately took a step forward and bent his knees against the stone. The stone was crushed by the old man, and he couldn't move a bit. The old man immediately searched the body of the stone, except for some air-dried meat, only the token that the middle-aged man gave to the stone, and the old man immediately carried it in his arms, and then got up.

As soon as the old man got up, the stone immediately jumped up, and when he came up to recapture the token, the old man flashed and made the stone flutter into the air.

"It seems that you still value this token. The old man took the token and shook it in the air.

The stone glared at the old man, his eyes seemed to be about to kill, and others would definitely be afraid of this beast-like look, but the old man was not afraid at all.

The old man looked into the eyes of the stone, and knew that no matter how much he struck, he would not be obedient, so he said: "Boy, aren't you going to Donglai Mountain? As long as you listen to me and work hard here, I will show you a way, and you can reach Donglai Mountain in just one month." If you go this way, it will take you at least a year to reach Donglai Mountain. ”

Shi snorted coldly and said, "I will leave myself, I don't need you to teach, return my token." ”

"You little devil, why don't you listen to persuasion?"

"Give me back the token, or I'll set fire to your shop!"

"Boy, you are really a stone in a pit -- smelly and hard! First of all, you are disrespectful to people, and secondly, if you break my tea bowl, you will have to pay for it, and if you do it, you will have to bear it, what is wrong with me leaving you to work here to pay off your debts? You actually have murderous intentions towards me, you have such murderous intentions at such a young age, and you threaten me to burn my shop, what a scourge!"

The stone stood upright and stared at the old man, his eyes almost popping out.

"Give back your token!" the old man took out the token from his bosom and threw it at the stone. "Let's go, the farther away from me as a scourge like yours, the better. ”

The stone picked up the wood knife on the ground and walked forward without saying a word.

The old man looked at the back of the stone, and his body trembled with anger, but he hoped that the stone would turn around and come back, and he hoped that the child would follow his teachings. The old man was a soldier in his early years, never married a wife and had children, and lived alone for so many years. The old man felt that the stone was very similar to him when he was young, and he was as violent and fierce as a cow, and he wanted to teach the stone some truths.

The older people are, the more they want to teach others the truth of being a man, which is not a good teacher, but looking at people younger than themselves, I can't help but want to guide them to take fewer detours, which is just a kind of regret for myself.

The stone walked for a long time, and finally turned back to the old man's shop, and the old man couldn't help but smile when he saw the stone come back.

"Boy, why are you back?"

"I can do the work for you, but you have to tell me how to get to Donglai Mountain in a month. "Shi Shi is not a stupid person, if he can reach Donglai Mountain in a month, he is willing to work here for three months.

"Good. The old man agreed.

......

The stone was eating, gobbling it up, as if someone would steal food from him, and the old man was smoking a cigarette and looking at the stone with a smile.

"You eat slowly, starving to death?!"

For the first time in his life, Shi knew what it was like to eat.

The old man spit a puff of cigarette on the face of the stone, choked on the stone and coughed, and the old man was happy when he saw the embarrassment of the stone.

......

After a few days of getting along, the stone felt that the old man was not so annoying people, and the old man also felt that the stone was not a bad person, but he was a little more tempered, just a child who was willing to pull the tiger skin to scare people, and let others be afraid was actually afraid that his heart would be seen.

"Boy, you have to learn not to suffer losses in the future. If you can't beat me, you still have to be tough, are you stupid? You have to learn to be patient, and it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge. The old man shook the palmetto fan and said.

"I remember, I'll come back to you in ten years to get revenge. ”

"You bastard, you just don't smoke. ”

"Old man, where is the shortcut to Donglai Mountain?"

The old man's rattan was pumped again.

"Yes, master, am I wrong?" the stone obviously learned the honorific title of "master".

"You can't go to the east like this. ”

"Why can't you go?"

"Those immortal cultivators in Donglai Mountain are all pedantic literati, and there are many rules, if you don't understand the rules so much, you will definitely be beaten. ”

"It's like you've been to Donglai Mountain. ”

"I've never been to Donglai Mountain, but I know a lot of people from Donglai Mountain. ”

"Really?" Hearing this, Stone immediately became excited.

"Otherwise, how would I know the shortcut to Donglai Mountain?"

"Then tell me about it!"

"It's all said that you can't go to Donglai Mountain like this! You pig, you can't understand people's words? They all said that you have to learn the rules first, and you can only go to Donglai Mountain after learning the rules. You can't learn the rules of a month here!"

"Let's not talk about the rules first, let's talk about your rattan first, why do you hit me on the wrist every time before I go out with the knife?"

The old man smiled proudly, took a sip of tea, and said, "Learn the rules first." ”

......

Shi really stayed in the old man's teahouse for a month, and he didn't learn the old man's method of beating people with rattan, but he was beaten a lot, and after being beaten, he was obviously much more honest than before.

"May I go, sir?"

"It's time?"

"It was a good month. ”

The old man patted his brain and said, "So fast!"

"I feel like I'm dying slowly. ”

"I think you're getting beaten less. ”

"Don't, sir, don't take your rattan again. Tell me about the shortcut to Donglai Mountain. ”

"You kid is looking forward to leaving?"

"Master, you can't bear me, and you won't let me go!"

"I wish you were leaving, count how many bowls and teapots you've broken for me this month, huh?"

Wang Shi smiled awkwardly.

"You should go, it's almost time, tomorrow you pack your things and come with me." ”

"Well, sir. ”

The next day, before dawn, the old man took the stone and walked away for a long time to the deserted Banhai Lake, and the old man asked him to sit and wait.

Today is the fifteenth, the full moon, the moon is very cold, and the lake is also foggy, which makes people shiver, the fog is getting thicker and thicker, so thick that you can't see two steps, and the moon is gone.

"Master, what are we waiting for?"

"Wait for the boat. ”

"Take a boat to Donglai Mountain?"

"Yes. ”

"There's no one in this half of the lake, who is holding the boat, ghost?" Shishi shuddered.

"Ghosts. The old man said with certainty.

"Master, don't scare me. ”

"Don't scare you. ”

A boat drifted over. It was a very old ship, very dilapidated, and it felt like a wreck fished from the bottom of a lake.

"Get on the boat, what are you doing in a daze?"

"Master, you won't sacrifice me to this lake as a tribute, will you? ”

The old man smiled gloomily and said, "You guessed right!"

The stone was stunned for a moment, and it was cold from head to toe.

The old man immediately laughed and said, "Look at your cowardice! But you have to remember that when you go to Donglai Mountain, you can't easily trust others, and immortal cultivators are even more terrifying than mortals. As for how to get to Donglai Mountain, you just have to sit on the boat, and the boat will send you to Donglai Mountain in a month. ”

As soon as the stone was on board, the boat began to drift.

The stone stood on the bow of the boat, watched the old man disappear in the thick fog, and shouted, "Old man, you wait, I will come back to take revenge!" The stone cried and shouted, and he shed tears, but he was not moved by any pain. Shi felt that he now had another relative, but he would have to say goodbye to his relatives in just one month.

"Stinky boy!" the old man scolded with a smile.

The boat had long since disappeared into the thick fog, but the old man had been standing by the lake until dawn.

......

The boat drifted for a month.

When the stone woke up, the east was white, and the distance was full of green mountains.