Chapter 116: Under the melon vine, one old and one young
Wang Shi returned to the City God Temple where he once lived, this is still the territory of the little beggars, but there are more little beggars, and people sleep here, in the summer, at least it will not heat people to death, and in winter, every morning there will be little beggars who can no longer get up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Wang Shi has been standing and has not said a word, the little beggars in the City God Temple he knew back then are now gone, all of them are some new little beggars.
The world is still the same world, and there are still many gods, many sins, and many sufferings.
Wang Shi felt pity for these children, but he didn't know how to rescue these people, how to save those who were struggling in the strata, and he could only watch them perish. Wang Shi only has one pair of hands and one pair of feet, so how many people are there in this world? Can Wang Shi save them? Even if Wang Shi saves these people, there will still be countless people who will suffer.
People learn to be strong and not wait for the mercy of others.
Wang Shi bought a lot of food with the money, brought it to the City God Temple and distributed it to many little beggars, all the little beggars were very afraid of Wang Shi, because Wang Shi was neatly dressed, and it was very likely that such people would just use the food to pick up slaves to bring home. Wang Shi left the food and left alone.
Wang Shi came to the Fu family again, found the Fu family master, took out all the treasures in the magic bronze ring that had nothing to do with cultivation, and asked the Fu family master to adopt those children, at least not let them be slaves. Wang Shi didn't know how much power the Fu family master had, and he didn't know how difficult this matter was, he just hoped to save as many children as he could. The head of the Fu family looked at the young immortal master in front of him, accepted Wang Shi's treasure, and promised Wang Shi that he would make proper arrangements for the children in Zhangzhou City.
At dusk, Wang Shi glanced at Zhangzhou City again and set foot on the way back.
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Ten days later, Wang Shi came to the house of the old man who sold tea.
"Little ghost, are you back?" said the old tea seller happily.
Wang Shi nodded.
"Oh, what's going on? Saying something bothering me makes me happy. The old man said with a smile.
"Don't say, eat. ”
"Good, good, eat, eat. The old man glanced at Wang Shi and knew that Wang Shi was really not very happy, so he didn't ask anything anymore.
The moon is high and the breeze is blowing, and it is not often that there are such cool nights in summer.
The old man set up the meal under the rattan trellis and brought a pot of wine.
Eating and drinking under the pergola is a pleasant thing.
Wang Shi was not polite, sat down and began to eat. The old man smiled and added a bowl of wine to Wang Shi. The wine is the sweet wine that the old man bought ten miles out, and it is not intoxicating.
The old and the young did not speak, but just ate and drank until the meal was exhausted, and there was only half a pot of wine left, and Mingyue had already walked half a circle in the sky.
"Master, why are there so many murderous things in this world. ”
"Oh, what do you see? I'll hear it. The old man looked very interested.
"In a town of nearly 10,000 people, there were only eighteen people left overnight. Wang Shi only said this sentence.
The old man did not answer Wang Shi, but added a bowl of wine to Wang Shi, and also added a bowl of wine to himself, drank the wine slowly, looked at the bright moon for a while, and said slowly: "Forty years ago, when I went to the battlefield for the first time, I killed three people, and I took the left ear of three people for military merits, I am very happy." The second time I killed seven people, the more people I killed, the more I did my military exploits, and the happier I became, if not a thousand, but eight hundred. ”
Wang Shi was very calm, and he was not surprised by the old man's experience.
"Later, we were defeated, I could only play dead to survive, when I crawled out of the pile of dead people, my eyes were full of corpses, I used to see corpses full of eyes, but I used to see corpses full of military merits, this time I didn't see military merits, I only saw corpses, at that time I would rather I really die, when you see your eyes full of dead people you will understand how terrifying it is. I walked for three days to get out of the place littered with corpses, and I became a deserter. ”
Running away is the most shameful thing for a soldier, and it will be a shame that a soldier cannot wash away for a lifetime, and such a shame will always ask a soldier's heart.
Wang Shi knew that the old man selling tea was an excellent soldier, but he didn't expect that the old man selling tea turned out to be a deserter.
"I fled here to sell tea for a living, and when night fell I could hear the cries of my former comrades, who were calling out to me, asking me why I didn't die with them, why I survived alone. Whenever I hear such a voice, I want to kneel down and go with them, and I feel ashamed. I really shouldn't have pretended to be dead and lived, I really should have died with them. ”
"It must be painful to live like this. ”
The old tea man shook his head and said, "You haven't experienced this kind of pain, so you won't understand that the most uncomfortable thing in this world is self-blame, constantly tormenting in self-blame." ”
Wang Shi nodded, agreeing with the old man who sold tea. Wang Shi is also very self-blaming now, blaming himself for losing Erya, if he hadn't gone to Donglai Mountain, he wouldn't have lost Erya.
"In addition to the call of my comrades-in-arms, the scene of corpses all over the mountains and fields often appeared in front of my eyes, since I survived until now, I have never eaten meat again, and when I eat meat, I will think of those corpses, my stomach will cramp, and I can't swallow a mouthful of meat at all. Later, I slowly developed a habit and stopped eating meat. ”
If Wang Shi saw the corpses all over the mountains, presumably Wang Shi would not be able to eat meat for a long time.
"I'm alive now, but I'm actually waiting for death, and someone like me, who has countless lives on his hands, should have died a long time ago. I wonder if you have the realization that after you have killed someone, you are ready to be killed by someone else?"
"Murder should be the most sinful thing in the world. ”
The old tea seller nodded and said, "Killing people is really the most evil thing in the world! No matter whether you kill a good person or an evil person, if you kill you, you will already bear the sin! No matter how you wash it, you can't wash away the sin you have killed." ”
"I had already killed people when I was eight years old. ”
"Then your sin is really deep enough!" said the old tea seller with a smile.
Wang Shi nodded.
"Do you plan to continue killing people in the future? I know that the world of cultivators is much crueler than the world of mortals, and even their own parents can be killed for a higher realm. ”
"Master, do you think I look like a bad person?"
"Dementia, like a scholar!" said the old tea seller with a smile.
"I'm going to look like a bad guy in the future!"
"Why?"
"Because I'm going to kill someone! There are always people in this world who deserve to die, there are always people who want to kill them, and I'm willing to kill them, and as for the sin of killing, I've taken it upon myself. "From the moment he left Huangxian Town, Wang Shi had already made a decision, people like the withered playboy and Wu Shao who had to be killed, Wang Shi would definitely do his best to kill, and the consequences of killing and the crime Wang Shi would bear alone.
The old tea seller looked at Wang Shi for a long time, until the old tea seller confirmed Wang Shi's determination and said: "You can't kill it, even if the wicked man lies on the ground and lets you kill him, you will die of exhaustion in the end." If you want to kill the wicked, you need to kill them all, because everyone has a sinful side, and they are both wicked and good. ”
"If you don't kill one person and ten thousand people are going to die, will you kill that person?"
"Life can't be measured by numbers, but I'm going to kill that one person anyway. ”
"That's what I'm going to do. ”
"I advise you to be an honest man and do your duty. ”
"Why?"
"Because you're too small. ”
"I once saw a sentence that a person who is not crazy at the age of 20 is unproductive, and if he is still crazy at the age of 30, he is also unproductive. ”
The old man who sold tea smiled and said, "Then you must have a chance?"
Wang Shi smiled and nodded.
"It's good that people don't take young people lightly! Then you can try to do what you want!"
Wang Shi smiled and drank a bowl of wine.
The old man who sold tea waited for Wang Shi to finish drinking, and said, "Looking at your current appearance, it shouldn't be this thing that worries you!"
Wang Shi nodded.
"Let's talk about it!"
"Tell me about it?"
"Say it. ”
"During the drought, the village where I lived was bloodied by bandits, my parents were beheaded by bandits, and the whole village was almost burned to the ground. Due to the drought and no food, the people who were still alive in the village began to eat human flesh, in order to survive I had to hack to death the people who wanted to eat us, and then I and Erya kept going east in order to survive, walked for more than half a year, and came to a place called Zhangzhou City, we lived with difficulty. ”
"One day, I met a very clean middle-aged man, which cannot be said to be clean, and it may be more appropriate to use dust. He came to me three times, and finally asked me if I would like to cultivate immortals, and after arranging Erya, I agreed to go to cultivate immortals. So I kept going east, and then I met you, and then I entered Donglai Mountain and started to practice. After going down the mountain this time to complete the task given by the master, I wanted to go and see the second girl who settled in Zhangzhou City, but the second girl had disappeared six years ago, and there was no way to find out. ”
The old man who sold tea didn't say anything, he didn't expect Wang Shi to be such a strong child, just think about Wang Shi's experience and you can understand his temper that exploded at all. An eight-year-old child with an even younger child is unimaginably difficult to survive in a cannibalistic world. And the second girl in Wang Shi's mouth is obviously his only relative now, if the second girl disappears Wang Shi, it will be equivalent to cutting off contact with this world and becoming a lonely person completely, and the second girl must be more important to Wang Shi than his own life.
"What are you going to do?"
"I have some clues, and I plan to go back to Donglai Mountain tomorrow to ask Shizun. ”
"The boat to Donglai Mountain only travels once every two months, and it will take more than ten days for the boat to come from the last time. ”
"Then just wait, I want to be quiet for a few days. ”
"If you want to wait, go to the lake and wait, sometimes the boat will be irregular. ”
"Master, how did you know about this ship?"
"It's been a long time since I met a young man, a young man who is even more arrogant than you, who used to drink tea with me, and we talked so much that we often drank together, and then when I sent him to Donglai Mountain, he told me about the ship, and if I wanted to, I could go to Donglai Mountain to find him. ”
The young man mentioned in the mouth of the old tea seller should be Uncle Xiao, Wang Shi asked, "What kind of person is that young man?"
"Megalomaniacal people. ”
"The hubris you're talking about is certainly not the nasty hubris. ”
"Yes, he has his own points worthy of arrogance, and the arrogance of the good-for-nothing is the most hateful to people. ”
"What is worthy of his arrogance?"
"He's never lost. ”
"In Donglai Mountain?"
"He has never lost among his contemporaries in the surrounding seven countries. ”
If you haven't lost in Donglai Mountain, it's not too strong, but it's terrifying to never lose in the seven surrounding countries, and Wang Shi thinks that he can't do this now.
"And what happened to this young man?"
"He said goodbye to me twenty years ago and hasn't seen him since. ”
"Didn't you ask him where he was going and what he was doing?"
"Is such a thing worth asking?"
Wang Shi nodded, there are some things that need to be understood between friends, and some things that do not need to be understood.
He said that he might come back in 20 years, and that it would be almost as long as the days were counted. "If the person in the master's mouth is really the little uncle, Wang Shi must see this powerful little uncle, just from hearing that Wang Shi has already revered the little uncle.
The conversation continued, but the topic was more trivial, and the laughter was added, until the wine bottomed out and the moon hung west, and the old and young went to sleep.