Chapter 18: Bullying (I)
What is warmth?
In fact, Lin Ye has felt very deeply since he was a child, he has no money and power, and he has no status and value in the eyes of others. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info, especially those who have fame and official positions, will not look at poor scholars like themselves in their eyes.
Today, under the avalanche of the birch forest, Dong Yuanchang did not save himself, and Lin Ye was not surprised. Because Dong Yuanchang thought that he already knew all the ways to return Miss Dong to her soul, Lin Ye not only had no value in his eyes, but was also a drag and trouble.
"Presumably now that Dong Yuanchang has returned to the Dong Mansion, he has already used the method I taught to help Miss Dong return to her soul. It's a pity that he doesn't have this kind of incense candle from the previous dynasty of Great Xia, and he doesn't know how to use incense candles to calm his soul. Miss Dong, her life is still hanging by a thread......"
Sighing, Lin Ye looked at the two copper coins in his hand and thought, "There is a shortage of eight coins, as long as you survive this month." I was able to turn over completely, not to mention that I was now a consecrated Taoist priest, relying only on the acceleration effect of incense and candles when praying. Within a month, I was able to sculpt a Martial Emperor's golden body almost every day. You must know that the price of a golden statue of Emperor Wu on the market is one hundred taels of silver, and there is no market. ”
After appreciating the acceleration effect of the incense candle praying, Lin Ye was excited.
Ordinary people who do not have merit and fame must receive a statue of Emperor Wu every month to pray for a golden body. Moreover, each Martial Emperor Icon can only be prayed for by one person, and no one else can do it for him. If the two of them prayed to a Martial Emperor Icon, the golden body on this Martial Emperor Statue would be mottled and would not be able to be handed over for use at all.
Ordinary people are already very struggling to sculpt a holy statue of the Martial Emperor in January, where is the extra energy to help others pray?
However, there are also some people who want money and don't want to die, desperately overdrawing their energy, and can pray for four or five hours a day. In this way, two or three months can often produce an extra Martial Emperor Statue.
This kind of Martial Emperor Statue is the Martial Emperor Statue that can be purchased with gold and silver in the market, and the price is generally about one hundred taels of silver.
One tael of silver is equal to one thousand copper coins, and the expenses of ordinary people's families in a month are often only one or two pieces of silver. It shows that one hundred taels of silver is a huge amount of money for ordinary people.
However, this kind of hard squeezing out of energy to make more money from the golden statue of Emperor Wu is often called "deadly money" by the people.
Why?
Since you can earn a hundred taels of silver in two or three months just by praying for two or three more hours a day, it should be easy for many people to follow suit!
But in fact, almost no one dares to make this "deadly money". Because of the serious sequelae of this "life-saving money", anyone who overdraws his energy to pray for a golden body will find that after a month or two, he will gradually lose the ability to pray for a golden body.
No matter how devout he prayed to the statue of Emperor Wu, the golden body on the portrait was unmoved. Moreover, the whole person's head will also be groggy and become stupid from time to time.
Lin Ye once had the idea of earning this kind of "life-saving money", but since he knew the serious sequelae of making "life-saving money", he no longer dared to have such an idea.
"With the help of this mysterious incense candle from the previous dynasty, instead of exerting my energy, I became more and more energetic when praying. At this rate, I pray that I can fill a statue of the Martial Emperor in one day. Wouldn't that be able to make thirty pieces in a month? After deducting the one you have to hand in, wouldn't you earn two thousand nine hundred taels of silver a month?"
After such a calculation, Lin Ye discovered that these incense waxes that had been uncared for for hundreds of years on the altar of the land temple were the real value.
However, how to use incense wax to pray for the golden statue of Emperor Wu to sell, these are still a later story. Lin Ye's current top priority is this fatal gap in the eight cents tax money.
"It's just eight pennies, and the sun will set soon. I must find a way to scrape together enough money before Lin Liangzhu comes to arrest me......"
When Lin Ye was worried, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside the house.
Knock knock knock......
"It's not good! it shouldn't be that Lin Liangzhu is here, right?" Lin Ye panicked.
"Brother Ye, are you at home? I'm Shanzi, the patriarch said that your Martial Emperor Statue is not full, and now he is rushing over with a large group of people to arrest you! ”
Hearing this voice, it was very familiar, it was Lin Shan, a young man in the clan who had made friends with him. Lin Ye relieved himself, opened the door of the house, let Lin Shan in, and said to him: "No! Shanzi, I still have to take the imperial examination in the spring, once I escape from the city and become a homeless person, I will not want to get ahead in my life." ”
"I said, Brother Ye, it's all at this juncture, why are you still thinking about anything to get ahead! Let's save your life first! I heard that a small part of your Martial Emperor Statue has not been filled, and the patriarch will definitely hold on to you and send you to the prison of the Prayer Mansion. You'd better run away......"
Lin Shan is considered to be Lin Ye's best friend of the same age in the clan, and the two often go out together to find work to earn copper money, and when they are fine, Lin Ye will also take out a book to teach Lin Shan to read.
Therefore, as soon as Lin Shan heard that the patriarch Lin Liangzhu was going to arrest Lin Ye in the ancestral hall of the clan today, he hurriedly followed the path and hurriedly ran over to report to Lin Ye.
"Shanzi, I won't run away. You see, the golden body of the Martial Emperor Statue has been molded to the fullest. ”
Seeing Lin Shan coming, Lin Ye had an idea and showed him the Martial Emperor Statue.
"What, Brother Ye, it turns out that you have already molded your golden body. Then why didn't you hand it over to the ancestral hall earlier? However, in this way, you don't have to be afraid of the patriarchs. After a while, they will come to collect taxes, and you will take out this statue of the Martial Emperor with a golden body, and they will have nothing to say, and they will not be able to make things difficult for you. ”
Seeing the Martial Emperor Statue in Lin Ye's hand, Lin Shan breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "This time the patriarch can't succeed, I'm afraid I'm afraid I'll have to go back again!"
"Don't be too happy, Shanzi, although my Martial Emperor Statue is already full of golden bodies. But I ...... the ten cents of tax money."
Lin Ye smiled bitterly and put the only two copper coins on the desk, "You have a short eight coins, do you have any money?" Lend it to me first, and I will definitely return it to you a hundred times next month." Otherwise, I'm afraid that this time I can really only let Lin Liangzhu take this house. ”
Brother Ye, this month I went to the Li family's master for 20 days of short-term work, and I just earned more than 20 yuan, except for the 10 yuan I paid this month. I still have a dozen pennies left for next month's tax ......"
Lin Shan said with a smile, but when he touched his waist, he yelled, "Oh! Oh, Brother Ye, I left the purse for the money at home." ”
And just at this time, the laughter of the patriarch Lin Liangzhu sounded in the distance outside the door of the house: "Haha! Lin Ye, you stinky boy still dare to come back, this time look at what excuse you have!"