Chapter 16: Gossip
Lu Qing took Wang Mengmi to the deck and explained to her the general pattern of the Inhuman World and the cultivation characteristics of each sect in the cool sea breeze.
These were all obtained by Tang Jiaren after telling him before, as well as after reading the memories of the Japanese Onmyoji.
Wang Mengmi's first encounter with other Inhuman sects widened, and she listened carefully like a curious baby.
At the other end of the deck, a number of boatmen who had nothing to do were also resting on the deck, they looked at Lu Qing, who was talking and laughing with Wang Mengmi, and began to whisper:
"Hey, who's that little white face? It doesn't look like it's an ordinary relationship with the eldest lady."
Someone asked.
"I haven't seen it, and I don't have an accent there."
One replied.
"Who knows, maybe it's a good match, hehehe"
The other said lewdly.
"It's quite handsome, but these arms and legs don't look very strong, like a girl."
Some people also directly began to judge Lu Qingpin.
"I'll just say why this eldest lady has to sail at night, it turns out that she came to a private meeting with the little white face."
"You say, does our lord know about this?"
Someone asked gossipingly.
"I definitely don't know, that Master Wang is a busy man who can't stay home for a month, but he doesn't have time to take care of these things."
"Don't look at Miss Wang's daughter on the surface, there are many women hidden behind!"
Some of the shipwrights seemed to know something inside and confided a little bit of information.
There was no entertainment in those days, and the life of a boatman at sea was nothing but busy or boring.
When you're busy, you're tired, and you're bored when you're idle.
So chatting about secrets and anecdotes in private has become an excellent way for them to polish their time.
"Really?"
Someone asked in a low voice.
This kind of matter involving the privacy of the boss is much more attractive than other rumors that are not close to the four or six, and in an instant, everyone's ears are pricked up, for fear of missing any details.
"Of course it's true!"
"One of my cousins is under Master Wang, and he told me that the woman outside Master Wang is changed every day, and there is no one for a month!"
"You think people really don't have a home, it's just that there are too many homes!"
After hearing this, everyone smacked their tongues, envious and jealous of the life of this rich and noble family.
Shipwrights like them, who sell coolies, earn some hard-earned money all year round, and they can barely save any money except barely enough to live, and it is difficult to even ask for a daughter-in-law, let alone the emperor-like days of changing one day at a time, which they can't even imagine.
"Good boy! This rich man is different, just like his mother's emperor Lao Tzu. A young man in his twenties couldn't help but sigh: "If only one day I had money......"
But before he finished speaking, he was ridiculed by his accomplices:
"Just you? Xiao Zhang, it's not that my brother looks down on you, you are destined to die! ”
"That's right, Xiao Zhang. This person, one looks at his background and the other looks at his fate. Tell me, what can you occupy? ”
"Do you really think that being rich is a natural rich life?"
"I think Xiao Zhang is asleep, and he even forgot what his surname is, I guess I think my surname is Wang!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone couldn't hold back anymore, and they all laughed loudly: "Hahahahahaha!" ”
Xiao Zhang, who was ridiculed by everyone, was not good-looking, red and blue.
After all, he is a young man in his twenties, and he has not been in this business for a long time, so his face is naturally not as good as these old fritters, and the arrogance in his heart has not been smoothed out by reality.
Why can't I become rich?
Did all the rich people in this world fall from the sky?
Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, you guys who look down on people, when I have money, I must make you look good!
Xiao Zhang was secretly ruthless in his heart, and he was determined to become a rich man, so that these people who ridiculed him would be impressed.
Although Lu Qing listened to these people's private words clearly, he didn't care.
Because it wasn't necessary, or he didn't care about it at all.
Just like a normal person would not think that ants have taken their own way just because they are walking on the same road as themselves, they will be furious and ready to kill them.
In terms of personality, Lu Qing agrees with the equality of every independent individual, but in terms of life level, he has surpassed ordinary people.
In his opinion, turning his face with ordinary people for a few words is not some self-respecting domineering, but a freewheeling obedience and a shameful narrow-mindedness.
The sea is inclusive, and there is tolerance.
"Dao" can accommodate evil, can tolerate evil demons, and even can accommodate outsiders and judges, so it can be eternal and immortal.
If even a few ordinary people can't accommodate it, such a mind is destined to become a big climate.
"Okay, I'll tell you everything you want to know." Lu Qing said to Wang Mengmi with a smile.
He had already told her everything he knew about the Inhuman, and he didn't even hide the origin of the Shikigami controlled by Dongying Onmyoji.
Wang Mengmi couldn't calm down for a long time after listening to Lu Qing's story.
This conversation, which was less than an hour, subverted her perception of the world.
In the past, although she practiced Qi and knew that she was different from ordinary people, she never thought that there were so many aliens like her in the world, and there were so many strange cultivation methods.
Although she can invite immortals, she also knows that the five immortal families of Huhuang, white, willow and gray are changed by spirits, but she never knows how the immortal family practiced, how they attained the Tao, and how they became immortals.
Even if she and Liu Xian had subdued many demons together, she had never thought about how other monsters in this world practiced besides Bao Jia Xian.
She has always taken this as a matter of course, thinking that the demon is to be eliminated, and the Baojiaxian is to get rid of the demon, but she has never thought about the logic behind this.
This is because she is young, only sixteen or seventeen years old, and the second is because she has not had much contact with the Inhuman world except for learning the methods of Ma Xian with her mother.
After her mother died, she was taken to Fujian by her father from the Northeast and became a daughter, and she had no chance to contact other strangers.
At this moment, she suddenly felt that the world had become bigger, much bigger than she had imagined.
In other words, the world has always been very big, but in the past, her vision was too shallow and her vision was too low.
Once upon a time, she had been practicing in the mountains with her mother, and the world was a small village for her.
Later, she was taken to Fujian, but her father didn't care much about her except that she was never badly treated financially, and the world was just the empty mansion and the wharves around her.
Now, hearing about these various Inhuman sects and those mysterious ancient secrets, she felt that her eyes were suddenly opened, and her curiosity about this world was also aroused.
She really wanted to walk around, take a look, and see those magical practices, those aliens like her, and those strange and unpredictable spirits and demons.
Wang Mengmi suddenly felt that she had been nesting in Quanzhou Port was like a frog at the bottom of the well, living in her own imagination and self-righteousness.
The world is so wonderful and so vast, wouldn't it be in vain if we didn't go out and see it?