Chapter 2: Secrets

"Isn't it like us, dust to dust?" Chen Changsheng was not interested in these, but he still cooperated with the goatee old way.

"Then the immortal who cultivates a ghost will live a little longer than you mortals." The goatee elder laughed, and the falling beard continued to shake with his face, "They will use their great supernatural powers to protect their divine souls, and then fall into reincarnation, and when they reach the age of ten in the next life or embark on the immortal path, they will unlock their memories, which is why there are so many geniuses in the world." ”

The goatee old Taoist said with a sudden positive expression, and after confirming the environment, he continued: "But reincarnation is determined by heaven, and no one can guarantee that he will be reincarnated as a genius instead of a waste material without spiritual roots, so they opened up a new immortal path - to prove immortals with Taoism." ”

"Of course, these are all secrets, even if it is true, if a mortal wants to comprehend the Great Dao, he can only walk in the red dust, and glimpse the immortal Dao in the Ten Thousand Dao, which can be as short as three or four years, and as long as a lifetime."

After saying the goatee, he withdrew the charm with a wave of his hand, and the temperament of the tall man around him faded like a tide, and greed for money flashed in his eyes.

"This is one thousand taels of gold, plus one hundred taels of juniors, can you ask the seniors a question."

Chen Changsheng took out a bill of 1,100 taels of gold from his body, and spoke earnestly.

"Just ask."

The goatee old man looked at the bill, his eyes straightened, but he still tried his best to pretend to be a master.

"If the younger generation takes the road of proving immortals with Taoism, what shortcut is there?"

"No, to prove the immortal with the Tao is to go against the sky, if you insist on saying it, it is to go outside the city, travel between life and death, and feel that ordinary people do not see it." The goatee old man's eyes no longer looked at the bill, and instead persuaded him: "It is very dangerous outside the city, and the evil cultivators are entrenched, and if you are not careful, you will fall into a catastrophe." ”

"The younger generation is willing to give the whole Wanbao shop to the seniors, leaving only a BMW, 1,000 copper coins, and ten days of dry food for the journey, in exchange for a chance for the seniors to make a move."

Hearing this, Chen Changsheng, who was sitting on the chair, fell into deep thought, and after a long time, his eyes were no longer chaotic.

"Good! No matter where you crush it, the old man will appear in an instant. ”

The goatee old man looked at the mahogany VIP room with dragons and phoenixes, and thought of the scale of Wanbao Shop, the smile on his face could not be hidden, he took off the jade pendant on his waist and handed it to Chen Changsheng, and took the bill with his hand.

"I'll take over the shop tomorrow." Old Goatee stood up, took a step forward, and disappeared into the VIP room.

After Chen Changsheng confirmed that the goatee old road walked away, he felt a sense of relief as if he had unloaded all the burdens, but in his heart, it seemed that there was something missing, and Mu Na walked out of the VIP room and walked into the distance.

In the inner courtyard of Wanbao Shop, there is a small pear grove behind Chen Changsheng's room, it is spring, the branches are full of pear blossoms, a gust of wind blows, the pear blossoms swaying like snow falling, mixed with last year's leaves and piled on the ground.

And deep in the woods, it was a clearing, with no heavy leaves, only two slightly arched earth bags and bluestone tombstones.

A ray of spark slowly floated out from the middle of the bluestone tombstone, accompanied by a sobbing voice: "Daddy, I don't have the ability, I can't keep the shop." ”

Chen Changsheng, who has been in the shopping mall for many years, shed tears at this moment, he thought of his parents who had paid all their efforts for this shop, his mother died of exhaustion, and his father pulled himself to grow up alone, taught himself the way of doing business, and held his hand before he died and said, "The shop is handed over to you."

Thinking about it, Chen Changsheng's tears burst out of his eyes, falling down his cheeks and wetting the paper money in his hand, but he still numbly put the paper money into the fire.

In a trance, Chen Changsheng seemed to see two faces in the orange firelight, an old face full of wrinkles but kind, leaning next to a face that had become dry due to overwork, just quietly looking at his face full of kindness, and said softly: "It's okay." ”

The tears on Chen Changsheng's face gradually dried under the scorching flames, just like the warm palms of his parents were brushing away his tears.

"Mom and Dad, I will definitely open the biggest shop in the world!" Chen Changsheng slammed his hand on the ground, his eyes became firm, he had to have strength to have everything.

The paper money in his hand burned out, the two faces gradually became blurred until they disappeared, the warmth gradually dissipated, Chen Changsheng turned back into the turbulent old man again, stood up and slowly walked out of the woods, and returned to his house through the back door.

After returning to the house, Chen Changsheng sorted out all the house deeds and title deeds, tied them together, and then called the housekeeper to arrange what happened after he left.

On the second day, after handing over the shop to the goatee old road, he took the dry food and left the Wanbao store with the BMW.

Leading the horse on the street of Tianlan City, Chen Changsheng had mixed feelings, watching while walking, the road was very slow, but he unconsciously came to the gate of the city.

After being inspected by the soldiers guarding the city, Chen Changsheng went out of Tianlan City, and finally looked back at it, and as a farewell, Chen Changsheng turned over and whipped west.

The scenery outside the city is very good, but compared to the inside of the city, it looks like an undeveloped primeval forest, with only thin paths guiding the way in the boundless wilderness.

Walking and stopping along the way, Chen Changsheng had lost his bearings in the huge mountain field, and could only rely on the sun to barely confirm that he was constantly advancing, and whether he was turning in circles.

I don't know how far I went, Chen Changsheng rode a horse and stood on a slope and finally saw a village.

The village was built in a desert, which is unusual in a wildland with lush vegetation, but it is possible that the villagers dug it up to build the village.

The houses were scattered to the left and right, made of wood and thatch, and behind the village were patches of reclaimed fields, and with the roar of the horses, the village arrived.

As soon as he arrived in the village, Chen Changsheng felt that something was wrong, it was too quiet here, the silence was a little weird, there was no one in the daytime, and the air was extremely hot, as if it was summer.

"Anyone?" After Chen Changsheng turned over and dismounted, he shouted loudly, and he was afraid that his voice was not loud enough, so he slapped the horse and let it roar.

"Yes." Just when Chen Changsheng felt that this was an empty village and decided to leave, an extremely small voice came into his ears, and there was more than one sound, but it came from all directions.

Just as Chen Changsheng was thinking about what the sound came from, the wooden doors of the houses opened one after another, and almost instantly, half of the doors of the village opened, and then one by one the skinny people crawled out of the house.

"Food, give me food." Those people raised their heads, their eyes that were particularly prominent because of hunger sunken showed greed, as if they were returning to the light, and crawled towards Chen Changsheng with their hands that were like dry wood.

Chen Changsheng looked at the crowd crawling towards him, and was not afraid, the instinct of the merchant told him that there is desire to have demand, so he took out a piece of bread from the bag, raised it high and shouted: "I have food, whoever wants to listen to me, otherwise I will ride away on horseback, and no one will eat it." ”

Hunger drove the crowd, eyes still greedy, but reason kept them still.

"If you want to eat, you can exchange the valuable things at home with me." Saying that, as soon as Chen Changsheng pulled the horse rope, he was about to turn over and get on the horse.

"Don't go, let's go back and get the treasure." The crowd resounded one after another, and the crowd on the ground receded like a tide, and after a while, it returned to the way it was when Chen Changsheng first came.

"Why don't you go back and get something." Just as Chen Changsheng was waiting for the crowd to return, he suddenly saw a child sitting at the back of a house.

She was skinny, her clothes were a little loose, and her weak eyes looked at her food bag and swallowed her saliva.

The little girl didn't speak, just looked straight at Chen Changsheng's grain bag.

"If you want to eat, can you answer me a few questions?" Chen Changsheng took out a piece of cake from the grain bag and handed it to the little girl.

The little girl glanced at Chen Changsheng, quickly took two bites on it, and said vaguely: "If you bite it, it's mine." At the same time, he chewed the food in his mouth, and his voice became a little sobbing, "I have no home, and my parents have been eaten by tigers." ”

Under the little girl's intermittent narration and questions, Chen Changsheng understood everything about this village.

For some reason, the village has been in drought for several years, and even the occasional clouds will inexplicably dissipate, and the grain will not be harvested, and the villagers have also thought about fleeing, but there is a tiger-shaped monster outside the village to round up the farmers who have left the village, and the little girl's parents are killed.

Unable to leave the village, the villagers could only eat grass, tree bark, and loess after eating the food, and even the rats in the house were all gone.

But smelling the rotten smell in the air, Chen Changsheng knew that there was something else the little girl hadn't said or didn't know, and that was eating the dead.

Chen Changsheng was not at all curious about why it didn't rain in the village and why the demon beasts surrounded the village and didn't let people leave, but he kept thinking about how to leave the village and not be eaten by the tiger-shaped demon beasts.

"Live well, don't let people find out." Chen Changsheng heard the sound of rustling and rubbing around him, and knew that it was the people who took the treasure who came back, so he didn't care to continue thinking, and quickly took out a cake from the grain bag and stuffed it into the little girl's arms, and then returned to the horse.

Not long after Chen Changsheng returned to the horse, he saw that the ground was already full of people, holding all kinds of things in his hands, including bronzes, wood carvings, jade pendants, etc., Chen Changsheng also took all the orders, and only stopped what he was doing after distributing three days' worth of grain.

"Now I've run out of food." Chen Changsheng gestured with his hand that he had no food, and when he saw his eyes prostrate on the ground, which were still full of hope, instantly turned into jealousy and madness, looking at the people around him who received food or the horses under Chen Changsheng's seat.

The person who received the food also sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, and suddenly lowered his head and took a big bite of the bread, ignoring the dryness of the bread, and wanted to swallow it all into his belly.

"Give it to me." Seeing this, the villagers next to them immediately pounced on each other, as if returning to the light, they grabbed the big cake strongly, and some even wanted to break the other party's mouth and take out the cake in their mouths.

Seeing this scuffle, Chen Changsheng didn't care if there were any tiger-shaped demon beasts, so he rode his horse and raised his whip to run towards the outside of the village.

"Whew!" Just as the battle became more and more fierce and Chen Changsheng was about to flee, a gust of wind suddenly blew, rolling up the yellow sand on the ground and fascinating everyone's eyes.

The wind lasted for a long time, and when the wind gradually subsided, everyone opened their eyes in a daze, and saw many people stacked on top of each other, but the villagers who were supposed to be holding the bread under them were nowhere to be found.

Not only that, but all the villagers who had eaten the flatbread disappeared, including Chen Changsheng and his BMW, which also disappeared at the entrance of the village.