In the south of the city, Song Yuanwai's home...

Song Yuanwai was a businessman, and he was originally a businessman who was very superstitious about ghosts and gods.

He had no queen in his early years, so he found a monk to tell the fortune of his family, but was told by the monk that he used some means against heaven and harmony in his business, and he was reported by the present world, and he would be unhappy in his old age.

Under the guidance of the senior monk, Song Yuanwai moved to Heyang County, donated money to buy a Yuanwai, ate fasting and worshiped the Buddha, and invited the Bodhisattva to pray for blessings.

Within a few years, I really gave birth to a son...

Song Yuanwai was overjoyed, kept in mind the guidance of the senior monks, and prepared to devoutly offer the Bodhisattva statue for 30 years.

For more than 20 years, Song Yuanwai's son also reached the time to start a family, but he married one and died another, and for several years, four women from good families died.

People outside spread that Song Yuanwai's son was the life of Tiansha Lone Star, and the daughter-in-law he married was not hard enough, so he killed him.

Song Yuanwai's son was angry, so he did it with others, but he was injured, fell ill, and was sick in bed.

Last year, Song Yuanwai found someone to tell his fortune and found a family affair for his son, ready to rush to joy.

The daughter-in-law who has been married for half a year is fine, but before Song Yuanwai was happy, his son relapsed and died.

The white-haired person sent the black-haired person, and the only son in the family was sent, and Song Yuanwai, who had no queen, seemed to be ten years old overnight.

After dealing with his son's funeral, Song Yuan's heart was like ashes, and then he looked at the Bodhisattva statue in the ancestral hall and was bored with it, so he simply asked someone to smash the Bodhisattva statue.

But after all, I have believed in ghosts and gods for many years, and I have a hurdle in my heart, so I spent money to let people carry the Bodhisattva statue out of the house, and smashed it with the hands of others, in order to vent the anger in my heart...

The moon and stars are scarce, and the time is coming.

The candles in the ancestral hall of the Song family were flickering, and the Song members were sitting on crutches outside, with a heavy twilight in their gray hair and cloudy eyes.

In the center of the ancestral hall, a six-armed Bodhisattva statue with angry eyebrows and flame patterns on its body sits in the center, shining brightly under the light of candlelight.

With a knock on the door, the old housekeeper of the Song family walked into the ancestral hall and said softly: "Master, the young grandmother is asking to see you outside the door." ”

"Come in."

Song Yuanwai nodded, thinking that after his son left and didn't leave a single for the Song family, the dizzy old eyes seemed to dim a little.

After Pei Xueyan entered the ancestral hall, she saluted her father-in-law, pursed the corners of her lips and said, "Dad, it's almost time, you should rest." ”

"It doesn't matter."

Song Yuanwai also knew that his daughter-in-law was caring about her body, so she waved her hand disapprovingly.

The dizzy old eyes looked directly at the Bodhisattva statue in the middle of the ancestral hall, and said in a voice without joy or sorrow: "I'll take one last look at it." ”

Although Pei Xueyan has been in the Song family for less than a year, she has no feelings at all, but she also knows how hard the death of her nominal husband has hit this father-in-law.

She sighed and admonished again: "Dad, you better go back to your room and rest, I'll just watch the little things here." ”

"Hmm."

Song Yuanwai didn't shirk much, after all, he was old, and he really couldn't stand it.

After he got up on crutches, he turned his gaze to his daughter-in-law, and sighed inexplicably: "Snow goose, I'm sorry for you." ”

"What are these words?"

Pei Xueyan pursed the corners of her lips, and said in a relaxed manner: "Since I have entered the door of the Song family, I am a member of the Song family, and I am all fate." ”

"Life? I believed in my life for the rest of my life. ”

Song Yuanwai seemed to have heard a big joke, and he laughed with tears, and muttered: "In the end, it's all fate, it's all fate, hehehehe......"

After laughing, he walked outside the ancestral hall on crutches, but when he reached the door, he seemed to think of something, and suddenly stopped and looked back.

"Snow goose, this life is too long."

Song Yuanwai lamented, and said meaningfully: "There are only two biggest regrets in my life, one is that I don't have all my children and no daughters; The second is that Quan Er left early, and the Song family has no queen. ”

"Although you have been in my Song family for a short time, I am an old man who has nothing to say about it."

His voice paused, and he explained: "Now that Quan'er is gone, you are still willing to call me a father, and that is the daughter of my Song family." While you are still young, find a good person, and then I will buy you a dowry, and the old people in the province will be like me, without relatives and lonely. ”

After that, Song Yuan didn't stay long, and went back to the room to rest with the support of the housekeeper, leaving Pei Xueyan alone to lament.

She was originally the daughter of a businessman, but later her family fell into the middle of the road, and the fortune teller said that her life was too hard, and she was born in an ordinary family and couldn't suppress her luck.

She didn't believe in these things, but her old father believed it, sold her to settle the debt, and married into the Song family, which was short of people at that time.

The marriage was married, but the husband was sick in bed, and he left not long after, and he became a surviving person without even a day of young grandmother's life, how unfortunate?

She knew what she was up against, either to be widowed for the rest of her life or to remarry.

A life is indeed too long, and she is not sure if she can stay a widow for the rest of her life;

But she knew that if she remarried a beautiful and innocent yellow flower girl to a second marriage...... That's too much of a loss.

Now that I have this promise from my father-in-law, at least, there is a way out.

Just when she lost her mind, the housekeeper Song Tongshan helped Song Yuanwai back to the house to rest and then turned back again, and said with a smile: "Young grandma, the labor that the master is looking for is here." ”

"Bring it in..."

…………………

Outside the Song family...

Xu Bantou saw that the doorman had gone in and passed the word, turned to look at the eight porters under him, and explained again: "The Song family has business dealings with our Chishui Gang, and when we go in to work, remember to talk less and do more, you know?" ”

He is just a small leader of the Chishui Gang's industry, a ninth-rate figure, but Song Yuanwai is a wealthy gentleman in Heyang County who can talk and laugh with the leader of the Chishui Gang, so he naturally has to deal with it carefully.

"Yes."

Liu Shen and the others obviously knew this, and they all nodded stiffly.

Xu Bantou was just about to train a few more words, but when he saw that the door of the Song family had been opened, he hurriedly swallowed the words that came to his lips again.

He greeted him with a scowl and arched his hand: "Steward Song, Xu brought someone to come as promised." ”

Song Tongshan glanced at him, his eyes swept around the porters again, and saw that they were each carrying a piece of wood and a hemp rope, and nodded in response: "Come in." ”

Xu Bantou waved his hand and motioned for his eight porters to follow, while he was talking about the relationship next to Steward Song.

"Tut~"

Hu Dahai was speechless, leaned around Liu Shen and muttered jokingly: "Brother Shen, you look at this world, Xu Bantou was eager to pick off a layer of skin on us when he was with us, and now he looks like he is looking at his face, and he can't wait to stick it on the buttocks of other housekeepers." ”

Liu Shen just smiled and didn't comment much.

Because he knows that the way of the world has always been like this, obviously everyone is human, but this way of the world invisibly divides people into three, six, nine and so on.

For example, his deed of sale is still in the Cao Gang...

let go of the burden of being a human being in two lives, but it doesn't mean that he resigned himself to his fate, on the contrary, after seeing the cruelty of this world, he wants to climb up.

I really want to!

Xu Bantou has been fooling around at the bottom of the day, has seen all kinds of people, and has also developed the ability to talk to people when he sees people, and he has the ability to talk nonsense when he sees them.

Song Tongshan, a sycophant butler, was very comfortable.

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Song Tongshan naturally didn't want to save his face, and after arriving at the ancestral hall, he introduced Pei Xueyan: "Young grandma, this is Xu Bantou of the Chishui Gang, this time he is looking for someone." ”

After that, he introduced to Xu Bantou: "This is the young grandmother of my Song family, the master is resting, and the young grandmother is responsible for this matter." ”

"Ahh

Xu Bantou looked at the young grandmother of the Song family, her Adam's apple rolled up and down, and after coming back to her senses, she hurriedly bowed: "I've seen the young grandmother." ”

He was originally a money-greedy and womanizer, but now when he saw the young grandmother of the Song family, who was beautiful and had a good figure and a bride's temperament, his soul was almost hooked.

Pei Xueyan didn't answer, just glanced at him with a slight frown, and turned her gaze to the group of porters who followed behind him.

When I saw that there was a sturdy and thoughtful young man among the porters who could be called crooked melons and cracked dates, I couldn't help but take a look at it, but I didn't care much about it.

Xu Bantou saw the young grandmother of the Song family looking at the group of subordinates he brought, turned around and reprimanded: "A group of rice buckets, didn't you see the young grandmother looking at you?" What about the manners I teach you? ”

“……”

The porters looked at each other, secretly wondering when did Xu Bantou teach us etiquette? And didn't Fang Cai still say that after entering the door, you should talk less and do more?

Liu Shen also knew that Xu Bantou wanted to show himself, so he elbowed Hu Dahai beside him, gave him a look, and greeted: "I've seen the young grandmother." ”

The porters also seemed to react, and they all learned to greet each other in a similar way: "I've seen the eldest and youngest grandmothers." ”

"No need to be polite."

Pei Xueyan's gaze swept over the lively young man, looked at Xu Bantou and said, "Xu Bantou, you know the rules of work, right?" ”

"Yes, yes."

Xu Bantou hurriedly smiled and said: "Steward Song has already told me, the stone statue is covered with cloth, and it is carried out of the city by eight people, and after leaving the ancestral hall, the stone statue cannot touch the ground, and it has to be carried out of the city all the way." ”

"Just know."

Pei Xueyan nodded and said: "This Bodhisattva statue is quite heavy, I heard the old man say that it was originally moved into the ancestral hall by a martial artist of the Three Realms, and the eight people you are looking for are sure they can carry it?" ”

At that time, people were still martial, and martial artists had a total of nine realms, each of which was subdivided into five, implying the respect of the ninety-five.

One is the beginning, nine is the extreme, and the ninety-five respect here does not refer to the emperor's honor, but to the cultivation realm of martial arts.

Take the largest base number of takefus as an example.

As long as there is a method of cultivation and willingness to practice hard, ordinary people can also peep at it, so it is called the three realms of the day after tomorrow;

Fourth, fifth, and sixth realms practice blood viscera, pay attention to nourishing qi and concentrating the mind, these three realms are no longer just hard work can be peeped at, but also need talent and luck, in a word, it is 'non-luck can not pass itself', so it is also called the innate three realms;

The seventh, eighth, and ninth realms are almost like immortals, and they are rarely circulated in the world, and they are very much visible to people.

Xu Bantou was in the gangs of rivers and lakes, and he also knew that there was a big gap between ordinary people and martial artists, and when he saw the Bodhisattva statue in the ancestral hall sitting cross-legged, he was also a little stunned...

At the beginning, Steward Song said that the stone statue was about three or four thousand catties, and in order to facilitate the work of the people below, he deliberately said that the stone statue was only one or two thousand catties, which seemed to be not much different, but in fact it was more than two or three times worse!

However, Xu Bantou is also an old oilman, and when he saw the young grandmother of the Song family asking, he immediately patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, the young grandmother, these people I brought are all from our Chishui Gang, and they can carry the sack of more than 100 catties at the dock, and they can carry three bags at a time without breathing." ”

His voice paused, and then said: "Eight people, it's not a problem to pick up this stone statue, although it is a bit laborious to go out of the city without touching the ground, but it is only a matter of taking a few more breaths." ”

"That'll do."

Pei Xueyan nodded and said, "I'm tired of you." ”

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

Xu Bantou also knew that it was time to work, and reminded with a smile: "Young grandma, these people under me are rough people, and the August day is very hot, they are not breathable in linen clothes, and they are used to working shirtless. ”

"Yes, young grandmother..."

The housekeeper Song Tongshan had been to the dock and knew about this stubble, so he echoed: "If you don't avoid one or two, I'll just watch here..."

"It doesn't matter."

Pei Xueyan waved her hand disapprovingly and said, "I'm not so delicate, you just do your work, don't care about me." ”

"This ......"

Xu Bantou and Song Tongshan glanced at each other, and when they saw that they were slightly bowed, they didn't say anything, and turned to the porters behind him and explained: "Take the guy who eats, do your job!" ”