Du Tingzhi was wearing a gray shirt, cloth shoes and showing his fingers, passing by the servant who was weeding, his eyes were sharp, his mouth was sharp, and he coughed a few times, and then he told him about today's affairs. Often these trivial things can be brought by the housekeeper in the house, but the time flies quickly, after noon, the little bird Tingya, the smoke of the small temple is the fire is thick, he can't help the tiredness in his heart, he is very self-disciplined, can not be disrespectful to the Buddha in the temple, sleepy is to listen to the Buddha boring?

The Buddha was angry, he couldn't afford it, but he didn't know that it was the third son Du Luan who was boring in reading and reading, and kicked away the old gentleman who brushed his sleeves and touched his white beard. I just swallowed three or four catties of big watermelon, and I didn't spit out a single black seed, so I shook it and chased it away. At this time, where is the image of an elegant child? He had a plan in his heart, read the Four Books and the Five Classics well, and then secretly traveled away.

If this news is known by his father, he has to take off the soles of his shoes and slap it on his little face, you must know what Du Knock often says, "Grow up quickly, become a talent quickly, I am still waiting for you to provide for me?" This news restrained the boss Du Kong, but his heart was not enough to inherit the great cause. The second Dutu was not at home for a few days, and he still left a note, and he was in the Qinglou and his line, and he was also a ghost.

The amorous tent was also printed on her father's façade, and Du Tu dragged his intoxicated heart, lying on the bed with a sallow face and a smile, afraid that he would be a ruthless person even if he was old. It doesn't hurt that the money is spilling out of the hands of his father, as long as he doesn't get what he wants.

One night, Du Tu returned home with a drunken and extravagant mentality, his steps were chaotic, his mother saw him hurriedly brought him into the house, Du Knock panted and raised the thick bamboo stick in his arm, and hit him with a snap, from his confusion to his eyes, and his skin was open. His mother shouted vigorously: Kill me, my son, if you kill my son, I won't live.

Du knocked to stop, but within a month, Du Tu never returned home.

Angry, he couldn't hold the cup of tea steadily, and scolded his mother.

How can it be enjoyable to scold her mother? Hitting her son is not enjoyable. Only then did he put all his thoughts on the third son, he must be able to read and write, no matter what kind of book it is, this teacher must be the best, and invited the best lecturer in the city. He respectfully carried the gifts, and went into the hut, almost kneeling down on his knees. You know, you can't offend anyone who offends a scholar, a word can write you as a coquettish person, and a word can save you from the pile of dead people-

The lecturer's name is not a tooth.

Dressed in rough straw sandals, vegetarian belly, reading thousands of books.

He confessed that he had only taught civilian children all his life. The words spoken are full of irony.

Du Zhizhi snorted, shook the gift in his hand, and scolded, if you don't go, you have to go, if you don't go, I will demolish your school and disperse your students.

Helpless, he took three steps and turned around with the bookshelf and went to Du's mansion.

Only do I know why Kuancheng uses Kuancheng to serve the people?

Narrow-minded, the villain is enlightened, and he wants to laugh at the insider.

These three sons don't eat this set, even if they talk well, it's useless not to listen, but Du Luan's elegant etiquette has changed subtly at that time, so that the old man Du Knock wants to take him out of Du's mansion for the common people to see, but he is ashamed and unwilling.

The cat chasing child Du Luan who shook his belly was full of smiles, and saw his father respectfully stepping into the small temple, curiously showing his face to check, and when Du Knock's chanting was over, he got up and left, he climbed around the Buddha statue, twisted the little Buddha body, especially the position of the eighteen Arhats, oblique left and right, when Du Knock came in again, his eyes were stunned, and he was shocked: He is guilty.

He walked out of the temple full of hatred, unwilling to drink tea and enjoy himself, so he stared at the servant who looked like it, and after a while, the weeding was not clean, and even how to weed quickly taught and scolded one by one, which shortened the amount of two days to one day, and left a lot of silver taels. The servant after leaving, with a dull face, must know that short-term work is not so easy to find, two days or, compressed into one day, less than half of the money, who can accept it?

Du Zhizhi was very happy, smiled and pulled out a small abacus on his chest, hit it, and said, "Save again." ”

He walked away, the eldest son since he was frightened in the city, his expression was sluggish, he found a fortune teller, eight before and after, each said, unlucky, this is to provoke the big man. As for who this big man is? Only the Taoist priest who was holding a compass and holding a talisman in one hand came and said with a smile: "I know all the circumstances of your family. ”

Du Zhizhi hurriedly greeted him and asked, "What kind of situation, what are the causes and consequences?"

The Taoist priest stretched out two fingers and pinched them, Du Zhizhi gritted his teeth and took out a tael of silver and put it in the palm of his hand, and then he shook his head and said: "Because of this, when your eldest son was born, he has a weak personality, is kind, and has ups and downs in his life, especially marriage." This curse also started because of women, and it will end because of women. If I am not mistaken, your eldest son believed the introduction in the dream and went to Lanke Town, where there were demons and monsters, which inevitably frightened him. ”

Du Zhizhi hurriedly asked, "Master, how do you solve that?"

The Taoist priest stretched out two fingers again, Du knocked to cry without tears, and put another tael of silver, the Taoist priest shook his head, it was not enough.

Du Zhizhi didn't take out the silver tael when he pulled out his sleeves, deducted a stinky little white paper from the soles of his feet, took out a tael of silver, and whispered: "How does the master solve it?"

The Taoist priest said solemnly: "If Hua Fa dies, as the so-called demon in the dream will come out, it is not that you have accumulated too many sins, or that your blessings have been dissipated, all of which need to be investigated." ”

Du knocked: "Nonsense, my Du Mansion has been inherited for a hundred years, the ancestors have inherited their kindness, and outsiders have praised it, what is a wide city? How can there be such kindness as sinful? Is it true that the people who ate the rice did not give it more? If you want to say that the blessings are gone, I am frank and open, and I am calm and calm in my work for the benefit of the people, how can I say it?"

The Taoist priest smiled: "As for the truth and falsehood, the truth and the truth, you can think about it yourself." The solution is to get married within three days, no matter whether you are rich or poor, whether you are near or far, it is useless to seek medical advice, what you are afraid of, what you use to break it. I will give you three talismans, and if they spontaneously combust on the night of their wedding, you can call my way in your dry well, and the apricot will wither. I'll show up in time. Whether the disaster can be avoided or not depends on the creation of your eldest son!"

Du Knockzhi watched the chic departure, with a lot of respect in his heart, put away the three talismans, and went to a beautiful woman to propose to him, and the first choice was the door and family.

As for whether it will succeed or not, it all depends on fate.

Du knock ran a lot of places, most of them have no daughters, there is a lack of shaking their heads and not marrying, he is sad to touch his beard, only to see a young girl weaving cloth and sewing clothes, her mother is a mulberry soft person, picking mulberry leaves to raise silkworms, her husband died in battle, set up a chastity archway. She put a pot of tea on the man in the ragged gray shirt who came, and said with a smile: "Do you want to buy silk?"

This question stunned Du Tingzhi, who was looking for a cup of tea to drink, he had a cup of warm water on his stomach, and bent down proudly to look at the little woman, slender and good-looking, if he gave some money to dress up, it was enough to be shocked

people, but said patiently: "I don't know how old the young girl in the family is?"

The woman's mother said sincerely: "I am over seventeen years old. ”

Du Zhizhi frowned and thought, "Can you get married?"

The woman's mother sighed: "The young girls who play with her have become a good helper, and she still loves her family, if it weren't for my poor health, I would have asked him to find a good family." ”

Du Zhizhi drank another glass of warm water, a little gentle, and hurriedly said: "My dog is willing to accept him as a concubine, you see—can you be willing?"

When the woman's mother heard this, she looked back at her daughter and sighed, but sighed with tears in her eyes: "If she agrees, I will do as she wishes." ”

The woman knelt on the ground and bowed, nodding and tearing, "I do." ”

They didn't ask what to say, Du Zhizhi nodded with satisfaction and ran home, first prepared some thin gifts, quietly stepped on the threshold to marry his son, there was no momentum, only a red light night left, holding three talismans in his hands, according to what Mr. Taoist said, wait. The eldest prince Du Kong was sick and weak, so he lifted the red hijab in the room, shook his head and fell asleep. He knew that this person was not the woman he wanted, and he was very tired of that woman, and now he thought about it a little, but his father did not dare to disobey it.

He got up and poured his wine and drank for an hour, and he didn't know why he wanted to drink it. In his dream, a voice called out to him to take a sip of wine at the Sake Pavilion in Lanke Town, and he searched for the source of the sound, but all he got was a shattered memory. He seemed to remember the voice saying, "This is your calamity."

"My calamity?" Du Kong muttered, "Why did you choose me?"

At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, a woman with a sat on an old elm tree, squinted, and walked into the city with a smile, the scarecrow behind her looked calm, only Luo Xiaoyun crossed her mouth and touched her stomach, completely without her previous serious look.

There was also an old man dragging a cart to make supper at the stall, the three of them looked at each other a little embarrassed, Luo Xiaoyun took out a few pennies, and asked one after another: "Grandpa, can you finish the meal for the three of us before leaving?"

The old man nodded slightly and said, "There are only a few steamed buns, a few bowls of porridge, and some cold food." ”

He Shan smiled: "It's okay, we are not picky eaters, just eat enough." ”

The old man laughed, and while holding a bowl of rice, he said, "You are from afar, right? I see how you are dressed so shabby, did you meet a robber on the road? I have an old gray shirt in my box, why don't you wear it!"

Jishan touched his willow hair and said, "Thank you grandpa for your kindness, I wear this tattered dress and fits it very well, I'm used to it." No robber in this world would dare to rob us, otherwise one of us would have beaten them with a single punch. ”

The old man made the meal, served the table, smiled and lit a cigarette, sat on the board car on the side, looked at the night moon, and had something on his mind. But he only cared about eating and drinking, and took out the big cake he brought, shook his head and gnawed it, and the old man who saw it smiled and showed his front teeth, and his sorrow spread out with the wind, and said lightly: "My family used to have a son, a little named Clown, and he can eat it like you." When I was away from the march when he was young, the examiner failed to return home, and my wife, who was married to me, wept and rippled, I held hands and comforted: The river bends, there are good wives and good children in the family, if there is another daughter, both children and daughters. Just forget about the examiner. ”

"The joy of family is a wonderful idea that I wrote down after reading 3,000 volumes, but I didn't expect that the examiner would not succeed but return to my hometown to become a good thing, and I will be like this, so I will be safe. In the future, white porridge is vegetarian, and I want a good girl. Fate does not return, and the sky does not go according to me. On a late autumn night, yellow leaves and rocks falling, white clothes cover the windows, and I waited for a long time without hearing the cry. The thunder roared everywhere, and my wife and fetus walked away from me, and my heart ached. ”

"My clown is smart and capable, and in those days I was haggard and lustful, but I was a little relieved to see the clown of three or four years old, but at the age of ten, he fell into the river and died, and I wrapped my bones and buried them beside my mother, and the three of them were reunited, but I was missing. On the eve of the clown's accident, he also told me: Dad, I can eat very well, and I will definitely be admitted to the official when I am full. ”

Now, when I see Xiaoyou, I think a little. With tears in his eyes, the old man put down the big cake in front of him, sat down beside him and comforted: "Each has its own destiny, we are all mortal, unknowable, and unsolvable. Ann. ”

The old man stretched out his palm, held it tightly with one hand, comforted him a little, and continued to eat, the old man spoke a lot, his expression was gloomy, and he talked about the big and small things in this wide city, but he swept by the small bamboo house where he lived, he was frank and kind all his life, and he would help if he needed, but it often caused them to scold and complain, in a word, the heart of a good person should be evil.

After the three of them had a full meal, they helped him put away the tables and chairs, and the old man refused to take a few pennies from Luo Xiaoyun at first, but he shook his head solemnly, held his palm and left, they were about to go to a red light place, which was also the reason why Luo Xiaoyun came to Kuancheng.

Her master left a bamboo stick, marking that there is a Du family in this city, and the ancestors of the Du family have an agreement with her. Because of the good karma amazed, simply give a dark night pearl, this pearl can be changed in size, placed on the hanging beam, can rise in the wind, the family will prosper in the future, but the good karma is therefore offset. The ancestors of the Nadu family also instructed the younger generations to do more good deeds, and not to live up to the wide city and wide characters, but the sun and the moon are uneven, and Baisheng will decline.

Now is the time to take the pearls.

After the three of them left, a puff of white smoke floated on the old man's body, his qi and blood churned, and his sluggish qi dissipated.

The old man said, "Could it be—"

The three of them slowed down, and the person who was playing the flute followed them, and the scarecrow stopped and said softly, "Who is it?"

A plainly dressed woman in the back jumped down and bowed with her fists in her hands, "Disciple of the Xiao Sect in the lower cave, Luo Chifeng." ”

He pouted and asked, "What?"

"In the lower cave Xiao Sect disciple, Lu Chi Feng. ”

Luo Xiaoyun smiled slightly: "What is the reason why the Dong Xiao Sect is here?"

Luo Chifeng grabbed a tightly wrapped picture scroll from his sleeve, dropped it in the hands of the scarecrow, and turned to leave. The mountain grabbed the flower scroll, opened it and took a look, the picture scroll is divided into three small points, the upper is an evil painting with a human face and a ghost wood, in the middle is Zhong Kui catching a ghost, a brown peach wood sword is hard to insert into the heart, and the next is a woman who died tragically, and her heart was eroded.

After reading it with a frown, he coughed and threw it to the scarecrow, and said slowly: "This painting is useless, it's just that the paper is good, leave it for you to wipe your butt." ”

Xiaoyun was surprised, the scarecrow didn't think so, and as he spoke, he stuffed it into the burden that he didn't know where to go, and the three of them continued to walk, walking through the silent street, where the inn closed its doors and windows, and there were fallen straws in the middle of the road, and a few horses were resting in the stable, and the cold wind blew, which made Jishan shiver, and said with a smile: "It seems that you have to find a place to drink and warm up." ”

Seeing the swordsmen who drew their swords and rushed away across the eaves, their figures were extremely fast, as if they were not interested in the outsiders below, they thought about it, raised their legs and jumped on the roof, looking at the place where they were far away, it was the Du Mansion of the red lantern, and his eyelids were slightly raised. The scarecrow sword flew up, and he said arrogantly: "I don't want to kill people anymore, you try to do as little as possible." ”

There was a hint of strangeness in Luo Xiaoyun's eyes, and he opened his mouth and said, "I'm going to take a look." ”

He smiled evilly: "I'll go too." ”

The scarecrow's face was calm, and he sighed lightly, looking at the disappeared figures of the two.

Du Fu.

The oil lamp in the red lantern suddenly went out after the dog barked softly.

A swift figure jumped up the wall, looking at the empty red fire scene inside, in the small temple where incense was burned, there was smoke lingering, and the sound of chuckling came from a side room, the voice seemed to be an old woman, she was holding a red cloth in her hand, sewing some simple flower and grass patterns on it, taro, artemisia, plum chrysanthemum, while humming a ballad, it was the happy event of Dukonna's concubine that caused him to giggle.

The woman who left and refused to go home, she wished not to take a step, if it weren't for Du Knockzhi's obstacle, she would have asked her son to take such a woman as the main house? Although her hands are stretched out long, she often gives people a bad look, but she will not say so in public!

Du Tingzhi has long disliked her old Zhuhuang, but she is also thinking about the Du family and has been alone in the empty house for a few years. She only had the joy of smiling today. He gave birth to the eldest son of the Du family, and he is still the main house, he will not be too restrained in doing things, how to say, she is also a person with some rights. In the future, when Du Knock is old, the family property will fall on Du Kong's body, this burden is not small, but if she bears it, it doesn't matter if she goes away peacefully.

Du Zhizhi was anxious to die, she stood in front of the concubine's room, and there was a charming call from inside. The figure under the lamplight, slightly lying on the side of the bed, reflected her black curly hair, the white hosta was slightly reflective, the embroidered silk was fluffy and covered the belly, and the snow-white feet were slightly curved.

"Master, are you here?——"

Du knocked his body and shook his body, turned around and walked to the direction of the eldest prince's room, he lay quietly in front of the door, listening to the movement inside. After a few breaths, he sighed lightly and his body, this scene was slightly vicissitudes.

He saw a figure lying on the table, holding a wine jug in his hand, and the figure of the woman beside the bed gently helped him to the bed.

Seeing this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He sat on the steps, grabbed the three talismans given by the Taoist priest, and said with a slight thought: "Bless my son!"

He looked at the starry night, the crescent moon hung up, exhaled a cold breath, and walked lightly, and a swordsman landed behind him, and there were several dark places in the house where a chill appeared, and five or six pairs of eyes opened and drew the sword with its scabbard. The rustling footsteps were in the ears, and the swordsman who fell to the ground drew his sword and was about to stab into the eldest prince's room, and a figure ran out and blocked the sword in his hand, and the two looked at each other and asked, "Want to die?"

The two of them were vigorous, the sound of fighting was not stopped, and there were still people in the darkness who had not come out, and the swordsmen on the wall jumped down one after another, and one of them said softly: "Quickly take the life of the eldest prince of Du Mansion." ”

"You dog thief. A strong man scolded.

"Hehe, Du Fu has done a lot of evil, taking one person's life today, and taking everyone's life next time. ”

The door was kicked open, a man and a woman woke up in an instant, the person in the dark drew his sword and jumped out, and fought with it, Du knock was just about to rest in the concubine's room, he heard the roaring and fighting outside, and went straight to the dry well in shorts, and the talisman in his hand did not spontaneously combust, he burst into tears in a hurry, stomped his foot, and scolded himself for being incompetent, after he cried for a long time, the sound of the fight gradually came to an end, the three talismans burned, he lay on the dry well and shouted, "Apricot withered, apricot withered, apricot withered Taoist - "

He accidentally planted himself in a well.

The swordsman who had killed the guards went straight to the eldest prince's room, and he stood on a large elm tree, not knowing what he was thinking.

Luo Xiaoyun was just about to make a move, but he pulled him back.

At this time, a Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe fell with a wooden sword in his hand, threw out the wooden sword and landed in front of them, hugged his fists and said: "Taoist priest in Xia Xingshan Taoist Temple, apricot wither." Today, I saw that many swordsmen were quite angry, and I will guide you, this son can't move. ”

One of the swordsmen, the vicissitudes of life, "If you are a Taoist, you can distinguish between right and wrong." This Du family has done a lot of evil, can't it be done for the people?"

Xingkure Taoist priest said: "This son's life should not be extinguished, if you rob him of his life, it will definitely bring disaster to you, and within three years, you will all die." As a Taoist, walking in the mountains, I have seen countless prosperity and loneliness, and I am naturally aware of such small things in front of me. I have a reason in what I say, if you don't believe it, please do it. ”

The swordsmen blinked.

The Xing Ku Taoist priest said with a smile: "The ancestors of Du Fu accumulated good offerings to the Buddha, and the Buddha is now repaying his kindness to his descendants, waiting for Du Knock's death." This Buddha is the result of the cause and effect of the Du family, and the prosperity and decay are all due to it. His heir has my destiny on the path of Xingshan, and I will take him away. You have a heart. ”

Among the swordsmen, a thin body pulled down the hat on his head, revealing a face of vicissitudes, and hugged his fists and said: "Xing Ku Dao people, I have heard of it decades ago. It's better to see than to hear. I am old, and I am running away with a kind of brother, drawing my sword and soothing it, and I should return to my heart. If you do, I won't say more. But—"

He bowed deeply and said tremblingly: "Please also ask your predecessors to show us a clear way." ”

The apricot withered Taoist laughed, brushed his sleeves and said: "Life has its own way, if you don't go, someone will always walk for you." You don't dare to go, someone dares to go, go, go-"

He shook his head as if to drive away.

All the swordsmen bowed their fists and left, and Du Kong in the room seemed to have an understanding, knelt on the ground and bowed, moved over, and bowed: "Senior, I saw in my dream that the person who wanted to kill the demon must be you, and please help me." ”

The apricot withered Taoist priest shook his head, as if he was smiling, and the woman in the room was crying weakly.

"Three little friends, after watching it for so long, you can't come down?"

Li Shan jumped down without the slightest hesitation, his eyes widened, and he said with a smile: "How do you know that we are here?"

"The old man has been practicing since he was a child, and now he has more than 70 years of not saying much, and he is proficient in hearing and hearing, and he can't escape from my ears at all. ”

"Scarecrow, how is your master doing?" he turned to look at the figure behind Li Shuishan and asked with a meaning.

The scarecrow clenched his fists and bowed, and said respectfully: "The blessing of dragging the predecessors, everything is fine." ”

Xing Ku Taoist nodded with a smile, he already had a lot of friendship with his master, a long time ago, he was still talking about Lushui Mountain, drinking a cup of black bamboo tea he made with his own hands, his mouth was full of fragrance, it was not bad, and after that, he patted his ass and left, without saying a word of thanks, so that the scarecrow felt his indifference from the heart.

This night, it is also fateful to get together, and drinking tea is not necessary in the eyes of Xing Kudao people.

Because they were going to hurry and go straight to Lushui Mountain, where another beautiful errand would begin when they were all together.

The seniors are here, and the three of them are not easy to do, but at this time they have an understanding, as for the fate of the family, it is not something that ordinary people can decide, but after this incident, there must be a lot of numbers, and the reputation of the city government will also be sighed in people's hearts, and they will not cry and bury.

The three of them sighed and turned to run.