Chapter 69: The Beggar
This was a long time ago, and the Dao Master had not yet encountered what happened when Yun was casual. It's just that now Xie Yan was dragged into the alley by this person in Jinling City on a rainy night, so he had to take it out and mention it.
At that time, the road was full of people, and once passing by a town, I thought that the inhabitants of it spoke with an interesting accent, so I stayed for a few more days. When he was about to go out of the city gates, he found a man in the market.
Originally, there was a pile of beggars in that corner, and several beggars were sitting. It is not surprising that there are always places in a city for them to beg for money. He had already passed by, but he walked back backwards and began to stare at one of them carefully.
The beggar he was staring at was unkempt and ragged, and at first glance he looked no different from other beggars, except that he seemed to be a little younger. The Dao Chief stared at him for a long time, staring at him with hair in his heart, so he stretched out his broken bowl a little dazedly: "How much money does the Dao Chief give?"
He then flipped his wrist and scattered dozens of copper plates in the little beggar's bowl, leaned down to him and asked, "Why are you here?"
The little beggar looked even more bewildered, and he asked, "Should I sit across the street?"
The street is bustling and really not a good place to ask questions. In the stunned gazes of the others, the Taoist chief slapped a thousand taels of silver tickets directly into his bowl, grabbed his wrist and said, "He was bought by me," and pulled him into an alley half-pulled and half-dragged, and asked again in a somewhat angry manner: "Why are you here, can you say it now?"
The beggar was startled when he heard the Taoist say his name accurately, and reached out to cover his mouth, and looked around like a robber sharing the spoils with his accomplices. He whispered, "How do you know my name? Who are you?"
The Taoist took his hand down, and at the same time sighed that this little ghost king was really ignorant of the world, and a casual set of words came out, and when he opened his mouth, it was in the tone of an elder's lecture: "My name is Qing Xuan—you still ask? Since you ran out, the underworld is almost chaotic! You still have the leisure to be a beggar here!"
Shen Tu has never heard of the name of the Taoist, but feels that ordinary people have never had the courage to talk to him like this, and when they see him, they all look like they are cowering, and look at his attitude like this, he must be some kind of big person, but he just endured it and didn't ask, and opened his mouth to argue: "I didn't come out to be a beggar, I came to find my brother! I won't go back if I don't find him! The ghost kings of all dynasties are twins, and I'm the only one who comes to me, what's the point!"
Qing Xuan heard him say the word "brother", his voice was a little aggrieved, and the words he wanted to say were swallowed in his stomach for a while. His eyes dodged imperceptibly, and he said, "Then you—then what are you going to do? If you don't find your brother, you won't go back?
"I ......"
The boy gradually lowered his head. He grabbed his frantic hair with his hand, but thought to himself: "This Taoist priest doesn't know where it came from, and it looks very difficult." He actually couldn't let go of the underworld in his heart, but if he went back, he didn't know that the Year of the Monkey would come out, and since he caught the person in front of him, he simply took the opportunity to ask: "Have you seen my brother?"
The Taoist chief was stunned by his question, and blinked: "No, no." ”
He didn't lie, he just took out his teacup and turned it around in the palm of his hand, anyone with a discerning eye could see it, but Shen Tu believed it.
That year, the battle between gods and demons coincided with the advent of the ghost king, and the turmoil of the aura and demonic qi between heaven and earth caused the ghost fetus of this egg twin to be extremely unstable. In order to survive, they fought each other under the hundred-foot yellow spring of the underworld, and only one of the twin ghost kings survived, and that was the gods. This is an unprecedented phenomenon since the establishment of the underworld, and it is also the beginning of a disaster that is rumored to be a disaster by the people of the Six Realms. And his brother Yu Lei was devoured by him, but he didn't know it.
How could he tell him such a cruel thing? He was just a young man who longed for someone to be close to him, but the underworld was full of coldness, killing, and all the dark and filthy things in the world, and the black and white impermanence, bull head and horse face would never talk and laugh with him in his spare time, this young man's eyes could only be cold day by day, and even his hands were cold, just like the water flowing in his body was not blood, but yellow spring water.
And he loved to laugh so much, and if you asked the beggars, you knew that he was the most smiling of them all, and whenever someone threw him a copper plate, he would raise his head and smile at them, as if he were very grateful in his heart.
"I'll help you find your brother, and you go back to the underworld first, don't let them worry. The Taoist said suddenly without a head.
When Shen Tu heard this, his eyes widened, and he couldn't help but start screaming. He jumped twice excitedly on the spot, and wanted to hug the Taoist, but seeing that his body was too dirty, he had to give up: "Really! Really! But it doesn't matter if you don't find it—it doesn't matter if you don't look for it, I will be very happy if you say this." ”
"Although I really want to find him in person, it's not good to run out all the time—I know that—my brother, he must look a lot like me, right? Look at me, you look at me more now, maybe you'll meet him on the road one day? Hey, I told you, the eighth master told me, he said that I can sense where my brother is, and the ghost kings of the past have been like this, but I perceived it, and I found that he was—"
Shen Tu paused, and pointed to his heart.
"I'm going to find him anyway, unless he's dead, or I'll find him someday. But he can't die, and if he dies, I can't live. I became a beggar just so that I could walk around, like this street, you see the city gate is in front of me, if my brother is in the city, he has to pass through here if he wants to go out, right? He can't stay in the house all the time without moving, if he wants to go out of the city, I will definitely see him......"
The Taoist looked at him and kept talking, and at the same time smiled at him, but a trace of compassion flashed in his eyes.
This innocent and innocent boy.
【Shen Tu Yu Lei】 Han Wang Chong "On Heng · "Ordering Ghosts" quotes the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": "In the middle of the sea, there is a mountain of Dushuo, there is a big peach tree, its Qu Pan is 3,000 miles, and the northeast between its branches is called the ghost gate, and ten thousand ghosts enter and exit. There are two gods and people, one is called Shen Tu, and the other is Yu Lei, and the Lord reads and leads ten thousand ghosts. The ghost of good and evil insists on eating tigers with reeds. ”