57. They are all guests in the world
Rain after sunny days, sunny days thunderbolts, heavy rain, and the cycle repeats.
The old man, who has lived for most of his life, has never seen such abnormal weather, under the eaves of the rainy day, the showers are in a line, the old man moved a small stool, leaned against the wall to smoke dry tobacco, while watching his son beat his grandson, he couldn't stand it, so he picked up the cigarette pouch and joined the battle.
The years have passed, and the old man's legs and feet are still sharp. In the end, his son looked aggrieved, it was Lao Tzu who was beaten more than 20 years ago, and it was Lao Tzu who was beaten more than 20 years later!
The son muttered in a low voice, and the old man rolled up his sleeves: "You little rabbit, how dare you shout?"
The son honestly didn't dare to squeak, and the little grandson smiled happily and hugged the old man's thigh, affectionately called grandpa, and pulled grandpa to make him a bamboo horse.
In fact, in the son's heart, it is true that he was beaten by the old father and had some grievances: Dad, you beat me since I started with my bare ass;
But it's true to be happy about it. The naughty child back then is now not confused. At this age, being beaten by my father is a great blessing in life.
At the same time, there is still a sour feeling in my heart.
As the saying goes, "the first 30 years look at the father and respect the son, and the last 30 years look at the son and respect the father". When he was a child, he was not motivated, and as soon as he went to the private school, he would change his way to skip school and misbehave, and he was often spanked by the old father who took off his pants and was beaten; he even climbed on top of the old locust tree, refused to go to school, and was ruthlessly stabbed down by the old father, and broke his leg and lay on the bed for two months.
Now that people are middle-aged, they can only live by guarding a few acres of thin fields handed down by their old father, and they have not grown up at all for two generations, and the stinky boys who entered the private school with him at the beginning, such as Han Xin, the nine-grade petty official in the town, are famous, once they ate the imperial grain, and the whole family followed the chicken and dog to heaven, and they walked more vigorously than others.
When the old father was young, he was a good hand at farming and raising seedlings, and he was respected by his neighbors.
What about now? The old father doesn't know how many years he can live, he will be forgotten by more and more people, and he can be angry when he goes to the morning market; unlike Han Xin's father, because his son is promising, everyone he meets nods and is polite.
Thanks to his lack of courage.
The rain was frequent, but fortunately the fields were clean, and this year's autumn harvest was already over.
An autumn rain and a cold.
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The weather over Dongling Town is like a life between Lei Gong and his mother, while smashing pots and bowls and fists and kicks against each other, so the wind and rain are combined, and on the other hand, they can kiss me and me and whisper, so the wind and waves are calm.
In short, this autumn is not ordinary, and it is quite different from the 24th time.
In the private school in the town, the teacher who was over half a hundred years old, after strictly urging Mengtong to study, he couldn't even take care of the decades-old habit of taking a break with a cup of fragrant tea after dinner. The rice in the field was cut stubble after stubble, and the Mengtong who studied in the school graduated from stubble after stubble, but the teacher was still the old man with a straight temper.
He rushed to the town official's mansion worriedly, and waited under the rain curtain for half an hour to "wait" for the Jiupin petty official who was still lying in the bed.
The official position of the town official, in the official system of Yelang State, is the lowest rank of the chief, and he is inferior to the leader of the Wenshan County Ya dozens of miles away.
But he is a well-known public man, not to mention that he occupies a large official office as a private house; through some means, he has more than 30 acres of fertile land under his name, and it is a real prosperous family in Dongling Town.
So the little lieutenant named Han Xin recently married a concubine, and he was a tenant who couldn't afford to pay the rent.
Her taciturn father could only "marry" her to the chief, not only cutting the rent that Li Luli had owed for more than 20 years at one time, but also getting half an acre of fertile land for nothing.
The area of the field is not large, but the location is very good, next to the canal, even in a year of great drought, there can be some harvest.
This made her father so sad, and she went to her mother's grave and cried alone, carrying a burning knife and wine.
She secretly followed, the croppers can't say any big reason, to talk about it, it's just chatter, the child you left early, if you go a few years later, you can also enjoy the blessings; the girl is going to get married, you combed her hair back then, always talk about your girl's water spirit, in the future when you get married, you want to tie her the most beautiful head flower; now you have no chance, rest assured, I sold a few old hens when I rushed to the market, bought a bag of head flowers, and secretly practiced for several months, now my ability to tie the head of the flower, is not worse than you.
After crying for a while, her father poured down a jar of burning knives, and cried even more fiercely: Child, you left early, I promised you to pull the two children up. I did it, but I didn't do it well, don't blame me. Blame me for being a father for not being capable, the girl is making people small. But don't worry, my son-in-law is our local, he grew up watching it, he knows the roots, and he is still the mayor of our town, and he will not bully our daughter.
The man, at the grave of his daughter-in-law, finished all the words of ten years in one breath, and then got drunk. It was still that daughter, Han Xin's concubine, who called her younger brother and carried her drunk old father home.
In addition to being exempted from rent and gifted farmland, her younger brother was just old enough to serve in forced labor.
The villagers are spreading that the wolf son of Qiu Yingguo in the north has the ambition to give Yelang a battle to destroy the country. Therefore, the two armies on the front line of Bingzhou are fighting, black clouds are pressing the city, and nearly one million troops on both sides are at the border of the Chen army, and at a glance it is full of human heads, weapons, iron armor, and war horses.
Once war starts, war is like a giant meat grinder. If you kill someone, you can't turn over a single wave. The heavily armed soldiers were killed and wounded, not to mention the civilians involved in logistics.
At this time, it reflects the benefits of the people above, and the husband Han Xin stroked his pen and crossed his brother-in-law from the recruitment list, and the family is still a family, and he is beautiful.
On the day she got married, her taciturn father did not go to his son-in-law's mansion to drink and join in the fun.
Just told my son to go over and show his face, don't forget to explain to your sister, if your brother-in-law treats her badly, she will go home if she is wronged.
The golden nest and silver nest are still their own kennels, but it's a big deal, just return the field to others, and it's not that you haven't suffered!
He sat on his paddy field and smoked dry tobacco for a day, from morning to night.
In the haze of smoke, the man who is not smiling, in the back, his shoulders are constantly trembling, and the people are eating, why is it so difficult?
The concubine was not from a good background, and she had nothing to say, and after spending a few days with a little training, she almost let Han Xin, who was alive and well, walk and play.
The teacher saw Han Xin and saluted with serious Confucian etiquette, but the pale-faced lieutenant avoided a heavy salute from the teacher with a slight sideways.
The teacher's face was not good: "The elder is the parent official of the people in a place, do you really think that he is an ordinary rich man, happy all day long, and everything will be fine if he studies the little things in the bed?"
"This year's season is chaotic, and I'm afraid it's a rare winter. The people of 10,000 households in Dongling Town, except for one or two of the hundred, are large households, and the rest of the people are all in a situation of lack of food and clothing, why didn't the elder make a plan early and ask the county master for a rescue?"
Han Xin pouted: "Yo, the old master doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks, or will Lao Tzu let you do it?"
"I was still in the nest, but if I didn't have that thing in the nest, the world would have been barren for a long time, and the desolate world with demons and monsters was rampant. Old master, you always have a full stomach, and I'm afraid that you have to talk to a bunch of brutes about your courtesy, righteousness, and shame. ”
The teacher rolled up his sleeves and salivaed: "Han Xin, dog, do you want to quarrel?"
Han Xin leaned against the wall, forcibly endured the soreness and weakness of his legs, and said tit-for-tat: "Yo, he is still a sage of the academy, he actually opened his mouth and closed his mouth to spit lotus flowers, how can this kind of person be a teacher, do you want to fight?"
There is no way, in terms of quarrels, no one is the opponent of those sour and rotten scholars of Confucianism and a few pedantic monks of Buddhism.
Therefore, Han Xin might as well fight.
Seeing that the two of them were about to stage a tragic battle of pulling out their crotch and hair, the door of the governor's mansion was opened again, and a shiny head stuck in and whispered
"Anyone?"
Han Xin was angry, he didn't ask you a blind bald donkey, didn't you see two big living people?
The bald-headed monk continued: "Can the two benefactors stop fighting? The female cat in my temple has just given birth to a litter and needs to rest. ”
"Get out!"
Han Xin and the old master attacked almost at the same time, surrounding the monk who loved to teach Buddhism in the middle.
The monk had a head like a boiled egg, he sighed and folded his hands, easily dodging the one ring ruler and one leg of the two people on the left and right, and said helplessly: "If you do this again, I will beat people." ”
The monk's face was serious, he took a step forward, it was obviously a small step, but it seemed to be out of the world, walking on the long river of time, and giving birth to lotus step by step.
Han Xin scolded: "Show off your uncle! Cultivate a bullshit Zen heart, just count you, a bald donkey, the best to show off." ”
The teacher said sincerely: "Also trapped in this corner of the place, the Zen master can still cultivate and improve, which is gratifying, respectable and admirable!"
The monk was a lot more polite to the teaching craftsman: "Mr. Kong enlightened Mengtong, his merits are immeasurable, and his cultivation has also risen from the Dongfu realm to two realms in a row, and he has become a great monk in the Longmen realm, which is logical." ”
Han Xin said disdainfully: "You two, don't fucking stinky feet praising each other, it's disgusting to hear." One is to recite poetry books to upgrade, and the other is to knock on the wooden fish to upgrade, it's shameless!"
Seeing that Han Xin was annoyed, the teacher was in a good mood, and teased: "That's not as good as your adult, a reincarnation in forty years, at the end of the last reincarnation, from an ordinary person to the peak of the lower five realms; I don't do anything, and I can enter the country so quickly, I really envy others. ”
"That's right. "Han Xin himself is also a little proud, who let our Yin and Yang family lineage, never rely on penance to increase cultivation.
Monk: "One flower is one world, one tree is one Bodhi." ”
Teacher: "It just so happens that everyone is free, let's get down to business first." The period of Jiazi is approaching, and according to the deduction of the predecessors of the Yin and Yang family, that place will appear in the near future and become an ownerless thing again. And according to the agreement of the three religions, that place has been under the nose of Longhu Mountain for sixty years, and if they can't make good use of it, it will have nothing to do with them after that. ”
Monk: "Those who are still coming are still coming, and our Buddhists are only looking forward to fewer incidents and a smooth transition." ”
Teacher: "But the problem right now is that there are endless years in that place, and there must be a lot of chance in it. What proportion will the Confucian students of the academy, the Buddha of the Buddhist temple, and the young priest of Yin and Yang enter it? Therefore, the academy suggested that the quota should be distributed evenly so as not to fight unnecessarily and accidentally injure mortals. ”
The monk said that he had no opinion, that half of the cave heaven, a total of nine innate spiritual machines would be born, and the three families would each account for three, which was fair and just.
Han Xin sneered: "Divide it evenly? Who the hell gave you the confidence? Why don't you let the Buddha and the Holy Master come directly to grab it? That place is not three walnuts and two dates, just divide it." If it weren't for our Yin and Yang family calculating its trajectory in advance and sharing clues with the academy and Buddhist temples for free, you wouldn't be able to catch up with a mouthful of hot. ”
Monk: "The donor's words are wrong, the Yin and Yang family has the art of heavenly arithmetic, but there is no Buddhism and Confucianism to cover the heavenly machine, your master vainly speculates on the heavenly machine, and the end is not much better." ”
Han Xin had no choice but to scold the dog and the donkey.
The teacher feels that he is not polite, don't listen to it, and he is not a teacher who is lazy, and your Yin and Yang family spit lotus flowers at every turn, and they are almost disciplined by the gentlemen and idlers of the academy.
The door was opened again, and the old man, who liked to beat his son, walked in with his hands behind his back and carrying a dry tobacco bag, and did not say a word.
He got straight to the point: "Confucianism and Buddhism, in the hearts of old farmers, have always been the right way to shine the world. Why are the two envoys getting mixed up with the sinister rats of the Yin and Yang family?"
As he spoke, he stared directly at Han Xin, and if you stinky boy dared to say a word, Lao Tzu would knock out the momentum of your skull, ignoring that Han Xin was already a monk in the Lake Viewing Realm
The three of them were taken aback, and the monk was the first to react, he bent down and folded his hands: "I have seen the old man go down to the field countless times, but I didn't expect that the senior was a Jindan guest!"
The teacher made a gesture as a sage of the academy, and the old man was at ease, and indifferently reported to his family: "In this world, where there are Yin and Yang families and rats, there will be chaos in the world." So Han Xin'er was reincarnated in Dongling Town, and the old man arrived on my hind feet. ”
"We farmers are not interested in that bullshit treasure and blessed land. Lao Tzu has just one request, whoever lets the people have food, we farmers will support whom!"
"Also, let me remind you, there is a young man from Longhu Mountain, I'm afraid he has already caught up with you. ”
Han Xin looked unhappy: "Absolutely not! According to the agreement of the three religions, Longhu Mountain Yijiazi has done nothing, so why should he pick up ready-made ones at the last moment?"
The old man slapped Han Xin with a pipe: "It's not Lao Tzu who invited him here, why don't you call me a ball!"
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When the gods fight, it is always the people who suffer. Since the night before yesterday, Dongling Town has not stopped, first the mass grave and the first line of the Shanjun Temple, which were fought in the middle of the night;
During the day, there were iron guards from the Nanda Battalion, and more than 1,000 people were galloping, which made the townspeople really worried, especially those rich households, for fear that a few unsightly businesses would go wrong, for fear of being approached by the government.
The appearance of the Iron Lancer is even more insignificant than what happened afterward.
The whole town was taken in by the small world of monks, and they were afraid of death.
The Governor's Mansion sent two long-term workers to fight door-to-door to reassure: "Folks, don't be afraid, this is the magic cast by the Master Li, looking forward to the coming year!"