"Quack...... Old man, you're still as ruthless as ever!"

After the young man left, the curtain of the old man's back room was lifted, and out came an old woman dressed in flowers, and her voice was like a crow pulling her throat.

The old man laughed strangely, showed his only remaining front tooth and said:

"If I'm not ruthless, where did you get this gold and silver jewelry?

The old woman covered her mouth and smiled when she heard this:

"That kid is the one who has sent you five taels of silver every seven days for more than 20 years, and you have exempted half a tael of silver...... But there are really people in this world who only have memories for seven days...... Tsk......"

The old man looked at the silver by the candlelight, smiled from ear to ear, and said:

"There are so many strange things in this world! We are lucky to meet such a foolish boy who is easy to deceive...... It's a pity ......."

The old woman walked behind the old man and pinched his shoulder: "What is a pity?"

When the old man heard this, his smile gradually solidified on his face, and he sighed: "That kid's life is not long......"

............

Besides, the young man's name was Yu Sheng, and I don't know if the old man gave it to him or for some other reason, he seemed to like this name very much, and today was the first day that his fate began to change.

Yu Sheng walked on the familiar and strange road, familiar is familiar, strange because he didn't remember this road, all his memories had become zero last night.

It is worth mentioning that everyone along the way looked at him with curious eyes, but no one talked to him, and even some curious children wanted to step forward, but they would be pulled back by the elders around them.

Yu Sheng didn't seem to see these curious eyes, or he did, but he didn't understand the meaning of such gazes, so he just walked forward with his feelings, and finally smelled a salty sea breeze, which was the only pier on the entire island.

A group of shirtless workers were busy unloading from the ship, and the supervisor was a middle-aged man with a big belly and a fierce face, with a smoking gun in his mouth.

"Yu Sheng, you're a minute late today!"

Yu Sheng was stunned and asked:

"You recognize me?!"

The middle-aged man smashed the cigarette holder and said with a smile:

"I knew you were going to ask this, you wanted silver, and you finished moving the sack over there!"

The middle-aged man said, pointing to the mountain of goods on the edge of the dock.

Yu Sheng was overjoyed when he heard this: "How much silver do you give me?"

The middle-aged man frowned, suddenly split his lips, showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, and said with a smile:

"Recently, business has been sluggish, and you are a short-term worker, and the original agreement of five taels of silver can only give you four and a half, but if you can do long-term work, you can give you ......"

The middle-aged man lowered his head and snapped his fingers as he spoke, and when he looked up again, he just saw Yusheng's figure disappearing around the corner, and couldn't help complaining:

"I knew that I still said five taels...... That kid can be used by ten people alone...... Cut ~ It's really bad luck today!"

The middle-aged man didn't chase after him, but poured his anger on others, and couldn't help but whip it at the passing workers.

Who would have thought that just because of half a tael of silver, Yusheng deviated from the established route he had established for more than 20 years, and it was also because of half a tael of silver that he changed the rest of his life.

Yu Sheng walked aimlessly along the coast, still thinking about the five taels of silver, he didn't know how to get the five taels of silver, and he didn't know where he would go along the seaside, he only cared about the stones at his feet, thinking that he could pick up the so-called silver here.

Few people will come to the beach idle, for the inhabitants of the island, they have countless things to do, especially at the most important time of the decade, there is hardly a person who is in the mood to see the sea, except for the one in front of him, at this time, Yu Sheng has already walked to the sea on the seventh day, and the white-bearded old man in front of him is the first person he meets.

"What are you looking for, boy?"

If it weren't for the old man to speak, Yu Sheng would definitely pass by him unconsciously, even so, Yu Sheng only glanced at this strange old man slightly.

The old man was naked, his ribs were clearly visible, his white hair was braided into pigtails, and he had a bun at the back of his head, which seemed to be worse than Yusheng, at least he had a tattered clothes to wear.

"I'm looking for silver!" said Yu Sheng, pretentiously.

When the old man heard this, he laughed and said:

"You stupid boy! Where did you get the money here! I think you're crazy thinking about silver!"

Only then did Yu Sheng look at the other party, pointed to the top of the old man's head and said:

"What is this?"

The old man was stunned, then groped for a while above his head, pulled off a thumb-sized worm and smiled:

"It's a sea lice, it tastes good!"

The old man threw the worm into his mouth as he spoke, and Yu Sheng swallowed with difficulty.

"How long has it been since you eat?" the old man glanced at Yu Sheng.

"Seven days!" Yu Sheng replied immediately.

The old man got up, patted the dust off his body, and said with a smile: "Let's go!

............

"Where is this?How can there be so much food?!" Yu Sheng wiped his greasy lips, not even sparing the remaining chicken bones in his hand.

Seeing this, the old man's eyelids jumped wildly, looked directly at the vegetable leaves in the bowl, slapped Yu Sheng's forehead, and said angrily:

"You kid is a starving ghost who got out, and came to harm me, an old man who is about to enter the ground, I just went out to explore the wind, and you ate two pigs and ten chickens!"

After the old man finished speaking, the old man looked at the bones without shreds of flesh on the ground, and his face became more and more ugly.

Yu Sheng touched his head and said embarrassedly: "But I haven't eaten yet......"

"You're ......!"

The old man sat down on the ground and resigned himself to his fate:

"It's okay! I am unlucky to meet you, but you must not say anything about it, this is the only Taoist temple on the whole island, and I only have such a chance to steal food in ten years, but I have to leave three points for everything, and I don't dare to eat as swaggering as you!"

Yu Sheng said curiously: "Dao Temple?"

The old man said angrily:

"Today's day is quite special, so there is no one in the temple, but the gods in this temple are watching! You and I can recite the scriptures and eliminate the karma!"

"Immortals?!"

Yu Sheng looked at the old man in surprise, the old man was already holding a tattered scripture book in his hand, and almost every page he opened was coated with a layer of oil.

Yu Sheng curiously stretched out his hand to the scripture, but was grabbed by the old man's wrist.

"You kid, be respectful! What ......?!"

The old man suddenly looked at the other party blankly, his mouth opened, and it took a long time to show a look of sympathy.