Su Chen, Anu and Wu Qiaofu went to Chaoge Immortal City, and soon came to a village built by the Xiuxian family on the way. A circle of bluestone is built into a wall several zhang high, enclosing a few miles of land.

The population of Zhuangzi like this is small, about 1,000 people, most of whom are of the same race and surname. There are only a small number of immortal cultivators in the village, and most of the rest are descendants of immortal cultivators, and some mortals live in the village.

Only then did Su Chen and Anu know that within a radius of hundreds of miles around the Song Immortal City, there were quite a lot of villages, and the population of mortals was even far greater than that of the immortal cultivators in the Immortal City.

Most of them are descendants of immortal cultivators, who have settled in the village near Chaoge Immortal City for generations, and rarely leave to live in the secular city of the Tang Dynasty.

At the gate of the village, there is a shop selling wine, meat, tea, and water, and only a mortal shopkeeper is busy.

Su Chen and the three of them walked in the mountains for half a month, and they were going to rest in this wine shop first, eat a few bowls of noodle soup, and then go to the village to find the old master Lu that Wu Qiaofu talked about.

On the way, Wu Qiao talked about the magic of this old Lu senior.

"This Brother Lu is in Chaoge Immortal City, he is a well-known old-timer, and he cultivates the extremely rare 'Heavenly Machine Technique'. This is a magic technique of fortune-telling that has been handed down from ancient times. He knew astronomy and geography, read tens of thousands of volumes, and was a wandering Taoist priest, covering a wide range of topics and omnipotent. Pacing can know the number of people's lives, and pinching hands can calculate the destiny of heaven. In this world, there is nothing he will not do. ”

"Compared with Brother Lu, I am a lonely and unheard woodcutter in the mountains, insignificant. If Brother Su can get him to take care of him and go to Chaoge City, it will definitely be no problem. ”

Wu Qiaofu's eyebrows were flying, and his spit was flying. Between the words, it was obvious that he had great respect for this powerful Lu senior.

"That's amazing!"

Su Chen couldn't help but be curious, wanting to see this senior master of Lu.

...

The three of them were drinking tea.

Suddenly, I saw an old man in his seventies with white hair and messy mess in the village, with a fifteen or sixteen-year-old entourage following him, running out of the village with his bags on his back.

A spicy woman in her forties and fifties chased after the bad old man with a broom, and scolded: "Master Lu, you are a wreck, you went to Chaoge to do business, and you lost four or five hundred spirit stones, you want to lose all the spirit stones in your family, right?"

The bad old man was running in embarrassment, and was scolded by the woman, and he couldn't help but be angry, and couldn't help but turn around and scolded angrily: "Well, you are a woman and a woman, and you dare to insult your husband!"

The spicy woman suddenly split her head and covered her face, spit at the bad old man, and scolded: "You useless wine bag and rice bag, you lost money in business, and you blamed me in turn!"

The bad old man blushed and defended: "It's bad luck to lose the cost of doing business." Doing business, profit and loss are common things, can you blame me all?!"

The woman scolded: "Your brother Song asked you to go to Chaoge City to guard the city gate, and you are not afraid of losing your capital." It's good to earn dozens of spirit stones a month, why don't you go?"

The bad old man was suddenly stimulated, and he jumped like thunder: "I, Lu Fuzi, a dignified seven-foot man, how can I be a dog guarding the city gate! ”

"Get out, get out of the village, and never come back!"

The woman grabbed the broom and struck it.

The bad old man didn't dare to fight back, but fled in embarrassment, and there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping in the village.

Many mortals in the village watched the jokes in front of their houses and pointed at the bad old man. Obviously, this is not once or twice, it happens often.

The bad old man was an immortal cultivator, but they were not afraid at all, and they were the masters of this village. And that bad old man is just an immortal cultivator who comes to the door, but he is still a wreck who can't do anything, so he naturally has no status in the village.

"Lu... Brother Lu... What's wrong with him?!"

Wu woodcutter was stunned when he saw the scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping in the village.

This bad old man is none other than the senior Lu of Chaoge Immortal City, the old master of Lu, whom he greatly respects and admires.

Today, he brought Su Chen and Anu to find Senior Lu, just to let this experienced Senior Lu lead the way for the two and promote one or two. I didn't expect to see Old Master Lu being chased and beaten by his family's spicy mother-in-law, this embarrassing scene.

"He's Senior Lu?"

When Su Chen heard that this was Senior Lu, he almost squirted out a mouthful of tea.

The wise and martial senior Lu in Brother Wu's mouth turned out to be like this.

He and Anu looked at each other for a while. They didn't see any strange people, only a bad, white-haired old man who was being chased up and down by a woman.

The look in Anu's eyes suddenly became highly vigilant, and he glanced at Su Chen.

Childe, this old man can't be a charlatan, right?

Brother Wu lived in seclusion in a mountain village all the year round, serving his mother at home, and had never been to Chaoge Immortal City at all. He rarely has contact with immortal cultivators outside, and his temperament is naïve, so I'm afraid it's hard to distinguish such charlatans.

For more than a year, she and Su Chen Xunxian asked, and they had seen a lot and had a tacit understanding.

With one look, you can see the other person's thoughts.

"Well, let's be careful... ”

Su Chen nodded approvingly.

This bad old man's shabby and embarrassed appearance looks like a person who eats and drinks on the rivers and lakes.

This kind of person on the rivers and lakes is best at blowing nonsense and blowing in the sea, and only Lao Tzu is the best in the sky and on the ground. But in fact, the ability is low.

I still like to eat and drink everywhere, specifically to coax those innocent and honest people. An immortal like Wu Qiaofu, who lives in a secluded mountain village and has a pure mind, is the easiest to be coaxed by this kind of charlatan.

It seems that not only the rivers and lakes, but also in the immortal cultivation world, there is no shortage of such liars who eat and drink.

But after all, Wu Qiaofu admired this old master Lu very much.

Su Chen looked at Brother Wu's face, and it was inconvenient to directly expose the old man's old bottom, so as not to make Wu Qiao's face ugly.

...

The old master Nalu hid in the village, and it was not until the shrew left that he finally escaped.

He took the little attendant with his head down and walked outside the village with his bags on his back, ready to leave the village.

Passing by the liquor shop at the entrance of Zhuangzi, he was surprised to see Wu Qiaofu, Su Chen, and Anu drinking tea.

"Brother Wu, why are you here?"

Old Master Lu was not embarrassed at all, and sat down at the same table with Wu Qiaofu.

"Under Xiao Zhang, three of you are good!"

His young attendant smiled at the three of them, and then sat beside them, obediently.

Su Chen's brows jumped slightly.

Only then did he inadvertently discover that not only was Old Master Lu an immortal cultivator, but his inconspicuous fifteen or sixteen-year-old follower was also a young immortal cultivator.

"Brother Lu... You and your sister-in-law just now?"

Wu woodcutter instead, he was restless.

"Alas~, a little annoying housework. I'm just doing business in Chaoge, and I've lost a few hundred yuan of spirit stone capital, and this mother-in-law has been holding on to it, scolding her every day! ”

Old Master Lu waved his hand, looking quite lost.

Although he had cultivated the Heavenly Machine Immortal Technique, he had become an immortal cultivator early.

To cultivate immortals in Chaoge City, you need to eat the Spirit Valley, buy the Spirit Pill to improve your cultivation, you need to practice spiritual arts, you need to buy magic secrets, spirit weapons, spirit runes, food, clothing, housing and transportation, and there is no shortage of spirit stones in every place.

Otherwise, the cultivation will be slow to improve, and the strength will not be improved.

He has spent most of his life doing all kinds of business to make money, and he has achieved nothing, and he has not done anything well. No matter what business you do in Chaoge Immortal City, you will never lose money and never earn spirit stones. This immortal cultivator is poor and frustrated.

"I really can't stay in this Zhuangzi, so I can only leave. By the way, Brother Wu, why are you here?"

"I have just met a new immortal cultivator, and I want my brother to help me with one or two. ”

Wu Qiaofu no longer mentioned this matter, and introduced Su Chen and Anu to Old Master Lu, who were immortal cultivators brought from Jiangnanyi and planned to go to Chaoge Immortal City to cultivate immortals.

"Well said! If there is anything you don't understand in cultivation, just ask me!"

Old Master Lu nodded and shouted, "Shopkeeper, come to five bowls of noodle broth and add rabbit meat!" Let's talk slowly while eating, and when we are full, we will go to the court." ”

The shop quickly served five bowls of noodle broth to the five of them.

Old Master Lu frowned, and picked at the noodle bowl with chopsticks.

only found that the rabbit meat in his bowl was small and thin.

It is obviously a few slices less than the meat in the four bowls of broth noodles of Su Chen, Wu Qiaofu, Anu, and even his little follower.

"What do you mean, shopkeeper?"

Old Master Lu slapped the table, couldn't help but be angry, and scolded the shopkeeper.

"It's not too much, your bowl of meat has melted into soup!"

The shopkeeper is also a person from Zhuangzi, and he usually despises Old Master Lu, the son-in-law who is a wreck, and deliberately puts a few pieces of meat in his bowl.

"You are a mortal, and you dare to insult me, Master Lu... If you are a person in Zhuangzi, I won't dare to clean you up!"

Old Master Lu saw that the shopkeeper deliberately deceived him, and he couldn't help but tremble with anger.

He scolded and spittle. Where is this store the opponent of Old Master Lu, and he scolded the store so much that he didn't dare to speak.

"You... I...!"

Suddenly, Old Master Lu pointed to the shop, and the more he talked, the more excited he became, and suddenly he held the bowl of broth noodles and cried.

Tears flowed, old tears were rampant.

Wu Qiaofu was stunned, and hurriedly sandwiched the large piece of meat in his bowl to Old Master Lu and said, "Brother Lu, it's just a bowl of meat, so it's not like that." Come, I'll give you meat in this bowl!"

Su Chen and Anu were stunned, and they hurriedly gave the meat clip to Old Master Lu.

Old Master Lu didn't look at it, only cried heartbreakingly.

"I'm not crying for meat! I'm sad! I'm 70 years old, and I've been cultivating immortals for most of my life. Nothing can be done, one thing is lost. Doing some small business in the city, he actually lost hundreds of spirit stones, and the loss was a mess, and the old capital was eroded.

I'm now reduced to arguing with a mortal over this little bowl of meat!

Am I just a wreck!

What kind of immortal cultivation is I have in this life, I only have twenty or thirty years left to live, and I am afraid that this life will be over like this! This is not the life I want at all!"

Suddenly, everyone in the wine shop suddenly heard Old Master Lu's crying, and they all fell into a dead silence.

Old Master Lu has lived so hard and sad for most of his life, he is seven old and eight old, and he is still crying so heartbreakingly.

Sadness has turned into a river against the current!

"Lu... Senior!"

Su Chen's heart shook suddenly, and he looked at Old Master Lu.

Speechless.

Once upon a time, he was wandering around in Gusu City, how could it not be like this, chased by vicious dogs, bullied by beggars, just for a bowl of leftover rice and soup to fill his stomach, and the flies and dogs lived.

How many people in the world are there who live such a life.

Often alone in the middle of the night, suddenly sorrow comes from it, crying and crying. The bitterness in my heart, no one told me, gritted my teeth and swallowed it and buried it in my stomach, never daring to let anyone know.

Every day, I work hard, but I am still poor.

Su Chen sighed, feeling desolate.

He is still young, but he is not as old as Master Lu, who is seventy or eighty years old, but he is still poor and miserable.

At the age of Old Master Lu, he is still a mediocre immortal cultivator, and he has achieved nothing, and the despair and sadness in his heart are by no means something that others can understand.

Old Master Lu cried for a long time, and the tears in the old eyes of the crying man couldn't flow out, and finally calmed down, held the hands of Wu Qiaofu and Su Chen, and said, "Two brothers, the old brother is so embarrassed, let you laugh."

You are still young, don't think that there is still a lot of time, our Qi refining period cultivators actually have a lifespan of one hundred years. Seize the day, seize all methods, earn more spirit stones to cultivate, and improve your cultivation!

Not to mention becoming a monk in the foundation building period and worshipping the Five Immortals Sect, those distant things. At the very least, you have to cultivate to the late stage of Qi refining, and you have to fight for a dignified position in this Chaoge Immortal City.

Don't be old like your brother, your cultivation is still in the middle stage of mediocre qi refining, and if you want to do some business, you can't earn spirit stones, you can't achieve anything, and you're looked down upon.

No matter how much sorrow I have in my heart, I can't regret it, but what can I do? I don't have a few years to live, and I just mess with others and watch a joke! Two old brothers, don't follow my old path. ”

Wu Qiaofu and Su Chen both nodded solemnly.

This old master Lu has lived a very poor life for most of his life, and he is also a poor old-timer monk. But at least he really fought, only when he was disappointed in life, he would be so sad and desperate.

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PS：

New Year’s Day!

January 1, 2018.

I just want to say to myself, work hard from today, every day!

Don't be like Old Master Lu, who is old, but finds that time has passed and gray hair is born early. can only quarrel in vain over the meat in those bowls of noodles. Sadness, against the current into a river!