Chapter 11 Planting Pears! Teaching Professions! Sowing Seeds!
Taixuan saw the young man running away in a hurry, and hurriedly followed him, and saw the young man rush to a shady place under a nearby broken wall, and helped up a weak old woman and said, "Mother, get up, look what this is, pear, Ya pear, eat quickly, eat quickly!"
Although the old woman was very weak, she looked better than the rest of the old men, pinched the pear, and asked, "San'er, where did this pear come from, have you eaten it?"
The young man said: "This is a Taoist chief for me, oh, he gave me two, I have already eaten this, I almost ate this too, I took two bites, you old man eat it!"
The old woman repeatedly asked the young man if he had eaten the pear, and only after the young man had answered for sure did he begin to nibble on the pear, and ate it in great gulps, until at last he swallowed the pear pit, as if it were the best food in the world.
Taixuan nodded slightly, and walked to the other side to give pears, Taixuan only hid six or seven duck pears in his sleeves, and after trying six or seven people, there were no others, some of these people remembered their parents, wives and children, some remembered their young sons and relatives, some people only cared about their own enjoyment, and some people fought for this pear.
After Taixuan finished dividing the pears, a group of mountain people with slightly better faces surrounded him, led by a vicious young man: "Stinky Taoist, you are giving food everywhere, do you still have anything on you, hurry up and hand it over to the master, otherwise the master will kill you." ”
Tai Xuan said: "Seeing that you are all young and strong, why don't you go to the city to find a way, or go up to the mountains to hunt, go down to the river to fish, but instead do such a thing, see if it is not the first time for you!
The young man sneered: "You stinky Taoist priest knows what a fart! Our peasant family has no skills, who wants you to work, and you are even more tired of going to the city to sell coolies, and you are deducted from your wages and you can't eat.
"As for hunting in the mountains, if you encounter a big worm, you won't feed the tiger's mouth, and it's not safe to fish in the river, how can it compare to scavenging these wastes, hum, it's good if you haven't eaten people yet!"
Tai Xuan shook his head and said: "Greedy for life and afraid of death, despicable and shameless, I don't want this person's heart to be corrupted to this point, don't you just want to eat? ”
Saying that, Taixuan took out the last pear from his arms, put it on the ground, and swept some dirt with his legs, but secretly used the immortal wood recipe "Guisheng" under his feet Qi Shi, after a while, the ground will grow buds, and then the sprouts grow into a small sapling, but half a cup of tea, the small sapling grows bigger and bigger into a two-person tall tree, and there are more and more people who come to see the excitement, about dozens of people, after a while, the big tree is full of pears, and then ripe, the pears are full like an inverted oval, crushed the branches, Taixuan waved his hand, the pears fell one after another, and flew to the hands of everyone present, and everyone present almost evenly divided one.
The young man who took the lead looked at the pear in his hand, then at the pear tree, his throat kept surging, he fell to his knees, and shouted: "The gods spare their lives, the gods spare their lives! ”
Taixuan Dao: "Poor Dao is not an immortal, but a true sect leader Taixuan Dao, you eat, eat enough, poor Dao teaches you the art of survival." ”
There were no pears in the field, Taixuan concocted them according to the law, planted a few pear trees, and more and more people came, until the pears of the tenth pear tree were eaten by everyone, and everyone in this small village arrived, but there were only three or four hundred people.
Taixuan saw that everyone had arrived, and there were many injured and sick, so he urged the water around the water to form a cloud of water waves, and made the immortal water trick, wood trick, "moisturizing things" and "guisheng", this water wave flew over everyone, turned into a piece of rain, and sprinkled it on everyone, and everyone's spirit was a lot better for a while.
Taixuan asked, "Are you the only ones left in your village?
An old man walked out of the crowd, and said tremblingly: "Qiyu immortals, the old Han king, the fifth old, is the village leader in this village, we originally had one hundred and sixty-one households, five hundred and eighty-one people, some time ago, the generals of the Great Sui went to the countryside to borrow grain, and copied out the grain in the village, and several good-looking girls and daughters-in-law were also robbed, and all chickens, ducks, pigs and cattle were also robbed, and only some grain hidden in each family was left to barely survive. ”
"Some of the relatives in the city have taken care of their family affairs and gone to their relatives, and we are the only ones left. As a result, ten days ago, another group of thieves came to the village, copied it again, and the village was really not fed, and dozens of bad-tempered boys robbed the last of the things and fled, saying that they had gone to join some kind of rebel army. Fortunately, it's summer, and grass grows everywhere, so let's dig up some grass roots and bark to survive. Although there is a small river next to this village, but the big guy is not full and has no strength to go into the water to fish, the day before yesterday a after giving birth to the water and never got up, it is these days, the people in the village do not dare to go into the water, all hungry hands and feet are soft, can not move, people are getting fewer and fewer. ”
When the old man said these words, he gasped tiredly, took a breath and said, "The immortals are very merciful, since they have met, please save the only people left in our village! ”
Taixuan Dao: "Old man, the poor Dao is the Quanzhen Sect Leader Taixuan Dao, not an immortal. ”
He also said: "As the saying goes: bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates, and officials are like shavings." Oh, the ancients did not deceive me, no matter what, it was fate, not to mention the "Book of Saving People" said: Immortals are noble, and there is no measure of people. Bao Puzi also said that Daomen is to save people's lives. The poor will save you, but you must remember that those who help themselves will be helped by God, and those who help themselves will be helped! You must not count on me in everything, but you must do it yourself. ”
Everyone present was overjoyed, how not to agree, Taixuan began to treat all the sick and injured first, and then gave birth to pear trees, so that everyone had eaten enough before they began to teach them the art of survival.
In fact, these villagers are not stupid, nor are they without skills, but they have not been hungry for too long, and their hands and feet are weak and unable to move, so they sit and wait for death. Taixuan made some of the young and strong knotted grass as ropes, made bows and arrows, and went up the mountain in groups to hunt prey. Some of the young people cut down trees and repaired dilapidated houses. Some people go down to the river to fish and catch shrimp. The women dug up some grass roots, pulled some leaves, boiled some hot water, added some fish and shrimp, and made some simple soup to temporarily satisfy the hunger of the people, while the elderly and children collected some firewood.
Slowly, the people could barely feed themselves, and Taixuan taught these people to dig up the soil, use it to make pottery, and select the ones to sell in the city, and exchange them for some seeds.
After buying back the seeds, Taixuan catalyzed them with the "Guisheng" of the Immortal Wood Recipe to make them germinate, and the rest was handed over to these villagers to take care of.
In this way, more than ten days, this small village has simply changed, everyone is like a family, relying on hunting, fishing and shrimp to survive, storing uneaten prey, raising some live beasts and pheasants, of course, the most important thing is that their mental outlook is different, no longer like before, all of them are like ashes, but positive and full of vitality.