Chapter 4: The Sinister Rivers and Lakes

"Oh! I didn't expect you to be the juniors of Daochang Wu, a friend of the Great Heavenly Master, and we just happened to be going to the Great Heavenly Master's mansion, so it's really a coincidence that there is no book. Chen Yuanwai, who had been tired after a long journey, cheered up at this time and chatted with the woman in the car.

Now that several people have returned to the official road, the people who have come down safely have finally rested their hanging hearts, although they were lost by Chen He's big accident, no one was injured, and Chen He's righteous actions are also easy to understand, so the warriors patted Chen He on the shoulder and didn't blame anything.

It's just that the biggest loss here belongs to Chen Yuanwai, and these six big boxes of things hurt the Chen family's economy.

Chen Yuanwai is shrewd and wants to find some compensation, so he wants to talk to the mother and daughter who Chen He desperately saved to see if he can find something in return.

Then after such a chat, Chen He also learned some things. The mother and daughter Wu are from Beihua County, which is a poor county, Chen Yuanwai feels that he seems to be losing this wave, but the mother and daughter are dressed luxuriously, their skin is white and delicate, and they are not like ordinary people who can work, and they are almost set.

Then I asked and learned that this woman is a widow, and their mother and daughter are the last two remaining two people of the Wu family, this Wu family has some rumors, Chen Yuanwai heard that there is a magical family in Beihua County when he was a child, and it is rumored that it is the descendant of immortals, because the children of the Wu family will be young and beautiful women until they are fifty years old, and the men are strong, and they have the physical characteristics of avoiding disasters, and they are worshiped as gods by the township.

The Wu family's property has not been worried about eating and drinking for ten generations, but in the past few years, for some reason, it seems that the characteristic of avoiding disasters has disappeared, and the number of people in the Wu family has become fewer and fewer, from the blessing to the blessing and misfortune, and from the blessing and misfortune to the present! The people of Beihua County have gradually changed their attitude towards the Wu family, and now the Wu family is completely lonely, and they are also regarded as 'unlucky' and are becoming more and more estranged, and the reputation of this Mrs. Wu's private life is even worse for thousands of miles.

However, the above are all rumors, Mrs. Wu is still very demeanor in front of Chen Yuanwai, Mrs. Wu said that her uncle is a friend of the Great Heavenly Master's family, and she will go to the Great Heavenly Master's house in the near future.

When a person of such a status as the Great Heavenly Master spoke, the magistrate immediately organized the best guards in the county to accompany him, and even the wealthy businessmen in the town saw that the Wu family had climbed to the Great Heavenly Master, and they were going to ascend to the sky, and they also changed their attitudes and gave luxury gifts.

β€œ...... If it weren't for your son's sacrifice of his life to help, my mother and daughter would have been worse off than dead by now...... Woowoo...... If I can help me go to see my uncle, my mother and daughter will do everything in their power to repay your kindness. Mrs. Wu seemed to mention the sadness, her eyes were hazy with tears, and her helpless face exuded a lovely sadness.

Mrs. Wu said seriously. Chen Yuanwai smiled politely.

"Yes, Mrs. Wu, when the road is uneven, she draws her sword to help, and acts righteously without asking for anything in return. Even if we don't get anything in return, we'll keep you both safe and sound. Chen He said on the side, as if he heard the praise from Ren, and the little excitement in his heart was all reflected in his face, which was clearly seen by the woman.

"Then there are two benefactors. Mrs. Wu bowed slightly in the car.

After Mrs. Wu saluted, she looked at Chen Yuanwai and found that the other party did not say anything, and there was displeasure in her expression, but when she saw that Chen He was relied on by others, her face was about to smile, so Mrs. Wu looked at Chen He and smiled: "Childe is really a talent." I don't know if Gongzi Guigeng has a family. ”

Chen He was stunned for a moment on this question, looked at Mrs. Wu's eyes, and involuntarily thought of a very "complicated" thing, and saw that in the car, Mrs. Wu's daughter was looking at herself with a slightly red face, Chen He's face turned red, and he misunderstood that Mrs. Wu wanted to kiss, and such a complicated matter made him suddenly stumble and didn't know how to answer.

Chen Yuanwai silently called Chen He aside and said, "You bear child, can't you see that people are playing with you?"

Chen He was shocked: "Why did my father say this?"

Chen Yuanwai shook his head and said, "The more beautiful a woman is, the more she can deceive people." ”

Chen He saw that his father was serious, silently remembered this sentence, and asked, "Is that an ugly woman a deceit?"

Chen Yuanwai's face twitched, and he said: "People can deceive people, I teach you that "people can't look like people", because people's appearance and clothing can be fake, and they can be used as a means to confuse the other party. I can't teach you how to prevent being deceived, the deceived person shows that he is stupid and no one can save him, I will slowly teach you how to unravel the lie in the future, and among these lies, the lie of the beautiful woman is the most difficult to unravel. You can't untie it, you can't prevent it, so you run far!"

Chen He felt that this passage was so wise, but he didn't understand it, and he asked, "Why are there so many lies in the world?"

Chen Yuanwai coughed awkwardly and said, "People can't live if they don't lie, if you're lucky, you go and ask the Great Heavenly Master, maybe his wisdom can answer you......"

When Chen He heard this, he suddenly asked, "Why is the Great Heavenly Master so respected? Is it because he has great wisdom?" ”

Chen Yuanwai: "This is nature! The Great Heavenly Master has seen through the reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao, and his wisdom is endless, of course, it is not comparable to mortals such as me." ”

Chen He smiled: "Just know a little more, can you be so respected? Wouldn't I be able to do the same? Isn't this method the easiest way to get ahead?"

Chen Yuanwai was overjoyed and nodded: "You have finally opened your mind! That's right." Father just hopes that you can enter the Heavenly Master's Mansion to serve as a priest, marriage or something is just a pretense for gifts, He'er, you have finally learned the way to be a father. ”

Chen He's face stiffened, and he smiled embarrassedly, I'm sorry, Chen He really didn't think about his father's plan......

After half a day passed, everyone came to the Imperial City, the capital of a country, the flow of people, the merchant convoy was endless, and behind the huge and quaint city wall, there was a bustling street that could not be seen at a glance.

Chen Yuanwai said: "He'er, when I get to the Imperial City, I will first send Mrs. Wu's mother and daughter to the Great Heavenly Master's mansion, and you don't have to worry about the rest, I'll go and negotiate with the Great Heavenly Master." You go to the city first, in the past few years, the imperial city has been rushing for the exam, you should have someone you know in the imperial city, go and visit the door, don't lose your courtesy. ”

After speaking, Chen Yuanwai and Mrs. Wu's mother and daughter went to the mansion of the Great Heavenly Master.

Chen He first went to the inn of the drunken red mansion and booked twenty large rooms for a few warriors to live in, these brothers can be regarded as saving themselves, they can't lose them, and gave them a hundred taels of silver to drink, they all said that the young master is really generous, and he is happy to take care of himself.

As soon as Chen He came out of the restaurant, he was surrounded by a group of little beggars, and the drunken red mansion was a big restaurant. There are a lot of rich people, so there are a lot of beggars around, but adult beggars can't have them, and if they affect the grade, they will be beaten away by the bartender.

And the little beggar is easy to get money, and it is not a problem to ask for a dozen taels of silver a day, but half of the money he gets must be distributed to the bartender before he can ask for money again.

One of the darkest places is that people like Chen He who come from other places can't afford not to give money. Otherwise, these little beggars will personally steal money from Chen He, and they won't be able to find it back after stealing it.

The first time Chen He came to the Imperial City to take the exam, he was stolen money, but fortunately, the relatives he knew in the Imperial City took care of him at that time.

The little beggar killed Chen Hewei, this is the usual routine of beggars, if you are inexperienced outsiders, you will be surrounded by these little beggars and cannot get out, if you start to beat these children, but if you move a lot, the wallet will be guaranteed to be gone.

And Chen He was already familiar with the cracking method, and generously threw a hundred coins on the ground from his pocket, and the little beggars hurriedly bent down to pick it up, and Chen He easily got out.

However, as soon as he came out, he was stopped by a little beggar, the little beggar did not bow his head to pick up the money, but knelt down in front of Chen He and kowtowed.

The little beggar said that his mother was sick and could not afford to buy a medicine, and the doctor said that if the person was kind, he could get the money and save his mother's life!

"And this kind of operation?" Chen He didn't know whether it was true or not, but he was kind, and after thinking about it repeatedly, he said: "I'll give you three taels of silver, and you can't protect the money yourself, so you can go to the pharmacy with you." ”

The little beggar was overjoyed, so Chen He went to the hospital, and Chen He asked the shopkeeper of the pharmacy that there was indeed an old woman's illness that lacked valuable medicinal materials.

Chen He said to the little beggar: "Healing is important, I don't care if you are true or not." ”

Chen He paid the bill very happily and gave the little beggar a tael of silver, and the little beggar kowtowed again and again to thank him.

Chen He helped others feel inexplicably cool, but he quickly shook his head and warned himself that the money belonged to his family, not his own earnings, and he should not have this kind of emotion.

Chen He didn't know that his generous behavior of not treating money as money was seen by some well-intentioned people.

Chen He didn't have any friends in the capital, so he went to spend money to buy a lot of gifts to visit his relatives who had taken care of him over the years, and then he was worried about his father, after all, his father was not an official, and the identity of the Great Heavenly Master was unattainable, and he was worried about his father's safety without the stepping stone of the meeting ceremony. I wanted to inquire about the residence of the Great Celestial Master on the street, and I wanted to go and see the situation.

Who knew that Chen He's inquiry found the wrong person.

When I came to the Imperial City to take the exam before, I studied hard in the inn, and when I waited until the day of the exam, I went directly to the examination room, and on the day of the exam, I made a post carriage and went home, so Chen He was not familiar with the huge imperial city. And Chen He's generous behavior of throwing coins in front of the pharmacy just now was seen by the old beggar in the shadows, and now Chen He asked people about the places he didn't know, and immediately one of them went up and took the initiative to lead him enthusiastically, and then Chen He was taken to the uninhabited alley.

"I ...... I really didn't expect that there would be beggars dressed as scholars. Chen He leaned his back against the wall, looking around at no one, he seemed to have come to the slum, deep and terrifying, to a good place to kill people and sell goods. Chen He smiled bitterly, he couldn't prevent it, this kind of trick full of loopholes and little tricks can be caught by himself, he really has a big heart.

"This uncle, although my face is very clean and my clothes are very elegant, but I don't wear it like this, I show the way to the uncle, how can you believe me?" said the scholar-like beggar, and there were more than a dozen black-clad beggars behind him with unkind eyes.

"Father is right, it's really not good to send it to the door, the rivers and lakes are really sinister, I'm going to die here? Chen He said a little frightened, it was the first time he had encountered this kind of thing, he didn't have any weapons to defend himself now, he really didn't expect this to happen in the imperial city, he was naΓ―ve.

"Huh...... Uncle, you said too much, we are all begging for food, and we don't want to break the law, do you think this is good, I don't want much, you can reward us with a few taels of silver, and we will leave, it's not too much, it's good for everyone, isn't it?" said the scholar-like beggar with a smile.

Chen He didn't kill himself at first glance, this was a good proposal, he really didn't have this amount of money in his pocket, and he didn't want to be beaten. But although his life was saved, he felt very unhappy like this, which made him hesitate a little, but he thought that Minghu seemed to have taught him, three kinds of bandits, and the second type in front of him, hungry people!

However, at this moment of hesitation, Chen He was just about to pay money to avoid the disaster, when his head suddenly hurt, and the whole person fell to the ground with a flower in front of his eyes!

"What are you doing?" said the scholar beggar angrily.

At this time, a beggar was holding a stone brick in his hand and looked at Chen Hedao: "Follow ...... What are you doing with him? A nouveau riche like him is not benevolent to the rich! All he earns is the hard-earned money of the common people, so isn't it good for us to do it directly?"

"I wipe ...... I'm going to be X, I'm really uneducated and I can't communicate with you! If you can solve things with words, then you have to be so violent? If you have money, it's enough, isn't it? I just "asked for money," that's called blackmail, and if you beat someone, you're robbing, do you understand! What should I do if I am killed? The government will come and arrest us!" The scholar and beggar were furious.

"Don't bite the words, I smashed it with the flat side of the head, and no one can die. Let's hurry up and search for his money. The other beggars swarmed up as they spoke, and after a while, they stripped Chen He naked!

Chen He was dim, and only their voices could be heard.

"Why is this man's head so unsmashed? Scholar, his head is bleeding. ”

"You uneducated brutes, let's run away, kill someone! You did it, I don't want to be hanged!"

"I didn't mean to, I didn't want to kill you, don't look for me if you die. Don't look for me when you're dead. Don't look for me......"