Chapter 4 The Past Is Like Smoke
Lu Ziang is the third in the family, with two brothers and a younger sister. When I was a child, the little land at home couldn't support such a large family, so Lu Ziang was sold by his father to the landlord's house in the city as a long-term worker. In this way, he is still looking forward to the day of paycheck, because only that day can he see his father, his father counts the money while making himself work hard and more so that he can increase his salary, and the two brothers are about to get married and need money, and occasionally he will carry the leftover dry food on his body to Lu Ziang. This landlord is also the same as an adult to Lu Ziang, how much others live and how much he lives, and the small ones are more comfortable beating, and they are not less beaten, but when they eat, they eat less than adults, because people can't eat so much.
It happened on such a day, it rained heavily on the way back from Lu Ziang to chop firewood in the morning, and he ran all the way back, but there was an extra path on the usual road, and a dilapidated temple could be faintly seen. It doesn't matter so much, it's good to avoid the rain first, the raindrops are very heavy, and it hurts to hit the body. Lu Ziang pushed the door and entered, unloaded the firewood, and sat on the ground, then looked around. The two gates were dark red mixed with gray, and they looked dilapidated after being smashed by someone, and a few dirty futons were scattered everywhere. There is a golden statue on the top, the color is a little mottled, a black official hat, one hand on the knee, the other hand is hanging in the air, but the two pairs of black eyes are very bright, like a living person. On both sides of this golden statue there are two pillars, each engraved with gilt words: good and bad are clear here, it is difficult to pass the clues, and the judgment of good and evil must know that heaven is selfless. On the hanging plaque, Welling is prominent!
I don't know how to do it, Lu Ziang, who has never believed in ghosts and gods, knelt down in a flutter, "May the immortal official bless me and save me from the sea of suffering early!" Kneeling on the big turf of a forest, the wild grass was as tall as a person, what temples, what gods disappeared one by one, Lu Ziang couldn't help but shudder. He even crawled to collect firewood, but he was surprised to find that there was a white fox sitting next to the firewood, staring at him directly, as if the rain could not drench it, the fur on his body was not wet at all, and suddenly a trace of evil laughter was like a living person, and he disappeared in a puff of smoke! The young Lu Ziang's frightened legs were weak, and he cried while running, and when he found his way back to the landlord's house, it was already dark. Just unloaded the firewood, the landlord has heard the sound and rushed to the firewood room, scolding, Lu Ziang told the landlord about his experience, the landlord raised his hand is a slap and said that he wanted to be lazy and crazy, a punch and kick, and then walked out of the firewood room and locked the door outside. Lu Ziang ate half a steamed bun in the morning, didn't eat for a day, got drenched in the rain again, and began to have a high fever, and the whole person was dizzy, as if he couldn't survive tonight.
A phantom shadow swept through the high vents of the firewood room, and the reflection in the moonlight looked like a fox. A slip of green smoke drifted into the firewood room, Lu Ziang vaguely felt that someone was feeding him food and drinking water, the strange thing was that there were no such things in the firewood room, but he really ate it, and he didn't know if it was a hallucination that he was burned out at that time. Someone had something hanging around his neck, and he felt like a jade pendant in a daze, but he didn't have the strength to try to get up, and his eyes couldn't see who it was, so he fell asleep after a while. I don't know how long it took, bang, the door of the firewood room was opened, and it was not the landlord who came but a team of officials, waking up Lu Ziang in his sleep, Lu Ziang rubbed his eyes, this sleep is indeed a long time since I slept so peacefully, and I didn't dream, it was really comfortable, it seemed that all the discomfort before had disappeared.
When he was pulled out of the firewood room by the official, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, the landlord's house caught fire last night, everyone and the house were burned to charcoal, only this firewood room did not even have traces of smoke, if it wasn't for the door was locked outside, the official wanted to sentence the young man for arson, and simply made some paperwork, Lu Ziang was kicked out of the yamen.
Young and penniless, Lu Ziang walked out of the yamen while worrying, and slammed into someone and fell to the ground, Lu Ziang hurriedly stood up and grabbed to help the person on the ground. As soon as the hand touched the man's mind, he rushed into a lot of pictures, there was a baby croaking to the ground, a farmer holding the baby, and slowly saw the baby grow up to run, the baby grew into a child, sneaking away from the private school, like a marquee, all kinds of pictures, until he was just bumped into someone, and when he looked closely, the person turned out to be himself, and at this time he kept having ideas into his mind.
I saw that the person who fell to the ground was wearing a black and cyan Taoist robe, wearing a black bowler hat, and picked up a big yellow banner on the ground, on which was written Liu Banxian's iron mouth divine calculation! This Liu Banxian was thinking about pretending to be blind to pretend to be a ghost to deceive this kid, and before he could speak, Lu Ziang said I know you are not blind, and I don't have a point on me! This Liu Banxian'er thought about this kid again, how could he guess what he wanted to say, just last time he stretched his waist and tore the armpit of his robe, count it on his head, and by the way, it is good to knock on a meal, it is close to noon and has not yet opened! Liu Banxian still wanted to play tricks, but at this time, an aunt came, and asked Liu Daxian to calculate where he had lost his purse, which contained 50 wen, and he was willing to take out ten wen as money! Liu Banxian muttered in his heart, if he can't make money from this kind of errand, he will lose his reputation, how can he make a living from this city in the future, and he just wanted to refuse! Lu Ziang thought to himself that the strange phenomenon just now had just started by helping this person, so it was better to try again, so he reached out and touched this aunt, and sure enough, all kinds of pictures of wandering flowers poured into his mind! The aunt just wanted to scold the little hairy boy for moving his hands and feet, Lu Ziang said that he knew and went with him, and the group followed Lu Ziang to the pharmacy suspiciously, and as soon as he entered the pharmacy, the shopkeeper saw the aunt coming, and he hurriedly said that he had just left too hurriedly and threw his purse on the counter, and the aunt was full of joy and said that this kid was quite capable, so he paid the silver, Liu Banxian was busy covering Lu Ziang's mouth, and said with a smile This is my apprentice, my apprentice! After the matter was resolved, I didn't expect Liu Banxian to invite Lu Ziang to Taibai Mansion to talk about it, he was respectful to him, and persuaded him to go with him, and he thought that this moment of kung fu would be ten dollars and silver, which was really good, and he would not fall into the streets if he followed this Liu Banxian. If you go home at this time, you will be sent by your father to do rough work, not to mention that you will be beaten if you work hard, it is better to follow this Liu Banxian will save a lot of effort, and you can also go to the rivers and lakes to see the various states of life, which is also a good way! Since then, Lu Ziang has followed this Liu Banxian to go south and north, and has also learned a lot of ways to deal with small people in the market!
After years of experiments, Lu Ziang knew that since that day, he had never seen the jade pendant with a daze around his neck in his impression, but there was a cyan dragon mark on his right chest, and he could know the person's past as long as he touched the skin of others, and within a quarter of an hour, he could read other people's memories and know what he was thinking at the moment! Although Lu Ziang is young, he also knows that this ability needs to be hidden, otherwise he will be coveted and cause trouble for himself, this Liu Banxian regards himself as a living immortal, and thinks that he is the reincarnation of the innate divine power Daluo Jinxian, which can be regarded as quite respectful, and often says that when the great immortal returns to his place, he hopes to give himself a few more years of longevity! This Liu Banxian used to be a low-level talent, and he embarked on this road of pit Meng when he didn't know what to do, in the end, he also read the sage book for many years, and taught him the way of Confucius and Mencius in Lu Ziang's spare time, Zhou Yizhi's reason, and can also be regarded as Lu Ziang's enlightenment teacher, and that time in retrospect is also Lu Ziang's happiest day, like idle clouds and wild cranes, relaxed!