Chapter 43: Killing and Saving Lives
Lin Xiuran took back the thoughts he had placed on Su Qingwan's cause and effect line, and threw them all on the thoughtless cause and effect line.
He followed the line of cause and effect of thoughtless children and continued his deduction.
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A piece of yellow paper from the girl ruined a young man's heart.
Under the old tree, after a howl and crying, the stoic and motivated Li Gouwa completely disappeared from this world.
Instead, it's a lazy guy who just eats and waits for death, and becomes indifferent to everything.
On this day, Li Gouwa was setting up his broken bowl and squatting by the Suzaku Bridge with an indifferent face.
He was dressed in a shabby gray cloth coat, with a pair of broken straw sandals on his feet, his face was sallow, and his body was thin.
He had become the one who was about to stagger when the wind blew.
He didn't open for a few days, and he was so hungry that his chest was close to his back, no longer thinking about how to find some work with his own hands and get something to eat, but he was willing to nest by the Suzaku Bridge, waiting for someone to give alms, and he didn't want to move.
It doesn't seem to matter if you're starving.
In the eyes of the people of Wuyi Lane in Zhuque Bridge, Li Gouwa, who eats and waits for death, is the lowest cheap breed, and he deserves to starve to death.
He is a person from other places, there is a mother without a mother's education, a few years ago he was a motivated boy, he knew how to run an errand for the store and private prostitutes to make some money, but in recent years, he was too lazy to make money, he seemed to be enchanted all of a sudden, he didn't know how hard to make money, and he didn't know how to support himself, he didn't even want his face, he loved to rub white things, take some unfortunate dead people's money, and sometimes walked on the road and met nobles, so he casually knelt down to people to ask for some rewards.
has no face and no skin, which is really unsightly.
is the opposite of Li Gouwa, a cheap species, is Brother Xu who sells cooking cakes next door to him.
Brother Xu is only two or three years older than Li Gouwa, and he also fled to Yangzhou City from other places in that drought.
He is different from Li Gouwa's skinny beggar, with a dignified body, a dignified appearance, red lips and white teeth, and clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, which is quite liked by the little girl on the side of Wuyi Lane in Suzaku Bridge.
The most important thing is that Brother Xu knows that he is motivated, a good person, and kind-hearted.
He is not like Li Gouwa, who has to rely on people's alms to live, he runs a cooking cake stall by himself, and the amount of cooking cakes he sells is full, and he can be full of one, and he is also kind, knowing that the people who buy cooking cakes are poor people who work hard, and they don't dare to make too much, so they just make some hard-earned money.
Not only that, but if he really met some beggars who were so hungry that he couldn't stand it, he would tear half a loaf of bread to them, so that they would not starve to death and still live.
Just like now.
Li Gouwa was so hungry that she lay on the side, Brother Xu stopped a business, saw his pitiful appearance, took a piece of cooking cake from the stall, wrapped it in oiled paper, walked to his side, and handed him the cooking cake.
Li Gouwa turned his back to Brother Xu and smelled the fragrance of the cooking cake, he sat up suddenly, and without waiting for Xu Xiaoge to hand the cooking cake to him, he snatched it away, brought it to his mouth, and chewed it with gusto.
Li Gouwa not only ate the difference, but also didn't know how to be grateful, and didn't even say thank you to Brother Xu.
The cooking cake in Brother Xu's hand was snatched, but looking at Li Gouwa's gobbling appearance, he knew that he was really hungry, and he couldn't talk about him, so he just wiped his hands and continued to go back to his cooking cake stall to start his own business.
This kind of "you send me to take it" situation happens every three to five days.
The people on the side of Wuyi Lane of Zhuque Bridge saw these in their eyes, and felt more and more that Li Gouwa deserved to be cheap, and that little brother Xu, who always had a kind face, deserved to live a long life and be safe and happy for a lifetime.
Good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil;
It is right to say that it is wrong, and it is also wrong to say that it is true, and it is true to say that it is false.
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This scene between Li Gouwa and Xu Xiaoge was not only seen by the people of Wuyi Lane of Zhuque Bridge, but also by the two "fairy court old monsters" who don't know how many years they have lived.
That's a demon, a demon.
They stand on the streets where people come and go, and the world walks past them, but they can't see them, they notice them, as if they don't exist in the world.
But they are really standing on this street.
The Taoist priest was an old man with white beard, dressed in a blue robe, with a peachwood sword on his back, a pair of gossip shoes under his feet, a long beard fluttering, and fairy wind bones.
The old devil was shrouded in black qi all over his body. He was hunched over, and his body was clumsy, and because one of his feet was deformed, he was on a crutch, and the crutches were also black, as if there was nothing on his body that was not black except his skin.
The Taoist priest stared at the old devil and said, "Black old devil, do you really want to pass on that kid's mantle?"
The Black Elder Demon leaned all his weight on the cane, smiling whimsily. He didn't stare at the Li Gouwa who was lying on the ground and waiting for death, but he set his eyes on the upright and righteous Brother Xu.
It is said that a demonic person like him should be more fond of "strange goods" like Li Gouwa, but he, an old demon, has set his sights on Brother Xu, who only righteous people will like.
The black old demon said: "What, Qingyunzi, are you afraid? I chose this good seedling in your eyes, and you think you can't teach the other lazy person well?"
Qingyunzi touched his long beard, looked at Li Gouwa on the ground, the lazy thing in the mouth of the black old devil, and said: "Hehe, what are you afraid of? You are a crooked demon, you want to find an honest and kind good seedling as an apprentice, and I find a lazy person who eats and waits for death as an apprentice, and there is nothing wrong with me?"
As he spoke, he no longer looked at Li Gouwa, but turned his head, looked at the black old devil, and said: "However, no matter the mortal immortals in this world, it has always been difficult to do good and easy to change from evil, and you have taken advantage of me." However, it doesn't hurt that I will do good for others, regardless of anything else. ”
"Hehe, hypocrite. ”
"Hehe, what a villain. ”
After scolding each other, they all ignored each other.
After two flashes of smoke, one blue and one black, they disappeared into thin air on the street.
The pedestrians in the street walked straight and soon walked past the place where they had stood, but they did not notice that anyone had left, let alone that they were standing there.
If the immortals don't want to show up, mortals won't even be able to see their faces.
When the street was bustling with pedestrians, Li Gouwa was still lying on the ground and sleeping facing the wall, while Xu Xiaoge was still making cooking cakes and greeting guests.
They don't know that their fate will change dramatically next.
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At night, Li Gouwa, who had been lying on the street for a day and asked for a day's meal, returned to his land temple with his broken bowl.
In the past, all that awaited his return was a dark night, and occasionally, he could see a few rats.
But tonight, when he walked into his land temple, he found a man sitting on the straw mat where he had been sleeping.
That person is an old Taoist priest, and he is "Qingyunzi".
In addition to the identity of the Immortal Court Immortal, Qingyunzi also has an identity, that is, he is the ancestor of the Qingyun Sect, one of the four major sects of the Wu Dynasty today.
Qingyunzi looked at Li Gouwa, who was obviously startled, and said with a smile: "I've been waiting for you for a long time, kid." ”
Li Gouwa looked at Qingyunzi's appearance that seemed to be smiling, and wondered if she had provoked any big people recently. But when he thought about it, he only remembered that he stole a chicken from Aunt Wang's house this month, and other bad things, but he didn't do a single thing!
So, Li Gouwa was bold and said, "Who are you, why are you waiting for me?"
Qingyunzi stood up from Li Gouwa's broken straw mat, shook the dust in his hand, and said, "Immeasurable Tianzun, the poor Dao is waiting for you for half a day, there is a benefit to you." ”
"Benefits? Give me? So kind? You don't want me to do anything, do you?"
Li Gouwa, who has been in the market for many years, is used to seeing people's hearts sinister, so she naturally doesn't believe that pies will fall from the sky for no reason.
Qing Yunzi twisted his long white beard and said, "Of course, if you want my benefits, you really have to help me do something." ”
"What's the matter?" asked Li Gouwa.
Qing Yunzi smiled strangely, took out a dagger from his arms, and threw it at Li Gouwa's feet.
He said, "You need to help me kill someone." ”
Kill...... Homicide?
When Li Gouwa heard this, she was so frightened that she was urinating, and when she didn't pay attention to her feet, she fell to the ground.
This is not to blame Li Gouwa for being timid.
This old way, looking at the way he dresses, looks like that kind of decent person in the rivers and lakes, how can he say such nonsense as "going to kill someone"?
If these words were passed on by the disciples and grandchildren of Lao Dao who didn't know how many generations, and now the two supreme grandmasters of Qingyun Sect, Fuchen Zi and Xiaoyaozi, would also be shocked into a cold sweat.
The black devil is right, this is really a "hypocrite"!
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On the other side, Brother Xu, who came home with the burden of the cooking cake stall, entered the house, and when he was curious about why his little sister didn't go out to greet him today, he caught a glimpse of a figure.
He was black and terrifying, with a congenital disability on one foot and a cane in the other.
This person is none other than the Black Devil.
Brother Xu swallowed his saliva and said, "You...... Who are you?"
The black old devil who had killed countless people and never blinked when he killed people, listened to Brother Xu's words, but said with a smile: "Child, I have something good to give you." But in order for me to see your sincerity, you have to do one thing for me first. ”
"What...... What's the matter?" said Brother Xu tremblingly.
The black old devil listened to Brother Xu's question, and also took out a dagger from his arms.
He stuffed the dagger into Brother Xu's hand and said, "I want you to save someone." ”
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