In the broken temple, Meng Dongting grieved all night, and stayed until the early morning of the second day, when the heavy rain stopped, the light of the morning sun spilled in through the broken temple door, mottled all over the ground, and in a trance he felt that he had a long dream, the dream started from a broken temple, and now he woke up in a broken temple again.

Meng Dongting looked out of the door stupidly, and said in his heart: "Here, the first day has begun, I am still alive, the days will go on, but I have to cheer up." ”

He sighed lightly, and at this moment he could only clean up his broken dreams and live his life well. He was determined not to use a penny of money given by Wu Qianhe, and to live with his own skills in a dignified manner.

A few days later, Meng Dongting passed through a small city.

He didn't look for those menial laborers, but only borrowed firewood knives from neighbors, chopped bamboos and cut down trees, made a table, a stool and a burden, and planned to set up a roadside stall to re-engage in the old business of writing pleadings and suing for others.

He also gave a tael of silver on credit to his neighbor and bought two pieces of cloth, one of which was written with "ghostwriting paper" and the other with "Clever Calculation, Unpredictable Prophet", but in case the business of writing paper on behalf of the writer paper was not good one day, he would change to a fortune-telling business, and he could try the metaphysical art he learned in the study of Wufu.

When others saw that he was majestic and elegant, they were willing to help him.

Meng Dongting already had a plan in his heart, he planned to set up a stall here to write the pleadings, and when he had some savings, he would go north to Beijing to find Ouyang Bei.

He litigated on behalf of others, the cashier was not much, and when he met the poor, he did not take a penny, free of charge, and the lawsuits in his hands were ten wins and nines, one to ten, ten to hundreds, and his business of writing pleadings was thriving.

If you don't succeed in the reading exam, it is very smooth to be a lawyer, but you have no intention of inserting willows and willows.

Meng Dongting was busy every day, and soon he repaid the silver with interest, and he still had some savings, and he moved the idea of going north to find Ouyang Bei. It's just that he saw that the residents here were kind and kind, and he valued him very much as a scholar, and he was reluctant to leave.

On this day, he was setting up a stall as usual, and suddenly heard the sound of firecrackers in the distance, followed by the sound of gongs, Meng Dongting was stunned, and he didn't know what happened.

But I heard a guest at the shaving stall next to me say: "Alas! The old Li family on Silk Street is really good, and there is really a solution!"

Another exclaimed, "Really?"

The guest said, "Is there any fake? Look at this chariot guard honor team, can it still deceive people?"

Anyway, he didn't care that his head was only half shaved, so he hurriedly ran to the street to see the excitement.

Meng Dongting turned his head to look and saw a long convoy of people in the distance. The person in front of him was wearing a red robe and riding on a white horse, when he was the new imperial examination person of Xie Yuan in high school, the sound of firecrackers on both sides was deafening, and countless children behind him were happy, jumping and galloping.

Meng Dongting thought of his thoughts, his heart suddenly soured, and he couldn't help but turn his head away.

I only heard the guests who shaved their heads praise: "To be a man is to look like this, then there is happiness at all!"

The master who shaved his head smiled and said, "Then you also need this skill to be successful! What's the use of your envy? If you want to take the exam, can you do it?"

The guest smiled and said, "If I succeed, why do I have to shave your head, your mouth is really good!"

An old man walked out of the convoy, and it was Xie Yuan's father.

I saw him laughing, looking very happy, distributing red envelopes everywhere, and passers-by on the side of the road took one.

Meng Dongting also took it, he looked down at the red envelope in his hand, his heart was sad and unspeakable, he sighed lightly, silently cleaned up the table and stool, turned around and picked it up.

Day after day passed, Meng Dongting carried a burden and walked through one village and town after another. His expression became more and more flat, and all his sorrow was hidden in his heart. He lived in no fixed place, practiced qi and martial arts in his spare time, and sometimes even slept in the wilderness, with heaven and earth.

On this day, Meng Dongting went to a big lake at the boundary of Xuzhou, seeing that the people were weaving around, the scenery was beautiful, but it was a good place to do business.

After the arrangement was over, he sat down on the stool by himself, quietly looking at the calm and waveless lake, and seemed to be stupid for a while.

He was in a daze, when suddenly someone slapped the desk and shouted, "Master has a lawsuit to fight! Write me a pleading!" Meng Dongting saw that there were two men, one was leopard-eyed and bearded, tall, and the other was red-skinned and of medium stature, both of whom seemed to be non-mortals.

Meng Dongting hurriedly stepped forward to greet and said, "I've seen the two masters, dare to ask what kind of lawsuit is going to be fought?"

Hearing the question, I saw that the bearded man was stunned for a moment, touched his head and scolded: "His grandmother's, I went to Yihong Courtyard, but I forgot what kind of lawsuit." You don't care about all that, grandpa is not happy, you just have to write me a note. ”

Meng Dongting has been in this business for so long, and has written countless pleadings on behalf of others, but it is the first time that he heard that he was going to the yamen to file a complaint when he was not in a good mood, and he couldn't help but be a little dazed.

At this time, the red-faced man next to him couldn't help but sneer, and said to Meng Dongting: "This gentleman, don't listen to my brother's nonsense, I do have a lawsuit to fight here, and please bother to write a pleading." ”

Meng Dongting listened to the politeness of the red-faced man, and asked with a smile: "Can the uncle tell me in detail what kind of lawsuit it is?"

The red-faced man said, "It's not a complicated matter. ”

"Some time ago, my eldest brother also lined up with him to sacrifice, but because there were stones on the road, his feet were unstable and he almost fell. Who would have wanted the kid who had a holiday with him next to him to see it, and he wanted to accuse my eldest brother of a big crime of disrespect. What do you think is good?"

After that, the red-faced man looked at Meng Dongting with a smile, just waiting for him to reply.

When Meng Dongting heard him talk about the lawsuit, he couldn't help but feel stunned in his heart, how could this be so similar to the problem he solved for Lord Yin Lu in Nanjing City, how could there be such a coincidence in the world?

His face was full of suspicion, and he was about to ask questions, when another group of people came over. Meng Dongting said in his heart: "This place is really strange, there are so many people who want to fight a lawsuit in a moment, it seems that you can set up a stall here for two more days and make more money." ”

There were four men in the group, all of whom had obscene faces, but they did not know what they were doing.

Before Meng Dongting could open his mouth, one of the people in the group looked like a person, and suddenly grabbed the other person in the chest: "Come and write a statement to grandpa, I want to sue this kid for killing my chicken, and I want him to pay me ten taels of silver." ”

Meng Dongting couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart: "Could this be a gold-inlaid chicken, which is worth ten taels of silver." ”

And the red-faced man and the bearded man who came before were suddenly interrupted, and they all crossed their arms and watched with an indignant face, but they wanted to see what these obscene people had planned.

Looking at the other person who was grabbed, he didn't show weakness, and shouted loudly: "You are an ordinary chicken, but I was greedy for a while, stewed and eaten, it tastes good, but it is not worth ten taels of silver!"

The man didn't let go at all, and said, "You scoundrel, you still want to admit it." I'm a chicken that lays eggs, and I lay five eggs a day, and five eggs can give birth to five chickens, and chickens can lay eggs. ”

The other person said with a disgruntled face: "But you are a rooster, where did you get the eggs?"

The man said: "Whoever stipulates that the rooster cannot lay eggs, my rooster is the rooster that can lay eggs, you pay me!"

The two of you said a word, pulling and pulling with their hands, and they almost knocked Meng Dongting's stall to the ground.

Meng Dongting was not alarmed, he heard the ridiculous words of the two, and between the words and expressions, he knew that these people should be rogue hooligans here. He just watched coldly and ignored it.

Several scoundrels shouted a few more times, and the one who took the lead shouted to Meng Dongting: "Hurry up and write me a pleading, I'm going to sue the official." ”

Meng Dongting sighed and said lightly: "What if I can't write?"

The scoundrel shouted, "You can't write? You can't write such a small lawsuit, and you dare to cheat people out of money here?"

Meng Dongting squinted his eyes and said lazily: "What do you want, tell me quickly." ”

The scoundrel stretched out his hand and said, "It's easy to do, if you can't write, then you will pay me the ten taels of silver on his behalf!"

Meng Dongting smiled faintly, he took out four copper coins, one for each of them, and stuffed them in the hands of the four people.

The four of them were stunned for a moment and shouted, "Your grandmother's, when we are asking for food?"

Meng Dongting laughed, took out four taels of silver, and threw them at the four people.

The four of them reached out to catch it, and suddenly felt a great force in their hands. The four of them snorted, and in an instant, they stumbled under their feet and fell to the ground.

Meng Dongting said with a smile: "Give too much, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch it, give too little, and you will have to call the sky and grab the earth, it really embarrass me." With a smile on his face, he stepped forward, picked up the broken silver from the ground, and stuffed it back into his bosom.

The scoundrels got up and shouted, "His grandmother, you dare to trick us, see the grandfathers give you some color!" One person shouted even more, and smashed it down at Meng Dongting's stall.

was in the middle of the commotion, but saw that the red-faced man and the bearded man who came over earlier had already stood in front of Meng Dongting, glaring angrily at the scoundrels.

The scoundrels shouted: "You two get out of the way quickly, I will hurt you in a while, but don't complain that the sword has no eyes!"

The red-faced man stood up and said coldly, "Do you know what kind of place this is?"

A scoundrel laughed and said, "His grandmother's, isn't this the shore of Shigou Lake in Xuzhou? What's the big deal?"

The red-faced man sneered: "Since you know that this is Shigou Lake, how dare you mess around here?"

The scoundrel jumped out and shouted, "Fuck you, what kind of thing are you?" tell you, do you know who your old man is?"

The red-faced man sighed and said, "I heard you say that you are so angry, but who are you?"

The scoundrel laughed and said loudly: "Lao Tzu tell you, your father is the 'red-faced Li Guang' of Shigou Lake Qingfeng Village, if you know each other, get out of my way quickly!"

The red-faced man couldn't help laughing, and laughed: "Okay, you kid, if you are 'red-faced Li Guang', then who am I?"