Chapter 12: The Emperor's Dream

On the afternoon of the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, in the mountains and forests of less than 100 miles in the northeast of Taishan, there was a low Taoist temple, the courtyard was dilapidated, and the grass was overgrown. The dead grass was stacked layer upon layer, up to the knees.

Wong Tai Sin was wearing a pair of clothes for the second-hand wholesale market with a total value of no more than 50 yuan, standing in front of the courtyard with a disgraced face, looking at the rusty gate that had already fallen off the paint, and his heart was uneasy. Finally, he raised his hand and tapped lightly on the door. "Is anyone there?"

"Come in, do you want me to open the door for you?"

With a creak, Wong Tai Sin gently pushed the door open. I saw a young man wearing a cyan robe, with long hair on his head, a handsome appearance, and a beard sprinkled all over his chest, sitting cross-legged in front of the main hall, with his eyes closed and his face serene.

"Senior brother, you are still so young, isn't the master here?" said Huang Daxian with a smile.

The young man replied with a blank face. "The master has traveled all over the world and has not been back for three months. Do you have anything to do with him?"

"There's a strange thing happening over there, maybe there's a ghost!" Wong Tai Sin carefully explained the affairs of the county.

"I told you a long time ago that there are ghosts in the world, but you don't believe it. Back then, you only learned some kung fu of cheating, and then you said goodbye. After all, the flashy truth can't be told to the ghosts. What do you want to do this time?"

"I want to ask my master and junior brother to come down the mountain and help me destroy the demon. Wong Tai Sin knew that he didn't stretch out his hand to hit the smiling person, his face was full of smiles, and he couldn't wait to have a few more faces, and surrounded the young man in all directions, so that he couldn't refuse.

"I've been talking to you so well that you've forgotten who you are. It's okay to roll the calf for me, and if you don't disappear in front of me in ten seconds, you will be crushed and ashes will be scattered, and you will become a missing person. The young man snapped impatiently.

The smile on Wong Tai Sin's face instantly froze, he blinked his eyes, and ran away. "He's destined to see you again! Senior brother has taken his leave!"

With a bang, the door closed automatically and tightly without wind.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Li Sheng's grandmother Liu Cuiyun got up early, worked hard all her life, and couldn't be idle when she was old, with the help of her son Li Jian, she finished feeding the pigs and made a meal, so she went to call Li Wei to get up. She pushed his back, and felt a little unbearable. My wife is old and has just come out of a mental hospital. "Wife, get up and eat!"

Li Wei rolled over and blinked. "Help me get up!"

Liu Cuiyun didn't understand, thinking that Li Wei was unwell and couldn't move. "What's wrong with you, that's uncomfortable!"

Li Wei said impatiently: "I'm uncomfortable, I have an imperial doctor, I don't need you to take care of it! Have the palace maids all gone to find the wild boy? Why can't you see any of them? Old woman, help me get up quickly." ”

"Who is the imperial ......doctor?" Liu Cuilan was confused, she felt that the name was very familiar.

Li Wei was already a little impatient. He propped himself up with his hands and shouted into the courtyard: "Emperor, help me get up!"

When Li Jian heard the shouting, he thought something big had happened, so he hurriedly ran in. "Dad, what's wrong with you?"

Li Wei frowned, pursed his lips and said: "Emperor, I asked you to help me get up, didn't you hear? Your father, how do I usually educate you, I didn't read the Four Books, Five Classics and Three Character Classics, hurry up!"

Li Jian's heart trembled suddenly, his father regarded himself as the emperor. He couldn't help but think of how shrewd and capable his father was when he was young, and how powerful he was, there was simply nothing in the world that he couldn't do. The world is changeable, and in a blink of an eye, my father will be old, and he can't even remember who he is. His eyes glistened with tears at the thought of this. "Dad, I'll help you up right away!"

Li Weiyi criticized with rhetoric: "Call Father!" and then let Li Jian help him up.

He looked at the jacket with holes on his body, and then looked at the black and gray mosquito net, the gray bedding, the donkey gnawed the general bed, the ground with three or four cracks, the tables, chairs and benches with paint off, the slightly inclined cabinets, the 21-inch black-and-white TV that was twisted off the counter, the mottled wall skin, the 20-watt light bulb covered with a layer of fine dust, the pointed roof with cobwebs and sawdust intertwined, and couldn't help sighing, and said nostalgically: "The country is broken and the family is poor, and I am no longer as beautiful as before, and I am rotten like this?"

Li Jian comforted: "Father doesn't have to worry too much, sooner or later it will be fine." ”

Liu Cuilan was a little dumbfounded on the side, and nagged: "Wife, what's wrong with you, let the ghost possess you?" Hurry up and eat, I'll find Wong Tai Sin to take a look after eating! Although he asks for a high price, he can always be cured if he is sick!"

Li Wei pointed at Cuilan and warned with righteous words: "Besides, if I am sick, you can go to the cold palace to cool off! There you can escape the heat in summer, but people freeze to death in winter, think about it yourself!"

In view of Li Wei's illness, Cuilan decided to ignore him for the time being.

Li Sheng heard a lot of movement outside, and also ran over. Seeing that his grandfather seemed to be in good spirits, he said excitedly: "Grandpa, let's go to the ancestral grave today!"

"Just the ragged clothes I wear, the broken ground where I live, and the mess like this, how can I still have the face to worship my ancestors. The Li family's face has made us lose everything!" Li Wei roared indignantly.

Li Sheng's mother also rushed over when she heard the noise. She pulled Li Jian's arm and said in a low voice, "Isn't the old man a bad place to live?"

Li Jian was irritable and said impatiently: "It's none of your business." My dad hasn't woken up yet, and he's talking in his sleep!"

As soon as he came out of the mental hospital, he fell ill, and Li Jian didn't understand it. After serving his father and the emperor to eat a meal of great shame, it was difficult to swallow, and he was ashamed of his ancestors and ancestors, there was neither delicacies from the mountains and seas, nor coarse tea and light rice of beef and mutton, he pulled a well-killed pig and left sullenly.

"Have all the eunuchs and palace maids let you starve to death? There is no one to serve you to eat! Why haven't any ministers come to greet you for so long, and you can't go to the early dynasty? Do you still treat me as an emperor? They all pulled me out and cut me, with a thousand knives, punished the nine clans, and killed a household register!" Li Wei slapped the table and almost knocked a bowl to the ground.

"It's the time of the New Year, and the subjects are very busy, your emperor, you must forgive them!" Li Sheng respectfully admonished.

"It's still the emperor and grandson who have insight. I don't know how the development of the big country is going, Grandpa Emperor, I have to go out and have a look!"

How can you still get out when you are so sick!?" Recently, the country has not been peaceful, and many people in the village are thinking of overthrowing us and setting up a new dynasty. There are a lot of assassin killers disguised as ordinary people, grandpa, don't go out. Li Sheng grabbed his grandfather and said earnestly and dissuaded.

Li Wei nodded. "I didn't expect it to be like this. It is estimated that generals and soldiers and the like can't afford to support our family's economic situation. Grandson, your small physique, you can't be invincible to ten thousand. Grandpa, I'll rest first!"

Li Sheng turned on the TV and found an international news to let his grandfather experience the dire life of the United States and other countries.

"This firepower is so strong! Just our family is poor like this, there is no hope of recovering the country, your grandfather is not reconciled! Grandson, you must find a way, when will you return to the country, burn some paper for your grandfather. Li Wei shed tears of remorse and said with righteous words.

Li Sheng sighed, and he agreed.

"I look good at the big back, so I'll keep one for your grandfather. Li Wei couldn't help but understand when he saw a young man in North Korea.

"No! We don't have that hard heads, we can't afford it. ”

After a while, the electricity bill collector came. Li Sheng took out one hundred and fifty yuan, and was about to give it to the man, Li Wei was furious and snatched it. "Whoever comes, it's just a matter of bowing three times and bowing nine times, and daring to ask for money. Be careful that I behead your whole family. Hurry up and go home, smash the pot and sell iron, and hand it over to the treasury!"

"Uncle Zhang, you go back first, I'll look for you later!" Li Sheng said in a low voice.

Uncle Zhang looked at Li Wei and sighed in his heart: Sure enough, he is a person who has been to a mental hospital, and his words are atmospheric.