Chapter 015: Human Affection is Warm and Cold
Shi Tianci returned to his residence, took out the Taoist techniques he had exchanged, and comprehended them one by one. These are all low-level Dao techniques, and there is no difficulty in comprehending them. Shi Tianci practiced repeatedly by himself, and soon he could perform very smoothly.
With spells, magic weapons, pills and talismans, Shi Tianci can be regarded as having some bottom in his heart, although they are all low-level goods, but after all, they are much stronger than naked running.
It has been almost three years since Shi Tianci went to Wuling, and in the past three years, he has not gone down the mountain once, and he has not gone home to visit his mother. Although he was not worried about his mother's situation, because he had two uncles who would help take care of him, he was afraid that she would be worried after a long time, thinking of his mother's doting on him. Therefore, he made up his mind to go down the mountain to visit his mother.
Shi Tianci came to Jiang Yiqing's Zhengxin Hall and asked him for leave. Jiang Yiqing couldn't help frowning when he heard that Shi Tianci was going down the mountain, and said: "You have only been on the mountain for three years, and you are in a hurry to go home? You are so unqualified, when will you be able to attain the Great Dao?"
When Shi Tianci heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, but he was really not at ease with his mother, so he said to Jiang Yiqing: "Master, the disciple just wants to see the old mother, and he will go back quickly." ”
Jiang Yiqing sighed, turned around and took out a letter, and said to Shi Tianci: "This is a letter from your family, I was afraid of delaying your cultivation, so I didn't show it to you." Since you insist on going down the mountain, let's take a look at this letter. In addition, although you have been studying art with me for three years, because you are a grassroots disciple, your Taoism is superficial, and it is not enough to protect yourself, so it is best for you to go down the mountain with the disciple who went to Wuling City to do business. ”
Shi Tianci listened, took the letter, thanked the master, and turned around and left the Zhengxin Palace. He felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, since it was a family letter, the master should have given it to himself earlier, why did he detain it privately?
Shi Tianci returned to his residence, opened the family letter and looked at it, and was immediately furious.
It turned out that this book was written by the old mother, and it was mentioned in my heart that Shi Tianci's father, Shi Chengsen, owed a lot of money to his two uncles in order to prepare for the New Year Festival of the Qingzhu Gang, and the Qingzhu Gang broke up again, and no one paid the bill for the last big business, so Shi Tianci's old mother sold all the jewelry to pay off the debt.
Because she was homeless, she had to go back to her mother's sister to live in the end, so that he would not remember it, and said that it was natural for him to repay the debt, so that he should not resent his uncle. In the end, his mother let him cultivate with peace of mind, and only when he had the ability could he live in peace in the future, and not to be bullied and slaughtered by others like his parents.
Shi Tianci was born into the Shi family with a mature mind, so he has never had the same deep sense of dependence and identity as other children for his parents in this life.
However, after all, he also grew up eating his mother's juice, after all, he has also been favored by his parents since he was a child, his parents are the people he loves most in this life, unexpectedly, not only did he not have the ability to save his father, but he also made his mother homeless!
Ever since he had been a successful liar in his previous life, he had almost been windy and rainy, but this time, he was tormented by a sense of depression and frustration that he had not experienced for a long time, and in a fit of rage, he smashed the wooden table in the house with a punch!
He can forgive himself for his father's death, after all, he was too young at that time to protect himself, how could he save Shi Chengsen?
However, how can we make him not blame himself for the fact that his mother has become such a scene? How can he not hate him to the bone marrow? The two uncles are so embarrassed to ask for the old mother's house, and such a good uncle is really hard to find with a lantern! Shi Tianci gritted his teeth, and he regretted that he should not have mistakenly believed the two uncles in the first place.
Three days later, Shi Tianci was full of anger and went down the mountain with Zhu Changqi, Jiang Yuehan, and another senior sister. Zhu Changqi was responsible for purchasing all kinds of raw materials for refining pills and making talismans, while Jiang Yuehan and the senior sister were responsible for purchasing some daily necessities needed on the mountain.
Shi Tianci angrily found the old mansion and was about to go in, but saw his uncle Shi Chengmu kicked out of the door of the house from a distance.
Shi Chengmu was kicked very badly, and it took him half a day to get up, when he looked up, he saw Shi Tianci looking at him, he was excited, grabbed Shi Tianci, and cried with tears: "Stone, why did you come back, you came back late, your old mother ......"
When Shi Tianci heard this, he was puzzled in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "My mother, how is her?"
Shi Chengmu cried: "She has ...... went. ”
Shi Tianci suddenly fell to the ground like five thunderbolts.
Although he was a human being in two lives, his parents in his previous life were sick with anger because of his cheating and unprofessionalism in his early years, and both died young. He originally wanted to be more filial to his parents in this life so as to make up for his sins, but he didn't expect that when he was just able to do so, his parents also died.
Shi Chengmu saw that Shi Tianci was in a trance, so he pulled him to his house and sat down, poured him a glass of water, and let him calm down. Shi Tianci drank the water in the cup in one gulp, and asked in a hoarse voice, "My mother, how did she go?"
Shi Chengmu sighed and said, "I also heard from your mother's sister, she had an illness and has not been cured, this disease has been repeated for more than two years, and after the last illness, she still can't survive." Although she has been sick, she refuses to let people write to you to tell you, saying that she is afraid of delaying your cultivation. Hey, it's all my fault, when I went to Xinyang City to run a business, the second Shi Chenglin and his wife actually asked your mother to force debts, and your mother had no choice but to sell her property, and she couldn't even keep the house. ”
Shi Tianci listened, and then he realized that it turned out that it was only the second Shi Chenglin who forced the debt, and it had nothing to do with Shi Chengmu. He asked, "Do you know where my aunt and my husband live?"
Shi Chengmu said: "Of course I know Lu Dao, after I came back from Xinyang City, I knew everything, so I went to find your mother and wanted to take her home to live." However, your mother was already sick at that time, and it was difficult to move around anymore, so she had to leave some money for your uncle-in-law to help take care of her. ”
Shi Tianci asked his uncle's address, but it was not far away, it was in the countryside outside Wuling City. He knew that his aunt and uncle's family background was average, and when Sun Zhongyang was in the limelight, he also wanted to take them to Wuling City, but they were used to living in the countryside and refused to come. Shi Tianci first went to a talisman shop in Wuling City and exchanged the talisman he printed for some gold and silver.
As soon as Shi Tianci's aunt saw him, she immediately cried into tears, only saying that she didn't take good care of her sister and was ashamed of Shi Tianci. Although Shi Tianci had a soul in his forties in his twelve-year-old body, he couldn't stop his tears from falling down when he saw his aunt crying sincerely. He easily persuaded his aunt to take him to pay tribute to his mother's spiritual seat.
Shi Tianci stayed at his aunt's house for a day, because he was in a hurry to rush back to Wuling City, so he didn't dare to stay for a long time, and when he left, he left all the gold and silver he exchanged for his aunt and uncle. When they saw such a large sum of money, how could they dare to accept it? They all said that Shi Tianci was still young, and there were many places to use the money, so let him take it away.
Shi Tianci had no choice but to say: "I am a cultivator, I have been cultivating in the mountains all the year round, this thing outside my body is useless to me, you have helped me take care of my mother for so long, I should be grateful, you don't have to refuse, just one thing, every time my mother's sacrifice day, I hope you can burn more paper money for me." ”
His aunt and uncle agreed and accepted his belongings. Shi Tianci returned to Wuling City and found Shi Chengmu again.
Shi Chengmu had been waiting for him for a long time, and when he saw him come back, he quickly took out some gold, silver, jewelry, and half of the deed of Shi Tianci's old house, and said to him: "These were sent by your mother when I was not at home, saying that they wanted to repay the debt. I'm your own uncle, what debt do I have? These things are all yours, the other half of the deed in the hands of Shi Chenglin. ”
Shi Tianci shook his head and said, "Uncle, wealth is of little use to a cultivator like me. It's better for you to keep it for the elderly. By the way, I saw you kicked out the other day, what was going on?"
Shi Chengmu said hatefully: "It's not Shi Chenglin, a guy who doesn't believe in his words, he lost money in business, and he couldn't turn around, so he borrowed money from me, I hated him for bullying your old mother, and he refused to borrow, so he used half of the house in his hand as collateral."
I thought, if I can help you get that house back, I will have an explanation for you when you come back, right? I took the IOU to him to reason, but he actually grabbed the IOU and swallowed it in one gulp! Now there is no proof of death. ”
When Shi Tianci heard this, his mind turned and he asked, "How much money did he borrow from you?"
Shi Chengmu said: "Two thousand taels of silver." ”
Shi Tianci asked Shi Chengmu to take a pen and paper and write a letter to Shi Chenglin. In the letter, he asked Shi Chengmu to scold Shi Chenglin for not being trustworthy, borrowing 4,000 taels of silver and not paying it back, most of his head was squeezed by the door frame, and so on. When Shi Chengmu heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "He borrowed two thousand taels, not four thousand." ”
Shi Tianci said: "You just have to write it." ”
Shi Chengmu didn't know what the hell Shi Tianci was doing, so he had to write it and let people send it. In less than an hour, the messenger came to see Shi Chengmu with a reply letter, Shi Chengmu opened it and saw that Shi Chenglin scolded him for being a bloody dog, saying that he was an illiterate Bai Ding, two thousand can be said to be four thousand, and most of his head was squeezed by a pig's butt!
Shi Chengmu smiled bitterly and said, "Look, he let him scold him." ”
Shi Tianci said: "Didn't you have no evidence that he borrowed money from you? This letter is new evidence, and now, you can go to him in a grand manner and see if he admits it or not." ”
When Shi Chengmu heard this, he suddenly realized, he looked at Shi Tianci in amazement, and said, "You kid, it's really good." Since I was a child, my big brother and sister-in-law have said that you are very smart, and it seems that they really didn't misunderstand you. ”
Shi Tianci said: "Okay, now that we have evidence, we will go to the door to collect debts." ”