Chapter 13: The Fox of Gao Laozhuang
Liu Mi stayed in Yunzhan Cave, and no monsters came to visit him again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
About twenty years later, Liu Mi's stomach had a wine worm attack and he suddenly wanted to drink.
Liu Mi went to Gaojiazhuang.
The big family of Gaojiazhuang is an outsider, and he is called a high-level outsider.
His ancestral recipe has been passed down from the cellar for four or five generations.
High-ranking employees love their work, and they are obese and love to drink.
Whenever he drank alone, he had to drink an urn in one go.
Gao Yuanwai's family has 300 acres of good land, 150 acres of wheat and beans, and the other half of them are sorghum.
Although he drinks a lot, the Gao family has good wine, and his family is better by selling wine every year.
"Outside the senior staff, I have a gift for you. Liu Mi carried a yellow sheep and a few wolf skins and came to give gifts.
Anyway, if you don't have relatives, it will be expensive to give these gifts suddenly.
Even if the host accepts it, it must show that at least one meal will be entertained.
The senior officer took the yellow sheep and the wolf's skin, turned around and left.
Liu Mi had no choice but to shout: "Don't hurry to leave, I still have to buy a jar of wine." ā
It cost four dollars of silver to buy a jar of wine, and the jar also had to be deposited for one penny.
Liu Mi was unhappy, but he didn't bother to care. I went to the mountains and caught two yellow sheep, sold them for more than one or two pieces of silver, and sold wine in a wine shop, and I could buy several jars.
The news of Liu Mi's purchase of wine spread, and people said that they were not very particular about high-ranking officials.
Gao Yuanwai has no son, only one daughter named Gao Cuiyun. I heard that my father didn't return the gift and sold wine at a high price, so he complained about the high-ranking staff.
Gao Yuanwai said: "A foreigner suddenly gave me a gift, who knows what kind of heart he has." ā
Gao Cuiyun is sixteen years old, but she hasn't said goodbye yet, and when she heard Gao Yuanwai's words, she was so ashamed that her face was flushed, and she didn't dare to complain anymore.
Secretly, Gao Cuiyun instructed the clever long-term workers at home to send some plum vegetables, green onions and ginger, and two jars of wine to Yunzhan Cave, and by the way, accompany others.
Liu Mi accepted the gift, and then he dispersed his murderous intentions.
The bad reputation of Gao Yuanwai spread, and a monk from Tianzhu ran to Gaojiazhuang and said that he was suffering from a strange disease.
The senior member sat high, drank wine and said: "So make a mistake, I'm not sick, you are sick!"
The monk was not annoyed, but asked him, "You have never been drunk when you drink, have you?" ā
"Of course. The senior poured another glass of wine.
"It's a wine worm in your stomach, and all the wine you drink has been drunk by the wine worm. ā
"So what. ā
"Thou shalt drink an urn of wine every day, and that urn shall cost at least a tael of silver. It's a few hundred taels a year. The monk folded his hands together and said regretfully: "A few hundred taels of silver is enough to buy one or twenty acres of fertile land, enough to buy twenty or thirty maids." ā
He drank from the age of five with a saucer, from the age of eight with a cup, at the age of thirteen with a large bowl, and at the age of seventeen he began to drink from a jar......
Drink it so far, how many taels have been drunk?
"Please heal me, Master. Gao Yuanwai immediately stood up and said respectfully.
The monk shook his head and said, "This disease is not curable. ā
Gao Yuanwai followed closely, "What medicine do you need, master, you command." ā
When the monk saw that he was sincere, he said, "You don't need any medicine, as long as you listen to my instructions and suffer a little." ā
The senior officer agreed, and the monk let him lie on the stone table in the sun, with his hands and feet tied behind him.
Half a foot in front of you, there was a jar of aged wine.
Gao Yuanwai is a fat man, hot and thirsty after a while, and wants to drink very much.
As a restaurant, the nose is the most sensitive, and the jar of aged wine is dried under the sun, and the fragrance is even more gluttonous.
But if you can't drink wine, you can smell the aroma of wine, and the senior staff has a conditioned reflex outside, and slowly links the aroma of wine with pain.
Suddenly, the senior was nauseous and uncomfortable, his throat was itchy, and he spit out something at once, and it fell into the wine jar with a click.
The monks came over to untie the hands and feet of the senior staff, and asked them to lift the senior staff to a cool place, and poured Huoxiang Zhengqi water into the senior staff.
The senior staff relieved the heat, and when they came over, there was a strange insect in the jar.
It was a flat, strip of red flesh that was more than three inches long and as thick as a little finger. The mouth and eyes are complete, and they wriggle in the wine like a fish.
The senior officials were shocked and took out the silver to thank the monks.
The monks didn't want it, they just wanted this wine worm, "It is the essence of wine, put water in the urn, put the worm in it and stir it, and it becomes a good wine." ā
The senior staff was disgusted when they saw the wine, and they didn't like the wine worms, so they quickly let the monk take the wine worms and leave.
Gao Yuanwai hated the smell of wine from then on, and his family's wine workshop was closed, and the wine cellar was smashed.
After not drinking, the senior staff gradually returned to their normal body and worked hard to farm, but the more they planted, the poorer they became.
happened to encounter a drought, and only a year and a half later, the Gao family only had 300 acres of land left, and all the floating wealth was scattered.
Some monks came to Gaojiazhuang, claiming that they could help the high-ranking people, but they wanted 150 acres of fertile land to build a temple and use it as a Buddha field.
Hearing this, Gao Cuiyun, the eldest lady, couldn't sit still, and ran out to stop her father, not allowing him to associate with the monks.
The senior staff was furious.
The servants and tenants in the family all supported Miss Gao, "If the eldest master continues to be in charge of the family, I am afraid that tomorrow the servants will be sold, and those who farm will have to sacrifice their wives to the monks to farm the land." ā
"Well, I'd like to see what you're capable of. "Gao Cuiyun is given three days outside the senior staff, and if the family does not get rich within three days, then the monks must be allowed to overcome the misfortune.
Gao Cuiyun instructed someone to prepare a car and went to invite her grandmother over overnight.
Gao Cuiyun's maternal grandmother is the daughter of a Fang Shi and has the art of Qimen in her hands.
When she came to Gaojiazhuang, Gao Cuiyun's grandmother got out of the car and met her daughter and granddaughter, who was in good spirits, in her seventies, deaf and loud.
The old lady said: "This is easy to do, my grandmother passed on your skills of "Fox Fake Tiger Might". You go to the Yunzhan Cave in Fuling Mountain and find the tiger in the river to take advantage of it. ā
Gao Cuiyun was puzzled, "Grandmother, if he has the ability, wouldn't it be better to beg him?"
The old lady shook her head: "Why does he want to help you?"
Tiger, live for your own pleasure.
Even if you give yourself to him, he may not be willing to help you.
"My grandmother taught me. ā
"Foxes are thin, have soft fur, and don't have much to chew on tigers. The fox can go and serve the tiger and get the breath of the tiger. My grandmother taught, "For the tiger, there is no harm." For foxes, the breath of a tiger can be used to intimidate predators. ā
Gao Cuiyun had a sad face: "But I don't know how to borrow the majesty of the tiger." ā
My grandmother said, "What's so difficult about this, you just send it to the door at night, sleep with him and live with him." Xiaoxiao heard about it, and naturally retreated. If there is really someone who doesn't know how to lift, you shed a few tears, and the tiger is naturally at your mercy, maybe take the initiative to relieve your worries. ā
On the same day, the old lady bathed Gao Cuiyun with incense and plucked the fluff on her face.
Gao Cuiyun's face was as tender as a boiled duck egg, and accompanied by the maid of the family, he came to the foot of Fuling Mountain, "You build a shed here, and wait for me to send you at any time." ā
After the arrangements were made, Gao Cuiyun was a little worried, and while there was still light at dusk, he climbed up the mountain and came to the Yunzhan Cave.