Sometimes when you meet the same person, you don’t need to discuss with them the profound philosophical issues of where they come from and where they are going. Just having a pleasant chat, Ji Yuan and the old beggar can feel each other’s feelings. To understand the other person’s character and attitude towards the world.
This Dazhen is not a person who cares about fate, and he never wants to talk about anything, not to mention that his state of mind is extremely righteous. Since he feels that the old beggar does not want to talk too much about himself, then he I didn’t ask, because the other party didn’t ask about Ji Yuan in detail.
‘That’s good too. ’
With this thought, Ji Yuan and the old beggar chatted more and more casually. Anyway, neither of them wanted anything from the other. It was quite rare to meet someone they could talk to.
They drank tea not quickly, and the tea never got cold. When all the tea in a big teapot was poured out, the old storyteller in the teahouse had just finished telling the story of “The Biography of General Huang.”
Xingmu’s “pop~” was captured, and the ending ended with the Huang family’s loyal family finally disappearing into hiding, which made the tea drinkers and the audience sigh.
Because the time is approaching noon, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and storytelling is a technical job that requires both physical and mental effort, so the old gentleman who is the storyteller will inevitably be covered in sweat. He wipes his face with a wet cloth and listens to the surroundings. He cheered and put away some copper coins on the table to reward him.
“Well, the time is just right.”
After Ji Yuan finished listening to the book, he drank the last bit of tea in the teacup and stood up.
The old beggar did not move, but the little beggar got up consciously. He felt that the stool must be returned, and as for the plate on it, it must be empty.
One stool was left for the old beggar and the young beggar to sit on. Ji Yuan held the other stool and returned to the teahouse with the plate and teapot on it. He also took back the change that had just been crushed, and then went out to rush to the restaurant. The old beggar nodded and turned around and left.
The two beggars, the old one and the young one, are both very interesting people, but because of the plan, the young beggar is obviously very reserved, and he has already talked about everything that should be talked about, and he has no intention of entangled.
After Ji Yuan left, Dr. Tea walked to the teahouse counter, hesitated for a moment and said to the shopkeeper.
“Shopkeeper, do you want me to get that stool back?”
The store manager reached out and patted him on the head.
“Are you stupid?”
Outside the teahouse, there were now two beggars sitting together on the bench. For pedestrians passing by on the street, the rate of turning around dropped sharply.
The little beggar looked in the direction of the teahouse and then in the direction where Ji Yuan left, as if offering a treasure, he used his elbow to scratch the old beggar who was thinking.
“Grandpa Lu, look!”
The old beggar turned around and saw a big pocket on the side of the little beggar’s clothes, filled with candied fruits and melon seeds.
“Oh, you didn’t eat up all the love just now.”
“How can I not leave it to Grandpa Lu? Most of it is hidden!”
It was half eaten, and the portions of snacks on several plates were not too small.
“Then you were so anxious to clean up just now, why didn’t you leave some for Mr. Ji?”
The little beggar muttered guiltily, “I don’t think he wants to eat, and he’s not short of money either…”
The old beggar smiled and said nothing.
After not sitting on the stool for long, the two beggars, old and young, felt that it was a bit strange for the beggar to sit on the stool and watch people passing by, so they all sat back on the ground and put the broken bowl on the stool.
About a quarter of an hour later, the aroma of the food in the surrounding restaurants became stronger and stronger. Even though the little beggar’s stomach was already stuffed with pastries, he still swallowed hard while the old beggar was lying in the corner with his eyes closed.
“You’er, here comes the good stuff!”
The old beggar said something incomprehensible, which made the little beggar confused for a while before he finally understood what it was, because Dr. Tea from Qingye Building was walking towards them carrying a tray.
On the tray are two large celadon bowls that are larger than the little beggar’s head. The bowls are full of fragrant noodles, dripping with juice and topped with meat cubes, and two pairs of chopsticks are inserted.
“Uh, hello, you two. This is the braised pork noodles in miso soup that our shopkeeper at Qingyelou specially asked me to order from the shop next door. He said it was for lunch for the two of you. Please use it slowly!”
The tea doctor placed the two large celadon bowls on the bench, then bowed his hands and returned to the teahouse. The old beggar looked there, and the teahouse owner was also cupping his hands in this direction.
He extended his hand to avoid hitting the smiling man, and the old beggar bowed his hand in return.
“Grandpa Lu…should we eat this?”
“Eat, whoever doesn’t eat is a fool! Why are you looking so sad?”
The old beggar looked at the little beggar angrily. He might not have gotten such a meal in half a year.
“Ugh… If I had known better, I wouldn’t have eaten so many pastries…”
The old beggar was stunned and couldn’t help laughing “Hahahahaha…”, which attracted many passersby around him to look at him.
Then, the two beggars grabbed their chopsticks, used the bench as a table, and started devouring the noodles from a large celadon bowl. Even if the little beggar was full, he would not waste the noodles even if he fought to his death.
The “Zi Liao Zi Liao” was so delicious that some passers-by couldn’t help but change their original intentions and went to the noodle shop next door. They really watched the two of them eating so deliciously.
. . .
The time is getting closer and closer to the Mid-Autumn Festival, and more and more “masters” from all over the country are gathering in Gyeonggi Prefecture. At the same time, those wealthy and free-minded people from all over the country are also going there in large numbers. Rush to the capital.
So Gyeonggi Prefecture, which used to be very lively in the past, is now even more lively every day as if it is about to celebrate the New Year, and you can see all kinds of fun things on the streets from time to time.
If you are walking down the street and see someone dressed strangely, looking weird, or simply looking weird in general, no doubt, you are seeing someone “elegant.”
On the whole, the people of the capital and many good people are very curious about the Water and Land Dharma Festival, and regard it as a major festival.
It’s just that the officials in charge of this matter in the DPRK were complaining a lot. They were building altars one after another and building sites everywhere. With the rush of work, the money just went out with running water.
Especially for those high-ranking people who have gathered here, after reporting, the court has to be responsible for their food, accommodation and other messy things. Not to mention the expense is not small, it is said that there are even beggars. The clerk tried to drive people away several times, but in the end he was afraid that things would get ugly, so he had no choice but to let the beggar stay in the hall.
On the sixth day of August, outside the Chu Mansion on Yongning Street.
Today, the master of the Chu family is going to invite a person who is said to be a great person to come to the house as a guest. The house has been busy the day before.
In the evening, the master of the Chu family and the two young masters of the Chu family rode horses, led by a kind of servant, and carried an eight-carriage sedan along Yongning Street to the Chu Mansion. The scene was not small.
When they arrived outside the grand mansion, Mr. Xu, the steward, had already come up to hold the horse for Mr. Chu.
“Uncle Xu, how are the preparations for the banquet going?”
Mr. Chu looked at the sedan and asked Mr. Xu again just to be on the safe side.
“Don’t worry, sir, everything is ready.”
“Yeah!”
Master Chu nodded, walked to the sedan together with his two sons who had dismounted, bowed and cupped their hands.
“The two masters have arrived at the humble residence.”
“Yeah!”
The person in the sedan gave a gentle “Hmm”, and then walked out, a man and a woman, two old men in their sixties or seventies, dressed in robes, the man was serious and the woman had kind eyes, and she had a fairy-like air. The noble demeanor of bones.
On the side, Mr. Xu squinted his eyes and looked at the two people carefully. The movements of his hands and feet did not look like those of Lian Jiazi at all, but it was not necessarily a liar. He just used the intuition of a warrior to rush down with his energy and blood. Well, I felt a little unhappy looking at them for no reason.
The two masters, as Mr. Chu said, got out of the sedan chair and looked at the lintel of the Chu Mansion, their expressions showed a smile. Just by looking at the lintel, they knew that the Chu Mansion was absolutely rich and noble.
Master Chu handed over his hand again, and then extended his hand to lead.
“Master please!”
“Well, Mr. Chu, please lead the way.”
Old man Xu frowned immediately, and the strong energy in his body swelled slightly. He actually dared to let his master lead the way, and treated him as a servant?
Mr. Chu smiled along with them, and actually led the two of them into the house, followed by other servants.
“Okay, master, come in quickly!”
When the two masters entered, Mr. Xu couldn’t help but ask the two young masters who were walking slower.
“Sir, what are those two masters capable of doing, so much so that they can boss me around?”
The eldest son looked at the people in the distance, approached the old man and whispered.
“Uncle Xu, those two are really masters. We have seen with our own eyes that they can make little figures dance from the mud on the ground, they can hold candles in their hands and swallow them, and they can also throw them out. All the water was put back into the basin.”
“Yes, yes, I have seen it too. As the saying goes, it is difficult to control water, but they can do it. It is said that this is called water control. The master also said that this is the only way to demonstrate in front of ordinary people like me. If you show your true spirit, that is It’s overwhelming.”
“Oh…”
Xu Laoguan just didn’t believe it, but his master and young master were not the kind to be easily fooled.
Two quarters of an hour later, in a hall somewhere in the mansion, the two masters suppressed their emotions and tried to calm themselves down, but could not hide the joy on their faces. There were many gold and silver ingots placed on the tables in the hall except for the left and right chapters. According to their requirements, five cooked animals, five raw animals and five live animals were prepared, which respectively represent the five cooked cattle, dogs, sheep, pigs and chickens, as well as the five animals that have been killed but not cooked and the live ones.
Even with the lights on, the hall still seemed a little dim, illuminating the two masters with strange expressions on their faces.
“Moo…” “Mea…”
“Kekeke…”
All the five living animals seemed extremely uneasy.
“Hehehehe… We are very satisfied with the preparations of the Chu Mansion. Mr. Chu, you all should stay out of the way. We are going to practice!”
Master Chu and the servants nodded and carefully exited the hall.
Old man Xu in the corridor outside was always frowning. These two masters were too strange.
“Master…”
Master Chu immediately raised his hand to stop him and nodded at the end of the garden.
“Say it in the past.”
The group of people stayed away from the hall corridor for the time being and arrived in the garden.
“Uncle Xu, when the Holy One convened the Water and Land Dharma Conference, he naturally wanted to meet people with real skills. These two masters are obviously one of them. They are very different from those idlers and martial arts masters pretending to be , as long as…”
Mr. Chu was only halfway through his words when suddenly…
Brush~~~
A white light lit up from the backyard of the mansion, showing an arc-shaped ripple that spread rapidly, sweeping across the place where they were standing almost instantly.
“Ah…” “Ah…”
“Bang~” “Bang…”
The door of the hall was knocked open from the inside, knocking both the carved wooden doors out of the door frame.
“Spare your life! Spare your life…” “Let’s go now, let’s go now!”
The two masters who were very impressive just now stumbled and rolled out of it, as if there were evil tigers chasing behind them.
“Hey…Master…”
“Let’s leave now…” “Nothing has been done, nothing has been done!”
The two of them were obviously greatly frightened. They ran so fast that even their hairpins fell off their heads.
Mr. Chu only had time to wave and shout blankly before he saw that they had escaped out of sight and hurriedly chased them with his men.
Up to the entrance of the Chu Mansion, none of the Chu family could catch up with the two masters. They only saw them tripping over the threshold and rolling down the steps. They didn’t even rub themselves up after getting up, and just kept thinking. To escape, one of the masters even forgot to stand up and ran. Instead, he put his hands on the ground and kicked his legs to run.
Everyone in the Chu family stared at the door with their eyes open. After a long time, Mr. Xu’s laughter brought everyone back to their senses.
“Hey…Master!?”
Mr. Chu looked at him and suddenly remembered something.
“What is that white light?”
“Uh, look for Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com. I don’t know. It seems to have appeared from the backyard of the house.”
“Let’s go and have a look!”
After seeing the appearance of the two masters, no one wanted to chase them back. They all returned to the palace and rushed to the inner palace. They asked the servants along the way and learned from them that the white light was coming from the direction of the book pavilion. dispatched.
The Chu family entered the bookstore all the way. The halo inside seemed to have not completely dissipated. There was still a faint fluorescent light in the corner of one of the large bookshelves.
Xu Laoguan strode forward directly without using a ladder. He jumped lightly and took down the upper set of books. The fluorescent light came from here.
“Tongjian of Baifu?”
Mr. Chu looked around, then took out the books one by one. When he got to the second book, he brought out a piece of rice paper the size of a book page. The fluorescence came from the words on it. When everyone saw this piece of paper, The fluorescence on the handwriting immediately disappeared without a trace, as if it had become an ordinary copybook.
“Good words…”
Mr. Chu couldn’t help but read the contents on the paper.
“Su Shu Pavilion observes the earth spirits of hundreds of mansions, and spends my free time sweeping away the evil dust in front of the court.”
The handwriting is clear and dignified, and contains a unique momentum. It is exactly the decree left by Ji Yuan before leaving the book pavilion.
It turns out that the words left by Ji Yuan were not seen by the Chu family. Instead, when the servants were cleaning the library, they thought that someone in the family had forgotten to take it back after reading the book. It had something to do with “Mansion”, so it was tucked into a book and put back on the bookshelf. It has not been seen again until today.
At this moment, Ji Yuan, who was renting a private house and sleeping and practicing, felt something in his dream, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He didn’t know if he was smiling at the Chu government or the “master”.