Chapter 29 The Poor Monk
When Wang Erniu took Zuo Chen and others to the courtyard of the village chief's house, it was completely dark.
There were many torches in the village, and even in the first night, the whole village was brightly lit.
Only the road was unpopular. Zuo Chen looked around and glanced at the neighboring houses of the villagers. He could see the eyes peeking out of the houses.
It was all people in the village, frightened and uneasy.
When they arrived next to the village chief's courtyard, Erniu stopped first:
"Taoist, this girl, please wait outside for a while while I go in and call the village chief."< br>
He sighed:
"The village chief has been out of his mind every day since he suffered from that beast. If I go in directly with a stranger, I am afraid that the village chief will be frightened again. Yelling and making noise."
After that, Wang Erniu entered the house after getting Zuo Chen's approval.
When Wang Erniu's voice disappeared, Caiyi approached Zuo Chen and asked in a low voice:
"Taoist Master, actually I have something I have always wanted to ask you."
" You said.”
“This village doesn’t seem to be able to afford much money, and it’s not likely to get any treasures. If you say you want to save people, people are dying every day in this world. I can’t save you. Are you a bit..."
In the end, Caiyi did not say the words "thankless".
After asking Zuo Chen, Caiyi immediately shrank her head, like a turtle, waiting for Zuo Chen to lecture.
She originally thought that Zuo Chen might have a straight face immediately, and then took out some words such as "Be worried about the world's worries first, and be happy after the world's happiness", "If you don't save the suffering, how can you save the world?" etc. Zhihu also used his words to teach him a lesson, but he didn’t expect that Zuo Chen just smiled and said:
“What do you think?”
Caiyi: “??”
What answer is this?
Zuo Chen laughed and did not continue to speak.
He did this mainly for merit.
Zuo Chen now needs some time to practice Taoism. It turns out that his cultivation on the mountain was incomplete, so he had to go down the mountain to find supernatural powers.
But it’s not that nothing was recorded in his Taoist teachings.
The Shangqing Lei Law Division is in charge of Xing Lei and must be fair and aboveboard.
This also leads to the fact that the stronger his own merit, the better the effect of his thunder method.
It is precisely because of this that he meddles in other people's business.
Seeing that Zuo Chen was silent, Cai Yi didn't know why. He thought for a moment, gave up thinking, and moved on to the next topic:
"Why did the Taoist priest accept me as his disciple? Do I have any talent?”
Caiyi’s eyes lit up. She had been fond of listening to books and teachers talking about people with different destiny since she was a child, and she dreamed that one day she could transform herself into someone else. The person around the neck is the best person.
Could it be that he really has some hidden talent that even he doesn't know about?
Zuo Chen looked at Cai Yi and fell into deep thought.
Caiyi: "?"
Taoist Priest, please say something! I'm so scared when you don't speak like this!
"First of all, you are not my apprentice, you are just a registered student at most. Secondly...because you are good-looking? I am short of an errand boy, but I don't want to find a tall and thick man..."
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Zuo Chen's tone was very hesitant.
Caiyi: "???"
"Taoist Master! Do you want to be so honest? If you think about it again, don't I have anything worthy of your special attention?"
Zuo Chen fell into hesitation, as if he was facing a major and difficult decision in life.
Damn, so irritating!
Wang Erniu also walked out of the house, interrupting the chat between the two. Behind him was a trembling old man. After stepping out of the inn courtyard, he turned back three times. If Wang Erniu hadn't followed him, he might have run back. I'm in my inner room.
"This is the Immortal Taoist Master, please come in quickly, please come in quickly!"
If someone else's "Come in quickly, please come in" is somewhat polite, Then the village chief was just pleading.
Without staying in the yard, several people entered the house.
Until they arrived at the main house, which was not very spacious, the old village chief quickly closed the door.
When he reached the wooden door separating the inside and outside, he breathed a sigh of relief, his face looking like crying but not smiling. "Taoist Priest, I've heard what Er Niu said. You are a capable person, so please save our village! If that beast continues to toss, in a few months, there may be no one left in the village!"
The village chief pulled out a chair and asked Zuo Chen to sit down. After Zuo Chen sat down, he asked:
"First tell me what disaster happened in your village. ? Whether it can be dealt with, I have to look at the situation.”
“It’s all because of my selfishness that I caused so much trouble by finding a wild monk on the side of the road.”
The village chief sighed sadly and talked about the cause and effect:
"My old man passed away some time ago. He usually eats fast and prays to Buddha. Thanks to the blessing of Buddha, he has been away for more than eighty years and has never been born. What kind of serious illness did he have?
“When he was buried, I was thinking about finding some masters to do the ritual for the old man. This would show how pious my old man is, and it would also put more face on my family’s face. You can take the money to the nearby Anming Temple and ask. Good guy! One day of ritual service costs fifty taels of silver! This is just a stack of talisman papers, and they don't even bring it to the door in person!
"Fifty taels of silver. Even if we are a wealthy village, this is enough for my family's annual income.
"I missed it at the time. The young monk in the temple He also laughed at me and said he was calling me a poor man. I was so angry that I left.
"It happened that a poor monk passed by my village that day, and I was thinking about letting him conduct the ritual. He didn't ask for any money, so he just asked for a bowl of white porridge and pickles. He really helped my old man to do the ritual properly.
“After it was over, he wanted to leave, so I asked him where he was going. He just said he was going up the mountain, but he went up the mountain and never came down again. "
The old village chief rambled on and told Zuo Chen everything that happened when he saw the monk, and what happened next was exactly the same as what the roadside store manager said before.
That day At night, a dark figure wearing a cassock came to the village chief's door and knocked on the door. The village chief was afraid that if he didn't go out, the next day he would be killed.
However, this was not over yet.
The dark shadow did not leave, and the whole village was harassed for a full month!
Every night there is a knock on the door of a house, and looking out the window are black figures wearing cassocks.
If you don’t open the door, animals will be killed, pigs will be killed, cows will be killed, and horses will be killed.
Some villagers couldn't stand having their property taken away, so they made preparations in advance and opened the door at night.
Then the next day the entire household would be disemboweled and all limbs cut off.
Over time, the village became panicked, and no one dared to go out.
After listening to the village chief’s introduction, Zuo Chen frowned slightly.
Is this someone tricking you into something?
That sounds really evil.
After thinking for a moment, Zuo Chen felt that he still had to see what was knocking on the door.
"Village chief, how many households are left in the village now?"
"Now there were originally seventy-two households, six of them were killed, and twenty-seven households took refuge with their parents' homes in the city."
>The village chief counted on his fingers, and Caiyi answered first:
“There are still thirty-nine households left.”
Thirty-nine households...
Ling Qi looked around, Zuo Chen memorized the locations of the remaining people.
He walked to the door of the house and pushed open the door. Under the worried and frightened eyes of the village chief, Zuo Chen walked to the yard and groped around.
By the oil lamp in the room, he found a dogtail grass.
Pinching the flower blooming technique that he learned before, Zuo Chen aimed at the dog's tail grass in his hand and blew gently.
“Go!”
After shaking out the dog's tail grass, the small green particles sandwiched above instantly flew towards the door beams of the only thirty-nine houses in the village, and plunged into the ground with a whoosh.
Immediately afterwards, a small foxtail grass grew rapidly from the soil, swaying in the wind.
After doing all this, Zuo Chen returned to the house.
"Go and rest first. I'll see who did it tonight."
The village chief's eyes widened.
Is this the end?
(End of this chapter)