Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 89 Recruiting Miners
Early in the morning, the old alley of Dongjiaolou was deserted.

Wu Qingyun stayed up all night again and lost all his money. His eyes were red and he struggled desperately, shouting: "It's a chicken, three chickens, a leopard!!! I won, obviously I won, why don't you admit it? !!"

The thugs from Yuandefang slapped Wu Qingyun on the right side of the face with their bare arms embroidered with green and blue, and their muscles were plump and swollen!
"Snapped!"

With the crisp applause, a tooth flew out and fell into the ditch. Wu Qingyun was so dimmed by this slap that he passed out.

"A dog-like thing! How dare you yell at your third master?"

The thugs spat out a mouthful of old phlegm on Wu Qingyun's face disdainfully, and kicked him hard on his thin belly in disbelief. Wu Qingyun, who was beaten to death, let out unconscious sobs.

The thugs all laughed loudly: "Okay, third brother, why are you vomiting with an old gambler who has lost his head? Let's go, go back and drink!!"

"This old dog Wu is also weird, every time he comes, every time he loses! He still can't afford to lose! He must say that I will not accept my debt after waiting for a thousand dollars, and ruin my reputation in Yuandefang!"

The thug known as the third brother rubbed his wrists, and glanced at Wu Qingyun who looked like a dead dog on the ground with disdain.

Another person persuaded: "Why do you care about him? Which of the people around here don't know about this man? He was also a scholar before, and his parents opened a tofu shop."

"Huh? There is such a thing. I didn't expect him to be a scholar." The third brother said in surprise.

"student?"

The person who spoke sneered: "After this person got married, he failed the exam three times in a row. He became dizzy and started frequenting gambling houses and restaurants."

"At first it was to lose, and then when the money was lost, it was borrowed.

At the end of the borrowing, his parents' tofu shop was taken to repay the debt, his father died of anger on the spot, and only the old mother cried and went blind. "

"This man is not filial!"

Although the third brother was a naughty man, he valued filial piety very much, so he immediately kicked Wu Qingyun hard.

"Unfilial?"

The person who spoke sneered again: "He is clearly worse than a pig or a dog!"

"You don't know, his old mother cried and went blind, all because of his wife doing some laundry, sewing and mending to earn some money to support the whole family.

However, this Wu Qingyun is a well-known bastard. He was beaten outside, and when he got angry, he would beat his own wife and steal money when he returned home!

If you get him some rice money, use it to buy wine!If he is lucky, his wife will give him a little more, so he will take it to the gambling house to gamble! "

Hearing this, even with the status of many thugs in the gambling shop, it is inevitable to feel a little bit of dissatisfaction and disgust towards Wu Qingyun.

"How dare you make trouble after getting a wife like this?" The third brother rubbed his wrist, wanting to grab Wu Qingyun's neck and give him another blow to vent his anger: "I want him to never steal the rice money from that miserable woman again!"

"Hey, third brother, don't worry, just listen to me continue."

"Okay, tell me!"

"What I said just now are all old things. Old dog Wu has not robbed his wife of money for a long time!"

"Huh? Could it be that this person has changed his mind?"

"That's not true, his wife is dead!"

"How did you die?"

"Speaking of it, it's still related to gambling." The thug sighed, and said, "One day in winter, Old Dog Wu was so jealous that he gambled with someone and lost all his money. The man made fun of Old Dog Wu for being supported by his wife, so he deserved it." Can't win.

Wu Laogou said that the man was interested in his wife, and if he forced him to play another game with him, he would bet on his wife!

The man agreed, but Wu Laogou lost again, this time even his wife lost to others. "

"When he returned home in despair and was about to tell his wife the news, he saw that his family had gone to the building, and his old mother died of starvation at the door because there was no water or rice for two days.

His wife jumped into the well when she heard that he had lost her to someone else! "

As soon as this tragedy in the world was told, everyone couldn't help but shudder.

The third brother frowned: "So, this person is alone now, where did he get the money to gamble in the workshop all day long?"

"Hey, the third brother doesn't know something. His wife is dead, but he still has a daughter!" The man beamed with delight: "I don't know what good things this old dog did in his previous life. He married a wife and gave birth to a lovely child. It’s getting more and more attractive.”

"When his wife died, he planned to jump into the well with his daughter, but that day the girl seemed to have anticipated something and hid outside and never came home.

Later, after the mother and grandmother of the family left, the girl was also strong, begging along the street for food, and survived by herself.

When she grew up a little, she took over her mother's work and supported herself by helping her neighbors in the neighborhood to wash and mend.

By the way, I have to share some with her immortal father! "

As he said that, the thug also sighed for the tragic fate of the daughter's family.

"This kind of thing that is not as good as pigs and dogs really dirty my hands!"

The third brother was disgusted and rubbed the soles of his shoes on the ground, and sighed: "I don't know if this old dog has lived on the dog at such an age, forcing the whole family to death, but he was beaten all day long and survived."

Everyone just laughed, and what they said has been the words that good people don't live long and disasters last thousands of years.

They did not define themselves as scourges, after all, the Northern Song government not only did not ban gambling houses, but strongly supported them.

Strictly speaking, they are just unpretentious gambling workers, trying to make a living.

All the thugs chatted and laughed and crowded back to the casino, where there was a charcoal fire to keep warm, the girls teased, and there were gambling games that made the blood boil.

Half an hour later, the sun rose.

The air gradually warmed up.

The pedestrians on the street gradually gathered, and Wu Qingyun woke up slowly with a groan.

He rubbed his bruised belly, supported himself to get up from the ground, and wobbled towards his own direction.

"Hmph! Yuandefang is a dog. If you lose, you won't admit it. Grandpa, I will make you look good!"

"It's clearly a chicken. Are there three chickens? I remember it was a chicken? Could it be that I misread it?"

He muttered in his mouth, and walked back to the cramped and dilapidated private house.

The paper on the windows full of holes was tattered, and the poles were broken long ago, making the room dim and gloomy.

"I'm hungry, but I have something to eat!"

As soon as he entered the room, Wu Qingyun shouted arrogantly.

The room was silent, no one answered.

Wu Qingyun winked and looked around, but there was no one around.

My daughter disappeared, probably went to wash clothes by the river.

Hmph, unfilial sons and daughters!Knowing that he went to the gambling house to stay up all night playing games, he didn't know to prepare some breakfast in advance and put it on the table for him to eat when he came back.

Wu Qingyun complained a few words, but when he saw no one around, he felt itchy.

He glanced sideways, then straightened up neatly, slipped into the side room, and searched through boxes and cabinets in Wu Qingshu's bedroom.

"Where is it? Where is the money hidden?"

He turned around for a while, feeling hungry and unbearably hungry, and smashed his daughter's dressing drawer violently as if venting.

The old wooden drawer was severely cracked in two when it hit the ground, and sawdust flew around.

The crisp sound of metal bumping is particularly gratifying.

With joy in his eyes, Wu Qingyun hurriedly lay down on the ground and picked up the copper coins one by one, counting in his mouth: "One, two, three...haha, there are 56 big coins, and we can gamble again!"

"what are you doing?!"

Wu Qingshu's startled voice sounded behind her.

He turned his head and saw that his daughter's immature arms were struggling to lift a wooden basin full of soaked clothes, staring at him anxiously and angrily.

"Qing Shu~"

Wu Qingyun forced a smile on his old face, and hurriedly stuffed the copper coins into his arms and said, "You're back, how is the starching on your clothes?"

"What are you doing?!" Wu Qingshu's white and tender face was full of tiredness, she put down the wooden basin with difficulty, and glanced suspiciously at the room.

When her gaze rested on the broken dressing drawer, the sockets of her eyes gradually turned red and filled with tears.

"you you you you…"

Her tone was trembling, with a little disbelief: "You smashed the wooden box my mother left for me..."

Wu Qingyun pretended to be relaxed and said, "Who told you to hide the money so deeply?"

"Get out..." Wu Qingshu covered her face, tears fell to the ground, and her immature and fair face was soaked by tears.

"get out!!"

Her slightly juvenile voice was full of sharp hatred, with endless tiredness and pain.

Wu Qingyun was so angry that his lips trembled: "Who are you talking to like that? Did you only learn how to be unfilial to your parents when someone taught you to read and write?!"

"You are the one who is unfilial!!" Wu Qingshu roared hysterically, her red eyes showed undisguised hatred for Wu Qingyun.

"You forced my mother to death, you killed grandpa and grandma!! You are the unfilial offspring!!!"

He was startled, touched the copper coins in his bosom and his waist stiffened again, angrily said: "I am your father! How can you blame me?! Didn't you hear the ancient saying that it is taboo for the venerable!! "

Wu Qingshu's eyes were lost, and she murmured: "It was a mistake for me to be born in your family, I should have died earlier, and died in that well like my mother, so I don't have to live until now to confront you face to face... "

Wu Qingyun pushed away Wu Qingshu, who was in a trance, and said cruelly: "I know, I know, you look down on me! You, your mother, and my mother, all of you look down on me!!"

"Just wait for me, wait!"

"When I make a lot of money, eat and drink hot food every day, I won't give you a cent, so let you beg me!! Hahaha, please beg me!!! Hahaha!!!"

The room was empty, only Wu Qingshu's suppressed crying was left.

'Snapped! '

In the shrine, a clumsily hand-carved Taoist statue suddenly fell to the ground and rolled to her hand.

Wu Qingshu picked up the statue, crying slightly.

"Immortal Immortal... Are you staring at me..."

"Why do you have to suffer such a catastrophe... Immortal Venerable..."

She muttered to herself, feeling so sad that her clothes were wet with tears, and she buried her head in her arms and cried bitterly.

Half a quarter of an hour later, outside Yuandefang.

Wu Qingyun stood on the street empty-handed, feeling dizzy and weak from hunger.

"Qing Shu must have no money, where should I find a meal?"

As he pondered in his mind, he saw two Taoists suddenly appear in front of him.

"You are Wu Qingyun?"

The Taoists were not polite and looked at him arrogantly.

"Yes, it's the villain." Seeing them wearing Taoist robes of the Longevity Sect, Wu Qingyun knew the identity of the visitor was extraordinary, and laughed along with him.

"Come with us."

"This... I don't know why the two elders are looking for the villain?"

The Taoist looked at him impatiently, and said: "Good thing, you have been spotted by my teacher, and I will hire you to work for a period of time, and the salary will be high."

Wu Qingyun was panicked, but when he saw that the two men surrounded him like a hostage, he didn't dare to resist, so he obediently followed them and got into the carriage.

Along the way, the carriage left Bianliang and went straight to the outside of the city.

In addition to Wu Qingyun, there were more than a dozen entourages in the car, but it seemed that they were not Taoists of the Longevity Sect, and they were all dressed in the coarse clothes of ordinary people.

It seems that they are hired people like him.

The two Taoists drove the carriage silently without saying a word.

It wasn't until night fell that the people in the carriage became a little impatient.

"Two immortal elders, I don't know where are you going to send us?"

"Yeah, aren't you going to Xishan? This doesn't seem to be the way to Xishan."

The Taoist on the left turned his head impatiently and looked at the crowd: "Why are you arguing? Who said you are going to Xishan? You are going to Xiangzhou!"

Xiangzhou?Where are you going?

Wu Qingyun wanted to repent, but saw that the two Taoist priests were both armed with swords, their muscles were tall, and their faces were ferocious, so they suddenly froze.

The Taoists of the Longevity Sect are not easy to mess with. I heard that there are many 'entry-level' masters who have been blessed by the Immortal Venerable.

The physical fitness of these Taoist masters is almost comparable to two mortals of the same size, and it is not a problem to fight against three with one hand.

In the rivers and lakes, many green forest heroes who provoked them have suffered.

These people are just like the legendary martial arts masters, who can fly a foot high with the tip of their toes, and play with their bare hands.

Regardless of the fact that there are only two of them, if we do something, the dozen or so of us may not be able to make things right.

What's more, the Taoist still has weapons on his body, which is even more difficult.

If they sneaked away, it would be easy to catch them with the power of the Longevity Sect, and they might even be beaten severely.

Why don't you just wait and be honest, so you won't kill yourself?

However, he knew that the Longevity Sect was a true immortal orthodoxy, and it cherished the lives of the common people most.

There was no words all the way, and soon the carriage entered the boundary of Xiangzhou.

Wu Qingyun keenly noticed that many large carriages on the official roads that also hung the banner of the Longevity Cult had the same destination as himself and the others.

The carriage galloped on the official road, but passed the city without entering, and plunged into the mountain thirty miles outside Xiangzhou City.

Along the newly opened road, the carriage slowly drove into a rumbling coal mine.

Lin Yuanai's Taoist robe was covered with soot. Hearing that his subordinate Taoists had come to hand over today's list of miners, he hurriedly came out of the house to the open-air dam of the mine.

There are two Taoist priests accompanying each carriage, and they are ordering everyone to get off the carriages and line up for registration.

Lin Yuanai stepped forward to hand over to the Taoists, looked at this batch of new miners excitedly, and nodded with satisfaction: "Well, the quality is not bad, the muscles and bones are strong, and they should be able to last for a while."

Hearing this, Wu Qingyun muttered in his heart for a while, and looked around again, and suddenly a bad thought came to him.

'Could it be that I won't be able to mine after being sold here? ! '

(End of this chapter)