Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 97 Everyone's Thoughts

The dog left wolfishly stuffed the rice porridge into his throat, and after a bowl full of rice porridge had entered his stomach, he then smacked his mouth, savoring the rich rice fragrance left between his mouth and mouth.

There is still a thin layer of rice paste on the bottom of the bowl, so naturally it can't be wasted.

Gou Sheng stretched his neck, and carefully licked the empty bowl, trying to lick everything clean.

Later, he put down the rice bowl, which was already able to reflect light.

Of course, this is not enough. The rice porridge is mixed with sesame oil, and the rice itself is rich in oil. Gou Sheng knows how to completely squeeze out the essence of this rice porridge.

He picked up the broken pot at hand, and filled the bowl with freshly heated well water.

The gratifying golden oil slowly floated up, scattered on the water surface like bright oil flowers.

Gousheng gulped water into his stomach, feeling that his throat was about to be able to contain the porridge in his stomach, so he reluctantly put down the big bowl, and carefully placed it on the table.

"Mother, Daoist, I'm done eating!"

Gou Sheng glanced at his younger brother who was still devouring, patted the back of his head, and said to the dying old woman lying on the bed.

The Taoist priest of the Longevity Sect put down the old woman's arm, nodded and said, "Your mother is fine, it's not a gastrointestinal obstruction caused by eating too much Guanyin soil, it's just that I haven't eaten meaty food for too long. I haven't eaten salt for a long time, so I can't get up."

"When the head teacher is praying for blessings, help your mother to kowtow. With the blessings of the immortals, you will naturally get better soon. After that, you can cultivate a little bit and stop being hungry."

Gou Sheng didn't quite understand what the Taoist priest said, he only knew that he had to help his old lady to kowtow to His Royal Highness Daozi of the Longevity Sect, and immediately nodded in response, "Yes! Thank you, Taoist priest!"

"God left, kowtow to the Taoist priest! The Taoist priest is a great kind person, without the Taoist priest, we motherfuckers will starve to death!"

Gousheng was obedient, knelt down on his knees with a plop, kowtowed repeatedly to the gray-haired Taoist in front of him, and recited some auspicious words from the village.

"The Daoist chief has many sons, more blessings, he has a precious son early, he is as blessed as the East Sea, and his life is longer than that of Nanshan..."

The old Taoist stroked his beard with a smile, helped Gousheng up, took his hand and said: "The poor Taoist is just following the order of the head teacher to take care of the old and weak women and children in the village who are unable to go out to get porridge. , I can’t afford such a great gift from you, if you want to thank you, please thank the merciful Purdue Immortal Venerable and His Highness the Taoist Master.”

Gou Sheng nodded in a daze, glanced enviously at the clean and tidy Taoist robe on the old Taoist body, shrank his neck timidly and said: "Taoist priest, can I join the Longevity Sect? Porridge."

The old Taoist laughed again and again: "As long as you devoutly worship the immortals and have a devout heart towards the Tao, why can't you join the religion? I am willing to be your guarantor, please give me an envoy to enroll you in the book!"

He was old and childless, and when he saw Gou Sheng, who was under 15 years old, had a simple and honest face, although he was born in a farm family, his eyes were lively and simple, and he knew that he had taken the initiative to inquire about enrolling in a religion, so he immediately loved talents and did not hesitate Give this kid a chance.

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"Third brother, what do you think the priests of the Immortal Sect think?"

Among the porridge distributing team at the entrance of the village, a few burly and thin men looked at the Taoists who were orderly distributing porridge in front of them, whispering in low voices.

"In the year of the catastrophe, I set up a porridge shed privately. A few years ago, Zhou Dashan was executed by his family because of this incident. I heard that he was accused of hiding evil and intending to rebel..."

Hearing this, one of the men with a tough temperament snorted coldly: "Conspiracy? Humph!"

"Zhou Dashan has had a rough life since he was a child, and lost his son in old age. If you say that he has done a lot of evil things because of giving birth to a son without an asshole, I believe that he wants to accumulate some evil for himself in his later years. You say he rebelled? I lend him three He doesn't even dare!"

"Hey, this government office is also very interesting. When Zhou Dashan was young, he committed crimes and ran amok. He used tricks to make people ruin their families so that they could annex other people's properties, so they lived happily and freely. !"

"When he was born in his later years, when he opened a porridge shed to help the victims, he was beheaded by an angel from Tokyo. Even the nine tribes were not spared. Hundreds of people died cleanly. Do you think this is a bad thing? What's the point of doing good deeds but being exterminated by others?"

The tough man said coldly: "Why do you care about his reasoning? It's not the first day that the bird court has done this, why? Are you not convinced?"

"Of course I'm not convinced!" The man who spoke had dark and rough skin, and his expression was always smiling: "Otherwise, why bother to put away the good rations for soldiers, and why did you come all the way to this remote village with third brother?"

They used to serve as soldiers on Hexi Road, but because they couldn't get used to the fact that Shangguan in the army was paid by his dead brother and insulted his widow, they killed Shangguan and stole a few official horses in the dark and ran back to the south. .

They were all sluts at first, with no relatives and no relatives, only the leader known as the third brother had a home in a village near Lin'an, and there was a blind old mother and sister-in-law in the home.

With nowhere to go, he ran all the way back, preparing to pick up the third brother's family who fell into the grass in the nearby mountains.

The journey of hundreds of miles along the way naturally requires food and chewing.

They are all old soldiers who have been in the army for a long time. They have seen the murderers in the battle with real swords and guns. Naturally, they have resumed their old profession and occasionally played bandits.

Along the way, whenever they heard that there was an injustice, several people went to the door with knives to find out the reason.

If someone really wants to be rich and is unkind, he will cut out his heart and liver with a knife, and then rob him of his money, and give a part of it to the sufferer, so as to keep the big head for himself, and earnestly get through his addiction to fighting for justice.

However, as soon as we arrived at the border of Lin'an, we heard that a rare flood broke out, and many people were displaced and became disaster victims.

The few people were so anxious that they rushed day and night to the village where the third brother's family lived.

That day, they had just received the third brother's sister-in-law who was dying of hunger at home, and they heard that some Taoists from the Longevity Sect came to the village and were giving out porridge, so they moved their minds to come here to find out the truth.

The third brother glanced sideways at the unconvinced black and thin soldier, and was too lazy to argue with him.

Not long after, the porridge line arrived at them.

Several people looked at the cauldron on the stove, all pale in surprise.

Although they had seen it with their own eyes before, they knew that the white rice porridge everyone received was so thick, and they were prepared in their hearts.

But standing next to the huge iron pot, looking at the pot full of porridge enough for dozens of people, the third brother and the others undoubtedly fell into a strange suspicion.

They all raised their heads at the same time, and looked at the long white cloud at the entrance of the village.

Above the white clouds, the figure of the young Taoist in the Taoist robe with intricate patterns was blurred, and countless streams of air shot up from the side of 'him' from time to time, making people dumbfounded.

"It's really a trick of the fairy family..." The black and thin man sighed, handed the big bowl in his arms to the Taoist who was waiting impatiently, and said with a playful smile: "Thank you."

The Taoist took his bowl, and although he was annoyed that he didn't move for a long time and delayed the people behind to get the porridge, he filled a bowl full of porridge for him without shaking his hands, and said: "Your body will last for a long time." If you are short, you must not be greedy for a short-term appetite, you must be careful to eat slowly, and don’t come to queue again after eating, and I will give porridge here tomorrow, so don’t worry!”

The black and thin man's face became serious, his eyes were slightly red, he took the bowl of porridge tremblingly, and thanked the Taoist sincerely: "Thank you for your teaching!"

He came down with the porridge, and several soldiers gathered together, all with mixed feelings in their hearts.

The black and thin man's tears dripped down and fell into the porridge.

They were all from farming families, seeing that no one was wasting food, and seeing the strange expression on the black and thin man's face, they asked, "Xiao Wu, what's wrong?"

"It's okay..." Xiao Wu raised his head, tears all over his face: "I just think of my mother. I came home from the first year of military service. I never had so much money in my pocket, so I bought a bag full of money for my mother." Grain in the cellar."

"My mother was very happy. The harvest was not good that year, and everyone in the family was starving. My mother was also very hungry. She ate more in the afternoon, but she couldn't do it in the evening. She was thinking about the grain in the cellar when she died... "

He cried out of breath: "Later I heard from the doctor that people who have been hungry for a long time cannot eat more. They don't know how to be full, and they can easily starve themselves to death."

"The Taoist priest reminded me just now, don't...don't eat too much. If someone told my mother this truth, maybe she wouldn't...don't have to die."

The third brother sighed silently.

His mother had just starved to death not long ago, if they hadn't come back quickly, maybe even the widowed sister-in-law would...

"No, my sister-in-law is a blessed one. She survived until the Taoist priests of the Longevity Sect donated porridge for relief. Even if I didn't make it in time, I could survive this calamity, but my mother..."

The third brother's eyes were slightly moist, but he stretched out his hand and patted Xiao Wu's shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "Don't cry anymore, I have decided to join the Longevity Sect, and you all will come with me!"

Xiao Wu stopped crying, and nodded vigorously: "Yes! Third brother, the Longevity Sect is the orthodox lineage of showing sages and real immortals. As long as I sincerely pray to the immortals, I will definitely protect my mother and reincarnate into a good family in the next life!"

"That's right, I think so too. We and our relatives came from humble beginnings, and have suffered too much in this life. As long as we join the Immortal Sect, we can use the name of the Immortal Venerable to ask for a favor in front of the envoy of the Six Paths Palm Wheel." I have a good background, even if it is for my mother, I have to find a way to join the religion!"

The third brother clenched his fists and said firmly.

"what about you?"

Xiao Wu wiped away his tears: "What's the meaning of occupying the mountain as king? We lived so hard because there was no Longevity Sect to save us before. Now that we have seen the existence of Immortal Sect with our own eyes, why not join the Sect and become the world's hard-working people?" Do your best!"

The seventh child in the crowd shook his head.

He was the oldest, but only ranked at the bottom. He looked like a fair and clean scholar, but the calluses on his palms were thick and his arms were muscular and full.

This may have something to do with his origin. The old seven was originally surnamed Bai, and he was also a son of a wealthy family in his native place.

However, the ancestors of his generation have long been in poverty, his father died early, and only his widowed mother raised him up.

The children of the clan bullied him when he was young, and forcibly occupied his family's paddy fields, and only allocated some low-grade dry fields to his family.

Among these dry fields, half of them are still recorded as high-quality good fields in the county government, and the annual tax is doubled out of thin air.

If things go on like this, some savings left by his father will be exhausted.

Bai Qi had to drop out of the clan school and began to find ways to find his own way out.

Later, because he read some books and could recognize a few words, he caught the eyes of a local military officer and recommended him to join the army on Hexi Road to serve the country.

He had been in the army for less than three years, but when he returned home, he found that his widowed mother had died, and his family's property had been taken over by his elder brothers, and the whole family united together, making no secret of the fact that they wanted to eat up his family.

Bai Laoqi went to find the military officer, but the other party turned his face and refused to recognize him.

Only then did he realize that he had been duped, that the military officer was deliberately recruited by them, the purpose was to keep Bai Laoqi away from his hometown, and it would be better to die on the battlefield, so that they could justifiably force the widowed mother to death and take over the family business.

After he woke up, it was too late to regret.

He wanted to kill his enemies with a single shot, but was murdered several times, and escaped from danger several times. Only then did he realize that he could not twist their thighs with his arms no matter what.

He returned to the army, disheartened, and only waited to die in the battle one day.

Accidentally got acquainted with this group of brothers, moved by their words, killed Shangguan overnight, fled out of the country, and finally seized a faint chance of revenge.

This time when they came back, they planned to pick up the third brother's family, then go into the mountain to become a bandit, take in refugees to raise soldiers and horses, and then go down the mountain together to Baijia Village to behead the enemy for Lao Qi!
Bai Laoqi saw the expressions on the faces of the brothers, so he said cautiously: "Brothers, don't jump to conclusions too easily, the time we have been in contact with the Longevity Sect must be short, and the specifics need to be further investigated."

"Besides, it may not be easy to become a teacher."

Hearing this, Xiao Wu, a black and thin man, smiled and said, "What's so difficult about this?"

"Although my time to observe this Immortal Sect is short, I can see through the thoughts of the Immortal Sect at a glance. I just need to do what I like, and I don't have to worry about attracting the eyes of the Immortal. At that time, let’s not talk about joining a religion, I’m afraid it will be easy to take up a first or second position!”

Hearing Xiao Wu's words, everyone was curious and urged: "Speak quickly!"

"Look, the Immortal Sect provides porridge for poor people like me, and it is the white rice porridge that these officials and officials are entitled to enjoy. What is the intention?"

Without waiting for everyone to think about it, he said directly: "I must be waiting to think of going together!"

"This bird court doesn't care about human affairs, but steps forward to benefit the people all over the world!"

"Since that's the case, why don't we help the head of the Immortal Sect teach Daozi? Whether it's learning how to call a fox, carve characters with a stone man, or collect books in a fish's belly, we are all familiar with the methods!"

"Old Seven, go and collect some yellow cloth right away. I'll be in charge of contacting the surrounding green forest heroes to buy a batch of bamboo flags and bamboo guns."

"When night fell, we raised the banner, put a yellow robe on the head teacher, and ordered everyone to imitate the fox's cry of "Long live, the world prospers", and then dug out a Laoshizi stone man for the people to see. , the Longevity Religion is the destiny of heaven."

"At that time, the head teacher Daozi will be happy, why don't you happily include me and this group of talents?"

(End of this chapter)