Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 98 Preaching
Zhang Yunqing frowned, his eyes and ears were sharp, even at a distance of hundreds of meters, he was still able to hear the whispers of those sneaky soldiers.

'Another person who wants to rebel and wants to go crazy...'

He waved the sleeves of his robe, summoned Lu Liang and secretly ordered: "Did you see the men over there?"

"Saw."

"Go and control them, tell them that if they want to join the religion, it's okay, don't think about putting me in a yellow robe to rebel, go."

Lu Liang's face was startled, and he looked at the soldiers gathered in a group beside the road in surprise, and hastily clasped his fists to receive orders and hurried away.

Xiao Wu was talking excitedly: "...I will die before I die, and I will go to the capital and take the bird position. When the time comes, His Highness Daozi of the Immortal Sect will take the throne, and we brothers will only be generals. People are not full and warm! Let the living people not suffer from hunger and begging for a living!"

The third brother and the seventh brother nodded frequently, thinking that what they said made sense.

Suddenly, he saw a pair of big hands slamming on Xiao Wu's shoulders!
They were all gangsters from the army, and their vigilance was still very high. Immediately, they reached into their arms one by one without hesitation, and grabbed the hidden weapons.

Xiao Wu still had a smile on his face, but with his left hand holding the dagger at his waist like lightning, he turned around and slammed into the chest and abdomen of the person behind him.

Lu Liang's arm pressed down slightly, and he pinched Xiao Wu's wrist easily. The latter let out an ouch in pain, and the dagger fell to the ground with a clang.

Only then did a few people see clearly the appearance of the person coming.

He was wearing a whitish blue Taoist robe, with exquisite patterns on his neck, which clearly distinguished him from the Taoists next to him.

It turned out to be the head of the Longevity Sect.

Xiao Wu saw Lu Liang's appearance clearly, and immediately knew that he had overreacted, and hurriedly said: "Oh, it turned out to be the Taoist priest of the Immortal Sect, and the villain thought someone patted me on the shoulder for no reason, please forgive me!"

Lu Liang snorted coldly, glared at him, looked around at the few people, and asked, "Do you want to join the religion?"

Hearing this, several people were refreshed, nodded and said: "Yes, yes, we are willing to join the Immortal Cult!"

Immediately, several people scratched the back of their heads in doubt, and asked embarrassingly: "Well, I haven't even gone to the Taoist priest yet, why did the Taoist priest come to me first? Could it be that this is how the immortal sect absorbs disciples? No?"

Xiao Wuxi smiled, and retorted: "What do you know? It must be because my muscles and bones are so strange, and I have kind thoughts in my heart, that I fell into the eyes of the old god!"

Lu Liang stroked his beard, and said lightly: "Pin Dao is not some old fairy, his name is Qingfeng, you can call me Qingfeng Daoist."

Several people clasped their hands together and saluted: "I have seen Master Qingfeng."

"Yeah." Lu Liang nodded and said again: "It's not that the poor Taoist has taken a fancy to you, but it's because you gathered here to talk about some disrespectful things, and my Daozi heard it."

"Headmaster Daozi said, you can join the religion if you want to, but don't say anything about rebellion."

Speaking of this, a threatening color appeared in Lu Liang's eyes, he looked around at the astonished crowd, and said: "My sect has far-reaching plans, beyond the imagination of ordinary people like you, it is said that if you think about it, you will be wrong, and if you guess it, you will be wrong. If you can keep yourself safe, it is not difficult to accept the entrance wall of you guys, but you must be careful about the discipline, otherwise Pindao will be the first to trouble you in the future!"

Several people looked at each other in surprise, and then looked sideways to confirm that they had deliberately lowered their voices and never approached anyone when they were talking, how could they be overheard by others? Woolen cloth?

"Here, I don't know what the master said, but which one can't do it?"

Xiao Wu looked at the Taoist meditating on the cloud head with some fear, but saw Lu Liang nodded with a smile: "Yes, that lord is our head teacher, also known as Taoist, and he is the only real person in the world today who has a lot of power. Measuring the magic power of the Immortal Art is a true immortal's personal disciple, who came to the world for the purpose of overcoming the calamity of the common people, otherwise he would have already entered the ranks of the heavenly immortals, and he could be called a living immortal!"

Xiao Wu and the others were so frightened that they lay down on the ground and kowtowed, and confessed their guilt in their mouths.

Although they have heard some information about the Longevity Sect, such as knowing that people who believe in the Longevity Sect can have preferential treatment during reincarnation, and for example, the name of the steward of the Longevity Sect is Zhangjiao Daozi.

These deeds have been talked about and discussed from Hexi Road to Lin'an City.

But they didn't know that the Taoist sitting on the top of the cloud was the legendary head teacher Taoist, and they thought that person was the legendary immortal.

After all, only gods can ride clouds and fog.

In their imagination, the head teacher Daozi, no matter how extraordinary and miraculous he is, should be a mortal just like himself.

Who would have thought that the head teacher of the Longevity Sect would be able to walk like a cloud? Wouldn't this be a first-class figure among living true immortals?
Thinking of this, Xiao Wu's eyes lit up slightly, thinking of Daoist Qingfeng's counter-control of his movements just now, it didn't look like the other party's aging appearance.

His quick eyesight and quick hands are even more ruthless than a veteran who has experienced many battles, and once he grabs his wrist, he can't use all his strength.

Standing next to him, he felt an inexplicable sense of coercion, as if he was confronting a big colorful bug, and couldn't help shivering.

Could it be that the elders of the Longevity Sect all have spells in their bodies?
Thinking of this, they immediately knelt down and bowed in unison, shouting: "I beg the old gods to accept me as a disciple!"

Lu Liang chuckled and said, "Get up!"

Several people were happy, they all felt that the old god must have agreed, so they got up one after another.

But Lu Liang shook his head again: "It's not difficult for you to join the religion, but it doesn't work just by kowtowing to the poor."

Seeing that some people were puzzled, he explained: "I will preach in this village later, and then I will answer all the villagers' questions and inform them of the details of joining the religion. You can also come together when the time comes. register."

"When the birthplace of the horoscope is included in the directory, and the Taoism is bestowed, it can be considered as a real entry into the door of my teaching. After all, everything must be done in accordance with the rules, you know?"

All of them were from the military, and they knew that all major forces must follow the rules, otherwise they would be chaotic and collapse on their own, so they immediately nodded in unison.

Xiao Wu's face was still a little embarrassed, and he looked at Lu Liang and asked: "Old Immortal, did the Taoist Master just now hear me saying that I will rebel? Otherwise, why would you specifically tell me not to speak nonsense?" Words of rebellion?"

Lu Liang blew his beard and stared: "Need to say? Of course I heard it! Daozi is the body of a celestial being. He looks at the three worlds and listens to all directions. If he is willing, he can listen to the prayers of the people in the world on behalf of the immortals, let alone you The lies of a few brats?"

The third brother and the seventh brother both had bitter faces, recalling what Xiaowu said about the words carved by stone figures with books in the belly of a fish, they wished they could burrow into the soil and bury themselves.

Lu Liang glanced at the restless people and said, "What kind of heart is Daozi the head teacher? How can you care about your lies? As long as you don't deliberately tease the gods and have thoughts of disrespecting Daozi, it will be fine. You wait."

Several people bowed their hands and knelt down sincerely: "Daozi is righteous!"

After uncovering this incident, several people returned to their usual expressions, and each of them began to imagine the beautiful life of joining the Immortal Cult with longing.

……

At dusk, after serving another round of porridge, the people of the whole village were summoned and gathered at the porridge shed at the entrance of the village.

Hundreds of people formed a circle, Liu Ling and his two sons stood in front, and some big households in the village stood respectfully at the bottom, waiting for the Taoist priests of the Immortal Sect to speak.

The rest of the hundreds of people were obediently squatting outside, looking enviously at the Taoist priests who were going back and forth to maintain order.

Lv Liang coughed twice, stood in front of the crowd, raised a loudspeaker made of iron and shouted: "Folks, today I called you together, mainly to tell you two things!"

"The first thing is, we will stay in the village for another day, and we will still be here tomorrow. At the same time, everyone can prepare the dishes at home and come here to receive a day's relief food!"

Hearing this, a great sense of fear appeared on the faces of many villagers.

Not only did they not feel that it was a wonderful thing to be able to receive porridge for a day, but the worry that had been lingering in their hearts and was unwilling to think about it finally burst out...

These Taoist priests will definitely not be here to give them porridge all their lives, and one day they will leave.

But no one could have imagined that this day would come so soon!

Among the people who had seemed dull before, there was an uproar all of a sudden.

Lu Liang smiled wryly, it was not the first time he encountered such a situation.

Without waiting for the situation to escalate, he continued to shout with a loudspeaker: "This does not mean that the Longevity Cult has abandoned you! On the contrary, we must leave, because this time the disaster is not limited to the village in front of us. Within a radius of a hundred miles, there are still tens of thousands of people who are about to starve to death, waiting for us to send life-saving food!"

"But old fairy, people in our village are going to starve to death..."

In the crowd, a gray-haired old man, with tears in his eyes, mustered up his courage and said.

Liu Ling almost suppressed the fear in his heart and the sense of uncertainty about the future, turned around and wanted to tell the old man to sit down quickly and not make any noise.

Lu Liang smiled and waved his hand to stop him, saying: "The old man is right, if we leave, you who have lost the source of food will definitely be short of food and clothing."

The whispers of the common people expanded again.

"However, we have to save the other common people! My Longevity Cult's heart is not about one family, but about the common people!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was speechless.

No one can criticize the correctness of the Taoist priest's words.

From a legal point of view, the family’s life education is not related to the people in our village. When the big guys are about to starve to death, they come to distribute food for two days.

Moreover, he also helped everyone to heal their illnesses and injuries for free. Many villagers who were seriously injured and dying from the plague were mostly cured after receiving the blessing of the evil spirit talisman from the Immortal Sect in the afternoon.

This round of saving lives and healing the wounded, on average, every villager owes the Changshengjiao two lives.

From a rational point of view, people want to leave not for anything else, but to help more desperate people like them who are dying.

They are emotional and reasonable, and they have no reason to force them to stay in charge of the whole village for the rest of their lives.

Of course, ordinary people couldn't think of such far-reaching things, and they immediately cried and prayed for the priests to stay here and so on.

For the profitable things in front of them, these people often choose to occupy them for themselves first.

This does not mean that the people at the bottom of society are all wolves and leopards without sympathy and empathy. This is entirely an instinctive desire for resources by the poor class who have long been short of resources.

The so-called knowledge of etiquette.

People who lack resources are often good at calculating.

Because the group of people who didn't like to calculate basically died.

This is the experience their parents lived by.

Naturally, people with sufficient resources don't care, and they can even do some good things that are detrimental to their own interests and take care of others.

Others will write a lot about this kind of behavior, and then give this person the name of a folk good man and a wealthy businessman, praising him for being sincere for the people and for the Song Dynasty.

Then turn the tables on those who hide in dark corners wondering where their next meal will be.

I think the former is sincere and selfless, while the latter is full of calculations.

Lu Liang knew the truth, and did not express dissatisfaction with the selfishness of these people, but calmly said: "Folks, don't worry, just listen to me to finish the second matter."

"What we believe in in our religion is the Immortal of Longevity. He is grateful for the suffering of the people in the world, and specially sent down the Taoist to save the world.

Rescuing the disaster victims is only the first step for us. Our ambition is to clear away the suffering in the world and return the common people to a fair world! "

In the crowd, Xiao Wu smacked his mouth: "...Isn't that the same as what I mean?"

Lao Qi patted his head and reprimanded him: "Listen honestly, don't think about your crooked ways!"

"To do this, we have to figure out where this suffering comes from!"

Lu Liang recalled all the books he had read during his studies at the Changsheng Academy, and his blood boiled in his heart: "The so-called suffering does not appear naturally for no reason, but because of the existence of external forces, which prevent you from living a good life that should be happy!"

"Seventy percent of the food you grow will be turned into various land taxes, personal taxes, various miscellaneous taxes, exemption money, rates, and purchases, and purchase money!"

"After a year of hard work, it is difficult to even support a family of three."

"Not to mention clenching your teeth and selling some grain squeezed out of your teeth in exchange for linen weaving and shoemaking."

"There will be a shortage of seeds in the next year's cultivation, and we will have to borrow young crops. If there is a headache in the middle, I dare not ask a doctor to see a doctor, and I can only bear it."

"When you're lucky, you'll get over it. If you're unlucky, you'll be in danger of selling your land and ruining your home in no time!"

"Think about it, does this kind of hard life happen for no reason, or is it because others impose it on you?"

Lu Liang's words made the uneducated commoners understand in a daze, with a thoughtful look on their faces.

Those who have read a few books were all shocked, and they all looked at each other: "Isn't this Immortal Cult going to rebel?!"

Xiao Wu patted his thigh and said excitedly, "I'll just say it, I still have to rebel, against his mother!"

(End of this chapter)