Please follow the script of cultivating immortals

"You guys said you have no money, are you kidding me?"

This is what the waiter at the inn said after he heard them say that he had no money.

But that scene didn't look like a joke. No one in the world would sacrifice their dignity for the sake of a joke.

"Can we stay overnight?"

Jiang Li said so.

The waiter was a little embarrassed.

"Guests, after all, this is not my property, I am just a waiter. If you came last night and there was really no place to stay, then it would be okay to let you go to the woodshed to make do for the night. But the small shop really needs business man."

Now that it’s all said and done, there’s nothing we can do about it.

The five people went upstairs to pack their things, and then planned to come down and find a place.

As soon as they came downstairs, the waiter stopped them again.

"Guests, what are your plans in the future?"

"I plan to... get some money in Macheng and buy a carriage."

After Shi Qingjue said this, the waiter also thought about it for them and then said.

"I can't help you with any work. It's up to you to find out for yourself. But I know a cheap place. About a mile away from here, in the city, there is a house. It is said to be a haunted house, so the price It’s very cheap. If you are interested, I can introduce some of you to take a look.”

Even if it's a haunted house, it's better than sleeping on the streets. Shi Qingjue thought for a moment, then thanked the waiter and asked him to find a way.

The agent's eyes lit up when he heard that these people wanted to live in that haunted house.

"This house was originally a private residence of a wealthy man, but something happened and it has been abandoned. The place is relatively small in the house, but it is also very big for the five of us. There is a courtyard, a kitchen, and a living room. , three rooms. A house like this can be sold for 500 taels no matter what, but after all, it is in disrepair and is a haunted house. If you want it, 30 taels will be yours."

After the agent said this, he took another sip of water and waited for the answers from several people.

Jiang Li took out four taels of silver.

"We only have this little money in total, you can do whatever you want."

They still had five taels, but Jiang Li wouldn't take them all out at once. If you take less, it is estimated that the intermediary will not take the bait.

The smile on the agent's face disappeared.

"There are not many people who bargain like this? The price of 30 taels is enough to make me hang myself. Why do you only get [-] taels of silver? What can you do with [-] taels of silver?"

"We didn't want to buy this house, we just had to stay for a while. It could be three to five days at least, or ten days at most. Do you still think that four taels of silver is not enough?"

"Sir, that's not what you said. Go out and ask around. Even if you stay in an inn, you'll get a lot of money for ten days and a half, right?"

"How long have you been ruining this house?"

Jiang Li's words touched the agent's heart.

For 11 years, this house has not been touched. I bought the land deed of this place with the hope of demolishing the house and making a fortune, but it happened that the original owner of the house was a friend of the city lord. Knowing this relationship, he could only leave the house alone.

Seeing that the agent was silent, Jiang Li continued.

"It's not just once or twice that the five of us live on the street. You have to think about it. This shop is right after passing this village. How many people dare to live in a haunted house? The money is a little short, but it is still money to turn around after all." . Besides, if we live in it and come out well, the haunted house may be sold."

After hearing this, the agent gritted his teeth and nodded.

"Okay, four taels is four taels."

After saying that, he was about to reach out to get the money, but Jiang Li took it back.

"I didn't say four taels. What I said was that the total net worth of the five of us is only four taels."

"Then what do you mean?"

"You have to leave some money for us to eat. Otherwise, we starve to death in the haunted house. I'm afraid your house won't be able to be sold until you die."

Then, for the first time, Jiang Li saw someone who could really crush his teeth.

For one tael of silver, they rented the house for a month. If the house was damaged during their stay, they didn't have to pay for it. There is only one condition, that is, they must pay immediately and cannot see the house first.

When taking the key to the house, Shi Qing told Jiang Li.

"I feel like you're really good at blackmailing people."

Four other people echoed.

Jiang Li shrugged.

"Gifted."

But when they arrived at the house, they understood the reason why the agent was willing to rent it out.

Jiang Li looked at the house.

"I should test the luck first."

The door fell down, and the five people went in, deliberately bypassing the door to prevent it from being trampled into pieces.

The yard is overgrown with weeds, and it's hard to tell how it was originally arranged, but looking at some of the precious flowers and plants, you can guess that this place was originally carefully thought out. Two trees were dead, with no leaves left in May and covered with bird droppings.

The living room was even more of a mess, with a thick layer of dust on the floor and spider webs hanging in every corner. The paint on the wall was almost the same as the outside, and there were also many tiles missing.

Yuzhulin didn't dare to use force wherever she went, for fear of accidentally demolishing the house.

The furniture is complete, but not to mention the dust and mice gnawing on it. Tieniu just leaned a little on the chair, and the chair collapsed and he fell to the ground.

Two mice ran over to the ground in an instant. He Qingfeng used hidden weapons without even thinking. There were not just two hidden weapons, but more than a dozen.

"Are you afraid of mice?"

Jiang Li asked He Qingfeng, who opened the fan.

"Who is afraid? I'm not... afraid that you two women are afraid of mice."

"I'm not afraid."

"I'm not afraid either."

Jiang Li and Yu Zhulin talked one after another.

Shi Qingjue looked into the room again without saying a word, and several people followed him.

After looking inside, several people walked to the yard because the dust in the house was really unbearable.

Then, Shi Qingjue sat down on the ground, staring blankly ahead.

"I'm just a useless boss, and that's why you ended up in this place. I was wrong, I was really wrong. I shouldn't have quarreled with my father in the first place and had to go out and make a career..."

Several people were startled when they heard that Shi Qingjue was already murmuring.

Tieniu shook Shi Qingjue's shoulders.

"Boss, wake up!"

"What should we do if you collapse?"

Yuzhulin also shouted.

Several people heard Shi Qingjue whisper something again, and they heard it clearly only when they got closer.

"...Everything in this world has no meaning. Life and death are just..."

Limited by Shi Qingjue's literary talent, he couldn't continue to say this sentence.

Jiang Li tried to cheer up Shi Qingjue and felt that he had to work hard to do something. She stood up and went to the well over there. "Boss, you see there is a well here. We can clean this place, and then..."

As she spoke, she pushed away the weeds at the entrance of the well, and then froze. This is already a dry well.

He Qingfeng took over. He looked around and found a big broom.

"Let's clean this place up first, it should look good."

"Yes, come together."

Yuzhulin and Tieniu also stood up and walked over to the big broom.

Suddenly a nest of rats ran out of the kitchen, and the tiles on the house were shaken down by the rats. Tieniu picked up the broom and found that the broom had been weathered, and it broke into pieces when he touched it.

The four people sat next to Shi Qingjue again, looking ahead with dull eyes.

What's ahead? It's just the fallen door.

Just like that, night fell and a drop of rain fell on Jiang Li's head.

She looked up and saw it was raining.

The rain didn't give them time to react, and it became heavy in an instant. Several people jumped up and went into the house to hide.

Only one room still had its ceiling intact, and five people were nestled in it. The windows were still leaking and the rain was blowing in, so they could only squat in the corner, where the rain could not reach them.

Jiang Li couldn't bear it anymore, so he took out a piece of cloth from the storage space to block the rain.

This piece of cloth was also given by three dandies. The remaining two pieces had been pawned in Yucheng. This one was kept because there were not many left.

They didn't have nails, but He Qingfeng had hidden weapons. Yuzhulin nailed the clothes to the window one by one.

However, the cloth quickly got wet. Fortunately, it was of good quality, so the rain could not get in and the wind had subsided.

However, it would still be cold at night, so Yuzhulin went to dismantle the chairs again, brought them over, and several people lit a fire.

When they got close to the fire, the five of them became warm again, and Shi Qingjue also recovered a little bit.

He looked around and spoke to everyone.

"There are still four taels of silver, so you can get one tael each. If you want, you can leave tomorrow. I am really incompetent as the boss. There should be a bottom line if I don't look good, so you can only stay here. , I am really... bad."

"Where to go? If we can't get out of Macheng, we will starve to death."

Jiang Li answered directly.

She is not responsible for comfort, He Qingfeng is.

But Yu Zhulin spoke first.

"I think you are very competent as the boss. Many things happened along the way, and it was because of you that we were not in danger. I encountered such things before, and you didn't throw me away. Seriously, in this situation, It was also because of me that everyone used up all their money. I am the one who should leave."

"It's not you, it should be me."

He Qingfeng took over the words and sighed.

"If I hadn't said that Macheng could earn bounties, no one would have come here at all. When I was attacked by that tiger on the mountain, I knew that I really couldn't fight. Traps and hidden weapons were really useless in a head-on confrontation. When it came to I am just a part of the martial arts competition. Besides, no matter what danger I encounter on the road, you will always be the one to protect me."

"Make up the numbers? I'm the one who makes up the numbers."

Not to be outdone, Tieniu continued.

"I'm not the best in every aspect, and I can't do much in the team. Chi Yufeng just eats and drinks, and I think I'm about the same."

Jiang Li looked at them and shook his head.

"None of you are getting to the point. I am still the culprit of this matter. In the short term, I am the one who paid for everyone to live in such a shabby place. In the long term, it is me who spent all the money in Yucheng. I. There must be many other ways, but I haven't thought of it. I am a snitch, and I have never stolen anything before. If I steal a little bit, we won't end up like this. "

"is it?"

Shi Qingjue said this and looked at everyone again.

"In the final analysis, the problem is still mine. As the boss, what I need to do is to set the direction for everyone and make choices for everyone. I chose to take the path to Macheng that He Qingfeng said, and I chose to let everyone I used the money to protect Yuzhu Forest from disasters. I chose to let Tieniu come to our team to eat and drink. I chose to let Jiang Xiaoyue, an unreliable snitch, buy us a house. I should be able to make the right choice. Let us all live a good life and be able to shine in the martial arts competition. But... I made a lot of wrong choices."

After Shi Qingjue finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

After a while, Jiang Li asked Shi Qingjue.

"Do you regret it? Let me join."

"no."

"And me?"

Yu Zhulin also asked, and others also asked one by one, and the answers they received were all negative.

Shi Qingjue said again.

"I have never regretted that any of you joined. On the contrary, I think it is very fortunate for any of you to join."

"Isn't that right? A choice that you don't regret is also a wrong choice? And we have never regretted letting you be the boss."

He Qingfeng said this.

Several people's hearts became clear.

Shi Qingjue raised his head and asked He Qingfeng again.

"But I regret the other choices I made, leaving the five of us in this miserable place."

He Qingfeng couldn't answer this question.

Jiang Li answered.

"That is indeed wrong. But no matter how boss you are, it is impossible not to do wrong things."

"Can a boss who has done something wrong be considered a competent boss?"

"Why not?"

Jiang Li said this.

There was only one person she could think of as a role model for the boss, the boss of the cottage. For the boss, the wrong thing to do is to let yourself go up the mountain.

Jiang Li continued.

"I just did something wrong, just make up for it. This is not an irreparable mistake. Has any of the five of us died? Are there any irreparable consequences? We are indeed in trouble now, but this is not It means you are an unqualified boss. The point is, we really need someone to guide us now and tell us that there is hope for everything. That is what you, the boss, should do."

Jiang Li said this to Shi Qingjue, and Shi Qingjue looked at the other three people. Those three people also looked at Shi Qingjue with trust.

It’s time for the boss to do something.

Shi Qingjue stood up and took out a burning chair leg from the fire, and several others followed him.

In this dark night, they followed the direction of the torch, and the direction of the torch was the direction of Shi Qingjue.

Shi Qingjue walked to the living room.

There was originally a painting hanging in the center of the living room, but it has long since weathered, leaving only one wall.

He held a torch and waved it on the wall, as if it was calligraphy or swordsmanship. All the four people could see was the flickering light of the fire.

After finishing writing, several people looked at the line of words under the firelight.

No matter how peaceful it is. (End of chapter)