"Ahem! Ahem! Shiro, Shiro! Zhuge Yuan!" Seeing the distracted disciples in the hall, they finally came to their senses. The master was so angry that the beard on his face began to tremble with anger.
"Let me ask you, what did Master just say?"
"Therefore, when speaking to the wise, rely on knowledge; to speak to the knowledgeable, rely on discrimination; to speak to the discerning, rely on the essentials; to speak to the noble, rely on power; to speak to the rich, rely on generosity; to speak to the poor
, rely on profit; speak to the humble, rely on humility; speak to the brave, rely on courage; speak to fools, rely on sharpness."
Seeing that the master's big face was turning blue from holding back but could not find a reason for the attack, the young man suppressed a smile and sat down again.
Seeing that he had not learned any lesson at all, the master sighed softly, "Silang, although you are smart, don't be complacent. Since you want to be the top scholar, you can't neglect your skills in the book. Guang Hui
If you can’t memorize it, you still have to understand its meaning.”
"Yes, students know."
As soon as the master turned around, Zhuge Yuan immediately made a strange face at his back, causing the other classmates to burst into laughter.
"Huh?" The master picked up the ruler and turned around. He immediately sat upright, not daring to be presumptuous.
When school ended in the afternoon, Zhuge Yuan followed his classmates and walked home, laughing and cursing while chatting about his wife's ugly behavior just now.
As they passed several intersections, the number of people around Zhuge Yuan gradually became less and less, and by the time he came to the door of his small courtyard, he was already alone.
Taking out the key and opening the far door, Zhuge Yuan walked in, saw that there was still water in the water tank, and started to make his own dinner.
The entire yard was not big, only about a dozen steps in front, back, left, and right. There was nothing except a pewter gun placed in the corner.
After the smoke from the kitchen chimney dissipated and it was almost dark, Zhuge Yuan used chopsticks to pick out some of the wick of an oil lamp in the house, and the small room suddenly became much brighter.
Zhuge Yuan took out a book of casual stories that his master did not allow him to read, and read it with great interest while eating.
Suddenly Zhuge Yuan felt someone in the room. When he looked up, he was face to face with a big wrinkled face with a smile. She was holding a cane in her hand and wearing an embroidered headband. She looked exactly like an old country lady.
Seeing Zhuge looking at her, the old black cat lady looked at the only dish on the table. "Why are you eating rice cakes again? How can this be done?"
She stretched out her sharp nails and scratched the vegetable water, put it into her fang-filled mouth and sucked it. "You don't even put oil in it, you kid."
"Third wife, it's okay, I'm used to it." Zhuge Yuan quickly stood up, greeted her with a smile, and helped her sit down on the bench. "Third wife, you sit down first, and I will build a bowl of tall food for you.
Break it into pieces."
"Stop working, I'll be leaving in a moment." Third wife reached into her arms and dug out, and a bowl of fragrant meat appeared in front of Zhuge Yuan.
The meat smelled delicious, and it looked like it had just been cooked and was still steaming.
"The daughter-in-law who has no eyesight made it. She knew clearly that the food would cause hair damage and I couldn't eat it, so she had to make it. Do you think she was expecting me to die?"
"I thought you probably didn't have any meaty taste, so I'll send you some."
Zhuge Yuan looked at the stewed mutton that was forced into his hand. "Santai Nai, why do everything turn into fat in your mouth? You can't eat this or that. I'm afraid you can only drink dew."
Seeing the third wife raising her crutches, Zhuge Yuan quickly smiled and apologized.
"You go ahead and eat. I'm leaving. My grandson will come over and get the bowl later."
After sending the third wife to the door, Zhuge Yuan sat back and continued eating his dinner.
The stewed mutton is specially used to remove the fishy smell, and the taste is tender and smooth. It is fat but not greasy in the mouth and has a rich aroma.
Just as he was enjoying the delicious food, the closed courtyard door was suddenly blown open by a gust of wind wrapped in paper money.
The piercing sound of the suona sounded, and the high and low white spiritual flags floated over from left to right, followed closely by the mournful cries.
Zhuge Yuan tilted his head to watch this scene, picked up a piece of mutton and stuffed it into his mouth and started chewing, "Yuhua, Mingke, a dog's nose is really good, why do you come to my house to get food and pretend to be a ghost to scare people?"
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The white soul flag on the courtyard wall quickly shrank down, and soon two heads with playful smiles appeared in front of him.
"Look at what you're saying. How can we just stutter? We're here to give you a drink." The two of them shook the pot of rice wine with their left hands.
When I saw the mutton on the table, I immediately sat down. "Hey! What a coincidence, we have all the dishes to go with the wine."
They both went to the same private school, and they were not polite to Zhuge Yuan. They took three bowls from the kitchen and started pouring wine with a pair of chopsticks. "Shiro, can you do boxing?"
"No." Zhuge Yuan put away the notebook on the table.
"It's going to be okay. We'll teach you how to punch. It's actually very simple. We shout the drinking order. After the shouting is over, we put out a number in our hands and guess a number in our mouths at the same time."
"If one of us calls out and counts, and it happens to be the sum of the two hands, then we win! Then the loser drinks! How about it? Simple, right?"
Zhuge Yuan looked at the classmate in front of him with a slightly speechless expression, "How do you learn these things so quickly? Your father must not have taught you, right?"
"Stop talking nonsense, follow me now and learn to sing, one dragon, two families are good, three sworn brothers, four happy fortunes, five leaders, six six six."
With just a plate of rice noodles and a bowl of mutton, the two of them started to fight.
However, it didn't take long for the pot of rice wine to be empty. Just when Zhuge Yuan was getting a little tipsy, the pot was empty.
With a blush on his cheeks, he picked up the empty wine bottle, raised his head and poured it into his mouth.
Seeing the last drop falling into his mouth, Zhuge Yuan let it go without finishing it. "If you want me to say that the rules of boxing need to be changed, the person who should win should drink."
Hearing this, Ding Yuhua burst into laughter, "Hahaha! If I let you win, your cleverness will be misled by your cleverness, right?"
Seeing his classmate next to him licking the mutton bowl with his tongue, Zhuge Yuan said: "Okay, Mingke, it's clean enough. Stop licking it. This is the third wife's bowl. If you lick it, it will crack."
, I can’t do business.”
When Lu Mingke heard this, he put the bowl down, smashed it a few times, and said with a bit of regret, "I'm not completely happy. I'm not happy with drinking, and I'm not happy with eating."
Ding Yuhua rolled his big eyes, and the corners of his mouth suddenly raised, "Silang, let's go, I have a way,"
Hearing this, Zhuge Yuan shook his head, "What bad idea do you have? Aren't you afraid of eating stir-fried meat with vitex branches? Forget it, eat and drink. Come back quickly."
"Hey, look at your courage! Just wait and eat. I'll be back in a moment." After that, Ding Yuhua and Lu Mingke stood up and walked out of the hospital.
Zhuge Yuan shook his head helplessly, picked up the storybook again and started reading.
However, after watching for a few seconds, he looked in the direction his classmate was leaving, and finally followed him uneasily to avoid getting into more trouble.
Ding Yuhua and Lu Mingke walked in front, and Zhuge Yuan followed behind. They walked and came to the edge of the village.
Looking at the family next to him, Zhuge Yuan was suddenly shocked. Could this guy really be so brave that he dared to steal bacon from his master's house?
Thinking of this possibility, Zhuge Yuan quickly quickened his pace and rushed over to stop him.
But when he first arrived at their side, he saw the other person lying directly on the wall without moving. Zhuge Yuan reacted quickly. He immediately stopped and followed the other person's line of sight. He saw something that seemed to be in the bamboo forest in the distance.
Something is rolling.
Soon under the moonlight, Zhuge Yuan finally saw clearly what they were. They were three large black pottery jars with a blessing on them.
When the three of them lined up neatly at the entrance of the village, three heads with watermelon hats slowly protruded from the mouth of the black pottery jar.
These three heads have pale faces, small cherry mouths and big blushes, but where there should be eyes, there are only two big black holes.
"What on earth are these?" Just when Zhuge Yuan widened his eyes and wondered what these things were, he saw the three heads suddenly tilted and all looked at him at the same time with their dark eyes.
"Let's go! You go first! Go call Master!" Zhuge Yuan, with a solemn expression, stood in front of his classmate.
Zhuge Yuan didn't say anything, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the three heads immediately shrank into the black pottery jar and rolled towards them quickly.
Just when the three things were about to roll in front of Zhuge Yuan, the master fell from the sky with his hands behind his back, stepped directly on a black pottery jar with one foot, and directly trampled the big red pottery into pieces.
Immediately afterwards, with a strong shake of the long sleeves in his hand, the other two black pottery jars were thrown directly to the wall, turning into two thick black charcoal strokes.
The situation that was extremely critical just now was resolved so easily by Master.
Seeing this scene, Zhuge Yuan's eyes lit up, "Master, I want to learn this! This is amazing!"
With a "pop" sound, the master took out a ruler from nowhere and hit the three heads hard. "You smell like alcohol! What are you doing at this late hour?"
Zhuge Yuan covered his head with his hands and gasped in pain, but he was not deterred and came forward again. "Master, teach me this! I didn't know you had such magical powers in the past!"
"Study hard! The right way is to get the top prize. Don't think about something that you have and what you don't have every day!" The master walked towards his yard with a straight face and his hands behind his back.
"Master! You can't say that. Look, if I'm in that situation just now, what's the use of reading more books?"
"Hmph! Don't be messy. Reading is to make you understand things! If you don't know a single Chinese character, no matter how many magical powers you learn, you won't be able to find the right direction to use them."
"Why is it reasonable?"
"Understanding the truth is for self-cultivation."
“What’s the point of self-cultivation?”
"Cultivation of one's moral character means being a good person! Establishing one's morality, determination and words!"
After saying the last word, the master suddenly turned around and stared at Zhuge Yuan with his snake eyes, a trace of disappointment flashed in his eyes.
Feeling a secret tug from his classmate behind him, Zhuge Yuan took a half step back unwillingly and said nothing.
However, this time the master did not leave, "Shiro, don't you always think that you are smarter than others? How about we make a bet?"
"Bet?" Zhuge Yuan showed a hint of surprise on his face.
"You said that no matter how many books you read, it would be useless when you encounter the situation just now, but you are wrong, it is useful."
"There are good plans in the book, and there are ladders in the book. There are many methods in it. As long as you find one of them, I will teach you all the magical powers."
"Seriously?" Zhuge Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up.
"A gentleman's words are hard to follow!" After the master said this, he took out a brush and quickly started drawing on the black pottery jar on the wall.
After a few breaths, the master reached out and plucked it, and a black clay pot tied with an iron cage was plucked in front of Zhuge Yuan. "It will last for six days. If you can find a way to put this thing back, you will win."
The master left, leaving Zhuge Yuan, Ding Yuhua and Lu Mingke standing there looking at the black pottery jar in the cage.
The classmates on the side were still gloating. "You are really good at making a bet with me. If you win the bet and lose the bet, you will be unlucky."
"No, Master is not that stingy." Zhuge Yuan also became interested at this moment, and ran to the private school in high spirits, holding an oil lamp and looking for countermeasures from the book.
At first, Zhuge Yuan thought he had found a way and kept trying on the black pottery jar. But no matter what he tried, it didn't work. If it hadn't been covered by an iron cage, it would have been smashed towards Zhuge Yuan.
In order to obtain the master's magical power, Zhuge Yuan forgot to eat and sleep, and devoted himself to reading. Within two days, his face became very haggard.
Holding a new book in his hand, Zhuge Yuan was so happy that he staggered towards the iron cage.
Soon a puddle of child urine was splashed on the black pottery jar, but other than making the poured blessing a little wet, there was no other reaction.
"The things written in this book are actually fake." Zhuge Yuan threw the book in his hand to the ground in frustration.
However, he quickly took a look at the direction of the master's house and quickly reached out to pick it up. "I just asked him to find it in the book. Is there really any way? Master, is he trying to trick me?"
There was a lot of laughter from the side, and Zhuge Yuan waved his book over there with some enthusiasm. "He just came over to watch my joke, but he didn't know how to help."
"That's not okay. This is a matter between Master and you. We don't dare to interfere."
"Shiro, if you really win my master, I will consider you my brother!"
Zhuge Yuan was not someone who gave up easily. He continued to devote himself wholeheartedly to it, and unknowingly the sky gradually darkened.
He simply carried all the books to the iron cage and tried them while reading. Fortunately, the moon was very big today, so there was no need to light an extra oil lamp.
I don't know how much time passed, but when the sleepy Zhuge Yuan rubbed his eyes and stretched, the surroundings were quiet, and he was the only one left.
"These animals really don't help at all." Zhuge Yuan sighed helplessly and prepared to continue looking. After today, there were only three days left.
But at this moment, Zhuge Yuan seemed to feel something was wrong. He frowned slightly and thought for a while, then raised his head again and looked around.
Suddenly he noticed that the black pottery jar that the master had thrown against the wall was gone.
Soon Zhuge Yuan noticed the shallow mud marks pressed by the black pottery jar on the ground, which rolled all the way to the outside of the village.
"Run away?" Just when Zhuge Yuan was thinking about what to do, there was new movement in the bamboo forest in the distance.
Zhuge Yuan's eyes widened and he saw the black pottery jar slowly rolling back along the mark where it left.
It not only came back, it also brought back something, which was a row of wax paper figures holding white lanterns in their hands and touching the ground with their toes!
The white of the left eye of all the paper figures has the word "Shira" written on it, while the white of the right eye of all the paper figures has the word "Kai Sutra" written on it.
These paper figures walked over slowly and lightly, passing in front of Zhuge Yuan.
As the paper people one after another wiped the cage that trapped the black clay pot, the color of the cage became lighter and lighter, and finally disappeared completely, allowing the black clay pot inside to regain its freedom.
The black pottery jar that came out did not run around, but followed the paper man directly towards a nearby yard.
"That... seems to be... Master's courtyard, right?" Zhuge Yuan suddenly thought of something and rushed over there anxiously.
But just when he was about to reach the entrance of the courtyard, all the courtyard walls fell down, and with a "boom", a lion with a big head and a small body, a head with antennae, sharp teeth, and a body of more than ten feet was thrown out.
It showed up instantly.
The big mouth, as big as the door panel, opened and closed, biting a paper man until the flesh was bloody.
Three white lanterns smashed into its mane, and a ball of flame immediately shot up into the sky.
Under the illumination of the fire, everything around began to change. The remaining paper figures no longer looked so pale, but began to become rosy, and the lion began to gradually grow horns, and moved in a more terrifying direction.
change.
Just when the ferocious beast bit hard at a paper man, Zhuge Yuan rushed over from the side, threw the paper man to the ground and rescued him.
When he saw the giant beast chasing other paper figures, Zhuge Yuan helped the paper figures on the ground up and asked, "Why are you running here?"
"Here to get rid of demons! There has been a severe drought in Nanzhi County in recent years, and there are rumors that there are evil spirits causing demons! As a member of the Supervisor Tiansi, we naturally have to do justice for heaven!" As he continued to speak, the paper man became more and more beautiful in front of Zhuge Yuan.
More and more lifelike.
"Master is not responsible for the severe drought! You should go to the Dragon King Temple! Leave quickly! Master is angry!"
But the paper man shook his head, "Then I don't care, I just listen to my master. When my master starts to do it, he will be able to control this evil beast."
As soon as he finished speaking, the two black pottery jars jumped into the air and exploded. Various pennants and a red net covered the giant beast tightly.
Zhuge Yuan stared at the scene in front of him with his mouth open, and murmured to himself: "But, Master is Lingxi."
The next moment, the huge red net instantly burned into ashes, and the roaring sound became increasingly loud, causing stalactites above the head to fall continuously, causing everyone's shadows to tremble.
"Where is your master?" Zhuge Yuan pulled the paper man and rushed toward a taller paper man in the distance.
The paper man with hatred in his eyes was doing it, and it seemed that he would not give up until he achieved his goal. Rows of small paper men cut out gradually stood up under the wave of the wooden sword in his hand.
"Stop quickly, if you continue like this, all your people will die here!" Zhuge Yuan rushed in front of him.
"Humph! If I stop, I don't have to die. Look what that cannibal is!" The paper man acted a little faster, and the two words in the whites of his eyes began to glow.
"You can't die! Listen to me! You definitely can't die! And you can't win! The Master is not the only one in the cave!!"
As Zhuge Yuan pointed, the other paper figures saw the large and small eyes around them, with a hint of despair in their eyes.
"We will fight with these evil spirits!" A paper man who rushed out was hugged tightly by Zhuge Yuan.
"Everyone! Listen to me! I have a way to rescue you!" Zhuge Yuan said and snatched the weapon from the hand of the paper man.
Just as all the remaining paper figures moved closer to Zhuge Yuan, they naturally attracted the giant beast's attention.
Its increasingly huge and ferocious mouth was connected to the roof of the cave and to the ground as it drove over in such a menacing manner.
Seeing that the huge mouth was about to swallow everyone, Zhuge Yuan stood directly in front of them and shouted loudly at the ferocious mouth: "Master! I win!"
The giant mouth stopped, right in front of Zhuge Yuan.
Zhuge Yuan let out a long breath, walked to the others, took away their various weapons and magical tools, threw them on the ground, and said to the giant mouth next to him: "Master, what you said, let me find it from the book.
I found a way!"
"What method?"
"Turn conflicts into friendship, Master, this is what you taught me before! This misunderstanding can be solved with a few words, there is no need to make it like this."
"You also said that only thinking about doing things recklessly is what a reckless man does! Those who can talk will never do anything!"
"And Master, they are not here to arrest you, they are here to solve the severe drought, but they are looking in the wrong direction."
After hearing Zhuge Yuan's words, the big mouth gradually retracted into the darkness behind. The solemn atmosphere in the air disappeared without a trace.
Zhuge Yuan turned around and looked at the Taoist priests behind him, "Let's all go. Go back and tell the county magistrate that the drought and natural disasters were not caused here. You have made the wrong mistake."
After saving his life, the little Taoist priest just now hurriedly raised his hand to Zhuge Yuan and said, "Thank you very much, my benefactor. May I ask my benefactor's name?"
"I'm not a benefactor. My name is Zhuge Yuan."
The young Taoist master was about to say something, but was forcibly pulled away by the old Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest naturally knew that Zhuge Yuan had saved their lives, but because of his face, he said nothing.
Just as Zhuge Yuan was watching them walking further and further away, the Master walked out from behind with his hands behind his back.
"Did you see that? If you don't study, you only know how to practice magical powers. Just like these people, you are going in the wrong direction, and you can't find what you want even if your head is broken."
"You should remember from now on that you can learn magical powers but you can't lose the book for a day."
When Zhuge Yuan heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. "Master, have you really taught me magical powers?"
"Well, since you won, of course you have to teach. However, I can only be your tutor, not your karma master. I have an old friend who is a human being who is more suitable to be your karma master. You can go find him.
Bar."
Upon hearing this, Zhuge Yuan was stunned for a moment, then turned around and looked at the village where he had stayed for so long.
"Got to go?"
"You can't stay here all your life, and the National Children's Examination is about to start, so it's time for you to take the exam. It just so happens that you can do both things at the same time."
Zhuge Yuan knew that he would leave one day, but he didn't expect it to be so soon, and he felt mixed emotions in his heart.
"It's almost dawn, go and clean up." A big hand covered Zhuge Yuan's head and patted him gently.
Zhuge Yuan had nothing to pack, and a package was all his belongings. By the time he arrived at the village, it was already dawn and everyone else was waiting for him.
Zhuge Yuan looked at his classmate with two heads and couldn't hold back his tears for a while. After saying goodbye, he didn't know when he would see each other again.
For a moment, he felt like he didn't want to leave, and just wanted to stay here with them.
"Why are you crying? I'll give you two bottles of rice wine to drink on the way. It's definitely enough for you to drink alone." Ding Yuhua and Lu Mingke stuffed the two bottles of wine into each other's arms.
Others also sent various farewell gifts. If the third wife hadn't sent a bamboo basket at the end, I wouldn't have been able to put it down.
After bidding farewell to his friends and fellow villagers one by one, Zhuge Yuan walked into the bamboo forest, stepping on the little morning light that filtered through the bamboo leaves, and set off towards the road.
At this moment, the master's words came from behind. "Silang! Don't forget! How should a gentleman walk in the world?"
The pace of Zhuge Yuan's feet became faster. He wiped away his tears vigorously and began to run towards the next new journey in his life.
"Establish morality! Be determined! Be determined! Cultivate your character, harmonize your family, govern your country, and bring peace to the world!"
This chapter has been completed!