Chapter 1: The ascending and descending saints of Guobei County.
In the Song Dynasty, there was a county to the north of Guobeicheng, named Guobei County.
The county is bustling, bustling with people, and very lively.
The Li family in Guobei County is the most famous wealthy businessman in the county. No one knows how rich their family is after three generations of wealth. However, anyone with a little bit of care will know that more than half of the shops in the most prosperous areas of Guobei County are owned by Li.
The fertile farmland outside the county under our name has exceeded 10,000 acres in the past few years, not counting mountains, forests, and lakes. To put it bluntly, everyone in Guobei County, from the county magistrate to the beggar, is
I know the name of the Li family.
However, today, in the high-walled courtyard of Li Mansion, there are constant noises, and the servants and maids coming and going are even more hurried, as if something urgent is happening in the manor.
Everyone in Guobei County knows that today is the day when Mr. Li and Li Dafu’s concubine gave birth.
Li Dafu is nearly thirty years old and has eighteen concubines, but so far none of his concubines has given birth to a boy and a half girl for him. He is already nearly thirty years old. If there are still no children born in a few years,
, I am afraid that the Li family may become extinct, and then the incredible wealth of the Li family will disappear without anyone to inherit it.
Fortunately, there is always a way. When Li Dafu was nearly 30 years old, his ninth concubine finally became pregnant. Now she has been pregnant for more than nine months, and the delivery date is today. In order to ensure a smooth delivery
, As early as half a year ago, Li Dafu had invited the most experienced midwives in Guobei County to his house, and there were three of them at once.
"How's it going? How come you haven't given birth yet?"
Outside a small courtyard, Li Dafu, who was wearing brocade clothes and slightly fat, was walking around hurriedly. When he heard the wailing of his concubine from inside the house, he hurriedly caught another maid who came out of the house and asked.
"Sir, sir, I haven't entered the house, so I don't know the young master's condition." The maid said with some fear.
Before the child was born, Li Dafu thought he was a son, so he asked his maids, maids, and slaves to call the unborn child "Master" to get some luck.
But who knew that on the day of delivery, I could only hear the wailing of the concubine in the house, but I still didn’t see my baby crying on the ground, and I didn’t know what was going on inside.
"Could it be a dystocia..." Li Dafu couldn't help but feel extremely anxious.
But even if it is a difficult delivery, he is not worried. He has already given instructions to the midwife. If there is a difficult delivery, the elder will take care of the younger one. His Li family has more than ten thousand yuan. He has already taken eighteen concubines. If he can get a son, he will give up one.
A concubine is nothing, it's just a matter of a few hundred taels of silver.
But some people are anxious, while others have nothing to do with themselves.
Guobei County, on the Temple Street near the Chenghuang Temple, there are people coming and going, and there is an endless stream of people burning incense and worshiping Buddha. There is a simple hexagram stall at the entrance of a small alley. A middle-aged blind man wearing a shabby
The Taoist robe, stroking his beard, shaking his head and humming a tune, seemed very leisurely. No one knew the name of this Taoist priest. They only knew that people nearby called him the blind Taoist. He came to Guobei County three years ago to make a living.
He set up a fortune-telling stall on Temple Street every day, but because the blind Taoist was not very good at soliciting customers, he could not earn much fortune-telling money. He lived in poverty and could only barely make ends meet.
"Hey, that's interesting." Suddenly, the blind Taoist grinned and patted his thigh happily.
"Blind Taoist, whose future were you calculating just now? What's so funny?" an old man selling incense asked with a smile.
The blind Taoist shook his head and said: "I have nothing to do, so I calculated the fate of the richest man in Guobei County, Li Dafu."
"Li Dafu? Mr. Li? He is a great person. I heard that his family has a fortune, and there are mountains of gold and silver in his house. Such a rich man must have a good life, so there is no need for you to calculate." The old man selling incense.
Speaking of.
"Rich people? Hey, I don't think so. The Li family can be rich. It's just that the five generations of our ancestors were all good people during their lifetimes. After death, their evil virtues continued to protect their descendants. Only then did they have three generations of wealth. The right way is to do no more than three things. The Li family
After this year, the fortune will come to an end, and the family will begin to decline. In the end, Li Dafu will only be able to enjoy a thin coffin." The blind Taoist said with a smile.
"Um?"
Suddenly, he felt something. Although he was blind, he still looked towards the east sky.
After practicing Taoism for decades, his third eye has long been opened, and he can see people and spirits with ease and skill. He uses his third eye instead of his eyes on weekdays, so he is not really blind. Otherwise, how could a truly blind man survive in Guobei County.
"Hiss~!"
The next moment, the blind Taoist looked shocked, took a breath of cold air, and backed away.
In the Eye of the Sky, the sky is full of purple energy that covers the sky. It is majestic, like a huge wave in the sea, rolling and raging. This purple energy is vast and powerful, coming from the east and spreading for thousands of miles. It is like a giant dragon lying on the nine heavens.
The victory is terrifying. He has never seen such terrifying purple energy after decades of observing people and aura. Unfortunately, this purple energy can only be seen by monks or ghosts who have seen the eyes of the sky. Ordinary people can see it with their naked eyes.
The mortal body cannot be seen at all.
"Purple Qi has traveled thirty thousand miles from the east. Is this a damn saint coming to Guobei County?"
The blind Taoist muttered to himself, not caring about his usual cultivation.
He remembered the allusion of Laozi turning into a barbarian and leaving Hangu Pass in the west. At that time, Yixi, the passer of Hangu Pass, accidentally observed the energy of heaven and earth and saw the purple energy coming thirty thousand miles from the east. Then he met the sage Laozi.
The Tao Te Ching was passed down to the world.
The purple energy is as vast as a sea of clouds, rolling and raging in the sky, lingering for a long time, shrouding the sky above Guobei County.
After a while, the purple air in the sky changed again. A hole suddenly opened in the sea of purple clouds, and a golden light fell from the sky, heading straight for Guobei County.
The direction of the golden light is... Li Dafu, the Li family's mansion?
"It is a saint who comes to this world."
The blind Taoist trembled and remembered that today was the day when Li Dafu's concubine gave birth. If the golden light fell into the Li family at this time, someone with a destiny must be reincarnated.
"Opportunity, opportunity, great opportunity. I originally wanted to come to this remote Guobei County to settle down in my old age, but unexpectedly I encountered such a great opportunity. The opportunity for my grandma, Immeasurable God, to become enlightened is at this moment...
..”
He moved his lips slightly and murmured to himself, then his face suddenly changed, with the wind at his feet, and with a skill that was completely inconsistent with his usual skills, Sa Yazi ran towards the direction of Li's house, not even wanting to give up the Gua stall. That was simply worse than evil.
The ghost was still anxious when he was reincarnated. When the people around him saw this, they were stunned.
At this moment, in a secluded courtyard in the deep courtyard of the Li Mansion, a wail of cries suddenly came from the ground. The sound was loud and powerful, as if the entire Li Mansion could hear it.
"It's born, it's born, it's finally born."
Li Dafu, who was pacing hurriedly outside the door, was immediately ecstatic. His slightly fat figure rushed into the house with unprecedented agility, and hurriedly asked: "How is it? Is the birth a boy or a girl?"
"Ah~!" As soon as Li Dafu entered the house, he heard a scream, and a midwife seemed to have been stimulated by something, and fled out of the house in fright.
"Congratulations, Mr. Li, mother and son are safe. Madam gave birth to a big fat boy."
Li Dafu was overjoyed: "Okay, okay, my Li family has a baby, my Li family has a baby." His voice was trembling with excitement.
Another midwife held a baby and said with a trembling voice: "But the young master seems to have had an unusual birth, Mr. Li, look at it."
The midwife tremblingly opened the brocade cloth on the baby, only to see that the big fat baby's chest was slightly transparent, and a small heart with a soft light under the chest was beating loudly, which looked weird.
Incomparable, after all, no one's heart can shine. No wonder the midwife who delivered the baby before turned around and ran out in fear. She probably thought the baby was some kind of monster.
"How could this happen? How could my son be pregnant with something strange?" Li Dafu was also stunned.
"Could this woman have given birth to a monster?" the midwife whispered.
Li Dafu suddenly became furious: "Fart, you are deceiving the public with your evil talk. Three generations of my Li family have done good deeds. How could a monster be born? If you dare to say nonsense again, believe it or not, I will cut out your tongue."
"Haha, the village women in the mountains have little knowledge. Mr. Li, please don't be as knowledgeable as them."
At this time, a loud laugh came from outside the house, and a Taoist wearing Taoist robes with his eyes closed strode in as if there was nothing else around him.
He glanced at the baby held in the midwife's hands, and his whole body trembled slightly with excitement, and he could hardly keep his Taoist heart for many years.
Sure enough, there must be something magical about a saint coming to this world.
Li Dafu was startled when he saw the blind Taoist, and then he politely raised his hands and said, "I have met the Taoist. Does the Taoist know why my son is so strange?"
He has been in business for many years and is well-informed. Naturally, he knows that there is one kind of person outside that cannot be offended, and that is the Taoist priest. Now that this Taoist priest has come uninvited, he is afraid that something important is about to happen in the Li Mansion.
The blind Taoist laughed and said: "Mr. Li, do you know that Yao's eyebrows were of eight colors, that Shun's eyes had double pupils, that Emperor Wu had three leaky ears, and that King Wen had four breasts?
Mr. Li’s son is really unusual. He actually has a heart with seven orifices. Since ancient times, except for Bigan, the prime minister of the Shang Dynasty, no one has had such a heart. Mr. Li will be very lucky in the future if he has such a son."
"What, the exquisite heart with seven orifices? Isn't that what the play says?" Li Dafu was immediately shocked.