"Master, is one tael of silver too much? The Taoist priest clearly didn't calculate anything. He suddenly went crazy and vomited blood. He almost scared people to death. I think ten cents is enough for him.
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As soon as she walked out of the side room, Du Chunhua pulled Li Xiuyuan's sleeve and whispered.
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "You are really good at budgeting. I will definitely not spend money lavishly if I have you at home in the future."
Du Chunhua immediately turned red and lowered her head in embarrassment.
"Actually, I think it's too much. I think one penny is enough." Xiaodie next to me also said immediately.
Li Xiuyuan pinched her little face: "Okay, both of you are good and can live a careful life. Whoever marries you in the future will be lucky."
Being teased by her young master like this, Xiaodie immediately blushed and lowered her head, daring not to raise her head, her heart beating incessantly.
"It's really strange how this beautiful statue suddenly cracked."
"Yes, it was fine before. Suddenly there was a thunder and the statue was broken. Could it be that it was in disrepair and was cracked by the thunder?"
"It's really a bit evil, the statue will be broken."
At this moment, the statue in the Taoist temple, which looked similar to the bald Taoist, was filled with cracks for unknown reasons. The stones on it fell off, the color peeled off, and the appearance was completely gone.
Nowadays, there are no statues of gods anywhere, but they are just human-shaped stones, and there is nothing magical about them at all.
"That's it." Li Xiuyuan took a look and suddenly felt enlightened.
"I asked why this Taoist is already a practicing person, why is he still working so hard to earn money? It turns out that it is not for his own food and clothing, he is for practicing."
Looking at the statue that had been affected by the divine punishment, Li Xiuyuan understood what was going on through the monastic knowledge given to him by his previous master.
What this bald Taoist practices is not the immortal way, but the divine way.
Incense is the way to become a god.
The path to immortality requires cultivating one's life and soul, meditating in seclusion, and having no distractions. This is a common practice of ascetic monks, and one has to undergo various tribulations before one can become an immortal.
But Shinto doesn't need it.
If you have enough incense, you will naturally become a god.
This bald Taoist opened a Taoist temple to accumulate incense so that he could accumulate incense and eventually become a god.
However, when Taoist Bald told Li Xiuyuan's fortune just now, he was backlashed by the divine way. Now that the divine way is cut off, the statue will naturally collapse.
It can be said that this Taoist's path to Taoism has been completely broken, and he will no longer be able to use Taoism to harm others in the future.
But this bald Taoist is solely to blame for all this.
If he hadn't coveted Li Xiuyuan's 20,000 taels of silver and forced fortune telling, he wouldn't have ended up like this.
"Let's go."
After taking one look at the broken statue, Li Xiuyuan spoke.
"Hey, why did the Taoist Master suddenly fainted? I still want to ask the Taoist Master to give my child a good name."
At this time, a woman in her early thirties walked out of the Taoist temple holding a child of about one year old, a little underestimated, and a little disappointed.
"The name is naturally chosen by the parents, why bother a Taoist to choose the name," Li Xiuyuan said.
The woman took a quick look and saw that the person speaking was a young man who was also a scholar. She immediately smiled and said with some embarrassment: "That's true, but my family are all rough people. How can I pick a name?"
I'm afraid that if I don't get it well enough, others will laugh at me, and the children I get in the future will have no future."
"Whether a child is successful or not depends not on his name, but on his upbringing and his nature," Li Xiuyuan said.
The woman rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "You can tell from your tone that you are a scholar and must be very knowledgeable. Can you give me a better name for my child?"
As he spoke, he looked at the child in his arms.
The boy, who is over one year old, is extremely well-raised, white, plump, and has big, bright eyes. One look at him will tell you that he will be a smart person in the future.
"Giggle." The boy chuckled when he saw Li Xiuyuan, stretched out his white and tender hands and opened them to him, appearing very close to him.
"What a beautiful baby." Du Chunhua was so fond of seeing it that she couldn't help walking over and teasing her.
The child laughed whenever he was teased and clapped his little hands from time to time.
"He is a very cute child, and he is also very smart. He has the potential to study in the future and maybe become an official." Li Xiuyuan smiled and nodded.
When the woman heard that her child was praised in this way, and he was praised like this by a scholar, her eyes narrowed with joy.
"Since we are destined and you have spoken again, let me give this child a name. Do you want to give me a surname?" Li Xiuyuan immediately pondered.
"Thank you so much, young master." The woman thanked her first and then said, "My family name is Zhang, and my man's name is Zhang Gen."
Li Xiuyuan nodded: "Yes, as the ancients said, a hero will come out of ten, a hero will come out of a hundred, a hero will come out of a thousand, and a hero will come out of ten thousand. How about naming him Yingjie? Zhang Yingjie."
"Zhang Yingjie? Okay, okay, this name sounds good to me. From now on, my child will be called Zhang Yingjie. Thank you for the name, sir." Ms. Zhang thanked her again and again.
"It's just a small thing, no need to say thank you." Li Xiuyuan said with a smile.
But Zhang thanked him several times and invited Li Xiuyuan to drink tea at his herbal tea shop, but Li Xiuyuan politely refused.
Mrs. Zhang waved goodbye, and the child in her arms followed suit, waving her chubby little hands and saying goodbye to them with a giggle.
"What a cute baby." Du Chunhua couldn't help but say.
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "It's very cute. You can give birth to one for me in the future."
"Ah?" Du Chunhua was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then she reacted. Her face suddenly turned red to the root of her neck, and she lowered her head, almost burying it in her proud chest.
"This, how can you talk about this here?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled indifferently, but after all, it felt really good to tease this maid.
"Okay, let's go. Now that we're all out, let's go for a walk in the city and buy some things. Although everything is ready at home, some things are still not ready. Young Master, I'm going to take the Juren Examination soon.
, we still need to buy some books and paper. The previous ceremony was soaked with water and now we can’t use it. Well, when I think about it, I have to go to the City God’s Temple to burn incense sticks.”
He also had some personal matters to go to the City God.
But for now, forget about it in broad daylight. The City God won't come out in broad daylight. We'll look for him at night.
Jibaozhai!
Along the way, Li Xiuyuan finally found a place selling pens, inks, paper and inkstones. When he looked up, he saw a plaque with the name Jibaozhai hanging on the door of the store, and there were scholars coming and going.
"Look inside."
Just when he was about to go in, he saw a scholar standing stupidly at the door of the store, looking at a notice posted outside the store, reading word for word: This store is recruiting copycats, and requires correct handwriting and good moral character.
, willing to endure hardships and stand hard work, and earn ten taels per month.
"Twelve?"
The scholar suddenly became overjoyed and shouted: "Where is the store? Are you hiring someone to copy books? I'll answer the call."
Li Xiuyuan glanced at the scholar and was immediately frightened. He took several steps back in fright: "Guo, Guo Rong??"