As soon as they heard Zhang Rui's words, the villagers immediately became excited. It is not easy to have a full meal with porridge with wild vegetables these days, let alone a full meal with big fish, meat and wine.
Li Hun was very depressed when he heard that Zhang Rui announced that he would invite the whole village to dinner without consulting him. He thought that he would be hacked for more than ten taels of silver again, but he didn't expect that Zhang Rui actually threw in a twenty taels of silver saying that it was to buy ingredients for his Li family.
Li Hun took the silver ingot and exchanged a few polite words with Zhang Rui, then asked a thug next to him to go to the house to prepare.
Zhang Rui took out another five taels of silver and asked another thug to invite a group of chefs from a nearby town to come over and cook. After giving him half a penny and more, as a reward for running errands, the thug, who was a little unhappy at first, immediately happily confessed to the two of them and ran out.
Li Huan looked at the chaotic scene and chatted politely with Zhang Rui, and then went back to watch the servants prepare the materials. Zhang Rui didn't hesitate to stay, and asked Li Hun to find someone to clean up the body. He then gave Li Hun twenty taels of silver for his hard work, and Li Hun took it and left without much explanation.
After Zhang Rui watched the three people leave one after another, he persuaded the excited villagers to go back and rest first, and asked them to inform each other who didn't know yet. He also asked them to be careful not to overstretch themselves, because there was still rice for them to take. Each household had five kilograms of good rice. If there were children under the age of sixteen, each family would receive two more kilograms.
After listening to Zhang Rui's words, the villagers became even more excited. If everyone didn't know Zhang Rui, they wouldn't be able to help but kneel down to thank him. Even so, many children were ordered by their parents to kneel down and thank Sixth Brother for his generosity.
When Zhang Rui asked the villagers to rest again, the villagers felt that they should not wait for freeloading. Some just went to inform people to go, and most of them said they would go to Li's Mansion to see if there was anything they could do to help, otherwise they would feel too sorry to go. Zhang Rui had no choice but to let it go.
Li Dagou was injured on the ground. Zhang Rui asked someone to help clean the wound, and then asked Li Hun to get some gold sore medicine to temporarily stop the wound. Then he gave Li Niushi, Li Dagou's son, ten taels of silver and asked him to go to the county to ask a doctor to look at his wounds.
Taking the money given by Zhang Rui, Li Niushi's hands were trembling. He wanted to say something, but had no way to express it, so he could only kneel deeply in front of Zhang Rui and bow three times. When Zhang Rui found out, he immediately picked him up and quickly comforted him and asked the doctor not to think too much.
The biggest money Li Niu Shi had ever received since he was a child was ten cents. Seeing that he had never seen any money, he understood that the value of the money was something he might not be able to repay in his lifetime, but Zhang Rui had no intention of asking his family to repay it.
Li Niushi felt that he should sell his life to Zhang Rui and follow him whether he wanted to continue killing bandits or killing people.
By the time Zhang Rui came to his senses after finishing his work and came to find Li Si, Li Si and the others had stopped vomiting. The corpses of the bandits on the ground were also arranged by Mr. Li and his men, because after all, they were all money.
The injured Li Si had also recovered at this time and stayed here to look at Zhang Rui. Aunt Li comforted the awake Agou and the crying little sister, and took them with the people in the village to help with the Li Mansion. Maybe the children were more forgetful, so soon they joined the other children in the village. Have fun playing.
"Who are you?" Li Si looked at Zhang Rui who had no one around him at this time and said.
"Who else could I be? I'm just Zhang Liu, bastard! Fourth uncle!" Zhang Rui looked directly into Li Si's eyes and said.
"No, you are not Liuzi. Although you are exactly the same as Gouzi, I have known Gouzi for more than ten years. Gouzi does not have your ability. Can you tell me what happened to Gouzi?" Li Si's voice was trembling.
"As expected, I still can't hide it from you, Fourth Uncle. Strictly speaking, I am not a dog, but I am a dog. The me you see now was taught by my Taoist master at the Huaguang Emperor Temple. I am now named His name is Zhang Rui." In order to avoid misunderstanding, Zhang Rui decided to make up a Taoist master.
Anyway, the Huaguang Emperor Temple in the village began to decline with the decline of the Qianming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty believed in shamanism and Buddhism, and was not very interested in Taoists who wanted to grow their hair long, and even suppressed them. As a result, there are fewer and fewer Taoist temples, and it is rare for Taoist priests to appear and disappear!
Li Si didn't understand much. He only understood the Huaguang Emperor Temple, the Taoist, and that he was now called Zhang Rui.
"You talk a lot, and I don't understand who you are. But it's enough that I know you are really good to the people in our village. Can I ask you again, how is Gouzi?"
"Gouzi went to a very good place before. It was a place where he could eat meat and drink wine every day, and wear silk and satin every day. He could live in a solid and bright house, and he could have a car to pick him up when he went out. days."
Zhang Rui was very moved after listening to Li Si's words. He knew that there was no way to explain to Li Si what time travel was, and he came here without even understanding it himself. I can only describe it to Li Si based on modern life.
"Is there really such a good place?" Li Si asked with some disbelief. This is not the world. It is clearly the paradise that others say.
"There must be, Fourth Uncle, I swear. He just went there." Zhang Ruixin said with confidence.
"I don't know much about this old man. Since Zhang... Master Zhang said yes, let's do it! I hope the dog can enjoy it there for the rest of his life." Li Si said with some sadness, some yearning and blessing.
"Fourth uncle, I'm still a bitch, don't call me Master Zhang."
"No, you are not the bitch you used to be. You are a person who does big things. I knew it from the moment you chatted with Butler Li when you killed the bandits. So the rules cannot be broken." Li Si rejected Zhang Rui proposal
"That can't be called Master Zhang. No matter what, I'm still a bitch. If my parents find out, why don't they scold me to death?"
"No, no, not if it were you!"
"That won't work, Fourth Uncle, if you call me Master Zhang again, I won't pay attention to you, you son of a bitch." Zhang Rui said, pretending to be angry.
"Okay then, let's call you Sixth Brother! (A local saying: The brother here is not like a gangster brother, but a brother who recognizes your ranking and respects your name.)" Li Si looked angry Zhang Rui could only take a step back and said.
Zhang Rui originally wanted to ask Li Si to call him back to his previous title, but Li Si refused, even if Zhang Rui didn't recognize him as his fourth uncle. In the end Zhang Rui had to give up.
Seeing that there was still some time for dinner, Zhang Rui decided to go back and rest first. After all, he killed so many people at once and didn't eat anything at noon. His physical energy was too much.
In fact, after committing suicide, Zhang Rui also doubted himself. Didn't he say that he would vomit after committing suicide? Why do I not feel this way at all, but I can still do things like beheading people?
Zhang Rui felt that he had no way to explain it. The only reasonable explanation was that strange dream, which was too real. In particular, the scenes of slashing and killing on the battlefield and massacres of various mountains and seas of corpses are too realistic, just like facing real experiences. Especially the peace and feeling at the end were firmly engraved in his heart.
Zhang Rui didn't think much about it when he returned home. Just fell asleep! Even in such hot summer days without air conditioning and fans, it seems that I have learned to get used to it.
Li Si, who had completely recovered, did not return home, but went to Li Mansion to find Aunt Li. Although this woman is not beautiful, she also likes to nag sometimes. But even when he was in the most difficult time, he never thought of abandoning him, having children with him, and living a hard life. Li Si felt that he had identified with this woman for the rest of his life. As long as it could make her life better, he would be willing to pay for it even with his own life.
When the villagers in Li's Mansion saw Li Si's arrival, they all gathered around Li Si to chat. There were too many words stuck in their hearts without asking for their displeasure. Usually, they didn't have much contact with Zhang Liu. Instead, Li Si's family and Zhang Liu were as close as one family.
"Fourth brother, was Gouzi so powerful before? Look how quickly he killed all those bandits." A young man who was watching asked anxiously.
"How dare you call me Gouzi? Don't you Zhou Niudan think you have a long life? You should be called Sixth Brother." A middle-aged man next to him reminded the eighteen-year-old Zhou Niudan.
"That's right, that's right, cow eggs, please grow some snacks!"
"Niudan, it seems you want your father to beat you again..."
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The villagers nearby booed. Listening to the words of the onlookers, Zhou Goudan silently shrank aside.
"Brother Six was not so powerful before. Isn't there a dilapidated Huaguang Temple next to our village? Later, a Taoist priest came and taught Brother Six some martial arts. That's why Brother Six is so powerful." Li Si explained?
"Taoist priest, have any Taoist priests been here before?" some people asked the people around them.
"I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it in so many years." A negative answer
"Then fourth brother, have you seen him?"
After hearing this, many people were quietly waiting for Li Si's answer.
Fortunately, Li Si is also a person who has traveled to many places and experienced many things, and knows what to say and what not to say. Although this dog may not be that dog, he still treats him like his fourth uncle, so he decided to protect him.
"I met him twice. He was very kind. I even gave him a rice ball. At that time, I heard him say that he was Sixth Brother's master. I thought he was just a cheater."
"Then how is he dressed and what does he look like?" someone else asked.
"Hmm... He's wearing something like that. Huh? It's just darker than Butler Li's clothes. What does he look like? He's a bit strong, a bit like Emperor Huaguang." Li Si said pretending to be thoughtful.
Li Si had never seen any Taoist priests before, so he thought that he would be in the image of Emperor Huaguang. After all, he was the leader of the Taoist priests!
After speaking, Li Si ignored the villagers who still wanted to ask questions, and left the crowd of onlookers to find Aunt Li. He didn't know if continuing to talk like this would cause trouble to Liu Zi, so he just didn't say anything.
By the time the onlookers came back to their senses, Li Si had already gone away. Since they couldn't get the answer from Li Si, they started their own fantasy relationship.
Maybe that person was not a real Taoist priest, but Emperor Huaguang saw that bandits were doing too much evil in the world, so he went down to earth to teach Zhang Liu. Only this can explain why Zhang Liu is so powerful. As for why he only taught Zhang Liu? This is life. You don't have this fate, but Zhang Liu does.
After thinking about this, someone suddenly remembered that when he was chatting with Zhang Liu's father, Zhang Liu's father once said that thunder sounded during the day when Zhang Liu was born. Some women suddenly remembered that they had chatted with Zhang Liu’s mother and said that when Zhang Liu was born, there was light around his body. In this way, Zhang Liu was destined to become a big shot.
The people I remembered looked proud, and everyone around them asked them for advice. They all talked cheerfully, and became more and more excited as they talked. The last point of view that was generally agreed upon came out like this.
Zhang Rui is the son of a rich family, which explains why his mother can write. Otherwise, no poor family can write. Zhang Liu took refuge in the countryside because a miracle occurred on his body. Nowadays, bandits are rampant, so God asked Emperor Huaguang to transform into a Taoist priest to teach Zhang Liu. Teach him to save the poor people and make decisions for the people to redress their grievances. What he was reciting when killing the bandits should be the magic formula.
The people in the village thought that this matter could only be known to the people in the village, and could not be spread outside the country, nor allowed to be known to the bandits, let alone the court. Otherwise, Zhang Liu, who had no soldiers or generals to guard him, would definitely be killed by them. He was the hope of the poor.
