After some laughter, a woman giggled and said: "Sisters, a moment of spring is worth a thousand pieces of gold. We should go, otherwise my sister will curse..."
The girls opened the door and left one after another amid bursts of laughter.
Xiang Xiaoer looked at the redressed girl like an idiot, and saw that the girl's black hair was towering like a cloud-shaped bun.
The phoenix hairpin hanging down on her head is even more beautiful and attractive than when her hair was hanging down before.
Seeing that the girls had left, Xiang Er stood up and closed the door of the pavilion, cheering in his heart.
Looking back, he boldly started to get intimate with the girl. For a while, the scent of orchids and musk gradually filled the room, and the two of them became intimate like heavenly companions.
However, the good times did not last long.
While the two were enjoying themselves, there was suddenly a rush of footsteps downstairs, followed by a burst of shouting, a burst of roar, and scolding sounds from all around.
After a while of shouting, it didn't take long for another chaotic noise and argument to be heard downstairs.
The girl flanker was startled when she heard this. She opened a crack in the door and peeked out, only to see a god in golden armor walking downstairs.
The god had a dark face, holding a long chain in his hand and dragging it on the ground. Behind the god was a group of women, who were obviously frightened.
The god in golden armor looked at the group of women in front of him and asked sternly: "Look carefully, are you all here? Are you afraid to come out in the house?" guy?"
The girls were startled and all replied: "Sir, we are all here."
The golden-armored god looked at the group of women quietly and said coldly: "You know in your heart that if anyone dares to hide a mortal in the lower world, once found out, he will be imprisoned in a water prison for three hundred years!"
All the women replied in unison: "No, sir, you can search if you don't believe me."
The golden-armored god looked coldly at the group of women in front of him, trying to see any flaws in their eyes, and then searched the pavilions in front of him.
The girl in the pavilion was so frightened that she turned pale for a moment. She didn't want to stay in the water prison for three hundred years.
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So he turned around and said to the waiter in a panic: "Husband, you hide under the bed first and let me go out and take a look."
After saying these words, he hurriedly put on his clothes and opened the door in a hurry and left.
Xiang Xiaoer was also scared to death. He obediently got under the bed and lay down, not even daring to breathe out for a while.
At this moment, there was a burst of rapid footsteps. It was obvious that a group of people pushed the door open and came in to search.
Listening to the voice of the golden-armored god lecturing a group of women, a group of people opened the door and left after a while.
It wasn't until the crowd's noise gradually faded away that Xiang Xiaoer, lying under the bed, felt a little relieved, thinking that if he was caught, he would probably die.
I lay down under the bed for the waiter uneasily and waited for an unknown amount of time. My mouth felt dry for a moment, my stomach growled, and I was almost on the verge of collapse.
In the dream, I didn't know where I was. I was just looking forward to the girl's return, completely forgetting that I came from the human world.
Meng Han, who was sitting in the main hall, listened to the old monk reciting a Buddhist scripture. When he opened his eyes, his companion, the waiter, was missing.
Feeling strange in my heart, I had to ask the old monk who had closed the Buddhist scriptures in front of him.
The old monk happened to stop chanting, looked at Meng Han and said with a smile, "Your friend went to listen to another old monk's lecture on Buddhism."
Meng Han was stunned and thought, when did this guy start practicing Buddhism?
So he asked again: "Excuse me, Master, where does he listen to people's sermons?"
The old monk replied calmly: "It's not far away."
Seeing Meng Han's anxious eyes, the old monk had no choice but to stand up.
He stretched out his hand and tapped the picture wall in front of him and shouted: "I have been happy to the donor for a long time, it is time to return!"
Meng Han looked up and was so stunned that he couldn't speak. However, his companion Xiaoer was already on the painting wall at some point.
I saw Xiang Xiaoer in the mural lying on the ground, listening attentively, as if he heard the old monk's call.
The old monk sighed and said leisurely: "If you don't come back, I won't care about you anymore..."
That means, just fend for yourself.
Xiang Xiaoer was startled when he heard this. Like a cloud, it floated down from the painting wall. Looking at the old monk and Meng Han in front of him, they stood in a daze. Their feet gave way and they fell to the ground.
Meng Han was shocked for a moment and asked: "Little brother, where did you go just now, and why are you on this wall?"
However, Xiang Laoer lay down under the bed and slept all night. Suddenly he heard the sound of the old man knocking on the wall, and then he put on his clothes and pushed the door open.
Unexpectedly, he saw the old monk and Meng Han in front of him.
At this time, Xiang Er didn't know how to explain his experience to Meng Han, so he had no choice but to look up at the mural.
He saw that the girl with the flowers that he had been thinking about before had her hair in a high bun and was no longer the girl with hanging hair.
After a long while, Xiaoer Xiang helped Meng Han's hand get up from the ground and bowed to the ground with the old monk in front of him.
He said quietly: "Master, why am I saying this? Is it an illusion or is it true that I have been to the Nine Heavens?"
The old monk laughed and said, "The illusion is all in your mind. How can I explain it to you?"
Xiang Xiaoer looked at the woman in the painting and felt depressed for a moment. He couldn't retreat or advance.
Meng Han looked at the painting wall in front of him and was horrified for a moment. He stood up and said goodbye to the old monk, pulling the waiter and leaving quickly.
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Speaking of this, Po Meng sighed: "Buddha said that seeing means owning, but that guy wanted to take the twilight girl as his own. Everyone in the world is suffering, but he fell into the trap of greed, anger and ignorance."
The old man nodded and said, "This old monk should be a master of Taoism. He wants to enlighten the world with illusions, but I don't know if that guy has awakened from the illusions."
"Cause and effect never fails. People in the world are so greedy that they will plant the seeds of disaster in the future."
Po Meng said seriously: "There are differences between immortals and mortals, humans and ghosts have different paths, and the great road has its limits, so it cannot tolerate being trampled by the world."
The old man held the cup and drank up the spiritual wine in the cup. He smiled and said: "If people in the world were not suffering, they would not be reincarnated in the world of mortals and suffer the same hardships again and again."
Po Meng smiled faintly: "It's still early, why don't we chat more?" After that, she added a third glass of spiritual wine to the old man's cup.
The old man held the wine glass in both hands and was excited.
It's not because I'm about to go to reincarnation, but because I didn't expect to go to the Wangchuan Bridge and drink the wine that can only be found in the sky.
Shaking his head, he sighed: "When it comes to suffering in this world, it's naturally those guys who don't respect heaven and earth, and don't know how to honor their parents."
When Po Meng heard this, she was speechless. She just poured herself a cup of spiritual tea and held it in her hands.
The old man said: "This is a true story that happened in our village. A couple was over seventy years old and had three sons. The eldest and the third have been farming in the village..."
The second child left home in search of opportunities to get ahead. He left home for decades and never came back to honor his parents. It is said that he was unwilling to be a county magistrate and wanted to be a bigger official...
I thought about becoming a high official and then returning to my hometown.
His son had not returned home for thirty years, but the old father at home could not wait until his son returned home with his granddaughter. He left his seventy-year-old wife behind in this cold winter and passed away.
Hearing this, Po Meng couldn't help but feel a thump in her heart.
It was as if the old man's words were like a sword stabbing at him inch by inch, until it pierced his chest, making it difficult to breathe for a while and almost unable to speak.
After a while, he murmured: "This is too much."
The old man shook his head and continued: "This is only part of the story. Please listen to me."
It is said that when the two sons saw their old father passing away, they quickly asked the county officials to notify their brothers who were officials in Jin County.
After the second child got the news of his father's death, he immediately returned to his hometown.
It's just that he didn't bring a bunch of government officials with him, but quietly returned alone.
The two brothers and their mother all wanted to make the funeral more glamorous. After all, their son also became a county magistrate in a foreign country, which would be considered a glorious return to his hometown.
Unexpectedly, the second child refused to do so, saying that he had only enough money to support his family, so he didn't have any extra money to pay for his father's funeral.
The seventy-year-old mother called her second son an unfilial son and said that she would treat him as if she had lost a son.
So, the eldest brother and the third child each collected fifty taels of silver.
I also invited my relatives and friends to help with the funeral, but there was nothing I could do. According to the rules of Jin County, if an elder in the family dies, a seven-day meal must be served.
All neighbors, relatives and friends who come here will join in the fun for the elderly during these seven days.
After seventy, such a thing is regarded as a happy occasion, and everyone will bother you for seven days.
While the seventy-year-old mother was reluctant to leave him, and with the help of her friends, she finally finished her father's affairs and buried him in a cemetery not far behind the village.
From the perspective of the woman, the boss, and the third child, this matter is over here. After all, the old man has been laid to rest.
Normally, the second brother should go back to his home. Although the two brothers haven't broken up with him yet, there is no brotherhood anymore.
Who would have thought that at this time, the second child would not leave.
He said that he remembered that his father had done some business a few years ago and had accumulated hundreds of taels of silver. He should divide the money while he came back.
The old woman was so angry that she couldn't speak, and she cried silently on the side.
The boss couldn't help shouting: "You are an unfilial son. You have been gone for thirty years. When did you support your parents? Now that my father's bones are still cold and my mother is still alive, you want to share the money!"
The third child was even more angry: "There is no way out. If you want to be divided between you, your parents will give birth to you and raise you, plus the alimony for the past thirty years will be settled."
The second brother couldn't do anything to the two brothers for a while.
Unexpectedly, the story does not end here, because the second daughter's daughter heard that her grandfather had passed away and her father had not been home for a long time, so she came to the door in a carriage.
The father and daughter came together and came up with a vicious plan to use the separation of the family to cut off the second child's mother and two brothers!
The old woman lay on the bed and fell ill.
The eldest and second eldest brother yelled angrily: "If we divide, we will divide. From today on, we will not have you as a brother. From now on, when you die, you will not enter our ancestral graves here."
While the family was quarreling, the county master and several government servants brought two thousand taels of silver to the old woman, saying that it was the pension given by the prefect of the government after he learned that the old woman had died...
This makes it even more chaotic.
The second daughter’s daughter insisted on sharing the money, saying that if it weren’t for her father’s official position outside, how could the state government send silver to her dead grandfather?
This incident eventually caused a stir in the city, and everyone on the street knew about it.
And after the two brothers and their seventy-year-old mother combined their efforts, they immediately severed all family ties with the second brother in front of a group of fellow villagers and elders in the village!
Let Lao Er and his daughter take away all the two thousand taels of silver given by the state government. In the future, I will never have a son like Lao Er.
The story spread all the way and finally reached the state capital.
A storyteller made this incident into a story and told passers-by in restaurants and teahouses as a warning.
Eventually, this matter reached the ears of the prefect, and after verification, it was reported to the court. The emperor was furious after hearing this.
The emperor who ruled the country with Confucianism immediately issued an order to deprive the second son of his honor for the crime of disloyalty and unfilial piety, and exile his family three thousand miles away, and he would never be able to return to the court to serve as an official.
This incident finally reached the village, and someone told the seventy-year-old woman: "The emperor punished that unfilial son for you and exiled them three thousand miles..."
The woman couldn't help but shed tears. She looked at her two sons and said, "If I had known this, I shouldn't have let the second son go looking for glory and wealth."
