"I haven't earned any money, so forget it. Anyway, the inn is open. If I stay here for a few more days, I can still earn some money for tea. What about you? Because of your wise words, you think our inn is unlucky, so you just ran home from Montenegro. Yeah, what do you think? Huh? Are you stupid?"
My wife gritted her teeth in anger: "Just wait, just wait! It's only these two days anyway, and our son should be home by now. Let's see how you explain it to him then!"
"Am I afraid of him? I am the father and he is the son. How dare he talk about me? I can spoil him!"
As he said that, the old shopkeeper became anxious again: "Old lady, I really haven't been deceived this time. You don't know what that girl looks like. She is so handsome. How can she deceive me? And that Taoist Priest, who is so immortal." Yes, you lied to me, that’s my blessing. Besides, he didn’t lie to anyone. He said it was going to rain in the afternoon, but look, it’s been raining for several days and it hasn’t stopped yet!”
Wife: "..."
She was so angry that she stamped her feet and said, "You old man, the older you get, the stupider you get. Doesn't the old Li Tou from the nearby village also know how to read the sky? Isn't he accurate? Why don't you believe him?" Ouch! I’m so worried!”
"What do you know!"
The old shopkeeper squinted at her, took a puff of his cigarette, and said, "How can Old Li, with his clay legs, be compared to an immortal!"
"You, you!" My wife was trembling with anger, "Just wait and see what you will do if nothing happens to our inn. Will you regret it!"
"Nothing happened to our inn, so why should I regret it?" the old shopkeeper said, "Maybe the Taoist priest prayed for us!"
Wife: "..."
In the end, she couldn't hold it back and started yelling: "Okay, I'll let you talk all the bad things alone. Why are you so smart? What? Everyone has one head, but you have two - Eh?"
I don’t know what I heard, but my wife’s expression froze for a moment, and her lips trembled a little: “O-old man!”
"What are you doing again!"
"Listen," my wife said nervously, "listen carefully, is there any crying outside?"
The old shopkeeper was also stunned for a moment, stood up quickly, listened to the sound, then slapped his thigh and said in a painful voice: "This is the sound of banging pots and mourning. Someone must be dead in the next village. No, I have to take a look. go!"
"Ouch! Old man! It's raining so heavily outside, what are you doing!" My wife said anxiously, "You are old and clumsy. What will happen if you get bumped!"
"There are neighbors living next door, and I have to help," the old shopkeeper said, "I'll take two people with me."
"Coir raincoat! Put on the coir raincoat!"
My wife also ran outside in the rain.
I don’t know if it was their imagination, but the more they ran outside, the louder the crying outside became. The old shopkeeper and his wife were both stunned. After looking at each other, their hearts were lifted, and they hurriedly ran up. forward!
The door was pushed open!
About a dozen young men, tied with white cloth around their waists and carrying broken basins in their hands, were kneeling at the gate of Wang's house, crying bitterly.
The leader looked most familiar.
The more the old shopkeeper looked at him, the more he felt like his eldest son.
"Dad!" The man cried with snot and tears, and said in a painful voice, "You died so miserably! The child has not yet fulfilled his filial piety at your knees! Daddy—Dad?! Oh my, my! I Oh my god! How come my dad has returned to his soul?!"
"I'll f**k your father's soul!"
The old shopkeeper was so angry that he trembled. He took off his shoes and smashed the man on the body. He cursed at the same time: "I think you seem to have regained your soul! What are you doing? What do you want to do? I'm not dead yet." Woolen cloth!"
"Dad!" the man cried bitterly, "Do you always have any grievances? Tell me. My son risked his life to avenge you - eh? Dad! You are not dead!"
"Of course I'm not dead!"
The old shopkeeper said angrily!
The man was surprised and happy. He quickly rubbed his eyes and ran to the old shopkeeper. He looked at the old shopkeeper front and back, top to bottom, several times. Then he patted his thigh and said excitedly: "Dad! Why are you not dead?" ah!"
Old shopkeeper: "..."
"Bah, bah, bah!" the man said quickly, "Dad, my son just said the wrong thing. My son is not asking why you are not dead, but he wants to ask why you always come home and why you don't stay in the inn! "
Just as my wife was about to speak, the old shopkeeper narrowed his eyes and asked, "Inn? What happened to my inn?"
Men are saddened by this!
"Collapsed! Everything collapsed! Everything was crushed by the Black Mountain!" He cried, "Dad! You don't know, the Black Mountain is gone. Our inn happens to be at the foot of the Black Mountain. If the mountain collapses, it will collapse." The inn was completely crushed, and my son took a look at it from a distance and thought you were hopeless!"
The old shopkeeper shook and his raincoat almost fell to the ground!
My wife was also dumbfounded!
"Has something happened to the inn?"
"Dad! Mom! Why did I lie to you? Something happened to the inn!" The man wailed, "Not only did the inn have an accident, but several small villages next to Montenegro also suffered. All the houses and yards were washed away by mud and rocks. Suppressed, if they hadn't been lucky enough to meet a few kind-hearted officials and be driven to Heishan Town by the officials, they might have died. It is said that these officials were ordered by the nobles. The one who drove the people away, tell me, is this noble man a prophet? How come he even knew about the black mountain dragons in advance?"
"Noble person?" the old shopkeeper asked hurriedly, "Which noble person? What kind of noble person? But a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old?"
"My son doesn't know!"
"It must be her!"
The old shopkeeper slapped his thigh: "Benefactor! This is the benefactor of our Montenegrin people!"
"Dad? What are you talking about! What my son wants to ask is why you came home for no reason!"
"It's a long story—"
The old shopkeeper danced and told what had happened. Hearing the man's admiration, he felt more and more proud, and said again: "You are so handsome! You are so beautiful! Your father and I have grown so old. This is the first time I have seen you like this." A handsome man, like a flower!"
"Monument of Immortality!"
My wife suddenly said: "Should we build an immortal monument for the noble man?"
The old shopkeeper was stunned!
His wife didn't believe in monks or Taoism, she didn't respect ghosts and gods, she didn't ask for help from others, and she never thought that she would want to erect a monument to immortality at the end of her life. The old shopkeeper couldn't help but feel proud. Sure enough, he was the best in Taoism!
"stand!"
He made a final decision: "Stand now!"
"Not only our family will have an erection, but those families who have avoided the black mountain dragons because of their noble status will also have to have erection!" The old shopkeeper said, "It's better to erect a bigger one!"
"Dad is right!" The man also said, "She saved dad's life, we can't be stingy!"
The three members of the family looked at each other and felt pride rising in their hearts. They said in their hearts that they would definitely build the best monument to immortality!
