Daoist Abandoned Wisdom

Tao Xinian rested for two days and felt that he was almost ready to go on the road, so he set off for Xuanmiao Temple in the northern suburbs.He wants to take Huahua home.

Thanks to Taoist Jian Su and Xuan Yu for taking care of him, he saw Hua Hua in the backyard.However, after not seeing him for many days, Huahua didn't miss him at all, instead it seemed like he didn't know him anymore, she couldn't pull him no matter what.Xuanyu fed it for several days, but at this moment she felt a little bit reluctant, and gave it green vegetables and radishes, it raised its neck gracefully, and barked happily.

"Leave the stubborn donkey! Hurry up and get on the road!" Abo patted the donkey's buttocks and urged from behind.

Hua Hua couldn't go away, so Tao Xinian had no choice but to carry a few radishes and lead them down the mountain.Back in the small courtyard he rented, he tidied up for a while and was about to press the key under the flowerpot in the courtyard when there was a knock on the courtyard door.

Tao Xinian stood up, and a middle-aged man with a short stature and dark skin appeared at the gate of the courtyard. It was his landlord, Lao Qi.

"Tao Langjun, are you leaving?" Lao Qi smiled at him.

Tao Xinian smiled and said, "Yes, it's time to go." When he saw Lao Qi, he suddenly remembered something. Originally, he had agreed to rent it for half a month, but now it has been more than a month, although he spent some time on the mountain Yes, there are no people to live in the city, but it is reasonable to give Lao Qi some extra rent.

Sure enough, Lao Qi spoke in advance.He hesitated and said: "Tao Langjun, this house should have been taken back more than half a month ago, but something happened in the city, so I dragged my family and ran to the neighboring county, and now it has not started for more than a month. I don’t have much money in hand... How about this, if you pay the rent for a few more days, will it be worth sixty cents?”

Sixty essays, not much.Lao Qi's family runs a small business, so it's probably not enough to be able to do business these days.Tao Xinian said cheerfully: "I was also thinking about paying back some rent money for you, Uncle Qi, so I'll go get it now."

He went back to the room and took out the money bag, counted out sixty cash, and was almost taken aback when he saw the remaining money.That's all his money left?He fastened the purse, handed the money to Lao Qi, then packed his belongings, and went to the kitchen to put all the remaining dishes and oil and salt into it.

Abo asked in a low voice in the box: "Didn't you say that the heavy things should not be carried?"

"I'm running out of money, I need to save money, Lao Qi is here, let's talk about it later."

Lao Qi was inspecting the house, and finally heaved a sigh of relief. His house was not damaged during that period of time, which was considered a blessing among misfortunes.

"Old Uncle Qi, is the house okay? I'm on my way now!" Tao Xinian took Hua Hua and walked out, silently calculating the remaining troubles in his heart.

A smile appeared on Old Qi's dark face: "It's okay, Mr. Tao Lang, go well and have a safe journey!"

Tao Xinian rode Huahua slowly along the road that Yen walked, and soon left the city gate.When there was no one around, Abo poked his head out of the box and asked, "How much money do you have left? If you don't listen to me telling you not to be so generous, if the great monk is still alive, you can still ask him for some money, but he How long has it been since..."

"Crap!"

When I was in Jizhou a few days ago, I spent some on socializing with those fellow Taoists, and some on buying household items, and the most important thing was on those suffering people.Many of the nearly one hundred people they rescued were quite poor, so he gave a few of them a little money for living so that they would not have enough to eat.He thought that there was still a lot of money left, but in the end, he spent almost the bottom of his money without knowing it.

"Then how much more?"

"Three taels of silver, plus more than 100 Wen."

Abo breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, we are not so poor! How many days do we have to go to Luoyang? It should be enough. At worst, let's stay in a hotel and I will cook the meals."

"I can't use Taoism. I can get there by riding Huahua in about half a month. Enough is enough, and there will not be much left in Luoyang. Do I live on Yuanyao every day? I have had enough fun in Luoyang, and I have to go back Going back, the road is so far, what should I eat?"

Although he doesn't like Yuan Yao very much, Abo doesn't doubt that Yuan Yao will help Tao Xinian. He said, "What's the matter? I think he is very happy. Look at how many are still in your bamboo box." He kept the rice, noodles, vegetables and meat, and if you can eat it, he would like to stuff you with a whole pig every day. Don’t worry, if you don’t have the money to borrow some from him, you are his lifesaver!”

"It's not that he hasn't saved me, it's already evened." For borrowing money, Yuan Yao will naturally lend it to him, but he can't ask Yuan Yao for everything, can he?

Abo yawned and said, "Aren't you ready to live a good life? Living in a tent every day can save you money."

Tao Xinian thought over and over again, and said, "I've made up my mind, I'm going to find some work on the road!"

Abo was eating peaches. When he heard this, he almost choked on the peaches. He quickly slammed his chest hard, swallowed the peaches, and shouted, "What job are you looking for? I've never seen you work!"

"I haven't done it before, so why not try it." Tao Xinian said it as a matter of course.

"Jumping in the rivers and lakes, smashing a big rock in your chest? I'd be happy to hit your chest with a big hammer!"

"Shut up! Let me think about it."

He doesn't know how to do physical work. If he can use Taoism, he can use Taoism to do some physical work.In addition to physical work, the rest is done with a pen, writing letters for others, drawing talismans to exorcise evil spirits and avoid ghosts, doing rituals and so on, you can always make money.

Although he is a cultivator, he never earns money by exorcising evil spirits like some small Taoists, which is quite noble.But right now, things are in a hurry, things always have to take the first step, he doesn't believe that at his age, he can't even earn any money.

When he arrived at the next town, Tao Xinian really kept what he said, and set up a stall in the market, where he read fortunes, told fortunes, wrote letters for him, and also sold talismans to exorcise evil spirits and avoid ghosts. superior.

But... things didn't go as expected.

"Hey, do we have to wait any longer? I think we can close the stall!" Abo curled up into a small ball, curled up on Tao Xinian's chest.There were people coming and going on the street, but Tao Xinian's booth was empty.

"Wait a little longer, maybe someone will come to ask about marriage again." Tao Xinian was out of breath.

It took half a day today, only around noon when a few young girls suddenly came and pestered him to ask about marriage and write love poems. He only charged three pennies for each of them because they were all young girls.

"Those nympho girls!" Abo said disdainfully, "You only charge them a few pennies, have you earned enough for food by now?"

Tao Xinian took out the small bag containing the money, counted it, and said, "Eighteen Wen."

"Cut! It's enough to eat a few bowls of noodles!"

"Hey, it's better than nothing." He comforted himself.

Hua Hua raised her head, En Ang En Ang yelled a few times, Tao Xinian quickly took out a carrot and threw it over, stopping its loud barking.

"Where do you live tonight? If you don't earn enough money to stay in a hotel, you might as well save some time and walk more."

What Abo said was very reasonable, and Tao Xinian also understood that if the money he earned from setting up a stall was not enough for a day's expenses, he might as well go on his way earlier.

"Passing by the west of the city this morning, I saw a notice on the wall that Zhang Yuanwai's family in the east of the city hired people to copy the scriptures. I will close the stall right away and go there to try my luck."

"Then why don't you go early?"

"The notices are all yellow, who knows if they are still recruiting?"

Tao Xinian took the talisman, paper, compass, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and walked towards the east of the city.Zhang Yuanwai's house is easy to find, the largest one in the east of the city is.He knocked on the door and said why he came, and the servant led him to the study, and there were still scriptures to copy.As for the salary, there are forty characters in a scripture, and the handwriting is required to be neat and there are no typos.

Well, his handwriting is not neat, but it can still be read well.After the accountant of this family saw his handwriting and thought it was acceptable, he asked him to copy it.After copying, there are forty articles in the account, which is quite good.

In the huge study room, there was another young scholar copying books here, Tao Xinian greeted him briefly, then sat down and lowered his head to copy the scriptures carefully.The sun was in the west, the young man returned home, only Tao Xinian was left in the study.Seeing that he wanted to continue copying scriptures, the servant thoughtfully brought over dinner and oil lamps.

Tao Xinian thanked him, and when the servants went out, Abo stretched out his head impatiently, and said softly: "It's so boring! Daoist, when will you finish copying?"

"It's more than half, and you can leave after eating and copying for more than half an hour. Zhang Yuanwai's family is quite generous, even dinner is taken care of for him."

He took a few mouthfuls from his rice bowl, and then fed Abo a few more mouthfuls. He suddenly missed the dishes Yuan Yao cooked for him.Yuan Yao and the others should be faster than him, but they should still be on the road at this time, eating and sleeping like him.Thinking about it this way, he felt that he was not alone.

After the meal, he moved his arms and began to copy the scriptures again, and soon reached the last paragraph.After he finished copying the scriptures, his mood improved a lot, and he said with emotion: "The Buddhist scriptures are well written. All conditioned dharmas are like dreams and bubbles, like dew or electricity, and should be viewed in this way. What if I got a strange Taoist name? If I can change my Taoist name, I will be called... Daoist Rumeng, Daoist Monroe?"

Abo gave him a blank look, and said, "Why do I feel more ugly? Let's call it Qizhi, the stupid ones are cute."

Tao Xinian dragged Abo out and pressed him on the table, almost crushing him into a cake.Abo kept begging for mercy, but when he heard footsteps coming from afar, he quickly silenced and hid in Tao Xinian's sleeve.Tao Xinian stood up, packed up the pens and paper, and rolled up the scriptures.As for the copy he had just copied, he put it on the table to dry, and waited for the accountant to come over to check it.

The accountant knocked on the door, came over to examine the scriptures, stroked his beard and nodded, and said, "Although the handwriting is a bit scribbled, it's okay. Here are your forty essays."

Tao Xinian collected the money, thanked him, and went to the backyard to lead Huahua to the gate of Zhang's mansion.This is the first time he has earned money by himself. Although there are only 58 Wen in total, it is enough for him to stay in a restaurant twice and eat two meals.

It was getting dark and the lights were just coming on. He walked slowly along the main street, looking for a cheap inn, but he came to a lively street market.He looked up and saw countless women in cool clothes, waving to welcome guests.He widened his eyes, could it be that this is Huajie?

Abo smelled the smell of powder, and asked in a low voice, "What's so strange? It's delicious!"

Tao Xinian was about to go in another direction, but he heard the song "Feng Qiuhuang" not far away.His eyes lit up, and he looked for the sound of the piano and walked there.

The author has something to say: Comrades, someone has something to do tomorrow, and the manuscript depositor was also killed, so I asked for a day off, please forgive me! _(:з」∠)_The next day will continue to be updated around 21:13, please support us!Thank you to the little angels who threw thunder and left comments, I love you~