Apart from other things, this Taoist priest's appearance is really intimidating, making people think he is a real immortal with white hair and a youthful face, who has achieved great success in practicing Taoism.
As a result, such a person actually kneeled down as soon as he was told to!
Li Qingzhi found it somewhat amusing—these swindlers were quite humble.
One of the Taoist's hands was held by Li Qingzhi, and in the other hand he held a few silver ingots, which were the ones he had just earned.
Li Qingzhi took back the largest piece and put it in his arms, then said: "You'd better stop lying to others in the future, or you'll get beaten."
The Taoist priest smiled at Li Qingzhi and said, "Master Juren, I know I was wrong. I will never lie to you again!"
He said this, but actually... he couldn't help cursing in his heart!
The Taoist's surname was Lu, and his name was Lu Mingshan.
His family was poor, so his parents sent him to a dyeing workshop as an apprentice when he was seven years old.
The dyeing workshop was not big. It was run by a family named Zhang, and all the people dyeing cloth there were members of the Zhang family.
The old man of the Zhang family had four sons, and each of them started their own family and career, and together they had more than twenty grandchildren...
There are more than 30 people in the Zhang family. The four brothers are fighting with each other. They all want to learn the old man's craftsmanship and inherit the dyeing workshop...
They have no shortage of workers, and the cloth dyeing skills will not be taught to outsiders. They recruit apprentices purely to find a free laborer.
After Lu Mingshan arrived at the Zhang family, he was required to do all kinds of odd jobs, help with washing clothes, cooking and taking care of children. He had to get up early and go to bed late without a moment of free time. If he didn't do his job well, he would be scolded and reprimanded.
Fortunately, he was quite smart. In the "big melting pot" of the Zhang family, he learned to read people's expressions and please a few members of the Zhang family. So he lived a decent life.
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He was still young and lived one day at a time without thinking about the future. However, he did not expect that when he was twelve years old, a grandchild of the Zhang family got into a fight and stabbed someone to death in a fit of rage.
The Zhang family wanted him to take the blame.
Of course he was unwilling, but his parents accepted the money from the Zhang family, agreed, and persuaded him to confess.
If he confessed, he would die! He pretended to agree, and then ran away when he found an opportunity.
After escaping, he met a swindler, who brought him into a swindler gang and made him worship their ancestors.
At that time, they were active in a prefectural city. All the scammers in this prefectural city had to listen to Zuye, otherwise he would kill them. All the money they had cheated had to be handed over to Zuye, and then Zuye would give them some money depending on the situation.
He was young and good-looking, so his grandfather trained him specially and taught him some cheating tricks so that he could make more money.
Of course, if he didn't learn well, Grandpa would beat him to pieces.
Lu Mingshan followed his grandfather for six years. He learned how to read, learned many tricks to cheat people, and also cheated a lot of money.
If they failed to cheat money, they would be taught a lesson by their grandfather. At that time, as long as Lu Mingshan did not learn the tricks of cheating, he would either be cheating money or on the way to cheating money.
He cheated my mother out of the money she had worked so hard to raise for my son's education, and he also cheated my son out of the money he had intended to use to buy a pig for his father's medical treatment.
Taught by his grandfather, he pretended to be a young master of a wealthy family and went to other places to swindle thousands of taels of silver.