But he said that these three hosts who were invited for some reason were naturally the three most famous ones. Since everyone was treating them, the three of them naturally didn't want to shirk and hurriedly invited the young master to take a seat.
After the young master sat down, he couldn't wait to say: "My name is Tao Yu, and I am about to die. I have found many capable people and have no choice but to ask three immortal masters to save my life!" The short young man among the three said: "I'll save you!" Please tell me your birth date."
After learning the horoscopes, the short young man counted them with his fingers. The three of them looked at each other, and the young man said, "It is indeed a short life." Then he asked Tao Sheng, "Who asked you to come to us?" Tao Sheng told the story of Qingfeng Temple and the Taoist boy, and the three of them told each other. They both looked at each other and smiled. The young man carrying the sword touched his chin and said to himself: "Does Zhang Tianshi think that the three of us have been idle for too long?"
When the sword-bearing young man said this, he thought for a while and said, "Sixth Master did say that we can save someone, but he didn't say who. Now that Master Zhang has come forward, it is reasonable to change Brother Tao's fate." The young martial artist among the three people asked Tao Sheng: "If you become an official in high school through the imperial examination, will you be an upright official?" Tao Sheng quickly knelt down, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said: "If you win the title of Toad Palace in the future, you will definitely be honest and upright! If you violate this oath, you will be reduced to a beast for generations to come, without any complaints..."
Tao Sheng wanted to say something more, but the young man with the sword interrupted him and said, "Come here, I will teach you how to survive the disaster." Tao Sheng approached the young man and saw him tapping Tao Sheng's forehead with his finger. Then he said: "From today on, if someone says to you, 'Hold me!' you don't care what the situation is, just hug me. If someone says 'Kiss me' again, you don't care what the situation is, just hug me and kiss him." Tao Shengyi Stupid, what does this mean? Why is this expert so unruly? But he still nodded, with the meaning of freedom and mastery. So keep it in mind!
After the results were released, Tao Sheng naturally lost his reputation. Thinking that the next subject would take another three years, I had to go home and study hard to prepare for the next subject. So I bid farewell to my uncle and embarked on my return journey.
In fact, there is another reason why Tao Sheng is eager to go home, that is, before he came out to take the exam, his wife was already pregnant with Liujia, and the birth date was in the near future, so Tao Sheng was eager to return home!
This rush to get on the road often leads to miscalculation. It rained unexpectedly while Tao Sheng was on his way. Although it was not heavy, it seemed to get dark early in the mountains, and he missed Sutou. Tao Sheng trudged forward with difficulty, one step deeper and the other shallow. I could vaguely see a few thatched huts on the hillside ahead. Tao Sheng thought that he could only stay here.
Thinking of this, I ran towards those huts. After knocking on the door, it took a long time for the courtyard door to open a crack. Tao Sheng looked inside and saw a little girl in white clothes. She timidly asked, "Who are you?" Tao Sheng clasped his fists and said, "Please tell your family, I am a scholar who has returned from taking exams and I am staying here."
The little girl shouted inside: "Dad, Mom! We are staying here!" Then she heard the voice inside: "Please come in!" The little girl invited Tao Sheng into the house and closed the door. Inside the hut, a young woman in white brought Tao Sheng into the house. Let him go into the side room, light the oil lamp, and say: "There is firewood and fire on the stove. Master, you can dry your clothes and have a rest early." After that, a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Only then did Tao Sheng realize that both this woman and the little girl who opened the door were both pale. Seeing this woman under the lamp, she looked very handsome, but Tao Sheng was not very afraid. I heard a man coughing in the main room, and the woman hurried back to the house after hearing it.
Tao Sheng looked at the house. It was a very ordinary farmhouse. There was a fire pit, a long table on the ground, and an old album under the oil lamp. Tao Sheng picked up the album. On it was a story recorded in small regular script. It roughly meant that a village escaped from the south and set up a village to reclaim the wasteland. The patriarch's daughter fell in love with an Orion boy from another village. While the two were dating, the girl was attacked by a monkey.
The young man shot the monkey to death in desperation, not thinking that it was the 'magic monkey' brought from the south by his village. If you kill the 'god' of your clan, the young man will be executed. A woman having an affair with a young man also violated the clan rules. On the day the young man was executed, the girl was also tied to the scene and watched the young man being burned to death. The young man coughed and struggled violently in the fire and smoke, and the girl fainted at that time. Later, the girl's beauty soon faded away.
After reading the story on this album, Tao Sheng thought to himself: "There have never been monkeys in Wujing territory. Where did they escape from the famine and bring monkeys with them?" Thinking in his mind, he had to relieve himself. I got up and opened the door to take a look. It had stopped raining outside and the yard was full of weeds. Tao Shengxin said: "This family is really lazy. Why don't they weed the yard?" He didn't know where the toilet was, so he couldn't care less, so he settled in the grass. After finishing the matter, he saw that the lights in the east and west rooms of the main house were still on. With the light from the lamps, Tao Sheng looked around carefully. Under the weeds in front of you, there are small mounds of soil, which are graves! Tao Sheng had goosebumps all over his body at that time!
Looking towards the west room from a distance, there are two people, one big and one small, under the shadow of the lamp. I wonder what they are doing! Tao Sheng walked towards the main room by accident and saw the young woman combing the little girl's hair. When Tao Sheng came in, the imperceptible smile appeared at the corner of her mouth again.
He just heard the woman say: "Hold me!" Tao Sheng's hair stood on end, but he suddenly remembered the instructions of the young man carrying the sword, and without caring much, he went over and hugged the woman. The woman said without hesitation: "Kiss me." Tao Sheng gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, lowered his head and kissed the woman directly on her neck. At that time, Tao Sheng saw a lip mark on the woman's neck where he had kissed her! Then nothing was known.
When Tao Sheng woke up, he found that he was sleeping on the kang in the west room of the main room, and there was no one in the room. He got up and hurried to the side room to pack his things and said goodbye in a hurry. The woman and the little girl sent him out. The woman said, "Goodbye, father." The little girl also said, "Goodbye, grandpa."
Tao Sheng returned home in a panic. As soon as he arrived in the village, a villager congratulated him: "Your wife has given birth to a pair of twins, a dragon and a phoenix. Mother and child are safe!" Tao Sheng rushed home and picked up the child. He was shocked to find that there was a baby on his daughter's neck. Lip print!
Only then did Tao Sheng realize that he was destined to die in that cemetery. The master cast a spell on his forehead to let the ghost see that he was her father after birth. Tao Sheng sighed and felt lost, thinking that maybe in his previous life, he might have been the patriarch in the story in that book. Recalling the questions asked by those three benefactors, I should work hard and achieve fame, so that I can live up to the high expectations of the immortal master!
From then on, Tao Sheng studied hard and passed the provincial examination in the next subject and the Jinshi in the general examination.
Let’s talk about Baodi County, which is boundless to the west. The terrain of Baodi County is low-lying and floods occur frequently. There is a carpenter family in the county whose surname is Lu and whose name is Lu Guangyou. The carpenter Lu makes a living by making coffins, barely making ends meet.
One day, a well-dressed official came to order a cypress coffin. When he woke up, he found that it was Nan Ke Yimeng.
The next day, Lu Guangfa purchased cypress wood to prepare for production. When his wife saw that no one was making orders, Lu Guangfa wanted to save materials, so she asked him what was going on. He told his wife what he had dreamed about, and she said angrily: "You drank too much. The cost of cypress wood is so high. You built this coffin first. If no one buys it, who will you sell it to? You are also dreaming about it." Do you believe it? Did someone give you money in the dream?"
Lu Guangfa was a loyal man. Since he had promised something, he would definitely do it whether it was a dream or a reality. So I didn't listen to that at all. Not only did I build it with my heart, I also painted it carefully and drew the twenty-four filial piety pictures. After it's done, take it outside the hospital and wait for someone to pick it up.
But at the time set by the man in the dream, there was still no one to buy the coffin. It was almost noon when several horses came running past. When the horse saw a big red coffin in the street, he was frightened and jumped up. Riding a horse is not like riding a bicycle, and being frightened can be fatal. Lu Guangfa was immediately knocked out by the frightened horse, and he ran out of energy at that time!
Lu Guangfa's wife burst into tears when she saw her husband was killed, and stopped the horses to prevent them from leaving. After hearing the news, the neighbors and villagers came over and stopped several people on horseback from leaving!
It turned out that these people on horseback were the county magistrate Li Mao and several officers, who were rushing to the river to pick up the censor who came by boat. If he were to be obstructed by the people on ordinary days, he would definitely display his lustful power. But today was different. A royal censor was nearby, fearing that more trouble would occur. Moreover, his own cavalry had killed someone and was in a hurry.
Several messengers hurriedly took out a thousand-tael silver note and handed it to Lu Guangfa's wife. They hastily finished the matter so that they could concentrate on welcoming the censor.