Chapter 19 -19
It turned out that he was also a pauper, and I was also a pauper. I felt my waist straightening up all of a sudden. I asked casually: "You are a big man, so poor, how can you live?"
He laughed and said to me contemptuously: "You dare to laugh at me? Well, today I will get back a hundred silver dollars before noon."
I laughed, and I said, "I have seen someone who can brag, but I have never seen someone who can brag to your level."
He said, "Do you dare to underestimate the master of physiognomy? OK, after dawn, follow me, don't say a word, see how a hundred silver dollars can be put into my pocket before noon."
This person is Ling Guangzu. His mother gave birth to him, and his father named him Guangzu for the purpose of Guangzu. He is a master of physiognomy who cheated and deceived. His ancestors were really shining.
Bodhi is very taboo to say stealing, and he calls stealing withdrawal. He said that there are countless money in the world, and they are always circulating in people's hands. You can take it from others, and I can take it from you. Money is not born to whom, so it is reasonable for me to take it from others, because you are also taken from others.
Ling Guangzu was not afraid of his own fraud at all. He said that his money was cheated from others. He believed that everything in the world was actually a word for fraud. Marriage is a deceptive. Before marriage, it was exposed after marriage. As for arranged marriages, it was a complete deception. Friendship is a deception. Couple with rice and flour, friends with wine and meat, no wine or meat, no use value, who is a friend with you? Family affection is also a deception. The father pretends to be a fake in front of his children.
Disguising as a gentleman, the child pretends to be a good child in front of his father. As for interactions with other people, he is deceiving everywhere. Officials pretending to be public and private pockets and secretly feeding their own pockets is deceiving; officers make soldiers act as cannon fodder for promotion, which is deceiving... Everything in the world is deceiving; everyone in the world is a liar, and the big liar sits on the temple, with five or six people, accepting worship from others; the little liar is busy all day long, nodding and bowing at people, just for a bowl of rice.
Ling Guangzu asked me: "Let me tell me now, who is not cheating in the world?"
I thought about it and said, "Yes, they are all liars."
Ling Guangzu said: "Everyone is a liar, but no one admits that he is a liar. Only I admit that he is a liar, so I am the most open-minded person in the world."
I said, "I want to cheat, but I don't know how to cheat."
Ling Guangzu said: "You have made eyeliners before. You will continue to make my eyeliners in the future. Follow me and make sure you can enjoy delicious food and drink spicy food."
I said, "That's great."
That night, we said it was very late in the temple, and we fell asleep at dawn.
When I woke up, the sun was already rising very high. I remembered what Ling Guangzu said last night. He said he would get 100 silver dollars before noon today. Now there is not much time left before noon. How can he get it?
When Ling Guangzu saw me awake, he walked in calmly from outside the temple gate. He said leisurely like a poet, "The east is bright, the west is dark, and the clouds are thick. A great disaster will come soon."
I didn't take his words, and I asked on purpose: "How long will it take to noon now?"
Ling Guangzu said: "It's early, I know what you want to say. Didn't you just get back one hundred silver dollars at noon? Don't you believe me?"
I said, "Where did you get the silver dollar?"
He said: "The secrets of heaven cannot be revealed."
I got up from the incense table and thought that he would urge me to go out, but he actually said, "There is an incense burner in front of the temple and a well behind the temple. Clean the incense burner, put water on it, set firewood to boil it, drink plenty of water before going out."
I said, "I'm hungry, I don't want to drink water, I just want to eat."
He said: "I also want to eat. I promise to let you eat after noon and eat whatever you want. Now I still use hot water to fill my stomach."
In order to be able to eat his food after noon, I quickly did it according to his and boiled half of the incense burner to boil water.
After we filled our stomachs with hot water, we went out. After walking to a street and alley, Ling Guangzu asked me to wait for him at the entrance of the alley. I was afraid that he would run away, so I insisted on following him. He said, "I'll go to the house of a rich family. Look at your clothes. You don't have to ask, just beggars. Will they let you in?"
I looked at the new and brand-name cotton coat and pants on Ling Guangzu, and the hairstyle that Ling Guangzu used to paint with water, and felt ashamed. I said, "You can't leave me alone."
Ling Guangzu said disdainfully: "One hundred silver dollars is so big, I'm still waiting for you to carry it for me."
Ling Guangzu walked into the streets and alleys, and I stood at the entrance of the streets and alleys to watch.
The alley was curved that day. After I looked at it for a while, I couldn't see Ling Guangzu's back. A few children as old as me came to the alley. When they saw me, they threw stones at me, called me a beggar, and I threw stones at them. But there were many people and I couldn't stand it, and they chased me and ran around the streets.
Later, I guess the children had gone far away, so I found a way to the streets and alleys. As soon as I arrived at the streets and alleys, I saw Ling Guangzu standing there. He threw a white cloth pocket to me and said enthusiastically: "One hundred silver dollars, no more, no less, I will carry it for me."
I looked up at the sun, and it had not yet risen to the top of my head, which means it was no more than noon.
I opened the white cloth pocket and saw that there were indeed white silver dollars inside. I asked in surprise: "Who gave it?"
Ling Guangzu said: "It is not advisable to say much about this place. Go to the best restaurant first."
The best hotel in the county is actually a two-story building facing the street. At that time, people in the county only had two meals a day, and lunch was not the time to eat, so when we walked in during this period, the hotel was empty.
We found a window facing the street and sat down here, overlooking the pedestrians coming and going on the street, and also seeing buildings in the distance, including the top of the Chenghuang Temple where we slept last night.
As soon as I sat down, I asked anxiously: "Who gave you so many silver dollars? Are you your relative?"
Ling Guangzu smiled and said, "Relatives? Relatives are all used by each other. If you can use you, you are a relative; if you don't use you, you are not a relative. Relatives are the most snobbish people in the world."
I asked, "Who gave that?"
Ling Guangzu said: "It's a long story."
The waiter brought tea fruits to the table, which were a small plate of small fruits and a small plate of sunflower seeds. When I saw the small fruits, I saw them shining and grabbed a handful and put them in my stomach. The small fruits were small doughs, smaller than fingernails. They were fried in oil and dipped in fried white sesame seeds, and they became a very delicious pastry snack.
Ling Zuguang said: "This is the highest-end hotel in the county. Look at your starving ghost, how can you not be laughed at?"
I looked around and saw two waiters pointing at us, covering their mouths and laughing. It must be laughing at me, and my face suddenly turned red.
Ling Guangzu, like me, didn't eat for a whole night and a half, but he was very calm, pressing his thighs against his legs, picked up a small fruit with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, and glanced at the waiter with an arrogant look. Ling Guangzu said, "Remember, from now on, you will be a rich man, you have to come like a rich man. After dinner, you will buy you new clothes and throw away this rotten skin."
I nodded happily and said yes.
I asked, "Who gave so much money?"
Ling Guangzu glanced around and saw that there was no one around, so he said slowly: "There is a Rende Lane in this county town. There is an old man Gao living in the alley. Old man Gao is rich, but he always has a heart disease and has no descendants. Old man Gao married a young man when he was fifty and finally gave birth to a son, but this son was epilepsy."
The child brought two plates of stir-frying dishes, one plate of onion, one plate of spicy and sour cabbage, and another plate of steamed buns. Ling Guangzu took a small bit of steamed bun and picked up a piece of onion. I also imitated him. Although my belly cheered like a piece of meat when I saw the slices of meat, I could only hold onions and pretend that I didn't like to eat meat.
Ling Guangzu continued: "In order to cure the epilepsy of his only son, Mr. Gao went to many places, went to Beijing and went to Nanjing, and used various folk remedies, but they were not cured. Mr. Gao later said, who can cure his son's epilepsy, is willing to give out a wealth of wealth."
When I heard this, I said wisely: "I understand, you have cured the old man's son's epilepsy."
Ling Guangzu said: "If I could heal, I wouldn't have sat here and eaten fried pork with you with onions."
I asked, "Why is that? Has anyone cured?"
Ling Guangzu did not answer my words, but he still said slowly: "I knew about Mr. Gao's heart disease three years ago, so I started to pay attention to him three years ago. However, I have not looked for him in the past three years, and I only went to find him this morning."
I asked, "How did you find him? Why did he give you one hundred silver dollars?"
Ling Guangzu said: "This morning, I walked into Mr. Gao's house and I told him a fortune telling. I said he had a heart disease that had been for many years. I know what it was. He said that I said that this heart disease was your old son's epilepsy. He said it was true, but I don't know how to cure it. I said that this disease cannot be cured by medicine. You see, you have been to so many places and seen for so many lives, and my son's condition has not improved at all. I have a way to get rid of the root of the disease for you. He asked me what method I had. I said that your son had epilepsy because someone laid a curse in your house. Since your son was born, he was bewitched by this curse, so he had epilepsy. He asked where the curse was, and I said I needed to find it."
I asked, "Is there really a curse? How do you know where it is?"
Ling Guangzu did not answer me, and he said, "I walked in front, Old Master Gao was walking behind, we walked in a circle in his yard. Finally, we came to the back of his yard wall. I pointed to the weed pile behind the yard wall and said, "It's below, there is a sheep's head buried under this, so your son is crazy." Old Master Gao and his servants didn't believe it. The weeds are covered with lush and lush here, and it doesn't look like someone has dug it. I said, "No problem, dig three feet and there will be a sheep's head. Take out the sheep's head and get rid of the disease." Old Master Gao asked his servant to dig three feet and found a rotten sheep's head."
I asked, "How come there is a sheep's head? How come there is a sheep's head?"
Ling Guangzu still didn't answer me. He said, "When he got back in the house, Mr. Gao asked me what kind of reward I wanted. I said I only had 100 silver dollars. When the child recovered from illness, the amount of reward would be as much as you would. Mr. Gao readily asked his servants to give him 100 silver dollars."
I couldn't wait to say, "You haven't said how could there be a sheep head behind the wall of Mr. Gao's yard?"
Ling Guangzu said calmly: "That was buried three years ago."
I said, "Why do you need to use it for three years? I won't it take a year? I buried it last year and washed it this year."
Ling Guangzu said: "Do you think Mr. Gao is a fool? Do you think the money of rich people is so easy to deceive? Anyone who can become rich is the most powerful among people. They are more knowledgeable than poor people and smarter than poor people. It is even more difficult to deceive them. However, as long as the right medicine is prescribed and there is no flaw left, you will not have to worry about not being able to deceive them."
Ling Guangzu paused and said, "Think about it, bury the sheep's head in the deep pit behind the courtyard wall and fill it up. No matter what, as long as you move the soil layer, you will leave traces. The soil color on the deep pit is obviously fresher than other places, and you can see at a glance that you have to wait. In the second year, grass will grow on the deep pit and leaves fall, but you still have to wait because these grasses are obviously different from the grass next to them, with thin stems and leaves. In the third year, a layer of dead grass is covered with dead grass, and new grass in the second year. A layer of green moss on the soil that is exactly the same as the next, and a layer of fallen leaves floating in the wind on the moss. At this time, there is no difference between the pit and the next. When digging, no one suspects that you dug it in advance."
I thought about it and said, "It takes 300 to 60 professions, and everything is knowledgeable. But it takes three years to cheat 100 silver dollars, which is a bit too long."
Ling Guangzu said: "You dare to underestimate me, OK, I will cheat you some money tomorrow."
I asked: "How much does it cost to cheat?"
Ling Guangzu said: "It's hard to predict, but it's guaranteed to be a big deal, which will convince you."
Seeing him so arrogant, I deliberately said, "If you can cheat a lot of money at this time tomorrow, I will always listen to you, I will do whatever you ask me to do."
Chapter completed!