I'm just an ordinary Taoist priest

Chapter 131

Luzhou City has just woken up at this moment, and only a few woodcutters and hunters have left the city.

Gu Yao and Lao Dao walked slowly into the city, watching here curiously.

"Luzhou City is adjacent to Chaohu Lake, and the Nanfei River flows through the city. The scenery is beautiful and the climate is good. Therefore, I have stayed here for about 30 years."

The old Taoist said with some nostalgia: "I lost everything back then and wandered around the world like a lonely ghost. I couldn't face Lin'an Mansion. Although Pingjiang Mansion is beautiful, I can't get used to Wu Nong's soft words there."

"Ying Tian Mansion is too thick, so he went around and went around, and finally became a quack warlock here, relying on selling tiger bone wine and other things, and living in a muddle."

"Look, this is a hundred-year-old store, and the wine it sells is the strongest and purest I've ever tasted."

He stopped and pointed to a wine shop by the side of the road.

The wine shop had just opened. A middle-aged man was struggling to remove the door panel and dragged out his belongings from the house. A strong smell of wine was already wafting out.

Gu Yao took a look at the old man's eager look, smiled slightly, walked over, bought a jar of wine and threw it to the old man.

"Old man, are you still drinking? Why haven't I seen you drinking before?"

"How many of those who come out to travel can live without drinking?"

The old man laughed, and just stuffed the wine into his robe: "When I took you around, I spent all my money to buy medicinal materials. Where did I get the money to buy wine?"

"After I got a home, Jin Feng in the village said again, my drinking is not good for you, little baby, and it will make you a little alcoholic, so I had to quit."

Is the house you keep talking about with me, or with the village chief's mother-in-law?
Gu Yao glanced at the old man, but didn't dare to say anything, and followed him immediately, continuing to move forward.

"The doctor in this medical clinic is a wonderful person. His medical skills are really superb, but he rarely makes a move. Every time he makes a move, he needs three taels of silver."

The old Taoist stopped suddenly: "At the beginning, I sent your mother to see the wound, but I couldn't get out the silver, but at the door, the doctor accidentally dropped three taels of silver on the bottom of my feet."

"That's not a bad rule, I'll cure it for your mother."

"Later, I secretly left a talisman on his plaque to drive away ghosts and kill evil spirits. It is still there today."

Gu Yao nodded: "This doctor probably didn't expect that when he was doing good deeds every day, he accidentally picked up a treasure. The talisman you drew, old man, should be able to protect their family for hundreds of years."

"Who knows."

The old Taoist glanced at the plaque, and nodded his chin forward: "The front is your grandfather's house, and I don't know what it looks like now."

His tone cooled down.

Gu Yao took a few steps forward curiously, and saw two lifelike tall stone lions placed at the door, and a golden-red door on five steps.

"Zhou Mansion."

Gu Yao glanced at the plaque, and remembered how the old man treated that jasper before.

"My biological father, surnamed Zhou, and Biyu, the chief's disciple?"

The old man walked slowly, looked up at the plaque and said, "Yes, if you had chosen another one before, I would have ground you into ashes and stuffed it into the cesspit here."

"As for that jasper, I looked at his eyebrows and eyes, which resembled you when you were a child. I thought it was from your mother, but I didn't expect it to be from your biological father."

He stretched out his hand and stroked the stone lion: "As for your biological father, let's talk about it together when we see your grandfather. We must give them a sense of participation."

"Back then I smashed two stone lions into it, and actually set up two better ones. It seems that Zhou's family is also very lucky. That Jasper was not here back then, but was later favored by the chief, but it was also a great success. gone."

He withdrew his hand, and the stone lion turned into a puddle of powder.

Gu Yao swallowed, the old way's heart seems smaller than he thought.

"Let's go, you took your mother's surname, it's a small family, it can't compare to this place."

The old man strode forward, but when he passed another stone lion, he turned it over and stuck his head into the ground.

"Just remind them, you must remember what you did back then."

Gu Yao followed quickly.

The old Taoist seemed to be in a bad mood because of seeing the Zhou Mansion. He turned left and right all the way, and came to a small courtyard: "That's where I met your mother and biological father for the first time."

With that said, he gave Gu Yao a hand.

Then he explained in Gu Yao's eyes that dared not speak out: "You know me, I pay more attention to the smoothness of the heart, and I just found out that you look a bit like him, and I feel very uncomfortable if you don't hit me. "

Gu Yao: "."

"Your mother's family is a businessman. I don't even remember what kind of business it is. I just remember that it's nearby." The old man walked around in this area, circled around several times, and finally found a remote small yard.

When the door was knocked open, it was a middle-aged woman, her clothes were covered with patches, and she said with a smile on her face, "But do you need to dye and do laundry?"

The old Taoist shook his head: "It's just an old friend, I'm here to see you."

"An old friend?" The woman was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed at herself: "The Taoist priest is joking, how can there be any old friends in our family?"

The old man said with a smile: "Go and tell your parents that I have lost the baby for 16 years, and now I have brought it back to them."

"16 years?!" The woman's complexion changed drastically, her smile disappeared completely, and the door was closed tightly.

The old Taoist's complexion also sank: "The Gu family was quite rich back then. When I left, I obviously took all the responsibilities away. No one knew that this was involved."

Gu Yao comforted: "Don't think about it, maybe it's just a simple business loss."

While speaking, the door opened again.

Standing at the front was a tall, thin, silver-haired old man. His clothes were also patched and his hands were still stained with red and yellow fuel.

Behind him stood eight people, both young and old, the youngest was no more than knee-high, ignorant and ignorant of anything, just staring outside.

It's just that they all look different.

The older ones looked excited, the middle-aged ones looked resentful, and the younger ones had anger written all over their faces.

"Master Shanyuan?" The old man at the front recognized the old man at a glance, and grabbed his arm, "It's been 16 years, and you haven't changed at all."

"What about him, what about him, is it him?"

"It's him, it's him, the eyes, the nose, the ears, the shape of the face, even the eyebrows are the same as Nianqiu."

Nianqiu, is that my mother's name?
Gu Yao was immediately stared at by everyone, and immediately showed a silly smile.

When the old man saw Gu Yao, he immediately let go of his old way, rushed over, grabbed Gu Yao and looked at him carefully, and an old woman and a middle-aged man came from behind, looking at Gu Yao's excited expression, he was about to cry.

"It's really good, it's good."

The old man held Gu Yao's hand, patted his shoulder, and kept saying how nice it was.

Gu Yao didn't know what to do, so he could only smile like this without saying anything.

When the mood calmed down, he took the two of them into the courtyard.

As soon as he entered, the old man's brows twitched into a ball.

This courtyard is small and dirty, there are only three rooms, but there are nine people living there, which is dozens of times worse than the Taoist temple.

A group of people stood in the yard, and it was difficult to even sit down.

"Old man, what have the Gu family encountered in the past few years? I remember that they were very rich back then?"

After exchanging pleasantries, the old Taoist asked.

Without waiting for the old man to answer, the woman who opened the door at first was furious: "Isn't it thanks to Gu Nianqiu's blessings, all these years?"

"Okay!" The old man immediately interrupted, "Master Dao, it's just that the business is not going well, and it's just losing money one after another."

"How can there be such a problem, the Zhou family because of..."

The old man said with a gloomy face, "How dare the Zhou family trouble you?"

Seeing that the words have been spoken, the old man sighed: "There is a child in the Zhou family, who was worshiped into the Jingye Division about 12 years ago. He has a high status. Originally, the Zhou family was a mouse in the gutter. branch."

"After that, all kinds of weird things happened. The clothes dyed by our family would always change color inexplicably, and the clothes sent by others would become smelly and rotten after being taken properly."

"Afterwards, a fire burned everything down, and we lost all our money, so we had to make ends meet."

The middle-aged woman added: "Originally our family has been in Luzhou for so long, and we wanted to start other businesses, and everyone was willing to help us, but the Zhou family said that we offended the city god, who will help us, the city god Whoever is going to be punished, that's... alas."

Others also talked about the hardships of these years.

Talking and talking, after sighing, the face of the old man has turned black into the bottom of the pot.

Until a woman who was about the same age as Gu Yao suddenly lost control of her emotions, pointing at Gu Yao and shouting: "We have already suffered so much because of you and your mother, why do you come back?"

"Do you know that if the Zhou family finds out when you come back, they will think of more ruthless ways to bully me?"

"Our family can only buy rotten vegetables when we go out to buy vegetables. If you are seen, we don't even have to eat rotten vegetables."

"You have grown so handsomely, why did you come back?"

The middle-aged man's face changed: "Lian'er, what are you talking about! These things have nothing to do with your brother!"

"Obviously it's their business, it's obvious! Gu Nianqiu hung up on the rich man who didn't like her, and he was about to die. He was also very happy. The robe he was wearing was clean, and he still smelled of alcohol. Dad has always wanted to drink the wine that he can only hide at the base of the wall and take a few breaths every day!"

The woman stood up, a little hysterical: "The wine is five taels of silver for a pot. Our family can save it for a year without eating or drinking. I haven't worn new clothes in all these years."

"It's obviously their fault, why should we come to atone for it? Why can he still come to my house like this, looking calm?"

"Why?"

"Why!"

The courtyard fell silent for a while.

The old man didn't know what to say, but the woman turned her head and went into the house after scolding.

The middle-aged man came to Gu Yao's side: "Nianqiu's baby, don't worry about it, Lian'er is just talking in a moment of anger, you."

Gu Yao put away the smile on his face, and held his hand: "I understand, it's my mother and I who are sorry for you."

"I will solve this matter, and let me see how amazing my biological father's family is."

"Don't be impulsive!" These words frightened the middle-aged man, and he grabbed Gu Yao.

Seeing that many people left, the old man moved a few short dirty stools, wiped the surface of the stools with his sleeves: "Sit down and talk, I should have invited you to dinner, you have also seen the situation in our house , just sit down and go."

"Don't come back in the future, the Zhou family is powerful, it's hard to say what to do to you."

He said and looked at the old Taoist who had been silent for a long time: "Daoist Shanyuan, you are a person with great supernatural powers. You are fair and clean, and your spirit is also good. You must have put a lot of thought into it, so I will entrust it to you in the future. Don't come here again, we can see this child before we die, and we can rest in peace."

He sighed.

The old man didn't answer.

After a while, the old Taoist raised his head: "This is the fault of the poor Taoist, and the poor Taoist will solve it."

He pointed at Gu Yao: "I didn't tell him his life experience. Now that he is here, I should make it clear and let him know that he still has relatives. I will not be here in the future, and he is not a man with nowhere to go. weed."

"Eighteen years ago, your mother Gu Nianqiu met your father Zhou Jing."

"The Zhou family is a family of officials and eunuchs, but the Gu family is a businessman. It's not the right family, you understand?"

The status of merchants in Dazhou was not high. The most obvious thing was that merchants were not allowed to take the imperial examination.

The old Taoist looked up at the sky: "I don't know how they met, but I know that Zhou Jingchang is handsome and has a good family background. He was sixteen years old and still unmarried. It was his mother who wanted him to marry a princess."

"Zhou Jing is a playboy. He deceived many girls with his sweet words before, and finally he let go with his own power, until he met your mother."

"Your mother also knew that there was no result with him, so she hid far away, but she didn't know what happened, but finally came together, and she was determined."

"Your mother is a tough kid."

The old man looked at Gu Yao: "I'm as stubborn as you. I know that I'm facing an abyss and there are better ways to choose, but I still want to go on."

He meant something.

Gu Yao immediately replied: "She saw the wrong person for a while, but in the end she entrusted her to a good person."

The old man interrupted: "In fact, Zhou Jing really wanted to marry Nianqiu at the beginning, and he came to my house, but his mother firmly refused, and he has always been filial."

Gu Yao curled his lips, what filial piety is, it's Ma Bao.

The old man looked away: "16 years ago, Zhoujing High School was favored by the royal family under the operation of his mother."

"Naturally, the royal family will send someone to check on the innocence and character of the family. Your mother will be in the way at this time."

"But your mother never backed down. Coincidentally, she was pregnant with you at that time."

"No one dares to claim the name of abandoning wife and son. Your biological father has no opinion, but your grandmother is cruel. She decided immediately, either to find a wild man for your mother, or let her disappear without a trace of splash." .”

Gu Yao's grandfather sighed at this moment: "Actually, Zhou Jing also came to my house at that time. I hope I can persuade Nianqiu to hide for a while. In the future, when he is his concubine, he will not be able to give a name, and he will not be able to see the light. He is willing to give everything."

What a classic quote from a scumbag, Gu Yao scolded his own father in his heart.

"But of course I refused. My daughter, I also feel distressed, but I didn't expect the Zhou family to be so crazy."

The old Taoist sneered: "Four months, thirteen assassinations, from mortal assassins to wild Mao evil ways, dare to use any means, old Taoist, I have opened my eyes."

"If it wasn't for Nianqiu's luck to meet the Daoist priest, I'm afraid he would have died somewhere in the corner." The old man sighed.

The old Taoist continued: "On the day of the Ghost Festival 16 years ago, I vaguely heard your mother calling for help. Following the sound, I realized that it was actually a separated soul calling me."

"Following the soul, I found your mother's body in the river."

"It was supposed to be fatal, but by coincidence, I saw that thing in her hand."

Looking at Gu Yao at a loss, the old Taoist reminded: "The thing in your body lived here for a while, and I wanted to forget the past, so I threw that half into the water. Your mother still laughed at me for fishing. She doesn't know how to make a nest, but she actually caught her."

"That thing caught your mother's breath, and it also gave you a life."

The voice of the old Taoist became very soft: "I brought her back to the ruined temple, she begged me to save your life, and you can probably guess what happened after that."

I am exactly the same as the ghost baby of the Zhao family.

No wonder Yinling trusted me so much, believing that I would definitely save that child.

It turns out that we are exactly the same.

It's just that I seem to be more miserable than him. After all, it is my own father and grandmother who want to kill our mother and son.

Gu Yao's fist was clenched unconsciously.

I'm sure about the graves of the Zhou family!

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