Tao and Heaven

Chapter 4 Yu Hua Visits
The next day, Gu Wen caught a cold.

I felt dizzy and my nose was running. I guess it was because I drank too much yesterday. Plus, my head was filled with water, and the cold wind blew, so I would have caught a cold.

Fortunately, Gu Wen's family was very wealthy and he had no shortage of money to hire a doctor to treat his illness. He lay on the bed, and the servants in the mansion called a famous doctor in the city. He listened to the old Chinese doctor with white hair and beard speaking professional terms that he did not understand, and then respectfully left the room.

The sound of the doctor and his servants talking could be heard outside the house, mostly about some precautions and how to decoct medicine.

Gu Wen doesn't need to pay attention to these things, otherwise why would he keep servants like them?
“This is wealth.”

Gu Wen sighed quietly. The ceiling was covered by delicate satin curtains. There was still a drizzle outside the window, which made people feel sleepy.

Having nothing makes people fearless, while having nothing makes people timid.

The various fortunes under his control could be converted into silver, if not 20,000 taels, at least 18,000 taels. Considering that the average annual income of a Daqian person was only 7 taels of silver, a family with 10 taels was considered well-off. The landlords and gentry in the countryside only had about 100 taels to spend, so this was already a family that had produced a juren.

Many landlords still needed to work in the fields, and those who no longer needed to farm had already entered the scholar class.

What can you do with 20,000 taels? It can allow you to live a life of luxury. It can allow you to buy a beautiful concubine every year. A few hundred taels of silver can buy one concubine for decades without spending even one tenth of it. This is the price in Bianjing. It will be even lower outside.

But you can also become a prisoner, and any eighth-rank official can take advantage of you.

It can be said that everything is inferior, only reading is superior, and only with fame and honor can one be considered half a human being.

Why not one?
Because even if he became a duke, he was just a dog of the Zhao family. The royal family was the real ruler of Daqian. If he fell from the womb to the golden basin, then he would never have it in this life.

In the past, countless top scholars would rather be a royal consort, and countless third place scholars would rather be than the top scholar.

The only way to become an immortal in this world is to practice!

A burning idea flashed through Gu Wen's mind, and he clenched his fists even though he had caught a cold and felt weak all over.

There is actually only one path before him now. If he does not want to become a fish on the chopping board in the future, he must seize this so-called opportunity to become an immortal and must grasp the ray of golden light in his mind.

【Destiny Red Dust Fairy】

[Ten years of Tiansui, no emperor's juice]

From what the immortal, Zhao Feng, and what he saw and heard in Bianjing City recently, it can be learned that Daqian is in a period similar to the revival of spiritual energy.

What is fate?
If the immortal fate is a treasure left by the predecessors, then the fate should be the upper limit of what I can achieve. The message conveyed by his fate is to know the destiny and ascend to immortality, but the prerequisite is to gather "the ten thousand years of heavenly marrow and the ten thousand years of emperor's juice".

The Emperor's juice is unknown, but the Heavenly Marrow should be the elixir given by the fairy. One pill lasts for ten years, and he needs a thousand similar pills.

In other words, you can’t become immortal just by lying down.

He now has a stepping stone, but he is still just an ordinary person, at least he does not have much power to seize opportunities.

"I still need to stay in the palace, stay by Zhao Feng's side, and stay by that immortal's side. I still need to please them, and still need to be humble."

Gu Wen pursed his lips, then closed his eyes and let the pride brought by his destiny of becoming an immortal sink deep into his heart. That was the only pride he had in the past four years.

He would be proud of the heights he might reach in the future, but he also knew clearly that he was not yet an immortal. At least for now he was still a house slave. He also did not mind continuing to be humble and pretend to be harmless. As long as this humbleness could give him enough rewards in the future, everything would be worth it.

Today, Gu Wen can comfort himself with the saying, "When God wants to confer a great responsibility on a man, he must first test his mind and spirit." He recites it silently several times in his heart to calm his restless heart.

He knew that at this moment, he should stay calm and must not make any mistakes.

Gu Wen couldn't help but laugh as he thought about it, "I really don't know how lucky I am. I only know a few poems and some experience in market management, but I haven't learned any other knowledge that is necessary for time travel."

He is a student of liberal arts, but he has never copied poems to gain fame and fortune since he traveled through time, because he is afraid that his mediocre skills will be discovered and cause trouble. There are many ancient literatures, and it is not enough to just know a few poems. Moreover, scholars like to compete. If he takes out a "Shui Tiao Ge Tou" today, someone will come to arrest him tomorrow.

If you are from a noble family, you are a man of great talent; if you are a lowly slave, you are a thief.

Gu Wen could understand how a person without any literary foundation could suddenly come up with shocking poems. But that didn't mean Gu Wen would abandon what he had learned in his previous life, at least to keep it for his own amusement.
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On the Dragon Bridge, a team of armored soldiers holding spears led the way, followed by a carriage pulled by two white horses, decorated with carvings of dragons and phoenixes, and embroidered with gold, silver dragons and green silk ribbons.

I don't know how many eyes I attracted along the way, but the most eye-catching one was naturally the woman in Taoist robe riding a donkey.

Fairy Yu Hua frowned as she looked at the guard of honor. She knew that the emperors of the mortal world were used to extravagance, but it was too much of a show to appear like this. Not only was it not in line with her pure and simple mind, it might also cause unnecessary trouble.

"Fairy Yuhua, the mansion in front of you is Gu Wen's. It has ten acres of land, more than a hundred servants, and costs more than ten thousand taels a year. It can be said that he enjoys the utmost in wealth and luxury."

Zhao Feng stuck his head out of the carriage, once again emphasizing Gu Wen's wealth and the legitimacy of his opportunity.

Fairy Yu Hua did not respond. She did not want to get involved in the internal affairs of the sect. This was not something she could control. The words of the True Lord were irreversible.

Paying compensation to the young man named Gu out of her own pocket was the most she could do.

After walking more than a thousand steps, the high-rise buildings on both sides of the Dragon Bridge disappeared, replaced by rows of residential houses, which were orderly and crowded with people.

They stopped in front of a tall house with two stone lions covered with linen at the door. They were concealed because Gu Wen had no official title.

The power struggle in Daqian was fierce, and there were swords and sabers in the court every day. Many former powerful officials died or were exiled, so many houses were left vacant.

Fairy Yu Hua looked around and saw that it was indeed a wealthy family, but there was some turbidity in the air and her heart was restless.

Da da da.

The donkey trotted along the street corner and stopped in the alley next to the mansion. There were messy daily necessities in the alley and a shivering beggar in the corner.

They tried their best to cover their bodies with objects and clothes, and some people in the distance escaped and turned into the alley. A wooden top rolled in front of Fairy Yu Hua, and a child in the corner tried to pick it up, but was held tightly by her mother, whose eyes were trembling under her disheveled hair and dirty face.

Fairy Yu Hua saw the wealth of the descendants of the Gu family, but beneath their wealth was poverty, and between the high walls were the common people.

There are many wealthy families around, but only here are countless poor people gathered, and only here is the air polluted.

Very strange.

(End of this chapter)