$270, The Old Man Who Practices Taoism (1)
After receiving the memory, Wei Mingyan had to sigh truthfully. There is always a stronger opponent who will kill you.
The country he is in now is called Ye State. Ye State can be regarded as prosperous and strong. Hundreds of years ago, the king of Ye State led his army to conquer the surrounding countries and became the only country in the Central Plains.
Because the country was stable, gradually, the high status of the military generals became the high status of the literati. The ancestors of the original owner were military generals. At the beginning, they also followed the emperor to conquer the world. They were once considered to be powerful. Knowing that Ye State gradually did not need military generals, the grandfather of the original owner had fought several battles on the battlefield, and his father had never been on the battlefield.
Not only because the country no longer valued military generals, but also because he was weak, he died of illness after having only the original owner as his only child.
The family was in great sorrow, because his father caught a cold because of practicing martial arts in winter when he was young, and his physique became weak since then. All the concubines in the mansion were childless. The original owner's grandmother gave birth to three sons and one daughter, but only the original owner's father survived. As the mistress of the mansion, the original owner's grandmother protected her only grandson like a child.
The original owner, who was raised in such a pampered way, was obviously a military general, but he was a weak person. There was no title in the family, only some incense and affection from his early years. His grandparents who loved him were afraid that their grandson would be bullied after they were gone, so they licked their faces and asked for the title of Marquis for this grandson when they entered the palace during the New Year.
Although it can only be in the original owner's generation, and the title will not be passed on to his son when he dies, this is also a great favor.
This is the honor that the original owner's grandfather, who was very shameless, cried and begged, got from the late emperor.
In fact, when the two old men passed away, they told the original owner who was kneeling beside the bed the truth. They were able to ask for this title for him, which was usually only given to the royal family, because the original owner's grandfather discovered a gold mine when he was ordered to go to sea in his early years.
He used the address of the gold mine in exchange for the title that his grandson could enjoy for life.
And this old man not only had the courage to negotiate with the emperor, but also secretly withheld a piece of news. The location discovered at that time was actually not one, but two.
The remaining one was naturally told to his grandson.
Originally, the old man's idea was also very simple. Although he knew that his family's situation could not be mined now, he knew the address anyway. It would be passed down from generation to generation in the future, and he would find an opportunity one day.
Unfortunately, his grandson was a coward who was spoiled.
After the two old people passed away, the original owner fell into the stage of thinking about life. He didn't love money. First, his wife was the one who managed the family's finances, so he only needed to ask for money. Second, of course, it was the gold mine. Even if it hadn't been mined yet, in the original owner's heart, it was their family's gold, and he was a rich man.
He didn't love beauty either. This was due to the original owner's wife. Although she was just the daughter of a minor official, she was very beautiful and had very good means. While she was winning over her husband, she also designed to show him a woman with syphilis when his friend called her to the brothel.
The original owner was carefully raised since he was a child, and it can be said that he had never suffered any setbacks. After seeing such a bad scene, he returned home and fell seriously ill. When he was in bed, his beautiful and gentle wife kindly served him. Knowing that he was frightened by going to the brothel, he first blamed himself, "It's all because I'm not good enough, so I asked you to go out to find someone." Then, regardless of the original owner's guilty comfort, she quickly opened the faces of two girls with good looks around her and made them his concubines.
Although domestic flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers, the original owner had no interest in wild flowers after knowing that wild flowers outside were likely to be infected with diseases. He simply enjoyed his beautiful wife and concubines. His wife was not jealous and was very supportive of her husband's preference for beauty. As long as her husband used the people she controlled, she could send him a hundred of them.
His wife spoiled him, and the original owner himself had no sense of measure. After a night when he needed to censor, he was impotent.
A bolt from the blue!
No light day and night!
The original owner, who was thirty years old and had two teenage children, cried like a child.
His wife was also shocked. She was taught since childhood that if a man loves sex, let him love it, as long as he didn't have wild children or spoil his concubines and kill his wife. But her mother didn't teach her what to do if a man broke his penis.
After a lot of trouble, it was hard to publicize such a shameful thing. Even the imperial physician didn't dare to invite him, so he could only see a doctor privately.
However, the doctors were helpless and said that the Marquis was in poor health. The original owner stopped drinking and watching plays. He stayed in the house all day, and was just about to wail at the moon.
His wife was also anxious. They had two sons, but neither of them grew up. If her husband died at this time, they would be left without support. Wouldn't they be bullied?
She looked for doctors and medicine everywhere, and finally found a miracle doctor for the original owner.
The miracle doctor said directly that he was not a doctor, but a sorcerer. Here was a golden pill. After eating it, the Marquis would be cured.
He ate it, and it really was cured.
The original owner excitedly gave birth to a little daughter with his wife that night.
After this incident, he suddenly realized.
What beauty, what indescribable, are all illusions.
Who is he?
He is a man with a mountain of gold.
Money, women, are all clouds.
He decided that he would learn from the sorcerer and be like him, who was ninety years old but looked as young as fifty.
Although he had made up his mind, his nature would still come out from time to time. After all, people always have seven emotions and six desires, and the original owner had more desires.
Basically, every day, he made various difficult choices between practicing Taoism-beautiful wife and concubine-practice Taoism-beautiful wife and concubine.
Until the birth of his youngest daughter, his wife had a heavy bleeding, and the magician's golden elixir was useless. She died that night.
If it were an ordinary person, he might have realized that the magician was a liar, but unfortunately, he was a liar and a big liar at the same time.
Why did the wife die after taking the golden elixir? This is because you, the Marquis, are destined to embark on the path of practicing Taoism. A practitioner of Taoism naturally has to cut off the seven emotions and six desires. You, the Marquis, love your wife the most, so the death of your wife is God's will, which is God's will for you to cut off your emotions and devote yourself to Taoism.
This time, the original owner did not have a difficult choice.
He buried his wife and married off a bunch of concubines. Those who didn't want to leave the mansion stayed in the backyard, still following the previous rules, but he would never step into it to do some kind of exercise that required coding.
From then on, the original owner began to practice Taoism and meditation every day under the guidance of the sorcerer, striving to become a master like the sorcerer as soon as possible.
He was devoted to Taoism, so he naturally didn't want to marry again, so he married a wife for his eldest son and let her manage the household and take care of his younger brothers and sisters.
Fortunately, although he had such an unreliable father, the daughter-in-law he married into the family was good. She took care of her husband and helped him pass the imperial examination, get an official position, and took care of his younger brothers and sisters. She was truly like a mother to her elder sister-in-law.
The mansion of the marquis was running normally under the management of the eldest daughter-in-law.
He himself, of course, was devoted to Taoism, hiding in his own yard, and would not come out if he could.
He has been safe and sound until now, and the original owner is fifty years old.
[One hundred and ten years old] The old sorcerer passed away.
The original owner was not very sad. In his mind, living to 110 years old was already a long life. If it weren't for practicing Taoism, a normal person would die at the age of 60.
However, he didn't know that the sorcerer's real age was the same as his. He had been traveling all over the country in his early years and his face was full of frost, so he looked older than his actual age.
In fact, he had a face of 50 years old, but he was only 30 years old. He lied to the original owner that he was 90 years old, and the original owner believed it.
After the sorcerer, who died at the age of 50, left, the original owner began to worry. His master was gone, and he had never practiced the golden elixir. What should he eat in the future?
So, after a mental struggle, the original owner resolutely... chose to do it himself.
Then, he ate himself to death.
This is the original owner's memory. If you look at it from the perspective of others, he is like a man who has been in a demon barrier since his wife died, and he is tossing around with a sorcerer whose details he doesn't know.
He didn't care about his children, and never looked at his grandchildren. If he didn't have a title, fiefdom and salary, he would be no different from a dead person.
Especially the eldest son who had grown up when his mother passed away, he was even more puzzled by his father's behavior.
It's hard to say that his father was hit hard by his mother's death. His younger brothers and sisters were too young to remember. But he remembered that women from his father's courtyard came in one after another.
But he didn't care about these. This man in his early thirties was already the master of the family. His father was useless, so all the things in the family fell on him and his wife. Although the family was also a marquis's mansion, because the marquis was obsessed with these unorthodox ways, there was no mansion close to him except for his legitimate relatives. He had no one to help him in the court. Except for his father, all the elders were dead, so he couldn't even get any advice. A man in his thirties was the master at home and the sky of his wife and children, but he was trembling with fear outside, wishing he could live a life of keeping his tail between his legs.
Sometimes he hated his father for not taking care of things. He was only a teenager when he was forced to support the Marquisate with his newly married wife. But no matter how much dissatisfaction he had in his heart, in the Ye Kingdom where filial piety is the most important thing, Master Wei, who had just returned from exile, still had to pay his respects to his father, Old Master Wei.
He stood by the door, watching the servant urging him carefully, and felt a pang of bitterness in his heart. According to his father's past behavior, he probably knew it through the door.
This time Shangguan caused trouble, and the Third Prince was dissatisfied and pushed all the things on him. He was trembling with fear, not knowing what to do, for fear that his whole family would be implicated by accident. But when he returned home, his father, who should have been the closest to him, refused to even see him.
Master Wei was thinking, and the door opened.
His father was squinting his eyes and looking at him with dissatisfaction, his voice full of disgust, "Why did you bring the bad luck from outside into the house?"
As he said this, the man in a loose robe, who really looked dusty, stepped out of his house for the first time and looked his son up and down.
Master Wei was inexplicably nervous, thinking that his father might have read some messy books again, but he couldn't say it directly, so he had to bow, "I came to pay my respects to you."
"Well, I know."
Wei Mingyan shook his head and tore his robe, and then pulled Master Wei's hand who hadn't reacted yet, and took out a needle from somewhere and poked it.
"Hiss..."
Watching his father holding his hand and dancing on the torn scraps of cloth, Master Wei's already miserable heart became even more miserable.
The things outside haven't been resolved yet, and Dad has gone crazy.
How can he live like this?
The author has something to say: The first ten little angels will give red envelopes, and then a hundred random little angels will give red envelopes.