Chapter 3 The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain (Part 1)
When the fat man was in the city when he was a soldier, he often had the opportunity to go out to buy vegetables, so after seeing the prosperity of the big city, he was not very peaceful when he retired from the army and returned home. He kept shouting with his father who was the village party secretary all day long to go out to work.
At first, the fat man went out with a small contractor in the village, but he couldn't bear the hardship. In the end, he found a job as a security guard in the city. His working life for more than half a year has allowed the fat man who is just a newcomer to experience the hardships of survival. Therefore, he felt so much emotion at this time.
"What's wrong with being a security guard?"
Hearing the fat man's words, Fang Yi curled his lips and said, "I have said that heaven and earth are unkind. If all things are regarded as straw dogs, heaven and earth will look at everything selflessly. What qualifications do those people have to look down on security guards? Isn't it just a job?"
"Fang Yi, I see you are stupid in the mountains. You will know when you go out..."
The fat man stared at Fang Yi like an alien, shook his head, and said, "In the society outside, the rich and powerful are the old man, and the rich and powerful are the grandson. Just like you, you may starve to death after going out. I think you should just follow Fat Master, and I can have some food to eat..."
Although he is not well-informed, the fat man asked himself that he could definitely be called an old man compared to Fang Yi. Brother Yi is afraid that he still doesn’t know what money looks like, let alone how to use it.
"Starting to death? You said, "Master, I will starve to death?"
Fang Yi sniffed and said, "Master Dao, I am the abbot of Shangqing Palace. This is registered in the Taoist Association. After I go out, even if I go to various Taoist temples to hold orders, the other Taoist temple will also welcome you with gongs and gongs. I will definitely live more than you..."
As he spoke, Fang Yi glanced at his dilapidated Taoist temple and said guiltily: "Even if the other party doesn't beat gongs and drums, I always want a vegetarian meal? Dao Ye's abbot's certificate is still in the house..."
Fang Yi did not brag about this. In addition to raising Fang Yi, his master who was idle all day long did something before he died, that was to go down the mountain for three months, but when he came back, he brought back a set of certificates and ID cards.
Many people believe that the abbot should be the title of Buddhism, but in fact it is not the case. The abbot is the title of the highest leader in the Taoist temple, and can also be called the "abbot".
The abbot was a Taoist priest who had received three great precepts and had received the lawyers to preach the "fa". He was strict in precepts, respected in virtue, and was favored by all Taoists. The abbot of Buddhism also originated from the title Taoism.
With the tired and lazy nature of Master Fang Yi, he naturally did not receive the Three Oaths of Rings for Fang Yi. And their mouse, which is not a kitchen in Shangqing Palace, is only Fang Yi and Master. As long as the old Taoist priest agrees, he will naturally be supported by all Taoists and can barely afford the position of abbot.
However, Fang Yi is still doubting the set of things that the master has brought back. Because he knows the level of his family, he is very doubtful that his master has seen the small advertisements at the train station and spent dozens of dollars to get a fake certificate for himself?
"At your age, where are you going to the abbot? If you take it out, you will definitely be beaten..."
The fat man could naturally see Fang Yi’s guilty feelings when he was a playmate who grew up wearing open crotch pants. He said immediately: “I said you should follow Fat Master. With your skills, you can definitely eat when you are a daybreaker. Even if you find out, you can’t catch up with me…”
"Days in the sky? What is that?" Fang Yi was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He had never heard of this term.
"Hehe, you just go to other people's houses to rob the rich and help the poor during the day. Do you understand that?"
The fat man laughed strangely. He also heard from others when he was working as a security guard. Now some people go stealing in broad daylight, and some are even so brave that they contact the moving company directly and evacuate all the valuable things in other people's houses.
"Oh, you fat man, have you been in vain for the past few years?" Fang Yi pulled the fat man off the rocking chair in anger, and punched him without hesitation, which made the fat man beg for mercy.
"Oh, don't kick my ass, don't hit it there, Fatty, my chrysanthemum hasn't been developed yet..." The two of them were used to playing with each other, so Fang Yi naturally wouldn't really use his fists and feet. After a while, they lie back on the chair.
"Fatty, what should I do if you say I'm going out?"
After hearing what the fat man said about outside, Fang Yi, who was originally full of longing for the outside world, couldn't help but sigh. Now he felt a little nervous. Apart from some basic Taoist practices, Fang Yi knew nothing about anything else.
"It's clear outside now, and the little things you know are definitely not suitable..."
The fat man knew that the old Taoist priest used to be able to tell divinations and hunt monsters, but now the technology is booming. If Fang Yi dared to go out to do this business, he would probably be sent directly by the relevant departments on the charge of promoting feudal superstition.
"What should I do? I can't go and sell my skills, right?" Fang Yi said bitterly. He did have skills in his body. Not to mention anything else, the light skills he showed when catching cicadas were not fake.
Fang Yi was four years old and had a sandbag tied on his legs by an old Taoist priest, and then dug a pit about ten centimeters on the ground, so that his knees could not be distorted and jumped out of the pit straight up and down. As he grew older, the weight of the sandbag and the depth of the pit were constantly changing.
So far, Fang Yi can basically jump past the wall more than two meters high, but he has suffered a lot in the past ten years and cannot speak to outsiders. At least the fat man studied with him for a week, and then cried and called his father and mother to roll around the ground and become a deserter.
Of course, the fat man who hangs in the Taoist temple every day is not useless. He has learned some kung fu with the old Taoist priest. When he was only fifteen years old, he just arrived at the army's recruit camp, he knocked down three veterans one-on-three, which made a big splash.
However, the fat man followed the temperament of an old Taoist priest. He was just lazy and refused to go to the reconnaissance company, but chose to be a chef in the regiment headquarters. Otherwise, it would be very likely that he would be promoted directly. After all, after the annual competition in the division, there were several places to be promoted.
"There must be a road before the car arrives at the mountain. Are you afraid of not having any food to eat after following Mr. Fatty?" Seeing Fang Yi's frowning look, the fat man slapped his chest. At worst, he could ask his father to say something. Then he followed the construction team in the village to work. He could make a food to eat after all.
"Sure, then I'll follow you first..." Fang Yi nodded helplessly. Although the world is big, in addition to knowing some farmers at the foot of the mountain in his life, the fat man in front of him and the dead master are the fat man in front of him.
"That's right. Fang Yi, pack up, let's go down the mountain today..."
The fat man slapped his hands and jumped up, looked around and shouted, "You have nothing to do with it, so let's just leave now and go back to the foot of the mountain and ask my mother to help you change some clothes. This robe is so conspicuous..."
"Don't let it go, Master said, it will take three days before I go down the mountain. If I go down the mountain in advance, there will be a bloody disaster..." Fang Yi shook his head seriously. He has been fooled by an old Taoist priest who claims to be the Yuan Tiangang lineage since he was a child. He still believes in the words of his master.
"Hey, I said, this is a society, you are still so feudal and superstitious?" Although he grew up under the influence of old Taoists, the fat man is definitely a ghost-free theorist, let alone divination and divination, he didn't believe it at all.
With his eyes turned, the fat man put his hands behind his back, fiddled for a while, then raised his wrist and said, "It's July 6th. What day is your master talking about?"
"April 26th, isn't it April 22nd today?" Fang Yi stretched his head, looked at the watch on the fat man's wrist, scratched his head and said, "Did I overslept one day and forgot to tear the calendar?"
In this Taoist temple in Fangshan, modern things are extremely rare. Apart from Fang Yi's broken radio, there is no other item that uses electricity. The calendar was also exchanged for Fang Yi's herbs and farmers at the foot of the mountain. One must be torn off every day.
"Can your calendar be as accurate as me?" The fat man raised his head like a little rooster, pointing to the watch on his wrist and said, "Did you see, this is a brand-name product, a Citizen brand watch with a calendar, it cost me more than 700 yuan..."
Although the fat man had no money, he had an ambitious heart. In order to buy this watch to shorten the difference between himself and the people in the city, the fat man secretly ate white water in the security dormitory for a month, which saved the money for this watch.
“There are really months and dates…”
Fang Yi stared at the watch for a while, reached out and took a pocket watch connected with a gilded chain from his arms, and said, "Although my watch can look at the time, there is no date on it, and it is not as useful as yours..."
"Hmm? The old Taoist priest passed this message on you?"
Seeing the pocket watch that Fang Yi took out, the fat man's eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "Fang Yi, your thing is an antique, and you can sell it for a lot of money when you take it outside. Let's go to the city to ask, maybe we two expect it to make a fortune..."
The fat man saw this pocket watch when he was a child. According to the old Taoist priest, when he was placing an order in a Taoist temple in the eight major places in the capital, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered the capital, and it was given to him by a foreign devil who broke into the Taoist temple.
Fang Yi and the fat man were deeply suspicious of the old Taoist priests when they grew up. After entering the capital, the foreigners of the Eight-Nation Alliance all snatched things with green eyes. Who could give the old Taoist a gold watch so kindly? This watch was probably snatched by the old Taoist from the foreign god.
"Fatty, you can't even think about it..."
Before the fat man finished speaking, he was interrupted by Fang Yi. After stuffing his pocket watch into his pocket, Fang Yi said, "This is an item left by the master. Even if he starves to death, I will not sell it. You kid quickly pinched this idea for me..."
Although he shouted at the old Taoist priest on weekdays, Fang Yi still respected his master very much. Not to mention anything else, the grace of raising him for more than ten years has made Fang Yi treat the old Taoist as his parents and relatives, so Fang Yi would never sell the things that the old Taoist passed on to him no matter what.
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