Chapter 315 Revisit Lao Junguan

Do you have to go to bed if you love someone? Sofa is also okay. - Zhang Deshuai's quotation

Sun, September 18, 2011

When I heard Uncle Lv's words last night, I couldn't help but connect what he said to my uncle's situation before, which had something to do with the change of life. I just didn't expect that such a seemingly simple thing could decentralization and make my uncle suffer injustice. I didn't expect that such a black intermediary had the power of heaven.

However, when I asked Uncle Lv again about the change of life, Uncle Lvshut his mouth. He told us that this is in the interests of some of the above people, and it is better for us to intervene less. If you are not careful, you will also be killed. Because even he is vulnerable, not to mention a small person like me. If you are nosy, you don't know how you died.

In the end, Uncle Lv said to me earnestly, "Handsome, you should know that the household registration department is in the hands of those people."

Uncle Lv's words are still ringing in my ears, even though I am now standing at the door of Lao Junguan. Jiang Yingyu and Xiao Xue came together.

Xiao Xue followed me because she was free. More importantly, she is very interested in this matter. No matter how hard I try, she doesn't listen. She belongs to the kind of master who prefers pleasure rather than happiness. And Jiang Yingyu came with me. I can only understand that she is extremely bored at home.

Today is the weekend, and there are many more people at the door than usual. Looking at the crowded door, I vaguely feel that I may return in no way today.

Why did I come to Lao Junguan today? That's because Uncle Yuanshi told me that my uncle was the master of Lao Junguan before his death. Although it is very unlikely to get news from here now, I still have a glimmer of hope.

More importantly, I was not terrified by Uncle Lv's words. If I didn't need Uncle Lv to say before, I would retreat myself. But after the matter of the Yellow Emperor's law, I am now digging graves. A person who has died once has seen more things than before.

This is the second time I came to Lao Junguan, and the last time I came because of the hateful law of the Yellow Emperor. But this time, it was because of my uncle. It seems that there is a certain connection between this old gentleman and me.

At the feet, the bluestone steps slowly spread. Over the years, the steps have been stepped on a little tilted. The green branches stretched out from the side, and my mother-in-law snared. People shuttle between the alternation of light and shadow. The sandalwood is wrapped around and the birds chirping, making the noise of the city stop at the mountain gate...

Along the steps, we are slowly moving up. For the entry and birth, I prefer the kind of temple hidden in the mountains and forests. When the temple enters the world, it is inevitable to be contaminated with the secular atmosphere. When a temple is busy setting up a company, in my heart, it has begun to abandon its inherent beliefs. Since you can see the body as a stinky skin, how can you be jealous of worldly success?

At this time, an old woman stood in front of us, her eyes staring straight at the bottle in Xiaoxue's hand. There is little water left in the bottle.

"Sister, do you still want the bottle?" The old woman just focused on the bottle in Xiaoxue's hand.

Xiao Xue shook her head, opened the bottle cap and poured out the water in it. When she saw that the bottle was empty, she handed it to her mother-in-law.

"Thank you, sister!" This small move made the old woman express her heartfelt thanks.

"Girl, are you picking up bottles here?" Xiaoxue asked casually.

"No, I'm a volunteer here." The old woman just lowered her head and stuffed the bottle into the plastic bag, and replied without raising her head.

" Volunteer?" But I repeated it.

"Miss, you are still comfortable as a volunteer!" Xiaoxue sighed even more.

"Actually, I have nothing to do as a volunteer. Now that I'm old, my hands and feet are not as sharp as before. I could have washed vegetables in the kitchen before. I'm not old enough to wash vegetables slowly, so I'm not allowed to wash vegetables, so I have to come out to pick up bottles. The old woman continued.

"That's disgusting!" Xiaoxue became a little angry.

"Sister, don't say that. This is voluntary. In fact, how good this old gentleman's view is. Look, I'm too old to even do work. They don't say they will dismiss us, even if they raise us for nothing. The old woman continued, "We old ladies are all thinking about it. We can't do nothing. Well, just come out and pick up these bottles. In fact, you can't make much money by picking up bottles. Isn't this just thinking of doing something for this Taoist temple?

I heard the old woman say that, but my heart was moved. Because of what the old woman said just now, she has been volunteering here for many years. Before that, my uncle was the master of the old gentleman's view. Maybe he could get some information from the old woman.

I hurriedly asked the concerned old woman, "Miss, how many years have you been working here?"

"I'll calculate it for you. I was laid off in 1995 and was the first batch of layoffs in our factory. Then, the old man was also laid off. At that time, there were old and young. How can we live this life? The old woman was also very talkative and explained it to me in detail, "At that time, we went out to find something to do. But the streets are full of people looking for things to do. Young people don't want to come. Who wants us old women who are almost 50 years old? Do your own small business, get up early and be greedy, and you can't make money. In this way, looking at the money in hand, it is getting less and less. Who can stand it? Little brother, I'm not afraid of your jokes. At that time, we quarreled every day..."

"The poor couple is sad!" I echoed. I also thought of that period, and it was hard to say whether it was right or wrong. I could only say that during that period, some people were rich, but it made more people poor. The misfortune of the country and the many people.

"Bright, girl, how did you come here to volunteer?" I am most concerned about this matter.

"This has to be thanks to one person!" The old woman may not have met someone like us for a long time, and she didn't pick up the bottle. She put the plastic bag at her feet and told us.

"Who?" But I was a little excited. I want to hear my uncle's name, but I don't want to hear that name. Although my uncle and I haven't seen each other for so long, even his appearance is blurred, but my heart is connected with him.

"Qingfeng Taoist priest!" The old woman replied. After a pause, she began to say again, "At that time, we laid-off workers were so evil. The money in our hands was getting less and less, but we couldn't find anything. I can save some, but the old and the young dare not save. The days are getting tighter and tighter day by day. That doesn't matter. Most of the people around are laid off, and their families are having a hard time. At this time, when the Taoist priest Qingfeng saw our situation, he told us to go to the Taoist temple to volunteer. Although the salary is not high, it is always a thing. Besides, what else can we choose in that situation? Therefore, the Taoist priest of Qingfeng is a good man.

"niang, who is the Taoist priest of Qingfeng?" Xiaoxue also knew that I was very careful about my uncle's news, so she asked for me first.

When Xiaoxue asked this question, the old woman became a little alert. She first looked around and then stared at us with a strange look. Under the strange gaze of the old woman, I felt a little unnatural.

"Who are you? Why did you ask this?" The old woman asked in a low voice.

"It's okay. I'll just ask." When I saw the old woman's reaction, I already knew it. This Qingfeng Taoist priest is my uncle who has no impression - Zhang Lifa.

"Actually, this Qingfeng Taoist priest is a good man." The old woman repeated it again, then picked up the plastic bag and turned around to leave, preparing to end our conversation.

"Is the Taoist priest of Qingfeng the former master? Is his common name Zhang Lifa? But I blurted out.

As soon as I said my words, the old woman's body was frozen in place. She slowly turned around and stared at us tightly.

This time, the old woman's attitude is not the same as before. She asked us suspiciously, "How do you know?"

"He is my uncle." I showed my bottom card.

The old woman looked at me carefully and finally said, "After what you said, I really look a little similar. It's just that you are not as handsome as your uncle.

The old woman's words made me laugh a little bitterly. I didn't expect to compare me with my dead uncle in her eyes.

However, the old woman stopped because of what I just said.

"Grandma, I'm here to ask you about my uncle?" Now that I know that my mother-in-law is very grateful to my uncle, I will open the skylight and speak out.

The old woman did not answer directly. Instead, she looked around carefully and saw that there was no one around, so she was relieved. However, she still gestured to us and asked us to go with her.

Although I was a little confused, I felt that the old woman was too cautious in doing this, but she still followed her obediently.

It was all the way to a shaded place that the old woman stopped. She turned around and said to us, "It's not that I didn't want to say it just now, but in this view, that person's matter can't be told to outsiders."

The old woman's words were unexpected. But when I heard this situation, I still felt a little strange.

"Why?" Xiaoxue is straightforward.

"Actually, Qingfeng Taoist priest is a good person, and no one knows about this matter. Without him, there would be no old women like us. There was some choking in the old woman's voice.

When people are old, their eye sockets will be shallow.

"Why don't you say that?" Xiaoxue didn't know much about these things, so she continued to ask.

But the old woman said along her own way: "You know why we old women are reluctant to leave here because we have feelings for this Taoist temple. At that time, the Taoist priest Qingfeng, when your uncle hired us, gave a death order. We are only allowed to leave by ourselves and not to fire our old women. In fact, it was not easy to live in the Taoist temple at that time, but even so, your uncle was reluctant to let us leave. In fact, at that time, as long as there was a way, they all thought of a way to leave by themselves in order not to embarrass your uncle.

"I remember now that at that time, your uncle supplemented all his salaries to the Taoist temple. At that time, he ate two meals a day and didn't even eat vegetables, just to save more money so that he could pay salaries to us volunteers. Under the leadership of your uncle, Taoist people do this. So, your uncle is a good man.

The old woman emphasized my uncle again. The old woman's words let me know that my uncle is a good man, but these are not helpful at all for the purpose of my visit this time. I also know that I didn't get any useful news from the old woman, so I planned to leave.

The old woman was interested. She stopped us and then said, "I remember what was often said in the Taoist temple at that time: take the people as ruminants. At that most difficult time, the salaries of our volunteers were not in arrears. Because everyone in Taoism knows that some of our families rely on this salary to support their families. After saying that, the old woman began to wipe her tears.

These things that the old woman said have never been experienced by people of my age, but I can imagine them. However, I am not very interested in what the old woman said. Even if I know that my uncle is a good person, what can I do? What I have to do now is a more important thing.

"I don't know what the people above think, saying that your uncle is corrupt. I believe anyone who corrupts, but it is impossible for your uncle to corrupt. The old woman became a little angry.

The old woman's anger made me a little interested. So I hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"That time, when your uncle was spread the news of the double standard. The Taoist temple has made trouble, and all of our volunteers have stopped working. The cook doesn't cook anymore, and the one who burns the fire doesn't burn the fire anymore. In fact, there is no need to burn the fire now. It's all natural gas. It's also because you can save one more family at the beginning. Not only do we volunteers no longer work, but even those Taoist priests. How can such a person embezzle? The more the old woman talked, the more angry she became.

"niang, you're right. The people know best who is corrupt and who is not corrupt. Xiaoxue also echoed, "There is no need for property publicity at all. Who believes that publicity? The people are the most realistic. According to the salary, you can't even afford a house. How many houses are there? What do you rely on if you don't rely on corruption?

"Xiao Xue, stop talking. Girl, what's going on next? I then asked the old woman.

"It doesn't work for us to make trouble like this, but some Taoist priests quit. They went up and said they were going to petition, but they didn't come back. Then, a new viewer came. As soon as the new master comes, he is ready to quit us volunteers. Those former Taoists quit, saying that only we volunteers can survive. He also said that this is an iron rule in Taoism, which everyone needs to abide by. The old woman continued, "Actually, the Taoist priests later told us that the viewer was not because we were going to dismiss us. The real reason why he dismissed us is that we are hired by your uncle, which is considered his political achievements. The purpose of the new master's doing this is to quietly erase some of the impressions left by your uncle in the Taoist temple.

I was a little surprised when I stopped the old woman's words. What I didn't expect was that these means of political (harmonious) struggle also began in this religion. In fact, whether it is your method or mine method, the best way for volunteers to support them is a good way. What's the point if you insist on distinguishing between you and mine?

The old woman continued: "After making so much noise, our volunteers have not been dismissed. However, the conflict between the new master and the previous Taoist priests deepened, and then another thing happened, which completely made the new master and the former Taoist priests completely fall out.

"It's still because of our volunteers. Because these volunteers are all older, some volunteers, like me, slow down and can't do anything, so they have to help with some cleaning work. Seeing this situation, the new owner decided to dismiss these elderly volunteers who could not work. This time, the Taoist priests quit again. They said that this was the iron rule of the previous Taoist temple, and only the volunteers could automatically propose to leave, and the Taoist temple could not dismiss the volunteers. In this way, the new master felt that he had no place in the Taoist temple, and the two sides completely turned against each other. As a result, the previous Taoist priests were disappointed with Lao Junguan and left one after another. Every time we go to see a Taoist priest, we send him off. Those Taoists took our hands and said to us, let's do it well. In fact, as long as these Taoists leave, the new master will not drive us away. Finally, the Taoist priests said: What people are most afraid of is the abandonment of faith.

The old woman's words made me a little anxious. Because according to the old woman, if the previous Taoist priests left, the remaining Taoist priests did not know anything about my uncle. And these volunteers just know that my uncle is a good person, but they are not helpful to my affairs at all.

"So, is there any previous Taoist priest left?" I asked the old woman anxiously.

"Yes, but he doesn't move much in the Taoist temple." The old woman said, "If it hadn't been for the influence of this Taoist priest in Beiqiu City, he would have been forced away. Despite this, he doesn't move much in the Taoist temple.

"Where is he?" I asked excitedly, and my hand unconsciously grabbed the old woman's shoulder.

"Living in a small house in the back mountain. He often said that Lao Junguan has changed and is no longer the previous Lao Junguan. He is ashamed to live with the changed Lao Junguan. The old woman replied, "However, as an old Taoist priest, he is crazy all day long, and the new master doesn't bother to pay attention to him. Only us volunteers go to take care of him every day.

I quickly asked the specific place where the old Taoist priest lived and said goodbye to the old woman...