Chapter 436: Master (1)
Everyone says that Ms. Xu Ailian is an absolute good person.
He never married in his life, and at the best age of his life he chose to adopt a baby girl abandoned by her parents and raised her alone.
Most importantly, she has been doing good things throughout her life without regrets.
Even her disciple Xu Chuchu could not understand her life of selfless dedication.
Xu Chuchu even conducted research on related papers, saying that the so-called "nice guy" personality may be caused by kindness in nature, a desire for attention and recognition, fear of loss, and inferiority complex.
But Xu Chuchu felt that except for the first criterion of being kind-hearted, Ms. Xu did not meet the other criteria.
Ms. Xu doesn't like attention and recognition. She likes to walk away after her work is done, hiding her achievements and fame.
She never worries about gains or losses. Not only does she sell good products at low prices without cheating anyone, she also often gives away free items.
Not to mention the inferiority complex.
Ms. Xu is a good person through and through.
But what surprised everyone who knew her was that she did not use this as a standard to demand her little apprentice, but instead allowed her to grow.
If her disciple doesn't want to take orders that pay nothing or little, she won't let him take them.
When her disciple wanted to pursue fame and fortune, she let him do so.
At that time, many people criticized Xu Chuchu, saying that she had not learned any virtues and kindness from her master. Ms. Xu also protected her disciple and encouraged her to do what she wanted.
No one understands why.
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When she was a child, Xu Ailian liked her name very much.
In that era, girls’ names were all flower-containing names like Ai Lian, Ai Ju, and Yu Lan… Her “Lotus”, which grows out of the mud without being stained, was considered quite fashionable.
Her parents... No, she had no parents. Like her apprentice Xu Chuchu, she only had a female fortune teller master who adopted her.
At that time, the economy was far less developed than it is today, every family was very poor, and feudal superstitions were being cracked down on. People would not ask fortune tellers or Taoist priests to perform rituals unless they had no other choice, and they could not afford to pay even if they did.
The status of a physiognomist is far less glorious than that of Xu Chuchu at that time.
The master could only take Xu Ailian with him to travel around frequently. Whenever he saw a family that was involved in some unorthodox practices, he would go to their door and actively solicit business.
Taking the initiative to go to someone's door is not the same as sitting at home and waiting for them to come and ask for help. You will often be looked down upon and scolded by others.
The better ones, who knew they had problems at home and solved them, would give small bags of rice.
If you meet someone with low quality, they will do anything. It's fine if they just curse you, but some will even trick them into performing a ritual and then call them liars, so they can avoid paying them.
"...Master!" Fifteen-year-old Xu Ailian grabbed her master's sleeve as they walked outside the tall red brick house. "Master, this family is rich, they're just pretending to be poor and not paying! Look at the house they built, it's so big and grand!"
"Xiao Lian, forget it." The master just smiled. "That old ghost has a lot of resentment. If we don't care, he will definitely kill someone in the future. Whether there is a reward or not, we can't just stand by and watch people die in vain."
That's the truth, but you still have to pay. Isn't it the same as hospitals charging money for saving lives?
They had just performed a ritual to drive away an old ghost that had been lurking in the cellar for decades, and they thought they would get the first decent payment of the month, but they were unexpectedly cheated again.
Why is the master so good-tempered? Is he fooled by just a few words from others?
Forget it, forget it, Master always says “forget it”.
In fact, Xu Ailian was even more rebellious than Xu Chuchu when she was a child.
That night, she secretly got up and pasted a bad luck charm on the back wall of that family's house, which was enough to make the family suffer several times.
Unexpectedly, not long after he put it up, he was caught by his master.
"Xiao Lian, did Master teach you to cultivate so you could harm others?" Master had never been so angry before. "Stretch out your hands!"
That night, Xiaolian's palms were swollen from being beaten.
She no longer dared to be clever, nor did she use her own standards to punish evil and promote good, but she still could not understand her master's concept of good and evil.
In that era, supplies were scarce and they were often on the road. Xiaolian was fine, but her master couldn't bear it and fell ill.
Even with the spiritual power, she passed away very early, and Xiaolian began to live alone.
By the 1970s and 1980s, life had obviously improved a lot, and the status of fortune tellers had also increased. Xiaolian began to take orders and do business, and lived a pretty good life for her - of course, it couldn't be compared with Xu Chuchu's later life.
At that time, she met her lifelong best friend, a girl of the same age as her, named Qu Qu.
Qu Qu's cultivation level is not high, only a little over the third level.
It’s not that she doesn’t have talent, but she is too playful on weekdays. If Xiaolian hadn’t pulled her along, she might not even have reached the third level.
There are two sentences that Qu Qu often says: "Level 3 cultivation is enough for me," and "I am the 222nd generation descendant of the Sky-Breaking Mirror!"
Xiaolian didn't know what the Broken Sky Mirror was. It was a small, broken mirror that couldn't even reflect a person's portrait clearly. It was not as good as the small round mirror in her hand.
But then she found out.
When five planets appeared in conjunction, the heir of the Sky-Breaking Mirror sacrificed himself to prevent the evil spirit from descending into the world.
Qu Qu died.
The broken mirror also fell into Xiaolian's hands.
At that time, Xiaolian still could not understand Qu Qu's sacrifice and her master's kindness.
She knew that if Ququ didn't make sacrifices, the whole world would be controlled by evil spirits, and more people would die or be injured. But... why was she the one to do it?
But as time passed, and as she met more and more people... evil people, and more good people.
She began to understand Qu Qu's behavior.
Qu Qu was not being a hero. Qu Qu used her life to exchange for the lives of many people.
What could she do? Could she continue to live with such a huge sense of guilt?
The more you are touched by someone, the more you will become like that person.
Xiaolian also changed. She became like her master and Qu Qu, devoting herself to others for the rest of her life without asking for anything in return.
Like his master, he adopted a baby girl, Xu Chuchu.
But unlike her master, she did not have such strict requirements on Xu Chuchu.
She will teach you what is good and what is evil.
But it’s up to Chuchu to decide what kind of person she wants to be.
In the end, Xu Chuchu did not become a good person like her. She lived the life she liked, making money and enjoying herself... Compared to the so-called "saint", she was more like a lively, flesh-and-blood ordinary person.
But something unexpected happened. They traveled from modern times to ancient times and were initially burdened with heavy shackles.
Time and again, she risks her life to fulfill her mission.
Every time, she did not regret, did not look back. Even if she told her that it was not her obligation, she could choose other things.
Is this the fate passed down from master to disciple?
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