Chapter 201 Although I don’t understand, I decide to respect
The Jiang family was a merchant family doing paper business. Lin Du left the two noisy nephews in the tavern and used the excuse that she was a wandering Taoist priest who knew a little about medicine, and asked Jiang Yang to take her home to find out what was going on.
The child was so gullible that he really took the person home obediently.
"Just now I saw you holding a storybook in your hand?"
"It's the Biographies of Immortals..."
The child seemed to have done something wrong, but for some reason he didn't dare to lie to the man.
Lin Du took a quick look and smiled faintly, "It's not shameful to like watching this, just like a thief."
"Master, are there really immortals in this world? Can one become an immortal by taking water jade, mica, and cinnabar? If not, can you cure my illness? My father and mother have been looking for doctors everywhere for my illness and have spent a lot of money. I am the eldest son in the family, but I can't contribute to the family..."
As if he noticed Lin Du's indulgence towards him, the child started to chatter as he walked.
Lin Du: ...I don’t know if eating this will allow you to ascend to heaven, but it will kill you.
She pondered her words for a moment, "What's in the novel isn't really true. Even immortals need to eat."
In his previous life, although Tao Xian was so stingy that he felt heartbroken for a while even when eating rice noodles, and he used the most ordinary food that would not kill him to make fasting pills, he still needed to eat.
Wei Zhi followed her without her noticing and sent her a voice message, "Is this the reincarnation of the person you've always been looking for?"
Lin Du responded, "We are monks and Taoists, isn't it inappropriate to come here and act as a charlatan?"
"What's inappropriate?" Wei Zhi asked without realizing it.
Lin Du hesitated for a moment, "Too young? Too pretty? Not convincing?"
Wei Zhi tilted his head and took a look. "Beauty is but skin and bones, all of them are skin and bones. How can you be convincing?"
Lin Du started to talk nonsense, "I've read a storybook before. In the storybook, there was a monk and a Taoist priest in heaven. They had a good figure and a different spirit."
"But after arriving in the mortal world, they became a monk with a scabby head and bare feet, and a Taoist priest with a lame and unkempt head. They are crazy and very credible." [Note 1]
Wei Zhi: ...It’s really strange how mortals establish their credibility.
"If you really want to become like that, it's not impossible." Although Wei Zhi didn't understand, he decided to respect it. "If it's an illusion, it's not impossible. Mortals shouldn't be able to see it."
Lin Du thought about it and couldn't stand the thought of himself becoming a lame, disheveled Taoist priest. "Forget it, let it be. Besides, I've already appeared like this, and it's hard to change. I'm a deity, and I have the final say. You can change it if you want."
Wei Zhi: ...It changes so fast.
"If you don't change, then I won't change either."
The Jiang family's house was in the alley next door, not far away.
The little girl had already run back to her own yard, stuck her head out of the door, and stared at their backs, as if intending to rush for help if anything went wrong.
Lin Du was a monk, so it was hard for him not to notice that someone was looking at her. He couldn't help but tease the child, "That little girl seems very nervous about you."
Jiang Yang's voice suddenly weakened when he heard this, "A real man should be a real man. It's all because I'm too weak..."
"But when I grow up, I will definitely be able to protect her!"
Lin Du lowered his eyes and smiled when he heard this, "Very good, you have ambitions. So, are you engaged?"
"No... No!" Jiang Yang said in a small voice, aggrieved, "The betrothal gift is very high. I have to save it slowly. I can't let her down."
Lin Du: ...So this man has been trapped in saving money for his wife for two lifetimes, right?
Lin Du and Wei Zhi were really young and good-looking, so it was indeed strange for them to come to the house on their own initiative. However, the Jiang family had already tried every possible means, so even if it was a fake, they had to give it a try.
The best doctor in the city said the child would not live past the age of nine.
Lin Du was invited into the house by the woman's mother and pretended to take her pulse for a while, but in fact he was just using his spiritual sense to feel it.
He is indeed the reincarnation of Tao Xian, but his spirit and soul are weak and defective. It may take several more reincarnations for him to recover.
Lin Du lowered his brows and sat quietly in front of the main hall. The early summer sun poured in, and the Taoist priest in green robe had half of his face exposed to the sunlight. He looked flawless and divine inexplicably.
The woman who came in with tea was startled when she saw this scene.
Although the fairy looks young, she is really good-looking and seems reliable all of a sudden.
What's the saying? I'm not afraid of a doctor smiling, I'm afraid of a doctor with a frown on his face. This doesn't look good no matter how you look at it.
So the woman brought the tea and asked in a low voice, "Doctor, can our Xiaohua still be saved?"
Lin Du had just let go of his hand, and was stunned for a moment when he heard this, "Xiao... Hua?"
"Yes, everyone said before that my brother had a bad fate and had to be given a bad name so that he could be raised."
Lin Du vaguely thought of Tao Xian's honest face in his previous life, took a deep breath, and then tried to hold back his smile, "This child can be cured, don't worry."
She took out the pills for restoring the spirit and soul that she had prepared long ago, "It's because the spirit and soul are not in harmony with the body, so it's unstable. Take one pill every seven days, swallow it directly. After forty-nine days, the spirit and soul will be restored and you will naturally get better. After Xiaohua takes it, you can live a hundred years, just like an ordinary person."
"Remember... be careful not to choke." Lin Du reminded in a friendly manner, with the demeanor of a master who does good deeds without leaving a name. "Okay, it's done, I'll take my leave now."
Wei Zhi felt that Lin Du's reminder was a bit perfunctory. Just as he was about to add a few more words, he saw the child swallow the pill in one gulp. He choked and rolled his eyes, almost fainting.
"Xiaohua, Xiaohua, are you okay?"
The woman hurriedly patted the child on the back to calm him down, and in the blink of an eye, the two men disappeared in the yard out of thin air.
Wei Zhi: ...It has to be Lin Du, he really has life experience.
"Aren't you going to stop playing tricks?" Wei Zhi didn't understand why Lin Du left suddenly. "Could it be that you were sad to see your old friend in such a state?"
"No... I'm afraid I won't be able to hold back my laughter." Lin Du sighed, "Let's go, go back and get the money, find a suitable time to send it over, and then we can leave after we trick them. That's enough."
Wei Zhi understood it clearly in his heart, he knew it.
"How do you plan to give them money in a reasonable way? They don't look like the kind of people who receive windfalls."
Lin Du tilted his head and thought for a while, "Just... buy some small things."
As a result, the Jiang family's shop was delighted to receive a large warehouse clearance of Jiangdong paper.
Lin Du now has draft papers and exercise papers for the next twenty years.
This was not enough, so Lin Du took the money that Yuan Ye got from the emperor and went to the Jiang family again, saying that it was just a return visit.
Within seven days, the child's face had become rosy and he looked much healthier.
Lin Du explained in a pretentious manner under the moonlight, "My merits are already sufficient, and I am about to ascend to heaven. Xiaohua is the last person for whom I have accomplished my merits. Now the yellow and white things of this world are of no use to me, so I will give them to you."
Without waiting for anyone to say anything, he left his money and flew into the sky in the moonlight in front of the children.
Lin Du, who was hiding in the clouds and eating roast chicken, didn't know that Jiang Yang would later write a book called "The Immortal of Merit", in which he described an immortal traveling around the world, curing diseases and saving lives, and ascending to heaven on a moonlit night after accumulating merit.
The immortals in the story not only did not fast, but also loved to eat, especially rice noodles. It was impossible for the immortals to be criticized by the literati! It was because Jiang Yang married the daughter of a rice noodle shop in the same alley, and he wanted to flatter his family!
But these do not hinder the rice noodle shop's prosperous business.
Immortals love to eat. If they eat more, can they also become immortals?