Chapter 207: Too Inch! They Collided!
When the ox cart passed by the little beggar, the little beggar did not hide. Instead, he looked straight at Gu Tang with his big eyes.
Gu Tang looked back and saw that the little beggar suddenly ran away.
"This beggar is too timid. He was scared away even though we didn't say a word!" Gu Lianshan glanced at the little beggar's back and felt very emotional. He knew at a glance that he must have been scared because of a beating.
timid?
Gu Tang didn't think so. A timid beggar would not stare at her.
"Let's go forward. I think there should be some movement."
The ox cart came to the street and stopped in a deserted place.
After waiting for a while, I heard some noise not far away and a lot of people talking.
"Here they come!" Gu Tang's face lit up with joy, and he quickly stood up on the ox cart.
On the street not far away, the sea of people made Gu Tang very happy. Soon, Ma Er and Asan ran towards Changshan Academy crazily and insulting each other, followed by countless people.
At first, Gu Tang was happy because she thought that the more people followed, the better. But as the crowds continued to follow, she became a little scared.
"Dad! This is such a great effect! Look! There must be thousands of people here, right?"
Gu Lianshan was also puzzled: "Yes, there are too many people. The Queen Mother of the West that you made up is ridiculous! How could so many people believe it?"
Gu Tang didn't like what he heard: "What do you mean by nonsense? My story is much more real than the alchemy and cultivation story! Maybe people here like to listen to mythological stories."
Gu Lianshan didn't believe Gu Tang's nonsense. He found a teahouse on the street, spent a few copper coins to leave the ox cart outside the teahouse, and took Gu Tang to chase in the direction of the crowd.
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Under the west wall of the city, the little beggar who came back breathlessly was calling for his boss.
"Boss! Boss! We found the person!"
What?
The person was found?!
The dishevelled man appeared in front of the little beggar and asked, "Where is it?"
"Changshan is out of the hospital!"
The man from Changshan Academy knew about it, but he had never been there and didn't know which way to go.
"Come on, you lead the way."
The big hand pulled the little beggar who came back to report the news and pushed him to the front to lead the way.
When the remaining little beggars saw their leader leaving, they hurriedly followed him.
The man ignored them and said, "If they want to follow me, then follow me. They won't listen no matter what I say."
In addition to the little beggar, there were other beggars on the road. Among these beggars, there were those who helped to look for people. When they learned that the people had been found, they also followed.
There were also many beggars from other neighborhoods. When they suddenly saw so many beggars of all sizes gathered together, they became extremely curious and sneaked behind them.
Soon, the group of beggars grew larger and larger, and they rushed to Changshan Academy in a mighty procession.
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Gu Tang has already found out the whole story.
The reason why the three brothers were able to gather and attract so many people in a short period of time, in addition to the mythological story that is difficult to distinguish between true and false, was also due to a divine assist.
The old lady in the Cheng Mansion in the east had a dream. She said that she dreamed that the Queen Mother of the West was entertaining all the gods in heaven. In a few days it would be the old lady’s 50th birthday, so the old lady asked the Queen Mother of the West for wine in her dream.
The Queen Mother of the West said that the old lady had done good deeds and accumulated virtue, so she gave her a pot of immortal wine. The old lady drank the immortal wine for the first time and got drunk.
When I woke up, I realized it was all a dream.
When the old lady woke up from her dream, she felt that this was God reminding her that her good deeds were always being watched by the gods in heaven, so she decided to set up a porridge stall and continue to do good deeds.
The place chosen by Ma Da and his friends was where the Cheng family set up the porridge stall.
In order to make everyone remember the kindness of their old lady, the steward of the Cheng Mansion told this story to the people who came to receive the porridge.
After hearing this, the people naturally spread the word about the original god!
Therefore, after Ma Da and the others told the story of the Queen Mother of the West losing the incense, the people nearby rushed here like crazy.
Everyone is saying this must be true!
The old lady in the Cheng Mansion dreamed of the Queen Mother of the West entertaining the gods in heaven. These three ugly monsters who came from nowhere also saw the Queen Mother of the West entertaining the gods.
How could it be such a coincidence that two groups of people said the same thing right at the same time?
However, what happened next was somewhat unexpected.
The old lady of the Cheng Mansion was asking for wine at the banquet of the Queen Mother of the West, but the three people who came later said that their ancestors had stolen the Queen Mother of the West's backflow incense.
The Queen Mother of the West was furious and punished the family by making them ugly and disabled.
As the generations went by, almost all the family members died, leaving only three brothers.
The three brothers have suffered a lot, and now two of them are crazy, and another is on the verge of crazy.
When the old lady of the Cheng family found out, she wanted the servants to bring them into the house.
The three brothers of the Ma family were not stupid. Ma Er and Ma San started chasing and fighting like crazy and soon left.
Ma Da followed slowly from behind, his eyes fixed, his feet staggering, and he was still talking about the Queen Mother of the West.
In winter, many idle people followed along, and the road continued to attract new people.
The newly joined people didn't know what was going on, so they asked around and soon found out the reason.
For a moment, everyone was very excited! They all said it was a manifestation of the gods!
Knowing what happened, the father and daughter looked at each other and stepped aside together.
"This is too much!" Gu Lianshan sighed, "No wonder so many people came here, it turns out it's because of the old lady of the Cheng Mansion..."
"Why? Is his family rich?"
"More than just being rich! I heard his daughter is a queen in the palace! He is rich and powerful!"
Gu Tang's eyes flashed, this is a potential buyer!
"Let's squeeze in." Gu Tang pulled her father and squeezed in with the crowd.
Unfortunately, there was no more room inside, and the father and daughter not only failed to squeeze in, but were squeezed out one after the other.
After staggering a few steps to steady himself, Gu Tang discovered that a group of beggars in tattered clothes and with disheveled hair appeared a few steps away from them!
“Oh my gosh!” Gu Tang was startled and quickly took two steps back. Two words instantly popped up in his mind: “Beggars’ Sect?”
"Oh! Why are there so many beggars! Are you here to join in the fun too?" Gu Lianshan screamed and pulled Gu Tang behind him.
“Boss…”
The little beggar who was close to the man shouted timidly, trying to pull the boss away.
But for some reason, the boss kept staring at me!
You can’t stare at others!
They are beggars. If you stare at them like that, you will be beaten to death!
"Boss... shall we go?"
The man remained silent, his right hand placed on his left chest. The purple symbol was beating, and the scorching temperature seemed to be able to burn people. He sighed softly. It was her. The soul breath was very familiar and very deep.
After the soul from another world took over his body, it took away many souls by mistake. However, after those souls were compensated, they were happily reincarnated.
Only she, first turned into a fierce ghost in front of the gate of the underworld, and then made the underworld compromise and let her go to the underworld treasury to choose a treasure to take away, and finally agreed to let her revive by borrowing a corpse.
I originally thought that this would be able to calm her resentment, but who would have thought that this girl's resentment would only grow deeper and deeper!
In order to prevent her from causing trouble in the underworld again after her death, and also to eliminate the evil done by the soul from another world through her hands, Hou Tu let him go on this journey.
I will work like a slave and let this girl order me around for the rest of my life. After she dies, I hope her resentment will be gone and I can also atonce for my own sins.
Gu Tang didn't know why the beggar on the bamboo pole opposite him kept staring at him. Facing his gaze, he instinctively showed displeasure.
"Dad, let's not stay here anymore, let's go over there." Gu Tang pointed to the alley next to them.
Gu Lianshan glanced at the alley, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of a good place, and hurriedly pulled Gu Tang over.
After entering the alley and walking a short distance, turn east and you will see another alley.
At the end of the alley is a wall, and underneath the wall are two large piles of bricks. It seems that someone is using the bricks to climb over the wall?
Gu Lianshan patted the wall and said, "Behind this wall is the Changqing Gate of Changshan Academy. Many scholars who cannot enter the academy often lie on this wall and look at the gate with longing for love."
Gu Tang looked suddenly enlightened.
Understand! Understand! In her previous life, she could not get into Tsinghua University or Peking University, but every time she went to Beijing, she would still check in and take photos at the gates of Tsinghua University and Peking University.
Everyone feels the same way, and she understands it very well!
"Can you climb a wall?" Gu Lianshan rubbed his hands together and turned to ask Gu Tang.
"Yes!" Gu Tang rolled up his sleeves and climbed up on the blue bricks.
The wall was not very high, and there were half-person-high blue bricks as footrests. As soon as Gu Tang stood on the blue bricks, her little head came out and she could see the scene outside the Changqing Gate. She took a breath. There were too many people!
There is an extremely spacious open space in front of Changqing Gate. During market days, students from our college as well as students from other places are allowed to set up stalls here to sell calligraphy and paintings, or to engage in appraisal and exchange ideas.
At this moment, the open space in front of me was full of people!
There were so many people that it was impossible to count them!
Ma Da and the others pressed tightly against the Changqing Gate, still tearing each other apart professionally. Seeing this, Gu Tang could only sigh, they were too dedicated!
The students of Changshan Academy also heard the noise, and many of them came out to check it out.
Among the pile of green student robes, there were many men and women in brocade clothes, some old and some young. Gu Tang counted them carefully and there were more than a dozen of them.
"Dad, does Changshan Academy have a back door? Those people dressed in rich clothes probably entered Changshan Academy through the back door."
“It should be.”
"It's worth it to attract so many rich people to come here."
"We should thank the old lady of the Cheng Mansion. If we hadn't run into them, this incident wouldn't have attracted many wealthy masters and ladies. We could only wait for the word to spread slowly and then sell the incense at a high price. But now it's different. Maybe we can sell all of it today!"
Gu Tang smiled and nodded. He glanced at the tall Changqing Gate and suddenly had an idea: "The Changqing Gate is so tall and big. If we put the backflow incense on top and let the smoke fall down, wouldn't it be like the 'ladder to immortality'?"
"What are you thinking about? Look at how high the door is. How are you going to let Marda and the others get up there? Are they going to fly up there?"
Yes, Martha and the others really couldn’t get in.
Gu Tang looked regretful.
The father and daughter were so focused on watching the show and talking that they didn't notice there was a person standing on the roof behind them.
The man was dressed in rags and had unkempt hair.
He listened to Gu Tang quietly, his eyes fixed on the Changqing Gate.
It seems like she was the one who created this farce today, just to... sell incense?
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At the back door of Changshan Academy, the arrival of the old lady of the Cheng family attracted the entire Changshan Academy to come out.
They followed the old lady through the academy to the Changqing Gate.
When everyone came over, Ma Er and Ma San were still tearing each other apart. The old lady asked someone to tear them apart, and the onlookers instantly quieted down.
The three brothers started to panic, but luckily their hair was disheveled, so it was difficult to see the expressions on their faces, and no one noticed their panic for a while.
Perhaps the old lady really thought that Ma Er and Ma San were crazy. After having them separated, she did not ask them any questions, but went straight to question Ma Da.
"Who gave you this idea? Do you think lowly people like you can plot against the Queen Mother of the West?!"
The old lady believed in Taoism and had firm faith in the gods in heaven. She hated to see people taking advantage of the gods.
After learning about this, she was so angry that she smashed her favorite teacup and chased after him in person despite the opposition of the younger generation in her family.
As soon as the old lady said this, many people from wealthy families around her secretly curled their lips and glanced at the old lady of the Cheng family with contempt.
They knew that the old lady would come to make trouble. If they didn't want to laugh at the old lady, they wouldn't have come to join in the fun in such a cold weather.
Every family with a bit of status in Bei'an City knows that the old lady of the Cheng family is a Taoist practitioner!
Over the years, he had offended many families because of his practice of Taoism. If they had not been concerned about the eldest daughter of the Cheng family who was the queen in the palace, they would have divided the Cheng family up long ago!
Several ladies who originally wanted to stay out of the matter suddenly started to "scold" Martha.
"You have bumped into a true deity today, old lady Cheng is a true believer of Taoism!"
"That's right, you can't talk about the Queen Mother of the West! Only Old Madam Cheng can talk about it!"
"Not only can you not talk about it, but also things like the Queen Mother of the West entertaining all the immortals can only be witnessed by Old Madam Cheng. You can't see it. If you do, it's just swindling. Be careful that Old Madam Cheng will beat you to death on the spot!"
The younger generation of the Cheng family was not happy with this: "Madam Han's words are probably meant to frame someone. This person is clearly cheating under the name of a god. The government will deal with him when the time comes. Our Cheng family will never kill anyone at will!"
Madam Han's face was grim for a moment, but she soon sneered, "What a good saying, 'I would never kill anyone at will.' Are the people buried on the South Mountain all cats, dogs, chickens and sheep?"
The Cheng family members' faces froze and they glared at Mrs. Han viciously.
Mrs. Han was not afraid of them. She looked at them with a smile on her face, which made people so angry that their hearts ached.
Especially the old lady of the Cheng family, she didn't dare to scold Madam Han, she was afraid that Madam Han would say something else, so she could only direct her anger at Ma Da.
"Hurry up and tell me! I've asked someone to report it to the police. If you don't tell me, you'll definitely go to jail!"
Ma Da trembled with fear, but thinking of the promise the girl had made to them, he simply gritted his teeth, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to the old lady of the Cheng family.
"I heard that Madam is someone who can see the Queen Mother of the West. I beg Madam to help us plead with her for mercy! Our ancestors committed the act of stealing the fragrance, and we have accepted the punishment, but when will this punishment end?
"Now only the three of us brothers are left in our family! Please plead for us! I kowtow to you!"
After saying this, Ma Dabian started to bang his head for real!
The gate in front of Changqing was paved with bluestone slabs. Ma Da knocked his head heavily, and after knocking his head more than ten times, the bluestone slabs were all bright red!
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