Taichu Yandao: Starting from the Villain

After Ouyang Jiaren went up the mountain, the village did not return to its former tranquility. Although no one said anything, they were all very worried, not knowing when the snake plague would come.

The whole village spent more than half a year in a tense atmosphere, until the bumper harvest in the autumn of that year, when everyone's worries gradually subsided.

In the following few years, the weather was good and everyone lived a good life, so no one mentioned the matter again, only occasionally someone would gossip about it after dinner.

Time flies, and six years have passed in the blink of an eye.

That summer, the sun scorched the earth like fire, and not a drop of rain fell for three full months.

At first, people used river water to irrigate farmland, but by August, the riverbed had gradually dried up, and even the water level of Ruoshui Lake had dropped by more than half.

After finally making it to autumn and seeing the harvest in sight, it rained for months in a row, causing the already meager harvest to drop even further.

That evening, the bell of the ancestral hall rang again, spreading throughout the village.

In the courtyard of the Yun family, Yun Haiying came out of the study and shouted to the side room: "Let's go, the bell of the ancestral hall is ringing, and everyone in the village, except the monks on duty, must be present."

In the side room, Yun Tian was copying the Man's Morality Sutra. When he heard the shout, he smiled happily and opened the door quickly, saying, "Mother, I was wrong. I will never go to Weak Water Lake without permission again."

Yun Haiying looked serious and did not answer, but strode towards the gate of the courtyard.

"Mom, you can't blame me if you can't finish copying the Manly Virtue Sutra!" Yuntian hurried to catch up.

The mother and child were walking one after the other, and just as they were about to leave the hospital, the child with a pigtail on his hair suddenly ran out from the kitchen.

The child grabbed Yun Haiying's robe and asked, "Mother, where are you going?"

Yun Haiying took the child's hand and said with a smile, "Mom is going to a meeting and will be back soon."

The child blinked his clear eyes, looked at Yun Haiying eagerly, and said, "I want to go to the meeting too."

Yuntian burst out laughing.

Yun Haiying's face turned serious, and she said, "Wujiu, the meeting is so boring. You can't move around, and there are mosquitoes buzzing in your ears. Soon your head will be covered with lumps, which will be painful and itchy."

Li Wujiu hesitated and asked, "Mom, why can my eldest brother go?"

"Your eldest brother does not follow male ethics and is not a good boy, so he was taken away by mother to be punished. Wujiu is a good boy, and good boys never chase after others, right?"

Li Wujiu hesitated, and finally let go of his hand, saying, "I'm a good boy, I don't need to go to the meeting."

Yun Haiying led Li Wujiu to the kitchen door and said, "Stay at home with your father and let him cook meat for you."

"Eat meat!" Li Wujiu took a step forward and ran straight to Lady Yan behind the stove.

When Yun Haiying saw Li Wujiu go in, she quickly turned around and ran straight to the courtyard gate.

At this time, monks came out of every household on the main street, and they walked in groups of three or five toward the ancestral hall.

Two quarters of an hour later, in the ancestral hall.

The village chief coughed and said, "Everyone, I'm sure many of you have guessed what the reason is for calling you here today. The school is recruiting students, and we want to select children with outstanding talents and focus on training them."

Sitting in the front row, Yun Haiying looked depressed and turned around to wave to Yun Tian.

"We just sat down..." Yun Tian looked confused, but he still rushed to Yun Haiying and asked, "Mom, what's wrong?"

"Didn't you hear? Test your spiritual roots and quickly go and bring your brother over." Yun Haiying said.

Yuntian frowned and asked, "I have already been to the school, will they still agree?"

"Just bring it here, and leave the rest to me."

"Okay!" Yuntian smiled happily and turned to run towards his own yard.

About a cup of tea later, in the kitchen of Yun's house.

Lady Yan had just cut off a thin slice of meat and was about to put it into the pot when she saw Yun Tian hurried back. So she asked, "Didn't you go to a meeting with your mother? Why are you back?"

"Dad, what a happy event! I came back specially to pick you up today to test your spiritual roots." Yun Tian said.

Lady Yan smiled and said, "That's a good thing. From now on, we will have three monks in our family."

Yuntian was greatly surprised and asked, "Why do you and dad both look so confident? The reason I was able to enter the school was because we didn't have an eldest daughter."

Lady Yan said as she was cutting vegetables: "You should ask your mother about this matter. I am a man and I don't know these things. Anyway, I know that Xue'er can practice."

Yuntian was speechless. He walked to Li Wujiu and said, "Little brother, follow me. I will take you to some fun places."

Li Wujiu looked alert and said, "Mother said you are not a good child, so you have to go to the meeting. I won't go!"

Yuntian looked depressed, but it would be difficult for him to overturn his mother's words at this time, so he changed the subject and said, "Who said I want to take you to a meeting? Have you been to the ancestral hall? It's fun, and all good children will go there."

"Hmm..." Li Wujiu smelled the aroma of meat in the air and asked tentatively, "Dad, if I go, will there be no meat to eat?"

Lady Yan touched Li Wujiu's little head and said with a smile, "Go ahead and listen to your second brother. Dad will wait for you to come back."

Li Wujiu grinned, revealing his missing front tooth, and was happy from the bottom of his heart.

He put down the firewood in his hand and ran straight to Yuntian.

After the two left the yard, Yuntian picked up Li Wujiu and ran towards the ancestral hall with big strides.

A moment later, in the ancestral hall.

When Yun Haiying saw the two men coming, he took Li Wujiu and held him to his side.

"Mom, didn't you go to the meeting? Why are you in the ancestral hall?" Li Wujiu asked.

"Well... Mom remembered the time wrong. There will be no meeting today. The ancestral hall is lively, so let your brother pick you up." Yun Haiying said.

"Oh! Mother is so good to me." Li Wujiu looked around, taking in everything in the ancestral hall curiously.

At this time, in the middle of the ten armchairs, on a large waist-high table, there was a round jade plate surrounded by a jade dragon.

A middle-aged woman who had reached the fourth level of Qi training put a little girl on the table, pointed at the jade plate, and moved her lips, saying something unknown.

After a moment, the girl walked up to the jade plate and placed her little hand on the handprint on the edge of the plate.