old grace

Fu Chuan's 17th birthday was unprecedentedly lively and jubilant, and his 17th New Year's day was extremely lonely and lonely.

Only during the New Year can we know that friends and family are different after all.Usually, friends can accompany them all day long, but during New Year festivals, friends have to go home to visit their relatives and reunite. If you are alone, you will inevitably look desolate.

In order to take care of the Hushui Palace Cemetery, Li Qian opened several shops in nearby towns. Due to the lack of traffic, it is impossible to make them bigger.During the twelfth lunar month, the shop assistants in the town could still prepare New Year’s goods and arrange various sacrifices for Fu Chuan. When it was around New Year’s Eve, everyone would have to take annual leave, and their wives, children, and parents were all there, so they couldn’t stay with the little boss. New Year's Eve near the cemetery?

Originally, there was a little old man Li Bo in the cemetery who was in charge of guarding the tomb. He also had to take care of the sacrifices in front of the tomb during the New Year's Eve, so he couldn't go home.

Fu Chuan thought that since he was here, he could arrange the sacrifices of Mrs. Liu and her uncle's house by himself, and there was no need to let Uncle Li stay here.

He simply let Uncle Li also take a vacation and go back to reunite with his family.

Li Boqiqi Ai Ai didn't really want to go back, Fu Chuan said with a smile: "The reward money worth the year will still be given to you." He opened the money box and took out 20 taels of silver, saying that the extra silver money was considered as lucky money for the children, and Li Bo smiled when he got the reward money Thank you so much and went home.

The only one who was with Fu Chuan was An An, the girl who was forcibly snatched back by Yan Baoer.

"Are you afraid?" Fu Chuan asked.

At the time when the festival was the most lively, the huge cemetery suddenly lost the popularity of laughing and walking. There were only a few houses left, and the mountain was full of tombs. It seemed that you could hear the echo from the valley when you spoke. It was quite a scary place. environment.

An An shook her head.

As a country girl, the most common thing she sees is dead people.Not giving birth to a daughter, dying of typhoid fever, famine and hunger...

What's so scary about tombs?White bones and loess.

Since An'an was not afraid, Fu Chuan took An'an to chop wild wintersweet in the mountains when he had nothing to do, put them in bottles with water, and put them in front of the tomb for worship.

The original bleak cemetery was decorated with flowers and trees, and it became much more warm and lively, and it seemed to have a Chinese New Year atmosphere.An An is really not afraid of ghosts and gods in the tomb. Fu Chuan cut trees and branches. She couldn't help, so she used a washbasin to fetch water to scrub the tombstone.

The girl looks like Yuxue and is cute, but her hands have a lot of chilblains when she picked them up because of hard work.Fu Chuan bought her some medicine for chilblain and rubbed it on, and told her to take good care of her hands, but she still rushed to work, fearing that Fu Chuan would send her to a shop in the town again.

Fu Chuan didn't like to do scrubbing either, so since he couldn't stop him, he set up an iron pot in the garden and boiled some hot water for An An to scrub with hot water.

Unexpectedly, An An looked at the smoke of the hot water and immediately cried.

Fu Chuan was so frightened by crying, girls are really made of water!

——It made you wipe the tombstone hard, but you were so moved that you cried?Didn't you cry because of grievance?

An An wiped her tears and explained that because her father was a bad gambler and owed money everywhere, the firewood she cut hard and the dead branches she picked up were either sold in the city for money, or sent to the creditor's house to please. A few days of grace.In addition to burning firewood for meals, the house usually drinks raw water, and it is absolutely impossible to waste firewood for cleaning.

For the poor, every penny is a waste.

Clothes are expensive, walking shoes are expensive, and even if you stay still, the food you eat is wasted, and you have to work to earn it back.

Fu Chuan boasts that he has traveled the rivers and lakes and has seen the sufferings of the world.

However, most of the people who get along with him are the sons of rich and powerful families, eat restaurants, stay in inns, and give rewards at will, and there are people to entertain and cater to wherever they go.In his opinion, Zizhu Villa is extremely "poor", but in fact it is also a well-known local landlord.

Regarding the suffering of the common people at the bottom, he has always been watching the flowers on horseback, but it is difficult to understand deeply after seeing it.

Just like he could see a bad gambler like An An's father wandering in the gambling house, but it was hard to know that behind such a down-and-out bad gambler, there was a wife and children in a more difficult situation, living a more cramped life in an unknown place miserable life.

Getting along with An An allowed Fu Chuan to see another side of the world.He was shocked to find that many things were not the same as he imagined.

He thought that An An was a little girl and should be afraid of ghosts and blood.

In fact, An An can walk through the cemetery in the middle of the night, and can skillfully kill chickens and bloodlet them, and skin rabbits.

He thought that An Anshun accepted the fate of being betrayed by the gambler's biological father because she abides by filial piety and pays attention to the three principles and five constant principles.

An An didn't understand this at all.The five members of her family couldn't recognize two characters together. What did she know about the principles of the three cardinal principles and five constant principles?I listened to my father because my father was strong and had big fists.Since she was sensible, she knew to obey violence, and if she was subdued, she would naturally be obedient.

Only then did Fu Chuan realize that many parts of this world are unreasonable.

These people don't study, don't speak morality, rely on their instincts to bully the good and fear the evil, prey on the strong, and live like wild animals.

Living in such a world, how can we not suffer?

All beings are suffering.

Am I alone at ease?I have the power of good fortune taught by my mentor, and I can repel evil thieves and murderers.I have the ten thousand family business left by A Niang and Uncle Li, and I can spend a lot of money.I am not afraid of violence, I am rich in the world, and I am so young and healthy.I live the life of a human being.

However, so many people are living like animals, miserable.

I... have to do something, right?

Fu Chuan thought about this question.

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On the fourth day after the Shangyuan Festival, Xie Qinghe received a letter from Fu Chuan.

This surprised him.

After Fu Chuan went down the mountain, he deliberately asked Li Qian to write one letter after another to send his junior brother out.Fu Chuan was not a fool either, he had long seen that Xie Qinghe's will was represented behind the letter paper, so Fu Chuan did not show weakness and began to lose his temper.

Ever since Li Qian led Fu Chuan to Hushui Palace to pay respects to Mrs. Liu's grave, Fu Chuan refused to write letters home.

——Write to Shangguan Shiyi alone, deliberately not to write to Xie Qinghe, for fear of causing restlessness in the door.

Therefore, Fu Chuan simply did not write a single letter.He would only send a message to Li Qian when he wanted money or something. He followed the letter path of his own workshop and did not touch the messenger of the Hanjiang Sword Sect.

Xie Qinghe is also very tolerant of this.You bullied a child, and you still don't allow the child to be angry?

Years of being enchanted by demons made Xie Qinghe very insensitive to time and separation.When Fu Chuan was in Hanshan, he spent 80-[-] years in a single day, and now Fu Chuan has only been out for a few months, and he didn't feel it at all.

He really doesn't care if he writes a letter or not.

On the contrary, he was surprised when he received Fu Chuan's letter at this moment.

"Before Shangyuan, the shop was closed. I'm afraid there will be someone working there, so the little master brought the letter." Li Qian was dressed like a bear and nestled by the brazier. It was much colder in the mountains than outside. , Li Qian climbed all the way from Sandalwood Xiaozhu to deliver the letter, his nose was red from the cold, "This envelope is for you when it's ready, I didn't dare to open it, and I sent it right away."

The letter was sent from Hushui Palace to the Hanjiang Sword Sect in four days. At this time, the world of ice and snow was hard to believe.

"If it's urgent, he will find it by himself." Xie Qinghe comforted.

Li Qian didn't know about the portable space, and Xie Qinghe didn't mention that Fu Chuan stuffed a flying kite in the space before going down the mountain.Li Qian ran back in a hurry, Yun Chao also pricked up his ears to listen to the news, Xie Qinghe felt that the two of them were concerned and would be confused.

What big event can Fu Chuan go down the mountain?

There are very few people in this world who can beat Fu Chuan, it's nothing more than less experience in the world.In real danger, Fu Chuan hid directly in the space.

Life is nothing but death.

He opened the letter, scanned it hastily, and found nothing appalling, so he read it again from the beginning.

Fu Chuan wrote the letter very respectfully and piously. He first greeted An An, and then said that he had seen the incomprehensible pain from the details of his life with An An recently.He sincerely asked the elder brother how to solve this matter?How can I not solve it, where should I work hard?

——Being angry with Xie Qinghe is all about being angry, and when it comes time to write a letter, Fu Chuan is also reluctant to be angry with the elder brother.

The words of a letter are respectful and earnest, without a trace of resentment or hostility.Just looking at the familiar handwriting, Xie Qinghe seemed to be able to see that obedient child sitting beside him, looking up at him with great admiration.

His reading speed was already extremely fast. After reading it carefully, he could basically remember the position of every word on the paper.

After reading it again, he handed the letter to Li Qian: "You should read it too."

Li Qian refused to leave even after delivering the letter, just sat there with a cup of tea in his hands, just wanting to know what happened.

Li Qian also knew about Fu Chuan and Xie Qinghe's anger.Both of them refused to give in, and were competing with each other.If there were no accidents, how could Fu Chuan bow his head and admit defeat so quickly?

Li Qian was looking down at the letter, Xie Qinghe lifted the thin blanket on his lap, and Yun Chao hurried over to help him put on his shoes.

He put on his wooden clogs, walked around the room with his hands behind his back, guessing that Li Qian had already seen it, and said, "He is a good boy."

Yun Zhaozheng was bending over to fold the thin blanket on the couch, thinking to himself, listen to this tone.When Lao Tzu praised his son, his joy was almost bubbling, and he had to try his best to suppress it, pretending to be "I'm very fair, I really didn't praise my son, this child is really good".

Unexpectedly, Li Qian's cheeks were flushed, and he seemed a little angry, and said, "I'm afraid this matter is not easy to handle."

"Which thing is easy?" Xie Qinghe asked back.

Li Qian himself didn't have much knowledge, and he relied on his cleverness when he wandered around the market.What benefited him the most was Xie Qinghe's decades of experience in taking over his life.He knew that he and Xie Qinghe were two completely different people, but Xie Qinghe used his background to live another life, his participation became very high, and he accumulated a lot of wisdom and cognition from it.

For more than ten years, he has been savoring the knowledge left by Xie Qinghe and Yu Yin's handling of things, and he has grown a lot in Xie Qinghe's way.

Therefore, at this time, he can discuss with Xie Qinghe the problem that troubled Fu Chuan: "The granary is full of etiquette, but the little master said that the common people live like animals. It is nothing more than eating and drinking and neglecting school etiquette. But this matter must So easy to solve, the Hanjiang Sword Sect has been standing for thousands of years, and the court has changed for more than ten generations, isn't it still not enough to punish a doctor, and not to be polite to a common man?"

It's not that Li Qian doesn't want to support Fu Chuan's ideal, he just knows too much how difficult it is to achieve "sufficient storage".

The poor man who sits at home and fantasizes always feels that if he has the capital, he will be able to make a lot of money.The family doesn't have half a tael of silver, and when it comes to wealth, it seems to be nothing more than that.Li Qian is serious about earning money, and he controls the family business for Fu Chuan. Because of this, he knows the difficulty of accumulating money. For him, it is not difficult to make some small money. Help the world, how much does it cost? !

Xie Qinghe said with a smile: "You don't need to worry about this matter."

Li Qian had a kind of enigmatic trust in Xie Qinghe, and couldn't help but ask: "The Immortal Elder must have a way, right? It's not that I cling to the money. It's not easy for the old lady to keep some property. The big shopkeepers and the little guys in the shop are all Point to live. If you can achieve the great cause of the little master, it is not wrong to dissipate the family property. I am afraid that the little master is ignorant and throws money for nothing, but nothing can be done."

Xie Qinghe shook his head and said: "Little brother has a sense of proportion. He is not a frivolous temper. The world belongs to the people of the world, how can there be any reason to support the world by one's own strength? He also made it very clear in his letter that this is not a matter of money .Do not worry."

"How does the fairy plan to instruct the little master?" Li Qian still couldn't help asking.

Xie Qinghe walked to the book case, Yun Chao helped him grind the ink, and he spread the paper and moistened the pen himself, a line of words was simple and clean, and flowed smoothly: "I have understood the letter. Master Wan'an, I am also in good health. I should walk more and more for my brother's inquiries. Look, think about it. This."

Li Qian was dumbfounded: "Just... this?"

Xie Qinghe nodded.

The misery in the world that Fu Chuan only discovered, he discovered 30 or 30 years earlier.Fu Chuan recently had the ambition to benefit the world, and he had established it two to thirty years earlier.It's just that this matter is extremely difficult, and Shangguan Shiyi firmly opposes it, so he can only quietly accumulate strength for the future.

This is too difficult.

Xie Qinghe is determined to do this, and he doesn't expect to do all the work in this life.Passing on the hard work from generation to generation, there will always be a day of competition.

It's just that the fate of life is so wonderful, and he has only recently found a path that may be successful, and he is working hard to implement it and try to move forward.Maybe three to fifty years, or maybe one hundred and eighty years, before we can see some improvement.

As for Fu Chuan's awakening and comprehension, Xie Qinghe did not intend to overly participate.

There is a pit on the ground. If you don't let your child step on it by himself, you will never know his real reaction after falling into the pit.

Some children hate pits, they will hurt when they fall, they will stain their clothes, and in severe cases, they may break their hands and feet.But some children just like to jump into the pit, treat it as a game, never get tired of it, and they may exercise their body by the way.

Children who are only sixteen or seventeen years old don't even have a clear view of the real world, so why bother?

Xie Qinghe folded the letter, stuffed it into an envelope, and handed it to Li Qian: "That's it."

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walk more.look more.Think more.

Fu Chuan looked at the six words on the letter paper, his teeth itched a bit.

Again.

Fu Chuan didn't think that senior brother treated him sincerely.It's just that big brother likes to kill two birds with one stone.

He also knew that he didn't have enough understanding of the world and human nature. Xie Qinghe asked him to walk, see and think more, so that he didn't have to rush to do things.If you can't see the whole picture, you rush and work hard in the direction that doesn't hit you.Going to more places, seeing more mountains and rivers, human customs and customs, and thinking about the relationship between heaven, earth and people, may be more rewarding.

—By the way, prop him up further.

Xie Qinghe's arrangement coincided with Fu Chuan's again.

Fu Chuan spent the new year in Hushui Palace, so he is supposed to be fine, he can pack his luggage and go back to Hanshan.

He chose to write back to ask Xie Qinghe what to do, but he didn't want to go back so soon.

This is no longer pure "anger", nor is it necessary to force Xie Qinghe to "please" him back to the mountain.

The appearance of An An broke Fu Chuan's inherent impression of the world. He realized that there may be more people and things in the world that are not "taken for granted".He wants to live in a world of one person, and he doesn't want to see the common people at the bottom doing beastly things, and he doesn't want to see monkeys crowning themselves on the temples, so he has to be more sensible and know the truth.

It's always shallow on paper.

Walk more, see more, think more.Fu Chuan was planning to do this.

but.

After receiving this letter from Xie Qinghe, knowing that Xie Qinghe wanted to distract him, Fu Chuan was still very angry.

I wrote so many papers and went back, asking about your body, your shoulders, and your feet, even the soft pillow on your couch is useless, should I bring you two special products of Hushui Palace again? I have already asked about the cotton bag, so you just give me these few words!

Adding the titled "Jisheng my brother" together, it is only five elements!

They didn't ask me what I ate or drank during Chinese New Year, or if I was lonely during Chinese New Year alone.

The most hateful thing is that Fu Chuan paid New Year's greetings to Xie Qinghe in the letter, but Xie Qinghe didn't even bring a copper coin for the new year!

"Don't write letters to senior brother again!" Fu Chuan said harshly.

Then, he carefully put the letter written by Xie Qinghe into the space.

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From then on, Fu Chuan began to wander all over the country.

At the beginning of February, Yan Shaoying wrote a letter to Fu Chuan, expressing his desire to travel the rivers and lakes with him.At that time, Fu Chuan had already left Hushui Palace and went to the southwestern mist.Yan Shaoying chased him to Yunhuang, Fu Chuan turned to Shanyang again, and went to the old place of the holy mausoleum.Later, Yan Shaoying didn't bother to chase him anymore.

Many people in the Jianghu know that when Fu Jisheng traveled the Jianghu, he had a horse with human nature and a beautiful maid.

Ma is the second uncle, and the pretty maid is An An.

Why bring An An?Fu Chuan is also difficult to explain.

Because of An An's existence, it will remind him not to take everything for granted.Because An An is very good at taking care of people.Because Ann is very beautiful.

A little girl who will serve you tea, pour water, lay the bed, fold the clothes, and she is very beautiful. She stays in the room, and the whole room is lit up. The key is that she has a good temper and never sings against you. , She nods at everything you say... Do you not like her?

Even the second uncle likes An An.

When he was on his way, Fu Chuan asked An An to sit on the horse. The second uncle, who had a great temper, never lost his temper.

It is very strange to walk the rivers and lakes with a little maid. There is only one horse, let the maid ride it, and walk and lead the rein by herself.What's the matter?Even if Fu Chuan came from the Hanjiang Sword Sect, no one dared to discuss it openly, so he had to give some pointers and discussions in private.

Oh, these days, disciples of Hanjiang who have entered the Tao still have to bring maids with them when they go out?So delicate, could it be the housemaid?

When the news reached Han Shan, Xie Qinghe couldn't help being concerned.

He summoned Li Qian to the stargazing platform and asked, "Did my junior brother write you a letter recently?"

Li Qian shook his head.

Xie Qinghe frowned and said: "Last time I saw his letter saying that the little girl named An An was only twelve or thirteen years old."

Knowing Xie Qinghe's temperament, Li Qian quickly explained: "That's impossible. Immortal, these are all rumors in the world. The little master has been a chivalrous hero all the way, and has disrupted many underworld and green forest businesses. People hold grudges against him and deliberately say Those dirty things about Yingying and Yanyan are disgusting, and our own family can't just believe in rumors."

Xie Qinghe glanced at Li Qian.

It was already summer now, and it was so hot that Li Qian took out his handkerchief to wipe off his sweat.

"You write him a letter. Choose your own words and sentences. If there is such a thing, tell him to go back to the mountain to deal with it immediately. If there is no such thing," Xie Qinghe changed the subject, and his attitude became gentle again, "It's fine if there is nothing. You tell him that if he really likes a little girl, at least he has to wait for a few years to get all the books and gifts before he can be considered respectful."

Li Qian's head got dizzy from hearing this, how do you write this letter?Tell me to write?Why don't you write it yourself?

"I have to ask about such a shadowless matter. Wouldn't the little master be wronged..." Li Qian was eccentric.

Xie Qinghe felt that twelve or thirteen-year-old girls were still young, but many girls from poor families were about to get married at twelve or thirteen years old.Only Jin Gui, a girl from a wealthy family, would discuss marriage at the age of fifteen or sixteen and get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen.

Even if Fu Chuan raises a maid, Li Qian doesn't think it's important.As far as our little master's wealth and status are concerned, to sleep with a maid would require three letters and six rituals?Xie Xianchang, are you kidding me?

Unfortunately, he dared not speak.

With Xie Qinghe's temper, he dared to say that he would go out sideways today.

Xie Qinghe pushed this extremely difficult job to Li Qian, never expecting that Li Qian is also a good dog.

Li Qian returned to Tanxiang Xiaozhu, sighed at the letter paper for a long time, and finally wrote a letter that seemed to have completely followed Xie Qinghe's instructions, but was actually very ambiguous... Hurry up and hand it to Fu Chuan.

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Fu Chuan hadn't written a letter to his family for several months, but when he suddenly received a letter from Li Qian, he mistook it for something urgent and was very anxious to open it.

After disassembling and reading, I found that the whole article was incomprehensible, and the more I read it, the more confused I became.Li Qian first said that eating and drinking is a human instinct, and that it is a serious matter for a man to start a family before starting a career. Then he sighed that uncle, I have never had a family or children in my life, and my life is miserable...Fu Chuan has already fainted from the sight.

Next, Li Qian said that women who are too young are prone to dystocia.

Fu Chuan:? ? ?what?

In the end, Li Qian concluded that if you want to have children, it is better to find an older woman with a big butt.

Fu Chuan:? ? ? ? ? ? ?ha?

The entire letter seemed to be finished, and there was a separate piece of paper behind it.Fu Chuan turned it over and saw that there was only one sentence on it, Li Qian wrote: "Xie Xianzhang told me that if you are pregnant, you can go back to Hanshan to protect the baby."

Fu Chuan was so angry that he slapped the dining table.

An An was rubbing clothes at the door, trembling with fright, watching Fu Chuan whirling around in the room in puzzlement.

"Master?"

"It's okay." Fu Chuan finally understood, and the senior brother forced Uncle Li to write a letter again!

It's just that the nature of the letter this time is special. Ruo Fu faxed An An and insulted An An. With Xie Qinghe's temper, he was afraid that he would be accused.Li Qian was biased towards posting, so this letter was written so upside down.What a miscarriage!No matter, what kind of baby!

Fu Chuan didn't react when he read the letter, and he read it carefully, but now that he figured it out, his mood was very bad.

Just looking at the faint ink stains on the letter paper made him a little angry.

How suspicious of me!

How could I... I...

He sat in the hotel room, looked at An An who continued to wash his clothes, and found that all this was really misleading.

He walked with An An alone and a widow for more than half a year, eating and living together along the way, An An took care of his daily life and washed his clothes.They themselves knew that An An was still young and not yet sensible, but he was a monk who entered the Tao, refining essence every day, without any whimsy.

The relationship between him and An An is like a child, frank and frank, without a trace of worldly filth.

However, the elder brother is thousands of miles away, he doesn't know the inside story, and someone maliciously slanders me, he will worry and care about me.

If the elder brother really thinks that I have done something bad, I am afraid that elder brother Yun Chao will come to arrest me long ago, or a handwritten letter will make me go back to the mountain to defend myself.Beat around the bush and ask Uncle Li to write a letter to warn me, that is... If there is something, then change it, if not, then encourage it?

Fu Chuan pressed the letter with his hands, and leaned on the table with his head sideways.It would be great if senior brother was jealous...

pity.

He just felt that he couldn't bully the little girl, right?

After fantasizing meaninglessly for a while, Fu Chuan still gathered his energy and asked An An to find a pen and ink on the cabinet and write a reply to Xie Qinghe.

He didn't reply to Li Qian's letter, and wrote the letter directly to Xie Qinghe.

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[Very good, not crooked. 】

Xie Qinghe looked at the letter with only five characters, and couldn't help smiling.