Huanan City is one of the twelve major counties in the State of Wu. Each county is the seat of a county, and each county has several counties under its jurisdiction.
A year ago, Zhou Tai received help from passers-by and said goodbye to the situation where he was starving and could die at any time. With money and money, he has been wandering around, but he has not found any trace of the immortal cultivator.
As for going home? Let’s not mention that he doesn’t know the way back. Even if he finds the way back, will he be sold again if he goes back? If there is no memory of the past life, the ignorant child may still think about how to go home, but the fact is
There are no ifs and there are no assumptions in reality. In fact, this is fine, and you can pursue the path of immortality wholeheartedly.
In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person. He didn't have much suffering, but he didn't enjoy any glory or wealth. In this life, he has endured all kinds of hardships. Can he cultivate to immortality and finally be able to see forever? Even if he is in trouble, Zhou Tai will
I don’t dare to think so. The lowest goal is to live a good life, make up for the regrets of the two lives, and experience a different and wonderful life.
The summary is just one sentence, to live a good life as a cultivator. If possible, find more Taoist companions. Beautiful long legs and good figures must be standard. I don’t know if there is a one-couple system. There is a high probability that there is not. There are many mortals.
If you have more than one wife, your ability to become an immortal is not as good as that of a mortal? What kind of immortality can you use?
In a small place, there are few people and little news. So in the end Zhou Tai came to Huanan City, a county with a large population.
And the ten taels of silver at that time, even if I was saving, I still spent nearly five taels.
In fact, Zhou Tai also used the strengthening points to study the silver. He could add more points, but it did not turn into gold. When adding points once, the appearance remained the same, but it became hardened. The real silver became fake silver in the eyes of others. How could that work? Continue
When you add dots, it becomes a white metal. When you add dots for the third time, it's still white metal, and the corners become sharper.
In the end, Zhou Tai decided that it would be better to restore the currency attribute of silver, research materials, etc., and then wait and see what happens when he becomes an immortal.
After wandering around South China City for two days without hearing any news about the immortal cultivating sect, Zhou Tai found a job as a clerk in a grain store. He was able to find this job solely because of his ability to work and the spirit of not being paid, as long as he was in charge of the food.
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There is a lot of food in a large grain store. In order to prevent the grain from mold, it is necessary to dry the grain on sunny days, so there is a lot of work. The monthly payment is too little, and no one can do it. And Zhou Tai, who does not need to be paid, is the shopkeeper.
Seeing how energetic he was at work, he was hired immediately.
As for the food manager, how much does that cost? Moreover, the grain store sells food at a low price, so the cost is lower. As for a place to live, the shopkeeper found a bed for me to sleep directly in front of the granary and look after the food part-time.
Zhou Tai just wants to find a place to stay first. Monthly money or not is really not that important. With a goal like the stars and the sea, how can he care about this short-lived cloud.
In such a county, on the one hand, it is convenient to inquire for information, and on the other hand, there are more people who can read, so there is always a chance for me to translate the book that is suspected to be an immortal book.
But for the sake of safety, the translation needs to be done in the safest way, by taking out the text and doing it slowly.
Wanting to learn to read can be said to be easy or difficult. In the end, Zhou Tai found a good way. There was a fortune teller in the city who pretended to be blind. In addition to telling people's fortunes, he also did the work of ghostwriting documents.
Whenever the grain store was busy and had free time, Zhou Tai would go to this fortune teller to watch him tell people's fortunes and help them write documents.
Zhou Tai did not comment on fortune telling, and he had no idea of letting others do it for him. He did learn some words by watching people write for him, but this kind of job of writing for others is not always available. Sometimes it can last for several days.
You may not encounter one, and Zhou Tai is not always here. More importantly, the probability of the same character appearing repeatedly is very high, and it is getting harder and harder to learn new characters.
Until he felt that the probability of learning new words here was getting lower and lower. One day, Zhou Tai reluctantly bought half a roast chicken and a gourd of relatively inferior wine and came to the fortune teller.
Why half a roast chicken? You can't eat one at a time, and it won't be fresh if left alone. The recipient of the gift wouldn't think so, but Zhou Tai thought about it for the sake of the recipient.
As for why I don’t buy good wine, the price of good wine is too expensive and I really can’t afford it. The second reason is that it doesn’t match my current status.
"Little boy, here you go again, you brought something with you today?" The fortune teller who was doing nothing first said when he saw Zhou Tai.
"These are specially given to you sir." Zhou Tai admired the fortune teller's ability to see people through the slits of his eyes. Even though his eyes were closed, he could see everything around him. Zhou Tai also admired the fortune teller because of his long observation time.
Just discovered it.
"Give it to the old man?" The fortune teller said, stroking his beard, and continued: "You kid wants to learn the old man's fortune-telling skills, but these are not enough."
He glanced at the fortune-telling sign next to him and said, "The fortune teller is like a god." I restrained myself from saying, "Sir, you guessed it wrong." Instead, he said directly: "I want to learn to read."
"What? Recognition?" As if he couldn't believe it, the fortune teller sat up straight, and then said seriously to Zhou Tai: "Telling fortunes for others is a lifelong skill, and just being able to read will not do much for you.
Although I won’t teach you easily, I will tell you this truth.”
"I just want to learn how to read and ask sir to help me." Zhou Tai showed a serious attitude.
"Oh, actually..." The fortune teller seemed to have something to say.
"If you have any concerns or requests, sir, please tell me first." I didn't dare to say too much, and I was afraid that the other person would open his mouth too loudly.
"...even...I won't lie to you...I only know some common words." The fortune teller said a reason that Zhou Tai didn't expect.
It turned out that he was semi-literate, but Zhou Tai said without hesitation: "Okay!" He knew more words than he knew, and Zhou Tai also asked about it. If you want to study in an academy, you need not only money, but also status. Ordinary people
Children from poor families can't go there even if they have money. Not to mention this, the money alone can stop Zhou Tai. It is said that he can get at least dozens of taels a year and study for at least three years.
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In this way, one person learned and the other taught, in just a few times, Zhou Tai learned all the words that the fortune teller knew.
The fortune teller also praised him for his quick learning and his talent. Zhou Tai's family knew about his family affairs, and he would look for opportunities to secretly memorize the pinyin of every word he learned. In fact, if it wasn't to avoid trouble, he would write a word in two seconds.
I’ve written it down, and I can keep remembering it…
When Zhou Tai, an illiterate student, successfully graduated, he found an opportunity to sneak out of the city and retrieved the books he had left outside the city.
Because he barely had a place to stay, there was no suitable place to place his belongings, and he was also worried that someone would find something unusual one day, so Zhou Tai hid the book outside the city.
Now that I have become semi-literate and know a lot of words, it is time to take a look at the general content of the book.
After starting to translate with trembling hands and an excited heart, Zhou Tai was surprised at first, then blushed slightly, and then became furious.
It was strange because the title of the book was "Su Nv Jing". Could it be that it was an exercise for women only? As the translation continued, although there was a small part of the text that he did not recognize, but by combining it with the context and adding the words that he knew, Zhou Tai finally understood that he had always been
What book do you think is your treasure?
This is no secret book about cultivating immortals. It is clearly a novel about the world of cultivating immortals, or the Jin Ping Mei kind. I don’t know who made such a book using good materials that can be strengthened by strengthening points.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Zhou Tai even doubted whether this was the world of cultivators. Why had he never seen anyone flying in the sky except those two times? Why couldn't he see cultivators in such a big city?
I haven't heard any news about this.
I saw someone flying in the sky with a sword. Did I see it wrong? Was it a mirage? But it was too clear?
The next day, Zhou Tai got off work a little late, so he bought half a roast chicken and two bottles of wine. He planned to have a drink with a fortune teller. Drinking by yourself was boring, as someone more familiar with him would tell fortunes.
Since it was a little late, Zhou Tai knew that the fortune teller should have gone home, so Zhou Tai went directly to his house.
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When the two of them were in high spirits, Zhou Tai suddenly asked with emotion: "Mr. Sun, do you think there are immortal cultivators in the world?"
The fortune teller, Mr. Sun, calmly asked: "Why do you ask that?"
"I've seen it fly from the sky." Zhou Tai said with the help of wine.
"It's probably a remote place. Although the immortal cultivators don't deliberately avoid people, they won't fly over the city in full view of the public."
The fortune teller, who didn't notice the change in Zhou Tai's expression, continued: "In this low-spirited place, it is very rare to see an immortal cultivator, and it happened twice. I guess you saw the same person both times."
Zhou Tai saw two people at that time. Looking back carefully, it seemed that they were really the same group of people.
I thought that the path to immortality was difficult to find, but there are traces of it. From the name of a low-spirited place, I knew that this fortune teller knew a lot.