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After a while,
Lian Ge and Chen Luodao, Chen Xiaoxuan and his disciples walked down the mountain one after another and entered the village at the foot of the mountain.
Compared with when I came two days ago, the village is undoubtedly much more lively.
The wedding car that has not yet set off to pick up the bride is parked along the road, and the relatives and neighbors of Old Man Wang's family are helping to paste the Chinese characters "囍" on the wedding car.
The closer we got to Old Man Wang's house, the more people there were, including guests and villagers who helped organize the wedding.
Stepping into the courtyard of Old Man Wang's house,
There was some hustle and bustle, and the hot scene instantly came into view.
In the yard, the invited wedding chefs and waiters are busy, either arranging the table, spreading the tablecloth, or processing the ingredients,
The people from the wedding company are doing the final layout of the wedding rostrum and the scene.
At the edge of the yard, there were a dozen or so young men in suits chatting, among them was the son of Old Man Wang.
Looking at what seemed to be a dozen people from the wedding party, and looking at the shiny heads of these ten people, Lian Ge couldn't help but feel a little funny,
Shaking his head slightly, he was about to look away.
Suddenly, the person who came in from the yard made Lian Ge stop his sight,
This is an old man with wrinkles and age spots on his face, holding a cane in his hand, sitting in a wheelchair, and a young man behind him carefully pushes him.
After the old man entered the yard, the whole yard suddenly became much quieter.
Old man Wang, who was greeting Lian Ge and Chen Luodao, apologized instantly, and greeted the old man.
And the old man in the wheelchair glanced at the crowd in the yard, then pointed at the dozen or so young people gathered together,
The young man pushing the wheelchair understood instantly, and pushed the old man over.
And the faces of the ten or so young people clearly showed nervous expressions, they stopped in place, none of them dared to speak again,
"boom!"
After being pushed in front of the dozens of people, the old man looked at them, raised his hand, and gave one of them a stick with the crutch in his hand.
"Pinch the cigarette for me!"
The old man's voice was a little weak, and his strength was not heavy, but the man who was beaten took the cigarette out of his mouth in an instant, threw it on the ground and stomped it out.
"Old man, don't be angry, just pinch it, pinch it..."
The person who was beaten said nervously.
The old man glanced at him and sighed slightly,
"Don't forget, you are a monk, you are in public, what does it look like to smoke."
"I see, old man, be careful next time."
Looking at the person who was beaten, and then glanced at the dozen or so people in front of him, the old man put his hand on the armrest of the wheelchair and said with strength:
"I know, you all think that you are fake monks, and you are not in the temple now, so there is nothing to do.
But regardless of whether you are fake monks or real monks, since you rely on this for food, be serious and use some snacks. "
"understood."
More than a dozen young people hurriedly nodded in response.
Looking at the dozen or so young people, the old man shook his head, sighed slightly again, but didn't say anything else,
After scanning the yard again, he pointed in the direction of Lian Ge and Chen Luodao,
The young man pushing the wheelchair immediately understood, and pushed the wheelchair towards Lian Ge and the others.
And the old man Wang at the side saw the old man finish his lesson, and immediately went up to him,
"Grandpa, you've worked so hard to come over here." Old man Wang followed the old man's wheelchair, talking to the old man,
"I just heard that your child is getting married. I just woke up this morning and I feel more energetic, so I came to have a look." The old man smiled,
"By the way..." the old man said, groping in his pocket with some difficulty, and took a long time to find out a red envelope.
"Since it's here, the gift is still indispensable. Take it."
The old man handed the red envelope to Old Man Wang tremblingly.
"Old man, you don't need the red envelope..."
"Do you want me to hold it all the time? Just hold it if you hold it. This is my wish."
"Then, thank you, old man." Old man Wang took it.
"Okay, today your son is getting married, I won't delay you, you can go on your own." The old man waved his hand,
Old man Wang hesitated, but walked away.
At the same time, the old man's wheelchair stopped in front of Lian Ge and the others again.
"Old Layman Xu..."
Chen Luodao saluted.
"Hello Taoist Priest Chen, and Taoist Priest Xiaoxuan, I haven't seen you for half a year, and I've grown taller again."
The old man responded with a smile, then turned his gaze to Lian Ge,
"Who is this?"
"Old Layman Xu, this is Daoist Lian, a true cultivator of Youdao in Sichuan and Sichuan provinces." Chen Luodao took the initiative to introduce.
"Sichuan and Shu Province? That's a good place. Many of my old friends are from Sichuan and Shu..." The old man responded with a smile, and then seemed to recall some emotion,
Then, back to God again,
"I'm sorry, this person is getting old, and it's easy for him to lose his concentration. Daoist Lian, welcome to our Xujia Village."
Hearing the sound, Lian Ge looked away from behind the old man and looked at the old man again.
"Mr. Xu is polite." Lian Ge nodded in response.
The next moment, the moment the voice fell,
In Lian Ge's mind, the system prompt sounded suddenly.
Chapter 93
"...fighting for the country, shed blood on the battlefield, disarmed and returned to the fields, and also benefited the village, great kindness!"
With the sound of the system prompt, on the system interface, the progress of the "people of great kindness" in the "Hundreds of Good and Hundred Evils" increased a little again.
After glancing at the system interface, Lian Ge turned his gaze back to the old man in the wheelchair.
"...That Daoist Lian, Daoist Chen, and little Taoist Priest Xiaoxuan, you guys talk first, and I will excuse you first." The old man said to the three of them with a smile.
"Old Layman Xu can do as he pleases."
Chen Luodao saluted, and Lian Ge also nodded with a slight smile.
Then, the old man signaled to the young man pushing the wheelchair to another place.
Watching the old man turn around, Lian Ge turned his attention to the figures who had been following the old man again, and gave them a slight signal.
"Reverend Lian, Reverend Lian..."
Beside him, Chen Luodao saw Lian Ge's eyes fixed on the figure of the old man, so he called softly,
Hearing the sound, Lian Ge turned his head.
"Renren Lian, the old man just now is the old man Xu in the village."
"I know." Lian Ge looked at the old man again and nodded.
"...Hey, I said before that the old man has been in a coma and can't leave the bed at all. Today, he suddenly became a little more energetic. I don't know if it is..." Chen Luodao shook his head, and whispered to Lian Ge.
Hearing this, Lian Ge didn't answer, but turned his head and said to Chen Luodao,
"Chen Daochang, I'm leaving."
"Renren Lian, isn't it..." Chen Luodao lowered his voice, looking at the old man on the other side of the yard.
Lian Ge glanced at Chen Luodao, but shook his head without answering.
Immediately afterwards, he turned around and walked out of the yard.
And Chen Luodao didn't ask again, just watched Lian Ge go away, vaguely guessing.
"Master, where is Master Lian going?" Chen Xiaoxuan, who was sitting at the side table and playing with his mobile phone, looked up and asked curiously,
"Kids, why bother so much, let's play your game." Chen Luodao turned his head and glanced at Chen Xiaoxuan.
"Oh……"
……
On the other side, after stepping out of the yard, Lian Ge, along with several figures who followed him out of the yard, walked along the village road, found a secluded section, and stomped his feet again.
"Under the jurisdiction of the Exit-Entry Management Office of the Underworld, the person in charge of the Nandu Region of the Immigration Department brought his subordinates to meet the Celestial Master."
After that, several figures who followed out of the yard bowed to Lian Ge again.
Looking at the government officials of the underworld in front of him, Lian Ge nodded, and then his eyes stopped on the person in charge of the Nandu area again.
"Are you here to pick up Mr. Xu?" Lian Ge asked directly.
"Yes, Celestial Master." The person in charge of the Nandu area, who was dressed a little differently from the rest of the underworld ghosts, nodded and said,
"According to the regulations, the dead who are about to reach the end of their lives and whose souls return to the underworld belong to those who have great merit and great yin virtue, and they need to be picked up by the person in charge of the area to show respect for them."
Hearing this, Lian Ge nodded, then took two steps on the side of the road,
"How much time does the old man have?" Lian Ge looked at the person in charge and asked.
Hearing this, the person in charge of the Nandu area quickly replied:
"Reporting to the Celestial Master, there is less than an hour."
Hearing this, Lian Ge looked at Old Man Wang's house who was busy preparing for the wedding, paused slightly,
Withdrawing his gaze, Lian Ge once again looked at the government official in front of him,
"Give him another half-day, this old man won't want to leave at someone else's wedding."
"Yes, Celestial Master." The person in charge of the Nandu region nodded directly, and then asked:
"Do I need to temporarily seal his soul in the body?"
"No, if it takes half a day, I'll do it myself. It's just that I may have to trouble you to wait a little longer." Lian Ge shook his head and said.
"It is my honor to serve the Celestial Master." The person in charge of the Nandu area shook his head and said.
Hearing this, Lian Ge nodded and said nothing more.
……
After a while, Lian Ge returned to the courtyard of Old Man Wang's house. The officials of the underworld did not follow in, but waited quietly outside the courtyard.
Stepping into the yard, Lian Ge swept his eyes,
The courtyard was much more lively than before. The guests gathered from all over were distributed in front of each dining table, eating fruits and sweets, and chatting casually.
Chen Luodao and Chen Xiaoxuan, two Taoist priests, one old and one young, were talking with old man Wang.
Pausing his eyes slightly on the two Taoist priests Chen Luodao, Lian Ge didn't go over again, but moved his eyes to the other side of the courtyard.
On the other side, at a dining table, Mr. Xu was sitting on a chair, surrounded by some old and young people.
At this moment, old man Xu was talking enthusiastically, and his face seemed to be much more energetic than before, but the eyes of the people sitting around him showed a trace of worry from time to time.
Slightly blindfolded, Lian Ge walked straight towards Mr. Xu.
"...I still remember when you were a child, that skinny, when the cement road was first built in the village, you were told not to step on the concrete floor if it was dry, you had to go up and step on it, and now there is you on that road The boy's footprints are there."
"Isn't it because I was ignorant when I was a child? I remember that my dad beat me up as soon as I got home. If you hadn't stopped me, my dad would have broken my legs."
"Hey, don't blame your dad. It was not easy to build the road at that time. I really begged my dad to tell my grandma. I remember that at the beginning, I planned to build a road [-] centimeters thick, but in the end I didn't have enough money, so I did it." eight centimeters..."
Holding the crutches, the old man felt a little emotional, as if a lot of memories from the past appeared in his mind,