After Becoming a Taoist

   Chapter 404 Roses blooming in the dark

  Li Dandao did not go to the examination room every day, but Li Baojing went to the examination hall for a walk every day regardless of the wind and rain.

   Those who took the first exam came out one after another, and of course some did not.

   There were also those who were lifted out, with pale faces and sudden cardiac death.

   Diarrhea, prostration, and dying.

   A mass of twisted, charred meat smells, attracting the people to swallow.

   Hanged and had his tongue broken.

   There were even those who over-rushed and died violently.

   There are also seven orifices bleeding.

  The old man was also frightened, for fear that there would be his darling cub inside.

  Li Dandao, on the other hand, set up a stall and sat in the slums of the capital, where he wrote: "One baht for consultation and five baht for medicine".

   A yin and yang flag hangs with a tiger and a bell, and looks like a man in the rivers and lakes, but he is a little younger.

Li Dandao is too young, and has no reputation in the capital. When people see it, they only make a joke: "You shouldn't come here if you cheat money for five baht medicine. You are young."

  Li Dandao just smiled.

   But there was a young man who came to buy medicine every day, but only paid for a white cloth, sometimes a foot, sometimes half a foot.

   "Why not sell it in pieces? Now it's ripped into rags, but it's worthless."

   The young man didn't say a word, just took the medicine.

   He has a sick father, a grandmother who is almost blind, a mother who is almost exhausted, and three younger brothers and sisters.

   Now he can't open the pot, and he has nothing to pawn, so he goes to sell coolies for a little food, but he can't sell it every day.

  This cloth was ordered by his mother to change the dressing, the husband who was in bed for a long time, and the head of the family.

   Although the young man lost his ribs, his stomach is big, which is not a good sign.

  Li Dandao accepted the cloth and gave him two pills: "Why don't you ask me to take a look, one baht for the consultation fee."

  The young man was very vigilant, thinking that Li Dandao was a trafficker, and there were several younger brothers and sisters at home.

   One had been kidnapped the year before, and when I found it, only half of it was left, and the other half was in the pot.

   The young man was beaten badly for this, and he still remembers it.

   A few younger brothers and sisters still don't understand things. Although the person in front of him looks young and the medicine is sold cheaply, the deadly sick ghost is indeed much better after taking the medicine.

  The young man became more and more desperate. The dead and sick ghost died earlier, maybe the family can survive.

   But it is very contradictory. After all, my mother is very happy about it, and she has the strength to weave.

   The young man thought that Li Dandao didn't know where his home was, but in fact Li Dandao knew everything.

   It’s just that, crossing people still has to have a chance.

   This young man seems to have a good relationship. Laojun ordered Li Dandao to establish a sect, and Li Dandao would also look for talents.

  This young man has a stubborn temper, an inferiority complex but a strong personality, as well as a latent resentment, and he told Li Dandao to wait and see for some more days.

  Dan Pills are not symptomatic, but they can also stimulate people's resistance.

   After the pulmonary tuberculosis is cured, he will not be able to do heavy work.

  The young man came home with the pills in his arms, and took water to the father who was lying on the bed coughing.

   Several younger brothers and sisters have gathered around, and every time my brother comes back, he will bring food.

   maintains them one meal a day, or two meals a day.

  The young man didn't bring back the food. Today he went to help people farm the fields and ate a meal by himself, but the wages will still be paid tomorrow, because the work can only be done tomorrow.

   However, because of his young age, his wages are only half of other people's, but he does not dare to only do half of the work, and even has to work harder.

   The expectant eyes of his younger brother and sister made him feel a little guilty, because only he ate and everyone else was hungry.

   was silent for a while.

   "I went out to dig some wild vegetables today, and there is some food left over yesterday, you can cook some porridge."

The blind grandma is holding a wooden stick in her hand. Her eyes are blind in weaving. Although she is blind, she can still weave, but there is only one loom at home. She is blind after all. Wrong, the cloth is useless, so be very careful, the efficiency is very slow.

  Only at night does she sit in front of the loom and weave linen into cloth.

   Others can't see it at night, but she's used to it.

   The young man was moved, grandma was blind, how did he get out of the city gate, and how did he recognize the wild vegetables?

  The wild vegetables in March are fresh and tender. Although they are slightly bitter, they can also satisfy hunger.

   It’s just that autumn and winter are tough, and we don’t have to dig wild vegetables. Last winter, the family didn't know how to survive.

  The boy cooked porridge that was thinner than shui-shui pig food, and the green leaves of wild vegetables floated on the earthenware pot with their roots attached.

   First serve grandma a bowl, this is filial piety.

   Another bowl for the dead sick ghost, this is the kindness of father and son.

   With the help of the woman, the man got up with difficulty, leaned against the wall and held a bowl, while coughing out of breath, he spread the soup on the quilt.

   The young man was even more disgusted in his heart.

   "Why didn't you bring food back today? You want to starve me to death, ahem, are you the master of the house?"

   "The wages won't be paid until tomorrow."

   "Don't you know how to talk to people? Cough cough! You are such a big person, cough cough, do you need Laozi to teach you about this? What's the embarrassment? We're hungry, you're embarrassed? Cough cough!"

   The man coughed, but his face turned red.

Although the    boy was scolded, he coughed, but there was a strange pleasure in his heart: Will this deadly sick ghost be mad at me?

  The boy's silence was regarded as silent resistance by the man, and he was even more angry.

   Even the women were scolded, as well as the children.

   Cursed and scolded, and couldn't breathe again. The woman wiped her tears, helped him fall asleep, and fed him mouth by mouth, but couldn't stop him.

   "Just choke him to death." The boy thought while scraping the bottom of the pottery pot for his younger brother and sister.

   There is not much left.

   "Brother, don't you want to eat?" The youngest brother was only three years old and looked at the boy with **** eyes.

   "I'm not hungry." The boy touched the child's head.

   "Leave him alone! He came back from eating out, this white-eyed wolf!"

   At night, the sound of coughing, accompanied by the operation of the loom, resounded in this cramped room.

   The young man hummed a tune softly, and coaxed his younger siblings who were too hungry to sleep: "When you fall asleep, you won't be hungry anymore."

   "If we get a lot of money, how will you spend it, brother?" The younger brother suppressed his hunger and asked quietly.

"I will still have a very hard life, going out to work every day without dawn, but we are really rich, so we have no problem eating, but we can't say it, we should pretend to be poor, it's a wonderful feeling. Yes, no one knew we had money."

   "So are we really rich now? If we are really rich, can we stop pretending to be poor and be hungry?"

   "If we are really rich, then we can be real people, how can real people pretend to be poor?" The young man slowly patted the doll's back.

  Li Dan said in the distance, but he had already heard these conversations.

   nodded secretly: "There may be some flaws, but it's not irreparable."

   (end of this chapter)