latelenovela Chapter 302: Cut off the offerings and suffer from illness
Chapter 302: Cut off the offerings and suffer from illness
After hearing this, Jiang Fengqiao found it unbelievable and had deep doubts.
As long as you offer offerings, you will not get sick, but the condition is that you live a good and diligent life. This is why our great grandfather and great grandmother still work in the fields even when they are eighty years old.
But when they could do it no longer, they died.
Magical, mysterious, and a little weird.
Is this buying life with labor? If so, it is not impossible, after all, everyone's wishes and pursuits are different.
Thinking that he had never worked, he couldn't help but ask: Master, is it okay for the child not to work?
: Studying is also considered as working, but our county is a county abandoned by Wenquxing. It’s enough for you to learn to read, and then you don’t have to study anymore. The lifelong wish of us ordinary people is to live to a old age without illness or disaster.
With the blessing of Master Wuwang, we don’t need to think so much. As long as we do our job well, we can live to old age.
After hearing this, he immediately retorted: Sir, the common people also have a wish which is not to go hungry.
His grandfather was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand and said: People! Don't be too greedy, how can all your wishes come true?
He asked again: Master, our family’s harvest has always been good, so we shouldn’t have to go hungry for one meal. Where did the food go?
: My child! As a human being, you have to lose what you gain. Don’t be greedy.
If you really want to continue studying, you have to rely on yourself. My family really can't afford it anymore.
His grandfather's previous sentence was very mysterious. He asked him to explain it clearly, but his grandfather kept silent.
At that time, he did not understand the reason for this statement. It was not until he was caught cheating during the imperial examination that he figured out what this statement meant.
The cheating note was not his, nor was it given to him by anyone, but was blown to him by the wind.
After being caught, he refused to accept the fact and claimed that the cheating essay was not as good as his own and it was impossible for him to plagiarize.
The invigilator was also a reasonable person and gave him the opportunity to write a better essay on the spot.
He was grateful and was ready to start writing with great interest, but suddenly his mind went blank and he couldn't think of anything.
It seems that everything I have learned and understood over the years was just a bubble-like dream.
Because he couldn't write it, he was eventually charged with cheating.
When he got home, he remembered what he had learned. If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely think that he was nervous at that time and his mind was dizzy and blank.
But he didn't think so. The senior he had met once said that no student in Fengze County had ever passed the imperial examination and became a juren, and there were only a few who became scholars.
He remembered what his grandfather had said and intuitively felt that all this was related to the worship of Wuwang.
He secretly made a decision not to continue kneeling and worshipping three times a day.
But the result of this decision was that he became ill, and his family found out that he did not kneel down, which led to a scolding.
He felt that something was wrong and was unwilling to accept his fate as it was, so after he recovered from his illness, he left Fengze County without telling his family and came to the capital.
But he still suffered from minor illnesses frequently and suffered a lot.
Strange things need to be solved by someone who is proficient in metaphysics. Lingshan Temple is Wuwang’s base camp, so he naturally won’t go there.
So he found Dacheng Temple, which was more like a monk's home than a temple.
But it was here that he found a solution.
The monk who laughed all day long told him that this was not a curse or a sorcery, but a fair transaction.
Since it is a transaction, as long as it is not a transaction, that is, no kneeling, there are no restrictions.
He asked again: What is the specific transaction?
The monk replied: Apart from physical health, emotions and knowledge, everything else is traded to the other party.
For example, extra money and good fortune.
He felt a dull pain in his heart after hearing this. It was so cruel. Wouldn't all the people in Fengze County be like deer kept in cages, having their antlers cut off continuously until they died of old age and could never grow antlers again?
But he still had some confusion and asked: Why have I been plagued by illness since I stopped kneeling?
The monk told him: That’s because all the diseases that you have never had since childhood have come back to you.
After hearing this, he felt that he had suffered a great loss. His future was ruined, and now the illness had returned to him. The things that had been taken away from him before could not be returned either.
No wonder my great-grandparents forced themselves to go to the fields even at such an old age, because they knew that if they didn’t work and earn money, they would be tortured to death by the pain that would come back to them.
He thought that the reason his great-grandfather and great-grandmother knew this was probably because someone had tried it before.
This transaction can be said to be fair or unfair, it all depends on what the individual wants.
When he first started to doubt, he hated Wuwang, but now that he understood, he couldn't hate him anymore.
Simply because this is not a forced transaction, but a voluntary one.
The reason why his family made him kneel down and worship Wuwang since he was a child was probably because they wanted him to have a healthy life. After all, few children from poor families can read.
In addition, they knew that he fell ill after he did not kneel down. In their eyes, this was probably the punishment for betrayal.
At the same time, they don't know how severe the punishment is, which is why they are so nervous and scared.
This happens because they don't know that this is just a transaction.
Now that he knew the truth, he hated his lost future but was also greatly relieved.
As long as he overcomes all the illnesses he has suffered from childhood to adulthood, it will be a new beginning.
After bidding farewell to the monk at Dacheng Temple, he returned home and told his family about the transaction.
While his family was happy for him, they did not stop offering sacrifices to Wuwang, and he understood why they did so.
Because they are old, if they stop offering sacrifices, the illnesses of this life will be added to their bodies, and no one knows whether they can survive it.
At that time, he thought this was the best.
Feeling relieved, he also thought of his other classmates, and even the senior from that time.
He went to them one by one and told them about the deal.
Some people pick themselves up, break deals, and start their lives anew.
There are also people whose ambitions have been worn out, but who continue to make offerings, only praying for a peaceful and healthy life.
After his publicity, everyone in Fengze County actually knew about the transaction, but most people still chose to continue their worship.
Most of these people are elderly people. Like his family, even if they knew, they dared not stop offering sacrifices, for fear that they would be tortured to death by illness throughout their lives.
There is also a small group of people who have no ambition and think that as long as they are healthy and live a long life, that's enough.
"Jiang Fengqiao, what are you daydreaming about?" Hua Danshen patted his shoulder.
Jiang Fengqiao came back to his senses and thought that the people of Fengze County would definitely resist Duke Lu, but not necessarily for the so-called gratitude, but because they were afraid that if something happened to Wuwang, they would also be in trouble.
As long as the Duke can solve this problem, Fengze County will surely fall apart.
He said to Hua Danshen, "Master, we can provide the Duke with a clue that will make the people of Fengze County open the city gates automatically, and use this as an olive branch to attract his surrender."