Chapter 1 The Troublemaker is Leaving
Chapter 1 The Troublemaker is Leaving
"Master! It's bad! My sister was telling fortunes for someone, and the customers started fighting again!"
"what?!"
This has been the nth time!
Master Ling Feng stood up suddenly, without even bothering to put on his shoes, and ran out.
The Sanqing blessed land, a place of tranquility where winds gather and energy gathers, was now surrounded by a group of noisy pilgrims, among whom a couple were fighting fiercely.
Not far away, a young Taoist nun in Taoist robes and holding a feather fan was leisurely watching the fun with the noisy pilgrims.
Master Ling Feng watched this farce, and the veins on his forehead twitched.
"Xie Lan!"
The powerful shout attracted the attention of everyone around, and even the couple who were fighting stopped.
Master Ling Feng coughed lightly and said, "I have something to talk to you about. Come with me."
Xie Lan was originally counting how many bloody scratches the woman had left on her husband's face, but when she heard the voice, she stopped teasing and obediently followed Master Ling Feng into the hall.
Master Ling Feng drank the tea on the table which had already gone cold in one gulp, and then sat down on the cushion in the hall.
Xie Lan then smiled and called out, "Master, why are you here?"
Seeing that she still had the heart to laugh, Master Ling Feng glared at her with disapproval.
"Auntie, little ancestor, today is the last time you will have your fortune told on the mountain. Can you please give the master some face and stop making trouble? Just finish today's fortune telling and we'll go down the mountain, okay?"
Seeing that he was talking till his mouth was dry, the young disciple sat on the cushion without caring and fanned himself slowly.
Master Ling Feng was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.
Xie Lan was his fifth disciple. Although he looked well-behaved, he was a real headache for him.
The little girl was originally very talented, but she was very lazy since she was young.
Spring is not a good time to study, and the hot summer is just right for sleeping. There are mosquitoes in autumn and snow in winter. If you want to study, you have to wait until next year to finish it.
I spend every day thinking about how to eat, drink and have fun.
After so many years, divination and magic have become commonplace.
I thought she would be a dandy nun for the rest of her life.
Unexpectedly, he suddenly became a different person two years ago.
Not only did he become a genius in metaphysics, but his divinations were always accurate.
He also changed his previous lazy nature of eating, drinking and having fun, and often went down the mountain to tell fortunes for people.
As a result, the reputation of their Sanqing Temple became famous, and there was an endless stream of pilgrims coming to ask for divination, and the incense was much more popular than before.
This was a good thing, but this girl always caused trouble every time she told fortunes, and the money the temple paid out was always less than the money collected from incense offerings.
It gave him a headache and made him feel helpless.
Although Xie Lan was annoyed after taking a look, he still couldn't bear to blame his master.
He raised his head and glanced at the statue of the ancestor enshrined in the center of the hall, then waved the feather fan in the direction of Ling Feng Zhenren.
He smiled and said, "Master, you are already old, why are you still so angry? If your anger leads to bad consequences, the good wine you secretly brewed will have to be given to your uncle."
Seeing Ling Feng's eyes widened with anger, Xie Lan said innocently, "Master, it's not my fault that something like that happened. Just like the couple just now, the woman has been married for many years but still can't get pregnant, so she came to me to tell me whether she can have a child in this life.
I just told her the divination results, that she had a son and a daughter, and then they started fighting. "
Master Lingfeng blew his beard and glared.
She was right, the woman did have two children, but they were born to her husband's secret mistress.
The woman was already furious when she heard this, but her disciple, who was eager to stir up trouble, revealed that the money the man spent on his mistress was all embezzled from his wife's dowry.
To add fuel to the fire, they exposed the man's secret misappropriation of money from his family's shop, his visits to brothels, and his gambling.
The woman was so angry that she didn't care about exposing the family's dirty laundry. She grabbed her husband and started beating him in front of a group of pilgrims.
Although Xie Lan didn't tell a single lie, the woman was too angry to think too much.
But after she vented her anger, she looked back and blamed Xie Lan for exposing the matter in public and embarrassing her.
What if she is unreasonable and uses this matter to ask the Taoist temple to compensate her? Who knows how much money they will have to pay to settle the matter.
After all, things like this have been common in the past two years.
Ling Feng sighed again, "That being said, can't you be more tactful? There's really no need to reveal those things that can be said or not.
My dear, doing good deeds with your mouth is also a kind of practice... With your straightforward temper, what will you do when you go down the mountain and return home?
Your family sent you to Sanqing Mountain when you were little and left you alone for more than a decade. I’m afraid your family…are not good people.”
Although criticizing others behind their back is not what a gentleman does.
But when he thought about what his little disciple's family had done, Master Ling Feng felt really disgusted.
Speaking of the Xie family, Master Ling Feng was worried, but Xie Lan didn't have any feelings for that family.
Just because she is not the real Xie Lan.
She was originally a modern person, and she had earned hundreds of billions at a young age, but she was suffering from a serious illness.
After learning that modern medical technology could not cure her disease, she left the hospital and did not go home to wait for death.
Instead, he went to Mount Sanqing, which has a history of 1600 years and is known as "the first fairy peak in the world and the unparalleled blessed land in the world", preparing to spend his last days in that fairyland-like place.
Unexpectedly, after she had burned incense to the Three Pure Ones in the main hall of the Sanqing Blessed Land, she suddenly fell down.
When she woke up again, she found herself traveling back to the body of a little girl from the Xie family of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The original owner was also called Xie Lan, and was the daughter of Xie Changting, the eldest son of the Xie family. A few days after she was born, her grandfather got drunk and fell into the river and drowned, and her grandmother Bao broke her leg soon after.
Not long after, some messy things happened to the second and third branches of the Xie family.
Because all this happened after Xie Lan was born, Bao believed that this money-losing girl had a tough life and was unlucky with her relatives and friends.
Fearing that she would bring misfortune to the whole family, they decided to drown her in a urine bucket.
Xie Lan's mother, Su, was already frail and sickly, and she was injured when giving birth to a daughter. When she learned that her mother-in-law was going to drown the child, she was afraid that she could not protect her, so she had to secretly ask someone to send her to Sanqing Mountain.
Not long after sending the child away, Su died.
But what Su didn't expect was that she was weak and sickly, and the child she gave birth to was not much healthier.
The child died before he was sent to Sanqing Mountain.
Xie Lan traveled through time and space, and although he inherited the original owner's body, he also inherited her fate of being unlucky with her relatives and friends.
Xie Lan was fostered in Sanqing Mountain for a full fourteen years, and no one from the Xie family ever came to see her.
Until a month ago, the Xie family suddenly sent a letter asking to bring her back to the capital.
According to the date, the visitor should be arriving today.
Now that this trouble-making girl is leaving, I no longer have to worry about the Taoist temple being demolished every day.
While Master Ling Feng was happy, he thought about how the Xie family had ignored Xie Lan for more than a decade, and now they were suddenly going to take her back.
It's hard not to worry.
Even though Xie Lan had caused him a lot of trouble in the past two years, after all, he was his disciple who he had raised since childhood, so naturally the affection between them was extraordinary.
(End of this chapter)