Chapter 75: Enlightenment
I wanted to smile at this man, but he made me unable to smile with one sentence. He looked at me with slanted eyes and yelled, “Where did you come from, white-faced boy? Get out of here…”
What kind of person is this? I hadn’t even spoken yet, and I was already being told to leave?
As soon as he appeared, the children in the yard were already silent and stopped playing.
However, when he shouted, a woman came out of the house. She looked very old. As soon as she came out, she said, “What are you yelling about? What’s wrong this time?”
The man spat and said, “A young man came, and I scolded him a little. What’s wrong?”
The woman looked back at me, a little embarrassed, and then turned to the man and said, “People come to the door, maybe there’s something wrong? Why are you scolding people? I told you to drink less, and when you drink too much, you go crazy.”
Looking at this scene, I finally understood why the old woman said that people with XX fate would not have a good life. I guessed that Guan Laidi might be the child of this family. With such a family, can life be good?
I was just thinking for a little while when I heard the children in the yard crying. I looked up and saw that the man was already beating the woman, yelling, “Does my drinking have anything to do with you? Does it have anything to do with you? Big woman, you can’t even beat me once!”
In fact, I am an absolute non-interfering person, because my master taught me from a young age not to meddle in karma, let alone such family gossip.
But for some reason, the scene in front of me made my blood boil, because I saw the frightened look in the child’s eyes and the pitiful look in the woman’s eyes.
I didn’t care anymore, and I rushed over in a few steps. I got close to the man, and I realized what it meant to be drunk. I pulled the man away, not intending to hit him, but the man was so angry that he rushed at me, yelling furiously. Poor him, he was already intoxicated, so he didn’t have any strength. I pushed him, and he fell on his back, unable to get up for a long time.
The woman quickly came over and held me back, saying, “Don’t hit him. He’s just drunk. He’s fine when he’s not drinking.”
I looked at this poor woman. It had been almost 2,000 years. What era was this? How could such a family still exist? How could there still be such a weak woman? Should I pity her misfortune and be angry at her lack of resolve?
Because I wanted to take Guan Laidi away, I always felt guilty about this family. I sighed and said nothing to the man who was cursing at me, and I didn’t hit him again.
But when the man saw that the woman was coming to drag me away, he refused to let me go, yelling and cursing, “You old woman who can’t give birth to a son, what’s the difference between you and a hen that can’t lay eggs? You fancy that little white face, don’t you? I knew you weren’t a woman of virtue.”
This was a very unpleasant insult, and I really couldn’t help but want to slap this man in the face, but in the end, the action turned into taking 200 yuan from my pocket and throwing it at him, saying, “This is the money for my apology. I came to talk to you about something. Please get up and talk.”
In fact, I didn’t expect to be able to talk to this drunkard at all!
At that moment, a somewhat foolish laugh reached my ears. I turned around and saw a girl with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, probably about twenty years old, but she looked a little silly. When the woman saw the girl come out, she immediately called out, “Laidi, is the hangover soup you made for your father ready?”
Is this Guan Laidi?
Things went better than I expected. I guess the 200 yuan had a big effect on the drunkard, Guan Liangzi, and he changed his attitude towards me 180 degrees.
During our conversation, I also learned what kind of family this was. It was a sad family that, in this era, could still have five children and would not stop until they had a son!
The man of the house likes to drink, the woman is weak, and the poor children are the ones who suffer.
As for the girl that Master Liu was looking for, Guan Laidi, she was a silly girl, but not the kind of congenital mental retardation. In other words, her IQ was a little lower than average, she was a little slow to react, a little simple-minded, and overall, her brain was a little slow.
Faced with such a girl, I didn’t want to say the purpose of my trip several times, but I thought that Master Liu had said that he would only do what you want and won’t hurt people, so I said it again with a stiff head.
I didn’t want to lie, so I said directly that someone wanted to talk to them, mainly about Guan Laidi, and that they would be compensated! I also reminded them that they could refuse anything if they didn’t want to, that no one could harm them, and that I would help them if necessary.
At that time, I was thinking not about Kunlun, but about the bottom line!
I wasn’t sure about Master Liu, so I could only try to believe him, but I was also prepared for the worst. If he really wanted to do something to Guan Laidi, I would stop him!
I could have found the clues myself, even if I had to give up on them.
I thought that after hearing my words, the family would hesitate, but what I didn’t expect was that the woman didn’t hesitate at all, and happily agreed to go with me to talk to the person they wanted to meet, because I also told them that they would be compensated.
“The worst that can happen is that Laidi will become a daughter-in-law! As long as it’s a good family, what’s wrong with that? She’s so stupid. No one here likes her. I don’t want her to go to a poor place. Let’s go see what that man wants from us!” These were Guan Lengzi’s exact words!
He didn’t suspect anything at all. After all, at his level of life, what else could he possibly be taken advantage of?
The woman even agreed with Guan Lengzi. She thought that life at home was difficult enough, and it would be good if Laidi could contribute to the family. She also thought that if they didn’t have a son, they could always find a son-in-law with money.
I can’t understand their thinking, or maybe we’re just in different worlds.
When talking about these things, Guan Laidi always smiled foolishly, and when asked to make tea, she would make tea; when asked to go see her sister, she would go see her sister…
This scene made my heart ache. I hope Master Liu won’t really do anything evil for his daughter!
Originally, Kunlun, which was so important to me, became insignificant in the face of a kind of simple innocence. I thought this was the deepest obsession in my heart, unshakable, but a Guan Laidi actually made me give up the most important clue.
My master often says that the practice of the heart is everywhere in the world, and I never thought that I would gain such an insight from this trip.
But no matter what I realized, the woman had already started packing her bags. They were so eager to go to Tianjin to see Master Liu.
This was a journey with a lot of baggage, because the Guan family had bad relations with everyone in the small town, and since they were both going to Tianjin, no one was willing to look after the children, so they simply took the whole family with them.
The five children, the oldest of whom was 20 and the youngest two years old, I can’t describe this peculiar age difference, and how this family of seven is so out of step with the times.
They naturally took me as the person in charge of the trip, and naturally made me responsible for their food, drink, and toilet needs.
I didn’t object, because I saw the excitement of the children when they first saw the small town, and I thought that maybe I was spending money, but I was buying their most precious happiness.
In the small town, I bought a few children a whole new set of clean and beautiful clothes. I did it not for any particular reason, but just because I felt like it.
On the third day, I took the family on a tour of Tianjin.
I deliberately did not take them directly to Master Liu, but went to his home instead. I felt that I had to ask Master Liu what he was going to do!
On this day, a tragedy unfolded before my eyes.