Chapter 4, Apprenticeship
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After leaving the drunkard's house, I asked my parents what was going on. My mother told me the reason and said, "Yan'er, you must study hard with the drunkard in the future, and don't be as big or small as before."
After hearing this, I nodded and said, "Then will I really leave you in the future?" My dad and my mom lowered their heads and did not answer my words again. I knew they were both uncomfortable, but they just didn't say it out loud!
Imagine it is easy to raise a child by yourself? It’s gone just like that if you say nothing. Of course, you can’t say it’s gone, but you can’t see you again in the future and shed a few tears without feeling uncomfortable!
At that time, I was not thinking so much, and I kept thinking in my heart that this beggar is really that powerful? But thinking about such a big snake that day, I could not believe it even if I just threw the drunkard out a few feet away.
In the few days after I got home, my parents made a lot of delicious food for me. My sisters didn't want to eat it. These days, I was offered up like a Bodhisattva and asked for whatever I wanted. I was immediately satisfied and didn't know the whole world.
Time flies very quickly, and these few days have passed in a blink of an eye. Of course, I am in a blink of an eye, and my parents don’t know how they passed by? Thinking about it now, I’m really a little sorry for my parents!
When I arrived at the door of the drunkard's house, the drunkard was already standing at the door waiting for me. But today's drunkard is a little different from before. Today, I wear decent clothes and no longer wear like a beggar like before.
When I saw my parents leading me, the drunkard hurriedly walked up to take my hand and said, "You are here, come in quickly!" My parents nodded to the drunkard, saying hello, and followed the drunkard into the main hall.
My parents have been in a bad mood these days, just forcing them to smile.
They didn't want me to know, but how could I not know? When I entered the lobby, I saw that the drunkard's house was actually quite big. I had whatever I wanted, and I was a rich man!
I just don’t know why he wore a ragged dress all day long. I woke up that day and didn’t look carefully. Now I’m a little surprised to see it. Sofa, TV and everything! It’s like entering heaven. At that time, who had a TV sofa in the countryside, and a radio was good.
After we entered the house and sat down, the drunkard spoke, "Speak now if you have anything to say, after all, there is no time to say it in the future."
My parents lowered their heads when they heard this, and they didn't know what to say now! If they said too much, they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to bear to leave me, so they shed tears. After all, they had been doing this decision for 8 years.
When the drunkard saw that my parents didn't say anything, he smiled and said, "It's not that I'm cold-hearted and forced your family to separate, but that some things are destined, and forcing them to stay by their side is just a harm to others. Why do you need to cause more trouble?
The baby is the lonely star of Tiansha. It doesn’t have much connection with parents. You forced him to stay by your side and just harm the baby. And I won’t let you see him in the future. You can still stay together for a few days during the Chinese New Year and the holidays!
Instead of not being able to support you in your old age, it is okay to accompany you occasionally, so don’t think too pessimistic about things.”
After hearing this, my parents all smiled, "Really? Can you really come back to see us?"
The drunkard nodded and said, "This is for sure. After all, you are his parents. How can I not let him go home to fulfill his filial piety?" Then the drunkard said, "Baby knelt down and kowtow to your parents, I won't see them during this period." After hearing this, I fell to my knees and kowtowed to my parents silently and cried.
My parents couldn't stand this kind of scene, and they all started crying. Our family of three cried for half an hour before being interrupted by the drunkard next to us.
Then he took out a bag from the drawer and looked at it and said, "This is 50,000 yuan. You two go to the city to do business and other things. Don't come back to farm, after all, you can't make much money even if you farm! "
At that time, my parents said they didn't want anything, but the drunkard said, "If you don't take it, you won't let your kid go home." My parents reluctantly accepted it after hearing this, and then the drunkard took out another note and said, "Everyone calls me a drunkard, actually my name is Zhang Daoyuan. This is my contact information. I will leave here with my kid tomorrow. If you have any questions in the future, you can call me directly!"
After my parents took the note, the drunkard spoke again, "But there is nothing important, don't call me, it's for your own good!" My parents were stunned for a moment, and finally nodded, "I will never call him if I have nothing to do in the future!" After that, the drunkard asked my parents to go home.
After my parents left, the drunkard took a piece of clothing and handed it to me and said, "You go inside and take a shower and then come down." I picked up the clothes and saw that I'll go, Taoist robe! What's the rhythm? Now I'm starting to pretend to be a ghost?"
But I just thought about it and didn't dare to say it out loud. Then I got up and took a shower at the place where the drunkard said. This is the third time I met the drunkard. I don't know what kind of personality he has. But I thought to myself, I must not be a good person. Can an upright person squat on the street and tease good women?
When I washed it, I saw the drunkard making a fancy in the hall and I didn’t know what he was doing. When I walked up to him, I saw him hanging a portrait in the main hall, which was Sanqing. Incense tributes and the like had been lit on the table, and the drunkard also changed into a Taoist robe, but his one was different from mine. Mine was blue and his one was yellow!
When the drunkard saw me coming out, he nodded and said
Oh, I'm going to return the ancestor, why aren't you old man? After saying that, the drunkard said to me, "Today, you should respect the teacher and respect the teacher. It's very impolite to stare at the ancestor and look around, do you know?"
After saying that, he continued to say to me: "Now I am going to the apprenticeship ceremony. Do you know if I say something?" I nodded. The drunkard stepped forward and knelt down. I also knelt down seriously. "Disciple Zhang Daoyuan, the disciple, took Dugu... When he said this, he turned to look at me and smiled. I was shocked and thought that what happened to me, the despicable master? But I got such a nonsensical word; "What's your name for a baby?"
I feel like vomiting blood when I hear this. You wanted to accept me as your disciple 8 years ago, but now I don’t know what my name is.
But I didn't show it and said honestly, "My name is Dugu Yan." After hearing this, the drunkard nodded and said seriously; "Disciple Zhang Daoyuan"
Chapter completed!