Chapter two hundred and sixty seventh guiding light
But Si Yuanjie was extremely unwilling to accept it. He was born in the 1980s. Although he had not finished high school, he received a modern education and knew that the world outside was vast. So Si Yuanjie didn't want to farm in the countryside for the rest of his life like his grandfather or his parents, and then marry a rural girl and live in such a dull manner.
And deep in Si Yuanjie's heart, he was also afraid to return to the village where his grandfather and his parents were buried. Although the villagers in the same village were very nice to him, Si Yuanjie would feel like an orphan when he stayed there.
"No...I, I won't go back..."
Si Yuanjie clenched his fists, a faint light of tears in his eyes, and he roared in a low voice: "My parents are dead, and grandpa is dead, too. In this world, I have no relatives anymore. I don't want to go back. Even if I die, I will die outside..."
From birth to junior high school, Si Yuanjie lived happily, including his grandparents, father and mother who love him, friends from the village, and martial arts that he practiced diligently since childhood, which made Si Yuanjie's childhood and youth full of laughter and joy.
But people always have to grow up. When Si Yuanjie was in the third year of junior high school, his grandmother fell seriously ill. After spending all the family savings and owing a lot of foreign debts, Si Yuanjie's grandmother died. This made Si Yuanjie, who was in his teenage years old, come into contact with the separation of life and death for the first time.
In order to pay back the debt, Si Yuanjie's parents had to go to Guangdong Province to work. This took three years to go. With the help of Baguazhang from Guangdong Province, Si Yuanjie's parents had paid off all the debts they owed in three years.
But as the saying goes, "There is no limit to the blessings, but misfortune will never happen. Just when Si Yuanjie was in the first year of high school, his parents who returned home had a car accident. Si Yuanjie and his grandfather could only return to the village with their ashes. Mr. Si, who has always been strong, could not bear the grief of losing his wife and his son one after another, and eventually fell ill.
Because he had to take care of his grandfather's illness, Si Yuanjie was not in school anymore. However, the seriously ill old man had to hold on for more than a year and still left. The Si family, which was passed down from the middle of the Qing Dynasty, is now the only one who is Si Yuanjie left.
When the old man was seriously ill, Si Yuanjie owed nearly 10,000 yuan in foreign debt. He knew that if he continued to farm in the countryside, he would not be able to repay the money even after another three to five years. In addition, Si Yuanjie often missed his parents and grandpa at home, so he gritted his teeth and decided to go out for a tide.
But the outside world is far more cruel than Si Yuanjie imagined. He was cheated at the train station and was almost robbed when he went to sell things. If he had not practiced martial arts since childhood, he would have collapsed long ago.
"Hey, boy, why are you yelling..." Hearing Si Yuanjie's shouting, the fat man said, "In this world, there are more people who are miserable than you. Isn't you the only one, so what's so amazing?"
"I didn't say I was miserable!" Si Yuanjie gritted his teeth and said, "I'm just talking about the facts. I have no relatives at home and I don't want to go back. You can't understand my mood..."
"I can't understand it, but someone can understand it..."
The fat man glanced at Fang Yi and said, "If it comes to life experience, Brother Yi is much worse than you. After all, it is the matter of your adult life. Brother Yi has never known who his parents are since he was born, and he was raised by his master..."
The fat man knew that Fang Yi was not afraid of others talking about his life experience. When they first arrived in Jinling, the fat man was thinking about whether to help Fang Yi advertise and see if he could find his parents back.
However, Fang Yi did not agree. He had lived in Taoist temple for more than ten years. If the person who abandoned him had to appear, it would have appeared long ago. Since it did not appear, there would be no need to find it.
"What? Brother Fang has no parents?"
When Si Yuanjie heard the fat man's words, he was stunned. Fang Yi had always had a smile on his face in front of him. There was no sorrow on Fang Yi's face. Si Yuanjie even speculated in private that Fang Yi must have been from a well-educated family.
"Well, I grew up with my master since I was a child. I went down the mountain to enter the world after my master passed away..." Fang Yi smiled and said to Si Yuanjie: "We are both orphans without relatives. Si Yuanjie, if you have no place to go, would you be willing to do some small business with us?"
Fang Yi has always been very calm when practicing Taoism. He is always indifferent to his parents' behavior of abandoning him. Generally speaking, he will not feel sympathy for other people's sufferings.
However, Fang Yi looked at Si Yuanjie a little differently. Not only was Si Yuanjie able to advance to the realm of refining essence and turning qi at a young age, but Si Yuanjie's character was very honest. When he was almost at the end of his life, he did not rely on his own cultivation to do anything wrong.
So Fang Yi then came up with the idea of La Si Yuanjie. Taoism believes in fate. No matter whether the old Taoist priest was talking nonsense back then, he always had some connection with the descendants of Baguazhang. It was a matter of being rescued by the world.
"Yes...but I don't know how to do business..."
After hearing Fang Yi's words, a hint of hope appeared in Si Yuanjie's eyes, but then he lowered his head and said, "Apart from knowing kung fu, I can only farm and never learn to do business..."
"Hey, who has learned to do business..."
The fat man also felt that Si Yuanjie was very conscious of his temperament, and immediately said, "To tell you the truth, I was cheated of 70,000 or 80,000 yuan by the bastard named Wu a few days ago. I am not learning how to do business, but I suffer from losses..."
"Hmm? That guy cheated you of so much money?"
Si Yuanjie showed an indignant look on his face. His family only owed 50,000 yuan, and his parents were going to work to pay off the debt. Unexpectedly, Wu Tianbao was so hateful that he cheated Fat Brother 70,000 to 80,000 yuan in one go.
"Brother Fat, grandpa doesn't let me fight with ordinary people, but he didn't say he won't let me fight the bad guy!" Si Yuanjie thought for a while and said, "Brother Fat, let's go find Wu Tianbao tomorrow. If he doesn't pay back the money, I...I will deal with him!"
Si Yuanjie is still very confident about his kung fu. When he was fifteen years old, his kung fu had surpassed his father. Just before his parents died in a car accident, his grandfather was no longer his opponent, so Wu Tianbao was not taken seriously by Si Yuanjie at all.
"Hey, I love hearing what you said. I've long said I'm going to fix that bastard Wu Tianbao. Brother Fang doesn't agree..."
When the fat man heard Si Yuanjie's words, he was immediately happy. Although Fang Yi didn't know how to fool him back 100,000 yuan, the fat man was still happy to use his fists to let Wu Tianbao know why the flowers were so red.
"Fatty, please don't teach those useless things..."
Fang Yi glared at the fat man with anger and said to Si Yuanjie: "The current society is different from the world before. It is not that anyone has a big fist or who makes sense, but that depends on whose brain is easy to use. If someone is cheated, you have to use your brain to think about how to cheat you back..."
To be honest, Fang Yi’s method of teaching people is not much better than fat people. Although Taoist doctrine is relatively calm, it does not teach people to repay grievances with kindness. According to Fang Yi’s understanding, it means that he will find the loss wherever he suffers. He has no idea of being deceived by someone to call the police.
Moreover, Fang Yi was passed down from the old Taoist faction, and there was no sect rule that could not attack ordinary people. If someone really dared to attack Fang Yi, then he would have some tricks to let the other party take care of him. Zhou Hu, whom he met in Quanjude, was a living example.
"Come back again?" Si Yuanjie's head was a little confused and he said with confusion; "But... but grandpa said that it is wrong to lie. We martial arts practitioners must be open and upright..."
"Your grandpa is right, it's wrong to lie, but your grandpa actually means that it's wrong to lie to good people..."
Fang Yi said with a smile: "We martial arts practitioners are not serious enough to beat people to death. If you attack bad people, you will be able to teach bad people a lesson. Using your brain to deceive bad people is also teaching them a lesson. The ultimate goal is actually the same..."
Fang Yi learned skills from an old Taoist priest since he was a child, but he was not only practicing Taoist priest's mind. He also inherited all the fallacies and theories of the old Taoist priest. That is, a real man should repay his kindness and complain with his grievances. If he encounters something he can't handle, he will smash his glass at night. In short, he will not suffer any loss.
"You... what you said seems to make sense..." Listening to Fang Yi's earnest teachings, Si Yuanjie, who was not well-versed in the world, his eyes gradually lit up.
But Si Yuanjie didn't know that the first guiding light he met when he debuted was Fang Yi, a rookie who was just a newcomer to society. The theory he instilled in Si Yuanjie may not be correct.
Chapter completed!