Chapter 30(1/2)
After Shangguan Yun scolded his second son, he looked at Shangguan Yi and said, "Yier, help Wuyou up. Don't get frostbite if the ground is cold."
Shangguan Yi agreed and walked over to help Gu Wuyou.
Shangguan Rui couldn't help shouting: "There's me too."
Shangguan said: "You have hands and feet, but you can't get up by yourself?"
Shangguan Rui: "..."
Who is your grandson?
Of course he didn't know about Gu Wuyou and Shangguan Yi's engagement, but Ma Zhenren came to warn him personally. The Shangguan family rose from an unknown small family to a relatively high position thanks to Ma Chengfeng's banner.
If Gu Wuyou had any bad intentions, who knows that Master Ma wouldn't be furious.
There should be no relationship between the Gu family and Ma Chengfeng, Shangguan Yun is relatively sure of this. But if the dignified Taihao Sect elder gets angry because he feels he has been ignored, a hundred Shangguan families cannot bear it.
Moreover, the situation has also changed.
Gu Wuyou successfully passed the registration assessment and is eligible to participate in the entry-level selection on February 2nd. What does this mean?
If he really becomes a Taoist disciple, it will be a blessing in disguise for the Shangguan family.
If Shangguan Yun was forced to have no choice before, now he is half unwilling and more than half hopeful.
Shangguan Yun asked Gu Wuyou with concern: "Is Wuyou okay?"
Gu Wuyou smiled bitterly and shook his head.
This old man was so kind to him that he was so unprincipled that Gu Wuyou felt guilty. He kicked his son's butt and had a fight with his grandson. No matter how good the reason was, he was not giving Shangguan Yun face.
Shangguan said: "Mr. Xu, go to the study and get the medicine that I have collected."
Xu Qing agreed, turned and left.
Fighting at someone else's house, even though it was because he was insulted by his parents, but ended up using someone else's medicine to treat his injuries? Gu Wuyou felt that he was not that shameless, so he endured the pain all over his body and rushed to Shangguan Yun to hand over his hand.
"This junior was impulsive. I will always apologize to you." Gu Wuyou bowed and bowed to the end, "Then I'll take my leave now and come back to apologize another day."
After saying that, he nodded to Shangguan Yi, turned around and limped towards Gu Pan and Lu Xuan. Gu Pan quickly supported him, and the three of them walked out.
Shangguan Yi wanted to stop Gu Wuyou, but Shangguan Yun stopped him with his hand.
Shangguan Yun said: "It's really embarrassing for him to stay. It's better to leave first. Xu Qing will bring the wound medicine later. You just run over and deliver it to him."
Shangguan Yun did not ask why Gu Pan also left.
He has so much experience in life that he can guess a lot of things without asking.
Similarly, Shangguan Yi did not raise her doubts - Gu Wuyou sent her and Gu Pan back home before they could find an inn. She had no idea where Gu Wuyou would live. Since grandpa said so, there was naturally a way to find Gu Pan.
Worry-free.
Shangguan Yun finally looked at Shangguan Xuan: "Help me find a piece of bamboo for my father."
Shangguanxuan blinked: "Are you ready to..."
Shangguan Yun: "You guessed it right."
Shangguanxuan: "Okay, get it done right away!"
The lazy Shangguan Xuan became diligent again, and the drunkard Shangguan Jin could not help but shudder. It seemed that he had to eat a meal of fried meat with bamboo shoots.
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Tailai Inn.
Gu Wuyou grinned and turned over on the bed, his face full of intoxication: "Daozu is on top, it's so soft and comfortable! So this is what it feels like to sleep on a bed..."
Gu Pan was stunned for a moment, with deep pity welling up in his heart.
How much hardship did my brother go through to not even sleep in a bed?
Lu Xuan rolled his eyes: "Don't listen to his lies. Of course your brother has slept in the bed before. He is just exaggerating and being weird."
Gu Wuyou: "You're not sure. How long have you known me?"
Lu Xuan: "Are you saying that you and Lao Tao are in a state of poverty beyond my imagination? They are two complete Lutherans who have completely embarrassed your ancestor?"
Gu Pan was confused: "Master? Old Taoist?"
Lu Xuan just wanted to explain.
Gu Wuyou: "Ahem!"
Gu Wuyou doesn't want to tell Gu Pan about Lao Dao yet, because he hasn't figured out how to explain it to Gu Pan yet. Renguaizi is also his master.
Lu Xuan shut up in time, the plot was really ridiculous, she didn't want to ask for trouble, let Gu Wuyou have a headache.
Gu Pan looked nervous: "Brother, are you okay?"
Gu Wuyou coughed a few times and waved his hands: "It's nothing."
Gu Pan: "You should go see the doctor first... Lu Xuan, take care of your brother first, and I'll get him some medicine."
Gu Wuyou quickly stopped Gu Pan: "Don't waste your money, I'm really fine."
Gu Pan: "I, no, brother, you are rich. The property left by my parents was converted into money, and I have been saving it for you. Before I left, my mother said that you would come home one day and asked me to help you marry a wife and have children.
Start a family and start a career.”
Gu Wuyou rolled over and sat up from the bed, looking at Lu Xuan: "You speak well and are a talent. You can speak for me."
Lu Xuan: "It is impossible to start a family. I can only live as a monk and eke out a living. Gu Pan, your brother is an indigenous follower of the protagonist... and he is destined to have no chance of living an ordinary life."
Gu Pan nodded: "I know, brother will definitely succeed."
Unlike Gu Wuyou, who was completely unaware that he had parents and a younger sister, Gu Pan, although he had never met Gu Wuyou, had been looking forward to his brother's return home since he was a child under the influence of his parents, and this did not change even when he later lived in Shangguan Mansion.
In fact, she had already pictured Gu Wuyou in her mind.
Handsome and tall, with jade trees in the wind, white clothes fluttering, riding a colorful auspicious cloud falling from the sky... Well, it turns out that the first four words match, Gu Wuyou inherited Gu Yi's genes of a handsome man.
The jade trees are facing the wind, and the fluttering white clothes are too far away. If you wear a worn-out and old-fashioned Taoist robe, you can't face the wind no matter what.
The colorful auspicious clouds and so on are purely YY with Chinese characteristics.
But the results of Gu Wuyou's foundation test convinced Gu Pan that he would definitely become a disciple of the Taoist Academy and then become a monk. Not to mention Yushu Linfeng's goal that could be achieved by changing into good clothes, the colorful auspicious clouds were not a dream either.
Lu Xuan: "Do you have all your money with you?"
Gu Pan shook his head: "At Shangguan's house."
Lu Xuan: "Let me just say, those are genuine precious metals, not RMB. Besides, the banknotes are quite heavy if you have too many. Unless your so-called property is only a few dozen taels of silver - a local rich man should not be so miserable."
Gu Pan listened confusedly, what RMB, banknotes?
"You are talking about banknotes, right?" Gu Pan said, "The money has indeed been changed into banknotes, and I have asked Yi'er to keep it for me."
There are banknotes in China, but the ones that issue banknotes are not banks but sects.
Gold, silver, and copper coins are good, but too much is really heavy and inconvenient to carry. It doesn't matter to monks, they are strong enough and have magic weapons for storage, but gold and silver have never been important to monks.
Ordinary people... well, they don't need to exchange their little property into banknotes.
Banknotes are mainly targeted at rich people, and their reputation is quite good. Don't forget that this world is not the earth, the real hard currency is spiritual stones and elixirs, and the sect is not short of worldly wealth, so there is no need to spend money indiscriminately.
Therefore, the bank notes of China have never been currency.
It is equivalent to a deposit slip: your wealth is converted into silver coins and entrusted to the sect for safekeeping, and the latter will give you documents proving that you own the silver coins.
Having said that, even if the monks integrate into the secular world, unlike the Taoist priests thousands of years ago, the nature of cultivation determines that they will still be too lazy to pay attention to these common things. Therefore, the banknote business of each sect is actually mainly handled by the outer disciples.
This is more secure, as there is supervision from above.
Gu Wuyou thought for a while and said: "We are in the entrepreneurial stage, and it is not safe to take too much money. The Shangguan family is a wealthy family. The key is that Mr. Shangguan Yun is a really nice person. It is more reliable to let him go, so let's let it go first.
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Gu Pan: "But I need money to treat my injuries and get medicine."
Gu Wuyou: "Do I care about this minor injury? Besides, we have money in our hands. Didn't we just blackmail... and get more than ten taels of compensation reasonably and legally?"
After more than ten years of working with the old master, Gu Wuyou has not learned any other skills. To be honest, his deception methods are common. He is only proficient in two skills: running away and getting beaten.
Because he often runs away and fights with Shangguan Rui, who has practiced martial arts, Gu Wuyou may not have the same explosive power, but his endurance can support him to persevere to the end. When he fails to escape, he is beaten violently, which increases Gu Wuyou's pain tolerance threshold.
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Therefore, there is no wasted effort in the world, and you can get experience points even if you get beaten.
With the two "advantages" of endurance and pain tolerance, coupled with Lu Xuan's strong will, Gu Wuyou unexpectedly managed to draw a tie.
And it's not over yet.
Being beaten not only improves the pain tolerance threshold, but also the ability to recover.
What does a bruised nose and swollen face mean? The pain on my body now is so far compared to the worst time. I thought that when I had two broken ribs, I could manage it without medicine.
Gu Wuyou boasted about himself without any shame.
As a result, Gu Pan did not cheer for him as he expected. Instead, his eyes filled with tears and he became increasingly sad.
Only then did Gu Wuyou react:
To be continued...