Chapter six hundred and ninety third inquiring about the news
Of course, the money handed over this time cannot be collected in person, but must be handed over to the yamen to count it before counting. This time, we came here mainly to count the specific amount in advance.
If there is some gap with the estimate, then it is naturally necessary to use more means.
However, those things have nothing to do with the current Su family. Although they are rising stars, their background is still a little weaker than those big-name families. In addition, with the prince as the guarantee, the prefect would not come to them even if they were embarrassed.
After instructing the servants to hand over a cup of hot tea and a little "heart" to all the officials, the head of the officials weighed the money with satisfaction, and then said as if nothing had happened: "Since we have received the orders of the prefect, we must record it truthfully."
"You Su family will discuss how much charity money you should pay this time, and please don't let us run errands do it for the sake of difficulties."
The words are not harsh, and it is obviously just a routine matter.
Du Bai had discussed this matter with Wan Miao before, and then he smiled and replied: "This time our Su family decided to donate 20,000 taels of silver and five glass cups!"
If you convert cash, it can be considered 30,000 taels of silver!
Especially glass objects are still in a state of price but no market.
This was quite a big deal. Even the official who was drinking tea was shocked, looked at him carefully, and then laughed: "I didn't expect that your Su family is the most generous! The families we went to just now were only 5,000 taels of silver..."
Because of the charity of the prefect, he thought it would be good if he just went through a formality and a thousand taels of silver were fine.
In comparison, those big families are even worse.
Most of them rushed to build the Dragon King Temple, but the construction of the embankment was shrinking back now, which was really shameful.
Those young men like me can spend a lot of money on women, but they are extremely stingy in such major issues of people's livelihood, which is really a bit contemptuous.
Of course, the amount at present will definitely not be the final result. At that time, the prefect beats and beats the Dragon King, and the power of the Dragon King still exists, the great families still have to pay for it.
But if this attitude is put here, the right and wrong will be judged immediately!
Du Bai smiled slightly, and did not judge too much about the behavior of distinguishing his family.
Those are things that the prefect should care about.
He just hopes to use his own strength to help the embankment be built as soon as possible.
However, at this time, the two Taoist priests also looked at him, as if they were thinking. They always felt that there was a strange aura in the Su family, but they couldn't say it. Now that they saw Du Bai, they realized it.
"I wonder if this young master can speak with one step?" a Taoist priest asked first.
Du Bai was stunned, thinking that they might not be able to find their identity, so he nodded and ordered his servants to continue to entertain several officials.
When the three of them left everyone's sight and came to the quiet place, Du Bai turned around and looked at the two of them, asking in confusion: "I wonder what the two Taoist priests are there to find me?"
The Taoist master thought about it and praised it: "Young Master, I think you have extraordinary temperament and wisdom. You must be a stylist of a kind of cultivation lineage! I wonder if you are willing to join me?"
"Yes, if such a natural talent is wasted and spent time, it would be a pity!" Another Taoist priest nodded and stroked his beard, looking very sensible.
But Du Bai was amazed and laughed and cried when he heard this.
What he thought was that? It turned out that he wanted to accept him as his disciple?
He thought about it carefully and soon realized that the "Dao bones and wisdom roots" that these two people discovered should be the changes caused by the infiltration of immortal energy and Buddha energy.
Over the past few days, he has used fairy energy and Buddha energy a lot, and it is natural that he will cause some changes.
But this does not mean that he is willing to embark on the path of cultivation, so he immediately shook his head and refused.
"Young Master is worried about his wife and children's family? In fact, our cultivation lineage is not concerned about being ruthless and desireless..." The Taoist thought wrongly and wanted to continue persuading.
However, Du Bai did not continue to say more. As soon as he released his aura, the two of them were stunned and their faces were filled with surprise!
"Is this... righteousness?!"
"It turns out that the young master learned Confucianism..." After the Taoist priest suddenly realized it, he couldn't help but sigh with regret.
It is really a pity to meet such a genius who is rare in a century, but it is impossible to be carefully trained by his disciples.
After all, in their eyes, being able to master a path of practice is hard for ordinary people to achieve, but being greedy for too much will not be able to chew, so they will not consider whether they can practice Taoism at all.
However, they did not expect that Du Bai was not just Taoism, but the power of the three schools of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism gathered together, and by the way, the power of the ghost path was added. It was still good, which was really a miracle.
"So...we are too anxious. Please forgive me if you offend me." Their attitude was also adjusted a lot, and they also put down their lower body and apologized.
As practitioners, they also understand what it means to appear righteousness in ordinary people, and such people are not easy to offend.
However, just when the two were about to turn around and go back, Du Bai stopped them.
"If the two Taoist priests are not in a hurry to leave, I would like to ask you some questions!"
The two of them looked at each other, but did not refuse, but nodded and said, "It's okay, the young master just ask."
Du Bai thought about it, found an excuse, and said with a fist: "Although I am dedicated to the righteous spirit of Confucianism and Taoism, I am quite curious about the affairs of ghosts and gods in the world. I happened to see a monk with infinite magic power before, who easily subdued a fierce ghost and could easily convert it!"
"I admire you very much and become more curious. Are there many people like such immortals and gods in the world?"
"this……"
A Taoist priest frowned slightly, thought about it for a while, and then replied: "If you guessed it wrongly, what you saw before should be a living Buddha senior."
"Living Buddha?" Du Bai pretended to be very similar, nodded slightly, and listened carefully.
"The corresponding Buddhas of Buddhism are the people of our Taoist generation of Tianshi. However, these people are very close to immortals and gods, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are gods walking on the earth. Now that Taoism is gradually declining, there are not many such people."
Another Taoist priest sighed, with a slight tone.
"As far as I know, the number of such gods and immortals who are still alive is probably no more than ten fingers!"
"Is it only a ten finger number..."
Du Bai pondered in his heart.
In other words, there are only less than ten people left in the world who can threaten you. Should you be glad that you are safe or a pity that the power of this world has declined.
From what the other party said just now, it is not difficult to guess that the world is getting less and less high-end power, which is the so-called symbol of humanitarian prosperity.
The impact of the extinction of immortals and gods is becoming more and more obvious after all.
But this is not something he can change.
All he can do is to win the most suitable opportunity for himself and his relatives and friends in this environment!
After sighing for a while, Du Bai continued to pretend to be puzzled and asked: "In addition, before leaving, the living Buddha senior talked to me about some things, which mentioned an evil existence that was suspected to be a demon from the outside world. Have the two Taoist priests heard of it?"
He wanted to take this opportunity to find out how well the righteous path has learned about these things now.
Chapter completed!