C19 A meal as a teacher and disciple
"Are you saying that I won't treat you to dinner? When did I steal your copper coin? You must have accidentally lost it."
Liang Chen's face was full of disdain. He couldn't possibly say that the copper coin in his mind belonged to this old Taoist, how could this be? Although his head had been opened, it shouldn't be in his head.
"Alright, alright, alright. I won't say anymore. Let's eat first." Liang Chen ordered two bowls of ramen noodles and started to eat with the old Daoist Priest.
"Didn't I hear that you were in the wine vat a few days ago? Why didn't you die? Your life is too big!" Liang Chen was confused, I heard that when he was sent to the hospital, he was unconscious.
"Hur hur, this is truly a good person to repay!"
"With just you? "You're a good person, but you actually fought over a booth with me. It's a shame that you're still an elder." Liang Chen said in disdain.
"Brat, who gave you such big nerves? You actually said it was me. Let me tell you, you've already invited me to dinner, so from today onwards, I will be your master and you will be my disciple."
Liang Chen was startled, "What, I became your disciple? Who wants to be your disciple? I don't want to. "
"Stinky brat, do you want to commit a great sin and be punished by the heavens?"
"Who are you trying to scare?" Liang Chen was speechless, and said: "Forget it, just treat it as me eating an extra bowl of ramen, since you are already full, I will be going too."
"You don't even want your master anymore, what is this?!" Suddenly, the old Daoist Priest loudly shouted and attracted everyone's peculiar gazes.
Liang Chen was embarrassed, he never thought that the old Daoist would actually use this method.
"What are you doing? I'm not bullying you." Liang Chen immediately went up to remind her.
"You and I are your masters, but you don't even want your masters anymore. Are you even human?"
Hearing this, Liang Chen sighed. Alright, I'll just treat it as my own, Elder Qian's.
"Let's go, let's hurry up and go, don't embarrass yourself here." After Liang Chen finished, he immediately left with the Daoist Priest.
"From today on, Master will teach you divination, you will inherit Master's mantle, understand?!" The old Daoist also felt that Liang Chen was fated to be with him, so he felt that must be this material. Otherwise, he wouldn't have accepted him as a disciple.
"What, I don't want to be some Taoist. Being like you for the rest of your life, I think it's better to forget about it. Let me go, why don't you choose someone else!?" Liang Chen said and was about to leave, but he was not as strong as the Taoist and was pulled back in an instant.
"Stinky brat, the fact that Master took a liking to you is a blessing that came from several lifetimes. If it was anyone else who wanted to be like me and be able to help the world, I wouldn't have agreed." The old Daoist said, "I've been going down the mountain for some time now, and it's time for me to go back. Since you're my disciple, then follow me up the mountain."
Up the mountain?
This old Daoist shouldn't really want him to be like him, right? He was already poor enough, so why should he continue to live like this? No, he definitely could not agree.
"I'm not going up the mountain with you. You can go by yourself." Liang Chen decisively refused.
"Look at how scared you are. I'm not asking you to go up the mountain and not let you come down. It's just that I haven't been up the mountain for a long time. I haven't cleaned a Buddha for a long time, so I need to go up and clean it up."
Liang Chen felt that this was a good thing as long as he did not want to live on the mountain.
"How long would that take?"
"It won't take long. You can go down the mountain after you clean up." The old Daoist promised.
"Alright, then I'll accompany you. After all, this is a good thing." With that, Liang Chen followed the old Taoist up the mountain.
The mountain road was very narrow and was filled with rocks, so it was rather difficult to walk on it.
This was the first time he heard the old Daoist speak such human words, so at least he had a bit of conscience.
When he arrived at the top of the mountain, the sky had already darkened. It was impossible to clean up for Buddha in the middle of the night in the training hall, so he could only wait until the sun rose.
The old Taoist slept on the same bed as Liang Chen. Because there were very few people here and there was no one else in the training hall, the old Taoist had always been living here by himself.
"Disciple, why aren't you resting this late at night?" The old Daoist asked.
"No problem, go to sleep first. I can't fall asleep!" Liang Chen played with his phone, thinking of how Steamed Bun would call him every single day. But why didn't he call her today, could it be that she was too busy and had forgotten to call him?
Thinking about it, Liang Chen decided to call Steamed Bun. If she didn't call him, he would slowly get used to it.
Damn, why is there no signal? Could he be so unlucky?
Liang Chen instantly sat up and shook his phone, "Why is there no signal?"
"What's wrong, what's wrong now?" The old Daoist asked impatiently.
The bed was not strong to begin with, so when Liang Chen shook it, it creaked.
"Why is there no signal on my phone?"
The old Daoist said helplessly, "Are you stupid? We're on the mountain, so of course we don't have any signals. Stop messing around and go to sleep."
Liang Chen was still worried, but it was already night and the sky was dark. He was not familiar with the road, so if he went down the mountain now and met some ferocious beasts, it would be terrible.
After thinking about it, Liang Chen could only wait until dawn to say more.
Liang Chen did not sleep the whole night. It was already dawn, but he still had to help the old Daoist clean up.
Liang Chen wanted to take advantage of the old Daoist being awake and wanted to go down the mountain, but after walking a few steps, he was stopped by the old Daoist.
"Disciple, where are you going?" You have to call him Master. " The old Taoist seemed to know what Liang Chen was trying to do and he immediately jumped up from the bed.
Don't look at your age.
Liang Chen knew that the old Daoist knew how to count, so he deliberately lied, "I'll go find master something to eat."
"No need, master is not hungry, I didn't expect you to be such a good disciple." No need, master is not hungry, I didn't expect you to be a good disciple.
Liang Chen said in his heart, forget it, just keep it for yourself. I still have a copper coin in my head, it's enough.
"How can that be? How can I clean up if I don't eat? So, let me go find something to eat!" Liang Chen said stubbornly.
"If I say you don't want to eat, then don't. Let's go and clean up. I know you're waiting to go down the mountain. Hehe. Disciple, you can't have a girlfriend, right?" The old Daoist smiled and asked.
"Not at all, don't speak nonsense." Liang Chen did have a girlfriend before, but it didn't matter if he broke up now. As for Steamed Bun, he did like her a little, but now, it was hard to say.
Liang Chen was also helpless. He was worried that something would happen to Steamed Bun, but his phone just stopped ringing.
"Alright, Teacher, let's go and clean up. I still have to go down the mountain." Liang Chen did not belong to the people of the mountain, so, this was not a place for humans to live.
"Haha, you finally called me master. Seeing that you were so obedient, I will definitely pass on my master's abilities to you."
Liang Chen did not say anything, and only nodded his head, "Hurry up, Master, I still have other things to do."
It was only then that the old Daoist Priest and Liang Chen headed to the main hall. There was indeed a few meters tall Buddha statue in the main hall, it was covered in gold, but it had a lot of dust, probably due to not cleaning for a long time.
The master and disciple pair immediately started to clean up. Liang Chen was in charge of cleaning the dust on the Buddha's body, holding onto a piece of cloth and started to wipe it.
As the Buddha was too high up, Liang Chen was unable to climb it and accidentally fell down from the Buddha's head.
Seeing Liang Chen fall, the old Daoist didn't ask him to do anything else. Actually, he only wanted Liang Chen to come up together with him because he wanted him to accompany him. After all, he was too lonely on the mountain by himself and didn't even have a companion.
After a few hours, the old Daoist finally finished cleaning the room, but Liang Chen was actually having a beautiful sleep in the buddhist hand. It was like a dream, but it was not like a dream.
"Smelly brat, you've woken up. Master has finished cleaning up. Let's go. Didn't you want to go down the mountain?" The old Daoist asked.
"What? You still want to follow me?" Liang Chen asked in a daze.
"Why not? You are my disciple, and I am your master. No matter where you go, we have to go together. " The old Daoist said resolutely.
Liang Chen immediately felt that the old Daoist Priest was a burden and an eyesore. He actually followed him?
"Master, you should stay on the mountain. I will come back to see you!"
"How can that be? I have to go down the mountain and change my fate. What else can I eat?"
"I'll bring you food when the time comes."
However, the old Daoist still refused to listen and insisted on staying with Liang Chen.
In the end, Liang Chen and the old Taoist had no other choice but to bring the old Taoist down the mountain.
All along the way, Liang Chen was focused on his phone. He had intended to call Steamed Bun the moment he received a signal. Today was already the second day, but Steamed Bun still hadn't called him.
"Disciple, why are you always holding your phone? Is there something urgent? " The old Daoist asked.
"Yeah, I haven't had a friend call me in two days, so I'm a bit worried. Did something happen?"
Crow's beak. How could he think like this? Maybe Steamed Bun was too busy to give him a call.
"Hehe, if Master hasn't guessed wrong, it must be a woman's friend, right?!" The old Daoist looked at Liang Chen with an evil smile. This brat had the most women in his life, his life was really good.
Previously, when the old Daoist had met Liang Chen for the first time, he had calculated his fate.