The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

After Gu Liang took the silver and left, the waiter asked the third shopkeeper in confusion, "Shopkeeper, if you want to eat bamboo shoots, why don't you wait for another half a year? Why spend ten taels to buy them? In spring, my old sow can eat them three times a day."

The waiter really couldn't understand why he would spend so much money just to eat bamboo shoots. He could understand others spending a few taels to buy leopards and wild deer, after all, meat is a rare game, but to spend two years' salary to buy just a few bamboo shoots, it simply overturned his three views.

The third shopkeeper looked at the waiter who was nodding and bowing, and said sarcastically: "The food that the nobles eat must be rare. The less others can eat it, the better. The less common and harder to find the food, the better. How can you, a table cleaner, understand their happiness?"

"Yes, yes, the shopkeeper's lesson is right." The waiter saw the third shopkeeper saying this and quickly agreed. Although he was still thinking that if there were so many bamboo shoots in spring, his old sow would eat them up.

Not long after Gu Liang left, a fast horse drove out of the restaurant, heading towards Jiangzhou and the Yingwang Mansion.

A day later, an order was issued from the Yingwang Mansion, and the newly opened restaurant in the town was renamed "Yuelai Restaurant".

At this time, several shopkeepers of Yuelai Restaurant were celebrating this exciting event.

"Brother, we spent ten taels of silver to send the spring bamboo shoots to the King of England. After eating them, the King of England rewarded us with one hundred taels of silver. We made a fortune."

"Hey, third brother, the important thing is not the silver, but the name of 'Yue Lai Restaurant' given by the King of England. With this name, we have another backer!"

"Thanks to the news from the eldest brother, we now know that the King of England's Palace is now collecting all kinds of delicacies and rare treasures in our Jiangzhou. It is said that when the King of England saw the spring bamboo shoots we sent over, he was amazed and said that he had never eaten bamboo shoots in summer in the capital for so many years. He did not expect to encounter such a rare thing in Jiangzhou. . "

"Second brother, since the King of England is so happy, why don't I go find the kid who sells bamboo shoots and ask him to send another batch over?"

"Hey, third brother. The King of England has eaten everything. This time he just wants something new. If we send it again, the King of England will think that this thing is not so rare. Let's wait until we find something good next time to present it to His Majesty the King of England."

"Second brother, what you said makes sense. Third brother, I'll toast you a glass. Come on, drink, and wish our Yuelai Restaurant will get better and better............"

The Yuelai Restaurant was very lively. The sound of people drinking and playing finger-guessing even drowned out the cicadas outside the house, making people forget the summer heat.

The people in Lanxi Village also forgot the summer heat at this time, not because of any lively events, but because of funerals.

Tiezhu was hastily buried on the mountain yesterday. Due to the hot weather, the body had already begun to smell slightly bad, so there was no need to wait for a good day, and he could only be carried up the mountain and buried. Since Tiezhu died suddenly, there was no coffin prepared in advance. He was buried after being wrapped in a few straw mats.

Tiezhu's family had been crying at the grave for a whole day and night. The whole village could hear their crying day and night. Especially Tiezhu's mother, who was originally a middle-aged woman with few white hairs, looked more than ten years older overnight, with more white hair than black hair.

In such a situation, everyone in Lanxi Village was in danger. After all, every household had someone working on the Jiangzhou construction site, and they were afraid that something might go wrong with their men.

The same was true for Mrs. Gu. Even though her second daughter-in-law had gone to take care of her, she didn't know the specific situation there, which was like a blind man looking at the skylight - it was unclear.

So Mrs. Gu invited several old ladies from the same village to go to the neighboring Tiefu Temple Town to burn incense and pray for peace.

Mrs. Gu went out in the morning and came back after noon. It was just that Mrs. Gu was fine when she went out in the morning, but when she came back, she was absent-minded, as if she had been frightened, and she kept mumbling.

At first, no one paid attention to it, until it was past the usual time for Mrs. Gu to cook, and Mrs. Gu was still sitting there in a daze. Everyone realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly cared about Mrs. Gu and the others, and asked her what happened. Didn’t she just go to the Iron Buddha Temple? Why did she seem to have met a ghost?

Mrs. Gu half-swallowed and half-spitted for a long time, and everyone knew what Mrs. Gu had experienced and why she was so scared.

It turned out that Mrs. Gu and her group had arrived at the gate of the Iron Buddha Temple. Just as they were about to go in to ask for the blessing of the Bodhisattva, they saw the gate of the temple.

Many people gathered around. Old Lady Gu and the others were curious about why everyone gathered together, so they squeezed in to find out what happened.

When Old Lady Gu squeezed in, she saw a scene that would leave a horrible shadow on her for the rest of her life.

Seven or eight monks in monk robes hung straight on the Heavenly King Hall, their faces were purple, their tongues were sticking out, and especially their eyes were wide open, looking like they were dying with their eyes wide open.

Old Lady Gu fainted on the spot. No matter how many things she had seen, she had never seen such a cruel thing.

When Old Lady Gu said this, the people of the Gu family were scared and confused after hearing it, and they couldn't understand why the monks of the Iron Buddha Temple did this. When Chen heard this, she hurriedly drove the children into the room, fearing that they would be too scared to hear it. Only Gu Liang refused to go in, and Chen had no choice but to let Gu Liang stay.

However, Old Lady Gu didn't finish her story. Seeing that Old Lady Gu was too emotional, Chen hurriedly helped her to the room and went to bed early.

It was not until the next day that the rest of the Gu family knew what had happened in the Iron Buddha Temple. It was told by a person who went there with Old Lady Gu. She was too fat to squeeze in at the time, so she did not see the scene and was less shocked.

It turned out that the monks in the Iron Buddha Temple hanged themselves because of the King of England.

Soon after the King of England came to Jiangzhou, he not only organized people to dig an artificial lake, but also searched for all kinds of treasures. He heard that there was a huge and exquisite iron Buddha in the Iron Buddha Temple, so he wanted to move the Iron Buddha to his own house and then build a temple to display it.

So he sent people directly to the Iron Buddha Temple to transport the Buddha statue. Of course, the monks in the temple would not let the King of England's people move the Buddha statue. So the people on both sides clashed, and the final result was that the abbot of the Iron Buddha Temple died in the conflict, and the Iron Buddha was also transported away.

Without the Iron Buddha, the Iron Buddha Temple would no longer be called the Iron Buddha Temple. Not only was the Iron Buddha gone, but the abbot was also gone. The key point was that the offender was still the King of England, and there was no place to go to appeal. So the monks in the temple were filled with grief and anger, and they all hanged themselves in the temple.

Hearing this, Gu Liang sighed, thinking that the King of England was really not a good guy. He had just arrived and began to plunder the people's wealth. It seemed that the people living here would have a hard time in the future.

Of course, the one who reacted the most to this incident was Old Lady Gu, after all, she often went to the Iron Buddha Temple to worship Buddha and had seen this horrific scene on the spot. It took Old Lady Gu several days to recover from this incident.

After learning from Gu Liang that the abbot had also died, Old Lady Gu sighed and said, "You don't know, the abbot was a pretty good monk, it's a pity that he died like this. When I was pregnant with your third uncle, I went to burn incense, and the abbot told me a fortune for free, saying that your third uncle had a promising future and needed a good name. In the end, he told me the word 'Bo', saying that your third uncle was the real eldest among the three brothers, so your third uncle was named Bo Xi."

Gu Liang suddenly realized it. He had been thinking that according to the normal rules of uncle, middle uncle, and younger brother, shouldn't his third uncle be named 'Gu Changxi' or 'Gu Shuxi'? Why was he named 'Gu Boxi'? It turned out that it was because of Old Lady Gu's superstition.