CH 29

"Excuse me, sir, do we have any famous sects here? Like me?" Li Huowang asked the question he cared about the most.

"Yes! Of course, there is a temple in Xijing City. I heard that the Buddha inside can help people conceive a child!"

A temple? Li Huowang remembered that Danyang Zi had mentioned it before. He had been chased by a monk before, and he didn't know if it was this temple.

Li Huowang marked this point in the center. No matter what, anyone who opposed Danyang Zi's actions against humans and animals should be a good person.

"But, sir, you are a Taoist. Is it appropriate to go to a temple?"

Li Huowang looked down at his Taoist robe. The other party reminded him that he should change his clothes. He was not a real Taoist.

"How's business going lately, sir? Is it okay?"

Feeling that Li Huowang was changing the subject, Lv Zhuangyuan immediately took over the topic.

"Ah, it's not good. We've had a severe drought and flood in our area. The common people don't have money, and those who can afford to watch and reward us are even fewer. Wealthy people don't invite our troupe for events. They just eat and leave. They're not filial!"

"It will pass. We just need to get through these few years."

"Yes, endure it. We have to find a way to get by."

"I just want to run a few hundred more trips when the weather gets better. When I save enough money, I'll buy a theater in Xijing City that belongs to my Lv family. Heh, then I can die without regrets."

"With a theater, my son and granddaughter won't have to suffer like me. They can study at home honestly. Maybe in a few years, smoke will rise from the tomb of my Lv family, and a top scholar will be born! By then... hehehe." Lv Zhuangyuan laughed foolishly while holding a cigarette.

Li Huowang quietly listened to Lv Zhuangyuan's vision for the future. He was actually quite envious of him. He had lived to such an old age and still had a goal to strive for.

Under the guidance of Li Huowang and Lv Zhuangyuan, the atmosphere between the two sides eased a lot.

At least Lv Juren and Lv Xiucai no longer treated them like monsters. They knew that they were human, but had fallen ill.

There was no way to avoid getting sick. Who wouldn't get sick? They were all unfortunate people.

When they arrived at Wuligang, Luo Juanhua had already ripened to the point where Bai Lingmiao could hold her daughter.

Standing on the flat ground where the rice was drying, Lv Zhuangyuan looked at the villagers eating dinner under the eaves. "Okay, there are many people in Wuligang. Let's set up the stage here! Lv family troupe, open the box! Set up the stage!"

They were going to perform, and Li Huowang didn't plan to rush away. Everyone was tired from the long journey. It was just right to let others rest.Li Huowang is not interested in the ancient entertainment of singing opera, but it is obvious that others are very curious and come over to help.

Several large red cloths were hung on the tall bamboo poles that were chopped down, and the entire stage was just taking shape.

Li Huowang, who was sleeping on a pile of golden rice straws in the field, suddenly felt someone poking his nose. He opened his eyes and saw Bai Lingmiao, who was smiling.

She raised her hands and a shiny copper mirror appeared in front of Li Huowang. Excitedly, she said, "Senior Li, look! This is such a bright bronze mirror! You can see yourself clearly in it! They use this to put on makeup for the opera!"

"It's not even dark yet, and you've already taken off your blindfold. Aren't you afraid--"

Li Huowang's words abruptly stopped, and he stared at himself in the bronze mirror, feeling strange. He looked unfamiliar in the mirror.

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"Senior Li, what's wrong with you?" Bai Lingmiao noticed that something was wrong.

"Junior Bai, is this what I looked like when I was at the Qingfeng Temple?" Li Huowang hesitated and touched his face with his hand.

"Yes, you've always looked like this. What's wrong? Is there something different about you in the mirror?"

Li Huowang put down his hand and reached out to touch his own face in the bronze mirror in front of him. His face was still the same, but he was no longer a teenager. He had been in this world for some time.

"If what the hospital said is true, I was probably only seventeen at that time. How old am I now?"

Li Huowang could ask this question, but he couldn't answer it. Besides his confused memory, he had also lost track of his age.

He could only barely judge from his appearance that he was probably not yet thirty.

Li Huowang tried to search his confused memory but still found nothing.

"Senior Li, what's wrong with you? Are you okay? Don't scare me." Bai Lingmiao looked nervous at Li Huowang's reaction.

"I'm fine, I just remembered something. Quickly return the bronze mirror to them. The opera troupe from the Lv family is about to use it."

"Okay." Bai Lingmiao took the bronze mirror and ran towards the already erected stage.

"Yi Yi~~ Ah~~" Looking at Lv Juren, who was singing in the distance, Li Huowang laughed at himself and lay back on the pile of straw. "Oh...I really live like a joke."

He thought he would be more emotional, but he was unexpectedly calm. He just had another goal now, to find out his age.

At night, the sky was cloudless, and the bright moon hung in the sky, illuminating the simple stage clearly.

When the opera troupe arrived, almost everyone in Wuligang came to watch. For the farmers who had no other entertainment besides farming and sleeping, the opera troupe was very tempting.Lv's family troupe was very small, with only six members, except for a two-year-old who couldn't speak yet.

They had to play instruments, sing, act, and do makeup, but they were too busy to handle everything. So they had to cut down some of the performances.

Fortunately, the villagers were not picky, and they enjoyed the show sitting on their own stools.

Li Huowang and the others lay on a pile of rice straw, watching them singing and shouting from afar. He had never heard of the play and didn't know which one they were singing.

He only recognized Lv Zhuangyuan, who was painted with a black face, had a beard, and held a Guandao. He was still singing and chopping on the stage at his age, looking very hardworking.

"Great!!!" The cheers suddenly sounded, which startled Li Huowang.

One performance after another, the whole rice-drying field was full of people. The Lv family was sweating profusely on stage, while the audience below was flushed with excitement. Only Li Huowang seemed like a spectator.

Unconsciously, the moon had already risen to the middle. The Lv family's performance was also coming to an end.

At this moment, Li Huowang saw Lv Zhuangyuan's daughter-in-law, dressed in tattered clothes, holding her daughter and a basket, with makeup on her face, crying as she stepped onto the stage.

"Uncle was so cruel to drive me away~~"

"Like a lonely wild goose floating in the wind~ Ah Ah Ah~"

"Like roadside weeds trampled by others~ Ah Ah~"

"My daughter and I are starving and suffering, and it's hard to bear~ It's~ hard~ to~ bear~~"

"We can only beg for food on the street~"

When she finished singing, Luo Juanhua gently pinched her daughter's bottom, and the two-year-old child cried out loudly.