Chapter 158 It’s all fate
"My son Mingwa is lucky to be with the Third Young Master. If he does anything wrong in the future, the Third Young Master will teach him a lesson. You can scold him as much as you want. If he dares to say no, I will break his legs." Li Laosan smiled and bent down to add some tea to Li Daoxuan. Then he picked up the tea bowl and carefully served it to him with a flattering smile on his face.

Li Daoxuan didn't say anything when he saw this. He knew that this kind of thing was very normal in this era.

There is a huge difference between landlords and poor peasants. If it weren't for the fire that shook the nine provinces and spread throughout the world, perhaps this class difference would have continued for countless years.

Some are born to be kings, some are born to be bandits. Everyone has his own destiny, which is predestined by heaven. This is the truth of the world.

"Uncle, let me do it." Li Daoxuan took the teacup from Li Laosan and placed it on the table beside him.

He looked at Li Laosan's attire and smiled. "Uncle must be busy with something, so there's no need to come and take care of me. I'm not a lazy person, so please don't be so polite, uncle."

"Oh, look at what you said, Third Young Master. No matter how busy I am, I can't neglect you." Li Laosan said with a smile. "It's just sending a chicken to someone, it's not a big deal."

"Dad, are you still sending chickens to the scholar's house?" Li Yanming, who was standing by, heard what Li Laosan said and asked curiously.

Li Laosan nodded, took out his own pipe, lit it, took a deep puff, and said drunkenly on the door railing: "I don't know why the scholar's wife likes to eat chicken and duck recently. She wants one every day. Our family is the only one in the village that raises many chickens, so she often comes to our house to ask for them. Look at the chicken coop, there are only a few chickens left. If you send this one over, we will have to keep a few to raise chicks."

"The scholar's wife really knows how to eat." Li Yanming said.

He suddenly seemed to think of something, glanced at Li Daoxuan, then looked at Li Laosan and said, "Dad, has the scholar's chicken been killed? I'll help you deliver it."

"It's right outside. You just came back. If you don't mind being tired, just run over and deliver it." Li Laosan pointed at the pool outside and said with a smile.

Li Yanming didn't hesitate, he put the package in the inner room and ran out.

He picked up the stripped rooster from the pond, shook it towards Li Laosan and said, "Dad, I'll send it over right away."

"Go ahead." Li Laosan didn't care.

Li Daoxuan was drinking tea and glanced at Li Yanming outside. He saw the boy stealthily taking out a yellow talisman from his arms and sticking it on the chicken. He was chanting a spell as he walked and was out of the yard in a short while.

Seeing Li Yanming like this, Li Daoxuan felt a little confused.

He did know what that yellow talisman was. It was a talisman usually used to ward off evil spirits for Li Yanming. Although it did not have the ability to slay demons and monsters, it could still be used to exorcise ghosts and evil spirits.

But why did this guy suddenly put this thing on the chicken? Could it be to ward off evil spirits? Li Daoxuan was puzzled, but he didn't rush to ask.

After all, after spending some time with him, he knew what kind of personality Li Yanming had. Although this kid was young and mentally mature, he would do some childish things from time to time.

After a few words with Li Laosan, the two quickly shifted the topic to trivial matters in the village.

"How is the village these days?" Li Daoxuan asked.

He knew that the refugees who had fled famine had come here one after another, which would disturb the lives of the villagers to some extent. After all, one or two refugees would be fine, but dozens or hundreds of refugees would be no small matter. The refugees also needed food and shelter. If they were not handled properly, the village would be smashed and looted at best, or even rebelled and the village would be massacred.

Such incidents have happened countless times throughout history, so once outsiders come to the local area, they will be closely watched by people from each village.

"What else could have happened? It's just like that." Li Laosan took a puff of his pipe and said, "Some disaster victims came to the village recently and begged for food and drink. I heard there was a widow among them. Later, she fell in love with Li Mazi from the end of the village, and then they became husband and wife." Li Laosan talked incessantly, telling all the things that happened in Lijia Village.

Who is the widow in the village having an affair with? Who in the village has made money?

In short, Li Laosan knew all the gossip and trivial matters in the village.

"Speaking of which, there is a strange thing. Since you have come to the city, Third Young Master, you must have seen a lot. Let me tell you this and you can see what is going on." Li Laosan seemed to have thought of something and said mysteriously to Li Daoxuan.

"Oh? Uncle, please speak." Seeing Li Laosan's expression, Li Daoxuan was also a little curious.

Lijia Village is not a big village in the middle of nowhere, so what strange things could happen there?

"A child drowned in the village a while ago. When the child died, he was facing the water with his eyes wide open. The old people in the village said that he died with his eyes open and was killed by something. And that night, many children in the village saw the child. It was said that he was soaking wet and was calling them to go play in the water. Third Master, what do you think killed the child?"

Li Daoxuan was a little surprised when he heard what Li Laosan said.

This matter is indeed strange. If more than one or two people said they had seen the doll, it might not be worth paying attention to. Maybe they were just scared or dazzled. But according to what Li Laosan said, many children in the village actually saw the drowned doll that night. Then this matter may not be that simple.

Li Daoxuan was about to say something when Li Laosan said, "Do you know? Mingwa also saw someone standing at the gate of our yard that day. It was the scholar's child. Hey! Isn't it strange? The scholar's child happened to have a fever that day. Then Mingwa also had a fever that day and was completely unconscious. It was also thanks to your life-saving talisman that Mingwa survived that day."

"Life-saving talisman?" Li Daoxuan was a little confused, but before he could come to his senses, he suddenly remembered the "terrible thing" that Li Yanming had told him when he first met him.

At that time, Li Daoxuan wanted to hear Li Yanming talk about some interesting things in the village. Li Yanming then told Li Daoxuan about the day when he followed his father to Li Xiucai's house to deliver a rooster, and how he saw Wen Ge'er in the middle of the night. He also said that on the night he saw Wen Ge'er, his mother Wang said that Wen Ge'er had a high fever at home and had not gone out at all. The next day, he was strolling by the river by himself and saw the white and fat body of Li Tie's child who had drowned. That night he also had a high fever and nightmares.

As for the life-saving talisman that Li Laosan mentioned at this time, it must be what Li Yanming said at the time, "In the end, it was thanks to the eldest mother who brought the young master's talisman that woke me up from the nightmare."

Li Daoxuan also found out the reason why Li Yanming's grandmother was able to take out the talisman drawn by Li Daoxuan when he first met Li Yanming.

After listening to Li Yanming's description, he became suspicious.

His inner intuition told him that everything seemed a little unusual, and it was definitely not a coincidence that these things happened together.

Li Daoxuan said nothing, recalling the moment he first met Li Yanming.

When Li Laosan saw that Li Daoxuan only expressed doubt when he mentioned the life-saving talisman, he lowered his head and said nothing. Thinking that Li Daoxuan was doubting about the life-saving talisman, he stood up, patted his butt, walked into the room, fumbled for a while, and then took out two white talismans.

"Third Young Master, look, this is the talisman. It was thanks to this talisman that our Mingwa was able to recover that time." Looking at the white talisman handed over by Li Laosan, it was indeed the talisman for communicating with spirits and suppressing evil spirits that he had drawn when he was in the Li family mansion.

After taking a closer look at the white talisman, Li Daoxuan withdrew his gaze, nodded slightly and said, "It is indeed drawn by me."

This white talisman was his practice work, and there wasn't much magical power in it. It could be used as a talisman to ward off evil spirits, but it would be wishful thinking to think it could be used for more purposes.

"So, our Mingwa is destined to be with the Third Young Master." Li Laosan said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)