Chapter 229 A Taoist friend of mine(1/2)
From the high-speed rail from Chuzhou to Qucheng, Guo Dalu sent a message to the secret and told Yu Lingling the story of the Monkey King. In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble, Guo Dalu deliberately told the story briefly and made up many of them, and the stories of the big fuss in the Heavenly Palace and the subsequent stories were not mentioned.
However, Yu Lingling, who has always been active, fell asleep before he could hear the story. It must be the first time he took the high-speed train, and the experience was a bit special.
Guo Dalu made a little adjustment and began to meditate with his eyes closed.
The matter of cultivation is neither morning nor evening nor time.
During meditation, more than two hours passed in a blink of an eye. After getting out of the car, he raised his head and vomited a breath of turbid air, and suddenly felt refreshed and beneficial.
"Have you arrived?" Yu Lingling woke up just now.
"Um."
Guo Dalu walked out of the station with his suitcase and saw Guo Qing coming to pick him up at the exit.
"I'm also worried that the Spring Festival travel season will be late." Guo Qing said and took his suitcase.
"It's not yet reached the peak of the Spring Festival travel rush."
After getting in the car, Guo Dalu asked about the wedding date of Guo Qing and Tian Mingjuan: "Didn't you say that you will be held for the New Year this year? Which day will you book?"
"Isn't it time for you to come back?" Guo Qing started the car, "You don't know the main road. From the 28th day of the 12th lunar month, the second day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of the 12th day of
"Tailing gift" is in Xiangxian dialect, which means going to relatives and friends' houses to offer gifts to a banquet. The so-called "six-headed gift" means that six relatives and friends in six families have to offer six gifts on the same day.
Guo Dalu smiled and said, "Then isn't your supermarket business so good?"
"Yes, I've been so busy these days. You made me so far-sighted about the idea of grabbing the banquet market. I feel that my annual turnover can exceed the previous year."
The car left the station, and the two kids chatted casually. Yu Lingling stretched out her head and looked at Guo Dalu for a while and looked at Guo Qing who was driving in front of her, and she didn't understand their topic.
"I won't say this anymore. Please make a good day for me. I'm ready to give a betrothal gift."
"Why do you think about letting me decide?"
"Can you do it? Tiedan and I recognize you, hurry up and calculate it." Guo Qing's tone was not joking.
Guo Daluye has entered the world of cultivation, and his understanding of time and space is different from the past. The concept of "good days and auspicious days" has gradually become blurred. Those with great fortune, as long as they do not do things that damage their good deeds, their actions are in line with the times and luck. Every time is a good day and every day is a good day.
However, since Guo Qing asked sincerely, Guo Dalu could not be perfunctory. He used yarrow to make some deductions and said, "If I were to settle down, then let's go to the fifth day of the first lunar month."
After hearing this, Guo Qing immediately made a decision: "Then it's the fifth day of the lunar month. I also think it's the best for the fifth day of the lunar month. Why do you have to fight for one day? As long as the person is right, what's the difference between getting married on that day?"
In rural areas, it is quite taboo to book wedding banquets on a single day, but Guo Qing has no doubt about the date set by Guo Dalu, which shows his sense of trust.
After returning home, Guo Qing officially announced the news of the wedding banquet for the fifth day of the lunar month. When the elders at home heard that they naturally opposed it, they would inevitably scold Guo Qing for being "ignorant".
Guo Qing smiled and continued with criticism, but the fifth day of the lunar month will never change.
The Tian family was a little shady after hearing this. They didn't understand how Guo Qing, who had always been reliable, would be in trouble with his own personal affairs.
Tian Mingjuan had no objection. She also advised the elders in her family to say, "The sixth day of the lunar month is the busiest day of his supermarket. I have held a drink in the fifth day of the lunar month, which is just right for the business on the sixth day of the lunar month. As long as the hearts of the two of us are together, which day is not the same?"
Seeing that his daughter had no objection, Tian’s mother didn’t want to say anything more, but Grandpa Tian Mingjuan expressed his firm opposition and angrily said that the person who decided to live this day must have deliberately harmed the two families.
Tian Mingjuan had to call Guo Qing to discuss, and Guo Qing then told the truth: "This day is a big road, so no matter what others say, it cannot be changed."
"When I was secretly in love with you, only he said I could chase you, and then I really chased you. Now he said we are going to get married in the fifth day of the lunar month, and we will get married in the fifth day of the lunar month. Mingjuan, you have to believe me, I have convinced my parents here."
Tian Mingjuan told Guo Qing's words to his family. When Tian's father and mother heard that they were the benefactor Guo Dalu, they would not object to each other. Grandpa Tian could only reserve his opinion and secretly sulked alone.
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After Guo Dalu returned home, he was already the owner of the largest furniture store in Xiang County, and he cooked himself to make a table of delicious food for his son.
At the dinner table, Guo Dalu drank two drinks with his father. Thinking that he would go to Xuanjie soon, he felt particularly reluctant to let him go to the mother and mother.
No matter how seductive the Golden Elixir Avenue is, it cannot undermine the affection of parents.
After asking some questions about learning, Guo’s father changed the topic and said that he would go to the provincial capital with his uncle on the second day of the Chinese New Year and attend a timber auction.
"I held a show in Jingnan in October last year. I was too busy at that time, so I must go and have a look this time."
Guo’s father’s tone was calm, and the confident aura in his words naturally revealed.
Guo Dalu was happy with his father's changes, and at the same time he felt that career and money are worthy of men's natural cosmetics. If his father faced his old classmates now, he would probably be overwhelming in his aura.
"Aren't you looking for high-quality peach wood before? You can go with us this time." Guo's father knew that his son was gifted in carpentry and inherited and carried forward his excellent genes. Although he hoped that his son would have a greater future and would no longer be a carpenter like him, if his son insisted on taking over his mantle and continuing to deal with wood in the future, he would be able to accept it.
"Okay." Guo Dalu agreed. He had searched for information on high-quality peach wood online before and also saw news about wood auctions. There are similar auctions in Europe and Germany every year, and the transaction volume is not very large, and the highest record is no more than 5 million.
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Two days before the New Year, Guo Dalu was a furniture store and a supermarket to help. During the work, he would never use formations and Taoism to completely get rid of his identity as a cultivator, and he would do all kinds of miscellaneous work in an ordinary mortal state.
Returning to ordinary things is originally part of practice.
Of course, his meditation and qi cultivation work every night will not be interrupted.
The New Year is almost spent in this busy life.
Early on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Guo Dalu went to Bing'an City with his father and uncle. Although Guo Dalu did not deliberately use yarrow to deduce the results of this trip, he still had a premonition that there would be something to gain at this auction.
At 9:30 in the morning, the auction officially began. Most of the woods on the stage were old and old. Some of them were no longer practical and purely satisfy the collection psychology of some enthusiasts.
The auction process was calm and there was no dramatic scene. In the middle, my uncle bought a 150-year-old oak tree trunk for 100,000 yuan.
For a whole morning, no mahogany was placed.
At noon, the three of them had lunch in the hotel.
The auction continues at 2:30 pm.
Unexpectedly, the first piece of wood that started shooting was a thousand-year-old mahogany.
"This old peach tree was excavated from the underground by villagers in a village in Lingzhou. It is about 1,500 years old..."
The host exaggerated the value of the item in a professional tone and speech, and finally issued a starting price: "The starting price of this peach tree is 250,000 yuan, and the price increase is no less than 50,000 yuan each time. The price will start the quotation below!"
Before the host finished speaking, at least six players on the court made gestures to hold signs.
Although everyone knows that this "1500 years" must be full of moisture, collecting old objects is just ambiguous. Who can tell 100% of which object has a lot of history?
“1.5 million.”
Just as everyone was about to raise the price of 300,000, 400,000, or 500,000, a young voice rang quietly.
Starting from 250,000 yuan, one price increase of 1.5 million yuan. This price increase method is either from a hard-working veteran who is well versed in psychological tactics, or a nouveau riche who is stupid and has a lot of money.
Everyone looked back at the young man holding the sign with different expressions, and then gave up bidding one after another.
Without too many twists and turns, Guo Dalu sold the mahogany, which was claimed to be "with a history of 1,500 years."
Of course, Guo Dalu knew that the peach wood had no 1,500 years of history, but he also knew that the peach wood had excellent material and was not easy to get more.
"This piece of peach wood can add 50,000 yuan, and it will eventually be estimated to add about 1.8 million yuan."
After the host dropped the hammer, Guo Dalu explained to his father and uncle, and the two elders had no objection at all.
After taking pictures of peach wood, Guo Dalu was no longer interested in other lots, and Guo’s father did not see the wood that suited his wishes.
The three of them finally left and settled with two transaction orders. After two to three days, the wood was delivered to their doorstep.
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From the third day of the lunar month to the fifth day of the lunar month, Guo Qing, Guo Dalu and Guo Tingkai's daily theme was Guo Qing and Tian Mingjuan's wedding. Because Guo Qing said, "I just want to prepare for a lively wedding with my brothers." Guo Dalu and Guo Tingkai became coolies unshirkable.
"Dalu, Tiedan, you must keep a close eye on it. Once you find someone touching the bride or attacking the bridesmaid, you must stop it in time."
Before the wedding, Guo Qing solemnly reminded the two brothers that the custom of "brides" is still preserved in Guoqiao Village. If Guo Qing does not mess with other people's brides himself, he will naturally not accept others' brides.
"Don't worry, leave it to us."
Guo Tingkai said seriously that he had long been disgusted with some "brides" behaviors that were obviously hooligans.
Guo Dalu also nodded, "Be your groom, with Tiedan and I, no one dares to do anything randomly."
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The wedding went smoothly. Although Grandpa Tian Mingjuan was reluctant, he finally appeared at the wedding scene.
Before the wedding banquet officially begins, a wave of firecrackers and fireworks must be set off.
As the owner of the largest supermarket in Lixiang, Guo Qing certainly ranks first in the show of fireworks and firecrackers.
Cracking and crackling...
Bee-bang!
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!
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Just as the deafening fireworks were blooming in the sky, a walking pavilion nun carrying a peach wood sword happened to pass by Lixiang Street. The nun heard the sound of fireworks and turned to look at it, and suddenly frowned because she found that two evil spirits were entangled in the smoke and dust in the sky.
The evil spirits conflict with each other, so it is not advisable to marry. This is common sense.
"Who chooses to hold the wedding today?"
The nun stopped, hesitated for a moment, then suddenly pinched her left hand and pointed her right hand at the intersection of evil energy in the air.
Whoosh!
The peach wood sword behind her flew out like an arrow, slashing two evil spirits straight.
To be continued...