Chapter 119: The Life of the Thrush

"You mean, you stole my monk's jade Buddha, and now I have to spend money to redeem it?" Daoyan couldn't believe that there was such a shameless truth in this world.

"The master is worthy of being a monk and has a very high understanding..." Xiao Fan praised politely.

"You are simply banditry!" Dao Yan was angry.

"Master, you are unreasonable..." Xiao Fan sighed long: "If you don't want to buy it, don't buy it. I didn't beg you to buy it, right? I'm just selling something, why do you call me a bandit?"

Daoyan was stunned for a while, then said angrily: "But... you stole that Jade Buddha!"

"Things stole are also things! You can't discriminate against them because of this, right? No matter how many times it is stolen, the Jade Buddha or the Jade Buddha, it will not become a stone Buddha or a clay Buddha. The Jade Buddha has the value of a Jade Buddha. Master, is this the reason?"

Daoyan became a monk at the age of 17. He read Buddhist scriptures, was proficient in strategy, and was good at planning. However, he rarely came into contact with this theory of bandits and strong men. For a moment, Xiao Fan was stunned and could not speak for a long time.

Not only him, but even Zhu Yunwen, who was standing beside him, was stunned. The two of them discovered for the first time that the thief in this world had such a righteous way of destroying them.

As Xiao Fan was talking, he became interested, so he sat on a chair and straightened his body and talked: "...There are no thieves in the world. When there are more thieves, there will be thieves. This is a very normal thing. If there are thieves, you will naturally sell them. Otherwise, what are you doing? It is not shameful to steal things. What is shameful to take the stolen things for yourself and bury them in the world from now on, so that the thieves will not be allowed to be thieves. Such selfish people are not worthy of being thieves..."

Zhu Yunwen's eyes were straight and he interrupted, "What's the name of a thief?"

Xiao Fan replied very seriously: "...called collector."

"Puff--" Zhu Yunwen choked and coughed loudly.

Xiao Fan happily turned his head to Daoyan and said, "Hey, he understands, do you understand?"

Daoyan had the urge to faint...

"Stop talking nonsense, the Jade Buddha is a blessing weapon, which is very important to me. Just tell me, how much money is needed to redeem it?" Daoyan gritted his teeth and stared at Xiao Fan resentfully.

Xiao Fan's eyes lit up: "Is it important to you? It's great. Of course, important things must have important prices. If they are redeemed at a low price, they may inevitably be suspected of blaspheming magic weapons... Six thousand taels! No price! Don't have treasure money, just cash in silver."

When Daoyan heard this, he breathed a breath and rose. The three corpse gods on his forehead furiously. The sickly triangular eyes suddenly shot out fierce cold light.

Silence for a while.

"I... agreed!" Daoyan said gritting his teeth.

Xiao Fan was stunned and asked for a price everywhere and paid it back. He was still waiting for Daoyan to bargain. Unexpectedly, Daoyan agreed so happily. It seems that religion is very charming. For a jade Buddha who cannot eat or drink, he can even take any cost.

Xiao Fan smacked his lips with regret, looked at Zhu Yunwen at a glance, and thought to himself, was the price he offered to Master Daoyan just now...are you too polite?

"I changed my mind just now. Such a refined and pure Jade Buddha should be sold for 7,000 taels." Xiao Fan immediately raised the price without hesitation.

"The surname of Xiao, you... don't bully people too much!" Dao Yanqiang suppressed the anger in his heart.

Now he began to understand why His Highness Yan King suffered repeated losses in dealing with Xiao Fan. This Xiao surname is indeed despicable and shameless, and is definitely not a good person.

"Master, demeanor, the demeanor of a monk!" Xiao Fan gently calmed Daoyan's anger and smiled and said, "It's not true that the business is not a good deal. Even if the agreement cannot be reached, don't get angry. Let's break up the business and not a friendship, will it be done?"

"Seven thousand taels are seven thousand taels! I agree!" Daoyan slapped the table heavily and said viciously.

Xiao Fan couldn't help but feel excited: "The master is worthy of being a monk. He is indeed generous. Color is empty, the jade Buddha is empty, and silver is also empty. Everything in the world is empty..."

Daoyan snorted and angry, his face full of anger.

a long time……

"What does the master think about Eight Thousand Tails?" Xiao Fan asked carefully.

"Sad! I'm fighting with you!" Daoyan rolled up his sleeves and rushed towards Xiao Fan.

"Ah--Master calms down, no longer raises the price, no longer raises the price. I agreed that eight thousand taels will increase the amount and do not increase the price..."

After a fight, the price of the Jade Buddha was finally negotiated. Zhu Yunwen sat on the side with his mouth covering his mouth and laughing hard. Daoyan's chest was so angry that his chest was flushed rapidly, and his face, like a sick tiger, also showed an unhealthy flush.

"Eight thousand taels of silver, pay the money in one hand and deliver the goods in the other. Master, don't you have any objection?" Xiao Fan's eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and no matter how he looked, he had a sinister smell.

"Hmph! The surname Xiao, you are so despicable and shameless, and you will be punished sooner or later!" Dao Yan said angrily.

Xiao Fan said seriously: "The master is wrong. I am a gentleman and has nothing to do with despicability. Just now, His Royal Highness the Grand Prince was willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver to buy the Jade Buddha, but I didn't agree. As the saying goes, a gentleman does not take away anyone's love. Since this Jade Buddha is the master's beloved thing, I will of course sell it to you. In fact, the master should thank me. Not only did he keep the Jade Buddha for you under the pressure of His Royal Highness the Grand Prince, but he also gave you a 20% discount. I am really kind to the master..."

"Cough cough cough..." Zhu Yunwen choked loudly, his face flushed with coughing.

Daoyan snorted coldly: "If I believe your nonsense, that would be stupid! Eight thousand taels of silver, right? I hope you believe it, don't play with me anymore! I will go back to collect the money."

"Master, go! I'm waiting for you to come with a lot of loads. The Jade Buddha is temporarily placed in my house. Master, don't worry, I will take good care of it..." Xiao Fan waved his hand to Daoyan.

Daoyan stood up and walked towards him without saying a word.

Just as he reached the door, a petite figure jumped and ran.

Xiao Huamei was impatient in the backyard for a long time, so she ran to the front to see how Xiao Fan blackmailed Daoyan. Although the little girl was young, she valued silver very much.

As soon as Daoyan stepped out of the inner hall, he saw Xiao Huamei.

Just a casual glance, Daoyan suddenly became stationary, and his whole body suddenly frozen. His eyes stared at Xiao Huamei who was jumping towards him in surprise, with his mouth wide open, as if he had seen a ghost.

When Xiao Huamei's pretty face, which was as smiling as a flower, suddenly turned pale when he saw Dao Yan. The two of them separated by several steps, without saying a word and looking at each other.

After a long time, Daoyan trembled and stretched out his hand, pointed at the thrush and ate, "Li... Concubine Li? No, you are not Concubine Li! You are Chang Ning! Princess Chang Ning!"

The thrush also had a look of seeing a ghost. His pretty eyes were wide open, and he suddenly screamed, turned around and ran away.

Daoyan was anxious, and moved his body. He grabbed the collar behind Huamei with one hand and lifted her up. He was in Xiao Mansion without any concern. He lifted the collar of Huamei who was struggling, revealing her white and jade-like neck. On her neck, a small diamond-shaped dark red birthmark as big as a fingernail was in her eyes.

"You are Chang Ning! You are indeed Princess Chang Ning!"

After confirming, Daoyan immediately put down his thrush and shouted with excitement.

"Bang!"

A good mahogany chair fell heavily on Daoyan's back, and the wood chips splashed everywhere, and the chairs fell apart.

Daoyan screamed, and was beaten to the point of pounce, and fell to the ground again.

Xiao Fan spat on the ground like a crazy lion, and said with a fierce look: "I'm a bitch! I dare to eat my wife's tofu in front of me. I'll give you a ride today!"

Daoyan lay on the ground and screamed sadly and moaned weakly: "No... I am not rude, she... she is Princess Changning! Princess Changning... When she was still in her infancy, I hugged her..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Fan became more and more angry. He stepped on Daoyan's face and said evilly: "Master is right. Monk is indeed not a good thing! You have been molested by my wife when she was in her cradle. I must destroy you today..."

After saying that, Xiao Fan suddenly shouted out loud: "Master--the monk is rude to your disciple's wife..."

Taixu's figure appeared with a whoosh: "What's going on? What's going on?"

Xiao Fan pointed at Daoyan with a desperate face and said angrily: "This monk is inappropriate to the thrush!"

Taixu glared at him and shot out two rays of light. He stared at Daoyan and laughed at the sky for several times, and said with a grim voice: "Bald donkey! Come on your life--"

"Amitabha, I won't go to hell, who..."

"Bang!"

"ah--"

Today is definitely not the lucky day for Monk Daoyan. For him, the small Xiao Mansion is even more dangerous and terrifying than the dragon pond and tiger den.

In the inner hall of Xiao Mansion, Daoyan lay dying on the ground in the hall, even his moans were almost weak.

"Huanmei, that guy called you Princess Changning, what does it mean?" Xiao Fan said with a serious expression.

Xiao Huamei had a pale face, her whole body was trembling slightly, and her thin lips bit her lower lip tightly. She couldn't speak for a long time, and she was obviously frightened.

Zhu Yunwen and Taixu stared at Huamei curiously. Taixu snorted proudly: "When I first saw Huamei, I said that this woman has a very noble face and an extraordinary background. Do you believe it now? Humph! I am not completely vented on the ability to tell fortunes..."

Zhu Yunwen blinked curiously, recalled carefully for a long time, and said uncertainly: "I remember that the young daughter of the Fourth Emperor's uncle, King Yan, was named Princess Changning. That was ten years ago. A few years ago, the Fourth Emperor's uncle submitted a cousin to the emperor's grandfather and said that Princess Changning died early, uh...what is going on?"

A little orphan who made a living by begging turned out to be the princess who had already died in the royal family. Xiao Fan was confused by the changes in front of him and did not dare to accept the facts for a long time.

Looking at Xiao Huamei's fearful look, Xiao Fan felt ache in his heart, took her into his arms, stroked her back, and said warmly: "Forget it, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it, don't force yourself..."

Xiao Huamei buried her head in Xiao Fan's arms, as if she was holding a life-saving straw, and hugged him tightly. After a long time, her trembling body gradually returned to normal.

Looking up, Xiao Huamei's little face was as calm as before. She looked directly at Xiao Fan and said slowly: "This monk is right. I was once the youngest daughter of King Yan of Peking. When I was two years old, I was named Princess Changning..."

When everyone in the hall was shocked when she heard her confession.

Zhu Yunwen said in a lost voice: "You are really the youngest daughter of the Fourth Emperor Uncle? Oh! Then have you become my cousin?"

Xiao Fan felt like he was struck by lightning and had not come back to his senses for a long time.

When I saved an orphan on the street, I actually saved a princess. This world is so bloody, right? Or is Lao Zhu's reproductive ability too strong, and there are so many dragon sons and grandchildren that they can pick up randomly all over the street?

"Since you are the princess, why did you fall to the point of begging along the street?" This is the question Xiao Fan wanted to ask the most, and it is also the most curious question for Zhu Yunwen and Taixu in the hall.

Xiao Huamei bit her lower lip, and her expression suddenly became resentful and resentful. Her tender little face revealed the vicissitudes and worldly style of adults.

"My mother, Concubine Li, was originally the daughter of a rural gentry family in Jiangnan. She has been passed down from poetry and books since she was a child. She is well-educated and gentle. Later, she was hired by the King of Yan and made her a concubine. The King of Yan was in the vassal of Beiping. My mother went with her and gave birth to me in the second year of the vassal of Beiping. I grew up in the Yan Palace in Beiping. I was favored and loved by others. After a few years of happy and carefree life, but by the time I was eight years old, everything changed. My mother was weak-hearted and could not be tolerated by other concubines in the Yan Palace. She was found to be accused of "the filthy palace" and forced to death! In my grief, I escaped from the Yan Palace overnight and headed south all the way south. Even if I starved to death and froze to death outside, I would never return to the ruthless Yan Palace. That year, I was only eight years old..."

Xiao Huamei was crying as she spoke.

The sad and sad voice echoed in the inner hall, and the three of them in the hall were all sad and sighed.

Xiao Fan hugged Huamei, and listened to her sad and humble voice like a wounded beast in his ears. He felt like an invisible big hand was pulled hard in his heart, so painful that he couldn't even breathe.

How much hardships and tortures have this poor little girl suffered over the years! The royal family's origin and noble status, but her fate is inferior and humble than Cao Mu. Destiny played a very vicious joke on her, and she was tortured by this joke to scars.

Xiao Huamei still sobbed and whispered: "...I have suffered all kinds of suffering in the past few years since I escaped from the Yan Palace. I also know that the King of Yan had sent a large number of people to find me, but the scene of my mother being forced to death has always appeared in front of me. I can't forget this hatred, and I hate my biological father, King Yan, who is indifferent to my mother's life and death. Although my mother is a concubine, it is also a couple after all! How could he bear to force her to death? A false charge destroyed his wife's life and reputation. The so-called noble family and the so-called supreme royal family are all ruthless and heartless places. If I don't escape, I will be killed by those vicious concubines sooner or later!"

Xiao Huamei's voice gradually became sharp and shrill, like a night owl crying, making people tremble.

The atmosphere in the inner hall was breathtakingly depressed.
To be continued...