Chapter 272: Eat Ready-Made Food

The people of Huaihua Village were naturally unwilling, but they had a common problem among adults who valued their reputation, that is, they did not say things directly, but hinted: "After all, these are two villages, and Mr. Chen, you guys don't want to merge the villages, so it would be bad if the money was kept together, right?"

Chen Xiucai was more direct. "This money is for the children. In addition to food and clothing, it is more important to use it for education and martial arts. Taoist Priest Pan Xiao and Taoist Priest Sanzhu gave this money not so much to help the children take revenge in the future, but to help them learn how to make a living and be independent in the future."

"Leave the money with me. I can ensure that every penny is used for the children. I can even take care of each of them fairly and impartially. Even for children who are not suitable for studying or practicing martial arts, I will find ways for them to learn other skills."

Liu You looked unhappy and asked, "What Mr. Chen meant by this is that we will take the money from these children and not spend it on them?"

Chen Xiucai shook his head. "I don't doubt your love for the children, but I don't think you have my knowledge and ability. Of the 360 ​​trades, you only know farming, and your strengths only lie in farming. But to be honest, Huaihua Village and Shuangyang Village are not short of land. How do you plan to spend this money on them?"

"In addition to their annual food and clothing, you should send them to school to be taught by teachers, right? Then spend money to hire some long-term workers and tenant farmers to farm for them. If they can study hard, you can continue to support them. If not, when they grow up, you can use part of the money to help them get married and build houses. Then you will feel that you are not mistreating them."

Liu You and the other two blushed because what Chen Xiucai said was exactly what they were thinking.

Liu You said: "Time will dilute everything. Raise them to adulthood. If they still want to seek revenge, they will go. If they don't want to go, they can just settle down and start a family in the village. Isn't that good?"

"Not good!" Chen Xiucai said loudly: "With this money, I can make their lives better."

"I can let them pass the imperial examinations, let them become officials; let them become knights, escorts; let them become carpenters, blacksmiths, and all kinds of craftsmen; I can also let them join the army and the Ming navy; let them do business and become merchants who travel all over the country..."

"Even if they stay here to farm, I can give them skills that are different from other farmers. I will let them protect their relatives and friends and fight back when they encounter pirates again. I will let them find their own position as soon as they take that step when they want to take revenge, so that they can be independent no matter what situation they are in!"

Chen Xiucai became more and more assertive, and said directly to Pan Yun: "Master Pan, please give all the money to me for safekeeping. I promise to treat the children of the two villages equally."

"I will build a school between the two villages. From now on, children from both villages will study, practice martial arts, and learn skills there."

Liu You opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, Pan Jun nodded and said, "Okay!"

Liu You opened his mouth wide and looked at Chen Xiucai with slight dissatisfaction.

Chen Xiucai didn't care, his eyes sparkling, and continued, "In order to ensure that this money will not be abused by me, we can set up six supervisors, three in each village. Every time there is a major expenditure outside the plan, six people are needed to supervise it together. I propose that the six people vote, and the money can only be spent with the consent of four or more people."

Liu You immediately said, "What if Huaihua Village has other expenses and wants to use this money? If you don't mention it, won't we be unable to use it forever?"

Chen Xiucai: "You can propose it to me, and I will review it and propose it. Or, if you can get more than four people to agree, you can also bypass me and propose the use of the funds at the meeting. But in that case, I will also have the right to vote. There are seven votes in total, and you must get at least five votes."

Liu You and the other two thought about it and felt that this method was feasible. They felt better and nodded slightly.

Chen Xiucai: "But there is a big premise for all this, that is, Taoist Priest Pan Xiao and Taoist Priest Sanzhu have a veto power."

Liu You smiled and said, "How can our benefactors have so much time to take care of our affairs?"

"That's not certain," Pan Yun said, "I never know when I'll come by and take a look, to check the accounts."

Chen Xiucai bowed and said, "If you can come more often, the children will be so happy."

After the matter was settled, Pan Yun asked Chen Xiucai to write out the rules, and the three parties signed a contract in triplicate and kept them separately. Then she handed the money to Chen Xiucai on the spot in front of everyone.

Perhaps Tao Ji's acupuncture and medicine had worked, or perhaps the money allowed Chen Xiucai to see the future. In any case, he was in much better spirits and looked much better.

Most of his illness had disappeared. Under the dim firelight and lamplight, he took out a broken brush and squatted beside a small chair to write the contract.

Tao Ji sat aside and watched him, nodding slightly, "Human consciousness is indeed a good medicine. I hope it is more effective than any other medicine."

Miao He and her master squeezed together to see Chen Xiucai's expression and exclaimed, "It's true. He looked like he was about to break, but now he's stuck together."

Pan Yun, "What's so strange about this? Aren't we cultivating to become gods?"

"I want my spirit to be independent of my body and exist between heaven and earth. It is only because I cannot do that that I use my spirit to react on my body in order to prolong my life and achieve immortality, so that I can spend more time cultivating my spirit."

“Since the ultimate goal is still God, we should know the importance of divine consciousness to the human body.”

How important is a breath?

For some people, a breath may just be a breath, but for some others, it may be three to five years, or even thirty to fifty years.

There are people who can live to be a hundred years old on just one breath.

Why can he keep this breath for so long?

The biggest difference lies in God.

Pan Yun was very satisfied with Chen Xiucai's transformation.

Of all the villagers present, she did trust Chen Xiucai more, no matter his knowledge, moral character, or the feeling he gave people. Maybe he would try hard to make the children walk on the path of revenge, but, who cares, if the same amount of money was given to him, he would definitely give the children the most.

After all the money was given to Chen Xiucai, everyone turned their attention to the supplies in the three trucks.

It’s even simpler here, just give it based on the number of people.

Pan Yun himself didn't expect that there were so few survivors in the two villages, so on average each person got a lot.

There is no need to count, just divide it according to the list.

Considering that both villages are extremely poor, Pan Yun did not differentiate between adults and children, and included everyone.

Moreover, the adults received more rations, cloth and cotton, but the children received more medicinal herbs.

Tao Ji and Miao He were here, so they simply set up a free clinic to check the bodies of the survivors from the two villages, and left a few commonly used prescriptions to teach them how to dispense the medicines...

The job was finally given to Chen Xiucai because the others were illiterate and were also very scared, fearing that they would mess it up.

This highlights the good qualities of Chen Xiucai. Not only can he prescribe medicine according to the prescription, he can also learn how to take a patient's pulse from Tao Ji and diagnose several diseases on the spot.

Well, let’s not talk about it anymore. Who among the scholars has not read “The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” and “The Book of Changes”?

Confucianism is good at medicine, Taoism is good at medicine, Mohism is good at medicine, Legalism is good at medicine, and military strategists are also good at medicine...

Even those rough men who people think are only good at wielding guns and sticks have some medical skills to treat injuries.

Medical skills seem to be something that every family knows a little bit about, but is not proficient in.

Why is this?

"Because people's exploration of life is actually an exploration of the universe," Tao Ji said, "The human body is like a universe. If you study people thoroughly, you will have a holistic understanding of the universe. You will be in touch with the way of heaven and can achieve eternal life."

Tao Ji raised his chin slightly when he said this, and said proudly: "So don't think that I am not as good as you and Fourth Junior Sister in fighting, and my cultivation is not as high as yours, but in terms of living longer, you may not be as good as me."

Pan Yun clapped his hands, "Third Brother, don't forget to share your achievements. I also want to live a long life."

"I know, you still want to eat ready-made food."

Pan Yun muttered, "It's much better to have it ready-made. It's not tiring and it tastes delicious."

Tao Ji patted her head and said, "I think you should wear Miao Zhen Miao He's secret card. It's strange. You two acted together, so why did your merit increase so quickly while theirs was so much slower?"

Pan Yun: "Maybe it's because I am a holy body of merit."

"You don't need to change your habit of talking nonsense. It's quite good. When you said you were Sanzhu, no one believed you. But when you said you were a fake, everyone believed you immediately."

Pan Yun: "Just accept it as God wants."

It would be better for ordinary people to think of Sanzhu and Pan Yun as two people. She shook her head and said, "A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. I am still too good. It is good to be divided into two people like this."

She sighed, "Ah, actually, it's pretty conspicuous to split into two people. I'll look for other good Taoist names later, pick two more, and design my own image. Then I can split into three or four people..."

Tao Ji looked at her quietly.

Pan Yun looked back at him, "Third Senior Brother, do you also think that I should prepare two more Taoist names to share my fame?"

Tao Ji turned around and said, "You should think about how you became famous. Although you performed well this time, to be honest, you are still a little worse than Junior Sister Xuanmiao. Why are people talking about you everywhere now?"

Pan Jun frowned. She was naturally thinking about it, but she really couldn't figure it out.

"Who does good things without leaving a name behind? Is there some conspiracy behind this?" Pan Yun guessed: "First they want to make me famous, and then they want to put the blame on me?"

Pan Yun was guessing here, while in the city a hundred miles away, Xue Shao slammed the gavel and said loudly: "Today's three bamboo formations to kill the Japanese pirates have come to an end. If you want to know what happened next, please wait for tomorrow's explanation."

The guests in the restaurant who were listening with fascination were unwilling to do so, and they took out money to reward Xue Shao, asking him to finish the rest of the story today.

Xue Shao shook his head, turned and left.

The restaurant owner smiled as he escorted Xue Shao upstairs to the private room, served him a meal and wine, and took out two strings of money and gave them to him, "Master Xue, will you still talk tomorrow?"

　Hehehe, see you tonight, I will try to finish the update as early as possible today

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