Chapter 81 What Merit is there in Starving People to Death? (Requesting for monthly tickets)
Chapter 81 What merit is there in starving people to death? (Begging for Monthly Tickets)
The old man rummaged through the herbs while saying, “I don’t have much left here, so you can take it and use it first, but I don’t have kombu, loquat leaves, or shellfish here, so you’ll have to head out to the outer city to find them.”
“Thank you, Abbot.”
Song Yin asked again, “But if you don’t charge, how will you live?”
“Guests saying this are underestimating the people of my Hundred Shou City.”
The old man with a bit of pride: “We in this Hundred Shou City do not care about gains and losses, they are all good to others, and do good deeds for nothing to rise merit, what money to collect ah.”
Song Yin nodded thoughtfully, said thanks, and was about to walk out.
“Eh, your herbs!” The old man called out from behind.
“Thank you for your kindness, old man, I’ll pick it up when I come back.”
After Song Yin finished speaking, he ignored the old man and went straight out of the herb store.
“Senior brother, these medicines don’t cost anything, why don’t you use them?” Zhang Feixuan said in disbelief.
“No merit, this place is peaceful, we have no shelter to help them, it’s not good to take people’s things for no reason.”
Song Yin shook his head and looked to the west, “Let’s have a meal first, then go visit that Master Pu De.”
With that, he continued on his way.
The main street was obviously the main road with more stores, and without walking for a while they saw a restaurant.
“Senior brother, let’s go here.” Zhang Feixuan said as he pointed at the nicely decorated restaurant.
Song Yin, however, shook his head, “You don’t have much silver money on hand, and places like this cost quite a bit at first glance, so save a bit.
“Senior brother is considerate.” Zhang Feixuan could only arch his hand.
Although it was a border city of Nanping Kingdom, this place had quite a lot of population, and it was the time of meal time, the main street was filled with people, pulling carts, eating, hawking everywhere, it was very lively.
After the main street, it was a bit cooler, and Song Yin saw a food store at this time, so he walked over.
Food store is very small, inside the decoration is also simple, only a few tables, but inside the guests are also full of rows, just a table of guests finished eating, patting the belly out, leaving an empty seat to.
“Three guests, what to eat?”
Inside a middle-aged woman saw the doorway three people, with a kind smile approached, just that face is a little thin, looking slightly malnourished look, wide clothes to wear in her body, loose, not quite fit.
“Please, just serve some ordinary rice.” Song Yin revealed a smile and walked in.
“Please also have a seat, the meal will be up in a moment.”
The middle-aged woman quickly cleared away the dishes on the table from earlier and wiped the table with a rag, allowing the three to be seated.
Between wiping, a guest at the table next to her suddenly said, “Boss lady, your family’s food is getting more and more incapable ah, clear soup and little water, when will you get some good goods to come ah, if you don’t get something, next time I won’t come to eat at your place.”
“Right, this is getting worse and worse, if you mess up like this, I won’t come anymore either.”
“Yes, yes, we will pay attention next time.” The woman nodded her head there, and hurried into the back.
Before long, that woman came up with a dinner plate and served a few dishes.
These dishes, were just very ordinary meals, two plates of wild vegetables fried in oil, a plate of something that seemed to be underwater, and three large bowls of brown rice.
Seeing this stuff, Zhang Feixuan and Wang Qizheng were both a bit displeased.
In the past, when they were in the mountains in purgatory, it was because there was nothing to eat around, and that was just fine.
But on earth, they as Qi Refiners could still eat these things?
But senior brother seems to not care, pick up the bowl and chopsticks and start to dry, see him eat, the two of them can not say anything, can only learn from him and start to eat.
“Boss lady, let’s go!”
At this time another table of guests finished their meals, wiped their mouths, patted their bellies, and stood up to leave. “Poor greeting, take your time, please do come over next time.”
That boss’s wife wore a smile and watched these guests leave, as if with some anticipation she walked over to that table and looked over, realizing that it was empty again, she sighed, pulled the rag out of her waist, and began to clean up the tabletop.
One after another, several other tables of guests also finished eating a wipe of their mouths, said hello and left.
In the food store, only the three of them were left to eat here.
“Gu Gu–“
Song Yin’s ears twitched as he looked over towards that boss’s wife, but then he sensed something and looked back again.
Only to see that in the corner of the counter, a little girl’s figure was mostly hidden in the counter, only peeking out a head, looking at Song Yin eating and drooling.
Her face, too, was very thin, no different from the boss’s wife’s, both a picture of malnutrition.
Song Yin chucked a chopstick of wild vegetables and waved it towards the little girl, asking, “Little girl, you want to eat?”
The little girl quickly nodded her head, but then shook her head.
“Come.”
Song Yin waved his hand towards her.
The little girl’s eyes lit up and she appeared from the counter, displaying an extremely thin body underneath those loose clothes.
That body was like skin and bones, making Song Yin instantly think of the little girl who had disguised herself as ‘Phi Mourning’ when she was at the Phi Armor Sect.
The little girl trotted close to Song Yin, seemed to be a moment did not run steadily, a stumble to fall down, Song Yin quick, a hand out, to help the little girl.
The girl just stabilized, can not wait to open her mouth towards the fried wild vegetables bite over.
“Can’t eat!”
But just at this moment, a stern voice rang out.
Only to see the boss’s wife yell out, darting in, snatching the child and screaming, “Who told you to eat this, this can’t be eaten!”
With that, she quickly turned back and gave Song Yin an apologetic smile, “This is my little daughter, you eat your food, don’t mind her.”
Song Yin frowned, looking at the obviously thin mother and child, saying, “You’re also at meal time, busy as you are, don’t starve the child. At least you are the one who runs the food store, how come the child is raised so thin and weak.”
The little girl then breathlessly raised her head and said to her mother, “I haven’t eaten for two days, mother, I’m really hungry.”
Two days?
Song Yin’s eye pupils shrunk, before he could react, he saw the boss’s wife clench her teeth and suddenly kneeled down, saying, “Master, do me a favor, I see that you guys are dressed in fancy clothes and don’t look like ordinary people, can I give some silver money for this table.”
“What money do you want!”
As soon as her words fell, the curtain at the back was pulled open, only to see an equally skinny man staggering and rushing out, yanking away the mother and daughter duo with a reddened eye and angrily saying to them:
“What money do we need at this time, this is a merit meal, they paid for it, what are we going to accumulate merit with!”
“Her father, the child is too hungry to hold out!” The woman wailed, “Just accept one meal, we all haven’t eaten for two days, look at you walking and floating.”
“Just bear with it a little longer, just bear with it!”
The man came at them through gritted teeth, and then turned around, nodding to Song Yin and the others, “Master, don’t mind them, we don’t charge here, we’re a merit meal, specifically for people to satiate their stomachs.”
The woman suddenly stood up, also red eyes, pointing at the man to say something, but then suddenly thought of something, looked at her daughter in her arms, lowered her head, no longer speak.
“No.”
Wang Qizheng at this time some can’t look at the eye, raised his eyebrows to them said: “You do not want to pay for this meal, right? Don’t want money also can’t live like this ah, what merit not merit, all starved into this, a bite of food are not given, what merit ah.”
A little late, sorry.
(End of chapter)