Chapter 631: Don’t be a pushover and live a thousand years?
My second uncle and second aunt are both snobs.
When Li Quan's family was in trouble, he looked down on them and never helped them at all.
He often spoke ill of Li Quan's family in front of other villagers. Even when his fifth uncle lent money to Li Quan to study, his second uncle found out and called his fifth uncle stupid.
He also said that even if Li Quan studied, he would be a nerd and would definitely not be able to pay back the money in the future.
Fortunately, Li Quan was ambitious enough. He not only paid off all the debts owed to his fifth uncle's family, but also gave a generous gift to his fifth uncle's son as a wedding gift.
Now, Li Quan has become the pride of the whole village. He has built the most magnificent villa in the village and drives a super luxury car that many villagers will never be able to drive in their lifetime.
Li Quan has now become a prominent figure in the village.
Become a successful person in the eyes of others.
"Thank you for your kindness, uncle. Bacon is smoked and contains carcinogens. You'd better take it home and eat it with aunt!" Li Quan spoke very impolitely.
There was no smile on his face.
He never does anything to be a pushover, let alone a nice guy.
Li Quan has only one principle in life: to clearly distinguish between gratitude and resentment.
Second Uncle had treated him badly before, but now that Li Quan had become successful, he would not seek revenge against Second Uncle's family. But it was nonsense to expect him to smile at Second Uncle or even repay kindness with ingratitude.
Some so-called saints may be able to repay kindness with resentment.
Even the hatred of having one's father killed or one's wife stolen can be forgiven.
At least Li Quan is definitely not that great.
"Ah...haha, you are different now that you have read books. You know a lot more. It doesn't matter if you don't like bacon. Second uncle will get you some sweet potatoes and vegetables grown at home. They are all natural and pollution-free ."
Second Uncle was stunned, but he was not angry.
Instead, he laughed awkwardly and changed his words, saying that he wanted to give Li Quan the vegetables and fruits he grew himself.
"I have all those things at home, so I won't bother you with spending money. It's already late today, and I'm tired from the journey. I want to rest early, so I won't keep you for tea."
Li Quan issued an order to expel the guest.
Sophie next to him looked at Li Quan with some surprise.
Ever since she met Li Quan, she had never seen Li Quan be so disgusted with others.
How unwelcome is this second uncle.
"Well, I won't bother you anymore! Come back tomorrow!" The second uncle was disappointed. No one in Li Quan's family liked him. He could only prepare to leave in embarrassment.
His eyes rolled and fell on the beautiful Sophie.
"Haha, this must be the girlfriend of Li Quan's nephew, right? She is beautiful and generous. Girls in the city are just different." He set his sights on Sophie.
Li Quan's family didn't like him, so he had no excuse to stay.
So he wanted to get close to Sophie and then take the opportunity to stay.
"Thank you for the compliment!" Although Sophie is kind, she is not stupid.
As a new bride, if she didn't have this much foresight, she would not be able to survive in the big city.
How could she possibly try to keep someone who was disliked by Li Quan's family?
With her lukewarm response, even if the second uncle was thick-skinned, he would feel embarrassed to continue the conversation.
"Well, niece-in-law, it's too late today, so I'll go home first. Tomorrow I'll pick some fresh fruits for you from home. These are things that you city people rarely eat."
The second uncle smiled and tried to please Sophie.
"That's very kind of you!"
Sophie's words were actually a polite refusal.
Watching his second uncle walk out of the yard, Li Tiezhu spat at his second uncle's back.
"Bah! Now that he sees that my son has become successful, he comes to curry favor with him. Who cares about those useless guys of his?" Li Tiezhu harbored a deep hatred for his second brother.
It is said that fathers and sons fight together in battle, and brothers fight together to kill tigers.
But my second uncle never thought about brotherhood at all.
Sophie smiled and said nothing.
In this kind of situation, she definitely wouldn't ask too many questions.
"Let's go inside and eat!" Li Quan's mother invited everyone to go inside and eat.
Entering the villa, you will find that it is decorated very luxuriously.
But the furniture in the living room was extremely simple, with the same old wooden table and a few broken chairs from Li Quan's previous home .
Li Quan felt ashamed.
After giving the money for building and decorating the house to his old classmate, he no longer cared about anything else.
I just realized now that I forgot to order a few sets of furniture.
I'm going to the county town tomorrow to pick out some good furniture and have it shipped over and put up there quickly.
Otherwise, when he holds his wedding and his friends and colleagues come to congratulate him, they will see the state of his house, which is so shabby.
"I'll go and help, you guys sit down and rest for a while!" Li Tiezhu followed his wife into the kitchen at the back.
If he didn't leave, Sophie would be like a little wife, very shy and afraid to speak.
After Li Tiezhu left, only Sophie and Li Quan were left. She couldn't help but ask in a low voice, " Quan, your family didn't seem to like that second uncle just now. Was it appropriate for me to answer like that?"
She was not clear about the relationship between Li Quan's family and her second uncle, and she was unsure about how they would get along next time.
So now ask it in private.
"It's more than just dislike. He simply hates me. When I was in college, my family was poor and couldn't afford the tuition. I begged my second uncle to lend me some money. My father knelt down in front of him, but he refused to lend me money. He also spread bad things about my family everywhere and asked other relatives not to lend us money.
Now that he sees that I have become successful, he wants to curry favor with me and get benefits from me.
Do you think there is such a good thing in the world? "
Li Quan was still indignant when he talked about these things.
"So that's how it is. No wonder your family treats him like that. If you don't accompany him when he's down in the west, who are you to help him when he's back on his feet? Haha." She smiled and said a golden phrase from the Internet.
"There are all kinds of people. Not everyone can be like you. Even though I am penniless and humble as dust, you, a rich girl, still choose to marry me."
Li Quan was so moved that he held Sophie's hand.
The hearts of the two are also closely connected.
“The food is here!”
Li Tiezhu and his wife brought the hot dishes to the table.
Country people generally like to build an earthen stove and put a big iron pot on it.
The advantage of this is that you can keep all the food hot in the pot.
The dishes served on the table included fish, meat, and stewed chicken soup, which was very rich.
Normally, Li Tiezhu and his wife are reluctant to buy meat.
Even if they wanted to kill a chicken, it would only be done when there were guests at home or during the New Year or other festivals.
"Miss Su, we country folk don't have anything delicious to treat you, please forgive us." Li Quan's mother said with a smile.
"Auntie, you are so polite! There are so many delicious dishes, even more abundant than in a hotel. If I stay in the country for a few more days, I am really worried that I will get fatter when I return."
Sophie is very good at talking.
Perhaps this ability is innate. Almost all women will be particularly sweet in front of their mother-in-law for the first time.
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The family ate and then washed up.
When we slept in separate rooms, embarrassing things happened.
There were only two beds in Li Quan's house, and Sophie had not married him yet. She was very traditional and conservative, so she would definitely not agree to sleep with Li Quan.
In the end, Li Quan felt sorry for his fiancée and got himself a piece of wood and slept in the next room.
Li Tiezhu and his wife are very tactful.
After watching their son and future daughter-in-law go upstairs, they did not follow them to disturb them.
At night, Li Quan had just fallen asleep when he heard a knock on the door.
When she opened it, it was Sophie who came in wearing pajamas.
"Quan, will you be cold sleeping here?"
"That's fine! Of course, if Madam is willing to let me sleep in your bed, it will surely be warmer."
"You are so beautiful!"
She rolled her eyes, checked the quilt that Li Quan was covering himself with, and found that he would not be cold, so she went back to her room and went to sleep with peace of mind.
Li Quan lay on the wooden board, unable to sleep.
He remembered the book on Peng's secret of longevity that he had obtained during the day.
Perhaps there really was a person named Peng Zu in history.
Not only are there records about Peng Zu in official history, but there are also records in unofficial history, novels, and myths that Peng Zu lived for eight hundred years.
In the past, Li Quan believed that it was impossible for humans to live to be 800 years old.
There is a theory that Peng Zu is actually many people, but their identities may be the leaders of a family or an organization. When the previous Peng Zu died, the new Peng Zu took over.
This family existed for eight hundred years, so the outside world mistakenly believed that Peng Zu lived to be eight hundred years old.
Opening the Peng family's secret of longevity in his hand, Li Quan believed that he would soon find the real answer.
Immortality has always been the dream of countless ancient people.
Qin Shi Huang and Journey to the West mentioned that eating Tang Monk's flesh could make one immortal. Many Taoist alchemists, emperors, and dignitaries also wanted to achieve immortality.
They have also been trying to find a way to achieve immortality.
There was even an emperor who died of lead and mercury poisoning after taking the "elixir of life" made by alchemists.
When he opened the first page, Li Quan was stunned by the content.
“The tortoise may live long, but it still has its end. The flying snake rides on the mist, but it will eventually turn into dust. However, it is not surprising that humans, the most intelligent creatures on earth, can live for more than a thousand years!”
Such words are too horrifying.
The first two sentences are poems by Cao Cao.
Of course, it is also possible that Cao Cao copied this book.
Or maybe these two lines of poetry were written by someone in ancient times.
What really scared Li Quan was that the book said that it was not surprising for humans to live for a thousand years.
You have to know that even with modern medical technology and living standards far superior to those in ancient times, there are only one or two people out of ten thousand who can live to be over a hundred years old.
The oldest person known to mankind lived to be 147 years old.
This is well documented.
As for those Indians in a certain country who brag about a certain divine monk who lived for two hundred or three hundred years old, that is pure nonsense.
At least anyone with a little discernment would not believe such nonsense.
Because in that magical country, people don't use medicine to cure diseases, they just rely on drinking cow urine and eating cow dung.
Li Quan continued reading.
If what is written at the beginning is true, then it is very likely true that Peng Zu lived to be 800 years old.
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Li Quan read the first page in one breath.
The above are all classical Chinese texts, which are not particularly profound and do not involve any particularly advanced medical theories .
It is just a normal record of how humans can live longer and what methods are generally used.
This book is more like a record of ancient science.
The snakes and mantises mentioned above shed their skin once every year.
Especially snakes, according to the above, shed their skin once a year. Then they become young and energetic again. Repeating this process over and over again, they can become pythons after a hundred years.
If a snake is lucky enough to shed its skin a thousand times, it can live for a thousand years, at which time it will transform from a giant python into a dragon.
If a snake could shed its skin 10,000 times and live for 10,000 years, it would transform from a Jiao into a Jiaolong.
Li Quan didn't really believe this statement because it was full of mythological elements.
As far as Li Quan knows, small snakes usually only live for three to five years before dying. Larger snakes can only live for 10 to 20 years at most. Larger pythons can live longer. There is currently a documented case of a python that lived to be 42 years old.
But if you say that what is said in this book doesn't make sense, Li Quan has seen some news.
Especially during the liberation period, the whole country was in a state of disrepair and large-scale infrastructure construction was carried out.
When someone was blasting a mountain to build a road, a giant snake over 20 meters long rushed out from the mountain.
The snake was injured by the explosion and escaped. More than half a month later, people found its body in a river.
At that time, experts even went to the scene to check and conduct research.
The giant snake was found hiding in a cave deep in the mountain.
Inside the cave, people found bones and some debris that the snake was unable to digest after eating the food.
This includes human bones.
Experts also found a copper box that was most likely carried by the deceased. It contained a house deed, IOUs, and silver bills, which were silver bills from the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty more than 400 years ago.
A silver ring was also found, which may have been worn by the deceased.
There is a seal on it, which shows that it is from the Jiajing period.
The owner of the copper box and the silver ring is most likely the same person.
To be on the safe side, the experts also checked historical archives based on the information on the property deeds.
After a lot of effort, I finally found the owner of the copper box.
It turned out that he was a businessman and his family was quite wealthy.
But he went out to collect rent on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar year and never came home. His family was worried that he had met a criminal and was killed, so they reported it to the police.
After the authorities investigated, they could not find his whereabouts.
Who could have thought that the wealthy businessman would be eaten by this giant snake.
This incident was scary enough in itself, but if you think about it carefully.
More than four hundred years ago, the giant snake was able to eat an adult, which means it was already very large at that time.
And the fact that it has survived until now means that it is at least over four hundred years old, right?
This giant snake must have been lurking in the mountain all along, because nearby villagers reported that large livestock such as cattle and sheep often disappeared without reason.
It is very likely that those missing cattle and sheep became food for the giant snake.
As the giant snake lives for a long time, it develops a certain spirituality.
It probably knows that humans are not easy to mess with, so it dares not eat humans anymore. It only dares to steal cattle and sheep, or hunt some wild animals in the mountains to satisfy its hunger.
In any case, the giant snake that was killed in the explosion could live for more than 400 years, which has broken human’s understanding of the lifespan of snakes.
At least scientists believe that snakes can only live forty to fifty years at most, which is incorrect.
If the giant snake had not been killed by the explosion, it might have lived for many years.
No one knows how long he can live.
It could be a thousand years, or it could be tens of thousands of years.
There are so many unknown mysteries that humans have not yet solved.
Li Quan thought to himself that snakes, which scientists had predicted could only live forty to fifty years at most, could actually live for more than four hundred years. So for humans, living for a thousand years would not seem like a big deal.
