Chapter 1281 - 1: The Foolish Son of the Landlord
Chapter 1281: Chapter 1: The Foolish Son of the Landlord
Everything has its own shop. Tianmiao looked at the tiny speck of white light in her palm and smiled. "Your wish has been fulfilled. Go on, time to reincarnate."
The white light flickered, as if thanking Tianmiao, then rose from her palm and slowly drifted away.
"Will it reincarnate as a human?" Kong Hou asked curiously. That white light was the little dog that always stayed by the Princess’s side, a soul that was genuinely happy. This time, the Wisher was also it. Its wish was for its little mistress to be happy for her entire life. Now that the wish had come true, it too was going to reincarnate.
"No." Tianmiao smiled.
"Why not? Its fate clearly allows it to be reborn as a human." Even Dong Xiao couldn’t help asking.
"It could have become human a long time ago, but every time it came to the Yama Hall to choose, it always chose to be reborn as an animal, because it said being human is too exhausting." Tianmiao said slowly.
Dong Xiao and Kong Hou were stunned. This was the first time they’d heard of such a thing. Most living beings dream of becoming human, so why would this one refuse?
"Every life has its own choices. Every living being thinks differently." Tianmiao chuckled. "And we only need to respect their choices. Come on, next world."
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At the foot of East Continent Mountain, there was a bustling little town.
In the town lived a gentry family, sitting on vast fertile fields, with many tenant farmers renting their land to make a living.
The gentry’s surname was Liu. He was a chubby man, always cheerful and smiling. At first glance he looked festive and honest. But anyone who did business with him would secretly curse him as a sly old fox. In short, this man was no simple good sort; he was nowhere near as straightforward as he looked.
This landlord Liu had a son named Liu Yujin. In his younger years he passed the Scholar exam, then refused to keep studying for higher titles. The family had also hired a martial master to teach him, but he didn’t seem to learn much from that either. He opened a private school in town and taught people to read. He didn’t have many students, which actually saved him a lot of trouble.
Sometimes he would stroll through the fields and chat with the tenants.
If a year’s harvest was poor, he would even take the initiative to lower their rent. If someone’s family ran into trouble and came to cry to him about it, he would also cut their rent, sometimes even waive it completely. Seeing how easy he was to talk to, some people started exploiting loopholes: life at home was going smoothly, yet they’d lie to Liu Yujin about hardships so he’d lower their rent.
Because of this, some people laughed behind his back, calling him the landlord’s foolish son, claiming he was squandering Master Liu’s family fortune.
Of course, no one dared say such things in front of those who had truly benefited from Liu Yujin’s kindness and sincerely thanked him. Some called him stupid, naturally others called him good.
Young Master Liu was easy to talk to, so some relatives would come mooching, crying about how hard life was. After a bout of lamenting, Young Master Liu would usually give them some money—more or less, depending. Master Liu would sometimes point at his nose and curse him as a wastrel. Young Master Liu would grin and joke, "Father, you’re so good at making money. If you earn so much and don’t spend it, what’s the point? Your fun is in making money, my fun is in spending it. Besides, it’s not like I threw the money away—I used it to help people."
"You little bastard, what kind of nonsense is that! Help—can you help all of them?" Master Liu was so furious he almost fell over backward. But after thinking it over carefully, he inexplicably felt his son seemed to have a point. If you earn so much money and don’t use it, what is it for? Bah! This damned brat, how did he end up leading me by the nose? Those far-flung relatives are dirt poor—what good does it do to help them?"