If a good person dies like a lamp going out, will you be reincarnated?

Chapter 228 The Great Benchun (Two-in-one subscription required)
In the blink of an eye, another year and a half had passed.

Xu Lei is seven and a half years old.

"It's the state of broken elbow."

That day, Xu Lei was practicing martial arts, collecting his courage, and slowly exhaled: "I didn't expect that the progress is still as fast as before. In just one and a half years, I have reached a new level. The next level is the Xiantian realm!"

You know, Xu Lei's mother in the previous life, the empress of the Dakang Dynasty, also achieved innateness in her twenties.

Therefore, Xu Lei’s current progress is definitely fast.

However, on the surface, Xu Lei still only displayed his level of cultivation at the finger-severing realm.

He was not in a hurry to show more of his strength.

Because he doesn't want to be too prominent.

When I first came to the temple, I showed a certain level of cultivation. This was because I usually needed to use some strength when working, otherwise it would be inconvenient to do things.

But now, there is no need to tell others that I have improved again.

As for the fairy's inner elixir that he had obtained at the beginning, he had refined most of it now. Although he only spent one or two hours a day practicing Taoism, it had still increased his magic power accumulated over seventy or eighty years.

Xu Lei was very satisfied with this.

During this year, Xu Lei also went back to check on the situation of his home in this life.

But everything is fine at home now, so there is no need for Xu Lei to do anything.

As for the matter of the Buzhong Hall in the temple, although the chief Zen master had disappeared and the temple leaders had ordered an investigation, in the end, of course, they could not find the cause of the matter on Xu Lei.

Afterwards, the abbot of the temple selected another person from Buzhong Hall to temporarily serve as the acting chief Zen master.

As for the female pilgrim who came to pray for a child a year ago, she has successfully given birth to a child and left.

Of course, since the monster had been killed by Xu Lei, the female pilgrim did not have her essence sucked away. She just successfully gave birth to a child and then donated some money to the temple.

Anyway, Xu Lei's life is relatively leisurely.

That day, Xu Lei secretly went down the mountain again and went to the city to eat and drink.

But unexpectedly, I met Senior Brother Benchun.

The two passed each other on the street.

Xu Lei recognized Ben Chun, but Ben Chun did not recognize Xu Lei because Xu Lei was wearing a human skin mask.

"Brother Benchun, you are in such a hurry. What are you doing?" After eating and drinking, Xu Lei had nothing to do because he didn't want to go back to practice immediately. "Let's go and take a look."

So Xu Lei followed Ben Chun and took a walk around the city.

Finally, Ben Chun was seen arriving at the door of a house.

Then he gave some money to a young woman holding a child.

The young woman was very touched, but she didn’t want it very much: “You haven’t even got married yet, and you don’t have much money, so why are you giving me money?
You should think more about yourself! If it weren't for you, I would have given all my savings to your brother to get married.

We two have already started a family together, so there is no need for you to become a monk.

I know you don't really want to be a monk.

We are all human beings, and humans are animals. Which animal doesn’t want to reproduce?
Why are you so stupid? You think you are kind, but actually you are very stupid, do you know?
If you hadn't been so stupid, I wouldn't be marrying this husband now. We missed each other because of you. You are so stupid!

Even if you want to provide some support to your brother when he gets married, you can just take out a small portion of your savings.

You have to use up all your savings to help him get married. Just because of this, that woman won’t marry your brother?
Do you think your brother thinks highly of you? In fact, he thinks you are a particular failure.

I've heard him talk about you in private when he was drinking. He really looks down on you.

They even think that you have brought shame to your family. Your father and mother also think so.

Do you know what your neighbors are saying about you? They say you are a fool, a coward, and a loser.

Because of failure, because of escape, I became a monk! "

After hearing this, Ben Chun was shocked all over and stood there like a wooden chicken. But in the end, he put down the belongings in his hand, stayed in that house again, and turned around and left.

The woman holding the child was left crying.

"He's such an idiot, there's no cure."

Seeing this, Xu Lei sighed inwardly.

Because he was in the temple, he had actually heard some people talk about Ben Chun.

Although Ben Chun still doesn't look that old, he is actually over 30 years old.

This age is actually not young anymore.

When Xu Lei first came, he was just about to turn thirty.

In fact, it can also be called middle-aged or young.

According to others, the reason he became a monk was because he actually had a girl he liked very much back then.

The two had already been dating and discussing marriage.

But later on, his younger brother got his girlfriend and they were preparing to get married.

However, in this era, it is not easy for ordinary people to get married.

Because Dakang has ruled the entire dynasty for many years, and the entire economy has developed to a certain level.

Especially in the past, many families would directly change the fate of their family after giving birth to a Martial Saint.

This led to many people having children crazily in the past few decades or nearly a hundred years.

This led to a population explosion.

What happens when the population increases? There won’t be enough land to go around, and there won’t be enough houses to live in.

So housing prices skyrocketed.

In Xu Lei's seventh life, people are actually having fewer children.

Because many people actually can't afford to raise so many children.

Especially in recent years, some potential martial saints have been interfered with by some mysterious forces, leading to their death, and even affecting their entire family.

So in fact, many people no longer say that they want to have children crazily.

But in short, the environment of the current Dakang Dynasty is somewhat similar to that of the Earth.

Some ordinary families have to empty their savings to get married.

Some women who are somewhat pretty are just sitting there and asking for the right price.

Ben Chun is actually an ordinary person. Although he has some talent in martial arts and has some martial arts skills, he is actually unable to study.

With such little martial arts skills, you can only do physical work.

So the money he earned at the beginning was not very much.

It is equivalent to about 100,000 or 200,000 RMB in the year 2024 on Earth.

But he is very great. When he sees his younger brother getting married, he feels that as the eldest brother, he should support him.

After all, they are brothers and we are family, so we shouldn’t have different opinions. Then he took out all his father’s money and his own savings.

As a result, my younger brother was successful and bought a small house and got married.

But he himself was miserable.

He was already quite old.

I don’t have much ability to make money.

His younger brother is also an ordinary person and has no strong ability to make money.

The money taken out can never be returned.

My father’s money was also drained away when my younger brother got married.

Of course Benchun’s marriage was called off.

Later, the girl Ben Chun liked married another man. He became hopeless and disheartened, and became a monk.

At first Xu Lei just listened to it, but now he didn't expect that Ben Chun would actually give money to his first love.

Being a monk in a temple, one actually doesn't save much. Every month, the temple just gives some allowance.

Xu Lei estimated that Ben Chun had emptied his savings again.

"This kind of idiot deserves it. He will have no descendants and his genes will disappear."

Looking at this scene, Xu Lei felt a little sympathetic, but he was actually saying the same thing.

There is nothing good to say about this kind of person.

Xu Lei didn't want to rescue him either.

Because people with weak hearts are destined to be unable to keep wealth.

Moreover, heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as straw dogs.

If a person does not serve himself, he will be destroyed by heaven and earth.

The saints have always said this.

If everyone does not think about himself, the whole world will be destroyed.

That's how the way of heaven works.

Especially some people at the bottom of society, they are already like a clay Buddha crossing the river. Many people at the bottom of society are already fighting against each other. People with such character as Benchun are destined to be eliminated.

In fact, Xu Lei has lived for so many years and witnessed so many historical changes, so there is nothing that he cannot accept.

In fact, in China's history, many lower-class people eventually lost their genes.

Many Chinese people in later times were actually descendants of some of the upper-class aristocrats in ancient times.

Society is so cruel, this is the truth of civilization.

And after a while, Xu Lei saw Ben Chun returning home.

He probably didn't intend to go home, he just wanted to take a look from a distance.

Unexpectedly, seeing that there were a lot of people gathered at the house, Benchun rushed in.

Xu Lei listened briefly and found out that Ben Chun's father had passed away.

After that, Xu Lei didn't stay long.

He turned around and went back to the temple.

In the past few days, Ben Chun rarely went back to the temple and had already asked for leave from the temple's preceptors.

Xu Lei guessed that he should go back to deal with the funeral of his old father.

Although he has become a monk, he is not a real monk at all.

After all, he doesn't practice Taoism, nor does he want to be a high-ranking official in a temple.

In fact, he is just a poor creature hiding in the temple.

Where is the so-called true Buddha heart and Buddha nature in our hearts?

So when his old father died, he went back to help deal with it.

Xu Lei didn't pay any special attention to these things.

Just live your life.

Cultivate your own.

However, what was unexpected was that three days later, when Xu Lei went down the mountain again and prepared to go to the city to eat and drink.

Suddenly, on the road, I met a frightened monk.

Asked, what happened?
The answer I got was that Ben Chun was already dead.

Xu Lei was shocked.

Afterwards, he also ran to check on Ben Chun's body.

I saw a lot of knife wounds on his body.

When he died, his eyes were still wide open.

There is a feeling of dying with regrets.

Maybe he was seriously injured and managed to escape, but he died soon after.

"I knew that great men like this would be genetically eliminated by this civilization, but I didn't expect it to come so soon." Xu Lei couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.

Previously, Xu Lei just thought that Ben Chun would never be able to marry, so he would die alone and his genes would be eliminated.

I didn't expect that he would be killed now.

After all, he had been in the temple for two years, and Xu Lei had had quite a lot of contact with Ben Chun during these two years.

Although it was just some daily exchanges between fellow apprentices, Xu Lei did not receive any favors from Ben Chun.

But seeing this scene, I felt a little uncomfortable.

But there is no way, you can't persuade a fool like this.

In the temple, there were actually some other monks who said Benchun before.

But Ben Chun blamed those who tried to persuade him, saying that his thinking was weird.

As a family, it is only natural for us to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to our brothers.

Of course, this happened before Ben Chun learned from his first love that he was actually looked down upon by his younger brother.

Of course his younger brother was also grateful to him.

But this cannot change the fact that Ben Chun has become a loser.

But human nature is the same; no one will look down on a loser.

"Could it be that he learned from his first love that his brother looked down on him, and after returning home, they had a quarrel, and then he was killed?" Xu Lei speculated: "But it shouldn't be that serious, right? Just a quarrel, is it necessary to kill him?"

Later, the discovery of the body came to light.

Let the people from the temple investigate as well.

However, the power of temples is not as great nowadays as it was in the previous era.

We can only treat it as a murder case and report it to the government office, letting them investigate.

Xu Lei couldn't help but pay more attention to this case.

The people from the yamen finally traced the case back to Ben Chun's younger brother.

It is said that there is an old house that will be demolished, so there will be an inheritance left behind.

After his father died, Benchun became a monk.

But legally, he still has the right to inherit half of the demolition compensation.

Therefore, the younger brother had a motive to kill.

That’s right, demolition silver, as in demolition payment for the earth.

Because now the Dakang Dynasty is also constantly planning cities and developing urban construction.

This will naturally involve land use issues. If it involves land use issues, demolition will be necessary. Since demolition is necessary, the people must be compensated.

It's all the same.

The people in the yamen speculated that the younger brother took advantage of the fact that Benchun was about to leave home for the temple after handling the funeral, so he ambushed and attacked him on the road, intending to kill him and silence him.

But he failed to kill him, and Benchun escaped. However, Benchun did not survive, and soon died of his injuries in the woods.

Until it was discovered by some hunters in the mountains, they informed a monk who happened to pass by, the monk reported it to the temple, and the temple notified the government.

The people in the yamen initially guessed that this was the context.

However, Ben Chun's younger brother firmly denied it and said that he did not kill his brother.

Even though he was beaten up by the government using the memory recovery technique, he still insisted that he was not hurt after being covered with bruises.

And in terms of evidence, he also has a background because he has an alibi.

Judging from the time of Ben Chun's death, his brother and his family were still at the funeral.

Xu Lei, an assistant monk who was acting as a representative for the temple, also went to meet Ben Chun's younger brother.

"I did, after drinking, say things that looked down on my brother. I thought he was a loser."

The younger brother cried and said, "Because he was hurt by a woman, he hid in the temple. As a man, he is really useless. But I really didn't want to kill my brother. I didn't. My wife did talk to me about how to take the demolition money. But I am not such a conscienceless person. I actually wanted my brother to return to secular life, take half of the demolition money, and start a family. This is also my father's wish. That's why he couldn't sleep all night in the years before his death."

Due to Xu Lei's inconvenient identity, he did not participate too much in the investigation. He just listened and left.

Of course, based on Xu Lei's many years of experience, he intuitively felt that his younger brother did not seem to be lying.

My younger brother is actually selfish, but it is normal for him to be like this when he is at the bottom of society.

It is often people like this who can survive at the bottom of society.

After all, this is how society develops.

No matter how much social productivity increases.

In fact, there will always be a bottom layer.

Because there is no class distinction, people at the top have no way to enslave other members of the same ethnic group.

If you can't drive others to work for you, what kind of executive is that?

This Ben Chun foolishly gave all his money to his younger brother, and ended up in a stupid mess himself.

In the end, I became a loser.

In his younger brother's subconscious, he will inevitably look down on Ben Chun.

But he probably wasn't that cruel.

Of course, it is clear from his words that even if the so-called demolition compensation comes down, the younger brother will only give half to his older brother.

It would probably be difficult to pay back the money that was owed back then.

Anyway, people who don’t want to pay back the money have plenty of excuses.

"If it wasn't my brother's family who did it, who did it?"

When leaving the yamen, Xu Lei thought to himself.

Soon, Xu Lei thought of Ben Chun’s first love, and then Xu Lei went to observe her home.

Of course, her family had actually been investigated by the government. After all, what Xu Lei could think of, the people in the government could also think of.

However, there were no special properties in her house, and even when Benchun died, her husband had an alibi.

So the people from the yamen did not continue to investigate their family.

However, Xu Lei had a hunch that something might be wrong with this family.

After all, they had been together in the temple for two years.

Xu Lei had a long life, so he decided to simply wait and see what happened.

After performing a simple sleight of hand, Xu Lei entered her courtyard and hid in a dark corner.

Listening to some conversations in her family.

There was no problem at first.

But I didn't expect that it would happen in the middle of the night.

A middle-aged man came and started fighting with the husband of his first love.

Mainly asking for compensation.

Xu Lei listened to their conversation in secret and finally understood what had happened.

It turns out that Ben Chun died because her first love's husband knew that Ben Chun came to see her first love.

So he became jealous and wanted to kill him.

But he didn't do it himself, but asked his private bad boy friend to do it.

The reward had already been paid, but unexpectedly this person started gambling and now comes to ask for a second reward.

If you don't give it to me, I will report it and tell the government everything, and we will die together.

"Why are you forcing me?" Finally, the husband of the first love also went crazy and wanted to kill this friend.

But unexpectedly, the other party had already been alert, and the two of them fought repeatedly and displayed their martial arts.

And the husband of the first love was no match for him and was soon beaten to the point of vomiting blood.

During this process, Ben Chun's first love was not disturbed and was sleeping soundly in the room.

I don’t know if she has been drugged by her husband.

It is possible that she also does not know the truth about Benchun's death.

"Pfft."

At this time, Xu Lei did not hesitate any longer. He directly activated the Lingbo Water Floating Skill and flew out like a ghost, directly coming behind the murderer.

Then he changed the flow of his spirit power, focusing on strength, and holding the dagger, he stabbed the murderer's heart directly from behind.

The murderer was at the stage of having his elbow broken and died instantly.

"you?"

At this time, the husband of his first love stared at the little Xu Lei with eyes wide open. He didn't know where Xu Lei came from, and he actually launched a sneak attack and killed this strong man in the Broken Elbow Realm.

"die!"

However, Xu Lei did not hesitate. He exerted all his strength in the state of Broken Elbow, combined with the coordination of the Lingbo Water Floating Body Technique, and swung the dagger in his hand in the night.

With just a swing of the sword, she rushed forward and slit the throat of the husband of her first love.

Because the husband of this first love was only in the state of having his fingers cut off.

In addition, he had been injured before, so naturally he was no match for Xu Lei.

"Life."

After killing the two men, Xu Lei held the blood-stained dagger and looked at the mother and son sleeping in the house. In the end, he did not continue killing people, but turned around and left.

As for Ben Chun's case, the final outcome was that after her first love's husband died, people from the government office rushed over to investigate and quickly figured out the true context of the case.

Except that they couldn't find out who killed these two people, and they didn't find out who was the one who killed Xu Lei.

After all, Xu Lei has the means of cultivation as a cover, as well as a human skin mask. In addition, no one actually knows that Xu Lei has now cultivated to the level of breaking the elbow.

Many people would not have thought that the murderer would be Xu Lei, who was only seven years old.

Of course, in the end, Benchun's brother was acquitted.

All the demolition money fell into his hands.

The couple were smiling happily.

Xu Lei wondered whether he should teach his younger brother a lesson.

Or, in other words, go and snatch the demolition money that belongs to Benchun?

But after thinking about it, I finally gave up.

After all, Benchun himself is a great man who is stupid.

If he were alive, perhaps he, a mentally retarded person, would also hope that the money would fall into the hands of his younger brother.

So, Xu Lei was too lazy to make so much trouble.

I have done my best to avenge Ben Chun.

Therefore, Xu Lei no longer cared about it after that.

Then he continued his cultivation and lived his own life.

In the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed.

Xu Lei is nine years old.

He has completely refined the demon pill of the donkey demon.

Now the accumulated magic power in the body has become much more abundant.

The final effect is very good.

The current reserve of mana should be around two hundred and fifty years.

This was enough for Xu Lei to kill seven or eight Martial Saints.

Xu Lei was naturally very satisfied.

"The innate realm! Finally achieved!"

And, on this day, Xu Lei was practicing martial arts in the temple, under the fallen leaves.

After he stopped, he broke his arm with a snap.

Then it folded back with a click.

As for the injured part of his arm, he simply used his spiritual power to heal it quickly.

"Next, only Grandmaster and Grandmaster are left, and then it's Martial Saint!"

Xu Lei smiled brightly: "When I become a Martial Saint and meet Jue Xuan again, I will beat this guy to death!"

(End of this chapter)