Back in the village below the mountain, Zhou Zhengyu had already walked with weak legs, sat on the ground and pointed at Nie Jun and laughed: "Dude, you look like you have fled from Africa and come back." ”

"You're not much better. Nie Jun said.

Zhou Zhengyu touched the slag on his chin, and suddenly became angry: ", Lao Tzu has been looking for you in the mountains for eight days." It's summer, I haven't taken a bath for 11 days, dozens of miles of mountain roads a day, and my feet are blistered!"

Nie Jun quipped: "That's good, staying abroad once has improved my perseverance a lot." When you used to study, let alone walking on the eight-day mountain road, it was enough for you to walk on the cement road for a few hours. ”

"Say cool things, right?" Zhou Zhengyu took off the Nike sneakers on his feet, and suddenly the smell was overwhelming, and he threw them out as gas bombs.

Nie Jun was smashed, his body shook, and he covered the sore spot and said, "Don't do it, buddy is weak." ”

Zhou Zhengyu said: "Aren't you a cultivator? ”

"If you don't eat meat for a year, only use half a catty of vegetable oil, save salt, and rely on beans to supplement protein, you will know that your body is empty," Nie Jun sat cross-legged and said, "We are called ascetics, and what we cultivate is not the physical body, but the mental state." ”

Zhou Zhengyu said: "Come on, you." From a scientific point of view, a person's insufficient nutritional intake will only cause dizziness, memory loss, and reduced brain productivity. Just because your body is like this, and you still cultivate your mental state, it's strange that your spirit is so good. ”

"You don't understand it. Nie Jun didn't bother to explain.

"No, I'll go take a shower first, I'm sick to death. Zhou Zhengyu patted his ass and stood up, and ran to borrow the farmhouse kitchen to boil bath water.

The peasants who went up the mountain together stopped him: "Boss, I said that I would go into the mountain for 100 yuan a day, and it would take a total of 11 days to go back and forth, so you should settle your wages first." ”

Zhou Zhengyu only took out 5,000 yuan in cash from his backpack, gave 400 yuan to each person, and said: "I still have to keep some money to go back to the city, give me your name and address, and I will remit the remaining money after I go back." ”

The peasants looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"Forget it," Zhou Zhengyu took out the phone card in his mobile phone, "I bought this mobile phone half a month ago, the original price was more than 8,000, and whoever wants to buy it now will take it for 5,000 yuan...... 4,000 yuan per person, and Lao Tzu is half the price...... No one wants half the price?

"Hahahaha!" Nie Jun immediately laughed when he saw Zhou Zhengyu deflated.

Zhou Zhengyu said angrily: "You are laughing at a fart." If it weren't for you, the young master would have spent money to come here to suffer?"

"You wait. Nie Jun turned around and left.

The hermits also had to eat and drink Lazar, and some vegetables could be grown by themselves, but oil, salt, rice, and noodles had to be bought from the mountains. Of course, there are also devout and well-wishers who regularly send some necessities of life, but in the end, you have to be prepared.

Nie Jun went down the mountain three times a year, mainly to buy beans and rice noodles, and he had several dealings with the people in the village. He soon found the son of the village party secretary, a young man in his 20s, whose family had contracted a quarry and made money by selling tombstones and stone lions, and had been a 10,000-yuan household several years ago.

"Is this really more than 8,000 yuan?" the young man touched his mobile phone and couldn't bear to put it down.

Zhou Zhengyu said: "Why are you lying to you?"

The young man took out his knock-off machine, put on the No. 7 battery, compared the two, and bargained: "I bought it for 2,000 yuan." ”

"4,000 yuan, love to buy it or not. Zhou Zhengyu said.

The young man's family is very influential in the local area, but looking at Zhou Zhengyu's mobile phone and Zhou Zhengyu's exquisite watch, he still let go of the idea of forced buying: "Your friend is a monk in the mountains, and the people in the village have always respected the monk. In this way, it should be a face for your friend, I bought this mobile phone 3500. ”

"Take 3,000 yuan and give me your broken phone. Zhou Zhengyu didn't care about the money.

After the wages of the farmers in the mountains were paid, Zhou Zhengyu went to boil water and take a bath, and then used a razor to comb his beard.

Nie Jun also cleaned up, shaved his beard clean, and coiled his hair into a bun, and found a chopstick to use as a hairpin for the hairpin.

Sleeping in a farmer's house at night, accommodation is free, but food is paid, after all, the family also kills a chicken.

Zhou Zhengyu lay on the bed, looked at Nie Jun's Taoist bun and asked, "I said buddy, are you really a monk?"

"It's so convenient, I'll cut my head flat when I go back to the city. Nie Jun said.

Zhou Zhengyu was curious: "Penance is really so fun?"

"Of course, penance is very hard, not fun," Nie Jun said, "I know an ascetic monk who hasn't come down the mountain for seven years, and usually relies on good people to provide for him. Last year, the old man who provided for him died, and the old man's son stopped sending things. This Taoist friend was stunned and didn't go down the mountain for half a year, he lived by eating snakes, insects, rats, ants, wild vegetables and wild vegetables, and he would lick salt on stones like wild beasts. Just this spring, he was probably crazy with hunger, and he ate the stinky toon as a raw toon, and his face was swollen like a pig's head, and he was so weak that he couldn't move. If I hadn't found out, this fellow Daoist would probably have died. ”

"How did you save him?" Zhou Zhengyu asked.

Nie Jun said: "I cooked something for him to eat, and my neighbor's monk picked herbs for him. ”

Zhou Zhengyu was surprised: "Then the monk can also do Chinese medicine?"

Nie Jun said: "But any monk who has been in the mountains for a few years, who can't recognize herbs? ”

"Awesome. Zhou Zhengyu said.

Nie Jun said: "It is not easy to practice, and it is even more difficult to practice penance. It seems to me that these ascetics are very pitiful, and many of them only know how to recite sutras and meditate, thinking that in this way they will achieve positive results. It can be said that they are pious, it can be said that they are resolute, but more than that, they are ignorant, and nine out of ten will die in Zhongnan Mountain. ”

"What about you?" Zhou Zhengyu asked.

Nie Jun said: "I'm different from them. First, I'm here to experience life, and second, I'm here to see if sleep is possible. ”

"Just the kind of sleeping skill you practiced while lying on a big rock today?" Zhou Zhengyu asked.

Nie Jun nodded and said, "Yes." This sleep practice method was discovered by accident from an ancient book, and it is a fusion of Chen Lu's "Fetal Breath Formula" and "Viewing the Void". ”

Zhou Zhengyu said: "Is it useful?" ”

"It doesn't feel bad, it's not that kind of deceptive modern qigong," Nie Jun said, "I used to hold my breath for up to three minutes, but now I can hold my breath for 12 minutes." Moreover, I also entered the state of meditation by chance, and after entering the meditation, the whole person was unconscious, unconscious, and thoughtless, and my spirit was completely empty. I have experimented that no matter how tired I am, after waking up, I can relieve my tiredness, and I feel refreshed, as if I have just slept well. ”

"So mysterious? Zhou Zhengyu obviously didn't believe it.

Nie Jun said: "I don't believe in gods and monsters anymore, this state of concentration should be a kind of deep sleep, which can be explained from a scientific point of view." Deep sleep, also known as golden sleep, accounts for only a quarter of the body's sleep time, and the human body relies on it to eliminate fatigue and restore energy. ”

Zhou Zhengyu said: "Then aren't you awesome, others have to sleep eight hours a day, and you can settle for two hours, and you can have several times more disposable time than ordinary people every day." ”

"That's not the case," Nie Jun shook his head and said, "First, I can't enter the meditation at any time, there is a high chance of failure, and it may be that my cultivation is not enough; The first time I entered the meditation was accidental, it took me two days to wake up, and I was completely confused, and if I couldn't wake up, I would starve to death. After that, every time I entered the meditation, I would ask the monk next door to help me protect the Dharma. ”

Zhou Zhengyu said: "Why do I feel more and more that you are a psychopath?"

"Whatever you want," Nie Jun said, "Even if you don't come to me, I'm about to go down the mountain." Penance inevitably leads to malnutrition, and this is not the right way to do it. Therefore, I think that most of the time of the monastic path, you should eat and drink normally, and only when it is critical to do penance. The ascetics in the mountains of Zhongnan, they have taken a wrong path. Moreover, at least one-third of the people, who have been practicing penance for many years, have completely disconnected from society, and they can't go back if they want to, so they can only live in seclusion in the mountains all the time. ”

Listening to Nie Jun's nonsense, Zhou Zhengyu used the excuse of peeing, and ran to the yard to call with the broken mobile phone of the cottage in exchange: "Hey, Lao Song, I'm Zhou Zhengyu...... Yes, Nie Jun found it, but his mind is a little abnormal, and he is chattering, should he contact a psychiatrist? I think it...... Hey, can you hear me? Fuck, what's a broken signal in this mountain!"