Chapter 192: The Tao is in the Mortal Heart.
A Lele cart, piled with rags, squeaked and creaked along the yellow grassland. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The car was followed by a dozen sheep, driven by two sheepdogs, followed by a young herdsman, who fell behind the reins.
After coming to the prairie for more than three years, Zhang Qi has become an authentic herdsman. After breaking through the blockade that year, Zhang Qi found a place to escape, and used the technique of earth practice to escape underground, hiding and cultivating. The prairie is vast and boundless, and the terrain is relatively monotonous and not easy to hide.
Fortunately, Zhang Qi was not particular and escaped the pursuit. No one thought that the dignified Yunmeng Demon would hide underground in embarrassment. The people of the Garan Temple searched back and forth in every corner, and even the Venerable One joined forces to use his powerful divine sense to cross the prairie several times like a grate. After finding nothing, he decided that Yun Mengmo had already fled the prairie by using the secret method, and he was secretly relieved in his anger.
After a long time of frightening searching, Zhang Qi cautiously appeared and continued to search for the Red Lotus Temple. The Red Lotus Temple also deserves to be unlucky, encountering such a crutch who admits death and has a tendon, and does not focus on cultivation, but is bent on revenge. After the incident of the Keqin Department, Zhang Qi became more and more careful, the mysterious Red Lotus Temple, the powerful Garan Temple, both parties want their own lives, and the current cultivation is not enough to protect themselves.
It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge. Zhang Qi thinks that he is not a gentleman, so this revenge has been avenged since it was settled, although it can't kill you now, but it will also consume the Red Lotus Temple to go crazy. Besides, the process of revenge is not an experience, and the practice of revenge is not wrong, why not do it, we are not in a hurry.
Zhang Qi wandered in the western part of the grassland, witnessing the hard life of many herdsmen, and his hatred gradually wavered. Compared with the people of the Central Plains, the herdsmen here are the real miserable, a broken tent, a Lele car, a tattered robe that does not change all seasons, plus one or two tattered but precious iron pots, is all the belongings. The few sheep are dependent on survival, constantly migrating, living by water and grass, and living by the sky.
The fertile pastures have long been occupied by the major tribes, and the desolate west has become a place for the remnants of the tribes who have lost in the battle to flee. Therefore, the herdsmen here have no suspicion, cannot form a tribe, and will never turn over. In the process of investigation, Zhang Qi found that the existing herdsmen were also reciting the obscure scriptures, which should have believed in the Red Lotus Temple, but Zhang Qi could no longer have murderous intentions.
The following winter, the grassland was covered with heavy snow. The snow storm makes it easy for the sheep to freeze to death and starve to death, and the herdsmen will have no way to survive in the coming year. The suffering herders have already had a way to deal with it, but they have to resist an even more terrible threat. Steppe wolves, who are also cornered by snowstorms, will take risks attacking herders' homes in groups.
Zhang Qiben was meditating and practicing in a simple cave dug temporarily, but he was disturbed by the sound of wolf howls one after another. All things have the right to live, natural selection, there is no good or bad, right or wrong, for this side of the world, they are just passers-by, do not intervene, this is the way of nature.
At this time, Zhang Qi was very unhappy. No matter how cruel the foraging methods are, there is nothing wrong with them, but it is your fault to howl and disturb people's cultivation. Zhang Qi came out of the cave, and in a flash, he came to the place where the wolf howled, and the scene he saw made him unbearable. The tattered tent was surrounded by a high fence, and an old herdsman with gray hair, holding a long, sharpened wooden stick, stabbed the wolf from behind the fence to pounce. A skinny child, holding a torch, kept running around the fence, intimidating the wolves, who were afraid of fire.
No matter how dangerous it is, it also requires life, and no matter how desperate it is, it must struggle, this is the law of survival. Zhang Qi felt in his heart, and as soon as his mind moved, he stood behind the wolves. The ghostly appearance of Zhang Qi frightened the herdsmen and wolves. After a short period of silence, the wolves quickly surrounded Zhang Qi, and a piece of fresh meat fell from the sky, how could he let it go. At the same time, the old man and the child made a move that surprised Zhang Qi, opened the fence, waved a wooden stick and held a torch, and the grandfather and grandson rushed out to rescue Zhang Qi.
No one thought that a single thought would create a legend and change the fate of countless people. The wolves apparently felt that the unarmed were better hunted. Several wolves jumped up at the same time, but the wolf's head burst and fell to the ground. The rest of the wolves were stunned, and then they all crawled in the snow, shivering. The wolf's senses were extremely keen, and the aura that suddenly emanated from the person in front of him was extremely terrifying.
Feeling upset, Zhang Qi was trying to kill this group of wolves. As if sensing Zhang Qi's anger, the child suddenly exclaimed, "Uncle, don't!" What is the situation? Call me uncle, am I very old? Zhang Qi couldn't help but stare at the child. Maybe this look was a little unkind, the old man nervously protected the child behind him, bent down and saluted: "Strong man, the child has no difficulty, please don't mind." When he saluted and spoke, the old man always held the wooden stick in his hand tightly and remained vigilant.
inadvertently frightened this ancestor, and Zhang Qi was slightly apologetic. "Oh, little friend, what do you tell me not to want?" Zhang Qi tried to make his tone sound kind, but the child replied dissatisfiedly: "I'm not a child, I'm a little man." Such an answer directly attracted a slap from the old man, and at the same time reprimanded: "Uncle asked, answer honestly." ”
Whether rich or poor, tutoring is very important. The child immediately replied, "Uncle, don't kill all these wolves." "Why?" Zhang asked in surprise. "Although these wolves are ferocious, they mainly eat hares and gophers that destroy pastures, and everything has a reason and cause and effect. ”
A humble mortal child actually said such profound words, Zhang Qi was completely shocked. The child seemed to be afraid that Zhang Qi would not believe it, and continued: "What my grandfather said is really so. The old man hurriedly spoke: "Passed down from generation to generation, it is true, it is better not to kill them all." ”
In the memory of the previous life, the knowledge of the biological chain is open and unknown. But in this life, from the simple answers of the ancestors and grandchildren, it is simply revealed, who said that mortals are inferior to immortals! When a cultivator is carried away by supernatural powers and blinds his mind, what he can see is the way of heaven, but his selfish desires. The true Word is in the hearts of all men.
The wolves whined and quickly fled. Zhang Qi was uneasy, and when he was about to go back, the child hurriedly said: "Uncle, your wolf!" Zhang Qi was stunned for a moment, and quickly understood that there were several wolves that had been killed on the ground. "Oh, for you. Zhang Qi replied absent-mindedly. "Strong man, the snow is all over the ground, if there is no urgency, drink a wolf broth. The old man said hurriedly, his weather-beaten face full of gratitude, anxiety and sincerity.