The vicinity of Shihu Lake is quite desolate, except for the Pillow Flow Book Society, which has been walked for almost two miles, and Zhou Zheng has not seen a single house. There were almost no pedestrians on the road, but there were quite a few sparrows and pulsatillas, who were not afraid of the cold and chirped and chirped.

"Look how cute those little birds are." Zhou Zheng pointed to the pulsatilla on the branch and said to Yuan Zijiu: "I picked up a pulsatilla chick before, but it was fun. It is not as cold as a sparrow, and it has special relatives, and when it is hungry, it loves to chirp and chirp, and it has to be fed six or seven times a day before it is quiet. ”

In this regard, Yuan Zizhi did not reply, he silently stayed behind Zhou Zheng, keeping a distance of about two meters.

And Zhou Zheng didn't care, he didn't even look back at Yuan Zizhi's expression, just over there, taking care of himself, happily telling the story of him and Pulsatilla: "If you hold it in your hand, it won't stand still, but will go to your finger." It will stand on a branch like a tree, grasping your fingers, standing on it, standing for a long, long time, and refusing to come down. It's a very good feeling, like people and nature are in harmony. The only problem is that it can excrete on your hands at any time. By the way, do you know why birds can stand holding on to branches and not get tired all day? ”

There is no doubt that Yuan Zizhi still did not answer, and did not even make any reaction.

Zhou Zheng also seemed to have guessed a long time ago, and answered to himself without a pause: "That's because the muscles near the epimetatarsal in birds grow in a special way, and the tendons there go around behind the epimetatarsal. This means that as long as birds are crating, the joints of their metatarsal bones will push back against their muscles. Therefore, when they squat on the branches, their muscles hardly need to exert force, but they still naturally maintain a tense state, so they will hardly get tired. ”

After doing the popularization of bird knowledge, there is no doubt that Yuan Zizhi still did not speak. This time, Zhou Zheng didn't care as much as before, he stood still, turned around, and said to Yuan Zijiu: "Dispel that thought, it's not good for you." ”

"What's the idea?" Yuan Zizheng forced his composure, met Zhou Zheng's gaze, and looked back.

"Of course it'......" Zhou Zheng squinted his eyes, with a helpless face: "The idea of killing me!" ”

As soon as Zhou Zheng's words fell, Yuan Zijiu, who was on guard, suddenly had a huge sense of crisis, as if a fierce tiger was rushing out from the dense forest and rushing straight to his vest. And the next moment he knew, it wasn't the tiger that scared him—

Yuan Zijiu only felt a huge tremor behind him, and the large group of true qi suddenly condensed. The sword behind his back, unexpectedly unmoved, shot out of its sheath and passed past his ear. The sword light is like a dragon soaring into the abyss, and the knife roars like a tiger roaring in the mountains and forests.

And in the next moment, it was so fast that Yuan Zijiu didn't have time to react, and the ring knife was automatically put into the sheath, hiding all the breath, as if nothing had happened. The only thing that can prove that everything is not false is the knife mark in the field on the side, half a zhang deep, seven or eight zhang long!

"This knife is one with me, and I can feel your heartbeat through it. From the moment you walk out of the door of the Pillow Flow Book Club, your heartbeat will often be abnormally accelerated. And just now, it became even more violent. I don't think there's anything else to make you so hesitant and frightened other than to kill me. ”

His heart was exposed, and even though Yuan Zijiu tried to control it, he still couldn't help but turn white, and his expression was somewhat unnatural. He tried to make his face look better, and he tried to grin as hard as he could...... After seeing Zhou Zheng's control over the knife, he had completely lost the courage to sneak attack Zhou Zheng, especially since the knife was now hanging behind his back.

"I ......"

"There is no need to explain, I don't think any human being with normal intelligence would be willing to live a life of life and death at the hands of others. I can fully understand you in this regard, but alas, I understand but cannot accept it. After all, I still want to live well and waste my time properly. ”

Seeing that Zhou Zhengdu had opened his words, Yuan Zijiu also changed his expectation, and replied neatly: "Okay, I admit it, I want to kill you, but so what?" Don't you also understand that who wants to live a life and death in the hands of others? Don't you see, what Mr. Feng, what Meng Zhuo, they look at me like they look at monsters. I have no doubt that if you weren't there, they wouldn't have let me go at all. My family is dead, I'm almost dead myself, I want to live, is it wrong? ”

"People are self-interested, that's ......"

This time it was Yuan Zizhi's turn to rob Bai Zhouzheng, and the expression on his young face was a little distorted: "Don't go around the bend, it's up to you to kill or chop." ”

In this regard, Zhou Zheng's reaction was not fierce, he raised his eyebrows, and asked pretending to be puzzled: "Why did I kill you?" ”

"I want to kill you, but you see through it, but you don't want to kill me?" Yuan Zijiu snorted coldly and sneered: "Or is it really like the legend of the underworld, if you study Buddhism too much, you will have problems with your brain?" ”

"Ha, someone told me that last time." Zhou Zheng laughed twice, then put away his smiling face and said seriously: "I won't joke anymore, but I really don't want to kill you." After all, everyone has evil thoughts, and as long as they don't implement them, it's nothing. If a person has evil thoughts and is condemned, then everyone in the world should be beheaded. ”

"Oh? Such a virgin...... No, the words of the Holy Father White Lotus, this is the first time I have heard of it. Yuan Zijiu, who was out of the way, didn't care about anything for a long time, with a mocking expression on his face, and he didn't have a good word to open his mouth and close his mouth: "But you'd better figure it out, if you hadn't noticed my thoughts, I should have done it by now." Do you have to be tolerant and forgiving to people like me? ”

"Ah, where did you learn all this nonsense at such a young age?" Regarding Yuan Zijiu's overly mature words, Zhou Zheng sighed very emotionally. Then he paused, and then said, "Getting back to business, I still choose to forgive you." For example, if there is no government, there are no town soldiers, garrisons, and government services...... Do you think the world would be so peaceful if there were no constraints? I am afraid that there are many people who will choose to achieve their goals through inappropriate means. So, it doesn't matter what kind of person you are without constraints. What you want to do when you're constrained is what really matters. ”

"Then tell me, how are you going to restrain me? Is it binding me or locking me up? ”

"No, I don't have the time or the confidence to keep an eye on you. And, like I said, I want to save you, not hurt you. In fact, I'm going to teach you my exercises. ”

"Your exercises?" Yuan Zizheng was shocked, he had come into contact with Zhou Zheng's true qi, and he could naturally perceive that Zhou Zheng was cultivating a very advanced Buddhist practice. Therefore, even though he couldn't believe it, he still put away Fang Cai's disdain and ridicule, and asked very seriously: "Do you want to make fun of me, or are you telling the truth?" If you want to make fun of me, then I can tell you, don't be delusional, I won't be fooled. If you're telling the truth, then I want to ask, are you crazy, or are you stupid? I want to kill you, but you want to teach me the exercises? ”

"Yes, I'll teach you. Of course, at the moment I will only teach you a small part, and if you want to learn more, you have to follow me. I think this method should be more useful than chains and prisons. ”

"Heh, you're right, of course it works. But I still can't figure it out, aren't you afraid that I will use the exercises you teach to do evil? If that's the case, you're also responsible, aren't you? ”

"Why do you like debating more than I am? If you really care about this kind of thing, then all I can say is that when I save everyone, I am faced with such a moral dilemma. Should I not save anyone? Joke! In life, I just have to do what I should do, as for the person I rescued in the future, what will become of him, and what does it matter to me?

And now frankly, I don't think you're a bad person, it's just that your current situation determines your behavior. In a very classic saying, it is the ass that determines the head. And the exercises I practice are one of the most brilliant exercises in Buddhism, and I believe that it will definitely help you.

One day, when your Dharma cultivation becomes advanced enough to completely suppress all evil in your body, then you will naturally not have any intention of doing evil. And if in the end you can't comprehend this exercise, then you can't talk about using this exercise to do evil. ”

"So you're determined to help me?"

"Hurry up and make a decision, if you go back too late, something will happen." Zhou Zheng looked at the sky, looked at the drowsy and about to fall sun, and said with a wry smile: "Now that all the risks are on my side, why are you hesitating?" Am my words so untrustworthy? ”

"What is too good is often not true."

"Alas, is it so difficult to be a good person these days?"

"I think so."

"Don't think about it, you don't have any other choice. If you don't want to listen to me, then I'll have to send you back to the Pillow Stream Publishing House. So you better come with me, it's time to go back to dinner, and if you don't go back, there will be no food. ”

"That's right, I don't have a choice at all. Then why do you still say so much to me, you just tell me that I don't have a choice? ”

"Because I believe that face-to-face communication is more important than anything else when it comes to children's education. I can't say that because I think it's right, I'm going to force you to do it. I want to explain the truth, so that you can also understand that this truth is indeed right, and then let you practice this truth willingly. I think this is the way adults and children should communicate. ”

"......" Yuan Zishi listened to Zhou Zheng's theory in a daze, and then shook his head with a loveless expression: "Then I'll communicate with you too, seriously, you may be an idiot." ”

"You're so young, where did you learn all these nonsense?"

"I learned from my two teachers."

"Two teachers?" Zhou Zheng still remembers the scene when they first met, Yuan Zizhi's house is not like a family that can afford to hire two teachers.

"Yes, two teachers. My family was poor and I couldn't afford to go to a private school, so I had to pester fortune tellers and storytellers on the street to teach me how to read. Over time, I simply accepted them as teachers. ”

"Then you can recognize a word and learn to write, why do you want to learn these words from them."

"Questions?"

"It's not good, anyway."

"What's so bad?" Yuan Zijiu shrugged his shoulders, squinted his eyes, and sneered. His pale little face was full of lazy breath that did not fit his age: "My teacher said that this kind of thing should only be paid attention to by children of rich families." As for children from poor families like us, it is better to be slippery, at least not to suffer. ”

"It's really poisoning teenagers, and if I come to power one day, I'll definitely arrest them all."

"Don't think about it, people with thoughts like you are doomed to a poor and sour life."

“……”