The ninth round of three apprenticeship rites

"You are two hundred years old, and you are no longer a child. There are responsibilities that you have to take and things that you have to understand. If you fail to form a demon pill, the shadow of death will always be with you. ”

Qin Xi eased his tone and said, "From today onwards, I don't care about your cultivation, I only look at your achievements in a hundred and fifty years."

"Sister, I didn't mean to be lazy...... Don't be mad at me, okay? Qin Ying looked at her resolute appearance, got on the bed barefoot, walked over and pulled her sleeve to admit her mistake.

Qin Xi lowered his eyes and stroked his little sister's head.

"I wasn't angry, I didn't say anything. Since you are willing to listen to Ning Fengzi's teachings, you should go and worship him as a teacher. As a mountain god, he must know more than I do. If it is done, it will be a blessing to you. ”

These words have been drafted countless times in the stomach. Seeing Qin Ying coming over and pulling her sleeves like when she was a child, she felt a little uncomfortable.

A few days ago, Qin Ying once said to herself: "Sister, don't leave me alone."

At that time, she agreed, but now she doesn't do what she says.

And Qin Ying didn't know the other party's thoughts. She simply thinks that this result is self-inflicted.

In the afternoon, Ning Fengzi was playing chess in the Welcoming Pavilion when he met Qin Ying, who was swaying faintly.

She sat down and said hello with a big grin, and she confided in him the bad things she had experienced in the morning.

Ning Fengzi listened, and plucked his ears with a smile: "Hey, your sister just wants to put you free." After that, she was so good that she and Ming Li made oil in the honey, you and me. ”

"Really?" Qin Ying thought silently for a while, and finally let go.

Now that my sister doesn't guide herself, the person in front of her has become her choice of apprenticeship.

She knelt down, touched her hands to the ground and bowed: "Will the gentleman take me as an apprentice?"

"Bring it for the apprenticeship." He stretched out his hand, his deep black eyes bottomless, "I want three: the brightest daylight, the brightest moonlight, and the gentlest waves." Let me see your sincerity in three months. ”

Qin Ying maintained a humble movement and bit her lower lip. She couldn't figure out whether Ning Fengzi was deliberately making things difficult or unintentionally asking for it.

Within three months, find the sun and moon and water waves. She muttered to herself, her eyes rising and falling.

Ning Fengzi bent the corners of his lips and smiled without saying a word, and his eyes turned to the endgame at hand without leaving a trace.

Ning Fengzi said to her before: The Tao is originally stored in life, not by cultivation.

Therefore, Qin Ying did not plan to use meditation to collect these three seemingly ordinary but actually extremely strange apprenticeship rituals.

Her routine these days is very regular. In addition to eating and sleeping, it is to sit on the top of the old sky to bask in the sun and the moon.

During the day, the sun ironed her robe warm; At night, the moonlight evaporates the heat into tiny frost.

The sun and the moon alternated on her clothes, but she couldn't take it as an apprenticeship.

After sleeping in Lao Xiaoding for five days in a row, she knew that she couldn't waste time like this, but she had no other ideas for a while. So there is a feeling that I can't move forward.

When dinner time came, Qin Ying was still staring blankly at the lonely goose flying in the distance.

Feeling that the little sister was under too much pressure, Qin Xi specially rushed over from the mountain with a lunch box, wanting to use food to replenish her energy.

Qin Ying opened the food box and saw that Sister was still making white potato porridge today, which was different from the previous one with a small dish.

As soon as he wanted to ask about the side dishes, the other party touched his nose and said, "This is the root of the folded ear, and it is cold with seasonings." Because Mingli wanted to eat this dish, I made it and left you another one. I don't know if you're used to this. ”

Folded ear root is a dialect here in Shudi, and people outside call it Houttuynia cordata. This thing has a unique taste, and those who like it love it deeply, and those who don't like it hate it very much. In short, polarization is extremely strict.

Flattened the bamboo chopsticks on the plate, and Qin Ying took two pieces and put them in his mouth.

I don't know what covers the original taste, but I only feel refreshing when I eat it. Suck on the sticky porridge that is boiled just right, and the greatest enjoyment is this.

She sincerely admired: "Sister, no matter what she does, it is delicious."

Qin Xi smiled modestly and said, "If you are willing to learn, I will teach you to take charge of the spoon and adjust the ding in the future."

Knowing that Xiaomei has a persistent temperament, she can only do her best to do one thing for a period of time. She said this to divert the other party's attention and make him forget about the three headache-inducing apprenticeship rituals for a while.

After listening to her sister's suggestion, Qin Ying held her cheeks and thought: Anyway, no matter how long you sit there, you won't be able to understand Ning Fengzi's deep meaning, so it's better to go into the kitchen to learn something. Besides, cooking might inspire you......

In the afternoon, Qin Ying, who was agile, rolled up the bed and returned to the Shangqing Palace, in order to show her determination to learn to be in charge, she also specially observed the whole process of her sister's preparation of dinner.

The next morning, Qin Xi ushered her into the kitchen, pointed to the neatly placed cloth bags on the stove, and said, "Yesterday, you also saw me cook porridge." Well, the raw materials are here. Make porridge for three. ”

Qin Ying opened the cloth bag and found that millet rice, corn, stem rice, wheat, and rice were mixed together.

Porridge should be the most basic and simple dish. Put the ingredients in a pot and add water to boil.

But Qin Ying underestimated the difficulty of cooking porridge and overestimated his own ability.

At the beginning, the water was overdone, and Qin Ying didn't see the pot boiling after boiling for a long time, so she had to scoop out some of it. Later, she filled too much firewood, and the bottom of the pot was almost burned through by her.

Sister wasn't watching from her side, so all the situations were handled by Qin Ying herself.

She worked for most of the hour, and finally brought out a pot of black, salty porridge. The quality is neither eye-catching nor palatable.

Qin Xi glanced at her little sister and didn't say anything else, just asked her to continue practicing tomorrow.

Every day thereafter...... Qin Xi will prepare different ingredients for her to cook porridge or rice.

Qin Ying is the kind of person who becomes more and more courageous the more frustrated. Soaking in the kitchen full of fireworks for a month, she finally made porridge and rice that satisfied her sister.

"Do you know what the most important thing is to cook?" Qin Xi took a handkerchief and brushed the corners of his mouth and said.

Because her afterglow saw the little sister shaking her head blankly, she answered for the other party:

"The most important thing is the heat. There are small and big fires, and there are civil and military relaxations. If you master the heat, you will be able to make delicious meals. Practice, like cooking, is the most important thing to grasp the heat. You can't just work hard, and you can't just let go and slack. ”

Sister's words were like thunder on the ground, exploding in Qin Ying's ears, shaking her three souls and six spirits to the ground.

Meditation is like cooking...... It's like cooking.

She muttered these words, her fingers subconsciously picking at the wooden lid.

Since the practice can be likened to cooking, then... The three apprenticeship ceremonies are also represented by meals.

As soon as this thought came out, her eyes turned red. I almost burst into tears in the corners of my eyes.

The problem of "apprenticeship", which had plagued me for a whole month, was solved in this way. It's incredible.

Three days later, Qin Ying carried a bamboo cage to the top of the old sky.

Laoxiaoding is the main peak of Zhangren Mountain, and the view here is good. At a glance, you can overlook the sea of clouds and the crowds.

She likes to sit on the grassy slope and watch the scenery, and Ning Fengzi likes to sit in the pavilion and play Go. It's always where two people meet.

Therefore, if Qin Ying wants to find Ning Fengzi, it is most suitable to come here.

"The apprenticeship is ready. Please sir. She shouted to the empty pavilion.

Ning Fengzi heard the sound and showed an ethereal figure. He swayed his light gray sleeves and said, "...... Let me see. ”

Qin Ying bent down and approached him and took the initiative to open the bamboo cage for Ning Fengzi.

The bamboo cage is just a plate of rice with a faint fragrance.

However, this rice is steamed with millet and purple rice, and it has a yin-yang fish pattern.

"--Dare to ask what this thing means is the sun, the moonlight, and the water waves?"

"From daylight to sunshine, the color is white; The moon is cloudy, and the color is mysterious; The water ripples to soft, and the shape is round. Black and white into the circle, it is the appearance of yin and yang fish.

"Recently, when I was learning to cook porridge and rice, I heard my sister say that practicing is the same as cooking. When the moment is halfway there. Later, I remembered the 'Tao of Nature' explained by my husband. It was finally dawned.

"After enlightenment, I used the best skills to do this apprenticeship." Qin Ying replied respectfully.

After hearing her say this, Ning Fengzi couldn't help but smile and sigh: "Wonderful people - wonderful people who meet once in a thousand years!"

Qin Ying bowed again at the right time: "Please allow me to worship Mr. as a teacher."

"Good. Take you. Ning Fengzi helped her up who knelt in front of her, "Although your Huigen is not sharp, it is quite unique. It's like stardust on a summer night. Then he gave the trumpet to hang the star. ”