Chapter 11: Listening to the Word by the Pool

Biyan Town is located in the southern part of Longxi County, Dingxi City, between the edge of the Northwest Loess Plateau and the hilly area of the Qinling Mountains. It constitutes a community environment with obvious differences in conditions in Nanshan (Eryin area), Sichuan District (Weihe Shuichuan area) and Beishan (arid area). The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. So that the environment is beautiful and the climate is suitable. In the small forest to the southeast of Biyan Town, two young people strolled among them, and these two young men were Chitose and Yi Jin.

In the middle of the woods, there is a small stream, in which the fish frolic back and forth, in groups of three or five. The willow trees on both sides of the stream are blown by the breeze, and the willow flutters and sways in the wind, bringing a beautiful song to the birds drinking by the stream, and performing a beautiful dance for the fish in the stream.

Chitose and Yi Jin came to the stream, Yi Jin stirred a stream of water with his hands, the fish in the stream seemed to be frightened, scattered everywhere, and smiled slightly: "Hey, as soon as there are waves in the water, the fish will go home, if there are waves in life, where should we go?"

Chitose walked over and looked at the fish wandering around in the water and said, "We have nowhere to go."

"Hey" Yi Jin sighed helplessly, and then continued, "Actually, the fish in the water are actually better than us."

Chitose shook his head slightly, then fell silent and didn't say anything, but at this time he had to admit that the fish in the water were indeed much better than them in this regard.

Chitose and Yi Jin saw the stream flowing downstream, and couldn't help but have the idea of finding its source, so the two went down the stream. After the two of them walked for about half an hour, they saw an old man in his sixties fishing leisurely. Chitose and Yi Jin felt very strange, no one fished along the way, how could there be a fisher here.

So they walked over and stood by and watched the old man fish, but after a long time he did not catch a single fish, but the old man was not in a hurry at all, and still leisurely held the rod and waited for the fish to be hooked.

Chitose and Yi Jin couldn't help but glance at each other, they both felt very puzzled, they hadn't caught a fish for so long, why was this old man not in a hurry at all, so Chitose stepped forward and said very respectfully: "Grandpa, it's been a long time, and you haven't caught a fish yet, why don't you change places?"

The old man smiled slightly, put down the fishing rod in his hand, wiped his beard with his hand and said, "You are very good, you didn't even ask until now"

Chitose smiled awkwardly and said nothing.

Seeing Chitose's expression, the old man nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's good to be modest, but don't be too modest, young people should be young and vigorous, it's not good for you to be like this."

Chitose nodded very seriously and said, "The old man has been taught" After speaking, he bowed deeply to the old man.

The old man naturally accepted Chitose's bow and didn't say anything, just touched his beard. looked at Yi Jin behind Chitose, beckoned to Yi Jin, and said to Yi Jin with a smile: "Why do you dislike my old man"

Yi Jin was speechless for the old man's words, but he could only come over and come to the old man and say, "Old man, you have been fishing for a long time, and you haven't caught one, why are you still fishing here?"

The old man smiled heartily, pulled up the fishing rod in the water with his hand, and saw that the fishing rod Chitose and Yi Jin almost dropped their jaws. I saw that the rod had neither bait nor hook.

"Why are you surprised?"

"It's okay", but at this time, Yi Jin secretly said in his heart: It's strange if you are not surprised, you fish like this, even if you fish for a day, no fish will be hooked, you think you are Jiang Ziya.

The old man seemed to see through Yi Jin's thoughts, so he said: "I'm not Jiang Ziya, Jiang Ziya fishes people, and I fish life."

"Life, I don't know how to say this, please talk about it with the old man"

The old man smiled slightly, and said: "I am fishing in self-cultivation, it doesn't matter if there is a ditch or not, there is no ditch but it is more grinding."

Chitose and Yi Jin were very puzzled, glanced at each other, and smiled helplessly.

Seeing the expressions of the two, the old man shook his head slightly, and then said: "Fishing can calm your heart, or you two can try it too" After speaking, he threw the two fishing rods next to him to Chitose Yijin and the others.

Chitose and Yi Jin took the fishing rod and learned from the old man to catch a fish that he knew would not be hooked.

When the old man saw the two of them in a different posture, he said, "Why didn't you want to fish if you knew the answer earlier?"

The two smiled awkwardly.

"Isn't your life predestined? Aren't you guys experiencing it yet?"

Hearing the old man's words, the two couldn't help but be taken aback.

"As for being so nervous, just look at the behavior of the two of you, you know that you are not ordinary people"

Chitose smiled slightly, and said very casually: "Then please, the old man will guide us through the maze."

The old man looked at Yi Jin and said, "Look, this friend of yours is much more stable than you," looked at the water, and then said, "Aren't you doing well now?"

Chitose couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

The old man continued: "Just do what you want, why care so much"

Yi Jin said: "It's good to do as you like, but now I can't help it."

"If the heart is not up to you, pull the heart back"

Chitose said: "If you don't come back, what should you do?"

"It's going to be pulled back" After saying that, the old man looked at Chitose, and then said to Chitose, "It's not necessarily good to meet it, and it's not necessarily bad if you don't meet it."

Chitose said secretly in his heart: I came to find someone, and there are few people who know, how did he know.

Seeing Chitose's expression, the old man couldn't help but smile slightly, and said, "I'll send you a word."

"Please advise"

"There are times in life when you have to have it, and there are times in life when you don't force it," the old man said lightly.

"Yes, I've been taught," Chitose replied respectfully.

The old man turned to look at Yi Jin and said, "You better be a little more restrained."

"What, how do you treat it differently," Yi Jin said helplessly.

Hearing Yi Jin's words, the old man was very disdainful and said, "Don't do bad things, you will have to pay it back in the near future."

Yi Jin almost said violent swear words when he heard the old man's words, what is a bad thing that cannot be done.

The old man saw Yi Jin's expression and then said, "You will know in the near future", Yi Jin didn't say anything but regarded the old man's words as the wind in his ear, the left ear in and the right ear out.

Chitose looked at Yi Jin very embarrassed when she heard the old man's words, and couldn't help laughing.

The old man slowly stood up, put away the fishing rod, and said, "The words are finished, and I will leave" After speaking, he picked up the fishing rod and walked forward slowly, until it disappeared in the eyes of the two.

Seeing that the old man was gone, Yi Jin couldn't help but swear violently; Is this sick?

Chitose glared at Yi Jin speechlessly, and said secretly in his heart: Who is this old man, in the end.