Su Wen hung up the phone and picked up an English dictionary in his hand.

Side quest 2 allows him to learn three languages in a month, and he also needs to be able to translate the famous Chinese "Tao Te Ching", which is not a difficult task.

The system doesn't require you to learn any of the three languages, so he naturally has to pick the three easiest to learn.

First of all, that's definitely English.

Anyway, Su Wen also has a certain foundation in English, and he passed English level 6 in college. However, with his level of English, he can barely have a simple conversation with others, and if he wants to translate the Tao Te Ching, then he doesn't have to think about it.

After studying in the last few days, with a strong memory, Su Wen has almost memorized a ten-centimeter-thick English dictionary.

It's okay to be idle.

Su Wen decided to review it one last time, and then try to translate the Tao Te Ching.

The central garden of the South Metropolis.

Many elderly people were basking in the sun, and Su Wen was sitting on a wooden chair with an English dictionary in his arms.

A few children kicked shuttlecock there, and there are not many children still playing with this anymore.

"Uncle, can you help me take off the shuttlecock?"

Su Wen looked up: "Little friend, what shuttlecock?"

The boy pointed to a willow that had long since lost its branches and leaves.

Su Wen looked and found that there was indeed a shuttlecock made of chicken feathers on it, and there were several children and an old man standing under the tree.

The old man smiled at Su Wen: "My body is not good, otherwise I won't trouble you."

Su Wen stood up with a smile: "It's not troublesome, it's a little favor."

It's just that when he got under the tree, Su Wen estimated that his height was still more than two meters behind.

The old man thought for a while and said, "Do you need to find a bamboo pole?"

Su Wen picks up a stone from the ground. Shaking his head: "No, this is fine."

The old man looked at the stone in Su Wen's hand, it was only the size of a peanut, if he wanted to use such a big stone to knock down the shuttlecock, it would be quite difficult.

Several children looked at Su Wen with a little expectation.

"Look at it."

Su Wen holds the stone. With a gentle flick, it hit the shuttlecock squarely.

Syllable!

The shuttlecock fell, and the surroundings were quiet at first, and then several children cheered.

"Uncle is amazing!"

"Uncle is amazing!"

Su Wen smiled and gestured to the old man: "I'm going over there to read, you look at them. Don't let them fall into the river."

The old man nodded.

Su Wen read the book for a while, but the old man sat down beside him.

"You're not a local, boy, are you?"

"Well, stay around here for now."

Su Wen closed the dictionary, and he looked at the old man carefully. I found that the old man was dressed very elegantly, and in the old man's hand, he was holding three yellowed books.

The top one seems to be the Book of Changes.

The old man found that Su Wen was a little curious about the books he read, and smiled and said, "If you are idle, study Chinese culture."

Spread out three books.

Below the "Book of Changes" is the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", and at the bottom is the "Tao Te Ching".

Su Wen still wants to translate the Tao Te Ching, but it is already difficult to translate ancient Chinese into modern Chinese, let alone into English.

At first glance, the old man is the kind of person who has studied the Tao Te Ching very deeply. Su Wen felt that it was necessary for him to ask for advice.

"Old man, how much do you know about this Tao Te Ching?"

The old man was stunned for a moment, and said with some pride: "I have studied for thirty years. Although I don't dare to say that I have entered the house, I am not a general.

"Really?"

"Young man, do you want to test me?"

Su Wen shook his head: "I'm just curious about the Tao Te Ching, that's why I asked, I wonder if the old man can show me the Tao Te Ching?"

"Naturally, there is no problem with this."

Su Wen took the Tao Te Ching and hurriedly flipped through it. Although I feel that it is difficult to understand, I also forcibly remember it in my mind.

Twenty minutes after the light. Su Wen returned the Tao Te Ching to the old man.

"How do you feel?"

"Broad and profound."

The old man also nodded solemnly: "The author of the Tao Te Ching is said to be Lao Tzu, and what kind of person is Lao Tzu. That's a transcendent saint. For Chinese literature lovers, among the three most difficult classics to understand, "Tao Te Ching" should be at the top of the list."

Su Wen was stunned, he looked at the other two classics in the old man's hand, that is, the "Book of Changes" and the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", could it be that the other two most difficult to understand classics are also here.

The old man did not explain to Su Wen, but muttered to himself: "The first chapter of the Tao Te Ching has clouds, the Tao is Tao, and it is very Tao; The name is famous, and the name is not very famous. The beginning of the nameless world; The mother of all things. Therefore, there is often no desire to observe the wonder; There is often a desire to observe it. These two have the same name and different names, the same name is the mystery, the mystery and the mystery, the door of all wonders. It's just that this first chapter, the deep meaning of which is enough to explore for decades, and every time I read this, I ask the same question, what is the Tao?"

Road?

Su Wen pondered the old man's words for a moment, and he also fell into deep thought.

Since ancient times, there have been people in China who have cultivated Taoism, and Taoism has flourished for a while. The Laoshan faction that Su Wen knows is actually one. [,！ A monastic sect, but to trace back to the source and explore the origin of the Tao, this is confusing.

The Tao is invisible, and since it appears, it seems to be something that cannot be understood.

Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" explains the Tao, but this explanation is even more confusing, just like a chicken lays an egg or an egg lays a chicken, if you go to explore the source, it can only be an unsolvable loop.

"What do you think, old man?" Su Wen asked modestly.

"What do we ......," the old man pondered for a moment, "I think the Tao is everywhere, and the Tao is a rule. The rise and fall of the world, the replacement of all things, the rise and fall of the sun and the moon...... A qiē is inseparable from the Tao. Where the Tao is, it is the Dharma. The existence of human beings is within the jurisdiction of the Tao. That's why there is that sentence, man is the law of the earth, and the earth is the law of the sky. Heavenly Law Dao, Tao Law Nature."

Su Wen was stunned, can you really understand it like that.

"Haha, a little foolish." The old man smiled, "Actually, I'm thinking. Whether human beings are developing science and technology or becoming legendary immortals who have achieved cultivation, they are nothing more than influencing the operation of the Heavenly Dao in their own ways. You see, it's winter now, and the leaves are withering, which is the way of heaven. However, human beings have invented greenhouses, so many fruits that can only be eaten in summer appear on our tables. Look at the lake in this park. Originally, the lake was connected to a moat, and the water of the lake was crystal clear, but now it is believed that the flow of the lake has been cut off, and what is left to us is a dead lake."

Su Wen was puzzled. He didn't know what the old man was trying to say.

"All things in heaven and earth, nature has its own laws of operation, and this law is the Tao, and where the Tao exists, that is the law. If people violate the operation of the law, they will also be eaten by the law, and the more they get, the more they will endure. No matter how powerful people are. In the face of the true Heavenly Dao, they are just ants."

Su Wen was stunned, if this was the case. That cultivator is not a group of people who go against the way of heaven.

The old man found that Su Wen was deep in thought, and slowly stood up: "Shun Tian and go against the sky, all in one mind. Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is so profound that I believe that the person who can understand all the contents of it must be a person who can feel the heart of heaven."

Su Wen also stood up, and he looked at the old man with a little more respect.

Everything the old man said had risen to a level above that of a cultivator. Although Su Wen didn't know how these things would help him now, he had a hunch. In the future, the old man's words will definitely bring him countless benefits.

"It's not too early, it's time to go back. The old woman in the family must be hungry."

Su Wen smiled unconsciously: "I should go back too, there are still people waiting for me to cook at home."

The two looked at each other and laughed inexplicably.

On the way back, Su Wen was still pondering the old man's words, and the more he thought about it, the more profound he felt.

Boom!

The head seems to hit something.

Su Wen looked at it, and it turned out to be a ginkgo tree in the villa.

The security guard hurriedly ran over: "Su Shao, what's wrong with you?"

Su Wen was a little embarrassed: "It's okay, you don't have to worry about me."

……

Evening.

Su Wen didn't know what the situation was at the Shengshi Auction House, he could only wait quietly for news.

Yi Xue has started to practice swordsmanship again, and since she has obtained the kendo talent given by the source stone, she seems to like swordsmanship more.

At eleven o'clock, Tang Zong called.

"Su Wen, something is wrong."

"What's going on?"

Su Wen hurriedly asked, he had a sense of foreboding.

"Something happened, three drops of weak water were stolen during the handover after the auction."

"What?"

Su Wen exclaimed: "Does anyone dare to steal something from the Shengshi Auction House?"

"It's because everyone thinks no one dares, that the thief succeeds."

"What about the cultivators of the Shengshi Auction House?"

"The backer behind the Shengshi Auction House is Tianxin Sect, but the people of Tianxin Sect are not here, to put it bluntly, the role of Tianxin Sect is only a deterrent."

"That thief is really a good one."

"What a good deal, I dare to conclude that no matter who he is, if he dares to steal something from the Shengshi Auction House, he will die."

Su Wen was stunned: "Why do you say that?"

"Because I believe that if you provoke the majesty of the Heavenly Heart Sect, you will definitely die."

"There are precedents in the past."

"There was a similar incident at the beginning of the establishment of the Shengshi Auction House, a cultivator at the peak of the late stage of the True Fire Realm wanted to rob a treasure that the Shengshi Auction House was auctioning, but a woman from the Tianxin Sect made a move and slapped him into a meatloaf."

"So strong! The peak of the late stage of the True Fire Realm will kill if you say kill."

Su Wen was shocked, and suddenly rejoiced: "Tang Sect, in this way, do you think Tianxin Sect will send someone?"

"Send someone for sure."

Tang Zong's voice was a little gloomy: "Su Wen, I know that you have something to do with Yang Feixue, but it's from Tianxin Sect, so you'd better not tell about your relationship with Yang Feixue." (To be continued)