Chapter 256: Those who are content are always happy
It's really time flies, the day is goodbye, and two Jiazi have passed so far, and during the middle period, Li Qi has been busy, and he has forgotten about the girl, and only occasionally heard the chicken prostitute mention it.
When I saw it today, the girl was still beautiful and moving, with ice muscles and jade bones, bright eyes, clever smiles, like a fairy, so beautiful that it was not so real, and all kinds of the past immediately came to mind, and it was like yesterday.
"What are you looking at?"
The girl asked with a smile.
"Look at ......"
Li Qi suddenly came to his senses, immediately smiled awkwardly, and said, "Yes, I should call you a girl." Long time no see. ”
"Long time no see."
Ren Nu smiled slightly, and said: "I said goodbye in a hurry that day, and I didn't have time to say too much to you, I wanted to invite you to my Lingzhou and personally thank you for saving your life, but unfortunately I was locked up as soon as I came back, and I was only recently released." Speaking of the back, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, as if she felt aggrieved by her confinement, but it was even more cute and moving.
In fact, she is like this, and her gestures are very charming.
Li Qi smiled and said: "I am very happy that you can invite me to come, how dare you divide morning and evening." ”
"You really haven't changed at all." The girl smiled lightly, pointed to the side and said, "Oh, you didn't eat all night last night, you must be hungry, I brought you some fruit to eat." ”
Li Qi turned his head to look and saw that there were a lot of fruits on the chessboard, and they were all things he had never seen before. And what about the janitor? ”
The girl immediately covered her lips and giggled.
Richie asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”
Ren Nu said: "The old man who played chess with you yesterday is not an old man who guards the door, he is my respected teacher, and this is not a willow gate, you have actually entered Lingzhou, and the respected teacher left this morning." ”
"Your Venerable Master?"
Li Qi knew that the old man was not simple, but he didn't expect that it would be the Venerable Teacher of the Rennu, and asked curiously: "What is going on?" ”
"You sit down and eat some fruit first, and I'll talk to you slowly."
"Oh."
Li Qi sat down, suddenly stared at a white jade-colored fruit that looked very similar to a person, and said, "This can't be a ginseng fruit, right?" ”
The head of the female mantis shook lightly: "This is a spiritual fruit, which is unique to our Lingzhou, and it will be more energetic to eat one in the morning." ”
"It's amazing, then I'll have to try it."
As a chef, Li Qi is of course very interested in eating, picking up a fruit, taking a bite, the juice splashes in his mouth, sweet and delicious, lips and teeth are fragrant, only to feel that no matter how delicious the fruit is, it is nothing more than that, and said vaguely: "Delicious!" Your spirit fruit is delicious. ”
As he spoke, he suddenly stared at a crystal clear ball, as big as a bun, very similar to water droplets, and said, "What is this?" Fruit? ”
"It's dewdrops! Haven't you seen it? The girl pursed her lips and said.
"Dewdrops?" Li Qi wondered: "I have seen a lot of this dewdrop, but I have never seen such a large dewdrop, and since it is a dewdrop, how can it still be condensed." ”
The girl smiled, "This is the dew of the earth tree, which is naturally a little different from the ordinary dewdrops. ”
It's not just a little different, these are two substances at all! Li Qi asked again, "How about just take it and eat it?" ”
"Hmm."
Li Qi picked up the dewdrop, and there was a cool feeling from his fingertips, the feeling was water, but it was very elastic, and it was always condensed, it was very magical, and he took a bite, and the dew turned into water when he entered his mouth, and it was very sweet, more thirst-quenching than water, and he stuffed the remaining half of the dew into his mouth, and his mouth couldn't help exclaiming: "This dew is really amazing." ”
After eating the dewdrops, his eyes locked on a pink peach, the size of a grapefruit, and said, "Is this a peach?" ”
The girl said: "This is a peach." ”
"Peach?"
Li Qi blinked and asked, "Your Spirit Lord's honorific title won't be the Queen Mother of the West, right?" ”
The girl shook her head and said, "Of course not, don't you know that there is only one king in this land, and that is the king of the earth of the kingdom." In fact, our spirit lord did not have any honorific titles a long time ago, and the 'spirit lord' was also called by the royal family first, and then other races followed suit, and over time, our spirit race was also called like this. ”
"Yes, of course I do, it's just... Hehe. Li Qi snorted, holding the peach with both hands and taking a big bite, this peach is really delicious, the food Fang Jue is all Shutai, wonderful, I can't help but think, this Lingzhou is really full of magic. Suddenly glanced at the girl, and saw that she was smiling and watching herself eat, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and suddenly said: "The girl, you are hiding from me so miserable, it turns out that you are the next spirit master." ”
The girl smiled and said: "The spirit lord of our Lingzhou may be different from what you think, in our Lingzhou, the spirit lord is no different from ordinary spirit clans, but he is only responsible for some diplomatic matters." ”
When Li Qi heard this, he seemed to remember something, "Yes, yes, yes, I remembered, I seem to have heard that your Lingzhou is a teacher-commander system, which means that the teacher is the biggest." ”
"It can't be said to be the biggest, because in the eyes of our spirit race, all spirits are equal, so there is no big or small."
Rennu explained their division commander system to Li Qi again.
The level can be roughly divided into three types, respect for the teacher, the elder teacher, and the teacher.
From Li Qi's understanding, this system is completely reversed, these three levels, among which the teacher is the most authoritative, but in fact, the teacher is the kindergarten teacher, who is specifically responsible for educating children, and every spirit clan in their Lingzhou has a teacher, and there is only one teacher, so "one day as a teacher, a father for life" is very suitable for this teacher system.
The second is the senior teacher, who is responsible for teaching skills, just like a university teacher.
Finally, there is the division, but this division refers to a group, and it can even be understood as a council, which is composed of the most intelligent spirit clans, they are specifically responsible for thinking, and the general major matters of the spirit clan are decided by them, and the spirit lord has the power to govern the army, but the spirit lord does not have the power to go to war.
There are also five positives under this division, Jin Zheng, Mu Zheng, Shui Zheng, Huo Zheng, and Tu Zheng, who are in charge of Jinmu, water, fire, and earth in Lingzhou.
There are only three priests below the spirit master, the guards, the secretaries, and the scribes.
All of them are responsible for all foreign affairs, the secretary is actually a diplomat, then Taisheng is a diplomat, and the guard is the army, and the scribe is responsible for the writing work.
This system is very strange, because according to the institutional arrangement, this power should be in the hands of the teacher, but it is not like this, in Lingzhou, the authority of the teacher without office and power is the greatest, and they can oppose the decision of the teacher.
As for the five righteous and three soldiers, they are simply staff, or service personnel.
After Li Qi listened, he was even more confused, the division of power was unclear, and contradictory, and said: "I really can't understand this, you seem to be completely reversed with the system of the kingdom or other races, and it is very contradictory, how can it be managed well in this way." ”
The girl smiled: "Didn't you talk to the Venerable Master about appetite yesterday? ”
Li Qi was surprised: "How do you know? ”
Ren Nu said: "Actually, I was there yesterday, but the Venerable Master heard a lot about your century and felt a little curious about you, so he brought you here to talk, but he didn't allow me to come out." ”
"I see."
Li Qi said: "I'll just say, why is an old man who guards the door, all of them are handsome, and his words are full of wisdom, which makes people inexplicably admire." ”
Ren Nu smiled: "You are so smart, I'm afraid you will notice it a long time ago." ”
"In front of your teacher, I'm stupid." Li Qi snorted and asked again: "What does this appetite have to do with the division commander system?" ”
Ren Nu said: "We spirit race was born on this earth tree, and the earth tree is rich in products, so our spirit race does not need any labor, and can also get food, compared to other races, our spirit race is the luckiest. Therefore, the sages of our spirit race all agreed that not only can we no longer ask for anything from any living being, but we must also give back to the earth. ”
Speaking of this, she sighed faintly and said: "But as long as it is a living being, there will always be greed, always want to get more, even our spirit race is no exception, but we have been favored by the tree of the earth, we are not qualified to fight for more, so the sages at that time had a long debate about this, and the main debate is whether to ensure this with the legal system, or with self-cultivation, and in the end the sages decided to ensure this with the latter."
Because the sages believed that the legal system was only a superficial form, and that it was the living beings who revised and enforced the law, the law still depended on the living beings after all, and if the living beings were fickle, the law would also become fickle. Then, instead of cultivating the Fa, it is better to improve it fundamentally. Therefore, there is no law in our Lingzhou, it is all based on self-cultivation, then education is the foundation of our spirit race, and every spirit race must be educated from an early age, so as to establish a perfect character. Therefore, respecting the teacher is the most indispensable thing in our Lingzhou. ”
"I see." Li Qi nodded slightly, and said, "I can understand why your Spirit Clan never trades with the outside world, but only gives aways, and the abundance of products is not the main reason. ”
The girl shook her head and smiled: "That's not it, if our spirit race lives in your human land, we will be the same as you, if there is no earth tree, the sages will not put forward those ideas, the earth tree is still the foundation to support all this." The reason why we don't trade with the outside world is because the essence of trading is the exchange of interests, so it will inevitably breed greed and destroy the foundation of our spirit race. ”
Li Qi said: "I understand the truth, I just think it's very difficult, because there is no guarantee of the law, then it is necessary to ensure that every spirit race must have a perfect character, I think we humans will definitely not be able to do it, at least we will not be willing to eat fruit every day." ”
Why does he feel that this system is very contradictory, that is, this system is difficult to achieve, if everyone is a saint, then of course there is no need for any law, but how can this be guaranteed? This has a bit of the meaning of "preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires", excessive de-idealization, even Zhu Xi himself did not do it.
Of course, if it can be realized, then respecting teachers is of course the greatest, because they are the fundamentals.
Ren Nu said: "I remember you once said that those who are content are always happy. ”
"Did I say that?"
"That's what you said."
"Probably."
Ren Nu pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "Maybe at the beginning, it was very difficult, because our minds were not mature at that time, but over time, our spirit race has also developed the habit of pure heart and few desires, and at the same time, we have also reaped the joy and happiness that other races have never had, because when you give back to the earth, the earth is bound to favor you more, we are very content, so we are very happy, and it is not as difficult as you think." ”
PS: There is one more chapter at eight o'clock!