07 Water bowl
The sun was barely halfway above the horizon, the dry and hot wind had not yet blown, and the endless desert seemed vast and quiet. At this time, the three people, two big and one small, had already gotten up to exercise.
In Abu's words, life is in motion, and the secret of longevity is to fight against the attraction of the earth, or the earth will soon suck people underground. Yun Niang giggled when she heard this, and Wu Ye kept asking curiously what gravity was. Abu said that this was a long story, and then he looked at Wu Ye's little head. Say exercise first, and then tell you slowly.
Abu and Wu Ye first practiced Zamabu, Abu explained that in the current society, in the era of cold weapons with knives and swords, if you want to enhance your self-protection ability, you must first learn to escape, and if you want to learn to escape, you must train your legs solidly, and the best way to train your legs is to do it. As the saying goes, "you have to learn to fight before you get a horse", "if you don't practice boxing, you will be empty when you get old." That's the truth.
When the horse steps well, the legs will have strength, and the person will have roots. Then you can improve your flexibility and flexibility. All parts of the body are coordinated, and everything will be handy.
Wu Ye is a four or five-year-old child, anyway, whatever the master tells him to do, just do it. Originally, he was not a rich kid who couldn't endure hardships and couldn't stand sin, it didn't matter if he suffered some hardships, in addition, the little guy was still very strong, and he would support him hard every time he couldn't hold on, and he would never beg for mercy lightly, which made Abu very surprised.
Sometimes Yun Niang really can't look past it, and she will help to intercede, but as long as it involves exercise, Abu, who is very kind in speaking and doing things, is very strict, and he will never let go of his stubbornness in this regard.
Later, Yun Niang had to give up, walked aside angrily, and practiced on her own. Yun Niang's movements are different from those of the two of them, mainly focusing on body flexibility and flexibility exercises. For example, she is now leaning back, her hair is fluffy and hanging, her hands touch the ground, and then she slowly stretches out one leg and stands upright above, in a zigzag shape; Hold on for a while, then slowly put it down, change to the other leg, the upright leg is slender and straight, and the whole person is like a swan standing with a neck. Her body seemed to be soft and boneless, and she could bend, stretch, twist, and make all kinds of incredible movements.
Yun Niang found Abu peeking at herself with slanted eyes a few times, and immediately retracted her gaze after being discovered, looking straight ahead, with a serious look. Yun Niang was secretly funny, and said that if you want to see it, you can look at it generously, why bother sneaking around, it's not that you won't be allowed to watch it......
After Wu Ye finished practicing horse walking, and just relaxed for a while, Abu asked him to go to Yun Niang and asked Yun Niang to guide him to practice the flexibility and coordination of his body, and said that Yun Niang's body was extremely flexible, and it would be good for him to take Yun Niang as an example and practice to the level of his sister.
Wu Ye wiped his sweat and went to Yun Niang with a bitter face. Yun Niang greeted him, pulled Wu Ye over, let him lean his back on his legs, and gently pinched his shoulders with both hands, patted his muscles, relaxed his muscles and bones, and complained at the same time, "A child, as for practicing so hard?" You just let him practice horse walking or something, but why do you still let him practice this? Do you know how much I had to work on my flexibility? Xiao Ye doesn't have to eat this bowl of rice, why do you practice this? ”
Abu replied, "Isn't it for his own good?" Many things have to be laid from childhood, children do not work hard, and the eldest is sad. Just like building a high-rise building, only when the foundation is solid, the future building can be as solid as a rock and stand tall. If you don't lay a good foundation now, it's too late to remedy it later. ”
"Okay, anyway, you have a reason for everything, and it's still a set, I'll teach him to press his legs first."
Haha, Abu went to make a fire and cook. When it is said to be cooking, it is actually to find some dry wood, and then set up a shelf, hang a small iron pot on it, and raise firewood below to boil the water. Most of the rice eaten is a kind of barley pasta, and occasionally there are dried Hu cake pieces, which are put into minced meat and sun-dried green onions, carrots and other vegetables, and at the same time add pepper, salt, sesame oil and other seasonings, stir evenly, after the water boils, pour it inside, steaming, fragrant. Although there is no seasonal fresh food to taste, in the harsh conditions of the desert, there is still a mouth-watering deliciousness.
Wen Chu also prepared a lot of raisins, dried dates, walnuts and other fruits for them when he was leaving, and after eating, he soaked these dried fruits in a bowl of water to drink, and he could get a very full sense of satisfaction both in his stomach and psychology.
Abu shook the bowl in his hand, and the water in it swirled leisurely, and the floating dried fruit also rotated. He couldn't help but sigh, you see how many people in this world are like dried fruits in a bowl, they can't help themselves and go with the flow; If you want to be the mainstay and stand still, it is not easy to say; If you want to jump out of this bowl, it is even more difficult. Some people face the loess with their backs to the sky and work hard all their lives; Some people speculate and camp and fly camps all their lives; Some people have a lifetime of fine food and clothing, and they have been having fun all their lives, but the world they see is the same, they are all a big piece of heaven, let them squeeze and exploit again, let them do whatever they want, their thoughts and fields are limited to this small world.
Yun Niang didn't expect him to be able to say such thought-provoking words when he drank saliva, and couldn't help but glance at him, anyway, he was always like this, and from time to time such words full of Zen whims, she was used to it.
Wu Ye couldn't help asking, "Master, how can you jump out of this bowl?" ”
Abu went on to explain, "Look at this bowl, it's a container, but the dried fruits in it see only water, because they're used to it, they're used to their reality in the water, and if it's heated at the bottom of the bowl, the water gets hot, and they can only live in dire straits, and they can only passively endure it, and they can't resist it."
"Aren't we the same dried fruits floating in the water?" Wu Ye shouted.
Abu laughed for a while, and then said that there are many wise people who live in the water, for example, they may build some boats, rafts, and other floating objects to isolate themselves from the water, so that they will be more comfortable to stay, but this is only a local innovation, if the wind is stronger, these rafts are still in danger of capsizing, and their innovation is not related to the overall situation, it is just tinkering in this small world, because their cleverness is used in the wrong place.
In the change of the world, the lives of generations have multiplied, and occasionally some extraordinary wise men have appeared, but they are often regarded as heretics and alternatives by those who indulge in joy and reality, and thus are suppressed and persecuted. There are generally only two ways for them to end up, either obey the general flow, be as muddy as everyone else, eat and wait for death; Either stick to your own opinion and resist bravely, but the end of this path is usually wiped out.
So many sparks of wisdom may continue to emerge, but these precious sparks will soon be extinguished by the turbulent current. So the whole world continues to run, from generation to generation, and again and again.
Yun Niang stroked the hair scattered around her ears and said, "The sages taught people to cultivate their self-cultivation and be kind and charitable; Buddhism teaches people to be wholehearted for good, to be able to do more in the next life, and to be reincarnated as a good person. According to you, it's useless. ”
"Hehe, let's talk about religious doctrine later. As for the theory of how they fooled the people and how they served the rulers, if I told you now, I guess you would think that I was a great rebellion, which is incredible. Let's move on to how to get out of this bowl. Abu explained.
In the midst of the struggling crowd in this bowl, perhaps one day, there will be leaders who are extremely intelligent, determined, and have strong leadership and ruling abilities, who bravely fight against fate, break the inertia of the torrent of history, and break the barriers of this heaven and earth. The final victory was achieved, but it was only a miserable victory, because the bowl was broken and the water inside was gone. When they discover the bigger world outside, they will expand wildly, brutally occupy, and develop without restraint, which will cause a chain reaction, which will be devastating to the larger environment outside, because some processes are irreversible.
But after all, this is a replacement of ideas and ideas, and a thorough, more advanced system, after all, the bowl has been broken. Oh, just now Xiao Ye asked me how to jump out of the bowl, this is the first way, is to rely on the reproduction of the people in the bowl through the dynasties, looking forward to the appearance of the brilliant saint. This kind of small probability event is not repeatable and unpredictable, and can only be passively waited.
There is another way, and it's simple. Because now that we know that the bowl exists, and we may even have the ability to break the bowl, as long as we can try to open a gap in the bowl, the people inside will find a bigger and better world outside, and those who are smart with a spark of wisdom will work hard and move in the right direction. We can also plan ahead and use the water in the bowl so that it doesn't all consume it, so that a lot of devastating damage doesn't happen.
And what we need to do now is try to find a tool, a tool that can break this bowl.
Yun Niang pondered Abu's words carefully, as well as his lofty ideals that he had told him about last night. She suddenly found that this amiable young man was very far away from herself, and he had such a great ideal to repay him, and he actually said such a profound truth in the time of drinking water, he used an easy-to-understand analogy to explain the replacement of historical dynasties, and the hidden nature inside, and at the same time clarified the direction of future efforts, and it is really his luck to be able to walk with such a person. Yun Niang couldn't help but quip: "Are you really not the reincarnation of the Buddha, I have to bow and worship you." ”
"Haha, be suppressed, don't worship me, in fact, I'm just a legend, hahaha." Abu drank all the water and fruit in the bowl, "The rice must be eaten one bite at a time, and things must be done one by one, many things are already a little eyebrow-raising, take your time, for the sake of lofty and lofty ideals, let us work together." With that, Abu stretched out his fist.
"Okay, let's work together." Yun Niang stretched out her hand, clenched it into a fist, and gently pressed it against Abu's hand, which was a new expression she had learned from Abu to cheer up.
"And me, let's work together." Wu Ye jumped and clenched his little hand into a fist against the fists of the two.
At this time, the sun is a little high, and the wind is starting to rise.
The three of them packed their bags, dressed well, stepped on their camels, and continued on their way.