The year you came home from Kiyocheon was the easiest year in your short life. It was also the happiest and carefree day of my long life.

It may be that my father thinks that your life in Qingchuan for so many years is too hard, and after reaching the age of 18 to enter the Hajj and receive the blessing, you have to enter the official career to start a new tiredness, this year, my father has not arranged too many affairs for you, I want you to relax well, and your body and mind are fully rested. In the daily affairs of the house and abroad, my father only familiarized you with the situation and did not give you any errands to do. Almost everything is still the same as before, with Jingyun helping to take care of it. Your main task is to follow your father around the fiefdom, get acquainted with the gentry from all over the country and be familiar with the defense situation of the border army in the north, especially the military distribution and strategic arrangement of the Lingnan fiefdom in detail, the history and examples of the war in the north over the years, and the law of the enemy's invasion and the distribution of military and political forces on the enemy's side. The people who came into contact with you during that time were very impressed with you. In the past ten years you have been in Qingchuan, you have really not had a day free, and your rich accumulation, solid preparation, and sharp insight in military affairs on the northern front have surprised everyone who comes into contact with you. In the face of the intricacies of the military situation, you can often get to the point in just a few words, and quickly put forward a thorough solution with a single knife, so that the seniors present are suddenly surprised and inexplicable, and look at each other. Everyone has a feeling that when the time is ripe in the near future, this young man will quickly stand out and become a pivotal figure in the war in the North.

In addition, my father gave you a lot of free time to arrange freely, and did not let you immediately take over and take on the specific military affairs of the Northern Front. Father probably wants to wait for you to meet the gift, have a name, and then take over in the name.

During this time, you traveled to the military camps of the fiefdom and became intrigued by a half-abandoned veteran barracks located on the mountainside behind Beitou Mountain. You often take Wu Shun there to inspect it. You think it's a great place to do the kind of intensive training you want to do with the military in the future. After applying to the Huaizhou Jiedu envoy through your father, you began to renovate the old barracks and named it Qingfeng Village, and you wanted to expand it into a training center.

During that time, you spent more time at home and we got along closely. When there is nothing to do, you often take me to the foothills of the back mountain to play.

In addition to teaching me to ride a horse, you also taught me to meditate.

"What was my brother's favorite thing when I was in Kiyokawa?" I asked.

"It's meditation." You say without hesitation.

"Meditate?" I didn't expect you to say this, I thought you would say reading military books or practicing martial arts or riding and archery or something.

"Hmm. I spend most of my day meditating. Sometimes, you can't sit for a whole day or even many days. You say, "My favorite thing is to meditate under a very old green pine." Its needles cover the nearby ground softly, like a natural futon. ”

"What is meditation?"

"Just sit there and do nothing."

"Huh? Do nothing? ”

"Yes, it is simply sitting, except for sitting, there is no other activity in body and mind."

"So, wouldn't it be fun?"

You listen to the question and smile. You say, "If I tell you what it's like, you won't be able to experience it." Try it yourself. You sit down and you'll know. ”

"Can you teach me how to sit, then?"

"Of course." You find a suitable place, sit down, and show me a double-disc posture that is as steady as Tarzan. You say, "That's it, sit upright with a straight back." "You looked at me with an inviting look. You say, "Try? ”

We sat opposite each other. You say, "Now, close your eyes and don't pay attention to any outside sounds, lights and shadows outside." Concentrate on your own breathing. You know you're exhaling when you exhale, and you know you're inhaling when you inhale. With each breath, count once, count from one to ten, and then count again from the beginning. If the plan is messed up halfway, it's from the beginning again. ”

I closed my eyes. The whole world disappeared before my eyes.

You say, "Good." Just like that, slowly quiet yourself and let yourself be a light in the darkness. ”

I sat there with my eyes closed, feeling every breath that rose and fell.

At this time, I realized that, in fact, I had another eye. This eye sees the breathing going on inside the body. I saw the white gas pass through the tip of my nose and into my body, and I saw it flow down to the lungs, and from there it penetrated all the blood.

I opened my eyes. You say, "What do you feel?" I said, "It's amazing." You laugh a little. You say, "What's the wonderful?" I said, "It's like when all the lights are extinguished, and then you will find that there is a light within you that will not be extinguished." It is this light that allows us to see the appearance and fading of light, the coming and going of light, and the alternation of light and darkness. I said, "That's one that no words can describe: Ming." It is exceptionally clear, silent, and non-sticky. ”

You look at me. I said, "What? Shouldn't it feel like this? You say, "No." No. You say, "Qin'er, you're really special." If you have a chance, you should meet someone. I said, "Who?" You say, "My ancestor, Master Daoji's master." You say, "Unfortunately, you're a girl." Otherwise, if you say what you just said to the master, the master will definitely think that you are too spiritual, and he will definitely be willing to take you under the door. How many uncles and brothers, after studying all their lives, have not yet understood what you just said. ”

You say, "What you have experienced today is the first lesson that my master taught me: sitting." He said to me, "Boy, don't be in a hurry to learn anything from me, if you're in a hurry, you won't learn anything." What I can teach you here is something that only those who are not in a hurry can learn, and after learning, no matter what happens in the future, even if the world is shattered into pieces in front of you, even if the fire is already eating your skin, you will not be in a hurry anymore. The master said that the first thing you have to learn is to sit. He pointed to a bluestone slab on the ground and said, "You sit here." When will you be able to sit down on this slate and see me again? ”

"Huh? How can it be? ”

You smiled and said, "At that time, I was as frightened as you, I looked at the back of my ancestor, and I said loudly, how is that possible!" Shizu said, boy, you haven't tried it, how do you know it's impossible. ”

You say, "After the master left, I tried to sit down cross-legged on it." I thought to myself, if I sit until it sinks, a lifetime may not be enough. ”

"So, what about later? Did you do it? "Before you can answer, I know that the question is inappropriate. I quickly said, "Of course, you did it, and if you didn't, you'd still be sitting there." Your master and ancestor will not agree to you coming home. ”

You smile.

"So, how long did it take you to do it?" "Probably two years. One day, as I sat down as I normally would, I thought to myself: it must be sinking too. Just as the thought came to me, I felt my body sink down. When I looked at it again, the slab had sunken down. Not only did it sink down, but it broke in half. ”

You say and get up from where you are sitting. I was surprised to see that a shallow circular pit had already appeared there. When you sit down, I'm pretty sure there's no shallow pit.

I look at you in amazement.

You have brought me a world like never before. You're different from anyone I've ever known in this mansion before, even my father. There are a lot of things that the people in this house have, you don't have. And the light you have, they don't have at all.

I really want to be able to enter the world that you can enter.