Liu Xiu was silent, if it wasn't for the woman taking him just now, he might have been able to climb up, but it would definitely not be so easy, and it would not be possible to be so fast. Recalling that the woman seemed to have words in her mouth at that time, he asked with some disbelief, "Is it a charm?" ”

"It's a curse." The middle-aged man smiled: "A talisman is a talisman, a mantra is a mantra, these are two different Taoist techniques, and they should not be confused." ”

Liu Xiu still didn't dare to believe it, although he had studied traditional Chinese culture and had a little involvement in Taoist philosophy, he never believed in any charms, because he was afraid of being treated as a ghost and forced to drink talisman water, so he didn't dare to be too public. He believes that there is a essence of Chinese traditional culture, and there is also dross, and there is no doubt that this charm is one of the dross, if it is really useful, how can the Boxers be beaten to the ground by a few foreign guns.

Rather than believing that the woman's mantra worked, it was better to say that the woman had kung fu to make him believe more.

Liu Xiu shook his head and smiled embarrassedly: "I am only a shallow learner, whether it is a talisman or a spell, I don't know." ”

"It's not surprising that I don't know, there are not many people in this world who can really channel the arts." The middle-aged man didn't think it was wrong, but was a little arrogant, "However, if you still refuse to believe it in the face of the facts, and just stupidly insist on your own inherent ideas, it is inevitably a little stupid." Liu Jun, you are a person who reads, you can take the initiative to get out of the study and go to various places to investigate, you must not be a pedantic scholar, so why be so stubborn? ”

Liu Xiu smiled, and said in his heart Although I am engaged in literature and art, I am a staunch scientist, do I have to explain this to you, besides, do you know what science is? He was silent for a moment, carefully choosing the words and said, "I believe in the facts, and I don't easily believe in something that sounds incredible. ”

"Seeing is believing?" The middle-aged man glanced at him with slanted eyes, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Could it be that what your eyes see is real?" ”

Liu Xiu furrowed his brows slightly, and did not rush to answer, although these four words are very commonly used, but he knows that some things may not be true even if they see it with their own eyes, such as magic, everyone knows that magic is fake, but how many people can see through the mystery? Do you believe that it is true because you can't see through it?

"Seeing is believing, and it doesn't seem right." Liu Xiu scratched his head a little embarrassed, thought for a while, and continued: "I think it has to be coupled with reasonable analysis and rigorous verification. Well, in other words, have reliable evidence. ”

"Then you heard my whistle yesterday and were taken up the mountain by my disciples today, it's all a lie, isn't it?" The middle-aged man showed a little curiosity, obviously a little surprised by Liu Xiu's answer, "If you don't believe what you have experienced, then what do you believe?" ”

Liu Xiu met his gaze, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Yes, I was very surprised by your whistling sound yesterday, I am also very surprised that your disciple can take me up the mountain so easily, but I may be able to come up with other explanations, not necessarily only with Taoism." ”

"Oh?" The middle-aged man was even more curious, nodded again and again, and arched his hand at Liu Xiu for the first time and said, "Dare to ask Gao Ming." ”

"Let's start with the whistling." Liu Xiu quickly calmed down and talked eloquently: "Your voice does travel farther than others, but I heard that some good singers can use the qi of the dantian and the sound of the brain, and the sound they make can travel farther, giving people the feeling of endlessly." ”

The middle-aged man nodded, noncommittal, and motioned for Liu Xiu to continue.

"As for the fact that your disciple took me up the mountain, I admit that I was a little surprised, but as far as I know, although women seem to be weaker than men, as long as they practice hard, most women can be stronger than ordinary men, and the same is true for men, even if they are powerless scholars, as long as they are willing to endure hardships, they can become brave warriors, but most people can't endure those hardships."

Liu Xiu smiled and pointed to the Guancheng under the mountain: "I believe that there are many soldiers in there who can easily climb to this stone house, are they all cultivators?" ”

"Hehehe......" The middle-aged man who had been looking at Liu Xiu laughed softly, he turned around, stroked the short beard under his chin, was silent for a moment, and suddenly sang in a low voice. His voice was not high, but the words were in his ears, as if he was whispering in Liu Xiu's ear, but Liu Xiu couldn't understand a word. With his chanting, Liu Xiu suddenly had a look of disgust between his chest and abdomen, just like an arrogant child suddenly jumping around in the originally quiet classroom, overturning the desk next to him, and throwing all the books and utensils on the ground, stirring up a mess around, making people very uncomfortable, and the heartache that had long disappeared showed signs of recurrence.

"You!" Liu Xiu was shocked and angry, pointed at the middle-aged man and shouted: "What are you doing?" ”

The middle-aged man stopped chanting and asked with a smile, "How do you explain this?" ”

Although it was only for a moment, a layer of fine sweat appeared on Liu Xiu's forehead, but he didn't care about wiping it, but just looked at the smiling middle-aged man with palpitations. The experience just now shocked him so much, even more shocking than hearing him roar on the mountain yesterday. He took several deep breaths in succession before he barely regained his composure, and said with some suspicion:

"This is the curse?"

The middle-aged man nodded calmly: "Heart-destroying spell." He then asked, "Do you think this is Taoism?" If not, then how do you explain how you feel? I'm sure you wouldn't say it's your delusion. ”

Liu Xiu stared at him for a long time, then shook his head, of course he didn't think he was hallucinating, but he didn't believe that this was any kind of immortal Taoism, because he had heard that there was a weapon called infrasound, which used sound waves with a similar frequency to human organs to kill people, but that was the principle of using resonance, and only instruments could send it, could it be that people could also send infrasound waves?

He was also a little confused for a while, stunned, not knowing what to say.

The middle-aged man was not in a hurry, he just looked up at the sky in the distance, and suddenly said, "It's not early, and the people in the gate are probably already up." You think slowly, and when you come back to me when you believe in such a thing as Taoism, I think we'll have a chance to meet again. After speaking, he stretched out his arms and jumped down the valley like a big bird, Liu Xiu was taken aback, and hurriedly rushed to the edge of the stone house to see, but saw that the middle-aged man had landed on the narrow ramp, and the woman in green swept towards Guancheng one after the other, both of them were very fast, like a hundred-meter sprint, and in the blink of an eye, they crossed the ramp dozens of steps long and disappeared into Guancheng.

Liu Xiu's eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and he didn't close it for a long time, until the exclamation of the soldiers came from under the stone house.

In Guancheng, the woman in green said to the middle-aged man while packing her simple luggage: "Master, this Liu Xiu really has such good qualifications that the master wants to come forward in person?" ”

The middle-aged man nodded, then turned his head to look at the woman again, thought for a while, and suddenly said, "Feng'er, do you know why you haven't been able to catch up with Feiyan?" ”

The woman in green was stunned for a moment, pursed her lips a little depressedly, and said in a muffled voice: "My qualifications are not as good as hers." ”

"It's not." The middle-aged man shook his head and said solemnly: "Your qualifications surpass Feiyan's, and the Taoist scriptures I teach you are the first to be memorized by you every time, but you are too competitive, and you have to compete with others in everything, but you forget what Lao Jun said." ”

The woman in green had a straight face, although she was silent, but it could be seen that she was very unconvinced.

"Preaching your Taoist scriptures is for you to practice, not just memorize them." The middle-aged man saw her stubbornness, and sighed helplessly: "Ah Feng, think about it, what Lao Jun said, 'The husband is not to fight, so the world should not fight with him', every time you say the scriptures, you are the first to say the truth, but how can you really understand the meaning of this scripture?" Feiyan seems to have a weak surname, and her speech is not as sharp as yours, but she really understands this truth, so she can grab ahead of you in terms of cultivation. ”

The woman in green was a little embarrassed, threw the luggage in her hand on the case, and replied with a stalk around her neck: "Since the only way to fight is not to fight, why should the master bother to fight for that envoy?" ”

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About the title of the adult, do the text copying:

According to page 29 of the Dictionary of Chinese Titles, the word "adult" has the following meanings:

One refers to the person with high moral character, and there is a "husband and a man, heaven and earth are in accordance with their virtue." "Xunzi" has "My lord, I am Shun, and everything is ready to stand in the south." ”

The second refers to officials or nobles, and "Yi" has "see the dragon in the field, and see the lord." "Hanshu Xu Le Biography" has "Chen Shi has no respect for a thousand times, the land of the land, and he is not a prince or a famous family." ”

The third is the honorific title of the elders, "The Biography of the Later Han Dynasty Book Ma Yan" has "The salty utensils of the Jingshi are different." "The Biography of Li Gu in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty" has "Seeing that all the servants are young, and there is no Confucian master who can be consulted." ”

Four-fingered adults.

I think this should be a little more reliable than Baidu, right?