Standing on the edge of the deep valley, Xiaofeng looked up at the light rain that had already fallen, and said to himself: "Rain?

At this moment, an old and abrupt voice suddenly sounded: "Everything is a Tao, and rain is naturally no exception." ”

Following the prestige, I saw a man sitting on the edge of the deep valley, this man was wearing a hat and a robe, and his wrinkled hand was holding a simple fishing rod made of bamboo, and a fishing line was sunk vertically into the river in the deep valley.

When I walked into Xiaofeng, I found that this was a mortal old man, about eighty or ninety years old, with silver hair hidden in the hat, and his facial features could no longer be seen clearly on his wrinkled face.

"Little one, you're also here to fish?" the old man said slowly, old and vigorous, with a kind of vicissitudes of endless years.

"No!" Xiao Feng simply sat down beside the other party.

"Old man, do you know what the Tao is?"

"I don't know... Do you know... I don't know! My old fellow only knows how to fish. ”

Xiao Feng was not surprised by the other party's strange words, but asked, "Are there fish in this water?"

"Is there a fish?"

"Why fish when you don't have fish?"

"That's right, what fish do you catch without fish, but if you don't fish, how can you be sure that there are no fish in the water?"

"If there are no fish, wouldn't it be a wasted effort?"

"The deceased is like a husband, time is like flowing water, no matter what you are doing, the years are passing leisurely, is it really wasted effort?"

At this time, Xiao Feng realized that maybe the person in front of him was not as ordinary and simple as he looked, but he didn't care.

"Old man, you often come here to fish?"

"Not only often, the old man has been fishing here since he was a child, and now more than 60 years have passed!" the old man smiled.

"Then there must be a lot of fish in this deep valley?"

"I don't know!"

"Don't know?"

"Because I've never caught one. ”

"That means there are no fish here!"

"Oh, how can you see it?" the old man couldn't help but turn his head to look at Xiao Feng.

"Since we haven't gotten a fish for more than 60 years, it already means that there are no fish in the water!"

"Little one, you can't blame the fish if you can't catch a fish! Maybe the fish in the water don't like the bait of the old man, or maybe they are too smart to know that someone is fishing. Of course, it is also possible that they don't like the old man and don't want to take the bait, or that the fish haven't arrived yet. In any case, I am to blame for not being able to catch a fish, not the fish. ”

"That's... Old man, why do you like fishing here so much?"

"First of all, the old man doesn't like this place. Second, the old man doesn't like fishing. Third, the old man is not fishing. ”

"Why do you want to be here for more than 60 years? Why do you want to come here for more than 60 years if you don't like fishing?

The old man couldn't help but glance at Xiao Feng again, and then smiled: "Little guy, you have a lot of questions in your heart!"

"Yes, a lot!"

"The old man hasn't answered my question yet. ”

"Do you not know what you don't like? Can you do what you like? Is that what you're doing?"

Hearing what the other party said, Xiao Feng's heart couldn't help but shake, as if he had caught something, but it seemed that he hadn't caught anything.

"Old man, don't you really know what the Tao is?"

"Dao... Know... You know, why do you know?"

"The Tao is the most mysterious existence in this world, why don't you know?"

The old man raised his hand to a mountain peak in the distance and asked, "Little one, do you see that mountain?"

"See, it's about a hundred feet high. ”

"But if you've ever been here, do you know that there's such a mountain in that place?"

"No!"

That's right, whether you know or don't know that there is such a mountain, it will exist here, not to be happy with things, not to be sad about yourself. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Feng's heart suddenly moved: "Yes, mountains are mountains, do I know that they are all mountains, they all exist." The same is true of the Word, whether I know it or not, the Word is there, unchanged through the ages. ”

Xiao Feng couldn't help but turn his head and take a deep look at the old man beside him.

But the other party suddenly: "Little guy, do you know the biggest trick of fishing?"

"Actually, the biggest skill of fishing is one word, wait! You don't have to do anything, just wait there and fish quietly, and the fish will be hooked." ”

At this time, Xiao Feng's heart suddenly grabbed something and held it tightly.

"Go, little one, do what you have to do, and one day what you want to find will come naturally, and you don't have to look for it, and even if you look for it, you won't find it. ”

With that, the old man slowly stood up, put away the fishing rod, and turned away with a slow pace.

Although he walked very slowly, in Xiao Feng's opinion, the other party seemed to have crossed a mountain without taking a step, and in just five or six steps, the old man could no longer be seen in the heaven and earth.

Only one sentence echoed in Xiaofeng's ears: "The Tao is in all things, but the Tao is also in your own heart, just waiting for you to discover it yourself." ”

"The Word is in my heart... The Word is in my heart... The Word is ...... in my heart"

Looking at the old man's disappearing sky, Xiaofeng muttered to himself.

"Do what you have to do, and it will appear on its own...."

Suddenly, the corners of Xiao Feng's mouth couldn't help but show a smile, his eyes were no longer confused, and then he bowed deeply to the sky and walked towards the place where he came.

Just as Xiaofeng was leaving, on the edge of a valley, the old man in the cloth was still fishing.

The corner of his mouth smiled slightly: "Hehe, the little guy is very polite, and it is not in vain for the old man to help you!"

"Yes, yes, I have already started to transform into a spirit in the early stage, and the future is promising... What a bright future!"

..............................

When he returned to the blacksmith shop, it was already noon, Xiao Lin was already selling his spirit fruit outside the shop, and Erfu was staring at the sword and dagger on the shelf.

"Uncle Xiaofeng, you're back!" Xiao Lin immediately flew Xiao Feng and handed over a spirit fruit.

"Xiao Lin, is the spirit fruit selling well?" he didn't refuse, but squatted beside Xiao Lin and ate it with relish.

Xiao Lin was a little embarrassed: "Not yet, but it will definitely be sold later." ”

"Oh, so confident?"

"Definitely, with Uncle Xiaofeng's shop, it will definitely attract a lot of customers, and my spirit fruit will naturally not be sold at that time!"

At this time, Erfu also came out: "I said Brother Xiaofeng, why haven't you seen anyone in the past two days!"

"It's just going around. By the way, how's the business?"

"Well, what kind of business, it's the second day, and no one has even entered the store. ”

Erfu said that it didn't matter, for half a month, no one had entered the shop, which made him so anxious that he almost shouted on the street.

For all this, Xiaofeng just smiled, every day he would go to the tavern to make a pot of wine, and then go to Baihualou to listen to music, and listen to the women's singing under the blowing willows by the Dragon Lake at night.