3. The vast sea of people - waiting for nothing
On this day, Xuanyi was closing his eyes and recuperating, listening to Xia Huanqing say that there was a visit from Lord Lu Shilong outside the door. Lu Shilong is a family member of Hejian, who is already over fifty years old, and his ancestors have been officials since the beginning of the Kangxi Dynasty. Lu Shilong's father was good friends with Puyun's father, and he was quite meritorious in the siege of the Twist Army and the Westernization Movement, and served as the prefect of Baoding. Lu Shilong was appointed as the prefect of Hejian yesterday, and because he was entrusted by Puyun, he came to visit Xuanyi before leaving Beijing to take up his post.
When Xuan heard the news, he hurriedly asked Xia Huanqing to invite the guests in, and the guests and hosts were polite. Lu Shilong had heard the story of Xuan Yi and the Qin family, so he congratulated Xuan Yi and said, "It is really gratifying to hear that Mr. has regained his sight. Xuanyi smiled slightly, pointed to his eyes and said, "What is blind and what is clear?" There is no blindness without clarity, and there is no clarity without blindness. Yes and there, so is it. ”
Lu Shilong looked at Xuanyi and saw that he was thin and weak, and he had his own style and bones, and Xuanyi was like a palm watching the affairs of the Qin family, and he had insight into the world, so he praised: "Mr. is highly knowledgeable, and he really sees people and things thoroughly." Xuan Yi smiled and said: "I can see it thoroughly, I really dare not take it." As the saying goes, 'knowing people, knowing faces, but not knowing hearts', but for looking at people, I have always thought that it is not wrong to divide people into two categories. Lu Shilong thought that he must have a unique opinion, and arched his hand and said: "Sir, can you talk about it in detail, and I would like to hear about it." Xuanyi went on to say: "When everyone is born, they will get a kind of innate qi, and this innate qi is divided into 'righteous qi' and 'evil qi'. If a person is born with a lot of evil spirits, even if his parents are benevolent people, he will be a traitor. If a person is born with a lot of righteousness, even if he is born in the mud, he will come out of the mud without staining. When I look at Lord Lu, I am upright. ”
Lu Shilong laughed and said: "Mr. said that I am upright, and I am ashamed, ashamed." I just listened to what Mr. said, and I benefited a lot. I just don't know how to perceive good and evil? How to deal with good and evil spirits? I hope that Mr. will give me advice. Xuan Yi smiled and said: "Only with yin and yang can all things be there, and only impulse can make yin and yang harmonize in rhythm, so that all things can coexist in harmony." And I am between good and evil, and when righteousness is insufficient, I make up for righteousness; When the evil spirit is too strong, I will eliminate the positive; When righteousness is too strong, I turn into softness; When the evil spirit is too sharp, I file it. In this way, if I use my void qi to sense everything and everyone, and use my void qi to deal with everything and everyone, I will be invincible. ”
Lu Shilong nodded again and again after hearing this, and said, "Thank you for the master's teachings." In the next running for most of his life, the people and things he sees are often paranoid at both ends of the 'too and not as well', where do you know that any fortune will be reversed when it goes to the extreme, and anything to do to the extreme must be useless, so the good can not be extremely positive, the evil can not be extremely evil, but unfortunately the world is stupid, often pursuing the ultimate. How many people in the world can do it if they are in the void like this, there is no good or evil, neither good nor evil, and the truth is treated with the false? Xuanyi said: "People in the world are greedy, some are obsessed with fame, some are obsessed with wealth, some are obsessed with beauty, and some are obsessed with life. This person's heart is like an axle, fame and fortune are the spokes of the wheel, and only by jumping out of the wheel can he not be burdened by the world. ”
Lu Shilong's life for fame, like a wheel spinning endlessly, He had a moment to stop, listened to Xuanyi's words, and sighed: "As Mr. said, Lu is actually a persistent person." Xuanyi said: "Knowing that it can't be done, it's difficult, it's difficult!" Lu Shilong asked: "In the lower body, I often feel difficult everywhere, can it be regarded as 'knowing that I can't do it'?" Xuanyi said: "Seek benevolence and get benevolence." Since what we seek is to practice the avenue in our hearts and do what we should do, we will succeed. As for the tiredness of the world, it is inevitable that people will not be able to. You must know that if the mind is out of the world, there is nothing to be tired. ”
Xuanyi Immortal Wind Dao Bone, Extraordinary Insight, Lu Shilong has the intention of seeing each other and hating each other; Xuanyi also admired Lu Shilong's heart of worrying about the country and the people in the midst of the chaos and wanting to make a difference. The two talked speculatively and talked all night, until the east dawned, Lu Shilong invited Xuanyi to go to the river with him, and Xuanyi readily agreed. So without waiting for the Qin family to pick it up, he picked up his pen and left a message for the Qin family, and then left. The passage is: 'All things are born in nature, silently. Shake it with thunder and moisten it with wind and rain. People walk in everything, look up to astronomy, and look down on geography. The essence is the thing, the wandering soul is the change, and the way is to help the world, so the family of goodness will have more than a celebration; If you don't accumulate goodness, there will be aftermath. ’
Xuanyi followed Lu Shilong to Hejian, and the Lu family was a first-class family in Hejian, with 100,000 acres of land and hundreds of houses. Lu Shilong also set aside a courtyard for Xuanyi and Xia Huanqing to live in, and Xuanyi began to cultivate in the river from then on.
Seven days passed, and in the afternoon of this day, Xuanyi was explaining the origin of illusion to Phantom Qing, and someone came to visit. Xia Huanqing opened the door and saw that he was a sloppy old man in his fifties, unkempt and unkempt, with a big head like a bucket, and recognized this person as a canopy. Phantom Qing hurriedly let him go to the master's side. After sitting down, Huanqing gave the canopy wine, he knew that the canopy had always only drunk alcohol and not tea, so he was drunk every day, and the smell of wine spread far away.
The canopy was unkempt and informal, and he first drank three glasses of wine, and then asked Xuanyi: "The master came to Hejian this time, is he going to be old here?" Xuanyi said: "Exactly, I am already a body of inaction, and I am lucky to be able to die in a quiet place." Hua Gai asked Xuan Yi again: "The big snake that the master let go, can there be a way to detain it?" Xuan Yi shook his head and said, "I'm worried about this matter, but I have never been able to crack it." Hua Gai laughed and said: "Master mercy, why hide it from me, I see that the master's soul has been out of the shell night after night in the past few days, and he must be chasing the big snake." After hearing this, Xuan Yi smiled and said, "It seems that I still can't hide it from Mr." It was my fault for deliberately concealing it just now. Hua Gai said: "It's a pity that I don't have the master's way, and I can only use the power of wine to reluctantly let the soul come out and wander, and how can I come and go so freely as the master." Otherwise, I would like to help the master to eradicate the great snake. Xuanyi said, "Thank you, sir, for your trouble." In fact, it seems that Mr. is just right like this, but I am too late, so Mr. can get away with the world, and I am ashamed that I have committed a big crime! In the future I will go to hell and suffer there. ”
Hua Gai picked up the flask and simply poured a few big sips, and then said, "Happy! The master said that hell is tormenting, but in fact, this world is not a great hell, except for those who are detached. So in the future, there is no difference between going to hell and going to heaven, it is still up to you. Phantom Qing listened carefully on the side, thinking that Hua Gai's words were to the point.
Xuanyi also drank a few glasses with him, knowing that the canopy has always been outspoken, Xuanyi also said politely: "Mr. came just in time this time, the foolish brother still has something to trust, my two disciples have nothing to do with illusion, I have a three-hundred-word proverb here, it is my life's work, those who are destined to get this, can pass on my illusion, I hope that Mr. will pass him on to those who are destined in the future." After saying that, he opened the box and took a copy of the "Illusion Proverbs" to the canopy. Hua Gai took it, put it in his arms, and said: "Master rest assured, I will visit the destined people to pass on to future generations, so that the illusion will not be extinguished." Xuanyi put his mind at ease, and drank bitterly with Hua Gai again and again, and soon Hua Gai was drunk and left staggeringly.