Chapter 11: True and False Hermits

"Uncle, do you know what the situation is on the top of the mountain now?"

Wang Hai asked expectantly.

The old man frowned, shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

The old man's voice is supported by a force, and his voice is relatively loud.

"Eh, did you see last night's vision, old man?"

Wang Hai asked without giving up.

"Nope." The old man continued to shake his head.

Yes, I don't know.

Wang Hai sighed and rubbed his eyebrows.

Seeing that Wang Hai didn't ask, the old man turned around and prepared to leave.

He didn't plan to go up to the top of the mountain, but he still had to deal with netizens watching the live broadcast, Wang Hai naturally didn't want to let the old man go like this, thinking about finding some more topics.

So Wang Hai continued to ask: "Old man, how long have you been working in the mountains?" ”

The old man stopped, and a little smile finally appeared on his expressionless face, which was a little proud.

The old man said, "I've done it all my life." ”

After saying that, he grinned and showed a mouthful of rotten teeth.

Ooh.

Wang Hai's eyes lit up, he found the topic, and hurriedly asked:

"Then the old man, you should know a lot about the end of the mountain, right?"

"As a Taoist holy place, I heard that many people come to make a pilgrimage every year, and many hermits come to the mountain every year to live in seclusion, right?"

Wang Hai spoke quickly, for fear that the old man would be bored with listening and turned around and left.

The old man glanced at Wang Hai and nodded:

"Yes, a lot of people come every year."

Wang Hai breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and finally answered, so it was easy to say.

And speaking of the hermits in the mountains, the netizens in the live broadcast room were also lively at this time, and they were all very interested.

After all, in modern society, most people are still very curious about the legendary hermit.

So Wang Hai hurriedly said: "Then old man, have you ever seen a hermit in the mountains?" ”

"Yes."

The old man nodded, pursed his lips and continued:

"Are you looking for a Buddhist believer, or a cultivator?"

"Well, I'm not looking, I just want to know about these hermits."

Wang Hai hurriedly waved his hand.

"Uncle, you have been on this mountain for so long, you should know more about these hermits, can you tell me about it?"

Wang Hai asked humbly.

"These hermits ......"

The old man thought for a moment and spoke:

"Half of these hermits are ...... escaping life"

The old man's first sentence made Wang Hai raise his eyebrows, and the netizens in the live broadcast room also became lively and commented one after another.

The old man ignored Wang Hai's reaction, and continued unhurriedly:

"The other half is here to cheat money."

These two sentences really shocked Wang Hai and the netizens in the live broadcast room.

In everyone's impression, or the hermit in fantasy, they are all immortals who have attained the Tao, lived in seclusion in the mountains, comprehended the world and the world, and were at ease.

didn't think about it, but from the mouth of the old man, this hermit became, one is to escape life, and the other is to cheat money.

The old man continued to say unhurriedly:

"Most of the people on this mountain are fake hermits, really, there are not many."

The old man shook his head.

Wang Hai frowned and asked:

"Well, I understand this scam, but why do you say that half of the people are here to escape life?"

"Most of these people who go up the mountain are in their thirties, and even young people in their early twenties."

As he spoke, the old man glanced at Wang Hai.

Then he continued: "It's all grades that are capable of doing things, you don't do things, you come here." ”

"Ask him why he came to practice, just one sentence, it's a lot of pressure."

"Your parents raised you so big, when you come out of school, you don't give back to society, at least earn some money to honor your parents, but as a result, you are under a lot of pressure, so you come to practice."

"It's not about escaping what life is."

The old man said, his voice slightly raised.

"When cultivating Buddha, what is suffering is this life, and what is cultivated is the next life."

"Cultivating the Tao, he is trying to achieve a state with the help of this environment."

"You didn't run here to escape."

Listening to what the old man said, Wang Hai had a sudden feeling, and he found that the old man's expression calmed down, and his eyes became more and more profound.

"It's all brainstorming."

The old man shook his head.

"Boy, get down early."

The old man patted Wang Hai on the shoulder, picked up the garbage bag and tweezers at hand, and slowly went down the mountain.

When Wang Hai came back to his senses, the old man was only left with his back.

"666, this old man is amazing, the sea king has been educated."

"Tsk, I think this old man is a master, this remark is thorough."

"Aquaman, you won't meet the sweeping monk, will you?"

"This old man reminds me of the woodcutter I met on the way in Journey to the West, when Sun Wukong was looking for Bodhi Ancestor!"

"Superior, superior!"

In the live broadcast room, netizens were talking a lot, all discussing the old man who had just spoken.

Wang Hai looked at the old man's back and disappeared into the mountains and forests, and pondered for a long time.

The old sanitation man with his back and his mouth full of rotten teeth didn't care about the interlude on the road, and walked quickly towards the bottom of the mountain.

I lay on the top of the mountain all night last night, and now I am not feeling well, and I am hungry and panicked, and my old eyes are beginning to swear.

He had just lied, and when the young man asked him if he had seen a vision from the top of the mountain, he said no.

Actually, he saw it, and ......

Recalling last night's scene, the old man's gray eyebrows wrinkled tightly.

Last night he was cleaning near the observation deck, and when he was tired, he sat down on a stone next to him to rest, and then a series of visions occurred on the top of the mountain.

Before he could react, he saw a figure riding a bull passing by him, and as far as he could reach, the figure headed west.

He heard someone shouting in the distance, this is Lao Tzu's manifestation.

He naturally knows Lao Tzu, this is a Taoist sage.

He grew up at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain since he was a child, and learned a lot from the Taoist priests and monks on the mountain.

When Lao Tzu passed by him, he seemed to be chanting the Tao Te Ching.

There is a Tao Te Ching engraved on the Louguan platform, he cleans the Louguan Platform every day, and has been cleaning for more than ten years, although he still can't understand many places, but the Tao Te Ching has long been imprinted in his heart.

After Lao Tzu sang the Tao Te Ching, he felt that many of the voices of this chant had entered his mind.

Then the vision vanished, and he saw people surrounding him, and he left the place.

The top of the mountain was already in chaos, and he went down directly after leaving, but after walking for long, he felt his head dizzy, his mind buzzed, and then he fainted in the mountain forest.

Rolling in a bush somewhere, lying down all the time, only woke up now.

When he woke up, he felt that his spirit seemed to be much better, his body bones were a little stronger, and he felt that his sluggish brain seemed to be much more refreshed.

When he woke up, he heard that the top of the mountain was sealed off, and it was forbidden for idlers to wait to go up the mountain, so he didn't dare to check more, and found a path and hurried down.

Then on the way, I met Wang Hai, the anchor who also went up the hill from the road, and there was a little episode.

After the episode, the old man went down the mountain peacefully, returned home, filled his stomach, and fell asleep again.

The old man in his sleep seemed to have a faint golden light on his body.

The wind was blowing and the clouds were flying.

The gales of this prosperous world have been blowing in Wei Yuan's hands, and more and more affected clouds will fly up between this heaven and earth!