After a few months of ups and downs, I finally realized how difficult it is for a pedestrian, and the so-called unconventional path of the world is nothing more than enough for me and the master to beg for food, because no matter how unusual a person is, I am afraid that he has never tried to starve and suffer twice for three days.

I remember at the end of last month, when we passed through a barren land in the northeast of Henan, we had been on a journey for six days in a row, and did not meet a single family before and after......

Fortunately, I have survived the difficult times, but I do not know what cruel trials I will face in the future, but my determination to do the right thing has become more and more firm.

It's just that in the past few months, my feet have worn countless blood blisters, and the weight of my legs and body has tripled, and walking is not only consuming physical strength, but also consuming my endurance. Compared with the beginning of my apprenticeship, my current physique has indeed grown greatly, and I often walk in harsh environments such as deep mountains and old forests, which has greatly strengthened the degree of training.

Now, not only do I strengthen my physique, but Master also requires me to chant sutras every day, meditate, and practice with each other, but it makes me confused, and once upon a time, I suddenly felt that my isolation from the world was getting farther and farther away, and I was living a completely different life from ordinary people.

Of course, I never complained, because I only had one belief in my heart that sooner or later, I would definitely get Master's approval, so that Master would not regret accepting me as an apprentice!

But there is one thing that I can't get used to so far, Master taught me with the precepts of the Maoshan School, or reprimanded me with the etiquette of the ancients, such as those old-fashioned ancient rituals, Master still strictly observed, I often muttered behind Master's back the old feudal, old thoughts, stubborn, but there was no way, the surface still had to achieve everything that Master expected.

Take a rush, I could have taken a ride, there was an ox cart and we were on the way, people didn't mind giving us a ride, the master just declined the kindness of the people, so angry that I didn't slow down for three days, saying that it was useless, if it wasn't a fair exchange, I couldn't easily accept help, I want to guess, it must be because the one who drove the ox cart was a woman, the master couldn't pull that face, and I was angry......

"Ergou, what are you thinking? Sit down and meditate, take a rest We still have to hurry, we have to rush to the big salt town in front before dawn, according to the guidance of the blood jade bead, Gu Tan should be near the big salt town now. Under the cold moonlight, Master stood quietly on the edge of a mountain cliff not far away, looking up at the cold moon hanging in the sky. Without looking back, he said.

When Master is fine, he likes to look at the empty sky, and I don't know what he is looking at.

"Master, I've been meditating for two hours, and when I just sat down, I remembered our past experiences, and I was a little distracted, hehe!" I grinned.

"The past is like the wind, the past is over, why bother to cling to it." Master glanced back at me and said lightly, "Let's go after resting." ”

"Master, why don't we take the flat road, why do we choose to walk on this rugged and difficult mountain road?" I asked with a look of grievance as I tied the weight bag around my legs.

"It's not that we deliberately don't take the flat road, but we have to take a shortcut, you know, cultivators are not informal, why should they be bound by flatness or ruggedness, let's go." Master said gently, and turned around and walked down the hill, I thought about it, I couldn't understand what Master meant, I always felt that every time Master spoke, he said it in a mysterious way, and never said a word directly.

Jumping down the hill, I took three steps and two steps to catch up with Master, looking at the exit of the mountain not far ahead, I immediately smiled happily: "Master, I am not far ahead of the mountain, I hope there is someone in front of me." ”

"Does anyone have anything to do with us on the road?" Master asked casually.

"Someone has food, and my daily burden is like two people, but I can't eat or drink, how can I hurry if I don't eat?" I pouted, and then complained: "Originally, we helped those villagers solve evil things many times, and they still gave some honorarium, but they were all returned by you, Master, and there was no benefit at all, so it's no wonder that we don't starve to death if we continue like this." ”

"I haven't seen you starve to death until now?" Master suddenly turned around and glared at me, so frightened that I hurriedly shut up, and soon, Master said: "We are not helping those villagers to ask for a reward, this is the duty of us Taoists, as long as we do our duty well, Master Zu has a spirit, and will you be deprived of a bite to eat?" Only a pure heart can ......"

Yes, once I opened the box of Master's reprimand, Master would take the trouble to teach me, and instill in me what he had said over and over again, and I could almost memorize it.

"Have you listened to what the teacher has been saying for so long?" After the master finished speaking, he asked angrily.

"Oooh! Master, I listened, hey, I'm out of the mountain ahead! I hurriedly diverted the topic, rolled my eyes, and immediately found another topic: "Master, look, there is a plain area ahead, maybe there is a village, Master, let's say okay, if you meet a village, you can't hurry anymore, at least rest for one night, and then hurry tomorrow morning." ”

"Alas! Well, as long as you find the village in the first half of the night, you can rest for the night, but if you don't find the village in the second half of the night, just ......" Before the master's words were finished, he suddenly stared at a bend at the foot of the mountain and was silent, I also looked at it in surprise, and sure enough, I was also stunned, in the middle of the night, why are there still people on the mountain road?

On the mountain road, there seems to be a person, pulling a frame car, a frame car in the countryside, two wheels, with wooden planks on it, looks bulky, in fact, as long as the wheels are good, it is still very light, but the focus at the moment is not the frame car, but the other person lying on the frame car.

"Could it be that you are pulling goods in the middle of the night?" I said to myself, and then whispered in Master's ear, "Master, why don't I go down and ask that person, how far do I have to go to get to Big Salt Town?" ”

"Well, there you go." Unexpectedly, the master didn't even say a word, and waved his hand to let me go down the hill and ask for directions.