Chapter Twenty-Eight: Sitting on the Mountain and Eating the Mountain
Zhou Qianqian pondered for a while and said, "This ...... I don't know! "Huh? Zhou Qianqian doesn't know! This disappointed me a bit.
"However, I feel that the little master has been a little impatient lately! Didn't Master Zhang Tianshi say that cultivators are the most jealous of impetuousness? Zhou Qianqian suddenly said that she was the first person to communicate with me, and she could naturally feel the changes in my mood.
"Hey! Don't hide it from Sister Qianqian, the master has been gone for two months, and there is not much food at home...... "I sighed, if the master doesn't come back, I really have to go down the mountain."
"Little master, don't be sad! Master Zhang, he might be back soon! As the saying goes, sit on the mountain and eat the mountain, rely on the water to eat the water, there must be a lot of things in the mountain, you can look everywhere for the little master, and now it is autumn that there must be a lot of food in the mountain. You go find some and store them, you should be able to eat them for a long time! "Zhou Qianqian also came out of the mountains, so she knows the mountains very well.
Yes! I suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a big weir pond in the back mountain, and there should be a lot of fish and shrimp in it. I can go fishing! Fishing not only exercises people's minds, but also gives you a delicious meal, which is great!
"Thank you, Sister Qianqian! Sister Qianqian, then you take care of your injuries, I'll go to the back mountain for a walk! "The thought of being able to eat fish makes my eyes start to glow!
"Good! Little master be careful! Zhou Qianqian didn't forget to advise, I let out a heavy "um" and pasted the talisman paper on the soul altar.
There was no fish hook at home, so I had to find a needle from Zhang Guanshan's room, burn it red, and bend it. I didn't have a fishing line, so I found a roll of sewing line that was fairly strong. I didn't have a fishing rod, so I went to the back mountain and cut a spotted bamboo of the right size and length. Then I dug up a lot of earthworms in the yard before carrying my bamboo pole and leading an iron bucket towards the mountain.
The weir pond is in a mountain col, and the water in the pond is a mountain spring flowing down from the mountain, which is very cool. Around the weir pond is the metasequoia that has grown, it is autumn, the leaves of the metasequoia are a little yellow, and the reflection in the clear water is very artistic conception, which makes people look at the heart and calm down. There are aquatic plants growing on the edge of the weir pond, and there are large and small screws and white shrimp resting on the aquatic plants. It's just that burning screws costs oil, and white shrimp is too difficult to catch without a net, so let's fish honestly!
I hung the earthworm on the hook and threw the hook into the pond. The homemade hook doesn't float, so I can only use my mind to sense whether there are fish to eat. If the big fish is not enough, the hook and fishing line made of sewing needlework is not so good. If you break your fishing tools for the sake of a big fish, the result is no less than killing a chicken to get its eggs. So, I can only catch small fish when they come to eat the bait. Originally, this fishing thing was to satisfy my appetite, but I didn't expect that in the end, it would raise my mental power to a higher level, of course, this is a later story.
At first, I could only feel the rope moving in my mind, but when I lifted the rod, the bait on the hook was always gone. I was a little discouraged, I didn't expect it to be so difficult to catch a fish, but when I was in Linjia Village before, I saw that my neighbors always fished one at a time, as if it was easy. I felt a little impetuous, so I put the fishing rod aside, meditated and recited the Tao Te Ching for a while, and then picked up the fishing rod again after my mind was completely calm. This time, I closed my eyes and placed my mind completely on the hook, feeling the slightest movement under the water.
It's coming, it's coming...... As soon as the fish bit into the hook, I immediately lifted the rod and saw a crucian carp about two fingers wide hanging on the hook and struggling with its tail. I almost jumped with joy when I caught a fish, I caught a fish. Worried that the sewing thread would not be able to withstand the fish's struggle, I quickly removed the crucian carp from the hook and put it in an iron bucket. Watching the fish swirl in the bucket, I grinned......
With one, it's much easier to have two, three, four. At the end of the morning, I counted more than a dozen fish, enough for me to have a good meat meal! When I got home, I cleaned up the dozen or so crucian carp and made a pot of braised fish with a little soy sauce. I didn't cook my lunch either, and the fish alone completely filled my stomach.
In this way, every day I would go to the weir pond to catch some fish and come back, and back then, as my mind became stronger and stronger, the speed of fishing became faster and faster. However, I still insisted on catching only 10 fish a day, and the master said that those who cultivate the Tao should abstain from greed and greed, otherwise it is easy to lose their hearts.
After another two months, the wheat in the fields below the mountain had begun to turn green, and the trees on the mountain were only sparsely yellow leaves, and the weather had become colder, and Zhang Guanshan still did not come back. I can't help but be a little worried, I don't know if he's been delayed by something or something! When I fled here with Zhang Guanshan, I didn't bring any clothes, and I didn't feel that the weather was warm before, but now the weather is so cold, and when I get up in the morning, there is a thin layer of frost on the grass on the ground. I didn't have thick clothes, so I didn't dare to go out, so I had to hide under the covers every day. It's just that it's not a way to keep going like this, I saw the two hundred yuan that Zhang Guanshan left me in the drawer, I guess he should have expected that it would take him a long time to go out this time, otherwise he wouldn't have left the money for me!
I found a thick dress by Zhang Guanshan and tucked the hem into my pants, although it looked a little weird, so I didn't have to drag it that long. I carried the backpack that Zhang Guanshan used every time I went to town, and when I left, I thought about it and put on my canvas satchel that I used to hold magic weapons and charms!
It took more than two hours to walk from Zhang Guanshan's house to the town, so in order to be able to come back early, I set off just after dawn. I took all the two hundred dollars with me, one of which I put in my breast pocket, and the other one which consisted of ten pieces of ten dollars, which I put in the pocket of my coat for convenience. The first time I went shopping alone with a huge sum of 200 yuan, I was both excited and nervous. Along the way, I would always reach out and touch the money lying in my pocket from time to time, and I felt relieved to feel that they were still lying safely in my clothes bag.
By the time we arrived in town, the sun was already high and there were already a lot of people coming to the market on the streets. Originally, when I first arrived in town, I was still a little embarrassed, after all, I was wearing Zhang Guanshan's clothes and it didn't fit. As a result, when I walked through the market, I realized that I was not the only one wearing adult clothes, and there were many children on the street who were just like me. That's right, after all, there are still many poor people, where is the money for everyone to buy new clothes that fit the children? As long as he can have warm clothes, who cares if he fits or not!
I carried my backpack and went straight to a shop where I bought clothes. There are a few people in the store who are looking at the clothes, and the owner is welcoming them warmly. When I walked into the store, the owner just gave me a faint look, perhaps thinking that I was just a child attracted by the new clothes hanging on the wall, so he ignored me.