Chapter Ninety-Five: The country is easy to change, and people are changeable
The world is impermanent, time passes, and I can't erase the memory in my heart, and after falling from the sky, I fell into a coma and didn't die. Instead, I woke up in a daze and found myself wrapped in a white cloth and unable to move, or in a thatched hut, and when I was feeling curious and confused, the door of the small hut was pushed open.
Then, a middle-aged scholar and an old man walked in. The old man is Wang Laoxi, the middle-aged scholar is the noodle restaurant met the scholar who teased me who ate noodles with Wang Laoxi, I woke up and wanted to speak but found that I couldn't speak, I couldn't even open my mouth, maybe my jaw was broken, I thought in my heart, the two of them saw that I was going to ask, so you said a word to me, and began to say:
"That day, old man, I just wanted to save you, but a master jumped out and stopped me, and I had to watch you fall, and I fought with the old woman for a long time but could not leave her, and she rescued the fake city god who hurt you."
Wang Laoxi was still coughing when he was talking, very much like the kind of cough that he had asthma, and I was scared at the time, although my body could not move, but my head could still think, I was afraid that he was asthmatic, and it was not good to infect myself. Although it may be that he saved himself, he shouldn't be so afraid of his life-saving benefactor, but asthma is a terminal disease, and once he is infected, he is almost declared a death sentence, but then I heard the scholar say that I understood that Wang Laoxi was injured by someone, and in order to save himself, he also lost most of his cultivation, and I heard that he also lent himself ten years of longevity.
Although I already believe that these two people saved themselves, but it is a bit to say that borrowing Yangshou, if the lifespan can also be borrowed and returned, then wouldn't the emperor Lao'er use his own authority to borrow the lifespan of others and live forever? I have no choice but to say these words from the bottom of my heart, not because I can't open my mouth now, but because I am grateful.
Although I may be paralyzed for life, but I can be regarded as leaving a life, as the so-called good death is better than living, there are few normal people in the world who want to die, even if they are paralyzed, they don't want to die, and how young I am, then I don't want to die, didn't I say it, only by living can there be hope. As long as you don't die, it's possible to get up again, I thought.
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As fate would have it, I did not end up disabled, but reluctantly became Wang Laoxi's apprentice and began to wander around. He said that he was hiding from his opponents, who had many enemies, and the old woman who wounded him was particularly dangerous. He said that he was dead in the eyes of his parents, and that going back would bring countless disasters to his family, because those evil cultivators would never let me go, and they would probably threaten me with my family. But when he told me everything he had done for me, I agreed to his request and became his only disciple.
Five years have passed since the flow of time, I have seen a lot and learned a lot in the past five years, I have never suffered hardship, I have seen countless situations in the world, the world has also undergone great changes, the world is in chaos... It's not just domestic unrest, slogans everywhere and war going on. The people can be said to have suffered a lot, there are homeless people and thieves everywhere, and there is almost no idle time for the beheading stations at noon gates in various places. And I heard that foreign countries have also been fighting wars in recent years, which is really a big mess in the world.
And the master said: "The chaos in the world is not the work of demons, but the greed of human nature. Unjust death will give birth to resentment, resentment will give birth to demons, demons will give rise to resentment, human nature is not right, resentment will not be removed, and the cycle will be endless, if you want to get rid of its root calamity, you must first correct people's hearts, and the world can be peaceful. ”
If people's hearts are not right, they will give birth to demons, but who can save the world, and throughout the ages, that people have followed the uprising with infinite illusions, and in the end?
The war is finally over, the Qing court finally announced its abdication, and suddenly it became the Ming Kingdom, originally thought that after the change of dynasty, there was no emperor and no hereditary prince Baylor, and I heard that this is a new society where the people are in charge of what kind of democratic country, and I also glanced at the notice, and I knew what the word 'democracy' was when I saw the notice, and I thought that this was really a good thing for the world, and the people could finally stop suffering.
But that's not the case!
The red sun is shining, and the hot sun is grilling the earth! The yellow earth is roasted and exudes layers of heat, the woods on both sides of the road, and the wild grass on the side of the road are roasted and wilted a little burnt, it seems that a little spark can cause endless mountain fires, and the insects hiding in the grass and woods also seem to feel that the heat is unbearable and squeaky, and it seems that they are also venting their dissatisfaction with the hot weather.
After walking all morning, I was tired and thirsty, I pursed my lips that were a little chapped, pulled out the cowhide bladder around my waist, twisted it and pulled out the wooden cork, and drank the last few drops of nectar.
I can't see the small points of fame, the master said, these are the places he walked when he was young, take me through, and after he dies, I will have to walk every few years, and I will have to walk.
The master turned his head to look at me at this time, and saw that I had drunk all the water in the kettle, and handed over his water bag with a shake of his hand. When people are hungry and thirsty, they will forget those poor and exquisite, and I naturally will not dislike drinking a pot of water, and I do not have the capital to dislike, so I opened the wooden cork of the water bag, knock dong, and drank a few big sips. 'Water is the source of life' drank a few sips of water and felt that the whole body was refreshed, and returned the water bag casually, and said obediently:
"Master, how long do we have to get to our destination this time?"
Master Wang Laoxi glanced around and said, "Oh, if I'm not mistaken, there should be twenty miles to arrive, remember that when I traveled here, I once moved a local mansion outside the courtyard." By the way, that yin house is in that direction, what do you think of that place? ”
Saying that, the master pointed to the right front, a big mountain, looking from afar, I saw that the mountain was foggy, so arid and cloudy, not a big river in front of the mountain, or there was a swamp wetland in the belly of the mountain, to a good land of feng shui, but Fuyuan looked out and couldn't see the truth. And these old men have not seriously taught themselves to look at feng shui, the little ghost has caught a few, I said truthfully: "Master, the disciple can't see the truth with his clumsy eyes." ”
Master Wang Laoxi looked at me and smiled, and said: "After arriving at the town in front of me today, I will teach you a simple feng shui technique, although I am not good at it, but this is also a food and livelihood, you should also learn some." ”
I immediately responded, over the years, the master has taught me almost all of what the Five Elements Dunjia technique and some Qi training methods and some Bu Gang, and the Five Elements Dun Jia is passed on by his word of mouth, and he also requires me to never pass it on, unless I really pass on the disciples, and Bu Gang and Qi He said that if he encounters someone who wants to learn, he can teach one or two.
Most of the secret techniques of Taoism are never passed on, which I can understand, but the old man asks himself to educate others, which makes me a little incomprehensible, Taoism is different from Buddhism, Taoism pays attention to a chance, if you accept disciples casually, Taoism will not be so end-of-the-road.