Chapter 45 Only those who can be at peace can be invincible
The old beggar listened to Ye Cuo's words and said disdainfully: "My life is all given by me, what qualifications do you have to test me?"
In the old beggar's heart, he didn't care about Ye Cuo's words, in his eyes, Ye Cuo was just a young man who was not deeply involved in the world.
He can understand the blood in Ye Cuo's chest, but he also knows that people will be smoothed out by life.
If Ye Cuo was forty years old, and he still had such a pure heart, he would admire it very much, but now-
In his opinion, Ye Cuo is just an ignorant teenager who doesn't know the dangers of the world.
He lost his father in his mother's womb, and his mother was thrown into a well and drowned by the villagers after giving birth to him, because he was considered an ominous person.
He followed his brother until he was seven or eight years old, and was abused by his vicious sister-in-law, doing heavy work every day that adults could not bear, constantly being whipped, being disliked and insulted by relatives and friends of the same clan, and at a very young age, he had already endured the unbearable pain of ordinary people's lives.
Fortunately, he is still quite intelligent, and he is extremely gifted in reading and writing, and there is an old gentleman in the village who is willing to teach him.
However, his luck was not good, and after passing the examination, he was replaced by the children of rich and noble families, he was not convinced, went to theorize, and was arrested and put in prison, beaten every day, and locked up for more than three years before being released.
When he came out, even his own brother no longer allowed him to enter the house.
He had no choice but to beg for food and wander.
The workman was deceived into the black coal kiln, whipped every day, doing the heaviest work, and eating the most unpalatable moldy leftovers;
When he met robbers and bandits in business, he was abducted and burned for the bandits for several years;
finally escaped, found a tailor shop as an apprentice for three years, the master saw that he was diligent and sensible, and married him an ugly daughter-in-law.
On the night of the cave house, he caught up with the invasion of the Dongying people, was captured by the warlord, went to fight for a few years, and because he followed the wrong team, he was defeated and retreated, and became a prisoner.
After being released, he actively participated in the transformation, but he continued to farm to catch up with the great drought in the world, and everyone cannibalized in the famine year, and was almost hacked to death to make adult meat buns.
When people reach middle age, they are destitute, and in the famine, they often do not eat a grain of rice for several days and nights, and they crawl on the ground with hunger, and the whole person has hallucinations.
After surviving the great famine, one year the national scientific expedition team recruited laborers and entered the XJ desert for investigation.
At that time, the conditions of the expedition were extremely harsh, the equipment of the scientific expedition team was very simple and cumbersome, and their group of laborers not only had meager wages, but also had to transport heavy materials.
Of the first laborers who participated in the expedition, thirty-four went and six returned, four of whom were insane, and the remaining two also lost their hands.
In order to make a living, he risked his life and followed the expedition team into the desert, but he was separated from the expedition team in the sandstorm, and when he was dying, he accidentally stumbled into a mysterious desert city.
There he saw a huge stone monument, almost as high as the city gate, towering as a mountain, and carved with all kinds of strange symbols.
At the remaining moment of his life, the old beggar comprehended the essence of martial arts in this mysterious inscription, and had an epiphany overnight, and let out a long roar, which shook the ancient desert city of 300 miles.
The old beggar was forty years old that year, and he originally thought that his life was hopeless, but he attained enlightenment overnight, and spent another three years concentrating on cultivation, and finally became a generation of masters.
Then, with a belly full of hatred, he returned to the Central Plains, killed his brother, killed his sister-in-law, killed all the people, killed everyone who had ever owed him, and killed all their relatives and friends.
Every enemy is exterminated, both male and female, young and old.
At this time, he looked at Ye Cuo and sneered: "Since you said that I didn't pass, then you tell me what your test is?"
Ye Cuo looked at him: "I want to know, what is the meaning of learning martial arts?"
The old beggar said without hesitation: "Invincible!"
"What kind of person can be invincible?"
"Hehe, the old beggar knows what you want to say, do you want to tell me that the benevolent are invincible? Hahaha, big bullshit!"
The old beggar smiled wildly, "Have you ever seen a benevolent person who can be invincible? Let me tell you, a benevolent person can never be invincible, only an invincible person can be invincible!"
The old beggar took a step forward: "I, the enemy is like a forest, and everyone in the world wants to kill, but I have been dominating the world for more than 60 years, and I have not tasted defeat." The so-called benevolent, I didn't kill any of them!"
Ye Cuo shook his head: "I don't think that benevolent people are invincible, unconditional kindness is actually a kind of weakness, I look down on this kind of cowardly and benevolent people." ”
The old beggar laughed: "Then tell me, what kind of person can be invincible?"
Ye Cuo pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "This time the green wolf attack, a few people I know died.
Uncle Li, who sells breakfast, spoke to me in the morning.
I know the situation at home, he has a wife, seven years ago diagnosed liver cancer, but because the cost of surgery is too expensive, he has not had surgery, so he can only lie in bed every day, relying on painkillers to relieve pain.
Because his wife's health has always been poor, and the two have no children, they adopted a little girl.
More than five years ago, on a rare snowy night in the sea of clouds, someone threw it at their doorstep.
Because the two of them have never had children, they were very happy after picking up this girl, and regarded the child as their own flesh and blood.
It's just that they found that the child's mouth has always been dark and green, and from time to time it will be difficult to breathe.
The two of them had no money to treat the child, so Aunt Li secretly decided to give all the money saved for liver surgery to the little girl for treatment.
She hid from her husband, took out all the money, treated the little girl, and named the little girl Luluo, because the pothos is easy to feed and can survive as long as there is water.
However, Uncle Li cried and told me that the two of them would never be able to save any more money for Aunt Li's surgery......"
Ye Cuo's story did not impress the old beggar, his life experience, which one is not worse than this:
"Isn't this a good thing? Life is suffering, and she is also suffering while she lives, since she chose to sacrifice herself to save that little girl, do you still blame others for not saving her?"
Ye Cuo shook his head: "I didn't say that she was qualified to accuse others of not saving him, and I didn't accuse you of not saving Uncle Li, I just remembered a sentence."
When Uncle Li used to tell me about family affairs, he once mentioned that the little green pothos is now growing up, and he will always ask him, 'Where has Mom gone?' Every time I ask, he will feel inexplicably scared.
At the time I didn't understand why he was afraid, but now, I'm afraid that one day, when I see her, she will ask me, 'Big brother, where is my dad?'
When the old beggar heard the phrase, 'Where has my mother gone?', his whole body trembled as if he had been hit in the chest with a sledgehammer.
Where's Mom gone?
This sentence was like a sharp blade, piercing his heart in an instant, and his momentum as sharp as a knife became very chaotic in an instant, causing the entire inpatient building to begin to shake slightly, and countless wall skins peeled off and fell to the ground.
In his mind, a pair of watery eyes appeared, and they also looked at him suspiciously: "Dad, where did Mom go?"
Back then, after slaughtering all his enemies, he thought he would be happy, but he didn't.
He was at a loss.
The enemy, who was originally as unshakable as a mountain, instantly turned into a chicken and a dog in front of him, and he could easily slaughter the other party, watching them roar and beg for mercy in despair, what a happy thing it should be, but why can't he be happy?
After killing all the enemies, he was depressed for more than a year, and he felt that his life had lost his way.
It wasn't until later that he met the most important woman in his life.
Then, he practiced the sword, she stroked the piano, sang and laughed softly, rode the horses and rivers and lakes, sat on the piano and sang every day, drank the turtle's head, and hung books on the horns of the ox, and played the gong and howled.
Envy how many people in the world!
Until the outbreak of the War of the Century in 99, countless brute beasts swept in from the ocean like a tide, destroying human cities and devouring the people who were powerless to resist.
The world is miserable, only he still keeps poetry and wine every day.
In his opinion, the warrior is to change the world into a projectile, swallow the morning glow into a crisp cheese, when he is angry, the sea is cold, and when he laughs, the wind and clouds change, and he looks at the waves and clouds, and the thousand autumns are like a dream!
Transcendent from the world, treat all beings as ants!
However, the woman did not think so, and the two had a big fight, and she participated in the war with a six-month pregnancy.
The old beggar was not a beggar at that time, he just watched it coldly, watching countless people die in the mouths of brute beasts, watching countless people die in front of his eyes.
It wasn't until later that someone brought him a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and told him the news that the sky was falling.
He was furious, slashed the sixth-order brute beast with his sword, and pursued hundreds of miles of sea, and everywhere he went, the corpse of the brute beast floated, blocking the passage of ships.
But it's too late!
No matter how many brute beasts he killed, time would not be able to turn back his sword.
He threw away his sword, picked up the baby, and disappeared from everyone's memory.
A year or two has passed, and the baby in the swaddling clothes has gradually grown up, and can call Daddy, can speak a word or two, can speak complete sentences, and will ask "Daddy, where has Mommy gone?"
This sentence disturbed his heart, and from then on, his cultivation could no longer move forward.
The daughter gradually grew up, gradually knew about the past, and gradually ignored him, until one day, the daughter said to go to her mother, and then disappeared.
Twenty years have passed in a hurry, he has not made any progress for twenty years, and every time he wants to break through the level, he can always think of those eyes with doubts, and where did his mother go.
The past kept flashing in his mind, and in the end, the old beggar slowly thought of the present, thought of his inexplicably bound system, and inexplicably asked to accept the apprentice.
His eyes gradually cleared up, and he looked at Ye Cuo: "Then you tell me, what kind of person is invincible!"
Ye Cuo sighed: "I don't know!
Perhaps, if it were just a gesture for me to save people, I would not have watched those innocent people die.
They don't have a grudge against me, and it won't waste much time saving them, so why not save a life and the breadwinner of a family with a single effort?
Seeing people die in front of me and do nothing, I'm afraid that in the days to come, every sleepless night, I won't be at ease.
So I'm thinking, it should be the one who can be at peace to be invincible. ”