Chapter 192: Human Essence 9
Xiaomi looked at the brick house near and the brick wall in the distance, and looked at the crowd around him, trying to understand the feeling of not having a home as the old man said. Baidu search
"You don't have any emotional connection to everyone in the world?" Xiaomi asked as she walked.
"Haha, yes." The old man's laughter was dry.
"So, aren't you one of the ruthless beings?" Xiaomi remembered what Ma Xiucai had told her that the world was divided into sentient beings and ruthless beings. The human spirit old man can be said to be the spirit of sentient beings, but the first righteousness of his cultivation is to abandon feelings, and his behavior is similar to that of ruthless beings.
The old man laughed again, laughing so hard that the hand on Xiaomi's shoulder trembled.
"What are you laughing at?" Xiaomi didn't think what she had just said was funny.
The old man said, "Do you know how it feels to follow you through this crowd now?" ”
"I don't know."
"It's like walking in the forest."
"What does it feel like in the forest?"
"yes. To you or others, I am close to the heartless beings. But in my opinion, the people around me are heartless beings. I walk here like I am walking in a silent and dead forest. They have nothing to do with me and don't care about me. I have nothing to do with them and don't care about them. Each of them is like a tree in the forest. Don't talk about it here, the north and south of the river, the outer frontier, are all uninhabited forests for me. Sometimes I have the illusion that I am the only one left in this world. The old man said slowly.
"But...... Other people have people they like and things they care about. How can it be a ruthless being? "Millet doesn't understand the old man's thoughts.
"The people who are related to me are sentient beings; People who have nothing to do with me are ruthless beings. You will like a place, a city, a taste, a thing you don't like because of a person. That place, that city, that smell, that thing that you don't like, all become sentient beings. Because you have the feelings to communicate with them, as if they can feel it too. When that person you like is gone, or there is no person you like, that place, that city, that smell, that thing that you don't like, that's what you don't like, that's what you call a ruthless being. ”
Xiaomi thought as she walked.
"This is the ruthless beings and sentient beings of my personal world, and it has nothing to do with the ruthless beings and sentient beings in the Buddha's teachings." The old man said.
Xiaomi remembers that Ma Xiucai said that sentient beings are all beings with feelings, sight, hearing and awareness. If a person can't feel the other person's feelings, and if he can't feel the other person's awareness of what he sees and hears, the other person is a ruthless being? Xiaomi feels that it has gradually gained the experience of an old man.
"It turns out that it is also possible to distinguish between sentient beings and unforgiving beings in this way." Millet said.
A man walks everywhere in search of eternal life, only to end up living in a barren world. Is this the happiness of human spirits, or the helplessness of human spirits?
"It's almost there. Don't be nervous, just take me out of the gates. The old man shook Millet's shoulder.
Xiaomi looked up and saw that the blue brick city gate in front of him was already close in front of him.
Getting closer, she heard the shouting of the soldiers guarding the gates.
When they walked under the city gate, the soldiers guarding the city gate did not embarrass the little girl and the blind old man who was hobbling with his steps. After all, it is difficult for a little girl who has not yet grown up and an old man who can't see the road clearly to arouse suspicion.
After walking far away from the city gate, the old man stopped and said to Xiaomi, "That's it." Thank you. You can go back. ”
Xiaomi was reluctant and said, "I'll give you another paragraph." ”
"No need. I don't need anyone to lead the way, you know. The old man said.
Millet stood still.
The old man walked around Millet and continued to walk forward.
Millet asked behind him, "Aren't you afraid of getting lost in the forest of merciless beings?" ”
The old man replied without looking back, "I have no destination, how can I be lost?" It's the same everywhere. ”
"Hopefully we'll see each other again."
The old man did not answer, and walked farther and farther.
Seeing the old man's back disappear, Millet turned around and went back to the city.
After returning to the dog meat house, Xiaomi asks Helian Tianma when he will return.
Helian Tian said: "It's almost there, it's almost there." ”
In fact, my father was still trapped in a small town not far from Fushun by the rain. When he was bored, Dad played chess with the innkeeper to relieve his boredom.
The two talked about speculation and had good chess skills, so they gradually became friends.
Daddy noticed that the innkeeper had a daughter who shut herself up in her boudoir all day and night, and rarely came out.
Once, my father was playing chess with the innkeeper when the owner's daughter came out of the boudoir.
When Grandpa saw it, he was shocked, this boss's daughter is too thin! It's just skinny! It seemed as if a gust of wind could blow her away.
The boss's daughter took something and went back to the boudoir. Because she is too thin, she walks quietly.
Seeing her go back to the room, her father whispered to the boss, "Why is your daughter so thin?" If she is sick, she should be taken to the doctor. Besides, you have to persuade her to go outside and walk around a lot, because every day she stays in the house and doesn't see the sun, and the trees will wither. ”
The boss sighed: "Mr. Ma, how can I not know how to cherish my daughter? But I tried my best but I couldn't get her better. ”
Grandpa put down the chess game for the time being and asked, "Has she always been so thin?" ”
The boss said: "That's not it, she was fat two years ago, and she was unbelievably fat." I only lost weight last year. ”
"In this way, it's not a disease, it's a heart disease."
"Well, she's been through a bizarre past, but it's not a good thing."
"Can you tell me about it? Maybe I can help. Daddy said.
The boss said: "My daughter had a serious illness when she was 19 years old, and she was very thin at that time, but she was not where she is now. At that time, she needed help to walk. ”
"Was she so thin before she was fat?" Daddy asked.
The boss nodded: "Yes." ”
"Then how did she get fat later, and how did she lose weight like this after she got fat?"
The boss said that when his daughter was 19 years old, he sought medical advice everywhere, hoping that her health would get better, so as not to delay the best age for marriage. But the doctor has seen countless people, and the tonic has been taken countless times, and my daughter's body has not shown any signs of improvement.
Later, a man dressed in student clothes came to the hotel, he claimed to be Zhu, and he was going to school in such and such a place.
The boss saw that he had round eyes and big ears, a fat face, a lot of fat on his body, and a bulging belly, not like a scholar. However, the inn was full of guests, and the owner did not investigate his identity. Besides, now the world is chaotic, the fish and dragons are mixed, and there are people in the righteous and evil ways, the white and the underworld, and it is easy to get into trouble if they are too talkative. Even if you know that it is suspicious, you must turn a blind eye, otherwise this hotel will not be open for long.
It seems to be a coincidence, but in retrospect, it seems to have been premeditated, and after the scholar lived for a few days and saw the boss's daughter, he took the initiative to find the boss and said that he could cure the boss's daughter's illness.
The boss saw that Zhu didn't look like a doctor and didn't believe that he could cure the disease.
Prior to this, many Jianghu Langzhong who sold dog skin plasters took the initiative to ask Ying to treat his daughter, but most of them cheated the medical bills and had no follow-up. The boss thinks that this weak scholar surnamed Zhu is also a liar.
So the boss refused his request to help with the treatment.
After the boss walked into his daughter's boudoir, his daughter asked him who was talking outside just now.
Before the boss could answer, Zhu broke in.
The boss hurriedly stopped him and scolded, my daughter's boudoir does not allow men from outside the house to enter casually!
Na Zhu pushed away the boss with one hand, walked directly to his daughter's hospital bed, and removed the embroidery covering her daughter, making his daughter happy.
The boss's daughter hugged her body in fright and shrunk into a corner.
Zhu exclaimed: "Such white and tender skin, such beautiful feet, it's really fascinating!" ”
Seeing that he was so presumptuous and obscene, the boss hurriedly called a few subordinates to come in and dragged Zhu out.
When Zhu was forcibly dragged out, his eyes could not leave the body of the boss's daughter.
The owner's daughter hurriedly got up and got dressed, walked around the house, and sat down in a chair.
Seeing his daughter trembling, the boss thought that his daughter would scold him for letting such a reckless and lustful man break into her boudoir, and hurriedly apologized to his daughter.
But the daughter had no intention of reproaching him.
He noticed that his daughter's cheeks were slightly red, panting slightly, and her eyes were flashing. From time to time, she glanced at the door that Zhu had broken in and been dragged away just now, and she was reluctant!