Chapter 33: Three Questions and Two Answers, the Iron Tree Blossoms

With such a clear blue sky, people can't help but sigh that nature is more beautiful than in pictures.

Two rows of egrets converge in the shape of arrows, following the leading heron to fly leisurely in the blue sky.

The mountain stream trickles, and I don't know where it will flow through the source.

Several wooden houses were hidden by dense forests, and the squatting beasts on the wings and horns looked like living creatures perched on the branches, watching the world.

There is no fog here, there is no sea of clouds, everything is very clear and thorough, at a glance, only the emptiness is clear and clear, if you bring the troubles and sorrows of the world here, I am afraid that it will pollute this place.

Outside the mountains, green mountains.

Yun Feng now finally understands what Mozi said back then, and it turns out that the real "green mountain" is hidden in the mountain.

"One flower, one world, one leaf, one universe. Yun Feng thought about it, and when he looked back, the maple tree was still standing quietly among the cliffs, and from time to time maple leaves fell in, all over his feet.

In the middle of this, Yun Feng felt that his steps were also a lot lighter, the air was filled with the smell of grass, that was the vitality of life, he untied the rope and walked forward along the path, the mirror in his heart that he had never had.

"Anyone?" As if he was afraid of disturbing the peace here, Yunfeng's voice couldn't help but become much softer. He didn't want people to think he was trespassing, so to avoid misunderstandings, it was best to find someone to explain the situation first.

Everything here is natural, and nature here refers to a state of laissez-faire. The wooden house was clean but old, and an unknown bird had built a nest under the eaves, and several chicks poked their heads out and chirped, as if to welcome Yunfeng, a guest from afar.

"Anyone? I'm here to take the test. "No one came to sweep the fallen leaves in front of the court, there were moss entanglements on the stone benches, except for the chirping of birds, beasts and insects, only the sound of clouds and wind drifted in the deep valleys of the empty mountains.

"Strange ......" Yun Feng was puzzled in his heart, could it be that the Dongxu Academy has been empty and no longer exists in the past ten years? But although the houses here are integrated with nature, they are not dilapidated, and there should still be people living in them.

"Exam?" a serene voice sounded from behind Yun Feng.

Yun Feng was startled, turned around, and saw an old woman appear behind him at some point, but he didn't notice it in the slightest.

For some reason, Yun Feng was a little panicked in his heart, not only because the other party suddenly came behind him, but also because the mother-in-law in front of him felt very weird.

The wrinkles on his face are deep, his lips are a little crooked, and his eye sockets are deep, and if you don't pay attention, you don't seem to be able to see those small eyes. She was leaning on a wooden staff, her shriveled hands peeking out of her robe.

"Hello mother-in-law, may I ask if this is Dongxu Academy? Yun Feng is not a person who judges people by their appearance, and besides, it is not an ordinary person who can appear here, he suppressed the doubt in his heart, and asked the other party politely.

Granny Hua never expected such a coincidence in the world, a few days ago she was invited by Yuan Yuan Chen Ming and a few people to save each other, but she didn't expect to find this place today. However, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and it is not easy to enter the mountain gate, Granny Hua felt that it was very likely that Chen Ming and the others revealed the method to the other party, otherwise how could he enter here with his cultivation.

However, what surprised Granny Hua was that she hadn't seen her for a few days, and the young man's injuries in front of her had actually healed, you must know that it was inconceivable to keep the sea of qi under such a heavy blow, even if it was a Skywalker with a more tenacious body than ordinary people, I am afraid that he might not recover so quickly.

"You just said that you came to take the exam?" A kid who has not yet entered the realm of gathering qi, Granny Hua naturally won't take it to heart. However, if Chen Ming and the others did not reveal the location of the academy, then the other party's origin would become very suspicious.

"Yes. Yun Feng didn't know that the old woman who was standing in front of him at this time and made him feel crazy was actually the life-saving benefactor who pulled him back from the ghost gate a few days ago. At this time, he only wanted to enter the Dongxu Academy, and seeing that the other party did not deny it, he was even more happy in his heart, so he hurriedly took out the announcement and handed it to the other party: "Librarian's exam." ”

The announcement is very clear: only those who pass the exam can be hired.

There can be no mistake in handwriting, and there are seals. Granny Hua only glanced at it, and confirmed that it was indeed left by the husband when he was traveling. In fact, not long after her travels, she received a letter from him containing questions related to the exam.

That night, Granny Hua only stayed in Tanhua County for two or three hours, and after ensuring that Yunfeng was out of danger, she returned to the academy, so naturally she had no way of knowing the legend. She never imagined that the announcement mentioned in the gentleman's letter would be posted in Epiphany County.

"Follow me. Granny Hua had let down her guard at this time, and she had a little more expectation in her heart, and now it seemed that the young man had indeed found this place with the prompt on the announcement, and there had been a walker with a higher cultivation level than him who had come to Qingshan, but no one could see through the reality.

Perhaps, this is the genius of Mr.

Dongxu Academy is only open for those who are destined.

From behind, the old woman's figure was even more rickety, and each step she took looked extremely slow, but it was getting farther and farther away from the clouds.

"You may be seated. ”

Yunfeng followed the old woman to a bamboo house that was transparent on all sides, and the other party motioned for him to sit at the desk.

The bamboo fragrance is elegant, and the wind is smooth.

"You have an hour to answer. Granny Hua took out the test questions from a bamboo frame, placed them in front of the Yunfeng case, raised her cane and gently touched the incense pillar, and a wisp of green smoke slowly rose.

"Let's get started. Granny Hua was not present to invigilate the exam, and after finishing speaking, she slowly left with a cane.

Yun Feng focused his attention on the test questions, there were three in total, all of which were questions and answers.

One of them:

Han Qing, the left minister of the Zhou Dynasty, is still an open-minded person, generous and informal. The right prime minister, Li Yue, was jealous of Han Qing's favor from the emperor. One day, Li Yue took advantage of the famine in the south to slander Han Qing for enriching his pockets, which made Long Yan angry and put Han Qing in prison. The following year, the emperor died and the new emperor ascended the throne, and Han Qingguan was pardoned and reinstated to assist in the government.

Li Yue made a mistake in his position due to the dispute between the crown prince and was exiled to the frontier by the new emperor. After Han Qingguan was reinstated, he persuaded the new emperor to continue to reuse Li Yue, saying that he had considerable prestige among the hundred officials and could not be missing. The new emperor adopted Han Qing's advice, and Li Yue was ashamed when he learned about it, so he put down his mustard and devoted himself to assisting the new emperor.

Han Qing's act of repaying grievances with virtue, what is it?

Yun Feng is naturally familiar with this good story. Later generations' evaluations of Han Qing are all praises and praises, and Yun Feng also admires Han Qing's selfless and tolerant spirit from the bottom of his heart. However, if you ask Yun Feng if he can also repay his grievances like this, then the answer is no, although Yun Feng admires, but he does not agree.

After thinking for a while, Yun Feng put pen to paper:

If someone stabs you and you give him a thousand gold coins, and if someone else risks his life to save you, then he is willing to stab you or risk his life to save you? If you ask me, I will not have such a big measure, and when others treat me well, I will keep it in my heart and repay it with the grace of a drop of water; if someone offends me, I will return it with a tooth for a tooth!

It's so straightforward that it can't be more straightforward, but this is exactly Yunfeng's attitude towards the world.

Question 1 is completed, question 2:

Patriarch Mozi traveled eastward, saw two children arguing, and asked why.

One son said: "I go near at the beginning of the sunrise, and I am far away in the middle of the day." ”

A child is far away at the beginning of the day, and the middle of the day is near.

A son said: "The beginning of the day is as big as the car cover, and the middle of the day is like a plate, this is not small for the far and the near is big?"

A son said: "The beginning of the day is cool, and the middle of the day is like a soup, this is not hot for the near and cold for the far?"

Please give a verdict.

This question reminds Yun Feng of a myth in the "Book of Legends": In the North Sea, there is a lonely island, and there is a giant living on the island, but because of the surging waves and undercurrents, no one has successfully landed on this island and witnessed it with his own eyes.

One day, a volcano erupted along the coast, and people were forced to take refuge on isolated islands, only to find that the giant's body was getting smaller and smaller as the ship got closer. When people arrived on the island, they were surprised to find that the "giant" was the son of a fisherman who was shipwrecked decades ago, and his body was no different from ordinary people, only because of the existence of a unique air flow in the sea caused the visual difference.

Seeing may not be believing, hearing may not be true - Yunfeng starts from this point and writes again.

The incense pillar burned more than half, and the cloud wind came to question three:

Taoism says: All things are one.

Where does that go?

This question is very concise and clear at a glance, and it seems to be easier than the first two, but Yun Feng frowned.

"Where do you return?" Yun Feng found that the more he thought about this question, the more he was trapped in it and couldn't extricate himself.

Tao gives birth to one, one life to two, two to three, three to all things, the cycle is endless, the Taoist said that the cloud and wind naturally know, this is the same as the Buddhism's ten thousand laws, the law has a heart, and the heart is extinguished. Let's not talk about where one returns, but from all things to one.

All things refer to all things in heaven and earth, and what is one?

The Taoist patriarch "Knowing the North Tour" said: The avenue is everywhere, among the ants, in the weeds, in the tiles and bricks, and in the urine. Ants, weeds, and tiles are all things, but they belong to the Tao. The Buddha also said: A thought arises, a thought destroys the mind, all things are born from the heart, and the heart is just vain, Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing originally, where is the dust?

There should be no place to live, but the heart should be born. In this way, one return to the Tao, one to the heart, one to nothing, and nothing seems to be true, but the real tracing back to the root and concretizing where the one belongs is, then where does the "one" come from?

The incense pillar gradually bottomed out, and Yun Feng didn't have much time to think.

"Tweet ......"

At this time, a bird suddenly landed on the desk, and Yun Feng just buried his head in contemplation and ignored it.

The little bird seemed to be very curious about the ink on the table, and cautiously approached while looking at the strange boy. In its eyes, the young man was undoubtedly very strange, frowning for a while, scratching his head and thinking hard, picking up the pen for a while, and taking it back for a while. During the boy's struggle, the little bird had already walked to the inkstone, and then lowered his head and pecked a few times the ink it had been trying to try, but found that this black thing was very unpalatable, and quickly shook his beak, but happened to throw the ink on Yunfeng's answer sheet.

The bird seemed to be a little dissatisfied with this, and flew away with a plop. Yun Feng looked at the answer sheet, although it was a little messy by the ink, but fortunately, the handwriting was still clear, he smiled helplessly and put away the pen.

A strong wind blew, rustling the books on the bamboo shelves.

The bird flies against the wind, lighter and more cheerful, through the treetops, over mountain streams, swooping low and skimming over the meadows.

A drop of ink drips from the bird's beak and hits an iron tree that looks like fish scales, and this iron tree, which is almost the same as Qingshan, is perhaps the oldest tree species in the entire Qingshan.

At this moment, the trunk of the tree, which was as hard as iron, slowly stretched outward from the center, and a beautiful iron flower bloomed in the green mountains.

The incense is extinguished, and the flower mother-in-law comes on time.

She didn't check the test paper, but just put it away and said, "Wait a minute." ”

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A small country in the eastern part of the Underworld.

A white deer walked slowly on the path, its whole body was snow-white, its body was sturdy, its antlers were extremely long, and a pair of spiritual eyes eclipsed all the strange beasts.

A white crane flew from the sky and landed on a dusty stalk.

On the white deer, there was an old man sitting.

The old man took the small bamboo tube at the foot of the white crane, and then saw the somewhat dirty answer sheet and smiled.