The barefoot old man walked out of the bamboo building at some point, stood on the cliffside, came to Chen Ping'an's side, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter, you have survived a big pass, and you are thinking about the bittersweet memories?"

Chen Ping'an was interrupted from his thoughts, and after coming back to his senses, he took a sip of wine, turned his head and smiled: "Isn't this good?"

The old man was wearing a plain white linen robe, looking particularly refreshing and neat, "It's not good? It's very good, people have no hope for life, and they don't have any taste." If you can endure hardships and enjoy blessings, you are the real heroes. When I am suffering, don't see people and talk to people about my bitterness, like a little girl, when I am happy, I just have peace of mind, and I have a good life earned by myself, why can I only hide in the bed and steal fun?"

Chen Ping'an nodded, "There may be some words that the old-timers will not be very happy about, but it is indeed what I say in my heart, old-timers, are you willing to listen? I have never told others, even my best friend, Liu Xianyang has never heard of it." ”

The barefoot old man squatted beside the bamboo chair and the boy, "Oh, that miserable and miserable tattered thing when I was a child? ”

Chen Ping'an took a sip of wine, was not annoyed, handed over the vermilion gourd, the old man waved his hand and said that he disliked the wine, Chen Ping'an opened his heart and said slowly: " Even if I practice boxing, I scream in pain every day, and secretly cry a few times, I feel that I am really going to be beaten to death by the old-timers, but until now, I still feel that the most uncomfortable time in my life is when I was a child, once it was the first time I went into the mountains alone to collect medicine, I remember very clearly, the sky is so big, I just carried a big back basket that is almost as tall as my person, at that time, I had a big heart, thinking that the back basket is big, I can hold a lot of medicinal materials, and my mother will get better faster, and then walking, I wear out the skin on my shoulders, give the sun a sun, sweat first-class, hot and painful, the key is that at that time I just walked out of the town, and the thought of wanting to hurt so much for a long time, a day, I really want to die. ”

The old man scoffed.

But it was not a joke Chen Ping'an, but remembered the brocade clothes and jade food of the Cui family's children, generations of hairpins, and the top tycoons of Aquarius, and then when the little cubs practiced boxing, they just stood on the pile, as if they had suffered a lot of grievances, and when they returned to their own home and began to complain to their parents, or when the spring was cold and winter, wrapped in fox fur was similar to wrapping rice dumplings, and when they went to a morning class at home, they felt that they had suffered the greatest suffering under the sky, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, they thought about asking for a big auspicious money from several ancestors, and the old man was not used to this, but the rest of the brothers of the same generation really ate this set, and the crying child had candy to eat。

Chen Ping'an continued: "The second time, I was hungry, the rice tank at home bottomed out, and all the things that could be sold were sold, and I was hungry all day, and I didn't have the face to beg for help, so I walked around the alley, thinking that others would take the initiative to say hello and ask me if I wanted to have a meal by the way." In the winter of that year, it was really cold, it was okay in summer and autumn, no matter how poor the family was, it didn't matter if you wore less clothes, and you could earn some copper money by going up the mountain to collect medicine, and every time you picked medicine, you could also take home wild vegetables and fruits by the way, or borrow an iron hammer from your neighbors, go to the creek and beat the stones, you can knock out the small fish hiding below, go home and stick it on the wall to dry, you don't need to dip it in oil and salt at all, you can eat it when it is dried, and it is delicious. But that winter, there was really no way, if you didn't ask for people, you would starve to death, what should I do, I was thin-skinned at first, and kept telling myself, Chen Ping'an, you promised your mother, you will live well in the future, how can your father and mother have only been gone for a year, just like a beggar? So lying on the bed at that time, I felt that if I boiled up, I could get rid of that hunger, where did I know that hunger was hunger, I didn't faint from hunger, but the more hungry I was, the more awake I became, I couldn't help it, I got up and walked out of the yard, and I walked around the alley, and I wanted to knock on the door several times, but I retracted my hand, and I couldn't open my mouth so much. Later, I told myself that I would take a trip to Mud Bottle Alley one last time, from one end to the last end, and if no one opened the door, tell me Xiao Ping'an, I haven't eaten so late, if not, come in and eat casually. Then I really went to knock on the door and begged someone, but I silently swore in my stomach that when I grew up, I would repay the family who was willing to give me food. In the end, I started walking from the alley at the end of the Cao family's ancestral house, but I walked all the way to the end of the alley of Gu Cang's house, and no one opened the door. ”

The old man laughed, without the slightest compassion, "What's the matter, which door did you knock on at the end?

Chen Ping'an said this, there was not much sluggish and sad look, more and more energetic, like drinking a sip of the best wine, "I had to cry my nose and go back, but I didn't go out a few steps, the courtyard door behind me creaked open, I didn't dare to look back at first, but someone took the initiative to greet me, I quickly wiped my face, turned my head to look, and saw a neighbor carrying a fire in his hand, which is a small stove made of bamboo outside the copper skin, the kind that can be carried in my hand casually, she seemed to be surprised to see me." ”

The old man sighed: "There is no endless road, you kid just eat a full meal for nothing?"

Chen Ping'an wiped his face fiercely, full of tears, but his face was full of smiles, "No, the neighbor thought about it, and asked me with a smile, Xiao Ping'an, you really know how to go into the mountains to collect medicines, do you really recognize those medicinal materials?" Of course I said I did, and I really didn't brag, I would go into the mountains to collect medicine almost every three or five days in the past two years, and I was almost more familiar with the road than Mud Bottle Lane." She smiled, beckoned to me, and said loudly, 'That's okay, Xiao Ping'an, you come here, I'll ask you for something, my body can't stand the cold, I need a few herbs to boil soup to replenish my body, but the Yang family's shop is too black-hearted, too expensive, I can't afford it, Xiao Ping'an, can you go to the mountains to collect medicine after spring, I will give you copper money, but the price must be lower." ’”

Chen Ping'an said softly: "I walked over and discussed things with her, and she handed me her own fire, and after talking about things, she saw that I didn't move, so she smiled and asked, why, I haven't eaten, and I still want to cheat and eat and drink? No, unless it is counted in the money for medicinal materials, I won't let you enter this door!"

Chen Ping'an smiled and looked into the distance, "After my father and mother left, I haven't seen what kind of eyes, many peers scolded me for killing my father and mother, even if I watched them release paper kites from a distance and go down to the river to fish, some people would hit me with stones." There are also some adults who like to scold me for being a mongrel, saying that I am a cheap embryo, even if I am a cow and a horse for a rich and noble family, it is dirty, and it is more in the way than the broken porcelain pieces of the old porcelain mountain. But that day, the woman talked to me like that, saying that you have to spend money to eat, and you must not know how happy I was at that time. When she entered the house to eat, tears suddenly covered her face, and she joked, "Yo, Xiao Ping'an, is my craftsmanship too good or too bad, and I can still eat people to tears?" ”

The old man snorted and reminded, "Have you ever thought that the neighbor actually wants to help you? ”

Chen Ping'an nodded and said, "I didn't expect it at first, but then I ate and checked out more often, and I soon understood." ”

That neighbor was Gu Cang's mother later.

So every time Gu Cangniang quarreled with someone, Chen Ping'an watched from the side, and after a few quarrels and quarrels, she would be rushed up by a group of women who were in a group to scratch her face and pull her hair, Chen Ping'an would run up at that time, protect her, and not fight back, letting the women spill their anger on their heads.

So Chen Ping'an never felt that he was a bad person.

If a good person like Gu Cangniang, no matter how bad her reputation is in Xinghua Lane, Mud Bottle Lane, to him Chen Ping'an, she is a life-saving benefactor, if she doesn't want to repay her, Chen Ping'an feels that she is not a human being.

What's wrong with giving Gu Cang a little loach, knowing that it's a big opportunity, what's wrong.

Chen Ping'an was not distressed at all.

When the world gives you kindness, you must cherish it and cherish it, no matter how big or small.

Therefore, half of the master of the kiln, Old Man Yao, said that sentence, and Chen Ping'an felt that it was the best truth in the world at that time.

If it's yours, grab it, and don't think about it if it's not yours.

No one in the world owes you, but if you owe others, don't take it seriously.

Later, Chen Ping'an treated Liu Xianyang in the same way.

It is Liu Xianyang who taught Chen Ping'an how to catch game, how to make earthen bows, how to fish, and when he went to the dragon kiln to burn porcelain, it was the older Liu Xianyang who was protecting Chen Ping'an.

Chen Ping'an lived so hard from a child to a teenager, and lived to be able to support himself, although he was very willing to be reasonable, but if Gu Cang or Liu Xianyang were involved, such as the time when the mountain ape moved, Chen Ping'an told a fart truth, as long as the ability is enough, then die for it.

Chen Ping'an once said to a foreign girl that if he finds a girl as good as his mother in the future, even if she is bullied by any Taoist ancestor, he will roll up his sleeves and fight, whether he can fight is one thing, and whether he is willing to fight for his daughter-in-law is another thing. married such a good daughter-in-law, I don't know how distressed Chen Ping'an is distressed.

Of course, such a good girl, Chen Ping'an felt that she had found it, but she hadn't said it yet, so she had to go on the next trip.

He must carry the two swords of "Demon Suppression" and "Demon Suppression" that he secretly named, walk up to her, and summon up the courage to tell her loudly, "Miss Ning, Ning Yao! Whether you like me or not, I like you, I like you very much!"

As for whether to be slapped, or if you can't even be a friend, you can talk to her cheekily!

The old man snatched the sword gourd from Chen Ping'an's hand, raised his head and poured a big sip, but he didn't immediately throw it back to Chen Ping'an, and said angrily: "This wine is really bad, you continue to say, trivial pickling is only worthy of being the appetizer of this pot of bad wine." ”

Chen Ping'an thought for a while, and put his hands in his sleeves, "After surviving that winter, I seemed to have opened my mind, my skin was thick, and I was so hungry that I couldn't do it, so I went to beg someone to eat, and then I kept it in my heart again and again, thinking that after the freezing, I could go into the mountain, and I would return the copper money to them, and there would be kind-hearted old people who took the initiative to send me old clothes, I won't feel embarrassed anymore, saying that there is no shortage of things at home, and they are honestly collected." In those years, I tried my best to go into the mountains to collect medicines, but I still made very little money, my strength was too small, and many medicinal materials in Yang's shop were difficult to find, which was also normal, easy to find medicinal materials, where could I earn this money, right? So I helped the neighbors, in the morning I helped them go to the iron lock well to carry water, as soon as there was farm work, I went to the fields to help, at night I would squat over there, help them grab water, so as not to cut off the canal for others, I didn't dare to do it, I needed to hide in the distance, and wait until those young people left, I dared to secretly plane, and introduce the water source into the neighbor's paddy field, and waited until the night watch, saw that the water in the paddy field was full, and then went to fill the ditch dam back, for which I was chased and beaten many times, fortunately, I was young, but I ran fast, and the number of times I really suffered was not much。 ”

The barefoot old man drank the wine leisurely, saying that the wine was not good, but in fact, he took one sip after another, and he really drank a lot, and listened to the small things in the market of Chen Sesame and rotten grain, but the old man didn't feel how upset.

Chen Ping'an said what he thought without hindrance, and felt much happier, so he reached out to take the wine jug, the old man raised his elbow, slapped off the young man's palm, and said unceremoniously: "Wait a while." ”

The old man twisted his fingers around the wine gourd, and said slowly: "Chen Ping'an, you have said so many bullshit things, do you want to listen to the old man talk about some useless truths? These words are the peak of the old man, and he has stood at the apex of the world's martial arts. Would you like to hear it?"

Chen Ping'an smiled: "Say, I like to listen to people's reasoning." ”

The old man stood up, "The old man once met an elegant old scholar on the top of a mountain in Middle-earth, and he didn't know his identity at the time, but he guessed some later, but he didn't understand his old man's good intentions, so he became a miserable field for a crazy old man. At that time, I was chatting with the old scholar, don't look at the old man as a pure martial artist, he kept talking about boxing, but he was actually a serious reader, and he had read a lot of books. After chatting with the old scholar to the end, I asked him for some things that he couldn't figure out, and then the old scholar roughly said some of his truths. ”

The barefoot old man carried the wine jug and began to take a walk, walking in a circle, "The old scholar said that we live in a very complicated world, and many people's words and deeds, even if they are highly educated readers, will still contradict themselves. ”

"Then the question is, what should we do? How should we look at this world where there are many people who talk about reason and do things that don't make sense? There are ways, one is to live purely, my fists are very hard, my swordsmanship is very strong, and the Taoism is very strong, so I use these to break something. Complex problems are simply solved, as long as I am happy. Heaven and earth have rules to restrain me, I will break it with one punch, there is a great road in the world to press me, and I have a sword to break ten thousand laws. Even if I do it so heartily for the time being, I always think like this, I am unswerving, and I have been walking on the road in this direction. There can be such people, but not everyone. ”

Speaking of this, the old man stopped, looked at Chen Ping'an, and laughed at himself: "The old man is this kind of person. ”

The old scholar continued, one is to live very smart, how to save worry and effort, how to come, the word rules, is used to drill loopholes. If a scholar is like this, he is a cynic. Or make a trade-off between reasonableness and reasonableness, choose what suits your own feelings, and it doesn't conform to the reason of the world, so that it is bustling, all for profit, if you can replace this 'profit' with the word 'li', how good should the world be?"

"The last one is to live a very boring life, to think about complex problems more complicated, to break down the truth, to sort it out carefully, and to think about it slowly.

Finally, I want to understand a why. Maybe doing things, going around in a big circle, only to find that I just went back to the same place, but is it really useless? There are still some, after figuring it out, my heart will be very comfortable. It's like...... It's like taking a sip of old wine, warm and delicious. ”

"The Confucian sages admired by our scholars are actually not as perfect and beautiful as the world thinks, and they are full of human flavor, but the real knowledge of Confucianism is by no means so unbearable, even if they do not agree with the four words of human nature, it doesn't matter, but in the end they can persuade people to be good. ”

The barefoot old man walked in a circle, and finally stopped, "The old man is not sure if the old scholar is that person, but now that I think about it, if it is really that person, then the old scholar is willing to say this to me calmly, it is not easy." After all, the old man went to the Middle Earth Divine Continent and smashed other people's yards. ”

The old man raised his arm, poured a large sip of spirits, casually threw the sword-raising gourd to the young man, and laughed loudly into the distance: "In the past, I traveled far and wide, and I didn't vomit or be unhappy!"

The old man stood on the edge of the cliff, stepped out, and looked at the sky, "When I walk between heaven and earth, the scorching sun and the bright moon in the sky, you have to ask me, is it bright enough between heaven and earth?"

The old man turned his head and asked with a smile, "Chen Ping'an! Do you think it's enough?!"

Chen Ping'an was about to bow his head and take a sip of wine, but after hearing the question, he had to raise his head and said in a daze: "Not enough?"

The old man laughed and stretched out his hand to point into the distance, "When I walk on the rivers and lakes, the rivers are surging, and the rivers are rolling, you have to ask me, is the water of the rivers enough to quench my thirst?"

Chen Ping'an took the time to take a sip of wine, and after hearing the old man's words, he was a little arrogant for no reason, holding a wine gourd in one hand, and pounding his fist on his knee with the other, and then joined in the fun, and said loudly: "It's not enough!"

The old man said, "When I walk on the top of the mountains, Qionglou Yuyu, Yunhai Immortals, you have to ask me, is the wind on the top of the mountain cool enough?"

Chen Ping'an, whose face was flushed, drank a big sip of wine again, and with the strength of the wine, his face was full of brilliance, and he laughed unpresumptuously and unprecedentedly: "Not enough! Far from enough! Not enough wine, not enough rivers and mountains!"

On the other side of the bamboo building, the two little guys looked at each other.

The girl in the pink skirt is a little worried about her master, will she just become a little drunkard?

The boy in Tsing Yi muttered with a belly, "Master, this is crazy, isn't it? Is it stupid to practice boxing? Hey, then I don't have to practice so diligently? Why don't I be lazy for a few days?

In the end, Chen Ping'an brought a chair and got drunk together.

Since then, there has been one more drunkard boy in the world.