Chapter 13: Living Like a Person (Seeking Acceptance and Pushing)

If you want to buy a house in the city, you must first know that there is a house for sale. Unlike buying a house and going to the sales office in later generations, buying a house now really requires more inquiries. As a butcher in Pigeon City, Liu Daneng has a lot of connections in this regard.

After eating at Liu's house and treating Liu Daneng's mother's pulse, Xu Zhengdao said goodbye and left. Although he can stay overnight at Liu's house, Xu Zhengdao still likes to be alone. Besides, living in Liu's house has to squeeze a room with Liu Daneng!

In fact, for Xu Zhengdao now, the number of times he really sleeps in bed is really not much. During the years he lived in the mountains, he basically meditated and practiced until dawn at night. The number of times I don't practice and only sleep can be said to be pitiful.

Even if he doesn't sleep at night, he still doesn't feel bad the next day. But on crisp autumn days, he occasionally takes a lunch break. All in all, his current lifestyle seems to be very different from that of ordinary people.

made an appointment with Liu Daneng to meet again tomorrow, and Xu Zhengdao, who left Beiwan Hutong, also began to wander around. Looking at the endless crowd on the street, Xu Zhengdao in the crowd, there is always an illusion of being out of place.

sighed in his heart: "I stayed away from the crowd for too long, and I really didn't feel comfortable." If you want to adapt to the new life in the city, you have to have more contact with people. The problem is, in my past and present lives, I was not good at socializing! ”

Xu Zhengdao, who was very distressed, could choose to go back to the mountains to continue to live in seclusion. But he knew that escaping would never solve the problem. If you want to continue to make breakthroughs in cultivation, Hongchen experience is also an indispensable part.

This kind of experience is more of a state of mind experience. For metaphysical cultivation, state of mind comprehension is also very important. If the mood is unstable, it is very likely that when the cultivation breaks through, it is very likely that you will go mad. In Taoist practice, it is also called the inner demon!

For example, Xu Zhengdao was in the mountains before, secretly helping patrol and hunt down two criminals. When ordinary people encounter this, they often avoid it. Even if he succeeds in the end, it is difficult for ordinary people to be calm in the face of the two lives that have been lost.

From this point, it can be seen that Xu Zhengdao, who became a metaphysical cultivator, has become different from ordinary people in spirit, consciousness, and psychology. These cognitive manifestations that are different from ordinary people, without control or self-restraint, are also prone to problems!

Moreover, there is a commentary in the Tao Te Ching that "the experience in the red dust, and the wisdom in the red dust" is corrected, which shows that the Taoists have a very high conclusion about the secular experience of the red dust very early, and they understand the importance of this experience to the monks.

After being in the red dust, experiencing suffering, experiencing turmoil, and even seeing through the warmth and coldness of human nature, there is still a precipitation, which is called cultivation. This may be the reason why some people say, 'Small hidden in the wild, big hidden in the city'!

"Looking at the various states of life, tasting the warmth and coldness of the world, this may be the practice that I have to face and perceive when I enter the city!"

Realizing this, Xu Zhengdao quickly felt that he seemed to be no different from the ordinary people around him. Since you want to experience Hongchen, you should not classify yourself as a monk, but you should also regard yourself as an ordinary person.

Thinking about this, Xu Zhengdao couldn't help but chuckle and said, "It seems that cultivation is really everywhere, and you can comprehend it by going shopping." The mood has been improved, and the follow-up cultivation is a breakthrough, so you don't have to worry about being trapped by the demons! ”

Walking on the street, Xu Zhengdao mixed in the crowd, and soon forgot the identity of Xuan Xiu. Seeing some fragrant snacks on the street, he, like other ordinary people, couldn't help but pay for one to taste.

Until nightfall, Xu Zhengdao also found a place to live tonight. If you want to stay in a hotel this year, you need to issue a certificate or a letter of introduction. Without a certificate or letter of introduction, even if you have money, many regular hotels and hotels will not accept them!

As for informal hotels and hotels, Xu Zhengdao is also not interested in living. Anyway, he didn't have to sleep at night, and when he came out of the mountains, many daily necessities were put into storage rings. If you want to spend the night, just find a place in the city with mountains and trees.

Places like this are still relatively easy to find on the outskirts of the city. After confirming that there was no one nearby, Xu Zhengdao performed the dragon walking technique and quickly disappeared into the jungle at night. In the jungle on the outskirts of the city, there is also a lot of snow that has not yet melted.

After finding a place deep enough and sheltered from the wind, Xu Zhengdao immediately took out the tent he had made out of oilcloth from the storage ring. Once the tent was set up and the makeshift stove was set up, the next step was to prepare for cooking.

In the past few years of seclusion in the mountains, Xu Zhengdao's outdoor survival experience goes without saying. With a storage ring, even if he falls on a desert island, he asks himself if he can still live freely. Of course, the premise is that there are enough materials in the storage ring!

Looking at the lit firewood, Xu Zhengdao thought for a while and said: "It's too troublesome to stir-fry and cook, so it's better to eat a simple meal at night." Then make a claypot rice, cut a few slices of bacon and steam them together, the taste is still quite good. ”

Xu Zhengdao, who was squatting in front of the stove and talking to himself, quickly found the ingredients and rice to make claypot rice. After washing the rice in the casserole, put it on the simple stove to steam first, and add other side dishes later.

While waiting for the rice to be cooked, Xu Zhengdao also briefly observed the environment around the mountains and forests. In his opinion, with the continuous expansion of the city in the future, the mountain in front of him, which is still lush with vegetation, is very likely to disappear or become a place for citizens to go and relax.

It's a pity that he had never been to Kyoto in his previous life, so he didn't know much about the city, and his predecessor in this life has just as little memory and understanding of the city. The information available for reference is extremely limited.

But Xu Zhengdao still quickly analyzed: "This location now belongs to the urban-rural junction. But in a few years, it will also become the core area of the new city. If there is a house for sale in the vicinity, you can actually consider it.

Buy it and live in it for a few years, and wait for the demolition in the future, and it is not bad to be a demolition household at that time. The important thing is that the price of a house in this location should not be high now, and it is a house with a single courtyard, so there will not be too many people to disturb it. ”

I know that this is not too far from Beiwan Hutong, and if you have a job in the city, it must be very hard to live here and commute to work every day. can be replaced by Xu Zhengdao, who does not need to rush to find a job for the time being, then the situation is naturally different.

"Wait for tomorrow, let's take a look at the house that Lao Liu heard about first. Two big yellow croaker, tomorrow I have to find a place to sell them for money. Although I have saved a little money in the past few years, I want to buy a house with that little savings, but I am afraid that I can't even afford a single room! ”

Every time he entered the city before, in addition to selling the hunted prey, Xu Zhengdao would also sell some accumulated dried animal skins. As for the medicinal materials, he also collected a lot, but he never thought of selling them.

Sometimes there are few living materials that need to be purchased, so the money earned from hunting can naturally be saved. In addition, when the master was dying, he also left Xu Zhengdao more than 1,000 yuan, as well as various tickets accumulated before entering the mountain to live in seclusion.

Xu Zhengdao didn't spend any of this money, and now he stays in the storage ring for thoughts. On the contrary, it was those tickets that really saved him a lot of trouble when buying supplies. After all, in this era, in addition to money, you need all kinds of tickets to buy things!

After dinner, he walked out of the tent to Xu Zhengdao on the top of the mountain, looking at the brightly lit city in the distance, and the messy but equally dazzling lights at the bottom of the mountain. The difference between the city and the suburbs is particularly clear at this moment.

For him, it won't be long before a lamp of his own will be lit in this brightly lit city. This also means that he has already integrated into the city and is about to start a new life that is different from the previous seclusion in the mountains.

For the upcoming new life, Xu Zhengdao is a little apprehensive, but he is more looking forward to it. Reliving a life, plus becoming a mysterious and unpredictable Xuan Xiu, wouldn't it be too embarrassing if he couldn't live like a person?