In the south gate of Haotian in late spring, the green trees and flowers reflect each other beautifully, and in the depths of the lonely palace, Li Qingshan, the national teacher of the Tang Dynasty, was silent for a long time, and then looked at the dirty old Taoist Yinren on the opposite side and said: "Senior Brother Yin, I always thought that there was something wrong with your method. ”

"What's the problem?" Master Yan Se looked at the teacup on the case, thinking about the teacup in the pavilion that day.

Li Qingshan said: "Even if Ning Que has great potential, after all, he has just received the Yin Touch Rune, which is like a blank piece of paper that can be painted, and those subtle inheritance knowledge of the Rune Dao is the result of Senior Brother Yin's lifelong comprehension, as for those dozens of rune classics, it is all the essence of the Yin Kingdom that I have accumulated in the South Gate for hundreds of years." Now that you have thrown all your ancient brains away, you will ignore it, as if you have poured a basin of ink on that white paper, and in the end, only a black paper full of ink smell may appear, and you will not see any beautiful picture. ”

Master Yan Se was silent.

Li Qingshan said helplessly: "Ning Que is now a small teapot with an empty belly, and a small opening has just been opened, Senior Brother Yin, you forcibly injected a piece of Wang Yinyang into it, if he can't hold it, the pot will crack and die, aren't you worried?"

"If you let Ning Que's kid know that you use something like a teapot to describe him, maybe you don't need to pour any knowledge into it, and he will be angry and explode to pieces. ”

Master Yan Se smiled, then looked at Li Qingshan with a solemn expression, and said slowly: "Ning Que is a blank paper, but the largest white paper I have ever seen, painting on such a white paper, whether it is you or me, neither you nor I have any experience and no certainty, I can only splash this basin of ink and let him move around on his own." Since he can't paint with a bald pen, then let this blank piece of paper paint by himself, and as for what he can draw in the end, it still depends on his understanding and perseverance. ”

"As for the teapot, what is it like to be ha...... I admit that putting the essence of my life's understanding and the hundreds of years of accumulation in the South Gate into Ning Que's brain in such a short period of time may indeed make him embarrassed, but Senior Brother Yin, you must also admit that although this method is simple and rude, it is the fastest and most effective method, as long as his small teapot is not broken, then there will be a day when the tea will swell out. ”

But it's also the most dangerous and unreliable method. ”

Li Qingshan frowned and looked at Master Yan Se, and said, "What if this blank piece of paper is directly stuck to the floor with ink before it has time to toss and turn? What if this small teapot doesn't have time to force out the pleasant tea from his mouth and it splits into countless pieces? Ning Que is not only your heir, he is a student of the master on the second floor of the academy, and he is also a young man with high hopes for His Majesty, I don't understand why he is so urgent, Brother Shiyin, there are obviously many more conservative and reliable methods. ”

"Because he's anxious, I'm anxious, and the world seems to be in a hurry. ”

Master Yan Se looked up at the northern sky outside the South Gate Viewing Hall, and said slowly: "Ten years to become a rune master, my ambitions as a student are more than this, and my ambitions are not limited to this, since this world has begun to move, I think it is difficult to leave a stable and conservative environment for Ning Que to practice, and the most important thing is that I have recently found that my time is running out." ”

After saying this, Master Yan Se coughed lightly twice.

Li Qingshan looked at Master Yan Se and was silent for a long time, and then said sentimentally: "I see. ”

Master Yan Se smiled, got up from the floor with some difficulty, and walked out of the hall with the support of a middle-aged and charming Taoist aunt.

Li Qingshan looked at the old back of Brother Shiyin, and suddenly said: "Brother Shiyin, you don't want to go around playing anymore these days, talk to me more in the view, speaking of which, you have been looking for Tongyinmen for decades, and you have never even played a game of chess." ”

Master Yan Se didn't look back, smiled and waved his hand, and said in a slightly sandy voice: "You are not a young and beautiful little girl, it is really boring to talk and play chess with you, don't worry, on the day I die, I will definitely come back to see you for the last time." ”

Li Qingshan retracted his gaze, looked at the small teapot with a hot mist spraying from the spout on the stove next to the table, and was silent, thinking to himself, Brother Yin, since you are determined to make a stove for boiling tea, then I must also think of ways to help that little guy.

After Master Yan Se left the south gate of Haotian Yin Dao, he went directly to the Red Sleeve Move, and came to the small courtyard he was most familiar with.

Miss Shui Zhu'er was counting silver tickets with her maidservant girl at this time, these days selling chicken soup stickers, they really made a small fortune, suddenly heard the door knock, saw the dirty old man standing at the gate of the courtyard, and immediately got up in surprise.

In the past, she just felt that this Taoist master was obscene and generous, so she was patient with hospitality, but now she already knows the true identity of the other party, where do you dare to pretend to be Jiao, and hurriedly greeted her as quickly as possible.

"Dao Ye is here. ”

Miss Shui Zhu'er squatted and saluted, looking very respectful, she thought that she should be more enthusiastic, but she just thought that this Taoist master was a first-class figure among those immortals in the legend, and she was really nervous.

Master Yan Se laughed twice, stretched out his hand and twisted it on her plump waist, and said: "Knowing the identity of the Daoist, there is no need to be so nervous, after all, I still have to pay for the silver, so it is still up to me to please you." ”

Shui Zhu'er took advantage of the situation and snuggled into his arms, and said shyly: "Dao Ye came to make fun of people again, I thought that Dao Ye Xianyun Ye Crane, the immortals always do not stay in the mortal world for too long, I am afraid that I will never see him again in the future, and I am full of regrets." ”

Master Yan Se said angrily: "The fat powder you have here tastes better than the ink on the rune paper, why can't I afford it?"

I didn't walk a few steps to the cliff, I saw a cliff cave about dozens of meters high, there were birds flying in and out of the mouth of the cave at the top of the mouth, and on the gentle slope of the outer edge of the cliff cave, a two-story small building with a wooden structure was built. The surface of the small building is full of mottled traces of wind and rain and traces of bird feces, and I don't know how many years it has stood silently under this cliff.

There was still some distance from the small building, Ning Que smelled a familiar smell, and asked with a slightly pale face, "Do you smell here?"

Chen Youpi sniffled and said abruptly, "What smell?"

"You haven't smelled such a strong smell?" Ning Que stared at his eyes and said in a trembling voice: "Huangzhou bud paper and the smell of ink, I want to vomit when I smell these smells now, why do you still want to bring me here?"

Chen Pipi knew that there must be paper and ink beside the old scholar in the building, but he really didn't smell the smell of paper and ink that made Ning Que's face pale and disgusting, he reached out and fished it in front of his nose, thinking that this kid had been studying Fu Dao like crazy recently, and he was so sensitive.

Ning Que raised his sleeves to cover his nose, and followed him towards the wooden building, the closer to the wooden building, the stronger the smell of paper and ink, and the more uncomfortable he became.

Beneath the wooden building is an open-air stone platform with a large desk on which a mountain of books rests.

Behind the mountain of scrolls, sat an old scholar with gray hair. The old scholar held an old book in his left hand and a half-bald brush in his right hand, only to see him chant two sentences to the old book from time to time, and then pick up the pen to write numbers on the paper, and then continue to read, and I don't know what to see, the long eyebrows flew up in the wind, and the facial expression was extremely wonderful as if he wanted to dance.

Whether it is the flock of birds flying above the cliff cave, or the gradually approaching Chen Pipi and Ning Que, it has no effect on him, as if as long as he starts to read Baidu will publish the night bar, then the whole world except for books will disappear in an instant.

"Wonderful!

The old scholar found another wonderful place in the scroll, copied those sentences on the paper as quickly as possible, and then stuffed the half-bald brush into his lips and licked it, as if he had eaten the most wonderful taste among people and the world, and he danced happily.

Ning Que looked at the old scholar, looked back at Chen Pipi in amazement, and said, "He is indeed reading, but let me watch him read, how will it help me to cultivate the Fu Dao?"

"Senior Brother Yin once told us that many years ago, the master discovered that this old gentleman actually had great potential for cultivation, but he was directly rejected by this old gentleman. ”

Chen Pipi looked at the old gentleman behind the desk who was obsessed with reading and copying books, and shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said: "Because in this old gentleman's opinion, only reading is a meaningful thing in the world, and practicing or something is really too delayed." ”

"This old gentleman can't do anything other than study, and he doesn't bother to do it, and even the master can't do anything about him. And he was very short-tempered, and he was very upset whenever anyone disturbed him from studying. After such a long time, no one in the mountains paid attention to him, and even Brother Yin, the best master with the best fatness, didn't bother to deal with this person. ”

Ning Que looked at the old gentleman behind the mountain scroll, and said sympathetically: "This is probably reading a book?"

"That's a very kind thing. Chen Pipi shook his head and said: "After this old gentleman refused the master's request to take him into Yin's cultivation path, the second senior brother Yinyin once made a comment: This person has become a fool when he reads. ”

Ning Que smiled, but the smile instantly stiffened on his face, and he looked back at Chen Pipi and asked hesitantly, "Slow down...... You specially took me to see this old gentleman who reads books and reads stupid yin, did you think of guò this example to tell me, I have been studying the rune these days like crazy, and if I continue like this, I will eventually become such a stupid yin?"

"Quite the opposite. Chen Pi Piyin took him to the stone platform and said: "Although we all hate this old gentleman, but sometimes we also admire this old gentleman, I took you to see him, just to tell you that you think you can be proud of your peers for perseverance and hard work, in fact, there are many people in this world who can do it, and they do it better than you." ”

Ning Que was a little unsure of what he meant, and as he walked towards the stone platform, he suddenly thought of something and asked, "In addition to this old gentleman, are there any people of higher rank in the mountains behind the academy?

"There used to be a little uncle, I heard that he was the most vigorous first-class person in the world. ”

Chen Pipi turned around and said, "But it's a pity, only Senior Brother Yin and Second Senior Brother Yin have seen it." ”

On the stone platform, Chen Pipi saluted the old gentleman behind the Rushan scroll, and said with a smile: "Reader, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Ning Que followed behind him and saluted, listening to the title of scholar, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed

The scholar turned a deaf ear, as if he had not seen the two of them come to him at all.

Chen Pipi said loudly: "Reader, long time no see!"

His voice came from the side of the building into the cave, and after a few echoes, it was very clear and loud, and the birds above the cave who were busy building nests or other household chores flew all over the sky

The scholar came to his senses at this time, and suddenly raised his head to look at the two extra people in front of the desk, and suddenly his expression suddenly tightened, and his eyes showed a look of disgust, and he roared in a sand voice: "What are you doing again! Hurry up and go! Don't disturb me reading again!"

Chen Pipi glanced at Ning Que, shrugged his shoulders, and then smiled at the scholar and said, "I'll bring my junior brother Yin to show you." ”

"What's there to see? Your little junior brother is not a book!"

The scholar stretched out his hand and wiped the gray hair flowing on his face to the back, looked at Chen Pipi and said angrily: "Last time, you said that the academy was going to accept a junior junior Yindi, and an elder had to be present to express solemnity, so you had to trick me into going to the top of the mountain to stay all night, why did you come here again this time? Do you want to trick me into staying on the top of the mountain for one night?"

"Heavens, earth!" The scholar looked at Chen Pipi like he was looking at the enemy who killed his father, his expression was extremely disgusted, his eyes were extremely resentful, and he shouted: "Do you know how many books I want to read in one night?"

Chen Pipi shouted angrily: "You brought seven books to the top of the mountain that day, isn't it enough for you to read?"

"There are no lights on the top of the mountain!"

"The stars are brighter than the lights on the top of the mountain!"

"Reading is such a thing as either daylight or light, where can starlight be used!"

"Why can't Starlight be used?"

"I don't feel it!"

"Are you reading a book or a feeling?"

"Idiot! Of course, you have to feel good to read!"

"Bai Yin's idiot! I feel like I'm in love under the starlight, why don't I feel when I'm reading?"

The two of them spat at each other at the desk, Ning Que had already listened to the stupidity on the side, and only then did he believe that this scholar was really the kind of person who read his head in a roundabout way, and only then did he believe that the senior Yin brothers in the backyard of the academy really didn't respect this person very much.

Reading popularity's face is flushed, his chest keeps rising and falling, he is old and frail, and he is obviously not Chen Pipi's opponent when he quarrels, and he quickly reacted, Chen Pipi made a special trip to quarrel with him today, the purpose is obvious, just to distract himself from concentrating on reading, how can he let Chen Pipi succeed with such a sinister intention?

"I'm not talking to you anymore!" said the reader sadly: "How can you finish reading so many books without hurrying? Do you know what you are doing? You are murdering my life and ruining my life!"

After saying this, the reader really stopped paying attention to Chen Pipi's verbal attack, and lowered his head to concentrate on reading and copying books.

Ning Que looked at the dense books on the shelves in the building, frowned slightly, and said: "Although there are many books here, if you concentrate on reading, you can finish reading them in a few years, even if you add the books in the old library of Yin Academy, it will not make him so miserable." ”

Hearing this, Chen Pipi shook his head with a wry smile and led him towards the cliff cave.

The cave was strangely dry, and there were a few gaps in the rocks at the top, so it didn't look gloomy, and there were even a few unknown trees growing in the cave, and birds were chirping around the treetops.

Ning Que's gaze looked in the cave, and then landed on the cliff wall, his body suddenly stiffened, and he could no longer speak.

There are many wooden shelves on top of the cliff wall, which looks like a bookshelf that has been magnified countless times.

There are no birds' nests, no treasures, no statues, no potted plants, just one thing.

That's the book.

Countless books.

A book on a whole cliff.

Books all over the mountains.

"Since the establishment of the College, it has never stopped collecting books. It's been a thousand years, and I don't know how many books have been collected, from ancient times to today's new texts, all of which are placed here, so the pain of the reader is actually a real pain. ”

Chen Pipi glanced at Ning Que, looked at the books densely lined up on the cliff wall to a height of dozens of meters, and said with emotion: "If knowledge can be calculated by the number of books, then at least seven points of ten points of knowledge in the world are in the academy. ”

The books on the entire cliff wall seemed to be as shocking in Ning Que's eyes as the sea of ink standing up on the mountaineering trail, which made him a little difficult to breathe, and after a long time, he barely woke up. Walking along the steep ropeway at the edge of the cliff cave to Bu Chao, coming to the third floor of the cliff bookshelf, and walking more than ten meters along the wooden board that can only accommodate one person, Ning Que stopped, looked back at the dense books close at hand, and gradually had a strong doubt in his heart, if these books were collected thousands of years ago, why did they only turn slightly yellow and old after such a long time, but they had not been weathered, and what was even more strange was why there was not much dust on these books placed in the open air?

Chen Pipi probably guessed his doubts, and said with a smile: "When you reach a certain realm, you will probably know that this kind of thing is actually very simple, you only need to raise your finger lightly, and the wind in the cliff cave will do all the work for you." ”

Ning Que suddenly realized, and then suddenly thought that if Sang Sang could practice, wouldn't it be much easier for her to do housework......? The face took out the book at will, and found that the cover was written with the four characters of Liangjing Miscellaneous Notes, thinking that it was probably the notes of this writer, and opened it to take a look, but unexpectedly, words such as white buttocks, pumping Yin sending, sticking out the tongue, and new records rushed into the eyes, and I couldn't help but have a slightly stiff expression.

He was surprised and asked, "You even accept erotic books?"

Chen Pipi responded: "Master said that opening the book is beneficial, where can you determine the good or bad by the subject matter? You have shit in your heart, everything is shit, you are full of lustful thoughts in your heart, and you can also mess up when you read the seven volumes of Tianyin books, don't you just read it as a erotic book?"

Ning Que looked at the solemn expression on his fat face, couldn't help but feel great admiration, and asked sincerely, "Then what are you looking at?"

"Me?" Chen Pipi waved his clothes and pomelo, and said calmly: "My realm is not enough, and I am still in the stage of seeing mountains as mountains. ”

Ning Que looked at him and sighed, not saying anything more.

Books on a whole cliff, seemingly endless books all over the mountains, are undoubtedly a great treasure for a person who loves to read and even regards reading as the only priority in life, but at the same time it is also a great sorrow, because reading endless books with an end to life is an impossible task after all.

Walking out of the cliff cave, and then looking at the old scholar behind the desk who was holding a scroll, copying from time to time, chanting from time to time, grieving from time to time, and joyful from time to time, Ning Que found that he somewhat understood why he was so extreme and seemed so anxious.

Walking to the desk, Ning Que bowed deeply to the old scholar, and sincerely asked: "Uncle Shi, if you can't finish the book, what should you do? Don't you feel hopeless? Why do you keep reading?"

He didn't call the scholar directly like Chen Pipi, but called him uncle, because the other party was old and entered the mountain early, and because Ning Que had an inexplicable sense of respect for this kind of person who has the perseverance to do one thing to the extreme.

Perhaps it was because he heard the sincerity in Ning Que's tone, or perhaps because he was aware of the similarities between Ning Que and himself in some aspects, the old scholar did not wave his hand away with great impatience this time, but slowly put down the scroll in his hand.

The scholar looked at Ning Que and recalled: "I remember when I started studying in the mountains, but I remember that when I was twenty years old, I thought that I could read all the books in the world. ”

Ning Que listened in silence.

"But when I was fifty years old, I realized that it was impossible to do it. Because in the process of my non-stop reading, there are still people in the world who keep writing, and because of old age and infirmity, my reading speed is getting slower and slower, and what is even more terrible is that many of the books I read when I was a child have forgotten all the books. ”

He looked at Ning Que's eyes and smiled slightly: "If you have forgotten all the books you have read, then how can you be embarrassed to say that you have read them?" So I had to pick up those books that had been forgotten and start reading again, in order not to forget them too quickly, I began to excerpt. ”

Ning Xian asked, "But wouldn't this be slower?"

"Not bad. ”

The scholar sighed and said, "So I already knew that it was impossible for me to read all the books in the world in my life, and I couldn't even finish reading the books in the academy. ”

Ning Que frowned slightly, and asked, "Then aren't you very disappointed?"

"Nothing but disappointment, utter despair. ”

The reader shook his head and said, "The day I confirmed that I couldn't finish reading the book, I felt that the whole world had collapsed, and I didn't want to eat, sleep, or even ...... I don't even want to read books anymore. ”

A person who doesn't know how to do anything but read and doesn't want to do anything doesn't even want to read books anymore, you can imagine how much of the mental blow this old scholar suffered that day. Ning Que naturally thought of his mental state in the past few days, and after a moment of silence, he sincerely asked, "Uncle Shi, how did you pass that level." ？”

"Because I asked myself a question. ”

The reader said, "Do you like to read books, or do you like to read all the books?"

"I didn't think about it for too long, and I came up with an answer. After all, I like to read. I'm one hundred and two years old, and maybe one day after that I'll close my eyes and never wake up, but I'll never be sure I'll die that day, so what is it if I keep reading, even if I can't finish it? I can still console myself because I can confirm that every moment before I die, I am doing what I want to do, and I am happy and satisfied. ”

"Do you like to practice, or do you want to kill people after you have cultivated to a certain realm?"

"I need to think about this question carefully. ”

Walking on the mountain road behind the academy, thinking back to the previous conversation with the old scholar outside the cliff cave, Ning Que faintly understood some very important things, and listened to the sound of music coming from nowhere between the cliffs, he suddenly stopped.

Chen Pipi, who had been silent for a long time, looked at him and asked, "Do you understand?"

"I figured it out, after all, I still like to practice. ”

Ning Que listened to the melodious music, thinking about these things he had encountered in the mountains behind the academy these days.

The two senior Yin brothers who are obsessed with chess swinging and are hungry and trapped under Songyin, the two senior Yin brothers who are obsessed with nothing outside the qin flute, the eleventh senior Yin brother who is full of wisdom and flowers like a crazy Yinzi but is quiet and calm, and the senior uncle who still can't dance when he is 100 years old outside the cliff cave.

He also remembered himself who was rolling hard after improving his archery skills in the Minshan forest, when he shouted with joy after the wind gradually became stronger in Weicheng, when he was smiling at the stars in the west window of the old book building, and when he stood stiff at the desk every night......

"Everyone will encounter a lot of problems, if you want to solve these problems, you must concentrate on doing it, you need the craziest kind of infatuation, but this kind of infatuation is not the weight of the mountain on your shoulders, but the joy that you yearn for the most in your heart. ”

Ning Que looked at the beautiful mountain behind the academy and said, "I used to be stupid, but these days I have forgotten that the essence of stupidity is to like it. If there is no false hope, there will naturally be no vain disappointment, let alone despair. Life is like a question of all kinds of idiots, that is, all kinds of likes, do what you like, then do it, there will always be an answer to this question. ”