At dinner time, Zhao Laosan came back.

Zhao Laosan said: "The book has not been auctioned yet, and the auction house will arrange an auction tonight." ”

The demon and Zhao Laosan combined: Zhao Laosan stayed at the inn, and the guarding students copied the Qinglin Sect's Twelve Meridians and Three Yang Yun Jing Law Book, and at the same time, if everything was in order, Zhang Ben would have come to talk to them and find out. The demon goes to the auction house to top the price of the book.

The demon came back at night and informed Zhao Laosan: "The book has been auctioned, after deducting the handling fee, I finally got it, and I have 4,200 taels of silver." ”

The demon and Zhao Laosan combined: "The next day, Zhao Laosan put on makeup and went to the auction house to get the silver, and at the same time identified what kind of medicine it was, and when he came back, he guarded the book that was copying the Qinglin Sect's Twelve Meridians and Three Yang Yun Jing Method. That book is at least 30,000 taels of silver, and there can be no accidents. The demon and Zhang Benben went to the mining area to see the situation of the mine together.

The next day, the demon and Zhao Laosan acted as planned. The demon and Zhang Benben went to the mining area together. They were received by a person in charge of the mining area. Walking through a total length of about 1000 meters "zigzag" shaped gravel ladder, the demon will arrive at a flat land, this is the miner's living area, a total of 8 houses, as well as kitchen thatched houses and other living facilities, is a bit messy. Not a single miner in sight, only a guard.

When you go in again, you can see a lot of fine charcoal piled up in the open air on the ground, which is a mining area. The demon picked up a few pieces of refined charcoal from different piles of refined charcoal, smashed each other, spread them on the ground, and examined them carefully.

Further into the point is the mining area, there are two mining sites in total. One is an open-pit mine and the other is a shaft mine. In the open-pit mine, there is a large pit left by mining, and part of the soil on the surface has been stripped away to expose the ore. The demon picked up a few pieces of refined charcoal from the pile of refined charcoal in the big pit, smashed each other, spread them on the ground, and examined them carefully.

The shaft and roadway mine are divided into a "human" shape and two roadways. One hit 50 meters deep, and the person in charge did not let it in, saying that stones often fell inside, which was dangerous. The other one was just hit, and after only 20 meters, the work was stopped without money. The demon walked in, feeling his heartbeat strongly, and the closer he got to the bottom of the alley, the stronger his heartbeat became, and there was a feeling of impulsiveness.

The demon picked up a few pieces of refined charcoal from the pile of refined charcoal in the alleyway, smashed each other, spread them on the ground, and examined them carefully.

The demon thought to himself, "The refined charcoal here is the same as the refined charcoal in the point of sale. The charcoal in the point of sale does come out here. ”

The demon asked the guard, "I see that there is a mine on the hill next to this mountain, is it your family?"

The guard replied, "It's also a refined charcoal mine, but it's not ours, it's someone else." ”

The demon asked, "Where is the road to the mine?" ”

The guard replied, "There is only one road, and the three families jointly pay for it, and the three families share it." ”

The demon walked to the top of the mountain again, and there was a path, 100 meters long, leading to the top of the mountain. The demon looked down from the top of the mountain and saw a river. The demon returned to the mine and asked the person in charge for a large bundle of ropes, and there were so many ropes in the mine. The demon walked to the top of the mountain, tied the rope to a strong tree root, held the rope, and slowly slid down from the top of the mountain, until the bottom of the mountain was a river beach. Zhang Ben had been following the demon and came down from the top of the mountain. The demon said to the person in charge standing on the top of the mountain, "We will not go up again, we will go back by ourselves." Take care of yourself. ”

The demon and Zhang had been walking down the river beach for a mile or so, and the river merged into a larger river. The demon saw that on the small hill on the other side of the river, there were houses, which seemed to be also mining areas. Just cross the river to see, it turned out to be a metal mining area, producing ores containing copper, iron, silver, and tin. The ore is transported by ship to the wharf in Yangcheng and then stored in a warehouse to be sold. The demon and Zhang Ben spent some money on the small boat transporting ore, arrived at the Yangcheng wharf, and checked the transportation of the waterway. After the demon and Zhang Ben said goodbye and broke up, they returned to the inn to see Zhao Laosan.

Zhao Laosan told the demon that the money for selling the essence book had been obtained, and the handling fee was deducted, a total of 3,800 taels. The medicine was also identified by the auction house, it was an ordinary Tongxue Pill, an ordinary Tongmai Pill, and an ordinary Fumai Pill. The ordinary Tongxue Pill is between 8,000 taels and 10,000 taels, the ordinary Tongmai Dan is between 15,000 taels and 20,000 taels, and the ordinary Fumai Dan is the most expensive, at more than 30,000 taels. The function of Tongxue Dan is to open up acupuncture points: for example, if you can't get through that acupuncture point for a long time, you can consider taking Tongxue Dan. In the same way, Tongmai Dan is used to open up the meridians. The function of the Rejuvenation Pill is to erase the meridians that you think are not ideal. To use an analogy: compare two acupuncture points to two cities, and the meridians are the highways that connect these two cities. If you don't think the road is ideal, you can take it off and build another one. The Fumai Dan is to revoke this meridian that you think is not ideal, and the Tongmai Dan will build a road connecting the two cities.

The demon groaned: "The man and woman who were killed by the bandits are too rich, my day, rich people are different." The resources that rich people have are not what the average person can imagine. ”

The demon decided: "The medicine will not be sold for the time being, I can use it in the future, and I will auction off the bandana and boots with aura, plus the money from the auction of the twelve meridian Yun Jing Shu, a total of 60,000 taels should be obtained, and the funds for the purchase of the refined charcoal mine of everything are enough." ”

The demon was free, and while supervising the students to copy the book, he continued to read the second chapter of the "Wenshi Zhenjing".

Said: People in the world can't cover trillions of dollars, everyone's dreams are different, and night's dreams are different. There is heaven and earth, people and things, all of them are thought of, and the cover cannot be dusted, and the world is not thoughtful. ①

Said: The heart should be jujube, and the liver should be elm. I will go through the heavens and the earth, and I will dream of water and dream of fire. Heaven and earth lead to me, and I am inseparable from heaven and earth. ②

(1) This passage is to say that people's dreams are related to heaven and earth, and people's dreams are also related to "thinking".

(2) The five internal organs of human beings are also related to heaven and earth, and then heaven and earth affect people's dreams, so "I pass through heaven and earth, and heaven and earth pass through me", and then the relationship between me and heaven and earth is "like a contract and a separation, pure and pure." ”

The demon thought to himself: "I understand the meaning of this passage, but this way of reasoning is a bit illogical, and I can't turn the corner. ”

Said: Although the heaven and earth are large, they are colored and tangible, and there are numbers and squares. I have non-color, non-form, non-number and non-square, and the heavens, the earth, and the earth exist.

Said: Those who are stillborn, those who are dead, and those who are still eggs, are also people and things, although the world is big, they don't know what to do. Heaven and earth are all my knowledge. For example, if the hand does not touch the blade, the blade does not hurt anyone.

Said: In the dream, in the water, there is heaven and earth. Those who want to dream of the world can't sleep, those who want to learn the world don't shine, and those who want to go to the water and the world can't draw. Whether there is anything else or not, here is not there. It is because the saint does not go to heaven and earth to know.

He said: Heaven is not from the sky, there are those who are for the sky, and the earth is not from the earth, and there are those who are for the earth. For example, a house and a boat are made by others, but they are not self-contained. Knowing that there is something to do, knowing that there is nothing to do. There is no heaven above, no earth below, no me inside, no people outside.

This passage is about some of the characteristics of heaven and earth, but it is not finished, but only partially. Finally, we get the understanding of the relationship between heaven and earth and man. "You can't see the heavens, you can't see the earth, you can't see me inside, you can't see people outside. This sentence came a little suddenly, and the sentence should have been lost in front.

The demon thinks: "This kind of excerpt of a sentence has no context and is extremely difficult to understand. ”

Said: Sometimes those who are angry, but those who are not angry, have not tasted day and night. What is non-qi? The place where qi is born by itself is like shaking the wind. When he is not shaken, it is not the breath of the wind, and when he is shaken, it is called qi. ①

Those who have a square shape, and those who are not formal, have not tasted north and south. What is the non-form? The form is self-generated, like drilling wood to get fire. When he has not drilled, it is not the form of fire, and when he has been drilled, it is called the form. ②

(1) This passage mainly talks about the meaning of the concept of "non-qi", which corresponds to "qi".

(2) Worried that the reader would not understand, the concept of "non-form" was introduced, which corresponds to "form".

Said: The change of cold and heat, such as tiles and stones, is hot when placed on fire, cold when placed in water, warm when inhaled, and cool when inhaled. Because foreign things come and go, but Biwa stone really doesn't come and go. For example, the shadow in the water has come and gone. The so-called water has no place to go. ①

(1) This sentence: The change of things is sometimes caused by external causes, and there are external causes and internal causes, which should be clearly distinguished. External causes, internal causes can be equated with "qi" above.

Said: The clothes are empty and the wind is blown, the air is water, the water is filled with water, and the stone hits the stone is the light. Those who know this can do it. ①

Covering the wind, rain, thunder and lightning are all born by qi, and qi is born from the heart. It's like thinking about the fire inside, feeling hot for a long time, thinking about the water inside, feeling cold for a long time. Those who know this can say that the virtues of heaven and earth can be the same. ②

(1) Four analogies are used in conjunction to illustrate the conclusion of the next sentence.

(2) Get the result "the heart is angry, the qi is a creature". "Covering the wind, rain, thunder and lightning are all born of qi, and qi is born of heart. It's like thinking about the fire inside, feeling hot for a long time, thinking about the water inside, feeling cold for a long time. Those who know this can say that the virtues of heaven and earth can be the same. ”

The demon believes: "The heart is angry, the qi is a creature", this sentence is the theoretical basis for the ideas in the cultivation school. "Huang Ting Jing", "Wuzhen Chapter", and the martial arts that I am practicing are all on this path, but there are differences when it comes to a specific person, and many small schools or branches have been born from this. But the phrase "the heart is angry, and the qi is alive" is contradictory to the "Tao". Ask the master about this later. ”

Said: The change of the five clouds can be used to apologize the harvest of the year, and the dynasty of the eight winds can be used to predict the good fortune and evil of the time. It is the luck of knowing the rest and the luck of the disaster. ①

I am the same heaven and earth. ②

And he is selfish and wise. ③

Said: Heaven and earth, all things, me, the Tao, the way, the road is separated, and the road does not stand.

(1) "Apologies, good fortunes, and good fortunes" are all laws of nature.

(2) I am in a trance, and I am a hun with wisdom and understanding, so that I can be one with heaven and earth.

(3) "Apologies, good luck, and blame for disasters" are all thoughts in my heart. (Wise and Knowledgeable)

(4) Heaven and earth, me, all things, and "Tao" rely on each other, that is, the five elements of yin and yang are mutually reinforcing and mutually restrictive. Without this support, the Tao would not exist.

The demon believed: "This state of mind and mind is a necessary condition for entering the intermediate cultivation state. ”