Chapter 17: Reasoning
Lu Bo and his son lived in Heishi Village for more than 20 days, resting at sunrise and sunset every day, and carving Buddha statues on mountain cliffs.
The "veteran" came out with a top trick, and soon Lu Bo's craftsmanship was praised by Master Guangfa and his apprentices and a group of stonemasons, plus he was the oldest in the crowd, and it didn't take long for him to be promoted to one of the three master craftsmen.
Lu Ye was not idle, he followed Lu Bo on the construction site during the day to give him a hand, and "read" while working. In the evening, Lu Bo taught him the twenty-one scriptures, and repeatedly practiced through thick and thin.
One night, while he was practicing the Twenty-One Sutra Palms, he suddenly had a whim: "If I can smelt the true fire in the small clay furnace into the Twenty-one Sutra Palms and suddenly strike it, wouldn't it be able to surprise the enemy? β
The more he pondered, the more reasonable he felt, and he didn't tell Lu Bo, taking advantage of the time he was doing chores on the construction site during the day, and began to read and learn the true recipe of the Tiande Eight Treasure Furnace that Yu Xibai gave him.
Lu Ye originally thought that the Eight Treasures Furnace of Tiande was the supreme treasure of Tianjun's refining, and the true recipe must be very profound and obscure, so he was mentally prepared to work hard.
Unexpectedly, in less than half a month, the word "dry" on the Tiande Eight Treasure Furnace was successfully lit.
Lu Ye was surprised and delighted, and wanted to work hard again to light up the word "Kun". Such a combination of the universe will inevitably increase its power, and he will also have more control over the Tiande Eight Treasure Furnace.
However, the difficulty of cultivating the "Kun" character formula has increased suddenly, and the progress has been slow for several days, and I don't know when it will be completed. By analogy, if you want to light up all the eight characters on the Eight Treasures of Tiande and completely refine this Heavenly Monarch Supreme Treasure, I am afraid that it will not work without three or five years of time.
Fortunately, when Lu Ye passed the Peiyuan level, he was tortured to death, but he became more and more frustrated, and he sank down and did not rush or impatient, step by step.
At noon that day, Lu Ye made a meal, sat on a stone, drank two sips of water first, and then ate slowly.
His current cultivation has reached the foundation level, and he can absorb the essence of heaven and earth as nourishment, and it is not a problem to wait for more than ten days without eating. As for the top-notch people like Lu Bo, who are first-class land immortals, they have no need for food for a long time. It's just that in broad daylight, in front of everyone's eyes, how can you pretend to finish eating a big bowl of dry and cold grit rice.
Not far away, there were a few young stonemasons fighting, punching and kicking each other.
One of the young stonemasons with a low mound didn't stand firm under his feet, his body staggered and rushed towards Lu Ye, and he shouted in his mouth, "Get out of here!"
Lu Ye looked up in a daze, the man had already rushed to the front with his teeth and claws, and the rice bowl in Lu Ye's hand fell and spilled on the ground in response.
The dwarf stonemason staggered and rushed to the side for two steps before he could barely stand still, and when he turned around, he saw the newcomer Xiao Tantou staring at him as if he was smiling, and immediately crossed his hands on his hips and said arrogantly: "Why don't you get out of the way?"
Lu Ye asked rhetorically, "You are so close, how can I dodge?"
The dwarf stonemason said angrily: "You see our brothers playing here, don't go far, what do you want to do? Be reasonable, you look at so many people, you are blocking my way, and you want to make a stumbling block for Lao Tzu, right?"
"You-" Lu Yexiao's face turned red, and he clenched his fists and wanted to step forward to theorize.
Lu Bo panted and trotted over and grabbed his arm, handed over the bowl of rice in his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, eat me." β
"Don't eat!" Lu Ye glared at the dwarf stonemason with hatred, if he hadn't been dragged by Lu Bo, he couldn't help but kick it.
The companions of the dwarf stonemasons also hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them: "Forget it, it's always you who knock over other people's jobs, and besides, he's still a baby, don't make a noise." β
The dwarf stonemason said angrily: "What's wrong with the baby, the baby can be unreasonable? But a bowl of rice, the attitude is better, Lao Tzu may let him eat this bowl of rice." I can't see this kind of little kid who has done something wrong and doesn't admit it!"
Lu Bo dragged Lu Ye far away from the crowd and said in a low voice, "If there is a fly buzzing in your ear, will you also buzz with it?"
"He's unreasonable!"
"You're wrong, this Shi Laosan is very reasonable. It's just that his doctrine is different from ours. β
"What did he say?"
His truth is that he can never be wrong, and he can't be wrong. If something goes wrong, then the fault and responsibility must be someone else's, not your own. This is because he is very strict with himself and does not allow himself to make mistakes. So in any case, he must believe that he is not wrong. β
Lu Bo looked at his son and said, "I'm afraid of taking responsibility, I don't dare to admit my mistakes, and I run away from all failures." Such a person is everywhere, you reason with him, and he will always be more reasonable than you. Xiao Yezi, this is why the sage will say that I reflect on my body three times a day - a person who does not dare to face his mistakes and dare not take responsibility will be like Shi Laosan, even if his whole body has been soaked in the mud pool, he will live proudly in his perfect world. β
"But I still can't get angry, and I want to teach him a lesson. β
"There are a lot of ways to get angry, and you don't have to fight. β
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard Shi Laosan exclaiming, "Ouch, why are there bed bugs in the rice?"
When everyone heard the sound, they saw that in Shi Laosan's remaining half of the rice bowl, there were bedbugs struggling to crawl out from under the rice one after another, crawling around in the bowl, and the viewers all had goosebumps in horror.
Shi Laosan's face turned green, he was just playing around just now, and he didn't know how many bedbugs he devoured into his stomach. He retched a few times in his throat, and finally couldn't help but spit it out "wow", a sour smell was pungent, and the people around him hurriedly avoided it.
What made Shi Laosan desperate was that in the filth he vomited, there were really two or three bed bugs still struggling and crawling.
Shi Laosan became more and more nauseous, vomiting so much that he was about to vomit dry, hunched over and panting.
After a long time, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the cook who delivered the food to the construction site: "Li family's daughter-in-law, what the hell are you doing, this meal is full of bedbugs!"
The daughter-in-law of the Li family is not a master to be messed with, her eyes glared at her hands and crossed her waist and said: "Let your mother's fart! Why don't you have any other people's bowls, but there are so many in your bowls, don't be either you or a big bug! Shi Laosan, you don't go to ten miles and eight towns to inquire about what kind of person your Aunt Feng and grandmother are." I want to blackmail your aunt and grandmother, but there is no door!"
Shi Laosan smashed the door of the Li family's daughter-in-law with a bowl of rice, and roared angrily: "Your grandmother's food is obviously not clean because of you, why did Lao Tzu slander you?"
The daughter-in-law of the Li family didn't say a word, she dodged the rice bowl and picked up the rice spoon and ran to Shi Laosan to beat her, and scolded: "You kill a thousand knives, you ask who still eats bedbugs in the rice? If there is another one, I will swallow all the bedbugs on the ground and grandma! I will let you bully my aunt and grandmother, and I will let you open your eyes and talk nonsenseββ"
Watching the excitement on the side, I saw that the two of them really got started, some pulled the daughter-in-law of the Li family, and some dragged the third child.
The daughter-in-law of the Li family threw away the rice spoon and sat on the ground crying, Shi Laosan snorted and panted, his face was bruised, obviously he had eaten bed bugs, how did he become a bully and blackmail that girl.
Lu Ye was also crowded among the people watching the excitement, his little black face was full of indignation, but he was smiling in his heart.
Lu Bo patted his son's head and said softly: "See, you don't have to use your mouth to explain the truth, the important thing is that you learn how to tell people - well, this method was taught to me by your mother." β
Lu Ye deeply admired: "Dad, my mother is really more reasonable than you. β
The father and son smiled tacitly, and a storm became invisible.
However, a few days after this dispute, Lu Bo had an accident.
While working, he accidentally fell off a high rock and broke the leg bone of his left leg.
Fortunately, Master Guangfa was patrolling the construction site with two disciples, and rescued Lu Bo in time for emergency treatment, and then Lu Bo was carried back to the small stone house where he was temporarily living on a stretcher to receive careful treatment from Master Guangfa.
Lu Ye was left behind to take care of Lu Bo. Originally, Master Guangfa was worried that Lu Ye was too young to take care of him, so he wanted to arrange for his disciple Master Hongsheng to stay and take care of him.
Lu Bo politely declined, and Master Guangfa saw that he was fine except that he couldn't move, so he told Lu Ye some precautions and left with Hongsheng's farewell.
When Master Guangfa and the others went away, Lu Bo sat up from the haystack and whispered to Lu Ye: "I'll go to your mother's cave to find the clues of the nautical chart she left." You stay here, and if someone comes, try to delay. I'll be back in time. β
Lu Ye knew that his father's broken left leg was a bitter trick he had performed, and although the pain of the flesh was not fake, with his magical powers, this type of injury could be healed in a blink of an eye, and it would not affect walking.
Although he really wanted to see the cave left by his mother, Lu Ye understood that he would only add a burden, and staying could cover for his father.
At that moment, Lu Bo carefully released his divine sense to confirm that everything around him was normal, and cast a blind spell to hide his figure.
He walked through the wall and on the gravel road of Blackstone Village. Occasionally, a few villagers passed by him without noticing, as if they couldn't see Lu Bo at all.
Not to mention these ordinary villagers, even if Master Guangfa is ten zhang away, they don't want to notice it.
Soon, Lu Bo came to the door of the stone house where his wife lived back then, and when he saw the familiar bluestone slab in front of the door, he couldn't help but feel a mixture of sadness and joy.
The stone house has been empty for many years, and now it lives in another disciple of Master Guangfa, Master Hongyuan. At this moment, he was accompanying his master back to the construction site to inspect the progress of the carving of the Buddha statue, and the house was empty.
Lu Bo stood in front of the door, flashing all kinds of past situations in his mind, and couldn't help but whisper: "Girl, I'm back, where are you?!"