When Li Yun and Li Bao finished moving the last big bag of winter rations outside the courtyard and sat on the steps to rest breathlessly, the sky was already full of stars, the surrounding lush pine forests, and the mountains everywhere were immersed in the faint starlight and inky night.

"Huh~ Bao, you stinky boy, you can't move, just get less. It's also all tied up, this cold winter wax moon, and you wear a lot, if you meet a wolf or something on the way, you kid can still run away?"

With a sigh of heat, Li Yun looked at the little Ah Bao sitting beside him.

"Hehe, okay~ Brother Yun, I'm not a child anymore, aren't I coming back. Yesterday, I wasted the boss's strength to drag you back, the two big bags of things fell there, this morning I wanted to call you, grandpa suddenly said what you want to know, it is a critical period, I am afraid that you were struck by the lightning yesterday to make something wrong, today I went by myself, it happened that Uncle Zhang and they were addicted to smoking again, I pulled out a few packs from the place where the cigarettes were hidden, and exchanged some winter rice, sweet potatoes and vegetables with them on the spot, and looked around casually, picked up some waste, this is not, even dragged and dragged for so many minutes before coming up, I wanted to wait for you to pick me up, but you don't come to the left one, and you don't come to the right one, The dogs, those guys want me to ask for thirty percent of the rice before they are willing to raise their hands, I gritted my teeth and moved all my body, thinking that I could always climb back, but I didn't think that my strength was still a little smaller, and I didn't come up until it was dark...."

Ah Bao grinned, and a pair of good-looking dimples appeared on his dirty little face. Although his young body was very tired, he still smiled and comforted his brother, after all, he was not pampered to grow up to such a big age, this is nothing.

Although the things at home for the winter are not very sufficient, they are not bad, although they are not good birds, but why are you so stupid, I don't know how to get less, hide in the shack, and you will die when you go back? ”

Rubbing Ah Bao's chicken nest head, Li Yun didn't have a good airway.

"Hey, I was thinking the same way, but Grandpa said that he wouldn't let him go down the mountain from Ming'er, and said that he would let us meditate on the mountain for something. Ah Bao was obviously even more confused about what the old Taoist priest said, he was a ten-year-old boy who was not even a ten-year-old child, except for eating, drinking, and picking up waste, he was playing with mud and digging birds' nests.

"Uh.... Grandpa, this, but some..."Brother Yun obviously has a headache too.

"What are the two boys rubbing outside! Come in and eat, time is like gold, don't you know? After eating, hurry up and follow me to listen to the Fa and learn the Tao..."

The urging voice of the old Taoist priest came from the room.

"It's coming...."The brothers responded in unison, both a little helpless, it seems that there is something to listen to in the coming days.

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For dinner, the soup is full of wild vegetables and cabbage, and the soup is pearl jade artichoke and sweet potato noodle soup, with a thin layer of oil foam floating on the surface. The rice is porridge from last night, and you can go down with a pair of chopsticks, and you can pick up a few grains of old rice.

In the stove house full of firewood, the grandfather and grandson gathered around the squeaky and crumbling square wooden table.

Grandpa sat on one side, and the two brothers sat opposite.

"Come, Xiaoyun, the master is old, this artichoke can't chew it, you help me eat it." After taking a sip of the clear soup, the old Taoist priest poured the only few pieces of the broken porcelain bowl that could satisfy his stomach to Brother Yun.

"Hmm... No, I'm full, come, Bao, I'll give it all to you. Li Yun turned around, and poured a large piece of sweet potato left in his bowl directly to Ah Bao next to him.

Po is more than nine years old, but it is still a little difficult to sit on the bench and reach the table to eat, and he has to stand to hold noodles.

"Ah, give it all to me, so much, I can't be strung to death..."Po looked at the almost overflowing food in the bowl, and his little face was bitter.

"If you are told to eat, what is so much nonsense? When you are growing your body, you don't eat much, and you will be a dwarf for the rest of your life. Let's see who will marry you in the future..."Brother Yun put down the chopsticks and turned his head to scold.

"Oh, but this one doesn't smell salty, and it doesn't have oil stars, it's too trendy to eat. ”

Ah Bao protested to Brother Yun, who was about to set up a fire to clean up.

“........ Well, let's go to the mountains to see, if you're lucky, you might be able to catch a few rabbits and black snakes, and you should be in the hole at this time, and it's estimated that it's a little hard to find. But this Chinese New Year, we still have to get some meat, I forgot a few months ago when I ate meat, and it was the stupid wild boar that had a bad brain so that we had a chance to kill it..."Brother Yun'er paused, looked at the dense forest outside the door and said loudly.

Glancing at Brother Yun'er's skinny back, and then at Ah Bao, who was snoring and burying his head in cooking, the old Taoist Brother Yun sighed slightly, where to catch rabbits in this winter? When you grow your body? Such a clumsy excuse... This kid...

These days are a common occurrence for them, and they have been doing so today and for more than a decade.

Although the old Taoist priest is profound, he doesn't need to eat too many grains, but Yun Ge'er and Ah Poke are both mortals in the flesh, and if they don't eat this meal, they are really solid. But just picking up is obviously a drop in the bucket, Yun Ge'er also planted some crops in the wasteland not far from Poguan, but the terrain here is really not suitable for planting and breeding, but he has caught some pheasants and hares in the mountains to try, but he has not been on the trip.

Eat some wild vegetables, sweet potatoes, and leftovers every day to live, and the nutrition is indeed a little unable to keep up. But for some reason, they haven't had too many illnesses for so many years, and it is unknown whether it is because of the so-called pure natural pollution-free or the old Taoist priest's greasyness.

However, the old Taoist priest always said that the heavens will descend on the Si people, and they must first how to be cloudy, and they will suffer more now, so that they can suffer more in the future. It is often said that a pure heart and few desires can make the body and mind pure, and eating some wild vegetables and bark is also close to nature.

This kind of ability to listen, see, speak, write, and be sensational and inspirational, but just can't eat empty words, the ears of the brothers who often wander in the intestines and are hungry are generally automatically filtered, although they don't know much about these so-called people.

People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless. Even though the old Taoist priest has a Taoist heart that is close to the dust, detached from the world, he is very sorry for the poor and weak situation of his two grandsons who look stubborn but are actually pure in nature, but over the years, due to the oath of some bastards in the past, the old Taoist priest has some unspeakable magical powers that cannot be used.

Fortunately, the two grandsons are still good, especially the opportunity of Brother Yun.... Lao Dao thought to himself that after two or three years, when your kung fu is almost done, you can also put it outside to practice.

So he slowly spoke: "Xiaoyun, you can wait to clean up, Bao'er, eat quickly, finish eating, master... No, Grandpa has something to say to you. ”

The brothers should be.

After a while, in the lobby room, the old Taoist priest was once again in the first seat, and the two Rainbow Dash brothers knelt respectfully under the seat.

The old Taoist priest opened his thin lips slightly, coughed, and said: "Cough, in a person's life, life and death are the greatest, the most fearful, and the most bitter. The newborn baby is bitter because it croaks to the ground, comes to this unknown world with the unknown and dazed, because of the unknown, so fear, and the old man is also bitter, because of fear, because of reluctance. Fear of death, reluctance to be loved by others, reluctance to rise and fall to fame, reluctance to be rich, or... Unwilling, unwilling to be bad, unwilling to be displaced. But those of me who are cultivators must know that both of these are false. People are fifteen, Fang Qi is sufficient, this time to practice, the Xuanmen cave is opened, the spiritual light is first recognized, and you can practice the work of avoiding reincarnation. The first level of practice is to stop thinking. However, every foolish person in the world indulges in the song and dance of the warbler, chasing fame and fortune, chasing songs and colors, and even losing Yuanyang, dissipating true qi, and being weak, he will be sick, old, dead, and extinct. Ignorant in life, self-destructive aura, fierce and stubborn in a lifetime, time to divide the number of life. Therefore, there is a difference in the next life, and there is a length of life. Resurrection of birth, resurrection of destruction. It's sad, it's lamentable, and it's also ridiculous that the birth and death of thoughts can be followed by the external mortal womb, and there is no end to it. But these people who set up their own fetters give birth to delusion, and if they have delusional intentions, they want to move their minds in vain, which is the so-called attachment, focusing on all things, that is, greed, greed and not wanting more, that is trouble, and troubles and delusions are poison for the body and mind. But when he is humiliated, wandering between life and death, he often sinks into the abyss of the sea of suffering, and the true way of detachment is forever lost.

The old Taoist priest breathed a long and long breath, and said endlessly, saying that when the world sank, he sighed.

The brothers glanced at each other, the big black eyes to the small black eyes, I don't know how to understand that there is no such difficult thing.

Ah Bao was a little confused and had nothing but clouds in his mind, but Brother Yun didn't know if he really wanted to open his mind like the old Taoist priest said, although the old Taoist priest couldn't speak in a crepe anymore, he actually faintly understood his grandfather's exposition of the way of life and death, because he understood something, so there was a problem.

"Master, listening to what you said, I don't dare to go outside, is there really such suffering in this world, since it is bitter, can it not be bitter?" Li Yun said respectfully.

Seeing that he was asking sincerely, the old Taoist priest did not knock him, but smiled and patiently explained: "This... But it's hard. If you don't realize and the world falls, you will lose yourself in a different kind and see through another shell. The root nature of the ultimate truth is no longer human, and there is no liberation from reincarnation. Or meet the true immortal to the person, and eliminate his sins, remove the skin and shell, and then get the human body. Fang is in dementia and ignorance, accumulating a hundred calamities, ascending to the blessed land, and still inevitably suffering from hunger, cold, and remnants. After all the promotions, he gradually became fully formed, and he still lived among the slaves and maids. Gou or repeat the previous sins, such as standing on the board and taking pills, and then re-entering the reincarnation of the road. It is not easy to take off this life. What's more, these people can't extricate themselves from the situation, their true nature has disappeared, and this reincarnation is a mechanical repetitive and endless desire, what is the difference between them and the walking dead? The yin spirit is so poisonous, the soul is out of place, if there is no Guru to teach them, and if they have no firm will, how can they become enlightened? But the most painful thing is that these people naively think that they are free from suffering outside the mountain, free from the red dust, but they are really trapped in this mountain and do not know it..."

"That's... Po and I are also human beings, since we were born in the world, we will also be greedy for life, and we will also be afraid of dying alone, especially starving to death... Does this mean that we will also suffer for a lifetime, even... How many lifetimes have you suffered?" Thinking of the somewhat bleak life of himself and Ah Bao now and the future covered by dark clouds, Li Yun felt a little complicated.

The old Taoist priest naturally knew the discomfort in Brother Yun'er's heart, but he didn't say anything like before, but continued with an indifferent smile: "According to your respective numerology before, it should be so. But haven't you met me..."

A Bao's little classmate was puzzled at this time, he tilted his little head and wondered: "What's wrong with you, it's not the same as turning over the garbage, you should be hungry and hungry." ”

"How do you speak..."Li Yun frowned slightly, even if he was telling the truth, he couldn't say it so clearly, grandpa had the grace to raise them.

"Hehe, it's okay, Bao'er is a child's words, but sincere. Although I haven't let you live a lot over the years, but, hey, when you meet the old way, naturally... It's different..."

The old Taoist priest is always so confusing when he speaks, but Ah Bao is still very direct: "What's the difference?"

Li Yun had some understanding, looking at the old Taoist priest's thin old face that was still kind but seemed to be restrained, he asked tentatively: "Is it possible, you are the kind of person in the book?"

The people in the book are naturally also people, but they can be ordinary people, or they can be ordinary people, or even unusual...... Immortals.

The old Taoist priest smiled silently.

Then he stared at Li Yun and said slowly: "Is it difficult, what do you think you are listening to now?"

Brother Yun listened to it, but he didn't expect that grandpa was not the kind of god stick who could only deceive people, but actually seemed to be a real character.

The mountain is not high, there are fairies and spirits. The mountain is relatively high, and the old Taoist priest did not admit that he was not that kind of person. But, now, someone knows.

"But... You don't seem to have any magical powers, and I haven't seen you rise and fall like the people in the books..."

Although grandpa only revealed to himself and Ah Bao not long ago that he had blessed some life-saving talismans or something, and he and Ah Bao seemed to have been blessed by those two spells over the years, growing up slowly and steadily. But compared with the legends of the ancient flood of barren mountains and seas, the ancient gods and gods to the west, those who soar through the clouds and drive the fog, travel all over the three mountains and five mountains in one day, turn their hands into clouds, cover their hands for the wind and thunder, wave their robe sleeves, and move the stars and the earth. Not so carefree. This is a little doubt left by Li Yun, and of course, it is also the biggest doubt.

"Ahem, ahem, you kid, how can you believe all the things in those books of folk skills, but this flying skill is the most basic thing after enlightenment, don't you master and I still can't? As for the technique of moving mountains and breaking rivers, leaving the form to live in the world, the power of the land immortals can be easily done, and your master and I are transcendent in that place..... Well, anyway, it's much higher than the grade of these Raushzi, how can it not be done? This is not flying for a reason, and the fact that the supernatural power is not obvious does not mean that it will not be, and it does not mean that it will never be revealed, you kid can understand?"

The old Taoist priest was obviously choked by Li Yun's words, and his old face was a little unbearable, but when he said where the family was, and how many immortal books there were, he paused, as if he had thought of something that had not been exported, but he had said it with a high word.

"Then what are you talking about serving the Tao? And what are the mundane things you said about before you retreated into this mountain? Obviously, your age is not right, and it is not like you to say that you fell from the sky, after all, you can't fly..."

Brother Yun obviously doesn't like this perfunctory magic stick and habitual rhetoric.

As for Ah Bao, when he heard that his grandfather, who had been with him for so many years, he actually said that he was the kind of guy who often stomped from under Yun Ge'er's pillow in the villain's book, and Shui Ling'er's little eyes said bluntly, although I was still young, I was not stupid.

If it is still ancient times, whether it is in the pre-Qin period, the end of the Han Dynasty, or any dynasty in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, perhaps in this remote place with a compelling aura and winding paths, some outsiders have visited this place by mistake, and when they hear the previous remarks, they may be like an initiation, and then learn from the pain, abandon the glitz of the world, regard love as hatred, and decide to hide in the mountains and forests, and issue the words of "this body is not to this life, but to what life?".

The problem is that after the huge incident of breaking the four olds and the ghosts, snakes, and gods walking aside, the local Taoism that has been in China for thousands of years has declined, which can be seen from the current bleak situation of this Taoist temple.

Moreover, the current society is about to enter a new century, people believe in science, although Brother Yun and Ah Bao have not received orthodox education, this mountainous area is also very remote, but they have more or less accepted the modern atmosphere, although the old Taoist priests have instilled them with subtle doctrine of the god stick every once in a while, but in their bones they are the kind of modern life.

The old Taoist priest was despised again and again, and he was a little doubtful of his teaching ability, and he was not like serving his ancestors?

Touching his forehead, the old Taoist priest's snow-white eyebrows were raised, and he suppressed the anger and said, "It's almost there, don't catch it." Two stinky boys, can I still harm you? This mortal principle tells you that you don't understand it, and don't think about any strange powers, flying away from the sky, the old way I want to hand over to you, but the true pill method that directly points to the avenue of life..."

"Ah, you can't do whatever you want as the book says, in addition to living for a long time, you still have to pick up garbage for the rest of your life, isn't this a crime?" Brother Yun scratched his head.

"Grandpa, Po is sleepy and wants to sleep..."Po rubbed his eyes.

Old Taoist: "....."

Don't be angry, I'm not angry, be calm, we are masters.

"Alas, it's still a doll, if it weren't for the fact that your two brothers are filial to me, it's really pitiful, how many people are extremely poor and unattainable in their lives, but you are like buying cabbage on the street, and you are picky, master, do I still want to save face? If it weren't for the promise to that person, the time has not yet come, and I really want to show you what the pure and quiet immortal method is. But not now, Bao'er is still young and listens to the infection in advance, but Xiaoyun you, you can go to the Tao with this Danfa, as for what you said... You meditate with me, with your qualifications, in less than three years and five years, you can refine the yin in the body, at the same time, the pure yang holy fetus can be expected, the yin is turbid, heavier than the bottom, the yang is clear, and the light is lighter than the top. When you really get to that point, what is the supernatural power? Why is it difficult to fly?"

The old Taoist priest thought that Brother Yun still didn't understand the truth, so he had to continue to explain, after all, he can only carry out oral and heart-to-heart explanation education now, and there is no personal demonstration, and it is not bad that these two monkeys who like to jump up and down can sit obediently and listen to the Tao.