Chapter 5 The Piano and the Sword Become Together
Zhang Xun and Bihe worked together for the third time, you stroked the qin and I learned the sword, and in the first half a month, the two of them still enjoyed this happy feeling. But then the two of them were worried, it turned out that neither Zhang Xun's sword nor Bihe's qin had made any more progress; what was even more troublesome was that the Liuyun Drifting Rain Sword and the Flowing Cloud Drifting Rain Song had faintly shown signs of resisting each other, and the two of them couldn't continue to cultivate. The two understood that their doom had come. Zhang Xun gave himself and Bihe a hexagram, and it was really a big hexagram. Either they overcame many difficulties and successfully formed the sword realm and the qin realm, and in one fell swoop, they could stabilize the Dao foundation and build a successful foundation; or their cultivation was stuck, and they regretted bidding farewell to Xiuzhen, and the two of them were ruined.
Zhang Xun now finally understands that he has embarked on a road of no return, from the moment when his sword heart is clear to now, it seems that he has achieved cultivation step by step, but in fact, he is getting deeper and deeper. In the previous life, the Virgo complex that pursued perfection, and when he practiced swords, his whimsical ideas were all deep pits dug by himself, and he jumped down without hesitation. When he came up with a sword and a piano, he was still smug, but he pulled his beloved wife Bihe into the abyss.
Zhang Xun buried his self-blame in his heart, and now he still wanted to think of a way to resolve it, and went to the quiet room with a hello to Bihe. Bihe didn't mean to blame her husband at all, she and Xinlan, Xiaoxue, and Yuchan were like sisters, and she was in love with Xunlang, which was her greatest happiness. I can't ask for help to my husband, not to mention that my husband is still unintentional.
Zhang Xun faced the wall and reflected on his own mistakes, he was still too anxious! Arranging the flowing clouds and raining arrays to practice swords in the formation was a big failure. Zhang Xun doesn't know what's going on with him, he always makes a big taboo that he doesn't know how to behave recklessly, and it's strange that there is no bad omen. No wonder it is also flowing clouds and rain, but the sword intent and the qin intent are mutually exclusive, and they have always been forced, not in line with the way of nature, this is the Tao warning themselves. It was not until this moment that Zhang Xun fully understood the famous words of Yasheng Mencius: "Therefore, the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first work their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, and suffer their minds. ......”
It took three days and three nights to come out of the quiet room, Zhang Xun figured out a lot, and also found a way to solve the current predicament. Bihe was drinking tea in the hall of Heqinju, and when she saw her husband coming in, she put down the teacup and asked, "Husband, have you thought of any way?" Zhang Xun replied: "Bihe, I think I thought of it, but it makes you a little embarrassed." I'm afraid you're going to pick up the sword again! This time, my husband has committed the word "rush forward" from beginning to end in his cultivation of the Flowing Clouds and Rains Sword, but he has forgotten the true meaning of Taoism and nature; Later, he worshiped the sword and suppressed the qin, violating the way of complementing each other. This is why you and I are clearly in the same mind, but the sword repels each other. Since everything is born out of urgency, it is time to slow down. After thinking hard for three days for her husband, she finally came up with a solution. That is to reverse yin and yang and start all over again. You practice the sword, I play the piano. Not in a hurry, step by step, and finally achieve a double success of the piano and sword. Bihe said: "Husband, I just don't want to fight and kill, and I don't hate the sword itself, what's there to be embarrassed about!" Zhang Xun handed the jade slip containing "Flowing Clouds and Raining Sword" to Bihe and said: "You take a look at the sword trick first, and we will start in three months." Remember two points, one is to go with the flow, don't deliberately think about the qin music when practicing the sword, and you can't deliberately forget the qin music and then practice the sword. In short, practice with the mentality of a beginner rather than a person who has come before. The second is that at the beginning of this cultivation, we are not pursuing the same heart, I am just appreciating the sword and playing the piano, and you are just listening to the music and dancing the sword. I'm going to go to the Qindao Pavilion now to make up some scores, and we'll meet again in March. ”
In the past three months, Zhang Xun has successively composed four scores: "Clouds and Mountains and Fog Cover", "Clouds and Sea Tides", "Clouds Gather and Rain Fall", and "Clouds Collect and Rain Disperse", plus the original three scores of "Drizzle Drifting", "Rain Hitting Basho" and "Flowing Clouds and Drifting Rain", a set of piano scores is complete.
Gathered again in Heqinju, Zhang Xun was dressed as a scribe playing the piano and Bihe was dressed as a sword cultivator and stood together with a sword, which looked very harmonious. The two looked at each other and smiled, and began the training that was familiar but unfamiliar to them. Completely different from the last time, this time there is no priority and subordination in the cooperation between the piano and the sword, but just a natural resonance. It's like a couple, sometimes the piano leads the sword, sometimes the sword leads the piano, and they fall in love from the first meeting. This is an unforgettable love, this is the happiness that gathers bit by bit, and it will naturally be blessed by heaven and earth.
The two of them didn't seem to be practicing, Zhang Xun was just admiring Bihe's agile or elegant sword dance, and he was moved by the feeling and played in harmony; Bihe just listened to this music that pointed to his heart and had the idea of dancing a sword dance to cheer up the qin. is the same person touching the piano and dancing the sword, and the mood of the person who plays and dances has changed, and the result is completely different. The current sword and song are real, natural, and in line with the original meaning of the Tao. In the past, which was the qin sword and Ming, it could only be called grievances, although Bihe loved Zhang Xun deeply and did not feel wronged, so Zhang Xun's sword was successful. However, the sword is high and the qin is low, and it is not the right way, so it will end there.
Don't look at Zhang Xun's piano now, it is far inferior to Bihe at that time, Bihe dancing sword is even more different from Zhang Xun, but He Ming never looks at the realm, but the closeness of the heart and the heart. This heart-to-heart feeling makes Zhang Xun and Bihe's new combination way shine, and after playing Zhang Xun's Zen Three Realms after playing a song, at this moment, he broke the cage of self-trapping for many years, broke through to the third realm, and returned to the basics. Bihe was about to dance the sword again and lead Zhang Xun to play, Zhang Xun suddenly laughed three times, and then said loudly: "The mountain is still a mountain, and the water is still water." Yes, I'm still me, Bihe is still Bihe. A sword is still a sword, a harp is still a harp. When Zhang Xun calmed down, Bihe asked: "Husband, what's wrong with you? I still know that the previous sentence is the third realm of the three realms of Zen Buddhism, and the latter words feel strange, husband and me, haven't the sword and piano not always changed?" Zhang Xun smiled and said: "Hahaha! What a "has not changed", wonderful! "Husband, I used to be too persistent, and I just woke up when I co-starred with you for the first time with Madame. If the wine is not drunk, everyone is drunk, and if the color is not charming, everyone is obsessed with themselves. The ancients did not deceive me!"
The sun and the moon alternate, winter goes to spring, and three years have passed. Zhang Xun's piano intent and Bihe's sword intent have been completed, in the feeling of love, the piano plays the sound of love, and the sword is a dance of love. The clouds and mountains are covered by fog and the sea of clouds and tides show a hazy beauty, and there is no feeling of confusion, confusion and sleepiness in the past. The drizzle and the rain hitting the plantain interpret the goodness like water, which is the most beautiful expression of love in nature, and it is much more clever than the original Zhang Xun's understanding of what sword qi is like silk and what percussion is much better from the artistic conception. The weather of clouds gathering and rain falling, clouds collecting and rain scattering is the natural law embodied, and it is also the difference between clouds and mud than Zhang Xun's original cloud and rain changes. If the Flowing Clouds and Rains Sword practiced by Zhang Xun at the beginning reflects the meaning of killing, then the Flowing Clouds and Rains Sword practiced by Bihe embodies the beauty of water virtue, nourishes all things, and retires successfully. Zhang Xun is now very glad that he was blocked from practicing swords, otherwise he would have really become a sword realm, but he was afraid that he would have no chance with immortals. I almost fell into the devil's path, and I don't know it yet. Zhang Xun thinks about it now, I am afraid that only one-third of the thirty-year-old heavenly punishment was due to the bloody storm in the rivers and lakes caused by the revelation of the conspiracy of the King of Qin, and the remaining two-thirds were the punishment of Heavenly Dao for his greed and improper Taoism. If the sword is only used to kill, where is it still the king of soldiers! I was wrong from the beginning, I only have the power of the sword in my eyes, but fortunately, there is no living person in the secret realm, so I have no chance to kill, just kill demon beasts in the mountains and forests; fortunately, Bihe is dedicated to goodness and hates fighting and killing, even if the score she gave her contains a lot of killing intentions, but she can't play it, otherwise she would have become a demon at this moment.
Zhang Xun put down the guqin, picked up the sword again, and danced with Bihe. The sword moves are still those six moves, and there is no difference when dancing, but swinging the first sword with affection makes Zhang Xun feel that his sword heart is more pure. Zhang Xun's sword changed from a killing sword to a guardian sword, and the sword power was hidden by him. At this point, Zhang Xun and Bihe can both break through just by waiting for the opportunity. It's time to go out for a walk.
Zhang Xun and Bihe left Heqinju and went to Xingwen Academy, Bihe went to see Murong Shuang and Song Chuanwen, and Zhang Xun came to the academy to bury his head in writing. When I was about to leave the academy, I saw the calligraphy of "Persuasion Poems" written by Han Xiaotong on the wall, thinking that Han Xiaotong, the little shepherd boy in Nancun back then, was almost twenty years old now, Yan Ruyu and Xiaotong were also big girls in the same year, Zhang Xun decided to wait for Xinlan and them to take Xiaotong and Ruyu back to Mount Tai to get married.
In a week, Xinlan, Xiaoxue, and Yuchan went out of the customs one after another, and the family got together on the weekend Zhang Xun said that he went to Mount Tai to marry Xiaotong and Ruyu, and the four girls all nodded and said yes, and by the way, they went to see the sunrise and sunset. Han Xiaotong and Yan Ruyu cried with joy when they learned that they could go home to get married, it was not easy!
Zhang Xun and the four daughters took Han Xiaotong and Yan Ruyu out of the secret realm, Laiwu City is quite calm, and at the moment, King Qin's army can't take care of such a remote town. I went to Hefu first, got two carriages, and a group of seven people left Laiwu and went to Mount Tai. When they arrived outside a village near Zibo, seeing that it was getting late, Zhang Xun and Han Xiaotong, who were driving the carriage, stopped, opened the door to let the four girls and Yan Ruyu come down, and walked to the village together, preparing to borrow a night in this village, and learn about the current situation by the way.
After entering the village, they didn't walk a few meters away, except for Han Xiaotong and Yan Ruyu, Zhang Xun and the four girls all noticed the abnormality of this village. It turned out that the more you go to the village, the heavier the corpse is, although the lights are on, you don't feel angry, and the villagers are afraid that they will be more auspicious. Zhang Xun laid a simple protective array on the ground, and then left Xinlan and Xiaoxue to protect the weak Xiaotong and Ruyu, and rushed to the place where the corpse was the heaviest with Bihe and Yuchan. When I arrived at the place, I found that it was the ancestral hall of the village, where hundreds of zombies, apparently formed by dead soldiers, were moving back and forth, and there were several monks on the roof protecting dozens of villagers. There is also a monk on the roof of the third house next to him who is fighting with people, presumably it is the evil cultivator from Penglai Immortal Island who controls this group of zombies. Seeing the situation clearly, Zhang Xun said: "Bihe, you go to the villagers to play the flowing clouds and rain, and try to see if you can purify the corpse qi, those monks are not good at Buddhism, and chanting scriptures has no effect." Yuchan, you use fire to deal with this group of zombies, at least trap them. I'll personally meet that cult. ”
On the roof, I found out that the senior monk was the master of the penitent sky, Zhang Xun drew his sword and attacked the evil cultivator to replace the penitent master and said: "Master of the penitent sky, this evil cultivator is handed over to me Zhang Xun, you go back to the roof of the ancestral hall and tell the monks not to chant the scriptures, let my wife play the piano to purify the corpse." "Zhang Xun was angry, this evil cultivator dared to use monk means to deal with civilians, my killing sword is to kill such an evil cultivator, a set of flowing clouds and rain swords attacked the evil cultivator, one move was more ruthless than the other, and the last move was to collect the rain and disperse it, although the evil cultivator was a monk in the early stage of foundation building, he couldn't resist death. Zhang Xun shouted to the sky: "My Zhang Xun's sword is not only the sword of protection but also the sword of killing, protecting the justice of the world and killing those who should be killed." After the words fell, Zhang Xun went to help Yuchan deal with the zombies, and once again cast the Flowing Cloud Drifting Rain Sword, which was completely different, and the sword realm was completed. After a set of six moves, the zombies are wiped out. Then he put away his sword and took out the piano to play the Flowing Clouds and Rains series of songs with Bihe, and when the purification was completed, Zhang Xun and Bihe's piano realm was also completed.