In the following days, he was relieved to tell him that he couldn't pull the bow because his arm strength was not good, and he was asked to fetch water just to exercise his arm strength. In order to improve your arm strength, you can go to fetch water every day, and after a few times at first, you have no strength, and then you can go back and forth dozens of times a day, but you still can't fill the five vats.

These five large vats are the drinking water of all the people in the Shaolin Temple, and they will be used every day, and they can go back and forth hundreds of times a day without filling the water. The weather is getting colder and colder, you can be tired and sweaty, constantly coughing on the heat, your hands are red from the cold, but the whole person is hot.

From time to time, he would teach him some archery skills that he had never used before, such as how to shoot an arrow vertically to the ground, how to aim accurately when shooting multiple arrows together, and how to judge the wind direction to adjust the direction of the arrow when shooting from a distance.

"Uncle Ran, my master said that the people in Shaolin Temple all use sticks, and a stick can beat out people's, how do you use arrows?" asked Ke Ke pulled the bow and asked with a slight twitch all over his body.

Relieved, he held the hand that could hold the bow, and said, "Don't shake your hand, when you aim at the target for a long time, you should pay attention to stability." ”

You can grit your teeth and twist it over to continue aiming, and after a while, you twist your head over again and ask, "Uncle Ran, is your father also a monk?"

Relieved and puzzled: "Why do you ask that?"

can tremble all over the body even more, "Sufi and her mother said that she is **, so the Sufi who was born is also **, just like a rice seller, and the child born will still sell rice in the future." ”

Shi Ran was even more puzzled, "Who is Sufi?"

You can grit your teeth and your arm sore violently, "Sufi is the one I met." ”

Shi Ran explained: "If you say that my son has been a monk since he was a child, then where did he come from?" ”

You can suddenly realize, "I see!"

Uncle Ran continued: "The essence of other things has been determined before they are made, just like this bow is used to shoot arrows, and that arrow is used to be shot. And people are different, everyone is born with a blank piece of paper, he exists first, and then he has his own essence, so the essence of man is created by himself, and everyone can become whoever he wants to be. ”

I could hear it in a fog, but I felt that what Uncle Ran said was so reasonable, and I had forgotten the soreness in my whole body when I had been pulling the bow to train my endurance.

"Uncle Ran, do you have a child?"

Uncle Ran hesitated for a moment, and then said calmly, "No." ”

You can nod your head and oh a sigh.

"Focus!" Uncle Ran roared.

At this time, you can realize that your hand pulling the string can no longer grasp, and it is about to let go, "Uncle Ran, I can't hold on anymore......"

"Hold on a little longer!"

"Uncle Ran, I can't do it......" The arrow flew out of his hand as soon as he finished speaking, and he could immediately stick his head out with Uncle Ran and lie on the windowsill to watch. Following the direction in which the arrow flew, they saw someone picking up Buddhist beads on the ground, and after a while they heard the man scolding: "Who is it, who put the arrow, do you want someone to chant the scriptures!"

You can immediately retract your head with Uncle Ran, "Uncle Ran, what should we do, we shot someone else's Buddha away." ”

"It's you, not us! It's the Buddha beads, not the Buddha!"

The weather is getting colder, so you can continue to do it every day, sometimes every other day to fetch water. But it still hasn't succeeded, and it always feels like it's almost full but it's getting shallower. However, he did not feel depressed and irritable because of this, but just regarded fetching water as a way to exercise his arm strength, so that he could better improve his archery skills.

One night, he could still meditate on the stars in the night sky as usual, and Uncle Ran would always appear by his side from time to time. During the day, when you are busy, you can feel that time flies quickly, and you seem to have learned a lot and gained a lot of things. But at night, when he sat alone under the night sky, he thought of the previous days, grandma, Xingle, jujube cake, Ah Huang, natto, master, Xiaoliang, and many other people he met and missed, and his heart felt lost, as if he had been abandoned. He didn't know why he was here, and he didn't know why he was here.

"Uncle Ran, I never understood what Master said. Master killed three innocent people, and although they may die in the end, even then he can't decide the life and death of others, and Master only says that they are destined to die. ”

"Do you think your master did the right thing?"

"Not true. ”

"If you don't think it's right, why do you have to understand. ”

"What if I'm wrong?"

"Then find your own way to change. ”

"Will the abbot know the answer?"

"The abbot doesn't know either, the abbot will only tell you to go in that direction, but not how to go. ”

"Uncle Ran, when did you teach me internal strength?"

"You're not done with the water yet. ”

You can take a look at Uncle Ran, and smile confidently: "I can finish the fight the morning after tomorrow." ”

In fact, he had already thought of a plan in his heart, and the next day he didn't do anything during the day, and he went to sleep whenever he had time. In the evening, when everyone had finished their supper, he took a bucket and went to the pool to fetch water. He understood that when he used to fetch water during the day, the water he fetched was still more than the water used by others, how could it be full, and at night when everyone else rested, it was a good time to fetch water.

That night coincided with the bright moon in the sky, which just illuminated the road to the mountains. Although the cold is very heavy, especially at night, it is already hot when you can go back and forth, and you can't wait to take off your clothes, completely ignoring the deep chill of this late autumn night. He didn't know if he could fill the water in one night, he just kept repeating the action, and he would never know if he didn't try.

The next morning, when he came to the edge of the five large tanks, he saw that he could fall asleep on the edge of one of the tanks, and next to it was the bucket that drew water, and the five large tanks were full, and the water surface was level with the surface of the tank, and it looked like five huge mirrors from a distance. Relieved, he smiled and walked over to pick up the bucket, just in time to wake up.

"Uncle Ran, I'm full, now you can teach me internal skills. ”

Nodding with relief, the monks who were fetching water to wash and make breakfast next to him arrived one after another, smashed the huge mirror with a bucket, and left one after another.