On the first day of school, during the break, Zhen Qingyi called Wu Zheng over alone and asked him in a gentle tone:

"The text you memorized last time, can you still memorize a little more and listen to it?"

Wu Zheng thought for a while and said:

"Sir, the others are all ordinary words, but I remembered them because this paragraph left a particularly deep impression on the disciples. ”

"Oh. ”

Meaningfully, Zhen Qingyi sighed softly. Looking at Wu Zheng's expression that had not changed at all, he slowly explained:

That passage, if I am not mistaken, should be from a sentence similar to that in martial arts. ”

Although Wu Zheng tried his best to keep his facial expression unchanged, he was surprised and nervous in his heart. I thought to myself, in the future, I must not ask anyone for advice about any sentence in "Lingxiao Nine Styles". Even if you can't figure it out for a while, now that you've started reading, you'll figure it out one day sooner or later.

"Sir, that's a book I occasionally saw when I was herding cattle for my former owner, and it shouldn't be a martial arts cheats. ”

"Don't talk about this, the reason why I want to listen to two more sentences is because the text you recited has no beginning or end, and between the lines is just an extension and play of the word 'potential'. If you look at it literally, it can be understood in this way. ”

After a pause, perhaps to sort out his thoughts again, Zhen Qingyi continued:

The first sentence of the outline is to point out the theme -- the trend of the trend. Then, from the grass and trees, from the water and fire, from the mountains, from the heaven and the earth, from the yin and yang, and from the ubiquitous light, to illustrate that there is a 'potential' in everything. In short, it can be understood that everything has a 'potential', and the 'potential' is the direction of development of all things, or the direction of evolution contained in all things, in line with the way of nature. And the direction here is not a simple orientation relationship, but refers to an inner force, or the natural movement of the 'Tao' contained in the inside. In other words, potential should be a kind of energy, a kind of energy that can change the existing state of everything and everything, and it is ubiquitous. ”

knew that it was difficult for Wu Zheng to understand the meaning of his words for a while, so he said to Wu Zheng:

"Go back and think about it first, and if you still don't understand, ask me again. ”

"Yes, thank you sir. ”

Wu Zheng didn't understand his words at all as Zhen Qingyi imagined, but was touched by Zhen Qingyi's words, and an indescribable emotion in his heart. Maybe it's not appropriate to say it's an emotion, but it seems to be a little more appropriate to say it's an emotion.

For several days, when he was herding cattle in the afternoon, Wu Zheng was thinking about the original words in "Lingxiao Nine Styles" and Zhen Qingyi's explanation.

The trend of the potential is also a kind of ubiquitous energy contained in everything that can change its current state.

Finally, Wu Zheng summarized the original words in "Lingxiao Nine Styles" and Zhen Qingyi's explanation into one sentence, a sentence that he could understand.

"Does that mean that the essence of the martial arts secret of the 'Nine Styles of Lingxiao' is to borrow the energy contained in everything that can change its existing state?"

Especially when Wu Zheng recalled this text in "Lingxiao Nine Styles" again:

"The grass and the wood, the weak. By its momentum, it can connect its feet to the earth, between the ups and downs of the wind, even if the body is broken, it will not lose its roots; the water can be murmuring, it can also be surging, and by its momentum, it will meet the weak and the strong; it will rise and rise with its momentum, and it will rise and rise with its momentum; it will rise and fall with its momentum; it will sweep away the glitz and vanity by its momentum, and look at the original of things, the strong will go around without losing its direction, and the soft will destroy without removing its roots. ......。 ”

A whole large paragraph of text, involving grass and trees, water and fire, heaven and earth, yin and yang, almost covering everything in the world, is nothing more than to make one word clear - potential.

Sometimes, Wu Zheng, who was meditating, clearly felt that he seemed to be incarnating into the grass and trees around him, or the earth and rocks, and vaguely seemed to touch the edge of the "potential" contained in the things around him. It's just that there is always a layer of diaphragm, which makes Wu Zheng feel itchy like looking at flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water.

Since the first day of school, two families in Houpo Village have sent three cows for him to herd on his behalf. In the following period, cattle were brought in one after another. Gradually, Wu Zheng's herd of cattle was only big green cattle at the beginning, and after three months, there were already forty-six cows. Almost ninety percent of the cattle in Houpo Village are here.

In this way, he could only help Luo Xudong do the work in the fields in the morning and evening, and Wu Zheng always felt a little uncomfortable. After all, herding cattle by himself was just the tuition fee for studying, and it did not bring Luo Xudong any benefits.

Therefore, Wu Zheng tried his best to hunt more hares and pheasants, and even other small animals, such as foxes, roe deer, etc., to compensate for the three meals a day living in the Luo family.

Luo Xudong is still very satisfied with this. Although Qiu Zheng herded cattle for the people in the village, he did not get any substantial benefits, but he still won the gratitude and respect of most people in the village. Especially the game that Qiu Zheng often brought back. The two of them couldn't eat at all, except for occasionally asking Qiu Zheng to take some to honor Mr. Zhen Qingyi, and the rest was sold at the market, which was enough for the two of them to spend daily firewood, rice, oil and salt, and there was a surplus.

"How did Zheng'er hit so many prey?"

Although he had asked Wu Zheng once, Luo Xudong still didn't believe it somewhat.

Wu Zheng also knew that it was difficult for people to believe that they could kill running rabbits and other wild things just by throwing a stone.

So Xiaoxiao didn't speak, bent down to pick up a stone the size of a pigeon's egg from the ground, looked at a house finch on a small fork of a locust tree outside the yard, raised his hand and threw it over.

Pop, the house finch on the small fork branch fell in response.

When Luo Xudong hurriedly walked out and picked up the house sparrow on the ground, he found that his head had already been beaten into a mess of meat, and at this point, Luo Xudong finally believed it.

"Grandpa don't tell outsiders, just say that I put it on a wild thing. ”

"What's the matter, Zheng'er is still afraid that someone will steal her school?"

"Grandpa, I'm just afraid of getting into trouble. ”

Of course, Wu Zheng didn't want people to spread his skills everywhere, so that it reached the ears of people with hearts in Wujiabao.

"Hehe, don't worry, grandpa doesn't say it. ”

After a while, Luo Xudong said:

"In a few days, it will be August 12, and the son-in-law's daughter's family will come over at that time, if it is convenient for Zheng'er, you might as well hunt more prey and bring some back to them when you leave." ”

"Don't worry, grandpa. ”

Since Luo Xudong was promised, in the next few days, Wu Zheng almost did not immerse himself in "Lingxiao Nine Styles", but focused on finding prey. In less than August 12, Wu Zheng had hit five hares, three pheasants, a roe deer, and a fox.

There is no need for Wu Zheng to say more, Luo Xudong has already ordered:

"Hare and pheasant, give one to Mr. Zhen in the same way. ”

"Hey, grandpa, I'll go. ”