Chapter 13: The Way

Qin Mu left the park, but he was heading east, at this time he hadn't eaten for a week, and only swallowed a few mouthfuls of snow water. The muscles on his body that have been practicing martial arts all the year round are no longer knotted, but they are skinny and bone-like, and outsiders look at him and never know that he is a person who practices martial arts.

At this time, the weather was cold, and the road was full of snow, but he traveled all the way, but he did not avoid the dangerous beach, was not afraid of the mountains, but went straight to the direction of the rising sun, along the Yangtze River, if the sky became dark, he sat cross-legged on the ground, and did not breathe, but a heart was as silent as the dark night.

Although Qin Mu is a person who practices martial arts, he is not an iron body, where can he not eat, rest, and trek through mountains and rivers like this. However, after three days, he felt weak, and even his consciousness was blurred for a while. When you step on the ground, it is like stepping on cotton, and you are powerless and staggering.

In the early morning of the fourth day, he came to a village, Jiangsu is rich in products, and it is a large coastal province, and the peasants are relatively wealthy. But the young people in the village are reluctant to live in the village, either go out to school, or go out to do business and work, the old people have inconvenient legs and feet, and they are not willing to go out when the weather is cold, so when Qin Mu arrived, it turned out that every family was closed, and no one was walking on the road.

Qin Mu didn't care, he only had the obsession of moving forward at this time, and he didn't stay, just slowly staggered forward along the path of the riverside village, at this time, his body and face were stained, and the shoes under his feet were as if they had just been fished out of the water, without any warmth. When others saw it, they were afraid that even the word beggar was not enough to describe its embarrassment.

He was walking on the road, but he heard the ringing of a bell behind him, and he wanted to avoid it, but he only walked with a breath, and this thought, this breath was loosened, and when it was dark in front of him, he fell down.

Qin Mu didn't faint, but he heard someone shouting in his ear: "I didn't bump into you, did you touch porcelain?" After waiting for a while, he began to say: "Okay, okay, count me unlucky, you get up, how much does it cost, what do you say when you fall to the ground." After a while, the man hurriedly put his hand on his forehead, looked at his wrist carefully, and finally cursed in some local dialect, and felt that he was being carried to a tricycle, and walked on the road bumping around, the stability of the tricycle was too poor, and he shook it a few times behind him, and then completely fainted.

It didn't take long for someone to feel that someone had poured ginger water into his mouth, and when he opened his eyes, he found a sixty or seventy-year-old man, staring at him with a gloomy face, and holding a bowl in his hand. It's just that I can't stop the car in the snow, I just slide all the way to you, and you fall before the car arrives. ”

After hearing this, Qin Mu just smiled, nodded slightly, and said, "I know it's not you, and I want to thank you for saving me, here?"

When the uncle heard this, a smile appeared on his face and he said, "This is my home." After speaking, he seemed to think of something again, and muttered: "Originally, I wanted to come up with a morning market to sell some fish, but I didn't know that I met you." ”

As soon as Qin Mu heard this, he understood where the lingering fishy smell on the tip of his nose and the slippery touch on his hand came from, and his face was a little stiff. After holding back for a while, he said, "Uncle, you still have to fish and buy fish in this weather." ”

Qin Mu didn't ask this politely, he just looked at the furnishings of this house, and found that although it was just an ordinary rural house, the materials used to build the house were all good, the space was large, and there were even some exquisite furnishings in some places, this owner must not be bad for money. Like the man in front of him, if he is a retired worker, or even a farmer or an ordinary farmer, he often has a little pension or pension insurance, but there is no need to do any more business, not to mention that now every family in the village is resting, and there is no one on the road, so he goes out to sell fish, if he does not encounter any difficulties, there is really no need to do this.

The uncle also knew what Qin Mu was asking, and he didn't have any intention of hiding it, so he just lit a cigarette rather sadly and said: "Isn't this my son going to get married, I think it's really difficult for him to buy a house in Shanghai, and I have to get some money anyway, so as not to make the little couple have a hard time." ”

He was originally sad, but when it came to his son's marriage, he smiled, looked at the cigarette in his mouth and said: "In order to report the eldest grandson, I only dare to smoke this cigarette at the front door, don't say, this smoking still has a little taste." After saying that, he took another big puff.

After hearing this, Qin Mu seemed to think of something, and said, "Uncle, it's quite hard to raise a son for so many years." ”

When the old man heard this, he slapped his thigh and scolded in his mouth: "Since I raised that rabbit cub, I haven't had a good day! When I was a child, I made a lot of noise at night, and when I was older, I ran up the tree and into the water, and no matter how big I was, I also knew how to play friends, and the fathers and mothers of other girls' families came to the door." ”

He scolded in his mouth, but his eyes were full of smiles, but after he finished speaking, his expression slowly converged, and said: "Now that he is almost thirty, he doesn't need me to worry about anything, and he can't say a few words when he comes back. His eyes suddenly became lonely.

Seeing this, Qin Mu didn't speak anymore, just drank the ginger tea, and followed the uncle to have a meal, and began to help him deal with the live fish in the yard.

Although Qin Mu has never done this, but his home is Shantou, and he has seen a lot, plus his martial arts practitioners are flexible and accurate, and they are actually doing it quickly and well, and the smile on the uncle's face has never gone down again.

The two of them were busy all afternoon, and the uncle left him for dinner, and let him stay in a guest room for a night, before letting him go on.

Although he continued to move forward, he was no longer in such a state of ignoring everything, but thought all the way.

This uncle has spent his whole life on raising offspring, although he is hard work, but he is also satisfied and happy, and he cannot be said to be unhappy. Once there is no concern, there is a sense of nowhere to stay. Since Qin Mu came to this world, it was as if he had gone from hell to heaven, with a harmonious family and no worries about his life. He once thought that this was what he was pursuing, but now, when he saw this uncle, he seemed to be awakened, this suffering is hell, isn't peace also a prison cell, people in the world often think that the suffering will end quickly, and happiness will never end, so it is often ignorant of nature, suffering from gains and losses, but in this world, there is no constancy.

Buddhism said that "all actions are impermanent, and all leaks are suffering", and it is only today that he has realized it.