Chapter 8 Digging up the soil and burying the bones
"Senior, although I am young, I often hear people say that people die like lights go out, so you should mourn. Meng Li comforted the delirious old man, but the old man still sat on the ground with a pile of bones and cried bitterly.
Seeing this, Meng Li thought that she was sad and never bothered again, she got up and looked at the white bones on the ground, and said in her heart: "Although these people have not met me, they can die here and think that they are also my Xuanmen disciples, and they can be regarded as my senior brother Meng Li." When they were alive, all the hair and skin of their bodies were given by their parents, but now they want to be corpses in the wilderness, and no one will take care of them even if they are beaten by the wind and rain, which is really pitiful. Then she looked at the old man, and thought that it was really heart-wrenching for him to see the bones of his disciples scattered in the wilderness every day, and if these people were buried at this point, not only would they be buried in the ground, but the old man would be much more comforted.
So Meng Li immediately rolled up his sleeves, found two rusty swords out of the broken walls, and used them as shovels to start digging the ground. The remnant sword was very short, and it had long lost its sharpness, Meng Li used it to poke the ground and dig very hard, but fortunately, her head was not stupid and she could use some skill, and after sweating like rain, she finally dug a few pits of different depths in the ground.
As Meng Li was digging, the old man stopped crying and turned his head to see what she was doing. After Meng Li dug a hole with the same number of bones as the bones on the ground, he realized that the female doll in front of him wanted to bury the bones of his apprentices, and he was not very moved at the moment. Thinking that he had been alone in this wilderness for nearly twenty years, he had been like a ghost for nearly twenty years, and the people outside who still remembered him in the Xuanmen wished that he was already dead. But God still didn't take away his old bones for some reason, so that he could live here sometimes insane and sometimes sober. When you are thirsty, you quench your thirst by receiving rain from the sky, and when you are hungry, you eat some berries, snakes, insects and other preserved fruits in the field, which is very bleak and miserable. Sometimes, he felt that it was actually a punishment for God to let him live like this! But he accepted it without regrets!
"Senior, let's pick up the bones of your apprentices and bury them on the spot! People say that the dead are the greatest, and they are buried in the ground, and they think that they will be able to sleep well in the ground in the future. Meng Li walked up to him and said cautiously, for fear that he would say the wrong thing and provoke him to go crazy again.
When the old man heard this, he couldn't help but have a sour nose, and at the moment he burst into tears, and said guiltily to the accumulated white bones scattered all over the ground: "It's really stupid to be a teacher, I don't know how to bury you for so many years, so that your souls can rest under the nine springs!"
Then the old man and the young man carefully picked up the scattered bones in the wasteland, and Meng Li silently recited while picking them up: "Amitabha, don't blame it!" to give herself courage.
And the old man silently identified his apprentice from the figure of the corpse, and at the same time couldn't stop crying.
"This is Xiao Liu, he is the most clever. The old man pointed to a small corpse, and although the flesh and bones had turned into dust, the Xuan Pei on his waist could still make him recognize the identity of the skeleton.
Sending a black-haired person from white is a great tragedy in the world, and Meng Li is also depressed and sad.
By the time all the bones had been collected and lay down in the pit, the old man was already crying and weeping. Meng Li had no choice but to push and cover the grave with her own hands, no matter what happened to them before they were alive, in the blink of an eye, it was a pile of white bones, and at this moment the dust returned to dust, and the soil returned to the earth.
"Senior brothers, my name is Meng Li, I am young and I have no intention of passing by today and I don't know if I bumped into you, but your appearance also scared me, so we will even if we are even. Meng Li knelt on a few newly soiled tombs, folded her hands, and prayed silently, "But in the vast sea of people, this is also a fate, today I will bury you on the spot, I hope you will be buried in the ground and will not be eroded by the wind and rain again." If you have knowledge under the spring, bless your master a lot, for he is old, but he still has no fixed place to live, and he sleeps in the open, which is really pitiful. ”
The old man stood aside without saying a word, watching Meng Li do everything with cold eyes, and after Meng Li finished praying, he said soberly: "Your little girl and my old man have never known each other, but you helped me bury these disciples who died in vain, what is the purpose?"
Hearing this, Meng Li stretched out his hands that were blistered with blood when he was digging and said, "Senior, I'm like this, what do you think I will do?"
The old man looked at him and said, "How do I know what you covet?"
Meng Li saw him so vigilant, only when he suffered a lot of suffering that others had not suffered, he didn't care: "What can I covet as a little girl, I made a bet with my friends to come to the Forbidden Forest, who knew that this place was so gloomy and dilapidated." When I saw the corpses scattered on the ground, I remembered what my father said, "The dead are the greatest, and the earth is safer", so I wanted to bury them. ”
"I can't imagine that you have such a warm heart at such a young age. The old man said, "Since you are a disciple of Xuanmen, which one is your master?"
"My master is a Jingyi real person!" Meng Li said loudly.
"It's really a day in the mountains, a thousand years in the world, when did Jingyi's little girl become a real person!" the old man lowered his head and sighed, then raised his head and said: "Jingyi is the quietest and most kind-hearted one among the Jingzi generation, and you are naturally as kind as her as her apprentice." But, little girl, old man, I advise you, don't be so kind-hearted in the future. Everyone in this world is afraid of ghosts, but their hearts are more vicious than ghosts, if you continue like this, you will definitely suffer in the future, people's hearts are unpredictable!"
"The seniors I know, but my father often says that villains are often relatives, gentlemen are frank, and I would rather suffer a little bit of my own loss, and I will live openly!" Meng Li immediately patted her chest and smiled.
The old man saw that her character was already so pure at a young age, and he couldn't help but say: "If Zhen'er had half of you back then, she wouldn't have fallen like that." Then he said loudly to Meng Li: "You are not only a disciple of Xuanmen, but also a subordinate of Jingyi, think about it, your kung fu is not weak, come, practice a few tricks for my old man to see, what Xuanmen's kung fu looks like now." ”
As soon as she heard that she was going to practice, Meng Li immediately twisted her hands and said with a red face: "I, I'm still a beginner, and I haven't learned good kung fu yet, so I'm afraid that if I practice it, I will insult my master." ”
"Hey-" The old man waved his hand, "Who is born to be a top master, don't all start from a little bit, don't be afraid and will practice, my old man will naturally not laugh at you!"
When Meng Li heard what he said, he had no choice but to lift his breath and sink into the dantian, put his feet together, and his fists hung down on his waist, and then he fought out the most proficient set of "Five Bird Boxing" in his daily life.
As the name suggests, Wufowl Boxing is evolved from five kinds of birds, and it is the entrance boxing method of Xuanmen. The fist is like a white crane soaring, and when the fist is moving, it is as fierce as an eagle fluttering a bird, and it is extremely particular about the explosive power of inches. The interlocking set of punches is best suited for hand-to-hand combat, but the moves are extremely particular about body shape and foot movement. The power of a punch comes from the feet, with the ankle to the waist board of the horse step to turn around the upper body arm, and then from the skeletal muscles to the collection of the punch instantly exploded!
Its appearance is like a bird, but it is extremely explosive, and it can be said to have a god. Because of its extreme attention to the basic skills of footwork and horse step, it is cited as the introduction to the Xuanmen.
After Meng Li finally played out the whole set of twelve styles without any mistakes, the old man sitting on the ground couldn't help but burst out laughing, pointed at Meng Li and said: "Old man, I have lived for more than seventy years, and it is the first time I have seen someone beat the five birds with such a straight look, as if he was not boxing at all, but was as rigid as the silent memorization of the boxing method! Such a weak and weak five-bird fist, thanks to your master's good temper, if he had replaced me, he would have died of anger a long time ago!"
When Meng Li heard this, her self-esteem was frustrated at the moment, and she was ashamed and ashamed for a while: "My predecessor said that he didn't laugh at me." Yes, I am poor in kung fu, but what is the use of good kung fu? If everyone is the best in the world, there will be no injustice in the world?"
The old man immediately stopped laughing, looked at the tombs not far away, and said gloomily: "Yes, how high is the martial arts? In the end, it is not a pile of loess, and the grass is gone!" Then he stood up and said to Meng Li: "But, old man, I see that you are so weak and weak, it is really itchy to be itchy, so let's play a real five-bird fist for you!"
After saying that, the old man immediately lucked, and punched violently, like a white crane taking off and staggering, and in the blink of an eye, a few violent punches passed like a hungry eagle pounced on food, sharp and fast! Between every move and every style, a charm that could not be captured by the naked eye ran throughout, as if all the aura of heaven and earth gathered in his changeable body. At the end of the blow, "the sky is high and the birds fly" is even more free, the momentum is like a rainbow, and in the blink of an eye, he slammed his fist on a hard stone with incomparably fierce strength, and in the blink of an eye, the stone turned into powder and dispersed under the old man's flesh and blood.
He doesn't have the vigor of a young man's blood, and this punch is completely his own deep internal strength!
Meng Li stood aside and was already stunned, a look of envy appeared in her eyes, and an inexplicable excitement surged in her chest, which could not be calmed down for a long time.
"Little girl, how is my old man's fist technique?" the old man calmed down and sat down on the ground.
"It's simply, incomparable!" Meng Li said immediately.
"The old man's kung fu is so good, do you want to learn it?" The old man turned his head to look at Meng Li, his face was kind and ran.
Meng Li's heart was moved for a while, but she still shook her head and said, "I'm afraid I'm too stupid, and you will be angry if you teach it!"
"Hahaha!" The old man stroked the long beard hanging on his chest and laughed, and then said: "You don't have to worry about this, I don't know how many stubborn disciples in the Xuanmen worshiped under my Lingzenzi seat, and all of them were trained by me to be obedient and practiced a peerless martial arts." As long as you want, my old man will accept you as a disciple!"
Meng Li shook his head and said: "The good intentions of my predecessors, I shouldn't have rebelled, but I already have a master, and I must not worship the second one!"
"Pedantic!" the old man turned his face and scolded angrily, "Who stipulates that there can only be one master in a lifetime? You obviously look down on my old man's martial arts, so you take care of him here!"
"No, no, no!" Meng Li hurriedly waved his hand and said, "The martial arts of the predecessors are really powerful, it's just that I came out so late today for a gambling contract, as for the apprenticeship, it was a bit sudden, and I couldn't react for a while." ”
Time unconsciously spread over the stars in the sky, and in a blink of an eye, the east had slightly revealed the white of the fish's belly, Meng Li saw that the night was about to be unable to hide the morning light of dawn, and then remembered that he had been here for a long time, so he hurriedly said: "Senior, the sky is going to dawn, let's put aside the matter of apprenticeship for the time being, I have to go back to bed, otherwise I will definitely not be able to get up from tomorrow's morning class!"
Seeing that she was so anxious, the old man could not force her to stay, so he could only be a little disappointed and a little expectant: "Little girl, will you come again tomorrow? My old man will be here and wait for your reply!"
"Tomorrow's business, let's talk about it tomorrow! Senior, I'm really leaving!" After speaking, Meng Li lifted the four lanterns on the ground again, and ran over the broken wall and ruins with a fart, running straight towards his bedroom.
"This female doll has a good foundation, but it's a pity that she doesn't work it, so it's a mess, if you call me a good student, I will definitely be a martial arts wizard in the future." The old man looked at her distant back and said silently, "It's a pity, I don't know if she will come tomorrow?" Then he looked at the tomb of Meng Li Xinlei on the ground and said: "She can't bear to look at my apprentices who have nothing to do with her, and since she is so kind-hearted, she won't forget me here, even if she doesn't think about it for a while, I will wait!"
Then he looked up at the blue sky, his face was full of deep contemplation: "I only hope that this kung fu can be succeeded by someone, so that I can kill that rebel for me, so that I can be worthy of those apprentices who died in vain under Jiuquan!"
In the morning class the next day, everyone was reciting the newly learned martial arts methods in the past few days, and Meng Li's head was so sleepy that she slammed her chin back and forth on the desk like a chicken pecking rice. She had no choice but to fight hard and start from the beginning, but whenever she memorized: "The essence of the five treasures and six internal organs is all focused on the essence of the eyes." The case of the eye is the eye, and the essence of the bone is the pupil......" and then her mind closed with the blindfold of the eyelids, and she didn't know where she went, and then her head drooped down, and her chin slammed heavily on the table, and a sore pain woke her up, and several times her tongue was knocked out by her teeth.
It wasn't until the bell of the morning meal rumbled that she felt that she was extremely tormented this morning.
The salty aroma of the porridge in the canteen lingered on the tip of Meng Li's nose, but it did not arouse the rice worms in her five internal organs temple, she took back the food and sat on the chair with an overwhelming yawn, and before she opened her mouth, it was already planted into the porridge bowl with a bang, but fortunately, a pair of big hands held her hair bun and pulled it back, so she was saved from such bad luck.
"Ahh Meng Li was a little afraid of this person's harshness and coldness, and immediately turned his head and felt so weak that he didn't dare to look at it again!
"You!" Qin Su poked his finger at her head and said, "I've really learned how to sleep lately, I sleep in the morning, and I sleep when I eat! Meng Li, did you come to Xuanmen to play a role?"
Qin Su poked very hard, Meng Li was also in terrible pain, a face was gloomy and almost ugly like a pig's liver, she was spoiled since she was a child, except for the invincible mother in the family, there was no second person who dared to count her like this, at this moment, her heart was full of anger, and she turned her face and sneered: "How can I have Qin Su, you are powerful, your ability to expose people's shortcomings is getting better and better, I think in the future, I can rely on this little effort to make a small report in front of the masters, and I will be out of the limelight!"
"I'm doing this for your own good, why don't you know what to do like this?" Qin Su immediately said with a calm face.
"Forgive me for not being able to afford you to be so good to me, I'm really flattered. Since you are so intentional, why don't you use it on yourself, but prefer to take care of other people's affairs?" Meng Li immediately said, "It's better to take care of yourself, if you use your mind on others, others may not be able to understand your affection!"
Qin Su's face was full of anger, it was already ugly, it couldn't be ugly anymore, he always had a stiff face on weekdays, he didn't know his expression, but at this moment, this anger made countless other disciples feel frightened and uneasy, and they buried their heads in the food one after another, and they didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere!
He stretched out his hand and pointed at Meng Li word by word and said, "You wait!" After speaking, he angrily took his rice bowl and brushed his sleeves away.