"Demon ......"

Seeing a group of white foxes sitting like people holding books and reciting around the bonfire in the valley, the only reaction in Hong Yi's head was "I really met a monster!"

Although he had read Li Yan's thatched cottage notes, there were mostly foxes and ghosts, and stories of amorous fox girls and beautiful women, and he also fantasized that he would meet them one day. But who knew that I really met it today, but a chill suddenly surged up in my heart.

"Aren't I Ye Gong a good dragon? Calm and calm, if the fox ghost is really as recorded in the Caotang notes, there is nothing to be afraid of. It won't be this group of foxes who want to read, please let me be a teacher, foxes also want to read like people, it's really a fantasy......."

Thinking about some of the fox monster notebook novels he usually reads, Hong Yi's mind calmed down a little.

"Chirp, chirp......."

At this moment, the group of foxes reading around the campfire had already seen someone, and three young foxes screamed, dropped their books with their front paws, stretched their limbs, and jumped up and down around the woman in red with a puff of smoke, looking like they were cheering. Obviously, I was very familiar with this woman in red.

"Xiao Sang, Xiao Fei, Xiao Shu, don't make trouble, there are guests arriving today. Don't lose your courtesy. Why are you crawling on the ground with your hands, and you can't change the habits of birds and beasts, and make the guests laugh? ”

Another voice came from around the campfire.

The voice was stiff and the tone was very strange, as if a fish bone was stuck in the throat, but it was still clear to the words, but it could be understood.

Hong Yi was taken aback again, because he saw an old fox standing like a human, with its hind legs on the ground, and its forelimbs made the shape of arching hands, walking crookedly.

This old fox walked upright like this, which made Hong Yi have an illusion, "This fox seems to be an old village pedant." ”

"Tu Lao. Xiao Sang, Xiao Leek, Xiao Shu They are not sensible, Mr. Xiao is a wonderful person, and they should not be blamed for being rude. ”

The woman in red smiled and turned to look at Hong Yi: "This is your student." What do you think?"

Hong Yi looked at the group of fluffy little white foxes, like snowballs rolling on the ground, and thought about teaching them to read and write, and a ridiculous feeling surged in his heart.

"Are you a human or a demon?" asked Hong Yi, looking at the woman in red again.

"Don't worry about so much, I'm your employer, hire you to be a gentleman, just ten taels of red gold a month. The woman in red smiled mysteriously.

"Mr. came to the valley today, it really makes the valley shine, Mr. is a scholar, when you know that birds and beasts also have a good way to understand the heart, there are fierce tigers and lions in the past to listen to the sages and sages, the concubine invited Mr. today, and there is no malice, and our pure fox clan is not a beast with general wisdom, clear reason, understand the world. Reading personality is reasonable, when you know that in ancient times, there was no difference between humans and beasts, they were all hairy and bloody, and the people of ancient times were no different from apes. Later, he gradually walked upright, ate cooked food, and created writing, and became a human being. Our pure fox has lived in the mountains for a long time, and it is just equivalent to the people of the ancients. Sir's surprise surprised us. ”

"Huh?"

Hong Yi's eyes widened, looking at this old fox, the other party spoke elegantly, and there were facts and reasoning everywhere in the conversation. A reader who is more than a reader. What a fox.

"How can you speak human words?" asked Hong Yi.

"Man has words, beasts have beasts. Starlings, parrots can also speak human. People can also learn the language of birds, so why can't foxes learn human language? Foxes learn human language, just like the people of the Daqian Dynasty who learned to translate the Yunmeng language, the Huoluo language, and the Yuantu language. It's just about the pronunciation of the language, what's so strange about it?" the old fox named Tu Lao replied, still with a single glance.

"As long as you can make sense, it's not scary. What are the people of the Daqian Dynasty? This fox seems to have really entered the state of reading, and regards himself as a common person under the jurisdiction of the Daqian Dynasty. However, the conversation is elegant and the reason is clear, but it is worthy of respect. Hong Yi thought in his heart, and settled down.

It doesn't matter if it's a ghost or a fox, as long as it can be explained clearly, it's not scary.

"The old gentleman is really a gentleman. Hong Yi also arched his hand and returned the etiquette of a scholar. The other party has the etiquette of a scholar, but he can't lose his etiquette.

"Hahahaha. Hearing Hong Yi say that he was a man of elegance, this old fox named Tu Lao was so happy that his beard curled up, and he seemed to be so excited that he forgot about his form.

"The girl is called Concubine Yuan?" Hong Yi turned to look at the woman in red and also gave a salute.

He had just heard Tu Lao's fox shouting that the woman in red was called Concubine Yuan.

"Miss Yuanfei must also be a fox fairy with advanced Taoism, who can transform into a human form. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare. Concubine Yuan said with a smile: "Illusion is just an illusion, using thoughts to confuse the souls of ordinary people, such as 'ghosts hitting the wall' first-class, can only confuse the people and fishermen who are afraid of ghosts and gods, and a reader like Mr. Xiao who understands cannot be confused." I'm not a fox, but I'm human. ”

"Well, if you are reasonable, your mind will be clear, and you will not be affected by ghosts, gods and demons. The things that know the details are not terrible, if they are not terrible, the mind will be stable, and the demons will not be troubled. Hong Yi nodded.

"Little sir, do you promise to be their teacher?" asked Concubine Yuan.

"It is the work of the sages to make the beasts understand the truth. Although I am not qualified, I can barely serve as a sage. Hong Yi nodded.

"That's the case, that's fine, but I'll have to test you. Ten taels of red gold a month, you can open a school, I can't go out in vain. Concubine Yuan's eyes were fixed on Hong Yi.

In an instant, Hong Yi felt that Concubine Yuan had a taste of arrogance.

"What does the Yuan Concubine girl want to test? Poetry and songs, Jingyi articles, or policy theories? If it is bow and horse martial arts, then I can't do it. Hong Yizheng said.

"Of course I won't test your bow and horse martial arts. I'll just ask you a question. Concubine Yuan asked without thinking: "What is the biggest thing in the world?"

Concubine Yuan blurted out, obviously this question had been confused in her heart for a long time.

"Is there anything biggest in the world?" Hong Yi thought, "Of course it's the biggest truth." ”

"The biggest truth?" Concubine Yuan's face showed a hint of joy: "Good reason is the biggest, fortunately, I stopped when I passed by Qiuyue Temple today, and I heard Mr. Xiao make poems, so I knew that Mr. Xiao was not an ordinary person." Mr. can be said to have solved one of my big doubts. ”

"Mr. can also make poems?" Tu Lao was surprised again, and his green fox eyes were extremely surprised, as if he had seen a treasure.

"Occasionally, I just do a sentence or two. Hong Yi was modest, a gust of cold wind blew, and he suddenly felt a little cold.

"Sir, sit down by the campfire. Tu Lao also saw that Hong Yi's body was slightly weak, and the night breeze in the valley was very cold, so he immediately invited Hong Yi to the fire.

Next to the campfire, there are many small wooden stools, and a group of foxes sit and read books.

Hong Yi lit the fire, but saw that the books in the hands of these foxes were not imaginary cultivation classics, but simple books for children's enlightenment such as "Thousand Character Text", "Hundred Family Names" and "Three Character Classics" that were very popular on the market.

"I've read a lot of notes, and the foxes in them are all supernatural powers, and jīng is through the way of cultivation, and there are endless changes. I don't know if Tu Lao has these magical powers?" Hong Yi looked at all this, and felt that this group of foxes was very different from the fox monsters in the notes, so he couldn't help but ask.

"The fox that can be transformed, there is no one in 10,000, they are all amazing and brilliant, our fox people are born no different from ordinary beasts, muddy and nightmarish, only a small part of the fox can pass people xìng, follow people to learn to use fire, eat cooked food, and this small number of foxes have a small part, in order to learn to read, clear reason. After understanding the truth, only by chance, learn the way of cultivation, and finally cultivate to the point where the gods are as powerful as the ghosts and immortals of Taoism, so that they can transform. Our cultivation is also completely to learn the cultivation methods of human beings. Man is the pride of heaven, and wisdom is endless. The mysteries of the body are endless. I also lived near the Great Zen Temple in Zhongzhou for a period of time, and I learned a little bit about the truth of cultivation when I watched the monks inside practice and chant the scriptures at night. If the fox wants to understand the truth, understand the truth, and then cultivate, it will have to go through all kinds of coincidences. It's far inferior to humans. These little foxes now only have simple spirits, so they asked Mr. to teach them to read and write. Only when you understand the truth can you cultivate. ”

Tu Lao talked eloquently and clearly.

"What if you don't know the way of cultivation, how to cultivate?" Hong Yi asked.

"The Great Qian Dynasty is a good Taoist, the Yujing Temple outside the city is a famous Fang Xian Taoist school, the Taoist practice of the gods and the gods, yīn gods out of the body are also widely spread, among which the profound and mysterious places are far better than our fur branches and leaves, Mr. Xiao is a scholar, but why retreat to the second, not to find Taoist people to ask about cultivation, but to find us fox?" Tu Lao said strangely.

"Oh, the reader is silent, and I know very little about it. But if I have a chance today, I would like to ask. Although Hong Yi knew that the Yujing Temple outside the city was the largest Taoist temple, there were many Taoist priests in it, and some of them were still burning Dan in the palace. But these people are ashamed of the scholars, who think that they have fooled the people with their gods and ghosts.

More importantly, Hong Yi knew that his father Wu Wenhou was a master of science, and he hated Buddhism and Taoism, once in the military affairs of the imperial court and the Yunmeng Empire, the emperor summoned a Taoist priest to ask about the good luck, and was immediately persuaded by Wu Wenhou, and reprimanded the Taoist priest in the court, "pretending to be a god and playing ghosts, and also want to control the society and control the artifact, which is simply ridiculous." ”

In such an environment, Hong Yi can't contact Taoist priests at all, not to mention, ordinary Taoist priests are clinging to powerful people in order to alchemy and burning mercury, and with Hong Yi's identity as a concubine who is not in the stream, there are no strangers to contact him.

"There are many ways to cultivate in the world, but the purpose is nothing more than to transcend life and death. And most of them are in two categories. The first is to refine the soul of the gods, which is called immortal art. The second is to refine the flesh, which is called martial arts. The cultivation of immortal art is actually the cultivation of one's own thoughts, and there are various methods, but it is nothing more than the ten realms. Fixing the spirit, out of the shell, night travel, rì travel, driving away, manifesting, possessing, snatching, thunder, yang god. As for the realm of martial arts, I don't know, Concubine Yuan herself is a master of boxing, but she can explain a thing or two for Mr. Tu Lao said.

"After being fixed, you can be quiet, and then you can be quiet. This is the truth of the reader, since it is the immortal art of cultivating the soul, the first step is to concentrate on the mind, read and make articles, the first step is to meditate and receive. to be able to concentrate on it. If the thoughts are scattered, the heart is ape. Nothing can be done then. ”

Hong Yi listened to the new things, combined with the truth of the reader, and secretly speculated.

"There are so many things about cultivation that they are like stars in the sky, and I can't say anything for a while. There are a lot of cultivation books in the old dwelling, all of which were brought out by the old man when the Great Zen Temple was destroyed, Mr. can read one or two, I still have a lot of things I don't understand, and I need Mr. to explain one or two. ”

"Huh, Tu Lao still has a collection of books?" Hong Yi was stunned for a moment, looked around, but found that there was a stone cave in the south of the valley, and the lights in the stone cave were swaying.

"Of course there is, the prosperous era is heavy on the collection, and now my Daqian Dynasty is an unprecedented prosperous era, and ordinary big families have a collection of hundreds of thousands of books, of course we have to learn from it. In fact, half of the reason for inviting him this time is to teach these children, and the other half is to organize the books for us. Divide the categories of the subset of scripture and history, and when these children become adults, it will be easy to read, otherwise it will be messy, which is really a headache. ”

Tu Lao showed a headache.