In the endless desert, a caravan of two people departed from the oasis and drifted away.

The two men can't seem to be called "caravans", but they have more than a dozen camels, so there seems to be nothing wrong with calling them "caravans".

The world is so awkward, tangled, and unpredictable, just like Li Zhichang's mood now.

"Uncle Shi, didn't you say to go to Ouyang Ke, why did you pull me to empty his house. Li Zhichang said with a sad face.

Zhao Xuan rode a camel in front of him, his body swayed with the ups and downs of the camel, holding the wine he had scavenged from Ouyang Ke's house, drinking it slowly, and said without looking back: "Didn't you find it?"

The corners of Li Zhichang's mouth twitched, and his temples jumped, he wanted to say that you are sure that you are looking for Ouyang Ke? Not his family property? But because of his identity, he didn't say it after all.

Zhao Xuan sighed and said, "Sure enough, you are still sticking to vulgar etiquette, like you, what kind of cultivation can you cultivate?

"But...... Freedom doesn't mean doing whatever you want, right?" Li Zhichang said hesitantly.

Zhao Xuan glanced back at him and said, "Do you want to say that I am gradually entering the Demon Dao?"

"The disciple didn't dare. ”

"It's not that you don't dare, but you don't dare to say it. Zhao Xuan rolled his eyes and said, "Everyone has their own definition of Xiaoyao, just like everyone has their own way." Some people think that doing whatever they want is leisure, some people think that ruthlessness and desirelessness can be free, and some people think that not harming the interests of others and doing what they want is leisure.

Li Zhichang pondered for a moment and said, "The third one, right?" If you let your ** go and do whatever you want, then where is the leisure, but the devil's way!

Zhao Xuan didn't know if it was okay, and asked again: "I don't know if you have heard the story of Lu Zu's 'bottomless jar is not satisfied, and the monk invests a cart of money'?"

Without waiting for Li Zhichang to answer, he continued: "After Lu Zu became an immortal, he traveled all over the world and often made a fortune in the downtown area. One day, he turned into a beggar, sat in the downtown with a clay pot, and shouted: 'A certain immortal is also familiar with filling this jar with money, so he passed on his skill of turning stones into gold.' Passers-by saw that the clay pot was small and could be filled with more than 100 copper plates, so they rushed to invest money. But there were dozens of people in a row, more than 1,000 copper plates, and none of them could fill the small crockpot. At this time, a monk pushed a cart of coins and asked Lu Zu, 'Can I fill a cart of money?' Lu Zu smiled and said, "I don't know, you can try it." The monk took the coin in his hand and poured a lot of money into the earthen pot, and although he put in a lot of money, the small pot was still not enough. The monk was angry, pushing a cart of money into the small jar, and the mouth of the small jar opened in an instant, sucking water from the dragon king, and swallowing the money and the cart into his stomach. The monk was shocked and asked, 'Are you an immortal, or do you use illusion?' Lu Zu wrote a poem and said: 'Neither god nor immortal, neither magic nor illusion; I don't have it, and I don't have any money, I don't swim from me, and I ride a whale to sweat!" The monk was remorseful. Lu Zu didn't say a word, only wrote the word 'yet' in his hand, threw it into the small jar, and recited the mantra: 'Push the cart out.' But the crockpot didn't move. Lu Zu also said: 'The pot is fine, and I don't spit out money, so I can only wait for me to push it myself.' After saying that, he jumped into the jar and disappeared. The monk knew that the priest was afraid of having a 'pot of heaven', and he could use a pot to escape into the other world, only to flee to the beggar. Then he picked up the stone and hit the can, the can broke, exposed a note, and wrote: 'To find the truth, you must know the truth, see the truth and not realize it, meet again with a smile, and drive to Dongping Road. The monk was reluctant to give up his money, thought for a long time, and then walked to Linzhen Dongping Road. Before the person arrived, he had already seen Lu Zu manifest his true body, waiting on the side of the road, with his car and copper coins in front of him. Lu Zu said: "I saw that you gave up your money at the beginning, and you still want to be tempered, I didn't think that you would cherish your money like this, and push the cart away." When he finished speaking, he turned into a rainbow and left. The monk regretted it again and again, and said secretly: "I knew that the beggar was Lu Xianzun, why would he spare his wealth like this?

Li Zhichang replied: "Naturally, he did whatever he wanted, and he did not harm the interests of the monks from beginning to end. ”

Zhao Xuan smiled and asked again, "What if he takes the money and leaves?"

Li Zhichang was stunned and said, "How is it possible?"

"How is it impossible? If the ending is changed to Lu Zu leaving with money, but the monk repents, wouldn't it be just a pointing?"

Li Zhichang was even more stunned, if it was really changed as Zhao Xuan said, it seemed that it was really a degree.

He hesitated for a long time, and then hesitated: "Could it be that Uncle Shi wants to say that you are igniting Ouyang Ke?"

"You don't believe it?" Zhao Xuan smiled very playfully.

Li Zhichang's heart trembled, as long as Zhao Xuanyi showed this expression, it would be fine, and he smiled dryly: "Don't dare, don't dare!"

Zhao Xuan suddenly became very serious, and said solemnly: "You are already thinking like this!"

Li Zhichang was silent, indeed, he didn't believe that Zhao Xuan was igniting Ouyang Ke at all.

But why not believe it?

"Because of prejudice!" Zhao Xuan seemed to be able to see through Li Zhichang's thoughts, and said for him: "Because you think that I don't have Lu Zu's Taoism, so I am close to the Demon Dao; Today's things, if Lu Zu comes to do it, it will inevitably make you guess the unfathomable, and in me, you think that I am greedy for money and profit. Why? It's because of prejudice!"

Li Zhichang's heart was shocked, and he vaguely felt a panic: Is it really because of prejudice? Because I see people as prejudiced, different people will have different views on the same thing. Or even two diametrically opposed views?

Why should I have this prejudice and not look at people with a normal heart?

Li Zhichang couldn't help but ask himself, what he thought was right before was really right, and what he thought was wrong before, was it really wrong?

Gradually, he became more and more skeptical, even from doubting himself, to doubting the world.

Zhao Xuan rode a camel and looked back, seeing Li Zhichang's confused expression, but he smiled.

Doubt is right, because the beginning of the path of cultivation begins with doubt, and the process of cultivation is the process of resolving doubts.

If you don't doubt yourself and the world, how can you seek truth through falsehood, find your true self, and find the true "Tao"?

He pointed out that Ouyang Ke was false today, and Li Zhichang was true. As for the reason...... Do you need it?

Do whatever you want, do whatever you want!

Next, Zhao Xuan did not disturb Li Zhichang, in the boundless desert, there was silence, and a team of camels walked leisurely.

Under the scorching sun, Zhao Xuan sat on a camel, holding a pot in his left hand, drinking happily, his feet swaying freely, and in this desert full of death, there was a trace of relaxed and freehand vitality.

In the evening, Li Zhichangfang woke up from his contemplation, and although the confusion in his eyes had not disappeared, he radiated a different brilliance.

drove the camel to Zhao Xuan's side, and arched his hand and said, "Thank you Uncle Ancestor for the grace of enlightenment!" Although his expression was as respectful as ever, there was a trace of restraint.

Zhao Xuan nodded with satisfaction and said, "It seems that you have figured out a lot of things." ”

"Thanks to the guidance of Uncle Shi, if there is no Master Uncle Zu's head drink, the disciple is afraid that he will be confused for the rest of his life. Li Zhichang said with a smile.

Neither of them said anything, because if you think about this kind of thing, you can figure it out, and if you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out. And everyone thinks differently, and they can't think about it.

Zhao Xuan looked at Li Zhichang, who had changed into a person, and suddenly asked, "Tell me now, believe it or not, I'm igniting Ouyang Ke?"

Li Zhichang was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Uncle Shi said yes, and if he said no, he didn't." I only know that Uncle Shi enlightened me, as for Ouyang Ke, Uncle Shi hasn't done it yet, how do I know?" He neither disbelieved nor gullible, and did not hide it, and said it easily, which shows how fast the progress has been in the past half a day. Immediately afterwards, he even made a joke: "Regardless of whether the ancestor is lit or not, but last night's behavior can be called a 'thief' word!" This kind of "disrespectful" words, if they were placed in the past, he would never dare to say it.

Zhao Xuan smiled and said nothing.

Li Zhichang was surprised and said, "Doesn't Uncle Shi explain and explain?"

"Explain what?"

"Uncle Shi doesn't seem to approve of the comment on the word 'thief', and he doesn't care about it. Li Zhichang smiled very inexplicably.

Zhao Xuan stared at him for a while, and gradually understood what he meant.

He suddenly improved his Taoism, tasted the sweetness, and wanted to talk about the Tao on the spot, or he was asking!

As for whether to talk about the Tao or to ask, it depends on yourself.

If he can answer his question, then he is asking, and if he can't answer himself, or if he can't agree with the answer, the two will argue!

Zhao Xuan figured this out, smiled quietly, looked at Li Zhichang, and played with taste: "Do you remember the first sentence of the middle part of the Yin Fu Sutra?"

Li Zhichang nodded, a strange color flashed in his eyes, and there was a trace of excitement.

Zhao Xuan guessed right, he did pick a reason and wanted to ask, but he didn't expect Zhao Xuan to agree so easily, and immediately opened his mouth and said: "Born to kill, the reason of the Tao is also." Heaven and earth, the thief of all things, all things, the thief of man, man, the thief of all things. Three thieves are suitable, and three talents are safe. It is the first sentence of the middle part of the Yin Fu Sutra.

"'Born to kill, the principle of the Tao is also. 'What's the explanation?' Zhao Xuan suddenly asked.

Li Zhichang replied without thinking about it: "'Heaven' is the one that gives birth to 'heaven kills', such as the inverse number of 'easy', and the one that gives birth to it 'sheng'. ”

"'Heaven and earth, thieves of all things, thieves of all things, thieves of men, thieves of all things. 'What's the explanation?'

"All things are made by heaven and earth, and if they stay in heaven and earth, they will be stolen by heaven and earth. Man depends on all things for sustenance, treats all things, and is robbed by all things. All things depend on man, treat man, and be stolen by man. ”

"'Three thieves are suitable, and three talents are safe. 'What's the explanation?'

"The three thieves are the ones who are appropriate, the way of heaven determines people, and the law of humanity is also heavenly. To rely on each other, so peaceful. Li Zhichang replied, but his eyes became brighter and brighter.

At this time, although Zhao Xuan asked Li Zhichang to answer, Zhao Xuan hid Li Zhichang's previous answer to the question about "theft" in the answer that Li Zhichang answered now, which made Li Zhichang more excited and enlightened the more he answered.

I only heard Zhao Xuan continue to ask without stopping: "Heaven steals all things because all things depend on it, people steal all things because all things depend on it, and all things steal people because people rely on it." The three rely on each other to live and be at peace with each other, and thieves can be called thieves?"

"No!" Li Zhichang did not hesitate at all.

"Why?"

"Grace is born of harm, harm is of grace. Those who know will get both. Therefore, it is said that the world's education 'Deshan stick' and 'Linji drink' are the most dear. Heaven and man and all things depend on each other, so thieves are not called thieves. Those who speak are unrighteous and degraded. ”

"Am I human?"

"Naturally. ”

"Money isn't everything?"

"Of course!"

"If it is all things, how can man steal all things?"

"A thief is not a thief!"

"Thief?"

"Not a thief!"

"Daohu?"

"Definitely!"

"It's not a thief, why not?"

"Michiya!"

The two looked at each other and laughed.

If others hear these remarks, which are not thefts and are not Tao, I am afraid that they will only think that they are insane. Only two people themselves know the difference between the two "Taos" in their mouths.

It's just that after laughing, a trace of loss flashed in Zhao Xuan's eyes.

Li Zhichang can ask him, who is he looking for?

Wang Chongyang's resurrection?

In comparison, he really hoped that Li Zhichang would no longer ask him questions in the future, but reach the point where he could talk about the Tao.

The Eight Immortals of the Ancient Dynasty are also teachers and friends, and he also wants to find a Taoist friend.

But the current Li Zhichang is not enough!