Shi Zixuan followed Liu Puzhi and walked all the way, and finally arrived at the scholar's house.

Liu Puzhi is in this house, if you don't look at it, when you look at it, even Shi Zixuan is a little speechless. I finally understand that when the world describes poverty, they will use the words "poverty is like washing, and the family is surrounded by walls".

Liu Puzhi's home in Qinghe County is really poor. There is one thatched hut and two houses, except for a collapse, a table, two bamboo stools, a pot, and the cowshed outside, there is nothing else.

"Dao Chief, I'm a little shabby here. You rest first, I'll go buy some chickens and ducks and come back to cook. Liu Puzhi was a little embarrassed, put down his salute, and was about to go out.

"Liu Shusheng, chickens and ducks are not needed. I don't eat for lunch, you just do. "Shi Zixuan knows that this scholar is very poor, how can he let him break the bank.

Besides, when he studied in a school, paper and ink needed money.

Liu Puzhi said embarrassedly: "Thank you for your understanding." I'll go to the market early tomorrow morning to sell words, otherwise I won't be able to open the pot. ”

Shi Zixuan smiled: "What's the point of thanking me, it should be that I want to thank you for giving me a place to stay." ”

Liu Puzhi said secretly: "What the Taoist said is true, I let him live in my house, and I also gave him a place to live." ”

Thinking of this, I felt a sense of joy in my heart to help others, and my heart was also a lot more relaxed.

In this way, Shi Zixuan temporarily lived in Liu Puzhi's house, and every day except for the sunrise, he went out to chant the Dharma to the east, and he was in this grass hut on weekdays, and he didn't go out.

Liu Puzhi felt strange at first, but later saw that Shi Zixuan had been like a day for more than ten days, so he was not surprised.

At noon on this day, Shi Zixuan was looking at the three caves of the Xuan Sutra in the Dudou Palace, and suddenly on a whim, he opened his eyes and walked out of the grass house.

As soon as he pushed the door open, he saw Liu Puzhi approaching from outside the door with his head down.

"Liu Shusheng, what's wrong with you?"

Shi Zixuan was surprised.

This scholar has a blue nose and swollen face, and the green shirt on his right side is covered with mud, so he is not embarrassed.

Let the Taoist chief smile. Liu Shusheng smiled bitterly and said: "I'm really ashamed to say this, don't say it, don't say it." ”

Shizi Xuan calculated the reason, and suddenly asked, "Did something happen to your ploughing cow?"

Liu Shusheng was surprised: "Dao Chief, how can you know?"

Shi Zixuan said: "You don't have any bad intentions, you are kind to others, and your family is surrounded by walls, and you don't go to that place where you are a mess on weekdays." When I saw you that day, you said that apart from the old mother's spiritual position, only the ploughing ox remained. I guess something happened to the ploughing cow that was deposited. ”

"Exactly, exactly. Liu Puzhi sighed and said, "Three years ago, I went home to keep filial piety, and I was in a hurry, so I sent the cow to the teacher's house. The teacher also responded, saying that he would take care of me. In the past few days, I have come to ask for it several times, but I was stopped by the teacher's family, saying that the teacher's family did not raise cattle at all. ”

Liu Puzhi said angrily: "These people are so rude. I said that I was a student of the teacher, and I had an agreement before, but I didn't know that they didn't admit it, and they still used their hands and feet. What a bunch of rascals!"

Shi Zixuan said strangely: "In that case, why don't you go to the academy to talk to your teacher, or tell the other elders in the academy to mediate?"

Liu Puzhi said: "The teacher has been busy with teaching affairs these days, and I can't see each other, as for a few teachers in the school, I have changed many faces in the past three years, how can I speak?"

Shi Zixuan thought for a while, and then said, "Come slowly." Let's talk about the antecedents, what you said when you went to your teacher's house to say goodbye. ”

Liu Puzhi was slightly stunned and said, "It's been almost three years, how can you remember clearly?" Let me think about it. ”

On that day, I begged the teacher to let me take a temporary leave of absence, not to get rid of my name, and to let me go home and observe filial piety before I came back to study. The teacher was embarrassed at first, but then he pleaded with me many times before agreeing. ”

Shi Zixuan's heart moved, and he said, "When did your teacher promise you?"

Liu Puzhi was puzzled: "It's when Zuihou once went to store the ploughing cattle." Dao Chief, what are you asking for?"

Shi Zixuan smiled and said, "Don't ask the cause, how can you know the consequences?" ”

Liu Pu was in a hurry, pulled the sleeve of Shizi Xuan's shirt, and said: "Dao Chief, don't say half of the words, that cow is obviously from my family, how can you not ask for it back?"

Shi Zixuan said: "Do you believe my words?"

Liu Pu said straightly: "The Taoist chief is a man of the Tao and saved my life, why don't I believe it?"

Shi Zixuan said again: "Then do you believe your teacher?"

Liu Puzhi said strangely: "A teacher for one day, a father for life, the teacher preaches and teaches, and I am as kind as a mountain, of course I believe it." ”

"Then I said that this cow was left by your teacher himself, and he instructed his subordinates to stop you, do you believe it?"

Liu Puzhi was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "Dao Chief, I respect you as a person, why do you say such ugly words?"

"How does it sound bad?"

"My teacher is familiar with the books of sages, disciple of sages, how could he do such a thing?" Liu Pu shook his head repeatedly.

"The dragon gave birth to nine sons, all of them are different, who said that the disciples of the saints are all great sages and great virtues?" Shi Zixuan smiled and said: "Don't say anything else, I'll just say that your classmates, is everyone a humble gentleman?"

Liu Puzhi was stunned, as if he was asked by Shi Zixuan.

Shi Zixuan saw that he listened, and said, "Liu Shusheng, I have never seen your teacher. But just listening to you say how that person is a hooligan, you can get a glimpse of how your teacher is. Governing the family is still like this, and preaching and teaching may only be misleading. I don't say what kind of person he is, you are more familiar than me, you can figure it out for yourself. ”

Liu Puzhi is not a fool, but he is relatively honest, and he is a little dull in reading.

Shi Zixuan gave him time to think for himself, and after a while, he said: "I only say my speculation, maybe it's just speculation in the heart of a villain. Believe it or not to you. ”

Liu Puzhi was a little dazed, nodded and said, "Dao Chief, please speak." ”

"When you went to deliver the cattle that day, you just meant to put them away. But your teacher is afraid that he doesn't think so. I'm afraid that he thought that you had 'opened your mind' at that time, and in order to take a temporary break from school and come back to study in three years, he sent the ploughing ox as a gift. ”

When Liu Puzhi heard this, he shook his head and said, "No, no, I said yes that day, I just stored it at the teacher's house, and I will come back in three years." Daoist, you are wrong. ”

Shi Zixuan said with a smile: "If a reader steals a book, it can't be regarded as stealing. How can accepting bribes from students not be said to be temporary mail?"

Liu Puzhi was dumbfounded, and suddenly felt that his past cognition had collapsed.

Seeing Liu Puzhi like this, Shi Zixuan sighed secretly and thought: "These human affairs are understood by me, a cultivator outside the party, how can this scholar not know? Is he a Dharma protector who is related to me? If so, wouldn't it be self-inflicted trouble to extradite him to the Divine Way in the future? Integrity is there, and I really dare not compliment my cleverness." ”

Liu Puzhi sat down in his chair, his eyes blank, and muttered, "How can this be?

When he came back to his senses, he grabbed Shi Zixuan's arm and begged: "Dao Chief, you are a Dao master, can you go and ask for the cow for me?"

Shi Zixuan said secretly: "I want to cast supernatural powers, it is naturally easy, but supernatural powers are not omnipotent, everything is to ask for supernatural powers, what should I do when the supernatural powers cannot be solved in the future?"

The patriarch also said that everything is for divine powers, but what is the use of wisdom?

Shi Zixuan pondered for a moment and said, "I'll ask for it for you, naturally I can't." Not only me, but you can't ask for it anymore. Even if you snatch it back or steal it back, you can't do it. ”

Liu Puzhi was dumbfounded and said, "Why is this?"

Shi Zixuan said: "Let me ask you, who was present when you deposited it?"

Liu Puzhi shook his head and said, "There is no one else present, and there is no written evidence." ”

"Without evidence, even if you snatch back the cow, how can you prove that it belongs to your family?" Shi Zixuan said in a deep voice: "If I am your teacher, I will sue the government with a lawsuit, do you say the government believes you or me?"

"Naturally, I believe in you. Liu Puzhi blurted out, and his face was immediately dead.

"It's over. Finished. Without the ancestral house and the land, I originally relied on this ploughing ox to survive. Now that the cow is gone, it's hard for me to even live, what else do I read? It's better to die?" Liu Puzhi laughed miserably, and actually had the idea of committing suicide.

"Liu Shusheng! There are countless beggars in this world, and they still know how to beg for their lives. Orphans and widows still depend on each other for their lives. Even the ants know how to survive and steal their lives. You are a dignified man, you don't lack brains, and you are not disabled, how can you not live!"

Seeing him like this, Shi Zixuan suddenly shouted angrily.

This drink, with the righteous heart, Liu Puzhi's ears sounded like thunder, and his head hurt greatly, it was really like a slap in the head, and he suddenly sobered up.

"Strange thing! Why did I have the idea of suicide just now? Liu Puzhi woke up in shock, and couldn't help but be afraid for a while.

This is the devil, the devil in the heart.

Not only do practitioners have it, but there is no shortage of secular people.

When people in the world say the word "demon", they are only terrible ghosts, eating hearts and bones, and eating human flesh and blood. Actually, demons are not a species, but a kind of mind. It is the ordinary mind that is abnormally degraded due to external reasons, and it is extremely biased in a certain place, that is, it is a demon.

Just like this Liu scholar, who reads the books of sages for a long time on weekdays, raises his spirit, and has great aspirations, how can he have the idea of committing suicide.

It's just that I was crushed by the hardships of life in the past, and I was already miserable, and when I heard that the teacher I had always respected was not so upright. And the cattle that he relied on for his livelihood will not come back.

Under the double blow, I lost my normal heart, and the truth I knew in the past was also thrown aside, and the more I thought about it, the more bitter I became, and the more bitter I was, the more I wanted to be liberated, and I had the idea of suicide.

Don't you hear how many such examples there are in the world, and people who are rescued by suicide often regret that they will never do such a stupid thing again.

This is paranoia, and it is also demonic nature, once it is induced by the outside world, if it cannot be controlled, it will have bad roots.

This is also the reason that when a practitioner enters the world, Master Weishenme will first teach the Dharma Sutra and let you recite it every day without explicitness.

The scriptures are tempered thousands of times and have their own laws.

Chanting the scriptures, one can temper the heart ape and exercise the root nature. Second, you can subdue the demons of the heart, without losing the fundamentals.

This is weishenme, there is a way to praise morality, and there is nothing to do to praise Huang Ting.

Liu Shusheng had a thought, not only did he suddenly wake up, but Shi Zixuan also had a little understanding after drinking it.

"It's no wonder that the sixth senior brother passed on the Fa on behalf of the teacher that day, and only let me chant it, not talk about the true cultivation secret. That's what happened. Shi Zixuan now thinks back and realizes that Li Xiu has good intentions, and he is also glad that he did not pursue supernatural powers, forgot his homework, and lost his roots. Otherwise, no matter how deep the blessing is, now it will not be able to get rid of the mortal fetus.

The two of them had their own thoughts in their hearts, and they were silent for a while.

After all, Shi Zixuan is a cultivator, so he first put away his confusion and said with a smile: "Liu Shusheng, don't be in a hurry. As the saying goes, the boat is naturally straight to the bridge, and there is no hurdle in the world that cannot be passed. There is always a solution. ”

Liu Puzhi smiled bitterly and said, "Daoist, you comfort me, I understand it." In fact, I should have expected such a result, alas, I am still a scholar, how can I be so stupid?

Shi Zixuan smiled dumbly, this Liu Puzhi could actually think of going to work as a coolie, but he was impressed, and said secretly: "This scholar is still saved." ”

Then he said, "Don't be discouraged. I only said that your cow will not come back, but I have not said that you cannot use other means to get the cow back. ”

Liu Pu raised his head sharply and said expectantly: "Dao Chief, do you have a way?"

Master Xuanfeng said lightly: "There is no way for the time being, maybe there will be one tomorrow." Liu Shusheng, first put away his anxiety, go back to wash up, and sleep peacefully. Tomorrow when you enter school, please take me with you to meet your teacher and then make plans. ”