Chapter 52: Meditation in the Mind
Half a month later, the new Lao Jun Guan appeared in front of Xiao Ziyang; in fact, the Lao Jun Guan was originally built very strong, although it was left unattended for ten years, the wind and rain, the basic buildings were no problem, all the craftsmen had to do was to repair some broken places, and add some furniture to each room.
After sending the workers away, Xiao Ziyang left the two honest old mothers behind.
One surnamed Liu and the other surnamed Li, both of whom were widows left by the herb pickers. Both of these are men who can't bear to abandon their children and remarry after they die, and they live with their children hungry and full.
Both of them were only in their thirties, but the hardships of life made them look like old men in their fifties and sixties. Xiao Ziyang called them Aunt Liu and Aunt Li.
Aunt Liu and Aunt Li got Xiao Ziyang's consent and took their children to live in Laojunguan. Aunt Liu's son was named Da Niu, who was seven years old, and Aunt Li's child was a daughter, named Cui'er, who was only five years old and very thin.
After Zhao Erzhu washed and changed into new clothes, he looked very delicate. The eldest of his four children is named Shanzi, who is nine years old this year, with dark skin, thin bones and two particularly long arms. Listen to Erzhu said, this kid don't look thin, his strength is not small, he is very good at climbing trees and catching fish, without this helper, he may not only not be able to support a few children, not to mention, I am afraid that even he will starve to death.
The youngest of these children was only three years old, and when Erzhu found him, he was thrown under an old locust tree in the south of the town with another baby, already dying of hunger. Erzhu took the two children back, and named the older one Dahuai, and the small one Xiaohuai, and it didn't take long for Xiaohuai to die, but Dahuai was extremely vigorous, and he could eat anything, so he survived without a meal.
The remaining two children are only seven years old, a boy named Xiao Hei, Hei Hei is thin, his two eyes are particularly big, Xiao Hei was adopted by Erzhu since he was a child, and he has been with Erzhu for the longest time, and his name is also from Erzhu.
A girl named Ping'er is also skinny, and she is the only one among the children who talks a lot.
At first, the children were full of sores, Xiao Ziyang invited a doctor, and after these days of treatment, they were almost gone. I was able to eat enough for a few days in a row, and the dishes on my face were slowly disappearing.
For Zhao Erzhu's children in the past few days, life is like going to heaven, not to mention the fragrant white rice, there are meat dishes at every meal, which is really delicious! Moreover, there are warm clothes to wear, and there is a thick quilt cover for sleeping at night, and they will never wake up from freezing again. Therefore, several children were very cautious about Xiao Ziyang, for fear of upsetting him and driving them out.
Xiao Ziyang bought a few thousand-character texts, and taught them to read and write every night when he had free time; Erzhu was smart and clever, and he was very interested in reading and writing, and he worked very hard, but Shanzi and the others couldn't sit still; Xiao Ziyang didn't have much patience to educate the children, so he only taught Erzhu, and then Erzhu taught several other children.
After Xiao Ziyang arranged the Guanzhong, he went down the mountain to visit the hunters in several nearby villages, bought two mountain deer and a wild boar back, and told the hunters that they would send the hunted wild things to Laojunguan first, and he would charge them at twice the market price.
At the same time, he also told the hunters that he would charge five times the market price for tigers, bears, and other beasts of prey.
Because he had long discovered that the more ferocious the beast meat, the better the medicinal diet!
After settling everything, Xiao Ziyang began the cultivation of the fourth chapter of "Purple Jade Smoke".
In the past, when Xiao Ziyang practiced the third chapter of "Purple Jade Smoke" in Longkou Town, he felt that the physical pain in the world was nothing more than this, and in the process of repeating those unbelievable actions over and over again, the pain, numbness, soreness, and extreme fatigue after completing the movements were simply painful. If it weren't for the extreme desire for revenge in his heart, and the sense of accomplishment that his body is getting stronger every day, he would never have been able to persevere.
However, when he began to exercise the fourth chapter today, he realized that the previous pain was simply pediatric, if the previous pain was like the black prison of the government, then the current pain was like entering the eighteenth layer of purgatory in the underworld;
After completing the first set of actions in the fourth chapter with great perseverance, Xiao Ziyang fell heavily on the bluestone slab of the huge practice platform that he had built on the top of Fenghe Mountain. For half an hour, he couldn't even move a finger, and when he had to think if something had gone wrong with his cultivation and whether his body had lost his practice, he felt his strength return to his body little by little.
He struggled to get up and massaged the acupoints according to the technique of the immortal decision. Fortunately, after more than a year of cultivation, his body has become ten times more flexible than that of a juggler. Otherwise, he would not have been able to complete this set of massage techniques, which is much more complicated.
After a massage, Xiao Ziyang felt as if a fire had been ignited in his body, sweating all over his body, and his skin turned red as if he had been soaked in hot water. After a while, the feeling of exhaustion disappeared without a trace, and then a strong feeling of hunger welled up in my heart.
Xiao Ziyang got up and walked down the stone steps to the bottom, from the stone steps down only a short time of dozens of breaths, he felt as if every step would be a little hungrier, and when he reached the door of the room near the well in the west wing, he already felt dizzy, his whole body was weak, and he seemed to be unable to stand steadily.
Entering the room, he sat down at the dining table, and ordered Erzhu to bring him a large pot of rotten mountain venison that had already been stewed, and devoured it.
This room was originally the kitchen of the Taoist temple, but Xiao Ziyang ordered the pot stove to be rebuilt in the east wing, and used this kitchen as his own special medicinal kitchen. In the five cauldrons in the room, large pieces of meat are tumbling, these are the medicinal dishes that Xiao Ziyang began to cook in the pot after preparing them yesterday, and the rising steam in the pot exuded a strong medicinal fragrance. Erzhu watched the fire in front of the stove.
It didn't take much effort, Xiao Ziyang ate three pots in a row under the stunned Erzhu, and a mountain deer had more than 30 catties of meat, and a third of it went down to Xiao Ziyang's stomach.
"The taste of this medicinal food is really choking. Xiao Ziyang muttered and walked into the special meditation room and began to massage the acupoints with another set of techniques. After a massage, he only felt that his internal organs seemed to be fumigated by hot air, and the boiling heat rose up, and his stomach and intestines trembled obviously quickly...... A quarter of an hour later, hunger struck again.
After doing this three times, a mountain deer all got into Xiao Ziyang's stomach, and there was not even a drop of soup left. Then Xiao Ziyang came to the practice platform on the top of the mountain again.
Xiao Ziyang didn't start cultivating right away, his eyes were slightly closed and his fists were clenched, as if he was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, yes, he was afraid, the last time he cultivated, the intense pain in his body made him shudder.
Suddenly, Xiao Ziyang opened his eyes, and a determined light radiated from his eyes. Slowly but surely, he began another cultivation.