Ding-ding-dang, dong-dong-dang
On the third day after leaving Shanxi City, at ten o'clock at noon, the sun shone on the deserted country road. It was already early summer, and the sun was beginning to have a bit of midsummer temperature. In the distance, a man and a donkey suddenly appeared. The afternoon sun slowly and leisurely rushed on the road.
It stands to reason that traveling merchants would generally avoid the hottest time of the day and go to the roadside vendors' tea shacks to have a sip of tea and rest. Even if they were unlucky, they would hide in the shade of a tree and take a nap to build up energy for the afternoon trip.
But at this moment, this man dressed as a Taoist priest in coarse white clothes was lying on a small cart, with his legs crossed, a bamboo curtain covering his face to block his appearance, his hands behind his head, and he was still humming. Singing an unknown ditty, seemingly not caring about the fierce sun, the little black donkey pulled a cart for one person and one cart, humming and humming hard, and the small bell tied around his neck also beat with the pace, tinkling. Dingdangdang co-authored the music for Taoist priests.
Rushing on the road at noon, it doesn't look like there is something urgent. Although it is unreasonable, the leisurely atmosphere does not seem so inconsistent.
Suddenly there was a rapid and angry voice, and a blue-white jade pendant floated out from under the Taoist priest's green coat. The spiritual power gathered around the jade pendant turned into a pair of small fists and beat the Taoist priest's chest in great annoyance.
"Walk, walk, walk, I've been walking in this mountain forest for three days, taking my time and walking so far! Shen Xichen, you said that Qingfeng Mountain is full of spiritual power and it helps me practice a lot. You are as fast as a donkey. How long will it take you to reach it? In fact, you don’t want to help me at all. You must want to take me far away and just throw me away and bury me in an uninhabited place. You If you are uneasy and kind, you will not be rewarded!"
Shen Xichen faced the furious punches without losing her breath, but she couldn't help shouting wildly. She took out her hand and knocked the jade pendant onto the cart with a loud clang. Taking off the curtain hat, he frowned slightly due to the sudden direct sunlight, opened his eyes and looked at the jade pendant sideways.
"Hmph, I haven't spoken since I left the city. I've only made up this one thing in three days. You think so beautifully. If I'm not so kind, even under Xu Zhiyi's nose, I can do it. You were broken into four pieces and thrown one by one around Shanxi City. It is your turn to be angry with me now. Huh, if I hadn't brought you with me, I would have been able to go back to Qingfeng Mountain alone. I'm a freeloader with a bad temper, and I'm not grateful for the hard work. I'm really losing money in this business."
Ayu felt confident after hearing this. Although Shen Xichen's words were extremely arrogant, they were not unreasonable. Who told her that she really had to rely on his aura to live now? She just wanted to refute but swallowed it back. It wasn't necessarily possible anyway. It's fair to say, so just shut up and get angry secretly.
Seeing that there was no reply for a long time, Shen Xichen sat up, crossed his legs and began to meditate. The spiritual energy around his body circulated with you. He closed his eyes and spoke to Ayu again, but his tone seemed to slow down a lot.
"It's noon now. It's the time of day when Yang Qi is at its strongest. If you have the strength to spend spiritual energy on me, why don't you take advantage of this opportunity to start practicing. You have also absorbed a lot of spiritual energy from me in the past few days. Eat it in." It’s a waste if you don’t digest it properly. Now I will teach you how to integrate this spiritual power into yourself and how to make good use of this power. "
Listen, Ayu is not a person who doesn't know the importance of right and wrong. Since it is a good thing, the person who said this should be regarded as a pig's head. Being able to bend and stretch is a good quality that should be learned.
The jade pendant slowly floated up again and stood in front of Shen Xichen. He hesitated for a moment and said again: "Okay, it was me who misunderstood you. I am not a grudge-bearing person, and I will never be angry with you again, but... ..But I still need to make something clear. Ayi originally wanted to pay for you to buy horses and food, but you insisted on saying no, and now you still blame me for taking your spiritual energy in vain. Look at what you said. What you said is indeed a bit too much, you..."
"Shut up and put away your nonsense." He is indeed a big, heartless pig! Interrupt without mercy.
"Now start to follow my spiritual power movement track and try to run your spiritual power. Try to borrow the power of nature, sunshine, breeze, vegetation, living water. All these things have the most primitive and pure spiritual power, and they can all assist. Use your spiritual power." This little evil is really making my head hurt.
Ayu was silent and began to learn to explore the spiritual power around him based on what he said.
As time went by, Ayu became more and more guilty, because no matter how she tried, she still felt that the spiritual power was scattered in the air. She had tried very hard to gather the spiritual power, but the spiritual power was like sand. The light dispersed as soon as I applied force. I tried it for a long time but it had no effect.
Just when she was annoyed that she was not up to expectations, a powerful spiritual consciousness entered her consciousness without warning. Ayu's head was dizzy and she was taken into an unknown place with only a blue shimmer. Faintly, a voice suddenly appeared in her head.
"So this is your spiritual world. It's really not enlightened at all. It's so dark. It's just as I thought. You're such a stupid brain. You won't be able to transform on your own in another hundred years. Forget it, you mess. , since I have accepted it, I will not let you face this by yourself. This is the space of spiritual consciousness. Here I can teach you more intuitively. Don’t think too much here. I will accept whatever you think. I can see through it. But your will is really easy to invade. You will use your spiritual power in the future. Be careful and don’t let others in casually. Do you understand?"
It's ridiculous that you, an intruder, dare to talk about this, Ayu thought to herself secretly.
As he spoke, a figure gradually emerged.
"Don't say bad things about me, just listen, but my spiritual power seems to be eating well for you. Now your soul can be condensed into a human shape. It's blurry, but why is it still glowing green?" After saying all that, the man covered his mouth and laughed twice.
"It doesn't matter that you entered my consciousness without my consent. You are still mocking me now. You are so bullying. I misjudged you. I miss Ayi, I want to go back, and I don't want to care about you anymore. ....." Ayu is very sad, but she doesn't dare to cry. She is afraid that someone will take this opportunity to laugh at her again. Since she left Ayi, no one will be gentle to her anymore. This Taoist priest is too vicious. So hateful.
Still angry, she felt a water-like spiritual energy swimming around her body, slowly gathering the scattered spiritual energy around her, and then pushing it into her body. She suddenly felt that she became very light, It was very comfortable. Is this the feeling of integrating spiritual power into one's own body? It was so beautiful. Then the water-like spiritual power penetrated into her illusory body and taught her how to use it.
"As I said, I know what you think..."
After Ayu came out of the conscious world, she felt comfortable all over. She saw that the Taoist priest who was still meditating was now sitting in the shade of a tree, eating dry food with water. Eat grass. Ayu's heart was very complicated. The Taoist priest's words were hateful, but he tried so hard to help her, giving her a slap and a candy. She was moved and at the same time so angry that she wanted to beat him to death. On the contrary, it seemed that she was moody. This The Taoist priest's behavior is really vicious. Fortunately, the days are long and there will always be a day when he will cry.
Seeing that he was about to lie down after eating the dry food, Ayu flew forward and asked in confusion: "Although the sun is good at noon according to what you said, your way of traveling is different from ordinary people, and coupled with the speed of the little donkey, You must be sleeping rough again tonight, how long will it take us to reach Qingfeng Mountain?"
"We'll get there eventually, why rush now." Shen Xichen answered nonchalantly with his eyes closed.
"Ayi has given you money and materials, enough to buy a good horse, why refuse."
"People who become monks aspire to the great road and have no need or intention to acquire worldly things."
"Okay, it's all your fault." Obviously, Shen Xichen didn't intend to answer her questions properly, so she didn't want to let Shen Xichen rest so easily, and kept asking some trivial questions, but no matter No matter how noisy Ayu was, he didn't get annoyed and answered all the questions unhurriedly. On the contrary, Ayu felt that she was asking for trouble.
"Why did the Taoist Master suddenly let us go? In the eyes of the Taoist Master, I am still evil after all. Aren't you afraid that I will cause harm to the world?" Since Shen Xichen didn't care about her problem, he asked the question that had been puzzling deep in his heart. The question came out of my mouth.
But this question did make Shen Xichen think about it for a while.
"Actually, I also have questions about this world. It just so happens that your existence seems to be the answer to my questions. Keeping you is also my selfish intention. I don't want you to disappear casually. You can't arouse me anyway. What a splash, you think too highly of yourself to cause harm to the world, okay, don’t bother me anymore, little thing, you don’t have much knowledge, but you have many problems.”
Ayu also asked casually, but didn't expect to get any decent answer. She originally thought that he would handle it easily, but she didn't expect that he would answer so frankly and straightforwardly. Although he was still broken-hearted in the end, he seemed to be in agreement with Ayi. Likewise, he is also a clean and frank person, stop! Stop it! How could he be like A Yi? There are at least a hundred differences between him and A Yi! Sin, sin.
After Ayu received a satisfactory answer, she no longer deliberately teased him, collected her spiritual power, and quietly landed in his hand. It was time to take a rest.
The little donkey under the tree was still munching on the green grass and humming.
The young man under the tree closed his eyes and rested, with a green and white jade pendant in his hand.
The wind blows, tinkling.
