"It's a pity that I'm not a woman, I'm only half a monk." Li Ye put the beef in his mouth. This was the first time he talked to someone while eating. Fortunately, his husband was not here.
The young man shook his head and said: "You may not understand what I mean. I have seen too many beautiful girls, but I have never seen a young monk like this who can shave his head and still order a bowl of beef noodles safely." people."
Li Ye was stunned, touching his bald head and said: "I just followed the master to practice in the temple. I was not ordained, so I am not a real monk. I shaved my head because it was simple."
When the young man heard this, he couldn't help laughing. He patted the table and said, "It turns out that I misunderstood the little master. It's raining Nalan, and others call me Nasandao." After saying that, he and Li Ye cupped their hands.
When Li Ye heard this, he was startled. He thought that he was indeed a weirdo. He smiled and said, "I am Li Ye, a native of Fengyun City in Dongxuan Territory. I am following my husband to practice."
At this time, the waiter brought the beef and soju ordered by Nalan Yu, placed them on the table, and took out two wine glasses and put them down.
Nalan Yu opened the vat and poured a glass for Li Ye. He smiled and said, "I have been coming down from Tianshan Mountain for three years. I have just turned sixteen. If you want to, brother, please call me big brother. How about that?"
Li Ye was startled and said with a smile, "Is this okay?"
"Why not?" Nalanyu said with a smile.
"Because I like you, you can be my brother Nalan Yu!"
"What if you are a bad person, wouldn't I suffer a lot?" Li Ye said pretending to be serious.
Nalanyu was stunned, drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and said, "Do you think I look like a bad guy?"
Li Ye nodded, reflected on the black knife on the table, and said, "Look at the resemblance of the person and the resemblance of the knife."
Nalan Yu pointed to the knife on the table, looked at Li Ye, stared, thought for a long time, and then laughed stupidly.
He smiled and said, "What's this knife of yours? I stole it from someone else. Brother Li, when he saw you, you just entered the world, right? How can you not be knifed when you are wandering in the world?"
"Either you attack others, or others attack you. There are no good or bad people in this world. There are only two kinds of people!"
Nalan Yu looked at him and said lightly.
Li Ye put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked at him, and asked softly: "What two kinds of people?"
"Dead and living!" Nalan Yu poured another glass of wine and looked at Li Ye quietly.
Li Ye was shocked when he heard this. He frowned and looked at Nalan Yu. After a moment of silence, he said, "I really don't know about this. Sir, he has never told me about this before."
Nalan Yu held the wine glass, looked at the shopkeeper at the counter, smiled, and then looked back.
Looking at Li Ye, he said: "If you don't understand this while walking in the world, you won't know it when you become a dead person one day. When I was practicing on Tianshan Mountain, my master once told me that the geniuses who survive are the ones who survive." Genius, the rest are dead.”
He shook his head and pointed at the shopkeeper at the counter and the pedestrians on the street.
He said: "In my opinion, the shopkeeper in the inn and the passers-by on the street are all people walking in the world. Can this principle also be applied to them?"
Nalanyu smiled and said, "Why not?"
Li Ye replied: "Because I can't tell, it seems that they are different from you."
Nalan Yu smiled and said, "That's because the knife hasn't been put to their heads yet. If you don't believe me, ask the shopkeeper."
Li Ye rubbed his brows and said helplessly: "It seems you are right. You said you are from Tianshan Mountain. Why have you been practicing on Tianshan Mountain for two years and never met anyone practicing on it?"
Nalanyu picked up a piece of beef, put it in his mouth and chewed it. After thinking for a while, he said, "I am in the Tianshan Sword Sect in the Beixuan Region. Brother, which Tianshan Mountain are you practicing in?"
When Li Ye heard this, he suddenly realized and said with a smile: "So I am on this side of the mountain, which side of the mountain are you on? But doesn't the Tianshan Sword Sect use a sword? Why do you use a knife again?"
Nalan Yu smiled and looked at him as if he were a weirdo.
After a moment of silence, he said: "Tianshan Sword Sect is a mysterious sect. Very few people can see these places with their own eyes. In the sect, there are not only brothers and sisters who use knives but also guns."
Li Ye nodded and said with a smile: "I see. It seems that I really have no experience in the world and I want to learn from you."
"Don't just trust others when you go out, including me. Anyone who doesn't like me is a bad person." Nalan Yu said with a frown.
Li Ye nodded and said with a smile, "How should I call you in the future?"
"If you don't want to recognize me as your brother, just call me Brother Nalan first. After everyone gets to know each other, it won't be too late to call me brother." Nalan Yu looked at him and said seriously.
"Brother Nalan, where is your knife? Why do you want to steal other people's weapons?"
When Nalan Yu heard this, he couldn't help but grimace and frown, and thought for a long time before saying: "I had no money to buy wine a few days ago, so I sold the sword that the master gave me."
Li Ye was stunned, then laughed out loud, pointed at the black knife on the table and said, "Isn't it said in the world: The knife belongs to the man?"
"Bullshit! These are all used by fools to deceive others and themselves! When you are hungry, which one is more important, the knife or the stomach?"
Nalan Yu looked at him and said bitterly.
When Li Ye heard this, he couldn't help laughing. "Brother Nalan, can the knife you snatched defeat others?"
"The knife I grabbed is not only used for fighting, but also for killing." Nalan Yu glared at him and replied with disgust.
Li Ye looked at him and asked, "If your master knew one day that you sold the sword he gave you to buy wine, would he beat you to death?"
"No, he wants to see me alive." Nalan Yu thought to himself that the worst case scenario would be to ask him for another handful.
Li Ye asked in confusion: "Brother Nalan, will you suffer in terms of realm and kung fu by using this stolen knife? After all, this is not a weapon for your daily practice."
Hearing this question, Nalan Yu answered seriously: "I am different from others. In my opinion, as long as I am more ruthless than a knife, no matter what kind of knife I use in my hand, even a kitchen knife, wood cutting knife, etc." The knife can also frighten the opponent and kill people."
Li Ye was stunned and murmured: "It turns out that only people with insufficient cultivation will rely on the sword in their hands."
My old master monk said: "Inside, we are not attached to emptiness, and outside, we are not attached to things. Our mind can be born without abiding. I didn't expect that Brother Nalanna is no longer attached to things, but has reached the realm of Buddhism."
Thinking of the master in the Great Buddha Temple, Li Ye felt very happy.
Thinking about the stories in Buddhism, those choices and persistence that the old monk told me, I couldn't help but feel shaken, and I felt that I had seen the distant, elusive and untouchable so-called: knowing the mind and seeing the nature.
Nalan Yu looked at Li Ye with complicated eyes. The look in his eyes seemed to be saying that what he said earlier has no necessary relationship with the Buddhism you mentioned. It's just that he can use it easily.
Looking at Li Ye's dazed look, Nalan Yu smiled and laughed at himself: "Brother, please don't learn from me and sell your weapons someday. I actually hate myself too. After I go down the mountain, my money will be gone." I made a lot of money, but I spent it all on wine.”
Li Ye looked at the glass of wine in front of him that he had not yet drank from, and said in confusion: "Will buying wine cost all your savings?"
Nalan Yu looked up at him and said with a smile: "As the saying goes: cold wine hurts the liver, hot wine hurts the lungs, no wine makes you sad, and when you encounter something unsatisfactory, you can only drink to drown your sorrows."
Unknowingly, the two of them wiped out all the beef on the plate, and the noodles in Li Ye's bowl were also bottomed out.
Nalanyu poured the last glass of wine into the cup and said with a smile: "Brother, I think you are a wonderful person. When you come to White Jade City in the future, I will treat you to the best wine in the world!"
Li Ye was startled and blurted out: "White Jade City? Which domain is it in?"
Nalanyu picked up the wine glass and drank it down, stood up, picked up the black knife, and said with a smile: "Two hundred miles away from Wanxiang City in the Central Region is the White Jade City. As long as you find the Huamanlou in the city, you will naturally see me. .I still have to hurry, let’s go!”
After speaking, he took out two gold coins from his arms and threw them on the table.
"Brother, I'm treating you this time, and you can treat me to a meal back next time!" After saying that, Nalan Yu walked out of the inn, stepped on the black horse tied outside the door, whipped his whip, and left.
Li Ye looked at the gold coins on the table and smiled lightly: "The White Jade City in the Central Region, with the buildings full of flowers? I will go. Nalan Yu, wait for me."
After calling the shopkeeper to pay the bill, Li Ye went upstairs and returned to his room.
After a rare day off, he wanted to go back to his room and read the Lotus Sutra again.
...
He went back to his room, washed his face and hands, sat down on the bed, read the Lotus Sutra once, recited the Ksitigarbha Sutra silently, and then fell asleep.
He seldom dreamed in daily life and had a daydream. He dreamed that the young lady from Phoenix Mountain returned to Fengyun City and went to Zizhuyuan to find him. He dreamed that she went shopping with Li Xiaoxue in her arms. He dreamed that she was sitting on the street. I cried quietly in my own room.
I dreamed that that day I was lying with Little Fatty, Hu Ge and Xiao Ju under the willow tree by the small lake of Chunfeng Academy. Those happy times had gone by without realizing it.
We were all still young at that time,
You love to talk and I love to laugh,
I fell asleep unconsciously,
How many flowers have fallen in dreams?
...
At the end of the day, Mu Mu, who had been shopping outside for a day, came in and looked at Li Ye who was sleeping soundly. She lowered her head and gently scratched his ears with her hair.
Li Ye, who was half asleep, reached out and grabbed her little hand, opened his eyes and smiled: "Sister, are you back from shopping?"
Mu Mu jumped on the bed, sat down next to him, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that my brother would be like a lazy pig sometimes, sleeping until the sun went down and not waking up."
Li Ye propped himself up and sat on the bed, touched her head and said with a smile, "Where is the delicious food you bought for your brother?"
Mu Mu spread her hands and said, "No, no, my wife said that girls like to eat certain things, but my brother doesn't like them."
Looking at her little painted face, Li Ye got out of bed, put on his clothes, took out a handkerchief and put it in the washbasin behind the door. He squeezed it gently and returned to the bedside to carefully wipe off the oil stains on Mumu's face.
Frowning, he said, "What did the mistress do? She didn't even know how to wipe your face after eating."
Mu Mu stuck out her tongue and said with a smile: "Master's wife has a bad face too. She will go back to her room to wash her face now."
Mu Mu stuck out her tongue and licked her lips and said, "It's said to be cooking some vegetables and meat in a pot. It's spicy and hot. It's different from the hot pot we eat."
Li Ye was stunned and said, "Spicy hotpot? Is there such a thing in this world?"
