Jiang Yuebai smiled and said: "I escaped from Zuixian Tower by myself and ran to the mountains to meet a passing woman... The heroine saved me. Later, I joined her sect and learned some skills. This time I went out to travel. , so come back and have a look.”
Shen Jinghao was suspicious, but she didn't ask any more questions. She just nodded and invited Jiang Yuebai to sit down in the hall, poured her a cup of tea with her own hands, and served it to her with both hands.
"Ms. Shen, thank you very much for saving your life."
Jiang Yuebai stood up and held her hand, "It's a small effort, nothing worth mentioning."
Shen Jinghao insisted on bowing, "Not only to thank you for saving your life, but also to apologize for my unintentional words back then, which caused you to be betrayed and almost lost your life."
"Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other. If it hadn't been for the misfortune of that day, maybe I wouldn't have met that heroine later, and I wouldn't be today. So I have never blamed you. I am only grateful to you for teaching me how to read and reason."
Shen Jing shook her head, "No, I was too young back then. I wanted you to be favored by the Lin family, but it ended up harming you. To this day, I was tricked by the Lin family because of a compliment from the right minister. Only now do I know that I How much harm I have done to you, now all this is my retribution!"
Jiang Yuebai sighed and said, "There is no need to mention the past. I wonder if you need me to help you escape from here now?"
Shen Jinghao only thought for a moment and nodded vigorously.
"Cheng Lang and I share the same goals. He has been working hard for me for more than a year. I made an agreement with him that he will always wait for me at the Taoist temple outside the city."
"Although I am nearly thirty years old, I still want to take the imperial examination. I cannot be a female general like the God of War of the Yun Kingdom. I also want to work hard to gain a higher status for the women of the Yun Kingdom."
Jiang Yuebai took out the silver coins that he had brought before, thought about it, and rummaged through the storage bracelet to find three low-level Qi-nourishing pills, and gave them to Shen Jing along with the detoxifying pill just now.
"Just a little bit of the detoxifying pill can detoxify most of the poisons in this world. The same goes for the nourishing qi pill. Take a little bit every day and it will be good for your body. These are the bundles of cultivation I give you."
"If you want to overcome obstacles and become an official in the court, you must first take care of your body. When your body gets better, you might as well try practicing martial arts."
Shen Jing took the purse and medicine bottle with gratitude in her eyes.
Boom!
The sky and the earth thundered, and a silver light suddenly fell. The old tree in the courtyard broke and a fire broke out.
Shen Jing trembled all over, not knowing why.
Jiang Yuebai rolled her eyes. The evil spirits here were always causing trouble. She was trying to save people, but he actually used thunder to scare her. What a thief!
"Master, this is God's message for you to stand up after breaking down. Your career will be as prosperous as the fire on the tree!"
"Seriously?" Shen Jinghao's eyes were full of confusion.
"You clean up Xinrou first, and I'll deal with Xiaosi at the door."
Jiang Yuebai took the lightning-strike wood from the courtyard, knocked out the boy at the door, sat on the threshold of the house, and whittled a dagger with the best part of the lightning-strike wood.
This thing is useless to her, but it is very useful to mortals. The thunderous breath on it can deter evil spirits and seek good luck and avoid evil.
"Look at you, you said you don't want to interfere with the fate of mortals, but you also personally sent the lightning-strike wood to seek good luck and avoid disaster. You are so duplicitous that you are even worse than Zhao Tiezui."
Boom!
"What? Do you think the lightning strike wood was too little?"
Jiang Yuebai looked up at the sky, the thunder dissipated, and the world was silent.
Shen Jinghao carried the baggage, changed into a man's clothes and walked out, smiling helplessly at Jiang Yuebai.
Before leaving, she went to the Wang family's widow in the alley to say goodbye, and then left the city with Jiang Yuebai.
"Master, I suddenly have a question to ask you."
Shen Jing lowered her hat and carefully avoided the shop belonging to Lin on the street, "You ask."
"Then I'm offended. You are well-educated and virtuous. You are a virtuous person. But at this moment, I feel that you are not as fearless as the ignorant and fearless widow of the Wang family. They are both widows. She obviously doesn't care about worldly prejudices and hatred. If you feel unjust, you dare to fight back on the spot.”
"But you, even if you are not facing a wealthy family like the Lin family, but just ordinary people, you will not be rude in public like the widow of the Wang family. Your morality has become a constraint, so you should study wisely and be virtuous, right? To what extent is it a shackles?"
Shen Jing frowned and thought, "What you say makes sense, but it's wrong. I really can't be as smooth as Madam Wang, but I don't think reading is a shackles. Look at this market, traders and goons are walking on the ground, and literati and elegant people are sitting there. Gaotang, please listen to what they have to say."
"Traffickers and gangsters compete for money and gold. Although they are trying to make a living, they also limit their horizons. For poor people, studying is a life-changing and a broadening of their horizons, allowing the descendants of poor families to escape from the fields and countryside and see the vast world. .”
"Just like the literati playing chess and drinking tea in the pavilion, what they care about is no longer the poverty of their family, but the poverty of the world. It is precisely because of the saint's words that open up the people's wisdom that the world becomes broader and brighter."
"The road to understanding is ambiguous, the way to advance is to retreat, and the path to chaos is similar. There is light and darkness, and there is a time to retreat before advancing. A seemingly smooth road is accompanied by rugged areas. Everything has its yin and yang sides. You cannot just look at one side. Morality is a very high level of cultivation, not a shackle."
Jiang Yuebai nodded thoughtfully, "Then what is the truly supreme morality?"
Shen Jinghao raised her eyes to look at the setting sun on the horizon, and said in a deep voice, "Great wisdom is like foolishness, great skill is like clumsiness, great sound is like sound, and elephant is invisible. Maybe one day, I will become another kind of Queen Mother, but my current state of mind It’s not enough, I need to read more books.”
Jiang Yuebai suddenly understood, and Tong Ren tightened.
"Mr., my grandmother is old and has bad teeth. Let's buy her some soft food."
"Then buy more. The eldest brother's kid hasn't grown teeth yet, so he has to eat soft things."
A couple passed by Jiang Yuebai, and she remembered what was said in the Dayan Sutra: The beginning of all things is also the end.
Young children are babbling, and old people are speechless. People often say that old children return to their childhood as they get older, and life goes from nothing to nothing.
Reading goes from stupidity to wisdom, and finally wisdom seems like stupidity.
The great skill is like clumsiness, the loud sound is like sound, and the elephant is invisible. It is all a process from nothing to something and then to nothing.
The former is the nothingness of the thin lakes, and the latter is the nothingness of the clear understanding of the world. One is primitive, and the other is... Tao!
Jiang Yue's sea of consciousness trembled. Hidden in the depths of her soul, the little buds in the pure white sky grew a lot higher under the purple air of the sky, laying the foundation for her to touch the top of the avenue.
"Thank you for your advice, Master. I have benefited a lot from thanking you this time."
Monks always look down on mortals, but they don't know that there are people with great wisdom in the mortal world. Just like what the Supreme Elder said, there is Tao everywhere in this world. She should put down her arrogance as a monk and accept the teachings with an open mind.
Go back and buy a few more books by mortal saints to read.
After renting a carriage at the city gate building, Shen Jing didn't want to waste Jiang Yuebai's time and said goodbye.
Jiang Yuebai handed her the lightning-struck wooden dagger, "I heard that Lin'an County has been uneasy recently. Master, please keep this thing close to your body to ensure safety. In addition, there is a letter here. Please give it to the host of the Taoist temple outside the city."
Each Taoist temple had monks from the surrounding immortal sects. She wanted to find someone to come over and ask about the missing children in Lin'an County.
Shen Jinghao put away the thunderbolt wooden dagger and the letter, glanced at the coachman behind him, and whispered: "I heard the boy guarding me mention the disappearance. I suspect it has something to do with the Lin family. After all, in the past six months, only the Lin family has The people are in peace.”
"Furthermore, there have been rumors in the Lin family that someone from our ancestors entered the Immortal Sect. The Miss Lin family who disappeared for no reason before was taken away by the ancestor of the Immortal Sect. Since then, the Lin family has been obsessed with seeking immortality everywhere. It's just that the Lin family's dynasty has been blocked. There is someone among them, so the local government does not dare to enter Lin's house to find out."
Jiang Yuebai didn't say much.
Shen Jinghao said goodbye, "Thank you for your rescue today. I only hope that I can meet you again in this life. I will drink with you under the moon in the capital of Yun Kingdom."
Standing up, Shen Jinghao looked deeply at Jiang Yuebai, his eyes full of envy.
"I know, you are an immortal."
After saying that, Shen Jinghao stepped onto the carriage without hesitation to pursue his own path.
