Ask Sword

Li Ang accepted the letter in doubt, This is.

Some time ago, the folks in Weizhou sent you a thank you letter from Chang'an, and it is temporarily stored with me.

Song Shaoyuan explained: Most of it comes from our state school—the money you send to the state school is used to build teaching buildings, hire teachers, improve teachers' salaries, and help children who cannot afford to go to school.

In addition, there are also the Weizhou Infirmary that you funded to build, and the Weizhou Chamber of Commerce—because of you,

His Royal Highness Guangwang (Li Shan) first built the railway in Weizhou, and then built the road into the mountains along the railway.

The poorest mountain villages also have a way out.

Li Ang flipped through the letters, his expression gradually changed, especially after seeing a letter signed by Gan Xiaoer.

Although Chang'an City is good, it is not my hometown after all.

Song Shaoyuan said: After a hundred years and a thousand years, you and I will be turned into a pile of loess, and this city will be replaced by a group of high-spirited young people.

And the people of Weizhou will always remember you.

No matter how high or low your future cultivation is, your status will change.

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Li Ang put down all the letters with a complicated expression, and nodded to Song Shaoyuan, I understand.

Just understand, take these letters back and read.

Song Shaoyuan clapped his palms, shook off the skin of the melon seeds, and said with a smile: Forget it this time, remember to bring a medicine box next time. I heard that the current Niansi surgery method, what kind of birth test can I do?

Help your sister-in-law do the same.

It's a pregnancy test.

Li Ang corrected with a smile, choosing a day is worse than hitting the day, so he simply went back to the Jinchengfang mansion, fetched a medicine box from home, and used Niansi to give You Xiao a prenatal checkup.

And in the strong statement of the couple, they did not say the gender of the fetus, and reserved surprises for the couple.

After the obstetric examination, Li Ang walked out of Judefang, thought for a moment and turned to Pu Liuxuan's house.

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Pu Liuxuan just finished lunch at home, and Cheng Juxiu was also there, and the three master and apprentice sat in the courtyard chatting as they were in Weizhou back then.

Cultivation encountered a bottleneck?

Pu Liuxuan and Cheng Juxiu looked at each other and smiled.

Li Ang asked puzzledly, What are you laughing at, teacher?

rare.

Pu Liuxuan smiled and said: Back when I was in Weizhou, when I heard Xi Yangyu say that you were a broken sword hexagram, and that you had no hope of practicing in this life, I felt guilty for a while, thinking that it was my mistake that made you go to Chang'an in vain, and hope was in vain.

Later you were admitted to the academy as the number one scholar, and I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that you are an auspicious person with a natural appearance.

Both my teacher and I thought that you were the fate of the protagonist in the serial novels of the Lanling Daily.

Cheng Juxiu smiled and said, Unexpectedly, there will be a bottleneck.

If I'm really the protagonist, then I should directly leak my domineering aura after the retest and get out of the rankings. Then I need to be judged unable to practice by Xi Yangyu.

Li Ang rolled his eyes and complained.

hehe.

Pu Liuxuan chuckled, and suddenly said seriously, Sex is the destiny.

Frankness is the Tao, and cultivating the Tao is teaching.

Li Ang replied subconsciously.

This is the opening sentence of The Doctrine of the Mean\

,"It means that people's natural endowment is called nature, acting according to nature is called Tao, and cultivation according to the principles of Tao is called teaching.

The sages of Xuegong once said that cultivating the Tao is like cultivating the mind, and cultivating the Tao is cultivating the mind.

Regardless of the talisman sword thought body, the Haotian divine art, or even the classics of evil cultivation, the first step in any path is to recognize yourself first.

It's just that the way to recognize it is different.

Pu Liuxuan said: Xiexiu puts the most basic and primitive nature of people first.

destructive desire, possessive desire, appetite

Continuously amplifying these desires is called chasing nature.

Do you think this is right?

Li Ang didn't have time to think: Of course it's wrong.

Where did the error come from?

Pu Liuxuan asked: Heaven's destiny is called nature, and straightforwardness is called Tao.

Evil cultivators can explain that they are acting in accordance with the nature bestowed by heaven, what is wrong with it?

Li Ang frowned slightly. He originally wanted to say that this was sophistry, but a single sophistry is obviously not solid enough.

Lack of self-cultivation.

Cheng Juxiu said: Cultivation is a process of clarifying one's mind and seeing one's nature and self-knowledge.

Human natures such as joy, anger, sorrow, love and hatred are all endowed by God and are neutral.

In a broad sense, villains and demon cultivators can also know themselves—they can accept the fact that they are selfish, and go further and further on this road.

Therefore, if the human heart is compared to a field, if the wicked just water and fertilize it, countless lush and disorderly plants will naturally grow in the field.

The cultivating speed of evil cultivators is very fast, and they encounter more obstacles in the later stage.

Yes, in comparison, it is more difficult to practice the righteous way.

Pu Liuxuan said: You need to prune the weeds that symbolize distracting thoughts in your heart, and clarify what you want and pursue.

Rectify your heart and purify your mind.

This is what is called Tao by being straightforward, and what is taught by cultivating the Tao.

Li Ang smacked his lips, It sounds a bit like Zen's enlightenment.

Cheng Juxiu and Pu Liuxuan laughed at the same time. The former explained: Zen's understanding of the mind, Taoism's way of following nature, and Confucianism's morality are all one thing. They all teach people to know themselves.

Therefore, it is not false to say that Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are integrated.

In fact, you have already realized it, but you don't know it yet.

Pu Liuxuan said with a smile: Let's take a walk in the city, take a look at the surrounding scenery, you will gain something.

Going again?

Li Ang's eyes twitched, He Fanshuang asked him to go out, Pu Liuxuan asked him to walk around the city.

I'm not an elderly person with inconvenient legs and feet who needs to be rehabilitated, and I don't need to check WeChat steps, why do I always have to walk.

Unable to resist Pu Liuxuan, Li Ang had no choice but to open the door and walk out of the courtyard to the streets of Chang'an.

He didn't know what Pu Liuxuan wanted to see, so he walked aimlessly.

He went to the Duke of Yan's mansion, and saw the men of the Yan family who were forced by Yan Yundang to practice winter swimming and sharpen their will.

He went to Fangjing Temple in Yining, and saw the Persian Jingseng who was distributing eggs, candies, and vegetables—he and Yang Yuliwei had been to this Jingshen Temple back then, and thought that the Persian Jingshen who was talking gods and gods was an outsider An expert, looking at it now, he is just an ordinary person without aura fluctuations.

He even went to the secluded bamboo forest and found the Huai Ling.

You should know that the relationship between you and me has been settled, right? The last time I informed you about the dark worm, it has already been settled.

Huai Ling's bark face looked at Li Ang with vacant eyes. No matter what, it was a monster who had lived for an unknown number of years, and it was not a confidant sister who helped people relieve their worries.

Just chatting.

Li Ang said with a smile, Where's Yuhuan?

Shopping in Dongshi.

Huai Ling said coldly, What do you want to ask?

Nie Yuhuan has always regarded Li Ang as her hero. If she was here, she would inevitably look at Huai Ling with big watery eyes and ask her to help Li Ang.

Instead of this, it is better to solve it directly, so as to save trouble.

It's like this. I encountered a bottleneck in my practice, and my teacher asked me to walk around the city, saying that I have realized the realization of the clear mind.

Li Ang repeated Pu Liuxuan's words, besides the book of all spirits, the most likely person in Chang'an City who could help him is Huai Ling.

Huai Ling listened to Li Ang's narration with her eyes closed, her bark face remained expressionless.

Just when Li Ang thought it had fallen asleep, Huai Ling opened his eyes and said calmly: Compared to Zaigan three years ago, the environment in Chang'an City is much better now.

Um?

Li Ang raised his eyebrows, not understanding what Huai Ling meant.

Huai Ling said briefly: The vegetation is luxuriant, and the water is clear.

You have changed this city, and even the country of Yu, much more than you imagined.

Li Ang recalled Huai Ling's last words, and walked slowly on the street.

He still kept the disguise of his appearance when he went to see Huai Ling, so no one would recognize him on the way.

He just walked and watched.

As a result of the anti-malaria strategy, the stagnant pools in the city have been cleaned up, the roads are no longer free from sewage, and there are covered underground drains on both sides of the road. Even the water quality is much clearer.

The streets are crowded with people, and you can see many families carrying their children on the road—now that antibiotics are available, families don’t have to keep their babies at home because they are worried about getting sick.

Teenagers and girls wearing the student uniforms of the Imperial Medical Office walked across the street with their schoolbags on their backs,

Far away, there seemed to be the distant whistle of the Reiki locomotive.

Even the bearded women who sell wine in the wine shop who left their hometowns and came to Yu State have a little more hope and brilliance in life-Li Ang promoted the establishment of more trade unions among the people to provide a certain level of life for the people at the bottom. Security, including pension, medical care, work-related injuries, etc.

Although it is far from enough to achieve a Datong society, at least it can provide a little hope, right?

Years of foreshadowing and savings, like slow-release capsules, are slowly working.

Li Ang walked and watched, thoughtful.

He understood what Pu Liuxuan and the others meant.

Compared with four years ago, the changes in Chang'an City can be said to be earth-shaking.

Pu Liuxuan, He Fanshuang and others, who were born and raised in Yu Country, feel more deeply about this change than themselves who have memories of other worlds.

Li Ang walked in the streets and alleys, passed through the crowd, and finally stopped in front of the Temple of the King of Medicine located in Daodefang.

He stood in front of the temple where there was an endless stream of believers, his whole body was shrouded in misty incense, and his clear eyes were quietly staring at the statue of himself on the temple.

The people of Yu Kingdom from all corners of the country bowed in front of the statue. They were not worshiping the statue, but the hope of the future.

Li Ang's ears seemed to be filled with the great wish made by a young man who was drunk in a pharmacy in Weizhou.

I want people to have enough food, warm clothes, affordable medical care, and affordable education.

I want to make the world free from exorbitant taxes and corrupt officials.

I want to protect ordinary people who are willing to live a good life and punish those who seek profit by hurting and exploiting innocent people

I want people to live with dignity and live like human beings

A cold wind blows down a yellow leaf of the ginkgo tree in the courtyard.

Li Ang reached out to catch the leaf, stepped forward, inserted the yellow leaf into the incense altar, turned around and walked out of the temple, his eyes no longer confused.