Who is not a monk

Outside Yujing City, on the hillside of Hongshanling.

The winding loess road ends here, and there is a wide open space for parking. They parked their rented car here and hiked up the mountain.

The steep and majestic Hongshanling is not a scenic spot, but the scenery is beautiful and there are many tourists.Now this time period is a little later. If you come earlier, you can see the scene of the mountains red and the forests dyed. Stop to play, and the frost leaves are as red as the flowers in February.

Now the maple leaves are falling, and the mountains are turning yellow.

Today is cloudy, but the weather is okay.

There are clouds and mist floating on the opposite mountain. If you look carefully, you can see a small road leading to the clouds. The tiles and corners of the simple and simple houses are faintly revealed in the depths of the white clouds. I don’t know when it was built by a hermit. Someone lives.

My sister walked in the front, followed by Tao Zi.

Chen Shu and the little girl were hanging at the end slowly, walking up the mountain slowly, looking left and right, talking in a low voice about the scenery of flowers and plants beside the road, picking up a small stick from time to time to knock off the tender tips of the plants .

Sometimes they meet people who come down the mountain.

There is already some altitude here, the air has become extremely cold, and the temperature has dropped a lot. Chen Shu is not afraid of the cold. He looked at the little girl and found that the little girl didn't feel cold at all. Instead, her cheeks were hot because she was climbing the mountain. It is red and very cute.

"There seems to be a house over there."

"There are also..."

"where?"

"That--"

Chen Shu stopped and stood on the side of the road. There was a cliff in front of him. He pointed to a place among the white clouds in the distance.

The little girl approached him, stood on tiptoes and raised her head, looked close to his arm and looked forward, quickly said: "It seems to be still smoking..."

"Someone is cooking."

"Brother-in-law, what do they eat when they live in the mountains? Do they farm and raise pigs?"

"may be."

"Then do they buy toothpaste?"

"do not know."

"Is it a high-level practitioner?"

"maybe."

Ning Qing had already walked to the front, she stopped silently at the corner, and stood waiting for the two of them.

The long-haired white cat also stopped, squatted down and looked at Ning Qing, and followed her gaze to look back. Seeing the two walking and talking, it raised its paw and licked it boredly, feeling cold. It's cold, covered with mud and sand, and a little bitter on the tongue.

The two stopped before taking two steps.

It's even worse than the self who cultivates the way of tranquility.

Ning Qing saw them cut off the unknown wild flowers that were still blooming on the roadside and stick them in the cow dung, and they talked about her while looking at her, and vaguely heard that they compared her to cow dung and Chen Shu to flowers .

Ning Qing was very quiet, very quiet.

"Ha ha……"

Chen Shu walked up while smiling, as if she felt that she didn't know anything, and asked her with a smile: "Why are you walking so fast? Don't you want to calm down and observe everything in this world? Look, The world here is so big, why don't you observe it?"

Ning Qing silently turned around and walked forward.

On the contrary, Taozi yelled twice, as if urging them to act as Ning Qing's spokesperson.

Finally reached the top of the mountain.

The top view is the best.

The mountains in winter are still green from a distance. The green hills are green and rolling, and they are hazy by the smog. The farthest mountain can no longer be seen clearly.I only know that there may be high-level practitioners living in seclusion in those places where the smoke and clouds accumulate. On the road, they saw someone flying out of the white clouds and flying into the distance.

The distant mountains are mysterious and make people curious.

After discussing a few words, the three of them took out a picnic mat, the snacks they bought in the morning and a trash can, and started to eat lunch.

Look around while eating.

There are two interesting places here -

In the direction of Yujing, there is a mountain in the distance, with a simple palace built on it, and green smoke curling up.

It is the ancestral court of Taoism, Yu'an Temple.

When Yu'an Temple was established, it was to protect the tranquility of Yujing from foreign intrusion.Now it is a very famous tourist attraction around Yujing. If foreign tourists come to Yujing, they must go to Yu'an Temple.However, the places where tourists can go are limited, they can only go around the palace in the front mountain, and they can't go to the back mountain.

Every year, tourists force their way into the back mountain, get lost in the illusion, and are handed over to the police by Yu'an Temple.

It does not charge tickets, this praise.

Chen Shu took Ning Qing and Xiaoxiao there before.

It would be great if there was another attack here today, Chen Shu directly cast a tracer technique on Yu'an Guan, maybe he will become the first person to attack the ancestral home of Taoism in hundreds of years.

It's exciting to think about.

Facing Yu'an Temple, on the right hand side, there are many huge inverted bowl-like facilities inlaid in the green hills, like radio telescopes in previous lives.

But it is actually a facility for collecting the spiritual power of the stars.

This belongs to environmental protection, but I don't know if it was built by Qingzhou's spiritual power.

Practitioners' spiritual power actually comes from stars, and different stars have different spiritual powers. According to the source, they are often divided into three types——

The first one comes from the parent star below.

It is closest to us.

The second is the sky full of stars.

Most of the stars are far away from us, very far away, the spiritual power spreads out evenly, and when it reaches the earth, it is already very thin.However, there are many of them, and the countless stars in the sky can also provide a source of spiritual power no less than that of the mother star.

The third type is the sun, the moon and the stars in the local solar system.

This is a compromise, farther than the earth, closer than the stars, more in number than the earth, less than the stars, and a lot of spiritual power.

Ancient practitioners also called them the essence of the sun and the moon.

These spiritual energies filled the heaven and earth evenly, and there was no sign of exhaustion. What the practitioners used might not be a drop in the ocean.

To put it bluntly, people are very small.

Kill all 100 billion people in the world, and the corpses can't even fill a larger reservoir.

Human civilization is also short-lived.

In the novels I read in my previous life, it was often written about 1 years to 10 years, but when Chen Shu came to this world, the life span of the ninth level in ancient times was only a few hundred years. The gods don't know, but they are not immortal after all.He thought it was short at first, but later he remembered that in his previous life, cavemen were active 3 years ago, and Neanderthals, another human race other than Homo sapiens, became extinct only 4 years ago. Banpo Humans were active five to six thousand years ago. If a person can really live for tens of thousands of years, when he steps into the world of mortals again, he will find that all human beings in the world look different from him.

"Send a mayfly to the world, a drop in the vast ocean..."

Chen Shu was sitting on the picnic mat, just when the sun came out, he raised his head to let the sun shine on his face, and said leisurely: "Life is limited, but the joy is endless..."

From the corner of the eye, he glanced to the side.

Ning Qing and Xiaoxiao are cleaning up the mess.

Even the little white cat took a piece of toilet paper that had wiped its mouth and threw it into the trash can, and he was the only one sitting here expressing his gratitude—the cat even glanced at him, the very human eyes seemed to be dissatisfied with him be lazy.

"emmm..."

I said I shouldn't have bought a civet in the first place, right?

Chen Shu ignored it and continued to be lazy. After they finished cleaning up, he got up and pointed to a weed nearby and said, "Guess what it is?"

Ning Qing remained silent.

The little white cat raised its buttocks and stretched its waist, opened its mouth wide, and spit out its pink and tender tongue.

Only the sister-in-law praised her: "What?"

"Dandelion."

"Dandelions?"

The little girl watched carefully with her eyes wide open.

"Yes, it's just that it hasn't bloomed, maybe it will bloom when spring warms up." Chen Shu said, "Have you ever eaten dandelions?"

"Can I eat it?"

"It's ok. Rabbits love dandelions the most, and the rabbit spirits in Dongzhou also like dandelions."

"Is it tasty?"

"is acceptable."

"Oh……"

The little girl ran over, pulled a dandelion leaf from the ground, lifted it up to look at it, and wanted to stuff it into her mouth.

"Eh!"

Chen Shu hurriedly stopped her, seeing the little girl cast puzzled eyes at him, explained: "You can only eat it when it is cooked, and I haven't eaten it for a long time, well, I think there are quite a lot of them here, how about this— - Let’s cooperate, you go pick some, I’ll make it when you get back, and see if it tastes good.”

"What about my sister?"

"what?"

"What does sister do?"

"My sister picks it too."

"Oh……"

The little girl happily picked wild vegetables.

Picking and picking, I looked up and found that my sister was standing motionless in front of me, staring at me quietly, she was not picking at all.

The little girl felt unbalanced. She was silent for two seconds, then stood up immediately, pointed at her sister with one hand, but looked at her brother-in-law: "Brother-in-law! My sister didn't pick it off!"

My sister was still staring at her, thinking while watching.

"Brother-in-law, look at her!"

The elder sister turned her head to look at Chen Shu again, carefully studied the expression on Chen Shu's face, and analyzed it.

A look of "I'm just an observer, no matter what you say, I don't care".

"emmm..."

Chen Shu pondered for a moment, and then said: "Sister is too domineering, and I can't afford to offend her, so how about it, you pick it, I'll do it, and we won't let her eat it when we go back."

"it is good!"

The little girl clenched her fists and agreed.

Temperatures dropped again at night.

The water from the faucet was rushing down, Chen Shu turned on the hot water, and washed the dandelions that the little girl pulled out on the Red Mountains during the day, carefully washing them.

The little girl was standing next to him, leaning on the kitchen countertop with her hand, leaning her body, and staring at his movements seriously.

At the door of the kitchen, Ning Qing stood leaning against the door, and looked at them slightly.

Most of the two sisters have some serious illness.

The voice of the news came from the living room: "Affected by the strong cold air, it is expected that the temperature in Yujing will continue to drop in the next seven days. Starting tomorrow night, there will be heavy snowfall in most parts of Yujing. This will be the first snowfall since the beginning of winter. ..."

"Did you hear that? It's going to snow." Chen Shu turned to the little girl beside her.

"I heard."

"You're lucky."

"Ah."

Chen Shu had washed all the vegetables, cut off the dandelion roots, leaving only the leaves, and threw the roots away, saying to the two of them: "Actually, this root can be used as medicine after drying. It is very useful to ordinary people." it works."

The little girl followed his hand with her eyes.

My sister still didn't make a sound.

Chen Shu blanched the leaves, chopped them up, beat in eggs, flour and a little salt, stirred them, heated up the oil, and prepared to make a dandelion omelet. In my impression, this was the most common method used by my grandparents when I was a child in my previous life.

When he was doing it, he had an inexplicable feeling. When he stood in front of the pot with a small shovel, it seemed that memory and reality overlapped, and time and space were also confused.

The little girl seemed to be very interested in the vegetables she picked by herself, she looked at them without blinking, and glanced at her brother-in-law from time to time.

The elder sister behind her looked calm.