Encounter Taotie by chance at the beginning and practice longevity skills

After having enough wine and food, Lei Ze was in his room on the third floor.

Lu Mengyun said: "Master, you said that after dinner, you have something to discuss with me. Don't worry, let Mengyun do it."

Lei Ze shook his head: "I'm not leaving it to you. I just want to ask you, what do you think of Mingyue City?"

Lu Mengyun blurted out: "It's very good. I have been here for 200 years. I really think this place is very charming."

Lei Ze asked again: "Then what do you think of the lives of ordinary people here?"

Lu Mengyun thought for a while: "I think it's pretty good. At least here, ordinary people can also earn spiritual stones. In fact, their wisdom is not much lower than that of monks. On the contrary, their inventions and creations are sometimes very interesting."

Lei Ze smiled after hearing this: "Then what do you think is better than the Cangyan Dynasty?"

After Lu Mengyun heard this, her thoughts drifted back to more than two hundred years ago.

After a moment, she said: "I think this place is much better than the Cang Yan Dynasty. The mortals in the Cang Yan Dynasty are not as good as here."

"I even feel that the Cangyan Dynasty and this place seem to be two different worlds."

"I don't know if Master, you have experienced the mortal life in the Cangyan Dynasty. Compared with this place, it is simply miserable."

"I work so hard every day that I can't even make a few taels of silver. Those officials collect a lot of taxes. It's not enough if you don't give it to them."

"And they don't care whether you live or die, or whether you have enough to eat."

"Obviously for monks, ripening food can be said to be the simplest job. As long as you have wood spiritual roots or water spiritual roots, you can just cast a few small spells to make the crops have a bumper harvest. But in the Cangyan Dynasty, ordinary people People sometimes suffer from famine.”

"But the Cangyan Dynasty strictly prohibits monks from participating in matters between mortals."

"Although this can ensure to a certain extent that the monks will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, it also causes suffering for the people below."

Lei Ze asked: "Will the officials in the mortal city care about the life and death of the people?"

Lu Mengyun shook her head: "No, not at all. They only care about collecting taxes, and sometimes they don't even bother to deal with murders."

"That's what it was like where I was born."

Lei Ze smiled after hearing this: "What about the monks there? Do you think they are any different from here?"

Lu Mengyun pondered for a while and said, "Well...the monks there seem to pay special attention to interests, and don't seem to care much about morality and friendship."

"Master, I seem to be particularly out of place there. They all treat me as an alien and exclude me."

Lei Ze nodded: "Yes, I know this."

Lu Mengyun was a little surprised after hearing this: "Ah, Master, do you know all this?"

Lei Ze said: "Yes, I also know that when you are unhappy, you will run to an inexplicable tree and talk to the tree."

When Lu Mengyun heard Lei Ze's words, an embarrassed smile appeared on her face.

Lei Ze continued: "But it doesn't matter. I don't have any friends. The Taoist monk ran away again. I have to vent my depression."

"I still remember that you made tombstones for the three of us. But the writing was too ugly..."

Before Lei Ze could finish speaking, Lu Mengyun blushed and interrupted him quickly: "Oh, Master... I didn't think that you were dead at that time, so... ..”

"I'm so embarrassed."

Lei Ze burst out laughing after hearing this: "Hahahahahahahaha."

"Do you still remember what you said under the tree? Your original intention."

Lu Mengyun nodded: "I remember, I remember."

"I want good people to not have to work hard to be complicit in this dirty world."

Lei Ze clapped his hands: "Yes, yes, I saw you right."

"So what do you have in mind now?"

Lu Mengyun fell into deep thought again, this time she thought for a longer time, and the room was quiet for a while. After a while, she raised her head and looked at Lei Ze.

"Master, I actually only had good wishes before, and I didn't know what to do."

"But recently I've started to understand."

Lei Ze looked over with curious eyes, looking forward to her next words.

"Just like the games you talked about before, you talked about negative sum games and positive sum games."

"And Yao Fei told me before that there should be a zero-sum game between the negative-sum game and the positive-sum game."

Lei Ze was a little surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect that Yao Fei could even think of a zero-sum game.

But yes, most of the games he played before were zero-sum games.

(The zero-sum game is in Chapter 487. There is no more information here. Fellow Taoists who have forgotten it can go and take a look.)

Lu Mengyun continued: "And I feel that the development of the Cangyan Dynasty is not like a positive sum game."

"Mortals and monks seem to have entered a zero-sum game."

"Mortals provide talents to monks, but monks do not give back to mortals."

"Isn't this a zero-sum game? The benefits that mortals lose are always the benefits that monks gain."

"And among the group of mortals, it's also a zero-sum game."

"Those officials collect taxes, and the money they collect goes into their own pockets. But they never think about what they will do for the common people after collecting taxes."

"No matter where you are, civilians are bullied. Civilians always suffer."

"And the civilian class is also full of zero-sum games. Take my hometown as an example. If you do well in business, you will definitely encounter many inexplicable things. This makes many people even if they have good I don’t dare to put things out for sale.”

"It's the same as what we encountered before."

"My parents taught me the same thing. They told me from an early age not to be too good or too eye-catching, which would make people jealous. You must be gregarious. If anything is beautiful in the forest, it will be destroyed by the wind. These are just bullshit."

"Just like your crops are much better than others, just look at it. You will definitely have no harvest in the second year, either because of a sudden fire or because the ground was damaged."

"In this case, everyone will work hard to become the same."

"Everyone will try to be cautious, be wary of others, and not make themselves stand out."

"Even kind-hearted people have to join in. After all, if you don't get along, you can only be the next victim."

"So if you want to realize the dream that I had, there can't be this zero-sum game."

"It should be a positive-sum game."

"The way everyone works should be to make everyone's interests greater, not to make others' interests less."

After hearing this, Lei Ze admired from the bottom of his heart: "It's really good, Lu Mengyun."

Lu Mengyun was a little shy after hearing this: "Master, you are the one who made the good start. And you knew beforehand that I had this original intention, so you guided me to establish the elixir committee and taught me the game of righteousness."

After speaking, Lu Mengyun knelt down and kowtowed three times: "Master, your kindness to me is too great. Mengyun can't repay it."