Sword comes

The barefoot old man walked out of the bamboo building at some point, stood by the cliff, came to Chen Ping'an, and asked with a smile: "Why, after passing through a big pass, are you thinking about bitterness and sweetness?"

Chen Ping'an's thoughts were interrupted. After regaining his senses, he took a sip of wine, turned his head and smiled, "Is this not good?"

The old man was dressed in plain white linen clothes, and he looked very fresh and neat, "Not so good? It's very good. There is no hope for life, and it's so boring. The real hero is the one who can endure hardships and enjoy blessings. When suffering , don’t tell people how miserable I am, just like a little girl, when you enjoy the blessings, just take it with peace of mind, it’s all a good life earned by yourself, why can you only hide under the covers Stealing fun?"

Chen Pingan nodded, "Maybe some words will make the old man not happy, but it is really my heart, old man, are you willing to listen? I have never told anyone, even my best friend, Liu Xianyang Never heard of it."

The barefooted old man squatted next to the bamboo chair and the young man, "Oh? Those miserable and miserable things when I was a child? It's ok, let me talk about it to make the old man happy."

Chen Pingan took a sip of the wine, didn't get annoyed, and handed over the vermilion gourd. The old man waved his hand and said that he disliked drinking. A few times, I felt that I was really going to be beaten to death by the old man, but until now, I still feel that the most uncomfortable time in my life was when I was young. It was the first time I went to the mountains to collect herbs by myself. I remember it very clearly. The sun was so big in the sky, so I carried a big backpack that was about as tall as me. At that time, I had a big heart, thinking that if the backpack was big, it would be able to hold a lot of herbs, and my mother would get better sooner, and then I walked As I was walking, the skin on my shoulders was worn out. After being exposed to the sun, I sweated profusely, and it was hot and painful. The key is that I had just walked out of the town at that time. When I thought about the pain for a long time, a day, I really wanted to die. gone."

The old man sneered.

It's not a joke about Chen Pingan, but I think of the rich clothes and jade food of the Cui family's children, the hairpin tassels for generations, they are the top tycoons in Aquarius Island, and then when the little boys are practicing boxing, they just stand up and follow each other. As if I have been wronged so much, I start complaining to my parents when I return home, or when it’s cold in spring and winter, I’m wrapped in fox fur like rice dumplings. On New Year's Eve, I wanted to ask a few ancestors for a big auspicious money. The old man can't understand these things, but the rest of the brothers of the same generation really eat this way. Children who can cry have sugar eat it.

Chen Pingan continued: "The second time, I was hungry. The rice tank at home was bottomed out, and all the things that could be sold were sold. I was hungry all day, and I didn't have the face to ask for help, so I walked around in the alley. Thinking of others taking the initiative to say hello and ask me if I would like to have a meal by the way. It was really cold in the winter of that year. Summer and autumn were fine. No matter how poor the family is, it doesn’t matter if you wear less clothes. Earn some copper coins, and you can bring home wild vegetables and fruits every time you collect herbs, or borrow an iron hammer from the neighbors in the neighborhood, and go to the stream to knock stones, and you can knock out the small fish hiding below, and post them when you go home. Once it is dried on the wall, there is no need to dip it in oil and salt, and it can be eaten after drying. It is delicious. But that winter, there was really no way. If you didn’t ask for help, you would starve to death. Myself, Chen Pingan, you promised your mother that you will live a good life in the future, how can your parents be like beggars after only a year? So lying on the bed at that time, I felt that after a long time, I would be able to get rid of those things. The feeling of hunger is gone, how do you know that hunger is just hunger, if you don’t faint from hunger, you will become more sober when you get hungry, you can’t help it, you get up and walk out of the yard, and stroll in the alley, you want to knock on the door a few times, but you all withdraw your hand , I can’t open my mouth like that. Then I told myself, take the last trip to Mud Bottle Lane, from one end to the last end, if there is still no one to open the door, tell me Xiaoping, have you eaten so late, if not, come in Eat whatever you want. Then I really went to knock on the door and begged someone. I just swore in my stomach that when I grow up, I will definitely repay the family who is willing to give me food. In the end, I went to the house on the other side of the Cao family’s ancestral house. I started to walk down the alley, but ended up walking all the way to the end of the alley where Gu Can's house is, but still no one opened the door."

The old man laughed loudly, without any sympathy, "What, finally knocked on the door of which family? Are they willing to take you in for a meal?"

When Chen Pingan said this, he didn't look depressed and miserable at first, but became more energetic, as if he had taken a sip of the best wine, "I had to walk back crying, but I didn't take a few steps. The courtyard door creaked open, and I didn't dare to look back at first, but someone greeted me, so I quickly wiped my face, turned around, and saw a neighbor holding a torch in his hand. , it’s a small stove made of bamboo on the inside and a copper skin on the outside, the kind that can be carried around in your hand, and she seemed surprised to see me.”

The old man clicked his tongue and said: "There is no unparalleled road, you kid just eat a full meal for nothing?"

Chen Ping'an wiped his face hard, tears were all over his face, but he was full of smiles, "No, that neighbor thought about it and asked me with a smile, Xiao Ping'an, you really know how to go to the mountains to collect herbs. Of course I said I knew it, and I’m not bragging. In the past two years, I would go to the mountains to collect herbs almost every now and then, and I was even more familiar with it than Mud Bottle Lane. She smiled and waved to me. Say loudly, "That's fine, Xiaopingan, come here, I'm asking you for something, I can't stand the cold, and I need a few herbs to make soup to replenish my body, but the Yang's shop is too black-hearted and too expensive, I can I can’t afford it, Little Ping’an, can you go to the mountains to collect herbs after the spring, I will give you copper coins, but the price must be lower.’”

Chen Pingan said softly: "I walked over to discuss things with her, and she handed me her firebox. After talking about things, she saw that I hadn't moved, so she smiled and asked, why, didn't I eat? Still want to cheat for food and drink? No, unless it is counted in the medicine money, otherwise I will not let you enter this door!"

Chen Ping smiled and looked into the distance, "After my parents left, I haven't seen what kind of eyes. Many people of the same age called me a troublemaker who killed my parents, even if I watched them from afar. Some people will throw stones at me when I try to fish in the river. There are also some adults who like to call me a bastard, saying that I am such a cheap bastard. The film was still in the way. But that woman chatted with me that day, saying that it takes money to eat, old man, you must not know how happy I was at that time. When I entered the room and ate, tears burst into tears With disappointment all over her face, she jokingly said, Yo, Xiaopingan, is my craftsmanship too good or too bad, and can make people cry? At that time, I only dared to bow my head to eat rice Said it was delicious."

The old man hummed and reminded: "Then have you ever thought that that neighbor actually wanted to help you? But there is a better way."

Chen Pingan nodded and said, "I didn't think of it at first, but later I paid more times for meals, so I soon understood."

That neighbor was later Gu Can's mother.

So every time Gu Canniang quarreled with someone, Chen Pingan would watch from the sidelines. When the quarrels got serious a few times, she would be rushed up by a group of women who hugged her, scratched her face and pulled her hair, and Chen Pingan would run up at that time, Protecting her and not fighting back, let the women vent their anger on themselves.

So Chen Pingan never felt that he was a bad person.

If Gu Canniang kissed such a good person, no matter how bad her reputation in Niping Lane and Xinghua Lane was, Chen Pingan would be a lifesaver to him. If she didn't want to repay her well, Chen Pingan would feel that she was not a human being.

What happened to giving Gu Can a small loach, knowing that it was a great opportunity, so what happened.

Chen Pingan didn't feel bad at all.

When the world gives you kindness, you must cherish it and cherish blessings, no matter how big or small.

That's why old man Yao, who is half the master of the kiln, said that sentence, and Chen Pingan thought it was the best truth in the world at that time.

If it's yours, grab it, if it's not, don't think too much about it.

No one in the world owes you, but if you owe others, don't take it seriously.

Later, Chen Pingan treated Liu Xianyang in the same way.

Going up the mountain to collect herbs is not a long-term solution after all. It was Liu Xianyang who taught Chen Pingan how to catch wild game, how to make clay bows, how to fish, and how to burn porcelain in the dragon kiln. It was the older Liu Xianyang who was protecting Chen Pingan.

Chen Pingan has lived such a miserable life from a child to a teenager, to the point where he can support himself. Although he is willing to reason, but if it involves Gu Can or Liu Xianyang, such as the time when he moved the mountain ape, Chen Ping's reasoning is as long as If you are capable enough, then die for it.

Chen Pingan once said to a girl from a foreign country that if he found a girl as good as his mother in the future, even if she was bullied by some Taoist ancestor, he would still roll up his sleeves and fight. It's one thing, and it's another thing to be willing to fight this fight for your daughter-in-law.Married such a good daughter-in-law, I don't know how to feel distressed, Chen Ping'an is guilty.

Of course, Chen Pingan felt that he had found such a good girl, but he hadn't said it yet, so he had to go to the rivers and lakes next.

He must carry the two swords "subduing demons" and "eliminating demons" that he secretly named on his back, walk up to her, muster up the courage and tell her loudly, "Miss Ning, Ning Yao! Whether you like me or not, I will love you." I like you, I like you very much!"

As for being slapped in the face, or being unable to be friends, just tell her with the cheek!

The old man snatched the Yangjian gourd from Chen Pingan's hand, raised his head and took a big gulp, but he didn't throw it back to Chen Pingan immediately, and said angrily: "This wine is really not good, you continue to talk about trivial pickling, It is only worthy of being an accompaniment to this pot of bad wine."

Chen Pingan thought for a while, with his hands in his sleeves, "After that winter passed, I seemed to have opened up, and my skin became thicker. When I was really hungry, I went to ask someone for a meal, and I kept it in my heart again and again. I thought that after the freezing, I could go into the mountains, and I would return them when I earned copper coins. There would also be kind old people who would take the initiative to give me old clothes. In those few years, I went to the mountains to collect herbs, but I still earned very little money. I was too weak. Many herbs in Yang’s shop were hard to find. This is also normal. Where can I find easy herbs? Let me earn this money, right? So I help the neighbors in the neighborhood. I help them fetch water from the iron lock well in the morning, and when there is farm work, I go to the fields to help. At night, I squat there and help them grab water. Water, lest others cut off the canal, I don’t dare to work hard, I need to hide in the distance, wait until those young and strong people leave, dare to dig open secretly, and lead the water source to the neighbor’s paddy field, wait until the night watch, Seeing that the paddy field was full of water, I went to refill the ditches and small dams. For this reason, I was chased and beaten many times. Fortunately, I was young, but I ran fast, and the number of times I really suffered was not many. "

The barefoot old man drank the wine leisurely, saying that the wine was not good, but in fact he drank one sip after another, and he really didn't drink less. The old man didn't feel too upset when he heard the little things in the market about the old sesame seeds and rotten millet in his ears.

Chen Pingan said what was in his heart without any restraint, and felt much happier, so he reached for the flagon. The old man raised his elbow, slapped off the boy's palm, and said bluntly, "Wait a minute."

The old man held the wine gourd with both fingers, and said slowly: "Chen Pingan, you have said so many nonsense little things, do you want to hear some useless truths from this old man? These words are the peak of this old man. Standing at the pinnacle of martial arts in the world, what do you think of the old man's vision? Is it high enough, and I feel worthless. Would you like to listen to it?"

Chen Ping smiled and said, "Say, I just like listening to people reasoning."

The old man stood up, "This old man once met an elegant old scholar on the top of a mountain in the Divine Continent of Middle Earth. He didn't know his identity at the time, but he roughly guessed some of it later. It's just that he didn't understand his good intentions, so he became a The pitiful situation of the mad old man. Chatting with the old scholar at that time, although the old man is a pure martial artist, he kept talking about boxing theory, but he was actually a serious scholar who had read a lot of books. At the end of the chat with the old scholar, he I asked him about some things that I couldn't figure out, and then the old scholar roughly explained some of his reasons."

The barefoot old man started to take a walk with a jug in his hand, walking in circles, "The old scholar said that we live in a very complicated world, and many people's words and deeds, even highly educated scholars, still contradict themselves. , We have seen too many things that don’t make much sense, so we will inevitably ask whether the truths in the book are wrong, or that the truths have not been fully explained, and the truths have not been fully explained.”

"Then the question is, what should we do? How should we look at this world where many people talk about reason and do things without reason? There are ways, one is to live purely, my fist is very hard, swordsmanship is very strong, Taoism I am very strong, so I use these to break something. Complex problems can be solved simply, as long as I am happy. There are rules in the world that restrict me, and I will break them with one punch. For the time being, I can be so hearty, but I always think this way, unswervingly, and keep walking in this direction. There can be such people, but not everyone is like this."

Having said that, the old man stopped, looked at Chen Pingan, and laughed at himself: "This old man is such a person."

"The old scholar continued, one is to live very intelligently, how to save worry and effort. The word "rule" is used to exploit loopholes. If a scholar is like this, he is a cynic. My own feelings are not in line with the principles of the world, so that the hustle and bustle is all for profit, if we can replace the word "benefit" with the word "ritual", how good will the world be?"

"The last one is to live a boring life, to make complex issues more complex, to break down the truth, to sort out carefully, and to think slowly.

Finally, I want to understand a why.It is possible to do things, go around in a big circle, and find that you just returned to the original place, but is it really useless?There are still some, after thinking it through, I will feel very comfortable in my heart.It's like... It's like taking a sip of old wine, warm and happy. "

"The Confucian sages that we scholars admire are actually not as perfect and beautiful as the world thinks, and they are full of human flavor, but the true knowledge of Confucianism is by no means so unbearable. Even if you don't agree with the four words that human nature is inherently good, it doesn't matter. But after all, it can persuade people to be good.”

The barefoot old man walked around in circles, and finally stopped, "I am not sure if that old scholar is that person, but in retrospect, if it is really that person, then it is not easy for the old scholar to be willing to talk to me calmly. After all, the old man went to the Divine Continent of Middle Earth to smash people's business."

The old man raised his arm, took a big gulp of strong wine, casually threw the gourd with a sword to the boy, and laughed loudly into the distance: "In the past, when I traveled far and wide, I was full of bold words, and I couldn't spit them out!"

The old man stood on the edge of the cliff, stepped out, and looked at the sky, "When I walk between the sky and the earth, the sun is scorching hot, and the moon is shining in the sky, I have to ask me, is the sky and the earth bright enough?"

The old man turned his head and asked with a smile: "Chen Pingan! Do you think it's enough?!"

Just as Chen Pingan was about to lower his head to take a sip of wine, when he heard the question, he raised his head and said in a daze, "Not enough?"

The old man laughed loudly, and stretched his fingers to the distance, "When I was walking on the river and lake, the river was surging and the water was rolling. I have to ask me, is the water in the river enough to quench my thirst?"

Chen Ping took a sip of wine in a hurry, and after hearing the old man's bold words, he became a little arrogant for no reason. He held the wine gourd in one hand, and punched his knee with a fist in the other hand. He joined in the fun and shouted loudly: "Not enough!"

The old man said again, "When I walk on the top of the mountains, Qionglou Yuyu, the fairy of the sea of ​​clouds, I have to ask me, is the wind on the top of the mountain cool enough?"

Chen Pingan, whose face was flushed, drank another big mouthful of wine, and with the full stamina of the wine, his face was full of brilliance, and he laughed presumptuously and said: "Not enough! Not enough! Not enough wine, not enough rivers and mountains! not enough!"

On the other side of the bamboo building, the two little guys looked at each other.

The girl in the pink skirt was a little worried about her master, would she just become a little drunk?

The little boy in Tsing Yi was full of murmurs, Master, is this crazy?Could it be that he was stupid after practicing boxing?Hey, then I don't have to practice so hard?How about being lazy for a few days?

In the end, Chen Pingan passed out drunk together with a chair.

Since then, there has been an extra young alcoholic boy in the world.