Wei Shiqi had a distant dream.
Lack of energy, dim eyes, shaky hair, and shaky teeth. Half of life has slipped away quietly, and the forties have quietly arrived.
That day, he threw away his mobile phone card, packed up his simple luggage, boarded the high-speed train heading south, came to a warm and unfamiliar city, and started a new life. One person rents a house, one person looks for a job, and one person sleeps. He works in a middle school laboratory doing odd jobs, goes to and from get off work on time, and earns a meager salary. He has morning tea at a small shop on the street in the morning, eats clay pot rice in the workplace canteen at noon, and makes his own meal in the evening, serving grains, vegetables, and vegetables. A little bit of hot soup, simple and healthy.
Abandon all the past, bear the blame and self-blame alone, not making a single phone call, not wanting to know any news, just to have more time that belongs to myself, no one will disturb me, and I can be alone. Drink tea quietly, read a book, turn on the computer when you are tired, listen to music, watch movies, and watch those young girls wearing navel-baring miniskirts jumping around and singing songs that you don’t understand, or affectionate styles, or rhythms It was so exciting that I suddenly felt a little younger.
One month, two months, one year, two years later, he gradually fell in love with this southern city. He didn’t know many people, and the people he knew were all casual acquaintances. They were polite, polite, and respectful. At the right distance, everyone is a porcupine full of thorns, right? Whether you are cruel, autistic or withdrawn, as long as you live comfortably, there is nothing wrong with it. The simpler your life, the more you will feel a touch of happiness.
If you have a regular diet and daily life, and stay away from all annoying trivial matters, your body will slow down its aging, and you should be able to live longer. In the dead of night, the light from the screen illuminated his face. He watched the familiar old people gradually exit the stage, and as soon as the new people came up, he felt regretful and relieved at the same time. When he was alive, the world had meaning, and when he died, the world was meaningless. Doesn't exist. From the moment of birth, people walk towards the grave step by step. Life is inevitable and there is no escape. What everyone spends is just a long or short period of waiting. This period of waiting requires comfort, otherwise life will be too boring. The life he chooses and everything he does can make people temporarily forget the shadow of death and continue to live peacefully in the world...
No matter how long the dream is, there is still time to wake up. When he woke up, Wei Shiqi was still lying in the quiet room of Wuyaguan, Yu Yao was in his arms, breathing heavily, looking out the window at the dark night, he thought: "Who am I? Where do I come from? To Where to go?" Thinking about it, he laughed happily and wildly.
He has never been so happy since he came to this world.
Wei Shiqi pushed Yu Yao up who was pretending to be asleep. The two got dressed and walked hand in hand to the soup boiling room on the lower level of the plank road. They drank hot tea, ate apricots and chatted with Lao Feng. .
Lao Feng was very happy to see the two of them. He took out the treasured wild boar meat and roasted it until soft on the fire for tea. The wild boar is hunted from the Nanhua Valley. The teeth are two or three years old and the most fat and tender. They are rubbed with fine coarse salt and spices and cooked over charcoal fire.After being baked and collected carefully, it can be stored for a long time.
The roasted wild boar meat was hard and fragrant. Wei Shiqi liked the taste and ate a lot of it with tea. After chatting for a while, he asked about the gambling game held by Liu Shifeng at the end of the year. Both Lao Feng and Yu Yao knew it. You and I explained the origin of the gambling game clearly.
Opening gambling games at the end of the year is a new initiative proposed by Taoist Ziyang after he took charge of Kunlun. It is said that his original words were like this, "At the end of the year and the mountains are covered with heavy snow, idleness is also idle, so it is better to start gambling. Let’s have a lively gambling game. As the sect leader and elder, you can make a fortune and give your disciples something to look forward to.”
The rules of the gambling game are set by the leader. Once every four years, it’s a turn to be the banker. , each sect has two disciples, and the banker has four disciples. Their cultivation is below sword energy. They enter the gambling game with the lottery to compete with swords. The master points the heads first, and the disciples in the casino pick their opponents. Each person challenges once and challenges once, and wins. The player chooses one of the lottery numbers held by the loser. If he loses the last lottery number, he will be out of the game and can only leave the game sadly and sit on the sidelines.
Wei Shiqi calculated it. According to this rule, there were a total of 12 disciples from the five sects of Yujian, Five Elements, Poison Sword, Hook Sickle, and Feiyu. Half of them were eliminated in the first round and left empty-handed. After returning, the remaining disciples can win at most two games and get three prizes. One win and one loss will get one prize. In the most extreme case, the six disciples who won in the first round are all challengers or all challengers. The bet is So far, there is no second round, and of course, the chances of that happening are slim.
It’s fair, but there are many variables. The lottery prizes offered by each sect are all good things, but you can only get three at most, and these three may not be what you want, and you may not get what you want most. Yes, everything depends on chance and luck.
Lao Feng inadvertently reminded Wei Shiqi: "Don't look down upon the end-of-year gambling game. This is not a sword showdown between fellow students, but a life and death battle. Some people come out of the gambling game and have never recovered since then and have never made any progress."
"A fight to the death?" This was beyond Wei Shiqi's expectation, "Have any disciples made a mistake?"
"I have never seen anyone hurt by a mistake, but I have never seen someone die. , the disciples of each sect are competing with swords in the Tai Chi diagram, and it is really not easy to kill people."
Wei Shiqi couldn't help but curse, the direct line is indeed the direct line, and the side branch is after all. On a side note, compared to the Chixia Valley Sword Discussion, the end-of-year gambling game is obviously more high-end and classy. Even magic weapons such as the Tai Chi Diagram were created just to ensure the safety of the disciples.
But the year-end gambling game really made him a little excited.