The barefoot old man walked out of the bamboo building at some point, stood on the edge of the cliff, came to Chen Ping'an, and asked with a smile: "Why, after surviving a big pass, are you thinking about the bitterness and sweetness?"
Chen Ping'an was interrupted from his thoughts. After he came to his senses, he took a sip of wine, turned around and said with a smile: "Isn't this bad?"
The old man was wearing plain white linen clothes and looked Extraordinarily refreshing and neat, "Not so good? It's very good. There is no hope in life, and it is so boring. Only those who can endure hardship and enjoy blessings are true heroes. When you are suffering, don't talk to others about it. I'm so miserable. I'm like a little girl. When I'm enjoying happiness, I just accept it with peace of mind. It's all a good life earned by my own skills. Why can I just hide in bed and have fun secretly?"
Chen Pingan nodded, "Old-timer may not be happy if I say some of my words, but they are indeed what I say from my heart. Old-timer, are you willing to listen? I have never told anyone else, even my best My friend, Liu Xianyang has never heard of it."
The barefooted old man squatted beside the bamboo chair and the young man, "Oh? You can tell me about that miserable thing in your childhood. "Ha."
Chen Pingan took a sip of wine without being annoyed, and handed over the vermilion gourd. The old man waved his hand and said that he disliked the wine. Chen Pingan opened his heart and said slowly: "Even if I practice boxing, I screamed in pain every day and secretly cried several times. I felt like 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 a child. The first time I was alone. I remember very clearly when I went into the mountains to collect herbs. The sun was so bright in the sky, so I carried a big basket on my back that was almost as tall as me. I was very ambitious at the time, thinking that if the basket was big, I could hold a lot of medicinal materials, mother. It will get better faster, and then I will wear out the skin on my shoulders while walking, exposed to the sun, sweating profusely, and burning. The key is that I had just walked out of the town at that time, and the thought of feeling so painful for a long time , One day, I really wanted to die."
The old man sneered.
But he was not laughing at Chen Ping'an, but he thought of the Cui family's children, who have been wearing fine clothes and fine food for generations. They are the top wealthy men in Aquarius Continent, and then when the brats were practicing boxing, they stood up It’s just a bunch of things, and they all seem to have suffered a lot of grievances. They start to complain to their parents when they return home, or in the cold spring and winter, they wrap themselves in fox furs, which are like wrapping rice dumplings, and go to a private school for morning classes. I felt that I had suffered the most in the world. On New Year's Eve, I wanted to ask several ancestors for a big lucky money. The old man couldn't stand it, but the other brothers of the same generation really did this. , Crying children get candy.
Chen Pingan continued: "The second time, I was hungry. The rice vat at home had bottomed out, and all the things that could be sold were sold. I had been hungry all day, and had no shame to ask for help. So I Walking around in the alley, I thought about people saying hello and asking me if I wanted to have a meal. It was really cold in the winter that year. It was fine in summer and autumn. No matter how poor my family was, it was hard to wear too much clothes. It doesn't matter, and you can earn some copper coins by going to the mountains to collect herbs, and you can take them home every time you collect herbs.Wild vegetables, fruits, or borrowing an iron hammer from a neighbor, go to the creek and hit the rocks, you can knock out the small fish hiding underneath, go home and stick them on the wall to dry, without having to dip them in oil or salt. You can eat it as soon as you get it, and it’s delicious. But that winter, I really had no choice. I would starve to death if I didn't ask for help. What should I do? I was thin-skinned at first and kept telling myself, Chen Pingan, you promised your mother that you would live well in the future. After being gone for a year, he is almost like a beggar? So I was lying on the bed, thinking that if I endured it, I would be able to get rid of the hunger. I didn’t know that I was hungry, and I didn’t faint from hunger. Instead, I became more and more awake as I got hungrier. I had no choice but to get up and walk out of the yard. I arrived again. Wandering in the alley, I tried to knock on the door several times, but I always retracted my hand, unable to open the door. Later, I told myself that I would take one last trip to Mud Bottle Alley and walk from one end to the other. If no one opened the door, tell me Xiaopingan. Do you have food at this late hour? If not, come in and have something to eat. Then I really went to knock on the door and beg, but silently swore in my stomach that when I grow up, I will repay the family who is willing to give me food. In the end, I started walking from the alley at the end of the Cao family's ancestral house, and ended up walking to the end of the alley from Gu Can's house, but no one opened the door. "
The old man laughed without any sympathy, "What the hell, which door did you knock on last? Are they willing to take you in for food? "
When Chen Ping'an said this, he didn't have much of a depressed and miserable expression, but he became more energetic, as if he had taken a sip of the most delicious wine, "I had no choice but to walk back crying, But before I walked out a few steps, the courtyard door behind me opened with a creak. I didn't dare to look back at first, but someone took the initiative to say hello to me, so I quickly wiped my face, turned around and saw a neighbor. She was holding a fire stove in her hand, which is a small stove with a copper inside and bamboo woven outside. It can be carried around in your hand. She seemed surprised to see me. "
The old man tutted and said: "There is no end to the road, how can you just have a full meal for free? "
Chen Pingan wiped his face hard. It was full of tears, but he was full of smiles. "No, the neighbor thought about it and asked me with a smile, Xiao Pingan, are you really going to enter? Collecting herbs in the mountains, do you really recognize those herbs? Of course I said I knew it, and I really wasn't bragging. During those two years, I would go into the mountains to collect herbs almost every once in a while, and I was almost more familiar with it than Mu Bottle Alley. She smiled, waved to me, and said loudly, "Okay, Xiaoping, come here, I want to ask you something. My bones can't stand the cold, and I need some herbs to make soup to replenish my body, but Yang's shop It's too shady and expensive over there. I can't afford it. Xiaopingan, can you go to the mountains to collect herbs after spring? I'll give you copper coins, but the price must be lower. '"
Chen Pingan said softly: "I walked over and discussed the matter with her, and she handed me her fire dragon. After we finished talking about the matter, she saw that I didn't move, so she He smiled and asked, "Why, you haven't eaten yet, and you still want to cheat on me by eating and drinking?" No, unless it’s included in the cost of medicinal materials, I won’t let you enter this door! ”
Chen Pingan smiledLooking into the distance, "I haven't seen anything since my parents left. Many of my peers scolded me as the trouble that killed my parents, even though I watched them fly kites and fish in the river from a distance. , some people would throw stones at me. There are also some adults who like to call me a bastard, saying that a lowly person like me would be dirty even if I worked as a horse for a wealthy family, and would be more of a hindrance than the broken porcelain pieces from Lao Cishan. . But that day, that woman was chatting with me and saying that she had to spend money to eat. You must not know how happy I was when I entered the room to eat. It was all over her face, so she joked, "Hey, Xiao Ping An, are my skills too good or too bad to make people cry?" "
The old man hummed and reminded: "Have you ever thought that the neighbor actually wanted to help you?"
Chen Ping'an nodded and said: "I didn't expect it at first, but then I had to pay for meals more often, and I soon understood."
That neighbor later became Gu Can's mother.
So every time Gu Can’s mother quarreled with someone, Chen Pingan would watch from the side. A few times the quarrels got serious, and a group of women would rush up to her, scratch her face and pull her hair. Chen Pingan At that time, he would run up to protect her and not fight back, letting the women take their anger out on him.
So Chen Pingan never thinks that he is a bad person.
If Gu Can’s mother is such a good person, no matter how bad her reputation is in Xinghua Lane, Ni Ping Alley, Chen Ping An is his lifesaver. If he doesn’t want to repay him well, Chen Ping An feels that he Not a human being.
What happened to giving Gu Can a small loach? Knowing that it was a big opportunity, what happened.
Chen Ping'an didn't feel distressed at all.
When the world gives you kindness, you must cherish it and cherish the blessings, no matter how big or small.
So what Old Man Yao, a half-master of the kiln, once said, Chen Pingan thought at that time was the best truth in the world.
If it’s yours, grab it. If it’s not yours, don’t think too much about it.
No one in the world owes you anything, but if you owe someone else, don’t take it seriously.
The same was true for Chen Pingan's treatment of Liu Xianyang later.
After all, going up the mountain to collect herbs is not a long-term solution. It was Liu Xianyang who taught Chen Pingan how to set traps to catch game, how to make earthen bows, and how to fish. When it came to firing porcelain in the Long Kiln, it was the older Liu Xianyang who protected him. With Chen Pingan.
Chen Pingan lived so bitterly from a child to a teenager, and lived to be able to support himself. Although he is very willing to be reasonable, if Gu Can or Liu Xianyang are involved, such as the time when he moved the mountain ape, Chen Pingan To put it bluntly, as long as you are capable enough, you will die for it.
Chen Pingan once said to a foreign girl that if he finds a girl as good as his mother in the future, even if she is bullied by some Taoist ancestor, he will still roll up his sleeves and fight.Whether he can survive the fight is one thing, but whether he is willing to fight for his wife is another matter. Marrying such a good daughter-in-law, I don't know how to feel distressed, Chen Ping'an is heartbroken.
Of course, Chen Ping'an thought he had found such a good girl, but he hadn't said it yet, so he decided to take the next trip to the world.
He must carry the two swords he secretly named "Demon Subduer" and "Demon Exorcist", walk up to her, muster up the courage to tell her loudly, "Miss Ning, Ning Yao! No matter you Whether you like me or not, I like you, very much!”
As for being slapped, I still can’t even be friends, so I’ll tell her shamelessly!
The old man grabbed the sword-raising gourd from Chen Pingan's hand, raised his head and took a big sip, but did not throw it back to Chen Pingan immediately. He said angrily: "This wine is really not good, keep talking. , This trivial and trivial thing is only worthy of being served as a side dish for this pot of bad wine."
Chen Ping'an thought for a while, holding his hands in his sleeves, "After I got through that winter, I seemed to have it. I became more shameless after enlightening myself. When I was really hungry, I went to beg for food. I kept it in my mind again and again, thinking that after the freeze was over, I could go into the mountains and return the copper coins I earned to them, and I would be kind-hearted. The old man took the initiative to give me old clothes, and I no longer felt embarrassed. He said that there was no shortage of things at home, so he kept them honestly. In those years, I worked hard to collect herbs in the mountains, but I still made very little money. I really don’t have enough strength, and it’s normal to find many medicinal materials in Yang’s shop. How can I earn such money for easy-to-find medicinal materials, right? So I help the neighbors and help them in the morning. I go to the iron lock well to fetch water, and whenever there is farm work, I go to the fields to help. I squat there at night to help them grab water, so as not to cut off the water channel for others. I don’t dare to do it hard, I need to hide far away. I waited until those young men left before I dared to secretly dig open the water source into the neighbor's paddy fields. I waited until I watched the night and saw that the paddy fields were full, then I went to fill in the ditches and dams again. For this reason, I also I've been chased and beaten many times. Fortunately, I'm young but I can run fast, so I don't really suffer much."
The barefoot old man drank wine leisurely and talked about it. No, in fact, he drank sip after sip. Listening to the trivial things about sesame seeds and millet, the old man didn't feel too upset.
Chen Pingan said what was in his heart without restraint, and felt much happier, so he reached for the wine bottle. The old man raised his elbow, slapped the young man's palm away, and said politely: "Wait a minute. Son."
The old man twisted the wine gourd with his fingers and said slowly: "Chen Ping'an, you have said so many nonsense and trivial things. Do you want to listen to me talk about some useless truths? These words represent me at the peak of my career, and I have reached the pinnacle of martial arts in the world. How do you think my vision is high enough? Do you want to listen to it?"
Chen Ping An smiled and said: "Say, I just like to listen to people's reasoning."
The old man stood up and said, "I once met an elegant old scholar on the top of a divine continent in Middle Earth. I didn't know it at the time. identity, laterI roughly guessed a few things, but I just didn't understand the good intentions of the old man, so he ended up in the miserable situation of becoming a crazy old man. At that time, I was chatting with an old scholar. Although I was a pure martial artist and kept talking about boxing theory, he was actually a serious scholar and had read many books. After chatting with the old scholar for a while, I asked him for advice on some things that I couldn't figure out, and then the old scholar roughly explained some of his theories. "
The barefoot old man carried a wine bottle and started walking in a circle. "The old scholar said that we live in a very complicated world. Many people's words and deeds, even if they are extremely knowledgeable, As scholars, we still contradict ourselves. When we read too many things that don't make sense, we will inevitably ask whether the principles in the book are wrong, or whether the principles in the book have not been fully explained. ”
“Then the question is, what should we do? How should we treat this world where many people talk the truth but do things that don’t make sense? There are ways. One is to live a pure life. I have strong fists, strong swordsmanship and Taoism, so I use these to break things. Complex problems can be solved simply, as long as I am happy. There are rules in heaven and earth that restrain me, so I break them with one punch. If there are great ways in the world that suppress me, I have a sword to break all laws. Even if it feels so hearty for a while, I will always think so, unswervingly, and keep walking in this direction. There can be such people, but not everyone can be like this. "
At this point, the old man stopped, looked at Chen Pingan, and laughed at himself: "I am this kind of person. "
"The old scholar continued, one is to live very smartly, and do whatever you can to save worry and effort. The word "rules" is used to exploit loopholes. If a scholar does this, he is a cynic. Or make a choice between what is reasonable and reasonable, choose what suits your own feelings and not what is reasonable in the world, so that the bustling and bustling are all for benefit and benefit. If this "profit" can be replaced by the word "propriety", how good will the world be? ”
“The last one is living very boringly, thinking about complex problems even more complicated, breaking down the truth, sorting it out carefully, and thinking about it slowly.
Finally, I want to understand why. You may go around in a big circle while doing something, only to find that you just returned to the same place, but is it really useless? There are still some. After thinking about it, I will feel very comfortable in my heart. It's like...like taking a sip of old wine, warm and delicious. ”
“The Confucian saints that we scholars admire are actually not as perfect and humane as the world thinks. However, the true knowledge of Confucianism is by no means that unbearable, even if we don’t agree with it. It doesn't matter that human nature is inherently good, but in the end it can persuade people to do good. "
The barefoot old man walked in circles and finally stopped, "I'm not sure whether that old scholar is that person, but now that I think about it, if he is really that person, then the old scholar is willing to follow It is not easy for me to say this calmly. After all, I went to the Middle-earth Divine Continent to destroy other people's places. ”
The old man raised his arm, took a big gulp of strong wine, and casually took the sword gourdThrowing it to the young man, he laughed loudly into the distance: "In the past, I traveled far and wide, and I was full of lofty words, and I couldn't express them happily!"
The old man stood on the edge of the cliff, stepped out, and looked at the sky, " When I walk between heaven and earth, the sun is scorching and the moon is bright in the sky, I have to ask, is it bright enough?"
The old man turned his head and asked with a smile: "Chen Pingan! Do you think it is enough? !"
Chen Pingan was about to lower his head and take a sip of wine. After hearing the question, he had to raise his head and said vaguely: "Not enough?"
The old man laughed. He reached out and pointed into the distance, "When I walk on the rivers and lakes, the rivers are surging and the water is rolling. I have to ask me, is the water in the river enough to quench my thirst?"
Chen Ping'an took the time to take a sip of wine and heard the old man After his arrogant words, he became a little arrogant for no reason. He held a wine gourd in one hand and beat his knees with a fist in the other. He joined in the fun and shouted loudly: "Not enough!"
The old man added, "When I Walking on the top of the mountains, among the beautiful buildings and the immortals in the sea of clouds, you have to ask me, is the strong wind on the top of the mountain cool enough?"
Chen Ping'an, whose face was flushed, took another swig of wine and took advantage of his stamina. Full of alcohol, his face was full of brilliance, and he laughed wildly for the first time and said: "Not enough! Not enough! Not enough wine, not enough rivers and mountains! Not enough!"
On the other side of the bamboo building, two people The little guys looked at each other.
The girl in pink skirt is a little worried that her master will become a little drunkard?
The boy in Tsing Yi murmured, "Is the master crazy?" Could it be that you have become stupid by practicing boxing? Hey, then I don’t have to practice so diligently? How about being lazy for a few days?
In the end, Chen Ping'an and the chair fell drunk together.
From then on, an alcoholic young man appeared in the world.