Seclusion is not isolation from the world, not eating the fireworks of the world. The big hidden in the court, the middle hidden in the city, the small hidden in the wild, according to their respective identities, environments, conditions, choose their own different environments for seclusion.

Maybe? Someone you met on the street, he, she! It's just a hermit, we just don't know they're hermits.

A true authentic hermit may be your neighbor! It's the old man or middle-aged man you meet in the vegetable market. They don't bargain when they buy vegetables, they don't like to buy vegetables from strangers, and they choose strangers unless they can't help but eat a certain vegetable seed.

They look silly, and when they don't know you yet, no matter how close you are to them, they will treat you lukewarmly and keep a distance from you. Only when they are familiar with it, they are your real best friends and will not betray you.

Once you've cheated on him, he may still be with you as usual on the surface. But in their hearts, they will never believe in you again in the next life, and they will never have a relationship with you again.

"Go! Get out of the way! You're smart, aren't you? ”

Yang Zhu and Zhuang Zhou lived in seclusion on the top of the mountain, and often needed to go down the mountain to buy salt and land, and kept in touch with the people under the mountain. It takes a day to go back and forth down the mountain, and you have to get up early and get dark.

In order to keep Zhuang Zhou in touch and safe with the outside world, Yang Zhu asked Zhuang Zhou to stay below for one night and come back the next day. After all! There are large beasts of prey in the mountains.

Tigers are not scary, but leopards are feared. Leopards are cunning, and sudden attacks are unguardable. In the mountains, there are no wolves, only lone wolves.

After living in seclusion here for so many years, Zhuang Zhou has long been familiar with the people below. Every time he went down the mountain, he had to find a family to spend the night.

If you want to stay overnight, you must be close to others, be diligent, and give others some benefits. Otherwise? Who wants to take you in and worry if you're trying to steal?

Because Zhuang Zhou is diligent, he gives a lot of things. So! The people at the foot of the mountain all dragged him to live in their houses. But Zhuang Zhou only likes to live in an old grandmother's house and help the old grandmother do some farm work.

The old grandmother was alone, very pitiful. In his early years, her husband went out to sell mountain produce, but was killed by robbers on the way back. Her son, too, was killed by robbers on the way back. The daughter-in-law was young, remarried and left to go to the outside world. He left behind a grandson, who was eaten by wolves.

But! Zhuang Zhou does not only live in the old grandmother's family, but sometimes lives in other people's homes. Because! He is diligent, and after finishing the farm work of the old grandmother's house, he will go to help other people's families. And also! He would repair, and sometimes he was asked to repair farm tools or something.

This day! As usual, he came to the village at the bottom of the mountain.

He hadn't come down for months, and he found that the village had become deserted. Occasionally! You can also hear the woman's cry. and the other side of the crop field was also desolate. When I entered the village, I didn't see a single shadow, and almost every house was closed. Even the dogs in the village stopped barking.

The dogs in the village, knowing him, went into the village and barked twice, as if to greet him, and then stopped barking.

His scalp was literally tingling, and he had an ominous premonition! trotted to the old grandmother's house, the door of the old grandmother's house was also closed, and he heard the old grandmother crying softly.

"Grandma! Mother-in-law! Mother-in-law! ”

Zhuang Zhou was so anxious that he banged on the door of his grandmother's house.

Grandma heard Zhuang Zhou's voice and came out of it with tears in her eyes.

"Kid? Child? Why did you just come down today! Something happened! Something happened! Child! Something is wrong! Woowoo woo ......"

Grandma opened the door and let Zhuang Zhou inside.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? What happened to our stockade? What's wrong? Deserted? What's wrong? Zhuang Zhou asked.

Grandma poured a bowl of water for Zhuang Zhou to say, while saying: "The men who came out of our village were killed by the robbers one after another, and our village is about to become a widow's village!" Woowoo woo ......"

Becoming a widow's village is a trivial matter, and the people in the village cannot get out of the village, and they cannot go outside to exchange for salt, cloth, iron tools, etc., and the people in the village cannot live. Especially salt, one cannot live without salt.

Grandma explained the situation in general.

Since Zhuang Zhou went down the mountain last time, the caravans that went out of the village to exchange salt and cloth have never returned. There are many women who go out with half-earth children to look for husbands who have not returned, and as a result! There is also no return.

Right now! No one dares to go out again, not because they are afraid of death, but! No one can let go of their children. It doesn't matter if you go out and die, what will happen to the children left at home. But? If you don't go out to change salt or something, there is no way to live this day!

There are no more men in the family, and the women have no heart to do farm work. So! The crops were deserted, and everywhere there were cries of women and children. What was a good village a few months ago now looks like a widow's village.

What to do?

Zhuang Zhou thought for a while and said, "Or?" Shall I go back and ask Master? I'll go out for a while, and I'll help you get back the salt! Buy back cloth and ironware! By the way, go find those people! It's not all going to be dead, are they? ”

"You?" Grandma couldn't believe it, and she couldn't bear it.

"I'm eighteen years old! I'm an adult! ”

"You haven't been crowned yet, you're not an adult."

"I know martial arts! Mother-in-law! You ask what is most lacking in the village right now? I'll go down the mountain and get it back first. If you don't need it, don't want it for the time being, I can't carry much by myself. ”

"What else is missing? What is missing is salt and women's needles and threads, and what are the seeds! But? Where can Grandma let you go down the mountain alone? ”

At this moment, the picture of Master Yang Zhu appeared in Zhuang Zhou's mind.

The Master sat cross-legged on the wooden bed and said to him, "Zhuang'er! We have relied on the villagers to help us bring back salt and cloth for so many years, and we should also do something for the villagers. At the mountain pass, a band of robbers set up a stockade there to prevent people from entering or leaving. You go and kill them! They are wicked people, don't be soft-hearted......"

"But? I don't have a sword, huh? Zhuang Zhou said in his heart.

He hadn't used a sword in years. For the beasts on the road, there is no need for him to draw a sword.

Master Yang Zhu seemed to know what was going on in his heart, and said, "Do you still need to use a sword?" ”

"Yes! Master! ”

Zhuang Zhou was communicating with the master, and Grandma didn't know the reason and asked, "Who are you talking to?" Your Master? His old man also went down the mountain? ”

"Nope! Mother-in-law! I felt that Master had promised me to go down the mountain. It seems that the robber is at the exit, so I will go and drive the robber away. My master said that it seems that not all those who went out died......"

"Oh! Oh! Oh! Grandma listened and became happy. She couldn't believe it was true, but she was happy.

Zhuang Zhou didn't stay any longer, and after speaking, he turned around and strode away.