Episode 152: On the way back, I heard about Ning Caichen
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Under a large tree of several people's hugs, several relatively smooth and clean ten, two figures of passers-by in the mountains, one sleeps on the ground, the other sits cross-legged and sits, time, passing between silently, in a blink of an eye, the fish white in the eastern sky has been rendered into a gorgeous piece by the morning sun, the purple sunlight washed away the rich white fog that shrouded the mountains, awakened all things in the mountains, and also awakened the mountain passers-by.
"Hmm" The person who was sleeping on the ground let out a soft groan, opened his eyes with a little confusion, looked at the surrounding scenery, his face was full of surprise, and the memory in his mind was still stuck in the banquet of the guests and hosts last night, but it was so incompatible with everything in front of him.
"Could it be that last night's incident was just a dream?" he couldn't help muttering to himself, but then, he was surprised to find a few books that he used as pillows, which were the gifts given to him by the emperor Minghua in the dream.
"This" was shocked, shocked, and difficult to raise, for a while, he looked at the few books in front of him, and was in a very puzzled doubt, for a long time, he couldn't figure out whether last night's adventure was real or a dream, and he could only pay a wry smile: "Wang Erlang, Wang Erlang, in vain, you are still a self-proclaimed sage reader, I didn't expect that even the dream is really not clear."
"Seeking truth in dreams is also illusory, and illusions are born from the heart, Wang Ergongzi, why bother bothering yourself?" At this moment, the person sitting quietly next to him opened his eyes, opened his mouth and spit out, and between speaking, a thick purple gas fell from the sky, stretching for several feet, enveloping his whole person, as if he was covered with a layer of brilliant glow, like a fairy god entering the mortal.
"Zhiqiu Dao is long. Wang Erlang only felt that his thoughts were clear, and he didn't know how much stronger than in the past, and when he heard the words, he seemed to have an understanding, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for your advice." ”
"Guidance, where did I point you, but I just want to tell you, no matter whether it was a dream or a reality last night, since you wake up now, then hurry up and pack your things, it's time for us to leave, you don't miss home, I still miss my Taoist temple." Jiang Chen chuckled, and immediately stood up, not seeing how he moved, in the distant woods, two horses galloped and stopped in front of the two.
Wang Erlang hurriedly carefully sorted out the books on the ground and put them away, this is the sage classic personally annotated by Mr. Kong Lin, a descendant of the sage, for a reader, it is better than ten thousand taels of gold!
Jiang Chen had already jumped up and stepped on the horse, watching Wang Erlang sort out those books and put them in the hanging bag on the horse, before turning over and getting on the horse, following Jiang Chen, and returning to Yuncheng.
Because of the dense fog that has been in the mountains for several days, the two have already deviated from the original path and lost their direction, Wang Erlang naturally can't lead the way, but fortunately, now that the white fog has receded, plus Jiang Chen's cultivation is successful, he has his own way to identify the direction, so as not to get lost.
For two days in a row, Jiang Chen took Wang Erlang out of the mountains and forests, and came to the remote ghost village they had been to before, because of what happened when they came, although it was late, Wang Erlang still insisted on hurrying, Jiang Chen was amused for a while, so he simply followed his wishes, and crossed the mountain village to continue to hurry.
The sun was setting in the west, and in a blink of an eye, the sky was dark, and the two had to spend the night in a mountain forest, sitting around the bonfire, Wang Erlang couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I used to hear Brother Caichen say that when he was out to collect accounts, he often spent the night in the wild mountains and forests, but I didn't expect that I now also have the opportunity to experience the taste of a night stay in the wilderness." ”
"Brother Caichen?" Jiang Chen subconsciously asked, "Who is he?"
"He's a classmate of mine. Wang Erlang responded with a smile: "We have studied in the academy in Jinhua County, his surname is Ning, his full name is 'Ning Caichen', although his qualifications are not high, but he is very honest, diligent and hard-working, and his knowledge is not bad, but unfortunately, his family is poor, living in poverty, and refusing to accept the money we give, and has been living by helping some properties under the name of the Liu family to collect rent. ”
"Ning Caichen" Jiang Chen chewed on the name carefully, and unconsciously, a little inexplicable strange thought rose in his heart.
There was nothing to say all night, and early in the morning of the second day, the two urged the horses to go, although they did not deliberately speed up, but in half a day, they returned to Yuncheng. After saying goodbye, Wang Erlang's house went, Jiang Chen also went to Yuncheng Mountain, passing by the front mountain, he accidentally found that the scholar Wang Yi had sealed the study in the mountain at some point, and he thought that he must have gone home to accompany his parents and wife, which made him smile with relief.
Jiang Chen believes that after he moves back home, he will definitely honor his parents and love his wife, so that he will not be in vain in the fight with the big demon mandrill.
At that time, his cultivation was still low, even if he lost Neidan, Shanxiao was also a big demon who had practiced for more than 800 years, and he was not idle, in that battle, Jiang Chen really tried his best, Dao martial arts, divine weapons, and all that could be used were used, although he won, it was also dangerous.
After paying such a lot of effort, if he came back to be out of tune, then Jiang Chen would really be a loss, fortunately, Wang Yi's character is not bad, he knows how to get lost and know how to return, and change his past, so that Jiang Chen does not need to regret his original choice, and his efforts were not in vain.
Back to the Taoist temple on the mountain, the days seem to have become quiet all of a sudden, except for the occasional believers on the fifteenth day of the first day of the new year to come to the Taoist temple to pray for blessings, on weekdays, the huge Kunlun Annex, only Jiang Chen lives alone, fortunately, he practiced the Tao while deducing martial arts, although he often did not go out for ten days and a half months, but he did not feel lonely.
If you can endure loneliness and let yourself be lonely forever, you can become a real master!
Jiang Chen couldn't remember where he said this, but this did not prevent him from understanding the truth, there is never a shortcut to cultivation, even if he can obtain the power that others cannot pursue in a lifetime in a very short period of time through the talent of reincarnation, he still has to take a step from the beginning, and walk the path that all cultivators want to take from beginning to end, with a solid foundation, so that it is possible to make progress and go further.
In a blink of an eye, most of the time passed, turning over the year, and in the late spring and early summer of the following year, during this time, although Jiang Chen had pushed his own martial arts into a rudimentary form, he seemed to have encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, and there had been no progress in the past few months.
This day 15, is a rare auspicious day of the zodiac, every such a good period, there will always be a lot of good men and women in the Taoist temple to worship God, Jiang Chen, as usual, received at the mountain gate early in the morning, but never thought that his reception, did not receive any good men and women, but brought a lot of trouble to himself.
The frustrated and decadent face of the person who came, he was still an acquaintance, it was Wang Erlang, he didn't know what kind of madness he had, he didn't see him for a few months, he didn't want to continue to read his sage book, but in front of the public, he wanted to worship himself as a teacher, Xiuxian asked.
"I'll go!" Jiang Chen almost didn't burst out with a foul mouth, so that he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, and asked out with doubts in his mouth: "Second Prince Wang, are you in the water in your brain or are you funny, a good scholar, you don't go to pursue the title of the gold list, but you come to be a Taoist, you won't really become two, right?"
"Zhiqiu Dao is long. Wang Erlang knelt on the ground, his face full of decadence and earnestness: "Please, accept me to get started, I have decided to cut off all dust and enter the Tao to practice." ”
Jiang Chen frowned and asked, "You are kind enough to tell me, what is wrong with you, why do you insist on coming to me to be a Taoist priest?"
"I" Wang Erlang hesitated for a while, hesitated for a while, after all, he slowly said the reason for the matter from beginning to end, it turned out that during the period when he went home, because he got the sage classics written by Kong Lin, he read it hard behind closed doors, and the more he studied, the more he felt that it was broad and profound, and he benefited a lot, and gradually sank into it, and the book did not leave his hand all day long, and even his family ignored it (to be continued. )