Rebirth of the Wild Age

Back at the village at the foot of the mountain, Zhou Zhengyu's legs were already weak from walking, and he sat down on the ground and pointed at Nie Jun and laughed: Brother, you look like you came back from Africa after fleeing from disaster.

You're not much better. Nie Jun said.

Zhou Zhengyu stroked the stubble of his chin, and suddenly became angry: Fuck, I have been looking for you in the mountains for eight days. This is summer, I haven't bathed for 11 days, and I have to walk on dozens of miles of mountain roads a day. Soaked!

Nie Jun joked: It's not bad. When you come back from a foreign country, your perseverance has improved a lot. Just when you were studying, let alone walking on the Batian Mountain Road, walking on the cement road for several hours is enough.

Sarcasm, right? Are you sarcastic? Zhou Zhengyu took off the Nike sneakers on his feet, and the stench immediately filled the sky, and he threw them out like a gas bomb.

Nie Jun was hit straight on the ground, his body swayed, and he covered the pain and said, Don't do it, buddy is weak.

Zhou Zhengyu said: Aren't you a cultivator? You should be trained to become copper-skinned and iron-skinned.

If you don't eat meat for a year, use only half a catty of vegetable oil, save salt, and rely on beans to supplement protein, you will know that your body is not weak. Nie Jun sat cross-legged and said, We are called ascetics, What you cultivate is not your physical body, but your mental state.”

Zhou Zhengyu said: Come on you. From a scientific point of view, if a person does not take in enough nutrients, it will only cause dizziness, memory loss, and reduced brain work efficiency. With your body so weak, how can you cultivate your mental state? It's amazing that you're in better spirits.

You don't understand even if you tell me. Nie Jun didn't bother to explain.

Don't talk about it, I'll take a bath first, I'm so fucking sick. Zhou Zhengyu patted his buttocks to stand up, and ran to borrow the farm kitchen to boil the bath water.

The farmers who went up the mountain together stopped him: Boss, I agreed to go to the mountain for 100 yuan a day, and it took a total of 11 days to go back and forth. You should pay the wages first.

Zhou Zhengyu only took out 5,000 yuan in cash from his backpack, gave each person 400 yuan, and said, I still need to save some money to go back to the city. Give me your names and addresses. I will send the rest of the money to you when I go back. .”

The farmers looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Forget it, Zhou Zhengyu pulled out the calling card in the phone, I bought this phone half a month ago, and the original price was more than 8,000 yuan. Who wants to buy it now, and take 5,000 yuan away...Everyone wants? 4,000 yuan, I'm half the price Ah... No one wants half the price? Do you know the goods!

Hahahaha! Seeing Zhou Zhengyu deflated, Nie Jun burst out laughing.

Zhou Zhengyu said angrily: You are laughing ass. If the young master is not looking for you, would he need to spend money to come here to suffer?

You wait. Nie Jun turned and left.

Hermits also need to eat, drink and eat. They can grow some vegetables themselves, but they have to go down the mountain to buy oil, salt, rice and noodles. Of course, there are also pious and well-meaning people who make offerings and regularly send some daily necessities, but in the end, you have to be prepared.

In total, Nie Jun went down the mountain three times a year, mainly to buy beans and rice noodles, and also dealt with the villagers a few times. He soon found the village secretary's son, a young man in his 20s. His family contracted a quarry and made money by selling tombstones and stone lions.

Is this really more than 8,000 original price? The young man touched the phone and couldn't bear to put it down.

Zhou Zhengyu said: Why lie to you?

The young man took out his knockoff phone, the one with the AA battery, compared the two, and bargained, I'll buy it for 2,000 yuan.

4000 yuan, buy it or not. Zhou Zhengyu said.

The young man's family is very powerful in the local area, but he looked at Zhou Zhengyu's cell phone and Zhou Zhengyu's exquisite watch, and he put down the idea of ​​forcing him to buy it: Your friend is a monk in the mountains, and the villagers have always respected monks. In this way Well, just to save face for your friend, I bought this phone for 3500.

Take the 3,000 yuan and give me your broken mobile phone. Zhou Zhengyu didn't care about the money.

After paying the wages of the peasants in the mountains, Zhou Zhengyu ran to boil water to take a bath, and then shaved his beard with a razor.

Nie Jun also cleaned up, shaved his beard clean, tied his hair into a bun, and found a chopstick to use as a hairpin.

Sleeping in the farmer's house at night, the accommodation is free, but the meal is paid for, after all, they killed a chicken.

Lying on the bed, Zhou Zhengyu looked at Nie Jun's Taoist bun and asked, I said buddy, are you really a monk?

It's so convenient, I'll cut my hair short when I go back to the city. Nie Jun said.

Zhou Zhengyu asked curiously, Is hard work so fun?

Of course penance is hard work, not fun, Nie Jun said. I know an ascetic monk who hasn't left the mountain for seven years, and usually relies on good people to support him. Last year, the old man who made offerings to him died, and the old man's son stopped sending anything. This fellow Taoist didn't go down the mountain for half a year. He lived on eating snakes, insects, rats, ants and wild vegetables. He also licked salt on stones like a wild animal. Just this spring, he probably went crazy with hunger, and used Ailanthus sinensis as a toon If you eat it raw, your face will be swollen like a pig's head, and you will be too weak to move. If I hadn't discovered it, this fellow Taoist would probably have died.

How did you save him? Zhou Zhengyu asked.

Nie Jun said: I cooked food for him, and the monk next door picked herbs for him.

Zhou Zhengyu was surprised and said: Then the monk also knows Chinese medicine?

Nie Jun said: However, among the monks who have stayed in the mountains for several years, who can't identify herbs? All minor illnesses and pains are all on your own.

Awesome. Zhou Zhengyu said.

Nie Jun said: Cultivation is not easy, and penance is even more difficult. In my opinion, these ascetic monks are very pitiful. Many of them only know how to recite scriptures and meditate, thinking that they can achieve positive results. It can be said that they are pious and persistent, but More ignorance and ignorance, nine out of ten will die in Zhongnan Mountain.

What about you? Zhou Zhengyu asked.

Nie Jun said: I am different from them. First, I am here to experience life; second, I am here to verify whether sleeping exercises are feasible.

Just the sleeping skill you practiced while lying on a big rock today? Zhou Zhengyu asked.

Nie Jun nodded and said, That's right. I accidentally discovered this sleeping technique from an ancient book. It combines the Fetal Breath Jue and Considering the Space by the ancestor Chen Tuan.

Zhou Zhengyu said: Is it useful?

It feels pretty good. It's not the kind of deceptive modern qigong, Nie Jun said. I used to hold my breath for up to 3 minutes, but now I can hold my breath for 12 minutes. And I also accidentally entered the state of meditation. After entering the meditation, the whole person is ignorant. No awareness, no thinking, no mental energy. I have specially experimented, no matter how tired I am, after waking up in meditation, I can relieve the fatigue state, and the whole person feels refreshed, as if he just fell asleep.

So mysterious? Bragging. Zhou Zhengyu obviously didn't believe it.

Nie Jun said: I don't believe in gods and ghosts anymore. This state of trance should be a kind of deep sleep, which can be explained from a scientific point of view. Deep sleep is also called golden sleep, which only accounts for a quarter of the human body's sleep time. One, the body relies on it to eliminate fatigue and restore energy.

Zhou Zhengyu said: Then you are awesome. Others need to sleep for eight hours a day, but you can spend two hours in meditation. You can spend several times more disposable time than ordinary people every day.

It's not like that, Nie Jun shook his head and said, First, I can't enter meditation at any time, the chance of failure is very high, and it may also be that my cultivation level is not enough; second, entering meditation requires someone to protect the law, otherwise there is a certain danger. The first time I It took me two full days to wake up, and I was completely dazed, and if I couldn’t wake up, I would starve to death. After that, every time I entered meditation, I would ask the monk next door to help me protect the Dharma.”

Zhou Zhengyu said: Why do I feel more and more that you are crazy?

It's up to you to understand, Nie Jun said, Even if you don't come to me, I'm about to go down the mountain. Penance will inevitably cause malnutrition, which is not the correct way to practice Taoism. So I think most of the Taoism practice You should eat and drink normally, and only practice hard work when it is critical. The ascetic monks in Zhongnan Mountain have taken the wrong path. And at least one-third of them have practiced hard for many years and have completely followed The society is out of touch, and I can't go back even if I want to, so I can only live in the mountains and live in seclusion.

Hearing Nie Jun's nonsense, Zhou Zhengyu ran to the yard with the excuse of urinating, and used the fake mobile phone he bought to make a call: Hey, Lao Song, I'm Zhou Zhengyu... Yes, Nie Jun found it, but he's not in a good mood. It's normal, he's nagging, shouldn't he be contacted by a psychiatrist? I think... Hey, can you hear me? Fuck, what a broken signal in this mountain!