Lu Xueqi [Zhu Xian]

Lu Xueqi lowered her head slightly, put down the hatchet held in Zhang Xiaofan's hand, spread out his palm, a layer of skin had already been worn out on the palm, she took out a piece of snow-white pars from her sleeve and slowly bandaged it for him.

"Thank you, sister..."

"No thanks..."

In the depths of the twilight, two small figures are immersed in a mountain scenery, the ink-stained bamboos are handsome and straight, and the night is gradually coming.

"Junior brother, practice lies in accumulating thick and thin hair. Don't be discouraged, just let nature take its course. Everything in the world is natural. The law of Taoism is natural. Everything is natural. There is no need for Zen, no struggle, no action, no desire, no matter what way you are. , to be at ease in the pure, natural, go without going, come without coming, attain the Tao without Dao, just go round and round, let nature take its course.”

The last touch of the sunset at dusk disappears...

Suddenly, Zhang Xiaofan, who was shrouded in the cold and cool mountains of the sky, was shaken all over his body, his lonely and bitter heart was gently caressed by the light and quiet voice like a thin feather rippling across the water. flat.

From spring to autumn, cold winter, heavy snowfall, Zhang Xiaofan went up to the mountain to cut black bamboo every day, rain or shine, and finally cut down the first black bamboo after half a year of practicing on the Big Bamboo Peak.

It's just that all the brothers in the same school no longer have expectations for him, even Song Daren, the senior brother who instructed him, has lost confidence in his slow progress, and is not as enthusiastic about his practice as he was at the beginning. ask.

Without the anticipation of his master and senior brothers, Zhang Xiaofan felt much more relaxed, and he no longer felt self-blaming about it.

Sometimes, at night, when Zhang Xiaofan calms down by himself, he can't help thinking of his senior sister's voice in his heart, and remembering the words that his senior sister said to him in the mountains, Zhang Xiaofan can't help feeling warm in his heart. Even if it was difficult, he could slowly persevere in all the difficulties he faced in the simultaneous practice of Dafan Prajna and Qingyunmen's Taiji Xuanqing Yuqingjing, and finally spent three years to achieve the jade The first floor of Cingjing.