All your life is gentle

When it comes to fishing, in the words of Li Zishi: "There is only wrong bait, and there is no fish that cannot be caught."

So he prepared two kinds of fish food, one vegetarian and one meat. The vegetarian one was rice balls in vegetable sauce, and the meat one was grilled insects.In the absence of tools, the children in the water village used the primitive method of catching fish: put bait in the basin, cover it with a piece of cloth, and open a hole on one side so that the fish can get in but not out.There is no pot, just two pots instead, put it under the water, just wait.

Zigui said: "Brother, this method is really good. Why didn't you teach us before?"

Zi Shi thought: "Once upon a time? In the past, your eldest brother didn't even know about it." But he replied, "Teaching you this trick may cause me something. Do you think I didn't copy the books enough?"

The test results proved: this is not a group of vegetarian fish.

Half an hour passed, and the servings were big and small.The big ones were kept, and the small ones were released, following the teachings of the sages: "Hunting without burning forests, fishing without drying up marshes." two.

Chang Sheng said "Trouble", grabbed a handful of worms, crushed them, and sprinkled them on the water.The whitebait moves after smelling the fragrance, scrambling to come up to grab food.He drew his bow and put on an arrow, aiming at the fat and big underdog.I tried this method before, but because I couldn't lure the fish up, and the bamboo arrow wasn't strong enough to go deep into the water, it ended in failure.

The bowstring sounded lightly, and a few blushes scattered in the water.Suddenly he said "Oops!" - it was so bloody, he definitely couldn't eat it when he saw it.He said anxiously: "Don't look." He quickly jumped down and fished out a few fish with arrows stuck in them.

"Oh, it's okay. What scenes haven't you seen along the way? How can..." Zi Shi said, his face turned pale, he gave up self-torture, and turned to start a fire.

Some people, the more brutal the experience, the thicker their nerves, and some people are just the opposite.Unfortunately Li Zishi falls into the latter category.Fortunately, he is smart enough to constantly use reason to strengthen the toughness of his sensitive nerves, and use intuition to shield those unbearable parts of his delicate and sensitive perception.After a long time, this kind of mental lingering has long become the norm of life.I don't feel pain, but I feel a little helpless and depressed while despising myself.

The cold-water fish has fine scales and few thorns, and the meat is delicious. The food level of the four has been greatly improved since then.No one has intruded into this valley for at least decades, and the fish have recharged their batteries for generations. Whenever the bait is sprinkled, they really rush up one after another as if looking at death as if they were home.

Changsheng worked on the job of shooting fish for a few days before the quilt took over.It turned out that considering that girls are naturally weak and their fisting skills are limited after all, Changsheng decided to focus on teaching her archery.Unexpectedly, this girl has aroused her supreme potential. The end of a bow is flat and steady in her hand, and the arrows are shot quickly and accurately. Especially, she is extremely accurate in grasping the moving target instantly. She is actually a genius with a bow and arrow.But in a few days, except for the lack of strength, almost all cases can be made.

Zizhou was very jealous, but it was a pity that no matter how hard he practiced, he couldn't catch up with his sister, either he was off or crooked.I had no choice but to vent my anger on the grilled fish, and gnawed one after another to make my belly swollen.

Zi Shi comforted his younger brother: "Why do you compare this with her? She has been forced to draw and embroider for many years. She has to be steady in her hands and accurate in her vision. When it comes to archery, it is the same. People have different talents. Each has its own strengths, I think you are better at punching than her..."

In fact, at the beginning, Changsheng had already hesitated on the question of whether to teach the two children archery.After seeing Zigui enter the realm like this, he was in a dilemma as to how much he should teach.Archery is the ability of Xirong men to live and work.As for the archery skills of the second prince Fu Sheng, even if he has reservations in front of others, he is well known in the clan as a first-class master.As an expert like him, when Li Zigui drew his bow for the first time, he could tell that this girl was born to ride and shoot. If she grew up in Xirong, no number of men might be able to match her.After learning and teaching, whether it is a blessing or a curse... I am quite uncertain.

However, while hesitating and embarrassing, the more he taught, the more devoted he was.There is always a voice lingering in the subconscious mind: I will leave one day, I don't know when I will meet again, I only hope that the people around him can have the strength to protect him... Unknowingly, I gradually brought out the ability to suppress the bottom of the box.

One day, Zi Shi watched him demonstrate to the two children: the posture is correct and peaceful, the movements are calm and smooth, and he looks extremely relaxed.However, at the moment when the bow is about to be released, the oppressive feeling that does not vomit, is like a torrent that will rush down the mountain and collapse, and can freeze the surrounding air.Zi Shi watched intently, unaware that he had been completely drawn into the opponent's aura, and his heartstrings were tensed, waiting for the moment when the arrow shot out.

Unexpectedly, Changsheng suddenly retracted his bow and put the arrow back into the bag.Zi Shi's heartstrings snapped suddenly, he felt his heart was empty and sinking, he felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, dizziness and tinnitus.I heard a voice from a distance: "Although there are certain rules for drawing the bow and leaning on the string, it also varies from person to person. The most important thing is to find the most appropriate point to draw the bow and draw the string according to your own body and force habits..." Listening to the voice Farther and farther away, knowing that I was too involved in watching it, I was terrified.Trying to distract myself from thinking about other things, a thought popped up irresistibly: "The way Gu Changsheng shoots an arrow, and... the way he draws his sword to kill someone, is so incomparably handsome..."

Chang Sheng gave the bow and arrow to two apprentices and told them to practice by themselves, only then did he see Zi Shi leaning on the stone with his eyes closed and his chest covered.Hastily came over to check: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing... Gu Shaoxia's ability to attract but not to speak, and to retract and release freely is really powerful, enough to take people's hearts and souls away..."

"Cough, you are too..." Seeing his shortness of breath, he lightly rubbed the Tanzhong acupoint with his palm, "Fortunately, you don't practice martial arts, and if you practice, it will be in vain. If you encounter a powerful enemy, wouldn't you be defeated if you don't fight?"

"It's just that I'm not prepared..." Zi Shi thought to himself, "There are very few people in the world who forget to be on guard and affect their minds..." He didn't say this, but said, "I see that in your skills, I'm afraid he is number one in archery. Fist, kick and sword skills are probably considered good, but I didn't realize that he has such a state..."

Changsheng's heart was shocked.The movement of the hand stopped for a while, and then continued quietly.He continued: "I thought you would be the number one in calligraphy."

Zi Shi smiled: "Okay, calligraphy is the first."

The smile in front of him was gentle and warm.Changsheng suddenly wanted to hug him and cry bitterly.Enduring so much that the joints creaked, but only I could hear it.Slowly said: "Your body is just right, you should sleep and eat. If you have time, why don't you accompany me to write and write, water the flowers for Zigui, and don't bother with other laborious things..."

This tone, this tone, really has the style of the head of the family.Zi Shi nodded obediently: "Okay, yes, yes."

From then on, Zigui devoted himself to martial arts, and Changsheng practiced calligraphy seriously.

Because Zi Zhou was not as good as his younger sister in archery, and his boxing, kicking and saber skills only relied on strength to gain a little advantage, so he studied the classics and history even harder, and pestered Zi Shi to ask questions every day.

Sometimes being the big brother is in a good mood, going up and down for thousands of years, traveling tens of thousands of miles, and chatting with him endlessly.At this time, Changsheng stopped writing and joined in to help Zizhou argue.

The scene of the three people arguing is quite strange: often the process is full of gunpowder and gunpowder, but in the end it disappears and the joy is harmonious.The two older ones in the middle occasionally flirt with each other with eyebrows and eyes, and the younger one is confused and sloppy... In addition to talking about scriptures and history, it adds a bit of beauty and humor.

Sometimes when he gets impatient with being entangled, Zi Shi would stare: "Li Zizhou, why are you so spoiling the scenery? Look outside: "The wind and smoke are all clean, and the sky and mountains have the same colors.Strange mountains and different waters are unique in the world. "It should be said that "one who flies to the sky, looks at the peak and calms his heart; whoever manages the affairs of the world, sees the valley and forgets to turn against"... The three principles of benevolence, righteousness and morality are the three cardinal principles and five constant principles, and the monarch, minister, minister, father and son are not too tired? Go, just use the coldness of the valley The title is Tan Hot Spring, with the rhyme of the word "Yang", and before the fish is cooked, compose a poem of "Qi Jue Lai."

The boy is used to the intermittent difficulty of the eldest brother, and he is very generous and doesn't care about it.He just muttered: "It's me who writes poems by myself again, big brother is really partial..."

Zi Shi walked out while turning his head: "I am the boss and I have the final say, if I can't do it, I won't be able to eat..."

Changsheng followed him out of the cave, and the two joined hands to light a fire and grill the fish.

Zi Shi doesn't eat much, but has a lot of tricks.This time the fish was first marinated with Du Heng perilla juice, and it was fragrant when it was set on the fire.

Changsheng casually grabbed the remaining bait and stuffed it into his mouth.The worms were roasted, yellow and fragrant, and Zi Shi solemnly recommended it to the other three as a good casual snack.The three master and apprentice were puzzled and rejected at first, but later they couldn't stop.Only the one who advertised at the beginning refused to practice it himself anyway.

Flipping a bamboo skewer with fishes in his hand, Chang Sheng said: "Since you want him to calm down and forget about economics and world affairs, why teach him so much? In the end, what you say is what you say..."

"It's all right if you can see it. Why do you make me feel uncomfortable if you have to say it so clearly..." Zi Shi added a few dead bamboos to the fire—the four gathered the broken bamboo branches and scattered bamboo leaves to dry as firewood burn.

Changsheng was speechless, with a "hey" sound, there was no more to say.

silence.

The bamboo burned "crackling".Every time the fish oil dripped down, a wisp of flame would rise high with black smoke, and then disappear in a blink of an eye with a puff of burnt fragrance.

Zi Shi stared at the flames for a while, then said: "Even people like Hua Zhaobai once said that "Life begins with learning to read, and you can stop when you first remember your name." But don't say that his words and deeds are inconsistent. Do you know that even though Wu Zongqiao has suffered from hardships like Wu Zongqiao, he has always been diligent in writing books. He has been wandering for 20 years and left [-] volumes of commentaries on the scriptures. That's all for nothing..."

He became serious and sighed: "Although I don't care, I can't bear to break the tradition of my predecessors. Zizhou...he was born to be a qualified disciple of the holy sect. It's easy to change the country, but it's hard to change the nature. I'm afraid...he has his way to go. .I don’t want to make progress myself, so I have no right to force him to be self-sufficient..."

Changsheng thought: "It turns out that he sees it so clearly and puts so much effort into it." The fish in his hand were almost cooked, and he slowly turned off the fire.

I heard him go on to say: "The kite flies to the sky, there may not be a chance. It is best not to have a chance. However, economics and world affairs are inevitable at any time. My younger siblings are talented and smart, and I can't let them be foolish. No matter what How, at least let them understand the truth, tell right from wrong, tell the truth from the false, and know how to advance and retreat..."

Chang Sheng listened heavily at first, but at this moment he finally couldn't help laughing out loud: "Hey! You are a big brother..."

Zi Shi also laughed: "You don't know, the eldest brother is like a father, so worry about his life."

"Why don't I know? I worry about you..."

Zi Shi stretched out his leg and kicked him: "Young Master Gu, just worry about yourself, when I need you to worry about..." He got up and went to call Zi Gui.As he walked, he said, "Actually, there is another reason. It doesn't matter if you have skills or not, but you can't be without skills. This is a matter of confidence in being a human being. There is a world of difference, and the realm is completely different..." The more he talked, the more proud he was, dangling go far.

Looking at his back, Changsheng felt a strong sense of powerlessness in his heart: "Li Zishi, you don't know...you don't know..." He asked himself softly, "How can I... let you know?"

Soon, Zigui came dripping with sweat.After washing by the water, I saw that Zizhou was missing, so I went to call.

"Don't go."

The girl blinked: "Brother, he was punished again? Why?"

Changsheng handed the fish to her: "Wuhe, it's just your big brother's bad luck."

Zigui giggled.

The three of them were about to start eating when Zizhou rushed out: "Slow down!" He waved his hand, "Listen to my Qijue: "Fude Juegu Hot Spring Cold Pool"." He shook his sleeves, stood on a high place, and spoke loudly Chanted: "Why do you need to bathe in blue soup when you are suffering from sorrow? This water is interrupted by yin and yang. The hot blood is hard to condense the red gallbladder, and the frost and dust are all washed to warm the icy intestines!"

"It's so bold!" Zi Guiji Jie praised.

After hearing the last two sentences, Changsheng thought of Zishi's comment on Zizhou that "the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change", and he felt that it was reasonable.Looking over with great sympathy, I saw him looking at his younger brother with a gentle face: "The frost dust washes away the cold intestines." That's a good sentence, and it's worth a fish."

When Zi Zhou came over and sat down, the four of them officially started.Zi Shi suddenly said again: "Why don't you use your good words to name this hot spring - just call it "Warming Intestine Pool", how about it?"

These three characters are strange and dangerous, but also warm and affectionate.Changsheng nodded: "Good name."

On this day, a pair of twins decided to learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses.

Zizhou picked up the bow and arrow to shoot fish, Zigui was beside him to give guidance, and then went back to "Wu Study Room" to do the homework of copying scriptures.

Zi Shi Changsheng looked at it with a smile for a while, and found that the two of them were gloriously unemployed and reduced to full-time cooking.

"It's just right, let's eat the fish differently today." Zi Shi said, walking along the water to the end of the hot spring.

Changsheng shot, except for the first time, the fish were all pierced by bamboo arrows, and there was no bleeding when they were caught.With the improvement of Zigui's level, he can only shoot the head and the body of the fish is intact.As for Zizhou, at first he couldn't shoot, but later on his head became better, but the fish he caught were often alive and bloody, his belly was pierced and his back was wounded several times, it was horrible and seriously affected his appetite.Changsheng almost completely deprived him of the right to do this work.

Zi Shi sympathized with his younger brother and voluntarily withdrew from the scene.I thought to myself, don’t bake it today, I can’t make it, let’s stew it.Walking to a place close to the cold pool, leaning out to look, pointing to a clump of long and green weeds growing on the side of the water, said: "That is cress."

Changsheng was optimistic about the landing point, jumped up and down, swayed three times and turned half a circle back, uprooted a lot and held it in his hand.

The two walked back.

This habitual teacher, who is good at teaching, began to count the benefits of cress: "This thing nourishes the blood and soothes the nerves..." After opening his mouth, he remembered that the second half of the sentence was "to nourish lean and nourish qi", and he couldn't continue.

Changsheng waited for a while, but didn't see the next sentence, feeling very uncomfortable.I had to ask: "What else?"

"Well, the leaves are fragrant and deodorizing, so it's best used to stew fish."

After cooking two fishes and cooking a pot of porridge with kudzu root and some rice, a sumptuous lunch is ready.

Zizhou has recently become addicted to poetry, and he has to think about the rhyme and confrontation of everything he sees.Taking a sip of soup from a bowl, he said without thinking: "Cold water fish."

The two older ones buried their heads in their meals and ignored him.

Zigui thought about it and replied, "Flamingo."

Zizhou glanced at the grass around him, and continued the lesson: "Setaria."

This is easy, Zi Gui responded: "Cockscomb flower." Before the other party could speak, he said first: "Lotus white."

Zizhou pondered for a while, and replied: "Zhuyeqing." After speaking, he glanced at his sister proudly, "Listen, next one: stalactites."

Although the syntax of these three words is common, it is not easy to get the meaning right.The girl put down the bowl and began to think hard.

Zi Shi said: "I reluctantly picked up one, and I have the right to throw a brick to attract jade: camellia oil."

Suddenly Zi Guiyi clapped his hands: "Yes!" He pursed his lips to whet everyone's appetite.Waiting for those three people to look at him, he shook his head and said, "Snowflake cream."

Zi Shi nodded his head: "It is indeed stable, better than mine."

Hearing that the three brothers and sisters had an interesting talk, Chang Sheng couldn't help but said, "I'll make one too: corn silk. How about it?"

At first glance, it seems wrong, but after thinking about it, it seems that it is not wrong.After some deliberation, the stone stalactites produce milk and the corn grows beards, which is actually quite interesting.

Zi Shi smiled and concluded: "If you say it's neat, it's "snow cream", but if it's interesting, it's "corn silk." He said in his heart: This person is really boring.Pick up the bowl and drink porridge with gusto.

Zigui was encouraged and excited: "It's my turn."

Zizhou's fighting spirit was high: "Just let the horse come here."

The girl was determined to come up with a difficult one, her eyes were constantly rolling, and she looked extremely cute.

Seeing that she forgot to move his chopsticks, Zi Shi said, "Don't be in a hurry, let's have a good meal first." He added soup to his younger sister's fish.

"Oh." Zigui refused to give up, distracted while eating.I caught a glimpse of a few green cress on the soup and was about to send it to my mouth, so I stopped.He was overjoyed: "Listen up!" Picking up a section of tender green tip, full of air, he paused every word: "The heart of spring never dies."

These four characters are hidden in the image, and the virtual and the real are born together, and they really have depth.

Zi Zhou didn't eat anymore.Looking at the sky for a while, looking at the ground for a while, looking around, looking around, trying to find some inspiration.

After finishing his last mouthful of porridge, Zi Shi saw his younger brother still scratching his head and said, "What's so difficult?" He held the bamboo bowl in his left hand, held the bamboo chopsticks in his right hand, tapped the chopsticks on the edge of the bowl twice, and glanced to the side. The person who smiled gave the second couplet: "Longevity in the Autumn Festival."

Chunxin never dies,

Autumn Festival longevity.

In just eight words, the charm is long and the aftertaste is endless.

Hearing this, Changsheng was overjoyed and startled.Chewing the two sentences carefully in my heart, I felt overwhelmed, and my whole person was infatuated.A heart is like a floating ice in February, with the rolling spring tide underneath and the melting sun above, drifting from the current, following the water and things, and gradually disappearing... For a moment, I feel powerless with happiness, faintly aching, sweet and desperate.

"Ah! Brother, this is really good!" Zigui applauded.

"Brother Changsheng's name is good." Zi Zhou objected.And a little frustrated: "Such a coincidental sentence, why didn't I think of it..."

Zi Gui curled his lips: "Do you think it's easy to happen by chance? It takes a good hand to get a good match against Tian Cheng. Eldest brother is just amazing, just admit defeat..."

These words caught my ears, and Chang Sheng felt as if he had been slapped with a stick, and his heart brightened: "It turns out that the goodness of Tiancheng requires a skillful hand to get it...you need a skillful hand to get it..."

After the meal, Zi Zhou, who started well and ended well, explained the scriptures to his sister.

Changsheng followed Zishi to dig bamboo shoots.

On the side near the hot spring, most of the bamboo shoots have been exposed to the ground. Although they are edible, they are not fresh enough.When he reached the edge of the cold pool, Zi Shi bent over and took a closer look around the larger bamboo.When I saw the slightly raised place of the clod, I stepped on it lightly with my foot.Feeling the softness of the soil, he took a dagger to scrape off the bamboo leaves on the ground, and scraped off the shallow soil on the surface, revealing some fluffy, yellow-brown bamboo shoot tips.

He said with a smile, "This is the real "spring heart never dies"."

Stand up straight and prepare to command someone to strike the knife.Suddenly her waist tightened, and she was hooped into his arms from behind, tightly strangled.

It seems as long as a lifetime.

Finally, he tentatively called out: "Gu Changsheng?" He lifted his body off the ground, and in front of him were a few green bamboo shoots, a half-sided cliff, and a blue sky.After a while, his body was warm and soft, and he was already lying on the grass beside the hot spring, meeting a pair of eyes burning like black flames.

——This moment, I have been waiting for a long time, was already expected.But when it really came, Zi Shi found that his heart was beyond imagination, panicked and helpless.

I planned to look at the flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, but I didn't want to step in one step, and it became a real spring flower and autumn moon.Such a warm and solid embrace is like a swamp that sinks people deeper and deeper, like a noose that binds people tighter and tighter.But...why...it's clearly within reach, but deep down in my heart, I suddenly feel...unable to grasp it?

This is the end of the matter, there is no way out.Is Li Zishi a person who is timid?Uneasy in my heart, I want to go head-on.Raising eyebrows and chuckling: "Gu Changsheng, you..."

The roar that had been suppressed for too long burst out from the depths of the soul, it was dull and low: "Zi Shi, call me longevity."

He stuck to him little by little, a perfect fit.Ten fingers clasped his back firmly, and there was no movement for a long time.

Zi Shi felt that the hot breath on his face was almost toasting people, but he was slightly surprised that the body pressing down on him was like a frozen rock.After waiting in silence for a while, he opened his eyes, read the unforgettable forbearance and pity on his face, and his heart suddenly jumped.He raised his hand to caress his handsome eyebrows and eyes: "Longevity..."

This sigh-like call instantly ignited the person above, and every inch of skin became hot.He hugged him and trembled slightly: "I'm afraid...you hurt..."

Sigh, what a fool... hooked his neck, and brought down the frowning face: "Changsheng, don't hold back..." He stuck it to his ear, "Come on, I'll teach you..."

Vajra bathed in fire, burning heart with flames.

Changsheng only feels that he is in the treasured cauldron, as if he has gone through the real fire of samadhi with him, and practiced the nine-turn elixir. Shattered and destroyed...

——Finally, I saw the green grass in front of my eyes again, and heard the waves of clear water in my ears again.

I'm here.He is here too.

Everything is so beautiful.

...... The water color and mountain sound are the same, and the sky light and cloud shadows linger together.

I don't know how long it took, when Zi Shi leaned against Chang Sheng's arms with limp body and blurred consciousness, he vaguely heard him say to the two children: "Brother sprained his foot and it hurt so badly, so he had to seal the acupoints." He thought: "Before Why didn't you find out? This kid started to lie, his mouth was seamless, his face didn't change color and his heart beat, he is simply a genius." It's too tiring, so stop here.The last thought came to mind: "It's all caused by celery and bamboo..."