Dharma

After Xia Jingge came out, he walked around the courtyard, only to meet Yu Qingqiao.When Yu Qingqiao saw him, he first smiled: "It's rare to see you."

Xia Jingge scratched his head: "Walk around lazily." After saying that, Xia Jingge went to see Yu Qingqiao.He actually didn't know how to face his biological mother, especially when he knew that Yu Qingqiao was also chosen by the heavens to give birth to him, he didn't know how to face Yu Qingqiao.

He didn't know if he was superfluous to Yu Qingqiao, whether he was an unexpected burden or burden.He didn't even know if it was because she needed to be born that she became a Taoist couple with Xia Qinglu.

When thinking of this question, he once inexplicably thought of Sangyang by the Changli Bay.Senior Sang Yang is obviously a person who knows a lot of inside stories. What kind of person can let Xia Qinglu reveal this secret to her? ... When she mentioned Xia Qinglu, her gaze was different.

Xia Jingge even thought that maybe she also suffered from the plan of the heavens and sacrificed a lot, so she was so angry when she learned that Xia Jingge and Feng Fuling had become friends.

Because what Xia Jingge did did not meet her expectations at all.

After all, they are Xia Jingge's elders.She can confidently expect Xia Jingge.

For a monk, there is probably not much difference between him and an ordinary person in this regard. The attitude of an elder towards him generally stems from his existence, what he does, the direction of his efforts, and even It depends on whether his achievements meet the expectations of this elder.If not, then it is only natural that the attitude is worse.

Elders like parents always have higher expectations.Yu Qingqiao descended to the world as an angel and provided him with three paths. Although these three paths were completely different, in Xia Jingge's view, they were either black without bottom or white, as if they were all deep pits... so that he was a little confused.Xia Jingge was not sure what exactly Yu Qingqiao expected of him, and in which direction.At that time, she just smiled gently and said that you can do this or that, even if you don't do these things, it doesn't seem to matter.

To be honest, this was probably the main reason why he avoided meeting Yu Qingqiao.

Because even if it's just chatting, you can find out what and what a person expects from you.No matter what Yu Qingqiao's expectations are, Xia Jingge is a little bit shy. ...Perhaps in his subconscious mind, he was afraid that Yu Qingqiao would not be able to bear the expectations he had for him, and also that Yu Qingqiao had no expectations for him at all, so it was fine no matter what.

So such an unexpected encounter made Xia Jingge subconsciously have the urge to avoid, but Yu Qingqiao looked at him with a smile, which made his mind stuck again, and he couldn't think of any evasive moves.Under Yu Qingqiao's clear and gentle gaze, he somehow felt that no matter what he said, he would be seen through.

Yu Qingqiao smiled and said: "I suddenly felt something today, so I made a hexagram, because I knew I would meet you here, so I came here and waited."

Xia Jingge was taken aback for a moment, and asked a little foolishly, "Then how long have you been waiting?"

Yu Qingqiao smiled even more: "It didn't take long before a gust of wind blew, and you came."

"Oh... that's okay." Xia Jingge said almost incoherently, "It's not very windy here."

"It's not that big." Yu Qingqiao said with a smile.

Xia Jingge continued to speak incoherently: "The wind at the edge of the cliff in the back mountain is very strong. Have you ever been there? If you haven't been there, it's best not to go there in the future."

"I've made a note of it, so I won't go and suffer."

Xia Jingge saw that she was smiling, so she also smiled.Yu Qingqiao said: "Come and blow the wind with me."

"Oh."

Xia Jingge stood beside her, and followed her gaze to look over.It was a gnarled old pine tree.A hundred years ago, in Xia Jingge's eyes, it was still an immature young tree, not very tall, nor very rugged.As if in the blink of an eye, it looks like it has left all the twists and turns, vicissitudes, rain and snow on the branches for a hundred years.

Yu Qingqiao stared at it for a long time before slowly saying: "Suddenly, a hundred years have passed again."

Xia Jingge nodded: "Yes."

He didn't know what Yu Qingqiao was thinking, and he didn't need to know, but in the dark, Xia Jingge felt that their feelings were connected.

Yu Qingqiao laughed and said, "Speaking of which, when I was your age, I hadn't graduated from a teacher yet."

Xia Jingge understands that in his mother's time, people like them only need to focus on cultivation and don't need to care about these mundane affairs.Now Xia Jingge's generation, the oldest one is only about two hundred years old, and has already served as the executive head of a faction for more than a hundred years.This is not a good phenomenon. If there are too many chores, it will be difficult to concentrate on practice. Even if it is not easy for me to enter the realm, and I have not fully understood it, even if I take in disciples to teach it carefully, it will be difficult to make it better than blue.This is a concrete manifestation of a group of people withering and a sudden change from peak prosperity to extreme decline.Xia Jingge didn't know how to answer for a while, and after a long silence, Fang said: "The morals of the world have changed."

"Yes, the world has changed." Yu Qingqiao sighed and stopped talking.After a while, she suddenly asked: "You ordered people to be imprisoned in the barrier for more than ten years, and not long after you came out, you were imprisoned for a hundred years. You must have never entered the world."

"...Well, no."

"So, how do you feel about entering the world and experiencing it?"

"Joining the WTO?" Xia Jingge hesitated.Originally, entering the WTO is indeed a common course for their monks, and the Jiuhua School also has a tradition of choosing whether to enter the WTO for experience.For example, Yu Qingqiao, Xia Qinglu, and Xia Jingge's famous uncles and uncles have all experienced in the world of mortals.

For example, Uncle Nine directly picked up the disciple Yu Shuguang when he came back from his experience in the world of mortals.Another example is Uncle Yun, who is the most bohemian. When he entered the world, he did many things drunk and lying in the world of mortals. Xia Jingge heard when he was a child that the world of mortals is like his back garden, and his deeds and rumors are everywhere.What was the military adviser of a certain founding emperor, and later the emperor achieved his career, he was killed by a cunning rabbit? He was murdered by the gods, so he faked his death and retired to the world... There are so many, such as Uncle Yun, who finally fell into Qianye's hands, causing the defense plan to leak, which indirectly achieved this. Together, the disaster of extermination.

However, this kind of elective tradition can no longer be carried out in Xia Jingge's generation.Because there are only a dozen or so people left in the Jiuhua School, none of them have the qualifications to become a teacher, and experience requires a solid foundation in cultivation, so that they will not encounter any unexpected situation and die prematurely. .Now that the world of mortals has become a battlefield again, the danger factor is even greater.Moreover, the master is no longer there, and they have to take care of related affairs by themselves, so they can't be as idle as those disciples who left the master in the past, so they can go to experience without burden.

In Xia Jingge's generation, senior brother Lin is the only one who has practiced outside, but his main purpose is not to practice, but to fight against demons and learn from martial arts.But that can be regarded as Senior Brother Lin's cultivation base is excellent, and he is not afraid of any monsters and ghosts.Xia Jingge is no longer afraid of demons, he has a faint psychological shadow on monks like Li Yuchong.

Seeing his hesitation, Yu Qingqiao said: "From my observation of your words and deeds these days, it seems that you are muddled. You just pass by without any direction. Maybe you will not be like this once you have entered the world."

Xia Jingge was stunned for a while, and asked after a while: "Am I confused?"

"What do you think?" Yu Qingqiao asked back with a smile.Xia Jingge fell silent. He lowered his head and looked at the toe of his shoe. He didn't know when a little brown mud was rubbed on it, which was a bit eye-catching.He replied, "I don't know how to answer you." In fact, he knew that what Yu Qingqiao said was not wrong, and he really didn't know what to do in the future.Even senior brother and Yu Qingqiao told him that this matter is not urgent, you can think about it slowly.But he didn't know how to think about it, because when he thought about it, he was only confused.

Maybe he should admit this to his mother frankly, but Xia Jingge couldn't do it.It was as if a piece of cloth was stuck in his throat, making him unable to speak such honest words.

Yu Qingqiao sighed slightly again, and said to him: "Experience in the world can make a person understand what he wants to do, and only when he knows what he wants to do, can he prove the way.... When I was just a teacher, I only had Cultivation and ascension, except for these two, the rest have never entered my mind. So my master, your ancestor said to me, "Qiao'er, you should go to the lower realm to experience and find out what you are. what you want, what you want to do and come back'."

Xia Jingge turned his gaze back to Yu Qingqiao from the toe of his shoe, he tilted his head slightly, and asked puzzledly: "I only have ascension and cultivation in my heart, isn't that good? I thought that if a monk can do this, his cultivation will be at least stronger than People with the same qualifications are faster."

When Yu Qingqiao heard this, she rolled her eyes with a smile.Those were a pair of eyes very similar to Xia Jingge's, which turned into crescent moons when he smiled.She said, "At that time, I asked my master a similar question."

Xia Jingge waited earnestly for the next sentence.

Yu Qingqiao continued: "My master said that monks' cultivation is like eating for ordinary people. They are indispensable every day. If they are missing, they will be hungry and feel uncomfortable. Just because ordinary people eat every day, it doesn't mean that eating is what they want, what they want to do. In addition to eating, they have many other things they want, and they can work hard for their whole life. Cultivation is also an indispensable behavior of eating for us monks, but that does not mean that we live every day, just I live to eat this food. There will always be other things I want to do, but the master said I don’t have it. I told the master, I have it, and my ultimate goal is to ascend. The master asked, what about after you ascended? I just said, they have all become gods, of course they must continue to practice and strive to become the great gods through the ages."

When Yu Qingqiao said this, she paused for a moment, as if immersed in memories, Xia Jingge waited for a while, but she couldn't continue talking, so she couldn't help asking: "And then?"

"Then?" Yu Qingqiao came back to his senses, showing a nostalgic smile, "Master, the old man can't say no to me, so he kicked me out of the world of mortals."