Chapter 20 Victory but countless in the world
After the story was finished, I drank enough wine, but He Ru was not drunk at all. After a short period of venting, he returned to his initial calmness and turned back to the slightly sarcastic, a little elegant and indifferent look. He lowered his head and said, "Qilang, does this story sound a bit boring?"
Xu You drank the only little leftover wine in the glass and smiled and said, "No matter how boring the story is, it will be fascinating to the right person and you can't extricate yourself. Mr. He asked me to listen to the story, but he really found the right person."
A faint smile appeared on the corner of He Ru's lips. The longer he got along with Xu You, the more he would be infected by his personal charm. He said, "I just don't know, Qilang thinks that the person in the story, what he wants to do, can achieve his wish?"
Xu You remained silent. To be honest, he guessed many possibilities at first, but he never expected that the passerby in front of him who should have met by chance and met again was He Fangming's son. If we counted the relationship between He and the Xu family, He Fangming and Xu Zhan were friends of the same generation, and he would have to call He Ru Uncle Shi.
Of course, the premise is that the story he told is true and there is no moisture involved!
Xu You thought about whether to open his hair to see if there were any scars, but he instantly realized that he was confused by the film and television dramas. At this time, Buddhists do not need to leave scars on their heads. The so-called scars are the rituals of burning incense and burning the top. One said that they originated from the Song Dynasty and the other said that they originated from the Yuan Dynasty, but whether it was the Song Dynasty or the Yuan Dynasty, at least in the State of Chu, there was no such ignorant behavior of self-harm in the body.
"Feng Hu, do you think this person can achieve his wish?" Xu You finally spoke, but threw the topic to Zuo Qi.
Zuo Qi was shocked by He Ru's rebellious words that were enough to kill the three clans. When he heard Xu You's words, he suddenly woke up, pondered for a while, shook his head and said, "Although things are done by humans, they are not the hardest to know, but the hardest to do. What he wants to do, wants to do, and is ready to do is really difficult."
He Ru had no expression on his face and did not argue. He obviously disdained Zuo Qi's insight, but just gave Xu You a face and did not refute it.
"It is not difficult to know, but to do it only has difficulty... Feng Hu is also a person who has read the Book of Documents!" Xu You praised him and fell into a brief silence again.
He Ru's lowered eyes seemed careless, but in fact his focus was no longer on the wine pot on the table. His breathing fell into a complete stagnation at this moment. His years of meditation practice also broke the mysterious skill at this moment, and began to beat rapidly and unevenly, quietly waiting for Xu You's answer.
He hoped to hear the words he wanted to hear, because to him, this was really important, too important!
"But... Is there any difficulty in the world? If it is done, it will be easy; if it is not done, it will be easy. In the past, there were two monks in Yizhou, one poor and the other rich. The poor monk said to the rich monk: "What do you want to go to the South China Sea?" The rich monk asked him, "Why should you go?" The poor monk held the rice bowl in his hand and said that it was enough for me to have it. The rich monk laughed, "I was going to the South China Sea many years ago, but I couldn't go there after buying a boat. How could you go like this?" Who would have thought that a year later, the poor monk came back from the South China Sea and the rich monk found out, and he was very ashamed. From this we can see that as long as you practice it, even the difficult things will always become easier."
He Ru looked up, like the deep eyes of the stars and seas, flashing with surprise and a hint of incredibility. What was surprising was that Xu You implicitly supported his revenge behavior. The reason why it was incredible was that with his talent and knowledge, he could not hear the profound philosophical thoughts and life principles contained in these seemingly simple sentences?
"Qilang's words sound ordinary at first glance. If you think about them carefully, you will feel that they contain infinite meanings. Compared with Xunzi's "Encouragement of Learning", "I have thought all day long, but it is better to learn something in a short time; I have been looking at them and looking at them, it is better to have a broad view of climbing a high place," it has another high-level and unrestrained sound! The theory of the rich and poor monks originated from the rise and rise of the image, and the words and meanings were exhausted, and they were deeply rooted in the supreme state of Mencius's "using what he knows and makes people know what he doesn't know."
This is compared to the saint, and Xu You certainly won’t take it seriously. With He Ru’s personality, he will naturally not flatter, let alone say anything flattering, but he will unconsciously fall into two extremes. Anyone who matches his heart will forget his shortcomings, amplify his strengths, and praise him from the heart. Those who don’t match his heart will ignore the advantages and spare no effort to belittle them.
Therefore, although he has been a monk for twenty-five years, he has no respect when he speaks Buddhism. This kind of personality defect sometimes helps him overcome one obstacle after another, but sometimes it will become a fatal trap, swallowing him up without even the bones!
Xu You smiled and said, "I am a vulgar martial artist known to everyone in the world. I am an illiterate barbarian from Master Xun. I am not qualified to grind Master Xun, and I am far inferior to Master Meng."
He Ru sneered and said, "Everyone is all mediocre, what do they know? But then again, Qilang is hidden from the eyes of the world over the years. If I hadn't been a coincidence, I happened to see your sharp side in Yixing, I would have missed it. It would be too late to regret it!"
"Oh?" Xu You said: "I haven't told you why I have to come to see me for a long time."
He Ru stood up, walked to the middle of the room, raised his hands high, then knelt down, leaned down on the ground, and said, "I know Qilang has never believed deeply that this is human nature. Since this is the case, let me report to my house again. Therefore, the ancestor He Ru, the general of the Chu State's Northern Expedition, was unfilial son He Ru, to see Qilang!"
Xu You did not reach out to help him, looked down at his back and neck, and sighed: "Why do you have to do this great gift? Get up quickly."
He Ru straightened up and said resolutely: "I recognize my identity, and the words I just said can become the handle for my husband to control my life and death. As long as I report to the governor's mansion, say that I am He Zhengbei's son, and return to Jiangdong to do something wrong, even if I don't want to admit it, and I'm in the Yellow Sand Prison, they have some ways to let me speak."
This is to give Xu You the life and life. If you want to win the trust of others, there is no better way to vote than this. Xu You then hurriedly stood up, held his arm, and said, "I didn't expect that Lang Jun is really a descendant of the General of the Conquest of Peking. He had offended him before, so please don't take it to heart."
The two sat opposite each other again, but this time their mentality was completely different. He Ru did not hide anything, and told the story of his escape from the Northern Wei Dynasty and fled back to Jiangdong after a lot of hardships. Everything happened in the past five years, no matter how much or nothing happened.
It turned out that since he returned to Jiangdong, He Ru left his mentor and walked carefully in the darkness alone, from the temple to the rivers and lakes, from the capital to the prefectures, from the princes and powerful people to the governors and governors, he secretly watched everything that happened in this empire with his blood-red eyes, trying to find a place in this complicated spider web that could shake the foundation of the entire An dynasty and escape.
But how easy is this?
The emperor is alive, his reputation is trembling in the world, and his superiors and subordinates are at peace. The king and his ministers work together, and the four realms are in danger. The rule of the aristocratic families over the entire society is unbreakable. What can he do if he understands the Guigu Yin Talisman with his own power?
But he did not give up and still traveled all over the world without stopping, and contacted him with open or secret contact. He thought he could become the "escaped one". During this period, he suffered so much humiliation and hardship, hope and despair were always intertwined in his life. Dilemma, danger, desperate situation, step by step, thorns, his mission, his ambition, and his deep blood hatred seemed to be getting further and further away from him.
Until that day, he once again visited Wanling King from Xuancheng County and returned without success. He walked through Yixing and stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the Xu Manor that was burned to pieces by the fire in the distance. He felt like he was touched by something in his heart. He remembered the friendship between He and Xu, but after thirty years of reincarnation, Xu ended up with the same fate as He. He got off the boat halfway through a misfortune and came to the door of the dilapidated small courtyard. He looked at Xu You with his hair loose and supported his weak body and walked out of it. He stood in front of the arrogant Shen family slave group, like a mountain, a lake.
Chapter completed!