"The Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things."

"Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature."

"The heaven and earth are not kind to treat all things as straw dogs, and the saints are not kind to treat the people as Zou dogs."

"The highest good is like water, and water benefits all things without competing."

Lingling read the contents of the "Tao Te Ching" in a total of ways, and all seven small gourds were immersed in the scriptures, and quietly made seven beautiful gourds.

Until evening, an old man carrying a bamboo basket came back.

"Children, I'm back." The old man waved his hand from afar and woke up the seven gourds that were being understood. Seeing the old man from afar, the gourds happily practiced and shouted: "Grandpa! Grandpa!"

The old man happily accelerated his pace, but when he walked closer, he found that there was a stranger in front of the house. Seeing this man wearing white clothes and extraordinary demeanor, the old man was shocked: "Are you?"

"Brother-in-law, I'm polite." Zuo Xiaoyou held his fist and bowed.

The old man hurriedly replied: "Young Master is polite, I wonder why you are here?"

"Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, and traveling here. Seeing someone here, I came here to bother you, but I didn't expect to encounter seven treasure gourds. My father-in-law is such a blessing." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled.

"Young Master is too rewarded." The father-in-law said politely, "It turns out that the young master is a scholar. It's really amazing. It's just that the humble house is simple and there is no wild game entertainment. Please forgive me."

"It's okay." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly: "I'm practicing flying swords. It's not a problem to beat a few wild game. My father-in-law can boil water and cook first. Then he will catch a few wild game."

"Young master comes from afar and asks you to take action yourself. The old man is ashamed." said the old man.

"Don't be polite, I'll go." Zuo Xiaoyou looked at the direction and leaped a few times, and disappeared into the mountains.

Seeing this, the old man exclaimed: "I don't think this young master is a strange man, he really can't be looked at."

"Grandpa, that person reads very well." Several gourds staggeredly talked about what Zuo Xiaoyou read for them before: "We are all fascinated by listening."

"Oh?" The old man sighed: "What a strange man!"

Not long after, the old man had already cooked a pot of hot water and cooked some wild vegetable porridge. Zuo Xiaoyou also grabbed two pheasants and came back: "Brother-in-law, let's scald the hair with boiling water."

"Leave it to the old man." The old man was about to drool when he saw two pheasants. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time, so he would definitely be able to eat enough today.

Boil hair, pluck hair, break the belly, clean up the internal organs, Zuo Xiaoyou took out some seasonings and started making beggar chicken. There are no lotus leaves here, so you can only use other leaves instead. Fortunately, the essence of beggar chicken is not in lotus leaves, but it is as delicious as other leaves.

When the old man saw Zuo Xiaoyou's fresh roast chicken, he kept blinking: "What is the way to do this for young master?"

"Beggar chicken." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly and said, "It was when I was traveling around the world that I saw some beggars eating chicken in Jiangnan. I didn't want to make it tasted very good, so I learned it. My father-in-law will find out later."

"That little old man really wants to give it a try." The old man laughed.

Before I knew it, it was dark, the night sky was full of bright moon and stars, and the beggar chicken was also roasted. Pulling away the yellow mud, an indescribable fragrance floated out.

The old man smelled the fragrance and his saliva was almost flowing out: "What a fragrant beggar chicken."

"It tastes more delicious." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly. It was quite suitable to pair it with the old man, one chicken, and a wild vegetable porridge. It was meat and vegetable, dried and sparse. The old man was full of oil and was applauding.

Not long after, a chicken and 20,000 wild vegetable porridge entered the old man's stomach. The old man licked the corner of his mouth, rubbed his slightly swelling belly, and sighed: "Young master's name is really delicious in the world. The old man has never eaten such a delicious chicken."

Zuo Xiaoyou had already eaten all the chickens in his hand and said, "It's good if my father-in-law likes it. It's easy to make beggar chickens. My father-in-law can make them by himself when he beats the pheasant in the future."

The old man nodded. Although he was old and weak, he was quite strong because he had been collecting herbs in the mountains all year round. He also had a "flying knife technique". Although he was flying a hatchet, it was also a knife. If he could hit a pheasant, it was a good knife.

Although the forests are barren, there are a lot of pheasants in the mountains. What's more, you can raise them in captivity when picking up eggs. Chicken lays eggs and eggs. In a few years, you can raise a large piece of chickens and be completely self-sufficient.

When the old man was thinking about a bright future, the seven gourds urged Zuo Xiaoyou to continue reading to listen to them. Zuo Xiaoyou had just had a full meal and just read to eliminate food, but he did not take out the book, but just opened his mouth and recited the three-character scripture to listen to these seven gourds.

The Thousand Character Classic and the Three Character Classic are both enlightenment books for ancient children. Especially the Three Character Classic, which tells some stories that happened in history. They are both interesting and educational, but these are not Taoist mantras, so the Seven Gourds did not fall into understanding like listening to the Tao Te Ching. Instead, they do not have a good understanding of the allusions of the Three Character Classic, and they need to explain them one by one.

When I heard so many allusions contained in the Three Character Classic, not only the seven gourd kids were surprised, but even the old man listened with relish and said to myself: I am a scholar, and I know a lot.

Until the moon was in the middle of the sky, Zuo Xiaoyou stopped and said, "I'll stop today, and I'll tell you tomorrow."

The Seven Little Hulu are not ignorant children. It was indeed a bit late to see that time. In order not to delay Zuo Xiaoyou's rest, although he was reluctant to leave, he still asked him to rest early and wait for tomorrow.

But there is a problem. The old man is single all year round and can only sleep with one person on the kang, so it is too crowded for two people.

"Young master, just sleep on the bed, and the old man just lay some hay on the ground." The old man said.

Zuo Xiaoyou waved his hand with a smile: "You are just sleeping in bed. I also have to practice martial arts at night, so I can have a place to meditate."

"Oh?" The old man was surprised: "Master, can you know magic?"

"Understand."

"What a strange man!" The old man sighed and spread a straw mat on the ground, saying, "The old man only has straw mats at home, so I'd like to ask the young master to be wronged for one night."

"It's okay." Zuo Xiaoyou sat cross-legged on the straw mat and closed his eyes.

Seeing Zuo Xiaoyou's "entering to meditation", the old man sighed again, washed his feet and went to bed on the kang.

The next day soon came, and the sky just turned white, Zuo Xiaoyou opened his eyes and walked out of the house, walked to the edge of the mountain, and looked up at the void. His eyes penetrated the layers of space and saw a heavenly palace.

The Heavenly Palace and Zuo Xiaoyou have seen before are completely different, and the Heavenly Gods in the Heavenly Palace are also different from what Zuo Xiaoyou knows. These Heavenly Gods are divided into two types, one is a Taoist priest wearing Taoist robes, and the other is a strong man with bare shirtlessness.

Of course, there are two kinds of gods, both males and males, but they are mainly males. Although there are many female gods, their status seems to be low. They are quite humble in front of male gods, and they feel like the ancient environment.

This is not surprising. In the ancient social environment, women's status was not high. Some people may say that heaven and earth should be different, but you must be clear about what "upward action and downward effect" means. The so-called social environment must be from top to bottom. What should the society become and what this society is like. It is difficult for the grassroots of the bottom to affect the decisions of the upper class. At least in the history of China.

"Brother, what are you looking at?" The voice of the gourdwa interrupted his observation, withdrew his gaze, turned his head to look at the seven gourds that had recovered. Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly and said, "It's nothing, haven't you sleep?"

"I've woken up." One of the gourds said: "It doesn't matter if we don't sleep, but sleeping can speed up our growth, so we'll sleep for a while when we're fine."

"So that's it." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded, looked at them, and asked, "What will you become when you mature?"

"We will turn into human form and break free from the gourd." One of the gourds said: "I am the eldest brother, and I will break out of the shell in about three days."

"Three days..." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded: "Then I will stay here for three days to see what you will look like?"

"Okay! OK!" The other little gourds shook happily: "Brother, then you can tell us a story for three days!"

"Okay." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly, "Today I will tell you a story about Nezha's quarrel."

...

Zuo Xiaoyou stayed here for two more days, but it was quite quiet between the mountains and forests. It was a good place to cultivate the mind and cultivate the nature. It was even rare to have seven young gourd kids who were about to mature. They told stories every day, but they were also free and easy.

The old man is different from Zuo Xiaoyou. After all, he is a mortal and has to make a living every day. There are not many other things in the mountains, but there are many herbs. The old man’s daily job is to go to the mountains to collect herbs, and then send the collected medicinal materials to the small town at the foot of the mountain to sell them every once in a while. The money he sold was to buy some rice and flour supplies, so he lived like this.

This kind of life is actually very bitter, and the dampness and cold energy in the mountains is very heavy. People with poor health are prone to illness, especially in summer, where there are many mosquitoes, and they will die of mosquito bites if they are not careful.

I heard from the old man that there were more than a dozen families in the mountains before, but for decades, he was the only one left, and he didn't know when he could live. Especially the two demons in Hulu Mountain came out to make trouble, and they might be eaten by the demons at any time.

After hearing this, Zuo Xiaoyou and the old man asked: "Did those two fairies harm a lot of people?"

"It is said that the two fairies harmed people everywhere ten thousand years ago, causing the gods to be furious and suppressed them in Hulu Mountain. They will be turned into ashes in just ten thousand years. This year is 9999, and it will be perfect in just one year. But a pangolin accidentally penetrated Hulu Mountain and allowed the two fairies to run out. That **** saw that many animals in the mountain were frozen into ice sculptures by the cold wind, which was really hateful."

After hearing this, Zuo Xiaoyou asked, "Those two fairies just frozen some animals into ice sculptures? Have you ever harmed people?"

"This..." the old man was stunned for a moment and said, "There are no one in the mountains. The two demons must have not had time to harm people, but when the living creatures in the mountains are eaten up by the two demons, they must have been going to harm people."

Zuo Xiaoyou smiled faintly: "Brother-in-law, don't guess what has not happened. What's more, who did the father-in-law know about what happened ten thousand years ago?"

"This... was told by the pangolin." said the old man.

"Where is the pangolin?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked.

"I was here a few days ago. I guess I went to investigate the whereabouts of the monster. Maybe I will come back in two days." The old man said.

Zuo Xiaoyou smiled faintly: "Brother-in-law, how could a pangolin know what happened ten thousand years ago? What's more, the pangolin is already a fairy! Is the fairy's words trustworthy?"

"This... is the gourd seeds that pangolins found. Only then did these seven gourds be planted. Even if pangolins are fairies, they are still good fairies." said the old man.

"Can a good fairy penetrate the Hulu Mountain?" Zuo Xiaoyou said lightly: "Is it still a fairy who knows the legend ten thousand years ago."

The old man opened his mouth, but was speechless.

Yes! How did the pangolin know? If you know, why do you still have to drill into the mountains? After drilling into the mountains, you can release the fairy and ask him to plant a gourd to deal with the fairy. What exactly is he trying to do?

He believed that the Calabash was not a bad boy, and the two fairies froze to death the animals... Although it looked a bit cruel, he often beat a few pheasants to eat these days! Can't the pheasants he ate be eaten by the fairies?

So if the fairy is not bad, the pangolin releases them and asks him to plant a gourd to deal with the fairy. What the hell is he trying to do?

"Don't be anxious, my father-in-law." Seeing the old man frowned, Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly: "It will be clear when the pangolin comes back. Why bother yourself before that?"

The old man sighed: "Although this is the case, the little old man is uneasy. As the young master said, there must be something wrong with this pangolin."

"I'm still saying the same thing." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "When you find the pangolin, everything will be clear."

But the pangolin did not come, the monster came.

Dozens of thorn bees and sperm descended from the sky and shot out their poisonous needles, but they became sperm hornets. The poisonous needles shot out turned into arrows and shot at the gourds.

At that time, the old man was going into the mountains to collect herbs, and Zuo Xiaoyou also went to the mountains to pick wild fruits. The gourds were attacked by arrows and were furious. Although the Siwa was a gourd, he already had the magical power of spitting fire. A ball of fire spurted at the tampons on the spot.

Although the hornet became a spirit, it could not resist the flames of Siwa. It was roasted into a cooked bee in the air, falling from the air, and dead.

At this time, the old man had just returned from taking medicine. Seeing the situation here, he was extremely anxious: "Children, what happened?"

"Grandpa, there are monsters." The gourd babies told the truth, and then said: "Grandpa, the goblins will definitely come again. Don't go around these days, just stay in the house, don't come out, just leave it here to us."
Chapter completed!