Nightfall Chapter 17: In the city, there is a saint (below)

The darkness in the broken house gets darker. Ye Su looked at him with a smile and said, "I learned something from your senior, and I should teach you back, but I have to charge tuition. What do you want to learn?"

Ning Que looked at the water bowl in his hand, looked at the wine-like water in the bowl, and was silent for a long time, and then began to tell the stories that had happened since last fall.

The thin snow on the walls of Chang'an City fell like a curtain. When the watcher entered the city and met thousands of knives, the snow in the sky began to burn, burning a clear blue sky, and he wrote a word on that blue sky.

Ye Su is now an ordinary person. He doesn't walk in the world of spiritual practice. He doesn't know many things, but the Jiange side has already passed on him about the subject of entering Chang'an.

"Since you can write that word, you will be invincible in the city. Even the teacher will be defeated by your sword, but if you come outside the city, the teacher will look at you and you will die."

Ning Que admitted, and said: "I want to know how to be equally strong outside Chang'an."

Ye Su said: "You are the first runemaster to write that word. Yan Se failed to do it, and countless predecessors did not do it, so no one can teach you, and I am even less qualified." /

Ning Que said: "How can we gather more people's will?"

Ye Su said: "The most common means or way of expression is naturally the word belief."

Ning Que said: "I think so too, but I don't want to walk the old way of the door."

Ye Su said: "So you took a great risk to leave Chang'an, repeat the red dust, travel in the world, this is still the old road I wanted to break through life and death."

Ning Que didn't quite understand what he said.

"When Brother ** was sitting by the pool and reading, he didn't even look at my sword at all. I realized that I still need to look at it. When I read the words, I fell behind. Later I meditated in the small Taoist temple. After watching the collapse of the eaves, I understand the truth of being broken and resurrected, and finally understand that the cycle of life and death is for nature."

Ye Su recalled the sword on the snowy peak of the wasteland, the scholar by the pool, looked at him and smiled and said: "So I can take the sword of Jun Mo in front of Qingxia."

Ning Que asked: "What does this have to do with my current confusion?"

Ye Su said: "You are writing words that no one has written before. You are walking a path where no one has ever written before. I said that no one can teach you. All I can do is to practice myself. The journey of sentiment, spread it out to show you, crush it and let you touch it, what you can realize from it is not up to me to decide."

Ning Que was silent for a moment, and said, "Please continue."

Ye Su said: "The trial of traveling around the world to break through life and death, I still looked at the world with the mentality of a bystander, but now I have become a useless person, returned to the world, and came to Linkang. In this shabby alley of the city, I changed from a bystander to a participant."

Ning Que thought about his feelings when he looked at the streets and lanes like lines on the Chang'an city wall, the people like ants, and the numb passengers in the cabin on the Daze passenger ship, only to realize that the original reason was still not free from the standpoint of bystanders.

Ye Su looked at him and continued, "You don’t want to walk through the old way of the door because you instinctively hate the existence of religion, but you forget that religion is indeed faith, but faith is not necessarily all religion, at least Not all religions like Haotian Daomen."

Ning Que thought for a while and said, "I agree with this statement."

"You should be very clear that, except for those magical powers in the Taoist school, the higher the level of practitioners, the more difficult it is to ensure their own peace of mind. In other words, the stronger the person, the harder it is to believe in this. This kind of thing is not in the sky, only in the humble place of the dust. It is easier to say. Faith is the most unshakable thought and desire of ordinary people. If you want to use faith to gather people’s will, you first need to figure out them. What do you want."

Ye Su said: "I have become a real ordinary person nowadays. I have no ability to think about noble truths. Instead, I have the opportunity to live ordinary people’s lives and understand ordinary people’s ideas, such as The belief of the children in this neighborhood is nothing but eating."

Ning Que nodded thinking of the scenes he had seen before.

Ye Su looked at him and asked, "You haven't eaten yet?"

Ning Que saw him eat a large bowl of cabbage rice earlier, and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't eat a meal."

Ye Su said: "Look, this is what makes you different from ordinary people."

Ning Que understood what he meant, and asked, "Do you have noodles at home?"

The real family members in the broken house are surrounded by old pots and stoves, but they are extremely difficult to find some rice noodles. Fortunately, Ye Su is now very respected in the streets, and soon some people have served a bowl of plain noodles.

Ning Que ate all the soup and noodles, put the bowls and chopsticks on the window edge, suddenly thinking about something, and asked: "Since you want to live the life of ordinary people, why do you want those kids to send meals?"

Ye Su's answer is simple and convincing: "I can't cook."

Ning Que couldn't object to this explanation, and asked: "In the alley ahead, I saw those women washing clothes without soap powder. I think it's hard to live, why I don't even use laundry." /

Ye Su’s explanation is still very persuasive: “Washing can indeed make the clothes cleaner, but the fabrics used in their homes are not good. It may be broken if they are washed several times.”

Ning Que said: "The people here are really difficult to live. Do you have to be in such a difficult environment to experience the feelings you want to experience? Will it be too self-abuse?"

"My perceptual learning in this area is just beginning. I can't give you a direct answer or clear direction. I can only say some of my own vague judgments for your reference."

Ye Su said: "We have said before that faith can be used to condense the will of the crowd. In fact, this sentence is not a problem. The strongest and most unified will of mankind will inevitably become faith. Then we actually Just need to know what people want most."

"Humans are very good at hiding their true emotions, because exposure is sometimes like removing armor, which means danger. On ordinary days, in a warm and comfortable environment, it is difficult to find their true desires and thoughts. , You ask them what they want, it’s hard to get answers. Only in the desperate period of life, in front of the extreme background of things, those answers will jump out by themselves and appear extremely clear, no matter if they were numb or marketable before, they His behavior is always that honest."

Ning Que thought about the bravery of the people in Chang'an in that wind and snow.

Ye Su continued: "Your previous sentence was wrong. It does not have to be in a difficult environment to realize these, but the hardship is the normal state of the world. I did not go to Chang'an but came to Linkang. It’s because Tang people live too freely and beautifully. This is not a treatment that everyone can enjoy."

"In Linkang City, I have seen the most luxurious nobles, the poorest citizens, the most arrogant priests, and the most humble slaves. Richness and poverty seem to be born with them. , Cannot be changed. This makes me think about a question, why these things cannot be changed?"

Twilight sprinkled into the house along the hole in the roof of the broken roof, as if coated with a warm red luster on Ye Su's body. It didn't feel sacred, but it was so close.

He quietly looked at Ning Que and said: "The Haotian doctrine says that everyone is guilty and needs repentance to get Haotian's salvation and enter the bright kingdom of God after death. But dozens of years before entering the kingdom of God In the long journey of life, should believers endure hopeless poverty?"

"I have never been to the Haotian Kingdom. I don’t know if it is as beautiful as described in the text. But I know that the world under the Kingdom of God is not beautiful. Then if Haotian’s compassionate eyes have not fallen on the earth for the time being At time, or when it is testing the world, what should Haotian believers do? Like countless years in the past, worship and worship at the Xiling Temple, and then wait numbly and sadly for the final salvation? Everyone has sin, believers’ sin What is it? The greed for material desires? The desire for wealth? The yearning for freedom? Because of these, I can't get peace of mind?"

"These are the desires that human beings are difficult to get rid of. If these are sins, then they are the original sins that cannot be completely wiped out. For these sins, Buddhism requires meditation and takes the path of curbing desires. Based on believers’ belief in Haotian, believers are required to convert these desires into dedication. The bridge in between is belief. Only the academy never restrains these sins."

Ye Su said: "All of these are reasonable and all have shortcomings. Buddhism does not look at the present world, but only sends hope in the next life. The Taoist does not look at reality, but only sends hope to the kingdom of God. The academy set the law of Tang. But it is still the role of a leader, and the requirements for the individual's own quality are too high. I have been thinking these days, other than that, is there any other way to make this world full of original sin better."

Ning Que looked at him and asked: "What method?"

Ye Su said: "Haotian will save us at the end of our lives. In the continuation of life, who will save us? We must save ourselves."

Ning Que was silent for a long time and said, "So you teach those kids."

Ye Su said: "This is just the beginning."

Ning Que looked into his eyes and said: "According to the doctrine, only Haotian is qualified to save the world. Your current thoughts and actions can already be considered blasphemy by Haotian."

Ye Su said: "Haotian loves the world, how can we not allow the world to save themselves?"

Ning Que looked at him in Twilight, not knowing what to say.

As time goes by, if this person really succeeds in preaching, perhaps this block full of sewage and garbage will become a holy place in Haotian Taoism in the future, because he will definitely become a saint.

Of course, it is more likely that this former gate walking might be tied to a wooden frame by the red-clothed priests in the Xiling Temple, and then burned into a charred corpse.

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(Yesterday, I said that I saved the manuscript. I only wrote a few hundred words. This chapter is too difficult to write. In my first thought, I wanted to create something like a Protestant, but I found that my ability was seriously insufficient. Religious history is all in vain. If you don’t have the ability, don’t want to do this kind of thing. In the future, you will only write pictures and never write things that you don’t even think about. Then you have to go out. Until the twelfth, you can only do your best. Strive for updates. After you come back, you must work hard to write to satisfy everyone.) (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe (this site), rewards, and your support is my greatest motivation. .)