Great Sui Storyteller

Chapter 378. 377. Just Like That Nest Bird
Because the weather is getting warmer, gradually, the working hours of the dredging team have also been lengthened.

According to later generations, after nine o'clock in the morning, the folk husbands who had breakfast started today's work.

A fire was set up on the shore for those who would come up from the water later to warm up.

The other people also followed the steps step by step, and started to do their own work under the guidance of the supervisor.

Today, the river channel in the Songxian River section will be cleared, and then the team will be divided into a group of people to build houses, select land, and quarry the next section.

Just like the previous days, nothing different.

If the only difference is that when everyone is busy, a Taoist in loose clothes will stand and watch from a distance.

But... just look at it, it doesn't matter.

The Taoist priest who slept for two days is said to be the disciple of the immortal elder, so he must have great ability, so he just needs to make offerings.

……

They were working, and Li Zhen was watching.

Next to him was Xuan Suning who was invisible to outsiders.

Li Zhen has already experienced his own high-level skills.All kinds of methods are waiting for idlers, let alone read them, they can't even think about them.

At this moment, he looked at the peasants who moved their bodies and went into the water, and shook his head slightly:

"The water...is still too cold."

The female Taoist who turned into an old fairy who did not eat fireworks nodded again:
"Yeah. But after going down once, the activity started, so it's not cold anymore."

Hearing this, Li Zhen hesitated and asked:

"Teacher, this month... Nothing happened, right?"

"Like?"

Looking at the other party's face that looked pale under the brilliance of light and shadow, Li Zhen asked:

"For example...casualties."

"hurt."

When seeing Xuan Suning nodding, Li Zhen subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Sure enough, it works reliably.

This kind of dangerous work has only injured...

But before the thought faded away, I heard another sentence:
"Also dead."

"..."

His face froze instantly.

And as if guessing what the disciple was thinking, a trace of compassion flashed in the female Taoist's eyes:
"Shouchu, you need to understand that the creation of yin and yang, life and death, is ultimately the work of immortals. If someone drowns, I can save it. If someone freezes, I can save it. However, the wind and cold and internal heat, the collapse of mountains and rocks, and the vortex of rivers and streams... fate... In this case, I have no choice. I can only say that I will do my best and have a clear conscience."

"..."

Li Zhen was speechless.

He knew that the other party was not lying.

Although he still sneered at the "fate", he naturally understood the meaning of the other party's words after running the farmland of two counties in a month.

Just like he was in Shangluo some time ago.

There were a few old trees next to the cultivated land. When he sent the guardian to plow the land, although he had paved it with spiritual thoughts, he didn't notice the nest of birds' eggs on the tree because he was worried about the order of the fields.

The bird's nest fell to the ground for some reason. It just so happened that when Old Man Li was plowing the land, he encountered bluestones blocking the way.

For this kind of situation, based on the once-and-for-all method, Li Zhen went all the way.

To him, stones are like slag, but to those peasants, a hoe may be broken anytime and anywhere.

Therefore, Li Laoliu went recklessly.

And Bengfei's stone happened to hit two of them on the bird's nest.

When he found out, all three eggs had been broken.

He clearly remembered the shrill cries of the two shrikes on the tree when he left amidst the thankful sound of the peasant woman kneeling and kowtowing.

Stones, hoes, bird eggs... Under the cause and effect he mixed in, it became a plausible ending.

In order to protect the farmer from the collapse of the hoe, he smashed the rocks, but he killed a nest of newborn birds, and tore apart the family formed by a pair of Shrikes...

From a human point of view, there is nothing wrong with it.

But from the bird's point of view, isn't this a kind of catastrophe that comes at will from the superior?

He does not agree with Xuan Suning's fatalism.

But... when he passed this matter and found that even if he could pave the 120-step divine sense, he couldn't cover everything, a Taoist who had experienced a round of life and death understood... what is the true impermanence of the world.

It doesn't matter whether the large intestine includes the small intestine or not.

The important thing is to understand what is meant by unwarranted disasters.

So, he was silent.

It's not that he agrees that the other person is right.

Instead, he understands... From this standpoint, he can't criticize the other party even half of it.

So, after thinking about it, he said:

"The teacher tried his best. It's not the fault."

"..."

For some reason, after hearing this, the female Taoist's eyes moved, and fell on the Taoist's purple face that was gradually fading.

Pausing for a moment, he looked into the distance again.

"..."

"..."

The atmosphere fell into a kind of silence.

Then, the horn for moving the wooden beams sounded in the distance.

There are no words in the chant, and the songs of this era are still in their infancy.

When everyone was lifting and moving the wooden beams and stones, they obeyed the voice of their chest, and under the guidance of one person, they shouted out:

"Yo! Drink!"

"Hey!!!!"

"Yo! Drink!"

"Hey!!!!"

Following the chant, one stone after another was thrown into the water, and the river began to be divided in shallow water.

Xuan Suning looked at the group of men who were already shirtless, and didn't feel any difference between men and women.She is an outsider, out of touch with the world, no difference between men and women.

Even those breaths full of male hormones can't disturb the mind.

As she watched, she asked:

"Shou Chu."

"The disciple is here."

"Tell me about what you've been doing this month."

"……it is good."

After organizing his language, Li Zhen began to speak slowly:
"After I parted from the teacher, I went straight to Shang County..."

……

"After the true martial arts appeared, the world looked at you with hatred?"

"……Um."

"Why?"

"I didn't quite understand it at first, but later... I understood after listening to Keming's explanation. That day I invited the real martial arts body in Yique, and then the monster died. From the perspective of others, the real martial arts emperor descended to the earth, Killing that cunning demon made the dragon's veins polluted, and that's why this corvee..."

"Ridiculous! What does that cunning monster have to do with you! You..."

"But that's the most accepted answer, right?"

"..."

Hearing the disciple's words, the female Taoist frowned completely at some point:
"Any explanation?"

"Never."

"Why don't you explain!"

"Explain what? Can it be explained clearly that the demon was not killed by Zhen Wudang, but died inexplicably, fearing that the country will be unknown and the country will be unstable? Let these families who are already deeply trapped in corvee, and those who stay behind are panicked every day?"

"..."

Turning his head to look at the female Taoist with displeased eyes, Li Zhen smiled and showed his white teeth:
"So, let's not explain it. Just treat it as me..."

He said open-minded.

But it is precisely because of this open-mindedness that the female Taoist couldn't help but ask again:

"Then according to what you said, since it's useless to show off the sage, we can only ask for the empress's order. Did you make it clear?"

"No. The county magistrate of Shang County had a vegetarian meal, and I got to know Keming again. Since Shunyang, I have never tried to use Yizhi to give orders."

"Why?"

"Because..."

Turning his eyes from the group of men to the Yishui flowing quietly in this sunny weather, the Taoist shook his head:
"This matter is for me to do, and has nothing to do with the royal family. I can allow others to misunderstand me and think that I have created this ridiculous corvee with 6 people, two counties and one river. However, I do not allow others to take the same They have nothing to do with each other, they are purely from the vision in my heart and turned into my own credit. Some things... I don’t care, I don’t need to, but if I don’t speak, they can’t grab it!”

"Then the two counties know about you this time?"

"do not know."

"...?"

Now, Xuan Suning's eyes can no longer be described as surprise.

Rarely, there is a hint of desire in the words of the female Taoist.

Not lust, not material desire.

It's a pity, it's a pity.

"do not know?"

she asked.

But the Taoist still shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't hear anything, and his eyes were casual:
"Well, I didn't leave a name."

"No one left?"

"Ah."

"Then... what is this time?"

"The gods appear."

"..."

After a moment of silence, staring at his disciples, the Taoist woman who was a teacher for the first time in her life asked seriously:

"Do you regret it?"

After saying this, Li Zhen turned his head in confusion.

"Why regret it?"

"..."

Watch it.

The young Taoist's eyes were clear and frank.

Not to mention other people watching, even Xuan Suning himself felt that the brilliance in those eyes was so dazzling...

So much so that the light cast by the sun in the sky pales in comparison with him at this moment.

It is obviously human and unethical.

At this moment, you can see it like the wind and see it like the clouds.

She was in a trance suddenly.

There was no reason for this trance, and it shouldn't even have happened.

In her realm, even if the world collapsed before her, she should have dealt with it calmly.The sky is full of hype, but it should also be self-evident.

But, by chance, she appeared in a trance.

In a trance, she vaguely remembered the words of "Zhuangzi" that her master taught her to read when she was a child:

"If you understand one, you can accomplish everything; if you don't have experience, you can conquer ghosts and gods."

It should be that the sage has mastered the fundamental laws of things, and no matter what he does, he can reach perfection.Selfless, with the world in mind, without any personal demands, so that even ghosts and gods admire it.

At that time, she asked Master the meaning of this sentence.

After getting the explanation, I asked Master if this is really a realm that human beings can achieve.
I vaguely remember that Master's face was full of contradictions, and he shook his head after thinking for a long time:
"People can do it. The moment they do it, they are out of the scope of being a human being."

So, it should be contradictory.

It should not even exist in the world, but only exists in a realm of emptiness.

However, she is now...

It seems to have seen it.

Or rather, he's been doing it since the beginning.

It's just... I just saw it.

In the silence, the chant of Hu Ho resounded through the river bank.

The Taoist is watching the world, and some people are watching him again.

Look at it like jade, the more happy you are.

"Shou Chu."

Couldn't help but speak, and had to see the Taoist look back.

The woman said frankly:

"Starting today, practice the method of "Harmony with Light and Dust" with me to participate in the Dao."

(End of this chapter)