Dao Pi Jiu Xiao

Chapter 344

The afterglow of the setting sun reflects the green hills, and the ancient road walks on a thin horse at dusk.

Yan Rui was walking along this path with a sad face, thinking about how to live in peace tonight, and also thinking about what to do tomorrow.

The thin horse is like wood, carrying its owner slowly on the rugged path.

"Now that all the money is exhausted, the road ahead is boundless. I don't know when I will be able to go to Beijing to take the exam?" His eyes fell on the skinny old horse under him: "Could it be that I want to sell this horse? But if I sell the horse, how can I travel in the future? ?”

Yan Rui is a scholar, and it is said that his ancestor was a descendant of a certain sage, and he was from a scholarly family.However, his family has come down, and now Bai Ding is the only one left.This time I went to Beijing to rush for the exam, trying to make a name for myself, so that I can honor my ancestors in the future.

Suddenly, there was a burst of cooking smoke rising in front of him. Yan Rui stepped forward to inquire curiously, and saw a man and a woman dressed in sackcloth, dressed as travelers, and they were lighting a fire and cooking there.

So, Yan Rui stepped forward to have a chat.

"This is Jia Xuntian, this is my sister-in-law Jia Xunbao. The two of us traveled around the mountains and rivers and happened to rest here. If you don't mind, sir, how about chatting here tonight?"

Yan Rui looked around, there was a big tree surrounded by five people to shelter from the wind and sun, the Jia brothers and sisters broke dead branches from the tree to make a fire.

At this time, it was already evening, and Yan Rui's stomach could not help but growl. "Gu... Gulu..."

Yan Rui blushed, and Jia Xuntian laughed loudly: "Don't worry, sir, the two of us will make a fire to cook, and the portion is just right, sir, why not join us together."

"This...how is this so embarrassing?" Yan Rui touched the shriveled wallet in his arms, Nuo Nuo was speechless.

"Meeting is fate, sir just come here." Jia Xuntian pulled Yan Rui to sit with him.

Jia Xunbao seemed to be a bit taboo, and hid aside, refusing to speak much.He just silently held the bowls and chopsticks, and filled a bowl of yellow rice for each of the three.

There is a burst of aroma from the yellow-orange-orange rice, and the yellow and round millet grains are round and plump, with red beans marinated in honey hidden inside.

"This rice..." Yan Rui asked strangely, "Why are the rice grains so small and yellow?"

"I want to live in the place where Mr. Lai eats rice all the year round? This is corn, also known as millet. Therefore, this kind of rice is called millet rice, also known as 'huangliang rice'."

"Yellow beam rice?" Yan Rui picked up the rice grains and looked at them. The rice grains were only as big as pinholes, which was completely different from the round and white rice that he had seen before.

"Sure enough, the world is vast and far away, giving birth to all things. There is such a mysterious thing in the world. In the past, I was ignorant and ignorant when I was studying at home. I really should come out for a walk earlier."

Next, Jia Xunbao took out two more porcelain altars.One of the china jars was a jar of black meat sauce.

"This is the eight-treasure shrimp that I marinated in the early days. It is made with shrimp meat, fresh bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, dried tofu, mushrooms, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, and cashew nuts. It is sealed in a porcelain jar and is specially used as a dish when traveling."

At present, "the sky is covered and the ground is a bed", where is there any stove house?So keep it simple when cooking outside.Jia Xunbao only took a large pot to steam a large pot of rice, and then the two of them served the rice with the ready-to-eat food such as caramel sauce prepared in advance.

After all, Yan Rui is a scholar rushing for an exam, and this is the first time he has traveled far away, and seeing these things is very novel, so he picks up shrimps and rice to taste.

The shrimps are fragrant and delicious, because they are mixed with various dried fruits, which are quite chewy.

Yan Rui smacked his lips, and couldn't help picking up his chopsticks.

"Sir, don't just taste this, let's take a look at this can of fish beads." Jia Xuntian opened another can.

As soon as it was opened, Yan Rui couldn't help but let out a cry: "Ah—"

He was frightened out of his wits, and quickly avoided: "Your Excellency, this... how can this kind of thing be eaten?"

This can was actually full of black and white eyeballs, Yan Rui was horrified to see it.

"Don't worry, sir, this is my vegetarian meat made from melons and fruits, which is modeled after fish eyes. Don't be afraid, sir." Jia Xuntian said with a smile about this kind of "fish beads".

Take the seeds and fruits of the scallops and mash them, and take the pectin mixture for later use.Then mash the fresh longan and longan to get the juice, mix it with the pectin of the pectin, and put it in a cool place.

On the other hand, use ebony seeds to make the core, and when the longan pectin gradually freezes, quickly stuff the ebony seeds into the jelly, and then freeze it to form this black and white eyeball shape.

"Sir, this thing is not so much an eyeball, but a longan in another sense, what do you think?"

When Yan Rui heard this, his cheeks blushed.His family was poor, so the longan and longan fruits were from afar, and they were very valuable. He only ate them twice since he was a child.

"It turned out to be longan, I know, I know." Yan Rui dubiously dug out a spoonful of "fish balls" from the porcelain jar and put it on the rice.Not long after, the longan afterbirth on the outside gradually melted under the steam, leaving only the pickled black plums in the center.

The prawns just now are mainly salty and fresh, but the current fish balls are mainly sweet and sour.Mix the two kinds of side dishes, and soon Yan Rui ate two big bowls of rice.

But at the end, when he scooped out the "fish beads" from the porcelain jar to taste again, he was accidentally stung by a hard object.He quickly spat it out to see what kind of "fish pearl" it was, it was clearly a pearl the size of a longan.

Seeing this, he hurriedly returned the pearls to Jia Xuntian and the other two.

But Jia Xuntian waved his hand: "It's just a small bead. Since you have it, it belongs to you." Immediately, he pointed to the porcelain jar and said: "This jar has another name, it's called 'fish eyes and pearls'. Except for fish beads , there are still a lot of clam beads mixed in it to accompany the ice water to cool down. If you take it, it is naturally fate, it is God's will, and put it away."

Yan Rui was still a little hesitant, not daring to accept this heavy gift.Jia Xuntian said again: "I see that Mr. is too shy in his pocket, so take this bead as a gift from me to take the exam in Beijing. In the future, Mr. will be on the list, so take it as a favor and do something for me."

"Okay." Indeed, my family is shy and urgently needs money to go to Beijing.At this time, you can't talk about morality in a pedantic way.But Yan Rui solemnly said to Jia Xuntian: "Don't worry, brother, your brothers and sisters' support for me will never be forgotten. He won the honor in the Ruochan Palace, and he will definitely send a big gift to the two of you."

Jia Xuntian smiled faintly. In his eyes, following Yan Rui's words, a cloud of clear energy spontaneously rose from the realm of the underworld, turning into cause and effect to entangle the two of them.If Yan Rui has great luck in the future, he will naturally gather luck on himself.

After the meal, Jia Xunbao cleaned up the pots and pans.Jia Xuntian chatted with Yan Rui, talking about the origin of Yan Rui's family and Confucianism.

Jia Xuntian said: "Confucianism, in the final analysis, is nothing more than three steps of establishing one's mind, establishing one's words, and establishing one's destiny. Establishing one's heart for the world, establishing one's life for the common people, and only after the completion of the three ways can one immediately become a saint. This step can be crowned as ' Lisheng', with the fairy god who is said to have the same longevity and heaven."

Hearing this, Yan Rui couldn't help laughing: "Does Jia Xiongtai believe in the theory of gods and ghosts? Although establishing one's heart, establishing one's words, and establishing one's life are the essence of my Confucianism, they are nothing more than self-cultivation. Where is there any great supernatural power? My family is said to be After the Confucian sages, the second half of the "Hao Ran Kou Jue" was handed down, but the practice is only a method of nourishing Qi and cultivating the mind, where there is no great supernatural power. Lies are all lies from the outside world!"

"Then what about self-cultivation, family governance, and world peace?"

"Although it is the fruit of my Confucianism, it has nothing to do with practice."

Seeing Yan Rui's attitude, Jia Xuntian smiled and said nothing: "Maybe so. Sir, it's getting late, we should rest."

The two of them each took a cotton jacket and made a bed on the floor under the tree.It might be because of the entanglement and search, or it might be because of the relationship between eating and drinking, Yan Rui soon fell asleep.

In his dream, he dreamed that he entered a vast white mist.The smog is indistinct, only the continuous sound of reading slowly echoes in the world.

Following the sound, Yan Rui saw a man dressed as a scholar in the middle of the smoke. The man recited: "Heaven and earth have righteousness, mixed with manifolds. The bottom is the river and the mountain, and the top is the sun and stars. Yu Ren said Haoran, Peihusai Cangming."

"My family's "Great Righteousness Dao Song"?" Yan Rui was puzzled, only to hear the man finish singing his own righteousness and continue: "Kunyi Lian Weiyang, the Qing Festival plays the Ming Court, the long night, the eternal light. "

The latter ones seem to involve practicing formulas, which are jerky and convoluted.But as the scholar recited it, a ray of righteousness that had been cultivated in Yan Rui's body for many years slowly circulated, slowly pushing him into the way of establishing a heart.

An awe-inspiring heart that shines through the ages.

There was a bang in Yan Rui's mind, and various inheritances related to Confucianism flooded into his mind.

The night passed slowly, and when Yan Rui woke up, the sun had already risen from the east.And there is an extra book and a foot beside him.There are shimmering auras on the two things, and there is a kind of righteousness that is closely related to oneself.

"This is?" He looked around again, and Jia Xuntian and Jia Xunbao had disappeared.Under the shade of the big tree, only he fell to the ground.

"Strange." If it wasn't for the pearl in his arms, he would have wondered if all this was a dream.

Then check the book ruler around you. The title of the book is "Fu Shu" and the name of the ruler is "Yi Chi", both of which are treasures left by Confucianism.

Reminiscent of what Jia Xuntian said last night, Yan Rui thought to himself: "Could it be that the so-called Confucian inheritance really exists?" With this thought, countless Confucian classics popped up in his mind: "Could it be... Could it be that the ancestors manifested themselves?"

Yan Rui couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it and continued on his way on the skinny horse.

After Yan Rui left, a man and a woman looked at each other and smiled in the air.

Suddenly, Jia Xuntian and Jia Xunbao turned into two immortals.

Among them, the woman took out a book and wrote the name "Yan Rui" on it, a faint redness slowly surged, and immediately submerged in this name taboo.

"It seems that he has a good temperament and is expected to be an official."

"It's just official career?" Qinghong pointed at the folding fan in his hand, and on top of the red aura, there was a flash of righteousness.

"I can point to him to revive Confucianism and Taoism."

One of the main purposes of the two traveling around the world is to save people.

It is the merits of Qinghong and Li Jingxun to save those who are destined to cultivate the way of humanity, become immortal, or prove the way of God.

Feeling Yan Rui's arrival yesterday, the two deliberately gifted him precious pearls to help him enter Beijing for the exam, forming a good relationship.

"In the future, maybe he can be one of the first teachers of Confucianism." Qinghong looked at the sky, the sun was rising from the east, and the sky was filled with colorful clouds.He said to Li Jingxun: "Okay, send him to Beijing, the good fate has been planted. It will take a few years to take root and germinate. Let's prepare for the next one."

　In the first half of this chapter, the names of the two Qinghong hardly appear.Has anyone mistakenly ordered the wrong book?
　　Originally, I wanted to keep the names of Qinghong and Li Jingxun out of the whole article, and just use Jia Xuntian and Jia Xunbao to see it. Do you remember the previous article?But after thinking about it, if the name does not appear throughout the article, you may really think that I uploaded it wrong, so let’s mark it at the end.

　　
　
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