The years I was a birdman

Chapter 11 Cause and Effect
The night is dark, and there is light in the depths of the bamboo forest. The green fireflies cut off the night, and the bamboo leaves rustle. Those young girls gathered together and whispered behind their backs, and sometimes, it was like the old elders telling the younger generations the stories that should have been engraved on the old and dilapidated clay pots.

Those stories seem to have been gone for a long time without being able to verify the source, but our story has just begun.

Zhang Shifei and Li Lanying sat down around the stone table, he was already in the body of a bird, sitting was no different from lying down, so it was easy.

Before she could sit still, Li Lanying asked Chen Tuan: "Uncle, you should have heard it just now, right? The person Liu Bolun asked us to find during the day was you, right?"

I saw that Chen Tuan smiled, put his elbows on the table and stared at his cheeks, and then said to the two of them: "I just woke up, and I heard something, I guess, you must have met that old drunkard by the river. right?"

Zhang Shifei and Li Lanying nodded. Zhang Shifei thought that this old guy was awesome, and he guessed so accurately. It must not be a fuel-efficient lamp.

But this is also good, the more capable we are, the more hopeful we will be!With a little awe, Zhang Shifei trembled and told the story of the two of them from the front to the back, and finally he asked excitedly: "That's it, you must know what happened to us. what's the matter, right?"

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Chen Tuan didn't speak, but his eyes were slightly closed, only white eyes could be seen in the slits of his eyes, his head resting on his hands was shaking slightly back and forth, his mouth was half opened, drooling.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Zhang Shifei became a little anxious. He said, "Isn't that right? Would you like to say something?"

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That Chen Tuan was still the same, ignoring Zhang Shifei, his head was still shaking slightly back and forth, and Li Lanying beside him said softly: "Old Zhang, this guy must be smoking, I remember my grandfather was like this when he was sick. Virtue."

No! ! !Zhang Shifei was about to cry, paralyzed, you don’t smoke sooner or later, but you smoke at this time, isn’t it killing us both?
Thinking of this, Zhang Shifei fluttered his wings and jumped onto the stone table in desperation. He stretched his neck and shouted in Chen Tuan's ear, "Uncle!! Wake up!! Don't slap you, you slap me!" We both have to follow suit!!"

"Hmm~?"

I saw that Chen Tuan trembled, then shook his head, looked at the two of them again, smiled, and said, "Well, I'm sorry I fell asleep just now, what are you two talking about?"

Fuck, this old lamp.Zhang Shifei scolded in his heart, he could fall asleep while talking, why was he so out of tune.

When the two of them were embarrassed, Chen Tuan patted his head, then smiled and said to himself: "Oh yes, yes, I remembered, Liu Ling, I mentioned Liu Ling just now, look at me This head is all sleepy."

Mr. Ling, that’s Liu Bolun. Zhang Shifei gave him a look of contempt, but he didn’t let it go. Anyway, since he got here, he has started to get used to being out of tune. So did the drunkard during the day, so did the teapot just now, and the old lamp in front of him That's right, they are all leeks and raccoons of the same hill, and none of them are in tune.

So he suppressed his anger and asked again: "Then you see, why did we both become beasts?"

I saw that Chen Tuan smiled, and then looked at the two of them with his eyes open. His eyes seemed to have weak astigmatism, and the gums that hadn't been wiped off were clearly visible at the corners of his eyes. After watching for a while, he smiled and said: "I'm afraid it's caused by karma."

Cause and effect?
The two of them obviously didn't understand, Fatty Li said subconsciously: "Who is that kid? We didn't provoke him or provoke him. Why did you make us into such a virtue?"

Zhang Shifei smiled wryly. It seems that knowledge really changes fate. It seems that it was right to read some books before, so that he would not commit crimes like a fat man.

Chen Tuan said with a smile: "The cause and effect I'm talking about is not a person...or, it can be considered a person, do you understand?"

He said it to Zhang Shifei, and Zhang Shifei nodded. He understood this, but he didn't figure out what the causal relationship was, what did he do wrong, and even if he was rebellious, he wouldn't be like this, right?

The fat man still didn't understand, so he asked Zhang Shifei: "You understand? What's going on? Explain to me."

Zhang Shifei glanced at the fat man, and he said helplessly, "I don't understand this stuff, why don't you demonstrate it on the spot, come on, scold me."

The fat man blinked his eyes twice, and then said thoughtfully, "Your uncle, what's the matter?"

Standing on the table, Zhang Shifei jumped up and raised his paw to hit the fat man's forehead. The fat man covered his head and yelled, "Hey, what did you hit me for?!"

Zhang Shifei said to the fat man: "You were beaten because you scolded me, and you scolded me, so I beat you. This is cause and effect, understand?"

The fat man covered his head with a bear's paw, and then continued to say thoughtfully: "So that's how it is...hey, how did the two of us become so virtuous?"

It seemed that he still didn't understand. Chen Tuan, who was on the side, couldn't help laughing when he watched the two of them talking, and he said, "Hahaha, I didn't expect that the two juniors are really interesting. Not bad, it suits the old man's appetite!"

It suits your uncle's appetite, you can still eat what we did, Zhang Shifei thought, but he still didn't say it, he said to Chen Tuan: "He's right, I didn't quite understand what you said."

When Chen Tuan heard what Zhang Shifei said, he stroked his white beard, and then said to Zhang Shifei: "That's right, right and wrong, everything comes from cause and effect, cause is not cause, effect is not effect, cause is cause." , The result is the same result, sowing thousands of causes in the past, and returning to the body with thousands of fruits later, when the fruit comes to ask, what is the cause? It is better to introspect and return to the truth. Do you understand, young man?"

Let me understand what? ?Zhang Shifei looked at the old lamp with black lines all over his head. He thought to himself, ask the old lamp what he is doing, what is the old lamp doing? His face is off.

But he didn't do that, just shook his head with the fat man and said, "I don't understand."

Indeed, what Chen Tuan said is basically nonsense, and everyone knows the causal relationship, but the two of them didn't offend anyone?How did he become a beast in a daze?Suddenly, Zhang Shifei thought of the peacock on the telegraph pole. It must be that beast that broke the wire, but he didn't offend the peacock, did he?
This time it seems that it is the old lamp's turn to be embarrassed. This kind of inability to communicate smoothly seems to be a troublesome thing, just like being in two dimensions, so the old lamp thought for a while, and then said to Li Lanying: "It seems I have to explain it on the spot so that you can understand, come on, little brother Xiong, stretch out your ears."

Li Lanying did as he did, he put the huge bear head to Chen Tuan's mouth, Zhang Shifei only saw Li Lanying half opened his mouth to hear what Chen Tuan was trying to figure out.

Soon, Li Lanying turned back and sat down with her head bowed. Zhang Shifei asked, "Why didn't you let me listen to what you said?"

I saw Chen Tuan stroking his beard, then said with a smile, "You will know in a while."

Zhang Shifei looked at the fat man inexplicably, and saw the fat man sitting on the ground with his head bowed and not talking. Zhang Shifei wondered, what happened?
He looked at Chen Tuan. Chen Tuan had a look of "letting you wait and you don't have any ink stains". Zhang Shifei didn't say anything. He yawned, then waved his hand on the table, and three teacups filled with water appeared on the table. The water seemed to be still hot, emitting bursts of tea fragrance.

Chen Tuan picked up a cup, then smiled and said to Li Lanying: "Okay, tell him."

Li Lanying raised her head when she heard what Chen Tuan said, and looked at Chen Tuan with a very hesitant expression, Chen Tuan said with a smile: "It's okay, let's talk."

Zhang Shifei was also a little anxious. He hurriedly said to the fat man, "What did he tell you? Just say it! What are you waiting for?"

The fat man waved his hand hesitantly to Zhang Shifei who was on the table, Zhang Shifei walked over and put his head to the fat man's mouth, only to hear the fat man say to him in a very soft and cautious tone: "Your uncle of."

Zhang Shifei was furious!He flew down and slammed on Li Lanying's head again.

He said angrily, "I told you to be serious! Why are you scolding me?"

The fat man pointed at Chen Tuan very aggrieved and said, "He asked me to say it."

Zhang Shifei was furious, you said this is too out of tune, let the fat man scold me, scold me as you say, and wait 10 minutes before telling me, what kind of human nature is this?

So he said to Chen Tuan: "What the hell are you asking him to scold me for?!"

Then Chen Tuan laughed loudly and said: "I just learned your method and explained it to you. I learn and sell now, so you understand?"

Both Zhang Shifei and Li Lanying were stunned, and Chen Tuan said again: "This is cause and effect. Although you don't know it now, or even don't understand it, there is always a cause and effect relationship. Just as you said, the peacock harmed you." , but if you look at yourself now, isn’t it just a peacock? This is the result, and the cause is not necessarily the present, or the latest, or even the crime in this life. Do you understand? ?”

Needless to say, Zhang Shifei really understood a little bit, so he blurted out: "You mean we killed peacocks in our previous life, right?"

That Chen Tuan said with a smile: "Yes and no, there is no definite number yet. I don't know what is the reason, or I know it, but I can't tell you. You can only find it later."

Zhang Shifei was skeptical, what the old grandson said was nothing!This kind of meaning that seems to understand but doesn't understand, seems to understand but understands a little is really disgusting, so he said to Chen Tuan: "Is what you said is true? How can you be so sure? Is that why we came here?"

I saw that Chen Tuan laughed loudly, and then said: "It doesn't make any difference whether it's true or not. The most important thing is that you two should also find out that what you see at this moment is very real. As for how I know this? "

When Chen Tuan said this, he paused for a moment, then he glanced at the ridiculously big moon in the sky, and said, "I knew it in my dream."

(End of this chapter)