I want to be happy

On a summer night in 1979, in a room in the south of City N, a little boy about twelve or thirteen years old lay flat on the bed with his palms up and his legs parallel to his shoulders. He took a deep breath silently and tried to relax himself. After twisting and swaying several times, he finally found a pose that satisfied him, so he began to imagine guarding his dantian.

The little boy's name is Sha Ling, a very common name.Her family background is even more modest. Her father is an ordinary engineer in the metropolis of N City, and her mother is an elementary school teacher.From the ancestors to the distant relatives and neighbors today, no one is a martial arts supreme or a qigong master, and they have never even practiced boxing or kicking.

Therefore, the "qigong" practiced by Sha Ling is purely personal imagination, without the guidance of a master, and relies on the vague cultivation methods in several martial arts novels that he has read more.

First of all, Sha Ling is still a child. He does not have enough ability to distinguish and resist the plots in the novel which are illusory and which are real. If he were an adult, he would basically not cultivate like this because of what the book said. You can get any kind of miraculous power, just believe it is true.

In addition, Sha Ling is a relatively smart child who loves to read, which caused him to read more than a dozen martial arts novels at a young age. Correspondingly, his eyesight also plummeted.

He loves to read and fantasize, so Sha Ling, who is not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf, began to practice qigong.

The child's heart is pure, and he concentrates on guarding the dantian, but he has achieved true meditation, and after a short time, he really feels a small warm current in his abdomen.

He danced with joy, and thought about directing the warm current to travel along the meridians with his thoughts, but he couldn't figure out where the meridians were.

This time it was unsatisfactory. After trying for about half an hour, there was no response. Sha Ling started to feel sleepy. She tried to keep herself awake and tried the mind control method. In less than 2 minutes, Xiao Sha Ling turned over and became confused.

The next night, Xiao Shaling started his practice again. When he calmed down, there was still a faint heat flow, but there was still no achievement after that.

This went on and on for more than a month, and the heat he sensed could neither crush steel nor be as light as a swallow. Children's interest is hard to last, and seeing that they can't practice well, they will soon be replaced by the new cartoon. He caught his attention and left Qi training behind.

This is just the reaction of a very ordinary boy who read martial arts novels. I believe that many boys of the same age have similar experiences. As they get older, they have gradually forgotten their childhood dreams.

Time flies, and 17 years have passed in a blink of an eye.

30-year-old Sha Ling is already a mature man.His life was ordinary, and he experienced the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys that ordinary people would have.

Because I like reading, I got good grades in my homework, thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge, and I was successfully admitted to the university without any risk. After graduation, I found a job in a state-owned unit. At that time, it was a great thing to be able to enter a state-owned unit with good benefits. These two things used to be the pride of parents.

After ten o'clock in the evening, Sha Ling walked alone in the yard, feeling a bit lonely. He walked downstairs to the spruce tree. Sha Ling leaned against the tree, lit a cigarette, but didn't smoke much, just letting the sparks flash As soon as it was bright, he half-raised his head, his eyes fell on the round and big moon in Xia Ye, and his eyes were a bit dazed.

In places like state-owned units, seniority theory is the way to go. Although Sha Ling worked hard, when he just graduated, he was not very good at watching his face, and accidentally offended the leader. opportunity for advancement.Colleagues of the same generation expressed more or less sympathy for him, and the seniors expressed encouragement, but this kind of sympathy and encouragement seemed to be pricking him with faintly painful needles.

Up to now, male colleagues of the same generation have already been transferred to other positions, or promoted, or to departments that are easy and lucrative. It can be said that they have made progress, but he has stayed in the same position and worked hard for so many years. It was not until recently that he was promoted. deputy.

But as far as he is concerned, after so many years, he has seen a lot of tricks in the workplace, and he has long been extremely tired of the life of frivolity and lack of passion. To the faces of the people around me.

Work is frustrating and helpless, and Sha Ling's luck is even worse when it comes to love.

During college, my girlfriend who was not in love with someone else married someone else. The little beauty who was close to the water after work was also snatched away by a male colleague who was pursuing him at the same time. They lived in the same office building and occasionally met each other. Sha Ling The embarrassment is self-evident.

Afterwards, colleagues or friends also helped to introduce girlfriends, but they no longer had the tacit understanding, naturalness and sweetness of getting along with their favorite girlfriends in school. Moreover, after work, there are many people in reality, love is no longer pure, and money and interests are everywhere smell.

What Sha Ling envied was the unshakeable affection of poor and lowly couples, and the crystal-like feelings of Yang Guo Xiaolongnv, who wanted to find his true love in this utilitarian world.

However, this kind of thing is all about fate. Sha Ling's "picky" has made him procrastinate until now that he has no marriage partner. Sha Mu will inevitably nag frequently, which makes Sha Ling tired after returning home from work and wanting to take a good rest. add up.

Like being in a summer night, with the night wind blowing, Sha Ling took a deep breath, looked up at the twinkling stars in the sky, and thought about the countless intelligent human beings thousands of light years away, (Sha Ling firmly believes that there are many advanced intelligent beings in the universe.) Thinking that every star is as big as the earth, and standing in a certain city on the earth, I am smaller than an ant. When I think about it, I feel that my so-called troubles and pressures are too funny------ -There is nothing wrong with the world, nothing is disturbing.

However, he couldn't get rid of the dunya, so he was destined to be a mediocre person.

After thinking about it for a while, and laughing at herself, Sha Ling stamped out the cigarette butt, and walked home.

Before going to bed at night, after reading the popular Xianxia novels for a while, Sha Ling lay on her back on the bed, relaxed her body, listened to her breathing silently, and gradually fell asleep with the rhythm of her breathing.Of course, he didn't expect himself to be like the male protagonist in Xianxia novels, practicing self-taught and achieving golden pills, but he just regarded this as a way to keep in good health.

Sha Ling got up for a run in the morning and adjusted his breath in the evening. After two years, he felt that he was in good health, and he didn't have the middle-aged premature aging phenomenon that people in the office often have, so he persisted.

As for qigong, Sha Ling also believed in it. He once tried to concentrate on his dantian as he was when he was a child, and transported qi all over his body. Weak fluctuations walked downstream of the skin, and only now did he believe that the airflow really followed his thoughts.

However, Sha Ling has no teacher, no practice method, and he is not ignorant when he was young. He knows that it is dangerous to practice Qi randomly without a teacher, so he has no choice but to give up.

two

"How do you sell this kiwifruit?" A female colleague came to the stall and asked, the kiwifruit sold was only the size of a jujube, and the price was very cheap.On both sides of the gravel path, there are dense rows of small vendors played by local farmers, selling mostly wild products, such as wild fungus and wild tea.

Sha Ling also leaned over with great interest.He and a dozen colleagues from his unit are at a scenic spot at the foot of Huangshan Mountain in Anhui. Sha Ling has always liked to eat mountain delicacies such as fungus and winter bamboo shoots. , Yiqi Yangshen.

"What is this?" Sha Ling pointed to the strange thing in the bamboo basket --- a dry shrunken stem-like thing, with a color ranging from slightly transparent yellow to brown, segmented, long With a small piece of root hair, it is obviously the root tuber of some kind of plant.

"This is Huang Jing." The peddler said.

Sha Ling's heart moved, and he remembered that he had read in the book before that Huang Jing grew in the mountains, and there was a Taoist who took it all year round and became a fairy.This is a legend that is not known to be true or not, but Huang Jing is still recorded in medical books. This thing is mild in nature, non-toxic, sweet in taste, nourishing qi and nourishing the mind, and is a good thing.With an attitude of trying, Sha Ling paid back the price and bought a catty.

After returning from a trip, Sha Ling checked the Internet and confirmed that Polygonatum can be taken for a long time and is good for high blood pressure. Sha Ling was overjoyed. His parents are old and both suffer from high blood pressure.

As a result, there was an extra dish of steamed yellow essence on the dinner table of the Sha family.

Polygonatum is difficult to cook, and the more it is cooked, the sweeter it becomes. It tastes like cloud cake. If it doesn't have a medicinal smell and tingling, it is really delicious.

That night, when Sha Ling came back from overtime work, her parents were already asleep. After washing her clothes, she passed by the dining table. Sha Ling took a root of sealwort to chew. The ones I bought this time were generally five or six years old, and when I was gnawing on them, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, Sha Ling looked down, and saw that the sealwort in her hand was actually empty in the middle, and a milky white liquid leaked out.

"It's broken?" Sha Ling walked to the light and looked carefully, only to see faint traces of silver light floating in the milky white liquid, as if there were many silver bugs swimming around, and there was no need to use it at this time. As he approached, Sha Ling also smelled a subtle fragrance, which was cool and sweet, refreshing and refreshing.

Some fragments from the Xianxia book flashed through Sha Ling's mind, and the words "Huangzi in the Stone" and "Wannian Lingrui" jumped out vividly.

Sha Ling's hands trembled, was there an adventure?It is often written in the book that the protagonist eats the treasures of heaven and earth, builds the foundation and attains the Tao, and Sha Ling is full of emotions. Ability, this request is not too much, right?

But what if this is not some elixir of spiritual milk, but Huang Jing is broken, and the silver light inside is just a parasite, then what should I do?What if the silver worm got into his body and ate him up like in Wesley's novel?It would be fine if he died, who would take care of his elderly parents?

Thinking of this, Sha Ling's fiery heart immediately cooled down.

Seeing the fragrant white liquid in his hand, Sha Ling was in a dilemma, extremely contradictory.

One is the opportunity to have an extraordinary life, and the other is the family members who are dear to each other, which is more important?

For a moment, the two thoughts fought back and forth, and all the decisions Sha Ling made in his life were never so painful and difficult at this moment!

"Oops!" Sha Ling's eyes fell back on the piece of Huang Jing, and she couldn't help but screamed. After a while, the liquid was a little less, and Huang Jing was only as thick as a finger. , and now there are fewer, Sha Ling can't help but feel a pity!

But this made him lean towards the direction of "this thing is a treasure of heaven, material and earth". I didn't read those books, it said that if a treasure of heaven and earth is born, if you don't pick it up or take it immediately, it will naturally volatilize or run away by itself. some type of.

Sha Ling felt anxious, his brain turned quickly, and he came up with a compromise.He casually picked up the toothpick on the table and picked it out of the liquid. After confirming that there were no insects in it, the silver light was pure brilliance, and most of the worries in his heart disappeared.

In his opinion, it is best to have a small animal to test whether it is poisonous, but their family has never had a pet, and the matter is urgent, so he can only give up, but bite the bullet and dip a small amount of liquid into the lips.

Sha Ling thought about it, if it was poisonous, he hadn't tasted it much, and the rescue was urgent, and if it was non-toxic, he would swallow it in one gulp.

As for whether it is slightly poisonous or not, he has no time to think about it. At least the current practice has reduced the original danger of ten to ten by about half. What kind of poison is it, and Polygonatum is originally a mild traditional Chinese medicine for nourishing qi and calming the mind, so it should be harmless.

The small drop of liquid stuck to the tip of Sha Ling's tongue, and suddenly Sha Ling seemed to be standing by the side of the clear water pool. The blue sky and white clouds in the sky were reflected in the pool, which could be clearly seen. Thai……

Sha Ling beamed with joy, needless to say, this must belong to the ranks of Tiancaidibao, without hesitation, he poured all the liquid into his mouth in one gulp, and carefully licked off all the liquid that stuck to Huang Jing.

Just a small drop can bring Sha Ling into a wonderful state, needless to say the whole breath, in an instant, a cool and clean breath is directly transmitted from the mouth to the internal organs and six lungs, up to the brain, and down to the limbs. skeleton.

Sha Ling seemed to be floating in the clouds, his whole body was light and light, every cell and every nerve in his body felt extremely joyful and relaxed, his mind was blank, and he couldn't remember where he was.

After an unknown amount of time, he had a vague thought, as if he wanted to do something, but he couldn't get up his spirits at all.It's just that with this thought, the long-accustomed practice exercises naturally began to operate, and instinctively followed Sha Ling's breath, and the aura that was entering Sha Ling's body was concentrated on his dantian.

What Sha Ling expected was right, what he got by chance was indeed a treasure of heaven and earth.

When Huang Jing was first born in this period, there was an underground spiritual spring passing by, and there were small water droplets as fine as foam rolling in the spiritual spring.

This kind of spiritual spring occasionally escapes from the depths of the ground due to changes in the earth's atmosphere. It is extremely rare, and even if someone can see it, it cannot be collected. If it is collected with jade, the spiritual spring will melt into it when it touches the jade, and the jade will be obtained. Nourish by the spiritual spring, and then evolve into a high-quality jade. What you get is not a spiritual spring but a piece of beautiful jade. If you use other materials to collect it, it will evaporate directly. Only the spiritual wood can be used to collect it. A sort of.

At that time, this sealwort had been around for a hundred years. Although it was not a spirit wood, after all, the material was placed there. It happened that a drop of spirit spring water splashed on it, and it was absorbed into the body. With this drop of spirit spring, this sealwort retracted for a hundred years. One knot grew for 600 years, but it has shrunk to five knots. Only then was it sold by mountain people as ordinary sealwort.

And in these 600 years, the drops of Lingquan water in Huang Jing's body continued to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, combined with the essence of wood, and grew to the size of a mouthful.

The spiritual spring was drunk by Sha Ling, and the spiritual energy escaped everywhere. Wherever it passed, the meridians and bones were mutated. This was just an unconscious process. If you met a real cultivator, you would absorb it with exercises, and you would be reborn. At least one hundred years of skill has been added, but it's a pity that Sha Ling, a person who doesn't know how to cultivate, ruined it.

Fortunately, after half of the aura had gone away, Sha Ling's heart moved, and the aura gathered in his dantian. Although the method was poor, at least a small part of the aura was restrained, and not all wasted.

This is also Sha Ling's blessing. If ordinary people eat it, the clear spirit will not only bring people a sense of ecstasy, but also wash away the souls of those who are not firm in their will. Not only did he use the aura for his own use, but he also avoided the tragic ending of losing his soul.

Part of these spiritual energy entered the dantian and condensed into a small ball, and part of it entered Sha Ling's brain and stayed there.

The rest, when Sha Ling unconsciously gathers qi in his dantian, stopped sending out outside his body, but stayed in his muscle and blood veins.

It can be said that this spiritual spring was wasted nine out of ten by Sha Ling, but the remaining one or two achievements brought him enough surprises.

Another: Let’s remind you from Chapter 1. This book is an earth-like environment, so please don’t be serious about time, environment and place names, etc., thank you......