Mortal Mirror

As soon as Wu the Immortal heard Li Ergou's words, he immediately jumped up and said, "How can that be? The things I, Wu Daoren, sell are absolutely impossible to return. This is a matter of my principles."

Li Ergou was speechless and said, "We should be considered friends, right? You should at least give me some explanation, or if that doesn't work, exchange it for a martial arts technique."

Wu the Immortal finally understood that this kid was playing tricks on him, and he curled his lips and said, "You're dreaming, kid. This book was left here by someone else. Oh, no, I collected it with great difficulty. Where am I going to find you a martial arts technique?"

Li Ergou's expression was wooden, and he absentmindedly looked into the distance. Wu Daoren was secretly rejoicing, almost letting something slip, but fortunately, this kid didn't hear it.

He cleared his throat and said, "Hey, kid, what are you looking at? Are you listening to me?"

It turned out that Li Ergou saw a little girl in the distance running with a windmill, and a madman was chasing after her, muttering something. Watching the two of them playing carefree and happily, Li Ergou was deeply touched. He thought, it's good to be a madman, carefree.

Then, hearing Wu the Immortal's words, he said with a disinterested expression, "Alas, I knew you would say that. Forget it, just consider it a hundred taels of silver thrown away. By the way, am I really that bad that I can't cultivate the divine path?"

Seeing Li Ergou's listless appearance, Wu the Immortal knew that he had to give him some spiritual encouragement.

So, he waved his sleeve, put his hands behind his back, raised his head and looked at the sky. He lightly stroked his three-inch beard, revealing a profound and unpredictable appearance, saying, "The path of cultivation is only about the heart. Is cultivating the Dao not cultivating the heart? If the heart does not die, then the Dao will not be born. All those who have achieved great enlightenment have once been incurable. The end of man is the beginning of God.

The reason why you are like this is that you have not yet experienced the joys and sorrows of the world. Everything in the world is subtle and incomparable.

In your situation, you might as well let go, don't dwell on the success or failure of this matter. Heaven and earth, all things, the Dao follows nature, perhaps you can understand it in an instant."

Li Ergou widened his eyes, feeling that Wu the Immortal's words seemed to make sense. He silently remembered this sentence in his heart, but nodded and said, "Wu the Immortal, fine, I will listen to you one more time. Um, make the meat well later, I'll come over for lunch."

Wu Daoren: "...#4％％...\u0026％"

Li Ergou quickly left this place, wanting to find Zhu Zhu, but he was pondering what Wu the Immortal's words meant. 'If the heart does not die, then the Dao will not be born,' does that mean he has to let his heart die?

He was conflicted in his heart, not quite understanding the meaning. Just as he was pondering, he saw the crowd on the street suddenly erupt, and countless people ran frantically to both sides of the road.

Then, he heard someone shouting anxiously, "Get out of the way, get out of the way, the horses are frightened, everyone get out of the way."

On the street, a carriage pulled by four large horses galloped quickly, trampling everything in its path, whether people or objects.

Not far away, the little girl holding the windmill stood there in a daze, at a loss. Seeing the carriage approaching, if she was run over by the carriage, the little girl would definitely die.

The madman behind her saw this scene and suddenly woke up from his madness. At that moment, the light in his eyes was vast, and he instantly changed from a madman into an unspeakably noble figure.

Just as he muttered, "Girl."

He saw a figure rushing over and arriving in front of the little girl. This person was none other than Li Ergou.

He was kind-hearted, so how could he let a little girl die tragically before his eyes?

At this moment, the carriage was approaching, and he hugged the little girl and somersaulted forward, narrowly avoiding being trampled by the carriage. For a moment, he couldn't help but feel lingering fear. Four strong horses! Even if his bones were hard, being trampled by so many horses would probably mean a narrow escape from death.

He was secretly rejoicing that he was okay. Looking at the yellow-haired girl in his arms, he saw her eyes sparkling with tears, and then she burst into tears with a 'wah' sound.

The madman ran over quickly. He looked at Li Ergou and kept thanking him, "Thank you, thank you."

Li Ergou said, "It's okay, it's good that people aren't injured. You quickly take her back, she must be frightened. Why don't you go to Wu the Immortal's place to get a calming charm, and it will be good after drinking it."

The madman nodded and said, "Okay, okay, thank you."

Saying that, he grabbed Li Ergou's hand and kept thanking him.

Li Ergou didn't take this matter seriously, so he said, "No need to be so polite, it's just a matter of convenience. It's only right to draw a sword to help when you see injustice on the road."

The madman suddenly stopped. He looked at Li Ergou and said, 'You have cultivated martial arts.'

Li Ergou was slightly startled and somewhat surprised. After all, martial arts cultivation is different from divine path cultivation. Within the third realm, as long as there is no deliberate physical contact to investigate, it is normally impossible to see it.

Of course, if one cultivates to the third realm, the martial arts true energy will overflow, forming the light of martial arts. Anyone who cultivates martial arts or the divine path can easily see it.

He looked at the madman and said, "You're not pretending to be crazy, are you? Who exactly are you?"

The madman's eyes were clear, and he was indeed not crazy at the moment. He looked at Li Ergou and asked a question that didn't answer the question, "I'm hungry. Can you treat me to a few buns? I haven't eaten meat buns for a long time, and I've forgotten the taste of those meat buns."

Li Ergou felt that this person was unusual. Although he didn't expect this person to make such a request, he still nodded readily and said, "Okay."

A few buns were nothing to Li Ergou. He was rich now, and it was no problem to treat a guest. As for alcohol, he would rather not, he was afraid that the madman would get sick again after drinking.

"Buns, hot and delicious meat buns, only three copper coins, with three copper coins you can eat hot and delicious meat buns!" In front of the bun shop, the fat son of the owner shouted loudly, constantly attracting passers-by to watch, and from time to time someone would come to buy buns.

Li Ergou, the madman, and the little girl found a place to sit down.

He called the owner to bring thirty large meat buns, a plate of peanuts, and a plate of soy beef. After all, Ergou was rich now, and it was not easy to invite a guest, so he was not short of money. As for alcohol, it was still免了 (免了 means to skip it). He was afraid that the madman would relapse after drinking.

While waiting for the food to be served, Li Ergou couldn't help but look at another table. It was a father and daughter. The girl looked twelve or thirteen years old, her face was sallow, and there was not much look in her eyes. There was a meat bun and a dish of pickles in front of her.

There was only a bowl of white water in front of the man. He was thin and gaunt, his hands were full of calluses, and he looked not very old, only about thirty years old, but his face was full of vicissitudes.

At this moment, the man was whispering to his daughter, "Niu, don't be afraid, Dad will cure your illness even if he dies of exhaustion."

The girl picked up the bun, took a small bite, and tears fell, her mouth flattened, wanting to cry but not daring to cry. She said, "Dad, the world is too bitter, I won't come in the next life."

The man gently raised his hand, stroked the girl's hair, his eyes flashing with tears, but he didn't know how to comfort his daughter.

At another table, an old man whispered to the person at the same table, "Alas, this is Fuwa. His parents hoped that he would be a blessed person, but unexpectedly his mother died when he was five years old, his father died when he was eight years old, and he started picking manure, carrying water, and selling firewood at the age of nine. He finally managed to grow up and marry a wife, but unexpectedly she died in childbirth.

Leaving behind this little girl, the two of them depended on each other for life, but unexpectedly the girl contracted a serious illness. Fuwa carries sacks for people every day before dawn, but even so, he can't afford the expensive medical expenses.

The girl is sensible, but unfortunately... Alas, life is nothing more than this. Fuwa Fuwa, in the end, is also a child without blessing. This child is so bitter. If his daughter dies, perhaps he will lose his spiritual support and die.

Hearing the old man's words, Li Ergou couldn't help but feel a tremor in his heart, as if he saw the life he was about to live. For a moment, he couldn't help but feel emotional and looked at the two of them.

He thought he was miserable enough, but he didn't expect someone to be even more miserable. Perhaps it was sympathy, or perhaps he couldn't stand to see such tragedy happen.

He stood up, walked to the man, and handed him a fifty-tael silver ingot.

The man was startled by Ergou, but Ergou said, "Take the child to see a doctor, don't make a fuss, otherwise you will attract people's prying eyes, it will be terrible."

Fuwa stared at Ergou's face and said, "Benefactor, I, Fuwa, will remember your great kindness and virtue. If I don't die, I will definitely remember your kindness for the rest of my life."

Saying that, he pulled the girl and bowed deeply to Li Ergou together.

Li Ergou quickly helped him up and said, "It's okay, let's go, don't think too much, we are all miserable people in the world."

He also looked at the little girl and said, "Little girl, you have to be strong, there are many good things in the world that you haven't seen yet, maybe after you get through the suffering, there will be different scenery waiting for you ahead."

The little girl blinked her big eyes and nodded slightly, but did not speak, and did not know what she was thinking in her heart.

Fuwa left with a grateful face, but the girl took a deep look at him, as if she wanted to remember his appearance firmly in her heart.

Looking at his back, Li Ergou couldn't help but think that it wasn't that he was generous or that he liked to show off.

He didn't know how many beatings he had to endure to earn these fifty taels, but at this moment, if the father and daughter could get better, he felt it was all worth it. Perhaps at this moment, although he saved that person, wasn't he also saving his future self?

This may also be another kind of self-redemption, and it also made him understand more that if he doesn't work hard, if he doesn't strive, if he doesn't fight, perhaps the person sitting there is the future self.

Seeing Li Ergou's actions, the madman's eyes flashed with a special brilliance.

Then he saw him pick up a large meat bun, take a big bite, and chew it. After swallowing it in one gulp, he couldn't help but sigh, "A meal and a meal, the heart has a place to live, firewood, rice, oil and salt, love has a place to rely on, curling smoke, homesickness is entrusted, the fireworks of the world, the most comforting to the hearts of ordinary people."

The little girl was very happy and said, "Crazy uncle, it's delicious, it's really delicious, the girl hasn't eaten such delicious things for a long time."

The girl ate with her mouth full of oil and was very excited.

The madman gently stroked her little head and said, "If you want to eat, okay, in the future, crazy uncle will take you to eat every day, okay?"

"Great, great, the girl will have big meat buns to eat every day in the future."

At this moment, the madman looked at Li Ergou, his eyes flashing with brilliance, "Unexpectedly, your roots are extremely poor, but you can open the way of martial arts, it is really unexpected."

At this moment, Li Ergou felt that the madman was somewhat unfathomable, and couldn't help but sigh, "Senior, it seems that you are also no ordinary person, but I don't know why it is like this, could it be that you are pretending to be crazy."

The madman smiled, and after a while, he said, "Alas, people, sometimes it is like this, maybe I want to surpass myself too much, but surpassing myself, how difficult it is, in the end, I am still me, difficult to surpass.

The next life cannot be waited for, the past cannot be chased, sorrow and joy come, I cannot resist, its departure cannot be stopped.

Therefore, although I am crazy, I am not crazy, not crazy, but also crazy, everything is due to the heart, maybe even I myself, I don't know whether I am crazy or not."

Li Ergou was a little silly, he really couldn't understand these words, he could only nod and say, "Senior is right."

The madman said, "No, you don't understand, but one day, you will understand."

Li Ergou nodded, not knowing what to say, the madman said, "You saved the girl, I never want to owe anyone anything, to tell you the truth, I also know a little about the way of martial arts.

Just now I saw that your movements are fast, but there is no dashingness that a martial artist should have, could it be that the technique you are practicing is not good, or you have not understood the true meaning of martial arts."

Li Ergou showed an embarrassed expression and said, "Senior, to tell you the truth, up to now, I am still ignorant about martial arts, as for the technique, I have not even practiced it, the reason why I opened martial arts is still unintentional, even I myself am very confused, it can be regarded as a mistake.

So I am very entangled in my heart, this opening of martial arts is like a chicken rib, tasteless to eat, and reluctant to discard, to tell you the truth, the martial arts true energy that I cultivate is all used by stupid methods, perhaps you may not believe it when you say it, I rely on being beaten to increase martial arts energy."

The madman looked stunned and said, "What, there is such a way to achieve martial arts, who created it, this is the first time I have heard of it."

Li Ergou smiled bitterly and said, "It is me myself, seeing that you are also a good person, I will not deceive you, I swallowed Pei Yuan Gu Ben Dan, and then relied on being beaten, so that the heart violently contracted, so that it can absorb the power of the pill and turn it into martial arts true energy.

Along the way, I really don't know what words to use to describe it."

Hearing Li Ergou's words, the madman was stunned, and after a long time, he sighed, "You kid is really talented, you can even think of such a bad idea, I am afraid that even the martial arts ancestor knows about this, he will not be able to hold down the coffin board and come to you to talk about it."

Li Ergou spread his hands and said, "Alas, what can I do, there is no other way."

The madman hesitated for a moment and said, "However, your perseverance and determination are the only ones I have ever seen in my life, are you really so obsessed with the way of martial arts."

Li Ergou smiled bitterly, but said, "To tell you the truth, I just want to pass the martial arts master exam, so as to get rid of slavery."

"Slavery, what is going on?"

Li Ergou was helpless, although he didn't want to mention his life experience, he could only tell the madman roughly. After listening, the madman's eyes changed slightly when he looked at Li Ergou, and he couldn't help but say, "Alas, what a miserable child, if you are willing, maybe I can teach you three moves and two styles, so that you don't have to torture yourself so painfully, are you willing?"