Chapter 4 Seasonal Defects (3)
Before entering the car door, Ji Ni was stunned by the scene of dozens of cars lined up. After entering the gorgeous carriage led by three horses, he was so shocked that he didn't even dare to stop.
The carriage was covered with red wool blankets, and the feet were soft on it. The seats around the carriage were replaced by square leather pads. The leather pads were nearly meter long, about one and a half feet high and two feet wide. They were distributed around the carriage like three small beds. There were specially made wooden frames on the edges to fix it. In the middle of the carriage, there was a square sandalwood table with colorful fruits on it. They reflected various rays of light into Ji Ti's eyes, making him confused.
"Ji Ni, sit!" Grandma Wu called enthusiastically, Ji Ni's eyes were circling on the pearls in the carriage. When she heard this, she hurriedly touched one side of the carriage and sat down. As soon as she touched the leather pad, Ji Ni's butt fell. He was afraid that he would fall and was about to stand up, but the sinking trend stopped. He felt soft, so many times more comfortable than the futon in the temple.
"Come on, kid, eat a fruit!" Grandma Wu smiled and handed Ji Ni a golden fragrant pear. Ji Ni hurriedly said thank you for taking it, took a polite bite, and then her eyes returned to the various tassels on the roof of the car, and she didn't even taste the pear.
Grandma Wu could naturally see Ji Ni's appearance, so she didn't say anything, allowing him to look at every corner of the carriage, and then waved her hand and called him, "Ji Ni! I see that the clothes you are wearing are like a smaller monk's robe. Do you live in Longgai Temple on this mountain?"
Ji Ni came to his senses and nodded politely and said, "Yes, mother-in-law! I live in Longgai Temple!" Grandma Wu nodded, and then asked with some doubts: "Why did your parents send you to the temple? Is it because you were in poor health when you were a child?"
When Ji Ni heard this, his expression of excitement suddenly became depressed. He lowered his head and said sadly: "No! It's because I'm prone to trouble, and I asked myself to live in the temple. It was not my parents who sent me. Mother-in-law, I don't want to say this, so don't ask!" In his tone, there was a rare helplessness among young people.
Grandma Wu nodded in understanding: "I understand! Is the trouble solved now? Is there anything to help? Let's see if it can help you!" Ji Ti shook his head: "It's nothing, the trouble should have been solved. Thank you, mother-in-law!"
"That's right--" Grandma Wu pondered: "There is the old monk Zhiji in Longgai Temple. Although he has a bad temper, his ability is pretty good. Ordinary troubles should not be difficult for him! Ji Ti, you should know him too, right?"
As soon as the familiar name was introduced into Ji Ti's ears, Ji Ti immediately looked like a rooster with a hair-fried look, and widened his eyes: "Mother-in-law, do you think that old monk Zhiji has a bad temper? Today, I called him "Old monk" and he asked me to let me put a cow for a month! That's all, I asked me to take out the feces!" As he said that, he said again from the beginning of what he wanted to go down the mountain to find his parents and how Zhiji made difficult things.
After he finished speaking, before Grandma Wu could speak, Wang Hui on the side said angrily: "This monk is really unreasonable! Didn't Brother Ji Ti want to go up the mountain by himself? Now Brother Ji Ti is leaving, why should he stop him! Grandma! Please help Brother Ji Ti think of a solution!" While saying that, he shook Grandma Wu's arm.
Reminded by Wang Hui's words, Ji Chi suddenly remembered the heavy lifting of Grandma Wu's palm that stopped Hei Niu, and also put on a pleading expression and said: "Mother-in-law! Help me, just go up the mountain and tell him that you want to take me away! You must not be afraid of him!"
Looking at the appearance of the two children, Grandma Wu smiled helplessly: "It's not that I won't help! If it weren't a few decades ago, but I have been tossed by cold poison over the years and my internal strength has not improved much. I'm afraid I can't deal with Monk Zhiji!"
Wang Hui was full of surprise: "Grandma! Is that monk that powerful?" Grandma Wu immediately put on a contemptuous look: "He is powerful? There is a saying that 'There is no hero in the world, so make the prince famous' Have you ever heard of it? It means it's the same as 'There is no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king'. If this goes back decades, let alone him! His master is good and fearless, and he is still beaten by my brother-in-law with a wooden sword and searching for teeth all over the ground?"
"It's still Grandpa Pei's awesome!" Wang Hui shouted excitedly, then asked with his little head tilted, "Grandma! Is Grandpa Pei's awesome or grandpa's awesome?" Grandma Wu was amused: "Silly granddaughter, you're asking this question very well! If you have to compare it, my brother-in-law is handsome, has good character, high martial arts skills, elegant style, and good singing... But your grandpa can make money, so everyone has their own strengths!" "So that's it!" Wang Hui nodded in a vague way.
After dealing with Wang Hui, Grandma Wu finally turned her eyes to Ji Ti: "Don't be anxious, your master Zhiji will not say this first. Didn't you say that you can beat your senior brother? Tell me about your senior brother's situation, and then tell me what skills you can do. I see if there is any way to help you defeat him!" After hearing this, Ji Ti, who was already desperate, suddenly ignited the fire of hope in his heart again, and immediately straightened his back and said: "My senior brother is Huiren, he is eighteen years old this year, and he has been to Longgai Temple for about ten years..."
While eating the fruit handed over by Wang Hui, Ji Ni told everything he knew about Hui Ren. Even Hui Ren snores at any time in the evening. Halfway through, Wang Ji came and told Grandma Wu that the previous accident had been dealt with and could be done at any time. However, after Grandma Wu heard it, he asked him to arrange for everyone to rest on the spot, and he continued to listen to Ji Ni.
After talking a lot in a row, Ji Ni also realized the huge gap between himself and Huiren little by little. His originally confident mood gradually turned into uneasiness. When he finished talking about what he knew and had nothing to say, he was silent for a while, and then asked uneasy: "Mother-in-law! Do you think I can defeat Huiren?"
"Yes! Why can't?" Grandma Wu was very confident: "As you said, he did not practice Prajna since childhood, but Maha Prajna after the improvement of Zhiji. This skill is much faster than Prajna, but the internal strength of cultivation is also inferior to that of beginners, so it is more suitable for beginners to improve quickly. But if you want to reach the peak of martial arts, its function is far less than that of Prajna. Moreover, as far as I know, the martial arts under Zhiji are mediocre in terms of trick changes. At the level of Zhiji, it will naturally have little impact, but it will be different for your senior brother. As long as you can practice Prajna to the second level in a short time, plus your Five Virtue Fist that you have practiced for many years, it is not impossible to defeat your senior brother!"
"Really?" Ji Ni immediately became excited, but in a flash he became weak again: "Mother-in-law, I have made no progress in Prajna Kung Fu for three years. How could I open up the erotic wheel in a short time and reach the second level? I'd better accept my fate!" After saying that, his head lowered, revealing a depressed look.
"Don't be discouraged, I haven't finished talking yet!" Grandma Wu smiled and said, "The most important practice of Prajna Kung Fu is natural. Without the method of actively driving internal force to impact the chakra, practicing internal force in this way naturally cannot open the id wheel in a short time. In fact, you have been practicing internal force for more than three years. At this time, if you change to a powerful internal force mental method to practice, it will not take long to open the id wheel, right?"
"Yes!" Ji Ni suddenly realized, jumped up excitedly, and immediately hit the roof of the car, and fell down in pain. Wang Hui was immediately amused, and Grandma Wu couldn't help laughing. After Ji Ni recovered from the dizziness and pain, Grandma Wu continued to say, "Where is me, I will teach you such an internal skill now. This kung fu is called "Four Characters", which is divided into four parts: "Fenglin Volcano", which is taken from the four sentences in "The Art of War": "It is as fast as the wind, its sprint is as slow as the forest, its invasion is as fire, and it is not moving as a mountain". The characteristics of the internal skill and mental method corresponding to each word are also corresponding to these four sentences."
As Grandma Wu was talking, she saw Ji Ni frowning slowly and showing a distressed look, so she stopped telling: "Ji Ni, what's wrong with you? Is there anything I can't understand?" Ji Ni shook her head: "I still understand now, but there are four internal skills, not to mention the various changes in each method. Are you still in a hurry to go? I think I'm afraid I can't learn this time!"
"So you are worried about this!" Grandma Wu nodded: "I blamed me for not explaining it clearly, but your understanding is indeed not very high. Didn't I just say it? You need a powerful internal skill to help you quickly open up the self-wheel. You just need to learn the Fire Character Art in the "Four Character Art Art"! There is no need to practice the other three-character techniques for the time being!" "So that's it!" Ji Ti's child's mind and nature, when he heard that he had hope to go down the mountain, he immediately became happy: "Then mother-in-law, teach me quickly, so that it would be less delayed in your trip."
"Okay, okay! Look, I'm so anxious!" As he said that, Grandma Wu opened the drawer of the table in front of her and pulled out a new dark blue cover book. As soon as she saw this book, Ji Ni immediately felt a sense of intimacy. The last time she saw a book that looked similar was Li Youzhi's house in the west village of Yamashita, four years ago. Since she came to Longgai Temple, the only book he saw was Buddhist scriptures with bright yellow covers. The only exception was the "Nandu Fu" he had put in his arms now, which he bought from a trash vendor, but the book was so polished that it could not be seen.
"For you, take it and take a closer look at the part of the Fire Characters. You must not fall into a word. Otherwise, if you practice kung fu, something big will happen!" As he said that, Grandma Wu handed over the book. Ji Ni hurriedly took it over, and couldn't wait to turn over the cover with the "Four Characters" printed on it, skipping the Feng Characters and Lin Characters in front, and directly read the part of the Fire Characters.
Just as it means "invasion like fire", the internal strength of the Fire Characters is extremely fierce and domineering, and the running route of the internal strength is mostly centered on the Six Yang Meridians of the twelve meridians. Twelve years old is the best age for a boy to move. In addition, both the martial arts he learned and the things he came into contact with in recent years contain the Buddhist thought of being indifferent to the world. As soon as Ji Ti came into contact with this internal skill, he was deeply attracted by it and read it from beginning to end in one breath.
Ji Ti didn't understand anything. He himself knew that it was not how smart he was, but what he said was very clear in the book. The person who wrote this book not only had outstanding martial arts skills, but also had profound writing skills, and his words were concise and easy to understand. Even a young man like Ji Ti who was familiar with words was almost unobstructed to read. However, Ji Ti was still a little worried, so he barely found a few places that were not very certain to ask Grandma Wu, but it turned out that there was no deviation from his understanding.
After reading the Fire Characters, Ji Chi relaxed and breathed a long sigh. Then he stood up and bowed respectfully to Grandma Wu: "Thank you for your kindness!" Grandma Wu smiled and stretched out her hand to support his arm to help him up: "There is a lot of etiquette for the child! Okay, you can take this book back and practice it slowly. It is estimated that it will be almost half a month to open up the erotic wheel. Remember, it is normal to feel a little hot when practicing, but it is abnormal to feel pain. If that happens, you must stop immediately and never practice it again! Don't practice the other three-character techniques easily. Work hard and get rid of the old monk's clutches as soon as possible!"
"I will!" Ji Ti said with confidence. Grandma Wu frowned, then glanced at her eyes and took off a jade sign from her waist: "This is for you. When you go down the mountain, you will come to Jinling City to see her grandmother when you have time! Then you will find the Wang family, who is doing business. Take out this label at the door, and the manager will bring you to see me!" "And I and me! Brother Ji Ti, you will also come to see me!" Wang Hui said on the side.
"It must be!" As he said that, Ji Ni took over the waist sign. It was a good white jade waist sign. The center of the oval jade was engraved with a square word "king". Ji Ni looked at it, carefully put it in his arms, then jumped out of the car quickly, and bowed to Grandma Wu and Wang Hui in front of the car door: "Mother-in-law, Sister Wang Hui, I really feel sorry for delaying you for so long, I won't bother you anymore! Let's leave today, and I will definitely visit you in the future! Please don't bother me!"
"Well, remember to come!" Grandma Wu said to Ji Ni with a smile. Then she turned to the front of the car and shouted loudly, "Son, let's go!" When Wang Ji, who was standing not far away, immediately turned over and shouted loudly, "Out!" As the bell rings and horses neigh, dozens of carriages emerged again in a mighty manner.
Ji Ni waved his hand to say goodbye to Wu Grandma Wang Hui. When Wang Ji walked past him, he dressed again and bowed seriously to Wang Ji. Wang Ji immediately bowed slightly and said with a smile: "Remember to visit Jinling!" Ji Ni said loudly: "It must be certain! Uncle Wang will have a date later!" "Okay! There will be a date later!" As he said that, Wang Ji lifted the reins hard, and the tall maroon horse under his crotch ran a few steps, running towards the front of the team.
Ji Ni walked to the side of the road and sat down against the black bull lying on the ground. He watched the huge convoy pass by him with both envy and a little disappointed, and gradually disappeared without a trace. He envied such a gorgeous and magnificent scene, and he was disappointed that they did not belong to his world. "Even if you don't want to find your parents and sister, going out for a walk should be much better than being on the mountain, right?" In Ji Ni's life, this idea appeared for the first time.
When the smoke and dust of the last car dissipated in front of his eyes, Ji Ni slowly stood up. He patted the soil on his body, half-pulled and coaxed the black cow to stand up, and returned to the mountain along the way he came. As soon as he reached the cattle herding pasture, he saw Zhiji in a gray robe standing there motionlessly. Ji Ni's mood, which was originally very good, suddenly fell down again. He didn't say anything, and walked with his head down to the wooden stake next to the wooden stake and carefully tied the rope.
"Isn't injured?" Zhiji said to Ji Ni's back. After hearing this, Ji Ni's movement stopped and sniffed hard to hold back the tears. "No!" He said very toughly. "That's good!" Zhiji seemed relieved: "You've just come out, right? It's still that guy. I hurt him, but he was too thief and ran away. He can't harm you in the short term, but it's only about a month, so..."
Zhiji went back to the topic: "Let's put the matter of going down the mountain for a while!" Originally, Ji Chi must have been furious when he mentioned the matter of "down the mountain", but this time he was not angry at all, because he heard from Zhiji's previous words - care.
"He cares about me? This old monk?" Ji Ni suddenly remembered a sentence his father said to him when he was a child. His father said that some people in this world are sincerely for your own good, but what they do always makes you unhappy. Ji Ni didn't understand at the time, why would such things happen in the world? But now he suddenly understood that Zhiji is such a person. Everything he does that he hates is for his own good. Forced him to practice martial arts, write to make him capable, and not let him go down the mountain to protect his safety. "He cares about me! Master, he cares about me!"
As he thought about it, tears flowed down involuntarily. Ji Ti felt very embarrassed. He wiped away the tears hard, widened his red eyes, and said to Zhiji, "I understand. I will not mention going down the mountain until I don't have enough strength!"
"That's good!" Zhiji was a little surprised at Ji Ni's reaction. He was silent for a moment before saying, "Then you just feed the cows here first, and then lead them up the mountain earlier. If you have something to come to me, just shout it to the mountain." As he said that, he turned around and walked towards Longgai Temple.
Ji Ni was still in the midst of emotional shock. He nodded inertially. After a while, he realized what Zhiji was talking about in the end. The expression on his face instantly changed from touching to anger. He jumped and turned around, shouting to the temple on the hillside: "You still asked me to herd cattle? Why don't you have any sympathy at all--?"
In the setting sun, a breeze blew, and the mountains were quiet, and no voice answered him.
Chapter completed!