Chapter 31 The Two Traits of Life
Meng Lingru took Zhang Zhiping to tour the garden, and the conversation between the two sides gradually shifted from flowers to other aspects.
Meng Lingru lost her mother since she was a child. She discovered this strange disease in her body when she was six years old. After being examined by a famous doctor, she needed to eat a lot of tonics to maintain her life. Fortunately, the Meng family was a famous family in Zhou State. Meng Shouyi found a large amount of tonics for her, which made her survive safely. When she was a child, Meng Lingru's condition was not serious, and she only needed to take a certain amount of tonic every day. This was the same as that of ordinary people. Therefore, although the Meng family was very strange about the cause of this disease, she did not care. With the great cause of the Meng family, the great cause was enough to make Meng Lingru take tonics as food. It was also during this period that Meng Lingru met Zhou Jing.
Zhou Jing was the third daughter of the emperor of the dynasty. At that time, the emperor of the dynasty was still a prince. In order to win over Meng Shouyi, he brought his daughter to visit the Meng Mansion. The two met. Zhou Jing was five years older than Meng Lingru. In Meng Lingru's heart, Zhou Jing was always the one she admired. She could chat and laugh with many adults at a young age and help her father handle various government affairs. She was wise and decisive, so her personality was greatly influenced by Zhou Jing. It was only later that Meng Lingru realized that Zhou Jing had always hated something that he had no spiritual roots. She heard Zhou Jing say that she would never forget the contemptuous look of the cultivator who checked her qualifications.
Three years later, Meng Lingru met Zheng Changfa through Zhou Jing. At first, she had no good impression of the fat and fat Zheng Changfa because she often saw Zheng Changfa staring at Zhou Jing in a daze, like a fat pig. A year later, Meng Lingru's condition suddenly worsened and she couldn't get well no matter what medicine she took. At this time, Zheng Changfa treated Meng Lingru and discovered a strange condition in Meng Lingru's body. She decisively took her Qi-raising pill, which saved her life.
From then on, the Qi-nourishing Pills that Meng Lingru needed were basically provided by Zheng Changfa. Since she only got sick once a year at that time, the burden was not heavy. Meng's mansion handed over all the precious medicinal materials collected to Zheng Changfa in exchange for Qi-nourishing Pills. She later learned that the value of these medicinal materials was far less than that of Qi-nourishing Pills. Meng Lingru then got to know Zheng Changfa again and knew that he was kind-hearted and more than better than the other arrogant immortal cultivators.
Zhou Qian is two years younger than Meng Lingru. She is the younger brother of the emperor of the dynasty and the only daughter of King Xin. Zhou Jing also came to know this lively, cute and smart little sister. Meng Lingru also likes this lively, cute and clever little sister. After the three of them became good friends and often traveled together.
Meng Lingru's condition worsened again when she was sixteen years old. She actually needed to take a Qi-raising pill in one month. This was naturally an unbearable thing for the Meng Mansion, which was only a mortal family. Meng Shouyi sought to the royal family. The prince at that time had now become the emperor. In order to thank Meng Shouyi for helping each other, he promised that if Meng Shouyi could perform his duties, he would provide him with a Qi-raising pill every year. Meng Shouyi worked diligently and firmly stood on the side of the emperor. Her eldest brother Meng Shouyi made friends everywhere, hoping to get Qi-raising pill from other places. However, it was really difficult for ordinary people to enter the eyes of immortal cultivators. The Qi-raising pills they got were limited, and most of them were provided by Zheng Changfa. The Meng Mansion was very grateful to Zheng Changfa. Meng Yu's proposal was notified in advance by Meng Shouyi.
Meng Lingru introduced her experience like others. Although she had just skipped her condition, Zhang Zhiping still keenly noticed the seriousness of Meng Lingru's condition. Now she needs a qi-raising pill in a month. How much does it take after it aggravates? At that time, Zheng Changfa may not be willing to bear it. Zheng Changfa helped Meng Lingru for many years without compensation. As a friend, he has done his best. If he takes a lot of money in the future, it may affect his path of immortality. After all, he still has Zhou Jing who needs help.
Perhaps because of the attraction of some similar trait, Meng Lingru shed tears unknowingly and said what she said to Zhang Zhiping. She faced collapse many times during the pain, but she could not let go of friendship and family affection. To her, she was like a person falling into the water. Family affection and friendship are the straw in front of her, making her always struggle between life and death. She felt that she was about to reach an extreme and would completely collapse at some point.
Zhang Zhiping listened to Meng Lingru's words and finally knew why he always felt sympathy for her. This is because Meng Lingru's life is always full of struggle for death. She wandered between death and life. For her, life is a struggle, and a little relaxation will lead to complete loss.
Zhang Zhiping looked at Meng Lingru with tears on his face, sighed in his heart, and told him about his years of experience. He did not say anything about his previous life, but expressed his feelings.
You should know that ghosts are pressing the bed. Zhang Zhiping said that he experienced ghosts when he was a child. It was not really possessed by ghosts, but a state where his body was unable to control his body's waking up from sleep. Most people would soon recover from it, but he was in a state of ghosts for the whole day. At that time, Zhang Zhiping said that he felt that he could not move at all, and was falling into a bottomless abyss.
First, he could not feel the outside world and was very scared; gradually, he could not feel the light, and his heart was filled with fear; then, he could not even feel himself, and only despair was left; in the end, he had no despair, nothing felt, and his thinking seemed to stop working. He was swallowed by endless darkness, as if it had been 100 million years, and as if it was a moment, suddenly, he woke up. At this time, he had everything and the world returned to his heart.
Zhang Zhiping described his experience in a ghost-pressing bed, murmured: "People always lack what they want. People who are blind desire light, deaf desire sound, things that are not available are always good. At that time, I had nothing, so naturally I felt that the whole world was good."
He experienced nothingness after being swallowed by endless darkness, and could not even feel it himself. So after he was reincarnated, he was afraid and longing, afraid to return to the endless darkness again, and at the same time he longed and greedily enjoyed everything in the world. As he said, when there was nothing, anything was excellent for him, so now, every moment was a pleasure for him.
Meng Lingru's life is struggling, Zhang Zhiping's life is enjoying, both of them are so extreme, they are opposite each other but attract each other. Zhang Zhiping's sympathy for Meng Lingru comes from his terror of darkness, and deep sympathy for Meng Lingru, who is always on the edge of darkness; Meng Lingru is full of envy for Zhang Zhiping, and she really hopes that her life can be easier, rather than always being surrounded by pain.
Meng Lingru couldn't help but reach out to Zhang Zhiping like a child when he saw the toy he liked. Zhang Zhiping hesitated for a moment, but did not dodge, and stepped forward and hugged Meng Lingru gently. Meng Ling also forgot to be shy at this time, just as the child got the toy he wanted, showed a satisfied smile, and then gently snuggled his head on Zhang Zhiping's chest.
Time is quiet, and the two enjoy the beauty of this moment, which is not about the love between men and women, but the attraction, struggle and enjoyment of the two life qualities, which run through the beginning and end of life, and closely combine the two together.
"Ah! You guys?!!!"
A sudden voice interrupted the warmth of the two. The two of them reacted and hurriedly separated. They turned their heads and saw Zhou Qian covering her mouth and looking at the two in surprise. There was a strange man next to her. After Zhang Zhiping saw it for the first time, he had only one thought in his mind, that is: perfection.
Chapter completed!