Lin Shu didn't know.

He said, "I don't know."

"It seems that fellow Taoist knows very little about the matter of immortality." Mr. Meng said, "But fellow Taoist, you live with the little Phoenix, and you must have already understood the Phoenix Sword Technique."

Lin Shu: "Yes."

"There is only one set of internal skills in Phoenix Villa, but there are many sword techniques. Among them, "Yaochi Bu Er", "Zifu Wushuang", etc. are complex and beautiful, and are suitable for viewing, so they are quite popular among female disciples. "The Nine Styles of Lingyun", "The Eleven Swords of the Que Yue", etc., but this is not the case."

Lin Shu nodded.

There is no difference between men and women in the sword techniques like "The Nine Styles of Lingyun" and "The Eighteen Swords of the Moon". If a male disciple practices, there seems to be no problem - but Phoenix Villa does not accept any male disciples. Even if a child of the legitimate lineage is a boy, he will be sent to the outside for upbringing and does not belong to Phoenix Villa.

"The nine stances of Lingyun are sharp and the eleven swords of the moon are all famous swords. However-" Mr. Meng said word by word, "The Phoenix swordsmanship is not allowed to be practiced by men. Even if a descendant of the direct lineage is a man, at most it is to learn some formed methods. The 'Nirvana Breeding' you see on Huandang Mountain is here."

Lin Shu was puzzled and asked, "Why?"

Mr. Meng smiled and asked, "Does Xiao Fenghuang have a good temper?"

Lin Shu: "Not good."

——Although I have been very nice to him these days, my overall temper is still very bad, such as when facing Xiao Lingyang.

Mr. Meng said: "It is easy to break even if you are too tough."

It is easy to break if it is too hard.

Lin Shu thought for a while.

Indeed, the mind and sword techniques of Phoenix Villa are all based on the energy of Lihuo. Among the five elements and eight trigrams, the fire is the most intense. The sword techniques of the villa are like the nine styles of Lingyun and the eleven swords of the moon, which are even more straightforward and fierce, extremely sharp, without any sense of being central and peaceful, hard and soft, and even completely incompatible with the word "soft".

Mr. Meng seemed to see that he had understood something and continued: "Many years ago, when Phoenix Villa was first founded, there were not without male disciples. The villa did not strictly prohibit the flow of martial arts. There were also some precedents outside of men who practice Phoenix Sword Technique. However, without exception, if you reach a certain level, you will become possessed by the demon. At the very least, you will fall into the realm, and at the worst, you will explode and die. The reason is the four words "It is easy to break even if you are too hard."

Lin Shu was really surprised and continued to listen to Mr. Meng.

"As a person born in heaven and earth is under the law of heaven, he must follow the principle of the operation of heaven. Men and women, I treat the immortal way equally, but among the Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, men and women are different after all, and their physique, roots, bones, and minds are all slightly different."

Lin Shu nodded.

Mr. Meng continued: "A man belongs to Yang. If he practices Phoenix Villa's martial arts again, the fierce energy will be in conflict. One is that he will enter rapidly and his foundation is unstable, and he will easily get into a demon. The other is that his temperament is affected, he will be impulsive, impulsive, violent and bloody, and he will lose his mind and go astray in a short while. The Phoenix sword technique is like a sword of forging of fire, which is crisp and easy to break. It must be enlightened with cold water to be invincible. Therefore, only women can control the most yang and strong martial arts in the world."

Lin Shu digested it for a while and felt that the mystery of this theory was no less than that of the young master's argument on "The Great Way".

Mr. Meng smiled and said, "If things are too strong, they should be killed. This is the reason why all things in the world are born and transformed. Fellow Taoist, do you understand?"

Lin Shu nodded: "I understand."

"Of course, there may not be no man in the world who can practice Phoenix Sword Technique. However, the mental and mental concentration required can be imagined, and it is not difficult to imagine the hardships to endure. I have never seen it yet. The wealth and glory of Phoenix Villa is like cooking oil in a fire, and it is divided into half of the rivers and mountains with the royal family. You need to know how to protect yourself. This is a matter of the world, so I won't talk about it."

Lin Shu understood what Mr. Meng said, but he still couldn't figure out why Mr. Meng said this to him.

Fortunately, Mr. Meng did not have the habit of "you go back and comprehend by yourself". After speaking, he said, "Fellow Taoist, since you understand this principle, you should think about your own path. It is easy to break when you are too hard, and it is easy to get rid of wisdom when you are too cold. Your path is empty and quiet. When you reach the end of the great road and the height is too cold, will there be any inner demons and obstacles? How to resolve and make a decision, and you should prepare early. What I am worried about is also here."

Lin Shu looked at Mr. Meng's eyes and truly realized the sincere love. He felt warm in his heart and said, "I can do it."

Mr. Meng said, "Then I'll feel relieved."

After saying this, Mr. Meng asked about some trivial matters in life, but he was disagreeable, etc. After asking, Lin Shu said goodbye to him and left the dream.

After going out, he sat cross-legged on the bamboo bed, thinking that he had passed the teacher's exam, and the conversation just now also benefited a lot.

And as for Mr. Meng’s final warning—

He thought of his twenty years as if he was a lonely ghost in his previous life, and then he thought about his inner demons that he saw in the illusion of mountains and mists. He felt that his state of mind was indeed not solid and needed to be tempered again, which was indeed a question worth considering.

He decided to go to the library to find some books about mood and inner demons, and see how to sharpen the mood.

When I think of the library, I think of the canteen.

This morning, Ling Fengxiao said that after Mr. Meng’s school exam in the afternoon, he would have nothing to do and asked him to have supper together.

Thinking of this, Lin Shu got off the bed, put on the white fox-haired cloak hanging on the head of the bed, and walked out the door.

——This cloak was originally the one my cousin used to pack him, and the eldest lady used another sable. However, in an instant, the cousin and the eldest lady became the same person, and Ling Fengxiao naturally stopped hiding and stuffed both of them to him.

When Lin Shu thought that when Ling Fengxiao went out, he even prepared two cloaks to cover up his eyes and ears, he felt that this person was really hateful.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw the young lady sitting in the bamboo corridor outside the atrium.

As winter comes, light snow falls in the mountains, many small particles of ice crystals fall in the air, and the bamboo leaves are covered with a layer of frost-like snow, which is very beautiful.

Ling Fengxiao put on a big red feather buckle and a red umbrella. Her ink hair was not tied up and she was casually put on it. She was so eye-catching in the snow all over the sky.

The man was holding the cat, looking up at Feixue in front of the corridor, and was stunned for some reason. When he saw him pushing the door open, he smiled and said, "You are here."

Lin Shu walked forward, Ling Fengxiao stood up and gave him half of the umbrella.

"I originally wanted to ask you to go to the cafeteria, but I couldn't go. Cang Min just sent a message saying that he had little exams. After practicing martial arts these days, he dug out many bamboo rat holes in Biyutian and caught more than a dozen fat bamboo rats sleeping in winter. He asked us, the more Ruohe, the more Ruoyun and the cat went to roast bamboo rats and eat it."

Before Lin Shu could speak, the cat pricked up his ears, raised his head from Ling Fengxiao's arms, and quickly "meowed".

——It seems that I really want to eat it.

Lin Shu said: "A dozens of them may not be enough for Cang Min to eat alone."

Ling Fengxiao said, "I think so too, but he said that each one weighs four or five kilograms, and a dozen kilograms combined are about one hundred kilograms. After bleeding and baking, you can still leave dozens of kilograms. Perhaps Cang Min can leave one or two for us while he is full."

Lin Shuxiao.

After laughing, he thought of the Yue brothers and sisters going there, and asked, "Does he recognize Yue Ruohe?"

Ling Fengxiao said "Yes" and said, "The nine sects often interact. Cang Min was born in Henglian Sect and was a family friend of Rumengtang. He must be a friend of the Yue family."

They went to the place that Cang Min agreed to, in a abandoned pavilion with no decorations in the sea of ​​bamboo.

The Yue brothers and sisters are already here, making fire together, setting up racks, and concentrating on fiddling with a bunch of bottles and jars to prepare baking ingredients.

And those fat bamboo rats have been processed, stringed up one by one, neatly scribbled together and marinated.

When Cang Min saw them coming, he greeted: "Junior Brother Lin, Senior Qingyuan, you are here! Miss, you are here too!"

The eldest lady said, "Since you invited me, why don't I come?"

Cang Min scratched his head: "I'm just trying to ask..."

Yue Ruoyun patted him and said with a smile: "Lin Shu and Mao are here, so I said the eldest lady will come."

All the people had arrived, Cang Min's seasonings had been prepared, the fire was in full swing, and the whole pavilion was warming. They did not defy the pavilion, and sat down on the pachin mat on the ground and started roasting bamboo rats to eat.

Ling Fengxiao did not let Lin Shu bake himself, but skewed his one and bake it together.

The bamboo rat meat that is suitable for weight and thin gradually becomes sizzling on the fire, making it brown and fragrant. With the seasonings that are brushed from time to time, the fragrance becomes more and more attractive.

Cat: "Meow."

"Meow."

"Meow."

Ling Fengxiao: "Wait."

Cat: "Meow."

Lin Shu looked at each other and saw the hostility in the cat's eyes.

The cat must have thought that the eldest lady roasted bamboo rats and would probably not give it to the first bite.

Fortunately, Cang Min baked it first and offered it to the land gods and predecessors.

The cat screamed with satisfaction and began to bury his head and eat rats.

After a while, Ling Fengxiao's articles were also improved. She brushed a layer of ingredients on the browned, crispy and tender rat meat, and the aroma was overflowing in an instant.

The young lady took out a sharp silver knife, divided the rat meat, and ate it with Lin Shu.

Cang Min talked about the deliciousness of bamboo rat meat, what is "Bamboo rats are born with eating bamboo, and they have a fragrance", "Bamboo rats weigh four or five kilograms, and they are of the same size, and they are moderate in weight and thin, which is suitable for roasting", "Bamboo rats are eaten in the sea of ​​bamboo, which has a unique flavor".

The other few people are familiar with each other. They are busy with exams these days and rarely relax. They have a lot to say. So they chat while roasting, which is much more lively than the suppers they eat in the cafeteria.

It was lively, and suddenly a sound of footsteps sounded from afar. When I got in, I saw a man walking on the snow, holding a lantern in one hand and holding something in the other.

No matter how close it is, it is Xie Zishe, the senior sister of the Confucian Academy.

I saw her wearing a half-old gray crane cloak, holding a wind lamp in one hand, holding a wine jar in the other hand, and carrying a bookcase on her back.

"I said who is playing here? It turns out it's you," Xie Zishe put down the wine jar and smiled: "It's so good to roast rats on the snowy night."

Yue Ruoyun said: "Are you Senior Sister Xie Zishe?"

Xie Zishe said: "It's right."

Yue Ruoyun immediately said happily: "I have heard of the name of my senior sister for a long time!"

Xie Zishe said: "I like your bamboo sea in the jade sky. I often come to this abandoned pavilion to drink and study. Today I actually gave you the first step."

While talking, he looked at Ling Fengxiao.

Ling Fengxiao said: "A coincidence."

"Since it was a coincidence, I'll get some kicks." Xie Zishe smiled and said, "It just so happens that you have meat, and I brought wine."

Cang Min said wonderingly: "Why did you get the wine?"

Xie Zishe said: "The Confucian and Taoist Court did not strictly prevent drinking."
To be continued...