What should I do next when the thatched cottage became quiet? Do you really want me to betray my appearance? But what kind of excuse can I find to escape?
"Ilin, how old are you this year?" After a moment of silence, Zhou Jiping asked
"Seventeen years old" Irene replied
It’s too early to get married! Zhou Jiping sighed, it seems that before liberation, people got married very early. In China, Yilin can only be regarded as a minor. A minor? An idea flashed in Zhou Jiping’s mind. By the way, there is a way.
Zhou Jiping remembered that when he woke up from a coma for the first time, he heard Yilin praying. He estimated that the Damon tribe had religious beliefs, so he thought of using God as an excuse.
With a look of regret, Zhou Jiping sighed and said to Yilin: "Ilin, do you know? In my hometown, you can only get married when you are eighteen years old. If anyone gets married early, God will stay away from this person.
I won’t bless him.”
"Really? In the Damon tribe, you can get married at the age of sixteen, but if you are under sixteen, the wizard will refuse to communicate with the gods for them, and the gods will eventually forget them," Erin said seriously
Zhou Jiping secretly rejoiced: "Really? It seems that Damon, like my hometown, has a similar saying. God will not lie, right?"
Yilin nodded and let Zhou Jiping successfully change the concept.
Concealing the urge to laugh, Zhou Jiping said sternly to Yilin: "I was sick a few days ago, and now I'm better. It was God who helped me. I should thank God and I met you again. Although according to Damon's words
The rules are that we must get married, but I must also abide by the rules of my hometown. Wait until you are eighteen years old, which means waiting for another year, before you can truly become my wife, otherwise God will punish me because I stay away from me.
hometown, so starting from tomorrow, I will pray and thank God three times a day, and tell God about our affairs and let God bless us."
It was obvious that Yilin's vocabulary was limited. Zhou Jiping said a lot of specious words, which made her confused for a moment, but she felt that what Zhou Jiping said seemed to be right, so she could only nod confusedly.
This is easy to handle! Seeing that it was done, Zhou Jiping added another sentence: "Although we are not a real couple, Damon's God knows it, and the God I believe in also knows it. It's better not to tell anyone else about this."
people, lest they make a fuss"
Erin continued to nod
Then, Zhou Jiping explained to Yilin the time and length of his daily practice as a prayer ritual - asking her to use this to deal with the chief. Zhou Jiping also made a request that no one should disturb him when he "prays" to God. "This
No problem, father arranged for me, Anka, and Zube to accompany you," Yilin said
What kind of company? It’s not bad even if the surveillance is okay. It seems that in the future, in addition to eating, I can practice martial arts, and there will be people to protect and serve me. Although the living conditions are a bit worse, it’s not bad. Wait another year? How can I use it for a year?
, just wait for the rainy season to arrive, wait for me to recover my health and be ready to escape! Hehe, I am so talented, long live freedom of belief!
Zhou Jiping learned this habit of calling himself Lao Tzu in the army. Captain Dog is used to calling himself this way because Captain Dog believes that anyone who calls himself Lao Tzu must have the capital to call himself Lao Tzu. Now Zhou Jiping feels that what Captain Dog said is very correct and a wise saying.
A night of silence
At dawn, Zhou Jiping got up early and took Yilin to find a suitable training ground. The two of them walked in front. In a thatched house next to them, Anka and Zubei also emerged and followed them from a distance.
later
The practice site chosen by Zhou Jiping is to the east of the tribal camp, next to the pyrethrum flowers not far from the canal. The trees here are very dense, the air is circulated, and it is upwind, so there will be no bad smell. Originally, Zhou Jiping still wanted to do it.
She wanted to go forward, but Yilin said that this was already the edge of the tribe. If she went further, the tribe warriors would cause trouble. In this way, Zhou Jiping stopped at a good position. Zhou Jiping thought to himself: On the edge of the tribe, the canal is next to it.
This is the place I'm looking for
In the past, Zhou Jiping also practiced internal strength intermittently. At the best stage when he was in school, he had practiced it to the point where he could beat the breasts and was only one step away from the movement of Dantian Qigong. When he taught the master about the breasts, he said that this kind of internal strength belongs to martial arts qigong.
The physical benefits are great, but you are not too eager for success, and generally there will be no big deviations.
Xiangxiang Quan Neigong requires practitioners to have a regular daily routine, practice at a fixed time, be focused, and be able to let go of everything. This is something Zhou Jiping, who has experienced many situations such as joining the army, being injured, demobilized, and opening a car repair shop, cannot do.
The constant changes in circumstances left him with no chance to continue practicing.
When teaching Zhou Jiping's internal energy, he emphasized to his master that the practice needs to be done three times a day, starting from half an hour each time, and increasing the amount to one and a half hours each time after a hundred days. This means that at most, it is just practice every day, which is about the same.
It takes four and a half hours. How can ordinary people practice this? What's more, the first hundred days of practice are called "hundred days of foundation building". During this period, practitioners are not allowed to approach women and must work less.
Rest more and try to minimize the interference of all worldly matters - such harsh practice conditions are not something ordinary people have the opportunity to practice. What is unexpected is that Zhou Jiping now has the right opportunity to have such an opportunity in distant Africa.
The internal skills taught to the master are actually a complete set of inner skills and mental methods** which are divided into three steps, namely: the method of correcting the body, the method of harmonizing, and the method of cultivating the mind.
The so-called body rectification method refers to that practitioners must give up "greed, anger, ignorance, love" and other habitual problems from the beginning of practice, change their attitude towards life, and enter the state of mind that a practitioner should have, so that they can feel as if they are doing it every day.
It’s the same as practicing Qigong all the time: practice your mind for a moment
The so-called harmonization method refers to the three points of regulating the body, regulating the breath, and regulating the mind. These three are closely connected and inseparable. They influence each other and promote each other. When the breath is regulated, the mind will be calm. When the mind is calm, the mind will be calm. When the mind is calm, the mind will be peaceful.
Peace of mind means peace and nothingness
I didn’t talk much about the last step of cultivating the mind, but my master always said: It’s the most difficult thing if you want to make further progress. The state in this state is “like a person drinking water, knowing whether it’s warm or cold.” It seems quite appropriate.
Buddhism and Taoism
However, Zhou Jiping did not expect to understand the truth of the third step. After all, Master Xiang had warned him: "Buddha saves the destined person", "You cannot force yourself" and so on. The most important thing in practicing this skill is to be quiet and natural.
Now, in this corner of East Africa, Zhou Jijing stood quietly, calm and calm, with his legs shoulder-width apart, relaxing his whole body three times from top to bottom, his eyes slightly closed, revealing a glimmer of light. First, breathe through the nose and mouth.
, but after ten breaths, raise your hands to both sides, with your palms facing back, and your fingers seem to be straight but not straight; then draw an arc with your hands in front of your abdomen, clasp your hands in front of your abdomen to hold the ball, with your ten fingers facing each other, slightly lower than the navel and tongue curled upward.
Stand up, put the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth, use the reverse abdominal breathing method, inhale without paying attention, and exhale slowly and directly through the Dantian...
At the beginning, going home, tribe, Irene, children, family, Africa... A bunch of messy thoughts still lingered in Zhou Jiping's heart, preventing him from relaxing, so he simply used a stupid method - counting breaths, from one to ten, continuously.