Chapter 19 The vicissitudes of life to the demon (3)
"My father has passed away a long time ago. Besides, your cultivation level is only a few hundred years old at most. How can I call you father after living for tens of thousands of years? At most, people will stop calling you uncle." He was surrounded by Fahai.
The slightly dizzy Green Snake's little face was full of distress. With a pair of big, watery eyes open, she looked at Fa Hai expectantly, "How about we compromise and I'll call you brother..."
"Heaven and earth respect relatives, how can we compromise on things like seniority?"
"Uncle!"
"Call Daddy!"
"Uncle! Uncle! Uncle..."
"Okay! Stop talking about uncles and uncles endlessly. Is Pindao that old? Forget it, I will suffer a little loss this time and be your brother by force."
"Then you have to teach me Chinese culture, okay? Brother..."
Although Fa Hai was reasonable, he was not as quick-talking as the Green Snake, so he was so annoyed that he had to retreat and do the next best thing. However, seeing the proud and cute look of the Green Snake, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly.
"Of course, you are the sister I just recognized. Come on, brother, I will teach you the essence of Chinese culture and the cornerstone of Confucianism. If you learn this secret, you will immediately change from a witch to a lady.
The wayless becomes the way."
"Essence, secret? Lady? Tao?!"
Seeing the green snake's eyes widening and looking eager to try, Fahai smiled slightly.
"The origin of Chinese culture is in the Central Plains, and the origin of Central Plains culture is in Confucianism. One of the key points of Confucian culture is etiquette. One of the Confucian classics, "Etiquette", says: A lady has four obediences, and there is no special way. So,
As long as you can apply these four skills, you can become a lady in the eyes of the Central Plains people. The so-called gentle lady is a gentleman. When your transformed body grows up in the future, there will definitely be many gentlemen lining up to pursue you.
Yes, the pure and honest gentleman from the Central Plains is much more handsome and infatuated than the Xu Xian that Chu Zhongtian mentioned."
"Really?" Although Green Snake has long had the idea of turning into a human being, the poignant love story in Chu Zhongtian's mouth is undoubtedly one of the reasons, so when he heard Fahai's words, he immediately became energetic. In excitement, he even ignored it.
Minglong, who was eyeing him eagerly, grabbed Fahai's sleeve.
When Fahai saw this, his eyes moved, but he did not dodge, because he had long learned from the Fire Dragon Lord that even the most talented monsters in the world would fall into a period of weakness once they successfully transformed.
Cultivation takes at least a hundred years, and this process cannot be completed by external forces.
It has only been ten years since Green Snake took form. With her current strength, she has no ability to capture and kill Fahai in one fell swoop.
"Brother, you must teach me this secret!"
Green Snake didn't notice Fahai's thoughts flashing, and pulled Fahai's sleeves, his eyes full of urgency.
Monsters often rely on instinct and intuition to act. Although Green Snake has been incarnated for ten years, the habits developed over tens of thousands of years are not easy to change. She felt that at this time, she should express her sincerity and intimacy with Fa Hai, so she did so instinctively
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The cuteness effect is also very good.
"Okay, let's take this as a meeting gift from my brother."
Fa Hai sighed helplessly, and naturally stretched out his hand to take the green snake's smooth little hand and walked into the pavilion. He sat leisurely on the round stool carved from ten thousand years of crystal. The green snake also sat next to him very cooperatively.
She stood next to him, pretending to be an obedient person who was listening to his teachings.
Her intuition told her that Fahai would be very happy if she did this.
As expected, Fahai looked like a child who could be taught, and he started to teach him leisurely, shaking his head.
"The so-called four obediences are to obey your father before you are married, to your elder brother after your father is dead, to your husband when you are married, and to your son after your husband's death. This is the only rule for ladies in the Central Plains throughout the ages. It is written down in literature, and this is also the foundation of Confucianism."
"Is this also called the Great Road?" Green Snake was immediately disappointed when he heard this, and angrily threw away Fahai's big hand, "Uncle, are you deliberately lying to me?"
"Otherwise, what do you think is a great road? If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach a thousand miles. If you don't accumulate small streams, you can't build a river. The same is true for the road. Any great road in the world is composed of tiny roads. For the Confucian road, etiquette
Culture is one of the important paths, and the four obediences are an indispensable part of etiquette culture."
After Fahai finished speaking, he summed up, "Tao is for practice, not for rhetoric and pretense of mystery."
"What you said makes sense, but..."
"There is no but, ask, get the Tao, practice the Tao, prove the Tao, and realize each small Tao. When accumulated, it will eventually converge into the supreme Tao. Now that you have completed the two steps of asking and achieving the Tao, can you
Practicing the Tao you have received - the Four Obediences - is not only related to whether you can become a lady, but as a second-level monk, it is also related to whether you can attain the first Tao in your life and step into the realm of the first-level monks.
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"Can these be connected? Our way of the demon clan..."
Looking at Fa Hai, who was talking eloquently and looking like he was sitting down to talk, Qing Snake suddenly found it unbelievable. She had never heard of such a strange point of view, but it sounded like it was self-contained and well-founded. It was definitely not the ignorance of any southern state.
The indigenous monks can tell it.
"This is not the demon way, this is the human way. Since you choose to transform into a human, you must abandon the demon way and return to the human way. Otherwise, you should go back to being your snake demon, my good sister, haha."
Fa Hai smiled very easily, but Qing She felt not at all relaxed. Transforming into a human had already caused her a narrow escape from death, and transforming back into a human would be a life-threatening situation, because transformation was a violation of the way of heaven and was irreversible.
, after transforming into a human, she can transform into a snake, but she will never be able to become a real snake again.
What's more, even if she could defy heaven again and transform into a snake demon, she would never do so because she had a reason to transform into a human.
Chu Zhongtian's story was just an inducement for her to transform. The main reason was that the fragments of the "Qing Emperor Water Emperor Technique" she had practiced for tens of thousands of years were created by Qing Emperor, one of the ancient gods of the human race. She transformed into a demon body.
Through practice, being able to break through the shackles of the third level and cultivate to the second level is already the first of its kind for the Green Snake clan, but it is absolutely impossible to achieve immortality through this.
Qing Emperor Fuxi was a demon back then, and he was also the biological brother of the demon clan Emperor Wa, but in the end he became a human being.
Just like the human race has a limit of 10,000 years (to be precise, it is 10,800 years, known in ancient times as one meeting and one tribulation), although the demon race has a long life, it can only live up to 129,600 years old.
One yuan is one calamity. Now that she has survived for tens of thousands of years, there is a possibility of her body dying and her Tao disappearing at any time. If she wants to truly live to one yuan, or even further pursue immortality, she can only try to follow the path of Qing Emperor's enlightenment.
road.
"If you practice the four obediences, you can become a lady, and can you realize the first-class Tao?"
Seeing the half-believing Green Snake sitting back with some reluctance, Fahai couldn't help feeling proud, and pretended to be profound, saying, "Becoming a lady is certain, but realizing the Tao is not necessarily. Buddhism pays attention to sudden enlightenment, but sudden enlightenment is by no means sudden. You can realize it all at once. It depends on your understanding, your talent, and your chance. However, as Pindao said just now, as long as you accumulate enough small ways, you will always be close to the big way, right?"
"What should I do to be a good person? Follow these four principles."
"It's very simple. If you are not married, you will obey your father. If your father dies, you will obey your elder brother. If you marry, you will obey your husband. If your husband dies, you will obey your son. These are called the four obediences. Your father has passed away, you are not married yet, and now you have no son, only Pindao is such a big brother, so these four obediences are just one obedience to you, and it is the easiest to practice them..."
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PS: This chapter is a little wet, I can’t help it, I didn’t come back until after eight o’clock in the evening. I’m leading a team to do a very important job these days, which is related to other people’s second lives, so I have to devote myself to it. I’ll see what happens tomorrow. If you can have some leisure time, write more. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)