Meaningful Dao Originality

He cut it out with a knife and left. Leaving a whole stone platform for rain and hundreds of people to watch.

After he left, the spectators had not dispersed, because the knife had not dispersed. It was not until three months later that it was said that people who knew the art of knife came to this stone platform to see the meaning of knife.

Later, it was said in the Jianghu that the whole stone platform was soaked by rain, but after the knife crossed, the line that fell on the stone platform and was affected by the knife was always dry.

This knife has such a deep meaning.

As a result, the "meaningful knife" has been famous in Jianghu for decades.

1、

When I was a child, I heard a story from my father, saying that there was once a man who invited four guests, all of whom were friends. On that day, a person didn't come to ask for something. The guest is a talkative person. During the dinner, he kept sighing: "Alas, the one who should have come didn't come." . Forget it once or twice, but he keeps talking. Some guests were impatient and finally refused, humming "then I shouldn't have come!" " "Let's go together. The guests couldn't catch up, so they turned around and sighed repeatedly: "Oh, I really shouldn't have left. "The lighter of the remaining two can't stand it: Should I go? I started walking outside the door. The guests chased after the door, but they couldn't stay. They just looked behind them and shouted, "Aren't I talking about you? "

-the only remaining guests, no matter how self-restraint, can't sit still.

In the end, the host can only drink a whole mouthful of wine by himself.

-in fact, it's nothing, just suddenly thought of the word "meaningful", and Cang Ning remembered such a story.

Cang Ning often thinks of this story because he misses his father. Jiangxi collectors are a big family, who live in yingtan and are quite famous in the Jianghu. However, in the clan, the father is a very frustrated father and a very unworthy son.

He was plain since he was a child, so he has been practicing martial arts and knives. Although he is tall, he is not handsome at all, but he always remembers his father. His father once told him that he thought he had a bright future. "If one day you can gain something from your swordsmanship, I think it can only be the realm of those two words: meaningful?"

"meaningful?"

Sixteen-year-old Cang Ning was fascinated to think, what is meaningful?

2、

The Cang family in yingtan lives in groups. Around the ancestral temple are scattered large and small quadrangle buildings. Cang Ning's house is on the edge of this building. A narrow yard, not even independent, was cut from someone else's house.

The door walls of all the families in this area are blue-gray, but in blue-gray, there must be several complicated golden flowers carved on the door, hanging from the top of the arch to the ground. That's a privilege that only children's families who won the first prize in the "Children's Association" have in the past five years.

Cang Ning's childhood was lonely because his father was frustrated. My father studied the Bible from childhood and turned to practicing sword. Later, he switched to business, and he finally "learned the sword from time to time", which lasted for a lifetime.

My mother died when Cang Ning was very young. That kind of death, in this big family that lives together, is also a silent and depressing death. Living in such a big family, death is also the way for the living. We should give full play to the family's filial piety to save face. Otherwise your life will be as light as a feather.

Cang Ning was as light as a feather since he was a child, and has been living in the small courtyard designated by relatives as gifts. The little boy is the most vain animal in the world. He needs a father and a brother to show off.

But Cang Ning didn't, so when his playmates of average age talk about his father and brother's swaggering, he often wants to yell at them and say that his father is "empty-handed. Who will he catch in his life?"

But he is afraid of meeting others' contemptuous eyes. Cang Jia practices martial arts, and occasionally Cang Ning reveals a word he learned from his father, which will be laughed at.

Therefore, Cang Ning has been practicing Dao very hard since childhood. This kind of suffering is also criticized. Cangmen swordsmanship has been handed down from generation to generation. There is a unified style of swordsmanship in the ancestral hall, but the subtle methods in the middle have their own clothes.

His father is very frustrated, and no matter how he teaches, it will become a joke in the eyes of others. A simple knife is like cutting a road where there is no road. It's hard to divide, it's hard to divide, and it's almost doomed to be hard and unattractive.

His father died when he was 16 years old.

After his father died, he continued to practice knives, counting the money left by his father and practicing hard, while cutting wood and practicing knives. The firewood he cut is famous in the town.

All the people named Cang smiled behind their backs and said, "Our Cang family has produced the best woodcutter."

Cang Ning stayed up until she was twenty-seven.

He was still in Dai Xiao at the first Five-Year Children's Congress. In fact, no matter whether he wears filial piety or not, no one expected him to attend.

The second time he fell ill, because the excitement before the meeting brought a high fever.

Now this session is the last one he is qualified to participate in, and he must seize this opportunity.

At the children's meeting, in front of Cang Temple, he finally pulled out his pan-green knife.

This year's children will be more difficult, because there are too many excellent players. In the north of Lingnan Hebei, there are more than a dozen people living outside under the name Cang, and the young children come back alone.

Cang Ning slowly drew his sword, and the blade was dark green, which weighed heavily on his depressed youth. According to the people who tried with him later, I have never seen him do that.

Cang Ning's handwriting is few and his strokes are not complicated. It's just that every stroke he cuts is particularly difficult, and the knife is deep and long. Until a few strokes later, the meaning of the first knife still haunts the opponent, making him feel endless.

Until he won, his opponent couldn't tell what chess he lost in the endless knife.

This time, the battle lasted for seven days. The whole clan named Cang seems unwilling to see him win-that proves that the whole clan has always been too ignorant of his indifference.

The game will be extended by four days. Many children named Cang, who have become famous elsewhere, are unwilling to attend the children's meeting because they don't want to see him win the championship, but they finally improvise.

It was not until seven days later that he stood under the eagle.

He stood for a long time until he was sure that no one would challenge him again, and the patriarch named Cang declared his victory.

It was not until the dust of this announcement settled that Cang Ning was relieved. His lanky body stood there, but his eyes searched the crowd dreamily.

He is looking for his father.

Is father not here? Growing up, neither my father nor he has participated in this children's club. Of course he knows he's not here.

? But this time, he won, so is it time for him to walk out of that small yard?

Cang Ning knew that even if his father came, their father and son were destined to meet at this time and could not say anything. Father and son have been in darkness for many years, but he always feels that he has a lot to say to his father.

He wanted to tell him: Dad, I succeeded. In the future, we will carve golden flowers hanging from the arch of the door to the ground. In the past, they were always wrapped outside our doors like pig iron, but now, we are not afraid! What happened afterwards? In the future, all the noise and excitement will also be ours!

A childlike joy suddenly rose in his heart, the feeling that after the New Year, he put on new shoes and finally had the opportunity to run out of the house like other children, scattering joy in the dust like catching up with the happy queue to welcome the New Year, and happiness was about to explode.

? But father, he's not here.

Pale eyes searched and searched in the crowd, and finally they could not be found.

Only then did he wake up from his dream: Ah! Father really went!

-at the age of sixteen, there was a silent funeral, and my father's hands grew cold in his own hands. Only later, I don't know why, he never believed in his father's death. Over the years, he has been practicing knives, and he has never cried over his father's death. Unexpectedly, after many years, the feeling of "father's death" finally came back. At that moment, he only felt unspeakable emptiness in his heart.

The clansman named Cang was silent for a while. After a long time, Master Cang said, "This child has never made much noise, but I know he will succeed.

His father is not easy. From the time when his father used to learn and practice swords, I thought someone in the Cang family would have a future. "

After this sentence is finished, everyone feels the same way. There was a moment of jubilation in the venue, and the children who had been silent for a long time finally got support, and the people who lifted the ban began to make noise happily.

What will the child look like when everything is restored?

That would be a bit "wise after the event". Can pale coagulation understand, that is pale's this big family finally accepted himself after delaying for many years.

He needs this sentence and needs them to accept him "naturally". He suffered for this acceptance for a long time-but now, he suddenly felt that it was unnecessary.

"What should have come didn't come"?

Cang ning's mind is blank, and all I can think of is this sentence.

The firecrackers sounded when all the families were preparing for the children's victory, and the red paper that was blown loose fell to the ground. Next, it's time to ride horses and hang flags in the street.

Can pale coagulation secretly shrink back-father didn't come, all of a sudden busy with excitement.

It was the day after that that Cang Ning sold everything and got a humble donkey. For the first time in his life, he walked out of yingtan, where his ancestors lived.

3、

The next three years should be the most enterprising day in Cang Ning's life.

After all, youth is a fierce battle and one victory after another, and even failure is so interesting. It is good to feel failure wholeheartedly, because it is substantial.

Cang Ning's defeat is mostly due to a person sharpening his sword behind his back in order to suffer new creation.

Outside, he basically won.

At that time, he fell in love.

Love is the dividend of youth, but almost everyone thinks it is all.

-That girl belongs to the Hua family in Suzhou.

China's surname originated in yingtan. The surname of yingtan clan depends on these two surnames. Their ancestors claimed to be "living in the north and south of the great river and returning to China with a pale face", and they were two surnames, China and Cang.

Huajia is famous for doing good in Jianghu, and its business is all over the world. It is almost the long-cherished wish of all Tibetan youth to marry a flower girl from an early age.

But this is not the reason why Cang Ning is in love. Not because she was born in Hua family, nor because she is Revlon in Qunfangpu-her name is Hua Tuo, the most praised second lady of Suzhou Hua family, and also a colorful page of peony in Qunfangpu. But when Cang Ning met her foolishly, she didn't know all this.

She has money, and for Cang Ning's temper, he certainly fell in love with this kind of money that he never lacked. Hua tuo, on the other hand, seems to like his stupidity, and some are proud of his complete ignorance of himself and his family's reputation-which girl doesn't like the other party to care about herself only for herself and nothing else?

Only Cang Ning was still poor at that time.

But she doesn't seem to care She said, "I have seen a lot of wealth. At your age, it is better to be poor. If you are poor, you can work hard. If you work hard, you can work hard. If you have a name, what can't be changed? "

He wants her to marry her. He is a person who is not very creative in love. If you feel loved, the best promise is to marry her at once.

But she was in no hurry. She smiled and said, "What's the hurry? Let's talk about it after the group meeting in Yushantou. "

"What's your hurry? What else can I not give you when you win the championship in Yushan? "

There was a hint of contempt in her rich eyes: "If I want to get married, I want to get married with dignity. Ask them to marry him willingly. You don't have to worry about money. With my dowry, we will be enough in the future. "

Pale setting some nasty, but Hua Tuo just gently around the button on his lapel-her close relationship with him has always been like this, that is, only she is allowed to touch him, and he is not allowed to touch her.

I only touch the clothes until I touch them.

So Cang Ning is looking forward to the meeting of those people in Yushantou.

The "Qunyushan" summit is a once-in-a-decade event in rivers and lakes.

Clouds need clothes, flowers and capacity,

The spring breeze opened the threshold and showed its richness.

If it weren't for the head of the Yushan Mountains,

I will meet Yaotai under the moon.

The gathering of "Yushan Gang" is a great event that excites the whole Jianghu. Because, it is about the "musical instrument spectrum".

In the Jianghu, the highest honor you can get is nothing more than being included in the "famous instrument spectrum". This score was revised by the Jianghu History Museum, and the update is very slow. Except for special reasons, only the winners of the once-in-a-decade "Group Yushan" meeting have the opportunity to be included in the famous instrument spectrum. It takes ten years to get a person-not to mention that sometimes because of the strict selection of music, even if you win, the number of people who can enter the music this round may still default.

Therefore, it is natural for people in the Jianghu to flock to it.

"Young people are famous for their musical instruments, and there are more than enough people to appreciate them!" As soon as you enter the musical instrument spectrum, you are the children of Yaochi. No matter how famous and charming the girls in Jianghu are, they can marry whoever they want.

In this world of Yushan, Cang Ning met the scenery.

Jing, like him, was born poor; Like him, young people are successful; Like him, he is a powerful figure in this competition.

However, Jing Shaofei is different from him. After Jing became famous in World War I three years ago, his Jianghu scenery was far more spectacular than Cangning.

But he and Cang Ning are friends. He smiled and said to Cang Ning, "Oh, let a man with spirit take risks where he likes. Old Cang, you are too stiff. "

On that day, he was drunk and spoke his mind: "Laocang, the only person in the world who is competing for the score of famous instruments is you."

"Why? Because I come from a poor family like you. This life is like a feast, but neither you nor I stepped on the right time. We were disqualified from attending the meeting from birth. Only by redoubling our efforts, chasing and chasing hard can we catch up with the opportunity of the pre-banquet. We are all from the same origin, so we especially understand the pain of practicing knives. If this World War I becomes famous, you can do whatever you really want. If you win, what do you want? "

Cang Ning's words are very short, and he won't reveal anything to others, but he doesn't want to make friends.

Earned for a long time and said, "Hua."

Jing Shaofei said with a smile, "Hua Tuo, of course. I'm going to win. I'm going to marry her. Whoever wins will marry! But you lost? "

He looked at those pale eyes and then said with a little surprise, "Is it the same?"? Still want to marry Warwick? "

Pale setting didn't speak.

Jing is a witty man and said nothing.

But the question in his eyes touched Cang Ning.

Pale coagulation discontent, very dissatisfied, how can he think about Shao Fei? Take Hua Tuo as a prize? Whoever wins will definitely get married! Hua tuo is not? Everything in this world can be done, but Hua Tuo can't!

But then, he couldn't help but review his heart. Does his appreciation of Hua Tuo and Jing is the same, because she looks like it? Like the best actor in this life drama? If you let her partner with your opponent, this great feast of life will be arranged, and it will be the splendor you have never had since you were a child.

Cang ning is not good at this. He always reviews himself and always has questions. He has never relied on it since he was a child, so he practiced knives, so he always wanted to fight for a real and reliable existence.

-But at his age, he doesn't know that life is beyond doubt.

After a while, the mountain was covered with jade, enter the dragon.

It was a killing field that I didn't expect to be intertwined with intrigue and infighting. Some people are really bleeding, some people are physically disabled; Some people died in anger, while others limped forward.

Cang Ning experienced such belligerence for the first time in her life. He doesn't even know how he got to the end. Even more unexpectedly,

Jingshaofei also came to an end.

What he will face is a battle with his only friend.

The weapon used by Jing is "hundred feet practice", not Cang Ning's simple and ordinary "meaningful knife".

Beijing has practiced "a hundred feet, one step further". According to the people who lost in his hands, it's true ... A tall building lost its foot, and Yang Zijiang was heartbroken and collapsed!

Cang Ning and Jing are against fishing at the top of the mountain. At that moment, their skirts fluttered. The eyes of two people can't tell what it is.

Along the way, we finally met. The top of the Jade Mountain leads to the "Mengtian Pavilion". Standing here, people from afar are under their feet, so small that they can hardly be seen.

The pale is exhausted, and the well flies a hundred feet to practice sinking. Just then, Cang Ning suddenly looked at the audience. He is looking for Hua tuo's eyes.

He must find her eyes, find a little confidence-not the confidence to win, which he has never lost in his life-and find a little reason. He wants to know, what is the purpose of this battle with his only friend Jing?

This is his problem. He always feels that the situation of life needs a real and irrefutable reason outside of life.

Then, the top of Yushan Mountain was covered with clouds and a sea of people, and he saw Hua Tuo's eyes.

The eager eyes, the bright eyes, the eyes? There is also a faint uneasiness that is strongly suppressed. What's that uneasiness like? look like

Passion for gambling. She inspired him with great pride: you know Jing cares about me, too, but before that, I have put all my money on you! Do you want to win? Must win!

But this is not what Cang Ning wants.

At that moment, Cang Ning stood at the peak of his life, but his heart was almost worried about this confrontation. In grief,

He almost raised a childish stubborn interest: he wanted to try, what would happen if he lost? Is it as Jing implies that if he loses, he will have nothing? Including Hua tuo?

He's gambling, too-he may not have those hollow reputations, but what he always wants is the reality that can fill his life.

4、

Hua tuo's eyes are cold.

Because Cang Ning was defeated.

At the moment of defeat, all the sparks in Hua Tuo's eyes went out.

He was afraid to see the scene go out. As a child, he never made too many firecrackers, only a small one, far less than others. He also cherishes it very much. He will wait until everyone has finished playing, and all the rumblings are sporadic.

Put down your precious little pendant.

But it will always end. He was afraid to see it dissipate. Afraid of feeling that the small crane is coming to an end, suddenly there is goodbye in the distance.

People talk about thousands of things.

Jing Shaofei suddenly shouted: "You didn't lose, Lao Cang, you didn't lose!"

"unfair, let's try again and start again!"

But no one listened to his cry, and it was drowned in the cheers of everyone.

But these pale congeals don't care, he only cares about Hua Tuo's eyes.

Her eyes as bright as the morning star are cold. Over the past few years, his mind, which has been gradually filled with victory, seems to have been whipped.

Suddenly it was empty.

He looked hard, with a childlike pleading in his eyes: "No!" "

He shouted at Hua tuo in his heart, "Don't?" As long as you stick to this moment, as long as you allow me to start over, as long as you give me a "future"?

But he couldn't wait to meet her eyes.

An avalanche of ice melted in his heart, a palace collapsed, burning silk and tears were the pain of renewing the front.

"I shouldn't have left!" ?

-he suddenly remembered this sentence.

He hates no one but himself. Why doesn't he believe what he has got? Why do you question it? Why do you always have to fall to see if it's true? !

-everything in this world can't be true, and it can't stand falling. But even so, it is still beautiful. False is also beautiful, as long as it is perfect. Why can't I be perfect?

The perfection you expect doesn't exist. What is not perfect is your mentality.

5、

Cang ning quietly retired.

Everything that belongs to him is over.

He guessed the ending, and he was right. Because of his seclusion, the necessary procedures in the world have been simplified a lot: Hua tuo is a very smart woman, and even when she is in contact with Cang Ning, she has always been very self-controlled and has not left too many excuses for others. So it only took a year, and she erased the few traces of herself and Cang Ning from the word of mouth of the world.

? A year later, she married Jing.

Jing began to be young and proud, and often insisted that Cang Ning didn't lose.

But when he said this, others always thought he was modest. Gradually, he stopped talking about it.

He had the noisiest wedding in the world. That kind of wedding is everyone's envy, right? This is enough to make him and Hua Tuo proud. But I don't know why, he was not included in the "famous instrument spectrum".

Jing was born in poverty, and once he succeeded, he was somewhat arrogant and resentful. Gradually, his reputation became bad. Gradually, everyone suddenly missed the pale setting.

-Now, although Jing never mentioned it, gradually everyone began to say, "Actually, Cang Ning didn't lose?"

This is just a very subtle human world, but I just don't know it.

After that day, he thought for a long time-just like when he was still far away in yingtan, his child won the lottery and he was shocked by his father's death; After the Yushan group, he realized his inner death.

He always thinks of the stories told by his father, what Jing said, and many others. He suddenly understood the profound meaning of that story: life is a feast, at least everyone expects his life to be a feast. They carefully prepared a dish, a dish, a bowl of dishes, chose an auspicious day, perfunctory, invited relatives and friends, eagerly awaited, waiting for the day of decoration.

? But not everyone is so lucky. When a banquet is held, most people will find that something is always missing, just like the story says, "what should have come didn't come." Life is always looking forward to perfection, not perfection, and always let the calculators calculate: their pains seem to have been wronged. So the host will go on chanting all the way, but this chanting itself is a tragedy? Until the end, I was the only one facing the bar.

That feast was a dream? Both myself and Jing are unlucky, and they were born cold at home. They came to this world without stepping on the idea of life-so it is easy to catch up with them, and Jing will be so overbearing, always weighing the truth of everything and always asking why.

He and he, from the beginning, have been exiled from the original perfect life book and have fled their "home". The etiquette and fame of this society is originally the only big "home" for people to convert to. But whether he was driven away or left, he had the opportunity to see through the false life and see a little truth. Although he has been looking forward to the "fakes" that he didn't get as a child, he cherishes his hard-won "truth" here, and he doesn't want to go back and make peace with those fakes.

What he expected was a "truth"-although he was bitter about getting the truth, he didn't really regret it.

He suddenly realized that practicing knives is like seeking Tao. Practicing knives is an escape. If this departure is only a short-term departure, what is the capital for making peace with the banquet later? How will he despise his own life?

-because that kind of escape is tantamount to "escape"!

But anyway, it makes sense again When the news of Jing's marriage to Hua Tuo did not know how to spread, Cang Ning's heart was still full of grief and indignation.

He didn't know what he was angry about, but he couldn't help being unwilling and angry.

-At that time, he was practicing knives on the ancient stone platform.

Practicing knives became his only hope. Originally, this kind of practice had long lost its purpose, but he continued to practice hard for no reason. If nothing else, the knife is his life and his living posture.

In this world, there are curious people, curious people, and people who like to find out the latest anecdotes in lonely places.

Gradually, someone came to the "ancient stone platform" to watch him practice knives. Especially on the day when Jing married Hua Tuo, hundreds of people gathered on the "ancient stone platform".

This is the interest of "powder on the back", which is to search for a deeper life drama behind the excitement.

So what? The rain over there suddenly turned blue.

Because his clothes dyed it. His clothes are old and white, and a knife is white.

He cut it out with a knife and left. Leaving a whole stone platform for rain and hundreds of people to watch. After he left, the onlookers didn't leave, because the knife didn't leave. It was not until three months later that it was said that people who knew the art of knife came to this stone platform to see the meaning of knife. Later, it was said in the Jianghu that the whole stone platform was soaked by rain, but after the knife crossed, the line that fell on the stone platform and was affected by the knife was always dry.

This knife has such a deep meaning.

As a result, the "meaningful knife" has been famous in Jianghu for decades.

?

End of movement

A small country house.

There are several white horses to choose from.

-white horse decorated with gold, even the ancient road gallops.

Of course, the teenager will sit down right away. The teenagers suddenly stood on their horses and stood at the door of the hut.

That was more than ten years later.

For more than ten years, Cang Ning has never used a knife in the Jianghu. After he retired, he came to this small town in a remote area of Jiangxi.

His "meaningful sword" has become famous in rivers and lakes. But now, he uses this knife to cut wood. Cutting wood is his livelihood at this time. The firewood he chopped out was flat and dry, which was especially good to burn.

At first, I just wanted to make a living, but later I split up a little interest in life.

The white horse stopped at the door, and all the people who came were famous aristocratic men in the Jianghu. Every youth, every dress is an extremely exaggerated show off.

One of them got off the horse and stared at the humble Cang Ning in the yard. Suddenly, he said angrily, "Are you Cang Ning?"

Seeing that he didn't answer, the boy was even more angry: "Shit, what are you?" ! After a while, my uncle didn't enter the famous instrument spectrum, which made the old man as blind as a bat. But after the ancient stone platform got the knife, it actually took your improper name and included it in the famous instrument spectrum. You are obviously deceiving your name and stealing the world! Come out and row with me if you dare. My uncle is famous now, and I don't want to dispute with you, but my children are not so easy to mess with! "

-turned out to be well home sons and nephews.

Coming? He came after all.

One day Cang Ning squinted at the group of teenagers running in the sun.

He is past middle age-middle age is unbearable for life and death-with more body odor and less interest.

Looking at those teenagers, he couldn't help thinking of the old days.

He is not annoyed, really not annoyed. He remembered that when he was young, he also had "no sand in his eyes". He remembers.

His story of "who should have come didn't come" and "who shouldn't have left" suddenly made him smile.

But his face didn't appear. He just stared at the teenagers, like a country savage, stunned by their bright clothes and shoes and didn't understand what they were saying. Jiang Mumu mouth panic tunnel, "but you're not talking about me?"

The teenagers looked at each other in surprise. Anyway, this woodcutter is too unlike a famous swordsman.

They hesitated for a while, beat their horses and left in confusion.

-"You're not talking about me!"

Cang Ning looked at their backs and continued to wield a knife at the pile of firewood.

-life is really a staggering and incomprehensible absurdity, and it is a desolate and cold tragedy.

He suddenly felt a little happy. He felt happy cutting wood. He finally understood the story told by his father and what is "meaningful". Meaningfulness is a far-reaching mentality, and it is a little ironic resistance to inexplicable fate and inexplicable fate.

Anyway, at the end of his party, he can finally satirize the sentence without reservation:

"You're not talking about me, are you?"

He looked at the firewood in front of him and watched himself practice all his life, but never thought that the knife for chopping wood would eventually be used. There is no lack of acid in his heart, but he also calmly thought:

Anyway, no matter how well you practice the knife, you have a meaningful life.