The Great Doorway of Daoism

Chapter 103



The next morning, hualanting went out of the mountain gate and walked along the road.

There were not many people on the road. Hua Lanting walked slowly. He recalled his dialogue with Yun Yiqi and Shu Luntai last night.

Last night was the day when Yun Yiqi took a test on his homework once a month. Yun Yiqi said that his routine practice could come to an end, and then instructed him how to make flexible changes to the fixed routine.

Finally, Yun Yiqi said, "the key is to break the habitual thinking and learn to divergent thinking."

"There is a story about the bird cage. It says that if you hang a beautiful bird cage in the most eye-catching place in the room, before long, you usually have to make two choices, either throw away the bird cage or buy a Starling parrot or put it in the cage."

"This is the logic of the birdcage."

"The reason is very simple. As long as someone comes into the house and sees the bird cage, he will ask you where the bird is and whether the bird has been raised by you. If you answer that you have never raised a bird, others will ask why you want to hang a broken bird cage in the house."

"If you do it many times, you will not get tired of it. Finally, you have to choose one of the two choices, because it is much simpler and easier than explaining endlessly that you just want to look good."

"Most of the time, people are subject to strong habits and habitual thinking - for example, bird cages must be used for raising birds, not for other purposes."

"The advantage of inertial thinking is that it can help us quickly and easily understand and adapt to the surrounding world and things. However, it is better to go too far. If inertial thinking is applied to every corner of life, it will become a kind of stereotyped thinking."

"Poverty will limit your imagination, and habitual thinking will restrict your innovation and change. The next thing you need to practice is to break through the shackles of routine moves and expand divergent thinking."

"Luntai, what are you staring at? Give your younger martial brother an example to deepen your understanding."

Shu Luntai: "ah, this is, OK."

"Well, you know, there are people in Xianzhou who are specially responsible for digging people everywhere and looking for disciples or experts for various sects. They are called talent brokers."

"Recently, a man who is said to have strong strength and contacts found me through his friends, sent me a note and asked me if I had the idea of changing a sect to protect the Dharma."

"Of course I refused. Some people have come to me before. They usually stop after they fail to attract me with treatment and status, but this person is different. He continued to ask me - do you have a teacher you hate? Tell me, I'll get rid of him."

"I said no for the time being. He still didn't give up. He asked me if there were any peers with higher cultivation than me who affected my ranking and resource acquisition. He could help me dig them away."

"Naturally, I said no, but he kept pestering me and asked me if I hated the teacher brother who was out of the way and liked to show off and made me uncomfortable. He boldly told him that he was responsible for poaching him low-key."

"How did you deal with it later?" Yun Yiqi asked.

"I thought he was a talented person, so I asked him if he could change jobs to work for our sect." Shu Luntai replied.

Yun Yiqi nodded and said, "Lanting, Luntai's corn is very good, big, round and fragrant."

"You see, the core is to dig people, and the habitual thinking is to dig directly and hard, but the divergent thinking of experts is that if they can't dig a party, they will dig his teachers, peers, competitors and enemies, and Luntai can turn around and play a guest broker to dig him."

"This is a typical case of being flexible and unfettered, constantly changing the angle or focus and force point around the main purpose."

"Just like you want to change the sword move, from stabbing to lifting to killing your opponent, you can turn your body, arms and fingers, fall to the ground, somersault and change your hands. It's no problem to change the feint on one side to leg attack, head bump and knee top on the other side. You should choose the shortest, convenient and fierce back move according to the situation on site..."

Hua Lanting was thinking of this. The spirit suddenly felt the sound of a horse approaching behind him. He just wanted to sidestep. The horse had slipped and fell down, and the man on the horse rolled his saddle and fell off.

He was startled, stopped and looked back. He heard a hoarse cry in his ear: "Oh, my mother! My leg is broken and I'm dead!"

Hua Lanting reached out to help.

On the ground, an old man was holding his legs, swinging from side to side and howling, but his eyes were staring at him.

Blackmail! Hua Lanting reacted at once.

The old man rolled on the ground like a gourd quickly, briskly and skillfully turned over, hugged his calf and shouted, "come and see, guys, the young man bumped into me. The old man doesn't admit it!"

Hua Lanting can't laugh or cry. The old man is just an ordinary person. His acting skills are also fake. He is obviously not dedicated.

The two were entangled, and passers-by came to watch the excitement one after another. The old man insisted that hualanting hit him and had to ask him to compensate. The melon eating people around talked and mostly helped the poor old man.

Seeing that no one listened to the explanation for a long time, Hua Lanting had no choice but to spend money to avoid disaster. He admitted that he hit it and asked the old man how much he wanted. The old man opened his mouth to five hundred spirit stones, and finally settled it at fifty.

When the spirit stone was given, a passer-by said, "OK, young man, hurry up and ride on malier. I see you didn't deliberately hit people with a horse, so as not to make you more troublesome."

Hua Lanting's eyes turned when he heard the speech, and he was about to leave. The old man grabbed the reins and shouted in a louder voice than before: "God, the horse is mine! You can't ride away!"

At this time, the spectators began to fight against injustice again. No one believed the old man's words at all. They said that the young men of others had lost a lot of money. They almost got it. They couldn't ride a horse and hit you. They also lost money.

Hua Lanting is happy in his heart. He thinks that his profession is to touch porcelain, but he is really unprofessional!

He arched his hands around, beat his horse and whip away, leaving the old man to chase after the soil.

Although this horse is not a spirit beast, the horse in Xianzhou is taller and stronger than that in the secular world. Fifty spirit stones can't be bought.

This is a clear proof that habitual thinking does great harm to people!

The evaluation of Dong Mingfeng was arranged three days later. Now many disciples are preparing to choose the peak and sign up. They are in the empty window period of cultivation. Hua Lanting asked for leave today and made an appointment with Lin Xianjing to play in Yuehe town.

Hualanting rode into Yuehe Town, but Lin Xianjing came late.

After shopping for half a day, the four bought some items and remembered the shock of the moon river, so they found a small restaurant near the river to drink.

Hua Lanting asked casually, "why don't you three keep your appointment? I arrived early and waited for you for a long time."

Lin Xian startled and pointed to Yi LiuNian: "ask him, a big man has to wash and tidy up early. He's almost yellow on the mirror decal. He has experienced the sequelae of degeneration."

Yi LiuNian blushed: "how, brother has grown up, mature and pay attention to appearance, can't he!"

Lin Xian was surprised and laughed: "if you are happy with yourself, go ahead and see which senior brother in the door. I'll protect the media."

Zhuge Yun inserted a sentence: "this sentence is falsely spread. It should be a woman who is happy for herself."

Hua Lanting said, "it's reasonable. Fleeting years, you haven't answered the question of whether you had a child last time."

Yi LiuNian sighed: "don't mention it. Some things are too hypocritical to say, too wronged to say, too useless to cry, too bitter to cry."

"I really don't remember anything else. I still have an impression of this feeling, but I'm wronged. I've always been single in my impression!"

Lin Xian was surprised and said, "well, come and interview, LiuNian, you have so much perseverance. You've been single for two generations. What's the experience of being single for too long?"

Yi LiuNian youyou replied, "being single for too long? It feels like being widowed for your predecessor. In addition, life is not only about your present, but also about your predecessor and the spare tire."

The three laughed.

Hua Lanting asked again, "no one has chased you, and you have never secretly loved or chased back?"

Yi LiuNian: "why not? For a while, a boy walked close to me. One night we were walking together. He told me that others thought we were in love."

Hua Lanting: "there's a play. How obvious is the hint? How did you answer?"

"I said, ignore them. We are not afraid of crooked shadows."

Lin Xianjing took a mouthful of wine and gushed out: "there's seed. I can see that you're not unjust. You're alone by strength."

Yi LiuNian groaned twice: "elder brother, I would rather be alone than live up to two people. I want to meet someone who makes me excited, rather than someone who feels good after weighing the trade-offs and analyzing the pros and cons."

Hua Lanting picked his thumb: "well said, my admiration for you is like a surging river..."

Yi LiuNian: "stop, stop, meat hemp."

Hua Lanting bowed his head and looked shy: "hate, easy, don't call people a family court in front of so many people..."

Zhuge Yun looked seriously at Hua Lanting and Lin Xian, who were about to choke with laughter: "be serious and manage them. LiuNian, you continue to say that you were chasing you just now. How did you chase others?"

Yi LiuNian: "I haven't pursued it, but I only fell in love secretly. In other words, secret love is really a wonderful thing."

"Although two people didn't really live together and each other's life didn't have my mark, they did accompany me through all the important nodes of my life without the other party's knowledge."

"In many times when I can't stand it, it's this secret love that keeps me going. That's why I know that single love is dangerous, but I'm always unwilling to take the initiative to get out."

"Sometimes, losing is more terrible than not getting. Because it has a process called once."

The three of hualanting were silent.

Lin Xianjing: "fleeting years, what have you experienced?"

After a while, Zhuge Yun asked carefully, "well, LiuNian, what else can you teach us?"

This time, Yi LiuNian said firmly, "when you are angry with your boyfriend, you must calm down and think about whether you are wrong. If so, think about how to push it to your boyfriend."

Hua Lanting suddenly said, "no, then the problem is coming. Your spiritual consciousness should be sober, but your body is different. The dominance and orientation of men and women..."

Yi LiuNian scratched his hair painfully: "I just can't remember. I don't talk. I'm still in a messy switch between hen and rooster. Otherwise, you really think I'm willing to dress up."

Lin Xian suddenly stood up: "LiuNian, don't go to the bathroom with me in the morning."

Yi LiuNian jumped up: "Lin Xianjing, what do you mean? Ouch!"

Just listening to the pop, it turned out that Yi LiuNian jumped too high under the excitement, smashed the sign of Liangshang tavern into two halves and fell down.

The boss yelled and ran over. Lin Xianjing looked at each other and didn't know what to do. It's not smashing people's signs.

Only after understanding the essence of divergent thinking, Hua Lanting took it easy and drank a mouthful of wine, then he grabbed the red faced boss Wen Yan and advised:

"Elder brother, have something to say. Don't worry. You see, it's a good thing. It's divided into two. It's a good omen for you to open a branch!"