When I finished smoking and returned, the note on the small table had disappeared. I didn't care if Fang Min had taken it or not. I just continued to lie down and slowly moved the Qi in my body, doing Circulatory Cycle Revolutions between my meridians again and again.
Even though I had the talent of the top four meridians, haste makes waste in cultivation. After entering the one-aperture realm, I had been working hard for nearly a month, but the second aperture in the Tian meridians was still not filled. There was still about half of it left.
If this was the case for the top four meridians, then there was no need to mention other people's cultivation speed. Ye Pianpian must have had some fortuitous encounter to be able to enter the Glory of Knowledge realm in a short period of two to three years.
The journey was boring, and cultivation was also boring. I had spent more than ten hours on the train, and I had spent it bit by bit.
However, fortune and misfortune always came hand in hand. During this period of time, due to various reasons, I had been trying to improve my realm as soon as possible. It was inevitable that I was a little impatient in terms of my state of mind. However, after this bitter journey, that impatient desire to improve my realm had faded a lot. Unknowingly, my state of mind had regained its peace.
During the last two hours on the train, I didn't rush to cultivate. Instead, I had a good sleep.
Who would have thought that after sleeping, the Dao Qi in my body would increase a little more than it was before?
This made me very confused. After careful analysis, I understood that the speed of cultivation was mostly related to one's state of mind. Previously, my impatient state of mind was what the Daoists referred to as a barrier, and also what the Buddhists referred to as a heart's devil. Affected by this, my cultivation speed slowed down. Later, after I got rid of this state of mind, it was just like what the Buddhists referred to as overcoming the heart's devil.
After thinking through this, I clearly felt that my understanding of cultivation had deepened. Although it didn't seem to be of much use now, it would definitely be of great benefit to my future cultivation.
However, after the train arrived at the station, I put aside the matter of cultivation.
After being away from home for so many days, at this moment, no matter how much progress I had made in cultivation, it couldn't compare to my longing for my parents. After leaving the station, I went to the supermarket to buy some New Year's goods. Then, I hurriedly took a taxi and went straight home.
When I was young, my family wasn't very well off. It wasn't easy for my parents to support me while I was studying abroad, so I developed a good habit of being thrifty. This was the first time I was so extravagant as to directly take a taxi from the city's train station to the village where my family lived.
It was more than a hundred kilometers away, and my house was too remote, so the taxi driver charged more than a thousand yuan.
If it was in the past, I would've ignored it and immediately rushed to the bus stop across the street. I would've spent a few dozen yuan to transfer two or three buses home. But now, a thousand yuan was nothing to me.
I hurried all the way back home. As the surrounding scenery became more and more familiar, I was actually panicking inside. This was probably what the ancients said, "the closer you are to your hometown, the more nostalgic you are."
When I finally arrived home and pushed open the door, my parents, who were working in the yard, saw me. Their faces were filled with surprise.
My mom hurriedly walked over, and while patting my clothes, she complained to me, "Why did you suddenly come back, you didn't even tell us beforehand so that your dad could pick you up."
Although she was complaining, she couldn't hide the smile on her face. She didn't let go of my hand, and asked me how I was doing outside, and asked me what I wanted to eat.
My dad didn't move from the rattan chair in front of the house, but a hint of happiness appeared on his usually unsmiling face. He put out the cigarette in his hand, then told my mom to go to the store at the village entrance to buy a bottle of wine, and to drink two cups with me tonight.
Ever since I went to university, every time I came back home, my dad would invite me for a drink or two. Usually, there were some things that he couldn't say out loud, but at this time, he would use the excuse of being drunk to tell me again and again. Although it was a little annoying, the love in his words couldn't be concealed.
My mom habitually scolded my dad for his drinking problem, and said that he was going to pass it on to me.
Of course, as she said that, she already started to take off her apron, and prepared to change her clothes.
I quickly pulled her back, and took out two bottles of Wuliangye from my bag, and handed them to my dad with a smile, "Dad, I know you like to drink, so I brought two bottles for you when I came back."
Seeing the packaging of the wine, my dad was stunned. When he saw the words "Wuliangye" on it, my dad's face darkened, and subconsciously scolded me, "You brat, you only worked for a few days, and you already bought such good wine?
Brat's mom, you should go buy wine, it would be a waste for us to drink such good wine today. Put it away, and take it out to drink on our third son's wedding. "
His words made my nose sour. I hurried to pull him back and blinked a few times. Then, I said, "Dad, I'm working and earning money now. We don't have to live so frugally anymore. Let's drink this Wuliangye today."
"Yeah!"
My mom also smiled on the side, and had a proud expression on her face, "Third son can earn money now, you two are happy today, let's drink this good wine."
My dad was stunned for a moment, then looked down at the two bottles of wine in his hand, and finally nodded with pain.
When my mom went to the kitchen to get busy, my dad whispered to me, "If your mom knew the price of this wine, she probably wouldn't let us waste it even if she was beaten to death."
I chuckled, and didn't say anything, and opened the two bottles of wine early, so that my dad wouldn't regret it later.
After my mom prepared a table full of good dishes, my dad and I drank two glasses of wine, my dad became more talkative, and asked me about my work outside.
I told them on the phone earlier that I was working in Shenzhen, but I couldn't tell them the specific position, until now, I finally told them that I was working in a big company, and the salary was pretty good, but I was in charge of some Fengshui stuff, and usually I had a lot of free time.
My mom and dad didn't ask about the salary, once they heard that I was in the Fengshui business, all four eyes widened at the same time, and looked at me with a strange expression.
In the end, after I persuaded them in every possible way, and showed them the permanent contract I signed with Wang Yongjun, the old couple finally calmed down a bit, and accepted my job.
Only then did they start to ask about the salary.
In the contract I signed with Wang Yongjun, the salary wasn't filled in, according to what Wang Yongjun said, I should fill it in myself, but I didn't do it because it was too troublesome.
It was fortunate that it was like this, otherwise, if my mom and dad saw the number of millions, they would be scared.
The old couple didn't have much experience. They had lived their whole lives searching for food in the fields. They only knew that one jin of wheat was worth a few cents. A few million was an astronomical figure to them. If they knew about it, they wouldn't believe it at all. Their first thought would be that they had been tricked.
I hesitated for a while, and finally said, "The salary isn't low, more than twenty thousand a month, and there are bonuses for doing things normally."
I immediately reduced the salary by ten times, but this number still made my parents feel inconceivable, my dad blanked for a while, then murmured, "Baby, what did you say, more than twenty thousand?
A month? "
After I nodded to confirm, my mom's tears flowed down, and she kept saying, our family's third baby has a future, our family's third baby has a future.
My dad also fiercely drank a mouthful of wine, and his face was red.
I sat there helplessly, I only said twenty thousand a year, if they knew that I could earn at least a few million a year, they would probably get sick from shock.
After a long time, they still hadn't calmed down from their excitement, my mom suddenly thought of something, and said, "Third baby has a future now, I'll go find Lao Lai and the rest tomorrow, let's see if their family dares to bully us again."
My mom's words stunned me, before I could react, my dad slammed the wine glass on the table, and got angry at my mom, "What nonsense are you talking about?
Lao Lai and the rest are nothing, they won't dare to bully us! "
When my dad got angry, my mom also seemed to realize that she had said something wrong, so she stopped talking and urged me to eat.
At this moment, my heart sank, the "Lao Lai" they were talking about was my uncle from the same family. Although we were separated by several generations, we still had the surname Zhou, and we lived in the same village, so we could be considered relatives.
However, Lao Lai Zhou had opened a chicken farm in the village, and earned a lot of money, becoming a famous rich family in the village, so he didn't have much contact with my family. From my parents' tone, I was afraid that there was a grudge between our two families.
I put down my chopsticks and stopped eating, asking them directly, "What happened?"
At first, my parents didn't want to tell me, but in the end, my dad sighed and told me.
Originally, my family didn't have much contact with Lao Lai Zhou's family, so we didn't have any grudges. However, this autumn, Lao Lai Zhou's father, who was in my grandfather's generation, passed away. People in the countryside always paid attention to geomancy, and Lao Lai Zhou had earned a lot of money these years. He wanted to use his father's grave to protect himself, so he found Wang Zekun, the one who had checked the geomancy of our house.
Although the geomancy of our house had failed, Wang Zekun had the protection of his father, Grandpa Wang, and there was no geomancy master in the surrounding villages that could compare to the geomancy master of the Wang family. So, after that incident, he was still doing well, and he kept saying that he didn't want to lower himself to the level of a kid like me, so he purposely tolerated it.
Moreover, I was too young at that time, and I hadn't experienced what happened that day. After hearing about it, most people didn't take it seriously and just treated it as a story. It didn't affect Wang Zekun's reputation that much.
However, when Wang Zekun went to the village to check the grave of Lao Lai Zhou's father, he confirmed that there was a low-lying area to the west of the village. He said that it was an auspicious spot, and it matched Zhou Chouzi's eight characters perfectly. Except for that place, there was no other place with such good geomancy.
Thus, Lao Lai Zhou gritted his teeth and dug the grave there.
It didn't sound like a big deal, but the problem was that the low-lying area was where our family's ancestral grave was!
My grandfather and great-grandfather were buried in that low-lying area. Since I was young, as long as I was at home, I would go there with my father to kowtow to our ancestors every year during the Qingming Festival.
The grave that Lao Lai Zhou dug was five meters away from our family's grave!
After I finished, my father, a man in his fifties, gritted his teeth and said, "Later on, I heard someone tell me that Wang Zekun, that scourge, told Lao Lai that his family had made a fortune, and that the ancestral blessing had been used up.
Our family is living well now, and you've graduated from university. It's time for the ancestral blessing. As long as he sets the grave there, he can take away our family's luck … I don't care about the ancestral blessing, but we can't let an outsider live under your grandfather's and great-grandfather's feet. When your mother and I get old, how can we face your grandfather? "
After listening to my father, I stood up from the chair, and my eyes instantly turned red!
What Lao Lai Zhou did was no different from digging someone's ancestral grave!