Chapter 102: Restoration (Part 2)
Before the two old Taoists could doubt whether the person in front of him would be a spy sent from the treasure island, they felt that they might have guessed wrong, because no matter which person is, it is impossible for the person on any side to be unclear about the year. The other party's tone of questioning sounded like a person from the Republic of China, but for so many years he has been staying in the deep mountains and forests, not knowing the changes in time outside the mountains and the changes in dynasties. ●⌒ Novel,
"Don't you know the current year and month?" The mysterious man saw that the two old Taoists did not answer, but stood there blankly, and couldn't help frowning and asked in a deep voice.
Although this was just an ordinary question and his tone was very plain, I felt an inexplicable pressure when I heard the two old Taoists, as if I had seen the teacher who passed away many years ago, which made them feel inexplicable awe.
Hetingzi was born in Quanzhen Longmen. His mentality and sexual skills were slightly higher than those of the complicated Qingjingzi who had learned. He quickly recovered from the inexplicable awe. However, he did not completely get rid of his own mentality change, so he still seemed extremely respectful to the mysterious man in front of him who seemed to be less than middle-aged. His tone of answering was also slightly low, saying: "It is February 13, 1969 AD. It should be the fifty-eighth year of the Republic of China. However, the reign of the Republic of China was no longer used after the liberation twenty years ago, and only the treasure island was still used."
"April?" A trace of confusion flashed across the mysterious man's scarred face, saying, "Isn't that a Western calendar? Why is it used on my land of China?"
Faced with this question, the two old Taoists could only look at each other and didn't know how to answer it. At this time, Qing Jingzi, who had recovered, said: "This is a national policy, and the intention is not something that we and others can know. It is difficult for us to answer this question from our predecessors."
Now he couldn't figure out how He Tingzi thought, but Qingjingzi no longer dared to guess the actual age of the person in front of him based on his appearance.
In modern times, the Quanzhen lineage has become a complete Taoist extrinsic learning, and has almost been separated from the Taoist secret cultivation, true cultivation and other magical techniques. Therefore, although Hetingzi is very high in the Quanzhen lineage, he has only a handful of Taoist true cultivation. But Qingjingzi is different. Although he entered the Taoist secret cultivation, he came into contact with Taoist secret cultivation by chance and also the Taoist secret cultivation technique, the immortal lineage. Although he only contacted the outermost part, he also saw some strange people who were considered to be immortals on land by the people, and among them there were the strange people who specialized in the art of immortality. He was almost a hundred years old but still looked middle-aged. Because the mysterious man in front of him showed a completely different temperament from his age, he also classified this person as a strange person who had achieved success in practicing the way of immortality, and regarded it as a Taoist predecessor.
"Liberation?" The mysterious man muttered to himself, and then asked: "Can you two fellow Taoists have books that record the major events of the Jiazi period in your hands? Or newspapers from all these years?"
"It should be." Qing Jingzi responded quickly, and then confirmed to Hetingzi beside him: "I remember Mr. Wu from the village some time ago asked us to keep his box of books. It seems that there are national history books in those books, right?"
"Yes! There is a set of party history and national history." When those books were sent, they were sorted and collected by He Tingzi, so he was very familiar with the types of books.
After saying that, He Tingzi turned around and walked out of the room, went to another main hall where miscellaneous items were stored, and searched out the carefully preserved book boxes, and then pulled out ten books related to modern history from it. When he closed the boxes and was about to go back, he also held some old newspapers placed on another bookshelves in his arms and returned to the bedroom.
The mysterious man seemed to completely regard himself as an acquaintance, not at all polite. After Hetingzi came in, he took the books and newspapers directly from Hetingzi and placed them on the wooden bed beside him. He did not pay attention to Qingjingzi and Hetingzi, who were beside him, and read the books in his hand hungrily like a studious student.
Originally, the room was not very bright and now it was dark, and the room was even darker. Although it was not impossible to see your fingers because of two oil lamps, the situation was not much better. You must be careful to fumble when doing things to avoid bumping and bumping. This environment is naturally not suitable for reading.
However, the mysterious man who was stared by the two old Taoists seemed to be unaffected at all. He seemed to be able to easily read the small words on the book, and read them very seriously. He nodded and frowned from time to time, not pretending.
This made the two old Taoists think of a legend of the Taoist sect called the Wushi Bai. According to legend, when a person's alchemy cultivation reached the Wushi Baishi, he naturally had a kind of supernatural power-like eyesight. He could see things in the dark night and easily see through some things that the mortals could not see through with the naked eye. Because of this, they further affirmed that the person in front of him was the hermit immortals in the Taoist legend, and his behavior became extremely careful and tried not to make any sound when walking inside the house. After that, the old man also knew that the mysterious man who had no drink or food and had been sleeping for more than four years woke up, just to avoid disturbing him reading, so he did not come to see the ceremony. Even the three of them even went out to eat to eat, trying to keep the house in a quiet state, and there were no other sounds except for the sound of flipping through the book.
Although it was only a dozen books, each one was very thick and had a lot of content. Nearly half of the national history was ancient history, while generally speaking, all major events that happened in the past Jiazi years. As for the history of the party, it is the history of the founding of the ruling party today, which can complement the content of the national history.
It is difficult for ordinary people to read such a large book without ten days or half a month. However, this mysterious man seemed to read very quickly. It only took less than half an hour to finish reading a book. And judging from his expression, it didn't seem like he was just reading it casually, but it seemed that he had actually read the content.
However, no matter how fast the other person reads, it will take several hours to complete it. After dinner, the two old Taoists and the old man waited in the house for a while, but in the end they could not survive the fatigue and had to go to another main hall to rest, leaving only the mysterious man to read the book quietly here.
However, they obviously underestimated the reading speed of this mysterious man. It did take about half an hour for each of the first few books to read. But at the back, the mysterious man seemed to have clarified the context of history and read the speed faster and faster. The last party history was read in less than ten minutes.
"Times have changed, and the world has changed. I didn't expect that in just a few decades, the world has changed so much." After closing the book, the mysterious man said in a slightly hoarse voice. Then he saw him flirting with the stack of old newspapers. After reading the contents on it for about ten minutes, he let out a long sigh, his face looked a little gloomy and solemn. He stood up and walked out of the wooden house.
It is located in the south, and the weather is not as cold as in the north after winter, but because it is in the mountains and there was a spring rain not long ago, the surrounding climate is a bit cold.
When the mysterious man walked out of the house, he was only wearing a coarse cloth clothes and pants, and even shoes. After a cold air came to his face, he shivered as cold as an ordinary person. However, when he felt this most common cold feeling of ordinary people, the mysterious man showed a look of surprise on his face, as if he felt the cold was an incredible thing for him.
"I didn't expect to be suppressed to such a point. The chill was already cold." The mysterious man muttered to himself, and did not intend to return to the house to add a thick cotton coat. He walked into the grass pavilion built on the front floor of the wooden house. He picked a grass cushion placed by the old Taoist here, worked cross-legged, his eyes drooped slightly, and soon entered a state of meditation.
As the true energy in the mysterious human body rotated, a faint layer of light immediately appeared on his body, spreading around like light and dust, communicating with all things around, and at the same time was compatible with the moonlight sprinkled by the cold moon in the sky, and it corresponded to his breathing, flashing and extinction. The skin, which was originally covered with burn marks, gradually became crystal clear under the permeation of the light, and the whole person seemed to have become a glass man. He could see through the flesh and blood and bones inside with his naked eyes. The strange transparent body, the bright moonlight, and the true energy halo like fog and air, perfectly merged with all things around him, forming an indescribable and strange atmosphere around him.
However, such a perfect atmosphere also has flaws. There is also a dark fog in the crystal clear body of the mysterious man. These fogs are not affected by any light and cover the mysterious man's flesh, bones, bloodlines and even the meridians where the true energy is circulating, making people feel like a pearl covered with dust and an urge to wipe it clean.
In fact, the mysterious man also wanted to drive away these dark light fog. When he absorbed the moonlight and the spiritual energy of all things around him, he borrowed the power of heaven and earth and all things in his body as if he was in a clear spring to refine the meridians of the body from top to bottom, and wanted to drive away the gray light from the body. However, the result was really not satisfactory. These dark light fogs were like poison of the tarsus, and they were completely integrated with the mysterious man's body, and could not be separated and removed at all.
After a night like this, the mysterious man had absorbed and refined a large amount of moonlight and spiritual energy of all things. The true energy in the meridians had already appeared in a flowing liquid. If someone checked the surrounding situation at this time, he would find that the vibrant plants and trees that were originally watered by the spring rain became a little listless, and the bright moon that had already sunk seemed to be a little dim.
Chapter completed!