What this person met was an alchemist. To be precise, he was a fake alchemist. Just like what we call a swindling magician today, he didn’t have much real ability and relied entirely on deceiving people to make a living. This fake alchemist traveled around the world.
, happened to pass through this person’s hometown.
At that time, something big or small happened in the village where this person lived. The biggest landowner in the village became seriously ill. The disease came on very quickly. He fell ill all of a sudden and became more and more serious. Several doctors were invited to see him.
But it was useless. After the fake alchemist passed by here and learned about the matter, he felt that there was money to be made, and took the initiative to come to the door to help him. At that time, technology was very backward, and people were correspondingly ignorant.
People were in awe of him. In fact, this fake alchemist didn't know how to cure diseases at all. He just wanted to make some money and left quietly. In order to prove that he had real talent and knowledge, he performed some tricks in public. Those were just trivial skills, but for
People at the time thought it was unbelievable, and they spread the word everywhere that a capable man had arrived in their hometown.
This incident then attracted the attention of the protagonist of the story, who became interested in the profession of alchemist, and naturally began to pay attention to the subsequent developments.
The patient's family members did not know that he was a fake. After seeing the "miracles" he performed, they placed all their hopes on the fake alchemist. The fake alchemist pretended to show it to the patient and defrauded him of a sum of money.
Then he dropped some furnace medicine (things like incense ashes), and while the patient's family members were busy working around, the fake alchemist quietly slipped away in the middle of the night.
But by chance, these furnace medicines, which even the fake alchemists themselves could not believe, actually produced miraculous effects. The patient took the medicines the day before and improved greatly by the next morning. He had been lying in bed for almost three months, and suddenly, overnight,
He could get out of bed and walk around. When people in the village found out about this, they all said that the alchemist was the reincarnation of a god. This thing that really happened around him made the protagonist of the story sigh. He seemed to have found it all at once.
With his goal in mind, he immediately borrowed a horse and ran to catch up with the fake alchemist who had escaped overnight.
Finally, this person caught up with the fake alchemist, and the other person was startled at first, but without saying anything, he got the truth out of this person's mouth. The fake alchemist took advantage of this incident and blew it away, and he was like a god.
He looked like this and told this man a lot of interesting things.
Although he was talking nonsense, he showed this person an illusory and mysterious new world. The moment this person heard this, he made up his mind to become a sorcerer.
He wanted to become a disciple of the fake alchemist, but the fake alchemist knew that he had a few skills and could deceive people in person. If he wanted to learn from him, his secrets would definitely be revealed over time. So he refused this person's request to become a disciple and cheated him away.
He took the little money the other party had and the borrowed horses, and then guided him to the east, where there would be some magical opportunities.
"This man was very young at the time. After hearing what the fake alchemist said, he was convinced. He immediately walked back to the village and told his family that he was going to the East to find opportunities." Li Fusheng smiled and said: "
Is he stupid?"[
This person's family background is not good. His father died young, leaving his mother and two underage sisters. He is the only male in the family and will depend on him for future livelihood, so he strongly opposes his decision to leave home. But his
Although he was young, he was very determined and stubborn. He would go on the path he had chosen no matter what. When he was leaving, the whole family was in tears. He comforted his mother and sister, saying that he would let them live in the future.
Have a good life.
Just like that, the man was on his way. The fake alchemist just casually told him to go eastward without any specific destination, so the man kept heading eastward. He had no money, and he made a living by digging wild vegetables and eating leaves along the way.
Shoes and walking with tree bark tied to them, in short, he suffered a lot in the process of pursuing opportunities.
"At that time, he was only sixteen years old." Li Fusheng said: "If other people were at this age, they would have already retreated, but he did not. He firmly believed that there would be an opportunity in the East to change his destiny.
"
Just like this, he kept walking and searching. He walked through various countries, from the age of sixteen to eighteen. In two full years, he walked to the seaside. When he saw the vast sea, he suddenly felt overwhelmed.
At a loss, he had reached the end of the land route, and he still had not found the so-called "opportunity". Until this time, he still did not doubt the words of the fake alchemist at all, but felt that he had not reached the real destination, so he
To continue eastward.
He stayed at the beach for a while, catching fish and drying them, and then looking for materials to build a raft. He had never seen the sea and did not know how scary the blue sea was. He naively thought that as long as he built a raft and had enough reserves
of food, he can continue looking eastward.
In order to save time, except for sleeping, he spent all his time preparing for food storage. Late one night, he was on the beach catching shrimps and shells left on the beach after the tide went out. Suddenly, he seemed to see something from far away.
Something floated on the sea.
The things on the sea got closer and closer, until they completely came into his sight, and he was stunned.
A large turtle floated on the sea towards the coast, and on the turtle's back sat an old man. The old man didn't know how old he was, and his hair and beard were as white as snow. The man stared blankly for a long time.
Suddenly he realized that this was the opportunity he had been looking for since he had been heading east? Is the old man with a white beard who returned from overseas sitting on a turtle a fairy?
Soon, all the hesitation and panic in the man's heart disappeared completely, and he was left with only strong desire. He dropped the things in his hands and ran quickly towards the sea to meet the old man with the white beard.
"Opportunities are actually very wonderful." Li Fusheng said: "If you look for it, you may not find it in your life, but when you really find it, it appears in an instant."
This man explained his purpose to the old man with the white beard. He was very depressed at the time. He had not had a proper meal for more than two years. He wore a complete set of clothes. His clothes were ragged and his hair was fluffy. But the old man with the white beard
My son did not despise him because of this, but listened to him carefully.
The old man with the white beard refused to admit that he was an alchemist and said that he was just an old man. But the man kept pleading and expressed his intention. Finally, the old man with the white beard accepted him.
"The old man doesn't think of him as a disciple, he just thinks of him as a friend he has made over the years."
After being in contact for a long time, this person gradually learned some things about the old man with white beard. The old man lived for more than three hundred years. He left the land a hundred years ago and went to the sea to find what he wanted, but
In a hundred years, he found nothing. He came back this time because he felt that his time was running out and he did not want to be buried on an isolated island overseas. However, the origin of the old man with the white beard, this person has always been
Haven't figured it out yet.
The old man taught him something and told him some overseas experiences. This man completely believed what the fake alchemist said. It turned out that there really are so many wonderful places in this world. The old man's story subverted this man's thinking. He was very attentive.
, He takes care of the old man in every possible way and studies very hard. The old man also likes him very much.[
This person originally planned to spend at least ten or twenty years learning from the old man, but that was impossible. The old man's life was about to come to an end. He taught this person for a total of three years and taught him everything he could.
Everything he taught was taught freely. When the old man was dying, he hesitated and confided something to this man.
"The old man may have said this because he didn't want something to be completely lost. At that time, he was probably the only person who knew about it."
The old man told this man that there is the biggest secret in the world, which has existed since the beginning of history. This secret will be the end of everything, and this secret makes people who know it extremely contradictory. If this secret is allowed to
If it continues to exist, it may bring destruction one day in the future, but if you take the initiative to dig out this secret, you may also hit the forbidden area.
This was also a secret buried deep in the old man's heart. After saying that, the old man died. This man was very sad. In three years, he learned a lot and regarded the old man as his relative. After burying the old man
After a while, the man began to think. He was not only summarizing everything he had learned in the past three years, but also thinking about the secret the old man said.
He sat on a stone by the sea for three days and three nights. He was very smart and fully understood what the old man meant, so he was also quite conflicted. This secret was like a thorn in the body. It would hurt to pull it out.
It's going to die, but if you don't pull it out, it will always be a hidden danger.
"Until now, he has always been naive." Li Fusheng put down the burned cigarette in his hand and said, "He feels that he has learned a lot. He feels that he can face everything alone. He thinks of his hometown far away.
His mother and sister didn't want to see the secret finally break out, so he decided that since this secret would break out at an unknown time, he would suppress it, suppress it completely, and let it never happen again.
A chance to explode."
In fact, what the old man with the white beard told him was not complete, because he only told him a secret and some related things, but what exactly was this secret? And in what state did it exist?
, he has no idea and has to figure it out on his own.
Time flies and ten years have passed, but he is still as determined and stubborn as when he was a boy. He decided to suppress this secret and has been struggling for ten years. Based on some clues left by the old man, he searched for it for ten years.