In the tenth month of Mengdong, there is heavy snowfall in the country.
Jiang Sibai's thatched hut stands on the shore of an inlet in Jishui. Just two steps away from the house, you can reach an excellent fishing spot, where he can fish with a hook during the winter slack time.
Fishing in winter is a technical job. Fish in winter don’t like to move, so you have to find a place with gentler water to set the hook.
Jiang Sibai was fishing in the wind and snow wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, just like a picture of "fishing on the cold river".
The big white fox huddled inside the house to keep warm and shouted from a distance: "Disciple, haven't you caught the fish yet?"
Jiang Sibai responded from a distance: "I just caught two, wait until I catch another one."
The big white fox asked strangely: "Have we eaten enough?"
Jiang Sibai said: "Teacher Dabai has one, Master has one, and we should also catch one for our junior sister."
Dabai asked: "What about yourself?"
Jiang Sibai said: "It depends on whether Teacher Dabai is willing to give me a little."
The big white fox looked helpless, and then said: "Then you must choose the biggest one for us!"
Jiang Sibai nodded understandingly.
Then his hand suddenly sank, and he suddenly lifted the hook, and a big fat carp jumped out of it.
"Haha, this fish is just right for Master. Let us just eat the bigger snakehead."
Snakehead is black fish.
In fact, Jiang Sibai must think that black fish is delicious. After all, pickled fish and boiled fish are very popular.
It's a pity that there are no good seasonings now, so I can't make this kind of cooking.
Carp had a good status in this era. If a noble gave a gift to their elders, it would be a great honor to give a carp as a gift.
Jiang Sibai took his catch and quickly cleaned it by the water.
Of course, the carp that is going to be given to Master is well tied.
The fish that Qiushuang Fairy and he and Dabai ate together had their scales and internal organs removed.
Then he went to the fire pit in the house, set up an earthen pot and cooked one of the smaller snakeheads.
The larger one was skewered with a tree trunk and placed next to the fire pit for roasting.
Sprinkled with sea salt, a specialty of Jiguo, the grilled fish gradually acquires flavor.
When it was almost done, the big fox couldn't sit still at all. He stretched out his claws and tore half of the fish off. He caught it in his mouth and started eating it with a slurping sound.
Jiang Sibai also started eating slowly.
He didn't eat much, just a quarter of a fish was enough.
As he began to breathe out the energy of heaven and earth towards the sun, he seemed to eat less and less.
Finally, the remaining grilled fish fell into the big white fox's belly, and it was finally satisfied.
"Idiot apprentice, your pot of fish has been sitting there for so long, it should be rotten right?"
Jiang Sibai said calmly: "Not in a hurry, just right."
As he spoke, he took the earthen pot off the fire, then went to a clean table in the house and poured it out.
Along with some thick juice, the boneless fish meat is stewed.
He took out the fish bones and put them aside, then carefully searched for the fish bones in the remaining fish meat, picked up every part, and then put the stewed fish meat into another small earthen pot.
Put it away.
The big white fox looked around and was so shocked that he waited until he was done with his work before asking: "What are you doing?"
Jiang Sibai said: "Of course I need to make some surimi for Qiuniang. Milk alone is not enough. We need to add some complementary foods."
The big white fox asked blankly: "Isn't there rice cereal to eat?"
Jiang Sibai said: "That's true, but it's not enough."
He didn't talk about the concept of 'nutrition', so as not to have to explain it later.
After everything was packed up, he went out carrying the earthen jar and a carp in his hand.
He turned around and said, "Teacher Dabai, do you want to come with us?"
The big fox who was full of food and drink lazily occupied his bed and said, "I am too lazy to move under such heavy snow, so just go on your own."
Jiang Sibai just picked up his things and went out by himself.
Walking outside, he felt it.
The true energy spread out from the chest, and soon connected with the breath of the earth hidden under the snow under the feet.
Then he took a step forward and appeared three miles away!
Shrink into an inch!
He was finally able to give it a try.
However, because he is just learning and practicing, he walks a little "one foot is deep and one foot is shallow".
Sometimes it's three or four miles in one step, sometimes it's just one foot.
In short, he still needs to get used to it.
So Jicheng was fifty miles away from Baiyi, and it only took a dozen steps to get there.
Jiang Sibai stood in front of the Qiudao Palace, took off his bamboo hat and said to the guards at the door: "Jiang Sibai, a disciple of Taoist Mo Shang, has come to ask to see his mentor."
The two guards looked shocked and quickly stepped aside.
Jiang Sibai smiled kindly at the two guards and told them not to be nervous, then quickly walked into the Qiudao Palace and walked all the way to the side hall.
"Xiaobai, why are you here?"
Unexpectedly, before reaching the side hall, Jiang Sibai saw a "snowman" greeting him in the snow in the palace.
He quickly ran over and said, "Master, why are you staying here alone?"
The old Taoist priest said helplessly: "It's too noisy over there and there are so many women. I really can't bear it as a teacher."
Jiang Sibai suddenly understood that Fairy Qiushuang and her wet nurse should have disturbed the old Taoist priest's Qingxiu.
Looking at Taoist Mo Shang's face again, Jiang Sibai clearly found that the wrinkles on this kind face seemed to be deeper.
He suddenly remembered what Dabai said, Taoist Mo Shang was over three hundred years old, and he relied on Xuanmen's authentic Qi training techniques to support his lifespan.
Now that Qiuniang is living in this palace of seeking Taoism, it not only makes the old Taoist priest unable to rest well, but also leaves him little time to meditate and practice...
Jiang Sibai pondered secretly in his heart, then raised his hands to support his teacher, and then said: "Master, do you think what I brought you?"
Taoist Mo Shang had already seen the carp in his hand, so he stroked his beard and said with a smile: "You kid, why don't you bring a gift if you just come to see me?"
"It's hard to catch such a big carp in this cold weather."
Jiang Sibai shook his head and said: "It only took one morning. Not only Master, but also Teacher Dabai and his disciples have eaten it. The disciple even prepared surimi for Qiuniang."
The old Taoist priest said: "Let's go in and see Qiuniang."
"By the way, do you have any questions about your practice during this time?"
Jiang Sibai said: "Master answered a question for me just the day before yesterday. I still don't understand "Fu Guang Feng Shi Pian" very well. I'm afraid I will have to wait until next autumn to fully understand it."
"On the contrary, the more I read "Kun Yu Hou De Pian", the more profound its meaning becomes. However, many of the words finally feel that they lack personal experience. Maybe I will have more understanding after traveling around more in the future."
Hearing this, Taoist Mo Shang said with a smile: "If you have this experience, you must have used it to shrink into an inch when you came here, right?"
Jiang Sibai nodded.
The old Taoist asked again: "How is it? How does it feel to use the earth spirit energy for the first time? Can you still take advantage of it?"
Jiang Sibai asked in surprise: "Earth spirit energy?"
The old Taoist said: "It's the 'earth energy' in the book. Strictly speaking, it should be called 'rustic energy', but it just doesn't sound good so I changed it to 'earth energy'."
"It should be noted that everything has five elements, and the energy of the five elements is the principle of the movement of heaven and earth. However, if a practitioner exerts influence with his own will, the affected energy of the five elements will have a 'spirit', which is generally called 'spiritual energy'
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"And when we, the imperial concubines, use the spiritual energy to produce its effect, it is spiritual power."
Jiang Sibai finally understood how practitioners should fight.
No wonder he didn't lose much energy on the way there just now. It turned out that he was already using his spiritual power without knowing it.