Fate is immortal

Opening his eyes again, there was darkness in front of his eyes, his head seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and the back of his head seemed to be split open.

A Yuan covered his head and hummed for a long time, and then he got better.His eyesight finally recovered slowly. It turned out that he was lying on a low grass bed in a thatched hut.

This room is only Zhang Xu long and wide, with nothing but a grass bed, it seems to be a bedroom.The outer wall is an adobe wall, and the inner wall is simply plastered with mud, covered with various vines and wall-climbing tigers.The roof is simply a grass shed, and not only can you see a line of sky when you look up, there are even a few weeds and wild flowers growing between the gaps.

Such a small thatched house can be said to be extremely simple and simple. In comparison, even A Yuan's small wooden house is much "richer" than it.But this hut was kept spotless, and the colors were very rich. The sun shining down on the head gave it a bit of warmth and elegance.

Footsteps sounded, and an old man came in from the outer room carrying a bowl of rice porridge.When A Yuan saw the old man, he immediately yelled strangely—it was the one who was rescued by his chivalrous heart but remained indifferent, turned and left.And he was probably in a daze, and was attacked from behind by the damned thief, and then passed out.

So, it was the old man who saved him?A Yuan blushed for a moment, the poor hero was accidentally plotted by the thief, and he was rescued instead of saving someone, it was really embarrassing.

"Are you awake? Let's have a bowl of porridge." The old man handed over the bowl expressionlessly.A Yuan was so ashamed that he was speechless for a while, and he was really hungry, so he just took it and bowed his head and drank violently.

The old man looked at his voracious eating in silence, sighed, and murmured: "What a good young man, why bother pretending to be a hero, what kind of hero?"

Ah Yuan choked on a mouthful of porridge, almost suffocating, and hurriedly distinguished with a blushing neck, "Old man, old man, I just accidentally fell into the plot of that despicable villain. If I fight head-on, ten of the thieves will die." Not my opponent!"

The old man shook his head and said: "You have a solid foundation, but you don't have any experience in the world. Even a Fengguo scoundrel with no martial arts almost killed you, and you still want to pretend to be a hero? I I advise you to go home early, the world is not as simple as you think."

The old man spoke old-fashioned and ruthless, but A Yuan had no way to refute. He was full of grievances and annoyances and had nowhere to vent for a long time, so he could only say bitterly: "When I catch that little thief, I will never let him go lightly! We must turn him over to the government and give him a [-]-year slap!"

"Government?" The old man laughed, as if hearing a joke, "You have been in Yunguo for a while, have you seen the government?"

A Yuan was taken aback, but after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed the case. He had never even seen a larger village, let alone a government office.A Yuan opened his mouth wide, and asked with an unbelievable expression: "Could it be that the Yunguo is so big that it doesn't even have a government office?"

"Why is there a government?" The old man asked back.

At this moment, A Yuan was stunned. Governments and courts seemed to be a matter of course. He really hadn't thought about what they did and what they were useful for, and he didn't have any personal experience.In the end, it was the red-painted gates of the government office and the mighty officials in Yunji Town that reminded him of something, "Without a government office, what if someone steals, robs, or even murders and sets fire?"

The old man sneered, and said leisurely: "Yunguo pursues the rule of inaction advocated by the ancient sages. Hard-to-find goods are not expensive, and desirable things are not seen. Weaving, self-sufficient, nothing but food and clothing in the field. Just like this thatched hut, it is empty, so what is there to steal?"

"There is no official government in the Kingdom of Yun. Except for the full-time personnel who distribute some daily necessities and farming and weaving tools to the people, they don't care about the rest, and there are no taxes and corvees. Although the people's lives are poor, there is no government oppression, no wars and man-made disasters. Over the years No matter whether other countries are prosperous or in trouble, the country of Yun is still the country of Yun, and it has not changed at all. Maybe, the country of Yun has never changed for thousands of years. But those who thought they were prosperous, strong, civilized and rich, disappeared in a blink of an eye, and the country perished. ..."

As the old man spoke, he sighed deeply, as if something had touched his heart.

Ah Principle was dumbfounded.He knows a lot about the so-called rule of inaction. His sister's master once talked about it intensively, and he has also read it in many books.However, for thousands of dynasties, literati and scholars' interpretations of the so-called sage's words have always been changing and debated endlessly.It has been bustling and bustling for thousands of years, and they have different opinions on whether it is "inaction" or "no violation", let alone specific and subtle policies for governing the country.

A Yuan always believed that the rule of inaction was just the ideal of the ancient sages, and even if the rulers of all dynasties occasionally practiced it, it was just a flash in the pan, or a trick to sell dog meat.Even though he read the exposition of "the rule of the cloud and the inaction, the people are hungry because of ignorance" in the book "The Legend of the Ancient and Modern Knights", he never thought that the largest ancient country in China, the country of the son of heaven, actually practiced Govern by doing nothing, let the people live a life of ignorance and desire.

A Yuan couldn't help but believe it, what he saw along the way was indeed so.No wonder the people of Yunguo are so weird that they can't even buy a grain of food, let alone an inn market, because they don't need it at all.Everyone is self-sufficient and has no contact with each other, so there is no room for money at all.Without money, not even a superfluous thing, what is there to steal?In this way, there is really no need for the government to exist.

But is the huge cloud country really the ideal country of a saint?Low and dilapidated thatched cottages, a few acres of land, no business belongings, no delicacies, and no sensuality.People live scattered in the mountains and fields, each living their own lives, even if they hear each other, they never get in touch with each other...

They are the same person, but apart from speaking the same language, everything is incompatible with the outside world.

Want nothing?The young A Yuan really couldn't understand this state.What's the point of living if you just have enough to eat every day?Even if you don't care about gold and silver property, you must have something you like, something you want to do, right?Such as martial arts, magic weapons and artifacts, such as Yujian flying...

If you don’t want anything, are you still human?Didn't he become a fairy?

What puzzled him even more was, can such a rule of inaction really survive?Although the Kingdom of Clouds has lasted for thousands of years, for some reason, Ah Yuan always felt so illusory, as if the Kingdom of Clouds was just a dream, a deception.

"But, but, even if there is no gold or silver property, if there is no food to eat, if you are hungry, and you are about to starve to death, no one will steal it?" Inadvertently thinking of the little thief who blocked the road, Ah Yuan seemed to have finally found it. The loophole of this lie was immediately asked out loud.

The old man replied leisurely: "The country of Yun is located in the center of China, and is protected by the barrier of China. For thousands of years, the weather has been smooth and the disasters have never happened. The country of Yun is vast and sparsely populated, and everyone works hard. How can there be no food? No food Only outsiders, when they are hungry, they will naturally steal and rob, but for the people of Yunguo, all foreign things are superfluous, so what is so rare about food? If they rob, they will just rob, and they will grow and gather again. Yes. Even if you rob all the food, even if they starve to death, they will not ask others. They can sit quietly and wait for death without even complaining..."

A Yuan opened his mouth wide open, unable to utter a word.If two words can still be squeezed out of the throat, it must be "do not believe".

The old man shook his head with a smile, and said, "You must have suffered a lot along the way, right? If you don't know them well, you might think they are like savages who don't understand human language. Over the years, Dongguo businessmen have been trying to get along with them. When doing business, nothing can impress the people of Yunguo, and they will not accept it if they give it for nothing. The people of Dongguo can't understand. Often a team of Dongguo businessmen surround a Yunguo person and throw pieces of gold and silver goods in front of him. Whether he picks it up or not, it's like playing monkeys. No wonder they gradually began to hate foreigners and money. But once you get to know them, you will find that they are easy to get along with. If you want to stay overnight, go directly to the house and fall asleep, and you want to eat , and just pick it up and eat it, they don’t mind. But if it’s about shopping, it’s just asking for trouble.”

A Yuan was completely speechless, he just shook his head feebly a few times, he didn't know if it was to express his disbelief, or he wanted to wake up from this ridiculous big dream.

"You don't believe it, do you? At first I didn't believe it either." The old man showed a knowing smile, "After you get in touch with the real Yun people, you will naturally believe it."

"Old man, you, aren't you from Yunguo?" Ah Yuan realized that the old man had been talking about "them" and "them" just now.

"I moved here to avoid the disaster of war. At most, I'm half a native of Yunguo. Otherwise, I wouldn't have told you so much." The old man replied flatly.

Ah Yuan felt his mind was like a cloud of mud, and there were countless questions in his chest but he didn't know where to ask them. After a long while, he just stammered and asked: "Old man, you live here alone, aren't you lonely? "

"Lonely?" The old man smiled faintly, "At my age, I just want to find a place to spend the rest of my life. What is there to be lonely? But this is not my home. I just passed by here and found a random house. It’s just a matter of setting you up, and when the master comes back, I should go on my way.”

A Yuan was taken aback again. Just as he was about to speak, there was a knock on the door outside, and someone came back.The old man put the empty bowl on A Yuan's bedside, and said in a low voice: "When you get along with the people of Yunguo, just treat them as yourself. You don't need to think too much, and you will find that they understand very well."

After finishing speaking, the old man turned around and left the hut, only to hear his voice coming from outside, "A boy from a foreign country was injured a little in the room, please take care of him."

There was a sound of footsteps going away, and A Yuan was stunned for a moment before realizing that the old man had already left.He just found a random room to house him, and just said a word to the owner of the room, and left.Didn't even leave him a farewell word, just left countless mysteries...

Although the old man said that he was only half of Yunguo, Ah Yuan felt that he was completely weird, almost to the point that he could not understand.Then, what about the "real" native of Yunguo?