Qin Xiao smacked his lips and said, "Senior, if you want to hear the truth, then I can only say that it's not like wine. It's more like water. There's no smell of wine, so I can't taste anything."
"Hahaha!" The tree-cutter old man laughed heartily. He looked at Jing Yang and asked, "What about you?"
Jing Yang said, "It seems to be a little bitter, but it's not heavy. It's very light."
The tree-cutter old man said with a smile, "Of the two of you, one tasted it as tasteless, and the other tasted it as a little bitter."
"The wine is the same, but there's a difference in the taste. As for me, I tasted the fragrance of wine, a mellow and rich wine fragrance. "
"Different people taste different things. Why do you think that is?"
Why?
Qin Xiao and Jing Yang were dumbfounded. They looked at each other for a while and looked at the tree-cutter old man in confusion. Why?
Was it really the same wine?
Then why did it taste different? Wasn't this too strange?
However, when they thought about how there were all kinds of strange things in the world, they felt relieved. No matter how strange it was, it shouldn't be unbelievable.
There must be something special about this wine.
Qin Xiao said, "I really don't know. Senior, please enlighten me."
The tree-cutter old man smiled mysteriously and said, "Try drinking another cup."
Qin Xiao lowered her head and looked at her wine cup. She found that the wine cup had been filled to the brim.
It was strange. He didn't notice that the tree-cutter old man had poured wine for him, but the wine cup was full unknowingly. This situation was very strange.
Could the wine in this cup be the same as the tree? After drinking it, would it grow again?
Regardless of these things, Qin Xiao picked up the cup and drank again. He savored the wine in the cup carefully.
However, he still couldn't taste anything. There was no taste at all. It was like clear water.
"What do you feel now?" The tree-cutter old man asked again.
Qin Xiao shook his head and said, "It's still tasteless."
Jing Yang also shook his head. "It's still a little bitter."
"Hehe, that's right." The tree-cutter old man smiled.
That's it? What was right?
Qin Xiao couldn't help but ask with a face full of doubts, "Senior, I still don't understand."
The tree-cutter old man took a sip of the wine unhurriedly and said with a satisfied expression, "Wine tasting is not wine tasting, but the heart. When he was in a good mood, he could drink any kind of alcohol. When you are in a bad mood, no matter how good the wine is, it will be tasteless. "
"This wine is the wine of the heart. Only the heart can taste its flavor."
"Your heart is mixed, so you can't taste it. As for you — you can taste a trace of bitterness, which means that your heart is not only mixed, but also dry. This also means that your state of mind is not strong enough, which is why you are easily irritated. "
"The more fragrant the Heart Tasting Wine is, the calmer and higher the state of mind."
The tree-cutting old man's words were obviously full of philosophy, and Qin Xiao could hear many meanings from them.
Indeed, his heart was not calm.
He had been trapped in the bamboo forest since he entered it. Previously, he had walked in the bamboo forest for a hundred years, but there was no way to get out of the bamboo forest. After that, he had chopped the tree for a thousand years, but there was still no way to cut down the tree.
Under such circumstances, Qin Xiao's heart was indeed a little complicated, and there was no way to keep calm.
Jing Yang had been impatient and wanted to attack the tree-cutter old man for a long time, but he had been dissuaded several times by Qin Xiao. Jing Yang's heart had indeed been dry for a long time.
The Heart Tasting Wine measured the heart.
As long as you put your heart into it, you would be able to taste the wine.
Didn't that mean that as long as he put his heart into it, he would be able to cut down this tree? To cut down the tree, one did not need to use Divine Power or powerful strength, but one's heart?
Qin Xiao recalled the process of the tree-cutter old man cutting down the tree. Indeed, he did not use any Divine Power. He was like an ordinary person, slowly chopping with the ax, neither hurried nor slow. He regarded cutting down the tree as a pleasure, and devoted himself to cutting down the tree.
Did that mean that only with such a level of tree-cutting could it be possible to cut down the tree?
The more Qin Xiao thought about it, the more he felt that this was the highest possibility. It should be so.
Brute force could not solve the problem, and the failure of the past thousand years was enough to prove everything.
In Qin Xiao's heart, he also had some understanding.
Qin Xiao picked up the wine glass and continued to sip it. He tasted it carefully, and his heart was completely calm.
This time, he finally tasted a trace of the wine, but it was very, very faint.
But this was a little progress.
"Senior, I tasted a trace of the wine's mellow fragrance," Qin Xiao said.
The tree-cutter old man nodded slightly with a smile and said with a hint of approval, "Not bad, not bad. You tasted a trace of the wine's fragrance so quickly. It shows that you have found the knack."
"However, this is not enough. It is far from enough. If you can't taste the real mellow fragrance of the wine, it shows that your heart is far from enough."
Qin Xiao nodded in acknowledgment, and he was even more certain of his conjecture.
It seemed that if he wanted to cut down the tree, the heart was the key. Only with the heart could he succeed in cutting down the tree. Otherwise, it would only be in vain.
He found the way and was no longer so blind. At least he could see hope.
Qin Xiao's heart was more enlightened.
The tree-cutter old man looked at Jing Yang and asked, "What about you? How about you?"
Jing Yang shook his head awkwardly and said, "Senior, I still taste some bitterness."
The tree-cutter old man shook his head with some disdain and said bluntly, "You are really a piece of rotten wood. It seems that you have no potential. After tasting it three times, it is still bitter. There is no improvement. If you're here, you'll definitely be trapped here until you die. "
"Cough —" Jing Yang almost vomited blood.
However, he was powerless to refute. Jing Yang also realized his shortcomings. There was no way he could compare with the young master in all aspects. This was a fact, and he had to admit it.
"Good wine should be tasted slowly and carefully."
The tree-cutter old man said again, and then he began to taste the wine leisurely and contentedly.
Qin Xiao continued to taste the wine, tasting it carefully. Gradually, he could taste some of the wine's flavor, but it was still very light, with only a trace of the wine's fragrance.
The lighter the taste, the more it meant that he could not really taste it.
Jing Yang's situation was worse. Although he tried hard to calm his mind and taste it carefully and slowly to sweep away the hostility in his heart, he still tasted a trace of bitterness.
The longer he tasted the bitterness, the more he could not taste it.
The heart was the easiest to be affected, and the easiest to be affected.
Moreover, there would be a vicious cycle. The more impetuous you were, the more it would affect your heart. When your heart was in chaos, you would be even more impetuous. This cycle would continue until you could not get out of the vicious circle.
There was a vicious cycle, and there was also a virtuous cycle. It all depended on how you entered the cycle.
The heart was the most difficult thing to control, the most unpredictable thing, and the most unfathomable.
It was still difficult to improve after tasting it more.
"My heart is already very calm. My heart is like still water. I tasted it carefully and threw away everything. However, when I tasted this wine, I still could not taste much of it.
"Where is my heart lacking?"
"No matter how much I tasted it, I still could not taste it. Could it be that my state of mind needs to be improved to be able to taste it?
"Now, does it represent my state of mind? If I can't make a breakthrough, then I can only taste it like this forever? "
He did not understand. He really did not understand.
Qin Xiao felt that there was a profound Dao and profound knowledge in tasting tea.
Chopping trees, tasting —
What was the substantial connection between the two? They seemed to be completely unrelated, but they were inextricably linked.
Chopping trees was to calm the heart, cultivate the heart, and also to nourish the heart. Chopping trees with one's heart was not chopping trees, but one's heart.
So chopping trees was also a process of cultivating the heart?
Qin Xiao seemed to have understood something, but he also seemed to have not understood it.
Everything seemed to be understood but not understood. It was vague, as if it was in the clouds.
The state of mind was the same as the strength of the heart. They were both illusory things and the most difficult things to grasp.
"Senior —"
Qin Xiao was just about to ask again, but the tree-chopping old man immediately made a shushing gesture to Qin Xiao. "Shh, feel it with your heart. Some things can't be explained clearly. If it is said, it will lose its taste.
"Just like this cup of wine, it will lose its taste if it can be said.
"Taste, you need to taste it with your heart. If you can't taste it, go chop trees and see if you can improve it. When you can taste the unique mellow taste of this wine, you can almost chop down the tree.
"Well, don't disturb me from tasting the wine."
After that, the tree-chopping old man no longer paid attention to Qin Xiao.
Qin Xiao did not dare to ask anything more. If he asked again, he was afraid that he would annoy the tree-chopping old man.
Qin Xiao was still analyzing the tree-chopping old man's words. There were some hints in his words.
"Chopping trees, cultivating the heart — It seems that the key is still chopping trees. This wine is just to test my state of mind and let me know how good my state of mind is. Only when I know that I am good and know the gap between me and myself can I better cultivate and improve myself.
"Improvement must be a process, and it must be a long and slow process. It can't be done overnight. I shouldn't be in a hurry.
"If you can't taste the wine, then go chop trees."
After that, Qin Xiao got up and continued to chop trees.
Jing Yang did not taste the wine again. Instead, he left with Qin Xiao and came to the front of the tree.
Qin Xiao came to the front of the tree. Looking at the huge, thick, and towering tree, he felt a sense of familiarity.
People who liked to chop trees should treat trees as their companions and relatives. When they saw trees, they would feel particularly close and affectionate. Therefore, they would be very happy to chop trees.
Qin Xiao did not like to chop trees, so he could not do it for the time being. He could only try his best to calm down and immerse himself in chopping trees.
This time, Qin Xiao did not use his divine power or other forces. He did not even deliberately use his physical strength. Everything was controlled by his heart. He also used an ordinary axe to chop the tree.
Clang!
The axe hit the tree, but it was bounced back by the sturdy stone of the tree trunk. It only left a white mark on the bark, but it didn't even leave a single crack.
This tree was very hard. It was difficult to shake it without using divine power.
However, Qin Xiao did not care. This was the way to chop the tree. It was very difficult to chop down the tree because it was difficult to chop it.
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