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The barefoot old man walked out from the bamboo building at some unknown time, and he walked over to the cliffside and stood beside Chen Ping'an. He smiled and asked, "What are you doing? After overcoming a huge challenge, are you recalling your sufferings and contrasting them with your happiness now?"
Chen Ping'an's train of thought was interrupted, and after he came to his senses, he took a sip of wine before turning around and saying with a smile, "Is this not very good?"
The old man was dressed in coarse white clothes today, and he appeared especially refreshed and refined. "Not very good? It's as good as can be! How dull would it be if one didn't have any hopes and aspirations? True heroes are those who can endure hardships and enjoy prosperity.
"When suffering hardships, don't be a sissy who goes around complaining to everyone about how much you're suffering. When enjoying prosperity, make sure to be at ease and enjoy things to your heart's content. If it's prosperity that you've earned, then why should you be forced to enjoy it in secret?"
Chen Ping'an nodded and replied, "Some of my words might displease you, Senior, but they're genuinely words from the bottom of my heart. Are you willing to hear them? I've never said them to anyone else before, not even to Liu Xianyang, my very best friend."
The barefoot old man squatted down beside the bamboo chair and said in amusement, "Oh? Is it the crap about your pitiful past? Sure, go ahead and amuse me."
Chen Ping'an took a sip of wine and didn't get angry at all. He offered the small red gourd to the old man, but the old man waved his hand and said that he wasn't a fan of the low-quality wine. Chen Ping'an opened his heart up and slowly said, "Even though I howled in agony every time I practiced fist techniques with Senior, and I secretly cried a few times and felt like I would genuinely be killed by you, I still feel like my childhood was the most difficult time of my life.
"I clearly remembered the first time I had entered the mountains to gather herbs by myself. The sun was very very big in the sky, and I was carrying a large bamboo basket that was almost my height. I was very ambitious back then, and I thought that I would be able to collect more herbs if I brought a bigger basket with me. That way, Mother would also get better quicker.
"However, the skin on my shoulders was scraped off very quickly, and once the sun shone on it and my sweat trickled...
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