Xu Mingshi lingered in the courtyard for a long time, but decided to go in to comfort the person in the room, even though he was not good at comforting others.
Entering the room, Xu Mingshi sat cross-legged on the ground, shoulder to shoulder with Liu Yan and said: "You see the sun is very bright outside, shall we go to bask in the sun?"
The expression on Liu Yan's face finally changed slightly, he squinted at him for a while, got up, patted his sleeves, and walked out.
After boiling water and brewing a pot of tea, Liu Yan brought out several plates of snacks and placed them on the stone table in the courtyard, pulled two bamboo chairs over, and said earnestly, "Come and bask in the sun."
It was a sunny afternoon, the leaves were rustling in the breeze, the birds were jumping and chirping among the branches, and all kinds of bugs were making their own sounds in the corners.
The entire courtyard fell into a deep, silent commotion.
Holding the hot tea delivered by Liu Yan, Xu Mingshi suddenly fell silent. The troubled thoughts that had arisen from not knowing how to comfort him before disappeared without a trace. He thought that Liu Yan might not need anyone to comfort him, because he knew all the truths in his heart. It's just that reason can't get around emotions, so he will do a series of things that he knows to be futile.
Xu Mingshi was thinking like this, and remained silent. Liu Yan, who was sitting on the side, looked up at the forest not far away, but said slowly: "Fortunately, I'm not alone at this time."
Xu Mingshi froze for a moment, then turned his head. It was almost a tone of thanks. He thought that Shen Qingxuan would also have such lonely moments, and because of such loneliness, he was grateful for the extra person beside him.
Everyone will have such a moment, as if abandoned by heaven and earth. Xu Mingshi smiled and said: "I always thought that I was old and useless, but looking at it now, I still have some uses."
Liu Yan nodded and took a sip of tea with a smile. He had been planning to wait until the beginning of spring, when the family went out to play, but this plan was shelved because of Xu Mingshi's unexpected arrival. Now he is still on this mountain, but at this moment, his family has left. There was only Xu Mingshi left by his side.
Fortunately, there was another Xu Mingshi. Liu Yan thought, because there was another person beside him trying to comfort and comfort him, that's why he was able to sit here basking in the sun and drinking tea.
"Shen Qingxuan," Xu Mingshi said, "I never told you about me."
"What's the matter?" Liu Yan asked.
"I used to have someone I liked." Xu Mingshi said.
Maybe it was because the sunshine was too good, or maybe it was the sympathy for each other, Xu Mingshi generously took out the haze buried deep in his heart, exposed it to the broad daylight, and said softly: "That was a long time ago."
That was indeed a long time ago. Xu Mingshi couldn't even recall the specific day, which day, which day.
I just remember that it was a rainy night, he was still young, although he was no longer vigorous, he was still young. At that time, he heard that there was a monster in a certain village, harming people and animals. He thought it was a big monster with profound morals, so he packed a lot of magic weapons and rushed there.
When caught by him, Rabbit Spirit was holding a half-gnawed radish, hiding from the rain in the dilapidated farmhouse until he fell asleep.
Xu Mingshi said with a smile to Liu Yan: "You told me back then that not all goblins are bad, and not all people are good. So I spared its life."
"and then?"
Then the rabbit spirit followed him and walked a long, long way.
It was a beautiful girl with a pair of rabbit teeth. Shy and timid, a little troubled, so I found a place to hide and shivered. She knew that she was a demon, and the Taoist priest was the one who subdued the demon. They were supposed to be incompatible with each other, but this rabbit spirit became attached to him because of his mercy. In the beginning, I just followed from a distance, walking one step and stopping two steps. Slowly, the rabbit spirit found that the person walking far in front would leave her two vegetarian buns when eating, and ask her for an extra room when staying in the hotel. room, it got closer and closer.
Until we can walk side by side in broad daylight.
The young Xu Mingshi took this little goblin with him to help those in danger and rescue those in need, to cast down demons and eliminate demons, so many people know that there is a Taoist priest surnamed Xu in Qingyun Mountain, a young hero. We all know that beside this Taoist priest, there is a beautiful family member like a flower.
When Xu Mingshi said this, he paused for a while, as if he had a lot of sadness.
"Until that day, the master summoned us to go back. At that time, I was taking her for two days in the wilderness forest, and there was a black bear spirit on the top of the mountain..." Xu Mingshi said slowly: "I asked her to go down the mountain and wait in the inn. Wait for me here, I will go back to the teacher's gate, and I will come back as soon as I go."
Liu Yan did not continue to ask.
Life is full of surprises, surprises and sorrows. Obviously, the accident that Xu Mingshi encountered was the latter.
It was rainy in the mountains and forests, and it was pouring rain that day. Xu Mingshi left in a hurry after giving instructions. The little rabbit hid under the banana leaves and watched his back disappear. She knew that she could not go back to the teacher's gate with him. She is just a demon. Maybe even monsters are not, monsters are all supernatural powers, she is just a spirit, she learned to become a human after five hundred years of practice, and her morality is even lower, she can't help Xu Mingshi anything along the way, even sometimes, become a burden to this person.
White Rabbit Jing held onto a banana leaf as an umbrella, and walked down the mountain with a heavy heart. The banana leaf is too small and her body is too big. The white rabbit with a childlike innocence has turned into its original shape, and uses its own low magic power to float the banana leaf above to shelter from the wind and rain.
The wind was too strong, the rain slanted in, and the wet fur of the rabbit exuded the smell of animals, which attracted the black bear on the mountain.
Five days later, Xu Mingshi rushed back from the teacher's gate, but he searched everywhere but couldn't find the girl who was supposed to be waiting for him at the inn. He turned around and went to the lonely mountain, searching around with a feeling of hope mixed with despair, and finally found a girl in a tree. A pile of filthy rabbit carcasses was found under the big tree. The snow-white fur was stained with mud and blood into a cloudy color, and the small body of Neidan, who had been disemboweled and taken away, was covered with wriggling maggots, and the sound of mosquitoes and flies could be heard endlessly.
The unrecognizable body in the palm of the hand, only a pair of dim eyes are still open, as if waiting for someone.
Lowering his head, Xu Mingshi looked at his hands, which were old and sallow. It was obvious that the time had passed and things had already changed, but he still felt the heart-wrenching pain of holding that rotting corpse in his palm.
His shoulders were patted soothingly, Xu Mingshi raised his face, and tears filled his eyes before he knew it.
"Shen Qingxuan, although you have suffered a lot, you still know what you want from the beginning to the end." Xu Mingshi murmured: "Unlike me, I don't know until she is gone. So I like her."
Liu Yan coughed, the sun will be shining brightly tomorrow, and the weather will be sunny and sunny, but there is no reason to feel sad.
After a long time, Liu Yan said: "You have given up becoming an immortal and cultivating the Tao, and you will definitely meet her in the next life."
A naive smile appeared on Xu Mingshi's old face, and he said cheerfully: "I think so too, I will definitely meet her in my next life."
In the next life, we must meet each other and say we like it.
Liu Yan closed her eyes and leaned back on the bamboo chair with a peaceful expression and a peaceful heart.
Yes, always have hope.
Hopeful, waiting.
Shen Jue sat on the exposed rock, raised her head slightly, and looked into the distance. The sun is setting, the clouds are white, and an eagle is soaring.
There was finally movement in the grass, Shen Jue looked up and saw a big white snake swimming out of the grass, obviously "satisfied with food and drink", and his movements were lazy. Shen Jue waited for a while, and seeing that the black snake hadn't come out, he grabbed a branch and pushed the haystack away.
I saw a mass of black, black, and white things entangled in the grass. It took careful identification to see that the mass was three snakes intertwined together. The tail of the black snake Shen Jue was looking for was hooked up with one of them. At the same place, another snake was unwilling and entangled with them.
Shen Jue observed for a long time before he could distinguish between one female and two males. Seeing that they were tightly entangled with each other, and their appearance in broad daylight was unbearable, she couldn't help but slander: Snakes are inherently obscene! He dropped a branch and stood aside resentfully.
It wasn't until another dawn that the satisfied black snake swam over, lingered by Shen Jue's legs for a moment, and climbed up his feet resolutely. Shen Jue snorted, picked it up and wrapped it around his wrist, and walked back, not without anger in his heart: You are here to indulge in pleasure, but the people at home are so desolate.
With anger in her heart, Shen Jue ran fast, the tails of her eyes turned white, and she remembered that it was one of the snakes she saw yesterday, and she suddenly realized that they were actually three males and one female. Immediately, there was a little malice: No matter how indulgent you are, the female snake may not give birth to your offspring!
Shen Jue knew that he was completely mediocre, so why should he be angry with a snake? Even if the snake succeeds in saving seeds everywhere, their father and son will not raise the snake for him. He just couldn't help it, he was full of anger, as if he had been bullied, if not for his rationality, he would have the heart to strangle him to death at this moment.
—You rely on yourself as a snake!
Walking to the door of the house, Shen Jue took a deep breath, calmed down while exhaling, opened the courtyard door with a smile on his face and shouted loudly: "Father, I'm back."
Liu Yan moved the bamboo chair to the shade of a tree to read, while Xu Mingshi squatted aside and played with the ant hole with a twig. When he heard the sound, he turned his head and looked at him and said, "I'm hungry."
Shen Jue was not annoyed, he put the black snake on the ground, followed him to run around, rolled up his sleeves, scooped up water to wash his hands, and went to the kitchen to cook.
Hei Snake returned home, looked around, and found that nothing had changed. He found Liu Yan happily, and entangled him like a mangy dog. He never remembered that he had bitten him before, and Liu Yan seemed to have forgotten about it. Get clean, hold him in your arms, and continue reading.
Xu Mingshi thought that something would happen, but found that everything was as usual, and he couldn't help but stare blankly. When he was in a daze, the ants that had been smashed into their nests were running around around his feet. Seeing that they were about to get into the soles of his shoes and be crushed to death, Xu Mingshi hurriedly moved aside to make way, leaving a shoe print on the loess. In the end, the ant didn't appreciate it, sniffed at the shoe print, and walked around it calmly.
Xu Mingshi thought to himself: Are the soles of my shoes smelly? A little bored, he stood up, looked around, and got into the kitchen in an instant.
Shen Jue was washing vegetables, and he didn't bother to pay attention when he came in. Xu Mingshi stood aside in embarrassment, watching him wash out the juicy green vegetables, and then quickly wash the rice. aroma. Shen Jue went to cut the meat again.
Xu Mingshi stood for a long time, bored by no one answering him, so he couldn't help sighing and said: "You just call me uncle, so what?"
Shen Jue's hand stopped, and after a while, he put down the thing in his hand, turned around and walked out.
Xu Mingshi was alone facing the house full of fireworks, feeling extremely lost.
Soon footsteps sounded again, Shen Jue went back and forth, Xu Mingshi hung his head sullenly.
Until Shen Jue called him over, and put down the burden in his arms on the wooden table where the vegetables were placed.
Shen Jue opened the package that had followed him for three hundred years and hadn't left behind.
The blue cloth was wrapped with a layer of blue cloth, and when it was untied, it was still blue cloth. Xu Mingshi couldn't figure out what was inside, which Shen Jue cherished so much.
The last layer of fabric was untied, and a wooden box was quietly placed inside. The dark red color indicates the age.
Shen Jue opened the wooden box and took out the contents one by one. As the items were unfolded one by one, Xu Mingshi's expression became more and more bewildered.
He has seen and recognized all the things that were brought out—a shepherd boy with a root carving, a bamboo cricket cage, a small wooden knife sharpened by hand, a small horsewhip...all of these are children's stuff.
But these things are all things that he brought back to the Shen family in a package many years ago when he was traveling abroad.
He used to wink with these things as if offering treasures, just to make the child happily call him uncle.
Shen Jue took out these things that accompanied him when he was young, and lined them up one by one. They were almost undamaged, but time passed quickly, and these things were covered with a layer of bleak obsolete.
Shen Jue was silent, Fang said: "Your body is skinny, it's your parents. They died because of you, if I call you uncle, I'm sorry for them."
Xu Mingshi raised his eyes and said nothing.
"You treat me well, and I will remember." Shen Jue said, "I dare not forget each other for a day."
After standing for a while, Shen Jue put those things away again, put them into his own small wooden box, covered the lid, wrapped them layer by layer with cloth and put them aside, before continuing: "Everyone will make mistakes in their lifetime. No. All mistakes require forgiveness to fix."
Shen Jue said: "Xu Mingshi, after all these years, haven't you let go?"
The aroma of the dishes came out of the courtyard, and Shen Jue set up a table in the courtyard. After the meal, Xu Mingshi said, "I'm going on a long trip."