The wind blew leisurely through the bamboo forest, and Xiao Chengqian and I's hair flew slightly with the wind, and the willow wind blew on our faces. It is this kind of wind from the warm spring that seems to be able to dissolve the light heat in the sun, making us feel relaxed and relaxed. The warm sun can evenly warm every part of the body.
Xiao Chengqian and I were watching this picture in the warm sun and breeze. After being silent for nearly a minute, Xiao Chengqian said to me: "Come on, let's take a walk in this bamboo forest?"
"Walking here? Aren't you afraid of getting lost?" I remembered my childhood experience. The first time I saw the magic of formations was brought to me by this bamboo forest.
"Can this entry-level formation make you lost? Or will it make me lost? Don't talk nonsense, okay?" Xiao Chengqian put his cigar back into the box with great care, then took out a cigarette and lit it. He wanted to give me one, but after thinking about it he took it back.
But I insisted on grabbing it, lit it, and said, "I'm just injured, I don't need to be so careful."
Xiao Chengqian smiled slightly and didn't say much. He lowered his head and became more and more silent.
But I said: "Speak quickly, I will accompany Brother Chengqing later."
"Well, he went to Uncle Li's grave and muttered to himself again?" Xiao Chengqian blew out a puff of smoke, and his voice echoed throughout the bamboo forest. Accompanying his words was the sound of our feet stepping on the bamboo leaves.
I don't know since when, the younger generations of our Lao Li lineage and Old Wu's lineage have been completely 'fused' together, and each other's elders have also begun to call each other master uncle and master uncle.
It's just that they still can't get used to the calls of senior brother and junior sister, but they actually agree with each other in their hearts.
"Yes, it's not just him, Master and the others often do this as well. That night, I saw Master carrying a jar of wine and talking in front of Uncle Li's grave. He cried and laughed all night long, forcing himself to drink Drunk. I heard him talking about junior sister and so on... But the next morning I wanted to help him in to sleep, but I found that Master Chen and Master Wang were also drunk in front of Master Li's grave." I said casually , but there is uncontrollable sadness in my heart.
There is a copper coin in my trouser pocket. It was a gift from Uncle Li. It is a precious natural ingot. I actually often play with it. The copper coin has become extremely smooth and has a special brightness... I miss it sometimes. Expression is this kind of tiny details or tiny movements.
Behind a habit, sometimes it represents a certain emotion, just like wherever a person goes, what he misses most is the taste of his mother's cooking. It is a habit that goes deep into the bone marrow.
"Some feelings are so deep that words cannot express them. Do you know? That time we met in the Holy Village..." Xiao Chengqian and I stopped in an open space, where there was a huge , and flat rock, he and I chose this place to sit down.
The warm sunshine was divided into tiny spots of light by the bamboo leaves, which reflected on my and his faces. Xiao Chengqian held a cigarette in his mouth, tilted his head slightly, and squinted his eyes, thinking of the reunion that day again.
I've stopped watching that scene several times, but every time I hear it, I can't help but have the urge to cry.
Chen Chengyi must have regrets, big or small, in his life, some important, some not so important, but missing the reunion scene this time because of coma is a very important regret for me.
I listened quietly to Xiao Chengqian and couldn't help but talk about that reunion. Hearing the regret of missing it like this too many times was not enough.
"That meeting in the Holy Village... I really didn't know that the elders appeared like this, as if they fell from the sky. I was so tired in the Holy Village. After all, I was the only one who could protect these important people there. People, but sometimes I suspect that Wu Tian’s patience is almost worn out by me. Many times I can’t sleep all night long, or I am woken up when I fall asleep, because I feel that I can’t even protect myself. , how to protect others? Sometimes, I think that we can all be 'heroic' together, but that is just an escape idea. Life will always go on, even if it means living in purgatory." Speaking of that period, Xiao Chengqian's The voice becomes deeper.
That should be his most difficult day, and I can relate to it, just like when Master and the others disappeared, as the senior brother of Shanzimai, I shouldered the responsibility.
We have experienced many years and traveled to many places... In many difficult times, people will be particularly fragile, but the sun will still rise the next day, and responsibility will whip you and you cannot look back. If you move forward, you will be living in purgatory.
I ask myself that I have never thought about escaping. Even though my heart is often weak, it is not pretentious, because I am very proud that we have gone through the storm, experienced life and death, and finally reached this point.
As for the expression of feelings, I will not be stingy. Because I have lost something before, I know that I should try my best to express some feelings. Life is limited.
The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop, the child wants to be raised but the relatives don't wait... I'm afraid that some feelings will be gone before I have time to express them.
How can people understand that thick and sticky feeling if they don't experience it? This is not inconsistent with the strength of his own behavior. Just like what Xiaobei once told me, how can a man who can't even cry become a hero if his heart is not soft? Because he does not have such a compassionate heart, how can he behave in a righteous manner
At least, what I understand as maturity and coolness is a man who can cry and laugh, even be right and wrong, but never run away and knows what he is carrying.
I think... that kind of man who wiped away his tears last year and became cold and iron-blooded this year, and then became victorious and created myths, may be someone from another world like me, that kind of god-like existence, I can only look up to him. .. .Whether it is me or Xiao Chengqian, we are just ordinary people who are even forced to move forward because of life. All we have is the bottom line in our hearts, and what we seek is peace of mind and peace of mind. irresponsible.
"Yeah, speaking of them appearing like this, we should be grateful to Xuan Chaoszi. If he hadn't used his superb water control skills to send us out of the Holy Village and hold back Yang Sheng and Wu Tian's gang, I I don’t think it would be so smooth for Master and the others to enter and exit the Holy Village, and rescuing you would be..." This is really a fluke. Xuan Zhuanzi sent us away, because they wanted to fight for the Sky Pattern Stone, and Yang Sheng and his party didn't care. We escaped from Guidawan last night and bought this time.
After all, Wu Tian was the strongest being in the Holy Village, and he brought his ten strongest 'followers' with him, and most of the Holy Village's power was drained away.
"Actually, it's not that there are no signs at all, you know? There are some very 'stinky' beings in the Holy Village, but they are very powerful. They usually hide in the inner village... They are those who should have died but borrowed the life of others. The cultivators! It is said that they stink because they should have died long ago, but they are still alive... They have the smell of putrid corpses on their bodies, but they are still alive. These people, in those days Very few people appeared in the village. Later, in the few days after Wu Tian took the people away, they would occasionally appear once or twice to protect the Holy Village. The strange thing was that every time they appeared, they were relatively young. One or two people." The cigarette in Xiao Chengqian's hand has burned to the end, his brows are slightly wrinkled, and the look on his face is slightly doubtful, as if to express the doubts he had that day.
Seeing Xiao Chengqian's expression, I laughed and said, "Don't you have any suspicion? At that time, Wu Tian was traveling with his capable men, and those old weirdos who continued to maintain the Holy Village seemed to have disappeared? Did you just Don’t you dare to give it a try?”
Xiao Chengqian should understand that when I say fight hard, he means taking advantage of this opportunity to escape with everyone.
Sure enough, Xiao Chengqian laughed when he heard my question and said: "Chengyi, if it were you? Do you dare to gamble like this? It is not easy to keep everyone alive every day, under such pressure Who can still have the spirit of adventure? This is what is called starving the brave to death and starving the timid to death?"
"The important thing is that you are afraid that I will return to the Holy Village after I come out of Guidawan, and you are not here, and I will be alone..." I then added, yes, not only him, but everyone should be too. So be it.
After all, if everyone is together, we can still compete. If I am alone, I will be no different from the fish on the chopping board.
"As long as you understand, why bother to say it?" Xiao Chengqian smiled bitterly, and then continued: "It was such a hard and difficult day, and the elder suddenly appeared in the Holy Village. How do you think I felt? I remember that One day, they appeared in the afternoon... Hui Gen'er was slightly injured that day and had just been carried back to the so-called confinement room in the Holy Village... "
I remained silent again. In fact, I knew their lives after I left.
Except for Xiao Chengqian, everyone was imprisoned by Wu Tian. It was impossible to live the ordinary life in another village before. They were instantly called the lowest-level prisoners, and anyone in the Holy Village could torture them.
If it weren't for Xiao Chengqian's existence, they wouldn't even be able to save their lives. It's also because of Xiao Chengqian's existence that this kind of torture is still above the bottom line. Otherwise... I can't imagine it.
However, Xiao Chengqian's status in the Holy Village is just that. Even if the torture is above the bottom line, isn't it still torture