Chongmingbird stood on the top of the peach tree again, with its neck raised and its shrill voice repeating the cry that has been thousands of years, the genius is bright, the peach demon in the distance wakes up on time, its ink-like eyes are calm and unwavering, like a pool of stagnant water. . She was reclining lazily on the vigorous peach branch or lying on her own body, the peach blossoms were in full bloom, and the pink color of the sky reflected on her pale face, which made her pale face a little angry. The gauze skirt swayed in the breeze, and the peach blossoms on the skirt seemed to merge with the peach blossoms circling in the air. To the east, the peach branches naturally formed an arch, with Shentu and Yulei guarding both sides. This is the only door from hell to the world—mortals call it the ghost door.
The ghosts who had been breathing all night came from all sides almost at the moment when the birds chirped. That's all, just one more word. But soon, Dushuo Mountain returned to its former dead silence. There was a peach tree, a Chongming bird, two gods who guarded the door, and nothing else.
After watching this short-lived excitement, Tao Yao closed her eyes again, her expression was indifferent to indifferent, waiting for the sun to rise from the sea on the same time as Chong Ming Bird.
Suddenly, a voice that had never appeared in Dushuo Mountain came. It was crisp and very similar to the sound of the string of wind chimes in the palace of the King of Hell. The peach blossoms on the branches were trembling, but the petals flying all over the sky stagnated at that moment. The peach demon seemed to feel that there was something that had never been seen before quickly spreading from the depths of the roots to her branches that were 3,000 miles away.
Tao Yao opened her eyes, and accompanied by that strange voice, she also had an expression she had never seen before: her eyes narrowed into crescents, and the corners of her mouth turned into crescents.
Then:
"Why is it so late?" Tao Yao almost at the same time whispered the words of Shen Tu that have not changed in ten thousand years.
"..." The wind chime-like voice came again.
"Do you know there is a heavy penalty?"
"know"
"Self-punishment"
"promise"
In an instant, the ghost disappeared from the ghost gate.
The peach demon approached gracefully, and on the faces of Shang Shentu and Yu Lei, the same indifferent to indifferent expressions, the same deadly eyes, seemed to be looking at themselves.
Tao Yao said, "What's the expression on that ghost's face?"
Without answering, the peach demon secretly shook his head, gave birth to his left hand, made a gesture of two, and gave the two jars of peach blossom stuffed to God.
Shen Tu said: "laugh"
Tao Yao continued to ask, "What sound did he make?"
Shen Tu said: "Laughter."
Tao Yao lowered her head and stared at her toes earnestly, as if she was thinking. After a while, she raised her head, her squinting eyes became crescents, and the corners of her raised mouth became crescents, and she let out that silver bell-like laughter. , said: "Is that so?"
There was still a dead silence in her eyes that couldn't be concealed, but that bright smile shocked Shen Tu, but she couldn't utter a single word when she opened her mouth.
Yu Lei replied in his usual tone: "Yes"
She still smiled and asked, "Then why have I never seen you laugh, neither did Meng Xiaoxiao, Chongmingbird, nor King Yan."
"I'm afraid of wasting energy." Yu Lei turned his head and stopped looking at her.
"Afraid of wasting your energy?" She smoothed her face with her hands, laughed again, smoothed the expression on her face, laughed again, and kept changing, and finally she muttered, "Indeed Waste of energy." As he walked into the ghost door.
Until Tao Yao walked away, Shen Tu sighed, and made eye contact with Yu Lei, and knew the worries in both sides. Going back to the side of the sky above my head, there is only the sparse sunlight shedding through the peach leaves. The sky is invisible, and the square inch of land under my feet is also densely scattered with crimson peach blossoms. This is the top of the mountain. It is this peach tree.
The peach demon wandered around the hell as before, and she never landed in a corner, but laughter was her constant expression today, and so was her laughter, even if she did come to the conclusion that laughter was a waste of energy. A ghost who knew her timidly told her not to do this, but she still smirked.
I can't remember how many thousands of years ago, laughter is the second expression she has learned apart from the expressionless face, how can she not laugh.
After walking around like this for a long time, Tao Yao couldn't find the ghost who could only laugh, so he could only be at the place of the King of Hell and the place of Meng Xiaoxiao.
These hours have been delayed. If he drank Meng Xiaoxiao's soup, wouldn't he forget to laugh, would he have to give birth again? Tao Yao unconsciously quickened her pace.
Wangchuan was flowing peacefully, Sanshengshi was lying quietly, the other side flowers were still red as blood, Meng Xiaoxiao was still delivering soup in bowls, everything was the same as before, without any change.
The difference is that in the past, Meng Xiaoxiao and the ghost never opened their eyes to look at her, but today they looked at her. Tao Yao knew that it was because of her smile, just like she looked at him because of the ghost's smile. .
"Meng Xiaoxiao, you finally took a look at me!" Tao Yao's heart was filled with an emotion she had never felt before, "Is this happiness? It turns out that this is happiness!" She laughed out loud, triumphantly Said: "Look, I'll give you another smile, this is a new expression I learned today."
Meng Xiaoxiao stopped looking at her and continued her work.
Tao Yao sat on the Sansheng Stone, dangling his legs, and asked, "Did you not see a ghost that can laugh today? I just learned from him. Squinting eyes into crescents, pulling the corners of your mouth into crescents, is to laugh. "Meng Xiaoxiao, try it too!"
Meng Xiaoxiao ignored her.
"Meng Xiaoxiao, did you really not see that ghost? I want to ask him what to do with his emotions other than laughing?"
"..." There was an endless silence.
"Sanshengshi, Meng Xiaoxiao can't speak anymore." Tao Yao said while lying on the Sanshengshi with a smile. She still didn't have the same tone of voice in the past, but her words were a little more agile because of her smile.
"Meng Xiaoxiao, that ghost has never been here before?" Tao Yao changed his posture, but kept laughing. Now she is going to repeat what she has seen and heard from counting the stars last night to closing her eyes to dreaming until now, from the sound of the Chongming bird today to the scene of the return of the ghosts, the scene of the return of each ghost. The subtle difference in the expressionless face is in contrast to the subtle contrast when she left last night. Thousands of ghosts, Tao Yao will never let go of a ghost. This is her life. Trying to find a little difference.
"… The most special thing is the ghost today, in addition to his laughter and laughter, I saw light in his eyes.… That kind of light is even more dazzling than the sun… Have you ever seen that A ghost who only laughs? You didn't let him drink soup, did you?"
After delivering the last bowl of hot food today, Meng Xiaoxiao finally said two words with no expression: drink.
Hearing this word, Tao Yao didn't have any other mood in her heart except the calmness and the joy she had just experienced. Instead, it made her happy again, because she hadn't heard Meng Xiaoxiao speak to her for too many years, and said with a smile: "Meng Xiaoxiao, I'm happy again, I've been happy twice today, and I find that happiness is really good. Well, you can smile and be happy too."
She looked at Meng Xiaoxiao with anticipation, but she was still waiting with a cold face.
"Look, it's very easy, the eyes are curved like a crescent moon, and the mouth is curved like a crescent moon. That's it. After you can laugh, you will know what happiness is like." She smiled, "It's wonderful!"
"Since happiness is born, there will be anger, pain, sorrow, grief, disappointment, despair, death of the heart again, and the cycle will go back and forth. Instead of this, this kind of happiness is not worth it, it is better than this eternal peace!"
Tao Yao listened with a little understanding, but still smiled and said: "Meng Xiaoxiao, since Le can give birth to so many things, why not? Anyway, I think Le is very good, but... Calm is also very good, but you don't get along. I'm talking, it's not good! You tell me what is anger, what is pain, what is grief, what is sadness, what is disappointment, what is despair, and what is heart death
At that moment, the temperature dropped sharply, and Tao Yao knew that the King of Hell was coming. Although she could not sense ups and downs, no joy, no pain, but she had a strong sense of temperature, "Tao Yao, do you remember today? It's March 3rd? Have you started making peach blossom stuffing?"
The King of Hell was wearing black clothes and robes that had not changed for thousands of years, with a jade crown and a pair of black eyes, a straight nose, thin lips, and extremely handsome. But no ghost in the entire underworld has ever talked about his appearance. The ghosts don't talk about it because of his majesty, and the Tao Yao doesn't talk about it because she doesn't have the concept of ugliness and beauty in her eyes.
But today, she was lying on the Sansheng Stone and looked at Yan Wang and Meng Xiaoxiao from a distance, but she suddenly felt the beauty, which made her ignore the cold air emanating from Yan Wang and the problem of Yan Wang.
She answered incredulously and asked: "Yan Wang and Meng Xiaoxiao, there is a word like a good match. I didn't know what it meant before, but I found out today that you are a good match. You are... all... beautiful."
Time stagnated in the fleeting glance of Yan Wang and Meng Xiaoxiao. Almost at the same time, Meng Xiaoxiao and Yan Wang were talking at the same time. Meng Xiaoxiao glanced at Tao Yao coldly and said, "I think you need a bowl of soup too!" Yan Wang said, "Exactly!"
Seeing Meng Xiaoxiao and the King of Hell like this, Tao Yao didn't know where she was wrong, but she didn't dare to do it again, crossed her legs, and said solemnly: "Actually, Meng Xiaoxiao, I've wanted to drink your soup for a long time, but I don’t want to forget you, you don’t want me to drink soup no matter what, these tens of thousands of years, I think it’s good, it’s not good to forget.”
After she finished speaking, Tao Yao jumped down from the Sansheng Stone, with her hands behind her back, her head lowered, and walked away at an unchanging pace, just as she was turning a corner, she turned her head and looked at Meng Xiaoxiao: "I like that one who only laughs. Ghost, did he really drink soup?" She paused, as if asking, more like muttering to herself: "After drinking soup, he will be reincarnated, and he still laughs when he is a ghost. He also likes to laugh more than ordinary people, I'm going to find him, and I'll come back when I learn the expressions of joy, anger, sorrow and joy."
Meng Xiaoxiao glanced at her quietly, and with just one glance, Tao Yao lowered her head, and the thought of going to the world to find the ghost was abruptly reduced a lot, but...
"However, you all know what joys, sorrows and joys are, and what are ups and downs, but I don't know, joy, or I just learned it, and I find that I am a little sad now. You can learn it all. Your ears will be cleansed for a while."
…
On March 3rd, the peach demon brewed the peach blossoms of this spring and buried it in the west. At this time in the west, the clouds were dyed red and reflected at the end of the sea. A few seagulls flew over together, adding a bit of interest to this beautiful sunset.
The sunset glow went from fiery red to dark red until all the colors disappeared. It didn't take long for Shuoshan to usher in excitement again, and the ghosts came out of the underworld to go to the place they wanted to go.
Tao Yao didn't see the ghost who could only laugh. It seemed that he really drank the soup and was reincarnated. She was bored and took advantage of Chongming Bird's inadvertent plucking of the beautiful hair that he never let anyone touch and was proud of. The pain made him tremble. He glared at the peach demon and pecked the peach demon's head a few times. Going down, he finally relieved his anger, but found that the peach demon didn't have the slightest expression of pain, and he suddenly realized that the peach demon can't feel pain, and pecks are in vain.
She looked at the flirtatious flowers on the tree, not knowing what she was thinking. Chongmingbird was afraid that she was thinking of going to the world to find that laughing ghost, so he quickly transformed into a human figure, stretched his head to her, and said with a death-like expression: "I want you to come back!"
Tao Yao was not polite, and slammed a few punches in his face, the pain was so painful that Chong Ming Bird hugged his head and cried out in pain, muttering to himself, "Look, what's so good about pain?"
Tao Yao smiled, and in the dark night, she looked so bright and stabbed Chong Ming Bird's eyes.
"Of course I know the pain is bad!"
Chong Mingniao rubbed his face and said, "Then you still want to experience the joys and sorrows, the ups and downs, and the pains? It's not that we have to experience everything if we don't realize it, and we don't need to try it all. Knowing that the final outcome is not good, you are asking for trouble, you are forgiven if you do something wrong, but you can't live if you do it yourself!"
"But you all know it, and I'm the only one who doesn't?"
"Have you ever seen Meng Xiaoxiao feel happy, angry, painful, or sad? Have you ever seen her eating food and thought it was too sour, bitter, sweet, or spicy? Where's the King of Hell? Shentu and Yu What about the base? We all know but there are few other emotions, because..." Chongming bird stopped, in fact, he didn't know whether it was good or not for them to be calm, "I'm afraid of wasting energy." He I remembered what Yu Lei said to Tao Yao this morning.
The peach demon picked up the petals that fell in her palm, stroked it gently, and said, "My old demon who lives with the world still needs you to teach this nonsense! I just want to learn other expressions."
"It's not easy, I'll teach you!"
Tao Yao turned his head, stared at Chong Ming Bird, and said, "It's quite common for you to be angry, so it's no fun. You can show me a smile first."
Chongmingbird was a little uncomfortable being stared at by the peach demon, but the corners of his mouth rose, trying to control the arc, squinting, and making a very clean smile. Tao Yao's eyes are like torches, and you can see the difference between Chongming Bird and the ghost smile with just one glance. One has a smile hidden at the corner of his eye and brow, and the other is just doing facial movements.
"No!"
After she finished speaking, she closed her eyes, and Chongmingbird could no longer wake her up.
In fact, she understands that it is not good to know everything. She just saw that smile and felt that her long life with heaven and earth was a little less interesting. Watching the sunrise and sunset, watching ghosts come and going, watching her own flowers Flowers fall, year after year, day after day, if you can have some laughter, if you can have more happiness, even if there will be suffering, sadness, and pain as Meng Xiaoxiao said, but as long as you keep pursuing happiness, why worry What about those sorrows? Why worry about wasting energy
If there is no heart, there will be no harm, and there will be no sorrow if there is no joy. Whether, yes, there is no heart without hurt, no joy without sadness.