When Li Mingyao heard my voice, he immediately raised his head, looked at me and said, "Why are you here? Why didn't you say hello to me in advance?" At this time, Li Mingyao was also wearing a green Taoist robe, but it looked quite dirty.
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"Hey, I miss you. Stop chopping wood and come with me to play for a while." I said with a smile. There is nothing fun in this broken Taoist temple, but Maoshan is more than just a Taoist temple. There are many scenic spots. When Li Mingyao heard what I said, he hesitated for a moment, nodded, stood up, patted his Taoist robe, and said to the three Taoists: "Then thank you for your hard work today. I will chop wood tomorrow."
The three Taoists looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, and seemed quite honest. They quickly shook their heads and said, "No, no, this is what we should do. We are very grateful to Brother Mingyao for helping us."
"Okay, stop talking and let's go." I said and pulled Li Mingyao out. Suddenly, someone behind me yelled, "How dare you!"
I turned around and saw that there was a small house at the other end of the courtyard. It looked like it was only about five or six square meters, not very big. The one who was talking was a Taoist priest who looked to be in his thirties. He was very fat, like a winter melon, and looked ferocious. He walked out of this small house. When I heard what the Taoist priest said, I frowned and said, "Hey, you stinky Taoist priest, what are you talking about?"
"Don't talk nonsense." Li Mingyao pulled me and said respectfully to the Taoist priest: "Brother Mingli, a friend of mine came to visit me today, so I wanted to play with him."
"It's not that I don't let you play, but you have to finish what you start. Since you said you want to help those three little guys chop wood, you have to chop it first, right? You can't give up halfway." Mingli looked at Li Mingyao with an unhappy face. At this time, one of the three little Taoists stood up and said, "Senior Brother Mingli, Senior Brother Mingyao has helped us chop wood for more than a year without interruption. He just had something to do today, and you have chopped a lot." It seems that Mingli is not very popular, otherwise this little Taoist would not come out to contradict him.
Mingli said with disdain, "Does that mean you can kill someone just because you have a reason? Not sending the murder case to the police station is already a great tolerance. You keep pushing the issue back and forth when doing something."
As soon as I heard it, I knew he was talking about Li Mingyao's murder. Although I didn't know why Li Mingyao killed someone at that time, I knew Li Mingyao well. He probably wouldn't have killed anyone if he hadn't been forced into a corner. I immediately stood up and shouted, "What's wrong with killing someone? My brother is trying to save his soul. It's his blessing. If you keep complaining, believe it or not, I'll beat you up." I felt unhappy looking at this fat Taoist priest.
"Xiaojiu, don't be like this, he is my senior brother." Li Mingyao pulled me.
"Let's go, ignore this guy." After saying that, I gave the fat Taoist priest a middle finger, then pulled him away.
I dragged Li Mingyao and ran out of the Maoshan Taoist Temple. Although the scenery was beautiful, it would be boring to live here all day. Then Li Mingyao asked me to follow him, so I followed him. He took me along a small path and ran to the top of Maoshan. The wind was quite strong. There was a pavilion with a stone table and stone bench. After Li Mingyao and I sat down, I asked him, "Why are you chopping wood there every day? From what the little Taoist said, you don't need to chop wood anymore."
"I killed someone back then, and killed a person in vain. How can I just let it go? I didn't feel anything at the time, but now that I'm sensible, I understand how sorry I was to that person. Let's not talk about this anymore. It happened so many years ago. How are you doing recently? I heard that you found a wife, why don't you bring her up to see you?" Li Mingyao shook his head and asked me.
I shook my head, sighed, and slowly told Li Mingyao about myself and Qiuxiang, as well as everything that happened after Qiuxiang and Bian Rui merged. After listening, he also sighed, patted my shoulder and said, "This is all bad fate. I didn't believe in fate before, but now I do. You reap what you sow. If I were you, I would give up everything and live in seclusion with the woman named Qiuxiang. I wouldn't look for Meng Yi. Killing him is useless. You weren't like this before."
"You don't understand, Old Li. You got yourself killed once, and you almost killed me n times. If it were you, could you let it go? This is not hatred. I had hatred for Qiuxiang before, but now Qiuxiang has just changed her appearance and has a few more souls. It's not a big deal. I just hate Meng Yi for attacking me again and again."
"So this is what you sow. I don't know how to persuade you. Think about it carefully." Li Mingyao fell silent after he finished speaking. I also did not speak. We both fell silent for about ten minutes. Then I smiled and said, "Don't worry. I know my limits."
I know Li Mingyao doesn't want me to go find Meng Yi, but I really can't swallow this. I found that my temper has really changed a lot. If it were in the past, I would never dare to go find Meng Yi in this situation. But since I experienced Xiang Yu's memories in the underworld, I feel that my personality is changing little by little. Of course, I am still as wretched as before, but I feel that I am also very stubborn, just like Xiang Yu at the beginning.
"Xiaojiu, it's getting late now, you should go down the mountain early." Li Mingyao said with a smile.
"What? You don't want me to stay overnight?" I looked at Li Mingyao and asked. Li Mingyao shook his head and said, "No, Maoshan has been in turmoil these past two days."
"Hey, what happened? Is there still unrest in Maoshan? Tell me." I asked curiously. Li Mingyao sighed and said, "It's mainly because of the attack by those Japanese monsters last time."
It turns out that this is the case. In fact, the major sects such as Maoshan and Longhushan all have a place specifically for imprisoning ghosts and monsters. As long as some powerful monsters that are difficult to eliminate appear, they will be sealed up. The huge statue of Laozi in Maoshan is the place where Maoshan seals monsters. The Japanese monsters came up too suddenly last time, and Li Shigao was not there at the time, so those Japanese monsters almost released all the monsters sealed in the statue of Laozi. Fortunately, the seal was set by a powerful master of Maoshan back then, and it is not something that ordinary monsters can open. However, a monster was still released, and now that big devil comes to attack the Maoshan Taoist temple at night, and more than a dozen disciples have died.
All the disciples of Maoshan who didn't have any Taoist skills had been sent down the mountain, and Maoshan was ready to close the mountain tomorrow to eliminate the demon. It turned out that if I had come a day later, I wouldn't have been able to come up.