Under the rope bridge at the back of Panlong Mountain, Xiao Zhuo quietly looked at a slightly bulging earth bag. Maybe it was because it had been too long. The earth bag looked very loose, with a few gravels under the several-inch-long weeds.

, if it weren't for the rusty long sword stuck in front, Xiao Zhuo would almost not be able to find this place.

"Yuan Tiangang's... tomb?" Xiao Zhuo pulled out the long sword, and the rust on the sword was peeled off by Xiao Zhuo, revealing several vaguely identifiable fonts, but the last word was only engraved

The upper half of the word, not the lower half.

"It seems that senior sister was really sad back then! She actually made a tomb for senior brother." Xiao Zhuo smiled and started to dig up the tomb. However, after digging, the things inside were a bit strange even though it was Xiao Zhuo.

Dumbfounded.

"What are all this? Senior sister, you are too deceptive!" Xiao Zhuo looked at the wooden box that he had pried open, completely forgetting that what he had spent to get Jin Ruo to marry him was not as good as Yuan Tiangang's.

!

There are more than a dozen round boxes, large and small. With the eyesight of the young master of the Xiao Zhuo family, he can barely recognize that they are all things from his daughter's family such as Rouge. Others include some broken and slender things, which should be hairpins.

Bu Yao and the like, of course hairpin earrings and the like were indispensable, but there was a slightly yellowed book. Xiao Zhuo only opened it and glanced at it, and immediately put it in his arms. The one at the bottom was indeed him

What we are looking for on this trip - the nine-star chart.

After the battle at Shangqingguan, Yuan Tiangang knew that they were no match for Xiao Meiniang at this time, so he asked Xiao Zhuo to come to Panlong Mountain to retrieve the nine-star disk. He also said that only the nine-star disk could help Xiao Zhuo break through to the realm of knowing destiny as soon as possible.

Then the combined attack of heaven and earth was improved again. As for why the Nine Star Disk was buried in the back of Panlong Mountain, Xiao Zhuo spent a long time to find out from Yuan Tiangang.

"Senior brother, why is the Nine Star Plate buried in the back mountain?" Xiao Zhuo just asked casually at the time, but he didn't expect the answer to be a bit surprising to him.

"Your senior sister buried it." Yuan Tiangang's answer was bland, but Xiao Zhuo had already noticed something fishy, ​​so he asked tentatively: "How could senior sister be so cruel to bury such an immortal treasure there?"

Then Xiao Zhuo saw Yuan Tiangang staring at him like he was looking at a monster. After a long time, he sighed and asked Xiao Zhuo: "Have you always wanted to know what happened back then?"

"Think about it!" Xiao Zhuo said without hesitation: "In the past, I heard the senior brothers all say the same thing. What is the truth? Senior brother, you must know the best."

"Okay!" Yuan Tiangang collected his emotions before slowly telling the story, "At that time, your senior sister was just running a shop on Beipingfu Street, selling some odds and ends. One day I went down the mountain to preach.

It was raining heavily when we went back, so I took shelter under the eaves opposite her. I watched her pack up her scattered things, and watched her figure move in front of my eyes, very agile and beautiful, until she turned around and saw me,

I was shocked to realize that I had lost my composure. Then, when I saw her, she found an umbrella, came to me and said, 'Taoist Master, the weather is bad, do you want to buy an umbrella?'" Yuan Tiangang smiled again at this time, and then continued.

Said: "I told her: 'I have no money, can the donor lend me the umbrella first, and I will return it to you tomorrow.' She frowned and said, 'That's okay!' Then she lent the umbrella.

Give me."

Yuan Tiangang spoke calmly, as if he was in the first encounter with Jingyi again, until Xiao Zhuo's voice broke his memory: "Then did you return the umbrella the next day?"

"No!"

"Why haven't you returned it?"

"Forgot?"

"Did you really forget to bring it?"

"Fake!"

After a series of questioning, Xiao Zhuo didn't know what to say at this point. He never thought that his senior brother, who usually looked serious, would be so playful when he met a woman he liked.

"What happened next?"

"Then I bought a box of rouge as an apology to her, and said I would return the umbrella to her tomorrow."

"Then it's not the same, right?" Xiao Zhuo probably guessed the result.

"Not only did I not return her umbrella the next day, but I didn't return her umbrella for the next half month. Instead, I gave her a lot of things as apologies. Some were beautiful and some were fun. Sometimes I bought them directly for her, and sometimes I accompanied her.

She goes looking for something she likes."

"Senior sister is not stupid either. How can she not notice that you are so tormented?" Yuan Tiangang did not refute Xiao Zhuo's words and continued: "Throw wood and repay Qiong Yao. Bandits will always retaliate."

She thought it was a good idea. Of course she saw it, so she never mentioned returning the umbrella again. Until one day, she asked me: "Taoist Master, have you ever thought about returning to secular life?" She thought that we monks

, I couldn’t get married like a monk, that’s why I asked, but I didn’t know this at the time, so I actually replied, “I practice Taoism with my heart and have no plans to return to secular life.” So the next morning, I saw her coming.

Taoist temple, I asked her why she came here, and she said she wanted to become a monk. Haha! I knew we could get married, so I didn’t stop her, so I took her in on behalf of the master."

"Senior sister, did you accept her on behalf of your master?" Xiao Zhuo never expected that someone who didn't consider him a senior sister would actually enter the school like this.

"What? Master didn't say anything back then, why are you anxious? If you think it's unfair, you can also take in a junior sister on your behalf in the future, I won't stop you!" Yuan Tiangang glanced at Xiao Zhuo sideways. Although his words were still calm, there was something in them.

The hidden malice made Xiao Zhuo hate his toothache.

"Forget it! I don't dare." Xiao Zhuo thought of Yuan Tiangang's motive when he took Jingyi in, and immediately put an end to this thought.

"She has been a teacher for three years, and the master also knew that we were interested in each other, so he gave me the nine-star chart that was supposed to be passed down to her as a gift. But unexpectedly, by mistake, I did not marry her, but married her.

Xiuer got married. On the day we got married..."

"Senior brother, wait! You and Xiu'er haven't made it clear yet! Isn't this the biggest problem between you and senior sister? Those senior brothers have talked so much, and this part is just a wild guess! You just

Such a word overwhelms you!" Xiao Zhuoer heard that Yuan Tiangang skipped the most important plot and interrupted him in time.

"It has nothing to do with your senior sister or Jiuxingpan. I don't want to talk about it." Yuan Tiangang didn't say anything, and Xiao Zhuo had no choice but to listen to him continue: "On the day we got married, your senior sister also went there, pretending to be okay.

He was just like a human being, but he was very drunk. When he left, he left me that umbrella." After Yuan Tiangang said this, he took out the flower umbrella that he had always cherished from the house. After opening it, Xiao Zhuo saw

There are a few lines of graceful calligraphy written on the inside of the umbrella: Congratulations, senior brother, on your happy marriage. The past has been like a floating shadow. Now that I see the phoenix flying, my heart is at peace. I have heard that ginseng and merchants will always be separated, so be like you and me!

"So senior sister only returns to the master once every three years. She says she is traveling to practice, but in fact it is to avoid you, right?" Xiao Zhuo's thoughts also went back to the first time he met Jingyi, when Jingyi just took him

When we arrived at Panlong Mountain, we were in a hurry to leave. Now that I think about it, this is what happened.

"The place where I got married was originally in Beiping Mansion. If she didn't want to see me, she had no choice but to leave. And in order not to embarrass her, I left Beiping Mansion with my family. It wasn't until Xiuer passed away later that I entrusted the guest to

After giving it to my uncle, I returned to the master. It was also from the master's mouth that I learned that she only came back every three years. When she left, she buried everything related to me in the back mountain.

"

"We will never see each other again. Senior sister, if you can really do it, why don't you finish carving the tomb words?" Xiao Zhuo exerted a little force, and the long sword was immediately broken into two sections, and then Xiao Zhuo threw it into the

Then Xiao Zhuo picked up the nine-star disk and poured mana into it according to the method mentioned by Yuan Tiangang. A ray of light flashed across the blue disk, and on the nine-star disk,

The Pisces swam, the eight gates were all bright, and then another ray of light came out from the gate of death, spread throughout Xiao Zhuo's body from his left hand, finally gathered in his right hand, and flowed back from the gate of life into the nine-star disk.

"Nothing has changed? Is it because my cultivation level is not enough? Let's take it back and show it to my senior brother first!" Xiao Zhuo activated his spiritual power, but found that there was no change. He couldn't help but guess the reason. Then he tried a few more times.

, but there was no response at all, so I had to give up.

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"Master, Master, are you okay?" Master Yuan Keshi was listening attentively to Jingyi's lectures, but found that Jingyi suddenly stopped talking. Based on past experience, Master Yuan Keshi immediately shouted.

"Ah? Where did master talk about just now?" Jingyi asked as she came back from her thoughts.

"Master, you just mentioned the motto of the founder: The best goodness is like water. Water is good and benefits all things without fighting. It is in the evil of everyone, so it is close to the Tao. Live in a good place, have a good heart, be kind and benevolent, speak good faith, govern well, do good things and be able to do things.

When you are good, you will not fight, so there is no need for you."

He already knew this motto of his ancestor, but when he said it now, he quickly looked at Jingyi's reaction. Because this was not the first time this happened, sometimes he doubted whether Jingyi could teach him.

It seemed that the master in front of him had no special advantages other than being very kind to him and being better-looking than his uncle! But every time he told Yuan Shoucheng about this, Yuan Shoucheng would only tell him: Master, be good and be good.

Be obedient and learn from your master.

Master, do you know where my father is?" Because Jingyi mentioned that he knew Yuan Tiangang, and Jingyi was really nice to him these days, Master Yuan asked boldly.

"Ah?" Jingyi's hand holding the pen paused in mid-air, and a drop of thick ink was shaken onto the page. "I don't know." Jingyi replied. She really didn't know that Yuan Tiangang was now

Wherever she was, even Xiao Zhuo, she wasn't sure if she was still in Luoyang.

"Then master, do you know where my mother is buried?" Master Yuan bit his lips tightly, sadness appeared on his childish face, and his voice was obviously sad. But this was not noticed by Jingyi who was wiping the ink.

arrive.

"Your mother...she...don't you know where she is buried?" Jingyi thought about it for a moment, still doing her own thing. Yuan Tiangang and Xiuer got married in Beiping Mansion, and then she

After leaving Beiping Mansion, she never asked about these things. Later she found out that Yuan Tiangang and Xiu'er also left Beiping Mansion, and she was even less clear about their whereabouts. It wasn't until Yuan Tiangang returned to the school that she learned from his brothers.

When she learned that Xiu'er had passed away, she really didn't know where she was buried.

"I only know that the place where my mother is buried is called Xiyue Village, but I don't know where it is. In order to bury my mother, my father took me a long way to get there. After burying my mother, my father took me

I gave it to my uncle. I have never gone to worship my mother in these years." When Yuan Keshi said this, he also ran to Jingyi and knelt down in front of Jingyi, begging: "Master, if you know where Xiyue Village is,

, can you take me there? I want to see my mother!" As he spoke, the tears that were originally shining in his eyes burst out, and his voice became even more choked.

"Master Yuan, be good! Ah... Master knows, Master knows, Master will take you there tomorrow, ah..." Jingyi quickly stepped forward and hugged Master Yuan into her arms, comforting her softly.

The somewhat indifferent tone of things in the past has now become like melting ice.

Of course she knew where Xiyue Village was! That was the place where Yuan Tiangang and Xiu'er got married. Because she didn't want to touch the scene and hurt her feelings, she hadn't been there in these years. It was Yuan Keshi who just mentioned Xiyue Village.

At that time, she was resisting in her heart. But listening to Yuan Keshi's almost pleading voice, looking at the sadness on Yuan Keshi's young face, and thinking about why Yuan Keshi had never paid homage to his biological mother in the past six years.

With such a feeling, the high wall she had built in her heart over the years suddenly collapsed.

After escaping for so long, do you still have to go back? No matter how much you escape, you are still living well after all, but what about the guest master? What is his fault? For many years, he did not even know where his mother was buried. His grievances,

Comparing with the guest master is nothing! Thinking of Xiu'er's appearance, Jingyi hugged the guest master Yuan tighter.

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"You are a good disciple! You are smart and smart, and your heart is clean. In time, you will be able to achieve success in Taoism. How can you accept him?" On the way to Jinyang, Chen Xuanhua looked at the leisurely people in the distance.

Li Chunfeng asked Yuan Tiangang.
To be continued...