Volume Two, Thousands of Lights, Chapter 32, Asking
It was early spring, and the ice and snow melted. New willows sprouted, and the dry river water merged into streams due to the melting of ice and snow. There were moist moss under the eaves last year, and there were also residual greens left by the withered moss in the courtyard.
"Squeaking..."
Next to the farmhouse, there was a little bird that had not left last year's winter and chirping constantly.
"Brother Shitou, can you go to the back mountain with Nannan? Grandma is sick, Nannan wants to go and collect herbs." A dirty little girl in front of the thatched hut said, pulling a dull young man in tattered clothes.
"Hehe..." The young man looked dull and didn't speak, and smiled foolishly. His hair was scattered, but he could vaguely see his handsome face. The man's beard was sloppy and of different lengths, like a thatch cut by a sickle that was missing. The young man was pulled by a little girl, like a child, jumping.
"Slow down, Brother Shitou." The little girl glared at the young man, her tender arms seemed to be struggling to hold a large bamboo basket.
The little girl who looked six or seven years old, with a big basket of similar size on her body on her back, two people, one big and one small slowly entered the depths of the back mountain.
In the forest, the spring breeze has just arrived and the first rain has just been poured. The grass and trees in the mountains are sparse, and the branches falling on the ground are wet by the drizzle, hidden in the shrubs with yellow mold.
The young man seemed stupid, but he was walking in front of the girl. He held a wooden stick in his hand and cut off the dead grass and ancient wood blocking the road.
The little girl is not surprised. The stone brother came from somewhere a few months ago and appeared in the vegetable garden behind her house. Zijuan's parents died early and depended on her grandmother since she was a child. Seeing that this young man was dementia, Zijuan brought him rice soup every day.
One day, two days, one month, two months. Gradually became familiar with it. Zijuan knew that this young man was also a miserable person. He was fed every day and took him up the mountain to chop firewood and carry water. Gradually, he became familiar with it. Zijuan also gave this young man who never spoke, stone.
However, no matter what questions he asked Brother Shitou, he just didn't say a word. Maybe he was a poor mute, and Zijuan regarded Brother Shitou as a relative other than grandma.
The cliff leaks the stone marrow, the fragrant valley is full of elixir. The clouds fall, and the bright jade is full of honey.
"Brother Shitou, I know grandma is sick." In front of the young man, the little girl had just finished picking a herb and said with a sad face.
Zijuan also knew that Brother Shitou never spoke, but when she thought of her grandmother's illness, Zijuan felt sad for no reason. She didn't care whether Shitou could understand it, but she wanted to talk to him.
"Grandma seems that it's not going well this time. What should we do, Brother Stone?"
"Hehe..." Shi Tou sat on a piece of gravel. He just found an ant worm and was having fun playing. Seeing that Zi Juan was unhappy on her face, Shi Tou stretched out her wide palm and laughed and spread it open, asking Zi Juan to see the ant that was subdued by him.
"Oh...you go and play by yourself." Zijuan was not in the mood to play with Shi Tou, and sighed at a young age.
The rain had not yet dissipated, and the droplets of water leaking from the branches fell on the little girl's thin clothes because of the wind. Zijuan shivered with her little mouth and pulled the young man to continue collecting herbs.
"Brother Shitou, Nannan found a stone dragon beard."
This stone dragon beard is a herbal medicine that specializes in treating illnesses and discomfort in the bed (i.e. rheumatism). Zijuan's little eyes were thrust in the spirit, staring at the plants and trees that looked like dragon beards. It was just growing in the cracks of huge rocks in the mountains, and Zijuan could not catch them no matter how hard she reached out with her hand.
"Brother Stone, come and pull it up."
When the young man heard this, he didn't say anything, and used the wooden stick in his hand to cut off the surrounding thorns. His tall body crawled on the ground, and then reached out to uproot the stone dragon beard. Seeing this, Zijuan thought to herself that she had brought Brother Shitou.
Shi Tou smiled at the little girl, Zijuan took the stone dragon beard from his hand. The little girl gave him a thumbs up again, and the young man became even more happy and became excited.
Zijuan saw that Shi Tou's heart was not asleep, and it seemed that he was a child and an adult. She put her hands in her waist and stared at the young man and said, "Brother Shi Tou, I've decided. Wait for grandma..."
Speaking of this, Zijuan choked before speaking. After all, she was a little girl. When she thought that the grandmother she raised her might not have been around for too long, Zijuan wanted to cry.
"Well, adults cannot cry in front of children." Zijuan seemed to comfort her like this much better.
She grabbed a piece of wheat grass in Shi Tou's hand and said angrily: "We are going to leave here and leave the village of Xiaolang."
"Brother Shitou, do you know where I want to go?"
"When Nannan was very young, there was no Brother Shitou at that time. Oh, it was Brother Shitou when you were not here yet."
"Nannan was also collecting herbs in the back mountain and met an old white-bearded man. He was so powerful, he could fly and transform things. He told Nannan that if he walked with him, he could become a person as powerful as him."
"That should be an immortal, right? Alas, you don't understand even after you say it." Zijuan said with her chin in her small hand.
At this moment, she was lying in the basket behind the young man, and the stone carried her across the mountain road. I don’t know if she understood what she was saying.
"Brother Shitou, I want to go with him
That way, Nannan can create a lot of delicious food, so she doesn’t have to make grandma so hard every day.”
"When Nannan learns the magic of transforming things, I will make Brother Shi better. Your beard is so ugly. I want to help you become like my father. Nannan has seen her portrait, her beard as neatly as the Kitchen God. However, my father is a little better than him." She couldn't help laughing at these words. She could not compare her father with the Kitchen God. She was really childish.
"But, I don't want to leave my grandma. The white-bearded old man said that I can only go with him alone, so I didn't go. But... Grandma is sick, I know she is old, and she is going to leave Nannan." The little girl Zijuan was very polite. When she said this, she couldn't help but cry again.
The crying of the little girl in the forest came one after another, and the young man quickly stopped, as if he wanted to make the little girl happy, and danced with her hands and feet to pretend to be ugly.
Zijuan has been used to suffering since childhood, so no one has coaxed her. Although this stone is stupid and stupid, she also knows that she makes her laugh when she is sad. She only feels that she is not working in vain for this stone on weekdays. She burst into tears and stretched out her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes. Seeing this, the young man stood there, wiped his nose and the corners of his eyes, which made the girl angry and happy.
Zijuan was about to chase the young man and beat him. The birds and beasts in the forest were suddenly shocked, causing a commotion, which shocked the leaves and grass.
Zijuan was careful and sucked her breath, but found a colorful tiger behind Brother Shitou, looking at the two of them motionlessly in the grass. She was shocked and tears were about to fall.
The young man seemed to have noticed nothing, but suddenly he saw the little girl crying. He thought that she had imitated her movements and made her cry. His tall body walked towards the girl and wiped her tears.
Zijuan didn't care about anything else. Seeing the colorful tiger coming step by step, she was so scared that her mind was about to jump out. Her lips trembled and said, "There is a big bug, what a big bug, behind you, Brother Shitou..."
The young man seemed to hear nothing, and still looked at Zijuan with a giggle. The giant tiger was only one meter behind the young man and was about to rush over. Zijuan didn't know where the courage came from, so she pushed the young man away.
"roar……"
A tiger roared and shook the forest, and the giant tiger's cold fangs opened, and a pair of tiger claws were about to step on Zi Juan. She was a little and tender skin, but she was afraid that the big tiger would die here with one claw. The young man pushed away by Zi Juan happened to see the tiger biting him.
In the flash of lightning, the young man jumped hard and stood up straight, blocking Zi Juan. The young man seemed dull and didn't know where the strength came from, but his hands actually grabbed the tiger's teeth.
The tiger roared, and the young man's body was thrown away by it, hitting the tree trunk, and sank heavily to the ground.
"Brother Shitou..." Zijuan shouted.
The little girl had no choice but to see the giant tiger approaching the stone step by step. She was so scared that she didn't dare to open her eyes to see the terrifying scene. She just prayed in her heart, and the blurry eyes had already spread. It was all because of her crying, which attracted the giant tiger, which made the two of them die today.
"boom……"
Another loud noise, the young man stood up and had already fought with the giant tiger. Zijuan was so scared that she couldn't believe that Brother Shi Tou actually started fighting with the big tiger. Although his body was weak, he actually raised the tiger's body with both hands and threw it heavily to the ground.
"Brother Shitou is so good. Kill the big bug."
The two of them survived, and Zijuan was excited. However, the stone was fighting with the big tiger, punching each other and killing each other. The giant tiger suffered pain and wailed. The young man was originally stupid, but now he seemed to have become extremely irritable.
I don’t know how many times I beat the tiger, but the giant tiger was already dying, and was beaten by the young man only had the last breath. It seemed that he was tired, and the young man’s eyes no longer bloody and he returned to Qingming.
With the last wailing of the tiger, there was no movement again. The young man moved away from the tiger and lay on the ground and breathed heavily.
Zijuan was coming forward and happened to see that although Shi Tou won, there were strands of blood on her forehead and was about to flow to her neck. The little girl was startled, but she saw that Shi Tou still showed a silly smile at her, and she was sure of it for no reason. But after the young man smiled at the little girl, he fell heavily to the ground and fainted.
Zijuan was startled when she saw him unconscious. She had no choice but to shout desperately. The young man was injured, but he didn't react at all. Zijuan cried for a while before she woke up. She couldn't take the young man back alone. Zijuan hurriedly went down the mountain first and found the villagers to carry the young man back.
I don’t know when Brother Shi Tou woke up, but he kept sitting on the head of the house, motionless and lost his soul.
The moonlight was clear, and looking at Brother Shitou through the window, Zijuan felt that his Brother Shitou had become unfamiliar.
In fact, Lin Ziyun has woken up. A person who has been sleeping for more than half a year suddenly wakes up. He has had fear and struggle. His sloppy hair and messy stubble are tangled together, and he looks even more decadent. I don’t know when he has been afraid of loneliness. He is afraid of living alone. He is eager to get recognition from others, and hopes that he can do things that are eye-catching.
Didn't dare to see him
He was afraid that he would be disappointed when he was there. He was afraid that he would be unable to recover. For a moment, Lin Ziyun thought that he would plant flowers and hoe the fields here, and from then on heal cattle and sheep and be a farmer.
He is a mortal and has no ability. But God is always unfair. He is a mortal, but he also has dignity and a stubborn heart. He always owe others for the past half of his life, and sometimes he thinks that if it is not for the sake of someone who still cares about him, it is better to end it all.
But isn’t it meaningful to live for those who care about him and give? Even if you live in a stalemate, you must live.
Lin Ziyun is a young man who travels from modern times. He has pride. He doesn't want to owe others, so he would rather struggle in pain and live in torture.
He owes his parents, as the saying goes, "My parents are here, don't travel far away." But now he is missing, his parents don't know how much pain they have to suffer from longing and how much pain they have to suffer from losing their son.
He owes Dan Tai Tanxi, a girl who sacrifices her life for love and for him.
He also owed Yu Wenyou, although he had only been together for half a year. However, when he did not shake his head and refused to "take him home", he had already owed him. What's more, he had received his lifelong inheritance. Such a great favor was also a owe.
Lin Ziyun felt like a speck of dust in the universe, and he wanted to sleep like this. Fortunately, no one knew, if he died, no one would know. However, no one knew where you came from even if you died. It was really a kind of sadness, and this thought flashed through.
The moonlight is like a training, and the dead trees outside the fence are painted on the jade plate, making them even more desolate. Lin Ziyun couldn't help but shout in his heart, what is the purpose of his life?
Establish a mind for the heaven and earth? Establish a life for the people? Or carry forward the unique knowledge for the past saints?
He also thought that if you are prosperous, you will benefit the world, and if you are poor, you will be safe.
He also admired the open-mindedness that I could have thousands of houses and my house was so open-minded that I could die of freezing.
He also had the ambition of living in a high temple and worrying about his people, and living in a far-reaching world, worrying about his king.
But now he can't even take good care of himself, he is just an ordinary person who can't be more ordinary. He can't practice, without friends or relatives, he only has a life that does not belong to him, a bad life!
Over the past year, it seems like a dream in Nan Ke. I have experienced all the vicissitudes of life and never become a peaceful person.
Lin Ziyun would rather be a Wuling person himself, perhaps without pain and longing. After he came out of the Seven-Star Secret Realm, he did not know that there was a Han Dynasty, no matter the Wei and Jin Dynasties. However, the blood on his body, the tears at the corners of his eyes, and the bitterness flowing into his lips made him understand.
Lin Ziyun, you can’t be a coward, you can’t be a traitor and unfilial person.
Stand up and raise your head. The huge world will not be without your foothold. Don’t let go. The debts you owe still need to be paid back. The people who are waiting for you are still waiting for you, and you cannot fall down.
Yes, when you are the most helpless and have nothing to do, learn from Dan Tai Tanxi, do everything you can to do to do what you want to do to succeed.
"Qi Refining Jue" appeared in Lin Ziyun's mind. For some reason, Lin Ziyun, who was born from death, suddenly comprehended some of the words he could not understand before. He suddenly realized that he felt like a mirror.
Chapter completed!