"Don't let me ask. You can explain yourself clearly."
Shanhai is not like tasting tea, but simply quenching thirst, drinking the tea in one go.
"Oh, it's really terrible. Is this the way you talk to your benefactor?" Lord Jiyue raised his sleeves again and covered his lips as if joking.
"I don't want to argue with you, so I advise you to explain your little abacus clearly."
"...Benefactor? What kind of benefactor?"
Aluan interrupted their unfriendly conversation. Lord Jiyue looked at her and responded with a smile:
"Now Luan'er has grown into a big girl."
"You recognize me?"
"I even hugged you."
Aluan couldn't understand it anymore. She glanced at Shanhai, but he just looked down at the teacup. So she moved her gaze to Lord Jiyue again to listen to what he was going to say next.
"You don't believe it? I really hugged you. As for the benefactor of Shanhai, you don't know anything. If it weren't for me, you might not have a master now."
Seeing that Shanhai didn't refute or stop him, she continued to ask, "Then tell me quickly."
"Children are just impatient." He smiled, "Don't rush me. Luan'er will help me peel a loquat first."
Aluan actually went to the table and touched a loquat peel. She remembered that that night, Lord Jiyue said personally that she had no hands. Even Shan Hai did not deny this.
"Good girl, why have I never seen you treat me like this?"
Shan Hai didn't know whether he laughed angrily or just said it casually. Aluan replied confidently:
"You have hands and feet, so do it yourself."
"Tch, that's how he lied to me about the piece of meat in the bowl back then. Later I realized, why does Zai Wichang need to eat? He has been hungry for hundreds of years and nothing has happened to him. Don't give it to him, he won't starve to death."
As soon as he finished speaking, the peeled loquat was stuffed into Lord Jiyue's mouth. Hearing this, Lord Jiyue raised his head slightly, holding the fruit in his mouth and mumbled to him, "Nuo, give it back to you."
"Go! I'm annoyed."
"With this piece of meat, you can remember me for a lifetime. But you are really weird. Let me make it clear that you are the one who wants me to stay by my side now."
"Hey, leave him alone, tell me quickly, what happened to the benefactor?"
A Luan was anxious. Lord Jiyue swallowed the food in his mouth slowly and gestured towards the teapot in front of Shanhai. Aluan stood up, pulled the teapot over, poured a cup of tea, he picked up the teacup through his sleeves, and then spoke slowly and leisurely.
"Let me ask you first, do you know where his name Lin Shanhai comes from?"
Ah Luan shook his head, and Lord Jiyue continued:
"Your master has no parents, you know this. When he was still in his infancy, he was placed at the intersection at the foot of the mountain. It happened that the master of Linxiao Temple was traveling and saw him and asked the accompanying disciples to take him back to the temple. The cloth also contained his birthday and a letter. The letter said that he was sent here from the Zanglan Sea. But the letter did not say who his biological parents were, but just asked for help. Take good care of him. So the sect master asked him to take the surname Lin as Sui Guan. He was born in Zanglanhai and grew up in Dailuan City, so he was named Shanhai."
"oh……"
A Luan let out a long sigh. At this moment, she was in a daze as if listening to a book.
"Then, was it you who carried him?"
"That's not true. I only found out about him in Dailuan City."
"...but what does this have to do with the benefactor?"
"I told him that he had no biological parents, and the sect leader accepted him as his direct disciple. His wife, who had suffered from illness due to martial arts practice in her early years, had no children, so she treated him as if she were her own child. He understands this himself, and is always grateful for this. . Until one year, the master's wife got a serious illness again, and she didn't get better. He didn't know where he listened to the nonsense, and he went to the mountains with a basket on his back to find Wu Xuelian, which can cure all diseases. "
"Don't snow lotuses grow on extremely high and extremely cold mountain peaks? Although the mountains in Dailuan City are covered with snow, they are nowhere that high."
"Yes, but Wu Xuelian was a gift from Xuan Luan. What he was looking for was not the medicinal herbs, but the divine bird. As a result, he fell down from the cliff and was saved by me."
What Jiyue Lord said was miraculous, and Aluan listened with rapt attention.
"You know, when you first saw him when you were a child, you smiled at him. Everyone thought you liked him, but in fact it was not the case. There were two souls behind him teasing you."
"I do not remember……"
"Of course you don't remember. Your horoscope is too weak, and the previous brothers and sisters were really short-lived. Your father was afraid that you wouldn't be able to survive, so he went around asking for help to keep you alive. In addition to the safety lock, some people also said that you should pray to the horoscope A master who is compatible with and can enhance your fortune. In the whole city, only the teenage Shan Hai is suitable. He went up to the mountain in person and took you to talk to the sect master about this matter, and he finally agreed. "
"Well, I heard Shan Hai say this."
"Your master fell down from the mountain and lost half of his life. After seeing my impermanence, he naturally had yin and yang eyes after regaining his life. The shadow he saw back then... was naturally his biological father and mother. Of course, I will help them to the end and ferry those two people across. But... he seems to still blame me."
"I don't blame you," Shan Hai suddenly said, "I just feel sorry and don't know how to apologize to my parents."
"Apologise?" Aluan asked again.
"Well, the sect master read the letter and said that he has good horoscopes, is an orphan of the opposite sex, has bad luck, ruined his ancestral property, and his parents were tortured and injured... Well, it means that he can defeat his parents, and he can only achieve success by sending samples to other families. Never I think they were already dead when they were sent here. When he grew up and found out about this, he always felt that it was his fault..."
"Okay, okay, do you want to talk about business or not?"
Shan Hai interrupted him, and there was no sign of his liking or disliking of this topic from his expression. But in comparison, the matter at hand is naturally more important. At this time, Aluan competed with him to talk, chasing the tail of the sound of mountains and seas and asking a new question.
"Then, what's going on with your eyes?"
"Well... I was a musician in the palace during my lifetime. At that time, because I was afraid that those of us who were close to the emperor would assassinate me, I deliberately poisoned my eyes."
"Eh? This is too much -"
"It was like this at that time. No one thought it was unreasonable, not even me. I couldn't see behind my back, but I had a better understanding of music. For nearly a thousand years, no matter flowers, plants, men, women, old or young, no matter who they are, as long as they are in my As soon as it flashes in front of me, I can know it immediately. In this way, how is it different from ordinary people?"
"well--"
"You seem disappointed?"
"That's not true. I've just heard the story of December in the Underworld since I was a child, and thought that you are all omnipotent gods, demons, and monsters in heaven and earth. I never thought that you are also ordinary people."
"Yes, we were all just mortals once. An adult showed us the way and gave us a place to stay."
Ah Luan seemed to want to continue asking questions, such as his hands and the "adult". But Shan Hai knocked the porcelain cup gently, making a loud sound on the table. If they continue chatting, he might not be able to put on a good face.
"Ah... business, business..."
Lord Jiyue thought hard, as if searching for something to say.
"Well, what happened in your investigation?"
"Didn't you hear everything upstairs?"
He knows Ji Yuejun's ear. He can tell how many grains of rice are mixed in a handful of beans, how many flowers are blooming in the bushes from a gust of wind, and how many men and women, old and young, are sitting in front of him just breathing.
"Then I'll make it clear." He sat upright, "You guessed it right, it is indeed a group of hungry ghosts that created a hole in the human world. But this is not unusual. How can we walk the six paths in the human body in December? Naturally It is through these cracks - in our words, these are the six spiritual veins. Each channel has such a place, bordering on different worlds. If I go to heaven to stay for one day, a year will pass in the human world; I am in hell The Taoist line is only twenty feet long, and it has only traveled one mile in the human world. But these spiritual veins will not have any impact at all. The problem is that someone tore open this crack in Huansha City with force——"
"Although it is a mortal body, without an immortal body, it is impossible to travel through these spiritual veins, right?"
Shanhai asked him, and Lord Jiyue nodded. So he fell into a brief thought, and then asked:
"You mean, there were other impermanences who did this?"
Lord Jiyue didn't answer, which was regarded as acquiescence. Aluan couldn't understand again, so he asked them:
"Why do you say this? I've heard that you all are impermanent. Aren't you all people who walk the six paths, mediate the three realms, and work for the country and the country of the human world?"
"This is true. But you have to know that although we were mortals during our lives, we also had some extraordinary experiences that made us what we are today. Among the twelve of us, there were pure and kind people who were good at giving and saving all sentient beings. But there are also extremely evil people who are unscrupulous and violent. You heard what Shanhai said about immortality, which is a characteristic of our six realms of impermanence. And eternal life for these people can be a compliment, or it can be before they wake up. The punishment will never stop.”
"This is too..."
Danger? Unbelievable? A Luan didn't know how to answer. She just felt that this arrangement seemed unjustifiable, but she couldn't find anything wrong with it. In the end, she just sighed like a little adult, not knowing what to say.
"You are indeed kind to me, that's true. But you actually asked me to intervene in the dispute of impermanence. At a small level, it's like taking someone else's place, but at a big level...if something goes wrong, it will be a crime to interfere in the six realms."
Lord Jiyue finished drinking the tea and looked at him seriously with her blind eyes.
"Don't worry, I'm not blackmailing you. In the final analysis, this is my own business. I'm just telling you that there is such a job here, and it has nothing to do with the grudges between you and me. As long as you help the common people in Huansha City, settle your own knot, take the money and leave, that's enough."
What was said next was nothing more than Taoist matters. Aluan couldn't understand it and didn't want to hear it. After being bored for a while, the two of them finally seemed to have finished talking. But then it was dinner time, and before she could ask the questions that were on her mind, Shan Hai pulled her away.
A Luan was pushed out of the door first, and she ran away unwillingly. Before closing the door, Shanhai turned around again and asked one last question.
"To this day, I still don't know why you wanted to save me."
It's not that I'm complaining about anything, it's just pure confusion. He knew that in the past thousand years, Lord Jiyue must have seen many scenes where his life was hanging by a thread. But it is not their bounden duty to save people. Even if they save people once, they cannot save them every time.
Why did it happen to be him at that time? Shanhai couldn't understand this question.
"Then let me ask you, why do you always hold on to the matter of repaying your kindness? I never asked you for anything, but you always feel that you owe me something. What does it mean?"
Whether it is the nature of human conscience or something else, it is hard to say. In such silence, Lord Jiyue said the familiar words again, which was regarded as an ambiguous question and answer to himself.
"You should know better than me. Returning a favor is the same as taking revenge. No one can stop it."
