A dark figure walked out of the town. It was Zi Yang who had just bought wine and meat. He threw away the lotus leaf in his hand, took a few sips of wine from the wine bottle in his hand, and wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand. With wine stains on his face, he walked towards the big locust tree.
However, it seems that he came a little early today. There was no one under the big locust tree. The cold wind blew and thousands of dead leaves fell, making it look very desolate.
Zi Yang stood under the big locust tree, raised his hand to pick up the fallen leaves scattered in his palm, and said with a complex expression: "Is this the fallen leaves returning to their roots..."
"One lives only once."
Before he finished speaking, he heard someone reply: "The grass and trees are in autumn."
After hearing the man's vicissitudes of life, Zi Yang understood that it was the old blind man who was coming. He immediately cast his eyes on the white-haired old man holding a wooden stick to explore the way.
I saw that he was stooped, dressed in light gray coarse linen clothes, with a snow-white goatee, his face was dark yellow and wrinkled a bit, his cheeks were fleshless, and the bones of his cheeks were very prominent, and they were completely covered with bones.
He hit the ground with a wooden stick in his right hand, slowly came to the foot of the big locust tree, and then slowly sat down on the dead leaves under the tree.
The old blind man faced forward and asked: "From the sound of your voice just now, you must be a young man of about twenty years old, right?"
Zi Yang looked up and took a sip of wine without answering. The old blind man paused slightly and continued: "There is a bit of sadness in your voice. You must have experienced setbacks and separations recently."
After hearing his words, Zi Yang raised his eyes slightly and glanced at him. The old blind man straightened up his nose and sniffed, then shook his head and said: "Use wine to relieve your sorrow? It can only paralyze you for a while, but it cannot paralyze you for the rest of your life."
"I have a good way here that can make you forget all your troubles. Do you want to hear it?"
Zi Yang said curiously, sat next to the old man, and asked with a smile: "What can I do?"
The old blind man did not speak, but picked up the wooden stick lying on the ground with his right hand and made several gestures on the ground full of dead leaves.
After he finished writing the words with a wooden stick, he tapped the end of the wooden stick next to the words a few times and said, "Do you think this method is good?"
Zi Yang looked at the word "die" clearly visible on the ground, smiled faintly, nodded and replied: "Indeed! Death can forget everything, but I'm not that pedantic yet."
"Human life is short, and what you can do is limited. Although I am the owner of this body, I cannot damage it at will, because it was given to me by my parents."
The old blind man nodded slowly and said yes, a smile appeared on his old face. He turned his head following the voice and said: "Young man is very enlightened. I want to know what you are afraid of. What do you think?"
Zi Yang did not answer directly. He changed the topic and asked: "What is a good person? What is a bad person? What is the difference between the two?"
"Good guy?" Hearing this, the old blind man shook his head, but did not mention the word bad guy.
Zi Yang felt a little strange. From the old blind man's tone just now, it was not difficult to tell that he was full of disdain for the word "good people".
Before he could ask, the old blind man took the lead and said: "There are no good people in this world. When you live in this world, you are destined to become a bad person."
"Besides, in all your years of living, have you never had a bite of meat? Do you have any selfishness towards the people around you?"
"Even if you don't do it, as long as you have that thought, do you still think you are still an upright person?"
Zi Yang hesitated for a while and said, "I will starve to death if I don't eat."
The old blind man frowned slightly. Obviously, Ziyang didn't understand what he just said. He said: "You misunderstood. What I mean is that in the eyes of those animals, you are a complete bad person, although you did not end it with your own hands." Their lives, but you ate their flesh, am I right?”
When Zi Yang heard this, he suddenly realized: "Oh, so that's what you meant."
The old blind man said carefully: "You cannot decide whether you are good or bad by yourself. You have to listen to what others say. Just like Luo Liangxie who broke into the Western Continent, he may be a good person in the eyes of the people in the Northern Continent. , but in the hearts of us people in the Western Continent, he is a heinous sinner."
"Because the crimes he committed back then will not be enough for us to forget even if he dies hundreds of times."
"Luo Liangxie?" Zi Yang blinked and groaned. After thinking for a moment, he said: "Why did Luo Liangxie come to the Western Continent to kill people? There must be some reason for this, right?"
The old blind man snorted coldly, the palm holding the wooden stick trembled violently, and gritted his teeth and said: "The reason? Anyway, countless people died in his hands, is the reason you want important?"
"Could it be that with a reasonable reason, he can rely on his own strength to kill innocent people at will?"
Zi Yang lowered his head quietly. In any case, Luo Liangxie was from the Northern Continent, and it was hard for him to speak well of him.
After all, he had so many blood debts that he couldn't explain them no matter how hard he tried.
After being silent for a long time, the old blind man sighed: "However, people in the Western Continent cannot protect themselves, so they should be killed."
Zi Yang widened his eyes and looked at the old blind man with an incredulous expression. If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, who would have believed that someone in the Western Continent would actually say such a thing.
The old blind man seemed to have guessed his expression and asked with a smile: "Are you surprised?"
Zi Yang adjusted his mood and whispered: "A little bit."
The old blind man said calmly: "This is a world where the weak dominate everything, and the weak can only be slaughtered. Just like if you want to kill a monster, you can kill it, and in turn it can kill you. "
"As for who kills whom in the end, it depends on your own ability."
"Of course, someone like Luo Liangxie has single-handedly made almost everyone in the Western Continent hate people from the Northern Continent. There must be many people in the Northern Continent scolding him behind his back, right?"
Zi Yang lamented: "History cannot be changed, but Luo Liangxie is dead, does it mean anything to scold him or not?"
The old blind man smiled and did not continue. He asked: "After talking so much, you still haven't told me why you drank to relieve your sorrow?"
Zi Yang shook his head and took a sip of wine, and said helplessly: "My friends around me are leaving me one after another. I don't know where to go in the future. I feel extremely depressed and can only use wine to numb myself."
"At least I can sleep peacefully when I'm drunk and don't have to think about those disturbing things."
The old blind man asked calmly: "It seems that your friends died because of you?"
Ziyang didn't hide it from him, and immediately said: "It is indeed because of me that he died. Otherwise, I would not have been trapped in self-blame and guilt."
After hearing what he said, the old blind man said: "Actually, you have already come out, but you dare not and cannot see other friends around you die because of you again."
"It is precisely because you are afraid that you don't know what to do."
Perhaps because he was right, Zi Yang's face changed slightly and he said reluctantly: "Maybe."
The old blind man suddenly asked: "From your accent, you must not be from here, right?"
Ziyang didn't want to hide anything from him and said directly: "I am from the Northern Continent."
The old blind man was not angry because he was from the Northern Continent, and asked casually: "Since you are from the Northern Continent, why do you want to come to the Western Continent?"
Zi Yang raised his head and took a sip of his wine, and said, "I offended some very powerful people in the Northern Continent. The reason why I came to the Western Continent is because they were chasing me and I had no choice but to retreat."
The old blind man said: "This world is so cruel. If you have no power, everyone will want to step on you."
"But when you have the ability to silence everyone, everyone wants to have a relationship with you."
After a long time, the old blind man did not hear what he said, and warned: "Thank you for trusting me so much, but I still want to advise you, not every citizen of the Western Continent is like me."
"When in front of others, I hope you won't say that you are from the Northern Continent. Otherwise, people who want to trouble you will appear one after another until you are forced to leave the Western Continent."
Zi Yang was quite dissatisfied and said: "Is it necessary? The murderer was Luo Liangxie. He has nothing to do with me. Just because I was born in the Northern Continent like him, they regard me as their enemy."
The old blind man said: "To be honest, if Luo Liangxie was still alive, those people wouldn't even dare to fart, but in order to vent their anger, they had no choice but to point the finger at the weaker people."
"Even if you have nothing to do with Luo Liangxie, it's your fault that you were born in the Northern Continent."
Zi Yang smiled casually and said, "Just a coward."
In his opinion, such people would bully the weak and fear the strong. If Luo Liangxie stood in front of them, he would probably scare them so much that they wet their pants.
The old blind man nodded slowly and said, "Yes, but I think that kind of person is worse than a coward."
Zi Yang put the stopper on the wine bottle and asked, "What are you doing sitting under this big locust tree every night? Where is your home?"
The old blind man hesitated for a moment and said, "As we get older, we are not used to staying at home. When I have nothing to do at night, I want to go out for a walk and breathe some fresh air."
"Besides, I feel that you are more friendly, so I want to talk to you more."
Zi Yang was stunned for a moment and said, "Friendly? You're not trying to make me happy, are you? The two of us only chatted for a few words. In total, it's not even two hours."
The old blind man smiled and said, "Hey, some people can become friends by just chatting with each other, while some people can't increase their relationship even if they chat with each other every day."
"Although I can't see you, I can tell from your words that you are quite a good young man."
"At the very least, you have your own principles. Since you just dared to directly say that you are from the Northern Continent, I think you are very sincere in your treatment of others."
"It's getting late. I have to go back and rest. You should go home as soon as possible." Ziyang took the wine bottle in his hand and left after saying that.
When his figure disappeared into the night, the old blind man sitting under the big locust tree nodded with satisfaction.
