What exactly is...
Just as he was thinking about it, Master Liu braked. Xiaolan looked up and saw that the Sunset Hotel had already arrived.
Behind the Sunset Hotel is the sunset on the mountain. There are many hotels nearby, connected in a row on the undulating mountain roads. At this time, every hotel is bustling and brightly lit.
Xiaoyin, Baomu and Little Fool were already waiting at the door of the hotel with their luggage.
The Taoist priest handed the money to the master.
"Excuse me, Master, let's ask again, which hotel did those people stay at last time?"
The master took the money, put it into his pocket without counting it, and pointed his right hand in the direction they came from.
"The Lianjia Villa over there is the first hotel off the road, but it's been a week, so I don't know if anyone is still there."
"Then do you know which girl committed suicide?"
Pineapple hugged his backpack and hurried to Master Liu's side.
Master Liu sighed and shook his head.
"I don't know... I noticed a girl named Xiaozhi among that group... but... alas..."
Xiaoyin came over, "What are you talking about?"
Seeing that several people were about to gather, Master Liu hurriedly got in the car and found a piece of paper with a series of numbers on it.
"Anyway, if you really enter the village, you have to be more careful, especially the three girls. This is my phone number. I run the bus station specifically, but you can call me when you want to use the car. If I have no space, you can call me. I’ll come pick you up.”
"Wow!" Xiaoyin took the note, "Master, you are so kind!"
"Oh, don't you make more money if you have more customers?"
After finishing speaking, Master Liu returned to the car, rolled down the window and said goodbye to them. He honked the horn a few times to signal the driver of the car next to him to start together. After a while, he disappeared from everyone's sight.
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After dinner, everyone gathered in the Taoist priest and the little fool's room.
Xiaolan was now full of curiosity, but didn't know what to ask. She sat carefully on the Taoist priest's bed, preparing to ask appropriate questions when everyone was discussing the issue.
"Taoist Priest, what should we do first tomorrow?"
The little fool spoke first, but before he could answer, Xiaoyin intervened.
"Wait a moment, please share the information given by the driver first. The driver of our car is a boring gourd. He says he doesn't know anything when asked. I'm so envious to see you chatting so happily with the driver."
"Xiaoyin annoyed the driver so much that he almost plugged in his earphones to drive..."
Baomu also smiled when he said this, and Xiaoyin slapped Baomu with a slap, making a "bang" sound on the back of Baomu's head.
Pineapple ran over and rubbed Xiaobaomu's head. He smiled and told Xiaoyin the story of Master Liu, which was also the story of Xiaozhi.
This story was somewhat sad. After listening to the story, Baomu and the little fool also fell into deep thought, and the atmosphere instantly became depressing.
"Master Liu, why..." Xiaoyin frowned and said seriously, "Why do I say that we are two beautiful girls when we talk about you two? When you see me, you will turn into a three-year-old girl. You shouldn't Are they three beautiful girls?”
What kind of strange focus is this?
The little fool failed to enter the melancholy state and curled his lips without politeness.
"Of course it's because of you...well..."
Xiaoyin quickly stuffed a whole orange into the little fool's mouth, looked down at him, and made a horrifying hissing gesture.
"Shhh...that's enough, I'm going to kill someone again."
The Taoist priest did not stop the young people from having fun. After the two of them joked, the atmosphere in the room became much better.
"Xiaoyin is very beautiful," Xiaolan winked, and took advantage of the silence to slap a rainbow fart, "Xiaoyin is kind, talks interestingly, and her eyes are pretty when she smiles."
When Xiaoyin heard this, she happily rushed towards Xiaolan, held Xiaolan in her arms and rubbed her.
"Xiaolan is so good, but you still have to call me sister Xiaoyin..."
Xiaolan chuckled, feeling that she must look naive at this time.
The little fool looked at Xiaolan with a "master" look on his face, chewing the big orange in his mouth hard.
"Then..." Xiaolan poked her head out of the gap in Xiaoyin's arm and looked at the Taoist priest, "Are we going to enter the village tomorrow?"
"We won't go tomorrow," the Taoist priest smiled, "Xiaoyin, please stop and explain to Xiaolan what a boundary monument is."
"I don't!" Xiaoyin hugged her even tighter, "I don't even understand it myself. If you tell it again, I will listen together."
The Taoist priest smiled helplessly, and with an expression like "I didn't expect you at all", he began to talk about what the boundary monument was.
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Boundary monuments are not monuments, nor are they places.
The boundary marker is an opportunity, caught between life and death.
In this world, everyone will die. Some people die calmly and carelessly, while some people die in a confused way and have regrets throughout their lives.
From a long time ago, there was such a legend.
People who die with strong obsessions will not come to the river of reincarnation after death. They will encounter a big mountain. After climbing over the mountain, they can see the boundary monument. The boundary monument gives people a chance to come back again. The deceased will return to the living world. , walk along the path that you have walked during your lifetime, and find the answers to your own questions.
After finding their own answer, the deceased will return to the boundary monument and become part of the tomb behind the boundary monument.
There are solitary graves in the graveyard, and in each grave is buried a person who no longer has regrets.
The people in the graveyard transcended reincarnation and slept peacefully behind the boundary monument.
This is the boundary marker.
but.
This is just the beautiful side of the boundary monument.
"It turns out that the boundary monument exists like this."
Xiaolan could roughly understand the boundary monument mentioned by the Taoist priest, but what did Cheng Lin mean by "go to the boundary monument to find Xiaolan"?
Why does he think I'm there?
"Do you understand a little bit?" The Taoist priest looked at Xiaolan and was amused by the solemn expression on her face. "Now that you understand this level, I will start talking about the things behind the boundary monument."
Xiaolan nodded, temporarily put aside her doubts, and listened.
"It sounds like the boundary monument is a very beautiful existence. It gives people the opportunity to make up for their regrets and avoid the pain of reincarnation. But all this comes at a price." The Taoist Master took a sip of water and continued, "First of all, boundary markers do not give people the right to choose. The dead may think that they have given up their obsession, but if the boundary markers appear, they can only look for them. Some people leave very suddenly and become deceased. Without knowing that they are dead, such a person will repeat his death over and over again until he realizes that he is dead.
"There are still some people who leave with heavy hatred, and such people will form their own 'world' in a place that is of great significance to them. What we are looking for is such loneliness and despair." After successfully crossing their 'world', we will understand their lives. After that, what we really have to do..."
When it came to the key point, the Taoist priest paused and looked at Xiaolan sincerely.
Xiaolan had already fallen into self-doubt, and she froze in place, feeling that her outlook on life had collapsed.
What am I listening to? Is this a human story?
Where did Xiaolin lead me?
Xiaoyinyu patted Xiaolan's shoulder sincerely, "I had the same expression when I first listened to it."
"Is this what you guys do all the time?"
Several people nodded.
What kind of interest group is this? There are also offline gatherings!
Xiaolan didn't know what expression she should show. It turned out that everyone was lying to each other when they first met.
"After passing through the 'boundary' of the deceased, we will bring their last wishes to their lifetime, find their true obsession, and send them across the boundary monument." The Taoist priest raised his voice and looked at Xiaolan firmly. "That's what we've been doing."
