When the two of them arrived in front of the village, Jingshi did not take the right path. He took a detour to avoid the people in front and entered the village from the back. Seeing this, Long Ji asked with a smile: "Why did Ziyun abandon the near for the far?"
Jing Shi said calmly: "Zhenhui is originally a country outside the world, and its people are loose and dissolute. I am afraid that it will offend Master Long, so it is better not to see him."
Longji raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Why are you calling me like that again?"
Jing Shi said: "I didn't know etiquette when I was young, but I heard that the real person's surname was Shan, so I called him Shan Immortal. Now that I think about it, I have lost my sense of etiquette and moved forward or retreat inconsistent with my status."
Long Ji laughed and said: "You have been calling me like this for a long time, but today I feel rude, but I want to be slower." She turned around and said: "Names, surnames, and honorable titles are all empty. You can call me whatever you want, that's up to you. It’s whatever you like.”
While the two were talking, they had already opened the door and entered the house. As soon as I entered the house, I could smell the fragrance filling the room, which was faint and fragrant. Long Ji walked in front of the table, holding the plum branch in the bowl in her hand. When she looked at the red flowers on the branch, she lightly tapped the petals with her finger and said, "Zi Yun still has this thing."
Jing Shi slowly closed the door, turned around and bowed: "I don't dare to abandon this gift given by Immortal Song."
Long Ji seemed to be smiling, but she held the flower branch in her hand, gently rubbed the branch and said, "Zi Yun is proud of this branch. I feel better."
Jing Shi replied: "It does have a soothing effect." Then he scooped water from the small vat beside the house and filled the pot. The water in his house is taken from the East Spring. Since ancient times, it has not frozen in winter and has not dried up in all seasons. However, without the water source, there is no warmth and it is difficult to drink when it is cold. Immediately, he put the clay pot on the small stove at the foot of the wall, lit the fire and folded some firewood. Long Ji sat in front of the table, leaning half of her body on the table, but ignored his behavior and focused on looking at the flowers. After a while, he said again: "Zi Yun has been sleeping at night recently, but what dreams have he had?"
Jing Shi's hand froze for a moment, then he fanned the fire again and added firewood and said, "Maybe I have a short dream occasionally, but I forget it when I wake up, and I never remember it."
Long Ji said calmly: "You are in your prime, but you have no thoughts of sleeping."
Jing Shi looked at the fire and said: "The real person has asked this question before, and I will answer it. Why bring up the old things again?"
Longji said: "Is that so? I forgot about it. Ziyun has a close friendship with that girl from the Zhang family, and I think she really likes her, so I can't help but ask again and again. I hope your dead wood will wake up in spring, and your stone will blossom, and you will be less blunt."
Jingshi picked up a branch and picked up a pot, brought a pot full of boiling water to the table, and then said: "I don't dare to trouble the real person with trivial matters. The Zhang daughter and I are just friends of gentlemen. Although we admire each other's talents and learning, we have never thought of him." Even if we never meet each other in this life, there is nothing wrong with it.”
Long Ji smiled and said: "Zi Yun's words are too heartless. It seems that she is afraid that I will hide her."
Jing Shi said: "I don't mean that." He took two small pottery cups, put them in the tea leaves picked from the island, poured boiling water, pushed them in front of Long Ji and said: "My place is simple and there is nothing to entertain guests. What's the matter?" I hope the real person will forgive me."
Long Ji held the cup in her hand, held the hot tea between her fingers and smelled it. She pursed her lips and smiled lightly and said: "Zi Yun is here to do experiments, but he still wants to go to the mountains to pick tea." She drank the boiling water without avoiding the hot wind. Down. Jing Shi watched her drinking tea intently, and suddenly said: "When Xian Xian was in Lulan Palace, he always liked to make tea and drink it slowly, but now he seems to have changed his preference."
Longji held the cup and said: "There are no utensils here, how can we make tea? Besides, people's hearts are always changeable. It was like this in the past, but it is not inevitable now." Still holding the cup in one hand and sipping, she leaned on the table with the other hand, holding a flower branch and looking at it. . Jing Shi sat down quietly and looked at the man's fairy-like appearance, his expression was mysterious, and his thoughts were unpredictable.
In the midst of silence, Long Ji said: "In the past, when my master was here, all my fellow apprentices and sisters suffered misfortunes. There was only one person who practiced with me, living, sitting and lying down without being separated. Originally, we were the only two people in the world who lived together and depended on each other. We were in love, and there was never a single quarrel. Now looking back, it seems like it was a hundred years ago."
Jing Shi responded: "I have never heard that the real person still has senior sisters."
Longji was silent for a while and said: "Years ago, my master Yu passed away, and I was appointed to succeed the master of the shrine. There is another sister named A Ling, who is similar to me in Taoism and ability. But because she is born with a gentle heart and an easily emotional nature, her ultimate state It was difficult to reach. One day I was in seclusion at the red spring at the bottom of the palace. Suddenly there was a sudden change in the sea. A Ling went out to suppress it. On the third night when the moon rose, she returned, but she was seriously injured. I tried every means to save her, but in the end I was unable to return. Heaven. She then entered the Red Sea Palace, closed the barrier of life and death, and sought great enlightenment, but ultimately failed. When she emerged, it rained heavily on the sea for three days, the red tide rose, and all the mulberry leaves in my palace fell. This scene still reminds me of this scene. It’s heartbreaking.”
After she finished speaking, she looked at the flower branches in her hands. Her eyes seemed happy but not happy, sad but not sad. She had thousands of words but not a single word. When the tea in the cup was gone, he looked sideways at Jing Shi and said, "Although Ziyun is an orphan, did he ever have any brothers or sisters?"
Jing Shi said: "I was abandoned by my parents before I was one year old. I don't know my real name, let alone my siblings. I have already asked about this matter, but I have forgotten it even if I think about it."
Long Ji shook her head and said, "Of course I know about this. Ordinary children rarely remember things before they are three years old. If they are abandoned, they will rarely remember them as adults. But Xiang Ziyun was born with an extraordinary talent, and his memory and arithmetic skills are far beyond ordinary. Maybe he is right. I have some impressions of my life experience, but I still don’t know.”
Jing Shi said bluntly: "I really don't remember anything about it."
Longji responded with a shout, shook the flower branch a few times, and said: "You are extremely talented. I'm afraid there are also people with extremely intelligent parents among your parents. I wonder if your adoptive father knows a thing or two about the inside story."
Jing Shi's original words were concise and seemed to be in agreement, but when he heard her question, he couldn't help but feel moved. After a moment's hesitation, he still reached into his arms, took out a wrapped kerchief and said, "This thing may be the proof of my life experience." Then he untied the kerchief, revealing dozens of jade pieces inside.
Longji leaned over to look at it, took a few glances, frowned and said: "Whenever good jade has been accumulated for a long time, the yin and yang must be differentiated and the essence must be stored. This jade has beauty in the air, but it is just an embroidered pillow, with no essence or soul inside. , is actually no different from a stubborn rock, so how can we explain it?”
Jing Shi said: "My father lived temporarily in the Eastern Region before his death and left an old house. Before his death, he told me that he knew about this and asked me to go to the old house to pick up some things. This jade is one of them, and it is said to be Pick it up with me. There are also gold vessels buried in the courtyard, which were left by his ancestors and are intended to be used for my future living expenses."
Long Ji said lightly: "It's such a big thing, but you never told me that I knew it would be like this. I would take you to get the things belonging to your ancestors. If you are rich, you will live a better life."
Jing Shi shook his head and said: "Although my late father told me the location of his old residence before he died, he also repeatedly asked me to deal with it when I am an adult. He also said that if you feel that your life is satisfactory, it is okay not to go. I heard what he meant at that time, and it was true. It’s because he doesn’t want me to go there.”
After hearing this, Longji tapped her finger on the table, pondered deeply, and said for a moment: "So, your father definitely knew your origins, but he didn't want to tell you that he knew Ziyun, so he didn't ask for a clear explanation?"
Jing Shi responded: "Since my father didn't want to speak frankly, I must have considered it. I have no objections about my life experience, so I don't mind asking."
Long Ji looked at him when he was young and asked: "If you don't want to know your biological parents, why do you hide this piece of jade close to your body?"
Jing Shi said, "It's because something is unclear." Then he pointed to the broken jade and said, "I dug this thing out of my late father's former residence and stored it in a golden pot. There was also a suicide note from my late father, saying that this thing was with me." It was originally a perfect white jade ball left in the wild. He accidentally broke it and became what it is today. If I want to find my life experience, I need to start with this object and restore it to its original state. But I have tried many times, but nothing has happened. The fragments can be put together, but I'm afraid these are not the whole thing originally, and they are definitely not the jade balls mentioned by my father."
When Longji heard what he said, she randomly picked up several pieces of broken jade and tried to put them together. As expected, they were all uneven and did not kiss each other. After picking up a few but failing, he said to Jing Shi: "Your father said that the jade ball broke, but it was because some of it was lost while packing up the leftovers."
Jing Shi shook his head and said, "I don't know about this either. All the thirty-six pieces I obtained in the golden pot are already in this handkerchief. There was no mention of any defects in my father's last letter. I feel that this matter is strange, and I can't let it go. , I just took this thing with me in the hope of figuring out the key to it later.”
Long Ji responded, looked at the broken jade in her hand repeatedly, and finally said: "Maybe there was a mistake in the process, which caused some damage. Your father himself doesn't know it."
Jing Shi responded and was about to take the broken jade back into his arms, but Longji closed her jade fingers, held the broken jade and said with a smile: "Does Ziyun really have no doubt about his life experience?"
Jing Shi said: "Since it is something that has no trace or trace, I don't want to waste my time and energy in vain."
Longji stared at each other, her pupils filled with strange light, like a sun crown, she suddenly leaned forward and whispered to Jingshi: "What if I knew Ziyun's life experience?"
