"gentlemen……"
The swallow stood on the branch nearby.
"What's wrong?"
"When I found this Qingtong forest today, I seemed to see some figure in the clouds and mist. I don't know if I saw the miasma flowing in the clouds wrongly, or I was dazzled by the miasma." Yanzi said, turning his two dark eyes left and right. , more uncertain, "I can't see clearly either."
"Like a magical bird?"
"It shouldn't be... unlike."
"That's it."
Song You sat cross-legged on the felt, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and then said: "This place has a strong aura, a mysterious aura, and no one comes to disturb it. It is normal for a living being to attain enlightenment and become a spirit."
As he spoke, he glanced at Yanzi and knew that the monster he saw was probably not some little monster.
"It's normal even if there is a big demon."
"yes……"
The swallow stopped talking and looked up into the distance.
It was getting dark now.
According to his own personality and habits, Yanzi chose the tallest tree that did not block his sight, stood on the branches, curled up his neck, and looked at the Qingtong forest in the distance.
The calico cat squatted next to the Taoist and stared at the huge forest.
Just looking at it, she squinted her eyes, yawned, and turned to look at the Taoist:
"Taoist priest……"
"What's wrong?"
"How long are we going to wait here?"
"Let's wait a few days." The Taoist replied in a low voice, "I heard that the sacred bird chooses trees to roost in, and the phoenix likes to land on the tallest tree. Let's sleep here for one night. Tomorrow is the winter solstice. After we wake up, we will go to the middle Go to the tallest tree and have a look."
"Will it be in those woods?"
"Just going to see it."
"Can't you wait for the divine bird?"
"It doesn't matter."
"oh……"
The cat stopped talking and sat obediently, raising a paw in front of her face and licking it. Although she was a little sleepy, seeing that the Taoist was not sleeping, she was not sleeping either.
Taoists sit cross-legged and close their eyes to feel the aura of heaven and earth.
The aura of this place is rich and mysterious.
I don’t know whether it was something unusual that caused things like the giant green paulownia tree and the sacred bird to come to roost, or whether it was the giant green tung tree and the sacred bird coming to roost that made it unusual. Song You couldn't sense it for a moment. I can only communicate with the aura of this world in the dark, knowing that this Qingtong tree may be even older than I thought.
The universe is vast and endless.
In these long years, whether it is gods, demons, Fulong Temple, or human civilization, as long as it exists based on this heaven and earth, it is only a short moment.
But in this mysterious and long aura of heaven and earth, for some reason there is a little miscellaneous color mixed in.
The world has been around for thousands of years, and the green tung trees have been around for countless years. In the aura accumulated over time, this variegated color is almost imperceptible for a moment. This green tung forest is vast and boundless, perhaps not smaller than the Doda grassland that I have walked through before. In this boundless sea-like aura, this variegated color is just a tiny bit that is almost invisible.
If Song You was not practicing the four seasons method, and it was not the winter solstice now, it would probably be difficult to detect it.
It’s not that there’s a hint of variegation that’s weird here, it’s that there’s just a hint of variegation that’s weird.
Although the world is huge, how many places have no demons and ghosts been born? How many places are there that have not been visited by human monks? If the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the spiritual charm is mysterious, it is normal for powerful monsters to be attracted to it as their lair or powerful human monks to live in seclusion and practice here. If they live here for a long time, they will become powerful beings and become part of the landscape. The rhyme is naturally integrated into the aura of the landscape, and the aura of the landscape is no longer pure.
There's just a hint of color here.
It proves that for many years, except for this one, no powerful demon has been entrenched here, and no powerful person has come to live in seclusion here.
But I don’t know if it was caused by the divine bird.
Song You had no intention of caring about this at the moment——
The sadness inside was obviously getting stronger.
Even some palpitations.
Song You could vaguely guess why this was happening. It made him feel very tired. He felt like he didn't want to do or think about anything, and his brows became more and more wrinkled.
The night is getting darker.
At some point, the night wind came and blew away the miasma of clouds and mist that filled the mountains.
There is a full moon above the head, as big as a jade plate.
The bright moon casts its bright moonlight, and the whole night sky seems to have been washed. The mountains in the distance show clear shadows. Tall green paulownia trees grow in the distance, higher than the mountains, like giant pillars. Looking up along the straight trunk, you can see the branches and leaves on the top, which are almost in the shape of a round nest.
Most are hundreds of feet tall.
These green tung trees, which are more than a hundred feet high, are surprising enough, but in the distance of sight, there is actually a giant tree comparable to a mountain, rising straight into the sky, probably hundreds of feet high.
It is still not the type with lush branches and leaves, most of the lower part has no branches, it is a bare straight trunk, only the upper part has branches and leaves, like a small nest, containing tonight's full moon.
Song You frowned and was stunned again.
If it weren't for the wind blowing and the clouds blowing, and the night was clear and cloudless, we would never be able to see its true appearance.
Even if it's cloudy, it should be in the clouds.
It's really like a scene from an ancient myth.
Suddenly there was a cry from beside me.
"gentlemen!"
It's Yan'er's voice.
Song You followed the sound and turned to look at him. There was only a small dot on the tree in the dark night and he couldn't see clearly, but he could hear the sound of wind coming from behind, like the sound of birds flying across the night sky.
Song You suddenly turned his head.
A big bird flew over.
But it's not a phoenix, nor a magical bird, but a starling that is almost integrated with the night sky.
Fortunately, the moonlight is like silver.
Myna did not fly close, but only stopped on a tree, holding a letter in his mouth. He glanced at the swallow next to him, then looked at the cat sitting below, and finally turned his eyes to stare at the Taoist on the blanket.
The Taoist also looked at him, his eyes blank.
Both sides looked at each other, but no one spoke.
It seemed that neither of them knew how to speak first, and it seemed that there was no need to say anything more. Both parties knew it just by looking at each other.
"Puff puff..."
After looking at each other for a moment, Myna took the lead and flew over with fluttering wings, making a flapping sound.
This myna is much larger than the average starling.
The Taoist stretched out his hand and put it on the head of the cat next to him, to reassure her not to be nervous, and to use her to comfort himself.
Bage hovered in front of the Taoist, holding the letter in his mouth.
The Taoist was silent for a moment before reaching out to take it.
"Thank you, Mr. Dao."
"Plop..."
Myna flapped his wings and returned to the tree without saying a word. He just watched the Taoist sitting cross-legged on the ground, seemingly calmly opening the envelope and taking out the letter.
At the same time, the cat sensed his emotions and turned to stare at him. Seeing that he wanted to read the letter, it immediately transformed into a human form, took the lantern from the horse, blew in, and the lantern lit up. Then he stood in front of him and held up a lantern to illuminate him.
The moonlight was bright, and I actually could read the words on the letter clearly without a lantern, but I just had to get closer.
With the help of lights, it becomes much easier.
The warm yellow light shines on the yellow and white paper, the handwriting is wild, and the Taoist reads line by line.
The myna stood on the tree nearby, staring at him and the little girl who illuminated him without saying a word. Her eyes flickered and she remembered something, and she remained silent.
Time passed little by little.
The Taoist finished reading the letter and read it again.
"well……"
He just sighed, then looked up at the myna on the branch, and asked: "Where is the master buried?"
"Buried with her master."
Surprisingly, it was a very gentle voice.
Because they are not human, it is difficult to distinguish between men and women.
Just like people cannot tell the difference between male and female from the sound of a cat, nor can they tell the difference between male and female from the mouths of imitating parrots and starlings.
"That's it..."
Song You nodded without any expression, but his whole body slowed down a lot.
Speak slower, think slower.
The pauses between words also became longer.
After finishing speaking, he paused for a while, as if he was thinking, still holding the letter in his hand, and then asked the starling on the tree: "Will Master Taoist return to Taoist Temple in the future?"
"The Taoist temple has been cleaned and locked. It will be reopened when you return."
"That's it..."
It's still to be expected.
Since Fulong Temple was built, it seems that no one has stayed in the temple. Perhaps this has become a tradition in Fulong Temple.
Some things have nothing to do with blood, but are passed down from generation to generation.
"Master Dao...where are you going?"
"Take a walk around first."
"I mean……"
The Taoist paused again when he said this: "If one day I miss Master Tao, where will I go to find you?"
"I don't know either." The voice of the starling on the branch was also very calm. "When you return to the mountain after twenty years of traveling, I will come to visit you, and then I will tell you where I live."
"good."
"I'm leaving, don't be too sad."
"Master Tao, too."
Song You stood up and saluted him.
"Puff puff..."
Myna didn't say much, flapped her wings and flew into the night sky.
Even though the moonlight was good, the wind blew away the fog, and after just a short while, the pure black figure disappeared.
Song You was still staring in that direction.
Although I have lived more than one life, in this life, for the first twenty years, I have been accompanied by this myna for almost most of the time. Emotionally, I may have been like a senior uncle or a senior brother. Naturally, there is quite a lot of reluctance for Song You.
As for the old Taoist in Guanzhong...
"well……"
Song You just sighed again.
I'm afraid that among all the masters of Fulong Temple, this old Taoist can be considered short-lived.
I had no choice but to spread out the letter paper and read it again.
The cat is smart by nature, and vaguely guessed that the black bird was the black-feathered Taoist whom he had heard of several times. Although he didn’t know what happened, cats could always smell people’s emotions, so they just stood obediently in front of the Taoist. She held a lantern for the Taoist with both hands. After a long time, she switched from two hands to one hand. With the other hand free, she imitated the way the Taoist usually touched her and touched the Taoist's hair with an expression on her face. serious.
Exactly three hundred chapters, exactly one million words, spread the flowers! I went back to my hometown to be with my mother during the Dragon Boat Festival. I will update the leave request form for the next three days at 8.05 in the morning!
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