The wooden door was pushed open, but it was the old wolf who walked in against an antelope.
Li Ye and Lao Yuan both looked at Lao Lang blankly, and Guan Chang was speechless.
After more than a year on the Tianshan Mountains, Li Ye saw such a large antelope for the first time.
The old wolf looked at the two people in a daze and said with a smile: "I just came down from the mountain. When I passed the cliff across the river, I saw this guy fell at the bottom of the cliff. It was still warm to the touch. He probably accidentally came out to look for food. Fell off the cliff."
The old wolf laughed twice and said happily: "I just said that I haven't drank for a long time. Thinking that you would come over today, we have to think of a way to drink up Li Ye's burning knives so that the little girl at the foot of the mountain can give some more. Come up. Before I finished speaking, you walked in. For such a big antelope, we have to drink for three days and three nights to finish all the wine and eat all the meat."
Li Ye clasped his hands together, showing a compassionate face.
The old wolf looked at him like this and asked in confusion: "It's not your first time to eat meat. Is it possible that you really want to become a monk in a temple?"
The old ape also stared at Li Ye strangely: "If you don't eat, I, the old man, and Xiao Bai can just eat more."
Li Ye listened to the chattering of the two old men, sighed, and said softly: "To be honest with you two, I have been on the mountain for more than a year, and although I also eat meat, I have never killed a living thing myself. "
The old ape heated a tea cup for the old wolf and signaled Li Ye to pour tea for the old wolf.
After thinking about it, he looked at the huge antelope on the ground and said: "In the Tianshan Mountains, antelopes will starve to death if they have no grass to eat, and wolves will starve to death if they don't have meat to eat. If our apes can't find enough fruits and nuts, If we don’t have enough food, we will starve to death. If we can’t leave this land after attaining enlightenment, we will have to return to this land even if we die. This is how all sentient beings live.”
Li Ye poured hot tea for Lao Lang, brought it in front of him, and said with a blushing face: "I haven't fully understood this yet. When I have the opportunity, I will ask the masters of the Great Buddha Temple for advice. I hope the two seniors won't blame me. "
The sunlight outside the shed shone on the table through the crack in the door, and also on Li Ye's face.
At a glance, the two old men seemed to see a faint golden light spreading behind him, and there was an aura, which conveyed some indescribable feeling, making the two old men seem to see a Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva chanting Buddhist scriptures.
"My husband said not to be persistent and follow your heart," Li Ye said. "He said that as long as my mood is kind at this moment, then the things I do will be kind. Then, you two seniors, let's drink and eat meat tonight."
The old ape looked at Li Ye and shook his head. He picked up the tea cup in front of him and said, "You are kind-hearted and compassionate. It is a good thing and a bad thing. I heard Monk Poxu say that people in the world are sinister and kind people are easily hurt. You are like this now. , how to lead Xiaobai into the world and travel around the world in the future?"
When the old wolf heard this, he patted the table and said, "That's the truth. You must remember this truth when you walk in the world in the future. If you don't harm others, there will be people who want to harm you." After speaking, he picked up the teacup and drank.
The two old men drank the tea in the cup, picked up the knife on the table, the old ape dragged the antelope on the ground, and the old wolf took the hot water in the pot, pushed out the door, and headed for the river outside the woods... .
What the husband had been worrying about finally happened to Li Ye that day. Because he had to accompany Bai Susu to the top of the mountain to survive the tribulation, the husband did not have time to tell Li Ye the dark truth about the weak and the strong in the world.
As a result, Li Ye had already reached the fifth level of Golden Elixir, but he had never killed a mouse, let alone be able to understand the dark truths in the world.
And Li Ye's fate and temperament were destined not to become a monk, which created the dilemma Li Ye faced today.
Fortunately, Li Ye was straightforward and didn't worry too much about this issue.
He only had a lot of questions in his mind, but he just put them down for the time being, thinking that he would go down the mountain and find the old monk at the Great Buddha Temple for slowly asking for advice and reasoning.
The snow has stopped, the sky is blue, and the sun is warm.
Even Xiao Bai, who liked to hide in the cave to sleep, ran out and lay on the stool looking at Li Ye.
He stretched his body, raised his head and whined twice.
Li Ye looked at its appearance and said with a smile: "Your ancestors came and brought some meat. You can eat it freely these days."
Xiaobai howled twice.
Li Ye pointed to the door and said, "They went to the river to peel their meat. Why don't you go and see if you can help?"
Before he finished speaking, a white shadow flashed past, and Xiaobai quickly walked out the door.
...
After the two men had skinned and cut the antelope meat and carried it back to the wooden shed on the cliff, Li Ye had already heated up the charcoal fire in the stove and placed a jar of burning knives in the middle of the table.
The old ape handed Li Ye a piece of meat, tied the remaining meat with bamboo strips, and hung it outside the eaves of the shed.
Li Ye took salt and spices to marinate the meat, and the old wolf put a pot filled with water on the fire to boil water.
"This meat is good. We brothers can have a nice drink today. I'm afraid the young man's wine is not enough." The old ape sat at the table and reached out to pick up the tea cup in front of him.
"I just used some strength to carry it over. Opportunities like this don't come every day." The old wolf sat down opposite the old ape and looked back at Xiaobai who followed behind.
Li Ye felt a little regretful and said, "It's a pity that my husband is not here, otherwise he could drink with you two and talk about your future lives."
The old ape was fighting snakes on the stick, looking at Li Ye with wide eyes, and moved his stool next to him, with a sincere expression on his face.
He said seriously: "Then, when the little blue bird comes again next time, ask her to send a message to your husband, welcoming him to come here as a guest?"
The old wolf was startled, and then immediately said: "This is a good idea, I agree."
Li Ye knew the intentions of these two old guys, but did not expose them. He agreed softly, turned over the marinated meat, took out a knife and cut it carefully, preparing to burn it on the stove.
Faced with such sincerity from the two old men, he rarely remained silent for a short while.
"Logically speaking, my husband will not come here to look for me. He must hope that I can find my way back." Li Ye thought for a while and said.
"Little sir, why are you talking about this?" said the old wolf.
"Little sir, you can't leave us alone. I'm still looking forward to asking your husband for the important thing of overcoming the tribulation." said the old ape.
"That's the truth." Old Wolf nodded.
Li Ye took down the boiling water and started to add tea. He also added two pieces of charcoal to the stove and said, "Okay, next time Xiaoqing comes, I will tell her and the husband about this. As for whether the husband will come or not, Come on, it’s not my responsibility.”
The old wolf stretched out his hand to hold the cup, and almost got burned. He was a little angry and said, "You poured a cup of tea and just poured it. Don't try any other tricks to boil my hand."
The old ape looked at him and shook his head and said: "That's nonsense. You are obviously impatient. How can you blame the young gentleman for this? If you don't know how to drink tea, don't drink tea..."
While listening to the two old men arguing at night, Li skewered the cut meat on bamboo skewers and grilled it on the stove. After a while, the aroma of meat spread in the shed.
The old wolf shouted angrily: "Old guy, why did you change the subject again? I was just talking about asking the young gentleman to invite his husband to come here as a guest."
Only Xiaobai ignored his nagging and jumped from the stool he was sitting on to Li Ye's lap, staring at the oily antelope meat roasted on the stove with his big eyes.
At dusk in winter, in a corner of the cold Tianshan Mountains, there is meat, wine, and stories.
...
In the early morning after eating the barbecue, the wind and snow on the Tianshan Mountains came again. The cold wind howled and white snow fell around Yaping.
The howling north wind was like a sword of frost and snow, blocking the skylight above the Tianshan Mountains, and the whole world became gray and cold.
Standing on the windy and snowy cliff, feeling the breath of heaven and earth coming towards his face, Li Ye stretched out his hand to grab a snowflake, put it in his palm and observed it carefully. Looking at the diamond-shaped snowflake, he felt his right hand gently moving. Shaking slightly, he couldn't help but draw out his bamboo sword and slashed it upward...
He resisted the urge to draw his sword, took a long breath, closed his eyes, and let his consciousness fly. He wanted to feel the wind and snow in the sky more clearly, and he wanted to integrate himself into this world of wind and snow.
...
He closed his eyes tightly and thought about the two different sword intentions in those two scrolls of scripture.
He tried to bring these two different sword intentions together, and then carefully condensed them on the bamboo sword in his hand.
He knew that if he used his current state of cultivation and even the physical power of the "Shadowless Dharma Body".
It is definitely impossible to swing this sword. Even if it is forcibly slashed, there will only be snow slag falling on the sword body.
He stood quietly under the cedar for half an hour. At this moment, he could no longer tell which one was the cedar tree and which one was Li Ye, as if he had become one with the world.
The fingers moved slightly, and the bamboo sword gently changed its direction.
He didn't move the true energy in his Dantian, nor did he move the formless body, nor did he try to condense the sword of divine consciousness.
Like a toddler, he swung a seemingly clumsy sword.
The action of the sword he slashed was very simple, simpler and softer than the hundreds of thousands of swords he slashed a few days ago.
Because the snowflakes falling from the sky are simpler, more primitive, and weaker than the bamboo sword.
At this moment, he thought of the bamboo leaves that Mu Mu had cut down with him.
Mumu and he chopped down a pile of pine needles outside the woods of the wooden house.
At this moment, he felt that the bamboo sword could chop bamboo leaves, pine needles, and many things, such as the flying snow in front of him.
At this moment, he could no longer feel the weight of the bamboo sword in his hand, as if his arm was the bamboo sword, and the bamboo sword was his arm. He had a gentle flow of air flowing through his body that had not been there for a long time.
It had been a long time since he had cut off bamboo leaves and pine needles with his sword, and he felt nostalgic.
It had been a long time since he had seen the willful and coquettish Mu Mu, and he missed her a little.
Today he wielded his sword again. Although his eyes were closed, his movements were still so clumsy.
It's so clumsy that it makes people feel very uncomfortable.
It was this seemingly clumsy sword that was swung out softly and slashed into the wind and snow that filled the sky.
After a while, he opened his eyes.
When he lowered his head, he saw half a crystal clear snowflake quietly sticking to the blade of the bamboo sword.
In the days without my husband, without Mumu's sparring partner.
He was finally in the roaring wind and snow of Tianshan Mountain, in a lonely and lonely day.
Cut the snow with one sword.
