When the old wolf came out with the sleepy-eyed Xiaobai, the old ape had already opened the wine jar where the knife was burning.
Li Ye had already put the cut meat on the fire to roast, and the whole shed was filled with the aroma of meat and wine.
Xiaobai opened his eyes excitedly when he smelled the aroma of meat, stared at Li Ye and screamed twice, which meant that both eating meat and drinking were indispensable.
Li Ye looked at it speechlessly, touched its head gently, and said softly: "Xiaobai, Xiaobai, you have eaten so much meat, why haven't you grown up yet?"
Looking at the expressions of Li Ye and Xiao Bai, Old Wolf said with a smile: "I took a closer look. It is entering the country very quickly. It is estimated that there will be huge changes as soon as spring. You can't... .You have to give him a nice name."
"What name should I choose? I already have one already, right? Let's call him Xiao, um! Let's call him Li Xiaobai."
While the two of them were talking boringly, the old ape picked up a piece of pastry on the table and stuffed it into Shui Bai's mouth. He then collected the peanut bits and put them on the wooden shelf behind Li Ye.
Looking at the three people, he said with a smile: "I think this name is good. Following the little gentleman's surname is good. You two should remember to come up to me and have a drink with Lao Lang in the future. Maybe we can still protect you two by then."
As if to praise Lao Lang's words, or because he would definitely conquer the world with Li Ye in the future, Xiao Bai raised his head and howled twice at Lao Ape.
The old wolf sat next to it, stretched out his hand and gently touched its shiny white hair, with a loving smile on his face.
The old ape sighed softly, frowned and said: "Xiaobai is an orphan in this world. His parents don't know if he is alive in another world."
Li Ye thought for a while and replied: "We won't know until we go to that world. It's too early to say this now."
The old ape was startled when he heard this, thinking that this was also the case, and looked at Li Ye and continued.
"Other than Lao Lang, you are the person he loves the most, and your home is his home. Seeing you treat him like this makes me feel at ease after Lao Lang is gone."
Li Ye looked at Xiaobai, smiled slightly and said, "Xiaobai is my brother, a brother for life."
Xiaobai turned his dark eyes and looked at Li Ye without yelling or nodding. No one knew what he was thinking.
Li Ye cut the roasted antelope meat into four parts, placed it on a plate on the table, picked up another piece and continued to roast it on the fire.
Old Wolf took a piece and handed it to Xiaobai next to him. He raised his glass, looked at the old ape and said, "For our nearly thousand years of friendship, and for the deep friendship between Mr. Xiaobai and Xiaobai, let's do it."
The old ape raised his glass, looked at the two old wolves, smiled at each other, grinned and drank a glass of wine.
Li Ye and Xiao Bai just took a sip. He didn't want to get drunk again tonight.
The old wolf tore off a piece of meat and chewed it in his mouth, and said with emotion: "When the old guy and I have been hanging around in the Tianshan Mountains for thousands of years, we haven't drank as much wine as we have drunk in the past few months. I really I don’t know whether to hate you or thank you.”
"Why is this?" Li Ye was stunned.
"What he means is that you made him drink so much fine wine. If we two old men go there one day and there is no wine to drink, it would be strange if he doesn't bear grudge against you today."
The old ape laughed loudly, took the wine jar and poured another full cup for the two of them.
Li Yeyao thought about the two old men walking through the void to another place. They were still guarding a cave with only meat to eat and no wine to drink. After a moment of silence, he said: "You like drinking, I can give you some more and let you take it with you." Go there."
The old ape slapped the table and shouted at the top of his lungs: "You old idiot, the wine will be better and more abundant there."
The old wolf was stunned, looking at the old ape speechless for a long time, thinking to himself, what are you so crazy about?
...
Li Ye's drinking capacity was very low, only better than Xiao Bai's. He was already a little drunk after drinking less than half a cup.
At this moment, under the influence of alcohol, he seemed to have returned to his husband's Zizhu Courtyard, remembering that winter afternoon of that year, sitting in front of the hall and playing that little song.
Just when I was about to speak out, I felt that it didn't fit in with the scenery at that time, so I randomly pulled out a poem from my mind and read it aloud:
Five-flowered horse, golden fur,
Hu'er will be exchanged for fine wine, and we will sell the eternal sorrow with you.
...
He didn't want to get drunk tonight.
Tonight he wanted to get drunk again.
The old ape walked back to his cave with drunken steps.
The drunk old wolf went into the cave to rest with the help of Li Yeye.
After helping the old wolf to sleep on his own place, Li Ye returned to the shed, added firewood, boiled water, and made a pot of tea.
A man sat down under the rosin lamp, took out the Hua Dharma Sutra and put it on the table, ready to drink tea and read the sutra.
Looking at the steaming stove under the dim light, I counted on my fingers that it had been one year, two months and seven days since I arrived at Tianshan Mountain, and it would be the beginning of spring in another twenty days.
I paid an extremely hard price from leaving the wooden house on the mountain to coming here, and almost never returned to the cliff on Fairy Peak.
As the practice improves, the body and spirit are also severely depleted. Although I have practiced "The Formless Dharmakaya" to the fifth level, sometimes I still feel pain in my waist and abdomen when I turn over at night.
Thinking about the fantasy books sold in Fengyun City bookstore, they describe those who practice Taoism as not eating grains, drinking wind and dew, flying in the sky and hiding from the earth, and are omnipotent.
However, he has already practiced hard to reach the fifth level of Jindan. He is like an old wolf or an old ape who has reached the eighth level of transcending tribulation. He still has to eat meat and drink alcohol. He can still only occasionally jump through the mountains, and still cannot fly to the sky and escape from the earth.
He had created a miracle on the cold pool and broke the old ape's record, but he still could only resist desperately for an hour.
In the face of the mysterious and unpredictable rules of heaven, all practitioners are just ants. No matter how advanced they are, they are just ants that cannot be easily killed.
Thinking of this, I remembered Mu Mu's master Bai Susu. I wonder if she, who has been able to fly with Mu Mu on the Tianshan Mountains, will be able to achieve the flying escape in the fantasy book in that time and space.
He picked up the kettle and poured himself a cup of tea, holding it in his hand. With his drunken eyes, he suddenly felt that he was a stupid pig. Xiaoqing had been here so many times, why didn't he catch her and ask her about the story and legend of the starry sky? .
After drinking a cup of residual tea, I picked up the scripture. After reading it for a while, it became so heavy that I could no longer open my eyes. I had to lift the animal skin on the bamboo chair, wrap myself tightly, and lie down on it softly. .
He knows that the so-called description of meditating and chanting sutras without sleeping is also nonsense...
...
In the early morning, there was light snow falling on the cliff, and the mountain breeze was blowing gently.
Li Ye sat at the table and spread out the blank scripture scroll with his small hands. He poured some hot water and rubbed the ink carelessly in the stone inkstone.
Thinking that the brush was stained with some ink and wanted to write by hand, but it didn't feel black enough, he put the pine charcoal he burned on the table and ground it into powder with an iron sword, then mixed it with the ink and ground it together.
Looking at the "Hua Dharma Sutra" spread out on the table, I remembered the temple that my husband mentioned.
The monastery in Fangcun Mountain in the West Xuan Region that has the most believers, the most eminent monks born, and the most collection of scriptures and poems in the Five Realms, both its own "Ksitigarbha Sutra" and "Hua Dharma Sutra" come from There.
Soon, my husband will take him to practice in that mysterious temple.
The mountain breeze blew on him from the open wooden door, refreshing his mind and making him impatient.
After the spring comes, Xiaobai has entered the country. By the early summer, he has completed his promise to the old ape and can leave here and return to the academy at the foot of the mountain. By then, his sister Li Xiaoxue should have started to learn to walk.
Bai Susu's Tianshan plum-breaking skills and her husband's fallen leaf sword technique have not made any progress. She actually broke through six realms in just half a year. I am afraid that it would take practitioners in the world five years or even longer to break through.
Thinking about the two young ladies Dongfang Yu'er and Shangguan Wushuang, I wonder how they are practicing at the moment.
When he left Fengyun City, one of them was at the seventh and eighth levels of Qi Gathering. In less than two years, he didn't know if the two of them were the same monsters as him?
Looking inside at the golden elixir in the Dantian, one was purple and the other was white, and I wondered if I should continue practicing and return to the fifth level when I went down the mountain.
...
After sitting at the table and copying scriptures for an hour, Li Ye felt a little restless and not as peaceful as when he copied the first volume.
The scriptures he wrote actually had burrs on the last smile. He sighed softly and put the pen down on the inkstone.
As expected, he cannot eat hot tofu if he is anxious. This is what both his husband and the old monk have taught him.
He had to rest for a while and calm down before talking.
Carrying an iron pot and wooden bucket, I walked to the glacier to fetch water. I washed my face in the biting snow water and calmed down my irritable mood a little.
My husband asked me to cultivate my state of mind more on Tianshan Mountain. I thought I had reached my husband's requirements, but now it seems that I am still far behind.
Unexpectedly, my mental state has deteriorated a bit. It seems that only the monk from the Great Buddha Temple can help me solve this problem.
The teacher had told him before that practitioners in the Golden elixir realm could grasp the principles of understanding the vitality of heaven and earth, and clearly understand the origin of vitality contained in many different elements of the world.
But... there are also some fatal flaws. If your state of mind is deviated, it is extremely easy to become a fire demon when you feel the vitality of heaven and earth. It is the same as what is written in the Buddhist scriptures: becoming a Buddha with a single thought and becoming a demon with a single thought.
Could it be caused by the vitality of heaven and earth that I was eager to feel more of the power of ice in the ice pool? Or is it because he suddenly fell from the golden elixir to the first level and returned to the golden elixir first level, causing him to worry about gains and losses?
Or do you want to follow the old wolf to the top of the mountain to see what he was told is the restricted area of life? While walking back to Yaping through the thick snow, I thought about it carefully in my heart.
In the end, I came to the conclusion that the above points have more or less affected my state of mind. It seems that my decision to stop practicing desperately for the time being was correct.
These days, I need to rediscover the spiritual state of mind that was as calm as water, forgetting things and myself, when I first copied scriptures and knitted bamboo hats.
With a decision in my mind, my steps became relaxed. Humming an unknown ditty from Fengyun City, I returned to the shed, added firewood to the fire, set up the iron pot and started cooking porridge.
Even if he could go hungry without eating, the first thing he would do after waking up was to look for something to eat around him, as if eating and sleeping were the most important things for him at the moment.
Thinking that Xiaobai might be able to break through the realm soon, he couldn't help but feel full of expectation.
A yearning for life.
