Looking at the husband and Li Hongxiu walking away, Tang Qiuyu took out a silk scarf from his arms and put it on the ground, sat down against the cedar tree, called the four children over, and distributed the dried meat to them.
"Wutong, have you ever thought that you can't support yourself at the foot of the mountain? Li Ye has followed his husband to Tianshan Mountain to pick mushrooms and Ganoderma lucidum since he was more than five years old. He also has to pickle dried meat for the winter and cut enough firewood for the winter. ."
Tang Qiuyu looked at her and said softly.
At this moment, she felt that she should give this little girl a beating.
Xia Wutong leaned on Tang Qiuyu's arm and pouted: "Let Tang Chao and Hu Ge go find Ganoderma lucidum first. Xiaoju and I will pick some wild flowers and bring them back later."
Tang Qiuyu looked at her lost look and suddenly realized that apart from her hard work in cultivation, this little princess of the imperial city seemed to have never enjoyed her happy childhood.
There was a burst of love in my heart, and I smiled and said, "If you want to play, go and have fun. Don't practice hard in the future. Just play if you want."
Xia Wutong clapped his hands and stood up, holding Xiaoju's hand, and ran towards the wild flowers on the hillside.
Looking at the scene in front of her, Tang Qiuyu's eyes were a little moist. She was thinking about when her young boy was not like Xia Wutong, practicing constantly under the stern eyes of his master every day.
Like Xu Jingyun, she had asked herself many times why she wanted to practice. Was she going to live a lonely life like her master?
After Tang Chao and Hu Ge finished eating the dried meat, they said hello to Tang Qiuyu and went into the woods to find Ganoderma lucidum. She closed her eyes and leaned against the tree to rest, thinking about how to face her future life.
The greatest sorrow of all practitioners in the world is not that they die slowly because they cannot break through their own limits, but that they delay their lives by practicing endlessly and breaking through.
Most of them die alone, and when they are dying, they reluctantly ask themselves why they want to practice.
Tang Qiuyu thought about the conversation with Xu Jingyun on Phoenix Mountain, looked at the love between Li Hongxiu and her husband, and thought to herself that she should also think about her own life.
...
When the time came, my husband and Li Hongxiu came back here. Looking at the four children sitting on the bed, Li Hongxiu asked with a smile: "How many Ganoderma lucidum did you pick today?"
Tang Qiuyu looked at Li Hongxiu, pointed at the piles of Ganoderma lucidum on the ground behind him and said with a smile: "This may be the most they have collected in their lives. They won't have to worry about finding Ganoderma lucidum for a long time in the future. "
Li Hongxiu pointed to her husband's baggage and the pheasant in her hand, and said proudly: "I'm lucky today. I caught two pheasants and two hares. I've got enough food for today and tomorrow."
The husband smiled and said: "Pack up the Ganoderma lucidum. We have to hurry and get back before dark."
...
Just after Youshi, everyone returned to the wooden house.
The husband threw the pheasants and hares to Li Hongxiu and asked her to take the four children to fetch water and boil the water for treatment.
Then he watched the four children marinating the meat with salt and spices, and then sat at the table and started boiling water to make tea.
Looking at Tang Qiuyu lying on the bamboo chair, Li Hongxiu said with a smile: "You have only been running for a day and you are so tired?"
"How can this be possible? I'm just tired!" Tang Chao Qiuyu said, patting his chest.
Li Hongxiu was startled and said with a smile: "Don't scare me, you have already crossed the threshold."
"So what? I look at you two and think that my junior sister and I have only been immersed in hard training these years. It's really not worth it." Tang Qiuyu sighed faintly.
The husband took the four children to light a fire outside the house and prepare a barbecue.
Li Hongxiu looked at the gentleman walking away and said quietly to Tang Qiuyu: "I was just like you before. I didn't know what practice was for. Then I met the gentleman and I understood something. You are still young. When you meet yourself Never let go of someone you like, follow me and follow him shamelessly."
Tang Qiuyu was stunned and looked at Li Hongxiu blankly. "Is this okay? Are you embarrassed?"
"Tch, there's nothing wrong with it. If I don't take the initiative, someone else will take it away sooner or later. You have to take the initiative!" Li Hongxiu said with a smile.
The gentleman outside the house led the four children to light a fire on Li Yelei's rocks and taught them how to barbecue.
While adding firewood, he said: "You will bake it by yourself in a while, and you can eat whatever you want. I taught Li Ye this way before. You will be alone in the wild in the future, and from now on you must learn how to cook in the wild." Survival in the wild.”
Xia Wutong and Xiao Ju stood on the side excitedly, watching Tang Chao and Hu Ge make a fire and cut the meat. Then everyone put the cut meat on bamboo skewers and grilled it on the fire while smelling the burnt meat. Taste, while making a "giggle" laugh.
"Go, call your master over, and let's bake together!" The gentleman looked at Xia Wutong and said.
At this time, Li Hongxiu and Tang Qiuyu had already moved a stool out of the wooden house and walked behind the husband.
Giving the gentleman a stool in her hand, Li Hongxiu smiled and said, "Would you like a drink?" She had to ask before drinking now, for fear that her husband would be unhappy.
"We've finished the fruit wine we made together with Ye'er before. The only Shaodaozi wine you brought is in the house. If Mr. Tang doesn't mind the wine, I'll have a drink." Mr. Tang did not object to Li Hongxiu's suggestion.
Li Hongxiu clapped her hands and stood up, went to the house to get the wine, and said as she walked: "You four little brats, please stop drinking. We have to get up early to practice tomorrow."
Tang Qiuyu took the stick of roasted meat handed over by Xia Wutong, frowned, thought for a while and continued to put it in his mouth.
Then he said: "It is right to bring you to Tianshan this time. At least you will learn how to live alone in the wild."
Xia Wutong nodded excitedly.
Xiao Ju looked at the black ash on Tang Chao's face and giggled.
The husband said with a smile: "You have to be patient when grilling meat. The fire should not be too strong, otherwise it will burn... you have to keep turning it... you can bake golden brown meat after a few tries. "
Li Hongxiu came over with a jar of burning knives, patted it away gently, poured three cups, handed them to her husband and Tang Qiuyu, and said with a smile: "Come on, let's drink to our first meeting in Tianshan!"
Tang Qiuyu raised the harvest wine glass and said with a smile: "Let's drink so that we can practice on Tianshan Mountain."
The gentleman did not speak, but raised his cup and looked at the two excited women.
After several failed attempts, the four children finally baked golden-brown barbecue, and the aroma of barbecue filled the cliff.
Xiaoju picked up a skewer of barbecue, looked at the dark mountain stream, and said softly: "I wonder what brother Li Ye is doing now?"
The gentleman put down his wine glass, picked up a skewer of barbecued meat from the fire, and said with a smile: "He should be cooking something to eat right now. When you are about to go to bed, he will read Buddhist scriptures to the practitioners in the mountains. It’s his daily practice.”
"I have to recite sutras every day. Do the elves in the mountains understand?" Tang Qiuyu was stunned.
"It's one thing to understand or not, and it's another thing to recite or not. Reciting Buddhist sutras to the creatures in Tianshan Mountain is a kind of practice, and reciting sutras to himself is another kind of practice. These are the two An old guy told me," the gentleman said.
Tang Qiuyu seemed to understand a little bit and nodded gently.
The four children ate and listened carefully.
...
Li Ye had just finished dinner and was sitting at the table with Lao Yuan making tea. Xiao Bai was lying on the chair next to him in a daze.
"Senior, it's been almost a year since I came here. Have you felt anything recently? When can you expect to go to the top of the mountain?"
The old ape looked at Li Ye and said with a smile: "I have a vague feeling that we can go to the top of the mountain with the old guy as soon as this autumn or next spring at the latest. But I am not in a hurry now. I want to be here." Stay a few more days, after all, once you leave, it will be difficult to come back."
Li Ye looked at the burning grease lamp and smiled softly. "I heard from my husband that after you have passed through the Nine Tribulations, you have just begun another realm. You still have to start practicing. Where does this end?"
The old ape looked at Li Ye with a smile, and gently touched Xiao Bai beside him with his hand.
He murmured: "It's a long road to practice. If you want to achieve enlightenment or live forever, how can it be possible without suffering and suffering? The road of practice is like sailing against the current. If you stop halfway, it will only be ruthlessly destroyed by flying stones."
Li Ye nodded, pointed at Xiaobai and said with a smile: "Did you hear that? Hurry up and wait for you to wash the dishes and cook."
Xiaobai raised his head and glanced at him. This time he didn't roar again.
"Senior, when you leave, won't you worry about the children staying here?" Li Ye poured a cup of tea for the old ape.
The old ape shook his head, sighed, and said: "Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. I have been protecting them for hundreds of years. Just like the old wolf, the children still have to walk their own path after all."
After a moment of silence, Li Ye lightly patted the table, looked into the old ape's eyes and said seriously: "That's the truth, you should have let go and followed the old wolf to travel around and let them take charge of their own affairs. It’s better to be confused after you left.”
"I am already doing this. Several children have already reached the late stage of Nascent Soul Realm." The old ape picked up the tea cup and took a sip happily. He said with a smile: "I hope they will know how to work hard from now on, and nothing will be in vain." I have been listening to Buddhist scriptures for a year.”
"I hope so. If they don't understand the Buddhist scriptures, they can bring them to see me." Ning Que said.
"I have been chatting with you for almost a year. I have some understanding and can answer some of their questions. If I bother you again if I really don't understand something, I won't be polite to you."
"I hope this little guy will have a good future with you. If one day you bring him up to me and Lao Lang, maybe we and I will be able to help you together by then." Lao Lang said with emotion.
Li Ye frowned, looked at Xiao Bai who was in a daze, and said softly: "Then... do you want to enter the country before I go down the mountain?"
Xiaobai lay there and ignored him, turned his head and glanced at the old ape, and roared twice.
Lao Yuan looked at Li Ye, smiled and said, "He said he won't be much worse than you in the future, and I promise he won't hold you back."
"I don't believe it, you are just a pure foodie!" Li Ye tapped his fingers on the table and looked at Xiao Bai proudly.
"Why do I feel like you haven't had a breakthrough for a long time? Did you damage your body by taking that elixir last time?" The old ape looked at Li Ye worriedly.
Li Ye was stunned, wondering why it turned to him again.
