On New Year's Eve, Li Xiuyuan didn't get up early.
Chenshi got up and washed himself, cooked half a pot of white porridge, then took the Ruoshui Wooden Sword and waved it casually in the wind and snow outside the hall for half an hour. He didn't know how many swords he had struck.
Before it was too late, Old Man Zhang braved the wind and snow and climbed up the mountain, took half of the roe deer and moved it into the kitchen.
When Li Xiuyuan saw it, he smiled and asked: "This must weigh one or two hundred kilograms, right? How can I eat it all by myself?"
Elder Zhang put the roe deer away, took out three large food boxes and put them on the kitchen table. He turned to look at him and said, "Eat the roe deer slowly. Today's meal has been prepared for you. You just need to heat it up." Just make it hot.”
Li Xiuyuan was startled, pointed at the food box on the table and said with a smile: "This is a lot of food, enough for me to eat until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year."
Old man Zhang thought for a while, then put half of the roe deer in the snow under the peach tree, and smiled: "I'll keep my toys in the snow here, and the wild beasts in the mountains won't come into the Taoist temple to snatch them from you." food."
Li Xiuyuan walked over, piled the snow on the side onto the roe deer, and asked, "As long as I have something to eat, if you have nothing to do, hurry down the mountain and celebrate the New Year with them! Remember, drink less wine."
Old Man Zhang was about to say something, but he didn't expect Li Xiuyuan to remind him to drink less. He couldn't help but reply: "Well, I will just join them for a while, and I can't drink more than a few glasses of wine."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and walked towards the main hall.
Old Man Zhang looked at his back and couldn't help but ask: "Well, do you want to follow me to the village?"
"No! If you want to spend this New Year's Day quietly by yourself, don't bother me if you have nothing to do, unless someone comes to cause trouble..." Li Xiuyuan replied softly.
"They've been here and there for a month. How can they cause trouble for you?!" Old Man Zhang couldn't help but muttered after hearing this.
"Let's wait and see. I hope everyone will stay at home during the New Year and don't come to trouble me!" Li Xiuyuan is not a fuel-efficient lamp at the moment.
"Um, did you write talismans again yesterday?" Old man Zhang walked into the hall, looked at the neatly arranged runes on the shelf, and turned to look at Li Xiuyuan and asked.
Li Xiuyuan added charcoal to the brazier and said, "I haven't done anything for a long time. I have to write some and put them here to meet the needs of the villagers down the mountain. If there are not enough, I will let you take action."
"Oh, I can be lazy now. With this wave of your hand, I can enjoy a year and a half of leisurely time. It seems I have to work hard."
Old man Zhang thought about his state and said with a smile.
"Don't be anxious. Wait until the New Year is over. I will prepare a pair of elixirs for you to try to break through one or two realms."
Li Xiuyuan glanced at Old Man Zhang and said thoughtfully: "Maybe, in a few years, you still have hope to break through to the realm of breaking through the void."
When Old Man Zhang, who was about to walk out, heard these words, he couldn't help but say: "Maybe, someone will come looking for you in a few days."
Li Xiuyuan burst out laughing when he heard this, shook his head and said, "Whatever, I'll take over whether it's good or bad."
I saw Mr. Zhang put three sticks of incense on his head, placed the tributes brought from the mountain, and then clasped his hands and saluted.
Li Xiuyuan lit the fire and made tea, while looking at Old Man Zhang and said: "Drink two cups of tea before going down the mountain, but tea is not something you can drink lightly..."
In his opinion, it is natural to moisturize Old Man Zhang's body with spiritual tea first, and then think about breaking the situation after the New Year.
Mr. Zhang raised his head, glanced at the peach trees in the yard, and asked inexplicably: "After all this hard work, you still can't eat the spring apricots everywhere this year?"
Li Xiuyuan, who was making tea, looked at him and sighed: "It doesn't matter if you can't eat it, just think about it... You have to put in some effort to prune the apricot trees in this mountain every autumn. ."
Old man Zhang sighed secretly: After spending so much effort, he didn't even taste a single fresh spring apricot.
Those troublesome matters in the Demon Realm are still waiting for him to deal with.
This was the first New Year's Eve that Li Xiuyuan spent alone in Luoxia Mountain. In the following years, he didn't know where he was going and who he was with.
"I can't finish the mountain of apricots. Even if I have time to sell them... I'd better send some to General Chen and the Queen in Tianfeng City."
In Li Xiuyuan's view, he could distance himself from his eldest grandson, but that would not prevent Old Man Zhang from sending some fresh spring apricots.
Old Man Zhang smiled and said, "Don't worry about this. I will send it to you every year when you are away."
Li Xiuyuan nodded and said quietly: "In a few days, when the apricot flowers bloom, we can make wine."
In his opinion, this year's apricot wine is sweeter than last year's.
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On New Year's Eve this year, Li Xiuyuan watched the wind and snow on the mountain, cut a piece of roe deer and cooked it in soup, and heated up two plates of food brought by Old Man Zhang. These were all gifts from the villagers to the little Taoist priest on the mountain.
Then, he took the spiritual peach wine from the Nine Heavens that he had not drunk for a long time and poured it for the Patriarch of the Sanqing Dynasty. Then he looked at the snowflakes in the sky outside the hall and chuckled: "This wine should only be made in the sky..." .”
For Li Xiuyuan at the moment, even if his body is injured, as long as he survives, there are countless elixirs and elixirs that can cure him. This is also the confidence for him to dare to bear the cave.
A glass of wine in front of the palace, one person smiling and looking at the snow all over the mountain.
However, Li Xiuyuan was not drunk tonight, because he had to keep vigil, and even if there was only one person on New Year's Eve, he would watch it carefully.
At midnight, Li Xiuyuan was the only one in the Taoist temple in Ruoda, sitting alone under the lamp, with the small stove on the table steaming thickly.
The wind and snow outside the palace stopped at some point. The entire Luoxia Mountain was quiet.
Li Xiuyuan took out the light yellow Huxuan, spread it on the bed, and ground an inkstone with boiling water in the pot.
He was thinking about what Xiaoqing and Xiaolonger were doing in the royal city of Dachu at this time? There is also Nangong Ruyu from Taoyuan... She is not drunk, but she is full of thoughts and has some faint melancholy.
He sighed, picked up the unfrozen wolf hair on the table, and gently stretched it into the thick ink.
Who can ask about the empty mountain? The cold lamp is only friendly.
The year is about to end, and no one has returned from thousands of miles away.
Liaoluo thinks about the past, and laughs at this body.
With sorrow and kindness, spring will come again tomorrow.
Like the couplet outside the wooden house at the foot of the mountain, this was also written by Li Ye when he was alone in the bluestone courtyard of Xuantian Temple on New Year's Eve.
The difference was that that year the Qingshi Courtyard was full of guests, but at this moment he was the only one in Luoxia Mountain.
After sweeping away the snow under the eaves in front of the hall and the dust in the hall, Li Xiuyuan returned to the table, poured himself a cup of hot tea, held it in his hands and blew gently.
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On the first day of the new year, Old Man Zhang ran up the mountain to have lunch with Li Xiuyuan and chatted with him about some trivial matters down the mountain. Because there was a large formation, everything was calm.
On the second day of junior high school, Li Xiuyuan, who had nothing to do, walked around the back mountain, trying to get back the feeling he had back then.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, before Li Xiuyuan could go out, Old Man Zhang ran up and pulled him down the mountain. As he walked, he said, "The Queen is here. You have to go down the mountain quickly and have a look."
"The wind and snow haven't stopped yet, why is she running here?"
Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, I am living a comfortable life here. You are not staying in the palace. Why are you here in the wilderness?
Old Man Zhang shook his head and replied: "How dare I ask about this? You have to go down the mountain to ask."
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "Is she too busy for me to stay here? Or is she too comfortable staying in the palace? What if a monk from the Demon Realm comes to trouble me and encounters her?"
Old Man Zhang replied calmly: "This is only the third year of junior high school. I guess it will be after the fifteenth year when the devil's people want to trouble you. By that time, you will have already left here, right?"
"I hope so, I don't want to fight them again."
Li Xiuyuan replied with a smile, and then walked quickly down the mountain. After a while, Old Man Zhang lost sight of him.
"I don't have anything good here, so how dare I trouble my queen to come here again and again?"
Before entering the room, Li Xiuyuan looked at Queen Changsun sitting in the room and said.
Queen Changsun looked at the smile on his face and thought silently, what kind of monster is this guy in front of her that can fight against a practitioner of the power of the cave? He can also kill the opponent.
"There's something I haven't been able to figure out." Queen Changsun said suddenly.
Li Xiuyuan stretched out his hand to flick off the fallen snow on his clothes, looked at her slightly startled and asked, "What's the matter?"
Xiaoyun, who was sitting aside making tea, poured him a cup of hot tea.
Empress Changsun said: "Xiaoyun is obviously not weaker than you in terms of talent in cultivation, but her understanding of sword intent is far inferior to yours. Just write a couplet outside your door, and there will be a sword intent to cut through the air. out......"
Li Xiuyuan picked up the teacup in front of him, thought for a moment and said, "I don't quite understand either. This is a doubt I've had since I was a child. Even my master didn't understand it at the beginning."
Queen Changsun said: "You are able to cut through the sky with the power of distraction. Is it because of your understanding of the sword's intention and your control of the sword's power? Or do you have a more powerful method?"
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said, "Am I afraid of them too? So I will leave here in a few days..."
Xiaoyun, who was sitting aside making tea, was startled after hearing this, looked at him and asked, "Do you want to leave here?"
"There's no other way. I'm not a strong man in the Cave Heaven Realm. How can I keep fighting with them... Since I can't beat them, I have to find a way to run away and let them find me on the Shura battlefield... ....”
Li Xiuyuan frowned and said: "When they get to the Shura battlefield, they will find that I am almost like a cat." He did not say the other half of the sentence. What they will encounter on the Shura battlefield is those who eat people without spitting out their bones. guy.
Queen Changsun looked at him and said, "You understand this truth, so you have to leave here."
Li Xiuyuan replied: "Yes."
Empress Changsun shook her head and said: "Go to the Shura battlefield and take care of the disciples of Tianfeng Kingdom. I will take care of Shura Village for you, how about that?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "This is the Shura Village of Tianfeng Kingdom, not mine. I have no relationship with these villagers."
In his opinion, I have laid a dragnet here. Even if I am not here, there is no need to fear that the army of the Demon Realm will attack Shura Village.
If the Tianfeng Kingdom cannot even protect its own subjects, then King Qin and Queen Changsun will not be far from the end of their country.
Queen Changsun didn't expect Li Xiuyuan to be so decisive, and couldn't help but said: "For my sake, if you encounter the disciples of Tianfeng Kingdom in trouble, can you help them rescue them?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and knew that he couldn't refuse, so he could only sigh and said: "I'll try...but everything will have to wait until I finish handling my own affairs. Before that, I'm afraid no one can see me. "
After saying this, Li Xiuyuan looked at this woman quietly and thought to himself, the most I can do is not cause trouble for your son, but you have to protect him from provoking me.
As for the other disciples of Tianfeng Kingdom, Li Xiuyuan didn't mind helping them when they met. After all, when you go to the Shura battlefield, you have to face demons from outside the territory.
Finally, Li Xiuyuan looked at the two of them and smiled: "I went to the Shura battlefield for my own personal reasons."
Queen Changsun looked at him and said quietly: "Who goes to the Shura battlefield not for themselves? If it were not for the limitations of the realm, I would like to go with you..."
Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, there is no need for me to tell you everything about myself?
Restoring his memory is the most important thing for him. As for the opportunity to find the way to heaven, am I, Li Xiuyuan, afraid that I will not have the chance?
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan gently replied: "I am different from others."
