It took a lot of thought and a lot of words.
Li Xiuyuan finally made Gao Yue'er give up the idea of seeking death. Before Xiaobao could go up the mountain, Qingyu took her to the mountains to go wild.
He said he wanted to dig some bamboo shoots back, but even if he couldn't find them, he still had to pick some mushrooms to make soup.
In short, the two women have to recover all the suffering they have suffered in the past few decades from the top of this snow-capped mountain.
Gao Yue'er, who has regained her girlish appearance, knows that with her husband here, her cultivation will recover sooner or later like Qing Yu, so she is no longer anxious now.
I just want to spend a few days in the mountains and then go to the imperial city to have a good time.
After all, Qingyu plundered Niu Sanduo's treasure house and earned a lot of gold coins. Now the two of them finally have no shortage of money and don't have to reach out to Li Xiuyuan.
On this day, Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting quietly in the living room, did not wait for Qin Xiangyu and Juier, whom he had not seen for a long time.
However, the old man came up to the mountain with Xiaobao early in the morning. Behind the old man were seven or eight monks, each carrying a bamboo basket.
Li Xiuyuan on the mountain sent a message to the old man: "Let him pick more. Just leave me the dozens of trees on the mountain."
There are fewer people and more apricots. Even if Xiaobao and Qingyu open their bellies to eat, they can't eat much.
Not to mention, he has no intention of brewing apricot preserves this year. The key is that there is no honey.
The old man nodded, explained to the monks behind him, and took Xiaobao all the way up the mountain.
Xiaobao was so happy when he first arrived on the snow-capped mountain. He looked at the apricot trees all over the mountain and couldn't help but smile: "Grandpa, did you plant all the apricot trees in this mountain?"
The old man touched his head and smiled: "You can eat freely now. In autumn, remember to come to the mountain to prune the branches."
Xiaobao chuckled and said, "What Mr. planted belongs to Xiaobao and grandpa. We will go up to the mountain to play in the autumn."
Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting in the living room, smiled lightly and thought to himself, haven't I taught you how to grow vegetables?
Presumably Old Man Zhang loves his grandson very much and will not let him do farm work at home. In the end, these things will have to fall on him as a husband.
An old man and a young man entered the garden, and Li Xiuyuan had just finished brewing a pot of spiritual tea.
Looking at Xiaobao's cat face, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Go and wash your face first, and by the way, wash the apricots you picked, bring them over and sit down to eat."
There were some rules that Old Man Zhang didn't teach him, and he, as a teacher, couldn't avoid them.
Xiaobao yelled and followed the elder to the spring behind the house. After a while, there was a burst of screams.
"Grandpa, why does this spring water look like snow water?"
"You look up at the sky, here are the snow-capped mountains!"
"Oh, it turns out that Mr. really lives in the snowy mountains..."
"Wash slowly, don't be anxious, no one will fight with you, there are a lot of apricots on this tree..."
Li Xiuyuan in the living room couldn't help but smile when he heard this. Sure enough, with the addition of a child, everyone here and there was a little more lively.
After all, Xiaobao is different from the little monk back then.
Wu Liang practiced cultivation with the old monk since he was a child. Every move he made came from the old monk's words and deeds, and he lost a bit of his naughty and innocent childishness.
Xiaobao, on the other hand, was frightened once in Penglai.
After following him, he gradually put that nightmare behind him.
The old man came to the living room. Xiaobao picked up a washed apricot and handed it to the husband. He gave another one to the old man, and finally took one and took a bite.
Seeing the exaggerated expression on Xiaobao's face, the old man couldn't help but ask: "Is it sweet?"
After a long while, Xiaobao squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "This is the sweetest apricot Xiaobao has ever tasted. Sir, you are really amazing."
Li Xiuyuan smiled and ignored him. Instead, he looked at the old man and asked, "Where is Qin Xiangyu? Didn't he say that he would take Dui'er up the mountain with him today?"
The old man smiled lightly: "She went to Ganye Temple to pick up her senior sister. She will be here soon. Xiaobao is clamoring to go up the mountain to see the teacher, so we will go out first."
Xiaobao nodded and said with a smile: "Sister Xiangyu said that she would take Xiaobao to the academy in a few days..."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a moment and said, "I didn't teach you anything. The gentleman at the academy will teach you. If you memorize the Buddhist scriptures again in the past two days, have you been wasting your time?"
Xiaobao shook his head: "Xiaobao has a bad memory and is memorizing it slowly at the foot of the mountain."
The old man frowned: "I don't think you taught Xiaohu and Yan'er like this before. Why do you want Xiaobao to start memorizing Buddhist scriptures from an early age?"
"He can't carry it, can't you copy it down and give it to him?"
The old man couldn't understand what Li Xiuyuan meant. In his opinion, Xiaobao was too young.
After being lonely for so many years and finally waiting for a little treasure, he naturally didn't want to embarrass him.
Li Xiuyuan reached out and touched Xiaobao's head and said softly: "Because Xiaobao has seen the demons on Penglai Island. It was because the old Taoist priest left Qingniu Mountain for many years..."
"A disciple who cannot be taught by an old Taoist priest... I hope that Xiaobao can understand right and wrong from an early age, remember everything that happened in Penglai, and stop falling into the evil path."
Having said this, Li Xiuyuan asked: "Xiaobao, you also need to remember your grandfather and parents, and respect them when you grow up."
When Xiaobao heard this, he nodded heavily.
He looked at the old man and said, "Grandpa, you don't know, the evil man in Penglai caught Xiaobao and wanted to feed it to the big snake in the sea."
The old man was shocked when he heard this and blurted out: "Such a person deserves to die."
"So, in the end, I left the matter to Qingyu and asked her to avenge the two empresses and junior sister."
After drinking two cups of tea, Li Xiuyuan looked at Xiaobao and said, "Come on, follow me to water the water. I just sowed the seeds yesterday."
The old man smiled and said: "Go ahead and let Qingyu take him to the mountains to go crazy for a few days tomorrow."
Upon hearing this, Xiaobao put down his cup and chuckled, "Mr. Xiaobaobang."
Not long after, a childish voice sounded from the mountain: "I have practiced pure precepts for countless kalpas, upheld my deeds well, solved the unsolved problems, and the seed of the Three Jewels will never be extinguished..."
"Well, that's good. Mr. will cook another meal of meat for you tonight."
"Is it the little snake on Penglai Island?"
"That's not a snake, it's a dragon."
"Oh, it seems like Sister Xiangyu and Grandpa haven't eaten yet?"
The old man sitting in the living room smiled slightly and sighed secretly. Such a gentleman is rare in the world.
He also did not expect that the disciples taught by the old Taoist priests who came to the imperial city would eventually become angry, and eventually killed the two empresses of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
In terms of seniority, they are all his junior sisters, right?
Fortunately, Li Xiuyuan went to the East China Sea again after returning from the desert, otherwise Qingyu and Gao Yue'er would both die in his hands.
Just as he was sighing to himself, the voices of Qin Xiangyu and Duo'er could be heard on the mountain road.
Today, because he wanted the monks from the mountain to pick apricots, Li Xiuyuan opened the magic circle, and the two women also arrived belatedly.
Before he could say hello, Xiaobao, who was carrying a bucket to water the water, started shouting: "Sister Xiangyu, you came too late. Xiaobao has eaten all the apricots he picked."
Qin Xiangyu, who was pushing away the bamboo fence, couldn't help but giggle when he saw it: "It's okay, I picked a lot more."
Mingkong, who was following behind, looked at Li Xiuyuan who was lowering his head to water the water, and shouted with red eyes: "Brother..."
Before he finished speaking, people rushed over like a bird, hugged Li Xiuyuan and cried loudly.
"Uh-huh, Jue'er thought that my eldest brother didn't want me anymore. Even my father left Jue'er long ago... Do you know that Jue'er almost died..."
As Mingkong said, if her father hadn't died early and she was afraid of being bullied, she might not have thought about entering the palace in the end...
Xiaobao was stunned when he saw it, and after thinking about it, it seemed that he was caught by the evildoers in Penglai, and later when his husband came to save him, he didn't cry so hard, right?
Li Xiuyuan dropped the wooden spoon in his hand, looked at Xiaobao and said, "Water these two pieces of land with your sister Xiangyu."
When Xiangyu saw that Li Xiuyuan had dug up the barren land again, she had no choice but to look at him and reply: "It's okay, I'll take Xiaobao to water it together."
Li Xiuyuan nodded and pulled Jui'er towards the living room.
While comforting him: "I taught you back then that life is impermanent due to birth, old age, sickness and death, not to mention that you have been practicing in Ganye Temple for several more years..."
Mingkong shook his head and let the tears flow down.
He said softly: "Jue'er is stupid. My brother is not here. I can't learn those Buddhist scriptures, and I don't want to learn them."
The old man watched the two people walk into the living room and smiled lightly: "Everyone is here today, so we can have a good celebration."
"Disciple, I have met my master. He is always in good health? Is it possible that my brother has become a monk like Juier?"
Looking at Li Yuan's long black hair, Juier was a little confused.
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "I encountered some trouble in Penglai, Donghai, so I asked Bodhisattva to shave off those troubles for me, but I didn't become a monk."
For Li Xiuyuan, he had already decided to become a monk at home, so why would he care about when he became a monk?
Jue'er was stunned upon hearing this, and while wiping away the tears on her face with her sleeves, she asked, "Brother will also be in trouble?"
Li Xiuyuan took out a clean handkerchief and handed it to her.
He smiled and said, "I'm not a god. Even if I am a god, I will still encounter trouble sometimes."
