Seeing Xiao Die'er's happy expression, Li Xiuyuan sighed inwardly, thinking that if he were Xiao Die'er, he would also like this situation very much.
After all, why weren't you and Mu Mu like this back then?
However, when Mu Mu revealed the true form of the phoenix in front of him for the first time, it turned out that they were separated forever and suffered from the pain of separation for countless years.
When we meet again, the grown-up Mumu is no longer as naughty and willful as she was on Tianshan Mountain.
Sighing silently, before eating, Li Xiuyuan took some pieces of apricot meat stuffed with honey at the foot of Luoxia Mountain and placed it on the table.
When Xiao Die'er saw it, she picked up a piece and stuffed it into the peacock's mouth without saying anything. She giggled and said, "This is the master's treasure. Eat it quickly. After you finish eating, you can drink with me."
Crow thought for a while, looked at Huajiao and said: "Junior sister, please eat a piece too. You two seniors, you are welcome. It seems that it will be useless for me and senior sister to eat any more."
Xiaodie'er picked up a piece and took a bite: "This is a snack given to me by the master. Don't eat more."
The old turtle shivered, and without saying a word, he picked up a piece and put it in his mouth and took a bite.
The old woman looked at Li Xiuyuan and smiled: "Little sir, there are many miracles that have happened to your master and disciple."
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "Maybe I have suffered too much, God has mercy on me, right?"
"oh......"
The old woman didn't ask any questions. Just like the old turtle, she picked up a piece and took a bite. After a long while, she silently touched the peacock's head and sighed.
He said softly: "Apricot meat like this is even in the Nine Heavens, and I'm afraid I won't be able to eat it. Little Peacock, your luck is much better than that of my mother-in-law."
The old turtle didn't know what was going on, so he asked the old woman for advice: "Senior, please give me some advice..."
The old woman shook her head and said with a smile: "Old turtle, for a monk like you who lacks vitality, if you don't have such a treasure, you may not live for a hundred years and you will die..."
The old woman didn't explain it carefully to Old Turtle, but she said something that surprised him and made Li Xiuyuan smile.
I thought to myself that my guess was indeed good. The mother-in-law in front of me was much more interesting than the old turtle in the East China Sea.
The old turtle was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the peacock beside him. As he looked at it, he shed two lines of hot tears...
The peacock was so frightened that he kept screaming, thinking that the old turtle was angry.
The old turtle shook his head, sighed and said: "You and Pianpian may not know why I ran from the East China Sea to Tianshui's Fushan to practice. That's because I lack vitality and know that my time is running out."
This sentence shocked Huajiao. It was only today that she understood why the old man wanted to live alone on the Mount of Fortune.
It turns out that you want to borrow some vitality from the human world?
When Peacock heard this, he saw Xiaodie'er cooing twice. Xiaodie'er touched her head and smiled and said, "This is what I promised you and Pianpian that day. Don't be afraid, there is a master here."
The old woman smiled and said: "Little peacock, this time it is the old turtle who has received your blessing, allowing him to make up for the missing vitality and have the opportunity to break through to a higher level of cultivation."
"Cuckoo!" This time it was the peacock who laughed.
"It's just that in this world, how can such a treasure come from? I have traveled all over the depths of the mountains and visited countless spiritual mountains?" Old Turtle sighed.
Crow sighed and said with a smile: "Of course this is not from this world. I ate a lot of this while lying on the tree that day. It's a pity that this treasure only lasts for one season..."
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan shouted softly: "Be content, this is not a spiritual stone in your pocket."
The crow croaked and smiled: "I was thinking, it's a pity that I haven't met my senior sister yet..."
Xiao Die'er couldn't help laughing, and giggled: "Junior brother is fine, master has already given me food."
The old woman sighed, looked at Li Xiuyuan and said with a smile, "How about you go practice Buddhism with me?"
Li Xiuyuan took a jar of Apricot Blossom Spirit Wine and opened it, shaking his head: "Juniors can still practice Buddhism if they are not in the temple. Xiaodie'er, have you done your homework today?"
Xiao Die'er was startled: "Just after we finished, the peacock rushed in."
...
After drinking a few glasses of spirit wine, Peacock and his senior Xiao Die'er, who were almost drunk, went back to the house to dream. Xiao Die'er, Crow and Huajiao also drank two more glasses and had to go back to the house early to rest.
Even Lao Gui said goodbye to Li Xiuyuan and the old woman, saying that they would wait to talk slowly after boarding the big ship, and that he would go back to the house to find his own life.
It’s just that the old woman is staying with Li Xiuyuan.
After the waiter at the inn cleared the bowls and dishes on the table, and after Li Xiuyuan cooked a dish of spiritual tea, he sighed quietly.
He murmured to himself: "It seems that you put a lot of thought into making this wine?"
While Li Xiuyuan was making tea, he thought about the scene when he first met Nalan Yu, the bowl of wine that made him drunk and unconscious.
And later on, I met the brewer on the road. That was an interesting story.
However, after the Master ascended, except for Taoist Priest Qingxu who returned to the Five Realms, Ouyang Dongli and Hua Luoyu, the other masters and teachers all disappeared into the heavens.
But my wine-making experience is the same as my spiritual path. How can I explain it clearly in one sentence?
After thinking about it for a second time, he just smiled bitterly and said: "This junior just mixed some spring petals into the wine when making it, as a reminder of the place of his birth, that small town."
Picking weeds and picking weeds, the weeds also stop.
It's said to be returned, it's said to be returned, and the years are endless.
Under the murmur, it was the Book of Songs that I learned from the Master when I was in the Qin Dynasty. In the blink of an eye, I don’t know how many years have passed.
Not even Meng Po's soup could wash away these sentences that had branded him in the divine sea.
The old woman smiled faintly: "When you walk through the long road in front of you, will you be able to go back to accompany your parents at home?"
"They..."
Speaking of his parents and relatives, Li Xiuyuan was speechless for a moment. Xiaoqing and Xiaobai back then, after leaving him, it was as if they had disappeared from his life.
Even with the old woman opposite, Li Xiuyuan still didn't want to be indifferent to his relatives, even if there was Jizo sitting in front of him.
After thinking for a while, he smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, it seems that I can go home to accompany my parents. I hope God has mercy on me and allows me to stay with them for one more day, just count it as one day."
This time, it was rare that the old woman didn't ask any more questions. Perhaps he could understand the young man's thoughts from Li Xiuyuan's desolate mood.
It wasn't until the two of them each held a cup of spiritual tea that the old woman said thoughtfully: "Who is not lonely until the end of practice?"
When Li Xiuyuan heard these words, he felt like senior brother Minghui in the Prajna Temple was playing a riddle with him.
He knew it, but he couldn't say it for a moment.
It wasn't until the cup of spiritual tea became a little cold that he sighed quietly.
He smiled bitterly and said: "This junior is thinking that the moon will be round and people will last forever... It's just that there are some causes and effects, some things, and some people can't do it as they wish."
The old woman was silent for a long time before replying: "You still have to have some hope in your heart, otherwise the journey of cultivation will be too difficult, just like you and two young apprentices."
Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but sigh softly when he heard that the old woman heard Crow Crow and Xiaodie'er.
He smiled and said: "I picked up the crow on the roadside. If I didn't take it with me, I would probably turn into a demon crow and a demon king sooner or later."
"Xiaodie'er is my goddaughter. If I don't take her with me, she will end up like the crow. This is a trouble that I can't get rid of. I just want to feed myself so that the whole family won't be hungry."
Li Xiuyuan sighed softly.
"Oh, those two are interesting guys, but Huajiao's cultivation is a bit too weak. How can you, the master, teach her?"
The old woman smiled and said: "Her cultivation is acceptable in this world, but what will happen when you step under another starry sky?"
From the old woman's point of view, Li Xiuyuan might not be able to keep Huajiao with him all the time to practice, after all, there are places where Huajiao can't go.
Li Xiuyuan saw the old woman mentioning Sichuan peppercorns, but was instantly stopped by the question.
He really hadn't thought about Huajiao's whereabouts. He just wanted to take her away from Furong Town, so that decades later, the Meng family could stop seeking revenge.
Not to mention Huajiao, even Xiaodie'er and Crow, he didn't know how long they could stay with him?
At the moment, he only has one thought, which is to go to the Xuanwu Continent and ask the female saint Yun Tianhong to teach Xiaodieer and Crow, and give the peppercorns to the master...
The cause and effect between himself and Mount Sumeru must not fall on the three disciples.
Just as he promised to Xiao Die'er, only after Xiao Die'er follows the Meishan Female Saint will she be able to return to the wilderness and visit her grandmother there...
After thinking about it, I could only wave my hands and said with a wry smile: "This junior has too many troubles. It's like a mess that I can't sort out."
"If you can't sort it out, sort it out slowly. Sort out one thing at a time, so it won't keep weighing on your heart."
The old woman yawned and said with a smile: "Remember to call me mother-in-law when you get up early tomorrow. My thoughts are simpler than yours. I just want to see the sea."
After saying that, he left the living room without waiting for Li Xiuyuan to nag him any more.
This time, it was not until the old lady left that Li Xiuyuan remembered that he had not talked to Lao Gui about Gong Yang Bo and Helian Mingyue.
Maybe it was because Xiao Die'er and Peacock were present, or maybe he didn't want to tell the old woman about their unpleasant past.
After all, this is the privacy of the two of them.
After thinking about it, I can only find a quiet time after going to the East China Sea, and then slowly ask the old turtle for advice.
Watching the pot of tea, Li Xiuyuan waved his hand to put out the oil lamp on the table, letting a clear light from the window shine in. With or without the lamp, he could only see one color.
The bright moon rises over the sea. He has forgotten whether he had ever seen the moon above Hainan in the Shenlong Continent. Those days were really a long time ago for him.
And for the next trip to the East China Sea, he didn't know how long he would have to stay there before leaving?
Could it be that after he ended his relationship with Gong Yang Bo and Helian Mingyue, he would settle the grievances for them on an island in the East China Sea?
However, those grievances are none of his business, right?
Even if he met and ended it for the two of them with a wave of his hand... what benefit would it bring to himself and Xiaodie'er and the other three?
After drinking two cups of tea, I moved to the living room and stood quietly in the yard.
The sky at the moment should be clear, because in his eyes there was only a moon hanging quietly in the night sky, and there were no other black and white clouds.
The wind from the north has blown here, bringing a touch of chill in the autumn night.
At some point, he rarely practiced sword practice in front of others, and his state of mind gradually became as calm as lake water. He no longer looked like he was surprised to be able to cut fifteen snowflakes with one sword.
He didn't even know if it was because he started to be lazy?
After slaying the Demon King in the Demon Realm and understanding the power of the law, I thought that I could reunite with the female saint on Meishan Mountain one day.
Start practicing the Sword of Saints? Or should we return to the Bamboo Peak of Tianyun Mountain, go under the abyss, and complete the practice that was worse than death?
The saint comes into my dream and makes me long to remember him.
At the moment, Li Xiuyuan's heart has already flown to nine heavens and is no longer in this world.
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