The young man in Qingshang's voice was very soft, but Nan Dao heard it very clearly.
Nan Dao thought of the stone tablet outside the town that said "Don't Loud Loudness", so he also lowered his voice and asked softly: "Where is this?"
The young man in Qingshang looked at him with a slight smile and said, "This is Tianshang Town."
Nan Dao turned around and looked around.
There are still high cliffs in the distance, and there are countless trails hidden in the clouds and mist outside the town.
There are clouds and mist in the distance, but the sky is clear here in the town. When you look up, you can see the sky with scattered clouds. Behind the clouds is pure blue. There seems to be a sea of flowers and bamboo forest outside the town, with blue leaves flying randomly in the air.
"Where is Tianshang Town?"
Nan Dao looked back at the young man in Qingshang, but the latter just smiled and said nothing.
The heavenly town is naturally in the sky.
Nan Dao looked at the Qingshang boy for a long time, then changed the question: "Who are you?"
The young man in Qingshang looked up at the sky, and then his eyes continued to fall with the flowing clouds until they landed on the town. He looked at the people coming and going, as if he was thinking about something.
"Grass is like a firefly." The young man in Qingshang said with a smile. "I call grass firefly."
Grass is firefly.
Nan Dao muttered this weird name in a low voice. Judging from the behavior of the young man just now, it seemed that it was just a casual name. Nan Dao didn't dwell too much on this name. He had more important problems.
"Why did I come here?"
The young boy Cao Weiying stood up and walked around on the roof. There were children below watching him walk around in amazement. Cao Weiying walked for a while, looked at Nandao and said, "This is how you got here."
Nan Dao looked at Cao Weiying, frowned and said, "I don't know what you mean."
Cao Weiying said with a smile: "Whether you know it or not, if you can walk in, it means you can walk in."
"..." Nan Dao felt as if he had heard nonsense.
After thinking for a while, Nan Dao asked: "Do you know the Congren Sect Master?"
Cao Weiying tilted her head and thought for a long time, then said, "Who is Cong Ren? The person who taught you to learn swordsmanship?"
"No..." Nan Dao was about to say something when he saw Cao Weiying raise his hand in front of his lips, making a hissing gesture.
Cao Weiying said softly: "You are too loud." After saying that, he jumped off the roof and walked towards the other end of the town. "Let's go and talk outside the town."
Nan Dao thought for a moment, then jumped off the roof with an umbrella, followed Cao Weiying on the green stone path and walked out of the town.
The side that Nan Dao came in from before should be the south, because when the two of them left the town, they saw an archway with Beifang written on it.
As he walked towards the north, Cao Weiying must be from the town. From time to time, people would say hello to him. Occasionally, two shy girls would stuff him with fruits such as peaches and plums, without waiting for rejection. , then turned around and left in the spring breeze.
Cao Weiying walked leisurely on the road, eating fruit and stuffing one for Nan Dao.
The two walked for a while and then left the town. The roadside was lush with green grass, wild flowers everywhere, and the spring breeze blew the warm sunshine, giving it the feeling of a small town on earth.
"This is your third time here." Cao Weiying gnawed on the fruit, then took off the wine gourd from his waist and took a sip of fruit and a sip of wine.
Nan Dao didn't know how to eat it. Hearing Cao Weiying's question, he nodded and said, "Yes."
"The town doesn't like outsiders coming in." Cao Weiying put down the wine gourd and threw the finished fruit core into the flowers nearby. Maybe a peach tree will grow next year. "So you must not yell in there."
Nan Dao nodded.
I remembered the inscription outside the town.
"Did you change the words on it?"
From "dare not speak loudly" to "don't speak loudly".
Cao Weiying thought for a while and said, "I don't know, maybe I changed it?"
"Why is it possible?"
Cao Weiying patted the wine gourd on his waist, the wine inside was sloshing.
"Because I often get drunk outside the town, and it's easy to forget things when I'm drunk."
Nan Dao looked at the wine gourd on Cao Weiying's waist, but suddenly remembered that his wine bottle had been lost somewhere.
"What kind of wine are you drinking, peach blossom wine?" Nan Dao asked.
Cao Weiying shook her head and said with a smile: "Peach blossoms are going to bear fruit. If you pick the flowers, where will the peaches come from? This is just ordinary rice wine. Do you want a sip?"
Nan Dao shook his head and refused. He rubbed the umbrella ribs in his hand and looked back at the leisurely human town.
"What does this place do?"
As Cao Weiying walked, she tilted her head and thought. After thinking for a long time, she said with a smile: "I've stopped asking you this question."
Nan Dao asked in confusion: "Why?"
"A town is a town. Someone built a house and paved the streets here, so it became a gathering place. But what is it used for? I don't know." Cao Weiying stopped on the trail and thought for a while. I thought and said, "This is the human world."
Heaven and earth.
Nan Dao thought about these four words and felt inexplicably emotional in his heart, but he couldn't figure out what it felt like.
Maybe people have thought about heaven and earth.
But what is that like?
Just like the inscription outside the town.
The white jade capital in the sky has five cities on the twelfth floor.
It should be a magnificent, sacred and vast place.
A small town.
What is this?
Nan Dao frowned and looked there for a long time. When he turned around, he found that Cao Weiying had already waded into the sea of flowers. He hurriedly chased after her and walked side by side with Cao Weiying again.
"What's outside the town?" Nan Dao looked at the spring sun outside the town and the sea of clouds further away.
Cao Weiying took off the wine gourd, held it in her hand, drank in small sips, and squinted at the sea of clouds.
"The human world. It's also the human world."
Cao Weiying said.
"Where is the human world?" Nan Dao asked.
"Everywhere is the world." Cao Weiying's voice was very calm, an inexplicable calmness, as if there were many secrets hidden in that sentence, but he refused to reveal anything, so he just said calmly - where They are all in the human world.
Nan Dao looked at the high cliffs, sea of clouds and green mountains from a distance, as if he wanted to see clearly what was there.
Cao Weiying stood next to him, blowing the spring breeze filled with the fragrance of flowers, drinking the ordinary rice wine in the town, and said with a smile: "There will be nothing else after climbing over the mountain, just a mountain."
"How did you know that I wanted to look over there?" Nan Dao looked back at Cao Weiying.
"Everyone wants to climb the mountain." Cao Weiying said with a smile: "I used to think so too, so I brought several bottles of wine and a lot of food, and walked through the trails hidden in the sea of clouds. And go."
"But there is nothing, just mountains, and there are many small towns below them."
"Some towns have another Cao Weiying, and some don't, so I asked them."
"They told me that Cao Weiying took a lot of wine and went out to climb the mountains."
Cao Weiying smiled and looked back at the town.
"So I came back in the end. But I don't know if the town I came back to is the same town I set out from."
"I climbed too many mountains and drank too much. I thought I could see more things beyond the cognition of life, but no, I didn't see anything. On the contrary, I couldn't remember where I came from. of."
Cao Weiying smiled slightly and looked at Nandao: "Do you still want to climb the mountain?"
Nan Dao stared blankly at the young man in Qingshang in front of him for a long time, then turned around and continued to look at the human world hidden in the clouds.
After thinking for a long time, Nan Dao said: "I don't know, but I haven't turned it over yet."
I haven't turned it over yet, so even if you tell me there really won't be anything behind it.
I still want to try it.
Cao Weiying drank wine and walked forward in the sea of flowers, smiling all the time.
"Stupid human boy."
Nan Dao looked at Cao Weiying's back and didn't know why he said he was stupid.
So they followed, and the two of them crossed the sea of flowers and stopped at the edge of this cliff town.
There is a stone path there, hidden in the large lake of clouds and mist.
There were many empty wine gourds, broken swords, and torn shoes beside the stone path.
Cao Weiying walked to the stone path and sat down, looking at Yunwu Shanlan, and said softly: "If you want to dig it, go ahead."
"What about you?" Nan Dao looked at Cao Weiying.
Cao Weiying drank wine and said with a smile: "I want to see it again."
"Look at the human world."
Nan Dao didn't leave, but sat down next to Cao Weiying, looking at the sea of clouds in the lake, and reflected in it, a peach tree that was about to bloom at the heart.
"I really want to look through it," Nan Dao said with a smile, "but I think I might die on the way."
"Forget." Cao Weiying suddenly said an inexplicable word.
"What did you forget?" Nan Dao turned to look at Cao Weiying.
"Forget that you are about to die." Cao Weiying said softly, "This way you won't die."
Nan Dao couldn't understand what this meant and just looked at him in confusion.
Cao Weiying didn't explain, but just looked at the lake calmly. Only then did Nan Dao realize that the boy had no shadow in the water.
"Why aren't you in the lake?"
Cao Weiying drank wine, swung his legs in the lake, and said, "Because I forgot about myself."
"So you don't actually call grass a firefly?"
"Maybe I really called Cao Weiying." Cao Weiying said softly, "It's just that I don't remember."
"After climbing many mountains, I began to forget many things."
Nan Dao looked at him silently.
Cao Weiying drank wine and talked to herself, then turned to look at Nandao and said, "Would you like to eat that peach? I'm a little hungry."
Nan Dao looked down at the peach that he had been holding in his hand. He was about to hand it to Cao Weiying.
But suddenly there was an unfounded guess in my heart.
Nan Dao retracted his hand, then looked at Cao Weiying who looked disappointed and said, "I'm a little hungry too."
Cao Weiying shrugged and said, "Okay then."
The two of them kept sitting on the stone path by the lake.
The sky gradually darkened, and the mist and clouds in the distance fell on the lake, as if it was another world.
The evening breeze blows, and the mist on the mountains is gradually blown away, as if the secret of the world is about to be revealed to the South Island.
"It's time for you to go." Cao Weiying looked at Nan Dao and said.
"How to go?"
"Leave as you came."
Nan Dao remained silent for a while and closed his eyes.
When I opened my eyes, I heard that many bamboo leaves had fallen on the wind platform.
Dusk falls.
The lights of the world are prosperous and flowing in Nanyi City.
Nan Dao looked at it for a long time before getting rid of his thoughts from the place called 'Tian Shang Town'.
Look down.
The Peach Blossom Sword was still lying across his knees.
There is a peach in the palm of my hand.
It’s a dream, not a dream.
No one else.
