When the man in a wide witch robe walked along the snow on the edge of the Youhuang Mountains, he suddenly heard a voice coming from above.
"Why did you come to Huaian again?"
The man looked up and discovered that on a cliff three hundred feet high in the Youhuang Mountains, in the dusk, there was a strange-looking two-wheeled vehicle parked there diagonally, with a man with blood stained plum blossoms on it. The man in white brought a bottle of wine and was leaning against the car, drinking and looking at the dusk in the world.
The man tilted his head and looked for a long time, not understanding what the two-wheeled vehicle was or how it could get up to the cliff of several hundred feet, so he looked at the man.
The blood is like plum blossom spots, and the minister is dressed in white.
This dean of Xuanxuyuan, who suffered a sneak attack in Huangliang and was carelessly eroded by the power of the Styx in the Divine Sea, was forced to pull out the Taoist tree and fell to the minor realm. He still has not recovered his realm. It seems that he should be in the seventh realm of the minor realm. The appearance of the Eight Realms.
But as a human demon who has lived for a thousand years, even if he only sees the mountain realm, no one should underestimate him.
Those spirit wizards who were beaten to death in Huangliang one by one and Qu Ling who was killed in Youhuang Mountains by one sword should have a deep understanding of this.
So this man in a witch robe, as if he was wandering around the world, just said calmly: "I haven't seen snow in Nantuo, so I just came to Huai'an to see the snow."
Huangliang expands to the south.
Not only is it the southernmost point of Huangliang, it is also the southernmost point on earth.
Seeing snow there is more difficult than it is for a human practitioner to enter the Great Way.
So it is reasonable for this man from Nantuo to say such things.
In previous years, there were often many people from the south who crossed Yunmengze and came to Huaian to see the snow every winter.
But this year is different. Daze is closed this year, so he is probably the only one who came here.
The prime minister was leaning against his Tianyan chariot named Mayfly Feixian - when it was finally built, it was naturally not called Dayun or Bao Ma, but Mayfly Feixian. The name came from Mr. Zeng, the dean of the Wenhua Academy. .
Send mayflies to heaven and earth, carry flying immortals with you to travel.
But when I saw this man wearing a witch robe today, the Prime Minister felt that I should change the name again and call him Feixian.
Because no matter how you look at it, you will think that the name Ming ephemera is not very nice. I don’t even like the word ephemera anymore.
While thinking about the name change, the Prime Minister drank the wine from the pot, and then chuckled and said, "I thought the snow in April this year should have satisfied your desire to watch snow."
The mayfly stopped in the snow at the foot of the mountain, looking up at this high mountain in the world.
The wind and snow are two thousand feet high, but there are no white heads to be seen.
This is probably what the world thought when they saw the Youhuang Mountains.
For such a high mountain, the world cannot see the color of snow on the top of the mountain, but can only see the snow-covered forest at the foot of the mountain.
"The dean doesn't understand. For the people of Nantuo, the wind and snow are like poisonous wine. The more you drink, the drunker you become and your thoughts are crazy." Ming Yuyu said calmly, "Having seen the white hair of the wind and snow, it is naturally difficult to forget it. With something like that in mind, I will naturally come to Huaian again to see a snowstorm."
The prime minister drank wine. Although the wine was not the poisonous wine mentioned by Ming Yufeng, it was just the home-brewed wine that could be seen everywhere on the streets of Nanyi City, but it could also have the meaning that he said, the more you drink, the more drunk you become and the more you think about it.
The prime minister had been drinking for more than a thousand years and had reached an advanced stage of alcoholic jaundice. Naturally, he understood this truth better than anyone else. However, he did not smile. He just looked down at the Nanchu spirit wizard below who had his hands in his sleeves.
"It's a good time to see another snowstorm." Qing Xiang said calmly, "I think you want to start another snowstorm."
Ming Yuying chuckled and said, "How can the dean accuse someone of their innocence out of thin air?"
Qing Xiang quietly looked at the man in witch robe standing under the dusk, and said slowly: "Do you understand that Mayfly is still innocent?"
"Of course." Ming Mayfly stood in the white snow at the foot of the mountain. The pattern of the witch robe was complicated, but the background color was still black after all.
However, this man from Southern Chu who instigated the war just calmly wore the black witch robe and said calmly: "I have lived my entire life knowing that I am naturally as pure as snow."
The prime minister sighed and said: "I am not as shameless as you to say such things. At least if I did such a thing, I would easily be haunted by ghosts in my dreams at night. If Huang Liang died outside Nanyi City, Nearly a million people are what you call innocent, so I would rather believe that this snow is black snow."
"What's wrong with Black Snow?" Ming Mayfly said calmly. "Knowing what is white and guarding what is black is the way of the world. The dean is a great cultivator of Taoism in the world, and he should understand this truth better than anyone else."
The Prime Minister looked at the bright mayflies at the foot of the mountain quietly for a long time, then took a sip of wine and said slowly: "The crooked part is complete, the wrong part is straight, the hollow part is full, the hollow part is new, the less part is gained, the more part is confused. So." A saint embraces one, which is the way of the world. If you don't see yourself, you will be enlightened. If you don't know what you are, you will be enlightened. If you don't cut yourself off, you will be successful. If you are not proud of yourself, you will be strong. You don't fight, so no one in the world can compete with you. If you want to be a saint in the world, you The path we took was too eccentric, Ming Mayfly.”
Ming Mayfly said calmly: "I have never thought about becoming a saint. As the dean said, if I kill so many lives in my life, I will have no peace in my dreams at night. I just do what I think is right."
"So you think the world is wrong?"
"It's just that there is a more right way."
“What the higher-ups say is right or wrong is often too biased.”
“It’s not necessarily right to let things go their own way.”
"So what about artesian flow?"
"Not really."
The two of them looked at each other quietly on the mountain snow.
Ming Yufeng still huddled his hands in his sleeves and said calmly: "Dean, it's better not to argue with me. There is no clear truth in the world. If you can't explain it clearly, you can only talk about another reason. If the dean has never fallen into trouble, , I would rather talk more reason with the dean - if we continue to argue now, I'm afraid I will get too excited and accidentally beat the dean to death here."
The prime minister said calmly: "Don't you always want me to die?"
"Of course, yes, but if you beat the dean to death, Huaian will cause trouble for me. Besides, the dean has lived for a thousand years, so he has some means. Even if he can beat you to death while the dean is seriously injured, it will not be worth the gain."
Ming Mayfly said calmly and climbed towards the Youhuang Mountains.
Qing Xiang quietly looked at the Ming Mayfly heading towards the other end of the mountain range. Without saying anything, he mounted his little flying fairy, then jumped off the high cliff and landed steadily in the snow. Heading towards Nanyi City through the snow.
Ming Mayfly heard the sound and looked back for a long time at the figure riding away in the snow.
There was an inexplicable look in his eyes.
It's just that due to the wind and snow in the mountains, most people can't see clearly.
...
The young Hu Lu sat quietly in the snow in Erchi.
Quietly looking at the heavy snow that has stopped for a day.
The senior brothers were lazily warming themselves by the fire and playing cards in the cloister pavilion not far away.
Hu Lu sat there for a long time before she saw Chen Huaifeng, who had returned from the city and was holding a cup of hot wolfberry tea, slowly walking over.
Then the two of them sat together on the snowy steps beside the second pond.
"It stopped snowing today." Hu Lu said while looking at Chen Huaifeng.
This sentence is like the original sentence "It's snowing".
Just because the snow has stopped doesn't mean winter is over.
But at least it means that winter has passed a lot.
Of course, the most important thing is the news coming from Lingnan.
Zhang Xiaoyu has arrived at Lingnan Sword Sect and also left Lingnan Sword Sect.
Chen Huaifeng took a sip of hot tea and said calmly: "It will snow again."
In a long winter day, there will naturally be more than just one snowfall.
It is like some old friends in stories, they come and go sometimes and stay sometimes.
"But will Senior Brother Xiaoyu still be so close to Nanyi City?"
Chen Huaifeng said softly: "Sometimes it snows in the world, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes there are fish swimming in the river, and sometimes they swim away. How do I know such things?"
Hu Lu was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "But the snow sometimes comes, but it doesn't come here. The fish sometimes come, but only take a quick glance and continue to go to the distant sea. So if Senior Brother Xiaoyu doesn't come this time , we don’t even have to wait until winter is over, he won’t come again.”
Chen Huaifeng squinted his eyes and looked at the white snow in the garden. He blew the tea cup in his hand. After a long time, he took a sip, chewed the red wolfberry fish, and said calmly: "Maybe so."
Hu Lu didn't speak for a long time. He just sat on the snow steps under the corridor of Erchi with his sword on his back, silently looking at the cold winter water.
After a long time, the young man turned to look at Chen Huaifeng and said, "What did senior brother go to the city just now?"
"The noise in the world is a bit chaotic, so I went outside to listen."
"What did senior brother hear?"
Chen Huaifeng tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said: "Many people, for example, are worried about whether the sect in the south will really re-emerge next spring after the winter snow. Sometimes people are a little scared and confused, but this is not their problem. , Nanyi City stands on the edge of Daze, and for thousands of years, it has always experienced stories like this. It will always be better for people like us to go out for a walk."
Hu Lu also sighed a little dullly when he heard this.
Chen Huaifeng touched the young man's head and continued: "For example, I saw Qing Xiang, an old drunkard, drink and drive his flying fairy out of the city."
The young man Hu Lu looked at Chen Huaifeng in confusion and said, "Is there anything special about this matter?"
Chen Huaifeng said softly: "He should go to meet an uninvited guest from Huangliang. Besides, it is always bad to drive after drinking. Hu Lu, when you become the leader of the clan in the future, you must remember to remind him not to drive after drinking. do not drink."
Hu Lu was silent for a while and said, "Senior brother, why don't you say it yourself?"
Chen Huaifeng said with a smile: "That old drunkard was annoyed by what I said and didn't really want to see me. Moreover, he defrauded me of a lot of money and left. As soon as he saw me, he felt that I had gone back on my word and wanted to get the money back."
Hu Lu was speechless.
Chen Huaifeng continued: "The mountains in Lingnan have been closed."
Hu Lu nodded and said, "I know this."
"But sometimes, you need to think about why a sword cultivation place like Lingnan, which is no different from the rest of the world, suddenly chooses to close the mountain. Even when Di Qianjun went there, he was forcefully stopped by Ting Fengyin. , Lingnan’s terrain is special, and it is impossible for Heavenly Prison’s southern dispatch to cross Lingnan. Even in this situation, Lingnan did not give Heavenly Prison any face. The story behind this is extraordinary.”
Hu Lu listened thoughtfully and said, "So, senior brother, do you know what's going on?"
Chen Huaifeng shook his head and said: "The news in Lingnan is very well sealed, so the world really doesn't know what happened there."
"Senior brother, do you want to take a look?"
"If Lingnan can't handle it, they will naturally come to the Human Sword Sect. If they don't come, either they can handle it internally, or." Chen Huaifeng took a sip of tea and looked at the thick snow in the human world.
"It is not convenient for the Human Sword Sect to intervene."
Hu Lu frowned and said, "It sounds like this matter is very serious."
Chen Huaifeng said softly: "The Human Sword Sect sometimes needs to mind its own business, but sometimes it doesn't. This is a question that needs to be thought about for a long time. You have to consider many aspects. If you have a headache sometimes, you can drink some tea. Don’t be like an old drunkard who drinks every day and does random stupid things.”
"..." Hu Lu thought to himself that Dean Qingxiang probably didn't do anything stupid.
Just thinking about it, I felt something was wrong. I looked at Chen Huaifeng and said, "Brother, why are you talking strangely today?"
Chen Huaifeng said subconsciously: "Is there any?"
But then he came to his senses, and what he said was a bit of a nuisance. Then he smiled softly and said, "I'm just afraid that you might do some stupid things sometimes. Master doesn't care about anything, and I don't know where to die." We are gone, senior fellow apprentices are wandering around the world, and if there is no big change, they will not come back. Naturally, there are many things for us disciples who are still in the Sword Sect to think about."
Hu Lu didn't speak, just looked at Chen Huaifeng quietly.
The thirty-two-year-old man drank tea calmly and blew the wolfberry in the cup.
Hu Lu said slowly: "Senior Brother, you may have forgotten that at my age, there are many things that you are unwilling to tell me. Sometimes it takes me a long time before Senior Brother is willing to say even a little bit. So, Senior Brother, the following Explain, do you believe it?"
Of course Chen Huaifeng believed it, very much.
The so-called deceiving others must first deceive yourself.
It's a pity that this kind of performance is indeed very different from usual.
So even if he really deceived himself, he still couldn't deceive Hu Lu.
Chen Huaifeng stood up with a sigh and said, "I'm going to Lingnan."
Hu Lu frowned, looked at Chen Huaifeng and said, "Didn't you say that Lingnan should handle those matters on his own?"
Chen Huaifeng looked north of Jianzong and said calmly: "There are some things that Lingnan cannot handle."
"What's the matter?" Hu Lu asked.
Chen Huaifeng drank the whole cup of wolfberry tea in one gulp, and then slowly chewed the wolfberry grains that were swollen like little fat red fish.
After a long time, Chen Huaifeng said calmly: "Someone from Qingtian Dao is here."
Hu Lu was stunned for a moment, looked at Chen Huaifeng and said, "What?"
Chen Huaifeng walked calmly in the snow in Erchi and said: "Someone from Qingtian Dao came to the south, and they are among the Lingnan Sword Sect."
Hu Lu was silent for a while and said, "How did senior brother know?"
"There was a sword wind blowing from Lingnan and told me this story."
In the Tingfeng Sword Sect, winds come and go from all directions.
But a sword wind like this can only blow to some relatively close places.
Traveling to distant mountains naturally still requires long-lasting messengers in the human world.
"Why do people from Qingtian Dao suddenly appear in Lingnan?"
Hu Lu looked at Chen Huaifeng blankly and asked.
Chen Huaifeng just walked calmly on the snow-covered sloping bridges in the gardens.
"I'm not sure, but some things will come naturally." Chen Huaifeng walked and spoke very calmly. "The news in Jianfeng said that Qingtian Dao Mei Xiyu is waiting for me in Lingnan, so I will naturally go there."
"Who is Mei Xiyu?" Hu Lu asked slowly.
"Liu Sanyue's senior brother."
"I never heard."
Chen Huaifeng chuckled softly and said: "Because you are still young, and he is no longer a person who bullies young people in the world. Just like if you go to the north of Huai'an and ask those young people who Chen Huaifeng is? They probably won't know. Maybe in a few years, if you go to the human world and ask who Zhang Xiaoyu is, those young people won't remember him, unless he has been restlessly showing up in the human world."
Hu Lu was silent for a long time, not bothering anymore about who this strange-sounding name was. He looked at Chen Huaifeng's back and said, "I remember you said, senior brother, that neither Jian Zong nor Qingtian Dao would treat this person like this." Put this matter on the table.”
"Of course it is." Chen Huaifeng said slowly: "But this still hasn't been brought to the table. Mei Xiyu just went to Lingnan and was just waiting for me there. If Qingtian Dao really wants to bring this matter to the table, it can be done It won’t just be Mei Xiyu, but maybe many uncles from Qingtian Dao.”
Hulu stood in the snow for a long time, silently looking at the messy and mottled snow on the ground. There were many things on the snow, such as vegetable leaves and mud. The senior brothers often didn't care about such things and stepped on them. Those things are walking around.
After looking at it for a long time, he raised his head, looked at Chen Huaifeng, and said, "What is he here for?"
Chen Huaifeng smiled easily and said, "Of course I'm here to demand justice, otherwise why don't you come to me, Chen Huaifeng, for tea?"
"What kind of justice?"
Chen Huaifeng thought for a while and said: "I don't know, it's probably out of anger. It's not like he came here just to beat me to death, or to be beaten to death by me - such a thing will only make this story go deeper. Go until no one can untie it, and it finally becomes a knot of knots where grievances will be repaid."
As Chen Huaifeng spoke, he walked towards the outside of Jianzong.
"Although our predecessors advocated repaying kindness with kindness and repaying grievances with straightness, there has never been any true repayment of grievances with straightness. There must always be someone who feels aggrieved and lets go, then the world will be more stable and peaceful. If what is put down is not the sword of the world, Zong, that is Qingtian Dao. Mistakes are naturally mistakes, and I will not ignore them. But sometimes, mistakes also have to make some compromises. Living in the world is never black and white."
Chen Huaifeng stopped, looked back at Hu Lu, thought for a moment, and said, "You have to remember these things, Hu Lu."
Hu Lu just looked down at the filth on the ground. After a long time, he felt depressed, as if his heart was blocked by the mud in the snow, and let out a "hmm" from his nose.
So Chen Huaifeng left the Sword Sect with his sword on his back.
