Many stories probably come simply and then go away simply.
So is life.
When Li Er died in the East China Sea, only Qinglian was there to accompany him. He died like an ordinary old man, fell into a clear stream, and drifted to the East China Sea, leaving nothing behind.
Li Queyi died of old age when Emperor Huai broke the gap in the River Styx. He came and went naked, leaving only the "Collection of Supplementary Records of the Human World" that drifted to the world.
So does the Demon Lord.
He came all the way from the Youhuang Mountains, sacrificed his soul to Donghuang Taiyi, and then died slumped in the green mountains in the south.
If Qiu Shui had not brought up the little demon of the Lame Deer Sword Sect who survived by chance, probably many years later, the world would never be able to find the place where the lame elk left the world.
If the world comes here to explore opportunities, go to the Qingxi River in the East China Sea, go to the Styx River, and go to the Qingshan Mountains. Naturally, there will be no gains, no opportunities, and no blessings.
But perhaps many blessings have already been left to the world.
For example, the secret that Li Er has hidden all his life.
For example, that seemingly useless Taoist scroll.
For example, the reason why the demon clan can live in the human world.
Bless the world, not the individual.
Perhaps this is what the spiritual world has always pursued.
Therefore, death is like a weed, and the world is confused about it.
Li Li stayed in the weeds for a long time, hugging his sword and not leaving.
When Nan Dao walked to Lame Deer Sword Sect holding an umbrella, Qiu Shui had already left.
Only Ting Fengyin still stood there, looking quietly towards the south of the world.
Probably after hearing the footsteps behind him, the white-haired swordsman turned around and looked at the young man holding a black umbrella who was walking slowly, seemingly confused.
"What are you doing here?"
Nan Dao stopped behind Ting Feng Yin and said softly: "Where is the man on the cliff?"
Ting Fengyin turned around, looked at the south and said calmly: "Let's go."
Nan Dao said nothing more, just stood on the mountain road and looked towards the south of the world.
Tingfeng Yin turned around after a long time, looked at Nan Dao and said, "I thought you would be a little emotional."
Nan Dao lowered his head, looked at the low dry grass branches at his feet, and said, "People like them will naturally say it when they want to say something. If they don't want to say it, what can we do?"
Tingfeng Yin sighed softly: "Yes."
Nan Dao looked at Ting Feng Yin and said softly: "Senior, it seems that he knows more than I thought."
Tingfeng Yin said with a smile: "I just heard some rumors and know the appearance, but I don't know the truth."
After hearing this, Nan Dao sighed softly and said, "Maybe sometimes, the truth really doesn't mean anything."
Nan Dao didn't know where he had heard such a sentence, but he felt very melancholy and emotional.
Tingfeng Yin said with a smile: "Then let Lingnan become your meaning for the time being."
Nan Dao nodded.
The two of them watched for a long time, but actually couldn't see anything, just the boundless and misty green mountains.
"Your level has fallen a bit."
"It's just a small thing."
Ting Fengyin looked at the young man beside him with great emotion.
Nan Dao turned back, looked at Ting Feng Yin and said, "Senior, what do you want to say?"
Ting Fengyin turned around, turned back, walked along the mountain road, and said with a smile: "I just suddenly felt that Lingnan actually looks like a thatched cottage."
The young man will only be a temporary resident of the thatched cottage.
Nan Dao looked at Ting Feng Yin's back that was getting more and more aged, followed him, and said calmly: "In fact, sometimes the thatched cottage is the most difficult thing to forget."
The trivial things may sometimes be truly unforgettable.
Tingfeng Yin chuckled softly from the front: "I thought you would remember Nanyi City more."
"That's different." The young man walked with an umbrella, very sober.
"What's the difference?"
"There I am a sojourner."
"You're in Lingnan, aren't you?"
"Not in Lingnan."
The swordsman with white hair on his temples smiled heartily and walked briskly through the mountain road.
...
When Nan Dao returned to the canyon, Le Chaotian woke up from his dream. He looked at the young man standing with his sword on the edge of the cliff outside the building and said, "Senior brother, did you go out for a trip?"
The boy on the edge of the cliff nodded.
"Senior sister came up before." Le Chaotian lay on the railing outside the building and yawned.
Nan Dao looked back at Le Chaotian beside the umbrella and said, "What are you doing?"
Le Chaotian said with a smile: "Ask us where to celebrate the New Year this year, whether it is at the Tianya Sword Sect, the Xiaobai Sword Sect, or whether we all come to the canyon together."
Nan Dao thought for a while and said, "Where do you plan to be, junior brother?"
Le Chaotian said: "Of course we are in the building. After all, the scenery here is great. Where is senior brother?"
"I don't know, it's okay."
"So it looks like we're in the canyon?"
Nan Dao looked at Le Chaotian's affirmative expression and said, "Why?"
Le Chaotian said with a smile: "Generally speaking, people who are okay are often people who are too lazy to think about it. If they are too lazy to even think about it, then they must be too lazy to go down to the canyon. Then don't they just want to spend the New Year in the canyon?"
Nan Dao chuckled and said, "It makes sense."
Le Chaotian said proudly: "That's natural. If you practice Taoism, you are actually cultivating the principles of heaven and earth. If you can understand the principles of heaven and earth, you can naturally understand the principles of young people."
"So senior sister and the others want to spend the New Year there?"
Nan Dao ignored the triumphant Le Chaotian.
Le Chaotian thought for a while and said: "Probably in the canyon. After all, they also know what kind of virtue their junior brother is, so they have prepared some things in the building before."
Nan Dao's eyes fell on the small building, and then he realized that there were several red lanterns hanging under the eaves.
"Senior Brother Wu should be making firecrackers now. Just now, Lu Xiaosan and the others were walking on the mountain road carrying bamboos." Le Chaotian looked at Nandao with a smile and said, "The Chinese New Year is really coming soon, Senior Brother."
Nan Dao smiled softly, looked at Le Chaotian and said, "Junior brother is really so happy?"
Le Chaotian said matter-of-factly: "That's natural. One year is coming to an end, and everything is new again. Of course it's something to be happy about. What's more, after the New Year, it's natural to start eating delicious food every day."
Nan Dao then understood that the last sentence was what made Le Chaotian happy, and turned back to look at the world.
"Senior brother, aren't you happy?"
Le Chaotian's voice came from behind, but he had already walked downstairs and stopped next to Nan Dao.
"It's okay." Nan Dao said calmly.
So it is probably true that there is no such happy mood.
Le Chaotian looked at the young man under the umbrella and said, "Why?"
The young man tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said, "I've been under the umbrella since I was very young, so I probably haven't experienced any excitement."
The world is prosperous and full of laughter, but I have only two spare hairs on my temples.
For young people, the excitement in the past probably belonged to others.
Maybe he had thought about lighting firecrackers like other children before, covering his ears and running away in a panic.
But Nan Dao could only cover one ear.
His other hand needs to hold the umbrella.
It's always like this, and it's inevitable that I'll feel sleepy.
Le Chaotian smiled softly and said, "It should be lively under the umbrella."
The sounds that are heard everywhere in the town are actually louder when they fall under the umbrella.
Nan Dao said softly: "It was just noise, not excitement."
Noisy and lively are naturally different words and have different meanings.
Le Chaotian said with a smile: "Then let Senior Brother Wu make more firecrackers so that you can make a lot of noise."
The two brothers stood on the edge of the cliff and laughed softly.
"Where is the person who came?" Le Chaotian said while looking at the world.
"left already."
Nan Dao said very calmly.
Le Chaotian smiled softly and said, "That's good."
The person on the cliff walks into her own world.
Human beings live their own years.
Nature does not interfere with each other.
...
"Le Chaotian, please be quiet!"
Lu Xiaosan looked at the little native dog jumping up and down and scolded him seriously.
Lu Xiaoer looked on with a strange expression.
This is a rather remote small courtyard in Jianzong. It was originally used as a utility room, but Lu Xiaosan tidied it up for a while and made an open space.
Lu Xiaoer, who originally suffered some injuries and planned to rest for a while in Xiaobai Sword Sect, was pulled away by Lu Xiaosan halfway, saying that he had secretly learned a secret skill from Tianya Sword Sect that was not passed on to the human world.
Make firecrackers!
Lu Xiaoer, who originally scorned Lu Xiaosan's secret skills, became interested after hearing about making firecrackers.
I wonder which young boy can withstand such a test?
Two people sneaked into the yard.
Lu Xiaosan put the newly cut bamboo aside and pushed aside some debris. A crudely made making table appeared in front of Lu Xiaoer.
This senior brother who was carrying a sword and was very serious was dumbfounded.
"When did you prepare it?"
Lu Xiaosan chuckled and said, "I have been preparing since last year."
Lu Xiaoer looked at the bottles and jars of sealed charcoal powder, sulfur, charcoal and fire salt, and thought to himself that there was no fire in the yard, otherwise the Little White Sword Sect would be blown up by this junior brother sooner or later.
"Where did you get these things?"
Lu Xiaoer looked at Lu Xiaosan and asked.
Lu Xiaosan tilted his head and thought for a while, then said: "I stole it from Uncle Wu. Didn't I help get some bamboo last year? I saw where those things were placed, and when I was free, I went to steal some." "
"..."
Lu Xiaoer was speechless.
Who would have thought that this junior brother would be so bold and dare to steal such a thing.
"Will you do it?"
Lu Xiaosan patted his chest and said confidently: "I peeped at my uncle making firecrackers, so I can do it naturally. In fact, senior brother, don't think about it too hard. It's very simple. That's it. Then it will be fine." ”
While Lu Xiaosan was talking, he picked up a piece of bamboo and gestured like pouring something in and then sealing it.
Lu Xiaoer was doubtful, but he was still prepared to take away this desperate junior brother if Lu Xiaosan accidentally exploded.
Lu Xiaosan was naturally very cautious, his palms were full of sweat, so he took his sword and Lu Xiaoer's sword and put them outside the door.
I was afraid that if the two swords accidentally collided together, some sparks would be produced, which would detonate the bottles and jars.
When everything was ready, Lu Xiaosan took a deep breath, looked at Lu Xiaoer aside, and said seriously: "Brother, hold the battle for me!"
Lu Xiaoer also nodded.
Lu Xiaosan walked to the tattered table, then rolled up his heavy sleeves with difficulty, carefully opened the bottles and cans, and mixed some of them.
"Do you know the proportions?"
Lu Xiaoer looked at Lu Xiaosan's casual expression and asked uneasily.
"That's almost enough." Lu Xiaosan said.
"..."
When those things were almost mixed, Lu Xiaosan took another bamboo tube two fingers wide and started pouring it into it.
"Do you want that much?"
"It must be more so that it can explode loudly. What my uncle did last year was not very good. It was quieter than my master's fart. Brother, help me to hold it up. It seems to be stuck. Let me poke it with a stick."
"Be careful!"
"Senior brother, you are a practitioner in the Mountain Seeing Realm. I am not as afraid as you."
"I am senior brother. If you are killed by the explosion, I will be scolded by the master."
"hey-hey."
Lu Xiaosan asked Lu Xiaoer to hold the bamboo tube, then found a stick from the side, poked out the stuff stuck inside, and then continued to pick up the gunpowder on the side and pour it into it.
"I always feel that the amount you added, junior brother, is enough to blow up this yard."
Lu Xiaoer, who had been dangling a sharp sword in front of his eyes all day without even blinking, felt a little frightened when he saw what Lu Xiaosan did.
"Don't worry, senior brother, I'll blow up one of your hands at most."
"..."
"Then you can ride a big bird and become a one-armed swordsman."
"Why ride Big Bird?"
"I don't know either. I'm a child. Children are ignorant and talk nonsense."
Probably because he found that there was indeed no unexpected danger, Lu Xiaosan didn't feel as nervous as he did at the beginning, so he started talking nonsense.
The two worked hard for a long time before finally filling the first bamboo tube with gunpowder. Lu Xiaosan brought two more stones of just the right size and carefully placed them on the top layer of gunpowder.
Lu Xiaoer asked with some confusion: "What is this?"
"This is what ignites the fire." Lu Xiaosan said solemnly. "Senior brother, you have to be careful next time. If you are not careful, if two rocks hit each other, there will be a spark and it will explode!"
Lu Xiaoer finally realized what this thing was used for, and looked at his junior brother with wide eyes.
"Lu Xiaosan, you bastard, what should you do now?"
Lu Xiaosan said confidently: "Don't panic, senior brother, please stop shaking your hands first."
Lu Xiaoer didn't want his hands to shake, but at this moment, the little local dog Lu Xiaosan brought back ran over with his tongue sticking out and nibbled on Lu Xiaoer's trouser legs.
"Happy, let's play!"
Lu Xiaosan looked at the little native dog beside him and scolded him in a low voice. The little native dog ran away aggrievedly and hid behind an old wooden barrel.
Lu Xiaoer finally relaxed a little.
After Lu Xiaosan placed the stone, he took a piece of wire and coiled it up, placed it between the two stones, and then stretched it out through the small hole reserved on the bamboo tube.
"This is a brilliant idea that I thought about for a whole year."
Lu Xiaosan was doing it while proudly explaining to his senior brother.
"As long as this wire is still coiled inside, the two stones will not hit each other, there will be no sparks, and there will be no explosion."
Lu Xiaoer didn't really want to listen to Lu Xiaosan explain these things. He just wanted Lu Xiaosan to finish it quickly so that he could run far away.
"Then when the time comes, we just need to pull out the wire and throw it out hard, so that it explodes. I call this throwing firecrackers."
Lu Xiaoer looked at Lu Xiaosan with a speechless expression.
You fucking call this a firecracker?
At that time, Li Asan outside Nanyi City did not use such crazy things against the demon clan.
If you add some iron pieces, iron pellets or something like this.
Lu Xiaoer felt that someone was going to confiscate all the locust trees.
Although Lu Xiaosan spoke very casually, he was still very careful in his movements.
After working for a long time, I finally sealed the firecracker. If it weren't for a thread hanging on the side, it would look like an ordinary bamboo tube.
Lu Xiaoer then carefully released the firecracker. Lu Xiaosan took a prepared bamboo board with many holes from the side, stuck the bamboo tube in, clapped his hands and said, "Senior brother, let's continue!"
Lu Xiaoer was stunned.
"Isn't it enough for you to make just one of these things?"
Lu Xiaosan said confidently: "The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year. Do you only set off one firecracker during the New Year?"
"Are you going to make a few more Jianzong explosions?"
Lu Xiaoer was very helpless.
"We just have to be careful. Besides, didn't Master say that? If we set off firecrackers in the canyon this year, we can scare the tune maker."
Lu Xiaosan said enthusiastically.
"Every time we try to play tricks on him, he always finds out. This time we give him a big one."
Lu Xiaoer sighed. Although it was indeed attractive to scare Le Chaotian, these things were indeed too dangerous at the moment.
But before Lu Xiaoer could decide, Lu Xiaosan had already brought a second small bamboo tube and started pouring gunpowder into it.
"Brother, please help me hold the bamboo tube."
Lu Xiaoer looked at the excited Lu Xiaosan, took a deep breath, and helped Lu Xiaosan hold the bamboo tube.
There is no way, who calls himself a senior brother?
But he was ready to separate his sword intent and vitality from his body to protect the two of them.
The two hid in the small yard and made several firecrackers furtively and anxiously. They did not give up until all the materials Lu Xiaosan had stolen were used up.
Lu Xiaoer raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, looked at Lu Xiaosan who had stopped, and said, "It's okay now."
Lu Xiaosan thought for a while and said, "How about I steal some more?"
"..." Lu Xiaoer turned around and walked out of the hospital.
"Then you can do it yourself. When you are killed, I will take Le Chaotian away and make him my dog. I will also change his name to Lu Xiaosan."
Lu Xiaosan chuckled and said, "I'm joking, senior brother."
Lu Xiaoer was probably joking too.
So I stayed in the end, helped Lu Xiaosan clean up all those things, and then carefully placed the bamboo tubes under a tree outside the yard, dug a hole and hid them.
The idea that he had been plotting for a whole year finally came true. Lu Xiaosan was in a very happy mood. He picked up the little native dog and wandered around in the Sword Sect.
Lu Xiaoer, on the other hand, felt guilty and went to Xiaobai Waterfall to practice his sword.
I just hope that thing doesn't really cause any big problems.
Lu Xiaoer was quite worried.
