Hu Lu was still sleeping in the concierge early in the morning when she heard someone knocking on the door.
Although I still feel like I haven't woken up yet and don't really want to get up, the person knocks very fast.
Hu Lu covered her ears for a while, and finally stood up helplessly, walked over and opened the door of Jianzong.
Just when he opened the door, Hu Lu was stunned.
Because the person standing at the door was Zhang Xiaoyu, who had been away for more than half a year.
Hu Lu suddenly woke up, no longer sleepy, and looked at the smiling swordsman in white at the door with joy.
"Senior brother? You're back!"
Zhang Xiaoyu, with the wind and snow on his head, smiled and said: "The Chinese New Year is almost here, I will definitely come back."
Hu Lu thought that she was right, the Chinese New Year was almost here, and senior brothers and the others would definitely be back.
So he brought Zhang Xiaoyu in with a smile.
The news of Zhang Xiaoyu's return quickly alarmed the senior brothers in the Sword Sect. Jiang Ye and the others all ran out with smiles on their faces, making various jokes with Zhang Xiaoyu.
Hu Lu looked happily at the side, holding her sword and leaning against the door.
After a long time, the senior brothers left with a smile, saying they were going to prepare some good wine and food for Zhang Xiaoyu.
Hu Lu and Zhang Xiaoyu then sat on the rocks beside the second pond, swept away some snow, and talked about a lot of things while looking over the rockery eaves and walls at the world that was getting colder day by day.
"Brother, where have you been these days?"
Hu Lu looked at Zhang Xiaoyu and asked curiously.
Zhang Xiaoyu sat by the pool shaking his legs, tilted his head and looked at the sky and said, "I went to a very far place."
"for example?"
"For example, the East China Sea is 490,000 miles away. You know, our master died there."
"Senior brother also traveled 490,000 miles?"
"No, I only traveled 480,000 miles."
Hu Lu sighed and said, "That's really far, far away."
It's very far away, so Zhang Xiaoyu probably doesn't have time to come back.
Hu Lu thought naturally.
"What's within 480,000 miles of the East China Sea?"
Zhang Xiaoyu thought for a while, then said with a smile: "There is someone, there is a world."
"world?"
The gourd grew its mouth and eyes wide in surprise, like a fish that jumped onto the shore.
"Yes, there are many human worlds. People live on trees on the sea. There are thousands of small islands surrounding a big tree that is tens of thousands of miles away. Everywhere is verdant and green. At dusk, the orange color is The colored light shone down and when it fell into the water, it turned green, like a flowing piece of emerald hidden in the bush."
Zhang Xiaoyu said with a smile.
"I rented a boat and cruised around."
Hu Lu opened her eyes wide, imagining that scene, and asked impatiently.
"and after?"
Zhang Xiaoyu said: "Then? Then I left. A foreign country is not as good as my hometown. I still prefer the human world in Nanyi City. The lights are red, the wine is green, the snow is white, and the eaves are black."
"Oh, that's true. Did senior brother come back after he left?"
"Of course not. I went to the desert again, and I also found the legendary Taoist temple that had disappeared for many years."
"Hangu Temple?"
"Yes." Zhang Xiaoyu probably remembered something very happy and smiled brightly.
"They are still alive in the world, but they are no longer in the world. The temple master of this generation is called Li Que 48."
Hu Lu counted on her fingers.
Li Queyi, Li Queer, Li Quesan...
It has been a thousand years, and it seems that Li Que is indeed forty-eight.
"Is he a very old-fashioned old man?" Hu Lu let go of his hand, leaned on the stone beside him and looked at Zhang Xiaoyu and asked.
"No, he's a young boy, just like you, but he doesn't like playing cards. He likes to sit at the door and read a book when it rains. He reads all day long."
Hu Lu marveled.
"As expected of a Taoist, what about Guanli? What is Guanli like?"
Zhang Xiaoyu probably harassed the young boy named Li Que 48 there every day, so he thought about it for a long time before he remembered some details.
"The view is in a mountain, with green mountains and green water. It is very peaceful when it rains and snows. There is an ancient well in front of the view. It is not very deep and looks like a basin. There are some green water chestnuts floating in it. It is very clear and like It’s like a mirror-like sky. I heard that if you look there for a long time, you’ll see some wonderful things.”
"Senior brother, have you watched it? And isn't Hangu Temple in the desert?"
"I didn't watch it. Isn't the most amazing thing about the world we were born into by chance?" Zhang Xiaoyu said with a smile, "The watch must be in the mountains. When you walk far along the desert, some mysterious feelings appear in your heart. When the time comes, you will see some very green mountains.”
"Wow, is there anything else?"
"Yes, there is a cowshed in the mountains behind the temple."
"The bullpen?"
"Yes, otherwise where would the green bull be kept?"
Zhang Xiaoyu said confidently.
Hu Lu laughed hahahahaha.
Mei Quming took a bottle of wine and sighed that it was going to snow again, and slowly swayed over.
"What are you talking about?"
Mei Quming also sat down beside him.
Hu Lu said: "Senior Brother Xiaoyu is telling his wonderful adventure story!"
Mei Quming also became interested, handed the wine bottle in his hand to Zhang Xiaoyu, and said, "Where are you talking about?"
Zhang Xiaoyu said: "We have arrived at Hangu Temple."
Sitting on the bank, the handsome swordsman in clean white clothes took a sip of wine, wiped the wine from his lips, and continued: "After leaving Hangu Temple, I went to Luming again."
"Lu Ming, the Snow Country, I heard that humans haven't been there for a long time. The snow has been too heavy these years. Unless there is something particularly important, Kamikawa doesn't want to go there."
Gourd said in amazement.
"Yes, I have been lost in the wind and snow for a long time. You must know that I have traveled 490,000 miles to the East China Sea without ever getting lost. You will know how heavy the snow is there."
"Then how did senior brother get out?"
"I met a guy in a wheelchair who was buying sizzling tofu, and he took me out of there."
"Are there many temple ruins in Lumingli?"
"Yes, those temples are empty, but the people at the foot of the mountain are still very pious. When passing a mountain, they have to put their hands together and say Amitabha. Some more pious people will go up the mountain to worship on certain festivals. , have you ever seen that scene? Just standing in the wind and snow and looking all the way, there are people with black knock marks on their foreheads, knocking step by step, like some ancient ritual, believers are knocking with their heads. It’s like a door to the windy and snowy land.”
Hu Lu sat there in amazement.
"Are those Buddhist people like this?"
Mei Quming chuckled and said, "Where are there Buddhist people? Those should just be Buddhists."
"That's true." Hu Lu said suddenly.
After all, his master, Cong Ren, who also practiced all kinds of dharma, had personally admitted that Buddhism had become extinct.
Zhang Xiaoyu continued.
"I went all the way west to see if the bliss and rebirth that Buddhism talks about really exist."
"Did Senior Brother see it?"
"No, all the way to the west, I just kept walking through the wind and snow, just like in the East China Sea. Maybe the Western Bliss that Buddhism talks about refers to the land of the world beyond the Youhuang Mountains in the southwest that is blocked by the Styx River. Just like Master Nanyi once said about Zhuang Sheng Island in the East China Sea."
Zhang Xiaoyu said with a sigh.
"But then I saw a very weird inn. It was located deep inside the Luming Mountain, in a snowy peach forest. There was a man who was said to be a swordsman."
Hu Lu was very surprised.
"Taolin? Heavy snow? Swordsman?"
"Is he the master's true form?"
Mei Quming raised his eyebrows and looked at Hu Lu and said, "What is the master's true form?"
Hu Lu plausibly said: "Master is so lazy and so powerful. The person sleeping on the bridge must be just a clone. In fact, he has a real body and is hiding somewhere to practice secretly. He wants to work hard secretly and then amaze everyone."
Zhang Xiaoyu laughed and said: "That's not true. The inn is called Da Xia Inn, and that person is called Swordsman A. The sword of the swordsman, the wandering guest in the world, the best in the world - these are his original words, Translated, it means a person who once wandered around the world and was very good with a sword."
Hu Lu said with some dissatisfaction: "So crazy? Has senior brother tried to compete with him?"
Zhang Xiaoyu said: "No, because he said he hadn't used a sword for many years, so I just grilled in his inn for a few days and then came back."
"That's a shame indeed."
Hu Lu felt a little sorry.
"Where else did Senior Brother go after that?"
Zhang Xiaoyu thought for a while and said, "Later, I went to the endless deep ocean and took Li Qinghua to the bottom of the sea."
"seabed?"
"Yes, didn't Xuanxuyuan have a very strange question? What specialties did Taoist Saint Li Queyi eat there?"
Hu Lu nodded.
This is a very famous question in Nanyi City. Maybe it was asked blindly, because there is no sponge that can talk.
Zhang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Tao Sheng ate crab roe patties, a very weird food."
Hu Lu's eyes widened.
"Krab Krab?"
"Yes, but I haven't eaten it, so I don't know what it tastes like. If you have a chance in the future, you can go and see for yourself. Then remember to tell my senior brother what it tastes like."
"Okay." Hu Lu nodded. "But when can I walk around like my senior brother?"
Hu Lu was a little melancholy.
Zhang Xiaoyu touched Hu Lu's head. The boy's hair was already very long, and it was covered with melon rind. It felt like a girl's hand.
"When you enter the avenue in the future and get higher, you can walk everywhere."
"Uh-huh."
Hu Lu nodded hurriedly.
Mei Quming was joking on the sidelines.
"The senior brothers must be very old by then. They sit at the door every day and bask in the sun, and then they say, how many years has passed since this guy Hu Lu left, and he doesn't know if he will come back to see us."
Hu Lu giggled there.
The three of them talked for a long time, and Jiang Ye and the others finally prepared a table of delicious food. Nan Dequ came over with a smile and asked the three of them to eat.
Senior Brother Huai Feng and Master have not returned yet.
Therefore, Hu Lu didn't want to go into details about this meal, so he talked about it in a few words.
After finishing their meal, Hu Lu and Zhang Xiaoyu took advantage of the second snowfall to sit by the Nanyi River.
Shushu's boat is not far away.
Hu Lu stared there blankly for a while, then turned to look at Zhang Xiaoyu.
"I thought that when senior brother comes back, he will definitely play cards for three days and three nights."
Zhang Xiaoyu was holding the scabbard on his back and sitting on his knees by the river.
"You can't play cards all your life. Sometimes you have to take a break and go out for a walk."
Hu Lu thought about Zhang Xiaoyu's wonderful experiences and nodded with deep understanding.
Zhang Xiaoyu looked at the sparkling waves of the river and smiled softly.
"The human world is sometimes more interesting than poker games. You can also go out more in the future and see many places I haven't been to yet. Then, as Brother Mei said, when we get old, sit under the eaves When I am thinking about you, write a letter about the story you saw and send it to us."
"Yeah, okay, senior brother." Hu Lu nodded sincerely.
The twilight shone down on the river in the world.
The two of them sat leisurely by the river and looked at the scenery.
"Senior brother."
Hu Lu suddenly spoke very solemnly.
Zhang Xiaoyu turned his head.
Hu Lu hesitated for a moment, and then said softly: "I vaguely feel like I have had a dream."
Zhang Xiaoyu asked curiously: "What dream?"
Hu Lu tilted her head, looking at the sky that looked like it was about to snow in the dusk, and at the human boats rippling on the river.
"A very strange dream."
"The dream is completely different from the human world. In it, you and Senior Brother Huai Feng left and never came back. And I don't know why, but it seems that I beat Shushu to death in the river."
"Then...I seemed to have been stabbed by someone."
Hu Lu said softly.
"The pain is so real - whether it's about the rat or the sword in my heart."
"Sometimes when I'm dreaming at night, I'm scared to wake up."
Zhang Xiaoyu smiled and touched Hu Lu's head.
"It's just a dream. The opposite is true in dreams. Because you are afraid of such a story happening, so you will have some bad dreams if you are afraid."
Hu Lu looked at the small boat that was actually floating on the river, and the girl sitting on the bow of the boat somewhat dimly in the dusk. She looked at it for a long time, and then laughed softly.
"Yes, it's just a dream. Senior brother, you are back. Senior brother Huai Feng should be back soon."
"Master does too."
The two sat by the river and laughed softly.
Hu Lu seemed a little sleepy and yawned.
"Senior brother, I'm going back to sleep first. I was woken up by you in the morning and I'm a little sleepy now."
Zhang Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Go ahead, I'll sit there for a while."
Hu Lu nodded, turned around and walked towards Jian Zongli.
Zhang Xiaoyu sat quietly in the dusk, looking at the world where it was about to snow.
.......
Zhang Xiaoyu sat quietly in the dusk, looking at the world where spring was about to come.
Jiang Ye and the others were not far from the Nanyi River, holding their swords and looking at Zhang Xiaoyu's lonely figure.
Of course Zhang Xiaoyu has to leave.
His white clothes were no longer as clean as before and were also torn, so the figure sitting by the river looked very lonely.
Sometimes people pass by on the river or the bank, and they all look at this swordsman who has been away for a long time in surprise.
There is nothing strange about stains on clothes like that.
The memories of most people in Nanyi City still linger on that war, when Zhang Xiaoyu was dressed in white like blood.
Or it was the little bits of blood when he finally left.
The biggest surprise was that Zhang Xiaoyu seemed to have gone out not long ago, and when he came back, he became a blind man.
Just like when they first came in, people passing by were very sad.
Zhang Xiaoyu, why have you changed like this?
Very sympathetic words.
The people of Nanyi City watched with their own eyes this sword cultivator in white swagger from the age of eighteen to twenty-five.
So the sighs and pity are naturally very real.
No one mentioned how much money Zhang Xiaoyu owed them.
When this swordsman jumped down from the city wall in blood and walked quietly down the long street, no one mentioned it.
Zhang Xiaoyu greeted every passerby quietly but with a smile.
It was not until dusk fell that the sword cultivator swept the fallen leaves off his body and stood up, turned around and walked towards his senior brothers.
Zhang Xiaoyu stopped in front of the senior brothers, but did not look at the senior brothers.
Instead, he looked down at the Jianzong steps at his feet.
"Aren't these steps rickety?"
Zhang Xiaoyu raised his foot and stepped on it.
The stone steps are very stable.
Zhang Xiaoyu's craftsmanship is indeed very good.
But if he had money, he probably wouldn't turn over the stones himself. Instead, he would ask the craftsmen in the city to polish some stones and install them.
Jiang Ye said softly: "It's very good. It's very stable when you step on it. Junior brother has repaired it very well."
Zhang Xiaoyu smiled gently there.
Such a smile should come from Chen Huaifeng during the health care period and Jiang Ye during the vegetable market period, not Zhang Xiaoyu.
Naturally, Zhang Xiaoyu has never been a person who makes people feel like spring breeze.
"It's good if it's stable."
Zhang Xiaoyu stepped on the stone steps and stood there looking at the world.
The human world moves towards the dusk in the spring breeze.
Zhang Xiaoyu can't see, but he can listen to the wind, and he can also stand there and judge the quality of something.
"I'm always worried that if this stone step is not repaired, the new junior brothers will fall down before they even enter."
Mei Quming smiled and said, "Not everyone is as stupid as you."
Zhang Xiaoyu chuckled softly and said, "Yes, I am really the stupidest and most bastard Zhang Xiaoyu in the world."
Mei Quming patted his shoulder.
Zhang Xiaoyu stood for a while, and then nodded towards the senior brothers.
"Senior brother... see you later..."
Zhang Xiaoyu stopped mid-sentence, smiled to himself, did not continue, and walked along the twilight river.
He just waved his hand in the long river of golden light.
Jiang Ye and the others stood there for a long time.
Until the figure of the sword cultivator in white was no longer visible.
Jiang Hehai sighed and said softly: "You said that junior brother is running around all day long. What on earth is he busy with?"
He asked Zhang Xiaoyu if he wanted to stay for two days.
But Zhang Xiaoyu smiled and refused.
Perhaps it is.
When such a question is asked, you may already be a guest.
It’s the same as raising your hand to knock on the door.
Mei Quming shrugged, turned around and walked towards Jian Zongli.
"I don't know. Junior brother is a genius, so he is not from the same world as us."
Big waves wash over the sand.
Zhang Xiaoyu may be the gold among them.
