"It's better to have a dream in spring, in which the grass is fragrant..."
"For a thousand years, flowers will bloom every year, and every day will be a good time."
"It's a rush to come to this world once..."
...
Gu Wenzhi felt that he was probably hallucinating, otherwise why would he hear such a strange song when he went down the mountain to take medicine for his master.
As a disciple of Shanhe Temple, Gu Wenzhi has of course listened to many songs. When the temple owner used to be in the temple, he would find a quiet place in the mountains and play and sing to himself.
But what is sung is often about things in the world, a big dream, and the cool autumns in life. This is a famous and melodic tune called Xijiang Moon.
For example, there are some very ancient tunes, such as "The public did not cross the river, the public actually crossed the river, and died after crossing the river, but the public did not cross the river, and so on".
It’s just that I have probably never heard of such strange words and music.
Gu Wenzhi was thinking as he walked towards the temple on the mountain carrying a large bag of medicine bought for his master in the small town.
Only halfway through, I felt like I was leaving like this. I was a little reluctant, so I put the baggage in my hand among a cluster of mountain flowers beside the road, and found some fallen leaves and covered it with it. , and then followed the direction where the music came from, holding the Taoist robe and looking for it.
Finally, I found such a singing person on a slightly raised hillside.
It was a young man sitting on a small stone roasting a rabbit. He wore a very ugly straw hat on his head, with many dandelions scattered by the wind. He was probably made by himself. of.
Gu Wenzhi looked at the deliciously roasted rabbit, swallowed, and walked over.
"Hey, where does this big brother come from?"
Gu Wenzhi actually wanted to say where this brother came from.
It's just that the young man in front of me didn't look like a scholar, so he spoke colloquially and asked questions very frankly.
The young man turned his head and pointed to the north with a smile.
"Huaidu."
Gu Wenzhi was obviously surprised. After all, it was possible for such a person wearing a self-made straw hat to come from all over the world, but he didn't look like someone from Huaidu.
I heard that Huaidu steamed buns cost twenty cents each, so how could he be dressed so ordinary?
The young man probably guessed something from Gu Wenzhi's flash of surprise, and turned back with a smile, turning the rabbit and roasting it on different sides.
"I just came here because I couldn't survive anymore."
Gu Wenzhi nodded as if it was a matter of course.
"Do you eat rabbit?"
Gu Wenzhi nodded even more matter-of-factly.
"eat."
The young man probably liked such a Taoist who was not coy, so he took off the rabbit in his hand and put it aside. He kept blowing his hands and tried to tear off one side of the Taoist.
It's just that the freshly roasted rabbit was naturally very hot. The young man tore it apart for a long time but didn't tear it off. Instead, his hands were burned red.
Gu Wenzhi said sincerely: "I'll do it."
The young man also said sincerely: "You should definitely come."
After all, the Taoists in this place look like Taoists from the Mountain and River Temple, one of the three temples in the world. A Taoist in such a place of practice will not be able to tear up a roasted rabbit.
However, Gu Wenzhi did not attach the energy of heaven and earth to his hands. Instead, he picked up the rabbit, held one side of it neatly, and tore it off.
The young man gasped when he saw it.
"Aren't you hot?"
Gu Wenzhi said with a smile: "My master is not in good health. I give him medicine all the year round, so I often test the temperature of the earthen pot with my hands. After a long time, it doesn't feel hot anymore."
The young man looked at the Taoist with great admiration.
"sharp."
"It's generally great. It's great."
Gu Wenzhi was very humble.
The two sat on the hillside in the evening breeze and began to nibble on the rabbit in their hands.
The young man took out a chili bag from his arms, looked at the Taoist and asked, "Do you want some?"
Gu Wenzhi thought for a moment and said, "Then let's have some. I've been in Guanli for some years, and I'm not used to spicy food."
So the young man sprinkled some chili powder on half of Gu Wenzhi's rabbit, and then poured the rest on his own rabbit.
Gu Wenzhi looked at this young man with admiration.
"sharp."
"It's generally great. It's great."
Young people are also very humble.
The two gnawed on the rabbit and started chatting.
"My name is Gu Wenzhi, Gu who looks forward to prosperity, Wenzhi who leads the world with culture, how about you, brother?"
Because he ate someone else's rabbit, even the big brother became more sincere.
"Chen He, Chen is getting old, and He is coming and going gracefully."
"Oh. Did you sing that song just now, Brother Chen?"
"Are you saying that a good spring is not as good as a dream?"
"exactly."
The young man named Chen He said with a smile: "Yes, is that why you came to me?"
Gu Wenzhi nodded his head in admiration while chewing on the rabbit's head.
"I thought I had heard enough music in the audience, but I had never heard such a strange song."
"It was humming casually. I don't remember where I heard it."
"That's it."
Gu Wenzhi did not continue to ask, and ate rabbit happily in the evening breeze and the setting sun.
This Taoist from Xuanxuyuan in Nanyi City probably hasn't eaten spicy food for many years, so even if he only added a little chili powder, he would still be sweating profusely.
Fortunately, there was a stream flowing through Podong, so the Taoist ran there with half of the rabbit in his hand. He lay down by the stream and drank some water. After several sips, he finally felt better and raised his head. Then I saw a very weird wheelchair there.
"What is this?"
Gu Wenzhi stood by the stream and turned around to ask Chen He.
"Tianyan car."
Gu Wenzhi took a deep breath, as if he remembered something.
"The Tianyan machine of Xuanxuyuan in Nanyi City?"
Chen He raised his eyebrows and said, "You also know?"
"I am a former student of Xuanxu Academy. At that time, I studied this thing with a gentleman from the School of Mathematics and Physics. How did you come up with the idea of using him to make this thing?"
"I forgot too."
Chen He was very sincere.
Gu Wenzhi held the rabbit and looked around the already somewhat tattered Tianyan car in amazement, raising his hand to knock on the black box from time to time.
"Is the Tian Yan Machine inside here?"
Chen He also walked down and squatted aside eating rabbit.
"right."
"Hey, it's interesting, I want to drive it."
Gu Wenzhi had long forgotten that he was here to ask about Qu Qu.
Of course, Chen He was very generous and carefully taught the Taoist how to drive such a car. As he talked, Chen He became excited and danced a little while holding the rabbit. He couldn't wait to teach Gu Wenzhi how to turn around the drainage channel. .
It's just that such an operation is too difficult, and it is obviously difficult for Gu Wenzhi to learn it all at once, but fortunately, the most basic driving skills are not difficult for this Taoist who can get the recommended place in Xuansheyuan.
So on March 13, 1004 in the Gale Calendar, Gu Wenzhi learned to drive, uphill and downhill, and was crushed to death...
This former student of Xuanxu Academy not only learned to drive in the meadow at the foot of the mountain, but also learned to eat rabbits while driving.
Chen He stood by the stream and watched with a smile.
Of course it is a good time.
Gu Wenzhi drove until dusk fell, and then finally stopped with unsatisfied thoughts.
This Shanheguan Taoist jumped out of the car and gnawed on half of the rabbit skeleton with not much meat left in his hand. His cheeks were a little red, as if he was still a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy who suddenly discovered something gratifying. His face was flushed with excitement.
"Okay, great, it deserves to be from the School of Mathematics and Physics."
The Taoist was not proud of being a disciple of Shanhe Guan, but rather proud of being a student of Xuanxu Academy. But for some reason, the Taoist was silent for a while, looked towards the south, and sighed.
Chen He didn't know why the Taoist suddenly felt lost again. He thought he was regretting that he couldn't go back to Xuanxuyuan as a young boy, so he patted his shoulder sincerely.
Gu Wenzhi didn't say anything, he just glanced at the sky, then suddenly remembered the business, and said goodbye to Chen He with some reluctance.
"Brother He, I'm going back to prepare medicine for Master."
Chen He scratched his head, thought for a moment and said, "Brother Wen, walk slowly."
Gu Wenzhi chuckled and sucked the rabbit skeleton in his hand again. The rabbit must have been marinated in seasonings in advance, so even the bones were very exciting.
The Taoist threw the bones at the foot of the hillside, squatted down and washed his hands by the stream, and then saluted Chen He.
"See you again if we are destined."
Chen He smiled and shook the skeleton in his hand.
"See you again if we are destined."
...
Gu Wenzhi sighed as he walked back to the mountain. Maybe today's encounter was interesting, so he also hummed that very weird song.
"It's better to have a dream in spring, in which the grass is fragrant..."
Just humming, the Taoist fell silent.
The silence was naturally not because I thought of something, but simply saw something.
The young Taoist raised his head, looked around, and shouted with some annoyance.
"Who took away the medicine I hid here!"
However, there was no response from the mountains. They just frightened some spring birds and flew away, fluttering down a few stray feathers.
Gu Wenzhi bent down anxiously and kept searching among the mountain flowers, but unfortunately he found nothing.
The dusk has shone farther east, and the spring forest has gradually become dim.
Gu Wenzhi looked back at the town. The medicine was naturally not worth much. Even if he went back to buy it, it would only cost him more time. But today in the town, there was only a little bit of a medicine left. Even if he went back to buy it, I can’t even get together to take medicine like that.
Gu Wenzhi became a little anxious as he thought about his master's illness. He raised his hands in front of him and was about to use Tao techniques to find people in the mountains.
But before those mountains and rivers fell to the world, Gu Wenzhi heard a rather weak cough.
"Ahem."
Gu Wenzhi lost his vast Taoist aura and looked further up the mountain road.
There was a Taoist man covered in sword wounds, leaning on a rock, smiling palely.
"Chen Qingshan? Why are you back?"
Gu Wenzhi frowned.
Chen Qingshan just chuckled and did not answer the question. Instead, he said: "Junior Brother Gu, I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
Gu Wenzhi was silent for a while and said, "Good news."
Chen Qingshan smiled and took out the package of medicine from behind.
"The good news is that the uncle's medicine has not been lost and is still here. I was still thinking about who could be so generous and give up such good medicine if I said no, so I planned to pick it up back in the mountains to please my uncle and ask him to help. I take care of the little things.”
Gu Wenzhi felt something was wrong, so he continued to ask: "Where's the bad news?"
Chen Qingshan dropped the baggage and threw it into Gu Wenzhi's arms. He coughed twice and said, "I killed Ye Hanzhong in the Liuyun Sword Sect in front of those white-haired swordsmen."
Gu Wenzhi wanted to smash the medicine bag in Chen Qingshan's face.
The young Taoist looked at the Taoist on the mountain road with a livid face.
"Is this the trivial matter you are talking about? Chen Qingshan, you..."
Chen Qingshan was probably also a little afraid of the scholars who scolded him. After all, this junior fellow student came from Xuanxuyuan. There was an old drunkard with a bad head in Xuanxuyuan, and the scholars often scolded him with some very unpleasant words.
So Chen Qingshan smiled softly and called out Zhang Lizi who was hiding aside.
"Lizi, this is your Uncle Gu. He is a student who has graduated from the Fourth Class of Xuanxu Academy. He must be a great scholar with a brilliant tongue and a fragrant mouth."
Zhang Lizi walked out from behind Chen Qingshan timidly, looked at the young Taoist who seemed to be also very powerful, and bowed.
"Uncle Gu."
"..."
Gu Wen was forced to hold back his next words and let out a long breath. Then he calmed down and looked at another woman in red in the forest beside the road.
"Is this your disciple too? A sword cultivator?"
Chen Qingshan looked back at the Donghai sword cultivator standing with his sword in hand, and said with a smile: "That's not true, this is an enemy."
The corners of Gu Wenzhi's mouth twitched, but looking at the timid Zhang Lizi, he didn't say anything. He just nodded to the girl who looked ordinary and had ordinary talents, and then walked towards the mountain road.
It wasn't until he passed the three people that Gu Wenzhi heard the nephew named Zhang Lizi asking Chen Qingshan somewhat uneasily.
"This uncle..."
Chen Qingshan chuckled softly: "Oh, his name is Gu Wenzhi, he is from Nanyi City, but you don't have to worry, he is a good man, much better than your master and me, but sometimes he is a little whimsical and stupid."
"..."
Naturally, it was not only Gu Wenzhi who was speechless, but also Zhang Lizi.
"It's not good to speak ill of people behind their back, Master."
"It doesn't matter, he can't beat me. And I've said this many times in person. Occasionally speaking behind my back can make it more fresh."
Gu Wenzhi turned around and looked at the two people on the mountain path in silence.
Chen Qingshan was still leaning on the rock, looking at the Taoist with a smile as if he knew Gu Wenzhi would turn around.
As for Zhang Lizi, she was pulling Chen Qingshan's sleeve.
Gu Wenzhi looked at the woman in red not far away with a very cold expression.
Probably having a headache, the Taoist turned his head back and silently walked towards the temple.
...
Spring in March, spring in March.
The light of dusk has sunk into the west, and after a brief period of darkness, the mountains light up again.
It was the kind of light that looked very much like the lights of a small town on earth.
On the long steps of the green forest in the temple, there are lights everywhere.
There was a bright moon that day, and the silver frost that fell down seemed to be dissolved.
From time to time, a disciple would walk past Gu Wenzhi holding a lamp, saluting and calling him Senior Brother Gu or Junior Brother Gu.
Gu Wenzhi held the large bag of medicine, returned the gift, walked through the long steps, and hurried towards the top of the mountain in Guanzhong.
When I got there, I saw my master sitting on the steps with a pale face and coughing.
Gu Wenzhi hurried over with some guilt, without saying anything else, and went straight to the back of the palace on the top of the mountain.
"I'm going to boil the medicine first, Master."
The Taoist nodded and then sat there quietly.
Not long after, Gu Wenzhi came over with a bowl of soup. It was still dark, as if the moon and stars had disappeared from the sky.
It was fried so quickly, probably not like the usual leisurely burning of firewood.
Gu Wenzhi handed the medicine bowl to the Taoist, picked up a piece of grass on the long steps, wiped the black pot ashes from his hands, and then said with some guilt: "Something happened while going down the mountain today, which delayed me for a while."
The Taoist held the bowl and grinned while drinking the bowl of black medicinal soup.
So Gu Wenzhi found that he had forgotten to buy candy again.
The Taoist looked at his disciple eagerly for a long time to make sure that he had not bought any candy. Then he sighed, holding the bowl and swallowed the whole thing in one gulp, like a bold knight-errant drinking strong liquor.
Gu Wenzhi said sincerely: "I will definitely remember to go buy candy tomorrow."
The Taoist smiled and said, "You want to go down and see if the rabbit roaster is still there."
Gu Wenzhi was stunned for a moment and said, "Master, did you see it?"
"No, it's just that you smell like roasted rabbit, and you don't know how to roast rabbit, let alone such a fragrant rabbit, so someone else must have roasted it."
This is a very simple truth.
It is also the most superficial logic of fate.
Gu Wenzhi smiled softly and said, "Yes."
"That person is very interesting?" The Taoist asked, looking at his disciple.
Gu Wenzhi looked up at Ye Yue and thought for a while, then said: "Probably so, so although I said goodbye by fate when I left, if we can see each other directly, there is no need to rely on fate."
The old Taoist said softly: "That's true."
"But I did hear a very weird song from him."
The old Taoist looked at the young Taoist.
So the young Taoist sang the song "Good Spring" in a very inconsistent tone.
When the old Taoist heard the phrase "thousand years old", he might have thought of something, and chuckled and said, "Actually, this song can also be sung in a different way."
Gu Wenzhi looked at his master.
"How to sing?"
The Taoist turned over the medicine bowl next to him, then reached out and picked up a piece of tile on the steps.
Hit the bowl with a tile and sing.
——
My ambition is vast, and I have dreamed of reaching the sky in the past.
In the moss moon, the world has been admiring it for thousands of years.
There are guests, Lin and phoenix, clouds meet the green mountains and red cliffs, and we meet in the high cold.
Drinking wine to support Beidou, I also have lice in the meantime.
Shaoge said, the spirit is very relaxed, but the body is sleeping.
The swan is raised high again and again, and the sky and the earth are visible.
I want to sing again and again, but I sleep in my dreams. I push my pillow and think alone in confusion. I am completely at a loss in human affairs.
There are beauties to talk about, and the autumn water separates them.
