Pinecone was very shocked to stay in the cliff hut.
At first she thought it should be dark inside. After all, the light on the cliff outside the house was cold. Only when some water droplets fell, it would become brighter, like a flash. The flow of fate is general.
It was only when she walked in that she realized she had been wrong.
One day, the stars were falling in the house, and it was cool but not dim. The light, which was not hot, sparsely filtered in through the small windows on the wall.
At that time, Song Guo subconsciously wanted to see Lu Xiaosan's reaction. Unfortunately, when she looked back, she remembered that the young boy had gone to find the senior sister of the Moon Fairy.
The little girl Song Guo moved a small stool and sat there with her chin in her hands and looked at the starfish flowing outside the wall.
The pine cone felt like he was living in a pine cone floating on the water.
The water is flowing by the window, and everything is slowly flowing into the distance.
Just like the legend of Zhuangsheng Island that was popular in Huaian.
Pinecone looked at the sea water carrying the dim light that was rippling under the window lattice, thinking that if someone had seen some scenery like this, they would probably follow the direction of the East China Sea currents, believing that the way back to the world is here. Far to the east.
Song Guo was in a daze for a long time, and she didn't even notice when Lu Xiaosan came back from the White Moon Mirror.
The young boy held the sword and sat down at the door. He did not look at the stars outside, but instead looked at the thousands of drops on the cliff opposite.
It took a long time for Song Guo to look back, and then he noticed that Lu Xiaosan seemed to have been sitting on the stone ledge at the door for a long time.
"When did you come back?"
Pinecone was a little curious.
Lu Xiaosan sighed and said, "It's been a long time since I came back, and you've been looking outside in a daze."
"Okay, why is there ash on your mouth?"
The little boy quickly raised his hand and wiped his mouth.
"Oh, it's nothing. It was dark and the road was slippery, so I fell."
Song Guo looked at Lu Xiaosan suspiciously, then walked to the door and looked at the light outside. Although the light between the cliffs was cold, it was not so clear that he could not see the road clearly.
"You didn't take a bite secretly, did you?"
Lu Xiaosan jumped up and said firmly: "I didn't!"
Of course, Pinecone didn't believe it, but he didn't ask whether it had a dense and crunchy texture.
After all, if it was delicious, Lu Xiaosan would have cheered for a long time.
"By the way, have you seen the senior sister sitting in the moon?"
After Lu Xiaosan heard this, he became even more melancholy.
"I also wanted to find a senior sister like that sitting in the moon, but I only saw a little Taoist boy sitting there in a daze with his hair tied to the sky."
Lu Xiaosan couldn't help but think that if he hadn't climbed up, that scene would have become a very good memory.
Just like the mouth of the moon in the dream.
It's a pity that there is no if.
There used to be many beautiful imaginations in front of the young boy, but it was a pity that he did not cherish them. It was not until he lost them that he regretted them.
If Lu Xiaosan was given another chance, he would not bite the gravel on the ground even if he was beaten to death.
Of course, I won’t tell you what I want to eat hot pot.
Lu Xiaosan sat for a while and then looked back at Pinecone.
"By the way, is that old boy Le Chaotian back?"
Pinecone shook his head.
"He followed the Taoist all the way down."
The two walked out of the hut and stood on the edge of the cliff looking down. Each layer of the cliff was not high, about two or three feet, but there were so many of them, as if they were carved out layer by layer.
Countless paths of destiny passed through long slender rays of light, falling down as if they were falling on the human world. They were then collected by the Taoists and explained with some inexplicable truth.
The sound of water dripping downwards was very long and thin, and water began to seep into the cliffs under the sea, but it did not drip in the dripping water, but hung down outside the cliff like a curtain of drizzle.
The Taoists carefully protected the Tao scrolls in their arms, and walked underneath, all the way to the very depths.
Lu Xiaosan thought for a moment and said, "How about we go down below and see what Uncle Master is doing?"
Pinecone hesitated for a moment, looked back at the stars outside, and then back again. This time, she didn't refuse and followed the young boy down.
...
The Taoists walked quietly through the paths, spiraling all the way down to an extremely wide platform. In Taichung, there was a large lake that was like glass and emitted a faint light. It was the place where all the dripping water finally gathered.
When the lake overflows, it will submerge the platform, and the water will pour out in all directions, and then turn into countless trickles on the cliff inside the mirror and return to the East China Sea.
There are countless mirrors hanging in the dim light on the lake.
Just like the side that Fortune teller has always carried in the human world.
Le Chaotian slowly walked onto the large platform and stopped at the edge of the lake. Today was probably the day when the water was released, so the lake water flooded the platform and reached Le Chaotian's ankles.
The young-looking Taoist stared there for a long time, then reached for a mirror and said with a soft smile: "I thought you were just someone who doesn't hold an umbrella, but it turns out you don't even bother to build a bridge."
Not far from Le Chaotian, there was also a Taoist priest, Xie Chaoyu, whose hair was growing gray on his temples and whose hands and feet were no longer warm, sitting there quietly in the middle of the lake.
When the Taoist opened his eyes, the waves of a lake were trembling slightly in the dim light, as if something was changing, or it was just some kind of illusion.
Le Chaotian also lowered his head and looked at the rippling water quietly. The Taoist people gradually had mountains and seas of Taoist texts flowing around them. Those Taoist texts evolved slowly, but they spread out around themselves like hexagrams. Then it fell towards the lake.
All the water waves dispersed.
Le Chaotian quietly looked at the lake water where his shoes were submerged.
"It turns out this is also a mirror."
The young-looking Taoist raised his head and looked at Xie Chaoyu not far away.
"Twelve stacks counts as thirteen stacks. Senior brother, it seems that you are indeed heading in the right direction."
Xie Chaoyu raised his head, looked at the Taoist standing by the lake and asked, "When did you enter the Thirteenth Layer?"
Le Chaotian smiled.
"Not long ago, I was watching the mountains and sea."
Xie Chaoyu looked at his junior brother for a long time.
Both of them came out of Qingtian Dao back then.
So many things are naturally similar.
For example, it is like calculating the fate of heaven and earth.
As soon as the lake was flat, the two brothers looked at each other for a long time.
After a long time, Le Chao Tian smiled slightly.
"But when it comes to things like fate, my senior brother is naturally better."
On the mirror held in Le Chaotian's hand, some chaotic light spots gradually appeared. The light spots entangled and changed until they became a frozen picture.
Le Chaotian was sitting by a clear stream somewhere, playing the piano next to the stream, maybe singing something.
A stream of bright red.
The young-looking Taoist just looked at the image in the mirror in his hand and smiled indifferently.
"I'm not surprised."
Le Chaotian put the mirror in his hand, which had returned to chaos and became silent again, back into the air, and looked down at himself in the overflowing water of the lake.
"As long as there is life, there must be death. What's more, heaven and earth live together with me, and all things are one with me."
Le Chaotian smiled slightly.
"It's for the sake of equalizing things, it's for returning to the truth."
Xie Chaoyu looked at Le Chaotian quietly for a long time, and then said softly: "Why is it necessary?"
Le Chaotian raised his head, looking past the thousands of streams of light and water, towards the distant place where the skylight was falling.
"I cut off a lot of things back then, but I also left some things behind. For example, desire, so I'm passionate about hot things like hot pot, and I'm also passionate about something as disturbing as sound."
"If you cut off everything, regard all things as grass and grass, and view the world with the so-called saint's unkindness, then what is the meaning of the existence of the world? The world will not exist without difference. Of course, people can be stones, but if people are just stones, even if they are just stones, Senior brother, you really understand destiny, you know that all things come back, and you know that the world is born and dies, so what is the meaning of such a thing?"
Le Chaotian lowered his head and said softly: "Absolute rationality may be divinity or nature, but it is not human nature."
Xie Chaoyu sat in the big lake and said calmly: "So what are you doing here, junior brother?"
Le Chaotian smiled and said: "Senior brother brought Da Siming back to Queyimen. It is naturally impossible to hide such a thing from many people. Of course, senior brother may not hide it, and I may not want to do anything, but it is true I’m very curious—like I said, what if you know everything?”
Xie Chaoyu said calmly: "The meaning of knowing everything is just understanding. Meaning comes from the attachments of the world, from the world's desire to embody cognitive values. For example, it is like a mountain stone. Understand how it is a mountain stone, where it comes from, and how it will change. , is its own meaning.”
Le Chaotian stood silently.
Xie Chaoyu continued: "If Guanzong doesn't want it, you can give it to Que Ke. Only by confirming the two aspects can you know what is right and what is wrong."
Le Chaotian said calmly: "I asked Senior Qinglian. The view of mountains and rivers is correct, and so is the shadow of human beings."
Xie Chaoyu looked deeply at the Taoist and said slowly: "So you actually still want to do something."
Le Chaotian looked down at the lake of water and said slowly: "After Emperor Huai's death, no one will be able to mention the truth about breaking the underworld."
"Because the truth is the weapon used to open the River Styx."
"Senior brother, being three feet away from destiny is naturally enough. Perhaps for senior brother, knowing what a mountain stone is is the greatest meaning."
"But if you know what a stone is, you can use it to kill people. If you know what fire is, you can use it to burn down a house."
"A half-knowledge of the great truth is the way the world should be."
"Human nature cannot control human nature. If restraint can become a kind of truth, then the laws of the world will be meaningless. Abandoning the high road and following the small road is the best for people and the saints for saints."
Le Chaotian stopped, looked at Xie Chaoyu, who had been silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Senior brother, if you don't believe it, then we will make a bet on whether the Taoist boy who takes charge of the command will have selfish desires in the future."
Xie Chaoyu said calmly: "I won't bet with you. Of course I can't win such a thing."
Even though this Taoist had categorically told Wang Xiaohua that life and death should be absolutely neutral.
But he still wouldn't bet on such a thing.
Maybe it's just like Cong Ren said at the beginning.
You and I are nothing more than human beings and dreams.
It’s just that even if the real person is not me.
"Why not give it a try?"
Xie Chaoyu looked at Le Chaotian quietly and said.
Le Chaotian looked at the Taoist in front of him for a long time, and then said slowly: "If one day..."
"I will ask my senior brother to die."
Xie Chaoyu smiled slightly.
"Death without regrets."
Of course the junior brother will want to kill the senior brother.
The things that Le Chaotian and the boy under the umbrella discussed in the small building naturally have their own meaning.
Talk about rational people.
Often the most stubborn and unrepentant.
Le Chaotian turned around and walked away from the platform.
Xie Chaoyu said softly from behind: "It's a rare trip to have a hot pot before leaving?"
Le Chaotian stopped.
Xie Chaoyu slowly added: "Cabbage vermicelli hot pot."
Among the small buildings in Lingnan.
The junior brother who can't eat spicy food has talked about cabbage and vermicelli hot pot countless times.
Although they ended up just eating that one meal, the hot pot later became richer.
But perhaps for this Taoist, the best hot pot in his heart is still the hot pot hidden in the wind and snow many years ago.
It was a winter on Qingtian Road.
Heavy snow blocked the mountain road, so the brothers stayed in the Taoist temple and ate simple vermicelli and boiled cabbage.
At that time, Bai Fengyu had not yet stirred up troubles in the world, Le Chao Genius had begun to practice, Xie Chaoyu had already heard about it, and Bai Yuyao was still very clear.
Le Chaotian stood there for a long time, and suddenly remembered that the hot pot he had eaten with another senior brother was slowly disappearing.
So just like what Le Chaotian sang while playing the sword downstairs after eating that day.
At the end of the story, all the stories are probably the same - I wanted to buy sweet-scented osmanthus and drink wine with me, but it turned out to be a boy's trip.
So the Taoist who still looked young smiled softly, turned around and said, "Well, senior brother, see you tomorrow."
...
Lu Xiaosan and Song Guo were blocked on the cliff paths below.
Ye Zhuliu, the ancestor of the deceiver and annihilator, stood there.
"Junior brother, I have been waiting here for several years."
Lu Xiaosan was speechless.
Did you really know a few years ago that I would walk from here to find my uncle today?
"Senior brother, what are you waiting for me here for?"
In fact, in terms of real seniority, Lu Xiaosan would not call him Senior Brother Ye Zhuliu. After all, he was from a younger generation.
It was just because of a certain Taoist priest's sudden whim that he ran to become the younger brother of the boy under the umbrella.
As a result, the hierarchy of generations in the world has become more chaotic.
But Lu Xiaosan didn't know that in this missing branch, the same seniority was somewhat confused.
Ye Zhuliu said: "Because you can't go down there, it's related to the secret location of Que Yimen."
Lu Xiaosan thought for a while and said seriously: "Did you find something good and plan to hide it?"
Ye Zhuliu smiled and said: "Of course not. Everything that the Taoist Saint has done throughout his life can be neatly left to the world. If someone is missing, he will not do such a thing. It's just that there are some things that I haven't yet understood what they are. Naturally, it’s not good for the world to see.”
Lu Xiaosan said seriously: "I'm very smart. If you let me go in and take a look, maybe I can help you figure it out?"
Ye Zhuliu chuckled softly: "I think your senior brother is smarter."
The young boy was stunned for a moment, looked at the Taoist in front of him and said with some surprise: "Have you seen my senior brother?"
"Have you seen it before? When we were over there in Lingnan."
The Taoist was fishing at that time.
Lu Xiaoer is also fishing.
Lu Xiaosan said in surprise: "Then my senior brother has become uglier."
Those who eat and sleep in the open may make people feel more haggard.
Ye Zhuliu was also stunned for a while. After a long time, the Taoist looked at the young boy and smiled and said, "He should still be as good-looking as ever."
Lu Xiaosan sighed.
"It seems that you have really met my senior brother."
After all, that little boy is really good-looking.
Lu Xiaosan thought for a while, looked at Ye Zhuliu and asked, "So when will my senior uncle come up? Will he and his senior brother secretly eat hot pot down there without calling us?"
Ye Zhuliu looked at Lu Xiaosan with astonishment.
So in the world of a young boy, as long as his uncle disappears, he is secretly eating delicious food with others?
Fortunately, Ye Zhuliu didn't need to answer such a question.
Le Chaotian was walking through some water curtains on the cliff paths.
"When did I eat hot pot without calling you?"
Lu Xiaosan was stunned for a moment, then looked at Le Chaotian and said confidently: "You didn't even call me, how do I know?"
This sentence made the other three people stunned.
Innocence is of course the hardest thing to prove.
There is no way that Le Chaotian would open his belly and say, "Look, these are the only hot pot meals in it."
Le Chaotian walked over silently, patted the young boy's shoulder helplessly, and said, "Let's go."
Lu Xiaosan and Song Guo were both stunned for a moment.
"Are you leaving now?"
"Of course we'll leave tomorrow. Are you just going to stay here and make things difficult for others?"
Lu Xiaosan thought for a while and said: "That's right. After all, he is also a little swordsman in the world. He cannot bully others with his power."
"..."
The three of them turned around and headed upward through the cold light amidst the sound of dripping water.
Pinecone hadn't passed by yet, so she kept looking around.
Lu Xiaosan looked at Le Chaotian a little strangely, tilting his head and not knowing what he was thinking.
It wasn't until the three of them reached the cliff where they rested that the young boy slowly said, "Uncle and senior brother had a fight?"
Le Chaotian raised his eyebrows and looked at the young boy, but said nothing.
Lu Xiaosan thought for a while and said, "Because I feel that my uncle seems a little unhappy, but also a little happy..."
The young boy stopped there and looked at the uncle in front of him for a long time.
Such uncles are naturally rare.
In the past, Le Chaotian always smiled, but today he did not smile, and his tone was not as gentle as before.
But sometimes when walking among the sounds of dripping water, the steps seem to be brisk again.
So the little boy was full of confusion.
Le Chaotian sighed, touched the young boy's head, and said softly: "Yes, but in the end we made an appointment to have hot pot tomorrow."
Disputes are part of life's cognition.
Hot pot is just a matter between brothers.
So the two naturally do not conflict.
Lu Xiaosan thought for a while and said sincerely: "Cao Weiying said that being unable to understand is the normal state of life..."
Le Chaotian smiled.
"Yes."
Lu Xiaosan said seriously: "Thinking about what to eat for hot pot tomorrow is the most important thing."
"..."
