In a very quiet place on a bright spring day, two guests came to visit and knocked gently on the host's door.
The host's family opened the door from inside the house and welcomed them in.
The host warmly invited them to sit down and said, "There is no wine here, but there is good tea. Can tea be substituted for wine?"
The two elegantly dressed guests readily accepted the host's offer of a cup of hot tea as wine.
Everyone was sitting around the small stove. As soon as the charcoal fire turned red, the water began to boil in the pot.
The sun shines in front of the window, and it seems to be no different from usual, except that there are a few unknown green flowers blooming quietly in the sun in front of the window.
"You two are really noble people. This flower of mine hasn't bloomed in three years. I didn't expect that today, you two, a new flower has bloomed~"
The host held a small fan and fanned the fire quietly. At the same time, he looked up at his beloved little flower and said immediately.
"Master Xianyun may have taken the wrong medicine today, but he spoke so beautifully. If I remember correctly, master, you once told me that this flower is a seed you found under the ruins of the Dalin Dynasty and cultivated it. It takes many years for it to take root and sprout. It is a strange flower that only blooms once every ten years...
If I remember correctly, ten years ago, I was lucky enough to see it once..." Xie Ruqing sat in the dark place, looking at the white-haired child-like figure in the sunshine, wearing a white-washed Taoist robe. Master Xianyun said.
Hearing this, Xianyun chuckled and didn't say anything. He just threw the fan into the hands of Qi Si, who was sitting aside and was rarely very "well-behaved and calm". He stood up and sat on the bamboo couch not far away. On top of it, he crossed his legs and meditated.
Qi Si had met this old Taoist... Bah... Master Xianyun when he was a child, but he had a not-so-good experience. If he hadn't come to see this old... master for something big this time, he would never have come. ...I wish I could hide as far away as possible...
Therefore, when Xianyun threw the fan to him inexplicably, Qi Si could only tragically become a tool man and start making tea...
But Qi Si has not forgotten this serious matter. While making tea, he carefully touched Xie Ruqing with his elbow and said with his eyes:
"My good uncle, come on! Our big things all depend on you!"
"Uncle, go, go, go! For our country and country of Dayong!"
Xie Ruqing finally "lived up to expectations" and said under Qi Si's expectant eyes:
"Is there a disciple named Yun Zhen in your Yunxiao Temple?"
"Well, there is one. I remember it should be my senior brother, the disciple of Ye He, the master of Yunxiao Temple." Xianyun replied with his eyes closed after hearing Xie Ruqing's words.
"Before, she was a good child with extraordinary talents. However, my senior brother said that this girl seemed to be possessed by a demon in the past three years. She was jealous of a little girl and wasted her time in vain."
"Please bring that little girl over. I remember that you only have an apprentice, and you have even left the apprenticeship to travel around the world. With many little girls, you will not be lonely." Xie Ruqing said.
"Hey, how did this little girl get such a big reputation that she can let you speak for her? You know me, Xianyun Yehe. It is my dream to travel the mountains and rivers and appreciate the exotic customs. I can't compare to the matter of leading an apprentice. My senior brother..."
"That girl's mother is the late princess Chu Ranyi of Chu State." Xianyun was about to speak loudly to reject Xie Ruqing, but unexpectedly, Xie Ruqing suddenly said such a sentence, which interrupted Xianyun's next words.
Xianyun opened his eyes almost immediately, stood up, sat opposite Xie Ruqing, and asked hesitantly:
"Her mother is a princess of Chu. How is that possible... That little girl was only twenty-nine years old this year. When Xuanyi died... she should have just been born. Xuanyi died under the encirclement and suppression by the armies of various countries!
That corpse, I have clearly seen, it was the corpse that I personally collected for her!
There are no traces of a recent birth... Moreover, for many years, it has been known to the world that Princess Chu Ranyi of Chu State has only one surviving child... She is currently the only king of Chu State with a different surname, Han Yue... How could there be more? One is coming out! Could it be a mistake? "Although Xianyun tried hard to suppress the shock in his heart at this moment, his tone was inevitably a little anxious...
"The body you collected yourself is certainly correct, but the girl's age may not be true..."
"I sent someone to investigate. Before Princess Ranyi's death, she stayed in the border desert for three full years. The girl lived in the border desert. She had no father or mother since she was a child. She was raised by wild wolves. The older one didn't meet your senior brother Ye He accidentally until he was about seven years old when he was traveling and accidentally fell into the quicksand.
She saved your senior brother. Your senior brother found that this little girl was as skinny as a hairy monkey. She had no clothes to cover her body and couldn't walk. She walked on four limbs like a wolf. She didn't speak human words. She could only howl like a wolf and drink blood from her hair. So she started moving. Feeling compassion, he brought the girl back. "
Xie Ruqing paused slightly, then said:
"A girl who can only speak animal language will naturally not know how old she is, so your senior brother Yehe relied on the method of touching bones to estimate her age. It is understandable that there is a deviation."
"Even if the age and location match, apart from this, is there anything else that can prove her identity..."
"Previously, King Yin sent someone to look for your senior brother. Your senior brother Yehe said that when he picked up the little girl, she had a small locking piece made of brass on her body.
The front and back of the small lock piece are clearly engraved with the word "cloud" and the word "恣", and there is also a simple picture of a tiger with a thin butterfly on it. I think you know the origin of this picture..."
When Xianyun heard this, he couldn't help clenching his fists hidden under his sleeves, and asked with red eyes:
"Then who is her father...who...tell me, I am the master of Chu Xuanyi, the princess of Chu Kingdom. Chu Xuanyi's parents, the Emperor and Empress of Chu Kingdom, are often buried in the imperial mausoleum. Her brother, the late Emperor of Chu Kingdom, is also buried underground. , I am the person she has the closest relationship with in this world...
Since she is dead, as her master... I naturally have the responsibility to know who the father of her child is..."
Xie Ruqing didn't care about Xianyun's far-fetched logic and slowly said:
"As someone who had an affair with Princess Chu Xuanyi of Chu State, you should know in your heart that one person is born, one is dead, and one has the power to dominate the world... These secrets... Do you think I can possibly know it from someone's mouth? of."
"Okay... I understand... I will take that child into my own family now. I won't go anywhere. I will stay with her well from now on... just like I grew up with her mother... "
"Three years, that man said that he only wants to entrust him to you for three years. After three years, after he has solved all the bloody troubles, he will come and take the child home."
"He is ruthless, his hands are full of the blood of his compatriots, and he is murderous. How can he raise a good child? Now that I know, this child...should be raised by me..."
"He said that if the child's mother was still alive, she would definitely hope that the child could be raised by his parents' side. Since the child has lost his mother, it would naturally be raised by him as the father, and there is no need for outsiders to raise him. "
"..." The word "outsider" made Master Xianyun, who was known for his sophistry and eloquent speech, dry up in his throat...
And then, what Xie Ruqing said almost made Xianyun, a person who had been carefree all his life, feel as if a big stone was weighing on his heart...
"He also asked me to tell you something. He entrusted the little girl to you just because he had no better choice, but this does not mean that he will forget that he commanded a million troops and killed Chu The arbitrary person was her most trusted master."
Xianyun suddenly lowered his head in guilt without saying a word. In a daze, Yin Wang Qisi, who had been eating melon silently, seemed to see a few white strands growing out of Xianyun's black hair...
"I understand. He is the father of the child. He can do whatever he wants. This time, I will protect this child well. Even if three years have passed, I will protect her..."
"You guys go first...let me be alone for a while..."
After saying that, Xianyun stood up and walked tremblingly towards the inner room...
"Uncle Xie, what's going on with this old Taoist priest... Why does he look so sad? I've known this old Taoist for so many years, and this is the first time I've seen him like this... He looks... much older... "Qi Si said in a low voice, looking at Xianyun's leaving back.
Xie Ruqing glanced at Qi Si, who had had a smooth life and had experienced almost no other hardships except poverty in his youth. He moved his mouth and said:
"Cherish the people in front of you..."
In this life, you will always meet someone you love deeply, but if you don't catch that person when you meet him, it may cause lifelong regrets...
If you meet the right person at the wrong time, even if you meet again at the right time later, you can't be reunited..."
"It's not that Taoists can't... fall in love..." Qi Si listened to Xie Ruqing's words in confusion, and finally said in a lower voice...
"The thing that rules can't restrict the most is the human heart. The thing that people can't control the most is the human heart..." After Xie Ruqing finished saying this, she seemed to have thought of something. She lifted up her sleeves and looked down at her own thin slit. scars, constantly rubbing...
"Qi Si, you go out first." Xianyun, who had already gone to the inner room, suddenly walked out of the room again and said coldly.
Qi Si pointed at himself, but in the end because he was afraid of Yu Xianyun's behavior, he walked out very frustrated. When he left, he muttered:
"This old man, really, this mood changes at any time..."
"I originally wanted to ask this old Taoist to calculate for me the career and marriage prospects of my cheap son and precious daughter..."
"Alas... alas..."
Qi Si's long sighs finally dissipated in the wind, and the tea stove in the room also made a squeaking sound as the boiling water was about to evaporate...
Xianyun took away the tea stove with his bare hands, extinguished the fire, sat in front of Xie Ruqing, and said:
"Thank you for telling me these things. I think, at first, he wanted to entrust the child to you."
"Well, he had that idea, but I have too many children at home, so I refused." Xie Ruqing said straightforwardly.
"I didn't find out what you asked me about a few years ago. However, I asked my master and he told me that your guess was right. There is a precedent for this..."
"Who is that precedent..."
"I didn't want to tell you at first, but that person... was my master's wife. My master also encountered the same situation as you back then... Later... it took my master's wife more than ten years to recover..."
"Then after your master's wife came back, did she still walk by..." Xie Ruqing said slightly nervously.
"Probably not. Master has been guarding Master for more than ten or twenty years, not daring to leave even half a step or even close his eyes to rest. But at least... so far... the Master that Master faces is still Master, not... ...What is the so-called...physical substitute generated according to Master's will???"
"I don't know what this is, but Master and Master said that if I tell you, you should be able to understand..." Xianyun listened to the sutra music that suddenly sounded near and far away in his ears. said.
"I understand, that is a person who is the same as my Gu Gu, who knows everything... knows everything about Gu Gu and me, and has the same living habits and lifestyle as Gu Gu... even the tone of speaking is exactly the same. …
But I always knew...that was not my wife...not my Gu Gu..."
"I've been waiting for many years, and now... finally... I have an answer..." Xie Ruqing suddenly felt very emotional and even cried with a bit of sadness.
"You... do you want to go back and ask your wife about the ins and outs of this matter... Didn't you send me a letter to Feige a few days ago saying that my old friend has returned?" Xianyun seemed to have a crush on Xie Ruqing at this moment. He felt a trace of resonance and spoke in a rare serious tone.
"My wife doesn't remember anything..."
"Ah!? So what should we do...won't we never know the cause and effect of the matter?"
"What's the matter... I never cared about why Gu Gu came here and why he chose me... I just want... she can always be by my side now, as long as she is her..." Xie Ruqing As he spoke, he stood up slowly, came to the window, looked at the green flowers that were just blooming, and said softly:
"Gu Gu and I still have a future. This is the most satisfying thing in my life..."
When Xianyun heard this, he couldn't help but nod, and drank a cup of astringent tea that had only boiled tea leaves before cooking. As the sour, astringent, and dry bitter taste spread on the tip of his tongue, Xianyun He also spoke:
"Yes... cherish the people in front of you... people who have a future... are much better than people who have no future..."
A drop of bitter tears... slowly rolled down from Xianyun's cheek into the freshly brewed tea, causing a trace of ripples...
Xianyun's tears were bitter and sad tears that had not been expressed for many years, but Xie Ruqing's bitter and sad tears for many years were not shed at this moment... just because... his sadness... seemed... Finally saw the end...
A morning sun rose in his heart, slowly evaporating the water called "bitter"...
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(End of chapter)
