Xiao Wu who left Changle Palace was like a bird released from a cage.
He is very happy.
It's just that this happiness is no longer as simple as before, and has become heavier than before.
In Jade City, people gathered in other places.
In the early morning, a thin morning mist filled the sky over the other fields. Xiao Wu stood in the yard, looking up at the morning mist between the mountains.
Amu was also standing in the yard holding his knife, but looking at the nest of swallows under the eaves.
It's August seventeenth.
This nest of swallows has already hatched.
Two of the little swallows were standing on the edge of the small nest, flapping their wings and looking at the world outside.
A big swallow, I don't know if it's their father or mother, was also standing on the edge of the nest at the moment, chirping a few times at the two little swallows, seeming to be saying something.
After a moment, the big swallow spread its wings and flew out, landing on a branch not far away. Then it looked at the two little swallows under the eaves and chirped a few more times.
It should be encouraging them.
So, the two little swallows finally plucked up the courage, waved their young wings and flew up.
One of them flew up to the branch, but the other one fell off.
It fell to the ground!
The big swallow fell from the branch extremely nervously, jumped on the ground, and chirped again.
But the little swallow flapped its wings but did not fly.
The big swallow seemed to be anxious.
It flew up to the branch again. The little swallow held its wings on the ground and raised its little head vigorously.
Amu saw the little swallow's eyes.
In those small dark eyes, what he saw was tension, helplessness, and the panic of being abandoned.
Just like when I was a child and lived on the streets of Jade City.
He walked over.
Carefully, he picked up the little swallow from the ground.
He touched the little swallow's feathers with his thumb very gently, and after thinking for a while, he flew up, flew under the eaves, and put the little swallow back into the nest.
Wang Zhenghaoxuan stood not far away with his knife on his back.
"Autumn is about to begin, and the swallows will fly south in a few months."
He walked over and stood next to Amu, "If it can't learn to fly... it will definitely die when the Yan Qun leaves."
Amu still looked up at the bird's nest, and after a while he said: "Brother, I think it can fly!"
"Why?"
"Because it has a pair of intact wings, it's just because it's too timid...Fly a few more times, fall a few more times, maybe it will succeed."
Wang Zhenghaoxuan raised his eyebrows, looked at the swallow's nest, touched his mouth, and muttered: "I haven't tasted the taste of swallow meat yet."
Amu withdrew his gaze and glared at him.
The little swallow stood by the nest again.
Its little head looked left and right, and two swallows on the opposite branch were chirping towards it.
It seems to have really plucked up the courage and spread its wings again...
It flew!
It did not fall on the opposite branch.
It flies into the vast sky.
The two swallows on the branches also flew up.
Gradually disappeared into the mist.
Amu laughed.
He patted Wang Zhenghaoxuan on the shoulder, "Junior brother, it is luckier than when I was a child!"
Wang Zhenghaoxuan glanced at Amu: "You really don't want my father to help you find out who your parents are?"
Amu shook his head: "I survived those difficult days... That was when I needed them the most."
Amu raised his head and looked at the mist, "I am not as pure and kind as Xiao Wu. Since they abandoned me... just like the little swallow's parents, they flew south, leaving behind a bird that could not fly. The little swallow lets it fend for itself..."
"No, that little swallow didn't fly. At least its parents landed on the ground to take a look at it. At least they were on the branches looking forward to it flying again."
"But my parents..."
Amu smiled bitterly, "It has been twenty-one years. I have grown up and can live on my own. They have never come to me, and I no longer need them to come to me."
"That's good."
Xiao Wu came over.
His clean face looked at Amu, babbling something.
He pulled Amu into the pavilion, picked up a pen, and wrote on a piece of paper:
"Our parents give us life, this is the greatest gift!"
"God allowed us to survive tenaciously. This does not mean that we should remember the unhappiness or hatred in the past."
"Li Chenan said that everyone has their own circumstances when they come to the world. Some people have a smooth journey, while others have a bumpy journey."
"Our road is bumpy, so we should not focus on those bumps, but should look at the different scenery on the bumpy road."
"In this way, we will be in a good mood, and we will not feel too tired when walking on that bumpy road."
Xiao Wu put down his pen and looked at Amu.
Amu grinned, not because he was grateful for Yu Xiaowu's enlightenment, but because he felt that Xiaowu really had a compassionate heart.
Li Chenan has said before that it is precisely because Xiao Wu's heart is pure and simple that his eyes are the cleanest.
For anything, the first thing Xiao Wu sees is the beautiful side of these things.
Xiao Wu appreciates beauty very much.
But for things that are not beautiful, Xiao Wu will not hesitate to take action——
Destroy the bad, and what remains is the good.
Kill all the bad guys, and all that's left in the world will be the good guys.
This is Xiao Wu's simplest ideological logic.
Amu thinks that he is just a mortal, and after all, he cannot pick it up or put it down as easily as Xiaowu.
"I once wanted to be like you and not think about the past. I also hoped that I could live in the sunshine."
Amu looked at Xiaowu and said very seriously:
"But I found I couldn't do it!"
"My parents didn't leave the slightest impression on my mind, but the shadow of my childhood is deeply engraved in my memory."
"Lingering!"
"So after I went to Mushan Knife, the master said that my knife speed would never be faster than my junior brother's because my sword was heavier than my junior brother's sword."
"At first, I didn't understand. They were all the same knives. Why was my knife heavier than my junior brother's?"
"So, I practiced my sword crazily, and I only practiced one sword, which was to draw the sword and draw it out, just to prove that my sword can be faster than my junior brother's sword."
"However... until I grew up, until I left the Mushan sword, my sword was indeed not as fast as my junior brother's sword."
"Master said that I wasted several years in vain. On the road of swordsmanship, I should walk thickly, not fast!"
"Slow and heavy, you can also herd mountains!"
"I know that I have missed some years, and I also know the truth of what the master said."
"It's not the knife that's important, it's the past events in my mind that are important."
"The sword follows your heart. If your heart is heavy, the knife will naturally be heavy."
"When I left Mushantana, my master told me that if I could let go of those past events, my sword would be as light as a sword. Not only would it be faster than my junior brother, but it would also be more powerful than my junior brother."
Amu smiled bitterly and spread his hands: "But I can't let go."
"It doesn't matter if you carry a heavy burden like this. There are only a few people in the world who can be truly free and unrestrained."
Wang Zhenghaoxuan looked at his senior brother with wide eyes, and suddenly said: "Ah, master has lied to me for so many years!"
Amu also looked at Wang Zhenghaoxuan: "Master didn't lie to you. Master said that when you grow up, no longer heartless, no longer thinking about dog meat, and have worries, your knife will become heavier."
"That's a heavy lifting, you know?"
Wang Zhenghaoxuan opened his mouth wide and shook his head: "I don't understand! I still think dog meat cannot be discarded!"
Amu didn't say anything to Wang Zhenghaoxuan, because worries don't just come and go, and it's good for the junior brother to be the enemy of the dog happily like this.
He turned to look at Xiao Wu, "Where are we going?"
Xiao Wu raised his pen and waved: "Wuya Pass!"
Three handsome horses carried three teenagers and left Kyoto early that morning.
Amu didn't know why Xiaowu went to Wuyaguan.
Wang Zhenghaoxuan didn't think about it at all. He was thinking about the dog he kept in Changle Palace.
Then I remembered that I had a fiancée in Pingjiang City in the south of the Yangtze River!
