"Lin Zitong? Isn't it Li Qing'er?"
Jiang Qingxue had a look of astonishment on her face. Her daughter-in-law's name was beyond her expectation.
Yan Shouyi was also stunned. Why would his mother know about Li Qing'er?
Soon he figured everything out and found out that the original engagement between him and Li Qing'er was not decided by his grandfather, but by his mother.
My mother is also a descendant of Lu Ban. She must have calculated something before telling my grandfather to go to the Li family to get engaged if he had the chance.
"Li Qing'er and I were not destined to get together, so we couldn't get together. Now that the Li family no longer exists, West Lake is my stronghold. I formed a folk sect there," Yan Shouyi said with a smile, "As for Zitong , she is now the head of Lushan Sect."
Jiang Qingxue was only stunned for a moment, and then noticed the happy expression on Yan Shouyi's face. She realized that her son was living a happy life now, so she stopped pursuing those things.
She smiled and said: "It seems that the outside world has changed a lot in the past twenty years."
Yan Shouyi took Jiang Qingxue's hand and briefly talked about some of the changes in the past twenty years.
Twenty years ago, flashlights, sewing machines, and bicycles were the three most important items for marriage. It was a prestigious thing for anyone to own these items.
But today, twenty years later, it is completely different. What was once a gravel road has turned into a spacious road, with cars coming and going.
It’s not just things that change, but also people.
"Grandpa passed away and was buried in Chenjia Village; dad was released from prison last year, but Uncle Zou left; we found grandma's soul, and she was sealed in King Jian's Tomb for almost 20 years..."
So many things have happened in twenty years that it would be impossible to tell them all even if it took three days and three nights.
Yan Shouyi had never said so many words in one breath. He soon felt his mouth went dry and he wondered if he had said too much.
But Jiang Qingxue didn't think so. She just watched with a smile and listened quietly, as if accompanying Yan Shouyi through these twenty years of growth.
She has huge regrets in her heart. Listening to Yan Shouyi's experience can more or less make up for some of her regrets.
However, Yan Shouyi did not forget about business.
He cleared his throat and his expression became serious:
"Mom, now the civil sects and the famous sects have been in turmoil. Dad just told me about you, so I came all the way to Changbai Mountain just to find a way to break the situation... Dad said , you have been working hard to complete the second volume of Lu Ban Shu. Once you complete the second volume of Lu Ban Shu, folk sects may transform into famous sects. Is this true? "
Jiang Qingxue also suppressed some of her smile, her eyes serious: "This is true, this is the method passed down by my master."
She said, slowly walking towards Tianchi.
As they walked, Jiang Qingxue explained: "Although my master has become immortal, he has been studying how to solve the death disaster of folk sects. Finally, he came to the conclusion that Buddhism eats fasting and worships Buddha, Taoism meditates and worships gods, but our folk sects have never Worshiping Buddha and not respecting God, having no faith in one’s heart, and no moral restraint in one’s actions, has resulted in divine punishment!”
"Buddhism has countless Buddhist scriptures, and Taoism has countless collections. Only our folk sect has Dharma but no Tao, and skills but no intention. Everyone does things based on their own likes and dislikes, so good and evil are very extreme. If we can also have A classic masterpiece belonging to a folk sect can use it to alert fellow sects, restrain their behavior, and temper their thoughts..."
"Shouyi, do you know why our Luban sect has neglected to study its own magic, but has only thought about how to steal the skills of famous sects for thousands of years? In fact, this is the innate mission of the descendants of Luban—— We study the classics of famous sects not for our own selfish desires, but to use them as references, learn from them, and compile the Tao Te Ching belonging to folk sects!"
Jiang Qingxue came to the edge of Tianchi, squatted down slowly, and looked at the calm Tianchi water with her beautiful eyes, reflecting the stars in the sky.
As soon as Yan Shou followed him, a storm had already stirred up in his heart.
It turns out that the descendants of Luban still have such a mission...
No wonder, whether they met seniors such as Yin Tang and Xu Pingzhi in Qiantang, or met Li Chongxi in Chang'an, they all believed that I was the only person who could lead the folk sect.
The descendant of Lu Ban combines the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought and is the chosen savior. He is destined to become the backbone of the folk sect!
"Then...Mom, have you perfected the second volume of Luban Shu in the past twenty years?" Yan Shouyi asked.
Jiang Qingxue did not answer, but gently scooped up a ladle of water from the Tianchi with her hands, and then sprinkled it into the sky.
The clear Tianchi water spread out and turned into water droplets, but they did not fall back into the Tianchi. Instead, they were suspended in mid-air, slowly forming a heavenly book under the reflection of the bright moon and stars!
Thousands of words are eloquent and densely packed with stars!
Yan Shouyi's eyes widened. This scene was so shocking that it could even be described as a miracle.
Is this the content of the second volume of Lu Ban’s book?
Yan Shouyi read it carefully and felt that between the lines, there was the nature of Taoism, the cause and effect of Buddhism, the benevolence and righteousness of Confucianism, and thousands of other things that he could not explain clearly.
There are so many truths contained in these few thousand words that Yan Shouyi, with his experience, finds it difficult to digest them. Let alone understand them, he can't even read them all.
"In the past twenty years, in order to complete the second volume of Lu Ban's book as soon as possible, I have made great ambitions. If I don't complete it, I will not be able to leave Tianchi. I didn't expect that this painting will serve as a prison, but a full twenty years have passed. I missed you. the first half of his life.”
Jiang Qingxue said regretfully: "For twenty years, I have been up early and late at night, studying countless classics, but I have only been able to get to this point. I have never been able to perfect the last four sentences."
"Now I also want to understand, maybe I will never be able to understand these four sentences, because my time in the world is too short, and I have not yet understood the true meaning of folk sects, so when your father arrived, I told him I asked a question, but I didn’t expect that he couldn’t answer it. In the end, we put all our hope in you.”
Four sentences, corresponding to four questions respectively, Yan Shou recalled what his father Yan Qiu had said to him before leaving.
Yan Shouyi took a closer look and found that there were four conspicuous gaps in the last paragraph of the second volume of Lu Ban's book.
The "Heavenly Book" in front of me is extremely harmonious. Thousands of unrelated words are arranged together, but it seems to be a blank piece of paper.
But the four blank sentences are like four holes on the white paper, which directly destroys the integrity of the entire white paper and makes it so conspicuous.
"Shouyi, your father has confidence in you, and I have confidence in you," Jiang Qingxue said softly, "We all believe that you should fill in the last four sentences."
Yan Shouyi raised his head and stared at the words in the sky with his only remaining eye.
As long as I unravel these four sentences, can I break the calamity of death and completely resolve the conflict between the two factions?
