Daji and I set off the day after Rong Rong left, driving my old scalper and pulling the cart that had been repaired by Chu Zhao, and the cart was full of items that Rong Rong had prepared yesterday.

Daji sat back in the car, and I drove the old ox away from the village where I had lived for several years. Our departure did not disturb anyone, neither me nor Daji, who wanted to say goodbye to our neighbors again.

It's hard enough to say goodbye, and we don't want to go through it a second time. After living here for so long, the relationship with the neighbors is not much worse than that between him and Rongrong.

The first rays of the morning sun shone on Hongguyuan, and the breeze blew through the wheat waves, as if bidding farewell to us.

For the first time, I felt the enthusiasm that the world brought us, and although it was when I was leaving, I could still feel the reluctance and longing that existed in this plain.

Daji said she would always remember this place.

I said so did I.

Perhaps the days we have lived on earth have been similar in that we have left this complicated world when we are young.

The difference is that at the same age, I was practicing in the mountains, and she had already gone down to the underworld.

If you leave the world for too long, you will forget those emotions that belong to the world. Becoming indifferent and open-minded, but at the same time it means being indifferent and ignorant.

Any emotion that goes to the extreme will inevitably give rise to another opposite emotion.

The fact that the immortals are far away from this earthly world does not mean that they will gain more, and many times, they will lose more than they gain. The things that immortals and people pursue are different, immortals seek to give up, while people seek to gain.

The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than is lost. The way of man is to make up for the deficiency with more than loss. Immortals are walking the way of heaven, and people are walking the way of people.

Therefore, heaven is selfless, and humanity is selfish. The reason why people become immortals lies in turning selfish and selfless.

Daji didn't think as much as I thought, she just sat in the car, shaking her feet constantly, and she was happy.

After experiencing the parting with Rongrong, she has recovered her mentality, and is now immersed in the joy of her appearance about to be restored, there is no woman who does not care about her appearance, the same is true for female ghosts, even fairies are not exempt from vulgarity, since becoming immortals, I have not seen any ugly fairies.

Even the most indifferent Nine Heavens Xuannu will always be pretty. Just like the snow lotus that blooms in winter, it is cold and arrogant and noble.

The old scalper is tirelessly pulling the cart, the pace is slow, it is really too old, the old one will not be able to walk. But it has never been playful, and even when it is tired, it will do its own work with its head bored, and it has never even taken the initiative to beg for food.

I don't deliberately look up how many days an old scalper can live, I rarely check how long a life can live. The lifespan of any life is not predetermined in advance.

What they do in their lives will have an impact on how long they live. All the underworld can do is to take them to the world after death with the guidance of the Book of Life and Death when their lives are nearing the end.

Daji and I first stopped in Huainan. The king of Huainan is called Liu Chang, the seventh son of Liu Bang, the younger brother of Liu Ying and Liu Heng, and his biological mother is Zhao Ji, who was originally the concubine of Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao.

Later, Guan Gao designed to assassinate Liu Bang, Zhang Ao and Zhao Ji were implicated and imprisoned, and Zhao Ji committed suicide after giving birth to Liu Chang. Liu Chang was handed over by Liu Bang to Lu Pheasant to raise him, and Lu Pheasant regarded him as his own.

After Liu Bang pacified Yingbu, he sealed Liu Chang in Huainan. If many years have passed now, after Liu Heng succeeded to the throne, he treated the princes and kings well, including Liu Chang, the king of Huainan.

Liu Chang was a very proud man, so proud that he was no longer willing to ride in a carriage with five horses, and his carriage was very gorgeous, with six pure black horses and beautiful moire carved on the carriage.

It was the most luxurious carriage I had ever seen in the world, and Daji and I were in a tavern in Shouchun, watching the departing convoy, with the frame of the cattle farm in the middle of the procession, and the guards in armor and halberds in front and behind.

The people in the tavern were chatting about the king of Huainan.

Daji frowned and asked me: "According to the Zhou etiquette formulated by Ji Dan, the Son of Heaven drives six, the princes drive five, the Qing drives four, the doctor is three, the scholar is two, and the Shuren is one. King Huainan, this is a rite of passage, right?"

I smiled and said, "It's indeed a rite, but it's all trivial things in the mortal world, so why should you care?"

Daji said: "I can't bear to see the war in the world break out again. ”

"You're just too kind-hearted, so you can't forget your feelings for a long time. ”

Daji drank silently and stopped talking.

Forget your feelings and be public, forget your feelings, not be moved by emotions, not disturbed by emotions, the most selfish of heaven, the most public of use, the root of life of the dead, the root of death of the living, the saint is not moved by emotion.

The so-called forgetfulness does not only refer to the love of men and women, but all the emotions in the world. Heaven and earth are fair, only forgetfulness can be close to heaven and reason, and only selflessness can be in charge of heaven and earth. Whether it is the heavenly realm or the earthly realm, they must be more fair than others, just because the gods are forgetful, and mortals are affectionate.

Although Daji has been dead for more than 800 years, she has never detached herself from a person's emotions and has never understood the essence of an immortal. So he can't be an immortal, and he is just a weak ghost and god until now. While this isn't a good thing, it's not a bad thing either.

There is a reason for existence, and there is no distinction between good and bad. It's not a blessing to be able to keep the human part with a ghost who has been dead for so long, and it's always better to be a human than a ghost, at least how happy people are compared to ghosts.

The shopkeeper brought another jar of wine and asked, "Are you two outsiders?"

I said, "We are from Chang'an, and we want to visit the scenery in Huainan, but I don't know where to go?"

The boss sighed and said, "What kind of scenery are you going to see at this time! If you can go, let's go quickly! I'm afraid that I won't be able to leave when it's late." ”

Daji asked suspiciously, "Why did the boss say that?"

The boss lowered his head and said in a low voice: "I have a nephew who works as a guard in the Huainan Palace, and he came back last night and said that the Huainan Kingdom is going to be in chaos, and the prince has prepared a lot of weapons and armor in the palace, I'm afraid it will be..."

Speaking of this, he paused, raised his hand and pointed to the sky, and then continued: "I'm afraid that this day is going to change!"

Daji said: "Thank you boss, since there will be chaos in Huainan Kingdom, why don't you go out and take refuge for a while." ”

The boss shook his head and sighed: "My family business in this life is here, I can't bear it!"

After that, he turned around and went back to other things.

Daji wondered, "Why did he take the risk to guard the family business?"

I said: "When you were in the world, you were the young lady of the Hou family, so naturally you don't know the suffering of the small people. People like shopkeepers have no livelihood if they don't have a family business. If you don't have a livelihood, you won't still starve to death, rather than this, it's better to take the risk of guarding your family business, at least you won't be a starving ghost. ”

Daji nodded, and said sadly, "People are not as good as ghosts!"

I didn't reply, just looked out the window. That was the direction of the Huainan Palace.

Power, status. What is avoided in the heavenly realm and the earthly realm, but in the human world, everyone yearns for it.

King Huainan has built the emperor's seat in his palace, and the six seals of the Son of Heaven are privately carved on the wide table. He couldn't wait to taste what it was like to be an emperor.

He will be the envoy of the Xiongnu and Minyue.

Liu Chang knelt behind the desk and said to the two envoys in the audience: "This king has scheduled to start troops on the third day of the next month, and I also ask the two envoys to return to Da Danyu and the king of Minyue, and help each other at that time!"

The Xiongnu envoy said: "The king can rest assured, I have gathered 50,000 troops, and I will only wait for the king to raise troops, and then go south to help." ”

The Minyue envoy also said: "The king of my family also gathered 80,000 soldiers, and waited for the king, just waiting for the king to make a move." ”

Liu Chang laughed and said: "In this way, I am not afraid that I will not be able to conquer Chang'an and capture Liu Heng alive!"

The Minyue envoy said: "On the day of the king's success, don't forget to promise me two things." ”

Liu Changdao: "Rest assured, the day of success is the time when the widow returns." He will definitely send troops to help the king of Minyue unify Sanyue, marry the princess of the clan to Da Danyu, and open the border market. ”

Before I could continue watching, Daji had already interrupted my gaze and said, "What are you looking at?"

I said, "I'm watching a farce." ”

Daji smiled and asked, "I don't know what kind of farce makes the king so fascinated." ”

I laughed and said, "It's just a clown jumping off the beam, just jumping around!"

Just when Liu Chang and the two envoys were having a banquet, a fast horse had already left Shouchun and rushed towards Chang'an.

If the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, if he is not secret, he will lose his body, and if he is not secret, he will not succeed.

A major event like a rebellion can be seen by a guard, and it is not surprising that someone has reported to Chang'an. The minister may not lose his life, but the king will inevitably lose his life, and the gentleman among them does not know who it will be.

I smiled and said to Daji, "Let's go, come with me to see the local villagers." ”

Daji smiled and responded, called the boss, and paid for the drink.

The people of Huainan are really different from the people near Chang'an. Thin bodies, shabby clothes, and crowds of beggars rushed up.

Daji couldn't bear to see these miserable people, so she took out the stolen money and distributed it to the beggars, but this attracted more beggars.

A little girl who was four or five years old took a broken bowl, hugged her thigh, and begged: "Sister, you can give me some charity, let me save my mother, if I don't catch the medicine, Huahua's mother will die."

Daji picked up the little girl lovingly, and did not dislike her for being dirty, and asked, "Your name is Huahua, what's wrong with your mother?"

Huahua cried: "My mother is sick, and the medical worker said that if you don't catch the medicine, you won't be able to live." ”

Daji looked at me pitifully, and I knew that she was asking me what I meant, and that the laws of the underworld do not allow interference in the life and death of the human world.

I pinched my fingers and calculated, and said, "This is the fate between her and you, let's go and have a look." ”

Daji smiled and said to Huahua: "Is it okay to take my sister to see your mother?"

Huahua cried and laughed, got down from Daji's arms, lay on the ground and kept kowtowing, and said, "Thank you, sister, thank you, Huahua makes cows and horses for my sister!"

Daji hurriedly helped her up and said, "No need to do this, take my sister with you." ”

Huahua's home is in a dilapidated temple outside the city, and the statue of the god is so broken that he can't see his face clearly, and he can't tell which god it is. There were many beggars huddled in the temple, most of them sick.

Huahua's mother knelt beside the statue and silently begged for something.

I looked at it, and the idol did not fluctuate in the slightest, and there was no divinity at all. This means that the gods who are worshiped have abandoned this place and no longer enjoy the offerings here.

Flowey rushed over and lifted her mother up. The little man didn't have much strength, and it was the beggars around her who helped her mother up from the ground. There are a lot of female beggars and little beggars in this temple. The rebellion of the previous king of Huainan, Yingbu, greatly damaged the vitality of Huainan Kingdom. This time, Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, did not put much thought into governing the country, but looted wealth and hoarded armaments. These people, who have suffered because of him, will settle accounts with him for cause and effect. The previous Yingbu is still in hell now, and this Liu Chang is not much better.

Flowey's mother has not yet reached the number of deaths, that is, before it is time to die, this woman who has tasted all the misery will continue to suffer in the world.

She may not feel bitter, and Mrs. Su did not feel bitter when she was displaced with Rong Rong. The affection between mother and daughter can always transcend the tribulations of reality, turning the bitterness of those lives into a sweetness that is incomprehensible to others.

Daji asked Huahua to invite medical workers and bought a lot of herbs, except for Huahua's mother, all the beggars who were infected with diseases in this temple were also diagnosed. The money he brought with him was not much left in Daji's good deeds this time.

Daji and I have become paupers, but we have reaped the gratitude of these beggars.

Although I am the Yan Jun of the underworld, I have never been surrounded by so many people and kowtowed. There is no hierarchical difference between the heavenly realm and the underworld, all immortals and all ghosts are equal, the Emperor of Heaven is not more noble than a wandering spirit, and the wandering soul does not need to do any etiquette to see the Emperor of Heaven. Except for those who are obsessed and take the initiative to bow in front of the hall, the other gods and ghosts are at most bent down to worship to show their respect for these selfless immortals.

Daji has never experienced such a thing, she was a young lady of the Hou Mansion when she was alive, but she never let the servants of the family kneel. The people of the Shang and Zhou dynasties respected each other more than they do now, even if Ji Dan set the difference between the people of the country and the savages, the savages saw the king, and they just bowed and saluted.

Daji pulled me out, very tight, very fast, very far. Until I turned back, I couldn't see the dilapidated temple.

Daji let go of my hand and smiled from the bottom of her heart: "Fortunately, I ran fast, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out!"

I also smiled and said, "After being Yan Jun for more than 3,000 years, it's the first time that so many people have given me a big gift." ”

Daji smiled and asked, "Is Yan Jun so statusless?"

I said, "Of course Yan Jun has status, everywhere you go, there are ghosts calling you your lord, my lord!

Daji laughed: "Yes! Yes! Yes!

The two of us laughed at each other for a long time.

Da Jicai said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, I... I accidentally spent almost all the money......"

I spread my hands and said, "Then I have to sleep in the open air! I don't know how the flavor of this place is, whether it tastes good or not!"

Daji smiled and hit me, and I smiled and dodged.

There is yin and yang in things, there is no absolute sorrow, and there is no ultimate joy. Joy and sorrow are always intermingled and coexisting with each other in the life of a mortal.

It is not a conclusive conclusion that there is no sorrow and no joy in the immortals, although the immortals are detached, they are also a kind of life, not dead things, how can they really be without sorrow and joy. It's just that I look down on all kinds of time, and I can't afford to be sad and happy.

Now let go of your heart and feel the emotions of the world, in fact, it is not too different from mortals.