Chapter 294: Fate (I)
Meng Hangju's words, everyone present sounded inexplicable.
Only that Jin Yun'er looked up at Meng Hangju after hearing the words, the light in her eyes flickered and her body trembled slightly.
"Master......" she said, but when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed them back, with a posture of wanting to say and stopping. At the same time, the expression on her face also became a little complicated, surprise, joy, sadness, reluctance, all kinds of emotions flashed on Jin Yun'er's face one by one at that moment, and then intertwined.
Eventually, those expressions suddenly dissipated, and a look of relief crept up her brow.
When she looked at Meng Hangju again, a quiet smile hung on the corner of her mouth.
She whispered, "Master......"
Yun'er was content. ”
These short five words fell, Meng Hangju also smiled slightly, he didn't say more, just nodded lightly, and then a hand suddenly stretched out forward, in Ningxiao City, thousands of miles away from here, Xu Yue, who was taking Wei Jinxiu for a walk, suddenly trembled, and the dust-cutting sword behind her seemed to have received some inspiration, and the sword body trembled suddenly. Then before Xu Yue could react, the divine sword suddenly broke out of its body, flew into the distance, and rushed straight to the Yanglong City at the bottom of the Weishui.
As a result, a golden light passed through the sky above Ningzhou like a meteor and fell straight into Yanglong City.
The whole process was less than ten breaths, and the golden divine sword fell into Meng Hangju's hand.
Meng Hangju, who was holding the divine sword, looked at Jin Yun'er again, and the two looked at each other, and they both read something from each other's eyes that others could not read.
It's a thing that gives courage and allows you to move forward even in the darkest of long nights.
The Dust Slashing Divine Sword was raised high by Meng Hangju, and slowly fell towards the golden thread that connected him and Jin Yun'er.
That was his last cause and effect, and it was also his last concern as a human being.
The blade slowly fell, and many thoughts flashed through Meng Hangju's mind at that time.
......
He has his own father and mother.
A country couple who couldn't be more ordinary.
His father and mother treated him very well, as the only son in the family, the old couple almost responded to his requirements within their ability.
But Meng Hangju was not happy, he always felt that the love of his parents in front of him and the playfulness of his playmates in the village were not what he wanted, and he wanted to know what all this was.
So he found the most learned gentleman in the village, and he asked him how long the sun and the moon were, how wide the heavens and the earth were, and where all things went.
The three questions made the gentleman who had read the book for thirty years scratch his ears and scratched his cheeks, and he couldn't understand it, and finally he could only throw a sentence to Meng Hangju, and the book had its own answer.
So Meng Hangju decided to study.
These words reached the ears of his father and mother, making the country couple happy and sad.
For these ordinary people, if they want to get ahead, they can only study and practice martial arts. Compared with martial arts, the amount of money needed to study is relatively small, but it is only relative.
Whether it is the tuition fees in the private school or the money to buy various ancient books, it is a big burden for this ordinary family, but Meng Xuanju's parents gritted their teeth and agreed to their children's request - it is nothing more than to find an extra livelihood, work a few more hours, sleep less, and eat less.
The couple made up their minds and began to work hard to fulfill the responsibilities of a parent.
In addition to taking care of their own farmland, their father also worked as a tenant for three families at the same time, and their mother not only helped take care of the farmland, but also took over the work of a laundry outside.
The couple worked hard to give their son a good Wei Lai. Meng Hangju did not disappoint them, Meng Hangju locked himself in the house every day from that day, read and read, he was like a traveler who had been walking in the desert for a long time, and when he saw the sweet spring, he forgot to drink.
He tirelessly flipped through every book he could see, and most of the money his parents earned was spent on books. His home was soon filled with books from all over the world, and his deeds were soon known, someone came to the door, and the homework of the Meng Hanging Pot was examined, no matter the other party asked the Shenmen, as long as it was the question that Meng Hanging Pot had seen in the book, he answered it fluently. The man was very satisfied with Meng Hangju's talent, and bluntly said that he would accept Meng Hangju as a disciple.
The parents on the side were overjoyed when they heard this, they knew that this person was from the Qingying Academy.
At that time, the Qingying Academy Palace was at its peak in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was on an equal footing with the Boundless Academy, and to be able to enter this place, for ordinary people like them, it was a matter of the carp jumping over the dragon gate and ascending to the sky in one step.
When the two parents were overjoyed and thought that the bitterness had finally come to an end, Meng Hangju shook his head and said, "You have to answer me three questions before I can go with you." ”
The old man who came to assess Meng Hangju was stunned when he heard this, but he was interested-he had assessed many children from poor families, many of whom were talented, but most of them couldn't hide their joy after being recognized by the Qingying Academy, but the kid in front of him couldn't help but be a little surprised when he wanted to ask him a question, so he readily agreed.
So the three questions that had stumped Mr. Mura blurted out again: How long does the sun and the moon last, how wide is the heaven and the earth, and where do all things go?
This involved almost the problem of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, which made the old man stunned for a moment, and he didn't know how to answer, so he could only shake his head and confess with a wry smile.
Meng Xuanju frowned at that time and said, "Since you can't teach me, then I can't go with you." ”
The old man saw the situation of Meng Hangju in his eyes, and felt that the other party's attitude did not look like a pretentious gesture to study.
Naturally, he would not let go of such a good seedling, so he said: "I can't give you an answer, not because I can't teach you, but this question, no one in the world can give you an answer, this is a question that has no answer." I can't teach you, and no one in the whole north can teach you. ”
"But you can find this answer yourself, the Qingying Academy Palace has a million books, and there is no place in the entire northern realm where there are more books than here, only here, you can realize your answer. ”
The old man's words struck Meng Hangju's mind, he hesitated for a moment, then nodded, and said, "Okay! Then I'll go with you!"
That year, Meng Hangju was only nine years old.
......
The days in the Qingming School Palace were very comfortable for Meng Hangju.
He didn't have to worry about life, and he didn't have to think about the best deal for him to buy the book with the rest of the money. The old man didn't lie to him, there was a huge collection of books in the Qingying Academy, and Meng Hangju had endless books, and at the same time, he didn't have to worry about any foreign objects. Such days lasted until Meng Hangju was twenty-five years old.
When the news of his parents' death came, Meng Xuanju left the Qingming School Palace for the first time to go home for the funeral, and seven days later, he returned to the school palace and locked himself in the mountain gate.
The same family thought that he was grieving the death of his parents, but only Meng Hangju knew that he was confused.
In many of the books he has read, filial piety and benevolence have been mentioned more than once. Meng Hangju also believed in these things, but after receiving the news of his parents' deaths, when he returned home and saw their graves, Meng Hangju never felt the slightest sadness.
He thought about it carefully, his parents were not bad to him, and even paid more for him than ordinary parents, but he was unwavering about their deaths.
He felt that this was wrong, but there was no way to change his mind.
It's as if he came into this world for another purpose, and nothing else matters.
......
Time continued to flow, and Meng Hangju gradually got to know many people, but it was difficult for Meng Hangju to have too many feelings with them. Intersecting with them, more often than not, is just to discuss some obscure articles in the book and exchange reading experiences.
It wasn't until he was thirty-six years old that he met a young girl when he was ordered to go out to catch a demon in southern Xinjiang.
When he met her, her parents had been killed by the demon, and she had been cornered by the demon.
Meng Hangju came to the girl like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and slapped the evil demon into a meatloaf with one hand.
The Qingying Academy has always been for the purpose of benefiting the world, paying attention to the application of learning, and the disciples in the sect will be assigned to go down the mountain to do things every time they give a period of time according to their status, such as suppressing evil spirits, and giving righteous lectures to the people.
But Meng Hangju was not interested in these things, and only felt that it was a waste of his time to study.
After eliminating the evil demon with one palm, Meng Hang was about to leave without looking back.
But just as he stepped away, a hand suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes, Meng Hangju was stunned, and looked down to see the girl who was saved by him, who was staring at him with wide eyes at the moment, staring straight at him.
Meng Hangju didn't have the heart to entangle with a girl, he walked away, but the girl followed all the way.
Meng Hangju was a little bored, but he didn't intend to kill, but he didn't like to be followed like this, so he simply urged the method to perform his body and leave, but the girl didn't know where she heard that Meng Hangju was a person from the Qingying Academy.
A girl who has no cultivation at all, and did not retreat as Meng Hangju imagined, she just trekked all the way through the mountains and rivers, and three months after Meng Hangju first returned to the Qingming Palace, she walked alone in front of the mountain gate of the Qingming Palace and knocked on the palace door of the Palace.
Meng Hangju still remembers that when he was notified by his master to come to the Dragon Shang Hall that day and saw the girl who was ragged and had messy hair, but whose eyes were still as bright as before, his heart, which had always been as calm as stagnant water, suddenly trembled vigorously at that moment......
It wasn't until a long, long time later that Meng Hangju was sure of the feeling that rose in his heart that day.
It's called distress.