The breeze blows slowly across the mountain peaks, in a deep mountain and old forest, there is a 13-year-old boy who follows an old man with a basket on his back through the vast mountain forest, the young man is delicate, the old man is fairy, the young man is very lively, the old man looks left and right, seems to be really looking for something.

"Grandpa, grandpa, come on, there's a Ganoderma lucidum here?" shouted the child.

"Come on, come on. "The old man rushed to hear the news.

Seeing the things in the boy's hand, the grandfather smiled and said, "What kind of lingzhi is this, this is a long deformed mushroom, take it off and eat it." The young man was a little disappointed, and asked in a low voice, "Grandpa, what is Lingzhi like?" Grandpa smiled and said, "Lingzhi is seven or seven high, long and on the rock, there are markings on the rhizome, dazzling, among which the meat mushroom is the most precious, legend has it that this is the Rui beast unicorn obsolete some grass contaminated with the auspicious breath of the unicorn, and thus grew into Lingzhi! There are also rumors that there are immortal medicines in this world, mortals can fly immortals in the day after eating, and even worse, they can live dead, flesh and bones, but these are all rumors, whether there are any, no one knows!" Grandpa talked endlessly, and the boy was fascinated by it.

After a while, the young man said, "When I grow up, I will go far, far away, and pick up immortal medicine for you to eat every day, so that you can become an old immortal." ”

The old man used to be a teacher, teaching knowledge to the children of poor families in ten miles and eight towns, never asking for compensation, and he could be regarded as accumulating some merits.

Even if the old man later made a living by collecting medicine, if he met someone who couldn't afford to pay, he would give it to him for free, and his words were "do good deeds".

The old man also often taught the young man to act, to be a good person, to distinguish between right and wrong, and to braided the true and false mysteries.

It is rumored that there are immortals in the world, high above, the world is turned upside down when you raise your hand, and the mountains and rivers collapse, but for mortals, maybe the immortal who is high above is just a yearning after all, maybe it is difficult for immortals to understand ordinary things, but how can mortals know the suffering of immortals!

Fierce domain, the extreme east of Dongzhou, the nameless city, the north trail, the old man and the young man walking on the road.

"Grandpa, I want to be like you in the future, respected" The boy was very happy.

The old man smiled happily and said, "Son, do you know why I am respected?"

"Because grandpa did a good deed?" the boy wondered. “

That's because I have done good deeds that are useful to others, and I naturally have my own measure of good and evil, son, do you know what good and evil are?"

The boy replied, "Doing things that are useful to others, like grandpa, is a good deed, and doing things that are harmful to others is a bad thing," the old man asked

The young man replied, "Being worthy of your heart is good," and the old man showed a satisfied look on his face.

"Children, you must know that each of us has that scale in our hearts about good and evil, and everyone has everyone's understanding of this good and evil, the world has never been absolutely good, nor is there absolute evil, good and evil lie in people's hearts!"

An old man and a young man walk in the mountains like this, it looks so harmonious, maybe for mortals, dozens of years is a lifetime, most people in the world want to live forever, so they pin their hopes on the ethereal "immortals", but the so-called immortals, how can they put the "ants" in their eyes?

Walking and walking, perhaps the old man felt tired, so he put down the medicine basket, sat on the big stone by the side of the road to rest, looked at the distance for a while, and silently recited something in his mouth for a while, and looked at the young man for a while, not knowing what he was thinking.

The boy also rested for a while and then got up and ran to play somewhere else, this age is the age of activity, and the boy is no exception, one moment climbed to the fruit tree next to him, and then found a stream, pulled up his trouser leg and jumped down to look very lively.

After a while, the boy seemed to remember something, and ran out of the river, and ran to sit down beside his grandfather.

"Grandpa, when I came out in the morning, Aunt Chen said that Grandpa must come to her house in the evening," the young man said.

The old man seemed to think of something, his face changed slightly, and he quickly returned to normal. He turned his head to the boy and said, "I'll go after dinner."

Although the old man is old, his body is very strong, and the mountain road of more than 20 miles has come to an end in less than two hours, and he can already see the tall city gate and the tall soldiers on the city wall in the distance.

When he got home, the old man put the medicinal herbs on the medicine shelf to dry, and as soon as he put them away, he heard the young man's voice, "Grandpa, it's time to eat, today I made your favorite braised rabbit meat, come and eat!"

After a while, the old man walked to the table to eat, but somehow, tears flowed from the old man's eyes, he looked at the young man, and said slowly, "Mo Chu! You must be strong, you know? No matter what difficulties you encounter, don't back down, you know?"

Mo Chu nodded obediently, although he didn't understand what his grandfather said, he would definitely listen to his grandfather's words.

For Mo Chu, since he can remember, he has only one relative, and as for his parents, every time Mo Chu asks his grandfather, "Who are my parents, why do other children have parents, but I don't?"

Grandpa's answer will always be "You will know in the future!" As he grew older, Mo Chu never asked this question, he knew that his grandfather would tell him when he grew up.

Time passed, the old man went to the appointment, and the silence of the night made people feel depressed.

"It's all here," said a middle-aged man in the room dressed in grace and luxury.

At this time, the room was already full of people, rich and rich, but all of them had serious expressions.

"Yes, sir. I don't know who said it, but the people in the room were full of respect when they mentioned it.

After a while, there was a knock at the door, and everyone looked towards the door. The old man with an immortal wind bone slowly walked in and sat on the main seat, it was the old man who collected medicine.

"Do you really want to do this?" or the middle-aged man who spoke first," the old man nodded slowly.

"Isn't this too cruel, after all, ......" Aunt Chen stopped talking.

I don't know how long it took for the sound in the room to fade away.

"Are you so confident? It does buy you a lot of time, but ... ”

"Because it's him, and since he can give birth to that thing, then that's his fate,"

"We'll take care of him for the rest of the years. ”

The old man slowly got up and left, and after the old man left, the expressions on everyone's faces were full of seriousness.

"Because it's him, I have faith in him. The old man said again.

"And don't let Mo Chu know about tonight's events. ”

Everyone nodded in acknowledgement.

The old man returned to the house, Mo Chu had already fallen asleep at this time, the old man walked in gently, looked at Mo Chu quietly, and stroked Mo Chu's cheek with his hand, "I'm sorry for you." The old man got up and went back to rest.

Speechless all night

The morning air was as fresh as ever, the old man got up very early, and after a while, Mo Chu also got up, sleepy-eyed.

Seeing Mo Chu get up, the old man looked at Mo Chu and said, "I won't go to collect medicine today, grandpa will give you something"

After that, he took out a wooden box from under the bed, handed it to Mo Chu, and then said, "Promise grandpa, open it at the age of 18"

Mo Chu was puzzled, "Why do you want to be 18 years old?" and his voice was full of doubts.

The old man said, "You will naturally know when you open it" Somehow the voice was full of sadness, Mo Chu nodded, because he knew that it was useless to ask if grandpa didn't want to say.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you today, are you sick?" Mo Chu asked.

The old man nodded, "I caught a cold last night, don't worry about me." ”

Then Grandpa took out a few books from the middle bookshelf that were older than Mo Chu, including pharmacopoeia, swordsmanship, and books on the way of life, as well as some other books, but most of the words on them were incomprehensible.

"Grandpa, in these books, except for pharmacopoeia, martial arts, and humanitarian books, I can't understand the others!"

The old man said, "You will understand it in the future, and when you can understand these books, you will have to do more good deeds!"

"Do you want to do more good deeds if you understand it?" the old man nodded, "You will know the reason for this later."

On this day, the old man told Mo Chu that there are many, many things, some things Mo Chu can understand, but there are some things that Mo Chu can't understand. , Grandpa is still the same sentence, you will understand it later.

Time passed, the sun set, there was no moon in the sky tonight, not even a few stars could be seen, and the air was full of solemn atmosphere.

With a bang, the door of the courtyard was smashed open by a group of people, Mo Chu woke up, and then ran to the courtyard, and the grandfather also ran out, and saw a group of masked people rushing in, surrounding the grandfather and grandson

"Old fellow, I've finally found you, where are the things handed over," the masked man at the head began.

"I don't know what you're talking about, it's just the two of us here, please let us two go!" the old man begged bitterly.

"No, did you say no, no, no, search for me" Then I saw several people rushing into the room, and then there was the sound of smashing things, and Mo Chu was tightly held in his arms by his grandfather.

"Didn't find it" Several men in black came back to their lives.

"Hmph, no, no, no, no" Since I can't find it here, but you old guy can't get out of it, and besides, we have to go back to restore our lives," the man at the head said to the old man. Then he walked in front of the old man.

Took out the steel knife.

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