Eighteen years ago, there was a husband and wife living in Chegu Guanguan, the man was named Ji Le, and the woman was named Zhang Ying.

Ji Le's father, Ji Yifan, had a close friend named Zhang Wen in his early years, Zhang Wen lived in Xiangyang City, which is a prefecture-level city, and Duyan City is also under its jurisdiction.

Zhang Wen can be said to be a city man, his family background is also good, he is a feng shui master, specializing in feng shui for rich and noble families. In those days, as long as something bad happened in the home, people would think that the feng shui at home was not good, and invite a feng shui master to change the layout of the home.

Later, the state vigorously advocated "anti-feudalism and anti-superstition", and Zhang Wen was regarded as a "person who hinders social development". He left Xiangyang City with his wife and three-year-old daughter Zhang Ying and lived in seclusion in the countryside, and the village where he lived in seclusion was Jinniu Village.

Zhang Wen first entered the Chegu Temple and Ji Yifan had a very happy conversation, the two chatted about the "Book of Changes" for a whole day, Ji Yifan took the Book of Changes as the basis to read the number of fortunes, and Zhang Wen took the Book of Changes as the basis for measuring Feng Shui.

The two walk different paths, but the essence is the same, they cherish each other heroically, and they hate to see each other late.

Later, Zhang Wen went to Cheguguan every day to discuss with Ji Yifan. Ji Le was only four years old, and when the elders were chatting, he was playing with Zhang Ying. The two fathers saw that the children were able to play together, and their hearts moved, and they decided to marry a baby.

Ji Le and Zhang Ying lived together when they were young, they were not sent to school, and at that time, the college entrance examination had just been restored, and there were no schools in the countryside. The two learned their respective family skills in this Taoist temple, Ji Le learned acupuncture, and Zhang Ying learned feng shui.

As the days passed, Ji Le and Zhang Ying's mother also became close friends, they were both seekers, although they lived a little poorer, they all knew how to be happy.

Ji Le and Zhang Ying were married in the village when they were eighteen years old, and they did not get a license at that time, because they were not yet the legal age of marriage under the new marriage law.

On the day of the wedding, Zhang Ying's aunt Zhang Mingyue also rushed back.

Zhang Mingyue is also a feng shui master, she is an unmarried faction, and she only seeks the Tao. At the beginning, Zhang Wen chose to live in the countryside, and Zhang Mingyue was smuggled to the United States by boat.

At that time, divination was prevalent in the United States, and Zhang Mingyue also knew how to count, and when she arrived in the United States, she used three bronze coins to tell fortunes for others, and she even mixed up some fame. Later, with the help of nobles, she got a green card and lived a prosperous life.

Zhang Mingyue wanted to take her niece's family to live in the United States, but Ji Yifan said that people seeking the Tao should not be greedy for wealth and nobility, not to mention, if the roots are in the nine shades, people should be in the nine shades, otherwise, no matter how lush the branches and leaves are, what is the use of the roots when they are gone.

Zhang Wen also has the same attitude, he wants to leave the family heirloom in Jiuyou, the ancestor of the Zhang family is said to be Zhang Ling, the founder of the Heavenly Master Dao, that is, the descendant called Zhang Tianshi. Zhang Wen was born with a mission, and he wanted to inherit this only feng shui technique in Jiuyou.

Zhang Mingyue said that she couldn't help these two people, so she had to return to the United States alone.

After Ji Le and Zhang Ying's wedding, Zhang Ying wanted to travel, so Ji Le took the only savings in the family to accompany Zhang Ying out of the house.

At that time, there were no telephones in Jinniu Village, and every time they went to a city, they would write letters to their homes, but they could not receive letters from home because they did not have a fixed address outside.

Half a year later, Ji Le spent all his savings, and the two returned to the village, but the scene in the village changed greatly.

In the past six months, there was an outbreak of infectious diseases in Jinniu Village, and many villagers were infected with tuberculosis, which was almost incurable at that time.

The villagers went to Cheguguan to pray, and Ji Yifan and Zhang Wen also went around collecting herbs and distributing them to the villagers.

Ji Yifan was able to stabilize the villagers' condition with the mist of Chinese herbal medicine, but the herbs he collected were not enough to be distributed from door to door.

In order to save resources and prevent infection, Ji Yifan and the village chief gathered all the sick villagers in the Taoist temple, prepared traditional Chinese medicine every day, and then added appropriate water, which was heated to produce a mist, which could attack tuberculosis after being inhaled. During those days, clouds and mist rose all day long.

There seems to be a god blessing in the Taoist temple, and no villager in it has died, and the villagers' illness has been relieved, but the herbs in the Taoist temple are about to run out. Ji Yifan and Zhang Wen decided to go to the traditional Chinese hospitals in Duyan City to buy some herbs and come back, the villagers donated one after another, and the four of them scraped together enough money and went to the city non-stop.

Originally, they said that they would go and return on the same day, but they went for two days and did not come back, and some people in the village suspected that they had run away with the money, but they immediately felt that it was unlikely, not to mention that the money was not much, and with years of understanding, these two families were great good people, and it was impossible for them to act like this.

The village chief was afraid that they would encounter an accident, so he arranged for a few young and strong men in the village to go out to find them. As a result, not long after the boys left the village, they found that a section of the national highway was blocked by a landslide. It was summer, during the rainy season, and this section of the road was built next to the mountain, which was soaked by rain, and the rock and soil were loosened, and a large piece of "meat" fell down, piling up a hill on the road.

The city highway bureau arranged for a rescue team to clear the rocks, and it is said that they found a sack of Chinese herbs in the landslide. When the young man in the village heard this, he felt bad in his heart, and hurriedly went to look at the sack.

The herbs in the sack turned out to be herbs for tuberculosis, and they began to panic, and one of them returned to the village to tell the village chief, and the other people helped to clear the rocks together.

It didn't take long for almost all the villagers of Jinniu Village to come, and as long as they could still do farm work, they all carried shovels and joined the team to clean up the rocks.

Hundreds of people dug from morning to night, and when they were hungry, they sat on the side of the road to eat something, no one shouted tired, no one shouted sleepy, everyone was heavy in their hearts, and there was always an ominous premonition.

In the wee hours of the morning, the searchlights of the rescue team revealed a wooden cart, which had been crushed into bed boards, and the exposed corner was still stained with a trace of blood.

Everyone was taken aback, and hurriedly and carefully dug up the area of the board car.

An hour passed, everyone at the scene put down their tools, and the villagers couldn't help crying as they looked at the scene on the cart.

On the cart were four flattened corpses that could not be seen in human form, and their clothes were all covered with dust, but the villagers could still recognize these four people as Ji Yifan and Zhang Wen.

They were each guarding a sack containing Chinese herbs bought for the village, and although the sacks were broken, most of them were still uncontaminated, only stained with blood.

The villagers carried the four of them back to the temple, and no one spoke along the way, except for the sound of footsteps except for soft crying, and no one seemed to want to wake the four people.

The village chief made the decision and buried the four people at the foot of the Xuanyuan Hall and the statue of the Yellow Emperor. Every time a villager worships the Yellow Emperor, they also worship these four people together.

After the sick villagers were treated by the nebulization of the bloody herbs, their condition improved greatly, and when the herbs were used up, everyone was cured, the climate became cooler, and no more cases were found in the village.

These recovered villagers almost every day to worship in the Xuanyuan Temple, the village chief was in a heavy mood, feeling ashamed of the two families, he resigned from his position, opened a small store at the door of the Taoist temple, and wanted to accompany the four people who lost their lives for the villagers.

Since then, people have called him "Old Village Chief" or "Old Yellow Head".

When Ji Le and Zhang Ying returned, the villagers couldn't bear to tell them the truth. In the end, it was the old yellow head who endured the grief in his heart and told what happened.

Although Ji Le and Zhang Ying are sad in their hearts, they have not yet reached the point of grief, the two have been around since elementary school, and there are relatives around them who continue to pass away, although they are young, but life and death, they see it lightly than ordinary people.

Die for the common people, and enjoy bliss after death, Ji Le and Zhang Ying both believe that when their parents die, they must go to Elysium.

After three years of filial piety, the two received a marriage certificate. Zhang Ying said that she wanted to leave the village and go outside, but Ji Le said that her parents were here, and her son was not far away.

The parents of the two are obviously gone, but Zhang Ying understands that the parents Ji Le said refer to the relatives buried in this Taoist temple, and their last wishes are still there. Zhang Ying also respects Ji Le as a person who abides by filial piety.

At the end of this year, Zhang Mingyue came to the Taoist temple again, it was Christmas Eve, and Americans wanted to "celebrate the New Year", and they all had a long holiday. Zhang Mingyue learned that her brother had passed away, she felt infinite regret in her heart, she wanted to take Zhang Ying to the United States, but Zhang Ying couldn't let go of Ji Le. Lao Huangtou installed a phone in the commissary, and Zhang Mingyue wrote down the number when he left.

In the next few years, Zhang Mingyue often called Zhang Ying, and Zhang Ying's heart had already flown to the United States, she knew that her aunt was doing well in the United States, and she longed for the life described by her aunt. But Ji Lesheng refused to go to the United States, refused to leave his Taoist temple, and he seemed to have a mission, but he didn't know what this mission was, until Ji Tianci appeared later......

Zhang Ying planned to leave the Nine Shadows Kingdom after giving birth to a child for the Ji family, but after many years, she never conceived a child.

The two have been married for ten years since the wedding, and Ji Le is also twenty-eight. This winter, Zhang Mingyue returned to the Nine Shadows Country again, Zhang Ying couldn't wait, she was also nearly thirty years old, and if she didn't go out, she would never be able to go out again.

She left a note and went to Wuyang City, Zhouhui, with her aunt, where she stayed for a week, and her aunt helped her apply for a passport and visa. It seems that Zhang Mingyue knows a few big people in the United States, otherwise the visa would not have been processed so quickly, let alone in that era.

Zhang Ying did not hesitate, and went directly to the United States by plane with her aunt, leaving Ji Le alone to guard the Taoist temple.

As soon as he arrived in the United States, Zhang Ying called Ji Le, told him that it was very good here, and asked him to come over, but Ji Le was stubborn like a stone and couldn't let go of the Taoist temple.

Ji Le didn't hate Zhang Ying, but was happy for Zhang Ying, cultivators pay attention to nature, since Zhang Ying wants to go out, it is against nature to bind her by herself, it is better to let her go.

It's just that I am reluctant to feel uncomfortable in my heart, and when I think of her every day, I can only comfort myself: "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, let it go." ”

Zhang Ying and Ji Le were afraid that they wouldn't be able to let go of each other, and they remembered the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, so they agreed to only talk on the phone once a year, so as not to have too many thoughts on weekdays.

Later, Ji Le felt that he had nothing left, only a TV set that often floated "snowflakes" to accompany him, so he simply gave himself a road name "Qingfeng", which means breeze on both sleeves.

Every year, this call is made by Zhang Ying, because the transatlantic phone bill is too expensive for Ji Le to afford. They will talk about what happened in the past year on the phone, and Zhang Ying naturally knows Ji Tianci, and she is still Ji Tianci's mother in the household registration book.

The new year came again, the phone rang as usual, and a woman's voice came from the earpiece, but it only said four short words, which surprised Qingfeng Dao.

"I'm back home. ”