Chapter 432: Quiet as a frost, smiling like a spring flower
When I was six years old, a bloodied Taoist priest broke into my yard.
My parents took out the precious medicinal herbs that had been stored in the house for many years and worked day and night to take care of the stranger who broke into my home.
At that time, I was still young, and I didn't understand why my father, who had always put profit first, into such a big effort to save him. Later, I learned that this Taoist priest was a cultivator.
Cultivators, I am no stranger, even if my ancestors have not appeared a single cultivator, as long as anyone born in the Buddhist world understands what kind of existence a cultivator is.
When I was six years old and counting the days, I used to look up at the sky and see the monks who occasionally flew through the sky.
My parents told me that those cultivators have great skills, great supernatural powers, and the ability to destroy the heavens and the earth, and they should not be offended.
Perhaps the cultivator's life was more tenacious, and it seemed almost impossible for my parents to save him, but one day, the Taoist priest opened his eyes.
I stood in the corner, looking at this Taoist priest, I was instinctively a little scared, this Taoist priest had a very young face, but his eyes were very vicissitudes, even at that time I didn't know what vicissitudes were.
The man woke up, and he said, "What do you want?"
My parents knelt down and said, "Ask the immortal master to save my son."
With that, my parents pulled me over and knelt in front of the immortal master.
It was at that time that I realized that I was not just frail as my parents said, but that I had been told that I had a terminal illness when I was born.
This kind of terminal illness cannot be saved by mortals, and only the immortal can be saved.
The Taoist priest looked at me and said, "Your family is a single generation from generation to generation?"
My parents were stunned and then said, "Yes."
The Taoist priest pointed at me and said, "Your family, cursed, even if I cure this little baby's disease, he will still die in 20 years." Your family has reached the end of this generation, and it is impossible to have any more children.
Maybe these words were too unexpected, and I was stunned for a long time, and then my parents cried, knocked their heads on the ground, and kept saying: Immortal Chief, please, save my son, please, save my son...
I knelt and watched my father and mother kowtow to the Taoist priest, I was only six years old that year, and I still didn't understand what the Taoist priest said, but I was very sad to see my parents like this.
The Taoist priest looked at my parents and sighed, and said, "You must be blessed by others." You saved my life, so I'll make an exception and do the math again.
He turned his head to look at me, looked at it for a long time, and there seemed to be a faint gossip image in his eyes, I was still young at that time, but I was shocked by this scene, I didn't dare to speak, and I didn't understand what it meant.
Then, the Taoist priest pointed in one direction and said: Abandon the merchant and follow the text, go in that direction, there is a catastrophe in that direction, pass the past, and in the future, the power will be monstrous, wealth and glory are not a problem, if you can't survive, after twenty years, you will definitely die.
The Taoist priest looked at me when he said this, although I was young, but this passage was also engraved in my heart.
Then, the Taoist priest said no more and disappeared before our eyes.
From that time on, as the Taoist priest said, I abandoned business and followed literature, and my parents asked the best master in the city to teach me, and my work in literature was impressive, except for my poor health.
As the days passed, I grew from an ignorant child to a teenager.
Unlike my parents, the more I grew up, the more handsome my face became, and there were many girls who proposed marriage in the early years, but they were all rejected by my parents one by one.
It's another year, the autumn breeze is blowing, and I have learned something and prepared to go to Beijing to catch the exam.
The Taoist priest asked me to abandon business and follow literature, then I will take the test to gain fame and fortune, and seize wealth and prosperity, whether it is my own inner will or what the Taoist priest said, this trip is inevitable.
Before leaving, my father said, "Poria, this trip doesn't matter about fame or profit, just return safely."
I bowed slightly, said no more, and turned away, for years of illness had already created my steady character.
Perhaps for those cultivators in the other world, it is nothing to call the emperor in the mortal world, but for mortals who cannot come into contact with the cultivation realm in their lifetime, fame and fortune in the mortal world is a lifelong pursuit.
Maybe even that Taoist priest didn't know that his words when I was a child not only changed my life, but also changed my temperament. Maybe even he doesn't know how unwilling I am to fate in my heart.
Because the Taoist priest was a cultivator, I couldn't help but believe his words, so as he said, if you want to live, you have to go east.
I took my only scholar with me and traveled thousands of miles to the east, just to survive.
The journey was too long and too hard, my body was so tired that I had to stop several times to rest.
On that day, I sat down under a big tree to rest, and I looked at the far east, and once again felt my own weakness. And then I heard that voice,
The voice said, "Hey, sick seedling, what's wrong with you?"
The sound comes from the head, and it is as crisp and melodious and energetic as a warbler's cry.
I looked up, and there was a girl sitting on a branch not far from my head.
It was a beautiful girl with picturesque eyebrows and very flamboyant eyes.
Even if I was as calm as I was, I couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
The girl sneered and said, "Idiot."
I looked at her smile, and a sentence popped into my mind,
There is a banshee and charming, quiet as frost, and smiling like a spring flower.
This is an extremely beautiful woman, flamboyant and full of life, the polar opposite of me.