Looking up, in the bluestone-paved yard, the old man with his sleeves was standing there quietly, with a peaceful smile on his face.

The faded green robe on his body was washed cleanly, the green and yellow bamboo occasionally swayed a few times in the cold wind, and the plum blossoms in the corner of the courtyard were bright, only a suitable snow was missing.

Xu Chen put on a stick of incense, gave up some scattered silver, and followed the old road into a wing room in the west.

The scenery in the courtyard has become another painting from here, a few rockeries built at will, a bamboo pavilion reflected on the side, tall pines and cypresses, and a few inconspicuous-looking potted plants, which are simple and beautiful.

The charcoal is red, the water in the copper kettle is steaming, and the wrinkled but still steady hand slowly pours the boiling water into the red clay fired teacup.

The fragrance overflows, with tea and floral fragrances.

"Flower tea?" Xu Chen took a closer look, a little delighted.

"Lao Dao can't make up the ups and downs in this small view, only a cup of tea!" Lao Dao picked up the tea cup with both hands and handed it to Xu Chen.

Xu Chen took it respectfully, took a sip lightly, and praised: "Good tea!" and then naturally looked forward to it: "If the old gentleman is still rich, can you give some to him?"

Lao Dao glanced at Xu Chen and nodded with a smile: "The donor is a good tea person!"

Xu Chen laughed at himself: "Ye Gong is just a dragon, if you really want me to talk about some of the world's avenues, I really can't tell it." ”

Lao Dao smiled and said: "Tea is tea, just something to drink, but the literati feel that they shouldn't be like the pawns of the peddlers, so they are far-fetched, and when it comes to it, it is just a bowl of tea after all." ”

Xu Chen's eyes lit up: "I love to hear this! I have to ponder some subtle words when I drink tea, I am too tired, and no matter how good the tea is, it will not taste good." ”

Lao Dao laughed and said, "Since the donor likes it, I'll let the little boy get some!"

"Desireless!"

"Master!" the little Taoist priest walked in and saluted respectfully.

It's just that Xu Chen saw the little Taoist's bulging mouth the moment he lowered his head, and then smiled: "Children, if you eat too much sugar, your teeth will be bad!"

The little Taoist priest rolled his eyes and glared at Xu Chen viciously, but his appearance was indescribably cute.

……

"The old man's small view is a little deserted!" Xu Chen looked around, and there was not even a single pilgrim in the courtyard in this short period of time.

"It's better to have fewer people. The old man said leisurely: "Clean!"

"If you want to cultivate, why don't the old people go to the mountains and wilderness?" Xu Chen asked.

"Lao Dao, this person is also a good dragon, it is true that he likes to be pure, but he really wants me to be independent, and I am reluctant to be prosperous in this world. Lao Dao shook his head and smiled.

"Haha, the old gentleman is a man of temperament!" Xu Chen said with a smile.

"What about the donor?" Lao Dao looked at Xu Chen and said with a smile: "I see that the donor is not like a person who chases fame and fortune, why do you want to break into this vanity fair?"

Xu Chen thought for a while and said, "I'm a person...... If you don't have money, you will definitely endure hardship, and you have no choice but to make money! But after you have made enough money, you are afraid that people will be jealous, so you have to continue to do something, and gradually you will inevitably offend some people, and some ......people will be followed by you."

Xu Chen shook his head with a wry smile: "At this point, there is no turning back!"

Lao Dao was quiet and said with a smile: "It's good not to forget your original intention!"

Xu Chen smiled and nodded, shook his head slightly, and sighed softly: "I hope!"

"Grandma, you go slowly, don't wrestle!" came the childish voice of Xiaodao from the courtyard.

"Hehe, no desire, hurry up and send things to the guests, grandma, I'll walk around the yard, it'll be fine!"

"Oh, then slow down, I'll send something and come!"

As he spoke, the sound of slight but rapid footsteps approached.

"Oh, here you go!" Xiao Daotong ran in quickly, and after throwing a bag of tea to Xu Chen, he turned around and ran.

The voice of the little Taoist boy came from the courtyard again: "Grandma, I'll accompany you!"

The smile on the corner of Xu Chen's mouth has not been restrained, and the warm scene of the old and the young outside the courtyard made him feel the warmth and tranquility after a long time.

"What a good boy!" Xu Chen praised from the bottom of his heart.

"Yes!" said the old man with a smile.

Xu Chen then turned his gaze, looked at Lao Dao, and said with a smile: "Dao Chang is also a good person!"

Lao Dao was slightly stunned, and asked with a smile: "Why did the donor say this?"

Xu Chen pointed to the old woman in the courtyard and smiled, "The righteousness of a friend!"

"Ha......" The old Taoist suddenly smiled and said: "The donor knows a lot!"

Xu Chen smiled and nodded, and said truthfully: "Don't hide it from the Daoist, I came here to take a look at the future, and see what he will do later." ”

"Is the light coming down the stairs?" said the old man lightly.

Xu Chen pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "I don't think he needs me to help! Besides, I'm just a passerby after all." ”

Lao Dao said calmly: "As long as the donor is not a spectator, Buddhism talks about cause and effect, Taoism also has good and evil rewards, things in the world naturally need to be done by people in the world, and people in the world are suffering, how can one person save?"

"That's the reason!" Xu Chen nodded.

A pot of tea gradually emptied, the sky was gray and heavy, and the lead cloud was thick.

"It's going to snow...... "Lao Dao raised his eyes and looked at the sky.

Snow falls at night, and throughout the day, the sky and the earth are filled with snow.

By late afternoon, the snow had weakened.

Lu Hao dressed up carefully, as rich as jade, and the son of Xunshijia kept dangling in front of Xu Chen.

Xu Chen raised his head, frowned, and said, "You are dressed up so, what are you going to do?"

"Poetry Club!" Lu Hao smiled and said, "Yixiao Lou has a poetry meeting tonight!"

"Oh, then you can go......" Xu Chen lowered his head again, looking through some classics about the cultivation realm, trying to learn more secrets.

Lu Hao was anxious, and hurriedly repeated: "Poetry Society!

Xu Chen raised his head, looked at Lu Hao, and suddenly smiled: "Lack of poetry, right?"

"Hehe, this ......" Lu Hao stretched out his hand and touched his nose, a little embarrassed.

"Okay, how many songs, what style, what theme?" Xu Chen grabbed the pen on the side, spread out a knife of white paper, and asked with a smile.

"Scared!" Lu Hao was startled, and asked with wide eyes: "Are you sure you're writing poetry?"

Xu Chen said proudly: "I can even draw runes, just a few small poems, I can do it easily!"

"Really?" Lu Hao's face was full of doubts.

Xu Chen couldn't stand the suspicion, the pen walked away, and a moment later, a song "Fortune Operator, Yongmei" jumped on the paper.

"Outside the post by the broken bridge, lonely and ownerless. It was already dusk and I was alone, and it was even more windy and rainy. has no intention of fighting for spring, and a group of people are jealous. Scattered into mud and dust, only fragrant as before. ”

Looking at Xu Chen sluggishly, Lu Hao was a little stunned, such a poem was almost written in the blink of an eye, this is too demonic!

"Is it enough?" asked Xu Chen.

"Huh?" Lu Hao said dumbfounded.

"Let me ask you, is one song enough?" Xu Chen asked, "Do you want a few more?"

"Uh...... Forget it!" Lu Hao couldn't help but be moved, folded the white paper happily, and said with a smile: "This is a small poetry club in a small place, there is enough such a poem!

"That's okay, don't bother me!" Xu Chen waved his hand and said.

Lu Hao walked towards the door in a hurry, walked to the door and turned back and asked, "You really don't go? There is a top sign of Yixiao Lou today! I heard that the Qian family in Yangzhou will bring an Oiran here, don't you really go to take a look?"

"I don't have that need for the time being, if you want to go, go quickly!Don't suffocate!" Xu Chen said with his head buried in his head.

"Cut! Fake serious!" Lu Hao sneered, pushed the door and left.

Soon after Lu Hao left, Lu Ying walked in with a bowl of soup.

"Brother Chen, come and taste the soup I made!"

"Oh, then needless to say, of course the things made by our family Yingying are delicious!" Xu Chen smiled and put down the things in his hand and walked to the low table.

After tasting it, Xu Chen nodded with satisfaction: "It's really delicious!

"Hehe, Brother Chen likes it!" Lu Ying's eyes narrowed into a line.

After thinking about it, Xu Chen suddenly said: "By the way, your brother just went to Yixiao Building!"

"What kind of place is that?" asked Lu Ying with her head tilted.

Xu Chen smiled "hehe" and replied: "Yixiao Building is the kind of place that is specially used for men!"

"Oh...... You said Qinglou!" Lu Ying suddenly said.

"Hey, Yingying also knows about Qinglou?"

"By the way, if it wasn't for my father's envoy, Yingying might have been sent to the Teaching Workshop Division!"

"Oh...... I'm sorry!"

"It's okay! If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have met Brother Chen!"

"Uh-huh, that's good!"

Lu Ying thought about it with her cheeks and muttered, "Uh...... But Brother Hao has been to Qinglou a little too many times recently! I have to tell him to pay attention to his body......"

"Huh?" Xu Chen said in surprise: "Don't you object?"

"Against what?" Lu Ying asked with a wink-eyed look.

"He's going to the Qinglou!" Xu Chen said heavily.

"Uh...... Isn't that normal?" Lu Ying asked rhetorically.

"Positive...... Normal ......" Xu Chen was speechless for a while.

"That's right!" Lu Ying nodded and said, "Brother Hao has reached the age of getting married, of course it is normal to go to the Qinglou!"

"Hee-hee, besides, he's a man, I don't have to worry about him ...... loss"

"Okay......" Xu Chen was speechless for a while, and it took a long time before he sighed: "You are really brothers and sisters!"

"Hehe, that's of course!" Lu Ying said proudly.

"It's a little stuffy in the house, I'll open some windows!" Lu Ying said and trotted to the window and pushed the wooden window open.

"Brother Chen, the snow has stopped!"

Xu Chen looked back, but saw that the flying snow was really nowhere to be seen.

"Huh!" a familiar figure walked slowly on the street.

Xu Chen hurriedly walked to the window and watched the man walk into a brightly lit building in front of him.

"Yixiaolou, he also went?" Xu Chen pondered for a moment, then said: "Yingying, stay in the inn, don't run around!"

"I'll go to Yixiao Building to find your brother!"

"Oh...... Huh?" Lu Ying exclaimed, "Brother Chen, you also want to go to the Qinglou?"

"yes!

"No!