Wu Yue's hand was held by his master, at first Wu Yue was still walking in front, running and jumping, but then Wu Yue couldn't walk, so his master led him forward. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info day is already a little late, the afterglow of the setting sun dyes the western sky red, and the mountains and trees in the distance are connected with the sky, which is spectacular. Wu Yue really couldn't walk anymore, his master saw that he was out of breath, the road was not far, and he would arrive after walking for another two quarters of an hour, and pulled Wu Yue to a big stone on the side of the road.

"Ah Yue, Master can't walk anymore, I have to sit down and rest. Come and take a break, too! ”

"Master, you're really bad, are you drinking too much, can I still go?" Wu Yue laughed, and couldn't stop breathing.

"That's right! Right! Right! Not only did Master drink too much, but Master was also old, and he couldn't walk anymore when he was old. He watched Wu Yue sitting on the stone, sweating slightly on his forehead, fanning himself with his white little hands, but looking around, although he was extremely tired, but the vigor and vitality of his body were not reduced. Thinking that he was indeed old, he was going to die after all, but when he died, what should Wu Yue do, and his heart became melancholy.

"Ah Yue, do you know what happens when people get old?"

"When people are old, they should rest more, when they are old, they can't drink more, and when they are old, they are easy to get tired."

"Hahahaha, Ah Yue is right!" But there is one thing Ah Yue didn't say. ”

"What is it?"

"That is, when people are old, they are going to die, and they can't accompany Ah Yue." When the words came to his mouth, he couldn't say it, he whispered to himself in his heart, and when the words came out, it became, "When people are old, they want to talk to Ah Yue more." ”

"Well, then I will talk to Master every day from now on." Wu Yue was still panting when he spoke, but he had a sincere look, which couldn't help but cause his master to laugh again, Wu Yue thought that he was being ridiculed and turned his head to ignore his master. At this time, the sound of rustling on the tree attracted Wu Yue's attention again, when Wu Yue looked up, there was a squirrel picking pine cones there, Wu Yue looked excited but still very careful to call his master, "Master, Master, look at the top." The master and apprentice looked at the little squirrel on the tree, its mouth was already bulging, and it was still picking pine cones and stuffing them into its mouth. Wu Yue said,

"Master, you see, it's so greedy, it can't even hold it in its mouth, and it's still stuffing it in."

"Silly boy, why don't you say that it's really strong, it's already at the extreme, but it's still persevering."

"What Master said seems to make sense", Wu Yue lowered his head there and thought for a while.

"It's not that what Master said makes sense, it's just that it's late autumn now, and winter will come soon, and if they don't 'greedy' now, they may be starved to death by then."

"Then it's trying to stay alive."

"Ah Yue is right, it is working hard to live. You look at the villagers at the bottom of the mountain, they work at sunrise, rest at sunset, sow seeds in spring, fertilize in summer, harvest in autumn, and only be a little idle in winter. These are all things that the villagers can't grasp, and if any of them goes wrong, they may die. They are also working hard to live, and it is extremely difficult. ”

"Master, are we both like this?"

Of course, Ah Yue collects firewood to boil water every day, washes and cooks. Master, I went up the mountain to pick herbs, and when I went down the mountain to treat people, the villagers down the mountain would give us food. If I don't go to see a doctor, we won't have anything to eat, and if Ah Yue doesn't collect firewood, we won't be able to cook and bathe, so we are also working hard to live! ”

Wu Yue nodded there and asked his master again, "If we work so hard, will we always live?" ”

His master was surprised, he didn't expect Wu Yue to ask this question, he didn't want to talk to Wu Yue, but Wu Yue said it himself. "No matter how hard we try, we won't always live, people always have to die." First slowly grow old, and finally the old ones die if they don't look good. When he said this, he looked at Wu Yue and found that he had a cold little face and a blank look in his eyes. Again,

"But my master said that if you cultivate diligently and become an immortal, the immortal will not die."

"Master, have you rested? Let's go after resting, and I'll go back and boil water to bathe Master." ”

"Master is rested, then let's go!" As he spoke, he took Wu Yue's hand and continued to walk up the mountain. One old and one young, under the curtain of bright red blood, quiet and tragic.

Back in the view, Wu Yue ran to boil water, he is rare to be a clean child, the view was also cleaned, he sat alone in front of the stove, thinking: Master said that people will die when they are old, so will Master die? His master was a little disappointed, and walked back to the bedroom in a dull manner. As soon as I arrived in the bedroom, I heard an unfamiliar voice.

"You're dead, what will happen to your little apprentice?"

This sudden sound startled Wu Yue's master, and he left behind any loss and dullness, and after calming down, he frowned and said, "Who is it?" ”

Then came out of the darkness a man dressed in black cloth, not very tall, with a strange pattern on his face from between his eyebrows to the whole right side of his face, and the whole man looked coarse and fat, like a country butcher.

This person walked up to Wu Yue's master with an extremely disdainful look, "Old man, I have been observing you here for more than a month, and I like you very much. ”

"What are you going to do to Ah Yue?"

"It doesn't hurt to tell you, I'm an immortal cultivator, even if I'm not the 'immortal' you say, I can live forever. I'm looking for a satisfactory apprentice, you're an apprentice, although the spiritual root is not good, but it's very suitable for the exercises I practice, he's diligent and hardworking, he's a kid with perseverance, I've been looking for thirty years, and finally found one that barely matches my heart. I want to replace you and be that kid's master, compared to you, a master who can only teach him to meditate and recite sutras, I can teach him supreme exercises, let him call the wind and rain in the cultivation realm, and more importantly, let him live forever. After speaking, I was afraid that he would not believe it, so a flame suddenly rose in my hand, and I took a piece of sandalwood on the table, and lit it like this, and a bedroom was filled with the smell of reassuring sandalwood in a short time. Wu Yue's master, as a mortal, suddenly saw the legendary "immortal" at this time, but he did not have the slightest excitement or fear. He was just thinking: He is really old, how long can he accompany Ah Yue?

"Do you really want to accept Ah Yue as an apprentice?"

"What did I do to lie to you of a dying old man? And there is no benefit. ”

"Okay, let me think about it! Let me think about it! I'll give you an answer tomorrow. ”

"If it weren't for the fear that the kid wouldn't follow me with his heart, you'd be dead by now. Well, I'll come back to you tomorrow. When the time comes, you just have to agree, and if you don't agree, you have to agree. After speaking, he disappeared from Master Wu Yue's eyes. Wu Yue's master was still immersed in his own thoughts, and he didn't care why a person could disappear in front of his eyes in an instant.

That night, both the master and apprentice were a little silent, and they didn't think about each other's abnormality. The two of them were lying on their beds, the night was very dark today, the moon did not show its head, the wind outside the window was blowing, and even the usual crow cries could not be heard, it was already a cold day. Wu Yue looked at his master at night, and his master looked at Wu Yue at night, and their deep affection and attachment to each other melted into this cold night, flowing in this small bedroom. I don't know when, Wu Yue fell asleep, his master got up and sat in front of his bed, covered him with a quilt as usual, remembering the stupid and stunned appearance when he first picked up Wu Yue, there was no longer the usual anger, more reluctance, even he didn't understand why he didn't feel death before, and now he always felt that he couldn't live this night, this feeling was exactly the same as what he thought when his master died. He followed his feelings and didn't believe that this was unfounded, so he sat in front of the desk and wrote a letter to Wu Yue.

"Ah Yue, when you read this letter, I was probably no longer there, Master is really old, and it is not a pity to die. I know that you will be sad, so I will not advise you not to shed tears. It's just that Master is really reluctant to give you up! Master can't worry about you, so I wrote a letter to my junior brother, that is, your uncle, and in about three days, he will be here, and when the time comes, you have to listen to your uncle, practice diligently, and don't slack off. Master has no other expectations for you, just ask you to spend your life peacefully, as long as you can shed a few tears for me after my death, it will not be in vain for our master and apprentice, call me a few more masters, and I will be satisfied, and I will die without regrets! ”

That night, this old man, Wu Yue's master, the "Taoist chief" in the village, really died, and left quietly and quietly.

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