I was picked up by Shizun on the South China Sea.

The master told me that when he found me, I was alone in thin swaddling clothes, and I was very casually rested on the bare rocks on the seaside, and the vast sea almost swept me in. Shizun said that even in the sea, he was reluctant to swallow such a child with clear bones.

I didn't know how old I was that year or who my parents were.

I can remember the beginning of the North Punishment Palace, where snow falls all year round. The North Punishment Palace is located in the extreme north, and the sun is not seen several times throughout the year, and Kunlun or Huashan is the same, it is indeed a good place for cultivation. Senior Brother Yu Xiu was five years older than me, and at that time he already knew how to help Master take care of me; Senior Brother Rong Huai is the same age as me, and he is as sensible as Senior Brother Yu Xiu.

However, on weekdays, after all, there is a difference between men and women, Senior Brother Yu Xiu and Senior Brother Rong Huai always play together and practice swords together. As for me, they said I was a girl, and they were afraid that they would hurt me if they made a fuss, so they often formed a scene like this: the two boys were frolicking in the courtyard, and I sat on the stone steps on one side and watched quietly.

I am the only woman in the master's family, and I have no one to talk about many things when I was a child, and the other disciples think that I am the personal disciple of the head of the sect, and they dare not get close to me. Over time, I stopped trying to talk to anyone. The years of cultivating and practicing the sword have made me become like all the disciples of the Northern Punishment, pure in heart and with few desires.

I always remember when I was a child, Shizun asked me back: "Lu'er, do you want your parents?" ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "I don't want to." ”

The master asked again: "If you die tomorrow, are you afraid?" ”

I thought about it again and said, "I'm not afraid. ”

Shizun sighed: "I don't have to worry about it, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse for you after all." ”

There is nothing worth clinging to in this world, because nothing will become eternal because of your attachment. If it will eventually perish, why cling. Therefore, if dying tomorrow has become my fate, what am I unwilling to do, and what is my nostalgia.

After the completion of the cultivation, all the years seemed to be suspended, and I was forever stuck at the age of twenty. This made my only interest on weekdays also go down the drain, and I couldn't count the days of my old age. The sun rises every day, the moon sets every night, and the time that passes like a white horse for others is the same every day for me.

But the good thing is that I am only immortal, not immortal. The Master said, "I have about 500 years to live."

Fortunately, it's only been 500 years.

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Cangmin is one of the few friends I have, and I don't know which time I met by chance when I went to Kunlun. She didn't live in Kunlun's palace, she only found a cave in the back mountain of Kunlun, packed up and went in, the cave was called Huaxu Realm, which responded to Cangmin's temperament.

She rarely goes out of Huaxu Realm. This time, when the Northern Punishment was busy dealing with the Heavenly Falcon Sect with the Ranhua Valley, she actually had the idea of seeing the excitement, and rushed over from Kunlun, and followed the group of Northern Punishment into the Central Plains, in order to take care of me. In fact, I also knew that most of the red sandalwood tables and chairs she liked very much in her Huaxu realm were clumsily destroyed when she asked her little apprentice to practice swords a few days ago, and she was so sorry that she desperately wanted to go to the Central Plains to buy a better and more precious set in person.

Such attachment to external objects should really be the mind of a cultivator?

There are still more than ten days before the attack on the Heavenly Falcon Sect, and we are lurking in the inn not far from the Heavenly Falcon Sect, and the master and the valley lord of Ranflower Valley are busy discussing some affairs. I was idle in the room, looking through a book in my hand, but Cangmin appeared out of nowhere and pulled my sleeve:

"Ah Yang, there is a market in the west tonight, do you want to go? I've heard that the stalls there sell all kinds of good things, and you should like those little things. ”

I didn't look at her, but said quietly: "I heard from others not long ago that there is an antique shop in the west market, and recently I bought a set of extremely rare red sandalwood ......."

Cang Min smiled: "You really know my mind." Come with me, I rarely walk around, and I don't know how to be polite with those people. ”

I replied lightly, "How often do I walk outside?" Let's go, but don't expect too much from me. ”

Except for the unique paranoia about the decorations of the tables and chairs, Cangmin is very good, with a calm temperament and no noise. Except for the occasional joke about me, if it weren't for that, I would have liked her better as a friend.

Just as Cangmin descended the stairs, a small head popped up around the corner, and the probe looked at us. It's a girl, she looks quite cute and cute, and her expression is a little flustered. When she saw us, she seemed to hesitate, but then she leaped up the stairs and hurried to slip between me and Cangmin.

Immediately behind her, two men in Tsing Yi ran over, panting and shouting, "Young Valley Master! Young Valley Lord! You don't run around......"

Young Valley Lord?

Cang Min reacted quickly, and without waiting for the girl to drill over, he grabbed the girl's back collar and lifted it up. The girl was caught and kicked on her legs in a hurry.

"Whew...... Thank you Cangmin seniors, and ...... Nan Yang Zun. My home...... We are young valley masters, she refuses to drink medicine......"

"Shut up! You shut up! The girl screamed and interrupted the man in Tsing Yi's explanation, "Let go of me!" Beware that I call my dad to punish you! ”

I saw that the girl's face was flushed, so I stretched out my hand, hugged the girl's armpit and lifted it slightly, looked at Cang Min and said, "You carry it like this, beware of strangling her throat." ”

"Yes." Cang Min smiled lightly and threw the girl into the arms of the man in Tsing Yi, "You can be optimistic, in extraordinary times, don't spoil your valley master's big things." ”

"Yes, yes, Cangmin senior." The man in Tsing Yi hurriedly responded, desperately holding down the struggling girl. The girl yelled and pulled in her mouth, looking like she wouldn't go back to drink the medicine if she died.

It's really uncomfortable.

I shook out a wooden box from my cuff, took out a small round white pill from it, and flicked it into the crying girl's mouth with my fingers, her head shook with this movement, and her voice stopped abruptly.

The girl was stunned, her cheeks bulged slightly, and then her mouth moved, and she quieted down with the balls in her mouth. She immediately looked at me, her eyes wide.

Sure enough, it still works for children.

The girl just stared at me blankly, and she didn't notice that she was picked up by the man in Tsing Yi like that.

Immediately, Cang Min and I walked out of the inn and left the episode behind.

After walking for a while, Cang Min suddenly said, "What did you just give that kid to eat?" ”

"It's just ordinary candy, coaxing children to play." I replied casually.

"Coaxing children to play? That...... How do you take it with you? Cang Min smiled lowly, "Shouldn't you keep it and coax yourself?" ”

I was speechless for a moment, and I could feel my ears burning a little.

However, liking to eat sugar pills is always more faceless than paranoid red sandalwood tables and chairs. Cang Min was also embarrassed to laugh at me.

But I'm not that boring, so I'm not going to argue with her about such a pointless thing.

Cang Min suddenly pulled me again: "Hey, I'll go over there and take a look, you stay here and wait for me." ”

I frowned, wondering when Cangmin would be like this. But he still stood in place according to her words, waiting for her quietly.

Cang Min has been gone for a long time.

I watched more and more people coming and going around me, and I felt that I was a little bit occupied, but Cang Min said that I would wait for her here, and I naturally couldn't move at will.

There was a sudden sinking on his ankle.

I just thought something had fallen on my foot, so I moved my foot and kicked it gently. But the weight was still sticking to it, and it wasn't light at all. I looked down to check.

A little white thing hugged my ankles, from my point of view, it looked like a glutinous rice ball, short and round, like a rice ball with four short arms and legs.

It's been less than half an hour, and it's a little kid again. I seem to be at odds with a child today.

"Hey, come down." I was a little tough.

The child raised his head slightly, and a pair of dark and clear eyes looked at me fixedly, like two round obsidian stones set in a fleshy face. As it was winter, she wore a fox-skin hat on her little head, the brim of which covered her eyes, and her forehead and eyebrows; The body is wrapped in a thick layer of fox fur, and it looks like a child of a rich family. At this size, he looks like he is only two or three years old.

She didn't seem to understand what I was saying, but she still wrapped her arms around my ankles, sticking to them like a rice ball and wouldn't let go.

I lifted her up by the collar, intending to put her aside. As a result, the child directly took my right hand, and the delicate little hand stroked back and forth on the outside of my index finger.

Because of my sword practice, a thin layer of calluses grew on the outside of my right index finger, which felt strange to the touch, and this child actually had a special preference for my right hand, and repeatedly touched my index finger and the tiger's mouth.

She suddenly spoke, and her voice was slurred: "You god...... God...... Immortal? ”

I made out the words she had said, and I replied, "No. ”

"Female ...... Woman......? ”

"That's not right."

"Hmm......" she muttered something vague again, and I simply didn't bother to listen.

"Hey, whose little doll is this? It's so cute. Cangmin's voice came from behind him.

Which child doesn't look cute? In my eyes, all children look the same, and their facial features have not yet opened, so I can see the difference.

"You'll know you're back." I replied lightly.

Cang Min took a string of sugar gourds in his hand and smiled at me: "Don't complain about me, it didn't take much time for me to come to see what I was going to see, but I saw a sugar gourd seller over there, thinking that you don't like to eat this kind of sweet and greasy thing, so I brought you a skewer by the way." ”

"I don't eat this." I just wanted to turn around and leave, and then I thought that this thing can't be wasted, Cangmin doesn't like to eat, and I don't have the face to eat on the street, so it's hard to throw it away in vain.

I took the string of red and bright sugar gourds from Cang Min's hand, squatted down and handed the glutinous rice dumplings at my feet, she stared at me, as if she didn't know how to take it. I shoved it straight into her tiny mouth.

The child's mouth was stuffed with a sugar gourd, and the sugar residue was pasted around the mouth, and the cheeks were extremely round, looking more like a rice ball. The flesh on her face bulged out, and her eyes narrowed into slits.

"You're not afraid to choke her to death. This child looks so pleasant, I don't know which little girl it is. Where did you pick it up? ”

"I didn't pick it up, she came out of nowhere."

"It's getting dark, and she's not safe as a child. You see, there is an inn in front of us, let's go in and have a meal by the way, and wait for her to pick her up. ”

I think about it, and it's feasible. Cangmin is still kind-hearted, and the Tao has not been cultivated in vain in those years.

The glutinous rice dumplings crawled over again, sticking to my calves, and the sugar gourd in my mouth rubbed the sugar stains of one of my boots. I tugged her on, and she wouldn't let go. Cang Min smiled on the side: "You just take her in like this, and there is an extra ornament on your boots." ”

What it looks like.

I had a cold face, but I had to follow the ball to my calves, and walked into the inn strangely with Cangmin, and the diners and shop guys around me all looked at me and pointed at me.

I found a corner and sat down, the little ball was still glued to me and sat beside me, I was expressionless and pinched the sugar gourd to feed her, she had to hold my right hand inch by inch, still rubbing my index finger.

Cang Min smiled on the side: "This kid likes you a lot." Hey, what's your name? ”

Seeing Cang Min asking her, Xiao Tuanzi squinted his eyes and thought hard, and raised his short little arm to point at himself with some difficulty, and said vaguely: "I...... Name...... Pander to...... Fall......"

"Ah Luo." I whispered to her.

Xiao Tuanzi looked at me and smiled stupidly and nodded, as if she was happy that I called her name.

Cang Min chuckled lightly and looked at the shopkeeper, as if to see when the food would come up. Xiao Tuanzi bit the sugar gourd and ate it with relish, and she didn't know if the few small teeth in her mouth could chew or not. My eyes fell on the sugar gourd, slightly distracted.

Xiao Tuanzi saw that I was looking at her sugar gourd, and raised her short and cute little arm very brightly, and passed the sugar gourd to my mouth with great difficulty.

I glanced at Cangmin, who was still looking at the counter, and didn't seem to have any intention of turning back for a while.

I put my eyes on the sugar gourd in front of me again, and looked at the expectant eyes of the dumplings, I thought, it's good to give her a face. So, he hung his head slightly and took a bite of the sugar gourd wrapped in a thick sugar coating.

I rarely go out of the north to be punished, and the last time I found this delicious gadget was ten years ago.

The hawthorn ball was a little big, and I just wrapped it in my cheeks and chewed it twice, and Cang Min twisted her head back at the right time, and her eyes swept to my face, and she was stunned for a moment.

"Ahem...... cough cough "In a hurry, the hawthorn accidentally choked in my throat.

Cang Min sneered, and while busy handing me water, he was still unforgiving in his mouth: "Ah Yang, you are such a big person, and you are still the lord of the dignified Northern Punishment, and you actually grab that kind of thing with children to eat......

My ears began to burn again, and I only took the glass of water in my hand and poured water into my throat, but I didn't dare to raise my head, for fear of meeting Cangmin's gaze and making her laugh at me again.

When I poured the fourth glass of water, the shopkeeper brought the food. The food is served a little slower.

While carrying vegetables into the dumpling bowl, Cang Min asked the dumplings: "Ah Luo, do you remember where your home is?" Who came out with whom? ”

The dumplings were ignorant, and they only cared about grabbing the meat in the bowl in front of them with their hands and sending it to their mouths, and the chopsticks couldn't make it. She didn't intend to deal with Cangmin at all, she just ate that fleshy little face with an oily face.

I really couldn't get used to eating so dirty, so I couldn't help but move the bowl of the dumplings, and when the dumplings saw that the bowl was taken away, they were so anxious that they couldn't mumble something in their mouths, and stretched out their short arms to reach it.

"Don't eat like that, it's dirty. You sit down. "I said patiently to the dango. Dango looked at me blankly and sat down obediently.

I took a spoon and scooped a little rice on it, evenly placed some vegetables, and stuffed it into the mouth of the dumpling.

The dumplings were stuffed with a full mouth, and they were very happy to chew with a satisfied face.

So while I was eating, I had to take a spoon and stuff a spoonful into the mouth of the dumplings from time to time, and I was a little tired from eating.

Cang Min suddenly pulled me and lowered his voice: "Ah Yang, look at the people who just came in the store." ”

I was just taking care of the little ball, and I didn't even pay attention to who came into the store. According to Cangmin's words, I looked at the door, and there were three men in black wearing the same style of half-face masks, and the colors and styles of clothing were also very similar, and I knew at a glance that they were from a sect.

Cang Min pressed his throat again and continued: "Look at that mask, do you recognize it?" ”

How can you not recognize that the right side of the mask is engraved with a pattern of Hai Dongqing spreading its wings, which is the Falcon Sect.

The three men looked around, and one of them saw that our eyes were fixed and whispered to the man next to us, and then the three of them came towards us, the knife in their hands as if ready to be unsheathed.

"Two girls, offended, may I ask ...... this child you are brought?"

Cang Min took over: "This child was just at the door of this inn by herself, and suddenly pestered my friend, so we brought her in and waited for her family to pick her up." ”

The other masked male voice was obviously younger, and his words were also direct: "This is our little master, who came with us." Trouble the two girls to take care of. ”

I glanced down at Xiao Tuanzi, her eyes still glued to the plate of chicken closest to her, and the corners of her mouth were about to drool.

She is a child of the Falcon Sect.

I looked at her faintly for a while, and then said to the masked man, "Look at her next time, it's easy for a child to be kidnapped." ”

The masked man said yes, and then stepped forward to hug Xiao Tuanzi: "Little master, go back with your subordinates......"

Xiao Tuanzi kicked her legs in a little hurry, her eyes suddenly looked at me again, babbling something, her little hand waved wildly, and she accurately grabbed my right hand in a panic, her hand was so small that she couldn't hold my whole hand, only pinched my index finger. Her preferred index finger.

My heart moved, but I still didn't say anything, I didn't do anything. Xiao Tuanzi was comforted and forced to take away by the masked man, and her little hand holding me slowly slipped off.

She looked closely at me, and there was something shining in my eyes.

But she is a child of the Falcon Sect.

I looked away at the half-uneaten sugar gourd on the table, and felt the four warm little fingers pinching me slowly pull away. The moment they separated, Xiao Tuanzi seemed to let out a whimper.

The masked man seemed to breathe a long sigh of relief, hugged the little ball and thanked us a few more times, and left in a hurry.

The people of the Falcon Sect are quite polite.

I took a cup of tea and drank it in silence. After a long time, Cang Min said softly: "I thought there would be a fight." Ah Yang, guess who's doll that little kid is taught by the Sky Falcon? There are so many guardians of the Falcon Sect, and I don't know whose children it is. If she knew, when she attacked the Falcon Sect in the future, she would be spared her life, and it would not be in vain to meet her. ”

Stay?

I can't stay alive.

At that time, the Three Swords Heavenly Punishment Array will be opened, and all the people in the array will inevitably die. At that time, even if I saw Tuanzi with my own eyes among the Falcon Sect members that day, I couldn't disobey the righteous path and give up the formation to save her and save her life.

Anyway, if her death is inevitable, what kind of attachment is there, every qiē is a fate.

Guilty.

Perhaps, a little.

But it doesn't matter, my memory has never been very good, and I will forget about this matter in a few years.

Memory, for me, is something that I don't have to be attached to. Because there is no nostalgia.