"I never asked, what's your name?" Shi Shazhu almost put his face on it, and his flattering gesture was like facing a woman who couldn't be courted.

"Stones." The stone stretched out his hand to block Shi Shazhu, who had only been so close to his mother.

"Stones? It's a memorable name. My name is Shi Shazhu. ”

"Oh...... Hey? Kosha and Kotake are from your name! The stone suddenly realized.

"Hehehe! If you want to live with me, I can call them stones. "Shi Shazhu made a suggestion to make self-sacrifice.

"Thank you, Brother Shi, I still don't want it!" The stone decisively rejected the good intentions of Shi Shazhu.

"Let's talk about it when the farmer's affairs are done!" Shi Shazhu was unwilling to leave room for himself.

Soon they came to Haihui Temple. Walking into the courtyard, Shi Shazhu said to Nong Qingyun: "Master of the Nong Palace, in order to persuade Zen Master Zhiyin to see you, I want to solve a few questions first. ”

"Brother Shi Xian, please speak."

"What do you see as a cause?"

"Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zen Master Zhiyin sent some tea to Shennong Palace......"

"Tea? How could Epicause do such a thing? He never gave gifts to outsiders, and he never gave tea as a gift. ”

"This ...... I don't know what's going on. ”

"You go on."

"This tea is poisonous ......"

"Do you doubt ...... cause?" Shi Shazhu interrupted Nong Qingyun's words, "He would never do such a thing." I was his only friend for so many years, and I never saw him use poison. ”

"Brother Shi Xian, don't be excited, I don't believe that Zen Master Zhiyin will poison him. It's just that this matter is very weird, so I rushed here from Shennong Palace just to find out. ”

Shi Shazhu lowered his head and pondered for a while: "Okay, I'll go talk to Zhiyin." If Zhiyin agrees to meet, please ask the master of the Agricultural Palace not to go straight in, which will damage the dignity of Zhiyin. He has not been in contact with outsiders for a long time, he is withdrawn and high-minded, and he can't bear the humiliation. ”

"Brother Shi Xian, please rest assured, I have my own measure."

Because of the heavy trust on his shoulders, Shi Shazhu walked more solemnly than ever before and came to the abbot's room.

"Zhiyin, it's me, can I come in?" There was silence inside, and it was a long time before an old and dull voice came: "You're here to persuade me, right?" ”

"No, I just wanted to see you. I don't have a crush on those people. Shi Shazhu laughed dryly to hide his embarrassment.

After a long time, the door creaked open. Chiin stood behind the door.

He looked much older than Nong Qingyun, his face was wrinkled like the clear lines carved by a craftsman, his gray hair was dry and scattered, his thin face was listless, and the deep depression of his cheekbones seemed to be undesirable on a human face, it was incompatible with any part.

"Come in." Chiin turned back to the bed and sat cross-legged. After Shi Shazhu entered the door, he closed the door with his hand. He wanted to show Chiin that he was on his side and that he didn't want the group outside to hear their conversation.

"Zhiyin, what's wrong? I haven't seen you for two days, and you look like you're seriously ill. ”

"It's fine." Zhiyin crossed his legs on the bed, and there was a hint of sadness in his tone.

"The group of people outside, I'm going to help you send it away."

"They're not leaving." Zhiyin closed his eyes.

"Who are they?"

Zhiyin's lips moved a few times, and the words that seemed to be about to be uttered were very unskillful: "Shennong's Palace." ”

"Shennong Palace? Haihui Temple has never had any contact with Shennong Palace, what are they doing here? ”

Zhiyin did not speak. After a while, he closed his eyes. After another long time, he finally opened his eyes, which were gloomy, and sighed: "Alas! ”

"Zhiyin, for so many years, I have been your only friend, and you are also my only friend, and we always support each other when we are in trouble. You tell me, are the people out there your enemies? If yes, let me help you. "Shisha Bamboo Road.

Zhiyin shook his head and spit out every word with difficulty: "You can't help me in this matter." There was silence again.

Shi Shazhu stared at his bosom friend, and plucked up his courage before he spoke: "Zhiyin, when I met you twenty years ago, I could see that you were full of thoughts, as if you were carrying a very heavy hatred. In the past 20 years, I have not asked you, just waiting for you to take the initiative to tell me. I don't know if I can help, but I believe that two people are better than one. You have to tell me the truth today, I won't watch you suffer alone like this again! If you don't say it, I'm going to fight those people out there right now! ”

Shi Shazhu's eyes became rounder and rounder, his nostrils opened wider and wider, and his spit splashed everywhere, as if every pore of him was full of the urge to vent his anger.

This impulse pushed him to the door, and the moment he pulled the bolt open, the deep voice of Zhiyin rushed towards the wooden door like a torrent, blocking the bolt: "Stop! ”

Shi Shazhu shook all over, put his hand against the door, and didn't dare to look back for a while. From the moment he entered the house, Zhiyin had been depressed and weak, like a sick cat. At this moment, I don't know where his lion-like strength comes from. Is this power angry at his meddling in his affairs?

"Shazhu, sit down." Zhiyin quickly reined in his strange emotions.

Shi Shazhu slowly turned around, and a different cause appeared in front of him.

Zhiyin's legs were hanging on the edge of the bed, his tightly knit brows had stretched, and although the melancholy tiredness still hung on his face, the look of rejecting everything and closing his heart was gone. Shi Shazhu knew that he had touched this old friend of twenty years.

"Thank you!" His dry eyes moistened slightly, "Let me tell you a story." ”

"Hmm." Shi Shazhu agreed, didn't dare to say anything else, just slowly approached the table and sat down. He was afraid that any superfluous move and a superfluous word would quietly close the heart that Zhiyin had finally opened.

"The man outside who is about the same age as me is called Nong Qingyun, he is the current palace master of Shennong Palace, and he is also my former junior brother."

Shi Shazhu looked incredulous, even though he already knew half of the words and guessed the other half.

Chiin paused for a moment, trying to steady his breathing. It takes as much courage to open a memory that has been sealed in the dust for more than 20 years and recount it in detail as it does to go into battle and kill the enemy.

"Shennong Palace has a blood feud with me, and they killed my wife. More than 20 years ago, my master sent me and two juniors to explore herbs all over the country. I came to the remote Southwest. There I found many exotic flowers and plants that I could not see in the Central Plains, and at the same time I met a beautiful Jiuli woman, her name is Li Yulu. ”

Zhiyin's eyes are tender, as if he has returned to the prime of life, bathed in the alliance of the sea and the mountains.

"The two of us fell in love with each other, and Yulu said that she wanted to be with me forever, so she and I returned to Shennong Palace together. Unexpectedly, Master didn't agree that I would be with Yulu. He kicked Gyokuro out and wouldn't let me see her again. Master said that hundreds of years ago, Shennong Palace was plagued by the Gu poison of the Jiuli tribe, and the patriarch set up an ancestral precept that people of the Jiuli tribe were not allowed to step into Shennong Palace for half a step. If Shennong Palace takes in Yulu, it will betray the ancestor, and it will be doomed. ”

The full moon is fleeting, and the cicadas are poignant.

"But at that time, I was so in love with Yulu, and she was pregnant with my child, how could we be separated? For the sake of Yulu, I decided to leave Shennong Palace, withdraw from the rivers and lakes, and return to the wilderness. Just as we were about to leave, Li Yulu suddenly fell into a highly poisonous body. ”

Zhiyin's face instantly turned from white to blue, and his face was painfully distorted, as if he had swallowed the creepy poison in his memory.

Shi Shazhu immediately got up, brought Zhiyin a glass of water, and silently handed it to him. Zhiyin took a sip, closed his eyes slightly, swallowed the five flavors, and finally calmed down.

"I used all my life's learning to force poison for her, looking for herbs and preparing antidotes. However, all my efforts could only delay Gyokuro's life for a while, but I could not remove the poison from Gyokuro's body. Seeing that Gyokuro was getting weaker and weaker, I could only ask Master for help. The master refused to save Gyokuro, and he said that this was fate. I took the risk of stealing the Shennong whip and took Yulu to Xiangshan. The Shennong whip is the treasure of the Shennong Palace, which is kept by the palace masters of the past dynasties and can dissolve all poisons. Although we got the Shennong whip, we didn't know how to use the Shennong whip to make an antidote. If the Shennong whip is used incorrectly, it is possible that the medicine produced will catalyze the toxicity of Gyokuro's body. At this time, Gyokuro was pregnant, and we decided to wait until she had given birth. After giving birth to my daughter, Yulu's life was in danger, and I had to give her the medicine made by Shennong's whip. Unfortunately, God didn't favor our poor couple. ”

Chiin stared intently at the cracks that crisscrossed the wooden wall, as if his heart had been torn like this.

"After Gyokuro's death, I took my daughter up the mountain and came to the almost isolated Haihui Temple. At that time, I always wanted to go back and take revenge, but I knew that my kung fu was not high enough, so I went around to learn from teachers. I don't eat or sleep every day, and I don't think about anything except practicing martial arts. In the past two years, my martial arts have improved greatly, but because of neglect, my daughter was abducted by bad people and her whereabouts are unknown. Since then, I have felt that life is better than death, and I have thought about this life. At that time, the abbot of Haihui Temple saved me, and I was ordained a monk, accompanied by this green lantern ancient Buddha, and my heart was like ashes. As the days passed, even I didn't think about it, and the past gradually blurred in my mind, and then those experiences seemed to disappear from my life. I once thought that I was originally a monk, living in a monastery all the time, always alone, and never stepping into the rivers and lakes. ”

"Shazhu, you go and tell those people outside that I have lost Hongchen, I am a monk, and the people and things in Shennong Palace no longer have anything to do with me."

Zhiyin's breath was short, as if he had fallen from land into the water, pushed by the current, and drifted away uncontrollably. He was terrified, trying to grasp something, but he couldn't help himself.

"Knowing the cause, rest." Shi Shazhu's eyes were full of sympathy, as if he felt empathy, and the gloomy memories of the old days were about to move.

Zhiyin took another sip of water, but his scorched lips were still not moisturized.