At the top of Quanshan Mountain the next day, Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy woke up from behind a big rock in the morning and watched the most beautiful sunrise - the first red sky began to appear in a corner of orange-red sun, wrapped in layers of red clouds, the sun slowly rose, bringing a thousand rays of light, the scene in front of them was extremely shocking, and their hearts were in a trance.

When the day dawned, the two siblings came to the foot of Quanshan under the guidance of the smoke from Qu Tianlin's breakfast.

They came down from the mountain, and at their feet was a small stream formed by the intersection of two mountains, and the water flowed from east to west, and because of the rain, the two sides of the stream were bare, and no trees grew, but large and small stones paved a natural stone road. The two walked upstream along the stream, looking at the smoke in the east. Suddenly, I saw that I was a little sloppy in the water, so I freshened up with the clear stream and continued walking.

Walking and walking, Zhuang Yuncheng smelled a strong aroma, his stomach was growling, he was already hungry and weak, the fruits picked on the mountain could not solve the fundamental problem, "This must be the aroma of the breakfast he made." Zhuang Yuncheng said, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that there seemed to be a small house in the woods in the distance, so he continued to walk along the stream, and walked less than a hundred steps, when the vision in front of them suddenly widened, and they saw a stone road connecting the creek and the courtyard on the bank, and there were two small cabins behind the courtyard, and in the courtyard sat an old man with half-white hair fanning the fire and cooking something.

"Let's go." Zhuang Yuncheng waved his hand, and walked ahead of himself on the stone path, followed by Fluttershy.

Qu Tianlin raised his head, saw someone coming, kept staring, and when they approached, he asked suspiciously: "I have few people here, looking at your outfit, can't you be a hunter, are you lost?" ”

"Sir, we're looking for you."

Qu Tianlin smiled and said, "I have lived alone in this place for nearly ten years, except for a few family members who are still worried, how can the world remember me?" What's more, at your age, you don't know me, and you haven't asked my name and surname, so it's not ridiculous to say that you are looking for me? ”

Zhuang Yuncheng smiled and asked, "Are you Mr. Qu Tianlin?" ”

Qu Tianlin smiled, was stunned for a moment, and said, "Exactly, who are you?" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng handed him the letter, Qu Tianlin took it, glanced at the letter, and then at Zhuang Yuncheng, he stroked the envelope with his old hand, but he couldn't see the handwriting on it, so he stood up with his legs and said, "You wait." He walked leisurely towards the wooden house, Zhuang Yuncheng didn't know what he was doing, so he waited here.

"It smells so good." Zhuang Yuncheng sniffed the smell coming from a dilapidated iron pot under his feet and asked, "What's in this?" ”

Fluttershy stepped forward, sniffed it, frowned and shook her head, "I don't know." As she spoke, she reached for the lid of a piece of wood that was resting on it, and as soon as the lid was lifted, a burst of snow-white steam poured out on the face, and the two of them took a step back, and then leaned over to see - it was corn!

"This is Mr. Qu's breakfast, but I want to eat it." Zhuang Yuncheng swallowed his saliva and said.

"Look, you're crazy hungry," Fluttershy said, glancing at him, and pointing to a few raw ones in front of the hut, "there's still there, you can bring them and cook them." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng was pleasantly surprised, ran to get the skin, washed it in the stream, and still put it in the pot and covered the pot.

Fluttershy crouches down and throws wood under the pot, causing the fire to grow bigger and the pot "clatters".

"It's a nice place." Zhuang Yuncheng looked around and said, "There are mountains and waters, food and drink, birds and flowers, and there is no dispute with the world......"

"Do you like it?"

"I like it." Zhuang Yuncheng said, "When I'm tired of everything, I'll follow Mr. Qu and be a hermit...... But like him, it's really lonely, if there is really such a day, accompany me, okay? Zhuang Yuncheng suddenly turned his face and asked seriously.

smiled and said without thinking, "Okay." ”

Qu Tianlin came out wearing a pair of glasses and asked, "This is the life-saving letter I wrote to Mr. ** many years ago, are you ......?"

Zhuang Yuncheng nodded, Qu Tianlin also remembered that ** had a son, so he was convinced, so he smiled kindly: "Go to the house and sit, Ling Zun Yu has the kindness of saving my life, I can't repay it, and it's my regret to see you today." ”

"Please."

Zhuang Yuncheng asked him to go first, followed into the house, and put his hunger aside for the time being.

"Look at your outfit, I'm afraid I've suffered a lot when I found here." Qu Tianlin smiled and asked, "Huh...... Who is this girl? ”

"She's ......"

"I remember that Mr. Zhuang has two children, she is Sister Ling?"

"It's, isn't it?" Zhuang Yuncheng said.

Qu Tianlin nodded with a smile, and said: "A few years ago, your father went, and I was in this deep mountain, and no one had a letter, and I never saw it in person to say goodbye, so I was really ashamed." ”

"Don't say that, old sir."

Qu Tianlin sighed, suddenly heard a loud grunt, and then remembered the corn outside, and hurriedly said: "I'm afraid the corn in the pot is all boiled." ”

Fluttershy rushes out and smokes the firewood and lifts the lid to see that the corn is pale and crystal clear, presumably cooked.

"You guys didn't bother to eat this morning, the young people have eaten a lot of fish and meat, and they also came to taste these grains, and I will cook you a few corn cobs."

"Don't bother, our brother and sister are rude, and without the permission of the old gentleman, we cook it by ourselves."

Qu Tianlin laughs for a while, and Fluttershy peels a few skewers, sticks them in the cob, and brings them to them.

Zhuang Yuncheng gnawed directly, Qu Tianlin could only break them one by one and put them in his mouth to chew slowly, while saying: "It's more than sixty, and my teeth are not good, and the corn in the future can't be eaten like this, so I have to dry it and mash it into foam, cook porridge and drink it." ”

Fluttershy also breaks them off one by one, puts them in her mouth, and chews them slowly, feeling very fragrant, sticky, and slightly sweet.

"For so many years, only a few years ago had people looking for me, and then it gradually decreased, and now I haven't heard of anyone looking for me for several years. And those who came to me asked me for something, and I didn't answer anything, and I didn't pay attention to the things of the world. Qu Tianlin said calmly.

When Zhuang Yuncheng heard him say this, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"You've come over the mountains and mountains, and you're still carrying this letter, so you're also in trouble, right? Otherwise, I wouldn't have come all the way to see me, an old man. Qu Tianlin smiled.

Zhuang Yuncheng swallowed the corn, wiped his mouth, and said with a smile: "There is a small thing to do." ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say, you are no better than others, but if I can do my best, I can't shirk it."

"Actually, there is no need for the old gentleman to work, and it will not disturb the old gentleman's cultivation, just one sentence."

"Oh? It's that easy? Qu Tianlin asked.

"Yes, I beg your eldest daughter, Qu Yingjiao."

"Oh." Qu Tianlin frowned and nodded heavily.

"Don't worry, old gentleman, I will never do anything against her."

"It's not what I'm worried about," Qu Tianlin suddenly smiled, then got up and said, "It's simple, I'll write a letter to you and bring it to her, and she will understand that if she can help you, our family will do our best." ”

"Thank you, sir." Zhuang Yuncheng was puzzled, "Doesn't the old gentleman want to know the reason?" ”

Qu Tianlin shook his head and said, "This age, it's better to know less, so as not to disturb my cultivation." He walked to the desk in front of the window, picked up a pen and wrote on the side of the paper, and said: "Son, daughter, whenever you come, you always say something, this is dead, that one is up, the dynasty has changed, and the world has changed hands...... If you want me to say, no matter how the world changes, it is the world of you young people, and it has nothing to do with me, an old thing. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng waited on the side, listened, and suddenly noticed that there were pen, ink, paper, and inkstones on his desk, and a few miscellaneous books and scattered papers on them, among which there was a yellowed piece of paper with four words written on it-Linxian Notes. Zhuang Yuncheng didn't understand at first, when he saw the dense handwriting on the manuscript paper, he guessed that this "Lin Xian Note" should be written by Qu Tianlin, "Lin" is taken from his name, "Xian" is a comparison to himself, he should be writing a poetry collection or prose account.

Qu Tianlin wrote and sealed the letter, handed it to Zhuang Yuncheng and said, "Give it to Yingjiao, and she will understand." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng thanked him, knowing that Qu Tianlin was indeed a first-class figure of the immortals, and he didn't want to bother more, Qu Tianlin pointed out a convenient road to the two, and they walked out of the mountains and forests in only two hours, and came to the side of a hanging wall on the side of an avenue, Zhuang Yuncheng remembered that here, just around the bend in front, there was a well.

"It turns out that the exit is here, we went too far ahead before, no wonder there is no road."

"yes, and who would have thought that this entrance was on a straight, bare stone wall?" Zhuang Yuncheng leaned forward and asked, "How do you go down?" ”

Fluttershy notices a particularly sparse patch of bush on the right, and looks over the corner to see that it's a deep path with thorns removed, but tender grass growing more than a foot high, "It looks like his family hasn't been here in a while, and the grass has grown so much that if you don't look closely, you don't know it's a road." As she spoke, Fluttershy led the way forward, a winding descent that ended in a gap about a man high, "Looks like I'm going to have to jump." ”

"It's hard ground down there, and you might hurt if you jump like this, come on." Fluttershy reaches out and pulls him by the way, saying, "You slide slowly." ”

"Okay." Zhuang Yuncheng held her hand, grabbed a few pieces of grass with the other hand, and slowly slid down, until his feet were not high off the ground, and jumped down.

Fluttershy stabs her dagger in the dirt and jumps around, her feet on the wall, her hand gripping the handle of the dagger, and with the help of a cushion, she leaps down and lands smoothly.

"Good skills." Zhuang Yuncheng patted the grass on her body and said.

"Thank you." Fluttershy laughs and says, "Let's go." ”

They walked over to the well to drink water, and watched as the otherwise calm water suddenly rippled slightly.

"Brother, listen." Fluttershy is stunned.

Zhuang Yuncheng stood up, slowed down his breathing, and faintly heard the continuous sound of "dong dong".

Fluttershy leans up the hill with two or three feet, standing at the top of the hill and looking out at the avenue to the right, and in the distance, in a cloud of loess dust, a group of men and horses slowly advance.

"What's going on?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

"It's okay, a large group of people are coming towards us."

"It just so happens that here is more than ten miles away from the nearest post station, let's wait for them to see if we can enter the city with them, if not, at least take us to the post station, I don't want to go to the post station like this."

"Well, I'm tired too." Fluttershy jumps down again, and both of them drink some water, wash their faces, and walk to the three-way intersection, where the convoy is on the right and the road into the capital on the left.