Niu Ben has always been fearless of everything, and he has never been afraid of anyone since the first day he was sensible. But after he signed up for the army, he met the two most feared people in his life, one was Xue Shao, and the other was his father-in-law Li Jinxing.

The former regarded him as a brother and shared the weal and woe with him from birth to death, and the latter made him feel the taste of family affection for the first time in his life.

Now that Li Jinxing has passed away, Niu Ben stubbornly believes that he still has the only relative in this world, that is, Xue Shao.

So Niu Ben hated Xuanyunzi very much, hated her to the bones, hated to tear her to pieces and then stomped into the dirt one by one, and couldn't even distinguish the color. Because no matter what the reason, no one in the world can assassinate Xue Shao, otherwise he will have to die so that there is not even a scumbag left!

With such unwillingness and anger, Niu Ben and Duan Feng each carried a futon and walked into Xuanyunzi's grass house, and laid it on the ground, they had to spend the night here tonight.

And Xue Shao sat by the fire with Xuan Yunzi, holding a jar of "poisonous wine" there without saying a word.

Where can Niu Ben sleep?

He leaned over to the window, squinting his big brass bell-like eyes and looking out.

"Don't look at it." Duan Feng looked up at the sky with his arms very calmly, and said lightly, "I will be scolded again when I am young." ”

"It's better to be scolded than to be hurt by that crazy woman!" Niu Ben hated his teeth and thought in pieces, "I don't understand, the young marshal has always been wise and martial, why did he fall into the poison of this crazy woman this time, and everything followed her temperament?" ”

"If you can understand, you will be the son of Lantian as a court." Duan Feng was sneering.

"You know?!" Niu Ben scolded angrily, "Then why don't you tell me a reason?" ”

His voice was a little louder, and Xue Shao's scolding immediately came from outside the house, "Close the window and sleep, otherwise you will roll down the mountain!" ”

Niu Ben hurriedly closed the window and crawled back to the ground, pulled the quilt to cover his head and face, and shouted: "Sleep, sleep!" ”

Duan Feng laughed vigorously, "I'll just say it, you have to touch this mold." ”

Niu Ben suddenly came out, "If you want me to say, that crazy woman just owes it!" - All the women in the world owe it! ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Duan Feng calmly persuaded him, "You obviously don't understand women at all." ”

"You know again!" Niu Ben widened a pair of copper bell-like eyes, "Women are honest when they do it, especially a pretentious crazy woman like Xuan Yunzi, you stripped her of her clothes and worked for three days and three nights, so that he couldn't survive and couldn't stop - don't you see that she honestly lies on you and calls you uncle?" ”

Duan Feng couldn't help but laugh a few times, "Stop, go to sleep!" ”

"If I want to sleep with you, I'll have to prick up my ears and listen. In case that crazy woman starts to go crazy again, someone has to deal with it, right? Niu Ben was still very uneasy, although he didn't dare to climb to the window to peep, but he just didn't sleep with his eyes staring.

Duan Feng shook his head and smiled, "Stupid." Xuan Yunzi's matter, the young marshal has his own score in his heart. Don't worry about it. ”

"Still not brothers?" Niu Ben was angry.

Duan Feng smiled bitterly, "Come on, I'll keep an eye on it with you!" ”

It didn't take long for the wine jars in the hands of Xue Shao and Xuan Yunzi to bottom out.

Although the alcohol content in the Tang Dynasty was very low, but under such a large jar, Xue Shao also felt a little fluttering. In his impression, Xuan Yunzi has always been a non-drinker, but today he has also seen her massive.

The two didn't say a few words from beginning to end, as if they were waiting for each other to start a topic.

"I'm done." Xue Shao put the jar down, "Do you have anything to say?" ”

Xuan Yunzi was silent for a moment and said, "Young Master Xue, what is your pursuit?" ”

Xue Shao couldn't help laughing, well, such an environment is indeed quite suitable for talking about ideals and life.

"The country is peaceful and the people are safe, and China is eternal."

"It's too far away." Xuan Yunzi said, "What's the closest in front of you?" ”

Xue Shao said indifferently: "Live, protect the people who love me, and the people I love." ”

Xuan Yunzi picked up the wine jar and drank the last bit of wine, "It's good to have thoughts." ”

Xue Shao suddenly felt that these words were familiar-yes, Cheng Wuting said, Cheng Wuting after being down!

"I didn't think about it, I didn't know what I was living for." Xuan Yunzi's eyes looked at the fire without blinking, and his eyes sparkled, "I used to think that 'Dao' was the only sustenance and pursuit in this life. Later I found out that it wasn't. Because the more I force myself to devote myself to cultivating, the more I will remember many things in the red dust. My brother, my family, can I marry and have children like an ordinary woman, can I also have a real family? ”

"Although the Taoist aunt of the Tang Dynasty is called a monk, it has long been commonplace to marry people, so you don't have to worry about it." Xue Shao said indifferently, "You should always know where Princess Taiping's title came from. ”

Xuan Yunzi nodded lightly, "The first time I came into contact with the royal family, it was as a stand-in for Princess Taiping to become a monk in the Taiping Temple, how can I not know?" ”

"There are so many ideas, but there is no clear pursuit. Such a person may live a more tired life. Xue Shao said, "We've known each other for several years, and the longer we get along, the more I find that I don't know you well." It's as if you know everything, and you know everything. But when I think about it, I don't know what your purpose was in doing those things, including the fact that you stabbed me today. You are an enigma, always puzzling. ”

"You're right, I've been living in pain. The source of this pain comes from my own deep inner hesitation and confusion. Xuan Yunzi said, "I used to think that I could truly achieve the six roots of purity and transcendence outside the things like my senior brother, but my heart is very eager for the favor of family and love. I can confidently and boldly pursue the family and love I want, because no one has come forward to stop me. But I hated the filth and unworthiness of this earthly world, and I feared that what I had worked so hard to obtain would disappoint me. So I was miserable! It's been painful! ”

Xue Shao smiled bitterly, I really wanted to tell her - you should see a psychiatrist!

"There is no perfection in the world, and people like me should be lonely and miserable all their lives. Not even mercy is worth having! Xuanyunzi picked up the jar again to prepare for drinking, but found that the jar was empty. She angrily threw the jar high and slammed it to the ground.

Niu Ben and Duan Feng in the inner room rushed out instantly, and Xue Shao let out a low shout, "Go back, lie down!" ”

The second general obediently went back to the house and pulled the door open, and lay down again.

Xuan Yunzi looked back at Caolu, a smile on his face, "They're so nice." ”

"What's so good?"

"I mean, it's nice to have someone who cares for you and lives and dies for you." Xuan Yunzi said, "People are really contradictory. I desire to look down on everything in the world beyond things, but at the same time, I also desire to blend in with the crowd, even if I get a trace of concern and love from others, it will fill my heart with warmth and touch. I long to have a home, to be close to my family like you every day, and to become the greatest sustenance in each other's lives. But I couldn't really face the parents and brothers who abandoned me and sent me to the Daomen since I was a child. ”

Xue Shao nodded, he suddenly felt that Xuan Yunzi was really a pitiful person.

Her pity is not only because of her background, there are too many people in the world who are more miserable than hers. Her biggest pity is that she has seen through too many things, but she can't really be heartless.

She desperately longs for love to come, but she is very afraid that love will bring fatal damage.

"Do you remember Bai Tieyu?" Xuan Yunzi said suddenly.

Xue Shao nodded, "That madman who is not crazy and can't survive will marry you at all costs." ”

"At that time, I almost did it and married him." Xuan Yunzi clasped his hands on his knees, looked at the fire with his eyes and said lightly, "I don't like him, and I don't even have a good impression of him." But his fervor and persistence struck me like never before—at least for me. ”

Xue Shao nodded, "Understandable." ”

"How do you understand that?"

"You were abandoned by your family since you were a child, and then you have been living in a pure-hearted Taoist environment." Xue Shao said, "You think you have really forgotten the pursuits and desires that a normal woman should have. But Bai Tieyu's fanaticism and persistence awaken these instinctive needs hidden deep in your soul. You find that you can also enjoy the care and pursuit of men like an ordinary woman, and for the first time in your life, you are so close to marriage, love and family. ”

"You're right." Xuan Yunzi said calmly, "If it weren't for Bai Tieyu's farce, Xuan Yunzi might always be the Xuan Yunzi who is as calm as water and doesn't know the fireworks in the world, she won't have a lot of troubles, and she won't stab you with a sword today." ”

Xue Shao smiled, "Is there a relationship between the two?" ”

"What do you say?" Xuan Yunzi asked rhetorically, "You are the second man who makes me so close to marriage, love and family." ”

"It's just a stone's throw away." Xue Shao also subconsciously picked up the wine jar and found that it was empty, "Is there anything else?" ”

"It's gone."

"I have." Xue Shao got up, "But the taste is not too good, Niu Ben's self-brewed sour rice wine." ”

"Then I'd rather not drink it." Xuan Yunzi said.

Xue Shao was slightly stunned and sat down - well, this is her character!

"Why don't you ask, why did I stab you today?" Xuan Yunzi asked again.

Xue Shao smiled, "With your character, if I ask repeatedly, you won't be able to say it." If I hadn't asked, you'd have some interest in telling me. ”

"I'm cheap, am I?"

"That's not what I meant." Xue Shao said indifferently, "Actually, you have always been perfect in my heart." ”

"But even I think I'm cheap!" Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly, "How can there be a truly perfect person in the world?" The more glamorous and otherworldly he is on the outside, the more unbearable and painful his heart may be than that of ordinary people. Xuanyunzi is such an alternative, sometimes even I want to kill her with my own hands, so that she can get a complete relief! ”

"Then why did you assassinate me today?" Xue Shao finally asked, and it was taken as a kind of politeness.

Xuan Yunzi looked at the flames, "There are clouds in the Analects, and people are about to die, and their words are also good. ”

"And then?"

"I understand that only when people are on the verge of death can they truly put aside all their confusion and worries and truly see their own hearts." Xuan Yunzi said, "So I want to give it a try, I want to see what Xuan Yunzi is thinking in the heart of this evil obstacle!" ”

"So you're not trying to kill me at all, you're trying to die? …… No, if you're just looking for death, you have 10,000 ways, and you can't find me to do it for you. Xue Shao said, "You know me, you expect that I will leave you alive to ask a reason." So, do you want to die but don't want to actually die? …… Well, that's your character! ”

Xuan Yunzi was silent, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.

"And what do you see?" Xue Shao asked.

"The red luan star moves, and the catastrophe is coming." Xuan Yunzi said, "When I was twelve years old, my ancestor Zongshan Pan Heavenly Master said such things to me. He said that I was the one with the highest understanding among all his disciples, but I was also the one with the heaviest earthly relationship. One day I will encounter my catastrophe, that is, when my red luan star moves, and my marriage is about to come! ”

"Do you believe it?"

"Why don't you believe it?" Xuan Yunzi said, "What the Heavenly Master said is not actually a reckoning prophecy, but he really understands what kind of struggle and pain I have in my heart. When the marriage of Hongluan Xingdong comes, I will either be reborn in the fire and realize the transcendence, and from then on I will be free of worries and elegant like a fairy; Or completely fall into the red dust, and become a mortal man whom I once despised and pitied me, and will never be redeemed...... This is not a catastrophe, and what is it? ”

Xue Shao couldn't help but sigh secretly, saying in his heart that Xuanyunzi just knew too much and thought too much, and he was smart but was mistaken by cleverness. She is like a super-first-class psychiatrist, and she can often treat any heart disease of others.

But the doctor doesn't treat herself, she just can't cure her own disease!