At ten o'clock in the morning, Taoyuan Village was a little lively.

Because today is the 100th birthday of the village chief, everyone is happy and preparing for the birthday banquet. Although it is a village with little communication with the outside world, it is very wealthy. Because the local environment is very good, the wind and water are booming, and everyone is living a good life.

The village chief, surnamed Xie and named Xie Ding, is the oldest person in the village. If a person in the village can live to be 70 years old, he is already considered to have a long life, but if he lives to 890, it is very remarkable. Now, the village chief will be 100 years old after today, and it is also a great honor to be recorded in the family tree.

The village chief was very pitiful, and after his son and daughter-in-law gave birth to their grandson, the two of them left the village, leaving behind the old man and the infant child. It was all thanks to everyone's help over the years that this child was raised.

If this life is still good, but that child is actually born with cerebral palsy, which is what the world calls a fool.

In private, people in the village will inevitably gossip. And today, the village chief has a hundred years of birthday, and the people in the village get up early in the morning to celebrate the birthday of the elderly. Everyone came to the village chief's house, but they couldn't find the child anywhere, so they probably ran out to play again.

Maybe in his heart, he didn't know what his grandfather's birthday meant. Everyone didn't say much, the cooking was cooking, and the tables and chairs were being set up. Village Chief Xie Ding sat at the door, basking in the sun, looking at the busy crowd, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Not far from the entrance of the small village, a young man was squatting on the ground, holding a pig-killing knife in his hand, carefully sharpening the whetstone. On the side of the mountain, a middle-aged man walked down slowly. This middle-aged man was wearing a white robe, moving with the wind, like flowing water, and looked very comfortable.

In the village, without clothes of this material, middle-aged people must be outsiders. After he went down the mountain, he stood at the entrance of the village, looked at the surrounding scenery, and sighed: "Is this the Taoyuan Wonderland?"

Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he saw a young man sharpening his knife.

He walked over to the boy and stood there watching him sharpen his knife.

The young man sharpened his knife very seriously, and the pig-killing knife in his hand had been sharpened and shiny, and it looked extremely sharp. Not only is he serious, but the skills of the young man to sharpen his knives are also very good, and he is a person who often sharpens knives. He sharpened it along the diagonal of the pig-killing knife, so that when the knife was rubbed back and forth, it could evenly contact the whetstone, avoiding the phenomenon of curling the blade and damaging the surface of the whetstone. And the strength of the teenager's sharpening knife is also well controlled, pushing and pulling lightly.

Pushing forward is choking the blade, and pulling back is going with the edge, so it is necessary to increase the force when pulling back, so that the blade can be sharpened and the blade can be avoided. The most important thing is that he stands in an I-shape with both legs and presses the weight of his body on the front legs, so that the weight of his body will be transferred to the sharpening knife, which is labor-saving and effective.

The middle-aged man was a little stupid for a while.

The young man's knife had been sharpened, but he was still not satisfied, and muttered while sharpening the knife: "Hurry up, hurry up." ”

He didn't seem to notice the middle-aged man on the side at all. The middle-aged man heard his muttering and asked, "What is the knife used to kill pigs to do so quickly, and it is not used to kill people." ”

When the young man heard the word murder, he finally stopped, looked up and asked, "How do you know that I am going to kill?"

The middle-aged man laughed and said, "Who are you going to kill?"

The young man raised his eyes and said, "There are a lot of people I want to kill, including my grandfather and Second Uncle Li next door." ”

The middle-aged man smiled: "What's your name, why did you kill them?"

The young man replied: "My nickname is Xie Fool, and my big name is Xie Baoshu, which was given to me by my mother when she left, what about you?"

The middle-aged man sighed: "The treasure tree of the Xie family, the neighbor of the Meng family, is really a good name." As for me, my surname is Liu, and my name is Kanshan. ”

Xie Baoshu continued to sharpen his knife and said, "Liu Kanshan, this name is also very good. You, like those outsiders, came to our Taoyuan Village to seek the method of immortality?"

Liu Guanshan squinted his eyes and replied, "You guys here, is there really a way to live forever?" Listening to you, it means that there are many people who have come before me. ”

Xie Baoshu stretched out three fingers and said, "For as long as I can remember, there have been three people here. ”

Liu Guanshan asked, "What about them?"

Xie Baoshu sharpened the pig-killing knife vigorously, made a crisp sound, and said, "Two of them are dead, and one is half-dead and left in the village." Why, you can't go to them?"

Liu Kanshan smiled: "I'm not scared, is there a man-eating monster in this village?"

Xie Baoshu lowered his head and said slowly: "The monk who came before also said the same, and it turned out to be a nourishment in the end. ”

Liu Kanshan was puzzled: "Nutrients? ”

Xie Baoshu stood up, took the pig-killing knife in his hand, pointed to the center of the village, and said, "Seeing that tree, they have all become nutrients for that tree." ”

Liu Guanshan looked around, and in the middle of the village, there was a big peach tree. It's March, and the peach blossoms are swaying in the sun. The peach tree was so big that it could be said that the whole village was enveloped in it. At this time, it is obviously sunny and shining, but it gives people an eerie feeling.

Xie Baoshu carried the pig-killing knife and asked, "Senior, are you also a master in the world?"

Liu Guanshan touched his cheek and asked, "Do you think I look like a master in the world?"

Xie Baoshu nodded and said, "The material of your clothes is good, and you look like a master, but you don't know how tall you are?" Liu Guanshan looked around and said helplessly: "Whether you are tall or not, it naturally depends on who you compare with." ”

Xie Baoshu At this time, where did he still look like a fool, he held a knife in his left hand, pointed to the center of the village with his right, and asked, "Is it as tall as that peach tree?"

Liu Guanshan looked around, and finally saw the towering tree, and sighed: "It really deserves to be a peach paradise, if this peach tree is placed in the outside world, it can be called a fairy tree." If it were to grow for a few hundred years, it might be taller than the nearby hills. ”

Xie Baoshu squinted his eyes and said, "How about it, the cultivation of the predecessors, is it as tall as this peach tree?" ”

Liu Guanshan nodded, stretched out a finger and gestured, "It's a little bit higher." ”

Xie Baoshu immediately made a decision and inserted the pig-killing knife into his arms. He saluted with both hands, bowed to Liu Kanshan, and said, "Please save me, senior." ”

Liu Guanshan pondered for a moment, stretched out his right hand, pinched Xie Baoshu's shoulder, and then touched Xie Baoshu's thigh. Xie Baoshu looked alert, and asked in a trembling voice, "Senior?"

Liu Kanshan quipped: "Since you were a child, you have taken a lot of great tonic medicines." ”

Xie Baoshu nodded and replied, "When my grandfather was very young, he always went to the mountains and picked herbs for me, saying that they could replenish my brain. ”

Liu Guanshan heard the word brain supplement, immediately laughed, and said: "What kind of brain supplement is for you to supplement your body." This Peach Paradise really lives up to its reputation, and your body, placed in the outside world, can be regarded as a good qualification. Why, your ancestor cultivated you like this, does it really have a method of immortality?"

Xie Baoshu stretched out his arm and said with a wry smile: "Senior, can you also see it? But he didn't cultivate me so that I could practice immortality, but for himself. ”

Liu Kanshan was slightly surprised and asked, "What does this mean?"

Xie Baoshu picked up a stone on the side of the road, threw it into the air, and said slowly: "When I was very young, the old man in my family hugged me and told me that I must take care of my body in the future. Otherwise, he would be useless in the future, and said that the ancestors of the Xie family have been there for generations, and there are many young people who are willing to sacrifice their bodies for the cultivation of their ancestors. In my lifetime, there can be no accidents. He also said that when I was crowned, it would be the moment when he was born again. ”

Liu Guanshan frowned and said, "Snatching away, could it be that the Taoyuan Immortal Realm, one of the legendary Four Great Immortal Realms, and the secret technique of immortality that has been passed down from generation to generation, is actually such a low-level means?"

In the outside cultivation world, there is a secret technique called snatching away. It means that a monk can give up his body when he is seriously injured and dying. Let one's consciousness or primordial infant enter another person's body, so as to obtain a new life.

But with this kind of method, the person who took away the sacrifice suffered a great loss in cultivation, not to mention, and was still very weak. More importantly, this method can only give the body a new life, and cannot increase the longevity.

The body can be regenerated, and the soul will always grow old.

That day came, and it was the time when Shouyuan was approaching and dying. When the soul dissipates, that is, the truth disappears into heaven and earth. Legend has it that Buddhism has the idea of reincarnation, which preserves one's soul and gives one a new lease of life. But I heard that there are very few people who succeed in this method in Buddhism.

And between heaven and earth, there are four fairyland realms. In addition to the most mysterious Bodhi Wonderland, this peach paradise is said to have a magical secret technique that can make people gain eternal life.

Liu Guanshan said: "That's why you want to kill them?"

Xie Baoshu nodded and said, "If I want to live, of course I have to kill them." If an outsider comes here, if it is an ordinary person, they will stay and let him marry and have children, and spread out. If it's a monk, it's left to my grandfather. Of the strangers who have come in over the years, I know that three are monks and four ordinary people. ”

Liu Guanshan frowned and asked, "How did you know about cultivation, and you weren't surprised at all?"

Speaking of this, Xie Baoshu seemed a little sad, his voice became a little hoarse, and he said: "There was a senior with a sword on his back before, who lived in my house for more than a year and told me a lot of things outside. Although he didn't teach me how to practice, he told me some simple things. ”

Liu Kanshan was silent for a while and asked, "What about the senior?"

Xie Baoshu lowered his head and said, "Naturally, he is dead." At that time, when I told him about the village Changsheng, he was very angry and said that he wanted to save me and behead those monsters in the village by the way. The moon was very strong that night, and the senior went out with his sword on his back and never returned. It was very noisy outside that night, and there was constant thunder, and there was a lot of movement. ”

Liu Guanshan looked at the peach tree in the center of the village, frowned, and said: "The Taoyuan Wonderland is such a fairy-like place, there is such a monster, you take the knife with you, follow me." ”