It was another winter, and it snowed heavily for several days.

In the early morning, people found that an old Taoist priest was sleeping in front of the Zou family. With messy hair and thin clothes, Zou Yun thought he was frozen to death at first, but when he inquired, he was just drunk. This Taoist priest is also fateful, Zou Yun thought to himself, and sent someone to carry him into the house, wrap him in a quilt, and make a fire to keep warm. It didn't take long for the Taoist priest to wake up slowly.

"Dao Chief, are you alright?" asked Zou Yun.

"It's a little thing~ but it's best if there is a bowl of hot soup now!"

Zou Yun had already sent someone to prepare ginger soup, so he asked someone to bring it up.

"Dare to ask the long name, I don't know why he collapsed in front of my house last night? And the Taoist chief's clothes are so thin, don't you feel cold?"

"Hehe, poor road Pingyangzi, traveling all over the world, just accidentally drank too much yesterday, and fell drunk here. The old Taoist priest's face was much better.

"After many years of travel, these small snowstorms are nothing, and cultivators can still bear this little suffering. The Taoist said with a smile.

"It's cold, the Taoist chief still pays more attention to his body, I don't know if the chief is willing to stay in the cold house for a few days and wait for the snow to stop before leaving?"

"Is there any wine?"

"Yes!"

"That's it!"

Zou Yun said goodbye to the Taoist chief and returned to the room, where Sisi was waiting for him.

"Sisi, you're awake too. ”

"I heard people say that there is a Taoist priest in the house, is it true?"

"Well, an old Taoist master, found him outside the door this morning, and at first I thought he had frozen to death. "Being woken up early in the morning, Zou Yun still wants to sleep now.

"Oh, when is he leaving?" Sisi looked worried.

"I left him at home for a few days and waited for the snow to stop before leaving. ”

"It's not good to leave a stranger at home!

"Do a good deed every day, and I just had a conversation with him, and he doesn't look like a bad person. ”

"Okay, don't think too much, I'm so sleepy, let's continue to sleep!" Zou Yun said and pulled Sisi back to the bed.

...........

After the meal, Zou Yun and the Taoist walked in the courtyard.

"This plum blossom is blooming so well. ”

"Yes, when it snows in winter, it is the only one that can bring a little color and make this yard not look so boring. ”

"How long have you known Madame Ling?"

"It's been more than three years, and the dog born at the beginning of the year has also been seen by the Taoist. ”

"Well, it's a spiritual child. ”

"Was there once a mistress in this courtyard?" the Taoist chief asked after a moment's thought.

"Did you listen to my mother?"

"What's wrong with her?" the Taoist stroked his beard.

"I had a strange illness many years ago and left. At the mention of Lin'er, Zou Yun was sad for a while.

"Is it dead?

"Why does the Dao Leader say that?" Zou Yun was a little displeased.

"Without him, I feel sorry for you! If you are offended, you still hope for Haihan. ”

"It's been years since I've figured it out. Zou Yun thought of Sisi, as well as his own child who was born not long ago.

"That's fine, the poor road has to go back to the house to visit the road, and I can't continue to accompany him. ”

"Michigan Please"

The old Taoist went back to the room and thought about it for a long time, not knowing whether to tell Zou Yun the truth. When I passed through this place, I noticed a demonic aura, and there was a vicious aura in this demonic aura, presumably this demon must have harmed people. I wanted to destroy this monster just like this, but I didn't do the right thing for the sky, and my heart was even more uneasy!

In the early morning of the next day, the wind and snow stopped, and the Taoist chief said goodbye, and handed Zou Yun a note when he left. Last night, the Taoist chief hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to tell Zou Yun the truth, whether he believed it or not. As for himself, doing the right thing for Heaven? He is an outsider, how can he have that power, and besides, he has not figured out what the Way of Heaven is for so many years. Everything has its own destiny, so let it go, and since you are a man of the world, don't care about its mortal things.

Zou Yun didn't plan to pay attention to the note written to him by the Taoist chief, how could there really be any demons in the world, charlatans and charlatans just tricks to deceive people. Lin'er's death made him feel like a fish in his throat, but in any case, now is the time to let go.

"Sisi, what do you think of this plum blossom?" Zou Yun stroked the branches of the plum tree, a little sad, "I planted it with my father when I was four years old, and it has been twenty years now. ”

"The plum blossoms are blooming very well!" Sisi looked into his eyes, and she guessed what the Taoist had told him.

"But when the Taoist chief left, he said that this plum blossom was ominous, and I wondered if to cut it down. ”

"You believe him?" Sisi continued to look at him, as if to look through him.

"If you don't believe it, why should I believe him!" Zou Yun said with a smile.

"So what are you thinking?"

"I want to try. ”

Zou Yun instructed his subordinates to bring firewood and pile it under the tree. Zou Yun's mother was also alarmed and walked over with Zou Yun's child in her arms.

"Yun'er, what are you going to do here?"

"I've seen my mother" Zou Yun gave a salute to his mother.

"Every time I see this plum blossom, I always think of Lin'er, and I feel sad in my heart, and now I say goodbye to the past. Zou Yun explained to his mother that there was no mention of the note written to him by the Taoist.

The mother knew that Lin'er had a place in his heart, although after so many years, he still didn't let go.

"Now that you have Sisi and have children, don't think about the past. The mother was helpless, and said to Sisi, "Sisi, you go back to the room with your mother! It's so cold, don't freeze, let him make trouble alone!"

"No, mother, you go back first, I still have to accompany my husband here!"

"You two, really, forget it, I'm too lazy to care about you, or my good grandson is the most obedient!"

After the mother left, Sisi asked the servants to step down.

"This plum blossom has been with you for more than 20 years, and you want to destroy it for a Taoist priest's words?" Sisi asked calmly, unable to see her inner thoughts.

"You don't want me to think about her all the time, do you!" Zou Yun had already made up his mind and wanted to hold her hand, but he was avoided.

"Don't you think your reason is far-fetched?"

"The Taoist told me that you were a demon, I didn't believe it, and I wouldn't believe it when you said that you hurt Lin'er, but I still want to be sure. ”

"So, you're going to destroy it anyway, aren't you?" Sisi's eyes began to be sad.

"Yes, you won't be a demon, right, Sisi!" Seeing her appearance, Zou Yun's heart suddenly became uneasy.

"What if, I'm really this plum blossom demon?" Sisi burst into tears.

At this moment, Zou Yun's heart seemed to have been punched, could it really be like what the Taoist chief said? He looked at Sisi's face and didn't want to believe it.

"You're kidding, aren't you, Sisi?"

"I ask you, if I were this plum blossom, would you burn me!"

"Are you really?"

Sisi didn't answer, just looked at Zou Yun with tears in her eyes, waiting for his answer.

"That Lin'er's death is also true?"

As soon as this sentence came out, Zou Yun was scared, and he felt that he would definitely regret knowing the answer.

"That Taoist priest, didn't you tell you everything!"

"You know what he told me!"

"The truth, I'm a plum blossom demon, and I also killed your Lin'er!"

Zou Yun lost all his strength in an instant, staggered back two steps, and couldn't say anything.

"Now, what do you choose? her, or me?"

Zou Yun's mind was blank. The sky was overcast, and the snow began to drift again, when I first married Lin'er, it was also snowing!

Unexpectedly, next winter, Lin'er died in his arms, watching her struggle in pain and darkness, feeling her body temperature gradually getting colder, but there was nothing she could do. Years later, I thought I could let go, have a new wife, have children, and start a new life, but I didn't expect this to happen.

"How can I forgive you?" Zou Yun asked Sisi, and asked himself.

"If it weren't for her, you would have been mine. So she's dead, and she's supposed to be!"

Sisi was surprised calmly, she had envied, jealous and resentful, but at this moment, she just wanted to know the answer.

"Do you know, even if you are a demon, if you tell me that you didn't harm Lin'er, I will believe you and accept you! But why can't you lie to me? She is my wife, you kill her! Now what do you want me to do!"

"She's your wife, I'm not? I killed her, then you kill me!"

"The way you look makes me feel so strange, we've been together for three years, and now I can't understand you. ”

"Because you haven't taken a good look at me in the past three years, what you have been thinking about is your Lin'er!"

"It's really unreasonable, since you admit that you hurt her, then I'll pay her back what you owe now!"

Zou Yun picked up the torch and lit the firewood under the plum tree, the flame soon spread, the snow on the branches soon melted, and the originally red flowers began to lose their luster under the heat wave. He still hoped in his heart that Sisi was just talking angrily for a while, plum blossoms are plum blossoms, and she is her.

"After so many years of companionship, it can't match you to meet her. Sisi indifferently watched the plum blossoms being engulfed in flames, as if they had nothing to do with him.

"If you owe it, you have to pay it back. Zou Yun closed his eyes and didn't dare to turn around.

The flames were getting bigger and bigger, and the trunks of the trees were already on fire.

"Aren't you a demon? you can let Lord He treat you as a niece, why can't you put out this fire? ”

"Do you regret it? But it's too late, and I'm dead the moment you make your choice. ”

"As for Master He, what's so difficult, there is a person in the world, her name is He Sisi. ”

"You killed her too?"

Looking at the plum tree in front of him, it has been completely engulfed in flames, and this plum tree that has accompanied him for many years has died. He hoped that Sisi was lying to himself, and when he turned his head, Sisi was still standing there intact, everything was just her temper. But when he really turned around, he only saw the jade bracelet that fell on the snow, and Sisi's figure had disappeared out of thin air. At this moment, how he wished it was just a dream, there was no Taoist at all, and there was no plum blossom demon, and when he woke up, Sisi was asleep beside him.

At night, Zou Yun locked himself in the study, did not explain to his mother where Sisi went, the child cried tired and fell asleep, and had already let the nurse take him away. Zou Yun hated that Taoist priest at the moment, if he hadn't been nosy, if he hadn't told himself these things, he wouldn't have known anything, none of this would have happened, it was best to keep himself in the dark, and not know until he died.

But if you do it again, after knowing the truth, will you still light that fire? Zou Yun asked himself. Still, he couldn't pretend he didn't know, because what he had forgotten would come to his mind like a nightmare.

Zou Yun found out the plum blossoms painted back then, as well as Lin'er who was added later, but unfortunately Providence made people, Lin'er died, and the plum blossoms were also destroyed by themselves. He put the painting on a candle and lit it, no matter how beautiful things are, they can't escape the fate of turning into ashes, what are they still struggling with?

Picking up the sword on the bookcase, Zou Yun hadn't practiced swordsmanship for many years. His father had taught him for a while, but he had only time to learn a little fur. The sword is a gentleman, it has righteousness and arrogance, and it has been dusty for many years, but it's a pity for it. He is not a gentleman, but he also knows that what he owes will be repaid after all.

I guess it hurts......