Chapter 65: Trust
We all looked at Brother Huo, and I asked, "How do you know?" β
Brother Huo put away his dagger and said nonchalantly, "I guess." β
Bai Ye frowned, "Guess? On the basis? β
Brother Huo looked at the direction we were heading, "If we keep going in this direction, we will reach Tuoling Peak." β
"Have you been to Tuoling Peak?" I asked.
Brother Huo smiled, unable to hide his pride, "Not only have I been there, I have also lived there, and the little girl before ......" Brother Huo glanced at Bai Ye and immediately changed his words, "It's Bai Ye's little friend, what kind of natural stone steps she said was polished by me." β
We looked at each other, this stuffy chicken usually doesn't talk much, and suddenly a sentence came out, which was really amazing.
Shui Mo looked at Brother Huo with wide eyes, "I said Brother Huo, we are accompanying you back to your hometown on this trip!" But the feng shui of the place you chose is not very good, and people said that there was a big earthquake a few years ago, and the stone steps and roads you built were destroyed. β
"Bullshit earthquake!" Brother Huo snorted, "That's Lao Tzu deliberately drilled that road!" β
I wondered, "Why?" β
Brother Huo said, "I chose to settle there because of the secluded scenery and the distance from humans. Who knew that later, in three days, some villagers climbed to the top of the mountain to watch, and gave the place the name of 'Tuoling Peak'! If this continues, my house will not become a tourist attraction? I made a big move in a fit of anger and destroyed the stone staircase road, and no one will want to go up to Lao Tzu in the future! β
Your home? I said in my heart, these divine beasts are really unkind to speak, and after living for a while, the entire mountain has become his......
The ink clicked his eyes and asked, "Then you can't go up yourself?" Do you have to get a hole every time you go home? β
"I haven't been back since, I don't like the smell of humans! Originally, when I first found out that someone was coming to my house to see the scenery, I was going to move. Brother Huo paused and wondered, "But why did the Immortal go there?" That's nothing......"
I said, "I can't do that much, now that I have a clue, just go." β
"Wait, Xiaobai." Shui Mo said, "This matter needs to be considered in the long run. β
I said, "What else is on the table, without further ado!" β
"Don't be busy with calculations yet, untie people first." Bai Ye squatted in front of the housekeeper and tinkered for a long time, but he still didn't untie the rope.
Brother Huo looked at me, and I bowed my head to him. Brother Huo's rope is extremely complicated, I thought he would untie it for a long time, but I never thought that he held a knot of rope with one hand, and pulled another section of rope with the other, and then pulled hard, and the rope was untied instantly.
Ink exclaimed, "Magic! β
I was dumbfounded, too.
"Where did you just drag it?" Bai Ye pouted and looked at the rope underground.
I said, "You've got a rope to keep busy!" If you're interested, take it with you on the road and research it as you go. β
Bai Ye got up and rubbed his beard, "There are too many doubts in the whole thing, we can't just run in a panic, and besides, we are not sure if the valley is in Tuoling Peak." β
I said, "If you go, you'll know!" Besides, this is the only clue at present, and there is no way to trace the ink painting now, so if we don't continue to move forward, do we have to turn back? β
Bai Ye glared at me, "How can you turn back if you don't find it?" But what can be accomplished with courage alone? β
"I don't need to plan what I'm going to do, I just need to be brave enough to go somewhere. If you have other ideas, you can think about it slowly here, I can't wait, Brother Huo, I'm going to take it away. "I'm going to leave with Brother Huo.
Ink grabbed me, "Oops! Xiaobai, don't worry, we didn't say no. β
Shui Mo looked at Bai Ye, "Bai Ye, although it is not certain that Shangxian is in Tuoling Peak now, but now we can only try, maybe there will be some new clues on the road, otherwise it will not be a matter for a group of us to be here." β
Bai Ye sighed, shook his head and said, "It's a big deal, I want to fly solo at every turn, and I've raised a white-eyed wolf for so many years!" With that, he packed his backpack to himself.
I said, "Don't worry, old man, even if I fly, I will fly back to see you off in the end." β
Bai Ye glared, "Stinky boy, you ......"
I turned my head and asked Brother Huo, "How long will it take for us to get to Tuoling Peak?" β
"If you leave right away, it's about this time tomorrow."
I asked, "Is there really nothing special about Tuoling Peak?" β
Du Qingchen brought Xiaofen to Tuoling Peak, it wasn't to take him for a ride to see the scenery, right?
Brother Huo frowned, "Except that Jinghao is not close to people, there is nothing, just like other mountain peaks, they are all grass, trees, rocks and the like, I am also curious about how Shangxian went there, could it be just a passing by?" β
The spirit must have had a good intention to guide us to Tuoling Peak, but why did she kill Bai Ye? I looked at the old man.
"Look at what! Can you go? Bai Ye urged, "If I rub it any longer, I'll be at the trouble point, and then you will carry me away!" β
I said, "Let's go." β
Brother Huo led the way in front, and I walked up to Bai Ye and asked him, "Old man, when did you offend the sΓ©ance?" β
Bai Ye scolded me, "Then when did you offend Chuan Che?" β
I was dumbfounded.
Bai Ye continued, "The three of them, the three of them, it is normal to descend into the valley, in my opinion, this is the time spent in the fairy spirit realm, and the brain is burned. β
"When has it been since you still told me the truth, are you trying to hide everything? You think you're a hermit? I said, "These two sisters are at me and you, and they want our grandfather's lives intent on it, and you want to prevaricate with a sentence of 'your brain is broken'?" β
"Am I going to joke with my own life? Which woman's mind can guess through? You kid will know if you fall in love a few more times. In short, our grandfather is careful in everything, it is better to die in the hands of a woman than to die in a woman's bed. β
I gave him a blank look, "Don't talk to me about it when it comes to business, and I know in my heart what kind of person the spirit is, don't compare her to the descendant." β
"Yo Yo Yo, the stinky boy has a lot of skills!" Bai Ye smiled all over his face and patted me, "Finally out of the cabinet?" When did you two start? But your kid's vision is a little problematic, and if you fall in love with a girl who wants your Lao Tzu's life, isn't this equivalent to giving yourself a debut - 'I fell into the water at the same time as your Lao Tzu, who do you save'? β
"What nonsense are you talking about! I've only spent some time with their brother and sister in the treehouse, and I treat the sΓ©ance as my sister, don't talk nonsense, and then pass it on to the ears of the sorrel. β
Bai Ye nodded, "I also regarded Sasha as a sister at the beginning, too many petty and filthy feelings have developed from the ambiguous brother-sister relationship." β
I didn't bother to argue with him, I looked back at the housekeeper, and asked Bai Ye tentatively, "I think the housekeeper killed you as simple as he said, what do you think?" β
"How complicated could that be? I know Xiaotian's personality, I have known him for decades, he won't lie to me, he doesn't have the guts. β
I asked, "What does it mean when he says that the spirit says to him, 'If you don't die, we all have to die?'" Is it a notification or a warning? β
Bai Ye frowned, "Is there a difference between the two?" β
"Absolutely!" I explained, "The notice is to tell you the outcome of the matter, to show that the matter is a foregone conclusion and cannot be changed, and the warning is only to threaten him, indicating that the matter is still delayed, one is subjective, the other is objective, how can there be no difference?" β
Bai Ye was confused when he heard it, "What is subjective and objective, I don't understand what you are saying." Speaking of which, doesn't it mean that I have to die? You kid is always like this, thinking about everything in a complicated way, and living so hard for yourself at a young age. β
"Who made me live so hard? Who didn't tell me anything, so that I had to guess? β
Bai Ye retorted, "You can blame me for your own curiosity?" It's rare to be confused in life. Many things are predestined, and when you encounter them, you just have to accept them or not? β
My heart tightened, and Bai Ye's words reminded me of what Xiao Fan once said to me, "Actually, there is such a thing as fate, just admit it". Why did these two people, who have very different personalities and disparate identities, show a rare consistency on the subject of "accepting fate"?
I also believed that people can't get out of their own life, but my subconscious has never given up struggling and resisting.
But Xiao Fan and Bai Ye, they seem to have gone through the stage I am at now, and finally have no choice but to accept their fate, or they simply skipped the struggle and chose to accept their fate directly.
From the two of them, I can't see the willingness, they are helpless.
Bai Ye pushed me, "What do you want?" The eyes are straight. β
"Old man, have you ever done anything against your will?" I looked at Bai Ye.
He was stunned for a moment, "Standing in the sun, who has no shadow behind him?" Some people are sorry for others, some people are sorry for themselves, isn't this how people live and owe and go? β
I think of myself, I am not a person who accepts my fate, and I hope that I will be open all my life, and I hope that in the end, I will still be like that.
Suddenly, a few drops of water fell on my face, and I looked up at the sky, and a flash of lightning appeared above the dense woods.
"It looks like it's going to rain heavily." Bai Ye said.
Brother Huo stopped and turned his head and asked, "Go ahead or find a place to hide from the rain first?" It seems that this rain will not stop for a while. β
As he spoke, the rain became heavier and heavier, accompanied by lightning and thunder.
"Tents! Tent! Bai Ye shouted to the housekeeper behind him, and the housekeeper took out the tent earlier.
"Set up a tent here?" I ate a mouthful of rainwater.
Bai Ye shouted in the rain, "There is no cave nearby, this clearing is not big or small, just suitable for setting up a tent, let's go first to hide, wait for the rain to lighten, and then go!" As he spoke, another thunderclap exploded in the sky.
I frantically tugged at the corner of the tent, froze in place, not knowing how to help.
Bai Ye glanced at me with disgust and shouted, "Young Master, get out of the way!" β
I stepped aside, and Ink walked over, "Those who can work harder, let them do their own work." Ink dragged me towards him, "You stay away from that tree, why don't you have any common sense of survival in the wild!" β
I wiped the rain from my face and said, "I didn't ask anything about it all the way." β
Shui Mo smiled, "As expected, what kind of person is Bai Ye!" β
I said frustratedly, "The problem is that I don't understand, it's all at this time, why can't everyone sit together and share the information they have, and we also have information that they don't know." β
Shui Mo shook his head and said, "Xiaobai, I know that you attach great importance to team spirit, but this team spirit also has to be divided into times and depending on the occasion, not simply shouting slogans, everyone will unite." β
I was puzzled, "What do you want to say?" β
"What do you think, we have our own information now, if someone defects in the middle, it will only be a loss of one-seventh for our entire team, if everyone has all the information, but if one person turns against the water, what will be the consequences?"
I looked at the ink, "What do you mean ......?"
He continued, "Sometimes, we get so focused on the enemy that we lose sight of our comrades. Who can guarantee that the person around you will not block your gun at a critical moment, or even that he is the one who shoots at you. β
Ink's words sent chills down my spine, and although they sounded a little dark, they were powerless to refute them.
I asked him, "Those of you who have lived for a long time, will you end up with no one left with whom you trust?" β
Ink didn't care, "What do you want that kind of person to do?" It's enough to believe in yourself. He looked at me, "By the time you're our age, maybe you'll not even believe in yourself." β
"How is that possible?" I said, "If you follow the immortals, I will always believe it." β
"Wow! I can't imagine that my current status in your heart can actually be on an equal footing with immortals? Shui Mo showed his little tiger teeth, hooked my neck and smiled, "This trip is worth it!" β
"Neurotic!" I gave him a blank look.
The tent had been set up, and Bai Ye beckoned to us.