"Little brother, what is your fate, the foolish brother doesn't dare to speculate, but judging from your current situation, it is also in line with the fate of Yu Ying Shouyuan. If the foolish brother is not mistaken, what happened to you when you turned twelve, right? "After the so-called fish baby Shouyuan, after the chaotic appearance, Li Shanye asked me.

"Yes, exactly, that's right." Although I have always been reluctant to say this, since it has been seen, there is no need to deny it, so I nodded and looked at Li Shanye seriously.

"So little brother, you have always been cautious about this, and it is only natural that you should be cautious. To tell the truth, if it weren't for Lao Wu telling me some of your situation, I hope I can help you untie the knot in your heart, and the foolish brother wouldn't dare to talk nonsense about your weakness and arouse disgust. Seeing that my reaction was quite calm, and there was no obvious wariness of myself because of this, Li Shanye smiled lightly, and then said: "Under normal circumstances, the separation of souls and souls means death, little brother, you lost three souls as early as when you reached the age of twelve, and only the soul still lives in the body, but you have to be protected by the gods, and you have grown up to the present without incident, I have to say that this can be called a miracle, and it must have been a lot of good fortune in the previous life, in exchange for such a great creation in this life." Presumably, in order to save your life, whether it is the master who appeared when your life was dying and you needed help the most, or the little brother yourself, you have paid a lot for this. ”

"If a person with a chaotic mind is an ordinary person, there is naturally no problem, but if you want to become a cultivator, it is not very suitable, and it is not easy, plus you, little brother, and you are a fish baby Shouyuan, who is born with a life that is easy to incur evil and evil violations, that master can save you for a while, but it is destined not to save you for a lifetime. So the best way, naturally, little brother, you have the ability to deal with those evil things, and when you want to come to that master to make the decision to take you into the door, you have also experienced a lot of struggles in your heart, after all, this is not an easy thing for him or for you, so as soon as the foolish brother sees you, he admires the master who not only saved you, but also taught you the arts, if you are not a big-minded person, you can't have such courage. ”

I looked at him and thought about it, but in the end he didn't speak.

The man in front of him was right, in order to save my life and make me barely successful, the old man did pay a lot. Not to mention anything else, just suppressing the re-emerging puppets and cleaning up the portal, if it weren't for the existence of my oil bottle, the old man would have already done it nine times out of ten, how could he still run around at such an age, in order to make me a real painter with good intentions.

Thinking of this, a trace of guilt and apology for the old man suddenly arose in my heart.

All the arrangements made by the old man for most of the past six months were so that I could become a painter as soon as possible and officially take over the mission of inheriting the painting spirit, but I stopped at this last step because of the fear that I couldn't find a reason in my heart, and refused to step over.

What am I afraid of?

Could it be that he is afraid of passing on the mission of this ancient sect that will be extinguished at any time like a broken candle, but it is tenaciously and difficult to support, and he doesn't want to carry such a heavy responsibility on his shoulders? In fact, I am a coward in my soul, I just want to take and don't want to give?

If that's what I'm really afraid of, even if the old man doesn't say anything, I can't forgive me at all.

"Okay, if you have a question about your fate, little brother, let's talk about it here first. If you have any questions, little brother, you can just ask, as long as you don't dislike that the foolish brother is talking nonsense, but whatever I can say, I will definitely answer you with all my heart. Don't worry, don't have any scruples, you and I were a family three hundred years ago, and we were fellow believers, so you don't need to pay attention to those forms, just say whatever you think in your heart. At this time, what Li Shanye wanted to say came to an end for the time being, looked at me and said with a smile.

"Well, since you say that, then I'll be bold, if you really have anything to say, I hope you don't mind." After hesitating for a while, seeing that he really didn't look like a small-bellied chicken intestine and the kind of person who couldn't be questioned, I simply didn't care about it so much, looked at him directly and asked, "I just want to know now, how do you know about me?" Did Lao Wu tell you, or did you really not know beforehand, and you only saw it from me after seeing me. ”

Speaking from the heart, even if I am full of doubts now, such a question is still too direct, and when I ask it, it is equivalent to directly saying that I don't believe you at all, and I doubt your identity and intentions, which is basically equivalent to completely denying a person.

But I believe that if the person in front of me really hadn't been the kind of person who had learned some things about me from Lao Wu and deliberately exaggerated nonsense to attract my attention, he would definitely not have cared if I asked such a question, and besides, I would like to see if this person is as open-minded and casual as he appears, or pure duplicity.

"Little brother, I won't hide anything from you. Before you arrived, Lao Wu had indeed told me some of your information, and it doesn't matter if you think I heard it from him. Didn't you just say that if you think that the foolish brother's words are not meritorious, just think that I am talking nonsense, don't take it to heart. "It's similar to what I thought, Li Shanye didn't have any obvious reaction because of this, and he didn't show any surprise, it seems that it is not normal for me to ask like this.

"I don't mean that, I just want to ask, I hope you don't care." Since the other party is honest and has no tricks, and he must have seen it from me, and no one else said anything, then there is no need for me to hold on to it.

It's true that I told Lao Wu about me, but in any case, he can't know so clearly, even if he has secretly collected my information in private, so no matter whether the person in front of him knows anything about it by mistake, or whether he sees it from me, it can't change the fact that he is right.

Except for the appearance of the chaotic mind and the fish baby Shouyuan, I heard it for the first time, and everything else he said was right, if not completely correct, it was much the same.

"By the way, Brother Yamaba, what do the first and last two sentences of my name mean by the poems you just read? I'm still a little confused, so if I can, I'd like you to give me some advice. At this time, I remembered the four lines of poetry, or four words, when Li Shanye came up and spoke, and seeing that he did not show any displeasure because of what I had just said, I asked again.

"Actually, there is no deep meaning, it's just that after listening to your name and some things, and seeing you again, I couldn't help but feel it for a while." After Li Shanye smiled lightly, he looked at me and said, "As the saying goes, peaches raise people, apricots hurt people, and plum trees carry the dead." Although this is only the ancients, according to the characteristics of the three kinds of fruit summed up, to warn future generations not to eat more apricot and plum experience, can not be a rigid set of people, but if a person's life is really not good, easy to attract trouble, the surname Li is indeed not very good, not to talk about how serious, but there is some worsening the meaning. ”

"Plum trees are susceptible to insects, especially a kind of insect called heartworms, little brother, you are the life of a baby fish, and the appearance of confusion is like a plum tree that is not strong, but fruitful, and grows in bright flowers, it will be more conspicuous and eye-catching than ordinary plum trees. Insect pests will continue to want to climb on your tree, wreak havoc, and the surrounding flowers will also absorb nutrients through you, and even pedestrians passing by will have the idea of approaching and picking a few to taste, so if it is another surname, even if it will not bring you any benefits, at least it will not bring any harm, but the surname Li will make you worse. ”

"You are a chaotic person, it is easy to be affected by external factors in some key things, and it is such a plum tree, and there are gorgeous flowers everywhere under the tree, if any of those flowers become a spirit by absorbing your nutrients, or it is originally a spirit, it will be more effective to confuse you, not to mention that there will be other goblins and ghosts attracted by you. But the surname is a thing, but it was brought by the father, and it was already destined when it was still in the mother's womb, if you blindly follow the mother's surname, it is useless not to say it, but it will lose the nourishment of the father's yang energy, which will make it even worse. ”

"So these situations are really not optimistic for you, and there is almost no solution, but fortunately, your family has a capable person who can see through these problems, or the good fortune you cultivated in your previous life makes your life not deserved, and soon after you were born, you met someone who can see through, so as to give you the name of "Nian", I hope that in the future, when you face those flowers transformed by spirits, your heart can be unswerving, and there are no distracting thoughts, which has improved this predicament to a certain extent. If Brother Fool is not mistaken, shortly after you were born, your family planted a peach tree for you in front of and behind your house, and this peach tree is no longer there, right? ”

I couldn't help but be shocked, like a thunderbolt in my heart, and looked up at Li Shanye, my expression was a little solemn.

How so? Although I don't know what the origin of my name Li Nian is, whether it was really taken by my grandfather, who is an old carpenter, after seeing my fate, or just happened to meet someone who understands, I know the peach tree he was talking about.

There used to be a peach tree behind the pigsty in my old house, on the ridge between the house and the pigsty, and when I was curious when I was a child, my mother told me that this peach tree was as big as me, and that it was planted by my father before I was full moon.

In my childhood memories, although this peach tree bears fruit every year, it does not bear much, but it is not too little, but the taste has never been good. In that era of scarcity of rural materials, if anyone planted fruit trees, when they were ripe, they would be eaten secretly, or even picked up overnight, but only the peach tree next to my house, no one would ever pick fruit to eat, if it was because the fruit was not sweet, no one wanted to eat it, because at that time, rural people could not eat snacks and other things all year round except for eating, and finally when it came to the season, there was some fruit to eat, no matter what the taste was, Most people will taste it, and even the more sour and numb wild fruits are eaten, and there is really no reason to ignore a planted peach tree.

What's even more strange is that the peach tree is not shady, it can be said that the land is fertile, the sun is abundant, and my mother takes care of it all year round, never letting weeds grow around, let alone let the peach tree have insect pests. But even so, this peach tree also grows like that, it is not malnourished, but it seems that it is not strong enough, the key is that the fruit is not delicious, I have never seen any adult including my father and mother eat it, it is when it is ripe, we children climb up and pick it and eat it. I remember that Li Lin and I once asked my mother a few times, why my peaches are not delicious, they are much worse than others', since they are not delicious, Mom, none of you want to eat them, so why do you grow them?

Whenever this happens, my mother just smiles, then touches me and Li Lin's heads, and doesn't say anything.

In this way, every year when the peaches are ripe, I have the doubts until I turn twelve and enter the thirteenth year. When I was unconscious, my father rushed home, and he took the town house axe he took from the incense and cut down the peach tree, cut it into wooden nails, and drove it into the place where I met the puppet.

Later, under the teaching of the old man, I touched the threshold of the painting spirit little by little, and after I also had some knowledge of the gods and ghosts, I also thought that the peach tree that was planted by my father himself shortly after I was born and was cut down by him without saying a word after my accident may have a certain relationship with me, but I didn't think too much about it, and I didn't ask my parents about it. After all, grandpa is an old carpenter who was somewhat famous when he was young, and it is normal to know some methods to suppress evil in the house, and besides, it is all in the past, so why bother to expose the scars on the hearts of my parents again.

According to Li Shanye's meaning, the peach tree that no longer exists is really related to me, and it is not small. Even if I lived to be twelve years old before I had an accident, I'm afraid it was because of this peach tree.

"Peaches raise people, apricots and plums hurt people. This peach fruit can not only raise people, it is known as a longevity peach, and the peach tree has the ability to calm the gods and ward off evil spirits. The person who named you helped you take off Li Nian's name, hoping that you would have no distractions and not be shaken by the charm and spirit, and at the same time, he also planted a peach tree for you to calm down, I have to say that this is indeed quite a clever move. Although you can't let the peach tree protect you from all the calamities, it is also free from many shady things. If it weren't for that, even if you were blessed with a lot of luck, little brother, I am afraid that you would not be able to delay the arrival of the real nobleman. There was no need to say anything at all, just by looking at my expression, Li Shanye knew that what he said was completely right, so after I had recovered my strength, he smiled again.