Chapter 17: This Life, the Next

Mountains and rivers are swirling.

The warm spring breeze blows, and the green that directly reflects people's eyes covers all the mountains and plains, and the nine suns hanging in the sky are like clocks.

Every day, when the nine suns turn dark one by one, the night can really come, and at dawn, starting from the first sun in the east, a ray of light slowly appears, until it covers the darkness, and then the second sun also turns from black to light, the third, the fourth...... When all nine suns are lit, a new day begins.

Poof!

A stone fell into the water, causing ripples on the surface, and a man with half-white hair on the shore could not help but frown slightly, and put away the fishing line in his hand.

I said...... Can't you let me catch a fish?" Ren Dao glanced helplessly at Su Yujie, who was also sitting on the shore, and was wearing yellow clothes.

"No! hum!" Su Yujie pouted, very cute, not at all as dignified and gentle as she once was.

For five years, Ren Dao, Su Yujie and Zhu Lin have relied on each other for their lives, and they have lived an idyllic life in this place that relies on the riverbank.

In this monastic world, such a comfortable and leisurely life seems a little out of place, but ...... This has always been the life that Ren Dao pursues.

"Auntie asked me to call you back to dinner. Su Yujie then said with a smile.

"Well, I know, you go back first, I'll be there right away. Ren Dao said lightly.

Su Yujie put away her lively expression, looking at Ren Dao, who was obviously born in the same year as herself, but her appearance was dozens of years older than herself......

With a sigh in her heart, Su Yujie continued to pretend to be cute and said, "Okay! Then I'll go back to eat first!"

With that, Su Yujie took a light step and left the shore.

Ren Dao's somewhat old face inadvertently looked at Su Yujie's lively appearance and smiled, after five years, Su Yujie has become the same as her.

"Huh?"

Ren Dao suddenly looked at the fish hook, and it was actually a little twitching and shaking, obviously a fish had been hooked.

Ren Dao grabbed the hook and pulled the fish violently, and the fish kept jumping and trying to break free.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect that there would really be a wisher taking the bait!" Ren Dao smiled with satisfaction, pinched the body of the fish with his hand, and ripped it off the hook.

"Let's go!" Ren Dao actually threw the fish back into the river again, looking at the flexible appearance of the fish after returning to the water, Ren Dao said with understanding: "Fisherman, don't remember the original intention; ”

With that, Ren Dao walked back to the way he came.

In the distance, outside a simple wooden house, fireworks were rising, and Su Yujie was smiling with her mother Zhu Lin to help set the table.

"I'm back!" Ren Dao looked at this scene with warmth in his heart, took off his fishing hat, and sat on the wooden table in front of the door.

The dinner table of the three has lasted for five years until now, and what will never change on the dinner table is the first-hand vegetarian dishes made by her mother Zhu Lin.

"Oh, you're not dirty, go wash it first and then come back to eat!" Su Yu glanced at Ren Dao and helped him take off his fishing clothes.

Ren Dao smiled and said nothing, and immediately went to wash his hands, very obedient.

"Come on, it's time to eat!"

Zhu Lin took a familiar plate of vegetarian dishes and set it on the wooden table, Ren Dao and Su Yujie also sat down, and the three of them began their daily meal.

During the meal, her mother Zhu Lin suddenly paused and said solemnly: "Dao'er, Yujie, when are you going to hold my grandson?"

Burst......

Ren Dao took a squirt, Su Yujie's pretty face instantly turned crimson, and said shyly: "Oh, aunt, what are you talking about......

Zhu Lin didn't think so, and said with a heartfelt voice: "Aren't we already a family, are we ...... Dao'er, do you like other girls?"

Zhu Lin suddenly raised her eyebrows and questioned Ren Dao, which made Su Yujie look at him a little, Ren Dao suddenly became two heads and two big, and said curtly: "Mother...... I didn't. ”

"No, that's not right, Yujie, this daughter-in-law is not ready-made, so you don't have to make any big wedding ceremony, just give me a grandchild." ”

"Forehead......" Ren Dao was embarrassed for a while, his mother's thinking jumped a little too fast.

On the side, Su Yujie was too ashamed to speak.

Ren Dao said helplessly: "Mother, let's slow down this matter." ”

After that, Su Yujie looked at Ren Dao as if she was lost, and stopped talking.

......

Su Yujie sat alone by the river, throwing stones into the river, in a daze.

"What do you want?" Ren Dao suddenly sat down beside Su Yujie.

Su Yujie looked at Ren Dao complicatedly, and after a long time, he said: "Ren Dao, since that incident, you don't seem to have cultivated again, are you ......?"

Ren Dao shook his head and said: "Cultivation is no longer my pursuit, and neither you nor my mother can cultivate the Dao, so what's the use of me cultivating this Dao to gain a long life?"

"Then ......" Su Yujie hesitated a little, but finally plucked up the courage to speak: "Ren Dao, do you like me?"

This sentence finally came out after Su Yujie held it in her stomach for a long time, and she looked at Ren Dao a little crampedly.

Ren Dao didn't look surprised, he looked at the river very calmly, and said after a long time: "I'll tell you a story." ”

After speaking, Ren Dao told Su Yujie about the legendary life of a martial saint powerhouse, and talked about the martial saint who accompanied his beloved woman to face death before he finally died.

"That's it...... He finally left the world full of regret and remorse......" Ren Dao's eyes were full of reminiscence, revealing a faint sadness.

Su Yujie was also emotionally infected by such a sad story, she looked at Ren Dao with a confused gaze, and found that there were tears in the corners of his eyes.

"Ren Dao ......"

"Huh?"

Su Yujie suddenly looked at Ren Dao seriously and said, "Let's get married......"

Ren Dao was stunned, and suddenly laughed miserably: "Don't you think I'm old......"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ren Dao's eyes suddenly widened, and a touch of soft lips had kissed his somewhat dry lips, and the burning breath between the two quickly pushed each other deep into the abyss of obsession.

......

The years have flown by, and ten years have passed in a flash.

"Mother......

Ren Dao hugged Zhu Lin who was pale on the bed in pain, but Zhu Lin was no longer breathing at this moment.

There will always be death in life, and this is the price of ordinary people who want to live an ordinary life.

......

Thirty years later, above the ruins of Bluestone City.

Two gray-haired old couples stood on the land of this once prosperous city, full of emotional reminiscences.

"It's back......"

Ren Dao opened his mouth, beside him, Su Yujie also nodded, they are both sixty or seventy years old, for so many years, they have been born together, and they have never had children, because they know that even if they have children, then this child can only be alone in the world in the future, and no one will accompany them.

......

Twenty years later, Ren Dao and Su Yujie are almost ninety years old, and on this day, they rely on each other to sit on the peak of the mountain behind the former Bluestone City.

"Ren Dao ......"

Ren Dao opened his turbid eyes and looked at his wife.

"Ren Dao, you still owe me an answer, you have been owing this answer for most of your life......"

Ren Dao remembered that decades ago, on the shore, he and his wife sat next to each other, and at that time, Su Yujie asked Ren Dao a question.

"Jade Jie ......"

"Hmm. Su Yujie leaned on Ren Dao's rickety back, calmly waiting for his words.

"You know what, that girl is you......"

Su Yujie was stunned for a moment, then relieved again, and said, "Is it the previous life?"

"Yes. ”

Su Yujie nodded slightly, but asked again, "Fool, you haven't said it yet." ”

"Huh?" Ren Dao's voice showed a rare question, and he turned his head to look at his wife, looking at his wife's face that was no longer in her prime.

Suddenly, Ren Dao understood, it turned out that even if the other party knew it in his heart, he needed to say it, which was a kind of promise.

"Yujie, I like you. ”

Su Yujie finally smiled, there were some tears in the corners of her eyes, she had waited for this sentence all her life.

"Ren Dao, I'm leaving......"

Su Yujie said suddenly.

Ren Dao's body began to tremble, he turned around and hugged his wife, muddy tears flowing from his eyes.

"Ren Dao, I ......"

"I think I can meet you again in the next life, just like in this life, I want to be with you in three lives and three lives......"