"Let's go down."

The senior brother was not very happy, but he still softened his tone.

When he turned around and saw Uncle Fu sitting behind him, he realized that he was in a hurry and lost his politeness in front of him.

Thinking about the Fahua Temple, he saluted him with shame: "Father, it's not early, should you go and rest?" ”

Uncle Fu looked at me, I didn't know what I was thinking, I was a little weak-hearted, and I always felt that the appearance of that hangover soup was not accidental.

Since half a year ago, I began to lose my sense of taste, and I was inevitably discovered, and I have always been cautious, not to mention the senior brother I haven't seen for a long time, even the master and sister have not found out.

The people of the Fu family, how is it possible?

But what happened just now seemed like a deliberate temptation.

He looked at me for a moment before he stood up and said, "So, you should rest early, the night is cold, remember to close the window." ”

Sending Uncle Fu away, the senior brother returned to the room.

Standing there, not speaking, all the time silent thinking about something.

I'm afraid that he will mind what happened just now, and I can't help it: "Senior brother......"

Before the words could be spoken, he was interrupted by the senior brother: "Scarlet." ”

He looked at me, smiled miserably, and said, "You don't have to comfort me, I understand." ”

As he spoke, he took a few steps into the room, as if deliberately avoiding my gaze, and said, "I have always been like this since I was a child, maybe I am not good enough to satisfy my father." ”

Those noble sons of Sheng Jing, none of them of his age can compare to him.

Who doesn't know that the son of the Fu family, who is an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, is now doing things by the king's side, and his future is limitless?

This remark is really a bit presumptuous.

Although I don't understand why Uncle Fu is so cold to my senior brother, I don't want him to be disheartened about this matter all the time.

could only comfort: "Uncle Fu...... Maybe it's just that I don't know how to express my feelings, how can there be an estrangement between father and son that can't be resolved? ”

The senior brother shook his head: "Scarlet, I always feel that my father has changed." ”

"He used to love me very much and take care of his mother, but since he fell seriously ill in Yingzhou more than ten years ago, and after recovering, he seems to have changed as a different person."

"No longer looking at me, no longer being close to me, for my mother, I also try to avoid seeing each other, not so much estrangement, but rather a deliberate escape."

I've heard about it, too.

I heard that when Uncle Fu went to Yingzhou, he contracted a cold on the way and fell ill for several days before he was cured.

Since then, his temperament has changed a lot.

And Aunt Fu may also be aware of this change, and since then she has fallen into the empty door, indulged in Buddhist things, and even built an ancestral hall in the house, chanting and praying in it all day long.

Others, even myself, have envied my brother's background and have the love of my parents, but in fact, there is also unspeakable pain in my brother's heart.

"Actually, I envy you."

When I was silent, the senior brother said this coldly.

"Me?"

The senior brother nodded and said with a wry smile: "I can see that my father likes you very much and cares about you, and compared with me, you get along more like a real father and son." ”

To be honest, I don't know exactly how father and son should get along with each other, but when I was four years old, my father died, and I never even saw his bones.

Memories of him come almost entirely from others, and I myself am just a few fragments.

In the eyes of others, he is always high, decisive in killing, and majestic, and many people are afraid of him.

Even for his mother, he never showed his thoughtfulness and warmth, and he always had an indifferent and rational posture, maintaining a distance of 'respecting each other' in the eyes of others, and watching from a distance.

But for me...... It should be different.

I remember one time, playing outside the door, listening to him in the house scolding his subordinates who had done wrong, his voice was low, and he never got angry, nor did he speak sharply, but strangely enough, the people whom he reprimanded seemed to be afraid, as if it was the greatest punishment for displeasing him.

At that time, I was holding the rattan ball, listening to their words and being fascinated, I accidentally rolled the rattan ball out.

The people in the room were shocked that their conversation was heard, but my father came out, looked at me who had done something wrong, looked frightened, said nothing, leaned down and hugged me away.

And in those fragmented memories, many times, it was my father who carried me away in the mansion.

However, it seemed extremely difficult for others to get close to him.

My father, I only remember about him, though it was only a small thing, and it had long since become obscure because of age.

But like a ray of warm sun in winter, it is not warm enough, but it is enough to outline in my heart the cognition that 'he loves me very much'.

Therefore, I have always been sad about his death, even when I see other people's fathers and sons, talking and talking, I can't help but feel pain in my heart.

Is this envy, or envy?

I didn't want to look too sad, so now I've learned to convince myself that it's someone else's business, it doesn't belong to me, and that life has never been about me.

However, my brother said that he envied me, and that I and his father looked more like a father and son......

There was a trace of bitterness on my lips, and I said softly: "Senior brother, you knew that my parents died early, and your parents, no matter what, are now by your side, you can see and touch them, when it's cold, they will remind you to close the window and get drunk, they can still cook you a bowl of hangover soup, so, what do you envy me?" ”

"I'm sorry, I'm ......"

Seeing that my tone was gloomy, the senior brother lowered his head in shame: "I shouldn't have said this to you." ”

I turned the jade flute around my fingers and said lightly: "Hurry up and clean up, we will leave the house and go to Fahua Temple later." ”

In the middle of the night, while everyone in the house was asleep, my senior brother and I sneaked out through the back door of Fu's house.

Since Fahua Temple was too far away from Fu's house, we took the horses from the backyard, and in the dead of night, the streets were empty, and the sound of horses' hooves trampling was particularly abrupt in the deep alleys.

I didn't say anything all the way, and when I came to the gate of Fahua Temple, I said, "Not far from here, there is a forest, let's hide the horse there first." ”

The senior brother hummed, and we went one after the other, in the moonlit night, cautiously, and led the horses into the woods.

The shrubs in the forest are dense, and the moonlight pours down through the branches and leaves, which looks deep and eerie.

Senior brother said: "You really know this place, if I didn't know that you just came to Shengjing, I would have thought that you had specially prepared for this." ”

Senior brother has been very strange lately, always saying things that seem to be tempting me, and the same is true about the topic of Master before.

I smiled and said, "You know, I've been here to make incense before, and I walked around the neighborhood when I had nothing to do. ”

The senior brother hummed and stopped talking, and I, in my heart, kept thinking about the deep meaning of my brother's previous words.

Outside the temple, there was no one guarding it, and the monks should be asleep, but we still chose to climb over the wall to go in.

There was no one around, and a bright moon hung in the sky, adding a bit of loneliness to the already empty temple.

Standing still on the path, the senior brother asked, "Where are we going to find the baby, what if it enters the palace today?" ”

I lowered my voice and said to him, "Follow me." ”

We came to the bottom of the Immortal Pagoda, and the senior brother looked up at the pagoda and said, "The Immortal Pagoda? ”

I hummed, and then I heard him wonder for a while: "Aren't we here to find that evil baby, what are we doing in the Tower of Immortality?" ”

I smiled and said, "You'll know when you go in." ”

This tower, which enshrines the tablets of Princess Hanji and Queen Niangniang, is a forbidden place for the royal family.

Therefore, the subjects were only allowed to worship, and even the monks in the temple could not approach this place.

This time, if it weren't for that baby, or for the ten dares of the senior brother, it is estimated that he would not dare to commit such a crime of disobedience.

Looking at his entangled look, I couldn't help but smile and said, "We just go into the tower to have a look, and we won't disturb the souls of Princess Hanji and Queen Niangniang, what are you afraid of?" ”

"That being said."

Senior Brother glanced at the Immortal Pagoda and said sullenly: "On weekdays, you are only allowed to watch from a distance, connecting places that you can't even think of when you are near, but now you want to go in, it's really a bit ......."

He said and sighed: "You're too foolish......"

Hearing this, I snorted and replied, "Is there any place in the middle of the world that you can't enter?" It's just you people, mediocre people who disturb yourself and enclose yourself in prison. ”

"It's only because someone else said that this is a forbidden place that it becomes inaccessible, but in fact, the place, just such a place, is us, which makes it different."

The senior brother was inexplicable, and he didn't understand at all.

I smiled and said, "Anyway, it's our warlock's trick, you don't understand it." ”

"You're always pretending to be mysterious, but there's nothing wrong with it."

"Pretending to be mysterious?"

I raised my eyebrows and said, "Senior brother, do you know that in our cultivation world, there is a kind of technique. ”

"Sorcery?"

I hummed and said, for example, "For example, you want to enter a house but you can't get in, or, like you're lost, you're walking around outside." ”

"And this kind of magic, how do you do it?"

"Because the owner of the house has placed a taboo on you, making you believe that you can't go in that place, and you subconsciously feel that you can't go in there, so you really can't go in."

"If this happens, how can you solve it?"

"What ...... this?"

I sold a pass and replied, "You just think, what I just said to you, there is no place in this world that you can't enter, and the reason why you can't get in is because you feel that you can't get in." ”

"I think I can go in, so can I get in?"

The senior brother said and sneered again: "This is ridiculous. ”

"You don't believe me?"

The senior brother tugged at the corners of his lips: "It's a little unbelievable, but what are you talking to me about?" ”

I looked at the Immortal Pagoda in front of me and replied lightly, "Didn't you notice that the Immortal Pagoda has no door?" ”