"Add an egg"

"Add some coriander"

"Can you add an egg, some coriander, and some noodles by the way?"

The door was pushed open, and a new voice came from the faint air

Xu Zi'an didn't turn his head when he heard this, and shook his head helplessly

Naturally, it is Shen Li who adds eggs, and the coriander added should be an old man, and in the end, he can still put forward another person with a face to add noodles, in the whole world, except for Zhu Xiaoyu, can anyone else?

Maybe it was because of the old man's presence, or maybe it was because he was ashamed that he couldn't eat enough without adding some noodles, Zhu Xiaoyu walked very awkwardly at this time, holding the fat on his waist with one hand, and rubbing his round and white face with the other hand, walking cautiously in front of the old man like a newly married daughter-in-law, with a sad face

"Look at what you're talking about? Time is running out, why is it running out? You've lived for so many years, what if you live for a few hundred or thousands more? If you don't want to do it, who can force you to do it?"

When Zhu Xiaoyu said this, the fat on his face trembled back and forth because of resentment, like a large piece of pork belly floating in a pot

He was telling the truth, with the identity and strength of the old man, if he didn't want to do it, there was really no one in the whole world who could let him do it, even the person on the dragon chair

Seeing that the old man didn't speak, Zhu Xiaoyu understood and said in a trembling voice

"You're not really going to do that......"

The old man swayed slowly in the rocking chair, his expression was calm and serene, and he did not bow his head in acknowledgement, nor did he shake his head in denial

The meaning of Emperor Wu letting the old man leave Beijing is clear to everyone, which naturally includes Zhu Xiaoyu, he asked the old man to come here to look for Shen Li, just to let Shen Li and the old man return to this deep mountain together

But no one can really guess the real thoughts of the old man, some people because they don't dare, some people because they don't want to, and some people don't bother to guess at all

The person who didn't want to think deeply was Zhu Xiaoyu, and the person who was too lazy to guess was Shen Li

Zhu Xiaoyu didn't want to think about it, because he didn't want to see the person he respected the most in his heart turn into a handful of stars under the night sky, this was a very painful process, Shen Li was the person he admired very much, and the old man was the only person he respected in the world, if the two really fought, no matter who was alive or dead, he didn't want to see it, so he didn't want to think about it

And Shen Li thought lazily, just because after seeing that light a long time ago, he was completely disappointed in this world, and this disappointment made him have an indifferent attitude towards everything, this attitude is uninhibited to put it mildly, and to put it bluntly, it is indifferent

Indifference to the world

So, even though the old man might die with him, he was very cold

The atmosphere was quiet again, except for the sound of the rocking chair rocking, which was depressing and dull

Since the old man was reluctant to speak, Zhu Xiaoyu couldn't continue to ask even if he was reluctant in his heart, and in desperation, he just stood in place like a big quail of more than 200 catties, sitting or standing, looking up at the few wilting peach blossoms, thinking that this wilting flower was really fucking ugly

The old man was also looking at the rippling peach blossoms, and said inexplicably

"These peach blossoms are very beautiful."

Zhu Xiaoyu wanted to frown when he heard this, but he didn't dare to frown, thinking that your old joke is really not funny

Shen Li, who was waiting for Xu Zi'an to come back from cooking noodles, turned his head, glanced at Zhu Xiaoyu, and said angrily

"You know what? It's something from the abyss, and it's beautiful."

Zhu Xiaoyu was stunned, his two eyes slightly bigger than soybeans were round, his mouth opened and closed a few times and he didn't make a sound, and he sighed in his heart after a long time

It is worthy of Shen Li, just a few wilted peach blossoms have such a background, so aren't the other things in this yard also very proven?

The grass on the low wall can't be the forgotten worries between the Lanxi Road, or the duckweed in the depths of Bailu?

Thinking of this, Zhu Xiaoyu's face trembled with excitement, and he wondered if he would find an opportunity to take all the things in this courtyard away

Shen Li seemed to know what bad idea this guy was thinking, and glared at Zhu Xiaoyu fiercely, Zhu Xiaoyu trembled in his heart, and quickly stood aside honestly, pretending not to think about anything just now

A gust of night wind passed, and it was cold in the wind, and Shen Li tightened the new padded jacket on his body in the wind, looking a little cold

The old man glanced at the new padded jacket on Shen Li's body, thinking about the two words he had just heard, and his withered eyes like a blue lake suddenly flickered

"Back then, I disregarded everyone's wishes and forcibly opened the abyss boundary wall to help you leave, so that you could bring out those things that should not belong to this world, so it seems that you can't tell whether it's right or wrong......

Shen Li suddenly glanced at Xu Zi'an, who was busy in front of the stove, and did not speak

These peach blossoms were brought out by him from the abyss, and along with the peach blossoms, there was also the black stone

That is, the Stygian Stone

The old man followed Shen Li's gaze to Xu Zi'an, his pupils gradually dilated, and finally occupied the entire eyeball, like the brightest obsidian in the night sky

, clear and transparent, as if it can see through all the darkness of the world, as well as the truth hidden in the deepest part of the darkness

He stared at Xu Zi'an, through the flesh and blood to the young man's heart

Where it is dark, there is no clear stream lotus, no flowers, anything

Empty, dark, quiet, but not dead

The old man was thoughtful, but also lost

Putting away his somewhat disappointed eyes, the old man looked directly at Shen Li and asked gloomily

"There are so many choices, why this one?"

Shen Li thought for a moment when he heard this, his eyes were not confused, but a kind of paranoid firm fanaticism

"Because what I chose, I was right"

"How can you be sure that you are right, and even if you do see that light in the abyss, what difference does it make you do with the madman who almost destroyed the whole world?"

Patting the floating ash on the padded jacket, Shen Li stretched out his hand and pointed at Xu Zi'an, who was still unconscious, and said in a calm and cold tone

"This child once told me that everything in this world has a reason as long as it exists, and that things that have existed, whether we admit it or not, will exist, and will not turn into nothingness with our thoughts, just like ......... What do you say?"

"What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong, this is what Xu Zi'an said"

Zhu Xiaoyu interjected

Shen Li glanced at Zhu Xiaoyu, patted the other party's shoulder with satisfaction, and continued

"But I've always been curious, who should judge between right and wrong, Zhou Lu, Sage, Emperor Wu, or those illusory heavenly reincarnations, worldly etiquette?"

After a slight pause, Shen Li leaned back in his chair, looked at the sunset moon covered by a thin cloud, and said quietly

"Zhou Law can't tell right and wrong outside the world, the sage has no time to take care of the world, as for Emperor Wu, he can't even see through himself, so how can he judge others? Since no one can really distinguish right from wrong, then why do they think that what they insist on is right? What is different from others is wrong?"

"So I thought it was very unreasonable, so I let the boy jump off the cliff, until it was clear that it was a mistake, and it was the moon cliff on the mountain, the cliff was very high, and the boy almost fell to his death, and there was no intact place on his body, but even so, the child did not complain to me, and fell down like a stone and got up again, and fell down again until he was broken into a pile of powder."

Zhu Xiaoyu was a little moved, he knew that cliff, if it wasn't for the blessing of True Yuan, with his physique, I am afraid that it would become an extraordinarily large piece of meat in just one fell swoop

He was very curious about why the young man in the stove could fall more than ten times and not die, could it be that he could get used to such a thing as jumping off a cliff and falling?

Seeing Shen Li open his mouth again, Zhu Xiaoyu hurriedly stepped aside, continued to play the role of an honest fat quail, looked up at the peach blossoms above his head, and seemed to be obsessed with the style between the peach blossom folds, but in fact, his ears had already been erected and he continued to listen to the conversation between the two

"Of course, I won't change my attitude because of this kind of thing, but over the years, I have also thought countless times, what is right and what is wrong, and since I saw its existence back then, how can I hide my heart and pretend that I can't see it?"

Speaking of this, Shen Li suddenly stood up, looked at some drops of chicken soup spilled on the table, and suddenly reached out to wipe the chicken soup on the table

"When I cover my eyes, I think I can't see the darkness, and I can't do this kind of thing."

In this world, since some things have actually existed, then we just wipe away the traces on the surface, or simply close our eyes and pretend that we can't see them, but they still exist

Since they exist, what I am doing is naturally the right thing

Because I really saw the light

That light is hope

Hope for the whole world

These words were very vague, and Zhu Xiaoyu was a little unclear when he heard them, so he had to turn his head to look at the old man, hoping to see some explanation from the old man's eyes

The old man didn't explain anything to Zhu Xiaoyu, but looked at the bright light of the chicken soup between the cracks of the table, his eyes were deep and traceless, as if he wanted to see the so-called truth through these few drops of chicken soup

It wasn't until a long time later that the old man closed his eyes

"That man saw the light, but now what do you see?"

Shen Li stopped talking, looking at the busy shadow between the stoves, and the chicken noodle soup steaming from time to time in the stove pot

The old man stopped talking, and stood up slightly from the rocking chair, and the rocking chair settled down and stopped squeaking

The wind seems to have stopped, the peach blossoms are no longer ostentatious, and the moonlight has become solidified

The atmosphere was completely quiet

Quiet, and oppressive

The day of the chat seems to have ended, although the old thing that should be talked about has not yet begun, it seems that it will not start, they are all great people in this world, how can they really be like a trivial old man in the countryside as soon as they meet, and they have been sighing and sighing about the old things of the year?

Shen Li used silence to show that he would not change, and the old man no longer tried to change, since he was unwilling to change, he could only continue to stick to his own wishes

The way to stick to it is nothing more than life and death

Zhu Xiaoyu stayed in place, feeling the oppressive atmosphere in the field, and the sweat on his head flowed like the rain last night

Others don't know, but Zhu Xiaoyu knows very well that the old man has rarely touched anyone in his life, not because those cultivators dare not do it with the old man because they are afraid of the name of Qingye Division, but because in this world, there are really too few people who are worthy of the old man's hands

The old man must have reached the Upper Three Realms, and no one knows how far he has reached

The cultivators of the world, those who can enter the three realms, are undoubtedly half-step saints, those who are the strongest in the world

But even so, Zhu Xiaoyu didn't dare to speculate in vain about the final life and death direction of this battle, it was true that this was related to his reluctance to guess, but more importantly, because he was not sure that Shen Li, who seemed to be in the realm, would hide other powerful means

Shen Li's current realm is the realm of knowledge, the lowest realm in the middle three realms, and there is still a whole realm behind him, and it is even far from the old man, but unlike Zhang Yiran's greed and ignorance, he knows very well that the person who can escape from that abyss, how can he not have some means to defy the sky?

After all, this seemingly dissolute man once caused the entire dynasty to be in turmoil

Such a man full of legends is really as he himself said, if he doesn't want to die, no one in this world can let him die

Except that he is bent on death, just like an old man