The Eighteenth Palm: What is the Way of Heaven (3)
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"Okay, Father bought it for you." A middle-aged man next to the boy smiled kindly, took the candy man and handed it to the boy. The boy was very happy, and immediately took the candy man in his mouth, for fear that others would snatch it.
The boy was dressed in a high-quality silk cloth with a strand of gold attached to it, and he looked heroic. The middle-aged man next to him was dressed in an embroidered robe with flower petals embroidered on the robe and a light blue square hat. It can be seen that his family is wealthy.
The father and son went home hand in hand and entered the mansion. A woman in the room, dressed in grace and grace, sat in the midst of it, and when she saw the father and son returning, she got up and went up to greet her.
"Mother, this is a gift that your father bought for you." The boy handed his mother a piece of candy. The woman was glad to take the candy and reached out to comb the boy's messy hair.
Looking at the happy family, Chen Chun couldn't help but sigh on the side: "I didn't expect Tiandao to be so happy when he was young, which is enviable." ā
At this time, the picture turned, and the originally magnificent mansion was wrapped in a raging fire, and the corpses of several family members were lying in the mansion. None of the corpses were unwounded, and each one had marks of a sharp blade.
There are still three survivors in the flames, but their fate is coming to an end.
In the midst of the fire, the sound of crying and shouting kept coming. The boy clenched the corner of his mother's skirt, and the mother staggered as if she were about to fall due to the lack of oxygen, but she did not fall because he was still holding the boy's thin hand.
At this moment, several men with swaggering eyes walked in from the door. The boy shouted excitedly and excitedly, "Uncle, help us." ā
The man in front of him replied, "Uncle is here to save you now, don't move there!" ā
The leader man waved his hand, and several men walked up to the boy, each with a dagger in his hand. At this time, the father next to the boy seemed to notice something unusual, and kept retreating with his wife and son behind him.
Seeing this, the leading man secretly said that it was not good, and shouted at his accomplices: "Go up and kill them, let my brother survive, no one will think about it!" ā
The accomplices were full of fierce expressions, and no longer hid the daggers behind them, and ran towards the boy one after another.
At this time, the beams collapsed and the pillars fell. Covered everyone in the fire. Whether it was the boy's family or the murderer, they all disappeared from Chen Chun's sight.
Chen Chun couldn't help but feel sorry for this family, the Tiandao of the three generals of Maoshan was killed by his uncle who coveted wealth when he was young, and his beautiful childhood memories were buried in this sea of fire, turning into dust and disappearing into the air.
The scene turns again, and in winter, the snow is falling, and few people enter and leave the house in this cold and biting weather. And on the outer street, there was no one to visit, Chen Chun glanced and saw a boy cowering in the corner.
Chen Chun exclaimed: "Heavenly Dao! ā
I felt sorry for the boy who survived the fire that night and was left alone in the streets. The clothes on the boy's body are dirty and messy, and what is suffocating is that in this cold and biting winter, the boy's clothes are only one piece, I am afraid that after today, tomorrow will be difficult to speak.
At this moment, an old man dressed in a hat and carrying a wine gourd at his waist walked up to the boy. The old man asked kindly, "Child, do you know where there are free drinks?" ā
The boy looked up at the old man, and pointed his trembling left hand at the old man's chest. Finally fell to the ground, and even though the boy fell, he was still smiling.
The old man suddenly laughed, tears welled up in his eyes, and smiled at the fallen boy: "What a clever child, there is no drink, you know how warm and cold you are, good, good!" ā
The old man's withered arms lifted the boy's thin body and slowly disappeared into the snow. Seeing this scene, Chen Chun smiled, and the heat surged in his eyes.
The boy was carried back to a hut in the middle of the mountain forest by the old man, and although it was small in size, it also contained two people. One old and one young, surrounded by warmth in this small house.
The boy woke up the following days, and the old man asked for his name, but the boy kept silent. Every day, the old man brought back the ingredients always handled by the boy, I don't know where the boy learned his cooking skills, and there has never been a surplus of leftovers on the table since the boy took charge of the kitchen.
The boy grew older and older, and when he reached the age of fifteen or sixteen, the old man began to teach the boy swordsmanship, talisman seals, and Taoism. The boy practiced penance on this mountain forest day after day, and even in the middle of the night, the sound of the boy dancing the sword could be heard.
As soon as the screen turned, several years had passed. Smoke rose from a thatched hut in the mountains, and bursts of laughter could be heard from inside. There is a wooden table in Maoshan, where a handsome young man and a rickety old man are drinking and having fun.
The young man poured a glass of liquor into his stomach, his face was very ruddy, and he laughed: "Good wine, good wine!" ā
The old man also learned how to drink spirits from young people, but it caused a burst of coughing, and his face was very red.
The boy laughed and said, "You are old, and spirits are not suitable." ā
The old man's face turned red, and he said unconvinced: "What are you arrogant, when I was as old as you, I was a pot, much stronger than your cup." ā
The young man nodded meekly and said, "Yes, yes, you are old and young." ā
The old man nodded, and immediately realized that his speech was sick, and said dissatisfiedly: "Boy, I have heard something meaning." ā
The young man smiled, stopped talking, and drank the liquor and joked with the old man.
It was dusk, and the old man and the young man sat quietly on the stone outside the house. The old man's red wine nose reflected the old man's flushed face, and the old man sighed under this twilight: "Boy, let me ask you, what is the way of heaven?" ā
The young man raised his eyebrows lightly and said with a smile: "Go with the sky, this is the way of heaven." ā
The old man shook his head and replied, "The answer is wrong, but I won't tell you the answer." ā
The boy said angrily, "I don't want to know yet." ā
The old man smiled and said, "Since you haven't told me your name all along, why don't I choose a name for you, and call it Tiandao." ā
The boy snorted, but did not object, nor did he agree. In the young man's heart, the old man is already the last relative, so the name or something, with the old man happy.
The old man looked at the young man with a rare serious look, and said with a slight smile: "I should go back tomorrow, and when the time comes, I will bring a disciple like you, and I will win glory if I want to come." Heavenly Dao, after tomorrow is your new destiny, I hope you can stick to your heart, like your name, and go with the sky. ā
Tiandao nodded, looked up into the distance, although the shadow of his parents appeared in his mind, Tiandao smiled as usual. As the name suggests, follow the heavens and follow the heavens.