The border city of the desert country, the city of Gaone.

In the border city general's mansion, although the architectural scenery is not as prosperous and rich as the capital Longdu, it is also simple and atmospheric, showing a majestic and oppressive momentum.

A crescent moon hung over the treetops, and the early summer night breeze swept across his cheeks with a slight freshness, like a lover's hand caressing. Gu Xi was lying on the recliner, looking sideways at the moon outside the window, his face was indifferent, and a trace of worry and longing flashed in his black eyes.

She stood quietly in the doorway, and what she saw was such a picture. It is like a fairy boy with eyes like a clear spring and eyebrows like distant mountains that have appeared countless times in a dream, the moonlight outside the window is hazy, and his complexion is also hazy, but I don't know who the person he misses in those dark and quiet eyes is? Who could make such a man as pure as a cloud and without dust in his heart think with such a sad thought? A hint of jealousy flashed through her heart.

Even though he repeatedly brushed his sleeves away, disdainful of her affection, her heart was still determined to regret it, why couldn't he look back and smile back and give her a sincere warm smile? Why can't the immortal gods and Buddhas in the underworld create this fate for her, and can't get this infatuation for her?

Gu Xi seemed to smell another breath in the room, looked back lightly, pursed a light smile at the corner of his lips, and said, "Miss Mu, you are here." He got up slowly, asked Mu Qi, who was standing at the door, to come in and sit down on the side of the small table. After more than a year, he frowned slightly, the beautiful flowers in front of him, the long eyebrows were sad, the clear pupils were clear, the slightly open lips were still talking, and there seemed to be thousands of thoughts that could not be told to his mouth, and the cheeks with beautiful curves were also thinning day by day, and the jaw was also sharp. There was a trace of light in his dark eyes that overflowed under the lamp, and he smiled slightly: "Girl, it is in the prime of life, why worry more, isn't it a pity that such a flower-like face is fragile?" ”

"Gu Gongzi, do you also feel pity?" Mu Qi lowered her eyes and smiled, as if she was a little self-deprecating, and there seemed to be a hint of resentment in her low tone.

Qi Nian jade appearance, eyes with sorrow, black hair lightly pulled hairpin purple jade, a light purple dress, broken flowers embroidered on it, brocade belt waist is not a hand. It is "the Liang family bun, the waist of the weak Chu Palace." "A woman who is stunning in the city, she can cause others to be infinitely reverie just by sitting so quietly.

"Every grass and tree in the world has its loveliness, not to mention that God is so partial to girls, how can it not make the world sigh?" He said lightly, his eyes stared at her lightly, a smile can call life, and a smile can also make people die.

"Then why does Childe just sigh to himself, but never ask me why?" She also smiled slightly, her cheeks were slightly red, but her eyes were calm.

"Miss Mu, have you ever heard of such a Buddhist saying: Five hundred times of looking back can be exchanged for a brush with each other?" His eyes moved to the teacup on the side, where the blue water soup was full of fine smoke, and after taking a sip with his long fingers, he continued: "Xu is that I and the girl have not looked back on the previous life and the previous life, and it is not the turn of Gu Xi to inquire about the girl's reason in this life. ”

He smiled lightly, and the words he said in a light tone made people's hearts sad and their feelings were destroyed. Mu Qi blinked her eyes, opened her black pupils that were a little misty, held back the sadness in her heart, and said in a low voice: "If you don't have a chance, how can you meet?" If not, why sit opposite each other? ”

Gu Xi smiled, looked calm, and said: "There are all reasons for the fate of the world. Let's say that the story of this Buddha began when a girl met a graceful young man at the temple fair, and since then she has been haunted by dreams, and it is difficult to sleep and eat, and the Buddha has asked the Buddha to fulfill one of her wishes. The Buddha felt his sincerity and appeared and said, if you can only see each other again, but you want to give up your wealth, family affection, and even your life, are you willing? The girl is persistent for love: willing. The Buddha also said, you have to practice for 500 years before you can see him again, will you regret it? The girl has no regrets. Since then, she has become a big rock, lying in the wilderness, experiencing four hundred and ninety-nine years of wind and sun, and not seeing a single person, such torment, almost wants to make her collapse. One day in the 500th year, someone came and moved all the stones from the field to build a bridge, and the girl was built into a stone fence. On the very day that the bridge was built, she finally saw the boy who had been waiting for five hundred years, and he walked hurriedly, but he did not know that there was a stone on the bridge that was looking at his distant figure for a moment. ”

Mu Qi's eyes were also a little stunned, how could she not be the girl who was obsessed and persistent.

When she looked at him for a moment, Gu Xi put down the tea cup in her hand and continued to say in an indifferent and clear tone: "When this young man disappeared again, the Buddha reappeared and asked the girl: Are you satisfied?" The girl shook her head, why am I just the guardrail of the bridge, and I don't even have a chance to touch him or touch him? The Buddha replied to her, if you want to touch him, then you will have to practice for another 500 years, are you willing? Do you regret it? ”

Mu Qi's gaze froze, the corners of her lips pursed slightly, and her heart was as puzzled as that girl.

Gu Xi lowered her eyes and smiled, and said, "The girl said to herself, she is willing, and she will not regret it." So, this time she turned into a big tree again, and was planted next to the official road, and every day she saw people coming and going, but every time she wanted to come, she never appeared. If it weren't for the five hundred years of loneliness she had insisted on, it would have been unbearable. But as the days passed, she finally calmed down, and she knew that he would not appear again in less than five hundred years. Finally, it was the last day of five hundred years, and her heart was no longer excited. That day, the young man, dressed in white and with a handsome face, walked slowly, and he noticed the big tree by the roadside, and leaned against its roots, closed his eyes, and rested under the tree. The girl finally touched him, and the boy was clinging to her arms, but she could not tell him the lovesickness that had been waiting for thousands of years. She could only move the shade of the tree closer to him, trying her best to block the harsh sunlight for him, so that he could sleep in the shade. After a few moments, the boy awoke, brushed the dust off his body, looked back at the great tree, reached out and stroked its trunk gently, and then, still without hesitation, walked up the pedestrian-to-pedestrian avenue, and disappeared again. ”

There was a moment of infatuation on Mu Qi's face, and the flickering in her eyes was still obsessed and unrepentant.

Gu Xi waved his hand slowly, and said, "The story continues, after the young man left, the Buddha appeared again and asked the girl, you still want to be his wife, so you still have to cultivate." The girl said calmly, "Even though I have thought about it, I don't need to." To love someone, you don't have to be his wife. I suppose his wife had suffered as much as I did in exchange for being able to hold his hand? The Buddha nodded. The girl smiled and said, I can do it, but I don't have to. At this moment, the girl seemed to notice that the Buddha breathed a sigh of relief. The girl was surprised and asked, does the Buddha also have something on his mind? The Buddha said, you are so good, there is a teenager who can wait for you for 500 years, in order to be married to you, he has been cultivating for thousands of years. Reincarnation in the next life is destined to be your wife for a thousand years of waiting. You tied a red rope with your hand to the bridge to walk with him to reincarnate and end your unfinished love. At this moment, a smile also bloomed on the Buddha's face. ”

"However, since she has been cultivating for a thousand years, why not continue to cultivate for five hundred years and be his wife?" Mu Qi narrowed her eyes slightly, looking at Gu Xi's gaze still persistent.

Gu Xi smiled and said, "How do you know if it's five hundred years, or a thousand years, or fifteen thousand years?" ”

"Keep persistent, and one day you will achieve what you want." She said firmly.

"However, this is also a love affair many years later, not this life." Gu Xi whispered and replied: "A lifetime of love, a lifetime of love, a lifetime of fate, if you can't hold each other's hands, it can only be that the fate of the past life and this life has not been cultivated enough." ”

"So, that young man is going to hold someone else's hand in this life?" Mu Qi's clear eyes revealed a faint light of water, condensed slightly, looked at Gu Xi's eyes again, and asked softly: "Why has that young man never experienced such suffering, but he can hold hands with those girls who are waiting for him for the rest of his life, why is it so unfair?" ”

"Miss Mu, how do you know that the young man didn't have to put in the same or more effort and wait as the girl before waiting for the person he wanted to hold hands with? Or did he still not wait, he was just waiting and trying just like the girl? Everyone has their own calamities to go through, and who can be at ease and alone? The corners of Gu Xi's lips seemed to be smiling, but the look in his eyes was very serious.

"Then why didn't he look back at the woman who had been cultivating and waiting behind him?" Mu Qi couldn't help but ask, a trace of gloom flashed on her face.

"It's just because he hasn't seen through this painstaking waiting and cultivation like that girl, and because the woman behind him has only cultivated to a big tree, their fate hasn't cultivated enough to talk to each other." Gu Xi smiled slightly, and there was a hint of mist and unpredictability in the sincerity of his eyes: "Since it is cultivation, it must be waiting with the greatest kindness, rather than forcibly destroying this waiting fate. ”

Mu Qi's mind calmed down, smiled slightly, looked forward to the city, bluffed, and said: "The story told by Gu Gongzi is very poignant, and it is also very sad. But that's just a made-up story after all, so why take it seriously? ”

With his hands and sleeves folded, his jade fingers carried the pot, he refilled a cup of tea for Gu Xi, and asked softly: "Childe, it's okay to live here, if you need anything, just tell me." ”

Gu Xi smiled and nodded, "Everything is fine, the night is dark, Miss Mu should rest early." ”

Although he was still smiling, he was already in the tone of a guest.

Mu Qiying smiled, said goodbye and left, and before leaving, looked back again at the door. The boy's eyes were still looking out the window at the moonlight. The eyes were gloomy, and the eye-catching streamer did not share half of her.

She gently closed the door and curled away.

Gu Xi didn't look at her in the room, at this moment, he turned his eyes back, and looked at the cup of fragrant soup that was still slightly warm under the lamp.

His eyes moved slightly, and his thoughts wandered. The woman who told him to worry about it, the five elements of life track have their own calamities, and they have many bad lucks, I don't know where she is at the moment? How could he keep her safe?