Time flies, years fly by, and when the dog leaves the village with his bags on his back and the sound of the villagers' blessings, my heart is extremely complicated.

"Dad, I'm leaving." He smiled heartily at me. It seems that the events of last night have been forgotten.

"Go early and come back early." Two emotions, relief and guilt, made my voice tremble.

The dog arched his hand, hugged his new wife tightly, and left.

"Dog......" I couldn't help but ask.

"Daddy?" He turned back.

"Go early and come back early." I was silent for a moment, and then said.

"Dad, I will." He also seemed to understand my complexity, walked over, and hugged me too.

The dog left the village and went to take the test.

The boys' exam has already been completed, and there is no problem with the township exam, and now I have to go to the prefectural exam, and if I pass, it will be the palace exam.

It was only after the dog left that I noticed some changes in the village that I hadn't noticed on a daily basis. With macro side blood.

For example, the leaves of the plane tree have fallen. Another example is the old village chief who died last year, and another example is the big cow that has grown gray hair, and the old people in the village have entered reincarnation one after another. And new life, but there are also more ...... In addition, the business of the winery is getting bigger and bigger, and Wutong Village has become a well-known rich village.

These things are important. Some of them are not important, but they all happen around me, but I didn't realize it before, but now that I look at it, there is a different kind of freshness.

In this world. It's like I've lived every day, it's so real.

I found that my state of mind, before I knew it, had reached the pinnacle of the transformation realm.

It's a terrifying growth, and when I forget everything, my mood actually jumps.

My cultivation can't grow, but the realm has changed with this cold and summer, the cycle of life and death.

In the plain, there is also truth, which is slowly sublimated and intoxicating.

"Is the next step for real people?" I found that I didn't seem to be as happy as I had imagined, just muttering.

The dog went for a long time, in these days. I got into the feeling.

A piece of grass and trees, a grain of dust, and a drop of water are all the contents of my feelings, and there are few such times that can make me so calm.

In fact, these experiences have long existed in my heart, I forgot before, and my state of mind is also growing naturally, and now I deliberately practice is equivalent to taking back all those things I have forgotten, and the imaginary realm breaks through the state of mind of real people, and there is not much movement, which is almost impossible in reality.

"Thank you, Senior ......," I murmured.

In my understanding, I intuitively found that if everything in the outside world plays a 10% role in improving my state of mind, then the memory of the dog accounts for the remaining 90%.

"Baoyin Zhenren said that only when you can go out of your own way can you have great achievements...... So what is my word? ”

What is the Tao? For dust, for water droplets, for grass and trees, and even for dog shit, the key is not the Tao itself, but to be clear, how to go through one's own Tao? Throughout my life's practice, from the beginning to earn my life, to the friendship with Chu Chen, Li Changsheng, Yang Yu, and Ning Xue, Ye Mengyao, Ning Qianhua, and then to the love between ordinary people who do not exist, but actually give me feelings, and of course, the relationship between father and son...... These feelings, piled up, are the whole path of my practice.

Scenes passed by in front of my eyes, and the stories that had happened flowed through my heart like flowing water.

"This is my way......" I finally understood, exhaustion in my voice.

After that day, I grew much older.

The dog came back, and as I expected, he won the first place, and the village was lit up, which showed that he was going to meet the Son of Heaven and go to the court to be a big official.

There has never been such a big man in the village, and if the old village chief is still alive, he will definitely go crazy.

Da Niu and Sister-in-law Lan are even more excited than me, and the title of the son-in-law's gold list is really flying on the branches and becoming a phoenix.

A cold moon hung high in the sky, a breeze blew, blowing and swaying back and forth the lanterns hanging in the doorway, and there was a knock at the door outside.

"Come in." I said lightly.

"Daddy." The dog pushed the door in, his eyes were as bright as stars, with a sense of wisdom and pride, but when he saw me, it was all calm: "Dad, I figured it out." ”

"What?" I looked him in the eye.

"I don't want to cultivate anymore, that's not interesting, I went to Fuchu to take the exam this time, and after leaving home for a few months, I realized that I didn't really have any big ambitions, and every day I wanted to finish the exam early and then go home...... Sitting in front of the court, watching the flowers bloom, if I go to the Tao, how can I bear that hundred years of loneliness? And Huan'er, she is my wife, how can I keep her widowed? My son has so many things that he can't give up...... Moreover, Dad, you will gradually grow old, and when you are old, if I am not there, who will be able to guard you, protect you, and support you? His voice was flat, but there was a sense of firmness, but there was still a trace of unwillingness in his heart, which was slowly fading.

He was gone and I couldn't sleep.

A word, like warm water, warmed me, I was silent for a long time, and suddenly I reached out and wrote a word on the table: Father.

Not satisfied, erased it and wrote another: sub.

At the moment when this word appeared, the whole table seemed to be decayed into magic, and it actually revealed an inexplicable sense of simplicity, open-minded, straight through the heavenly spirit, I looked at the sky, and the moonlight was reflected in my black and white eyes, and murmured.

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

He thinks he is hiding it very well, but he can't hide it from me, people are like this, that is, modern, they all say to live for themselves, but how many people, the meaning of life is for others, maybe, this is fate, when the dog understands this truth, I feel the warmth, this warmth, let my realm leap, to a level I dare not imagine.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

Sure enough, as I expected, the effect of the nine-petal heart orchid has allowed the dog to spend nine years, and the resentment has been very light, only a palm-sized mass remains, which seems to be condensed and will not be dissolved again.

I didn't force it, the purpose was no longer important, and I didn't even know what I wanted.

The days passed like this, the dog, no, it should be Xu Buregret, participated in the palace examination, and then won the champion, creating a record, the youngest champion of this dynasty, deeply loved by the emperor, and admitted it to the Academy of Literature, specializing in the study of knowledge.

At the age of nineteen, he officially entered the court as an official, because of the emperor's care, he was naturally prosperous.

He would also go home, and asked me to go to the capital several times, but I didn't agree, I was reluctant to give up the big cows, reluctant to the village, reluctant to give up those beautiful plane trees.

"Brother Xu, it's been so many years, it's really fast, I still remember the picture of you holding the dog and coming to the village just after the heavy rain stopped, and now, your son has also become a mature ......" Da Niu said with emotion.

"Over the years, I've caused you trouble." I pursed my lips and smiled.

The days of being an official are not easy for Xu Buregret, in addition to government affairs, there are also open guns and hidden arrows, as well as countless temptations.

Like a high mountain, in the process of stepping through these huge obstacles, he strengthened himself again and again, felt the deceit in the officialdom, the reality and ideals, the huge impact formed, brought him to think, and later, he had a child, when everything poured out, he would also be troubled, and then think of his father.

"It's so difficult to bring me up......"

Xu Buregret suddenly wanted to go home.

Of course it can't be, people in officialdom can't help themselves.

Twenty years, in the blink of an eye, the thirty-nine-year-old Xu Buregret has become the prime minister of the dynasty, which can be called under one person and above ten thousand, the new emperor, in his childhood, was also his student.

He has a lot of authority, but he didn't have too much nostalgia, but returned to his hometown.

Forty years old, which is the golden age, he actually wants to resign.

The reason is simple, Da Niu died.

When his father-in-law died, he was grief-stricken and panicked at the same time, but what about his own father?

The rights of the world, he has experienced, glory and wealth, and there is no shortage, when he has all this, he found that he doesn't like these things at all, all he wants is not to lose someone.

When he returned home on a snowy night, he pushed open the door.

I looked at him with snowflakes on his body, smiled faintly, and moved his chopsticks.

"Eat."