Chapter 6: Father and Son
The woman was born beautiful, but she was unwilling to be a concubine, and after saving money for many years, she sold her personal jewelry to redeem herself, and married this man who made baked cakes, and used her savings to buy a house on the street. After marriage, the man goes out to sell baked cakes every day, and she is a female celebrity at home, cleaning up the housework, although the days are hard but peaceful, it can be called sharing joys and sorrows, and thinking of these things at night, the woman admires herself a little. ”
Sang Sang knew what the big black horse was thinking, and looked at the couple on the street and said. The big black horse flicked his tail lightly, thinking to himself, isn't this a beautiful thing?
She continued: " Human beings are always greedy, there are always times when they are dissatisfied, they always want to ask for more from the world, they think they deserve more, one day, the woman will dislike her man for being short and boring, so she begins to sneer, the man is ashamed so he does not dare to refute, but becomes more humble, in the eyes of the woman is more boring, her heart is a little irritable and unhappy, one day in the future when she closes the curtain, the pole in her hand falls on the street, smashing a handsome and golden brother, the boy brother sees the flesh under her skirt, and begins to itch, the woman also begins to itch, and it itches to one place, and when the adultery is broken in the future, the woman is ashamed and afraid and ashamed, I have my own malice in my heart, how can I remember the sea oath and mountain alliance of the year, the quiet time, I just want to use a qiē method to kill the dwarf who sells baked cakes, so that I can be happy with my lover. ”
The wind and snow have stopped, and the snow on the eaves of the houses has begun to melt, and as the sun moves westward, the temperature drops, and the water dripping from the eaves is frozen into cold ice edges.
What she said at this time was like these ice edges, which seemed to be transparent and without any emotion, but in fact they were extremely cold, tearing through the beautiful coat of life and revealing the cruelty under hypocrisy.
The big black horse stopped wagging his tail and looked down at the remnants of snow on the street. felt so cold, knowing that she could see a qiē, then these coldness are probably the reality of the world.
Sangsang walked to the street with his hands behind his back and the reins.
When I walked through a certain house, I was suddenly called. The dwarf man who sold the baked cakes, holding a cloth bag in his hand, watched her babble. Wanted to say something. But he was speechless for a long time.
Sang Sang glanced at him expressionlessly, ready to leave.
The beautiful woman squeezed out of the threshold, took the cloth bag in the hand of the short man, looked at her and said with a cheerful smile: "Don't be afraid, girl, we are not villains, it's just that my father-in-law watched you walk barefoot in the snow before. I feel a little unbearable, so I'm going to give you a pair. Ordinary cloth shoes, I made my own. Needlework is naturally not on the table, but it is also strong, you are welcome. ”
After sending these words. The beautiful woman stuffed the cloth bag in her hand into Sangsang's hand, and then pulled the dwarf back into the house, and I don't know what she did, and the dwarf begged for mercy with a smile.
Sangsang looked at the cloth bag in his hand and was silent for a while, and then threw the cloth bag into the snow next to the street. Continuing to move forward, the big dark horse felt that it was a pity.
An aunt next door looked at a young man walking across the street, and greeted with a smile: "Big official, where are you going? Do you want to come for a bowl of tea?"
The boy has a handsome face and an extraordinary look, especially a pair of eyes, as if he can speak, and the most pleasing thing is that he has an amiable temperament, and he is extremely gentle when talking to this aunt.
Sangsang ignored these stories and walked out of the capital.
The boy and the aunt said a few words, and then they were about to drink a bowl of hot tea, but when he walked up the stone steps, several ice ridges hanging on the eaves suddenly broke off, falling towards the ground, only a few pops were heard, his chest and abdomen were directly pierced by the ice edges, and he died like this, and countless exclamations suddenly sounded on the street.
Walking out of the capital of the Song Kingdom, Sang Sang led the big black horse and looked at a place in the southwest direction, there was no emotion on his face, but there were countless thin rays of light in the depths of his eyes, and then ruined.
It's like countless knives appearing in a snowstorm.
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Wind and snow are like knives, falling on people's faces, leaving very deep traces. Chen Pipi covered his face with an old cloth, lowered his head and struggled in the wind and snow, and looked back at the board car behind him from time to time to make sure that his father who was lying in the carriage was still well, and whether the quilt covering him had been lifted by the wind.
It has been a few days since he left Chang'an City, and the violent black wind has gone nowhere, and he has broken into the wind and snow, because of the war, this countryside is fortified and clear, and he can't find a little food, and it is impossible to find the carriage, he only found a somewhat broken cart.
When he walked to a mountain forest, the wind and snow were getting lighter, Chen Pipi parked the cart under a big tree, he didn't have time to rest, dug the soil around the stove, and began to cook porridge and medicine. When the medicine was ready, he walked to the carriage, lifted the mattress from his father's face, and began to feed him.
The invincible Zhishou Guan Guan Master in the world is now just an old man who is seriously injured and about to die, but the expression in his eyes is still so calm, and there is no expression on his face.
In the shocking battle of Chang'an City, he was finally defeated by the word written by Ning Que, with ten thousand knives in his body, and the most terrifying thing was that the human breath mixed with those knife intentions, like filthy ink, mixed into his wounds, no matter how he cleaned it, he couldn't wash it clean, even the Xiling magic could not be purified. Chen Pipi let him take the last Tongtian pill, which could only help him temporarily continue his life, and there was no way to make the injury better.
They were very silent all the way, even when they were feeding medicine, because Chen was seriously injured and weak and unable to speak, and it was also because they hadn't seen each other for many years, and it was a very peculiar father-son relationship.
After feeding his father the medicine, Chen Pipi tucked the corners of the mattress, then sat down in the snowdrift next to the wheel, held a large bowl of hot porridge, and began to hula hula and eat.
Although the snow stopped, the cold wind was still raging, and the snow on the big trees was blown down by the wind from time to time, falling on the cart and also in his bowl, he looked at the snowflakes sprinkled in the air, and suddenly had the idea of talking.
"Why do you insist on following this path when you know the teacher is right?"
Chen heard him finally speak, smiled and said, "Which road am I taking?"
Chen Pipi knocked on the edge of the bowl with chopsticks and said: "You are a person with great wisdom, you should know very well that human beings and Haotian will eventually be incompatible, whether it is eternal night or something else, the world will eventually face extinction, so why do you still stand in Haotian's camp? Faith is not a reasonable explanation." ”
For countless years, there have only been eight great cultivators who have cultivated to Chen's realm, and when they reach this realm, it is naturally difficult to say what pious belief they have, and this is exactly what Chen Pipi can't understand.
Chen said: "Choice has nothing to do with faith, only with reason. Master and Ke Haoran thought that human beings and Haotian were opposites, but in Daomen's view, human beings and Haotian were in a symbiotic relationship. ”
Chen Pipi said: "Wouldn't the closed world be boring?"
Chen said: "Taoism believes that solemnity and balance are an eternal beauty, and Buddhism believes that cycle and reincarnation are a kind of cause and effect, and there must be an end when there is a beginning, and such a process is a complete process." When the Master wants to break this wholeness, he moves farther and farther away from eternity. ”
Chen Pipi said: "Even if there is no sense of self in eternity?"
Chen said: "Silence is eternity, where we come from, we have to return to, in that world, you and I are Haotian, Haotian is you and me, why do you have to divide you and me? Since there was no you and me in this world before we were born, then in the end, there should naturally be no you and me." ”
"That's my doctrine, or my faith, and it's not right or wrong. Your teacher may not be wrong, but in my opinion, he is wrong, and since this is the case, naturally you can't be the same way. ”
At this moment, there was a slow sound of hooves in the mountain forest.
Chen Pipi held the porridge bowl and looked back, only to see that the forest was bleak, the wind and snow had stopped but it had not yet sunny, and a woman led a black horse through the forest to beat the leaves.
He naturally recognized the big black horse, but he didn't recognize the woman who led the horse. He looked at the big black horse, but the big black horse did not dare to meet his gaze, and lowered his head timidly, and kicked lightly with his front hooves.
Chen Pipi looked at the woman, and felt that the woman's face was ordinary, but it faintly exuded an aura that was difficult to describe in words, and then he saw some familiar shadows on the woman's face.
He was shocked, looked at her somewhat chubby waist, and said, "Why did you grow so fat?"
Sangsang did not answer his question.
He remembered that Sangsang was no longer Sangsang, and laughed at himself and said: "I'm really not qualified to say such things, not because of who you are, but because I'm a fat man." ”
He was originally the most devout believer of Haotian, but with the years of study in the mountains behind the academy, he was exposed to the master's body, and there were many more people in his life like Ning Que and Tang Xiaotang who were not tolerated by the Taoist sect, and his belief or attitude towards Haotian had already undergone a lot of changes.
If it was him five years ago, he should have knelt in front of her at this time, but now he is standing in front of her so casually, even the porridge bowl in his hand has not been put down.
Haotian is not necessarily more important to him now, having a bowl of porridge.
He said with sentimentality: "Now that I think about it, my second senior brother and I really made a big mistake. ”
At the beginning of the mountain behind the academy, the senior brother always had some kind of vigilance against Sangsang, and Jun Mo and Chen Pipi became her staunchest supporters after seeing Sangsang holding ashes.
If there is a mulberry in the world, the master will leave on the bank of Surabaya.
To say that Jun Mo and his heart do not have a trace of remorse, it is naturally impossible.
"Although the mistakes you have made are often irreparable, and you may not be able to make up for them, you must always try once in life, so that you can feel at ease. ”
Chen Pipi looked at her and said seriously, a heart-wrenching smile appeared on his slightly chubby face.
He put his chopsticks on the porridge bowl and pointed out from afar.
With the academy's unintended control of the world's streams, the leaves suddenly fell between the mountains and forests, and the snow rolled up into a snow line, coming from an unpredictable place, unpredictable, and stabbing her in the face.