The Yang family's mansion, in a guest house.

Lang Jun as the main family, sitting in the main seat, Xiao Chai Niang sat next to him, the Taoist was a guest from afar, and sat in the guest seat with the cat, and both the host and the guest respected each other very much.

Especially Lang Jun, almost respectful.

The servants outside dangled around, all with a pair of curious eyes.

"How did Chai Niang get here?" Song You put down the teacup and used the tone of greeting from the old man.

"I don't know ...... either"

Xiao Chai Niang's tone was a little sad, Xu felt that the Taoist in front of him was the only person in this world who had participated in the first half of his life, so when he saw him in this strange world, even if he had only seen him for a few days and ten years, he felt very kind.

In addition, the Taoist is gentle, as calm, and even his appearance has not changed much, so it is more cordial.

"At that time, Weng Weng went out to farm, and he didn't come back for a long time, and we didn't know what happened to him, so we couldn't rest assured, so we went out to look for him. Our field is not far from the lake, and I was afraid that Weng Weng would be in danger at the lake, so I went to the reeds by the lake to look for it, but I couldn't find it for a long time, but I accidentally fell into the water, and when I got up again, I was already here. ”

"That's ......"

Song You has felt the charm in the painting, understood the mystery in the painting, and also talked with Master Dou -

The world in the painting paints the real world, and it is this world that is painted. And although Dou Dajia is a master of painting, to a certain extent, he is also a practitioner with a deep and unique Taoism, this kind of cultivation that usually does not see spiritual power and spells has been passed down by their family for thousands of years, until his generation, such a peerless genius was born, and the talent is no less than the top achievers in any field, including the real cultivators who have embarked on the path of spiritual power cultivation, this inheritance has finally changed qualitatively, touching the avenue of heaven and earth, so that he has the ability to practice power, but even so, Dou everyone still can't create a world out of thin air, and the incomplete world in the painting still relies on the outside world to exist.

It is this world that is relied on.

The world in the painting is related to the real world, and the people in the world in the painting are usually unable to go out, but by chance, some people may be able to get out.

Master Dou told the mystery.

If the outside world happens to be at dusk, at the moment when Dou Da completed the painting, the two heavens and the earth may be connected, and if someone happens to walk out at the edge of the world in the painting, they may be able to walk out.

Xiao Chai Niang should be like this.

Fate is wonderful, but it is also grinding.

"When was that?" Song You continued to ask.

"Seven or eight years, right?" Xiao Chai Niang said, looking at her own Langjun, "It's been seven or eight years, right?" ”

"It's been eight years."

Lang Jun was drinking tea, but he also hurriedly put down the tea cup and said respectfully to Song You.

"Eight years......"

It seems that within two years of leaving, this little Chai Niang came out.

Song You shook his head, and continued to ask: "At that time, the peaches sent by the Taoist Temple in the mountains, can Chai Niang eat them?" ”

"I ate it, it was very sweet, and then we planted the peach pit at the door, and it lived, but before the peach tree grew up and blossomed, I came here." Xiao Chai Niang's tone was still sad, "But the peach tree drawn by the Taoist chief in the Taoist temple on the mountain later bore fruit twice, and every time the Taoist on the mountain couldn't finish eating, he also took it down and distributed it to us, and I don't know what happened to my father Weng Weng now......

Lang Jun next to him listened silently, his expression subtle.

Originally, I heard Xiao Chai Niang tell the story of the Taoist painting a peach tree on the Taoist wall, I heard it many times, I believed it at the time and didn't dare to believe it, I thought it was true, and because it was too mysterious, there was a kind of fairy story like a distant feeling, and now I listened to Xiao Chai Niang and the Taoist talk, both sides looked very natural, it was completely true, and my heart suddenly felt more wonderful.

"Why did the Daoist get here?"

Xiao Chai Niang suppressed her heart and asked eagerly.

"In the next is a traveler, traveled the world, and now I have come to Yunzhou, because I have been to the same place here ten years ago, marveled at the scenery here, and have a feeling of nostalgia, so I want to come here again and stay for a while." Song You paused, "When I was halfway there, I heard your legend, so I wanted to come even more." I arrived yesterday, and I inquired about Chai Niang's residence from the inn store last night, and I came to visit today. ”

"How did the Taoist get to us at that time? And how did it come out? Have you ever gone back all these years? ”

A few questions in a row, it can be seen that the heart is anxious.

"At that time, it was also fate, I can't say much about it, as for how to get out, I have a lot of Tao and cultivation in the next place, and I have my own way." Song You replied patiently, "I haven't been back in ten years, so I don't know what happened to Chai Niang's parents." ”

"Some people guess that our place is a world inside a painting, or a cave of gods, is it true or false?"

"But you can't say it below."

"Is there a way to go back?"

Xiao Chai Niang looked at him without blinking, and asked eagerly, her eyes were hazy with tears, which were full of sadness and longing for her relatives in her hometown.

“……”

Song You looked at her carefully, and then looked at Lang Jun beside her, who was drinking tea and not interjecting, sighed in his heart, and then spoke: "Thanks to the hospitality of Chai Niang's family back then, I have always been grateful and remembered in my heart, and I do know the way to go back, but it is not easy and quite troublesome." If Chai Niang wants to go back, after going to the south of Yunzhou, you can also take Chai Niang to run and send Chai Niang back, so as to repay Chai Niang's hospitality at home ten years ago. ”

The Taoist pursed his lips and added:

"It's just that you have to walk thousands of miles, and you can't be known to outsiders, and it's hard to get out after you go back."

Xiao Chai Niang immediately stopped talking.

The journey of thousands of miles was already not easy, enough to make her idea of going back to see a little shaken, but if it was just like this, with a longing heart, she might still want to go back and see, but a sentence of "no matter how difficult it is to come out" was enough to make her shut up.

Because I just want to go back and see.

That's been eight years.

All the dazed hesitation and panic at the beginning were left at the beginning, the present is the present, she is used to the four seasons here, day and night exchange wind and rain changes.

She's married.

They even had children.

Xiao Chai Niang turned her head to look at Lang Jun, unable to speak, just crying in a low voice, hiding her face and wiping away her tears.

The Taoist was also silent for a while, and only gently stroked the hair on his back next to him with his hand.

The cat also turned her head to stare at him, and from time to time she turned her head to look at Xiao Chai Niang, who could not only feel the sadness in Xiao Chai Niang's heart at this time, but also feel the complex emotions in the hearts of these people.

"So-"

The Taoist spoke again.

"After all, Chai Niang has the grace of hospitality, if Chai Niang wants to go back to see, it will still be the case after a few years, then after seven years, please go to the Yin Yang Mountain Fulongguan in Lingquan County, Yizhou County, at that time, you can take Chai Niang back to see, as long as you don't talk about how to get in and out."

"Yizhou ......"

Xiao Chai Niang muttered to herself.

The Yang family is a local merchant, and most of the cloth has to be sold from Yizhou, so naturally I know that there are two or three thousand miles to Yidu from here, and the business road is not easy to walk.

I was sad in my heart, but I also thanked the passer.

Song You didn't say much.

The world is unpredictable, and the most wonderful thing about time is that you don't know where it will push you.

The wonderful story of the "outsiders" in Numa County is wonderful, and the wonderful thing is that I don't know where these people came from, in the world they tell about, because they see familiar mountains and lakes but can't see familiar villages and villagers, and they can't go back if they want to go back, so they attract the interest of many people, and many literati even came to visit them and write articles about this, but when there was really a difficult opportunity for them to go back many years later, they found that they could not go back. Isn't it also emotional?

After a long time, Xiao Chai Niang eased up, chatted with him about the old things, and also talked about the current condensation.

There are countless villages at the foot of the mountain and lake in the world in the painting, and there are also countless villages at the foot of the mountain here, many of which are similar, but the names and villagers are completely different. There is also a temple on the mountain, but it is not a Taoist temple but a Buddhist temple, and later became a nunnery.

The similarities are emotional, and the differences are sad.

After chatting for half a morning, Song You said goodbye and left.

"We live in front, against the street of the Yongchun Inn, if Chai Niang Langjun has something, you can come to visit us, will stay until the cold winter."

"The road is long and walk slowly."

Xiao Chai Niang's tears haven't dried yet, and she gives gifts.

"Ride slowly."

Lang Jun also hurriedly got up and saluted.

Song You naturally returned the favor.

This Langjun is the little Langjun of the Yang family, looking at about thirty, very bookish, I heard that he is studying for fame, this age is not young among the people in this year, but it seems that he is not particularly old among the people who study to seek fame, and when he accepted Xiaochainiang as a concubine, he should be in his early twenties.

In these years, the status of the concubine is not high, the more social status the husband's family has, the more humble the concubine is, the Yang family is a merchant, but the business is quite big, it can be seen that Xiao Chai Niang is not despised by this Langjun, which can be regarded as a gentleman.

Song You also had a lot of respect for him.

"I like to be pure, please don't spread the word about my visit, if an outsider asks, just say a wandering Taoist who has met before."

"Got it."

The two sent him out the door.

The Taoist told them not to send them far, and then walked slowly and leisurely back along the alley.

There was still the sound of cloth shaking in the courtyard wall beside him.

The cat still took small steps, followed him, looked up at him all the time, and said, "You seem to be a little unhappy too......

"It's just a little nostalgic."

"Feelings!"

"Yes......"

"What's the feeling?"

“……”

The Taoist stopped, leaned down, picked up the cat that had stopped with him, and said to her, "Because I also have a hometown that I can't go back to." ”

But when you think about it, who doesn't?

(End of chapter)