Under the yellow plum tree, the ground is full of gravel.

There was a golden silk guqin on the stone platform, and a beautiful woman dressed in white stood beside her, followed by a maid, saluting at the same time as the Taoist in front of her.

"Thank you both."

The Taoist saluted and said.

"We are here for the Taoist to sit in the ghost town, the Taoist gave us the elixir of life, fair exchange, where is the thanks?"

"Thank you for the sound of the piano for three years, and thank you for the two of you for taking care of Sanhua Niangniang."

"Fuqin is just rising, the interest is coming, and the willingness to do so has nothing to do with the Taoist." The woman said to him, "The one who accompanied Sanhua Niangniang to play was only Wanjiang's maid, and it had nothing to do with me." I had an exchange with the Taoist chief first, but I didn't dare to leave my post without permission. ”

“……”

Song You shook his head and didn't say much to her, but asked, "Now that the underworld has been completed, and our agreement has been made, where will the two of you go?" ”

"It's too stuffy here, no, it's not in the mountains now, anyway, it's still so stuffy, it's dark, we don't see the stars and moon, we've been here for too long, we just want to go out first." The woman's tone was soft and calm, and her voice was gentle.

"It's not just stuffy, it's all yin and ghosts, although we are monsters, we are also creatures in the yang world." The maid added to Song You, "Daoist, you don't know how we've spent all these years. ”

"I've wronged the two."

After the Taoist finished speaking, he waved his hand.

"Then let's go out and talk."

"Brush ......"

In an instant, as if a long distance had been crossed, both the Taoist and the woman could perceive the changes in the spirit and rules of heaven and earth, and then a flower in front of them had already reached the outside world.

It's nearly dusk.

In the distance, there was a sunset, and the clouds and mist on the horizon were golden, and the shadows of the earth in the mountains were heavier, and the golden sunlight passing through the cracks in the mountains and the treetops seemed to be visible, and the lakes on the ground reflected the blue sky that had not yet darkened, and some reflected the golden clouds and light, and the grass was completely dyed golden.

“……”

The woman took a deep breath.

There is the smell of grass in the air, as well as the aroma of fruit trees, and the closest is pear, which has a light and sweet aroma.

The autumn sunset is still warm, the fox is also a creature that loves to bask in the sun, the heaven and the earth have aura, the sun and the moon have essence, there is movement everywhere, and the landscape has spiritual charm, this is the world that belongs to the living beings.

The woman stood on the slope of the mountainside, without any movement, just facing the sunset, the evening breeze naturally lifted her clothes and hair, and the sunset made the floating clothes transparent as if transparent, and she did not have any words, just took a deep breath, as if tasting the taste of the wind, but the bitterness of living in a ghost town for ten years was all in this speechlessness.

"How long is the twenty years of the Taoist chief?"

The woman asked the Taoist as she turned her head towards the sunset and greeted the sun.

"Nearly three years to go."

"Da Yan has traveled all over?"

"I've walked through it."

"Now that the underworld has been completed, where is the Taoist chief going?"

"There's something else to do."

“……”

The woman seemed to know what he was talking about, so she just retracted her head and continued to look in the direction of the setting sun: "That Dao chief should hurry up." ”

"Yes."

"Condensing the underworld, the Taoist chief has great merits, and he has also obtained great cultivation in the future, but he can be alone, after all, it is difficult to achieve." The woman was silent for a long time, "I still have to find some help." ”

"Just do your best."

“……”

“……”

There was silence in the mountains for a while.

The only thing is the movement of the girl tossing the stone in her hand and playing.

"The Taoist still doesn't want to ask us for help." The woman smiled slightly, "That's fine." Even if the Taoist chief opened his mouth to ask, it would be difficult for us to vacate the space, and we would save the effort of embarrassment and refusal. ”

"I have my own business to do." Song You was calm and sincere, "What's more, I am a demon clan, and I have already obtained the road to great power, so I really don't have to take risks for things in the world." ”

"Reasonable."

The woman nodded, agreeing with him.

If this Taoist asked them for help in Fengzhou Yeshan ten years ago, they took the time to leave the cultivation and magic inheritance of the Yuezhou Fox Clan, even if it was a human matter, even if it was indeed a danger, it was difficult for her to know whether she would refuse or sacrifice her life to help as she once said, but now it is difficult to make other choices.

Time does make the decision.

The fox is infatuated, but it is also pragmatic and rational.

The sun gradually sank to the bottom of the mountain, and the clouds in the west were getting redder and redder, and the mountain was still bathed in sunlight by relying on the height of the mountain, but the light gradually moved up, past the feet of the group, and went to the top of the mountain.

Fog rose on the mountain lake and sank to the ground.

"When will you leave?"

"Let's go."

"Where are you going?"

"Remember what we used to say on the river?" The woman turned her head to look at him, "Naturally, we should follow the example of the Taoist, 'wash away the dust of life, travel thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, and be the master of the rivers and mountains'." Although it was just a casual remark during the casual conversation on the river boat back then, it was not a lie. ”

"We have told fewer lies than the vast majority of mortals in this world." The maid also smiled, and her tone was rarely serious.

"I got my wish."

Song You also remembered that outside the Changjing City and on the Yuqu River, the punk listened to the rain and the sound of the piano pushed the boat.

The wind and the moon are impermanent.

The idler is the master.

Today's foxes have no blood feud among the clan, and they no longer need to bother to seek immortality and seek the way of ancient power, and the town guard in the ghost city of Yeshan has also been completed, which can be described as light, and the only thing that needs to be done is to pass on the cultivation and spells of the Yuezhou fox clan, but in their long life, there is no need to be urgent at all.

When you are idle, the world will be a better place.

"Where does the river down there?"

Seeing that it was getting late, the woman looked down, and between the thousands of mountains and lakes, she saw another small river, like a jade belt.

"I don't know."

Song You replied truthfully.

Three years ago there was no such river.

The Sanhua Niangniang next to her was reaching out to catch the insects, and her hands were stretched out, and when she heard the sound, she withdrew her gaze from the insects, looked at them and followed their gaze, and said to the two people:

"To the big river outside."

"The river was only created last summer when it rained heavily and the water rose, and it started as a small stream, but this year it is a little bigger." Yan An also said, "It is connected to the Yin River. ”

"Connected to the Hidden River......"

The woman couldn't help but smile slightly, and then said: "It is said that the evening river came up from the evening river, and now it is just evening, and the evening river will also go up from the river." ”

"It's getting dark, it's hard to hurry, it's better to make a lantern. I have a lantern that I have carried for many years, and I wish to light the way forward for my footsteps. ”

There was a bell not far away.

Horses came sideways from another part of the mountainside, carrying bags and lanterns on the left and right of the quilt bags.

A simple and quaint, almost no style.

A mahogany pole with gilt carvings and a lantern in the style of a pony is quite exquisite.

The Taoist took down the simple and simple one.

"This is the spring of the second year we went down the mountain, not long after we came down the mountain, in a demon market deep in the mountains, a ghost friend who is quite close to us gave it to us. It has no other miracles, but ordinary wind and rain are difficult to erod, follow us for many years, ordinary water and fire are also difficult to damage, just suitable for travel. ”

Song You handed it to the woman.

"There's no place for candles in this lantern." The woman reached out and took the wooden pole of the lantern.

"All it takes is a little inspiration."

Song You stretched out his hand towards the sky, and the void twisted a handful of sunset afterglow and threw it into the lantern.

The lantern immediately lit up with a reddish-yellow light.

"Thank you, Chief."

"Send your foot down to the river."

"Okay."

The group walked slowly down the hillside.

The world is bleak, the grass is like silk, the woman is dressed in white, not as beautiful as a mortal, nor stained with mortal dust, only carrying a lantern, walking among the grass and mountains.

All the way to the lake.

The water of the lake is clear, pouring out light and shadow.

The woman finally bowed to the Taoist.

"Farewell."

The maid also saluted.

Sanhua Niangniang finally stopped jumping around, but walked back to the Taoist, holding the worm in her hand, with a serious face, looking at them, especially with the maid. After a long time, the joy of seeing the lively Taoist priest again gradually sank, and he was neutralized a lot.

"Sanhua Niangniang, I'm going to say goodbye."

The maid smiled and said to Sanhua Niangniang.

"Can we ever see each other again?" Sanhua Niangniang stared at the maid and asked seriously.

"Sanhua Niangniang is confused, I'm just a tail, I can't decide where I go, this kind of thing, how do I know?" The maid said with a smile.

"I'll see you if there's fate!"

Sanhua Niangniang's voice was light and determined.

"Did Sanhua Niangniang learn from the Taoist?"

"Three years later, Sanhua Niangniang will return to the Taoist temple of Yinyang Mountain, in Lingquan County, Humble County, Yizhou, if you pass by, you can come to Sanhua Niangniang. You'd better come back in two years, and then the mountains will be full of wild rabbits raised by the Three Flowers. This is not something that I learned from the Taoist. Sanhua Niangniang said, paused, and changed her words again, "Ah no, you'd better come early." ”

After speaking, he muttered quietly: "It's better to come early." ”

"Definitely."

The maid bowed to the girl.

The girl also followed her example and returned the salute, which was very awkward.

I saw the maid take out a carved wooden box from nowhere, hold it in her hand, open it, rummage through it, find a thumb-sized boat, and throw it towards the river.

The boat grows in the wind and slowly falls into the water.

The river was drained a little, rippling and rippling.

Then he took out a toad, threw it at the boat, and changed into a man, like the coachman who used to be the boatman.

"But is there a time to say goodbye?"

"Three years later, if you are interested, you can come to Yinyang Mountain in Lingquan County, Yizhou to visit, in the next generation, the mountain gate of Fulongguan is always open for the deceased."

"There should be a lot of good news from now on, don't forget the idler on the river."

The sky really darkened quickly, just for a short while, the sky was completely darkened, the stars appeared overhead, there was a yellow round of mountains and moons on the side of the mountain, there was a small boat on the river, the woman with the lantern and the maid stood on the bow of the boat together, the light was yellow and red, the light was faintly visible on the water surface and their reflection, and it was difficult to distinguish whether it was a lantern or a mountain moon.

The boatman rowed lightly, and the moon went from there.

The Taoist stood on the shore with two little monsters, and a red horse waited quietly behind him, watching them go away.

"Say goodbye to an old friend again......"

A magnetic voice sounded beside him.

Song You turned his head to look.

Yue Wang Shenjun didn't know when he came to his side, and as he looked downstream, the lights on the river were getting farther and farther away.

"Why does the Divine Monarch also feel emotional?"

"Do you think this kind of thing is less experienced by this seat?" King Yue Shenjun said, "Fortunately, you are a human being, if you are a god and have immortality, then it will be even more emotional." ”

"I see."

"Do you really want to fight with Tiangong?"

"Shenjun thinks that the courage of the lower is not as good as that of the Fuyang Patriarch?"

"Fuyang Dao is a man with great powers and unparalleled courage, but he also conforms to the general trend, and he is just a change of emperor." King Yue Shenjun said to him, "There are many ancient gods in the sky, you have to make the heavenly palace not controlled by the gods of virtue, you want to change the path to heaven, but you touch the bottom line of the gods." ”

"Fulongguan is a major heart disease of the Heavenly Palace, and they don't want Fulongguan to continue to exist, sooner or later there will be such a battle between the two sides. I think I'm better at this than the next generation. ”

"The spirit of Taoist friends is really the same! No wonder even real dragons are impressed by you! ”

King Yue Shenjun was like an old friend, and said to him: "But no matter how good you are at fighting methods, there are so many gods in the Heavenly Palace, there are many great powers that have survived from ancient times, or those who are also proficient in fighting methods, and the Heavenly Palace also has a secret method of incense that is used exclusively for conquest, how many can you beat?" ”

"There are many gods without virtue in the heavenly palace, and there are also many gods with virtue, so it is not the enemy of the entire heavenly palace."

"It's not that simple." Yue Wang Shenjun just closed his eyes and counted, then counted a few powers, "After all, you are a mortal, a mortal body, even if the spiritual power of the four seasons is infinitely useful, after all, when it is exhausted, if the spiritual power is exhausted and the energy is exhausted, what should you do?" ”

"Then you don't have to run out."

"Alas......"

"Time is running out, and I'm going to leave next." Song You said goodbye to King Yue Shenjun, "Shenjun can do his own thing, if there is a fate, goodbye." ”

"See you soon."

As soon as the breeze blew, the Divine Monarch suddenly disappeared.

Song You looked at the lower reaches of the river again.

That little bit of light is gone.

The Taoist lowered his head and looked at the girl beside him.

The girl also looked up at him.

Just when the Taoist thought that she might be very sad, he saw her tilt her head and focus on saying: "They have a box, and there are cars and boats in it, so comfortable!" ”

“……”

It seems that Sanhua Niangniang has followed him for all these years, and she is also used to being separated from her old friends.

The Taoist couldn't help but touch her head: "Our Taoist temple has similar ones, but they are all saved." ”

"Meow?"

"Yes."

"Why don't you save it?"

"Because they are all relics of their ancestors, or they have been with them for many years, or they have been given to them by their old friends. Like the pony lantern of the Three Flower Lady, it is very precious. ”

The Taoist said as he walked out.

Shan Yue also went with the people.

(End of chapter)