There was a dormitory for Ning Que in the mountains behind the academy, and Sang Sang was seriously ill, so he naturally stayed, and it didn't take long for Sang Sang to wake up, although he was still a little weak, but at least it was not as scary as it was at night, and gradually stabilized. Ning Que told jokes like when she was a child, humming a little song, coaxing her to rest, Tang Xiaotang saw that he was really hard, so he took over and began to take care of him, and let him go outside to rest for a while.

At that time, it was almost dusk, and the red and warm sunset shrouded the back mountain, Ning Que walked out of the small courtyard, and saw Chen Pipi standing on the shore of the lake with his hands on his waist imitating loneliness, he couldn't help but be stunned, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Chen Pipi looked at the aquatic plants in the mirror lake and the countless thousands of gold coins on the water, his round and cute face was full of loneliness, and said: "Seeing that you and Sang Sang have such a good relationship, I feel a little touched. ”

Ning Que's heart moved slightly, secretly thinking that he and Tang Xiaotang were having some kind of conflict, patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Senior brother, you don't have to compare with me for this kind of thing." ”

Chen Pipi Zhengse explained: "Tang Tang and I are not what you think. ”

Ning Que thought to himself that Tang Tang had such a sensual title, what else was there to explain? He couldn't help but mock and said, "Don't you think that a man's denial of confession is the most disgusting thing in the world?"

Chen Pipi turned his head to look at him and said sincerely: "We are just holding hands." ”

Ning Que sneered: "She's just a little girl, do you want to do anything to her?"

Chen Pipi said with slight annoyance: "She is about the same age as Sangsang!"

Ning Que was a little embarrassed and silent.

The soil by the lake looked like golden crumbles in the setting sun, and Chen Pipi lowered his head, gently turning his heels, and a few gold seals were rolled out of the soles of his shoes. After being silent for a long time, he said: "Tang Tang and I are not like you and Sangsang, we don't have the experience of living and dying together, and we don't have time to get along with each other, but we have a good relationship, I feel distressed when I see her jumping the waterfall, and I am happy to take her to Chang'an......"

Ning Que didn't want to be an emotional expert, so he asked directly: "What exactly do you want to say." ”

Chen Pipi raised his head, looked at him and said seriously: "Sang Sang is seriously ill today, you are very scared, right?"

Ning Que thought for a moment and said, "Yes, I can't imagine life without her. ”

Chen Pipi said: "Me too, I can't imagine that there will be no Tang Tang by my side in the future, so I decided to go back to Zhishouguan." ”

Ning Que didn't know what to say, after Chen Pipi denied that he was the illegitimate son of the Xiling Sect Leader two years ago, he vaguely guessed the life experience of this guy, but it was only confirmed today, according to the previous context, if he wants to return to Zhishouguan, he must be going to have a showdown on Tang Xiaotang.

Chen Pipi said: "There is a saying among the people that an ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws...... My mother has died a long time ago, my father is still alive, Tang Tang is naturally not ugly, but in my father's eyes, people from the Demon Sect must not be very good-looking, and if this problem is to be solved, I need to go back after all. ”

Ning Que frowned slightly, and said, "Have you ever thought that if you go back to Zhizhiguan, you may never come back?

Chen Pipi looked at him and said sincerely: "Senior brother, you are my best friend in Chang'an City, if I really can't come back, please help me take care of Xiaotang." ”

Ning Que refused without hesitation, and said: "Senior brother, don't think that you can trap me to death with this kind of words, your little daughter-in-law wants you to take care of yourself after all, don't count on me." ”

Hearing this, Chen Pipi was furious and scolded: "How can you do this? Besides, as long as the teacher says a word, will I really not be able to come back for the rest of my life?"

Ning Que thought for a while and said: "Anyway, you have to wait for me to come back from the Rotten Ke Temple, and then we will discuss it, in fact, in my opinion, let the teacher marry you for the main marriage, and return what to know." ”

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Master, this person looks very unreliable, what he says is still so reliable, in fact, it is still the eleventh senior brother's decoction is really good, and at night, Sangsang's body temperature returned to normal, and his spirit was much better, leaning on the head of the bed and Tang Xiaotang whispered between the little girl.

Ning Que sat at the desk, looking at Haoranqi's first exploration by the light of the oil lamp, he always felt a little upset, and couldn't help but glance at the bedside with his spare eyes, looking at Tang Xiaotang's beautiful and childish face, thinking about what Chen Pipi said before, he couldn't help but feel a little unbearable.

The spring night breeze was light, the oil lamp shook slightly, and his face was a little cloudy, thinking about the strange dream he had last night, thinking about Sangsang's illness, and thinking about what the teacher said in the grass house during the day, he suddenly moved slightly, and asked Tang Xiaotang to take care of Sangsang, and walked out of the small courtyard.

Leaving the mirror lake, passing through the mountains and forests, bypassing the waterfall, and walking out of the narrow gorge, you came to the back mountain of the mountain behind the academy and between the cliffs in front of the sea of clouds. With the sound of the waterfall, he walked up the steep stone path, and it took him a long time to reach the cliff cave where he had been imprisoned for a whole spring.

The rain corridor built by the senior brothers has endured a year's wind and rain, and it is no longer as new as it was at the beginning, and the wisteria fruits that bear in the corridor are fluttering in the night breeze, like bells, Ning Que walked over and saw the master.

The master sat on the edge of the cliff, his left hand was a delicate food box, there were a few taels of beef in the food box, and on his right hand there was a yellow clay wine jug, which was a clear old wine, he looked at Chang'an City at night in the distance, looked at the lights of thousands of homes there, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Ning Que walked behind his master and bowed, remembering that night in late spring last year, also on the edge of the cliff, he had a long conversation with the teacher.

The master knew that he was behind him, and seemed to know what he was thinking, so he raised his hand and waved it, motioned for him to sit beside him, and then said, "I'll talk about it when I want to." ”

Ning Que wanted to ask his master a lot of questions, but looking at the tall back on the cliffside, he naturally remembered the back in his dream, so he hesitated for a long time, but still didn't speak.

Living in Datang is a very happy thing, living in Chang'an, the capital of Datang, is the happiest thing, and the days in the academy are even happier than he has ever experienced in his life, so he doesn't know what to say, and he is worried that once he says those things, he will lose these happiness.

The master picked up a piece of beef with bright tendons, put it into his lips and chewed it slowly for a long time, with an intoxicated expression on his face, and when he had melted the aroma of the meat, he praised and said: "With wine and meat, you will have no worries in your life." ”

After saying this, he picked up the small flask and took a sip.

Ning Que sat next to his master, picked up a piece of beef with his hand and threw it into his mouth, frowning, because he felt that the beef was too light. However, then he knew that he was wrong, this seemingly light and tasteless beef, the more he chewed it, the more fragrant it became, and after the tendons were cut off by his teeth, it released an incomparably wonderful mixed touch of elasticity and mushroom, and the unique taste of the beef itself gradually moistened the tongue.

"Good!" he said in shock, "Teacher, this is good wine and good meat." ”

The master took out a small iron round wine jug from the side of the food box and threw it to him, and said with a smile: "Don't beg for wine in a different way, this wine is ordinary, but beef is extremely unpalatable." There is a pot and a stove in the cliff building, just enough to marinate the pot of white buffalo meat, and the best thing is that Lao Huang can't climb here to top me. ”

Ning Que knew that the old yellow in the teacher's mouth was the old scalper, and he was really a little embarrassed to eat its kind in front of the scalper, and suddenly, he found that the small round wine pot in his hand was a little familiar, and when he looked carefully, he saw that the surface of the wine pot was engraved with straight lines, wasn't it the small iron kettle he used to fry Xiahou?

"Don't look at me like that, I just think this little iron kettle is more suitable for wine, and of course, in order to prevent the smell of iron and wine, I have smeared something on the wall of the kettle. ”

The master brought the yellow clay jug to his lips and took a sip, saying, "The knife can be used to kill people and cut vegetables, it depends on how you choose, people's mouths can be used to eat meat and drink, or they can be used to talk and ask, after all, it depends on how you choose, but there is no right or wrong in this." ”

Ning Que didn't understand the truth of these words, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Teacher, I have been having a dream in the past few years, and the story in the dream seems to be developing step by step. ”

The Master asked, "Why did you come to ask me?"

Ning Que said: "Because there is a teacher in the dream." ”

The master smiled and said, "I'm not Sangsang's girl, why do you dream of me?"

Ning Que said annoyedly: "Teacher, I'm talking about these things very seriously, can you not joke." ”

The master looked at him with a smile and said, "Then you continue to talk about dreams." ”

Looking at the master's eyes that seemed to be able to understand everything in the world, Ning Que felt a little nervous, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Actually, those dreams, you should know about them, teacher. Last night on this cliffside, when we were talking about the invasion of the underworld, you asked me which direction the underworld was in my dream. ”

The master looked at his youngest student quietly and said, "This question is still valid. ”

Ning Que said: "The night I saw ...... It's from the north. ”

The master smiled and said, "In this way, it is in line with what I have learned from my travels over the years. ”

Ning Que asked, "What is the matter with the invasion of the underworld and the arrival of the night?" The teacher only told these stories in the legends last year, but did not mention those details. ”

When the whole world is shrouded in darkness, no one can see the details, and when the entire civilization is broken, even if there are details, they cannot be handed down. ”

The master looked at the dark night above the cliff, looked at the stars, and said: "According to legend, night and day alternate between this world, sometimes tens of thousands of years of light, sometimes tens of thousands of years of darkness, the war between light and darkness runs through history, when Haotian wins, it is the bright world today, and when Hades wins, it is the arrival of the underworld. ”

"The invasion of the underworld, the absence of the scorching sun during the day, the stars at night, the world has become incomparably cold, and the creatures of the earth can only rely on geothermal heat for heating, and at that time, the volcanoes and hot springs, as well as the heat flow in the South Sea, will become the most precious resource, and countless wars will take place there. ”

"The war doesn't last long, and most people will die, because of hunger, because of cold, because of desperate fighting, and it must be an unimaginably cold and realistic world. And after a few decades, the whole earth will become unusually silent, as if it has entered a deep sleep that will never wake up, and only the strongest and most determined will survive, whether human or animal. ”

"These cold and dark years are called the end of the Dharma era in Buddhism, and the Daomen are called the Hades Descending. ”

The Master said, "And I used to call it ...... Eternal Night. ”