In the middle of the night, the snowflakes outside stopped falling. The bright moonlight shone through the layers of fog and the eaves on the young man's thin body.

The boy moved slightly, his head was covered with beads of sweat, and the green tendons on his neck were bulging, as if he was in pain.

This is the ninth mountain, and only the largest one remains. ’

Next to the extinguished bonfire, the young man was silently moving mountains against the pillar, absorbing the spiritual power of heaven and earth to continue refining the impurities in his body, but the more he cultivated, the curse in his body became more and more serious, and now even his right leg was covered with abscesses.

The young man looked inside himself, and a high mountain appeared in front of Jiang Xiansheng's eyes, and he looked back at the nine peaks behind him that had turned into phantoms; The eyes are determined. "Isn't it just a mountain? Watch me move to you! ”

Early in the morning, Jiang Xiansheng had already gotten up early, came to the extinguished fire on the side, filled a bundle of clean firewood, then set up the pot, and boiled the leftover porridge from yesterday as an early morning breakfast.

It's something he does every day, and it's a habit he's getting used to it now.

By the time everyone got up, they had already smelled the fragrant white porridge, and while sighing about the fragrance, they came to Jiang Xiansheng's side and grabbed the bowl.

"Seriously, I'm really reluctant to give up on you stupid boy!" One of the emaciated men, known as Lao Liu, quipped.

"That's it! It is! The crowd on the side also shouted.

Ignoring the jokes that the congregation would make to him every day, he picked up a bowl of white porridge and came to Dao Gong, who was sitting on the cushion next to him, "Dao Gong, drink porridge." ”

Daogong smiled and took the bowl from the boy's hand and placed it on the ground beside him.

"Let's go when we're done with this bowl of rice! The road is long, and you can return early if you go early. ”

The young man nodded, he naturally did not forget this incident.

When he returned to the pot and filled himself with a bowl to drink, he saw Daogong beckoning the man known as the boss to come to him and whisper something in his ear.

The boss seemed to be a little surprised, but he still went behind the Buddha statue in the temple, and handed a robe and a hat to Dao Gong in his hand.

It seemed that everyone's eyes were attracted by those two items, and their expressions were slightly surprised like the boss.

Dao Gong got up and came to Jiang Xiansheng's side with his coat and hat, and said softly

"I know you don't like your naked appearance, and while it may seem a little strange that it hasn't rained yet, it's better than a rag."

A warm current surged through Jiang Xiansheng's heart, obviously he was still wary of him yesterday, and he felt a little guilty when he thought of it.

"What do you think? Time to go! Dao Gong patted the shoulder of the young man in front of him.

The boy got up and put on his coat and hat, and a smile appeared on his face, which was the happiest morning in the month of the boy, and it was also the most sincere laugh.

The snow that fell last night had not yet melted, and when I walked out of the temple, there was a snowy one, and the footprints on the ground were one large and one small, telling the two Jiang Xiansheng who were advancing towards the north.

At this time, everyone in the temple looked at the backs of the two people who were far away, and they all sent each other silently, they all knew what the meaning of taking that stupid boy to Daogong's wife was, and their eyes were full of relief.

The thin man known as the sixth man looked at Daogong's gradually disappearing back, the corners of his mouth seemed to rise slightly, and his eyes became a little hot.

"Sixth, when Dao Gong left, he ordered me to watch you until he came back in the evening." The boss looked at the sixth man in front of him who was about to move and said in a deep voice.

The sixth child's eyes returned to clarity, nodded silently and returned to the temple and lay down against the pillar. Change the usual happy smile.

The remaining four people stood together and looked at each other, Dao Gong had told them when he brought the sixth child that if one day he went out and didn't come back when he went out for more than a child, he must be as far away from the sixth as possible, and the farther away the better!

………

Passing through a bustling bazaar, the sound of the brass drum gong still lingers in my ears.

"Where are we going?" The young man in the robes asked.

He had been walking for almost half a day, passing through a town and over two mountain peaks.

"Tired? Do you want to take a break? The majestic voice is mixed with tenderness.

The boy shook his head, "No! I'm not tired. ”

Since his cultivation moved the ninth mountain in his body, his body has become more and more powerful, although it is not as good as the realm of those normal people who refine their bodies, but it can be regarded as three or four years.

"The front is here, located in the north of Bafeng Town, Huangniugang."

The middle-aged man pointed to a small hill not far ahead.

The boy looked in the direction of his finger, and there was a plaque diagonally inserted in the dirt beside the road, which looked dilapidated and old, as if no one had cared for it for many years, and the word "Ushioka" was engraved on it.

"I used to live here, with my wife."

When he said this, Jiang Xiansheng obviously felt a touch of sadness in Daogong's eyes that had not been wavering.

The boy followed Daogong and continued to walk towards the hillside, through the thick woods on both sides of the mountain, to a flat land on the hillside.

On one side is a tall bamboo, the roots are as strong as the mouth of a bowl, standing in front of a dilapidated bamboo house, like a samurai guarding this place.

The boy clearly saw bamboo, a bamboo house, and a small dirt slope with a tombstone.

It's just that the tombstone has been half shattered, and I can only vaguely see the word Xiaoyun on it.

Dao Gong came to the tombstone and squatted down, gently stroking the tombstone with his hand, "You must be curious why I brought you to this place, right?" ”

The young man also came to the tombstone, and looked at the Taoist who was caressing the tombstone with a determined expression, "If you don't want to say it, I don't know!" ”

"I used to have a son too!" Dao Gong said with some nostalgia.

"He should have been about the same age as you at the time, or a little younger than you, and he had a nice name called Ye Chengnian."

"He's funny, since he was a child, he has always pestered me to run there, shouting every day daddy, daddy, it seems that in his eyes, my father is the sky, is everything to him."

"Slowly he grew up, and his appearance also grew, he was very handsome and a beautiful boy; It's very good-looking, but it's a little different from me, but like a scholar. ”

Saying this, Dao Gong smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and he slapped the tombstone hard, and suddenly the monument was a little shorter.

This is the first time Jiang Xiansheng has seen Daogong's angry appearance, which is terrifying but also very desolate.

"Until the last moment, she didn't say that she loved me, and looking at her miserable but determined appearance, I missed."

Jiang Xiansheng's body was obviously stunned, he felt a little dizzy, in his heart, after this month of getting along, he thought that Dao Gong was an extremely kind person.

"You killed her! Kill your wife? Jiang Xiansheng's words trembled a little.

Looking at Jiang Xiansheng, who was a little ugly under the hat, Daogong's expression also returned to flatness.

"I told you when we met, ugly people can be kind, and good people can be distorted."

"Don't judge a person's heart based on their appearance, and you may die with a knife hidden in your smile."

Jiang Xiansheng's heart was still difficult to accept, he stood up suddenly, took off the hat and leaked out the terrifying face, "What about your child?" He's so small, haven't you even let him go! ”

"He had a knife in his hand, stood in front of me and his mother, and said to me to let go of his mother."

"Looking at the father who once regarded himself as everything is now holding a knife at his father, and the wife I love so much who was choked by my neck is showing a relieved smile."

"I never loved you, and he was never your child!"

Speaking of this, Dao Gong didn't continue, he looked at Jiang Xiansheng with an angry expression in front of him with some apologies. I'm such a person, a devil.

"Why? Why? Jiang Xiansheng clenched his fists and looked at Dao Gong's eyes, there seemed to be flames in his eyes.

"Why should it be! Wouldn't you be like those people! Same, just as damned! ”

Jiang Xiansheng's eyes flashed back to the scene when his parents were killed, and he thought back to the faces of those people, his faces distorted with anger.

"I love her so much, I can give up everything for her, but she still loves that scholar like that, obviously they have only been together for less than half a year."

"Ten years of affection can't compare to his half-year shock, what a joke!"

"Then you shouldn't have killed her either!" Jiang Xiansheng's tone became more and more heavy, and his eyes were also full of murderous intent.

Under Jiang Xiansheng's murderous eyes, Dao Gong slowly faded off the clothes on his body, and there were already scarred knife marks on his muscular body, which made people's scalp tingle, "Whenever I feel regretful, I will make a cut on my body." ”

Jiang Xiansheng was a little distracted, looking at the scars of the man in front of him, his eyes were confused, the Dao Gong in his mind had already collapsed, and his firm belief was also shaken.

It wasn't something he wanted to know, why the world was still so twisted.

"There's a side to everybody that they don't know about, and I just don't want to hide it."

"Why are you telling me this? Am I not a stranger to you that you have never met! ”

Dao Gong's eyes finally had some tenderness, and he gently raised his arm, as if he wanted to caress Jiang Xiansheng's face in the air.

"Even though you have oozing abscesses on your face, I can still tell that you are a little bit like my child."

"Maybe it's my heart that's at work, and the first time I see you, I think you're my own child."

A cool breeze blew through Jiang Xiansheng's body, making him shiver a little from the cold. At the same time, the sky was already a little dark, and a drop of rain fell on Jiang Xiansheng's face, he raised his head to look at the ever-increasing rain, and the rain slid down his face and fell to the ground.

It's raining! He thought to himself.