There is a cattle village under the rotten peach mountain outside Jinyang City, there are only dozens of families in the Zhuangzi, most of them are old and frail women and children, young and middle-aged people basically go to the city to find a way out, only a few people who don't want to leave home have to guard those few acres of thin fields to live, fortunately, the fields are allocated in the city, and the state lord has been exempted from taxes for 20 years, as long as he is not lazy or lazy, he will not starve to death.

Peach Blossom is a rare young woman in Niujiazhuang, and she is only in her early twenties this year. Peach Blossom Daddy died in the "Heavenly Change" fifteen years ago, but she survived, so the people in Zhuangzi said that she was the White Tiger Star who descended to earth, and killed her own father, even if Peach Blossom is a well-known water spirit, from a little girl slowly became an old girl in the mouth of everyone, and no one dared to let the matchmaker propose marriage, for fear of following in the footsteps of Peach Blossom Daddy.

But how can a six- or seven-year-old girl grow up safely in the troubled times of more than ten years? Peach Blossom has no relatives to help her, and her only relatives are her dead father, and the neighbors and neighbors in Zhuangzi are too late to avoid her on weekdays, let alone let them lend a hand.

Fortunately, Peach Blossom and her mother left her a craft, making peach blossom cake and brewing peach blossom wine.

This peach blossom is not as popular as apricot blossom and osmanthus, she also saw her mother do it more times when she was a child, and then picked the most tender peach blossom to make a crisp through her own technique, and picked the dew condensed from the petals and the petals together to make wine, but also quite popular with the literati and scholars in Jinyang City.

But the big customers of Peach Blossom have never been them, but the weird guy on the mountain who has not changed his voice and smile for more than ten years, the guy who likes to sleep in the yard with his open chest regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

She still remembered that it was he who picked her up from the corpses of her parents after the disaster, and after helping her bury her parents, he told her that he would live in the mountains in the future, so that she would go up to find herself when she was hungry and afraid, and it was these words that enabled her to survive the first few years.

Today's sky is high and the clouds are light, the villagers of Niujiazhuang harvest the last wave of late-ripening peaches in the middle of the mountainside, the late autumn has passed, the season on this mountain is difficult to reach the autumn frost Lingren, unconsciously the peaches have been rotten a lot, it seems that the name of this rotten peach mountain is probably taken from this.

There is only one small dirt road from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain. She was walking on the road, and the villagers hid far away when they saw her coming, but they were also idle and curious.

"Peach Blossom, are you going up the mountain again?"

"I've seen her go to the top of the mountain four or five times lately. ”

"Why don't I be a matchmaker, and you say it, although the person in the nunnery is older, but we little people have a little to rely on, no matter how old he is, not to mention your white tiger Xingke..."

Halfway through the words, he held back stubbornly, as if he was still afraid of the only thin noodles in the neighborhood.

Peach Blossom didn't say anything when she heard this, but tightened the peach-colored shirt on her body and pursed her lips and smiled at those people.

But people are always full of anger at what they "can't see".

After she left, the chatter resumed.

"Look at the demonic spirit she wears, she is not a good person. ”

"But no, eh, you said her name is Peach Blossom, could it really be Peach Blossom?"

"What nonsense? People have biological parents. ”

"Maybe her mother is a goblin and eats her father!"

"That's right!ahahaha..."

Peach Blossom is also far away, otherwise I won't be able to scold these people who laugh at their deceased parents, but I'm more afraid that they will still smile faintly and let him go, just like the weirdo said that he is strong and he is strong, and the breeze blows the hills.

Approaching the Peach Blossom Temple, Peach Blossom's face looked a little apprehensive, and the hand that was about to knock on the door stopped. That day, the peach blossoms were flying all over the mountain, she only felt that it must be related to the peach blossoms scattered in the nunnery, and she went up the mountain in a hurry to take a look, but found that the door of the nunnery was closed, and she couldn't open it, and she wondered but could only return to the residence under the mountain. These days, she has come every three or four days, but she has been disappointed again and again, and today is the sixth time.

"Squeak... Yikes."

Before her hand could knock on the door, the door opened on its own, which really startled her.

I looked left and right inside the door, but there was no one?

Passing through the small alley, the peach blossom came to the courtyard, and saw a figure standing under the peach tree, wearing a Taoist robe, combing his hair in a bun, and his body was chic and had a certain ancient meaning, looking up at the fruitful peach trees in a daze.

But it's not the peach blossom scattered person.

"You are..."Peach Blossom said suspiciously, the other party was obviously not from Peach Blossom but gave him a very familiar feeling.

The Taoist turned his head, his face was indeed somewhat similar to that of the Peach Blossom Sanren, and said with a smile: "Poor Dao didn't know that Peach Blossom Daoist actually had a confidant. ”

Peach Blossom's face bloomed with shame, but she asked, "Dare to ask this Taoist, where did Peach Blossom Sanren go?"

Looking around, everything is as it was before, but what about people?

The Taoist hesitated for a moment and said, "Fellow Daoist, he's gone far away." ”

"Where are you going, when are you going back?" For some reason, she always felt that there was something wrong with this person, but she couldn't think of anything wrong.

"Go..."The Taoist was speechless for a while, and he couldn't help but secretly complain, thinking that the Taoist master had a wise life, how could he be so bad when he saw a woman, and he wouldn't even tell a lie?

Yes, this Taoist is Luo Buyi's second master, the round fat Taoist, but for some reason he has become like this.

Peach Blossom saw that the fat Taoist priest couldn't say why, and pressed step by step: "This Taoist and Peach Blossom Sanren are familiar with each other, why hasn't Peach Blossom heard him mention the Taoist for more than ten years?"

Fat Taoist, no, let's call him Second Master for the time being, after all, he is no longer fat. The second master couldn't help but pat his forehead with his hand, if he couldn't see that this woman had guessed something, he wouldn't be worthy of being Luo Buyi's master.

He smiled and said, "How do you tell?"

Peach Blossom's eyes narrowed when she heard this, what did she see? It's just that her intuition told her that this Taoist had a very close relationship with Peach Blossom Sanren, so she repeatedly pressed to ask.

Not to mention that women are naturally intelligent, especially on certain issues, Peach Blossom said quietly: "Just see it like that, don't you explain?"

"Explain... Not... How do you say it..."The second master tried to organize the language, trying to make what he said more understandable.

"At first there was me without him, then there was him, he, her, and now he is me, and I am not just him. ”

The second master felt that what he said was very clear, how easy to understand.

Peach Blossom didn't understand what he was and what he was, she only knew one thing: "So you are him, he is you, right?"

“... Yes... Oh, yes. In some ways, this is indeed true, and the second master scratched his head and was a little dizzy.

“... Call... He's still in... It's good you're still there. ”

The peach blossom seemed to be a boulder that put down her heart, and she couldn't help but sigh.

And the second master naturally didn't know that Peach Blossom had identified himself by mistake, which was also what he took for granted, and when he heard Peach Blossom's tone, his heart was also light, as if he had just untied some shackles with a sentence, and his spirit suddenly felt light.

The atmosphere was strange and strange, and the second master was a little uncomfortable, but fortunately, there were no peach blossoms at this time, and the vision made by the peach blossom people a few days ago had long since dissipated, otherwise he wouldn't know how to deal with himself.

"Poor road... Uh..."It's not a matter to stay for a long time, the second master naturally wants to leave this place first, after all, he has an important plan for this trip. But just as he was about to speak, he caught a glimpse of a white crane flying in the sky, and the white crane held a jade ruyi in its mouth, hovering over the Peach Blossom Nunnery to salute.

Peach Blossom looked at the brand-new "Peach Blossom Sanren" in front of him, and he was a little more friendly than the previous casualness. I saw him stretch out his hand, and the white crane waved its wings and gently landed on the soft handrail, handing the jade Ruyi in his mouth to him.

Seeing that the white crane is so spiritual, the peach blossom as a daughter's heart is undoubtedly revealed, and she keeps turning around the white crane, her eyes are full of joy, and the white crane is also quite human, and she keeps rubbing the peach blossom's hand on the top of her head, which makes her laugh.

Luo Buyi's second master sensed the jade Ruyi in his hand, and smiled dumbly, he didn't expect that one of the few people he wanted to find was already waiting for him on Luoshen Peak. But this old monk is too much of a thing, he is too lazy to go back, and he still wants to push it to himself, I don't know if he is looking for the whereabouts of a few people?

I'll talk to him when I get back!

After thinking about it, he said to Peach Blossom without turning his head: "Well, Poor Dao is really going to go on a long trip." "Going out on a long journey?" as if this were his home.

Hearing this, Peach Blossom didn't care about playing with the white crane anymore, stared at the back of his head nervously and said, "Will you come back?"

The white crane, which had already been prepared, flew up, and the second master stepped on the white crane's back in one step, rolled up the wine jug containing peach blossom wine on the low table with the wide sleeves of the robe, poured a few sips into his mouth, wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth, and said, "If you don't die, you will definitely come back." ”

The white crane carried him into the air, through the sea of clouds, and in the direction of the setting sun.

Peach Blossom picked up a piece of peach blossom crisp, followed his usual appearance and lay on the soft couch, took a bite gently, and tears poured down.

I don't know how many days this peach blossom cake has been put away, although I don't know why it hasn't been broken, but I always feel that there is a trace of bitterness that is particularly obvious, and the bitterness makes people want to cry.

The white crane flies on its own, and the speed of carrying the second master is not the same, not to slow down, but to become faster with the help of the second master, often the wings have already flown out for several miles.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, he had already returned to the broken temple, and after not knowing what to say to the old monk, he scolded and rode up again and headed in the direction of Zhongzhou.

The old monk who stayed in the ruined temple looked at the white crane flying away and the figure on the white crane, and sighed leisurely: "The red dust is bitter, and the mediocrity disturbs itself." Amitabha..."

At this time, the white crane flew over the moon, and a certain philistine on the back of the white crane held the peach blossom wine, took a sip and took another sip, looked at the silver and white moonlight, and said in a daze: "Just the peach blossom crisp, can you drink a glass of peach blossom wine?"