The three of them were welcomed in by Zhou Ce, and Li Yu walked while paying attention to this small courtyard, the courtyard is not big, there is a main house, and there should be a kitchen next to it, which looks extremely simple.

After entering the house, Li Yu found that there were not many furnishings inside, a dining table, a few benches, and some small cabinets with sundries, and a room on the right, which should be Zhou Ce's bedroom.

A few people were chatting at the dinner table in the main house, and Zhou Ce brought them tea, and Zhou Ce asked, "What are you doing in the central square?" Is there anything going on there? ”

Li Yu and Shen Xun glanced at each other, as if they wanted to say it, but what should they say, could it be that Shen Tang had heard the three of them talk about the stone tablet just now?

Shen Tang didn't think too much about it, she said calmly, "I heard those three guys talk about the stone tablet, saying that the stone tablet recorded the history of Tianmen Town, so I told my brother about it." ”

Zhou Ce smiled and said, "It's actually the same thing!" ”

Shen Xun said with some enlightenment, "Could it be that you were talking about this just now?" ”

Zhou Ce nodded and said, "Yes, they asked me to find a way to find out about the stone tablet when I went to the City Lord's Mansion." ”

Hearing this, Li Yu seemed to have guessed something, and asked, "Can Brother Zhou still go to the City Lord's Mansion?" ”

Shen Tang said proudly for him beside him, "Yes, you just came here and didn't know, the city lord appreciates Brother Zhou Ce very much, and often asks him to go into the city lord's mansion to sort out the collection of books there." ”

Shen Xun then explained, "The collection of books in the City Lord's Mansion is the largest in Tianmen Town, but unfortunately ordinary people are not allowed to enter, and later, the City Lord asked Ah Ce to go twice a month, and he can copy some books and show them to us students." ”

Li Yu nodded, indicating that he understood, and the others didn't say much.

Shen Xun then asked, "Then do they want you to go to the City Lord's Mansion Library to check the matter of that stone tablet?" ”

Zhou Ce nodded and said helplessly, "Yes, they asked me to check, saying that the stele has a secret, and it will be good for me after finding out." ”

The three of them could clearly feel the reluctance in Zhou Ce's words, and Shen Tang asked directly, "Then Brother Zhou Ce doesn't want to check it?" ”

"Naturally, I don't want to investigate, the city lord is so good to me, if I want to investigate the affairs of Tianmen Town with a purpose, there is always a feeling of betraying him, and I just want to study here in peace, I don't want to get caught up in the things they think."

Li Yu asked, "Can't you refuse?" ”

Zhou Ce didn't answer, there was a moment of silence between the four of them, Li Yu didn't know if he asked something that shouldn't be asked, glanced at the others, and finally Shen Xun touched his head and answered for him, "Ace's identity is a bit special, he doesn't have a family here like us, he doesn't have a family to plan for him, he lives alone in Tianmen Town, and there are more places where others can handle him, if there is no care from the City Lord's Mansion over the years, I'm afraid he will have a more difficult life than now." ”

Shen Xun's words were not exhausted, but Li Yu didn't know that there were many ways to handle a person in this world, and if there was no adult to take care of him, it would be difficult to survive in this world.

Since then, he also somewhat understands why Zhou Ce didn't come forward to help in time when facing Wang Feiyu's aggressiveness towards Shen Xun just now.

Zhou Ce saw that the three of them were silent about his affairs, and he didn't want them to worry more about his affairs, so he changed the topic and said, "Don't talk about this, it's hard to rest, of course talk about some happy things." Ah Xun, didn't you say yesterday that you would take us to the sea today? When do we depart? ”

After hearing this, Shen Tang looked at her brother with wide eyes, and said in disbelief, "Okay, you, I said that you didn't want to take me when you went out in the morning, it turns out that you want to go to sea without your father, you are crazy." Without adults by our side, aren't you afraid of accidents? ”

Shen Xun was a little annoyed and said, "Then don't go, who asked you to follow." ”

Shen Tang saw that her brother didn't seem to care about going to sea, and didn't care about their safety, and said a little angrily, "Okay, I'll go and tell my father and mother to see if they will agree to you going." ”

Zhou Ce and Li Yu looked at each other, a little unsure of how to alleviate the conflict between the two brothers and sisters, or Li Yu stubbornly said, "Sister, don't be angry first, I think my brother shouldn't want to go to the deep sea, he should want to go to the beach and shallow water, and he wants to take me to see the world." ”

Hearing Li Yu give the two of them a step down like this, Shen Xun also slowed down his tone and said, "Yes, who said that I would go to the deep sea area, I just heard Xiao Yu'er say yesterday that he saw the sea for the first time and never went to the beach to play, so I wanted to take you to play." If you really want to go to those dangerous seas, even if I want to, I don't have the ability to take you there. Even if I'm not afraid of death, can I still care about your life or death! ”

Shen Tang thought about it after hearing it, although her brother is usually a little unreliable and has wild ideas, but it is still very good for her, dangerous things, dangerous places, will protect her, this time she overreacted.

She pursed her lips and said, "I'm also worried that you're too excited, I'm afraid that something will happen to you!" ”

The two finally no longer had the tense atmosphere just now, Zhou Ce and Li Yu also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, looked at each other, and smiled helplessly.

The four of them planned to eat out for lunch today, so they took some fruit and side dishes from Zhou Ce's house, plus the steamed buns they brought from home in the morning, and then caught two fish from the sea at noon and grilled them, which was enough.

After Zhou Ce locked the yard, the group walked from his house to the beach.

On the way, Zhou Ce and Shen Xun walked behind, avoiding Li Yu and Shen Tang talking to each other, Zhou Ce asked, "Sister Tang doesn't know?" I thought you told her today! ”

Shen Xun also said secretly, "Of course I don't know, if she knows, my father and mother won't know." ”

"And you brought them here? Can't we both go? Zhou Ce asked puzzled.

Shen Xun explained, "Originally, I wanted to take Xiaoyu'er there, you don't know, I chatted with him yesterday and found that he has a lot of knowledge, thinking that we can have someone to discuss when we encounter anything together." Unexpectedly, he played well with my sister, and my sister heard that he was also playing with us today, and she was clamoring to come along. ”

Zhou Ce asked with some confusion and disbelief, "He? He looks like he's only five or six years old, he's a little smaller than us, and he has a lot of knowledge, aren't you confused by him? ”

Shen Xun said, "Don't believe it, just what he said just now, you can see that he is extraordinary, and besides, although Uncle Lin didn't show his strength in front of us, can we not know how powerful he is?" A person who can be accepted as an apprentice by Uncle Lin, do you think he will be an ordinary person? ”

Zhou Ce reacted a little, and said even more incredulously, "You mean, he is also a cultivator?" ”

Shen Xun said with some pride, "Although he didn't say it himself, and Uncle Lin didn't say it either, I can feel that he is definitely not as weak as he seems." ”

Zhou Ce sighed a little and said, "I really didn't expect that the Lindao Master would accept him as a disciple." ”

Then, he asked with some curiosity, "By the way, why don't you become a disciple of the Elder Dao?" He has such a good relationship with your family. ”

Shen Xun said, "Actually, I asked Uncle Lin later, and he said that I am not suitable for cultivation, only for studying. But I've also thought about it seriously, I really seem to like to read more, doesn't the book say, read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, what I want to do is such a reader, if I really let me meditate and practice in the room, I don't think I can sit down. ”

Zhou Ce said, "You can think about it." There was some loneliness in his words, but this meaning was fleeting, so Shen Xun didn't catch it, and Shen Xun also asked him, "What about you?" Why don't you go and fight for it, I didn't know if Uncle Lin would accept apprentices before, but now that he has accepted Xiaoyuer, it means that he still has the intention to accept apprentices. ”

This question made Zhou Ce a little tempted, but he thought that he hadn't fought for it before. There was still a time when he was copying a book in the City Lord's Mansion, and when the Lindao people went to the City Lord's Mansion as a guest, the City Lord introduced him and recommended Zhou Ce to the Lindao people, and it was not bad to be a little disciple who was waiting on the side, but the Taoist glanced at him and asked Zhou Ce a question, "What do you think, what is cultivation?" ”

Zhou Ce was only six years old at the time, just enlightened for a year, and only ignorantly knew in the book that cultivation was a very powerful thing, but even so, he didn't know how to answer this question. ”

Then, the Taoist put this matter aside.

When he was a little older, the more he was impressed by this matter, how could he not know that the other party was not satisfied with his answer, and did not want to accept him as a disciple!

At this time, when he heard Shen Xun ask him like this, he laughed a little and said helplessly, "I don't have the fate of master and apprentice with Lin Daochang." ”

Shen Xun knew what it meant, and he didn't ask any more, why did he ask some things so clearly, he patted Zhou Ce's shoulder, comforted him, and said, "It's okay, it's great for us to be scholars." Doesn't the book say that people in the world can not only cultivate the Tao, but also become holy through reading, which is also a very great achievement. ”

The four of them saw some acquaintances on the road, greeted everyone warmly, and introduced Li Yu's existence, so that Li Yu really walked into everyone's eyes.

"This is the child brought by the chief of the Lindao, he looks so good-looking, like a child from a big family."

"How old are you? Where is your hometown? Who else is in the family? Do your family agree with you to go with the chief? ”

“。。。。。。”

Everyone asked each other, and some questions that Li Yu could answer were answered, and those that could not be answered were vague, which also gave Zhou Ce a general understanding of Li Yu's life experience, and sighed at him in his heart, it seems that his life experience is also very bumpy and difficult.

After going through these complicated roads, the four of them finally arrived at the beach, Li Yu looked at the sea in front of him, the boats sailing on the sea, and the world in his heart suddenly became open.

This is different from the sea he saw on the boat in Tianmen Town, the sea was dense with fog at that time, which made him feel that the surroundings were very silted, and there was no sparse and open vast artistic conception, he spent most of his time in the cabin, so he naturally could not see the true face of the sea.

Now looking at this sea, the last bit of uneasiness in his heart because of the death of his grandmother and coming to this strange Tianmen Town disappeared in an instant, and he finally understood that he had seen an ancient poem in the book - floating in the sky and the sea is far away, and the artistic conception of the death of the law boat is light.

The deceased is gone, and the living should live well.