Early in the morning, when Hu Lu was still sleeping in the porter, he heard someone knocking on the door.

Although I always felt that I hadn't woken up yet, and I didn't remember it very much, the man was knocking very quickly.

Hu Lu covered his ears for a while, and finally stood up helplessly, walked over and opened the door of the Sword Sect.

It was only when he opened the door that Hu Lu was stunned.

Because standing at the door was Zhang Xiaoyu, who had been away for more than half a year.

Hu Lu woke up all of a sudden, and he looked at the white-clothed sword cultivator who was smiling at the door with a smile on his face.

"Senior brother? You're back! ”

Zhang Xiaoyu, who was facing the wind and snow on his head, said with a smile: "It's almost the New Year, and I will definitely come back." ”

Hu Lu thought to himself, yes, it's almost the New Year, and they will definitely come back.

So he smiled and brought Zhang Xiaoyu in.

The news of Zhang Xiaoyu's return quickly alarmed the senior brothers in the Sword Sect, and Jiang Ye and the others all ran out with a smile, making all kinds of jokes with Zhang Xiaoyu.

Hu Lu was very happy to hold his sword and lean against the door and watch.

After a long time, the senior brothers left with a smile, saying that they were going to prepare some good wine and food for Zhang Xiaoyu.

Hu Lu and Zhang Xiaoyu then sat on the stones by the second pool, swept some snow, and talked a lot of things nonsense while looking over the artificial eaves wall and looking at the world that was getting cold day by day.

"Senior brother, where have you been these days?"

Hu Lu looked at Zhang Xiaoyu and asked curiously.

Zhang Xiaoyu sat on the edge of the pool and dangled his legs, tilted his head to look at the sky and said, "I went to a far place." ”

"For example?"

"For example, the East China Sea, the East China Sea is 490,000 miles, you know, our ancestor died there."

"Senior brother also went to 490,000 miles?"

"No, I only went 480,000 miles."

Hu Lu sighed and said, "That's really far, far away." ”

It's far, far away, so Zhang Xiaoyu didn't have time to come back.

Hulu thought as a matter of course.

"What are the 480,000 miles in the East China Sea?"

Zhang Xiaoyu thought for a while, and then said with a smile: "There are people, there are people." ”

"Human?"

The hulu grew in surprise and his mouth widened like a fish that had jumped to the shore.

"Yes, there are many people in the world, people live on trees on the sea, there are thousands of small islands around such a big tree of tens of thousands of miles, everywhere is verdant and green, at dusk, that orange light shines down, and when it falls into the water, it also becomes green, like a flowing piece of jade hidden in the bushes."

Zhang Xiaoyu said with a smile.

"I rented a boat and swam around there."

Hu Lu's eyes widened as he imagined that kind of image, and he couldn't wait to ask.

"And then?"

Zhang Xiaoyu said: "Later? Later, I left, other places are not as good as my hometown, I still like the people of Nanyi City. The lamps were red, the wine was green, the snow was white, and the eaves were black. ”

"Oh, that is, indeed. Did you come back after my brother left? ”

"Of course not, I went to the desert again, and I also found the legendary Taoist temple that has disappeared for many years."

"Hanyakan?"

"Yes." Zhang Xiaoyu probably remembered something very happy and smiled brightly.

"They are still alive in the world, but they are no longer in the world, and the master of this generation is called Li Que forty-eight."

Hu Lu counted there with his fingers.

Li Que 1, Li Que 2, Li Que 3.....

It's been a thousand years, and it seems that Li is indeed forty-eight.

"Isn't it a very old-fashioned old man?" Hu Lu let go of his hand, hung down beside him, supported the stone and looked at Zhang Xiaoyu and asked.

"No, it's a little boy, just like you, but he doesn't like to play cards, and he likes to sit at the door and read a book when it's raining, and it's like to watch it all day."

Hulu exclaimed.

"If you are worthy of being a person from the Daomen, what about the view? What is it like to look at it? ”

Zhang Xiaoyu probably harassed the little boy named Li Que Forty-Eight every day there, so after thinking about it for a long time, he remembered some trivial things.

"The view is in a mountain, green mountains and green water, when it rains and snows, it is very quiet, there is an ancient well in front of the view, it is not very deep, like a basin, there are some green leaves floating in it, it is very clear, like a mirror-like sky. I've heard that if you look there for a long time, you'll see something wonderful. ”

"Senior brother, have you seen it? And isn't Hanyaguan in the desert? ”

"I didn't see it, isn't the most wonderful thing in the world that we were born into by chance?" Zhang Xiaoyu said with a smile, "The view must be in the mountains, you go far along the desert, and when there are some mysterious feelings in your heart, you will see some very green mountains." ”

"Wow, is there anything else?"

"Yes, there is a cowshed in the mountains behind the view."

"Cowshed?"

"That's right, otherwise where would that green cow be kept?"

Zhang Xiaoyu said confidently.

Hulu laughed hahaha.

Mei Quming took a pot of wine, sighed on the side that it was about to snow again, and shook it slowly.

"What are you talking about?"

Mei Quming also sat down on the side.

Hu Lu said, "Senior Brother Xiaoyu is telling his wonderful adventure story!" ”

Mei Quming was also interested, handed the wine jug in his hand to Zhang Xiaoyu, and said, "Where did you go?" ”

Zhang Xiaoyu said: "I have arrived at Hangu Temple. ”

The chic Jianxiu, who was sitting on the shore in white clothes, took a sip of wine, wiped the wine on his lips, and continued: "After leaving Hangu Temple, I went to Luming again. ”

"Luming, Snow Country, I heard that the world hasn't been there for a long time, and the snow has been too big these years, unless there is something particularly important, Kamigawa doesn't want to go there."

Hulu said in amazement.

"Yes, I have been lost in the wind and snow for a long time, you must know that I have been to the East China Sea for 490,000 miles, and I have not lost my way, you know how big the snow is there."

"Then how did Senior Brother get out?"

"I met a guy in a wheelchair who bought sizzling tofu and he took me out of there."

"Are there many temple ruins in Luming?"

"Yes, those temples are empty, but the people under the mountain are still very religious, passing by a mountain, they have to put their hands together and say Amitabha, and some more devout people will go up the mountain to worship on certain festivals, have you ever seen that kind of scene? Standing in the wind and snow and looking all the way, it is full of people with black knock marks on their foreheads, knocking step by step, like some kind of ancient ritual, believers are knocking on the door of the wind and snow earth with their heads. ”

Hulu sat there in amazement.

"Are those Buddhists like that?"

Mei Quming chuckled on the side and said, "Where are there still people from Buddhism, those should all be people who believe in Buddhism." ”

"That's just as well." Hu Lu suddenly said.

After all, his master, Cong Blade, who also cultivates ten thousand laws, once admitted in person that Buddhism is extinct.

Zhang Xiaoyu continued.

"I went all the way to the west, wanting to see if the bliss and rebirth mentioned by Buddhism really exist."

"Did you see it?"

"No, all the way to the west, just keep walking through the wind and snow, just like in the East China Sea, maybe the Western Bliss mentioned by Buddhism originally refers to the world that was blocked by the River Styx in the past of the Yellow Mountains in the southwest. Just like what Nanyi Shizu once said about Zhuangsheng Island in the East China Sea. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu said with a sigh.

"But then I did see a very strange inn, in the depths of the deer, in a snowy peach forest, where there was a man who was said to be a swordsman."

Hulu was surprised.

"Peach Forest? Heavy snow? Swordsman? ”

"Could it be that he is the essence of the master?"

Mei Quming raised his eyebrows and looked at Hu Lu and said, "What is Master's body?" ”

Hu Lu Zhenzhen said eloquently: "Master is so lazy and so powerful, the one who sleeps on the bridge must be just a clone, in fact, he has an ontology, he hides somewhere and secretly cultivates, he has to work hard secretly, and then surprise everyone." ”

Zhang Xiaoyu laughed and said: "That's not it, the inn is called the Daxia Inn, that person is called the swordsman armor, the sword of the swordsman, the guest who travels in the world, and the armor that is the best in the world - this is his original words, translated, is a person who used to be very powerful with a sword in the world." ”

Hu Lu said with some disbelief: "So crazy? Did the senior brother try to compete with him? ”

Zhang Xiaoyu said: "No, because he said that he hadn't used a sword for many years, so I just roasted the fire in his inn for a few days and came back." ”

"That's a shame."

Hu Lu felt a little sorry.

"Where did Senior Brother go later?"

Zhang Xiaoyu thought for a while and said, "Later, I went to the endless deep ocean and took Li Qinghua to the bottom of the sea. ”

"Under the sea?"

"Yes, didn't there be a very strange topic in the Hanging Courtyard? What specialties did Dao Saint Li Queyi eat there? ”

Hulu nodded.

This is a well-known question in Nanyi City, perhaps blind, because there is no talking sponge.

Zhang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Dao Sheng eats crab roe castle, a very strange food. ”

Hulu's eyes were wide open.

"Crab Castle?"

"Yes, but I didn't eat it, so I don't know what it tastes like, and if you have a chance in the future, you can go and see it yourself, and remember to tell my senior brother what it tastes like when the time comes."

"Okay." Hulu nodded. "But when will I be able to walk around like a senior brother?"

Hu Lu was a little melancholy.

Zhang Xiaoyu touched Hulu's head, the boy's hair was already very long, covered with melon skin, and it felt like a girl's hand.

"When you enter the avenue later, go higher, and you can walk everywhere."

"Uh-huh."

Hu Lu nodded hurriedly.

Mei Quming was joking on the side.

"At that time, the senior brothers must be very old, sitting at the door every day to bask in the sun, and then chanting, how many years will this kid be gone, and I don't know how many years I will come back to see us."

Hulu giggled there.

The three of them talked for a long time, Jiang Ye and they finally prepared a table of good dishes, and Nan Dequ came over with a smile and asked the three of them to eat.

Senior Brother Huaifeng and Master have not yet returned.

So Hu Lu didn't want to repeat this meal, so he said a few words perfunctory.

After eating, Hu Lu and Zhang Xiaoyu took advantage of the fact that the second snow had not yet come, and ran to the Nanyi River to sit down.

The rat's boat is not far away.

Hu Lu stared there for a while, and then turned his head to look at Zhang Xiaoyu.

"I thought that when my senior brother came back, he would definitely play cards for three days and three nights."

Zhang Xiaoyu sat with his sword scabbard on his back and crossed his knees by the river.

"You can't play cards all your life, sometimes you have to take a break and go out for a walk."

Hu Lu thought about Zhang Xiaoyu's wonderful experiences and nodded thoughtfully.

Zhang Xiaoyu looked at the sparkling waves of the river and laughed softly.

"Sometimes the world is much more interesting than the card game, you can also go out more in the future, to see a lot of places I haven't been to yet, and then just like Brother Mei said, when we are old and sitting under the eaves and talking about you, you will write the story you see into a letter and send it to us."

"Uh-huh, good senior brother." Hu Lu nodded sincerely.

A river of twilight shone down in the world.

The two of them sat very leisurely by the river and watched the scenery of the world.

"Senior brother."

Hu Lu suddenly spoke very solemnly.

Zhang Xiaoyu turned his head.

Hu Lu hesitated for a moment, and then said softly: "I vaguely feel as if I have had a dream. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu asked curiously, "What dream?" ”

Hu Lu tilted his head, looking at the sky that seemed to be snowing in the twilight, and also at the human boat rippling in the sparkling waves on the river.

"A very strange dream."

"In the dream, it is completely different from the world, in it, you and Senior Brother Huaifeng are gone, and then they never come back, and I don't know why, it seems that the rat and mouse were killed in the river."

And then ..... It was as if I had been stabbed in the sword. ”

Hulu whispered.

"The pain was really real — whether it was about rats or the sword in my heart."

"Sometimes when I dream at night, I wake up scared."

Zhang Xiaoyu smiled and touched Hu Lu's head.

"It's just a dream, and it's all the other way around, because you're afraid of that kind of story, so you're scared, and you're going to have some bad dreams."

Hu Lu looked at the boat that was really floating on the river, and the girl who was sitting at the bow of the boat in a little hazy twilight, looked at it for a long time, and then laughed softly.

"Yes, it's just a dream, Senior Brother, you're back, Senior Brother Huaifeng should be back soon."

"Master, too."

The two sat by the river and laughed softly.

Hulu seemed a little sleepy and yawned.

"Senior brother, I'll go back to sleep first, I was woken up by you in the morning, and I'm a little sleepy now."

Zhang Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Go ahead, I'll sit for a while." ”

Hu Lu nodded, turned around and walked towards the Sword Sect.

Zhang Xiaoyu sat quietly in the twilight, looking at the world where it was about to snow.

.......

Zhang Xiaoyu sat quietly in the twilight, looking at the world where spring was coming.

Jiang Ye and the others were not far from the Nanyi River, holding their swords, looking at Zhang Xiaoyu's very lonely back.

Of course, Zhang Xiaoyu is leaving.

His white clothes were no longer as clean as they used to be, and they were a little torn, so the figure sitting by the river looked very downcast.

Sometimes there were people passing by on the river or on the bank, and they all looked at this long-lost sword cultivator in amazement.

There's nothing strange about the stains on that kind of garment.

The memory of most people in Nanyi City is still stuck in the time of the war, when Zhang Xiaoyu was dressed in white like blood.

Or the last time I left, the sparkling blood.

The biggest surprise is that Zhang Xiaoyu didn't seem to have been out for long, and when he came back, he became a blind man.

Just like when I first came in, the people passing by were very sad.

Zhang Xiaoyu, why did you become like this?

Very pitiful words.

The people of Nanyi City watched this white-clothed sword cultivator swagger from eighteen to twenty-five years old.

So that kind of sigh and that kind of pity are naturally very real.

No one ever mentioned how much money Zhang Xiaoyu owed them.

When this sword cultivator jumped down from the city wall in blood and walked quietly down the long street, people didn't mention it.

Zhang Xiaoyu greeted every passer-by quietly but with a smile.

It wasn't until the twilight was deep that this sword cultivator swept the fallen leaves on his body and stood up, turned around and walked towards his senior brothers.

Zhang Xiaoyu stopped in front of the senior brothers, but he didn't look at the senior brothers.

Instead, he looked down at the steps of the Sword Sect under his feet.

"The steps aren't wobbly."

Zhang Xiaoyu raised his feet and stepped there.

The stone steps are very stable.

Zhang Xiaoyu's craftsmanship is really good.

However, if he had the money, he probably wouldn't have turned the stones over by himself, but would ask the craftsmen in the city to re-polish some stones and put them up.

Jiang Ye said softly: "Very good, it is very stable to step on, and the junior brother is well repaired." ”

Zhang Xiaoyu smiled very gently there.

Such a smile should be from Chen Huaifeng during the health period, Jiang Ye during the vegetable market, not Zhang Xiaoyu.

Zhang Xiaoyu has naturally never been a person who will make people feel like a spring breeze.

"It's stable, that's good."

Zhang Xiaoyu stepped on the stone steps and stood there looking at the world.

The world is walking towards the twilight in the spring breeze.

Zhang Xiaoyu can't see, but he can listen to the wind, and he can also stand there to judge the quality of some things.

"I'm always worried that this stone step has not been repaired, and the new juniors and disciples will fall before they enter the door."

Mei Quming said with a smile: "Not everyone is as stupid as you. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu laughed softly and said, "Yes, I am really the stupidest and most bastard Zhang Xiaoyu in the world." ”

Mei Quming patted him on the shoulder.

Zhang Xiaoyu stood for a while, and then nodded to the senior brothers.

"Senior brother..... I'll ..... later."

Zhang Xiaoyu stopped halfway through his words, smiled to himself, did not continue, and walked all the way along the twilight river.

Just waved his hand in the broken gold light that was surging in the long river.

Ginger leaves, they stood there for a long time.

Until he could no longer see the figure of the white-clothed sword cultivator.

Jiang Hehai sighed and said softly: "You said that the junior brother is running around all day, what are you busy with?" ”

He asked Zhang Xiaoyu if he wanted to stay for two days.

But Zhang Xiaoyu smiled and refused.

Perhaps it is.

When such a question is asked, it may already be a guest.

Knocking on the door with a raised hand is a truth.

Mei Quming shrugged his shoulders and turned to walk towards the Sword Sect.

"I don't know, my junior brother is a genius, and he is naturally not from the same world as us."

Big waves wash the sand.

Zhang Xiaoyu may be the gold in it.