A young man named Li Shi led the ox down the road, and he didn't know how long he had been walking.

The stream, which should have been buried in those lush green meadows not far ahead, seemed to have no end.

He felt very hungry, and that hunger was surging.

Fortunately, there were fish in the stream, which allowed him to stop from time to time and catch some fish from the stream and grill them.

But he was wary, and kept remembering the position of the white-haired man's sword in the stream.

I didn't dare to cross an inch.

He didn't really know what would happen when he crossed the clear stream.

It's just that for some reason, he seems to have a great fear of crossing the clear stream—or walking over.

It's like having a nightmare when I was very young.

Like those words he had forgotten.

What that dream was, he couldn't remember anymore.

But all in all, it's scary.

After eating an unknown number of fish, Li Shi finally realized that this world seemed to be stagnant.

The blade of grass beside him was trampled off by the old cow's hooves, and bounced up again, flying next to the calf.

It's a vivid picture.

But if you stop, you will look into the distance with your waist crossed in a tired posture.

You will be amazed to find that everything in the distance is still, just like a painting, half of the mountains are green, the rest are hidden in the fog, the water waves are still, and the blue birds are so firm and powerful when they break through the clouds in the mountains.

There are feathers hanging down.

Li Shi sighed.

In fact, he never understood what he was going through.

It seems that things have started to get weird since I really met the young Taoist with the sword.

Li Shi crossed his waist and sighed there for a long time before finally continuing to walk along the grass stream.

What does it mean to go all the way until the white plum opens?

Li Shi led the cow and thought.

It's long past the plum blossom season.

And where is the white plum on the road?

Li Shi was tired of walking, so he simply sat on Lao Niu.

The young man felt that this cow, which he had watched for many years, was the best cow in the world.

It has a docile personality and a gentle temper, and when it lies on the back of a cow, it will not have its tail pumping around.

Li Shi also felt sorry for his cow.

Sometimes he would lie on the cow and be very serious about picking out the terrible ticks.

Ticks are real cowhides, and their stomachs are swollen and red when they are sucked, which makes people hate itchy.

Li Shi sighed.

It's a pity that he is not a powerful character, and he can only sigh when he looks at the cowtick.

I don't know how long it took, but Li Shi, who was a little drowsy, suddenly woke up.

The old cow had stopped, grazing on the side of the stream, and the picture in the distance seemed to have finally changed.

The unchanged green mountains faded, and the yellow sand desert poured out from the edge of the horizon.

Li Shi sat upright on the old cow, his eyes widened in surprise, looking at the scenes in the distance, and turned back in surprise.

Looking back, the green mountains are still the same, but they are constantly moving away, constantly blurring, as if they are burning, and the red-gray ember fire is like a small flower, floating away in the wind.

The fire is coming towards you!

Li Shi was stunned for a while before he finally realized this problem, and hurriedly jumped off the cow and led him to run forward.

Although Lao Niu was a little reluctant, but his nose hurt, he also had to run forward with Li Shi.

The grass stream spread into the distance, but the grass blades on the side of the stream continued to thin out, if it was usual, Li Shi would definitely touch the old cow's damaged horns, and said with a smile Look, you have eaten this land bald. Although it is eaten and wiped clean and uprooted, it is probably something that only sheep can do.

On the earth where the hues are gradually becoming barren, such a clear stream winds its way into the distance like a delicately painted heavenly light in a picture scroll.

Li Shi, who was chased by the human fires that inexplicably began to burn, finally saw some white dotted on the side of the stream from a distance when he crossed a small hill.

Snow-like colors.

It turns out that you can really go to Baimei to open!

Li Shi thought in amazement.

......

Qingshan turned into an ember and stopped far behind Li Shi.

The young man walked over with the ox in his breath, and only then did he realize that there was a man sitting under the white plum tree.

A man with a peach blossom mask, but it seems to have been split open, and it is full of blood.

Li Shi thought he was dead, but when he walked over, he saw him move, and then sat up straight against the tree with white plums like snow in the wind.

"You're here."

The man seemed to be very familiar with Li Shi, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he greeted him with such a bland greeting.

Li Shi was a little afraid to talk, holding the hand of the bull rope behind his back, leaned forward, and looked at the pile of plum blossoms under the tree - there were too many, even if the plum blossoms of the whole tree fell, they couldn't pile so much, not to mention the inexplicable wind by the stream, which was constantly blowing those plum blossoms away.

"It was a dead man."

The man in white under the tree said very calmly.

Li Shi was startled, raised his head, and looked at him.

"Who?"

The man in white sat there, probably thinking about how to answer the question.

After a long time, he whispered, "It's nothing, it's just a dead man." ”

"How can a dead man be a plum blossom?"

"I heard that love is loyal enough to turn into a butterfly, why can't a person become a plum blossom when he dies? You have to dare to think. ”

Li Shi couldn't understand, and held the cow rope behind him with some uneasiness.

"Okay, so you know me?"

The man in white smiled, sweeping the plum blossoms on his body, fortunately, his was swept clean, not like a white butterfly attached to the bone, no matter how it could not be swept away.

"I know, your name is Li Shi, you have been herding cattle all your life, and you have encountered some strange things, and someone told you that if you want to go out, you have to go here all the time."

The man in white said it so accurately that Li Shi wondered if he had something to do with the white-haired man.

Li Shi wanted to say something.

The man in white suddenly looked into the distance, and his expression became solemn - the peach blossoms that had been split in half were still on his face, and with his frowning movements, there was gradually a tendency to bridge.

Li Shi was also taken aback.

For he heard some dull and distant sound of bells falling.

The man in white sighed and said, "Ring the bell twice? Why bother? ”

Li Shi hadn't understood what he meant, but he had already turned his head and looked at Li Shi, and also at Li Shi's old cow.

"You haven't walked out yet, don't stop here, keep going."

Li Shi was stunned for a moment, and the bell came slowly, for some reason, making him shiver unconsciously.

"How far do I have to go?"

The man in white stood up, swept away the white plums on his body, and then pressed the peach blossoms on his face with both hands, and squeezed them hard towards the middle.

Li Shi watched this scene nervously.

The man in white walked calmly forward.

"It's not far away, the bell is about to stop, if you look back and see this plum tree, and see this clear stream burning, you will go out."

Li Shi hurriedly said thank you, and then led the ox forward, walked not far, looked back, sure enough, the plum blossoms that fell under the tree began to burn, but the man in white walked towards those flames.

This made Li Shi a little nervous.

"Big.... What about you? ”

The man in white turned around and said calmly, "I don't have to go out. ”

He turned back and walked forward, the gray embers passing through him.

"I'm not one of those people in the first place."

Li Shi looked at this scene, and then he put his mind at ease, but he just thought of something, stood on the edge of those Qingxi that had begun to burn, and asked loudly.

"Where do I go when I get out?"

"Whatever you want."

Li Shi felt that this answer was like nonsense, but he didn't ask anything more, and looked back at the pile of plum blossoms that were burning and rolling in the wind, I don't know why, there was always a very strange feeling in my heart.

The young man was a little confused and waved his hand.

Whatever.

Li Shi led the ox away with him.