Chapter 17: It's Him, It's Not Him...
"Awake?"
Zhang Yangming looked back, and for some reason, his bloodshot eyes have now become black and white.
With a gentle smile on his face, he said, "For the teacher to let you take care of your junior sister on the road, why don't you know how to add some firewood when you fall asleep in the middle of the night?" What should I do if I catch a cold? ”
"Master..."
Zhang Xiuyuan looked at the master wearing a black robe, and the long gray hair that was originally scattered was also tied together, put on a lotus crown, and inserted a hairpin, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart.
In his many years of contemplation, he had never seen Master wear a black robe, and since Master had hysteria, the lotus crown and hairpin had not been worn for many years.
He looked at the master who had been with him for many years outside the door, and looked at the familiar face with a gentle smile on his face, but he felt a little strange in his heart...
Zhang Miaoshan seemed to hear the movement, and opened her eyes in a daze after rubbing her sleepy eyes.
When she saw the worried senior brother and the master outside the door, she blinked blankly, her lips pursed but she didn't know what to say.
"It's okay to wake up..."
Zhang Yangming stepped into the General's Temple, and said with a slight smile in his eyes: "This barren mountain and wild mountain is not inhabited, and it is not safe, so I have come to pick you up and go home." ”
When he stepped into the General's Temple, the shadow was stretched for a long time under the morning light, like a dark cloud enveloping the hearts of the two senior brothers and sisters.
“……”
Zhang Xiuyuan only felt that his scalp was faintly numb, and asked sneeringly: "Didn't the master ask the disciple to go to Baiyun Temple to find the senior aunt, why did he find it in person?" ”
"It's a long story..."
Zhang Yangming sighed lightly and said with a smile: "Soon after you left, I made a hexagram for the teacher's heart, and the hexagram showed that your trip was not going well, and the teacher was worried about your safety, so I came over to take you to have a look, and by the way, I also took you home, and I personally sent you to Baiyun Temple in a few days." ”
“……”
Zhang Xiuyuan squeezed out a smile on his face and said, "Master don't have to worry too much, the disciple's trip is not unsmooth." ”
"But this road doesn't seem to be the way to Baiyun Temple."
Zhang Yangming looked at the dilapidated General Temple disappreciatively, and asked with a smile: "Xiuyuan, Baiyun Temple is in the territory of Xijing Mansion, you should go east, why do you go north to this point, so that it is easy to find a teacher?" ”
Zhang Xiuyuan didn't know what he had noticed, his heart was relieved, and he said bluntly: "Because the disciple is afraid that the master will be controlled by demonic thoughts, he will go back on his word." ”
“……”
The smile on Zhang Yangming's face stiffened when he heard this, and he sighed lightly: "Xiuyuan, you have raised you for more than ten years as a teacher, and you treat it like this?" ”
"The disciple doesn't dare..."
Zhang Xiuyuan shook his head, and said: "Master once said to leave quickly, don't look back, the disciple keeps it in mind, the master is not controlled by the demonic thoughts, can you let the disciple and the junior sister leave." ”
“……”
When Zhang Yangming saw him disobeying himself like this, he knew that he had seen the clue, so he simply didn't pretend, and snorted coldly with a gloomy face.
"Since good words don't work, then don't blame the teacher for forcibly taking you back."
As he spoke, he flicked his fingers, and two wisps of energy gushed out from his fingertips, which were submerged into Zhang Xiuyuan and Zhang Miaoshan's bodies respectively.
“……”
The brother and sister didn't even react, they felt their bodies stiffen, and they collapsed to the ground as if their bones had been removed, and they fell asleep...
"Zhang Yangming, look at the good apprentice you taught, if you don't follow the teacher's instructions to go north, let me look for two whole days!"
Zhang Yangming snorted lightly with a gloomy face, and then took a volley of luck with both hands, and directly took the two senior brothers and sisters who had fallen asleep into his hands.
With a person in his hand, he jumped out of the General's Temple like a chicken, and then flew away on the treetop branches with light skills.
It was a little faster than that, and the horse was a little quicker.
………………
It's too imaginary to look at the sky...
I don't know when a red-crowned red eye, bare-cheeked and blue-footed white crane flew in, and the posture of flapping its wings and flying high was extremely elegant, even if it fell and closed its wings, it looked extremely elegant.
The size of the white crane was several times larger than that of ordinary white cranes, and it landed behind the front yard of Taixuguan, and a female crown fell lightly on its back.
The woman wore a pale blue embroidered cloud robe, held a dust whisk, and a lotus crown, her face was like a woman, but the years did not seem to have left too many traces on her face, and she couldn't tell how old she was.
She looked at the empty view that had been there before, and now it was empty, and her expression revealed a bit of worry and sorrow......
The female crown's name is Ning Zizhen, and she is also the current master of Baiyun Temple.
In the early years, the two views of the two views often visited each other with their disciples, and at that time, Ning Zizhen, who was still a little Taoist child, met Zhang Yangming, who was also a Taoist child...
Because of the relationship between Baiyun and Taixu, the two of them have always been commensurate with brother and sister...
At that time, it was the prime of youth, Ning Zizhen was innocent, Zhang Yangming was intelligent, and both of them were attracted to each other, and their feelings were secret.
The two division commanders saw it, but they didn't say much...
Until Baiyun Temple was valued by Yuntai Mountain, as a stronghold of Yuntai Mountain against the red dust world;
Until Ning Zizhen was told that Zhang Yangming, who had been brilliant since childhood, had no immortal fate, but he had immortal fate.
Until......
At some point, it was as if everything had changed.
The master began to warn her that there was a difference between immortals and mortals, and that she should not get too close to Zhang Yangming, so as not to mess up her Dao heart in the future.
The uncle who was too virtual came to Baiyunguan to protect the disciple, but was rejected by the master, and even broke the friendship between the two views for many years...
Zhang Yangming came to look for her, but was taken by the master to talk, and she didn't even have to think about it to guess what the master talked to her.
She knew her master's kindness, but at the same time, she also knew that the senior brother who had feelings for each other was smart and high-spirited since he was a child, and he would not be humiliated;
She wanted to mediate, but it was too late...
Zhang Yangming left in shame, saying that he would definitely find the immortal fate, and even made a vow that if he failed to find the immortal fate, he would never see him.
The life trajectories of the two that originally intersected also came to a fork in the road at that time, one was accepted by Yuntai Mountain to practice, and the other was crawling in the red dust.
She has searched for Zhang Yangming many times, but she has been turned away.
She also understood that Zhang Yangming's heart was quite high, so she no longer insisted on it, but just asked someone to hand over a letter and a cloud pattern jade pendant, and made a covenant with Jiazi in that letter, and the jade pendant was a token......
Time flies.
She is no longer what she used to be, and she has almost forgotten Zhang Yangming's appearance, but she always remembers that agreement.
She didn't even know whether she liked the smart young brother or Zhang Yangming now, but she really wanted to ask, for a vow, she hadn't seen her for decades, was it worth it?
She didn't know...
Also wondering...
She waited in Baiyunguan for a while as if she was angry, but she never saw that person come to the appointment, and she couldn't wait for the answer that had plagued her for many years.
But just yesterday...
Someone ran away and killed two horses and sent a letter and a piece of cloud-patterned jade pendant, just as she had asked someone to send the letter and jade pendant to Zhang Yangming.
In that letter, she learned about Zhang Yangming's changes over the years, and also learned about what happened to her two teachers and nephews.
In her mind, the brilliant young brother and Zhang Yangming described in the letter are like two people...
Only then did she realize that the brilliant young brother might have died as early as that autumn of that year, under the master's words, in that oath, and in her own dreams...
He is the one who lives now, and he is not him...