After that, Gao Daoren brushed his sleeves away, leaving Jiang Xuerou there pouting and angry, and my face was confused.

How can it be good now, Jiang Xuerou and I are both people from the Daomen, and we can be regarded as peers, this kind of kneeling seems to be in violation, and I have to ask him to get up before he can get up, isn't this a clear way to pull me down the pit?

Jiang Xuerou gambled on the climate for a while, then ran to a big tree on the edge of the side hall and knelt down with a plop. It's just over the New Year, the weather is still very cold, and the temperature on the mountain is even lower than under the mountain. Seeing Jiang Xuerou kneeling down silently, I was also a little embarrassed there, so I walked to his side and said to him, forget it, since the thing is back, it will be fine. Don't get up on your knees, even if I told you to get up.

Jiang Xuerou ignored me and continued to kneel in the direction of the side hall. I was a little anxious, so I said, "Little brother, you can't blame me for this, no matter from which angle, I didn't do anything wrong." Let's look for things, but also talk about the first come, first come, first come, we find first, if you want to join, you can only follow our method, you should know this rule. But if you don't say goodbye, forget it, take my things, I'll get them back, can you say that I did something wrong?

He still ignored it, and even closed his eyes directly, as if he would be upset if he looked at me more. I was at a loss for words and didn't know what to say, so I stood under the tree and silently lit a cigarette. As soon as it was lit, Jiang Xuerou spoke, he said, we are a clean place, and it is all a wooden house, please don't swallow clouds and smoke here, you want to smoke, go outside and smoke by yourself!

So I reluctantly stepped on the cigarette I had just smoked, and then said to him, "Are you willing to speak?" I thought you were dumb. He ignored me, and I asked again, "So your name is Matsuko?" Why is the name like a small animal, you told us earlier that your name is Jiang Xuerou, is it a real name or a fake name?

In this industry, it is very common to use some fake names for convenience and self-protection, which is a very common phenomenon, so I asked. Originally, I thought that my words would still not be answered, who knew that he still had his eyes closed, but he opened his mouth and said, do you know why my master is kneeling under this tree? I shook my head, but quickly realized that he had his eyes closed, so I said, I don't know.

He said, "When I was a teenager, I came here to apprentice and knelt under this tree all night. I said why does your apprenticeship sound so miserable, there are few Taoist priests on this mountain, why does your master refuse to accept you, this is a good opportunity to promote the Dao, and you are so smart, you can directly skip the eight strange formations we broke before, and drill directly into the heart of the formation.

He said that Master didn't want to accept me at first, but I was not reconciled, so I knelt here all night in anger. Have you noticed anything different about this tree? Hearing him say this, I subconsciously looked up at the big tree. Originally, I didn't notice anything different at first, but after a closer look, I found that this tree grew taller than the other trees in the Taoist temple, and even in the cold winter, it was still verdant and tall. A few small pine cones fell from the ground, indicating that it was a pine tree.

So I replied that this tree grows better than all the trees around it, and that during this season, all the leaves of the other trees have fallen off, but this one has not fallen, right? Jiang Xuerou smiled slightly and said, you are only half right, this is a podocarpus, although there are many pine trees on this mountain, but this one is the only podocarpus in the whole mountain.

I was a little surprised when I heard this, so I asked, why is there only this one? Logically speaking, the growth of plants in a place is closely related to the water and soil, even if a certain species is very rare, it will never be only one unique tree. Jiang Xuerou said, I knelt in the snow all night that night, and the master refused to accept me as a disciple, and at that time, I also found the difference between this tree and what you think now. Later, I heard from the brothers that this tree has lived here for more than 2,000 years, and it was planted by a famous man called "Fujia" at the end of the Qin Dynasty, when this person lived in seclusion here, and in addition to this only podocarpus pine on the mountain, there are many pine and cypress trees, and those, but they were all planted by the famous Taoist scholar Zhai Fayan in the Tang Dynasty, so from the Qin and Han dynasties, until today, this has always been the place of the aura of my Taoism.

I nodded in my heart in agreement, for the half-red, half-green lake alone was destined to be different. But I don't quite understand, why did Jiang Xuerou suddenly talk about this when she was kneeling and kneeling. Sure enough, he went on to say that he had been rejected that day, and he knelt under the tree, and because it was too cold at night, by the time the morning came, his body, which was already very thin, was frozen at that time. I was dazed, I felt that there was something fluffy dangling in front of me, and when I looked closely, I found that in front of me kneeling, there was a squirrel with a big tail, which was picking up the pine nuts that fell on the ground this night, and I was not even afraid of myself at all, not only picked up the ones on the ground, but also climbed on his body and ate the fallen pine nuts.

He told me that he felt that although he was cold, but when this scene appeared in front of him, his heart was very warm, he didn't know why, his heart was very calm, it seemed that this trip up the mountain, although he was not able to worship the teacher, but because of this, he had such a fairytale-like adventure, which was worth the trip, and there were no regrets.

But this scene was completely seen by the Gao Dao people. In his opinion, this seems to be a kind of symbiotic harmony of all things, the most strange thing is that when Gao Daoren walked out of the wing room and walked to Jiang Xuerou's side, the squirrel, although it was also dodging, did not jump directly to the tree to escape, but a clever one, and got into the sleeve tube of Jiang Xuerou's clothes, and then turned around, and his little head came out of his sleeve, and the thief looked at Gao Daoren.

Gao Dao people thought it was interesting at first glance, they were also people, why would this squirrel be afraid of himself, but not afraid of Jiang Xuerou. So he walked up to Jiang Xuerou and said to him, I didn't accept you as an apprentice before, because I felt that there was no reason. You're probably just like the rest of the people who want to go up to the mountains to learn the arts. But when you knelt down all night last night, and this morning you saw this miracle again, and this scene came because of your insistence, if you had gone down the mountain yesterday after being rejected, nothing would have happened.

Jiang Xuerou said that he didn't know what Gao Daoren's intention was by saying these words at that time, because his body was already frozen, and his consciousness was a little confused, so he could only look up at Gao Daoren blankly. Gao Daoren stretched out his hand to help him up, and then patted the pine nuts that fell on him overnight, and then said, I don't know if this fate is good or evil, but since you have allowed me such a strange scene, I will accept you as a beginner. should have let you use your family name, and then the teacher gave you a word, but today is an exception, and you are an exception, why don't you call it "pine nut"?

That's how I realized that the strange name "pine nut" actually came from. I thought it was strange before, generally according to Taoist customs, those who dare to call it "Zi", such as Chongyangzi, Changchunzi, Yuyangzi, etc., are people who have profound attainments in Taoism, so they dare to use this word. I didn't expect it to be me who thought about this matter too much, and the name "pine nut" turned out to come from a beautiful picture.

So I asked him, so it's worth it for you to tell us that your name is Jiang Xuerou, on the one hand, there is no outlet to lie, and on the other hand, you are also on guard against us, is that so? He nodded and said, when you first saw me, you used such a way of greeting, you said that you can't tell whether I am friend or foe, in fact, for me, the same. When I asked you what the Eight Gate Formations were, you also chose to avoid answering, so since everyone was not so sincere at the beginning, it can be regarded as a courtesy exchange.

I smiled, thinking that this person is indeed quite interesting, before he escaped at night, Qin Bukong and I were deceived by his harmless appearance, in fact, this guy is very shrewd, not only that, but also has a plan and a city government at the same time, fortunately, so far I feel that this person's behavior is relatively upright, if he is a person with a bad heart, and he is in the Xuanmen, it may become a scourge.

I asked him, then you say, should I call you "Jiang Xuerou" or "Songzi"? He squinted at me for a moment and then said with some disappointment, "It's the same thing, you can go down the mountain early tomorrow morning, and the master said just now that I am not allowed to interfere in the matter of the soul of the witch king in the future." So after tomorrow, we don't think we will have much chance to deal with.

After saying that, he turned his head again, facing the side hall, looking gloomy.