Chapter 7: Returning Home

The next day, at dusk, Longquan Town.

After nearly two days and one night of non-stop running, Xia Yang finally stood on the bluestone official road shrouded in the shade of trees, looked at the rows of undulating building outlines at the end of the official road, and returned to his hometown after a farewell of ten months.

Ten months later, nothing seems to have changed, and the winding green hills hug their hometown as always, and in the twilight of the setting sun, you can still faintly look at the once fascinating greenery.

Just as who lit the first light in the night, Xia Yang in the past did not know the way, and now Xia Yang does not know the way, but it is so familiar and nostalgic, nostalgic to the bottom of the soul, and the imprint that will linger in his life.

The hometown is still the same, but the people have changed. Ten months ago, that young and frivolous teenager was determined to his dreams, surging with his enthusiasm, and vowed to make his mark on that gorgeous stage! However, after ten months, he brought back a full body of scars, leaving nothing to gain! Xia Yang finally understood that the stage was not his, just like a spectator, he was so insignificant, so dispensable, so helpless!

However, it has always changed. There is a faint trace of fortitude on the once immature face, which is an intriguing outline that has precipitated after facing death countless times. Connected to the heart, the world in Xia Yang's eyes is no longer the vain surface of the past, but the inner exaggeration after the silence of life, exaggerated but extremely true! Just as we try our best to pursue the truth of the facts, the truth is often unexpected, is it exaggerated? Is it true? exaggerated and true! So-forget...

"Platinum, green wood, black water, red fire, loess, gold, wood, water, fire and earth, the innate attributes of the five elements of cultivators, are born and restrain each other, heaven and earth are natural, nothing more than that... Your attribute is wood, so the energy released is cyan, which also indicates your lifelong persistent character... But this time you go to the Golden Terrace, as a teacher, I hope you can understand, what is mutual restraint, and what is the real persistence..."Xia Yang suddenly recalled the master's words, and the scene of twilight vicissitudes in his eyes seemed to be suddenly frozen? Yes, Xia Yang seems to understand something...

"I don't care about your pursuit, I don't care about your so-called dreams, but, you remember for me, come back, come back here..."

Once that word was so calm and plain, but now that I think about it, it is like a sonorous word, and every word is deeply rooted into Xia Yang's heart, piercing blood, and the pain is so strong and weak! But it also makes Xia Yang feel the concern and love that he has not understood for more than ten years while touching the wound...

Forget - maybe I left the regret of my life chasing in the golden platform, but, forget...

Quietly looking at his hometown where his feelings are sprinkled...

After a long time, Xia Yang finally smiled with relief. Although he was covered with scars, his smile was stupid, so sincere, so natural.

Ten months, the stars change, the wanderer returns, like a constant promise, there is a place, there is a feeling, there are some people, this life has been waiting for you, silently but never change...

Close your eyes and take a deep breath of the scent of the earth... Removing the mask of ten months of ruthlessness and determination, and facing a kind of truth, goodness and beauty in the bones again, this is really a kind of edifying ease.

"I'm Xia Yang back!" Xia Yang suddenly raised his head and let out a long roar at the twilight sky, as if he had forgotten the scars around him, and strode towards the dimly lit town...

Xia Yang's house is at the end of the town, a small adobe house. It's not even Xia Yang's home, because Xia Yang is an orphan, and he and his master Mu Sheng have been dependent on each other in Longquan Town for as long as he can remember. Of course, in the passage of sixteen years, sixteen-year-old Xia Yang also faintly knew some mysteries of his life from the occasional careless words of his master. He is not an ordinary orphan, but a very special life that should not be born and has been ruthlessly abandoned under the ethical world.

Mu Sheng didn't say anything about his own life, and Xia Yang also wanted to try his best to avoid it...

"Master, I'm back. Xia Yang pushed the door and rushed into his own dirt yard, shouting with interest. This is his own home, and Xia Yang can release his residual innocence without any scruples.

"Oh... cough~cough~" An old voice and two coughs came out of the room.

"Master, are you better?" In the gloomy and dense room, the loess stove was cooking on a fire, and pieces of dancing red light were wandering on the earthen wall where the cracks spread, Xia Yang walked to the stove with a worried look A gray-clothed old man with a thin body on the stove.

"I've been sick for many years, and I can't get better. The old man who lit the fire was already full of white hair, and he stood up from the low stool with great difficulty, still unable to straighten his rickety back that had been weighed down by the years, his skinny face was burned red by the firelight, and the voice filled by the old man said slowly: "It's good to be back, let's get ready to eat." ”

"Okay~" Xia Yang replied briskly, picked up the dishes and chopsticks from the cupboard and put them on the wooden table in the hall, and took the rice pot out of the stove... Helping Master Mu Sheng to sit down at the wooden table...

"There is rice and vegetables, it's enough..."Mu Sheng's almost cloudy pupils glanced at Xia Yang and said, "Open the meal." ”

Hot white rice and sour and spicy kimchi, one old and one small relish will eat...

No one has ever said a word about a meal...

After the meal, Xia Yang washed the dishes and brushed the pots... Mu Sheng took out a long cigarette stick, and the smoke of Mars swirled around...

Xia Yang lit the fire again to boil medicine for Mu Sheng... This is Xia Yang's work for more than ten years.

After Mu Sheng took the spicy liquid, the sky had been unconsciously darkened, and a cool breeze slowly blew, trying to blow away the residual heat of the daytime sun.

"Master, I'll help you to sit in the courtyard for a while. Xia Yang seemed to forget the stabbing wounds all over his body at this moment, and looked at the master who was getting older and older in his eyes, and his heart became more and more colic.

"Fortunately, the early summer season is approaching, and the sky is gradually full of stars. Still smoking, Mu Sheng's cloudy eyes looked at the sparks flashing on the smoking gun, and seemed to see a kind of loneliness that he couldn't stop.

"Master, the apprentice has been away from home for ten months, but it has hurt you. In the earth courtyard, a layer of faint starlight was sprinkled, two low stools, the two sat side by side, Xia Yang looked at the white-haired Mu Sheng, and couldn't help but faintly burst into sour tears in his eyes: "The apprentice will definitely serve the master well in the future, and he will live for a lifetime..."

"I have been lonely for a lifetime~" Mu Sheng shook off the ashes on the ground, and sighed slightly: "Just like this ash, I can't even find the roots, but what's the suffering~? You have your future, I have my life, and your future is my life..."

"Master, I know that the soot is very bitter..."Xia Yang has heard the master mention the word root more than once, the fallen leaves return to the roots, the fallen leaves return to the roots, but Xia Yang's current ability is impossible to find the roots in the master's mouth on the vast continent...

"yes, you can't find it, maybe I don't remember it myself. As if seeing through Xia Yang's thoughts, Mu Sheng's old face evoked a wisp of memories: "I only remember, it's been a long, long time... In my hometown of Yunyang City, I followed my eldest brother Ziqing on the journey of the Great Thousand Ages... I remember that when I left, I just said to my mother, 'Mother, I'm going to go out for a while.' ’... Forever... In life, sometimes a moment is forever..."

"Yunyang City, master, the apprentice will find Yunyang City one day, one day. Xia Yang's voice was very soft, but it was filled with an irresistible force.

Mu Sheng smiled extremely faintly, and in that smile, it seemed that he could never figure out the old man's meaning.

"Master, is Uncle Ziqing okay?" Xia Yang asked with some curiosity.

"Went to... It's all gone..."Mu Sheng's voice was so light that it was blown away by the wind but sighed for a long, long time, and then he said to himself: "But, he is everywhere..."

Xia Yang didn't understand at all, but naturally he didn't ask, and said, "Master, the apprentice has met Su Lu." ”

"Oh, Jiuding Zhilu, is he embarrassing you?" Mu Sheng was slightly stunned.

"No~" Xia Yang shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's just controlled by others, and the apprentice was teleported to the backyard of the Su family's mansion by the portal." ”

"The golden platform is only opened once in a hundred years, and you should learn how to face it alone after the tempering of the golden platform. Mu Sheng nodded lightly: "In this world, everyone has to rely on themselves. ”

"Isn't the master complaining at all that the apprentice has been eliminated?" Xia Yang asked a little timidly.

"I'm satisfied that you can come out. Mu Sheng turned his gaze to Xia Yang slightly: "I think, you should have understood the original meaning of mutual restraint." ”

"Yes, it took me to have an epiphany. Xia Yang replied.

"Enough. Mu Sheng's cloudy eyes flashed with a ray of joy, and said, "Since you have gained something, you don't need to ask for too much... The injury on your back is severe, so you have to remember that this is a memory that cannot be recalled... Although you can have your endurance, your injuries should be at the limit of what you can support..."Slowly took out a small white medicine bottle from his arms, uncorked it, poured out a green glowing pearl pill and handed it to Xia Yang, and said, "Take this pill and heal the injury first." ”