Looking at the distant Mr. and Li Hongsleeves, Tang Qiuyu took out a silk scarf from his arms and put it on the ground, sat down against the cedar tree, beckoned the four children to come over, and distributed the dried meat to them.

"Wutong, have you ever thought that you can't support yourself under the mountain, Li Ye followed his husband to Tianshan to pick mushrooms and Ganoderma lucidum when he was more than five years old. You also have to marinate the dried meat for the winter and cut enough firewood to burn in the winter. ”

Tang Qiuyu looked at her and said softly.

Right now, she thinks it's time to beat this little girl.

Xia Wutong leaned on Tang Qiuyu's arm and pouted: "Let Tang Chao and Hu Ge go to find Lingzhi first, and I will pick some wild flowers with Xiaoju and bring them back later." ”

Tang Qiuyu looked at her trance, and suddenly found that in addition to her desperate cultivation, this little princess of the imperial city didn't seem to have enjoyed her happy childhood.

There was a burst of love in his heart, and he smiled and said, "If you want to play, go to the club, don't practice hard in the future, just play if you want." ”

Xia Wutong clapped his hands and stood up, took Xiao Ju's hand, and ran towards the wildflowers on the hillside.

Looking at the scene in front of her, Tang Qiuyu's eyes were a little moist, she was thinking about her youth, when was he not the same as Xia Wutong, he kept practicing every day in the stern eyes of his master.

Like Xu Jingyun, she has been asking herself many times, why do you want to practice, do you want to go to the master for a lonely life?

After Tang Chao and Hu Ge finished eating the jerky, they said hello to Tang Qiuyu and went into the woods to find Lingzhi, she closed her eyes and leaned on the tree to recuperate, thinking about how to face her future life.

The greatest sorrow of all cultivators in the world is not that they die slowly because they can't break through their limits, but that they delay their lives in the process of cultivating and breaking through the realm endlessly.

Most of them die alone, and when they are dying, they are unwilling to ask themselves why they want to practice.

Tang Qiuyu thought about the conversation with Xu Jingyun on Phoenix Mountain, looked at the love between Li Hongsleeve and Mr., and secretly thought that he should also think about his own life.

......

Before the time came, Mr. and Li Hongsleeve returned here, looking at the four children sitting on Li, Li Hongsleeve asked with a smile, "How many Ganoderma lucidum did you pick today?"

Tang Qiuyu looked at Li Hongsleeve, pointed to the pile of Lingzhi on the ground behind him, and said with a smile: "This may be the most picked in their lives, and they don't have to worry about finding Lingzhi for a long time in the future." ”

Li Hongsleeve pointed to Mr.'s burden and the pheasant in his hand, and said proudly: "I was lucky today, I caught two pheasants and two hares, and what I ate today and tomorrow has been solved." ”

The gentleman smiled and said, "Put up the Lingzhi, we still have to hurry, we have to go back before dark." ”

......

Just after the hour, the group returned to the wooden house.

The husband threw the pheasant and the hare to Li Hongsleeve and asked her to take the four children to fetch water and boil water for treatment.

After watching the four children marinate the meat with salt and spices, they sat down at the table and began to boil water and make tea.

Looking at Tang Qiuyu lying on the bamboo chair, Li Hongsleeve said with a smile: "You've only been running for a day, and you're tired like this?"

"How can this be? it's tired!" Tang Chao Qiuyu patted his chest and said.

Li Hongsleeve was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Don't scare me, you have stepped into that threshold." ”

"So what? I looked at the two of you, thinking that my junior sister and I had only been immersed in penance all these years, and it was really not worth it. Tang Qiuyu sighed faintly.

The husband took the four children outside the house to light a fire and prepare for the barbecue.

Li Hongsleeve looked at the gentleman who walked away, and whispered to Tang Qiuyu: "I used to be like you, I didn't know what the purpose of cultivation was? You are still young, don't let go when you meet someone you like, learn from me, and follow him with a dead face. ”

Tang Qiuyu froze and looked at Li Hongsleeve blankly. "Is this okay?

"Cut, what's not to do, if I don't take the initiative, he will let others snatch it away sooner or later, you have to take the initiative!" Li Hongsleeve said with a smile.

The gentleman outside the house led the four children to make a fire on the stones of Li Yelei and taught them how to barbecue meat.

While adding firewood, he said: "You can bake it yourself for a while, and you can eat whatever it looks like, I used to teach Li Ye like this." In the future, you will be faced with a person in the wild, and from now on you will have to learn how to survive in the wild. ”

Xia Wutong and Xiaoju stood on the side excitedly, watching Tang Chao and Hu Ge make a fire and cut meat, and then everyone skewered the cut meat hand bamboo skewers and roasted them on the fire, smelling the smell of roasted paste, while letting out a "giggle" laugh.

"Go, call your master over and roast together!" Mr. said as he looked at Xia Wutong.

At this time, Li Hongsleeve had already moved a stool out of the wooden house with Tang Qiuyu and walked behind Mr.

Giving the stool in her hand to her husband, Li Hongsleeve smiled and said, "Do you want to have a drink?" She has to ask first when she drinks now, for fear that her husband will be unhappy.

"I used to drink the fruit wine I brewed with Ye'er, and there is only the burning knife wine you brought with you in the house, if Mr. Tang doesn't like the wine, he will drink a glass. "Sir did not object to Li Hongsleeve's proposal.

Li Hongsleeves clapped his hands and stood up, went to the house to get wine, and said as he walked: "Don't drink the four little kids, you have to get up early tomorrow to practice." ”

Tang Qiuyu took the skewer of roasted meat handed over by Xia Wutong, frowned, thought about it and continued to put it in his mouth.

Then he said: "It's right to bring you to Tianshan this time, at least let you learn how to live alone in the wild." ”

Xia Wutong nodded excitedly.

Xiao Ju looked at the black ash on Tang Chao's face and giggled.

The gentleman smiled and said, "Be patient with the barbecue, the fire should not be too strong, or it will be baked...... Keep turning..... Try a few more times to get a golden brown barbecue. ”

Li Hongsleeve came over with an urn of burning knives, gently slapped it open, poured three cups, handed it to Mr. and Tang Qiuyu, and said with a smile: "Come, a toast to our first encounter in the Tianshan Mountains!"

Tang Qiuyu raised his harvest wine glass and said with a smile: "For us to be able to practice on the Tianshan Mountain, a toast." ”

The gentleman did not speak, but raised his glass and looked at the two excited women.

After several failed attempts, the four children finally grilled the golden roast meat, and the cliff was filled with the aroma of roast meat.

Xiao Ju picked up a skewer of barbecue, looked at the dark mountain stream, and said softly, "I don't know what Brother Li Ye is doing?"

The gentleman put down his wine glass, picked up a skewer of barbecued meat from the fire, and said with a smile: "He should be cooking and eating, and when you are about to go to bed, he will recite Buddhist scriptures to the practitioners in the mountains, which is his daily practice." ”

"You have to chant the scriptures every day, can the elves in the mountains understand?" Tang Qiuyu said.

"It's one thing to understand and not to understand, and it's another thing to read or not. It is a kind of practice for him to recite Buddhist scriptures to the living beings in the Tianshan Mountains, and it is another kind of practice to listen to the sutras to himself, which is what the two old fellows told me. The gentleman said.

Tang Qiuyu seemed to understand a little, and nodded gently.

The four children listened with their ears pricked up as they ate.

......

Li Ye had just finished dinner, sitting at the table with the old ape to make tea, and Xiaobai was lying on the chair beside him in a daze.

"Senior, I've been here for almost a year, do you have any feelings lately, when do you expect to be able to go to the top of the mountain?"

The old ape looked at Li Ye and said with a smile: "I already have some faint feelings, as soon as this autumn, at the latest next spring, you can go to the top of the mountain with the old guy." It's just that I'm not in a hurry now, and I want to stay here for a few more days, after all, it's not easy to come back after I go out. ”

Li Ye looked at the burning grease lamp and laughed softly. "I heard my husband say that after you have passed the Nine Tribulations, you are the beginning of another realm, and you have to continue to practice, where is the end?"

The old ape looked at Li Ye with a smile and gently stroked Xiaobai beside him with his hand.

He muttered: "How is it possible to attain the Tao and live forever without suffering on the long path of cultivation? ”

Li Ye nodded, pointed at Xiaobai and said with a smile: "Did you hear it, hurry up, wait for you to wash the dishes and cook the rice." ”

Xiaobai glanced up at him, and this time he didn't whine and roar again.

"Senior, don't you worry about the children left here when you're gone?" Li Ye poured a cup of tea for the old ape.

The old ape shook his head, sighed, and said: "Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, I have been guarding them for hundreds of years, just like the old wolf, the children's road still has to go by themselves after all." ”

After a moment of silence, Li Ye gently patted the table, looked at the old ape's eyes and said seriously: "That's the truth, you should have let go of your hands a long time ago, followed the old wolf to go to the mountains and rivers, and let them be in charge of their own affairs, it is better than being confused after you leave." ”

"I'm already doing this now, and there are a few children who have broken through to the late stage of the Yuan Infant Realm. The old ape took a sip of the teacup and said with a smile: "I hope they will know how to work hard from now on, and they will not listen to the Buddhist scriptures for a year in vain." ”

"I hope that if they don't understand anything about the Buddhist scriptures, they can bring them to me. Ning Que said.

"I've been chatting with you for almost a year, and I also have some understanding and can answer some of their questions, if there is something I really don't understand, I will trouble you again, I won't be polite to you. ”

"I hope this little guy will have a good future with you, and if one day, you will bring him up to me and the old wolf, and maybe my two old men will be able to help you together." The old wolf said with emotion.

Li Ye frowned, looked at Xiaobai in a daze, and said softly, "Then you...... Do you want to enter the country before I go down the mountain?"

Xiao Bai lay there and ignored him, turned his head to look at the old ape, and roared twice.

The old ape looked at Li Ye, smiled and said, "He said that he will not be much worse than you in the future, and he promises not to hold you back." ”

"I don't believe it, you're just a pure foodie!" Li Ye tapped his fingers on the table and looked at Xiaobai proudly.

"How do I feel that you haven't broken through for a long time? The old ape looked at Li Ye worriedly.

Li Ye was stunned, thinking about how to turn to himself again.