As the sun rises, a gentle breeze blows the sea, rippling across the water.

The boy and the blind man sat on the shore, behind them a extinguished bonfire still billowing white smoke.

"Old man Pang, you say, will that fish hate me very much?"

The boy sat on the shore all night, staring blank and stunned. Somehow, he always felt a little guilty in his heart, and he seemed to read the despair and resentment in the golden carp's eyes as it struggled desperately in its hands.

He didn't know why he would see such a human emotion in a fish, but he seemed to really understand the fish's eyes.

Lao Dao looked at his simple and kind disciple with the empty eyes that had been blind for hundreds of years, touched his head, and said with a smile: "Idiot, natural selection is the foundation of the Great Dao, so why worry about those resentments." In the world, it is difficult to define absolute right and wrong, what is right for you may be wrong for others, and what is right for others can be wrong for you. This thousand-year-old golden carp is destined to have a catastrophe, and if it is crossed, it is the fish leaping over the dragon gate, the sky is high and the sea is wide, and if it can't be crossed, it is a thousand-year-old Taoist funeral. This time, the teacher borrowed its luck to change your life for you, although it was hopeless to turn into a Jiao after that, but it may have saved it from disaster, but it saved its life is not known. You don't have to worry about it. ”

The young man slowly turned his head and looked at the old blind man with a kind face. After staring at him for a long time, the young man said faintly: "Old man Pang, in fact, I don't want to learn any Taoism from you, and I don't want to leave the town with you. Although you always tell me that my ancestors have done too many evils, which has caused my life to be bad, I have always felt that there is nothing bad about it. ”

The boy turned his head and stared blankly at the sea, a look of loss. After a pause, he continued: "Really, I'm actually quite satisfied. After my father and mother died, there were still many neighbors to give me food, today Uncle Zhang gave me a bowl of rice, tomorrow Aunt Li gave me some food, and occasionally I could rub some meat at Butcher Xu's place to eat, I was very content to grow up alive. Later, when I was a little older, everyone took care of me and often gave me odd jobs to do so that I could at least have enough to eat. The old man Chen in the east, in fact, he scolded me the most, but I know that every time he pays me a salary, he always secretly counts me a few pennies more. There is also Aunt Zhou, who sells steamed buns, who always gives me a few steamed buns every once in a while, saying that they sell leftovers during the day, but in fact, I know that I am not stupid, and the neighbors in the town are very good to me. ”

The waves gently lapped on the shore, and the boy's voice grew softer and softer. The old blind man just sat and listened, without saying a word.

"I don't know why you have to accept me as an apprentice, Old Man Pang, and I never feel that I am anything to be made. I do odd jobs every day, get together with a few friends to gamble and gamble, go to Widow Li's house today to play a few words, and tomorrow go to Butcher Xu's house to smash the dog in his yard, which is actually quite good. It would be better if I could meet Ah Xiang again and sneak a peek at her. Actually, I also want to be a rich man, but I don't have any skills, and I can't even recognize a basket of big characters. I know that Ah Xiang definitely doesn't look down on me, and her father and her family look down on me even more. I also know that Ah Xiang will definitely get married one day, but as long as I can hide from afar and watch, it's fine. ”

The boy bent his legs, buried his head between his knees, and tugged at his hair.

But then I suddenly didn't want to, I saw that every time Ah Xiang met the scholar named Zhou Wen, he always covered his mouth and smiled secretly. I don't know why, I saw Ah Xiang smiling so good, but my heart hurt so much. I know that Old Man Pang has great skills, and I knew when you cured me with a piece of yellow paper when you were a child. In the past two years, there have always been those strange outsiders who come to you, and those people are very powerful at first glance, and they must be even more powerful than Master Hong, who opened a boxing gym in our town. So many powerful people have come to you, you must be very good too. So I'm slowly willing to learn from you, I want to learn your skills, and I also want to be a very powerful person, so that Ah Xiang and his father won't look down on me. ”

"However, when I followed you out of town and ran so far away, I was always unsteady and a little afraid. I feel that the more I learn and understand, the less I will become. I don't know if you can understand Old Man Pang, but I'm afraid, I don't want to become not myself, I just want to be Jia Xu, the little ruffian in that town, the Jia Xu who is too poor to marry a daughter-in-law. Yesterday, when I stabbed that fish with a knife, I was really scared in my heart, I always felt that once I went down to that knife, I would become another person, and I would no longer be Jia Xu. So I sat all night and didn't dare to sleep, I was afraid that once I fell asleep, when I opened my eyes again, it really wouldn't be me. ”

The boy whispered in a leisurely voice, and he poured out all the words in his heart in one go, because these things were very uncomfortable in his heart, and he felt blocked in his chest, so that he could not breathe. A teenager who grew up in this remote town, no matter how far he goes, no matter how high he goes, the softest place in his heart will always be the town with a radius of no more than ten miles.

The old blind man stood up, walked over to the young man, and stood with his hands in his hands. The master and apprentice stood and sat together, facing the sea.

"Silly apprentice, you see you growing up day by day, and the master is getting older day by day. The trees are getting taller and taller, the iron tools are slowly decaying, and all the people, things, and things in this world are changing every moment, and time is slowly flowing. Last year you were 19 years old, this year you are 20 years old, next year you will be 21 years old, today you will never be yesterday's you, tomorrow's you will be different from today's you. You are indeed changing, every hour of every day, every year, and everything in heaven and earth is changing. But you remember, as long as you are still the same Jia Xu in your heart, then no matter how much your appearance and ability have changed, you will still be you, and you must still be the Jia Xu of the town. ”

Putting his hand on the young man's shoulder, the old blind man gently enlightened the apprentice.

"Remember, as long as you don't change your heart, you will always be yourself. ”

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Zhuo Yuming, who got up from the bed early in the morning, had already paced back and forth in the room for hundreds of laps.

He has always boasted that he was in a calm state of mind, and his face did not change when the landslide was ahead. But for some reason, as long as Miss Shu's face appears in my heart, I don't know what to do.

Miss Shu agreed to her invitation yesterday evening, and originally went directly to her and asked her to lead the way around the city. But after all, yesterday when people accidentally broke the partition wall, maybe they just felt ashamed in their hearts and couldn't bear to refuse bluntly, would it be too abrupt to come to the door like this? Wouldn't it seem that they were too thick-skinned? But if she didn't go to her, obviously she had already nodded and agreed last night, but she broke her word and became fat, would Miss Shu think that she didn't take her seriously, and she would be even more unhappy.

Just when Zhuo Yuming was hesitating to the extreme in the room, there was a sudden sound of two doors knocking.

In an instant, Zhuo Yuming's body stopped suddenly, and he hurriedly examined himself. It was only when he made sure that everything was okay and that there was nothing inappropriate before he walked quickly to the door.