As he walked, Lao Bai suddenly stopped and looked at the endless mountains in front of him, "I'm almost home." ”

The exhausted Xu Tianran wanted to lean on Lao Bai, but Lao Bai cleverly dodged it, and Xu Tianran fell again and ate. Xu Tianran was not angry this time, after all, he had been walking for more than a month, and he was finally home, which was always something to be happy about. He has been looking forward to what Lao Bai's family will be like when he is poor? Lao Bai's action of taking off the gourd when he was drinking is obviously deliberate, and then waving a big arc high, which looks very noble. Dressed up outside, I can't pretend to be a master when I get home, and the neighbors all know the roots, whether Lao Bai is a mule or a horse, and I will understand when I ask next door.

In the place where Xu Tianran was invisible, the corners of Lao Bai's mouth raised slightly.

Xu Tianran followed Ah Huang for a day, running from the outside of the mountain to the inside of the mountain, and from the inside of the mountain to the inside of the mountain. At the end of the day, the mountain path twists and turns, Ah Huang can always let Xu Tianran see its ass, retaining a little hope that will not be dashed, and maintaining a certain distance. Xu Tianran gritted his teeth again, his will was very strong, but he was only eight years old, and he had insufficient energy to spare, so he inevitably vomited again. Lao Bai's rough hand rubbed on his neck, and he conjured up a black pill and stuffed it into the mouth of Xu Tianran, who was lying motionless on the ground, Xu Tianran wanted to open his mouth and scolded but didn't have the strength to scold, so he was helpless to be at the mercy of Lao Bai.

Xu Tianran gasped and walked up to Lao Bai in a huff, "Old man, are you giving me the mud you rubbed off your body?"

Lao Bai lay on a makeshift bed made of leaves and plucked out his ears as the wind in his ears.

Xu Tianran ignored the dirt on his body, deliberately sat next to Lao Bai's nose, and took revenge on Lao Bai with his own stench. Lao Bai rolled up a ball of hay and blocked his nostrils, "Little cub, hurry up and go to the shower and change clothes, don't be disgusting in front of Lao Tzu, you are really a huge piece of now, it stinks." ”

Xu Tianran didn't care, who asked you to feed me the mud on your body, if it weren't for the master, I couldn't move at the time, otherwise Lao Tzu wouldn't have eaten it even if he died.

Lao Bai laughed, took out a black pill from the bag, sandwiched it between his fingers, rubbed his big hand on his body repeatedly, and also rubbed out a black pill, and with a bend of his fingers, the two pills were dropped. The boy was dumbfounded, yo, it turns out that this bad old man can play tricks. It's a pity that looking at Lao Bai's cheap appearance of raising his eyebrows at himself, he couldn't laugh at all.

The young man turned around and walked towards the stream, not forgetting to turn his head and say: "Lao Bai, I know that the pill you gave me is good for my health, and I have discharged a lot of dirt in my body these days, maybe it is what my mother said, the quenching of cultivators, I myself feel that I am running faster and faster these days, but Ah Huang is running faster, which makes me feel as if I have not made any progress." Thank you, Lao Bai. ”

After saying that, he disappeared as soon as he slipped through the smoke.

Suddenly, the little cub came out of nowhere, poked out a little head from behind the tree, and made a grimace: "If I offend you, you have a lot of adults, don't feed me the little mud pills rubbed out of your body." ”

After a while, I heard a "plop" from the creek, and a pig crowed: "It's so cold." ”

After another ten years, Xu Tianran was still wandering around the mountains, every day Ah Huang ran in front, and the boy chased behind, until the boy was tired and lay down, and Lao Bai threw a black pill into the boy's mouth. Then, Lao Bai threw the boy on horseback, and Ah Huang ran happily on the way home with the boy hanging on his body.

The young man who vomited two mouthfuls of bile from time to time on horseback rolled his eyes and didn't forget to ask Lao Bai, "You said that you were almost home, but I have been walking on the mountain for more than ten days, and I haven't even seen a ghost, let alone a person." Lao Bai, aren't you a human, a ghost, my mother said that if the water ghost wants to be reincarnated, you have to catch a dead ghost to take over your place, so you have to lie to me to go back and take your place, and reincarnate yourself. Lao Bai, I admit that you are a ghost, you have a life-saving grace for me, I also admit that you are lonely alone in the deep mountains and old forests, it's a big deal that I accompany you, you won't be bored, don't deceive me to your house after you reincarnate yourself, leaving me alone alone, then you are too unconscionable. After saying that, the boy wailed a few times.

Lao Bai went down with a chestnut, and the world was finally quiet, Ah Huang roared softly, as if laughing.

Lao Bai touched the young man's little head, "I'm almost home." ”

Xu Tianran rolled his eyes, looking like I didn't believe it.

Sure enough, another ten years have passed, Xu Tianran doesn't know how many mountains he has walked, how many winding paths he has walked, how many stars he has seen, looking at the misty peaks in the distance, he remembered the poem that his mother taught him: Yun Shen does not know where.

Lao Bai pointed to a mountain in the distance, "Go over that mountain and you'll be home." ”

The boy pouted, "Have you heard the story of the wolf?"

Lao Bai smiled and said no more. Looking at the young man who loves to toss, Lao Bai thought that the life of a teenager should be to carry the warbler flying grass and the willow on his shoulder. Every cultivator thinks in his heart that one day he will step out of the Great Dao to prove immortality, and the last cultivator has cultivated into a god or fairy who does not eat the fireworks of the world, and let him live for a hundred, a thousand or even ten thousand years, what is the joy of that kind of life? The most important thing for a cultivator is time, and those old turtles live for hundreds or thousands of years at every turn, and the longer they live, the longer they live, the more they do not see that they have lived a new realm, but the more they live, the more they are afraid of death, the more rigid they live, and the more they live, the more boring they become.

Old man Bai sighed, "It's good to be young, my mood hasn't been turbulent for a long time." ”

This time the old man did not deceive, standing on the mountainside, the young man saw a small town from a distance, the smoke curled, the chickens and dogs smelled each other, the young man stood on a stone, climbed high and saw the rising sun in the distance, the light was shining, and shouted, "Go home!"

Lao Bai took off the silver-white gourd on his waist and took a big sip, Xu Tianran heard the sound of "gurgling" coming from his throat, and the old man Bai didn't waste a drop of wine, there was probably really a bar in this gourd. The young man found that this time the old man Bai's drinking action was really a master.

The young man held the dog's tail grass in his hand, and jumped and ran to Lao Bai's home, his home.

Walking to the town, the boy stretched his neck to see the whole picture of the town, limited by his short stature and couldn't see any scenery, Lao Bai squatted down and carried the boy on his shoulder, the boy blinked his eyes, the town did not have a tall wall like a city, but it was surrounded by a thick wooden fence, stretching for miles. The young man looked curiously at everything around him, looked at the sparse crowd in the town, and couldn't help but worry in his heart, are the villagers living in the town really human? The young man carefully observed the shadows of the villagers in the sun, and his heart was reassured, his mother said that ghosts have no shadows, and ghosts are afraid of the sun. However, my mother has never seen a ghost, so will I see a ghost during the day?

Lao Bai ignored the chaotic thoughts in the young man's heart, and took a sip of wine, "The villagers of the town are all fleeing from the war, and it is rare to find a paradise, which is also the blessing of the big guys. This wooden fence also has a doorway, in order to prevent wild beasts, there are not many people in the mountains, and there are really many wild beasts. ”

The boy nodded as he listened.

The janitor of the town was a middle-aged man with a black face, and when he saw Lao Bai, he smiled and showed his yellow teeth that smoked too much, "Bai Tu is back! This time he brought back a little rabbit cub, and it looks quite white and tender, and the girls in the neighborhood are blessed." ”

Lao Bai smiled and nodded, as a greeting.

Xu Tianran looked at the janitor's teeth, smiled sincerely, and looked terrible, and the young man made a grimace at the janitor when Lao Bai was not paying attention.

The janitor replied with a grimace, which scared the boy so much that he almost fell, and he couldn't help but slander him, he looked like a grimace, and he really became a ghost when he made a grimace. Without waiting for the teenager to finish slandering, a chestnut came as promised.

It may be just close to lunch, there are not too many people on the bluestone road in the town, Lao Bai took the young man's hand and soon arrived at the door of the house. The young man looked at Lao Bai's small shop on the street, there was a big meat word written at the door of the shop, the handwriting has been eroded by the wind and rain to fade slightly, the shop is not big, it should be the front store and the back room, and I have to live here since I was a child. The young man couldn't help frowning and said: "Lao Bai, you turned out to be a pig killer and meat seller, and you have been pretending to be a master in front of me, now I have lost a lot of money, is it possible to serve you tea and water for the rest of your life, kill pigs and slaughter dogs." Then how can I be the number one swordsman in the world!"

The chestnut that should have arrived as scheduled did not come, Lao Bai touched the young man's head and said kindly: "This is your home for the time being." ”

The boy stopped being noisy and nodded obediently.

The young man's eyes were fragrant, and there was a house that was considered magnificent in the town diagonally, and the one-person-high wall hid the scenery of the garden in the depths of the courtyard, and the door was open, and there were scholars from it, reaching straight into the sky.

Lao Bai opened the door and saw the young man looking at the private school, "Want to study? ”

Xu Tianran turned his head and stopped looking at the private school, and said categorically: "I want to practice martial arts, I don't have time to learn the crepe of the people, I want to be a swordsman, a hero, the first in the world." ”

Lao Bai rewarded the young man with a chestnut, "Don't be ashamed." ”

Lao Bai opened the door of the shop and cleaned up a room for the young man, the room was not big, but fortunately, although the sparrows were small, they were all in order. Lao Bai asked the boy to clean up by himself and adapt to the new nest. The young man lay on the bed on all fours, exclaiming, "It's so cool." "After more than two months of sleeping in the open air, it is rare to have a room to shelter from the wind and rain, and there is nothing happier than this.

The boy suddenly discovered that the town would be his home from now on, but he didn't know what the name of his home was. The boy was a carp, and he successfully completed such a difficult action for the first time, and the boy silently thought that he had achieved a miracle.

Xu Tianran jumped to the kitchen and saw Lao Bai preparing lunch, the action of cooking was called a skill, killing chickens and cutting vegetables was smooth, pleasing to the eye. It's a pity that Lao Bai doesn't go to open a restaurant, if it is in Tianjing, the capital of Daliang State, or Jinyang City, even if he goes to Jinling, Jiangnan to open a restaurant, he is guaranteed to make a lot of money. It's a pity that in this deep mountain town, it's really condescending. It's a shame that Lao Bai picked up such a smart person as me, and it is not a dream to make a fortune from now on.

Lao Bai turned his head and saw the little cub of Liuhalazi, with a look of disgust: "Silly boy, don't be a fool when you see food, like a starving ghost reincarnated, when you grow up and see a beautiful girl who will be like this when you die, then you won't be able to marry a daughter-in-law, and you will follow in the footsteps of the bad old man in the future, which is not very good." ”

Xu Tianran pursed his lips, "If you don't listen, don't listen, Wang Ba recites the scriptures." ”

Xu Tianran saw that the braised chicken leg thief was tempting, moved to the table step by step, climbed on the chair, and wanted to bite down, but was unexpectedly carried by Lao Bai by the neck and hung in the air, "Wait for everyone to eat again." ”

Lao Bai was burly, and the young man hung high in the air, like a little wild dog that was grabbed by the neck and hovered in the air, but he struggled vigorously, "Lao Bai, where did the guest come from, could it be that you hooked up with a widow, and I couldn't wait to warm the bed as soon as I got home." ”

Lao Bai waved his hand, Xu Tianran fell to the door, and a tumbling hit the dilapidated wooden door, and then he rolled around, like a dead mother's child, it was indeed a dead mother's child.

Xu Tianran secretly glanced at Lao Bai, seeing that he didn't mean to comfort himself, so he stopped crying, "Lao Bai, what's the name of our town?"

Lao Bai said while stir-frying winter bamboo shoots and stir-fried meat: "Qingshan Town." ”

Xu Tianran jumped out of the door of the shop, "It turns out that my home is Qingshan Town." ”

Lao Bai smiled with relief and took a sip of wine.

Under the sun, the smoke of the town is like a white python, climbing towards the sky, it looks bluer, the smoke is whiter, the willows on the young man's head are clinging, and the warbler and grass are growing on his shoulders.