Over the years, they walked side by side, visiting different towns and villages, subduing demons and helping those in need.

Walking together, looking together, under the careful teaching of the Taoist, in addition to not knowing what love is, the wooden man is already very close to a real person.

At that time, everyone had three wives and four concubines, and she thought it was ordinary, so she felt that the more the merrier, but she didn't want to make him angry for the first time.

Then he said to her under the crape myrtle tree: "If you understand love one day, you must remember that you can only treat one person with one heart, if not, it is better to be ruthless." ”

Actually, she didn't understand, but she nodded and wrote it down.

Many years later, she became an immortal, and she could still say things like "If you are afraid of infatuation, you will choose to be ruthless", but she has long been unable to remember what the look on the face of the person who taught her at that time.

Because of this incident, they returned to the mountain to practice, but if the Taoist wanted to go down the mountain to test the Tao, they would always bring her with them.

They came to a village to get rid of demons, and at night they rested at a farmer's house.

The farmer's family was poor, so he lived in a remote area, but the terrain was higher, and the courtyard could get a glimpse of the whole village.

The farmer is a middle-aged woman, and she is the only one in the family. I don't know what year there was a famine, she was separated from her husband, and her children died, so she stopped and wandered here before finally settling down - the village chief said that most of the people in this village were like her.

She is not a talker, and she does not talk to them except when necessary.

When the Taoist went out to set up the formation at night, the wooden man saw a man guarding outside the house.

The next morning, I saw the man carrying water again, and the woman in the house handed over the cloth towel to wipe the sweat, and the two of them did not say a word of greeting, nodded to each other, and went about their own work.

At night, the Taoist brought back a fainting weasel, saying that the strange goblin was caught, and the Taoist was defeated by him, so he spared its life.

The man who was guarding outside heard this, so he got up and quietly left.

The wooden man looked at the back of the man walking into the night, and couldn't understand it, so he asked the man in the weasel crying after waking up, "Is that her husband?"

After the Taoist slapped the weasel unconscious, his brows stretched a lot, he had already noticed the man who was guarding the night, but he was sure: "No." ”

It was another morning, the man picked a bundle of firewood, and was about to leave, when the woman put the freshly baked oil cake into the basket and put it on the man's wrist, and the two looked at each other and smiled, but did not say much.

The wooden man looked at the oil cake, and then at the man—he hadn't paid.

In the morning, when the woman was making cakes, the wooden man discussed with her and wanted to buy two for the Taoist to eat, but was refused.

She is so poor, but she doesn't want money.

The wooden man felt strange, so he had to say to the Taoist again: "Why do they get along so closely, like an ordinary couple, but they don't live together?"

The Taoist replied while packing his bags: "I remember, I told you that they are not husband and wife. ”

"But they are no different from the ordinary couples we have seen before. ”

Daoren's hand paused and looked at her, "You really want to know why?"

The wooden man nodded, "As you told me, cultivators should have a heart like a mirror and not be suspicious. ”

"......" The Taoist was silent, and then dismantled the line, "It's okay, then I'll stay for a few more days." ”

He caught the weasel that had been released and asked it to kowtow from house to house to admit its mistakes, and help with labor by the way.

Although the Taoist didn't always stare at it and do these things, it still remembered the big sword with thunder and lightning, and when he thought about it, he felt like a thorn in his back, so he didn't dare to be lazy.

The people in the village were scared at first, but later they were not surprised, praising the Taoist and gossiping with him.

So I learned about the man.

They all came to this village more than ten years ago to take root, and the man won the favor of many young girls because of his good facial features, hard work and steadfastness, but he didn't look at any of them, and to this day, he has never married a wife.

And this woman, though she and her husband were separated, but she was still considered a married woman without news of her death, and although there were many coveters, she was afraid of the common people's tongue, so she kept a widow and lived alone.

No one knew that the man had been watching her in the night for ten years.

It is difficult for anyone to imagine that there is respect in poor and humble love.

"Then why don't they stay away from right and wrong and find a place where no one knows them and start over?"

The Taoist looked at the woman's muddy house and said, "Because you are poor." ”

If the family migration is not forced to do it, ordinary people will not do it. Moreover, it coincides with the era of war, the world is undecided, everyone is in danger, and if they live a precarious life, they can get a moment of stability, and everyone will be greedy.

What's more, they have all reached this age.

"The number of mortal lifespans is like the morning dew. The Taoist said.

For the first time, the wooden man felt regret and sighed: "I only hate to meet too late." ”

The Taoist was slightly surprised in his eyes, looked at her for a long time, but said in his mouth: "Actually, it has nothing to do with the encounter." ”

People in the world always sigh that they met too late, but they didn't think that if they met early, they were not what they were when they fell in love, and they might not be able to know each other. ”

All things in the world can cross and love each other, which is the ability that the way of heaven cannot block.

But, only, no one tells you when love will come.

The Taoist looked at the sincere curiosity in her eyes, and the wind blew the broken hair on her forehead, and he pinned it back.

In fact, he just didn't want to take her to live a life of exile, and guarding is sometimes a way of love. ”

The wooden man thought about it, and still said: "However, I read the drama and said that it is love that is desperate." ”

"No," said the Taoist, "what is desperate is liking, and love is restraint." ”

She lowered her eyes, a little frustrated, "Incomprehensible." ”

But she soon stopped being entangled, and instead took the Taoist's hand and shook it.

The Taoist looked at it for a long time before he realized that it was a coquettish action.

He asked, "With whom?"

She said: "The children at the entrance of the village ask for candy at home. ”

The Taoist curled his lips and asked her, "What do you want?"

She also learned to bend her lips, pulled the corners of her mouth, felt tired, simply gave up, and replied to him seriously: "I want to go home." ”

"Okay, let's go home. ”

The mountains don't know the years, and there are no elves to disturb them, the Taoist's cultivation speed is very fast, one day he calculated the opportunity for himself to ascend, so he thought about taking the wooden man down the mountain again.

He had seen a lot of those mortal scenes, and this time he picked out some rare wonders in the world.

They saw the Shenying tree whose fruit could transform into a human form, and looked at the bunch of dolls growing on the green tree, she was frightened, and she didn't dare to get closer, so he lied to her and said that this is a ginseng fruit, and eating it can increase a hundred years of cultivation, she listened to it and turned around in place twice, and finally mustered up the courage, and looked at it for a long time, before she stretched out her hand to pick one and give it to him, but he stopped: "No!"

However, it was too late, and as soon as she touched the fruit, the fruit opened its mouth and bit her, and she watched the fruit's face change rapidly, and finally became a miniature version of herself, and she couldn't help but worry, "This ...... Is it my child?"

"......" Daoren was shocked by her ridiculous idea for a long time before he came back to his senses and explained to her: "It's just a video of you, just a memory." ”

The wooden man asked again, "Will she grow up?"

"......" The monk didn't say anything, and the Taoist recited silently twice in his heart, but he turned his head sideways to look into her hopeful eyes, so he had to sigh lightly and nodded: "She will grow up until she is exactly the same as you are now." ”

"Then," the hope in the wooden man's eyes doubled again, "we come to see her every year to grow up, okay?"

"......" The Taoist took her hand and turned away, not answering her question for the first time.

Later, they found a Dream Eater! The Dream Eater was transparent and unconscious, and they followed it into the Dream Realm together, never thinking that the Dream Domain was so big as a new world! There were many strange races there, some of which were only the size of a finger! Unfortunately, after coming out of the Dream Domain, they returned to the same place, and they didn't know if those memories were real or a dream.

After seeing the magnificent Dragon Palace and the fox demon marrying, the Taoist took her to the strange tree that produced the gum, and he told her carefully how to get the gum to repair herself if she was injured in the future.

Thinking of this, the Taoist took her to many places where spiritual treasures were hidden, wanting her to recognize the way and know where to save herself when she encountered difficulties in the future.

But these places have sufficient aura, and most of them are garrisoned by demon beasts, which are actually very dangerous, and they have been extremely cautious all the way, but unexpectedly, they still encountered a demon beast with thousands of years of cultivation on the way back!