313 Old hatred
Ye Zhitan. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info okra knows the name.
Du Ruoyun didn't mention him. It was at this meeting of the three branches that Okra heard Master Jinghui mention it a few times, and only then did she know about this chief disciple of the Langshan Sect in the past. In Mrs. Jinghui's account, the senior brother she was proud of was brilliant, young and promising, and a peer who was admired by others—okra could not overlap it with the old way of wandering the rivers and lakes in Jun Li's mouth.
She couldn't wait to open the seal, took out the letter and wanted to read it clearly, but before she could read it, her heart had already turned a lot of causes and effects - she actually understood in an instant why Jun Li, the master, had heard the fifty-stringed piano playing, and she also understood why Fengyun was called "Fengyun".
The content of the letter is mainly to ask some questions about martial arts, and it does not involve the slightest love between men and women. The wording between the lines was very careful, and the letter was written extremely neatly and concisely, without any confusion.
But okra just looked at it with a sour heart. No one else may have seen anything in this ordinary letter, but she knew herself as a Master—or, rather, she knew herself. A simple letter, but I don't know how many words have been carefully considered behind it, let alone how many times it has been copied. The thoughts condensed in the few and faint words are probably only experienced by a woman like her.
She couldn't stop looking down one by one, and at first, every letter was talking about martial arts. A man like Ye Zhitan probably didn't know how to get to know a girl's mind, so he should have been going back and forth with her in a regular manner for a while, but Okra carefully looked at the time on the letter, and the interval was at least three or five days, and at most only seven or eight days - don't say that Du Ruoyun has always lived in the middle of nowhere, even if he lives in the town, these days are by no means enough for a round trip to the letter. The letter mentions "receipt of letters", not that Du Ruoyun sent the letter casually, it should be that Ye Zhitan couldn't wait for a long time, or didn't want her to wait too long for a reply, so he wrote every few days. Although Du Ruoyun was very cautious in his letters, since he was willing to accompany him to write meetings so frequently, Ye Zhitan finally understood the intention after a long time.
Although he couldn't see Ye Zhitan's letter at that time, okra also speculated that he later expressed his heart in a certain letter. Du Ruoyun's reply was still meticulously transcribed, but when Okra looked at it, he felt that his heart was pounding. She did not reply with warmth, even a slight reproach - but what kind of disguise was that, and if she was really unhappy, why did she reply?
She unconsciously raised her head and glanced at Jun Li, who was looking down to read another letter, his face heavy, not knowing what he was thinking. She was sure that Ye Zhitan and Du Ruoyun were in love with each other in the past, but for some reason they were never together in the end. "Hey," she nudged Jun Li's arm, "You've read all of them, and what happened to them?"
"I guess I did. Jun Li raised his head and looked at the more than ten opened envelopes in front of her, "The time they really communicated was only about half a year, and something happened after half a year." In the past six months, your master has written a total of nearly 40 letters, and the rest of them have not been packed up by my master in the nearly 50 years that followed, but he has nowhere to send them, so he can only fold them up and put them by his side. ”
He said, lifting the letterhead in his hand, "Just like this." ”
"These are what your master wrote? Nowhere to send them? What...... How so?"
"I also want to ask, how so, but maybe only your master knows. "Jun Li said," In the last letter of Senior Du, it was written that they would not communicate with each other again, and this matter was very sudden, because before that, they ...... In fact, it is a tacit understanding. The master should have immediately written a letter or two to her to ask why, but there was no reply, and then he followed the address to find Senior Du, but unfortunately the road was far away, blocked by ice and snow, and when he got there, Senior Du had already moved away. My master has never been able to get this answer all his life, and the letters he never sent - mostly confused, sad, melancholy, can only laugh at me...... I have never heard Master mention these past events when he was alive, and I even thought that he had already let go of all worldly thoughts and devoted himself to the Tao. In my eyes, he is a person who has broken the red dust and seen through the world, but he turned out to be ...... But it turned out that he was only lying to me—it turned out that even he himself could not escape this worldly love, not only did he not, but he was trapped in it until he died!"
"You, don't say that......" Okra saw that his mood suddenly changed, and he wanted to be comforted, but Jun Li waved his hand.
"I'm not blaming my master. I was just...... It's just that...... I couldn't believe it for a while. When I first read the letter, I picked it up—the top one, the last letter my master wrote to your master—but he knew that it would not be sent, not so much as a letter, but his judgment of his life. Do you know how I felt when I suddenly saw that letter? I thought that Master and I had wandered the rivers and lakes in those years, even if I could not be called carefree, I was idle, and I also thought that I had been dependent on him for more than 20 years, and the most important person in my heart was him, and the only thing he could worry about was me--it turned out that he still had so many past events in his heart, and so many old people that he couldn't let go, and the regrets and regrets in that letter were so heavy that I couldn't read them. I can't imagine how painful it was for him to keep this thought alone in his heart for decades, I really can't imagine it......"
Okra's lips moved. She wanted a letter from his master, but she didn't open her mind. Jun Li is a determined person, and he rarely shakes things easily, but obviously, these letters from the old Taoist subverted something in his heart. Compared to the fact that she just learned some details about her master's past, Jun Li was only much more shocked, and those may not be understood by a person who has never left the world.
"Sometimes...... Sometimes it's just a matter of making people ......," she comforted him, "My master never talked to me about it, and probably because this matter was so serious, neither of them mentioned it......"
"It's not that creation makes people...... Jun Li muttered, "If it was just like that, Master wouldn't be so miserable in the end......"
Okra didn't understand what he meant: "What did you say?"
"Fifty years ago, my master lost the trace of your master, and he couldn't find it everywhere, so maybe it was indeed a creation that made people. Jun Li said, "He left the Yanshan Sect in frustration, and even became a monk, it is indeed for your master, he feels that when he walks the world, there will always be a day when he finds your master." But ......"
He paused, "But many years later, he really found out about your master's whereabouts - supposedly, he should have left to find your master immediately, meet her and ask her about the reason, but he ...... But he didn't. ”
"Why?" Okra was puzzled, "He has been studying my master all his life, but how can he know his whereabouts but not move forward?" Did he think that my master must have been married, so he didn't go?"
Jun Li shook his head. "He knows that your master is not married, and I see that according to his letter, he may have even been near where you live. But he didn't go to see her, he said, so many years have passed, and he is of course relieved to finally know where she is, but suddenly he feels at a loss, he feels that too long has passed, there is no going back, he can't be like that, if he does, maybe it will only increase his troubles. If he had figured it out, it would have been fine, but it didn't seem to have been - if before this he believed in confusion and longing, then after that his letter was mostly helpless and self-reproachful, and the older he got, the more bitter and remorseful this feeling became. I'm sure in the end he really regretted it - if he did it all over again, he would have gone out of his way to see your master, but ......"
"Then anyway, he just didn't come?" Okra suddenly became a little angry when she heard this, "Does he know that my master often caresses the qin and thinks about it, and sometimes even weeps--doesn't she also think about him all her life, but she can't think that the person she misses will not come even if she already knows her whereabouts! What's the use of your master writing so many letters, what's the use of regretting, no matter how painful and sad he is, it's not all for himself, isn't it all self-deception, isn't it all fake, he is also a ...... Just cowards!"
"Okra, you, don't be disrespectful to my master!" Jun Li stood up and said, "My master always has his own difficulties in doing this, first, he has been a monk for many years, second, maybe he wants to take care of me, and third, he may be worried that your master still refuses to see him-after all, it was your master who didn't say goodbye first, how dare she claim to be affectionate to my master? Isn't she the same in the end, just stroking the piano herself to show herself!"
"You ......," Okra also stood up, "Okay, are you saying that it's my master's fault?"
Jun Li looked at her. In this tense moment, they all realized that this matter really couldn't be changed—they, at this moment, were arguing about the rights and wrongs of their respective masters.
"I didn't mean that. Jun Li relieved first, "Count it as me...... It's my gaffe, don't take it to heart. ”