On the mountain wall on the edge of the Laojun Temple practice ground, there is a cool pavilion on the top, behind this pavilion, through a sheep intestine path, the wild flowers on both sides of the mountain road are purple and red, in the depths of the group of flowers, a naturally formed pool, quiet and silent.

The pool is not deep, about the waist-high water level of ordinary people, someone threw stones into the pool, Ye Yunsheng and Liang Jieguang sat on the stones one by one, the water was not in their chests, their backs were against the edge of the pool, and unknown small fish were swimming.

In front of Ye Yunsheng, a wooden plate floated on the water, and there were wine jugs and wine glasses on the plate.

He drank a glass of wine, but he didn't see any movement, and the wooden plate slowly floated in front of Liang Jie.

"Legend has it that Lao Tzu became a Dan here, hey, it's really a good place!"

Liang Jie looked around, the flowers were very fragrant, quite a lot, and the water temperature in the pool was just right, especially at the end of summer, when the heat was completely gone, it was really good......

It's just that the wine is a little stronger, why are Taoist cultivators all addicted to alcohol? If the amount of alcohol is not good, wouldn't it be very unpopular in the Taoist sect!

"Senior brother, is there anything in Shangqing that can't drink?"

"Why did you ask me this all of a sudden?"

"It doesn't mean anything else, it's just curiosity. ”

"There are many people who don't like to drink...... There really isn't one who can't drink. ”

Liang Jie choked on the drink, coughed, and the small fish around him scattered and fled.

Ye Yunsheng laughed inexplicably, and his body trembled slightly, but for some reason, the little fish around him was not frightened at all, and was still swimming freely beside him.

"If you lose, you'll be fined a glass of wine. ”

Liang Jie smiled bitterly, poured a glass and drank it, and said, "I shouldn't play this game with you, senior brother!"

Ye Yunsheng said: "This game, my other master, Guanyun Daoist, has played with me. That year, it was the time when I was going down to the small mountain of the gods. ”

Liang Jie asked curiously, "Daoist Guanyun will also play such a game with you?"

"I thought in my heart at the time, you are the same as you are now, the master is a lot old, why do you still play children's games with me? But when I lost, the master asked me a question, and I realized that this game is not as simple as I thought. ”

"What's the problem?"

"Will the fish in the river panic and run away because of the rising waves?"

Liang Jie was stunned and looked at the small fish in the water.

Ye Yunsheng stretched out his hand and waved slowly in the water, but the little fish chased his hand instead, not feeling afraid.

"For thousands of years, what Taoism has sought is to go with the flow, which is easy to say, but many people have cultivated all their lives and cannot do it until they die. ”

............

In the north of the mountains, there are a few farmhouses on a hillside, the houses are simple, and the little chickens have no target to follow, and they are walking wildly on the grass in the courtyard.

On the ground outside a room, a lot of chicken bones were lost, and the food was not very clean, and half a jar of Xifeng wine was poured next to it, leaving a burst of wine aroma.

The door of the house was not closed tightly, but inside a man was lying on top of a woman, in the corner of the earthen bed, and the husband of the woman was leaning on his back, struggling little by little with his hands and feet, and could not fall down or get up...... His neck was broken, his trachea was about to be broken, and his back column was damaged, so his hands and feet could not be strengthened, and it was extremely difficult to breathe.

But he also wanted to protect his mother-in-law.

This mother-in-law is disobedient and lazy on weekdays, only a piece of skin and flesh is not bad, and she spent almost all the family's savings when she welcomed her in.

After five years of getting along, although I don't have any children yet, I can finally get by......

Obviously, it was not the first time that the gangster who broke in had done such a thing, or he wanted him to watch it alive and suffer humiliation before he died.

He also broke his mother-in-law's hands and feet.

He was struggling, but his mother-in-law was motionless, looking at him with a pair of sad and desperate eyes.

There was not even a moan or a cry for mercy.

Of course, he knew what his mother-in-law meant - let's die together, go in peace, and the slave family will come soon.

The gangster finally finished venting, and while touching the woman's body, he looked at the foot of the bed, and the man lost his breath and died without blinking his eyes.

"Grandpa's name is Dong Si, remember to come to find it!" After speaking, he broke the woman's neck, with great force, the tissues inside were destroyed, and in the blink of an eye, she died.

Dong Si listlessly lifted his pants, tied his belt, sat on the bed, and looked blankly at the outside of the room.

After sitting for a while, he took a jug of wine in the house, drank it, and walked out, kicking away a chicken that ran to the nearest place, and frightened a group of chickens next to him screaming and running away.

"Brother!" someone called out to him.

He answered, "Big brother, why are you here, didn't you say that you want to accompany that surnamed Shi for a few days?"

"He has something to do, didn't he let you stay in the dungeon?"

"I can't stay in that hell place!"

"What's the matter, eldest brother, I don't have good hospitality, no good wine and good food, no pretty women?"

"Don't, big brother, you know the character of the younger brother, what I like is not gentleness, but crying and begging, screaming in pain, struggling to survive, sad and helpless death......"

The man came closer, looked at him silently, smiled, and said, "It's abuse, isn't it? How else can we become brothers? I like it too." ”

The thousand-year-old ghost king Xu Ming found Dong Si, put his arm on his shoulder, and said: "You have a realm, look at what you say, what you do, when you are a brother, I admire it tightly, really! Those people who are high in martial arts, I am not good, but a like-minded master like you, brother, I am sorry for you." ”

Dong Si said calmly: "What's the pity, isn't it just that everyone shouts and beats, and the rats crossing the street! I, these can't compare to the one in the rabbit house, that is the ultimate master...... I'm playing with all the rest of it! He's a pity!"

The sun was bleak, and the hillside pulled out a strange shadow slanting aside, as if a monster was watching on the side.

There are no smoked farmers, messy yards, the smell of wine, mixed with an indescribable smell, but Xu Ming and Dong Sihun standing in the courtyard don't care.

Maybe it's getting used to it, or maybe it's enjoying it.

The two were silent for a moment, and in the sunset, in the faint change of figure obliquely, Xu Ming said: "Brother, I have something to do with you." ”

Dong Si smiled and said, "Are we still polite?

Xu Ming also smiled and said, "The Taoist chief in Laojun Temple, there are some things that are inconvenient to come forward. ”

"Aren't you guys doing those things specifically for Laojun Temple?"

"I can't do this, I have to ask my brother. ”

"You can't do it, what's so difficult?"

Xu Ming patted him and said, "Let's go, when you get to Laojun Temple, let the Taoist chief tell you." ”

The oblique shadows are juxtaposed together, making people feel awkward no matter how they look at them.

............

"Senior brother, Laojun Temple has been sheltering the Blood Jade Gate, was it instructed by the Shangqing Palace?"

"Some of them think it's feasible, and some of them don't. But Taoists, who are free to do nothing, have to make a decision, after all, it is more difficult. ”

"Is this a natural thing?"