The light rising from the top of the hill was a little foggy, not violent, and it should be a cloudy day. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Junli sat with his backlight. There was no one by the river, and he sat like this all night. The gloom of the whole night, which seemed to be diluted by dawn, was not enough to make him stand up with joy immediately.

He sat still a little longer, thinking about where to go next.

If there is no purpose in walking, it is inevitable that there will be a negative feeling of being at a loss and helpless from time to time. Naturally, Taoism is negative, but if you don't encourage yourself to think more positive things, I'm afraid that before you become an immortal, you will have to suffocate to death.

Do you want to go back to your home and have a look? Even if you don't look back at home, you can go around there and ask how they're doing.

After making up his mind, he really felt that his heart was bright and happy, got up and patted the dust on his body, and left with a banner.

The road to Huizhou is not far. Jun Li is approaching day by day, but his heart is becoming more and more worried. My father-in-law should be in his sixties, but I don't know if he is still in good health? Sister Xiaomeng wants to be married a long time ago, but most of them will not be able to see her? And sister-in-law--the sister-in-law Teng Ying, who has her husband's posthumous child, I don't know if she has remarried now? That baby should have grown up now, but she won't recognize me at all, right?

Thinking like this, he stopped, remembering the four words that Master finally uttered before he died:

"Shallow kinship. ”

Master said that my kinship was shallow. He smiled bitterly in his heart. It wasn't until that last day that he explained to him like this, and he still refused to tell him the reason for his origins. He also told him a lot of stories, the stories of his childhood, almost all the stories related to his life, except for the life itself.

"Why do you say I'm shallow?" he asked his master. Literally, of course, he understood the meaning of these four words, however, he never believed that this kind of fate would fall on him.

But Master's answer was affirmative: "You are destined to be like this, and I saw it within a few months of your birth. ”

"So Master...... It's the one who saw my life. He whispered. He always thought in his heart that he and his master depended on each other, and he couldn't count his life, and he couldn't count himself, but he forgot that before he accepted himself as an apprentice, he could see his life clearly.

"If it weren't for your fate, I probably wouldn't have forced you to take you away. Master said again. "You are the eldest grandson of the family, if it weren't for all the things that proved that what I said was right, how could the elders of your family be willing to give up on you. ”

"Did anything happen to me when I was a child?" Jun Li asked.

"Don't you have a scar on your stomach, you asked me where I came from. Master said. "Actually, it was the result of a strange illness you had when you were a child. ”

"What kind of strange disease? What does it have to do with 'shallow kinship'?"

"More than 20 years ago, I passed by a house and saw a young woman crying at the door with her baby in her arms, so I went up to me and asked what was wrong, and she said that the child had a strange disease, and she was very sick, and she had spent a lot of money to seek medical treatment. I wondered what kind of child had such a short life—that was the first time I had seen you. ”

"And then?" Jun Li couldn't wait.

"There is a faint look of premature death on your face, but at the same time there are signs of the opposite, which really makes me curious. Then I saw your sickness, and I saw that your belly was bulging. Then I had a whim, and I said to your mother, "If you believe me, give me a bowl of water, and I will try to cure you—but if you die unfortunately, you cannot blame me." Your mother didn't have any other way to come, so she brought me a bowl of water. I drank the water, and broke the bowl and slashed your stomach with shards, and black blood flowed from your belly. ”

Jun Li was a little shocked when he heard it, this was his own story, and it was unbelievable to think about it.

"Then I am saved by this?" he asked.

"It seems to have worked, and you'll be getting better in a few days. The elders of your family thanked me and invited me over and gave me a warm welcome. I was curious about your fate, so I went anyway -- your parents, not suspecting that I had any other purpose, told me your name and all kinds of details, and asked me to tell you your fortune -- this horoscope, and it would be better not to look at it that day. ”

When the old Taoist priest said this, he sighed heavily. "I have never seen such a dangerous horoscope as yours, and all of them are enough to bring your life to an abrupt end, or to bring misfortune to your loved ones. Your parents and grandparents were overjoyed that you had recovered, but they didn't know that it was just the beginning. ”

Jun Li listened nervously and couldn't say a word.

"I can't bear to tell your parents the truth about this, and since I tried to change the method and push it again, the result is the same, but by chance I tried to withdraw my loved ones from your fate, and I saw that this fate was completely destroyed, and it can almost be said that it was calm. ”

"So, Master told my parents that I had to stay away from them, avoid them, and keep me safe—?"

"At that time, for you, the so-called closest relatives were of course only your parents and grandparents, but if you stay in the mortal world, when you grow up, the world will be entangled, and then it will not be easy to get out, so the only way for you to relieve misfortune is to become a monk. But this may be cruel to your parents than their fate—because they are rejoicing in you, cherishing you, and loving you more than their own lives. If suddenly you go away and you will not see you for the rest of your life, what is the difference between seeing you die for them? ”

"My grandfather won't say yes, so what?"

"Of course, I can't snatch you away, and besides, at that time it was just passers-by, and if they didn't believe in my fate, at most they would let you fend for yourself. When I left, I only said that you were coming to the catastrophe, and within a year, you should be able to see it, and your mother was the only one who believed it, and she chased after me, saying that I must have a way to resolve it, and I must teach her. ”

When the old Taoist priest said this, the topic suddenly changed, and he said, "Do you remember that when you were a child, you always wore a ring made of withered grass stalks on your arm?"

"Yes. Jun Li nodded. "Master also said that it was a talisman left for me by my parents, and it hurt me -- when the grass ring was broken by someone, I was so panicked that I cried. ”

Lao Dao smiled slightly, "That's what I gave to your mother that day." ”

Jun Li was stunned. "Master's?"

"Actually, it's just the rough fabric I bought from the poor roadside village woman and asked her about it. Ask me how to resolve it - I don't know how that calamity is going to hit you, and how to resolve it, but I think that you have a good family, and that you have food and clothing that are delicate things, and that you have never touched such rough objects, and perhaps this is what you lack. Your mother thanked you and put the grass ring around your neck, and later the grass ring really saved your life. ”

"Is that really the case?"

"You're overboard. The old Taoist priest replied. "About half a year after the previous illness was cured, I am afraid that your family also forgot my warning, and you fell overboard after a moment of negligence on the boat. At that time, it was already twilight, and the water was big, and you searched for you all night without results, and you were almost desperate, and when it was dawn, you found that your little baby was floating, and your limbs were swollen, and I thought it was dead, but unexpectedly, the rough grass ring around your neck was entangled in the water weeds, and you couldn't move, but you actually floated on the water and fell asleep. ”

Jun Li listened in a daze, thinking that he had always liked to ride boats and watch the water when he was a child, but he didn't know if it had anything to do with it.

"I also calculated that the catastrophe was coming, so I went to your neighborhood again, and sure enough, your mother was already waiting for me. After that incident, your family no longer dared to disbelieve what I had said, and I saw your grandfather and your father again, and they were still reluctant to let you go, but if you were safe without them, they could only do so. At that time, they thought that they could let you leave your home in a nearby temple or Taoist temple, and they could occasionally visit you, but in fact, even if they just secretly looked at you, it would also add to your misfortune. No matter how far away they are, as long as they know where you are, there is no guarantee that one day they will not come to you with a heartfelt heart and run to find you - the only way is for me to take you away, and from then on, the four seas will be home. ”

He paused for a moment, heard that Jun Li was just silent, and then said: "You have always been obsessed with your own life experience, but who your parents are and where your hometown is, is the last thing I want you to know." Now that you've learned more, you should be able to understand that I'm doing this for your good. ”

Jun Li nodded reluctantly and said, "I know." Then he squeezed out a smile: "Why did Master say so much to me in one breath today--in the past, he didn't even let me ask, does this mean that I am now full of concentration and can calculate the teacher?"

The old Taoist priest also smiled slightly. "That's because you and I are destined to be a master and apprentice for such a period of time, even if you don't become a teacher, you have to become a teacher. ”

Jun Li was a little confused for a while: "What's the matter, where is the master going again?"

"How old Master is this year, do you know?"

"Yes, I should be seventy-six years old. ”

The old Taoist priest nodded, and sighed softly: "Hao Hao Yin and Yang move, and the life of the year is like the morning dew - Jun Li, I have been cultivating for decades, and I will have such a day in the end." ”

When Jun Li heard what he said, he felt a little bad, and said in a panic: "Master, who is in good health, why do you suddenly say this?" Seeing that Lao Dao just smiled and said nothing, he was a little at a loss, and hurriedly said: "I don't want to listen to my family background and life experience, when did I say that I was interested in that? ”

"When I die, you will have nothing to worry about. Lao Dao still smiled.

Jun Li found that he had said the wrong thing again, but when he heard him really say the word "death", his eyes turned red, and he hurriedly said: "I'll open a hexagram now to see, if the master doesn't live a hundred years or a thousand years, then it will be unreasonable!"

The old Taoist priest took out all the utensils by him, and counted them the same, but the hexagram was vague - Jun Li looked at it again and again, but it was still just a blur. Is it because of the mist in front of him, or because he really can't figure out who he cares about - he doesn't know, and the more he doesn't know, the more anxious he becomes, and the blur in front of him will be heavier.

In the end, he could only throw things away and shout, "I just don't believe it!"

"Jun Li. The old Taoist priest patted him on the shoulder, "I don't have much to say about you when you were a child, but you still have to promise the master - if you still know who your parents are by chance in the future, don't go to them, just as you still don't know, just like now-can you agree?"

"This ...... Master, if there is any concern about this matter, there is no need to say it today. Jun Li bit his lip and recklessly.

"I met your parents again. The old Taoist priest didn't feel the trembling in his voice. "They're doing well, and then they have sons, so you don't have to worry about them. ”

"I'm not worried about them, I just need Master, don't use this method to test me!" Jun Li didn't know where he came from, and stood up suddenly. "I've already said don't listen to them, I don't want to listen to them again, Master, don't say anything more!"

The old Taoist priest looked at his red eyes and shook his head. "At this age, you are still like a child, and the path of seeking the Tao may be really too difficult for you, but you have no choice to avoid calamity. Fortunately, your understanding is quite good, and after following Master for so long, you will be able to do it, and I am not worried that you will be unable to continue alone. ”

Jun Li didn't say a word.

"You don't have to feel unfair, you cultivate alone, and although you lose a lot of things, there are always some things that others can't have. If one day you are diligent, you will find that there is nothing to be surprised and no one to envy. ”

Jun Li suddenly raised his head in the middle of the street, only to realize that he had been thinking about it for too long. Of course, he remembered all those words of the master, but when he saw him pass away suddenly, all he could do was shout "why" in his heart.

Master has been cultivating all his life, but why is it that there is no possibility that he will change the final outcome in the slightest? I will live alone from now on, for ten or twenty years or thirty or forty years -- even if I look at the fortunes of others, I will not be able to calculate my own longevity. Maybe this arrangement is to let me live and witness everything to myself, but if it all ends up the same, what is the purpose of living?