Li Xuandu straightened his waist, glanced at the water pavilion, and happened to see the scene of the two women talking about the joy, he did not deliberately eavesdrop, but said to Yan Feiqing: "I don't know what these two eldest ladies are talking about, most of them are inseparable from our two old farmers." ”

Yan Feiqing also looked at it, slightly stunned, "She hasn't smiled like this for a long time, she always has a straight face on weekdays, which is very boring." ”

Li Xuandu said in one sentence, "Brother Xuanji still doesn't understand? You two are making trouble for this half acre of paddy field, in the dialect of my hometown, that is, fighting famine, it is when the east wind and the west wind do not give in to each other, if she has a good face for you, won't she destroy her own morale and increase your prestige? How will you fight in the future?" Between this husband and wife, if they want to separate up and down, they must always hold the shelf and can't let go, for fear that the husband will look down on him, in the final analysis, it is the status of the family, which is the same reason as the father speaking out in front of his son and showing his majesty. But the sisters in the boudoir are different, one is to understand each other, and the other is that they don't have to live together, and they have no stakes. It doesn't matter what you look down on or not, you can naturally reveal your true temperament. ”

Yan Feiqing pondered for a moment and said, "What Brother Zifu said is reasonable, between this husband and wife, there are more interests and disadvantages, and there are more constraints, and the separation is far away. If you say that, Ai Yun and I should think about it carefully, learn from Zifu and Miss Qin, laugh and scold, and be unrestrained. ”

"Don't. Li Xuandu hurriedly waved his hand, "Although the sage once said: 'When you see the virtuous, you think together, and when you see the unvirtuous, you introspect yourself.'" But you are not necessarily virtuous, and we are not necessarily virtuous. Besides, both of you are square, and you can't learn from us. Each man has his own way, and what suits us may not be right for you. ”

Yan Feiqing nodded, "Brother Zifu said yes, but I also want to ask Zifu a few words, you also think like Aiyun, I am farming at this time to escape reality?"

Li Xuandu had long expected Yan Feiqing to ask such a question, and he came today for this matter, saying: "I don't think so, because I have had such an experience." Yasheng said: 'Heaven will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically, so they can move their hearts and endure and gain what they cannot.' 'Brother Xuanji has been too smooth sailing in the past 20 years, and it is not a good thing to taste it, and it is not a bad thing to suffer such a setback today. ”

Between men and women, there are mostly couples, few confidants, because men and women think differently, for men, if they can really have a confidant, it is really a blessing in this life. However, whether it is Li Xuandu or Yan Feiqing, there is no such blessing. For them, the best confidant is still a man.

When Yan Feiqing heard Li Xuandu's words, his spirits perked up, and he felt like he had met a confidant, and said: "Zifu's words are very much in line with my heart. Relax my heart, the sky can be seen. ”

Li Xuandu said: "If you sharpen your mind, I won't say it, Brother Xuanji knows it in his heart, the key is that Brother Xuanji has to figure out one thing during this time." ”

Yan Feiqing asked, "Please also ask Zifu to teach me." ”

Li Xuandu said: "Everyone knows the truth of the opposite, if the direction is wrong, the harder you work, the farther away from the place you really want to go." Now that Brother Xuanji has retired, it is not in his position to seek his own government, you might as well think about it, what does Brother Xuanji want, think about this, and then do it, it is not too late. ”

Yan Feiqing was silent for a moment and asked, "What about Brother Zifu?" Brother Zifu has been thinking about it for four whole years from the second year of Tianbao to the sixth year of Tianbao, but Zifu has figured it out?"

Li Xuandu nodded and said, "I figured it out." ”

Yan Feiqing then asked, "What does Brother Zifu want? Is it the sect master of the Qingwei Sect? is it the leader of the Righteous Dao Alliance, is it the great sage and good teacher of the Taiping Dao, or is it the great master of the Dao Sect, or is it the giant son of the Mo family?"

Li Xuandu shook his head and said, "Both."

No, these can be used, but not for the Tao. ”

Yan Feiqing's eyes lit up, "A good one can be used, not the Tao." What is the Purple Mansion asking for?"

Li Xuan didn't answer directly, but said: "Since the first year of Wude, the northwest has been repeatedly warned, so the people there are the most miserable. ”

Li Xuandu took a deep breath, and the hands that destroyed the gold and jade trembled slightly, "I have killed many people, I have seen many dead people, I am not so delicate, and a little dead people can't let me do anything." But until that day, I saw Cairen Market, it was a vacant land, only a little barren mound, there was a thatched hut not far away, several people in the shed were butchers, the apron was stained with blood, the color was dull, I don't know how many layers thick, the butcher's knife in the hand has a gap. There were many people outside the shed. Then came a family of three, and the man walked in front, followed by a woman and a child, and the man went into the shed, and did not speak, but pointed to his wife and daughter. The butcher glanced at it, stretched out two fingers, and the man did not bargain, but took two hangings of money and walked out of the shed. ”

Speaking of this, Yan Feiqing already vaguely knew what Li Xuan was going to say, although he had lost his cultivation, his body was still there after many years of cultivation, and it was still cold and hot, but at this time, he was also oozing cold sweat.

Li Xuandu continued: "I heard the young girl shouting 'Daddy' to the man, but the man didn't respond, didn't even dare to look back, walked away quickly, and couldn't see it in a blink of an eye. The butchers took the mother and daughter into the shed, and took off their clothes, and they did not resist, like two pigs waiting to be slaughtered. ”

Yan Feiqing's face turned pale.

Li Xuandu paused for a long time before he said slowly: "The next thing, even if I don't say it, Yan Zhenren can imagine it, right? The mother and daughter finally became on the board, in the basket, and in the stomach." Maybe Yan Zhenren wants to ask me, why don't you come to the rescue, I am not afraid of Yan Zhenren's jokes, 'Blood Knife' Ning Yi didn't scare me, Wudao Sect didn't scare me, I was actually frightened by the scene in front of me, I was stunned, stunned, the whole person was stunned, my mind was blank, just stood like that, watched from afar, and didn't come back to my senses for a long time, I didn't know at that time that there were such and such things in this world. I am not afraid of murder and death, but of fathers, mothers, and children, and why has this happened?"

Yan Feiqing opened his mouth and didn't say anything, and after a while, he asked hoarsely, "Those people around?"

Li Xuandu said: "Insensitive and unmoved, if those butchers are terrible ghosts who ask for people's lives, they are wandering spirits, and they are not much better." When I came to my senses, the woman secretly picked up a knife on the ground while the butcher was bargaining with the guests, and she stabbed her daughter to death and then herself. ”

Yan Feiqing sat on the ridge and was speechless for a long time.

Li Xuandu looked up at the sky, as if he had returned to that year, "I left there as if I had fled, and I didn't even dare to look back, just because of the sight that made me think of myself." I can't remember who my biological parents were, but for as long as I can remember, it was Master and Brother who raised me, and if I hadn't been adopted by Master, I would have become meat on the board, and I would have become rotten bones in other people's mouths.

Li Xuandu retracted his gaze, "For a long time, I didn't want to recall this incident, but I forcibly forgot about it." I left the northwest, I went to the imperial capital, got acquainted with Zhang Baiyue and Zhang Baigui, two brothers and sisters, and then threw myself under Zhang Suqing, and was reused by the master, everything seemed to be back on track, and what I saw that day was just a nightmare. After that, Brother Xuanji knows about it, so I won't say more

。 When the incident failed, I was determined to live and die, and I was rescued by the second senior brother, but Zhang Xiang died, and the two brothers and sisters of Bai Gui and Bai Yue also died. The world', return to the Qingwei Sect, abolish a body of cultivation, in the muddy nightmare, suddenly those deliberately forgotten things came to my mind again, for more than ten days in a row, I was having nightmares, sometimes in the raging fire of the imperial capital, sometimes in the deserted Cairen City, the dismembered mother and daughter, the beaten Zhang Baigui, the gold-swallowing Zhang Baiyue, constantly appeared in front of my eyes. I just felt a breath in my heart and chest, and I was worse off than dead. ”

Li Xuandu raised his fist and slammed his heart, "So in the past four years, I didn't have much time to restore my realm cultivation, in addition to working, I also began to study, read Taoism, Confucianism, and Zhuzi Baijia, I began to think, why is this happening, why did I lose my father and mother since I was a child, why was the mother and daughter treated as livestock items, and why did the Zhang family all die tragically." ”

Yan Feiqing put his hands on his knees and slowly clenched them into fists.

Li Xuandu's eyes were a little red, and he said: "Why has this world become what it is today, and whose fault is it?" For this reason, I consulted many people, and the Confucian great sacrificial wines told me that this is the principle of rise and fall, and today's rebellion is for the sake of not being chaotic for hundreds of years to come, so ...... Do people today deserve to die?"

Yan Feiqing couldn't answer Li Xuandu.

Li Xuandu didn't think Yan Feiqing would answer him, and said slowly: "In four years, I have figured out one thing, in the eyes of others, I have changed a person. In the past, I was called the 'Purple Mansion Sword Fairy', I would draw my sword if I didn't agree with my words, and I would kill people when I drew my sword, which seemed to be strong, but in fact I was weak, so now I often use a few words of self-encouragement. ”

Yan Feiqing looked at him and asked, "Which words?"

Li Xuandu said in a deep voice: "The man is as dead as iron, look at the test hand, and make up for the cracks in the sky." ”

Yan Feiqing muttered and repeated.

Li Xuandu said softly: "All I ask for is four words, the world is peaceful." ”

Yan Feiqing was silent for a long time, and said in a low voice: "Listening to the words of the Purple Mansion today, if there is a coming day, I don't seek immortality, but I want peace in the world." The Purple Mansion can jump out of the Qingwei Sect, and I can't jump out of the Zhengyi Sect. ”

By the time the two of them finished cooking the farmland, it was already the end of the Shen time, and it was not yet the time of the unitary, so the two of them cleaned up and came out of the paddy field covered in mud. The two women had prepared hot water for them, and after washing it slightly, they came to the hall, where they had prepared a feast, and there was no one else, only the four of them.

This private banquet can be described as a pleasure for both guests and hosts.

It wasn't until the end of the unitary time that the moon rose, which was the end, Su Yuncheng and Yan Feiqing wanted to stay and let Li Xuandu and Qin Su stay for one night, but the two of them couldn't refuse, so they agreed. After the dinner, Su Yuncheng took Qin Su to her room, the two of them were going to sleep together tonight, talking about some private words between women, Li Xuandu and Yan Feiqing, the two men, had leisure, each moved a recliner, lay side by side under the porch, and watched a bright moon.

Li Xuandu said: "The day after tomorrow, the Great Heavenly Master is coming, and my time in Jinling is running out." ”

Yan Feiqing said: "Go to the Qingwei Sect to discuss peace, the road is difficult and difficult, you have to take care more." ”

Li Xuandu smiled faintly and took out a booklet, "This is what I prepared for you, because the 'Taiping Qingling Sutra' involves the inheritance of the Qingwei Sect and the Taiping Sect, and I can't hand it all over to you, this part is an excerpt from me, which will help you recover your cultivation." ”

Yan Feiqing was silent for a while, and slowly stretched out his hand to take it.

Li Xuandu patted the back of his hand.

The moonlight fell on the two of them.

Yan Feiqing said softly: "Where there is no moon, what moon does not shine on people, only no one like me." ”