After taking off his clothes and hanging them on the branches, Li Moru looked at the cliff again, but there was nothing on the cliff except water, flowers, plants, and occasional birds.

The other three saw that he could see that he was confused, Zhang Fugui and Zhang Qingshan hurriedly came over and grabbed him, for fear that he would jump into the water desperately like before.

Li Moru turned his head and smiled: "Don't worry, I won't think about it so recklessly just now, I figured it out, it's better to be alive, I can look at it twice while I'm alive, and I can only look at it for a while before I die, it's a loss, I haven't even seen the sword seriously, if I die like this, I'm too sorry for my name as a great sword immortal." ”

Hearing him say this, Zhang Fugui and they were a little relieved, and after letting go of his hand, Zhang Fugui patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, what I said before counts, wait for next month, next month, the three of you will take you to the owner of the blacksmith shop." ”

Li Moru turned around, glanced at Zhang Fugui, pulled him by the neck, and said, "What did you just say my dear brother, how can you talk to your second brother, third brother?"

Zhang Fugui hurriedly broke his hand away, touched his neck and said: "Li Moru, you have no conscience, the third brother won't even eat snacks to save money for you, don't you say thank you to the third brother, you will take revenge." ”

"What do you say? As he spoke, he snapped his knuckles and scared Zhang Fugui.

Frightened, Zhang Fugui hurriedly ran behind Long Chen, glanced at him and said, "Hmph, you have the ability to come over?"

"Hey, I don't believe it today, and I can't cure you anymore?"

When Li Moru ran to Long Chen's side, Long Chen grabbed the two and said, "It's not early, it's some time to come out today, we have to rush back, I have something to do in the afternoon." ”

Zhang Fugui stuck his head out from behind Long Chen and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I have other homework, I still have to practice calligraphy, I am a year older than you, my husband has given me other homework, and I want to go back and see the book that he lent me before. ”

Zhang Qingshan shook off his clothes and asked, "Oh, what book?"

"The Book of Rites - University". ”

Zhang Qingshan asked: "Is it the book of self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country, and leveling the world?"

"Yes. ”

"I'm also interested, why don't we go to Mr.'s study together in a while?"

"Yes, but I like to watch "Zuo's Spring and Autumn"."

Zhang Fugui and Li Moru had big heads as soon as they heard this kind of book, and the two hurriedly stayed away from them, for fear that they would drag them to read the book together, wouldn't that be in vain?

Zhang Fugui saw Long Chen's gaze sweeping towards him, and hurriedly ran to Li Moru's side, "Don't look at me, I'm not interested in that thing, let me see that thing, it's better to let me die, even if I want to read a book, I also read "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", the one you read is too boring, I refuse." ”

After speaking, he hid behind Li Moru, although Li Moru's figure couldn't stop him at all, but in his opinion, as long as he could block his head, he would be able to block it all.

Li Moru also hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't look at me, I might as well go and read my novels? Long Chen glanced at the two of them and said, "What do you think, even if you want, Mr. will not let you two troublemakers enter his study, it must be quite beautiful, I asked you two to quickly put on your clothes and go home." ”

When Zhang Fugui heard this, he walked out from behind Li Moru and touched his head, "So that's the case, it scared me to death, I thought you were going to take the two of us to jump into the fire pit." ”

Zhang Qingshan smiled: "You two, it's really ......"

Li Moru smiled: "You guys are boring, look at what a man should see." ”

"Oh, what is what a man should see?" Zhang Fugui looked at Li Moru with strange eyes, "Looking at Chen Xuanyou's "Leaving the Soul", don't you dream of having a beautiful woman for you?"

Zhang Qingshan said: "Mo Ru may be talking about "Sou Shen Biography", all kinds of gods and ghosts, Mo Ru should like it very much." ”

Li Moru pointed at them and said, "Do you just look at me like that?"

Zhang Fugui leaned towards him, "Isn't it? You dare to say that you haven't read these two books? You forgot a few words that you don't know, or will I help you ask Zhang Qingshan, and then Zhang Qingshan asked Mr. Mo, do you dare to say that this is true?"

Li Moru said as if someone was grabbing her pigtails: "I didn't say I didn't admit it, but I recently found a new book, called "Liu Yi's Strange Relationship", looking for a woman like Sanniang, I feel that life is really beautiful when I think about it." ”

Long Chen glanced at him, "At a young age, I don't learn some good things, I think about strange things all day long, don't you know that the gentleman is silent and weird?"

The corners of Li Moru's mouth rose, "Cut, I'm not a gentleman"

After cleaning up, several people hurried down the mountain, although the sun in Shenshi was not as big as at noon, but the heat accumulated at noon had not yet dissipated, plus the dazzling sunlight, it was still a little hot.

After Long Chen and the others went to the academy, Li Moru pulled Zhang Fugui and said, "Fugui, why don't we go to the blacksmith shop now, anyway, it's still early, how about it?"

Zhang Fugui said: "But, the blacksmith shop is a bit far away, and we may have to come back somewhere." ”

"It's okay, you should accompany me, okay? ”

The corners of Zhao Fugui's mouth slanted slightly, and said, "Then you call me brother, and I'll go and see it with you." ”

Li Moru called directly without thinking about it: "Brother, my good third brother, my dearest good third brother, you can accompany me to have a look." While you were talking, you rubbed your face against Zhang Fugui's face.

Zhang Fugui pushed him away, "Okay, let's go, let's go, hurry up, can't I go with you, don't disgust me anymore." ”

Li Moru straightened his waist in an instant, put his hand on Zhang Fugui's shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's still my third brother who knows that he feels sorry for me." ”

Zhang Fugui glanced at him, "What did you say?"

Li Moru hurriedly slapped his lips with his hand, "What are you talking about, it's the third brother, the third brother, my good third brother." ”

In this way, the two of them walked towards the blacksmith shop in the town, talking and laughing along the way.

The walking trails in the town are paved with bluestone slabs, and I heard from the older generation that these green mountain slabs were all carried from Li Moru's so-called back mountain.

The town is divided into several pieces by five or six rivers, and I heard that these rivers were dug up by the ancestors little by little, and every time Li Moru heard the old man talk about the history of the town, his heart was full of awe, of course, he was in awe for a while, and then it was gone.

The two of them walked towards the east, and the blacksmith shop was the farthest east of the ancient town.

The two of them got on the first arch bridge first, after entering the ancient town from the west, it has been a bluestone road, until they arrived at the Luoyan Pagoda, the Luoyan Pagoda can be regarded as the landmark building of the listed town, it is more than ten zhang high, especially when the wild geese return to the south, it is full of resting geese, which is very beautiful.

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda has eight corners, there are more than ten floors, listen to the older generation, the whole Big Wild Goose Pagoda is made of the traditional woodworking mortise and tenon structure, it is the highest and most beautiful ancient tower within a radius of dozens of miles in the ancient town.

There are monks chanting in the tower, Li Moru heard that in addition to the Buddha bone relics in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, there is also a huge night pearl, when people worship the Buddha devoutly, the night pearl will be bright.

But for so many years, Li Moru has never seen the night pearl in the mouth of the old people, and he often wonders if the people in the ancient town are not pious enough to worship the Buddha, or whether there is no night pearl at all.

He felt that the possibility of being unreligious was small, because he often saw adults bring a lot of things to worship the Buddha, what pig's head, incense or something, and when the monk went to the town to make a fortune, the people in the town would always give them a lot of food, Li Moru felt that there was no one more pious than them, and they even spent money to repair the golden Buddha statue in the tower.

For the golden Buddha statue, Li Moru does not understand at all, there is also a Taoist temple on the mountain, and the gods and goddesses of the Taoist temple are worshiped with clay statues, and the Taoist priests never turn into fate, they either grow their own food to eat, or they support themselves, do things or cure diseases in exchange for remuneration to buy food.

is also practice, why do Buddhists want to make it splendid, and also say that giving money is merit, and accumulating merit can eliminate disasters and solve problems, Li Moru feels that all this is the nonsense of those old monks, if this is really the case, then those poor people who can't afford to give money don't even have the right to believe in Buddhism.

Besides, the ancient town has already donated so much, and he feels that the people in the town are pious enough, but he still hasn't seen the night pearl lit up.

Every time he heard a monk talking about the Dharma beside him, he would always interject and ask those monks who had turned into a relationship, if the Buddha existed to save the world, then why didn't he feed himself, but let the world feed him? Also, if the Buddha is to save the world, then the monk should go everywhere to save the evil people, instead of being locked up in the temple to eat fasting and chanting sutras, thinking all day long about how to gild the body of the Buddha they believe in.

Since the Buddha has compassion for the world, then why does he want a golden body? Why does he want money? And he is just talking about the world, and it is better to go home to cure the sick and save people.

Although every time he questioned a monk with such words, it always aroused the anger of the believers and the monks, he didn't care at all.

So every time he passes by the Falling Wild Goose Pagoda, he always has an indescribable feeling in his heart, the monks of the temple always say that the wild goose falls on the tower to listen to the Dharma, practice the Tao, they call the wild goose is the messenger before the Buddha, and many people in the ancient town are convinced, so they often feed and feed.

Li Moru thinks that there is no Buddhism or Buddhism, maybe the reason why geese often land here is because there is food here, just like these monks.

He pulled Zhang Fugui and quickly ran away from the range of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and ran towards the blacksmith shop.

After walking for more than an hour, the two finally reached the door of the blacksmith's shop.

The blacksmith shop went down the bridge, and a huge willow tree next to it was particularly conspicuous, the willow tree looked to be hundreds of years old, thick and strong, like the arm of the iron man, and the ravines were like the green tendons on the arm.

The old blacksmith no longer struck iron, and when he got older, he seldom moved anymore, and now he was smoking a dry cigarette slowly at the door.

When Zhang Fugui and Li Moru approached, the blacksmith didn't hear the sound of iron, only the sound of the old man smoking dry tobacco and the water stirring.

The old man's appearance has not become amiable because of his age, Li Moru looked at him from a distance and still felt a little worried in his heart, he always felt that this old man would get up and beat him violently, Zhang Fugui usually talked to the young people, and when he saw this old man, he was a little afraid to step forward.

But for the sake of his sword, Li Moru still tried to get closer to the old man, Zhang Fugui followed behind him, with the help of his body to block himself, just when he was only three steps away from the old man, the old man raised his head, startling Li Moru and Zhang Fugui, the two hurriedly took two steps back, and stuck tightly together.

The old man's face was full of wrinkles, he was wearing a white linen coat, he glanced at the two children who were trembling together, pretended to be terrible, and deliberately frightened them: "What do you two little rabbits want to do? Do you want to go into the store and steal something?"

Li Moru hurriedly explained: "No, no, no, we are just passing by, passing by." ”

The old man got up, took the cigarette gun in his hand and walked towards the two of them as if he were holding a stick, and raised his voice: "You also said that you are not stealing, what are you sneaking around doing?"

As he spoke, the old man deliberately pretended to hit the two of them with a smoking gun.

At this time, a crisp and pleasant voice stopped him, "Dad, don't scare the child." ”

The person who came was a woman dressed in turquoise, with a bamboo basket hanging from her right elbow, her face was slightly red, and her lips were pale peach, presumably with some jewelry smeared with rouge gouache.

Seeing the woman coming, the wrinkles of the old man squeezed together were relaxed, and he smiled: "Isn't this a little joke with the children?" he put down the cigarette gun, then took a puff and spit it out at the two children.

Seeing that the two children were still motionless, the old man couldn't help laughing.

I saw the woman bend down and take out two pastries from the basket to Li Moru and the others, Zhang Fugui saw that there was something to eat, and immediately became less afraid than just now, and instantly took the pastries and said to the woman: "Thank you, sister, sister, you are so beautiful." ”

Li Moru didn't reach out to pick it up for a long time, and the woman asked, "What, aren't you hungry or don't like it?" If you don't like it, I have other kinds of food here. ”

Li Moru stubbornly said, "I'm not hungry. ”

Zhang Fugui hurriedly turned around and glanced at Li Moru and said, "Moru, you're not hungry, I'll eat it for you if you're not hungry." ”

As he spoke, he was about to reach out and take the pastry handed out by the woman, but when it was too late, Li Moru snapped and stretched out his hand to grab the pastry handed to the woman in front of him and stuffed it into his mouth.

Zhang Fugui said: "Aren't you hungry?

"You care about me?"

As he spoke, he began to chew heavily, probably because he had walked for too long, the dripping water had not been too dry along the way, and Li Moru ate too fast, so he choked and kept urging his chest with his hands.

The woman said softly: "Hurry up and go in and have a cup of tea, don't suffocate for a while." ”

As he spoke, he led Li Moru to the room, while the old man behind him and Zhang Fugui smiled indifferently and followed into the room.

After entering the room, the woman poured a cup of tea for Li Moru, and Li Moru took a big sip, raised her head and breathed a long sigh of relief before returning the bowl to the woman.

The old man sat on the side, slapped the cigarette out of the snitch, and then brought the sniffle to an inconspicuous place under the counter.

The old man asked Li Moru and Zhang Fugui what they were here for.

Zhang Fugui replied truthfully, saying that he took Li Moru to see the sword, and planned to give Li Moru a sword.

The old man asked Li Moru, "Why do you want to fight a sword?"

Li Moru quickly replied, "I want to become a sword immortal." ”

The old man laughed, "There are no sword immortals in this world, those are all things that deceive children in novels and books." ”