The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Your kid hasn't seen me for three hundred years, and he forgot about me, no wonder, he was too young at that time." ”

Lu Li's eyes widened, and he muttered in a low voice, "Three hundred years, three hundred years?" Lu Li suddenly remembered, "Oh, Mingyang said that his mother and grandfather died one after another three hundred years ago, are you his grandfather, you didn't die? Hey, no, you said that Demon Venerable is a little brother, then you are, uncle? You are Mingyang's uncle?"

The second uncle put a finger on his mouth, Lu Li covered his mouth with one hand, she looked left and right, and saw that Mingyang was indeed asleep, so she whispered: "I heard Mingyang say, he said that he has seven uncles, I really didn't expect to see you here, so who are you?"

"I'm his second uncle. The second uncle thought that Mingyang must not have told the little girl in front of him about the rebellion in the Western Regions, so it was just right, the past was unbearable, and after three hundred years, he didn't want to mention it again. The second uncle glanced at Lu Li's dishes and chopsticks, "What's the matter, I'm afraid that I'll poison the dish?"

Lu Li was embarrassed, and quickly picked up chopsticks and devoured them, but the hearty laughter of the second uncle gave Lu Li a lot of comfort.

"What's your name?"

"Oh, my name is Lu Li, the strange Lu Li. ”

"Lu Li, what a name. I see that Mingyang may not wake up for a while after drinking too much, you will live here today, and go to do your business tomorrow. ”

"How do you know we're in trouble?"

"Hehe, Mingyang's real body is a black goat, if he is fine, will he run to Weinan, who likes mutton?"

"So, you're hiding here on purpose?"

The second uncle nodded, "Can you not tell Mingyang tomorrow that I am his second uncle?"

"Why? He would be glad to know that you are, for he told me he liked his uncles very much. ”

The second uncle's face suddenly turned solemn, "Mingyang is a good boy, but the uncles are not all good uncles. Alas, he is still too small, too small. ”

Lu Li thought about what the second uncle had said from the time they entered the door to the present, Lu Li generally understood, it must be what happened to Mingyang's seven uncles three hundred years ago, and the second uncle was forced to leave the Demon Realm to live in seclusion in Weinan City, but these Mingyang didn't say it, and the second uncle didn't seem to plan to say it, so Lu Li didn't plan to ask. "Don't worry, I won't tell Mingyang tomorrow. ”

The second uncle smiled and nodded, "Thank you very much, and." The second uncle paused and said solemnly: "I don't think there is a problem with what you did just now, after all, you came to a strange shop like me, and met a strange shop like me, it is necessary to be vigilant, in this kind of thing, Mingyang has not grown up at all." ”

Lu Li pursed her lips and smiled, she was still regretting that she lived the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, but when she heard her second uncle say this, she no longer blamed herself in her heart. Lu Li looked at Ming Yang who was drunk on the table, "He clarifies in his heart, he laughs when he wants to laugh, and he cries when he wants to cry, I sometimes envy him." ”

In this world, you can't envy other people's lives, and I think you're very good, so you don't have to be arrogant, let alone have to

Envy of others. ”

Lu Li smiled and nodded solemnly, "Thank you, second uncle." ”

The second uncle also smiled, revealing two small tiger teeth that were exactly the same as Mingyang's mouth, at this time, in Weinan City, where the whole city was filled with the fragrance of mutton, in a strange shop selling dog meat with a sheep's head, the second uncle and Mingyang, an old man and a young man, were so bright, as if the years were breeze, gently and gently crossed the shoulders of the two, leaving no trace of sorrow and bitterness.

Lu Li suddenly remembered Lao Kun's words, living like a demon, you have to believe that everything is fake, and only being alive is true.

"Second uncle. ”

"Something to ask me?"

"We demons can live for 10,000 years, so what is the purpose of living?"

"You little girl, how can you ask such an old-fashioned question?"

"A senior once told me that everything is false, only living is true, and I once fell into a trap, and my only thought was to live, but then I asked myself, what can I do when I live? Why do I live? Even I wondered, if there is no me in this world, in fact, this world is still this world, there seems to be no difference, then what is the real meaning of my life?"

The second uncle pinched the wine glass, stretched out his index finger and pointed to a small shop, "Look at this shop, I have been here for three hundred years, watching the joys and sorrows of mortals." At first, I wanted to laugh, because I knew that they had this life because of the debt of their previous life, and they only had less than a hundred years of time, but they always kept meeting, parting, laughing, and sorrowful...... Touched by what they thought they were touched, joyed with the joy they thought would last forever.

Later, after a long time, I realized that it was because of them that they hoped for what they could not get, longed for what they could not grasp, regretted what they lost, pained and miserable, but also joyful. This is life, they have condensed our 10,000 years with a hundred years, and I even feel that mortals have lived vigorously, and they have gone through a lifetime of excitement, and then forget all about coming again in the next life. ”

The second uncle retracted his thoughts, and seemed to have just answered Lu Li's question, "People live for a hundred years, and they often have a thousand years of worries, you live for 10,000 years, it's a good thing to be a little sad, and it's even better to be able to think about what you're living for, it's much better than regretting those big dreams in the end." The second uncle looked at Mingyang, who was still asleep, "Why are you alive, only you can give the answer." Of course, if you think that if there is no you in the world, this world will still be this world, and I don't think this idea is wrong at all. Three hundred years ago, I thought that the Western Regions would be in turmoil without me, but in three hundred years, I realized that I was not that important. But we don't live to stop or push any general trend, and the general trend of the world cannot be driven by our own strength. But if there were no you in the world, those people would not be those people. That's why we have to live well, for the sake of the people around us, to become a better version of ourselves. In order to go to the future to see what it looks like, will we be better in the future than in the present? Will the Six Realms in the future be better than the present? Will the children of the future be better than the present?

Come, will it be better?" the second uncle had a smile in his eyes, "I want to live a good life as an exile, you little girl, why are you old-fashioned?"

Lu Li thought for a while, "When I was a child, I thought that enduring hardships and losses was for the sake of a good family in the next life and a happy life, so I think it is worth it no matter how hard I suffer." But now that I find that I only have one life, life and death will disappear, and I will be subsumed into chaos, and my spirits will be scattered, and I don't know why I have to suffer. I even felt aggrieved, why did I have no parents and was ostracized by the whole village since I was a child? Why did I have such a bad vision and was almost killed by someone I trusted? Why did I have to be displaced all the time, losing my mother-in-law and relying on my ...... Why didn't I have a choice, it was as if fate was choosing me?

Second uncle, in fact, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I didn't want to be a demon when I first found out that I was a demon, I didn't want to go when I had to go to the secret realm, and then I didn't want to come out at all when I got to the secret realm, and now that I'm out, I don't want to go back so soon. I always feel that as long as I go back, something bad will happen, as if I am destined to wander, destined to live in peace, destined to constantly say goodbye to myself and separate from everyone, but I don't want to, I want to live honestly in one place for the rest of my life, I just want to be an ordinary person, even a mortal, to live a life of less than a hundred years, to live a life that makes you feel funny. Do you think I'm unproductive?"

Knowing what life you want is precious, and some people don't know it until they die, or they have worked hard in the wrong direction all their lives. Lu Li, don't be presumptuous and self-denial. Lu Li pursed his lips and didn't speak, and the second uncle continued: "Lu Li, you have never seen a ghost before, how do you know that you will be in the next life?"

"That's what everybody says, and that's what the book says. ”

"I don't know if the person who writes the book has a next life, and it is impossible for him to be reincarnated with the memories of his previous life, so you didn't think that he wrote a book, but he wanted to persuade people to be good, they said that if he did bad things in this life, he would be a pig and a dog in the next life, but he was just scaring you. Lu Li scratched his head in embarrassment, but the second uncle said, "If you knew at that time that if you did bad things in this life, there would be no next life, would you be more afraid and able to endure hardships?"

"Huh?" Lu Li just felt afraid, and the second uncle actually smiled heartily again, "Look at you, even if you become a demon, you still believe in the way of mortals, it seems that you can't change it in this life." ”

Lu Li's mouth moved up and down, and finally he grinned without speaking, "It seems that no matter what I am, I am just me." ”

"Well, that's right. You are you, the days are still the same days, no matter what. I ask you, will you go to the end of your life to act recklessly and recklessly, disregarding the lives of others?"

Lu Li shook his head vigorously, and the second uncle asked again: "Then will you do everything as you like in your life and declare everything?"

Lu Li still shook his head, and the second uncle asked again

said: "Then because you only have this life, you will avoid responsibility, take a detour to suffering, or simply lie on the ground and don't care about everything?"

Lu Li still shook his head, and the second uncle asked again: "Then because of this life, you will be happy to take revenge, kill the Buddha when you meet the Buddha, kill the god when you meet the god, and never wronged yourself at all?"

Lu Li continued to shake his head, and the second uncle said with a smile: "Look, as long as you are firm in your thoughts, regardless of whether he has a next life, you will do the same thing and suffer the same suffering, after all, who will think about whether he has a next life when doing things, as long as there is tomorrow." ”

Lu Li nodded fiercely, and even picked up Mingyang's wine glass, "Well, tomorrow will be it!" Lu Li drank it all, "Spicy." ”

The second uncle and Lu Li laughed......

(End of chapter)

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