Chapter 196: The Old Years
"I ended up going late, the decapitator was already red with blood, and the soldiers were cleaning up their bodies with broken mats, and I saw my mother's head rolling out of the straw mat with blood, staring at the sky with wide eyes......"
Hong teased a few minutes closer to Di Gua, and softly reassured: "Master, don't say it, it's all over......"
Di Gu covered his face with his sleeves and knelt down towards the gossip mirror in front of him, and Hong Tuo also kowtowed and heard the suppressed voice of Di Gu next to him coming intermittently: " I thought I could forget this, but when I returned to Shushan again, I still minded very much, even though I didn't want it to be invaded by demons, but every moment I came back here made it difficult for me to forget the death of my parents and brothers, if I could hurry up, if the master didn't stop me, why could they help ordinary people, but they were not willing to help my parents, this is the master who watched me grow up, this is the Shushan I grew up in......"
All the sorrow in his heart turned into a sigh, and Hong Tuo couldn't help but look up at the smooth gossip mirror over there, and it could be seen that it had been carefully wiped all along, and it was still as bright as new.
"Master, if you don't want to face this place, we can leave immediately after the matter is settled, and we won't stay any longer......
"I thought that in the past hundred years, I didn't mind anymore, but when I came back here, every grass and tree was the same, but the people had changed, and even Su Li, who once trusted and relied on me, had many doubts about me......"
"Master......"
Hong Teazheng didn't know how to persuade him, after all, this kind of mood was not something he could experience, but after listening to it, he felt that his heart was full of mixed tastes, and he suffered from sourness.
At this time, the door of the room behind him was opened, and someone walked in softly, Hong Tuo turned his head to look, and saw Ah Lu walking in with a small lantern with a sheep's horn.
Hong Tuo didn't know what kind of expression to show to greet Ah Lu's arrival for a while, Ah Lu nodded slightly, smiled softly, walked to the other side of Di Gua and placed the lantern in front of Di Gua.
Under the warm yellow candlelight, Di Gua looked up blankly, and there were still tears on his old face.
Seeing him look up, Ah Lu began to speak, it was a gentle tone that Hong Tuo had never heard before, like a kind old man, stroking the top of Di Gua's head, and comforting softly: "Since you have returned to Shushan, you should know what you have to face, and it is time to ......let go of the demons in your heart for many years."
Di Gua's cloudy pupils showed a bit of resentment: "Why, he wants to stop me?"
"Once you step into the Immortal Dao, you will cut off the connection between the mortal world, in the eyes of the Sanqing Daoist, you are just his disciple, and he wants to protect you Zhou. ”
"My parents are alive, how do you want me to give up, what kind of disobedience can I save my parents!"
"Since ancient times, the emperor's family is not something that the fairy world can interfere with, and the fate cannot be easily changed, that is the fixed number of your parents, they have expected it, and they will send you to Shu Mountain, and ask the Sanqing Taoist to cross your practice, so that you are no longer bound by this fate. ”
"But as long as I can get there in time, I can always save my parents......"
"You can't save ......" Ah Lu said firmly: "Suspicion suspects that your parents are the Son of Heaven at that time, you can't save a lifetime if you can save it, not to mention that your parents' lives are near, there is not much difference between saving and not saving." ”
"My parents have been loyal all their lives, even before they were beheaded, they were admonishing and admonishing, but the son of heaven was stupid!"
Di Gua's tone became increasingly vicious, and his hatred was strong, so shocked that Hong Tuo on the side was speechless.
"Yan Guo also paid the price for this, the time is fixed, there is cause and effect, when you persuaded Hong to let go of family, friendship and love, did you let go?"
Di Gua supported himself to get up, staring blankly at the gossip mirror reflecting the candle flame, and did not speak for a long time.
"You are ashamed of your parents, you have a grudge against your teacher, and you can't let go of that lover, you have experienced a lot, it's rare to let go, you have stopped here, your mood is chaotic, you don't know what to say, it is a hundred years of life, you have experienced thousands of joys and sorrows, on the surface, you see through everything, have an epiphany, but it is difficult to sleep every night, and you must be accompanied by wine to get a moment of peace......"
Di Gua was still silent, and Ah Lu continued: "Since you were a child, your parents have planned a way for you to live, your master loves you like a son and teaches you carefully, and your junior brothers and sisters are also very respectful and loved, but if you look at your current appearance, which point does not live up to their expectations?"
Di Gua's vision gradually became clearer, his lips trembled slightly, but he couldn't say a word.
"You feel ashamed of your parents, the number of days of life is not something you can change, they also understand this point will send you to Shushan when you are young, try to cut off your contact with you, you resent your master and feel that he deliberately concealed and prevented you from saving your parents, but do you know that Shushan was also facing a predicament at that time, he was worried about Shushan and had to worry about you at the same time, once you appeared in Yan, the emperor of Yanguo will only kill you together in order to get rid of the troubles forever, if he leads the army to attack Shushan, how will Shushan respond? As for your lover, I don't know much, I can't speak, and I really love it in this life, even if I don't accompany you for the rest of my life......"
Di Gua smiled sadly: "I don't know how these things, but it's hard to let go of my heart, and the soul of the deceased always makes it difficult for me to sleep......"
"Why are you uneasy, life is not more than a hundred years, after all, it will return to dust, only this life has never let yourself regret it, the soul in your mouth, your relatives and lovers, they have already gone through the Lethe River to the other side, through several new lives, why can't you let go?"
“......”
"You also tried to conjure spirits back then, but did you attract the ghosts of your parents?"
Di Gua shook his head gloomily, under the grief of that year, he took away the corpses of his family members with small soldiers, and summoned spirits in the wild hundreds of times but could not summon their souls.
"Because they have no complaints, they accept this death, so after their death, they obediently follow the reincarnation of black and white impermanence, the deceased is safe, why should the living torture themselves because of them?"
After Ah Lu finished speaking, Di Gu hid her face and fell to the ground again, and after a long silence in the hall, she stood up and glanced at Hong Tea, and motioned for Hong Tuo to leave with her.
The door of the temple was closed, and the small horn lamp that Ah Lu carried when he came was left in the hall, and it quietly shone on the Di hexagram.
"You're curious why I'm shedding that little lamp?"
Hong was stunned for a long time before nodding.
Ah Lu smiled and explained: "The parents of the Di family came to Shu Mountain incognito, when they walked up the mountain, it was already dark, and the six-year-old Di Gua also fell asleep, after handing over the Di hexagram to the Sanqing Daoist, the Sanqing Daoist wanted to stay with them for one night, and the Di family's parents were afraid that they would be reluctant to stay for a day and decided to go down the mountain overnight, and the Sanqing Daoist gave them the sheep's horn lamp to illuminate them, and at the same time dispersed the evil spirits wandering at the foot of the mountain for them, and escorted them all the way back to their homes. ”
Hong Tuo's heart was enlightened, and he heard Ah Lu over there continue: "In fact, the first time I met the three Qingdao people, they had already recognized them, and they had also persuaded Di's father to let go of power, but unfortunately the general trend of power was not something he said he could let go, and it was also at that time that the Di family's parents handed over their son to Shushan, and I only hope that Shushan will be able to protect his life in the future, even if it is hidden, it can be ......"