It's the fourth day.

According to the rules of the cicada forest, as soon as the three-day period is reached, the body of the sitting Zen master will be cremated.

However, the old Zen master specially explained before sitting down that he would wait for the virtuous beard to return to the mountain and then bury him.

So now, the old Zen master's body is still on display in his own house – it has been here since he sat down.

Except for a robe that had been draped in him, no one had touched it.

"Senior Brother Xianqi, it's the fourth day...... a Zen master said to Xianqi.

"yes. ”

"Why don't you bury Master yet?"

"Master said that he would wait for Xiansuzi to come back, so let's wait. ”

"But if you can't wait to come back......"

"Then I'll have to wait. ”

The novices chanted the sutras.

The little novices who used to be are now either vulgar or have become Zen masters.

The most profound virtuous man is already the head of the contemporary cicada forest.

Today's little novices are already a different group of people.

Among them, none of them knew who the virtuous beard was, only that it was this person who the old Zen master was waiting for before he sat down.

"There has been no news for twenty years, maybe ......" The Zen master frowned with a tangled expression.

"No, it won't. Xianqi said.

"How could it not? It's a possibility, after all!"

Xianqi shook his head.

"Zen head, wait a few more days, Master's body will rot!"

Xianqi still shook his head.

"This ...... Hey!" The Zen master slapped his thigh and pushed the door to leave.

Then he ran into a man with a terrible wound that nearly cut him in half, and he was bleeding all the time.

He took a step back and saw the man's face.

He froze where he was.

"Virtuous ...... Hyunbeard?"

"Ah, what a nostalgic name!" said the man, whose face was dripping with blood, "but now, my name is asexual." ”

"None...... Sex: How do you already have children!"

"Uh...... It's a long story, but it's not my child, I picked it up at the bottom of the mountain. ”

"How could you be so badly injured?"

"It's out of the way, it's okay to take your time. Asexual smiled, and that expression really didn't seem to care.

In fact, he has been bleeding like this for two or three months.

He walked from the Tianshan Mountains south of Youling to the cicada forest in the far west, bleeding all the way.

"No, I'll take you to heal!" The Zen master took the asexual hand, but found that it seemed to have pulled a stone, and he couldn't pull it at all.

"You ......"

"I'm fine. Asexual said, "Master is gone?"

"Yes. ”

"Take me to see it. ”

"But you ......"

"Let's go. ”

"Alas, come on. ”

The novices were still chanting, and their heads were not raised or their eyes opened.

Xianqi saw the scarlet figure walking outside the door at a glance.

He was stunned for a long time before he spoke: "You are finally back, how did you suffer such a serious injury?"

"Ah, on the way back, I got into a fight, but it turned out to be good. Asexual laughed.

"Go and heal!"

"What is out of the way, my blood is endless, and it cannot be flowed. ”

Asexual turned his head and saw the old Zen master who was still calm and full of compassion even though he was sitting.

"Master, I came back, but unfortunately, I didn't come back before that. He whispered.

"Before the master sat down, he specially ordered that he should wait for you to come back. ”

"I broke my promise. ”

"What?"

"I promised to show him what I was after. ”

"It's not too late. Xianqi said.

Asexual shook his head: "It's late, no matter how late I am, because I don't know how far I have to go, how long I have to go." ”

"Let's give it a ride. ”

"Forget it. ”

"Master has been waiting for you for a long time. ”

"Yes. ”

"But you won't give him one last ride?"

Asexual looked at Xianqi and suddenly smiled.

He slapped his hands and shouted, "Kids, get out!"

The little novices were interrupted from chanting, and they all looked at this bald head they had never seen before, and saw the terrible wounds on his body, and they all felt cold in their hearts, but they did not dare to move.

"Do you hear me, get out of here!" said Asexual again.

Xianqi was helpless: "The wound on your body is so scary, who dares to pass through this?"

Asexual touched his bald head, smiled, and turned sideways to get out of the way.

The novices finally left, crowding the other side of the already narrow door, but no one dared to approach the bald head who had been bleeding.

"Alright, that's all there for now...... Three. Xianqi saw the child next to the sexual, "You even have a child?"

"I got it, but I fell in love with a few little girls on the road, but people thought I was bald and ugly, and I was poor, so I ran away with other rich and haired people, and I haven't talked about a daughter-in-law until now, let alone having a child!"

"Why do you think of me like that!" said the child, dissatisfied.

"Envy, jealousy, hatred, okay? If you are really my child, I can be angry with you to death. ”

"You're a scoundrel yourself, and you're afraid of being?"

"You dare to call me a scoundrel?

"You robbed me of the herbs, I haven't settled accounts with you, and you dare to scold me?"

"What's wrong with scolding you, believe it or not, I'm going to beat you!" Asexuality raised his hand.

But the child was not afraid at all, and looked up: "You dare to hit me?"

"Why wouldn't I dare?"

"Then I'll tell you about peeking at other people taking a bath, stealing other people's food, and eating overlord meals!"

"I ...... Why is your head itching all of a sudden?" Asexual put his hand behind his head and scratched it.

Xianqi listened in horror on the side, and silently calculated in his heart how many precepts Xian Suzi had broken after coming down the mountain.

"Hmph!" the child looked up, looking arrogant.

Asexual gritted his teeth and thought, "Boy, you wait, I'll deal with you when I get the chance." ”

But for now, let's get down to business.

The bald head looked at the old Zen master who had been seated, and his eyes were fluttering.

Then, the old Zen master actually ignited.

"What's going on!" Xianqi was shocked and got up to put out the fire.

"Don't go. ”

Xianqi was stunned: "It's you?"

"This is the last ride, right?" asked Asexuality with a smile.

Xianqi's whole body was out of strength, and he lowered his head and sighed: "That's it!" When the words fell, he hurried away without looking back.

The house suddenly caught fire.

Big, big fire.

It is so big that it soars into the sky, and the smoke that comes out is as high as the heavenly pillar, and the heat emitted is stronger than the sun!

The little novices looked at the sky-high fire in horror.

Frightened as he looked at the bloodied man who came out of it.

"Look at this fire!" Asexually smiled, guiding the children around him to look over.

It's like an artist exhibiting his favorite work.

The child watched, stunned.

Then began to cry.

Weeping all the time.

He howled and wept again, and cried hoarsely.

After a long time, the child could no longer stand up, so he could only kneel on the ground, but he was still sobbing.

"Look at the fire...... Is it not like a fire that burns up your house?" asked Aexexual, crouching down.

The child turned his head sharply to look at the asexual, his eyes full of horror and fear.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm not bored enough to set fires everywhere, I just saw it. ”

"What?"

"Your mother died in that fire, but your father didn't, he went out a long time ago and never came back, right?"

"How do you know!"

"Your father also died, and he drank too much wine, and he stumbled and fell into the river, and drowned. ”

"Impossible!

At the moment, it seems that the asexuality is not human.

What is it? Is it a ruthless immortal? Or is it a cold law?

"There is no need to be painful, and there is no need to be sad. "This is the rule, the rule of everything." ”

"No, no, no, why, why!" the child screamed.

He screamed and blood coughed up from his throat.

"Are you used to living in the cowshed?"

"Are you wearing warm clothes?"

"The last ration in the rice bowl is gone, right?"

"It's the rule!"

The asexual words echoed softly in the child's ears like demonic whispers, creeping into his heart.

The child grabbed his hair and slammed his head on the ground.

Immovable for a long time.

"Do you want to see what the rules look like, do you want to break the rules?"

The child pouted and turned his head.

"What should I do?"