The Northern Desert is a place where other ethnic groups live in the northwest of the Northern Dynasties. To be honest, Shen Tu didn't know anything about this place, but after all, he was a young man, and even though he was going to a strange place, he couldn't feel a little timid. At night, he lay on the bed, thinking carefully about what Cui Juan said during the day, and suddenly sat up from the bed.

What does it mean to "this matter has something to do with you"? When did he go to the Northern Desert, and what does it have to do with the Northern Desert?

Sometimes he suddenly became careful, and the more he thought about things, the more he couldn't sleep. He simply sat up, walked around the room a few times, put on his robe and walked out.

On a summer night, the heat is gone. There are also unknown small insects chirping in the grass, adding a bit of comfort. He walked quietly down the hallway, hesitated outside the door for a moment, and summoned up the courage to knock on the door of the chief.

It's really rude to make noise in the middle of the night, but he really can't sleep, full of heavy thoughts, and can only subconsciously look for the closest person.

There was no movement in the door, but a clear voice came from the roof, with a little inexplicable smile: "Come up." ”

Master was on the roof again, he should have thought of it a long time ago. As long as he couldn't find anyone, he switched to the roof, as if he were glued to the tiles. Shen Tu took two steps back, jumped lightly onto the roof, and sat down beside the Taoist.

He wanted to speak, but he didn't know how to speak, so he stumbled, as if he had done something wrong to confess his mistake to the Taoist. The Taoist looked at him with a smile, but he was the first to speak: "What's wrong? Why is this expression? Which little girl do you like?"

"No! I didn't like it!" Shen Tu immediately retorted, but his face turned red: "Master...... I want to ask, is it better to do what you want to do, or do what you should do?"

The Taoist asked rhetorically, "You mean, the 'things that should be done' are things that you don't want to do?"

Shen Tu nodded.

The Dao Leader turned his head to look at him, and his eyes seemed to reflect the starlight. As if he had guessed something, he suddenly stretched out a hand and rubbed Shen Di's face with the back of his hand, but thought to himself, "This kid's face is red, why is it still cold?"

"It's a difficult question for me to answer. The Taoist retracted his outstretched hand and pillowed it behind his head. He knew that something must have happened to this young man, but he didn't get to the bottom of it, just said, "Everyone is different, but I can tell you what I think." ”

Shen Tu then sat upright, looking at him earnestly as if he was listening attentively. The Taoist chief slowly spoke, "Of course I choose to do what I want to do, because no one can force me to do what I don't want to do. A long time ago, when I was not a Tianzun, in order to climb to this position, I had been doing chores in the old heavenly court, doing what I should do as an identity - what does it mean to do chores? That is, the things that other immortals don't want to do are piled up for you, and it's your fault that you can't finish it. ”

The Taoist seemed to be stuck in a long memory, and smiled lightly: "I was really young at that time, so I was as old as you...... At that time, in the old heavenly court, the immortals were much more orthodox than the current ones, and many people had not died. Later, the Heavenly Monarch appreciated me, and with the recommendation of Zhedan, I participated in the war of gods and demons. ”

Shen Tu asked, "Who is Zhedan?"

"A dear friend of mine. He is the god of wind and the mountain saint of the Juling Mountains. ”

Shen Tu nodded, and then listened to the Taoist chief continue: "I have said so much, I mean, you have to do what you have to do first, until no one forces you to say what you 'should' do, and then you can do what you want to do. ”

Dao Chang sat up and looked at Ling Xuguan in front of him gently. There is no moon tonight, but the stars are shining. He suddenly asked, "Apprentice, what do you think I should do?"

Shen Tu didn't dare to talk nonsense, and he didn't understand what the Dao Chief's question meant, but he just thought in his heart: "An immortal Taoist priest, what should he do?"

After a long time, he replied cautiously, "Save the world?"

Dao Chang laughed, and he couldn't stop laughing: "Where did you hear that? That's really good! But how many people are saving the world all day long?"

As soon as he had finished speaking, his smiling eyes looked at him as if they were about to pierce him. So he laughed too, and said aloud, "Yes, Master." ”

Everyone's path is different, but they all have the same goal. If you want to really do whatever you want, you can only let yourself do all the things you don't want to do first, so that others don't dare to force you and restrain you.

Shen Tu didn't know if the truth he came up with was right, but he decided to go to the Northern Desert tomorrow to take a look. However, this matter still needs to be talked to the Taoist chief, so as not to worry him.

In fact, he thinks too much, and the Taoist means that if someone asks you to do something you don't want to do, then beat him until he is convinced. He was simple-minded, and he didn't think about these aspects at all, and turned his head to see the Taoist head turning the teacup in his hand.

"Master, I'm going on a long trip tomorrow. ”

"Oh?" the Taoist chief looked uninterested: "Be careful on the road, go early and return early." Otherwise, Yun casually can't see you for too long, and she will be cranky. ”

Shen Tu nodded very hard, as if in this way he could keep all the perfunctory relationships in the Taoist chief's tone firmly in mind: "I will...... Master, why do you keep turning the teacup?"

Dao Changyu laughed again, and his smile this time was because he thought Shen Tu was very funny: "I've been in this habit for hundreds of years, and you were the first to ask me why I did this. Do you want to know? ”

He handed over the teacup in his hand, and Shen Tu took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, it was just an ordinary light-colored cup, with a warm texture, and he didn't find anything special. He shook the teacup, but he didn't expect that a cup of tea slowly rose inside, and it also exuded a faint aroma of tea.

"This, this—"

Shen Tu looked at the Taoist in amazement, who was smiling and motioning for him to take a bite. He drank it all without hesitation, and smacked his lips and frowned: "Master, what kind of tea is this, it tastes a little strange." ”

The Dao Leader still looked at him with a smile, he blinked a little deliriously, his face slowly showing a red, and then fell headlong.

"The stinky boy is annoying! I'm just blowing the wind on the roof, why are you talking so much!" the Taoist took the cup from Shen Di's hand, and stretched out a hand to put it around his shoulder, and it floated to the ground.

"Brother......

Shen Tu said suddenly vaguely. The Dao Leader only paused for a moment, and he almost slipped off his shoulder, and the Dao Leader could only quickly scoop him up again.

"Don't miss your brother," the Taoist sighed and whispered to himself, "You can't find him." ”

I don't know what he's doing this time. The Taoist chief actually wanted to ask, but he was afraid that he wouldn't say it, so he just hoped in his heart that he wouldn't know anything he shouldn't know.

Shen Tu was silent this time, as if he had heard the words of the Taoist. When I woke up the next morning, I only felt dizzy, as if I had been beaten all night, and I couldn't stand on my feet for a while. He didn't expect that the Taoist chief gave him wine that day, and he thought that he would get drunk when he drank tea, so after that, he refused to let others let him drink tea, of course, this is a later story.

"Lazy worm, lazy worm!" Yun casually knocked on the door outside: "Get up, junior brother! If you don't get up, you'll eat—dinner—dinner—la-"

He hurriedly opened the door, and saw her standing outside, not knowing what she was holding in her arms, and she didn't have the heart to look at it, so she hurriedly asked, "How long have I been sleeping?"

Yun casually stretched out a finger to count: "From yesterday to today, you look at the sunset outside, you have slept for a day!"

He was startled: "Why did I sleep so long?"

"How do I know!" she pursed her lips and threw the things in her arms into his arms: "Oh, for you, a hundred times of the "Qingjing Sutra", wait a moment to give it to the master, I will go to feed my prosperity." ”

Wangcai is a chicken that Yun Shun picked up on the mountain a few days ago, and he is dumbfounded, and he can't lay eggs, and he only knows "clucking" all day long. But Yun Xian likes it very much, and feeds it three meals a day, feeding it until it almost becomes a ball, and it is difficult to even walk a few steps.

"Hasn't this chicken been killed by you?"

"Senior brother, you hate it!" Yun shouted casually and dissatisfiedly, turning around and leaving angrily. He didn't know where he said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly chased after her and grabbed her hand, regardless of the three seven twenty-one apologized first: "Senior sister, I was wrong." This chicken is a natural god chicken, and it will definitely live a long life and be auspicious. ”

But it would be difficult to coax a little girl of her age if she got angry, Yun casually didn't even pull his hand for him, so she didn't even pay attention to him, just "hummed", walked quickly in front, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Shen Tu could only lower his head and look at the "Qingjing Sutra" that she copied for him. In order to prevent the master from discovering that it was copied by two people, she deliberately imitated his handwriting. This little girl is very smart, and she learns well, if the Taoist doesn't find out, she really can't see it. He went back to his room and turned over the hundred times he had copied, folded it into a thick stack of paper, and sent it to the Taoist chief. I didn't expect that he was not in the study, and he couldn't even find anyone on the roof, so he didn't know where he had gone.

"Let's go," he said to himself, "go early and come back early." I don't know where to go when the North Desert is so big. Anyway, Cui Juan won't lie to anyone - if he really lies to me, I'll dismiss him!"

Ge Xuan said: "In the past, I received it from Emperor Donghua, Emperor Donghua received it from Emperor Jinque, and Emperor Jinque received it from the Queen Mother of the West. The Queen Mother of the West has been passed down by word of mouth, and does not remember the text, and I will record it in the world today. ”