Liu Laodao usually goes down the mountain to carry water at noon.

Originally, there was a spring behind the mountain temple, but unfortunately it gradually dried up in the past few years. Every few days, sunflower seeds carry two buckets of water from the bottom of the mountain for uphill use.

But Liu Laodao has been here for a few days, and there is more time to use water. So now he goes down the mountain every day to carry water.

He had almost changed his appearance - he had loose hair in a bun and a long beard. But when she came, she was here for nearly ten days, and her beard was cut off. Naturally, instead of shaving, it was cut into a short beard. Coupled with the fact that these **** almost didn't do anything, and only devoted themselves to practicing the Shui Yunjin that Li Yunxin passed on to him, the whole person looked a little younger.

So the current Liu Laodao, who is probably not very familiar with people, is unrecognizable.

Three days ago, Shi Kuizi went to Weicheng and came back, telling him that the prefect of Zhao and the three governors had left Weicheng, and that they were now in charge of a neighboring mansion. The official didn't want to make more trouble in Weicheng, and many cases were revealed in a so-so way -- no one even investigated the cause of Xing's death.

This news made the depressed Liu Laodao a little better.

But I still don't like to talk much.

He carried two heavy barrels down the mountain path, but he didn't feel tired. I just remembered the events of more than a month in Weicheng in the past, and I felt like a dream-the monk, the demon...... It came and went like a marquee during that month. Now look at the mountain scenery, the branches, the paths, the sun, the cobwebs between the blades of grass, and the freshly washed and honey locust clothes......

It feels even more like a thousand-year-old dream.

I felt that I was a mortal after all, and I was accidentally involved in the battle of so many immortal characters. But that's not his world—if a person as amazing as Brother Xin'er is killed, the world will be far away from him.

As soon as I woke up from the dream, it was a few years or more than ten years of ordinary days.

Drink some coarse tea, knock off the dry loess on the soles of your shoes, and look at the sky.

This life is over.

Liu Laodao couldn't help but sigh. Although he knew that this was the life of an ordinary person like him, he always felt very empty in his heart.

After all...... He's seen that world.

Before I knew it, I walked to the stone monument at the foot of the mountain, and habitually looked at the intersection. I found that a couple in a hurry seemed to be asleep in the post house in the distance. Nothing appears to be out of the ordinary. So I went to the west, and there was a small river to the west, and the water was clear and shallow. There is a hint of sweetness in drinking, and the tea is the most fragrant.

After walking a few steps, I suddenly heard a faint singing, which seemed to be the singing of a child.

Liu Lao Dao cultivated the water and clouds, and his ears and eyes were already clearer than ordinary people. And the singing child seemed not far from him. So I heard it more clearly.

The boy sang only four lines over and over again—

"The old spirit on the Sansheng Stone,

Don't talk about the moon and the wind.

Ashamed of the old man's visit,

Although this body is of the opposite sex, it lasts forever. ”

After hearing these four sentences, it was like a giant hammer, knocking on his heart at once.

Liu Laodao stood stunned for a while, and the wooden barrel in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter. Then he strode past a clump of trees in front of him, and finally saw what lay ahead.

By the small river, there was a child sitting on a big bluestone and in the shade of bamboo, waving a green bamboo branch in his hand and singing.

Liu Laodao looked at him intently and slowly walked in front of him.

When the boy saw him coming, he shut down. Throw down the bamboo branch in your hand. Standing up on the bluestone, Liu Laodao smiled and said, "Why did the old man come so late?"

Liu Laodao was speechless for a while, and only said in a trembling voice: "You...... You...... You are ......"

The child said: "In the previous life, I was cared for by the old people, and I was grateful for the five years. Because I was worried about your safety, I deliberately interceded with Yan Jun and threw myself on the dying child to see you. ”

"I did too many evil deeds in my previous life, and after I died, I will suffer all kinds of things in the underworld. Therefore, I want to ask the deceased for the matter. ”

Liu Laodao was already in tears when he heard this. I really want to go up and touch it and hug it. But in the end, I felt that it was inappropriate. I had to nod again and again: "Brother Xin...... You say, you say!"

The child said, "The Weishui Dragon King I killed is the ninth son of the dragon. It's a violation of heaven. Therefore the dragon king's anger will not be dissolved, and I will suffer. If the deceased could make people worship the dragon king in this yang world, and he received incense under the nine springs, he would no longer blame me. ”

"I calculated that the deceased would have a chance in the future - if I could gather some popularity and gather some believers because of that chance, I would be able to be liberated sooner. If the deceased one day will establish a religion and accept disciples. Since it is to worship the dragon and kiss the dragon, it is called the dragon sect. ”

Liu Laodao choked up and couldn't help himself, and said continuously: "Good, good, good!"

After the child finished speaking, he stood on the bluestone and bowed to Liu Laodao, and then fainted suddenly.

But he didn't wait for Liu Laodao to help. And he woke up again. As soon as he saw that there was a living person in front of him, and it was cold on the stone, he immediately cried, turned over again, and almost fell off the stone - fortunately, Liu Laodao caught him.

He held the child, and the child kicked and beat and cried.

The old man remembered what he had just looked like, and thought of his two children who had died young, and he couldn't help but feel sad. After sobering up and thinking about it for a while, he thought that it should be the couple's child, so he hugged it and sent it over.

said that the couple was woken up and panicked when they saw Liu Laodao and the child. But Liu Laodao was born with a good face and wore a Taoist robe, so the couple asked him if he was the temple of the mountain temple, and told him all about the recent events.

Liu Laodao also experienced it from a time of poverty. After hearing the reason for this, I remembered that my brother said that he was born in the body of this "dying child", so he said that this child's longevity should be exhausted, and there is no need to spend money to worship God. It's better to keep money, or handle funerals, or raise them again in the future, and you won't be struggling.

But when is the carpenter old and having children, and the woman having pity on her son?

He scolded the Taoist priest for speaking badly, and cursed him to death as a white and lively child. In a fit of anger, the temple stopped worshipping, turned around and left.

Liu Laodao stood by the post pavilion and watched them carry the child away, and shed old tears again.

Li Yunxin stood beside him, looked at him for a while, sighed slightly, and left.

It's not that I don't want to meet this old man, it's just for his good.

What he is asking him to do right now is risky. This is the only way to minimize the risks.

It's not that I didn't want him to live a lifetime on this South Mountain at the same time. But he often came to investigate these days, and realized that it didn't seem to be the life that the old man wanted now.

Case...... Let his wish be granted.

What's the joy of living?

Besides, the couple returned to Egret Island angrily and tiredly, and it was almost time for dinner in the afternoon.

When the neighbors on the street saw them, they were all curious about what was going on—the carpenter's family of three had borrowed something in the middle of the night to rush to the mountain temple, and this had already spread during the day, and now it had become another strange thing in the town.

The couple was angry and afraid. But the people already knew it, and they were not afraid to say it. He will tell the story of the priest he saw at the foot of the South Mountain, which not only relieves the stuffiness in his heart, but also shares some fear.

The carpenter is a good person who has some popularity in the town. Seeing that something was going on in the carpenter's house, and it was such a leisurely time, more people gradually gathered together.

Li Yunxin just stood beside the carpenter's family of three and listened to them say these words-

Know that the time has come.

So he threw himself at the boy and took possession of the child. (To be continued.) )