As the night recedes, a hazy hue fills the vast sky, occupying the vast land, floating above the high mountain beams and permeating the lush forests of the low mountain cols.

Touching the dark, stepping on the wet and heavy sticky soil, passing through the heavy bushes, and covering the shadows, I don't know how long, the old and the young got out of the dense forest.

A pond below, surrounded by trees on three sides, is very quiet, and it has a bit of dust under the white mist.

Shake off fallen leaves.

At the mouth of the small road, the young man's slender face was a little worried, looking at the white forest and not knowing what he was thinking.

The old man's wanton white hair, broad shoulders, and slightly moist trouser legs were full of dead leaves and loose balls, but he did not brush off his sleeves to dust off these amiable travel companions who accompanied him all the way. Standing behind the young man, he looked at the mountains on his left, the water on his right, the trees on his back, and the fog on his front, but he did not speak.

"Alas, it seems that they are all in the hole, and even the fox may not want this weather to come out. Li Yun said with some regret.

Then he turned around and prepared to turn back the way he came.

The old Taoist priest didn't move, and said with a smile: "What, don't you go over there?"

"It's foggy over there, I can't see the road, what can I catch? Besides, it seems to be a little bit over there... Danger?" The young man's eyes couldn't see through the obstacle, but he subconsciously felt that something was wrong with the forest today.

He and Po don't usually go over there.

"Oh, then in that case, I'll go ahead, anyway, I have a handful of old bones, and there are only a few taels of meat, so I don't think it will attract any gluttony. "The old Taoist priest is ready to go over.

Li Yun frowned: "Master, do you have to go?"

The old Taoist priest smiled and said: "It is said that there is no turning back arrow when the bow is opened, what must be done when this comes out, right? Besides, it will be dawn soon, if you don't hurry up, I am afraid that the first ray of dawn will not be visible." ”

The young man was a little puzzled: "We live there so high, isn't it better to look at home?"

"Hehe, it's different. High naturally has the benefit of being high, but if it is too high, naturally some things are like falling clouds and mist, and you can't see it completely. Looking at the high place from the low valley, you may see something different, or perhaps, it is more attractive. The old Taoist priest's eyes were deep, and he didn't know whether to look at the pond or the sky.

The meaning of these words is somewhat unclear, and it is obviously a foggy day, but I want to see the sun, and I want to watch the sunrise in the valley? Li Yun didn't say anything more, shook his head, and said, "I'd better go ahead." ”

With that, he walked straight towards the forest. However, the pace is a little smaller and slower than before.

The old Taoist priest continued to follow unhurriedly.

......

Despite the small steps, and the vigilant probing of the boys every two steps, they reached the depths of the dense forest.

This forest is covered by giant trees, and there are few human tracks, and Li Yun has only been here a few times. After that shock five years ago, I haven't set foot in it since.

At this point, even if there is no fog, it is no longer possible to discern the direction of going back, not to mention that the fog is even bigger now.

Surrounded by a swamp of human height, his eyesight was less than five paces away.

It was very quiet all around, and you could hear the sound of a shallow stream in the distance.

Quiet is a little unusual.

Suddenly, ahead, birds chirped in a mountain stream.

"Roaring !!!!!"

The tiger roars and shakes the mountains and forests!

The boy stopped, dragging his cane.

The top of the mountain, the edge of the water, the pine clouds, there is bamboo but no snow, and it is slightly cold.

I don't like it if I don't drink it, and I don't want to do it if I don't want to do it.

Looking for sound traces, there should be an open water source ahead.

Such a situation can only be expected.

There is a taxi behind, suddenly unconscious, only the road ahead is close to the good day, there is a beautiful view. With happiness in his heart, he stepped forward with great strides.

The grass and trees are swaying, and the laughter is getting louder.

The young man was stunned, and the former people were gone.

When you meet a tiger on a narrow road, wait to smell the rose?

Big insects naturally don't like to smell flowers, they like to smell people.

The boy is a human being, so naturally he is reluctant to let him sniff, which is a natural thing.

However, Taoist priests generally don't think so, especially the old Taoist priest in front, they like to be close to nature, close to nature, grass and trees, and nature... Including the fierce creature in front of you.

So although I was scared to death, I sweated more than I had left in the yard just now. Li Yun still had no choice but to move his feet hard, stroke the cold hairs that stood up, and rush to grab the gold chain ten times faster!

Who called it one of his few relatives.

......

Get out of the fog.

It's a sight to behold.

The pine ravines and cold bamboos are silent and silent, and the lush forests are full of trees, invoking the clear stream.

A pool of clear ponds is horizontal, the blue and turquoise water surface is leisurely and clear, the sand and stone swimming fish can be heard clearly, and there is a sense of sparseness. There is a clear stream, on the top of the mountain, the mountain stone, a hundred turns and thousands of folds, the meaning of self-filtering and clear, and finally supple.

The stream walks from the clouds, the waterfall lives in the bluestone, and there is a frightening shadow from time to time.

In the middle of thousands of mountains and jade, there is such a clear and void house, which is like a paradise in another world, which is really a desperate situation.

Ordinary tourists, who can't go to the fairy realm, all regret it, and they are in vain.

However, there is no wind on the surface of the pool, and the white stream is like a grinding mirror; there are clouds in the high sky, and the sky is faint and faint.

Add three points of stiffness!

At the bottom of the stream, the sky flows vertically. The air is dense and cloudy. There are bluestone paving roads, connecting the slope forests on both sides.

Young Li Yun came out of the fog on the west side.

And when he saw the stone road, there were men and beasts on the road. Man is an old man, and a beast is a fierce beast.

The water mirror is naturally a good mirror, which not only shines on people's hair, but also reflects three tiger whiskers.

Sprinkled with clouds, clear into the liver, should be refreshed, but today is still stuck in winter, young people are awe-inspiring.

The green mountains are not old, the old people are old, and the tigers are not old.

The mountain light is pleasing to the birds, the people are not pleasing to the tigers, and the air in the pond is hollow and not empty.

The tiger's stomach is empty, and the tiger is mighty!

I don't know if your stomach is the foot?

Li Yun's stomach was a little bent, and the old Taoist priest had a few bags in his head.

The young man had a fork in his hand and a knife at his waist, and he was still afraid.

The old Taoist priest has no wine and no meat, his bare hands are empty, his old body is even weaker, he is very arrogant and affectionate, his face does not change his color, and he has gone to the atrium.

There is a thing ten zhang away, with a huge body, abundant hair, and a black and yellow veins on it. When it is quiet, it is like a big cat, licking its hair and licking its feet, and it is cute and cute;

Hanging eyes and white forehead, with large characters on the forehead. The word is king, and the beast is king. Fear it like a king, called the king of beasts!

The tiger's eyes are upturned, and his neck is facing the sky.

The old Taoist priest must float upward, and the bull's nose rushes to the ground.

The old Taoist priest has mountains and rivers in his chest, with his own intoxication, unprecedented obstacles in nothing, Leshan, Leshui, take care of the left and right and ignore it.

There is no food in the tiger's belly, no carrion is tied, and the old man is fresh blood, and he wants to cut it, he wants to swallow it, and he is pet and pretending to be harmless.

The picture in the boy's mind is like this.

Li Yun has nothing in his viscera, no landscape, no food, he is angry, not alcohol, he is very angry, very angry.

The bluestone road is paved in heaven, and the scattered locations are naturally messy, but as long as you continue to walk in the opposite direction, you will eventually meet. Once encountered, it must not be a chance encounter. Is it the roar of the cloud-piercing stone, or the pain of blurred flesh and blood?

He didn't dare to think about it, he didn't want to think about it.

Although I am afraid, I still have to go.

Stepping on the nearest boulder, looking sideways, the murmur is very shallow, clear, and the cloud waterfall is very deep, like an abyss!

Although he is not afraid of heights, if he is not careful, he will be under the bottom of ten thousand feet, and there will be no bones left, and it is inevitable to walk on thin ice. The stone surface was very flat and slippery, and the moss was rooted in the cracks of the holes like a spider web, and Li Yun walked very carefully.

The old Taoist priest walked very casually, but his feet were very steady, and he walked towards the eastern slope very steadily. There is a slope on the east slope, I don't know if it is secluded, but at this time I think there should be no flowers and trees, and I don't know if there is a meditation room. The old Taoist priest may be looking for flowers and asking willows, or looking for friends to discuss, but Li Yun has no time to think.

Because the big cat is a little impatient, but seeing that it is no longer idle and obedient, the hind limbs squatted with a knotted and strong sense of strength, the front is slightly bent, and the momentum of rushing has been completed. Standing a few feet away, the sky was gray, and Li Yun could catch a glimpse of the burning fluorescence in the pair of pupils, and even felt the cold light oozing from under the thick flesh pad.

The winter wind rises, the wind blows the bamboo, brings up a few dead leaves, floats to the surface of the water, and ripples at the starting point.

A big cat can be a big cat or a large worm, especially when it shows its fangs and claws.

The pine forest rattled in his ears, the flow under his feet became more and more rapid, and a wisp of cold wind poured into the young man's thin rags.

The breath is cold, the hands are cold, and the snort is gradually condensed.

Xiao kills, kills.

The momentum is obvious, the tiger runs!

The wind is blowing, and the clouds are traveling on the top.

In the wind and dust, the shallow and uneven fallen leaves withered, the mist and clouds were mixed, and in the line of sight, the figure of the old Taoist priest gradually blurred, but the figure of the tiger was getting closer and closer.

Li Yun clenched the iron-handled steel fork in his hand, touched the firewood knife on his waist, and turned his heart sideways!

Then, he also began to run and jump quickly, and the gaps between the mountains and rocks were of different sizes, and the slightest mistake would turn into hatred. But time waits for no one, and the fierce tiger will not give him time to be hypocritical. The experience of walking mountain roads since he was a child made him toss and turn between narrow landing points quickly and accurately, coupled with his light body, the speed became faster and faster.

But that's not enough, because he's a man, and his opponent is a tiger, the king of the mountain!

With a bang, the mist escaped, and Li Yun landed dangerously on an irregular pointed stone, and the moment he stopped, he looked into the distance, and his brows wrinkled into Sichuan lines.

He couldn't see clearly in the fog, but the whistling wind and the rolling leaves told him that the distance between the master and the tiger was rapidly approaching.

What to do?

Although it is also on the mountain, it is not Jingyanggang, although he has hunting equipment on his body, but it is a snake catcher and a rabbit, and he can pull out a firewood knife and a mountain wolf to the death, he is not Wu Song, he is just a mountain boy.

Wu Song killed the real tiger or Cai Hu at that time, he didn't know, whether it was the fierce Bian Yuanheng who kicked the tiger to death, or the drunk Wu Aer beat the dog and cried, he didn't care, he only remembered how brave Wu Song's iron fists were when he beat the tiger in the book, and how fearless he was with his blood.

But he was very afraid, afraid of death, afraid of his grandfather's death, afraid of his master's death, afraid of his own death.

He is still so young, he hasn't lived a good life yet, Po hasn't grown up yet, he hasn't married a good daughter-in-law yet, and his grandfather hasn't enjoyed his blessings yet.

This is not that year, I don't know if it's the original tiger, anyway, there is no tree around, and Po is not around, but grandpa is over there.

No iron fist, no flesh, but you can still fight hard!

So he started to fight hard, and he jumped into the water.

The torrent under his feet was very turbulent, and Li Yun's feet were also very fast. The bluestone on the soles of his feet is more slippery, and he can't slip.

I don't know if it was his courage and determination that played a role, or if the providence of the people who was picketing the world in the dark secretly opened the way ahead, and the young man Feng He came to the old Taoist priest first.

"Roaring !!!"

But after all, it's just a step ahead.

The tiger roars into the wind, and it is close at hand!

The old Taoist priest walked slowly with his back to him, and suddenly he seemed to see something interesting and reached forward.

"Grandpa!!!!!!" Li Yun roared with tears in his eyes!

"Hmm?!Xiaoyun, didn't you say it many times, call me master, grandpa is still sleeping. The old Taoist priest paused, turned around, and was a little puzzled that he was so excited.

The fog suddenly dispersed, and a black shadow swept up like a shadow covering the sky.

Li Yun gritted his teeth desperately, biting out the corners of his lips with blood. When the fog cleared, when the giant claw slapped down, he used all his strength to pounce on the old Taoist.

......

For a short moment, Li Yun saw clearly that the giant beast was bigger than he imagined, much bigger, in front of the other party, he felt that he was almost like a rabbit, he felt that even if he drank twenty bowls of "three bowls of drunk", he didn't have the courage to pick up the whistle stick, let alone fight hard.

The cunning rabbit also has three holes, and he can also grin and run with his legs.

Grandpa, who doesn't want to die, he only has to live a small life.

The fish on the chopping board, the meat under the tiger's claws, can you run away?

He only wished he could fill the tiger's stomach, even though he didn't have a few taels of meat.

Well, I guess I've become a belly meal by now. It seems like... It doesn't hurt very much.

The tiger claw that poked out of nowhere tore him apart, the open mouth of blood devoured him again from hand to foot, he didn't know, he didn't remember. At the last moment, he only felt that the world was spinning, and his whole body was shocked, and he knew that he had protected his grandfather under him, with his not so tall and thin body.

Is this dead?

It's dark again.

He thought that he should have come to the bus stop of death again, and when he was alive, he had a vague impression of the bus stop, and he had only seen what it looked like on scrap books. There seems to be something different below, there are no platforms and no road signs.

Grandpa shouldn't have been eaten.

But there's still only one person here, but why is it just me?

The master said that after death, people's flesh and blood will turn into decay, and the soul will leave the body, and will be hooked into the underworld by the yin.

If he died, the severed arm and stump should still be in the belly of the tiger beast, and it should not have been digested.

Thinking that he had not long laughed at Po for almost becoming a jackal's dung, he never thought that he had become a dung first. He laughed at himself, but he couldn't laugh anymore.

He was a little sad, he wanted to cry, but he had no eyes, no tears, no mouth, no voice, no face and no frowns.

Silence, silence, eruption or perdition? He can neither erupt nor perish, it seems that there can only be silence, and there is only silence, permanent silence.

Then he thought of the light, and there was still no light, but he thought of it.

The purple light.

Then he began to miss the magnificent light that had brought him back to earth, or to wake up from a dream, or to open his eyes, anyway.

The purple light did not come. There was some indifference, as much as the boundless darkness in front of him.

Then he began to think, and thought about it for a long time. Think of a question. And gesture with a hand that seems to exist.

Is this black? What is black? What is black?

Then the surroundings lit up!

A piece of white.

Li Yun was speechless.

This is white, ibid.

Then the world was in chaos, ripples of cleansing, waves of birth and death.

There is black and white, black and white, or, neither black nor white. Black and white are impermanent.

There is no distance, no distance.

Existence is also non-existent.

He began to think, what am I, what am I?

I'm Li Yun, he thought. Who is Li Yun? Li Yun is me, so who am I?

......

Those memory fragments from memory, scenes from the past, scavenging life day and night, being bullied arbitrarily when he was a child, grandpa's old and kind face, Po's playful and naughty face, and his own face. Oh, I don't have a face anymore.

That's a lifetime deed.

Now after death?

It seems that after death is a little different.

Do I exist?

Then, he stopped thinking.

In a trance, in a trance.

If you survive.

No more waves.

Everything is empty, everything is nothing, everything is silent.

It's a bit quiet.

It was so quiet that he seemed to have forgotten about himself. Forget about him.

There is no life and no death, and there is no life and death in the morning.

And then?

Then he opened his eyes.

The sky is still the same day, and the earth is still the same earth. Mountains and rivers are still mountains and rivers.

The old Taoist priest is still the same old Taoist priest. Big cats... It's still the big cat, like the fish in its mouth. Big cats love to eat fish, the whites of their eyes are big, their eyes are small, and the big cat in the stream is a little dull and cute?

It's familiar, and it's strange.

Then he looked at himself.

I saw it this time, it was clear and natural.

"Do you know?" Mai said with her back to him, unable to hear her emotions clearly.

Do you know? What do you know? He must have replied like this before.

But he said indifferently, "I know." ”

"What?" the old Taoist priest continued.

"Don't say. He said.

"Hahaha! good, good, good! What is the Tao and what is the Tao?" the old Taoist priest laughed maniacally, bent over with a smile, and laughed out of breath.

"I don't know. He continued.

The old Taoist priest turned around and looked at him expressionlessly.

He also looked at the old man with a blank face.

Then the old man pointed behind him.

"Tell me, what do you see?"

Looking at the past, he only glanced at it, and in his clear eyes: there are mountains, water, big cats, trees, soil, heaven, and earth.

And, of course, there's a small grass swaying in the wind. The old man has always been there.

He didn't answer, just shook his head.

The old Taoist priest asked again, "What do you have in mind?"

He said, "I have mountains and rivers in my heart. ”

The wind stops, the air stops, and the leaves fall. The clouds open, and the fog disperses.

A great day of light, falling from the clouds, illuminates the mountain stream, illuminates you, illuminates me, illuminates the eyes. The eyes of a big cat, the eyes of a man.

Eyes full of golden light. Brilliant golden light.

Looking at the big cat with a fat fish in its mouth, the old man pointed at it and said, "Are you still afraid?"

He nodded.

The big cat opened its big golden eyes hard, a little confused, a little innocent, I'm so good-looking, so cute, what are you afraid of me for?

The old man smiled, beckoned to him sitting on the big bluestone, and motioned for him to come over.

He got up, and the dead branches and leaves on his body fell to the ground.

He walked over, walked over to the old man, walked over to the big cat.

He touched the face of the big cat, and the big cat's face was huge, what a mischievous big-faced cat, he thought.

The big cat rubbed his hand very much.

The old man stroked his beard and looked at it, his brows were completely stretched, and he said: "Wonderful, it is really wonderful, birth and death, out of the mystery, naturally, naturally, one sex." People in the world can be divided into ten. The living can account for three parts. The Dead can account for three points. There are also three parts of those who die in vain. You were also one of any three of these ten. Sacrificing life and forgetting death shows your courage, but it is a little less natural. There is no place to die, I don't know if it is natural now?"

Listening to this, he smiled and said, "Nature, that's nature." ”

The old man laughed: "Existence is not kept, it is made in an instant." If that's the case, hahaha!!"

Everyone laughs, and the big cat meows.

Ice Creek, Nature. Wild goose shadow, nature. Shallow water, cold sand, natural. No snow, no boats, nature. Thousands of forests green, nature. Fang Xin warm, natural. People are dressed, naturally. Cats eat fish, naturally.

The old is cold, the new yang is born, and it is natural.

The rotation of life and death, one is natural.

Speaking of nature, the Tao of nature, the way of nature.

The Tao is very good, and it is very good.