Ergou, do you think you're happy now?

The abbot looked at Ergou, who was eating with his head bowed, and asked him.

Ergou had rice in his mouth, looked up at the abbot and nodded.

It's the happiest time of your life, and you'll never have it again.

Abbot, after saying this, closed his eyes, twisted the Buddhist beads in his hand, and silently recited the Buddhist scriptures.

While pulling the rice in the bowl, Ergou said to his abbot, "Uncle, how can it be?" I still have a great river and lake waiting for me to explore.

The abbot closed his eyes and said softly to Ergou, I hope the rivers and lakes will live up to you, and you will still be happy when you return.

Many years later, Ergou recalled the scene at this time, only to know that everything was said by the abbot.

Master looked at Ergou and said, "After eating, sleep, you can go down the mountain tomorrow."

Ergou said to Master, Master, are you in such a hurry to drive me away?

Master said, swallow the rice first, don't choke.

It seems that this old monk doesn't say anything, but he still cares about Ergou in his heart.

The next day dawned, after breakfast.

The abbot and the mentally weak master sent the two dogs to the gate of the temple, and the mentally weak master said, "Okay, this time you can go down the mountain."

Ergou asked the abbot, the abbot, is there anything else you want to tell me?

The abbot looked at Ergou and said lightly, just don't die, if you're tired, remember to come back.

Ergou thought to himself, Uncle Shi really won't say a nice word.

Ergou knelt on his knees and bowed three times, uncle, master, I will come back when I look at the rivers and lakes, you take care of your body.

But the master said, "Okay, okay, let's go, if you don't leave, my brother and I will dislike you."

Ergou got up, stuck out his tongue at the master, and turned to go down the mountain.

looked at Ergou's back, and said disgust, but looking at Ergou's back, the mentally weak master secretly wiped his tears.

The abbot looked at his junior brother and said disdainfully, the kindness of the woman is also crying, alas...

After speaking, he turned around and went back to the meditation room.

The mentally weak junior brother said angrily, you inhuman old monk, I pulled the second dog with a handful of and urine, of course I have feelings, you are hard-hearted... Before he could finish speaking, he cried again.

Don't you know that the abbot, the old monk, returned to the meditation room by himself, crying more than mentally weak, and the snot bubbles came out.

Two hard-mouthed old monks.

That year, Ergou went down the mountain, carrying a big sword, taking a dog, and driving a chicken.

As with every descent, follow the mountain paths, walk through the green meadows, walk through the bushes, step on the rocks and cross the stream, meet the mountain breeze, and walk through the thin damp mist to get out of this nameless mountain.

It's just that this time Ergou doesn't know when he will be able to come back, or maybe Ergou will never come back in this life.

Thinking of this, Ergou suddenly panicked, Ergou looked back at the road behind him, and for some reason, the fog that day suddenly became very heavy, and everything behind Ergou was clouded.

Ah Huang, Ah Hua, also seems to have human nature, at that moment these two little guys are also extraordinarily quiet, Ah Huang did not bark, Ah Hua did not bark, the two little guys are the same as the two dogs, quietly looking at the mountain road behind them, watching the entire stone mountain drowned in the mist.

Ergou resisted the urge to go back, turned around, and strode forward, Ah Huang Ahua followed Ergou quietly behind him, the chicken did not fly that day, the dog did not jump, everything was very calm.

Ergou himself silently thought in his heart, I am an adult, I want to explore the rivers and lakes, I want to be strong-willed, and men are ambitious in all directions, how can I be a relative. We must keep moving forward and set off towards the rivers and lakes.

The question is, where are the rivers and lakes?

On the same day, Ergou got lost. I don't know where to go, and I don't know where I've come. There is no village in front, no village in the back, and no shops to live in.

There are only woods.

It seems that I can only find a tree to sleep on for the night.

It was also a strenuous errand, the tree was too small to bear the weight of the second dog, and the tree was too big, too strong, too tall to climb on its own.

Fortunately, there are many trees, and there is always one suitable for you.

Ergou stuck his big sword under the tree. Climb the branches yourself.

Ah Hua flew up the tree, found a branch to nest on it, Ah Huang dug a piece of ground under the tree, and then turned to the back of the tree and raised his leg to soak the urine, before coming back and falling asleep on the ground that had just been cleared.

The second dog was lying on the branch of a tree unusually calm. I didn't expect that the first day of my adventure would be like this.

The next day, Ergou woke up in the faint morning light, still holding Ah Hua in his arms.

Ergou met a man that day.

A thief, but he's better than the others. It can even be said that it is more powerful than all the thieves on the rivers and lakes. The thief himself is always in broken thoughts, and his hands are empty, and his hands are empty.

Empty-handed, the most stealing person in the entire rivers and lakes.

When Ergou woke up that day, he saw a person of the same age as himself, squatting on the branch of another tree, smiling, looking at Ergou without speaking.

The smiling man said to Ergou, do you know me?

Ergou naturally replied that he didn't know, after all, it was the first time they met, and of course they didn't know who he was. Ergou felt that this person was so inexplicable.

Don't you know, that person happily said to Ergou, let's be friends.

Why don't the two dogs know that two people they don't know become friends as soon as they meet? If the other party doesn't even know their names, they can become friends? Could it be that the rivers and lakes have been popular to make friends like this recently?

The young man happily explained to Ergou, "Look, isn't that the truth, you don't know me, right?"

Ergou nodded.

I don't know you either, we don't know each other, what a fate. Think about it, isn't that the truth?

After speaking, he looked at Ergou with a pair of eyes and a wink. It's really strange logic, but when you think about it, it's completely impossible to find fault.

Ergou agreed.

Ergou said, you are the first friend I met during my adventures.

The young man said, they are all friends, so they should know each other's names, my name is Bai Lai.

Ergou, scratching his head, embarrassed to say to the dialogue, I don't have a name.

Bai is very strange, how can there be no name, chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs all have names, why don't you have a name for a big living person?

Ergou said, I really don't have a name, and the master calls me Ergou.

After listening to it, Bai Lai pouted, this name is really, it is better not to have a name.

Which monastery are you a monk from, and how did you come here? Bai Lai sat on the branch of the tree, holding his hands on his chest and looking at Ergou.

Ergou said that Lao Tzu is a Taoist, not a monk. Ergou always remembered Master's words, and after going down the mountain, he must not let the people in the rivers and lakes know his true identity.

Bai Lai's expression is about to explode, you insult my IQ too much, you are embarrassed to say that you are a Taoist priest with a bald head, you really don't blush when you talk nonsense. Do you know that monks don't speak?

Ergou said stubbornly, I am a Taoist priest. I'm a sword player.

Bai Lai was surprised, what about your sword?

Ergou looked down at the giant sword under the tree, and Ah Huang was still lying next to it.

Bai Lai, looked at the giant sword.

Is this your sword?

Ergou nodded.

In vain, what kind of weapon is this, look at it, look at it, there is a coffin board heavy, not as wide as the coffin board, it is bulky at first glance, it is not easy to use, throw it away.

Bai Lai didn't want to see Ergou's sword from the beginning, so that the two of them crossed the rivers and lakes together, traveled through mountains and rivers, and experienced life and death, but they still didn't want to see this sword.

In vain, let's do it, for my friend's sake, how about getting you a peerless sword for a hundred taels of silver?

Ergou looked at Bai Lai, I just used my sword, I used it easily.

In vain, do you think there is too much money? How about fifty taels? It can't be cheaper.

The second dog stroked Ah Hua in his hand and said, I don't have any silver. I'm poor.

Bai said, this way, I'm happy today, okay to give you a free handle? Free, it doesn't cost money, you can think about it, and then answer me.

Ergou thought about it, you can bring it to me first.

Bai Lai was embarrassed, not now.

When will there be?

Bai Lai, scratched his head, and said to Ergou, all the weapons of everyone on the rivers and lakes, as long as you have a fancy one, then the time has come.

How?

As long as you like it, I'll give it to you.

Ergou, taken aback, is this okay? Bai Lai nodded mysteriously, yes.

Ergou thought for a while and asked Bai Lai, friend, what are you doing?

Bai Lai, embarrassed smile and said, I am a gentleman on the beam, empty hands, empty hands.

Oh, Ergou nodded.

Suddenly, Ergou suddenly understood.

After talking about it for a long time, it turned out to be a thief.