Main Hall.

There lived a strange man, five big and three thick, with a full beard, a burly and muscular body, and a shocking scar on his face.

He said that he was a scholar, but what a scholar was? Lin Ajiu did not know. Lin Ajiu only remembered that he came here last year because the people in the village were afraid of his vicious appearance, so even if he was alone, he would not be bullied.

But he has no friends, and he lives alone in a corner of Lin'an, but he often has a smile on his face. Lin Ajiu thought, Daddy Luo's bearded and glaring face was extremely vicious, he was not, he was a scholar.

"Scholar, scholar—" Lin Ajiu called out to him in front of his door, poking his head to peek at the empty bamboo fence in the courtyard.

After shouting for a long time and no one answered, Lin Ajiu couldn't help but hang his head, and was walking back with a stunned look, but suddenly bumped into a bunch of extremely bright red fruits!

"Sugar gourd!" Lin Ajiu looked up in surprise, and a hearty smile came from his rough voice, which made Lin Ajiu feel very good.

The scholar handed Lin Ajiu a sugar gourd, walked inside with a large bundle of firewood on his back, and asked Lin Ajiu as he walked: "When I came back from outside the mountain, I saw Father Luo tearing two pieces of red cloth, what's the matter?

Lin Ajiu burst into tears when she mentioned this, she pouted and said aggrievedly: "Daddy Luo beats Wuqiu...... Forced me to marry...... Woohoo......"

Lin Ajiu is too fragile and will cry when he mentions it.

The scholar smiled and rubbed Lin Ajiu's head, and comforted: "Don't cry, isn't this that you haven't married yet?"

Lin Ajiu sniffed, tried to calm down, raised his eyes to look at the scholar, and muttered: "I don't like Daddy Luo, snobbish and bullying, and I don't like the sense of class in his family." Have you ever seen the women in his family who were murdered by him alone, but those women were like puppets...... Why don't they resist? Do they feel comfortable being beaten?"

The scholar smiled, and then asked, "Your father and mother have never murdered you?"

Lin Ajiu shook his head gently, and said with joy in his tone: "Daddy loves me, and she never murders me, even if I do something wrong, they will say it well, so that they will not beat people at every turn like Daddy Luo!

"Hahaha......" The scholar smiled, he looked at Lin Ajiu with a sly gaze and said, "Do you know what a good person is and what a bad person is?"

"Of course, those who bully people are bad people!" Lin Ajiu said categorically.

The scholar smiled: "Then you often bully Wuqiu, are you also a bad person?"

"......" Lin Ajiu was speechless, lowered his head and remained silent, but whispered to defend himself: "I'm not ......"

The scholar took out a book from his bosom, pointed to the book and said, "The people of Lin'an bully the weak, but this does not mean that they are bad people, it only shows that they do not know how to be a real person." In life, being a man should be upright and iron-clad, and he should know how to be courteous and caring. Otherwise, as you can see, they are not sensible, so they do abominable things. ”

Lin Ajiu nodded thoughtfully, but she still didn't understand, why was such a big person still not sensible? Is it not old enough? Father Keluo was dozens of years old! How could she be more ignorant than a seventeen-year-old yellow-haired girl?

The scholar knocked on her head and said with a smile: "There are many stories written in this book, if you like to listen to my stories, I will tell you every day in the future, okay?"

Lin Ajiu nodded hurriedly, looking at the book in the scholar's hand happily, and the next moment Lin Ajiu couldn't wait to grab the book, and flipped through it like a scholar, but Lin Ajiu didn't know how to read......

The scholar stared at Lin Ajiu, Lin Ajiu smiled a little embarrassedly, and suddenly a thought crossed her mind - I will learn to read and write from the scholar! In this way, I will also be sensible! I will not be like Daddy Luo's brain disease!

Lin Ajiu looked at the scholar happily and shouted loudly: "Scholar scholar, is it good to teach me to read and write? So that I can read the books in your house by myself! There must be a lot of stories in the books, right! I can read the stories by myself when you are away!"

The scholar looked at Lin Ajiu, then smiled mildly and said, "When you finish studying, I will have a friend, right?"

Lin Ajiu asked curiously, "Friend, what is a friend?"

No one has ever mentioned friends to Lin Ajiu, Lin Ajiu has no friends, only a group of children of the same age, who fight every day.

The scholar rubbed Lin Ajiu's head and said: "A friend is someone who will be very happy when you talk to him, and this person, when the whole world is against you, he will bravely stand behind you to protect you and help you." He may not be very strong, he may be useless in the eyes of others, but he is extremely important in your heart. You are willing to share everything with him, share the best that you have. ”

After hearing this, Lin Ajiu only felt that his friend was a good thing, and his heart began to infinitely reverie, this person would understand everything about her and would accompany her for a lifetime.

Lin Ajiu blinked his eyes and looked at the scholar, and asked softly, "Scholar, will we hate our friends one day?"

The scholar raised his eyebrows, touched his beard and smiled: "Yes, but you have to remember that our friends are our own choices, so we are obliged to accept all his badness." Everyone has shortcomings, and friends are no exception. Just because this person is important to us, we can't look at him badly and ignore him. We need to guide them on the right path to become better. ”

"Oh-" Lin Ajiu lengthened his voice, thinking in his head, Luo Wuqiu is a friend, right......

Then Lin Ajiu asked again: "Then can I bring my friend to learn to read and write? I think he has become as good as you, a scholar." ”

"Do you have a friend?" Luo Wuqiu?" the scholar looked at Lin Ajiu with a smile, and his sly gaze made Lin Ajiu blush a little.

"That's right...... Although sometimes I hate him...... But he will also give me sugar gourd, and I will forgive him! If he is not sensible, I can't follow him!" Lin Ajiu pretended to be very great and knew a lot, and said to the scholar with some ostentatiousness.

The scholar nodded, then glanced at the sky, and said with a smile: "It's not too early, you should go home for dinner." Tomorrow after you have lunch, here, I'll teach you how to read. ”

"Wow! really! good, good!" Lin Ajiu jumped with joy, how happy the whole person was!

The scholar smiled gently at Lin Ajiu, and then complimented, "You just said something very remarkable. ”

"Hmm, what's that, what is it, really?" Lin Ajiu was even more excited, and the whole person jumped up and down.

The scholar walked over and rubbed Lin Ajiu's head and said with a smile: "You can't follow others who are not sensible, you are very right." I hope you will do the same in the future, when someone else makes a mistake, it is because he is not sensible, you don't follow the ignorance, you have to be sensible, do the right thing, you know?"

"Okay, good!" Lin Ajiu nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and then looked at the darkened sky, looking at the scholar with some reluctance.

Then the scholar pushed Lin Ajiu out of the fence and said goodbye to Lin Ajiu, Lin Ajiu took two steps, and then turned back and asked the scholar: "Scholar, is there any place in this world other than the human world?

The scholar looked at Lin Ajiu stunned, and then didn't speak, just as he was about to speak, Lin Ajiu excitedly pointed to the houses and distant mountains in the twilight behind him and said, "Scholar, look! What a beautiful scenery...... Sometimes I wonder if there is a group of fairies and ghosts living in such a beautiful landscape? They must not be like us in Lin'an, so it's not good. On the other side of the world, there will be a heaven and earth, right?"

The scholar seemed to understand what Lin Ajiu said, nodded at Lin Ajiu, and then urged: "It's getting late, go back quickly." ”

"Okay, I'm leaving, scholar!" Lin Ajiu laughed and waved at him, the scar on his face was unclear in the twilight, and his huge body reminded Lin Ajiu of an ancient tree in Lin'an.

The Bodhi tree was very big and thick, and at dusk, Lin Ajiu liked to climb up to watch the sunset. Looking at everything in the dusk, sitting on the linden tree, it is very safe. I feel that the world is not so indifferent and not so cruel.

In this world, there are ghosts and gods!

Lin Ajiu couldn't help but think about it over and over again, and suddenly a strange thought crept into his heart - was the scholar changed from the Bodhi tree?

If so, then there are ghosts and gods in this world! There is another place in the world that is ten million times better than Lin'an! Where the ghosts and gods live! If I could see them! How nice it would be!

Lin Ajiu shuttled through the forest with great excitement, and returned home before it was dark, and when he went back, Lin Ajiu saw the worried faces of his parents and a table of snake meat.

Lin Ajiu didn't tell her parents that the scholar said today that he was going to teach her to read and write, she was afraid that her father and mother would not allow her to run around, after all, the place where the scholar lived was a bit far away and a little remote.

She looked at the bowl of white snake meat, and for some reason suddenly asked, "Father, mother, will snakes become sperm?

Daddy looked at her with a worried face, guessing that she was probably stimulated today so her brain hadn't recovered, and then said dotingly: "Eat quickly, you've been hungry for a day." ”

"Hmm...... All right. She nodded, then picked up a piece of white snake meat in the dim candlelight and began to eat it.