Xu Mingshi lingered in the courtyard for a long time, but decided to go in to comfort the man in the room, although he would not comfort others.

Walking into the room, Xu Mingshi sat cross-legged on the ground and said, shoulder to shoulder with Liu Yan, "You see that the sun is very good outside, shall we go to bask in the sun?"

The expression on Liu Yan's face finally changed slightly, he squinted at him for a while, got up, patted his sleeve, and walked out.

After boiling the water and brewing a pot of tea, Liu Yan brought out a few trays of snacks and placed them on the stone table in the courtyard, pulled two bamboo chairs, and said seriously, "Come and bask in the sun."

It was a sunny afternoon, the leaves were rustling in the breeze, the birds were jumping and chirping among the branches, and the little insects were making their own noises in the corners.

The whole courtyard was thus plunged into a deep, silent uproar.

Xu Mingshi held the hot tea delivered by Liu Yan, and suddenly calmed down. The cluttered thoughts that had arisen from not knowing how to comfort him disappeared in an instant. He thought that Liu Yan might not need anyone to comfort him, and he knew all the truth in his heart. It's just that reason can't get around emotions, so he will do a series of things that he knows to do in vain.

Xu Mingshi thought about it like this and remained silent. Liu Yan, who was sitting on the side, looked up at the mountain forest not far away, but said slowly, "Fortunately, I am not alone at this time."

Xu Mingshi was stunned for a moment, then turned his head. It was almost a tone of thanks. He thought that Shen Qingxuan would also have such lonely moments, and because of such loneliness, he was grateful for the extra person around him.

Everyone will have such moments, as if abandoned by heaven and earth. Xu Mingshi smiled and said, "I always thought I was old and useless. Looking at it now, it is still useful."

Liu Yan nodded and took a sip of tea with a smile. He had been planning to wait until the spring and the family went out to play. This plan was shelved due to Xu Mingshi's unexpected arrival. Now he is still on this mountain, and at this moment, his family has left. There was only one Xu Mingshi left beside him.

Fortunately, there is another Xu Mingshi. Liu Yan thought that it was because there was another person beside him who was trying to comfort him, so he could just sit here and bask in the sun and drink tea.

"Shen Qingxuan," Xu Mingshi said, "I never told you about me."

"What's the matter?" Liu Yan asked.

"I used to have someone I liked." Xu Mingshi said.

Maybe it was because the sun was too good, or maybe it was because of the same illness. Xu Mingshi generously took out the haze that was buried deep in his heart, exposed it to the sun, and said softly, "That was a long time ago."

That was indeed a long time ago. Xu Mingshi couldn't even recall the specific day, which day, which day.

I just remember that it was a rainy night. He was still young. Although he was no longer angry, he was still young. At that time, he heard that there were evil spirits haunting people and animals in a certain village. He thought it was some kind of big monster with high morality, so he took care of many instruments and hurried over there. When he got there, he caught a white rabbit spirit.

When he was caught, Rabbit Jing hugged a half-bitten radish and hid in the dilapidated farmhouse from the rain until he fell asleep.

Xu Mingshi said with a smile to Liu Yan: "You told me back then that not all goblins are bad, and not all people are good. So I saved her life."

"and then?"

Then the Rabbit Spirit followed him and walked a long, long way.

It was a beautiful girl with a pair of rabbit teeth. Shy and timid, with a little trouble, he found a place to hide and shivered. She knew that she was a demon, and that a Taoist priest was a demon-subduing person. They were supposed to be incompatible with each other, but this rabbit spirit became attached to him because of his mercy. At first, he just followed from a distance, taking one step and two steps, and slowly the bunny found that the person walking far in front would leave her two plain buns when eating, and ask her for an extra room when staying in the store. room, it got closer and closer.

Until you can walk side by side in broad daylight.

The young Xu Mingshi took this little goblin along the way to rescue the distressed, subdue demons and eliminate demons, so many people know that there is a Taoist priest named Xu in Qingyun Mountain, a young hero. We all know that beside this Taoist priest, there is a beautiful family like a flower.

Xu Mingshi paused for a while when he said this, and seemed to have a lot of sadness.

"Until that day, the teacher sent a message to let us go back. At that time, I was taking her for two days in the wilderness and forest, and there was a black bear spirit on the top of the mountain..." Xu Mingshi said slowly: "I asked her to go down the mountain to Wait for me in the inn, I'll go back to the teacher's gate, and I'll go back when I go."

Liu Yan did not continue to ask.

Life is full of surprises, surprises and sorrows. Obviously, the accident that Xu Mingshi encountered was the latter.

It was rainy in the mountains, and it was pouring rain that day. Xu Mingshi left in a hurry after instructing him. The little bunny hid under the banana leaves, eagerly watching his back disappear. She knew that she could not go back to the teacher's door with him. She is just a demon. Maybe not even a demon, a demon has great powers, she is just a monster, she only learned to become a human after 500 years of practice, and her Taoism is even more humble, so she can't help Xu Mingshi any time along the way, and even sometimes, be a burden to this person.

White Rabbit Jing held a banana leaf as an umbrella, and went down the mountain with such a heavy heart. The banana leaf was too small and her body was too big, and the innocent white rabbit turned into its original shape, using her own low mana to float the banana leaf above to shield it from the wind and rain.

The wind was too strong, and the rain slashed in. The rabbit with its wet fur gave off the stinky smell of animals, which attracted the black bear on the hill.

Five days later, Xu Mingshi rushed back from the teacher's gate. He searched everywhere and couldn't find the girl who was supposed to be waiting for him at the inn. He turned around and went to the lonely mountain, looking around with a kind of hope mixed with despair. A filthy mass of rabbit carcasses were found under the tree. The snow-white fur was stained with mud and blood into a turbid color, and the small body of Neidan was taken away by the disembodied belly, crawling with crawling maggots, and the sound of mosquitoes and flies was endless.

The unfamiliar body in the palm of the hand, only a pair of dull eyes are still open, as if waiting for someone.

Bowing his head, Xu Mingshi looked at his hands, which were old and sallow, and it was clear that the time had passed, and things had already gone wrong, but he still felt the pain in his heart when he held that group of carrion in his hands.

With a soothing pat on the shoulder, Xu Mingshi raised his face, and before he knew it, tears filled his eyes.

"Shen Qingxuan, although you have suffered a lot, you know what you want from beginning to end." Xu Mingshi murmured, "It's not like me, I don't know until she's gone, so I like her."

Liu Yan coughed, it was a good season when the sun was shining and the sun was shining, but it was unreasonable and unbearable.

After a long time, Liu Yan said: "You have given up on becoming an immortal and cultivating the Tao, and you will definitely meet her in the next life."

An innocent smile suddenly appeared on Xu Mingshi's old face, and he said excitedly, "I think so too, I will definitely meet her in my next life."

In the next life, you must meet and say you like it.

Liu Yan closed his eyes and leaned back on the back of the bamboo chair, with a peaceful expression and peace of mind.

Yes, always have hope.

Waiting with hope.

Shen Jue sat on the exposed rock, raised her head slightly, and looked into the distance. The setting sun sets, the white clouds and dogs, and an eagle soars.

Finally, there was movement in the grass. Shen Jue raised his eyes and saw that a large white snake swam out of the haystack. It was obviously "full of food and drink", and its movements were all lazy. Shen Jue waited for a while, and when he saw that the black snake had not come out, he grabbed a branch and picked up the haystack.

I saw a mass of black, white and white things entangled in the grass. It needs to be carefully identified to see that the mass is three snakes intertwined. The black snake that Shen Jue was looking for has its tail hooked to one of them. At the same place, another snake was unwilling and entangled with them.

After observing for a long time, Shen Jue realized that it was a female and two males. Seeing that they were tightly entwined with each other, their shape was really unbearable in broad daylight, and she couldn't help but slander: snakes are inherently lewd! He threw a branch and stood aside angrily.

It wasn't until another dawn that the contented black snake swam over, lingered beside Shen Jue's legs for a moment, and climbed up along his feet decisively. Shen Jue snorted, wrapped it around his wrist, and walked back, not without anger: You are indulging in happiness here, but the person at home doesn't know how desolate it is.

With anger in his heart, Shen Jue ran fast under his feet, the wind was galloping, and the end of his eyes swept to a gray, remembering that it was one of the snakes he saw yesterday, and he suddenly realized that they were actually three males and one female. Immediately, there was a little malice: no matter how much you indulge, the female snake may not give birth to your seed!

Shen Jue knew that he was completely mediocre and self-inflicted, so what was there to be angry about with a snake? Even if the snake was successfully planted everywhere, their father and son would not raise little snakes for him. But he couldn't help it, his heart was full of anger, as if he was being bullied. If it wasn't for his reason, he would have been strangled to death at this moment.

——You are just relying on yourself to be a snake!

Walking to the door of the house, Shen Jue took a deep breath, calmed her mind with a breath, opened the courtyard door with a smile on her face, and shouted, "Dad, I'm back."

Liu Yan moved the bamboo chair to the shade to read a book. Xu Mingshi squatted aside and played with the ant hole with a twig. Hearing the sound, he turned his head and looked at him and said, "I'm hungry."

Shen Jue was not annoyed, she put the black snake in her hand on the ground and ran around with him, rolled up her sleeves, scooped water and cleaned her hands, and went to the kitchen to cook.

When the black snake returned home, he looked around and found that nothing had changed. He happily found Liu Yan, and wrapped around him like a mangy dog. He didn't remember that he had bitten him before, and Liu Yan seemed to have forgotten about it. Get clean, take him in his arms, and continue reading.

Xu Mingshi thought that something would happen, but he found that everything was business as usual, and he couldn't help being stunned. While he was in a daze, the smashed ants were scurrying around at his feet. Seeing that they were about to get into the soles of his shoes and be crushed to death, Xu Mingshi hurriedly moved aside to make way, leaving a shoe print on the yellow soil. As a result, the ant didn't appreciate it, sniffed next to the shoe print, and walked around.

Xu Mingshi thought to himself: Are the soles of my shoes smelly? Somewhat annoyed, he stood up, looked around, and got into the kitchen in an instant.

Shen Jue was washing vegetables, and he was too lazy to see him come in. Xu Mingshi stood on the side awkwardly, watching him wash out the green vegetables, and quickly washed the rice, the stove was burning brightly, and the rice quickly scattered aroma. Shen Jue went to cut the meat again.

Xu Mingshi stood there for a long time, and no one paid any attention to him, so he couldn't help sighing and said, "Why don't you just call me uncle?"

Shen Jue's hand stopped, and after a while, she put down the thing in her hand, turned around and walked out.

Xu Mingshi was extremely lost in front of the house full of fireworks.

Soon the footsteps sounded again, Shen Jue went and returned, Xu Mingshi hung his head dully.

Until Shen Jue called him over, and put down the burden in his arms on the wooden table where the vegetables were placed.

Shen Jue opened the package that he hadn't left behind for three hundred years.

The blue cloth was wrapped in a layer of blue cloth, and then it was still blue cloth. Xu Mingshi couldn't think of what would be inside, so Shen Jue cherished it so much.

The last layer of fabric was untied, and a wooden box was quietly placed inside. The dark red color shows the age.

Shen Jue opened the wooden box and took out the things inside. As the items unfolded one by one, Xu Mingshi's expression became more and more at a loss.

He had seen all the things he brought out, and he knew all of them—a shepherd boy with a root carving, a bamboo cricket cage, a small wooden knife sharpened by hand, a small horse whip... all of these were children's things. Son.

But these things are all things that he brought back to the Shen family in a package many years ago when he was traveling abroad.

He used to wink at these things like a treasure, just to make the child call his uncle happily.

Shen Jue took out these things that accompanied him in his childhood, and lined them up one by one. There was almost no damage. It was just that time passed quickly, and these things were also covered with a dull and obsolete layer.

Shen Jue was silent, Fang said: "The body is hairy, and the parents are affected. They lost their lives because of you. If I call your uncle, I'm sorry for them."

Xu Mingshi raised his eyes and said nothing.

"You treat me well, I also remember." Shen Jue said, "I dare not forget each other for a day."

After standing for a while, Shen Jue put those things away again, put them in his small wooden box, closed the lid, and wrapped them with cloth layer by layer, and then continued: "Everyone will make mistakes in his life. No. All mistakes require forgiveness to resolve."

Shen Jue said, "Xu Mingshi, haven't you put it down after so many years?"

The aroma of the dishes came out of the hospital, and Shen Jue set up a table in the courtyard. After the meal, Xu Mingshi said, "I'm going far away."