During the winter, the drainage system in the alley was completely renovated. Although it was not as waterproof as the imperial palace of the South Jin Kingdom, the continuous spring rain did not leave many traces here. It proved that under Ye Su's leadership, the hard work of the believers had finally paid off.
Sangsang walked through the street with her hands behind her back. Tang Xiaotang followed her. Her black braid swayed in the spring breeze. Just like her mood, she could not calm down.
She and Sangsang were indeed best friends. But Sangsang was Haotian now, and she was a member of the Devil's Doctrine. It was impossible for their friendship to continue. So why did Sangsang bring her out?
Tang Xiaotang was not used to her once tanned and skinny friend becoming white and chubby. She was also not used to the silence along the way. She gently kicked the stones on the street as if she was bored to death, but in fact, she was talking to relieve her tension.
Sangsang suddenly stopped in front of a vegetable shop at the end of the street. She said, "He is a useless man now."
Tang Xiaotang was startled. Then she realized who she was talking about. She said, "His Ocean of Qi and Mountain of Snow was locked by you. His body is weak and he likes to stay in bed every day. He is indeed a useless man."
Sangsang walked into the vegetable shop and looked at the vegetables on the shelf. She said, "I left Peach Mountain. I think the Divine Halls must have started to hunt you."
Tang Xiaotang said, "Yes. The Qinghe Kingdom is very strict. Otherwise, we would have returned to Chang 'an long ago."
Sangsang stopped and turned to her. She asked, "Then why?"
Tang Xiaotang was confused. She asked, "What? Why?"
Sangsang said, "Everything is destined. Why did you go to Peach Mountain to save him? Why did you accompany him to wander the world? If you are willing to surrender to me, I will grant you immortality. "
In an inconspicuous vegetable shop in Linkang, amid the smell of all kinds of vegetables and mud, Sangsang calmly said that she would grant him immortality.
Tang Xiaotang was stunned for a long time. She said unnaturally, "It's so sudden … Let's buy the vegetables for tonight first."
At this moment, the female shopkeeper recognized her. She greeted her warmly and humbly. When Sangsang saw some vegetables, she grabbed them and put them in the basket.
Sangsang was a little puzzled. She pointed to the basket and asked, "Why don't we need money to buy vegetables?"
These days, Tang Xiaotang, Chen Pipi, and Ye Su lived together. Usually, they would teach some lessons to the children in the streets. To the people living in this area, Ye Su, who lived in a dilapidated house, was no different from a saint. This kind of respect and love naturally fell on her and Chen Pipi.
The woman thought that Sangsang was an ordinary friend of Tang Xiaotang, so she patted her on the shoulder and said with a smile, "What kind of nonsense is that? How much are a few vegetables worth? "
Sangsang noticed that the female vendor had just picked up some vegetable leaves, and there was still some muddy water in them. She couldn't help but frown.
Tang Xiaotang hurriedly pulled the female vendor to her side and said a few words to her with a smile. She then looked at Sangsang and said nervously, "Please don't be angry."
Sangsang said, "I just don't understand why the poorer the people are, the more stingy they are with money."
Tang Xiaotang couldn't help but laugh when she thought of how stingy Sangsang was when she was still a human. "Sometimes, when you like something so much, you want to express your kindness by doing this."
Sangsang thought for a moment and said, "Just like the Taoist believers who dedicate their wealth and lives to me?"
Tang Xiaotang said, "Almost, but … still a little bit different."
Sangsang asked, "What's the difference?"
Tang Xiaotang thought for a moment and said, "Like and awe?"
Sangsang suddenly felt a little unhappy. Then she suddenly found that she actually began to care about being liked by others, so she became even more unhappy.
The basket was filled with vegetables. Tang Xiaotang wanted to pay, but the female vendor firmly refused.
Walking out of the vegetable shop, Sangsang said, "You haven't answered my previous question."
"Why?"
Tang Xiaotang stretched out her empty hand and held her hand. She looked at her and said sympathetically, "You have been to so many places with Ning Que. Haven't you figured it out yet?"
Sangsang said, "It's different. If he dies, I will die too, so I have to follow him."
Tang Xiaotang said with a smile, "In fact, it's the same. If he dies, I don't want to live either."
Sangsang thought for a moment and said, "Human beings are really stupid."
Tang Xiaotang said, "In fact, sometimes it's quite happy to be stupid."
Sangsang looked at her hand and said, "I am very unhappy that you sympathize with me. I am also unhappy that you touched my body. So I don't understand why I should be happy about being stupid."
Tang Xiaotang said with a smile, "It's not a good thing for the Academy or the Enlightenment Doctrine that you are alive. But I am very happy to see that you are still alive. Maybe this is the happiness brought by stupidity?"
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The two women went to buy vegetables and had a heart-to-heart talk. The three men in the shabby house looked at each other in silence. It was good to know that they were all alive. As for how they survived, it really didn't matter.
Chen Pipi looked at Ning Que and asked worriedly, "Is she willing to go back to Chang 'an with you?"
Ning Que shook his head and said, "She didn't say, but she is getting closer and closer to Chang 'an."
Chen Pipi said, "Does she know what the Academy wants to do?"
Ning Que said, "The Headmaster said that Haotian knows everything."
Chen Pipi was silent for a moment and said, "If so, you have no chance of winning."
Ning Que looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window and said, "The Headmaster also said that there are many things in this world that you will do even if you know it's impossible to do."
Chen Pipi said, "Youngest Uncle is such a person, and so is the Headmaster. You and I may grow into such people in the future, but it won't affect her, because she is not a human at all."
Ning Que said, "I hope she can make her own choice."
Chen Pipi said, "No one will make a choice that will destroy themselves."
Ning Que laughed and said, "You just said that she is not a human."
Chen Pipi said, "Even so, what will you do?"
Ning Que's emotions became a bit complicated. He said, "I hope I can find a way by then. The original method seems to be not feasible now."
Chen Pipi said, "Can't we fix the God-stunning Array without her?"
Ning Que said, "Whoever started the trouble should untie it. She destroyed the God-stunning Array with her footsteps and aura when she lived in Chang 'an for years. Now we need her to do it again."
Chen Pipi looked at him quietly and said, "I only hope you won't regret it by then. If you want to regret, it's better to do it now. When it comes to it, you can't avoid it no matter what."
Ning Que said, "I left Chang 'an and went to Peach Mountain to pick her up because I was mentally prepared. If I really need to make a choice on that day, it's actually very simple."
Chen Pipi heard the hidden determination in his words and sighed without saying anything.
Ye Su did not say anything. He looked at the streets and the sky outside the window quietly with a clear smile on his thin face. His pale face was washed by the light and looked extremely gentle.
He suddenly said, "Competing with Heaven is only calculating oneself."
Ning Que looked at him and asked sincerely, "So we don't need to do anything?"
Ye Su turned around and said with a smile, "Doing your own thing well is more important than anything else. As the saying goes, Haotian belongs to Haotian, and the human world belongs to the human world. What does it matter?"
Haotian belongs to Haotian, and the human world belongs to the human world. That was his Taoism.
Ning Que seemed to understand and asked again, "The West-Hill Divine Palace will definitely not allow you to continue preaching. Even the Sword Garret can't protect you all the time. What are you going to do next?"
Ye Su said, "Linkang City is getting better. I'm going to leave."
It was the first time Chen Pipi knew that his Senior Brother was going to leave Linkang. He was very surprised.
"Are you going to Chang 'an?"
Ning Que was also surprised. He thought that since the West-Hill Divine Palace would not allow Ye Su to continue preaching, only the Tang Empire could provide him with a place to preach after he left the South Jin Kingdom.
"As I said, the Tang Empire is too good, and the human world is too bad."
Ye Su said calmly, "Since I want to experience the suffering of the human world and save it, I naturally have to go to those places where there is real suffering and get to know the people who are suffering."
The sunlight passed through the window and fell on him. His thin clothes seemed to be shining. The chopsticks in his bun seemed to be more beautiful than the most expensive ebony.
Ning Que suddenly said, "Do you still remember the first time we met?"
Ye Su shook his head. Years ago at the foot of Tianqi Mountain in the Wilderness, he and Ning Que met for the first time. At that time, he was still a proud Taoist wayfarer. He was the Eldest Brother and had no impression of Ning Que at all.
"I was very impressed by you." Ning Que looked at him and said, "I have never seen a person so lonely. It seemed that his feet were not standing on the ground of the human world, but in another world. He was obviously alive, but it seemed that he had been dead for many years. This is not accurate. I should say that you seemed to be alive and dead in my eyes at that time. I felt sorry for you."
Ye Su laughed and said, "I should be more pitiful now."
Ning Que shook his head and said, "No. Although you are not as powerful as you used to be, and you are pale and weak, almost disabled, you are not pitiful at all. Because you will become a sage."
Ye Su said, "A sage only appears in a thousand years. You have gone too far."
Ning Que said, "If you can make everyone a sage, you will naturally be a sage."
At this moment, the door of the shabby house was pushed open. Tang Xiaotang carried a vegetable basket and said happily, "Look at how many vegetables Sangsang and I have brought back. Don't eat leftovers!"
The dinner was very simple, mainly with green vegetables, because there were indeed a lot of green vegetables.
In order not to let Haotian feel cheated, Chen Pipi went to the butcher's shop to cut a piece of streaky pork and made a bowl of cabbage and meat slices. Then he went next door and took two barrels of light wine.
Meat and wine were the best to liven things up. Soon, the atmosphere in the shabby house became lively. Ning Que was not a good drinker and was already drunk. With the help of the wine, he pulled paper and ground ink, and wrote half of the Epigraph of the Shack.
"Mountains are not famous because there are immortals. Waters are not deep because there are dragons. This is a shabby house, but only my virtue is fragrant."
Sangsang put her hands behind her back and looked at the calligraphy quietly. She suddenly asked, "Who am I?"
Ning Que said angrily, "Why do you ask me such a philosophical question?"
Sangsang pointed at the word "I" on the paper.
Ning Que finally understood. He pointed at Ye Su and was about to speak, but suddenly realized that since she asked this question, she must have some expectations. So he changed the topic and said, "I am not talking about me."
"Then who are you?"
"I am you, and you are me. Who do you think I am talking about?"
Although Sangsang knew he was lying, she was still satisfied.
Chen Pipi was very dissatisfied and said sadly, "When I first read this sentence, I thought you were still so shameless and arrogant. After listening to your explanation, I found that you have become so depraved."
Ning Que was furious and said, "I don't have guts. So what?"
They said goodbye.
Sangsang naturally could not stand such vulgarity, so she stood in the distance with her hands behind her back.
Chen Pipi looked at Ning Que and said, "Take care."
"I will. Just look at her. She is not light, but extremely heavy."
Ning Que replied with a smile and walked to Sangsang.
Sangsang suddenly turned around and looked at Ye Su, saying, "You will be burned to death."
At this time, the twilight was thick, and the afterglow was like blood and fire.
Ye Su stood in the twilight, as if in fire.
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(I ran back happily and finally made it before midnight. It's so good. See you tomorrow.) (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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