Four Lifetimes Dream

On the other side, Li Sheng pulled Yan Xuyan to the top.

"It turns out that this place hasn't changed at all..." Li Sheng couldn't help but murmured as he looked at the familiar place in front of him.

"Sheng'er loved coming here to play when she was little!" Yan Xuyan had a smile on his face, his thoughts having already drifted to the past.

"You also said that from here, you can see the entire Lingyue Peak!"

At that time, Li Sheng was still a carefree little girl. Like ordinary girls, she liked to make noises and play. She was even more lively and active than ordinary girls!

But ever since that incident, she no longer had that lovely side of her. The five-year-old child seemed to have grown up overnight!

Under the childish appearance, it seems that there is a vicissitudes of life, and it is sensible and distressing...

"Yes, I really liked this place back then. I always felt that standing here, I could see the unreachable distance outside..."

At that time, everyone was very busy and no one took her out to play, nor let her go out to play alone, so she came to the top of the mountain every day and sat, fantasizing about the outside world.

Sometimes she would also pull Yan Xuyan along. When the two siblings were tired of playing, they would sit down quietly, wait for the sunset, look at the stars, and look forward to the future...

"At that time, I liked to run around on the top of the mountain, climb trees, take bird eggs, and poke beehives... At that time, I always made my mother very angry. When she was very angry, she would chase me all over the mountain with a feather duster..."

As Li Sheng spoke, he seemed to remember something, and his voice suddenly stopped, with a hint of sadness and pain in his eyes.

"It's just... I can never go back..."

She killed A Niang, and later killed everyone in Lingyue Peak, destroying Lingyue Peak...

"Okay, Sheng'er, let's not talk about this anymore. Brother will take you somewhere else to have a look!"

Seeing that Li Sheng was sad, Yan Xuyan changed the subject and pulled Li Sheng away with a smile.

Yan Xuyan knew that Li Sheng was thinking about that painful memory, and he knew that was the hurdle in Li Sheng's heart.

It was also because of that incident that Li Sheng began to change into a different person, becoming taciturn, indifferent, and keeping people at a distance...

"Brother, where are we going?" Li Sheng was pulled away by Yan Xuyan, and the emotions just now were already clear in her eyes.

She was a little confused. This direction seemed to lead to the kitchen, right?

"I'll take you to see how the delicious food my brother has prepared for you is prepared!"

In the past, Sheng'er would feel better whenever she ate something delicious!

"But I'm not hungry yet!" Didn't I just eat when I came out?

I ate so much that I haven’t even started digesting it yet!

"They're just snacks, Sheng'er will like them!" Yan Xuyan explained.

As they were talking, the two of them had already arrived in the kitchen.

"Greetings, my Lord, my Little Lord!"

The people in the kitchen probably didn't expect that the two giant Buddhas would come here in person. They were flattered and flustered at the same time, and hurriedly saluted to them.

Since they lived in the kitchen all year round, they had never seen Li Sheng. In addition, Li Sheng rarely appeared in Lingyue Peak, so they didn't know her!

But they all knew that this little lord had returned, and now she appeared with their lord, so they knew almost everything about her identity!

"Get up." Yan Xuyan didn't care about these empty formalities in the first place, and now he cared even less.

"How is the preparation of the food I asked you to prepare going?"

"It's all ready, please have a look, sir!" As they said this, they laid out the finished products one by one for the two to see.

"Sheng'er, these are the ones you loved to eat when you were a child. Try them and see if they still taste the same as before!"

Yan Xuyan didn't have time to comment on how well they were doing. He just took Li Sheng forward and looked at her expectantly.

Sheng'er was greedy when he was young and these foods were his favorite. I don't know if he still likes them now that he has grown up!

"Candied Haws..." Li Sheng saw the string of bright red, plump candied haws at a glance, and she was a little stunned.

"I knew Sheng'er would like this!" Yan Xuyan handed a bunch to her and said with a smile, "Here, eat it. Hawthorn fruit helps digestion."

"Brother..." Li Sheng's eyes were inexplicably moist.

Yan Xuyan obviously hates candied haws the most, but now...

"Silly girl, take it!" Yan Xuyan rubbed her head like he did when they were little.

"I was wrong before, but now Sheng'er can eat whatever she wants, and I won't stop her!"

He was previously averse to eating candied haws because his mother lost her life because of them. He had been brooding over this for so many years, and now, he should let it go...

"Thank you, brother." Li Sheng took the candied haws and felt a little sad, but his face remained expressionless.

The only difference between the candied haws in Li Sheng's hand and those in the market is that the bamboo sticks used to string the candied haws are round at both ends and have no sharp parts.

She understood what Yan Xuyan meant. He might have let it go a lot, but his mother's death under the sharp bamboo stick was still a thorn in his heart!

Therefore, isn't this smoothed bamboo stick also a thorn in his heart?

He was trying to smooth out the thorns, just like smoothing out the bamboo sticks, to truly let go...