Xiaqingshan

On the day when Song Huaijin went down the mountain, the weather on Mount Gaotu was fine, he bid farewell to his master, but the master didn't say much, didn't even see him, but stayed in his room.Song Huaijin knelt down outside the house and worshiped, thanking Master Xu Daoqian for his kindness.Originally, this kind of etiquette is mostly complicated for ordinary people, and people who practice Taoism don't need to be too rigid, but Song Huaijin takes this kindness very seriously.

If he hadn't been to Mount Gaotu, he wouldn't be who he is today.

When he left the mountain gate, Fu Sheng, his junior brother who had always been at odds with him, came to see him off.Fu Sheng gave him one thing, which was one of the few things that Li Zishen left on Mount Gaotu.

A blue hair tie was handed to him by Fu Sheng himself.

"Senior brother, forget about it before you go down the mountain." Fu Sheng never called Song Huaijin a senior brother, and there was only one senior brother he mentioned.

Song Huaijin took the hair tie and went down the mountain. After the gate, the Baiyun Temple on Gaotu Mountain has nothing to do with him anymore.When he got to the foot of the mountain, he found that it was the rainy season.

Song Huaijin, the town at the foot of the mountain, doesn't come often. When there were only him and his senior disciples in the audience, he usually volunteered to go down the mountain to buy. It's just that he is too cold-tempered and doesn't stay long every time. He only does what he should do. People in the shop he frequented also said that he was as cold as ice, and they didn't dare to talk to him much.

His senior brother Li Zishen is gentle and kind, while his senior brother Fu Sheng is too weird. Only Song Huaijin always feels that he is too ordinary and is the most boring person in the whole school.

The book once said that "Yun Zhijuezhong", maybe he is the best.Even his master Xu Daogan once said that the big disciple Li Zishen has too many things in his mind, and he will be depressed if he does this all day long, while the young disciple Fu Sheng remembers the hatred too firmly. Only this second disciple, holding on to the middle way, looks Most bland.

However, Master said this, but he also understood Song Huaijin's true thoughts.

In fact, on the day Song Huaijin proposed to go down the mountain, Master talked with him in the main hall until late at night.

Xu Daoqian took in four apprentices in his life, one time he was invited by a friend to teach his eldest son for a few days before he was born. In fact, it was not considered a formal apprenticeship.The apprentice he made up his mind to accept for the first time was his eldest disciple Li Zishen, but in the second year, the other party told him that he wanted to go down the mountain and enter the world in the future.Xu Daoqian knew that this matter could not be stopped, as long as his eldest disciple was allowed to go down the mountain, it would be assumed that he had confiscated this apprentice.

As a result, the second apprentice, Song Huaijin, also said that he wanted to go down the mountain, but Xu Daoqian was speechless, and said that he had accepted a white-eyed wolf.Everyone has to go down the mountain to join the world, what good is there in the world?Several apprentices failed to keep them, and in the end it was the little apprentice with the weirdest personality who stayed.

The main hall of Baiyun Temple was dimly lit. Xu Daoqian sat in front of the incense table under the statue of Sanqing, with his back to Song Huaijin, and asked slowly, "Do you know why your senior brother is named Zishen? There are too many mistakes in life, but as long as you act carefully You can avoid it. He has been cautious in his words and deeds for more than ten years. Once he brings you back, he will not escape his doom. He even asked me about raising a rabbit when he was a child, but at that time he was covering his whole body. It's blood and you don't want to let go. Huai Jin, sometimes you should think about your senior brother too."

Xu Daoqian rarely called him by his name, and mostly called him "that one who picked it up for nothing". At this moment, there was a little helplessness in his words, and he tried to persuade him.

Song Huaijin gritted his teeth, he was thinking about it all the time, how could he forget the kindness of senior brother?

Xu Daoqian didn't need to ask, he also knew the inner thoughts of his second apprentice. Over the years, he had seen the other party's thoughts more clearly than Li Zishen, so he could only sigh in his heart.

People cannot avoid tragedies because of past tragedies.Everything is irregular, and those who practice the Tao cannot understand the destiny.The name Li Zishen was just a way to seek comfort and shelter. When a person is determined to do something, such comfort and shelter are useless.

Xu Daoqian said again, "He has no better choice, and perhaps the world doesn't have one either. Now this may be the best."

"It's the best for the world, so why do you have to be cruel to him?" Song Huaijin lowered her head, and after a while, said again, "I understand, so I'm not the better choice. Is that how senior brother thinks?" Is it?"

Xu Daoqian saw his paranoia: "No one can decide who is the better choice. Is your senior brother the only one who helps the emperor? In fact, it is not, but the world."

Song Huaijin said nothing.

"Your senior brother was alone at that time, but because of the old lunatic who gave him half a sweet potato in the ruined temple, I sold the jade pendant left by his mother to buy medicine for medical treatment, so I took him up the mountain." Xu Daoqian has been there for many years. Without recalling the past, he suddenly mentioned something about Li Zishen, "He is the most kind person, he can't see the suffering under his nose, and he cares about the responsibility of the world. You want him to let go, but as long as he doesn't want to, you will Can't do it."

Song Huaijin was extremely stubborn, and only said that I wanted to do it.

Xu Daoqian was speechless again, the two sat like this for a long time, the sky was bright, Xu Daoqian sighed, raised the dust in his hands, and walked away, only saying that if you want to go down the mountain, then go, and then left the hall.

The little apprentice Fu Sheng listened to the general conversation between the two outside the main hall. When the master left, he sat on the side steps and thought for a long time. Seeing Song Huaijin leave the main hall, he went to As the library sorted out the books there, Fu Sheng suddenly figured it out.

Yeah, who wants to put themselves in the position of being abandoned?It turned out that Song Huaijin thought so.

Fu Sheng stepped into the library, he still never called Song Huaijin his senior brother as before, he just asked him, Song Huaijin, do you think I didn't see it?When the brother fell ill, you said that you took care of him at the sick bed, wasn't it also because of your own thoughts?Now you insist on going down the mountain, where do you put him?

Song Huaijin knew that Li Zishen brought him to Mount Gaotu and asked his master Xuanzhen Daoist Xu Daogan to accept him as an apprentice in order to keep himself safe and stay away from the world. If he insisted on going his own way, he would violate Li Zishen's wish.But faced with the questioning of this little junior brother who has always been against him, he said with a little ruthlessness, even the master can't stop me, do you think you can stop me?

"What do you gain by doing this! Everyone feels uncomfortable when you do this."

"The world is so hard, why can't I make myself feel better? Anyway, other than that, I'm already a person with no worries, so I can devote my whole life to it. I just want to do it, and it's like breaking my arms, Broken legs will do it too."

When Song Huaijin was still young, he suffered a lot, but he seldom shed tears, but beside senior brother Li Zishen, he was able to act like a real child, occasionally acting spoiled and angry, and Li Zishen coaxed him.It's not even surprising for him to say that he broke his arms and legs for his senior brother.

Fu Sheng felt that he was crazy, so he didn't dare to say anything, and left the library as if fleeing.

In the town for the time being to spend the night, Song Huaijin entered a ruined temple.

There was a lot of rain in the spring, and he thought to himself, did his brother see such a scene when he went down the mountain a few years ago?Although the senior brother is so kind, he is not a person who loves to express himself, so how did the royal family find out?

Song Huaijin thought about it, and fell into a rare and peaceful sleep. In his dream, he heard Li Zishen's gentle voice, thinking about Xia Manmang, summer and heat, autumn dew, autumn cold and frost...

Li Zishen once said that things in the world should only be hard to come by, not easy to get.Just because what is easy to get is easy to lose, and what is hard to get is hard to lose.Relieve and warn yourself in this way, you can endure the suffering in life.

Song Huaijin understood this truth, but found that sometimes, it was not the case.Rare things are also easy to lose. For him, there is nothing easy to get in life.

When he woke up from the dream, he was alone on the road.