[Journey to the West] Friendship

There is no fixed place for the exit of the passage from the heaven to the mortal world, and the place where the person will land is determined by the place in the mind of the person who walks.

So Lin Mu only took a few glances, and found that this was the grove where Monk Sha bumped into Duan Xuan and kissed him before.

It's not far from Huasheng Temple, but Lin Mu has a fatal skill - Lu Chi.

Lin Mu secretly wiped the sweat from his forehead, trying to recall what happened at the beginning... Fortunately, Lin Mu ran around after snatching two cassocks, vaguely remembering that he was running against the sun, It's time... Lin Mu's heart suddenly became clear, he looked up at the position of the sun, then turned around and flew towards the direction of Huasheng Temple.

The entire bamboo forest was still exactly the same as when they had been here before, as if it hadn't changed at all during the almost one year since they left.

Lin Mu speeded up silently, he was eager to see Qingxin now.

……

Five minutes later, the gate of Huasheng Temple appeared in front of Lin Mu.

There were still two little novice monks guarding the door solemnly, but Lin Mu could tell at a glance that these two little novice monks were not the two they saw before they left.

Lin Mu swallowed blood, and after climbing the stairs as high as two or three floors, he first said the Buddha's name to the two young monks, and then said, "Is Abbot Qingxin of your temple still alive?"

The two little monks tilted their heads and looked at Lin Mu for a few seconds, and one of them suddenly called out, "Master!"

Lin Mu: "..." Is there something wrong?

"Ah! It's really Uncle Master!" Another little novice also suddenly realized, and then he shouted very happily, "Uncle Lin, why are you back? Have you finished learning the scriptures?"

Lin Mu was taken aback, and asked, "How do you know who I am?"

"Amitabha," the two young novice monks said the Buddha's name at the same time, and then one of them said, "Returning to Master Uncle, I was there when Master Xuanzang was ordained in the temple, so I know Master Lin!"

The other quickly echoed: "Me too! But Mr. Lin probably hasn't seen us, because we just entered the temple at that time."

"Uh, so..." Lin Mu shook his head.

Too many things happened after Chen Yi's shaving, plus the fact that the cassock was stolen, Lin Mu basically didn't have Chen Yi's shaving ceremony in his mind, and it was even more impossible to remember the little novice who didn't know where he was standing at that time .

"Well... I have something urgent to see you, Abbot Qingxin," Lin Mu regained his composure, said his purpose again, and then said, "I don't know if he is in the temple now?"

"Yes, yes!" A little novice said repeatedly, "Uncle Lin, come with me! I'll take you to meet the abbot."

Lin Mu responded, and walked behind the little monk.

I don’t know if it was because the shaving ceremony back then was really too big. Anyway, most people in the temple would be stunned for a moment when they saw Lin Mu, and then respectfully call him uncle.

Lin Mu also had this kind of treatment when he was in Duan Xuan's company in his previous life. When he traveled directly because he was too cheap, he never saw so many people salute him...

At this time, he somewhat regained the feeling of Mr. Lin before, which made Lin Mu stand upright.

……

"Uncle Lin, this is here." The little novice led Lin Mu to Qingxin's courtyard, and then said, "Uncle Lin, please wait here, and I will inform the abbot."

Lin Mu nodded, and the little monk walked in.

Lin Mu also came to this small courtyard back then. There are several bamboos planted in the courtyard, all of them are very green, obviously they have been taken care of very well.

……

The little novice didn't have much time to leave. Before Lin Mu had time to appreciate the plants in the yard except bamboo, the little novice ran out and told Lin Mu that he could go in.

Lin Mu thanked the little monk, then glanced at the open door, took a deep breath, and walked over.

……

The light in the room was a bit dim, and there was no one in the main hall, only a cup of tea was emitting white smoke, obviously just brewed not long ago.

"Are you here?" A slightly old voice suddenly sounded from Lin Mu's right side. Surprised, Lin Mu turned around quickly, but just in time saw Qing Xin looking down at the silhouette of a game of chess.

"I'm working on a difficult problem." Qingxin's appearance didn't change much, but his voice became a little low. He didn't even look at Lin Mu, and then continued, "I'm a monk, so I never lie or cheat. .So I played chess with the emperor and never let him. Later, the emperor got tired of losing and asked me a problem. Guess what this problem is?"

Lin Mu pulled out the control panel calmly and switched to the "Infinite Power" mode, then walked towards Qingxin step by step, and said in a deep voice, "I can't guess."

Qingxin chuckled, as if she didn't intend to make Lin Mu really guess.

"When I was playing the last game of chess with the emperor, the emperor suddenly stopped before I was about to win," Qing Xin continued, but at this moment there was a wry smile on his face, "He asked me to change positions with him, I will hold the black pieces he used before, and he will hold the white pieces I used before, and then tell me that as long as I can beat my white pieces with his black pieces, he will admit that I am superior in chess.”

"...Who told you not to give face to the emperor," Lin Mu complained as he approached, "No matter what you say, he is your boss, right? Isn't it courting death if you don't give face..."

"Yes, I have tasted the bad results." Qingxin smiled wryly, and said, "Man, the most difficult thing is to defeat yourself."

With a thought in Lin Mu's mind, he seemed to know what Qing Xin wanted to say.

"...Did you tell me this on purpose?" Lin Mu had already walked to Qing Xin's side at this time, and looked down at the chess game, "Li Shimin is so boring, let you do this?"

Qing Xin said: "If it is fake, it will be replaced."

When they got closer, Lin Mu saw the white chess piece in Qing Xin's hand, looking at the whole chessboard seriously.Lin Mu doesn't know much about Go, even the most basic rules, but even at his level, he can see that the situation of black chess is very critical at this time. It can be seen that Li Shimin's chess skills are not as good as Qingxin's. not so good.

"Why do you hold the white chess?" Lin Mu asked, "Shouldn't you be the black chess now?"

"Because I am white, I have always been white." Qing Xin said, "Even if I want to help black because of someone else's order, I still know that I am white."

"Really?" Lin Mu raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you implying to me?"

"I'm not implying you." Qing Xin pointed to the chessboard and said, "Everything is in front of you, you can see it yourself."

"Really?" Lin Mu raised his eyebrows and asked, "If I can help you win white chess, would you do me a favor?"

"Oh?" Qingxin finally raised her eyes to look at Lin Mu, and asked with a little novelty, "Do you have a solution?"

"There is one." Lin Mu said.

"Are you quite accomplished in chess?" Qing Xin asked.

"No," Lin Mu shook his head and said, "I don't know the rules of Go at all."

"Then how do you plan to solve it?" Qingxin continued to ask, "A person who doesn't know the rules of Go says he can solve an ancient game of chess... It's as unconvincing as a newborn baby can fly."

"Who said that people who don't know the rules can't solve the eternal chess?" Lin Mu raised his eyebrows, "I only know one person who has done such a thing, and you are considered the eternal chess? Didn't you just play against Li Shimin? Is it?"

"In terms of difficulty, this game can definitely be regarded as an eternal difficult game." Qing Xin shook her head with a smile, and asked again, "Who is that person you are talking about? I have lived for so long, and I have never heard of him." name."

"He's also a monk," Lin Mu smiled, and then said, "He's called Xu Zhu."

"...Which monastery?" Qingxin was really confused at this moment, "Which eternal difficult game has been solved?"

"You don't even know." Lin Mu was not stupid enough to discuss the Song Dynasty stories written by modern people with a person from the Tang Dynasty in a different time and space, so he said perfunctorily, "Okay, your focus should not be on this disc. Chess? Are you going to agree to my conditions?"

"Wait a minute," Qing Xin smiled again, "May I know where that Xu Zhu senior is now?"

"...he has two endings," Lin Mu said, "the first one is to live happily in the Vulture Palace after marrying the princess of Xixia...the other one is to commit suicide and take drugs and be sent to prison .”

"..."

Qingxin was silent for three seconds, and then said very distrustfully, "Why can't I understand what you are saying?"

"This shows that you don't have enough experience." Lin Mu patted Qing Xin on the shoulder and said earnestly, "If you are more powerful, if you live another thousand years, you will be able to see the person I mentioned! But now these are not The point, the point is... are you willing to accept my conditions or not. "

"Of course I am willing," Qing Xin said with a smile without further procrastination this time, "I really want to know what method you will use to break this game of chess."

After getting the answer, Lin Mu was immediately happy. He stretched out his hand directly, ignoring the black chess basket that Qing Xin handed over, and swung all the white chess pieces on the board...

Qingxin's smile suddenly froze.

After a while, there were only black pieces left on the entire chessboard, which were placed crookedly on the chessboard.

Qingxin looked up at Lin Mu, and couldn't help but say, "You are..."

"There are only black pieces left on the board," Lin Mu said, "Black has won."

Qing Xin was taken aback for a moment, then shook her head with a smile, and said, "This is against the rules."

"I didn't know the rules. This game of chess was played by you and Li Shimin, so even if there were rules, it was a rule between the two of you. I was someone outside the rules. I just happened to see your chess. Lin Mu shrugged and said, "What's more, now that someone wants to kill the rules, how can I fight him according to the rules?"

Qingxin's eyes sank, and she looked at Lin Mu with complicated eyes. After a long silence, she smiled and said, "Are you interested in hearing my story?"

"No," Lin Mu refused bluntly. He already knew the reason for the skyless when he watched the infinite loop TV series "Journey to the West", so he has no interest at all now, "No, it's 3000 A monk from Hezhou, Xiniu years ago?"

"You know?" There was a trace of surprise in Qing Xin's eyes, this time he was really shocked, "How did you know?"

"You don't need to worry about it," Lin Mu said. He didn't want to show his hole cards to Qing Xin, so he couldn't say too much, "I just want to know, what will happen to you if you want to kill Wutian?"

Qing Xin was stunned for a moment, and changed the topic casually, no longer entangled in her own affairs.

"I will die too." Qing Xin said, "He is me, and I am him. If he dies, I can't live."

"Oh..." Lin Mu's eyes became much more complicated, and he was silent for a few seconds before asking again, "Then if you die... what will happen to Wutian?"

Qingxin smiled slightly, as if discussing others, and said, "If I die, Wutian will not be able to live."

"Really?" Lin Mu frowned and asked, "Then why haven't you been watched by Wutian?" He remembered that Bai Wutian was always watched by Hei Wutian in the TV series.

"Because I forcibly forced him out of my body." Qingxin began to speak in a very mysterious way, "So he can't control me, and he can't force me to do anything; similarly, I can't do anything to him. Because we share Life, after I force him out of my body, he can't suppress me, and to force me is to force himself, of course he won't do that."

"Then are you willing to die to eliminate Wutian?" Lin Mu asked again, "After all, he is the one who wants to disrupt the Three Realms and point his sword at the 'rules'."

"Why should I help you?" Qingxin asked back with a smile, "It is human nature to want to live, and I am also a human being, why would I do something that goes against my nature?"

"You are contradicting," Lin Mu shook his head, "It is human nature to eat meat, why don't you eat meat?"

"Because I don't want to eat meat," Qing Xin still smiled, "If I don't do this, if I don't suppress my inner desire|desire... There will be two heavens in the world, don't forget... I It is nothingness."

Lin Mu didn't answer.

After a long silence between the two, Qingxin smiled and asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"

"Yes." Unexpectedly, Lin Mu answered very quickly.

"Oh?" Qingxin asked, "What are you talking about?"

"You promised to do me a favor," Lin Mu said, "My request is that I want you to help me eliminate Wutian."

Qingxin was taken aback.

"Are you asking me to commit suicide?" Qing Xin glanced down at the chessboard, her eyes flowing, but Lin Mu couldn't understand the emotion in his eyes, "Why do you think I will help you?"

"Because you are a monk, and monks don't lie," Lin Mu said, "You can't let there be two heavens in the world, so you must be a monk, a monk who doesn't lie."

"..."

Qingxin was silent again.And this time the silence was longer than ever...

It was so long that Lin Mu couldn't help stretching out her finger to tease Qing Xin's chin... Qing Xin said:

"Okay. I promise you."

Lin Mu smiled and said nothing.

……

Lin Mu left Huasheng Temple alone after talking with Qingxin.

And at dinner that day, the entire Huasheng Temple discovered something that was enough to shock the entire city of Chang'an——

Qingxin, the abbot of Huasheng Temple, is gone!

……

According to eyewitnesses, the abbot's room was very tidy. A cup of cold tea was placed on the table in the main hall, and on the table in the inner room was a messy chess board. There were only black pieces on the board and the rest were white pieces. Scattered scattered on the table and the ground...

Could it be that the abbot has become obsessed with studying chess because of his research?

Although I think this conjecture is unreliable, but as the only conjecture at this time, this idea is still spread by people in the whole Chang'an city, and Li Shimin, who gave this game of chess to Qingxin, has become a popular prostitute ( This word is used wrongly) the bad guy, the worried Li Shimin didn’t sleep well for several days, ordered the whole city to find Qingxin, and he must return his innocence... No, it’s to prevent the abbot Qingxin from encountering an accident.

……

And when the whole Chang'an city was full of wind and rain because of Qingxin's disappearance, two men wearing straw hats walked out of Chang'an city calmly, leading two little donkeys.

"Are you feeling at ease now?" Lin Mu asked Qing Xin beside him in a low voice, "Looking at Li Shimin being so entangled with you, you won't be entangled with that game of chess, right?"

Qingxin sighed, shook her head and said, "No matter what, you have ruined a game of peerless chess. If that game can be passed down to future generations, it will definitely be admired by thousands of people."

"... As far as Li Shimin's skills are concerned, he is almost despised, right?" Lin Mu couldn't help complaining.

"Everything must be compared," Qingxin said with a chuckle, "otherwise, how would later generations know that there is a monk with superb chess skills?"

Lin Mu: "..." So you deliberately want to let Li Shimin's stinky chess basket go, right?You just want to see others say that Li Shimin is simply a strange thing in the stinky chess basket, and force you to use his chess to beat yourself?Is this your real purpose comparison?You insidious and cunning big belly black!

……

The two didn't talk much after that.

At the beginning of buying donkeys, Lin Mu was inspired by Chen Yi, thinking that buying horses was too ostentatious and would make others think they were going to travel far.Coupled with the number of the two of them, it was enough to arouse the suspicion of the soldiers who were looking for Qingxin.

Donkeys are different.

The two of them bought a cool little donkey, and no one would suspect that they were going on a long journey.

And the two of them really didn't need to rely on animals to travel long distances. The two of them rode a little donkey to the next city, sold the little donkey, changed their clothes, and flew up into the clouds and fog, heading west. go.

……

"Where are we going?" Lin Mu asked while flying, "Do you know all of Wutian's plans?"

"I don't know," Qing Xin shook her head, and then said, "But I am Wutian, I can know what he thinks, so I can naturally know what he has plans."

"Is your cheating tool too big?" Lin Mu couldn't help but said, "How can you be sure that Wutian will do what you want?"

"I've said it before, I'm innocent," Qing Xin said in a very good-natured manner, "Do you suspect that you don't know yourself?"

"Okay..." Lin Mu shrugged, and then said, "Then where are we going now? What are we going to do? How are we going to do it? You have to tell me about this, right? Otherwise, I will be your follower ?”

"Hehe," Qingxin chuckled, as if she was very interested in the word "follower", "I always feel that you know many things that I don't. Who are you?"

"Why should I tell you?" Lin Mu also laughed "hehe" twice, "There are only two people in this world who know who I am, why do you want to be the third one? What's more... you are Godless, isn't it?"

"Yeah," Qingxin said with a smile, "so you are guarding against me?"

"of course not!".Lin Mu said categorically, in order to cooperate with his new students, he even patted Qing Xin on the shoulder hard, and then said, "You are a very competent monk! How could I go back and doubt a very competent monk? "

"Competent?" Qingxin repeated these two words in a low voice, and then asked, "Why do you say that about me?"

"Because you are Wutian," Lin Mu replied to Qingxin's question with a sentence that Qingxin kept repeating, "Do you think Wutian is a real monk?"

Qingxin was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, and said, "He's not, so I'm not either."

"That's what it means!" Lin Mu gave Qing Xin a thumbs-up, and then asked, "Okay, let's go back to the topic just now, what are we going to do now?"

Qingxin's expression was inconvenient, and she said very calmly, "I, Nightmare is going to find Zhaoyao Banner."

"Calling the demon flag?" Lin Mu was taken aback, and then asked, "Isn't this thing in Nuwa's hands? Do you know that Nuwa is there?"

"I don't know." Qing Xin shook her head, and then said under Lin Mu's puzzled gaze, "But I know where the Yao Yao Banner is."

Lin Mu was taken aback, and subconsciously asked, "Where?"

"I don't know," Qing Xin gave an answer that made people want to beat him up, and then immediately saved his impression points, "But I just don't know how to describe that place, where is that place? knew."

"Oh?" Lin Mu asked very distrustfully, "Then are we going to the place you mentioned now?"

"Yes." Qing Xin said, "This place is next to my house."

"What?" Lin Mu was taken aback. "What do you mean next to your house?"

"It's... Xiniu Hezhou."

Lin Mu was taken aback.

"What's so special about that place?" Lin Mu asked, then reacted suddenly, and asked, "How do you know where there is a demon banner? Have you seen it? Wait...how can Wutian control so many monsters?" ?!"

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