One of the Eight Parts of Tianlong, Yuechen Fate

The guy next to him ran over, Ye Nian stopped him, "Go and get the guy from the kitchen, I want him to come and refill the tea."

The guy was stunned, thinking that the guest's request was really strange, he smiled apologetically, and turned to the kitchen to call for someone. The guy surnamed Qi agreed, opened the curtain and came out, subconsciously stretched his hand to the side and caught a Kong turned his head to look in surprise, said "Hey", and said to himself, "Where is my rag?" He looked up and down the wooden shelf, touched the back of his head, and looked doubts.

Seeing this, the old man squinted his eyes slightly, thinking that this person can see the white cloth strips on the wooden frame on the other side just by turning his head, but he just stares at the wooden frame in front of him, he is extremely stupid!

The guy stood there blankly for a while, then went back to the kitchen a few steps, took a new towel and put it on his shoulders, and walked towards Ye Nian's table.

The old man couldn't help but asked the man, "That towel is on the shelf on the other side of you, why don't you know how to turn around and have a look?"

The guy wondered how this person would know what he was thinking, subconsciously turned around to look, and said "Ah", "So it's there, I thought someone took it by mistake." Annoyed, he whispered, "It's so close, why didn't I see it?" After filling tea for a few people, he turned and walked away.

Ye Nian took a sip of tea, "Senior, I won this game. Can you tell us where Senior Ling is now?"

The old man looked at her, "How can ordinary people be so stupid? Didn't you collude with this guy and put on a show?"

Ye Nian was not in a hurry, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "Senior thinks too highly of me, if I really have the ability to predict things like a god, wouldn't I already have figured out the whereabouts of Senior Ling, so why bother Senior."

The old man thought that he asked them to do the three things on a whim, and said casually that he also walked into this restaurant first, and it was impossible for her to know in advance.He snorted softly, "Then how can you predict that guy's behavior and dare to bet with me?"

Ye Nian saw Xiao Feng looking at him in the blink of an eye, with curiosity in his eyes, as if waiting to see how she would answer, he thought for a while and said to him, "Brother Xiao, do you remember that we ate here the day we arrived in town?" Food?" Seeing the other party nodding, he continued, "That day I saw that this guy was very diligent and had a good memory. He remembered all the dishes ordered by several tables of guests at the same time. Shredded pork, said to him, 'I like sugar, you ask the cook to put more salt', this is obviously a slip of the tongue, but when the dish was served, it really put more salt, it was too salty."

Xiao Feng thought about it for a while, and then remembered that at that time, a customer thought the dish was too salty, and even argued with the waiter for a few words, as if he said 'I want you to put more sugar, but you put it so salty' A class of words.

"This guy has a good memory, and he does things well and attentively, but he is not good at using his brain and doesn't know how to adapt. Such people often have too narrow eyes and can only see an inch in front of them." Ye Nian said slowly, "So even if the answer is By his side, he doesn't know how to turn his head to look, and he will never find out."

After hearing this, Xiao Feng paused for a moment, his eyes showed some thought, "There is some truth to this statement."

The old man glanced at her, and after a short silence, he drank the wine in the bowl and stood up, "Come with me."

Xiao Feng was overjoyed when he heard the words, he glanced at Ye Nian, and the two quickly got up to follow.This time, the old man was useless and walked slowly towards the outside of the town.

The three of them walked out of the small town for another hour, and they came to a gentle slope. On top of the green grass and waste rocks stood a tombstone, engraved with the word "Ling Tanghong", with the date of death on it, but no name of the person who erected the monument. .The old man stopped, "This is the person you are looking for."

Xiao Feng was surprised and disappointed in his heart, looked at the lonely tombstone in the morning light, and asked, "Senior Ling...has he passed away ten years ago?"

The old man: "A person who is almost a hundred years old, can't he die?"

Hearing his indifferent tone, Xiao Feng always referred to Old Senior Ling as 'that man', he didn't know the relationship between the two of them, what kind of grievances they had, but at this moment he didn't have the heart to think about these things, he just thought about how to talk to his father when he went back This issue.

Ye Nian recalled Xiao Yuanshan's saying that he was a very old man when he was apprenticed to his teacher, which seemed to fit him, and walked to Xiao Feng's side, "Uncle Xiao hasn't heard from his teacher for decades, so he must have regrets in his heart, thinking about it, he will be able to come to this stele." It's also good to pay homage to him."

Xiao Feng felt slightly relieved, held her hand and said, "We will tell my father the truth when we go back this time, and it will be up to him to decide what to do." He clasped his fists to the old man, "Senior, thank you for bringing us here. If there is any disturbance from Fan Duo, we will take our leave now."

Looking at the tombstone, the old man didn't know what he was thinking. After hearing this, he turned and looked at him coldly, "You are in your prime, and you have such a talent for martial arts, but you don't know how to use it to make a career, but you are obsessed with these things. Useless and trivial things and emotions are too unambitious and useless!"

Xiao Feng was baffled by the lesson, he frowned and said, "Senior has great ambitions, so he asks everyone to be like you, is it useful?"

The old man said, "Do you know what my ambition is?"

Xiao Feng, "Senior's living room's bookshelf is full of strange books on the art of war. I can see that many of them are yellowed and old, and there are signs of wear and tear on the edges. I think it's not just for decoration. Since senior is familiar with such books, how can he be interested?" A person without ambition?"

The old man was stunned for a while, "So what? I have wasted years, and now I am just living the rest of my life in this rural place." There was a sense of sadness in his tone.

Xiao Feng originally wanted to say, "The imperial court is just employing people, why don't you join the imperial court and show your ambitions", but thinking of his identity as a Khitan, it was really inappropriate to say this, so he changed his words and asked, "Senior has this ambition , and why live in this rural town?"

The old man, "I promised one person that I will never get involved in government affairs or participate in national wars in this life."

Xiao Feng thought that that person might be his elder relative, otherwise he would not agree against his will, and asked, "Can't that person change his mind?"

The old man sneered and looked at the raised tomb behind the tombstone, "Can you make the dead change their mind?"

Xiao Feng was slightly startled, and heard Ye Nian say calmly, "It's really funny that a big living person is trapped by a dead person." She was already displeased when she heard the old man scold Xiao Feng, but when she heard him talking about the court war, she remembered that Xiao Feng was doing He became the great king of the South Court of Liao Kingdom. He had a respected status and held military power, but he never had a happy day. In the end, he wanted to avoid a tragic death in the Song and Liao wars.Thinking of this is even more embarrassing, thinking how Xiao Feng chooses to live, how could it be the old man's turn to make unreasonable comments and point fingers, so he speaks disrespectfully.

The old man was furious when he heard the words, and stared at her, "What do you know! If you make a promise, you must keep it. How can you easily break it?!"

Ye Nian turned a blind eye to his anger, and smiled indifferently, "You are in good health, but you call yourself the old man of Xingmu, don't you think you are a dying person? You are not willing to keep this promise, but you are pedantic and follow the rules. Hide yourself and blame yourself, how can a person like you have the right to say that others are useless?"

Hearing her words, the old man's face turned blue and white, and some gloomy and stern eyes flashed in his eyes. He asked in a deep voice, "If it were you, what would you do?"

Ye Nian, "The deceased is dead, ignorant, but I am still alive, so I will naturally make my own choices."

The old man turned to Xiao Feng again, "What will you do?"

Xiao Feng, "I won't make promises that I can't keep." Seeing this man's old face trembling slightly, he knew that his heart must be emotional ups and downs, and secretly thought that he gave up his life ambitions because of a promise, which was a bit respectable, A few words between myself and Ye Nian denied his behavior, it seemed that his persistence for many years was meaningless, it seemed a bit too much.After thinking for a while, he added, "If I make a promise, I will definitely keep it."

The old man turned around and looked at the tombstone, thinking that if he had been as casual and frank as these two people back then, what would happen today?Stretching out the palm of his hand, the lines on the dry and wrinkled skin are like the slight cracks on the tombstone, showing the passing years and burying the pride and ambition of the past. Now he is just an ordinary old man in the countryside. Unwilling?The anger in his chest gradually dissipated, and he said to Ye Nian, "You are still young, don't rely on your own cleverness to ignore others and think that you can control everything in the world, otherwise you will suffer in the future." After that, he said, "you go." No more words.

Xiao Feng saw that his back was slightly hunched, showing a bit of despondency, his brows were lightly drawn, and finally said nothing, he clasped his fist at him, and took Ye Nian away.