Xuantian 1: Ancient Xuandongtian

Chapter 4 Fate and Happiness
In a blink of an eye, it is the New Year.

Mu Hanchan hadn't seen Lin Mengge for more than ten days.He would wait every day as usual, but in the end he didn't arrive.What was supposed to come never came.

In fact, Lin Mengge is not having a good time these days. Being confined by her mother at home for no reason is naturally extremely depressed.When bored, I can only enjoy teasing the pigeons at home.

"Ge'er, what do you think my mother has been doing recently? Why do you always come back very late, and chat with a woman all day long."

"Mother doesn't really want to marry me, right? I'm still so young, how can I make such a thing! Really, I don't consider other people's feelings at all."

"I still think I won't be able to marry in the future. There are a bunch of boys in the village. Those who are timid will die. I won't marry any of them in the future."

Lin Mengge complained bitterly to the pigeon who couldn't understand human speech, but what the pigeon got in return was as if the pigeon had never heard of it, its eyes turned left and right, and it turned its head to look left and right.It seemed that he didn't understand, and he didn't seem to take her words to heart.

A white-haired old man in front of a cave on the mountain flanking the village, sees everything in the village, watching the daily life of ordinary people, but cannot interfere.

He is not incapable of changing, but he cannot.

The old man is a cultivator who respects the sky, not a cultivator against the sky, which is completely different from the concept of cultivating immortals in the cultivating world at this time.He respects the difference between immortals and mortals, and also sees through life and death.He is a powerful immortal cultivator who has almost just realized Taoism.

The next day, the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

Mu Hanchan asked her mother: "Mom, do you know where her family lives?"

"Understood, go straight to the end in the northeast direction of the village, turn east and turn straight to No. 12 house, the oak door, double copper rings, no door nails."

"Then I'll go find her today."

"Are you going empty-handed?"

"So what, do you want to bring something?"

"Your father will go hunting later, you will go with him today, and take some of the prey you bring back."

"Yeah, okay." Mu Hanchan replied, and asked again: "You should have known about it a long time ago, why didn't you tell me for more than ten days?"

Mother Liu replied: "No, I only found out about it a week ago. It's just that when I went to inquire, I happened to meet a woman. She mentioned something to me, so I didn't tell you for a long time."

"What's the matter?" Mu Hanchan asked.

Liushi avoided answering and asked, "Do you like that girl?"

"I like it," Mu Hanchan replied.Ask again: "What's the matter? Mother."

Mrs. Liu was silent for a while, and said: "There is a matchmaker in the village who said that she wanted to raise a baby girl for a girl, but most of the boys who have boys in the family will ask first."

"Does this have anything to do with our family?" Mu Hanchan asked.

"Yes. Because you are a boy, when I went to the east of the village to inquire, the woman also told me."

"Oh, then which family is this girl from?" Mu Hanchan casually asked.

Liu Shi looked at Mu Hanchan and said, "It should be the one you like."

"What?" Mu Hanchan asked nervously.

Liu Shi repeated: "It should be the girl you like. She is the only one who will be so disgusted."

"Don't other families want her?"

"It's not all of them, the main reason is that they are not happy, and they are young, and they also need engagement gifts."

"What do you think, mother, and what are you going to do?"

Liu said: "Your father doesn't care about this matter, so I mainly look at you. If you want to, I'll go and tell the matchmaker. If you don't want to, we just don't respond."

"Isn't it bad not to respond, maybe people wait for a reply?"

"Not responding is tantamount to refusing. This is a truth that all adults understand. It's just that it's inconvenient to say it out of face."

But Mu Hanchan said: "I really feel that everything should be made clear. Whether you want to or not, you should make it clear to avoid misunderstanding."

"After all, you are still a child. Many things are inconvenient to explain clearly. They can't be explained clearly, the way is unclear, the cutting is constant, and it doesn't make sense. Sigh, maybe you will understand these things when you grow up."

"No." Mu Hanchan replied, "Even if I grow up, I will be the same."

"People are so sophisticated, you can only understand it after experiencing it, and you have to spend your life slowly managing it." Liu said.

Mu Hanchan didn't reply, but she was not changed by her mother's words.Since he was a child, he has been a person with a tough personality. He doesn't easily waver in his thoughts or make decisions casually.

In fact, Mu Hanchan and Lin Mengge were considered the same kind of people when they were young, and they were people who were not liked.

It's just that adults don't like Lin Mengge, because Lin Mengge is too active.It's children who don't like Mu Hanchan, because Mu Hanchan doesn't fit in with others.

On the mountains flanking the village.

"You are here again!"

"Yes."

"What do you want to know this time?"

"I want to know how to choose the path of my life."

"Then you must first know what options you have in your life."

"What can I choose?"

"From the present point of view, your choice is nothing more than two aspects. The first is to cultivate immortals and be ordinary. The second is truth and love."

"Then how should I choose?"

"You will definitely choose to become an immortal."

"why?"

"Because when the change comes, you have no choice."

Mu Hanchan fell silent and didn't ask why.

Mu Hanchan added: "What about truth and love? What will happen if you choose?"

"Choose truth for a lifetime of loneliness, choose love for a lifetime of pain." The old man said.

"Why? Wouldn't it be happy to choose either?"

"No one ever told you that you are born to be happy."

"So what? Is it impossible for people to be happy no matter whether they choose to cultivate immortals or choose to be ordinary?" Mu Hanchan questioned.

"Not at all." The old man said.

He also said: "Choosing the truth is lonely for a lifetime, unless one day finds it. When you get the truth, you will get real satisfaction.

For nothing but the truth can ever satisfy a man.

So there is a saying: To hear the Tao in the morning, to die in the evening is enough, this sentence is very appropriate to describe it. "

Mu Hanchan asked: "Then choose love?"

"Choose love for a lifetime of pain. Unless you meet true love.

Because love is sweet first and then bitter, few people can hold it in the end.

And people are incapable of giving true love.

So true love is difficult to exist in people.

True love is out of reach, just like truth is out of reach. "

The old man said again.

"Then what should I do? Both paths are difficult."

Mu Hanchan didn't know how to choose.

The old man said: "So you can let go of the difficult ones first and choose the slightly easier ones.

It's easy to make a living.

Because no matter seeking love or seeking justice, you need to make a living first.

This is the foundation.

It's just that finding the right is the ultimate goal of making a living. "

"If you don't seek to make a living, don't you have to go down a lot of wrong paths?"

"Humans seek truth from mistakes, and choose true love from mistakes," said the old man.

But Mu Hanchan said: "Mistakes will bring losses. Wrong choices may also affect your life."

"Wisdom can avoid, cleverness can correct, prudence can reduce."

There was silence for a while.

Mu Hanchan asked: "What about fate? What do you say? Can people change their fate against the sky?"

"No." The old man replied.He also said: "Everyone's fate has been fixed long ago. Since it is fixed, there is no such thing as changing fate against the sky."

Mu Hanchan said: "Then why did you tell me that the purpose of cultivating immortals is to change their fate against the sky? Fate is fixed and cannot be changed, so what are they trying to change?"

The old man replied: "What they have changed is only to bring themselves closer to their upper limit, or to avoid approaching their lower limit."

"Everyone's destiny is determined, but in the determined destiny, there is an upper limit and a lower limit.

Some people have a high upper limit, and the harder they work, the higher they will rise; some people have a low lower limit, and they will keep falling if they don't work hard.

So they all need work.

Also, in destiny, there is not only one path to take in life, but the final outcome is the same, or almost the same.

This is the fate and change.

Fate is fixed, luck is change. "

"Why is there more than one path to take in life, but the ending is the same?"

"Because life, old age, sickness and death are the laws set by the way of heaven for people. People can never change. The most people can change is their own happiness in life."

"How can that person be happy?"

"This... I don't know either. I think it needs to be left to you to explore for yourself in a lifetime."

"Okay." Mu Hanchan said.

The old man said: "It's time for you to go back, friend." It was the first time that the old man chased away a guest after we met for half a year.

"Yeah." Mu Hanchan left silently.

On the way back, Mu Hanchan kept thinking: Can I become the Immortal King?I'm just an ordinary kid.

All he wanted in his heart was to be with Lin Mengge and live happily ever after.

When they got home, Mu Hanchan said to his mother: "Mother, please help me, I've decided, I want this girl, this is what I like, I won't leave it to others."

But his mother Liu Shi said: "Cicada, you have to think about it. Maybe the jokes between you children can be taken lightly.

But when we adults speak, we must be honest. It’s okay if the other party doesn’t agree, but if the other party agrees, then we can’t go back on our word.

In the future, you will marry her as your wife when you grow up according to what you have decided at this time. You should think about it. "

Mu Hanchan got angry and said, "When did I say I didn't do it? And when did I not listen to you, or didn't do what I promised you?

You said let me go home at noon, when the sun is shining, no matter how happy I am, I will come back.

You said that you are not allowed to play on the river, but my little friend pulled me many times, but I refused to go.

Now you are saying that I am a disobedient child and suspect that I am a person who does not keep promises. "

His mother, Liu Shi, said: "I didn't say you were disobedient, nor did I say you were a dishonest person. There is no joke for you, but for others, it may not be all serious.

When I remind you to obey, I am actually reminding you not to forget to consider whether the other party will take it seriously. "

(End of this chapter)