Xuanjian Xianzu

Chapter 64 Xu San
Five years later.

The morning sun breaks through the layers of clear fog in the mountains, and sprinkles from the gaps between the treetops and leaves, printing pale golden fragments all over the ground.

The Li family planted the land by the Moon Lake for another five years. Sixteen or seventeen years have passed since they picked up the Jianzi. The stone road on Lijing Mountain has gradually turned blue, and the birds are chirping on the branches, creating a new scene.

The old man Xu sat blankly beside the moss-covered stone tablet, his crooked body complemented the cold tombstone, and his withered and yellow hands were tightly clutching a handful of dirt.

"Old man...why isn't he dead yet?"

Old man Xu went to Mount Lijing a few years ago, saying that he wanted to guard the cemetery for the Li family, but Li Xiangping and the others couldn't resist him, so they had to let him go.

Li Xuanxuan built a hut for him next to the cemetery on Lijing Mountain, and often brought some things to visit him. Old man Xu can play tricks, weave grass crickets, and draw something. The children of the Li family are always busy. Running to the hut, Li Xuanfeng didn't have any playmates of the right age on the mountain, and his father was busy, so he had been playing with old man Xu for the past few years.

The old man Xu smiled and played with the children, but he was waiting to die in secret. Every night when he fell asleep, he thought: "I'm going to die tomorrow?"

Just yesterday, the old man Xu dawdled and staggered to the age of 80.

"How the hell did someone live to be 80 years old and still not die?"

Old man Xu squinted his eyes and looked at the distant hillside. Under the golden sunlight, a small figure was waving his hands on the hillside. The golden sunlight stretched his back very long.

"Xuan Feng is here to see you~ Xu——great—grand——"

The child was covered in stains, his face was still stained with mud, and his hair was scattered in strands. He looked a little chic, and even a little arrogant. He held a small wooden bow in his hand, There is also a small quiver tied between them.

The child bounced down from the hillside full of golden sunshine, while the old man Xu nested in a dark corner and was dying. At this moment, the two were like the two poles of the world. The newborn and dying met on the mountainside of Lijing Mountain. .

"Is Xuanxuan here?"

The old man Xu became more conscious, raised his head, and said in a stumbling manner.

"Uncle Xu, I am Li Xuanfeng, and my father is Li Xiangping, not Li Changhu."

Li Xuanfeng giggled, untied the rope on his underpants, found a tombstone of about the same height beside the old man, hummed a song and began to pee.

After peeing for a while, Li Xuanfeng was about to pull up his trousers and call it a day. Unexpectedly, the old man stared at him. He managed to raise his crutches, slapped Li Xuanfeng's butt, and shouted:
"Damn it, that's your great-grandfather's tomb."

Li Xuanfeng staggered, trembling in aggrieved way, then pulled up his trousers, fastened the rope between his trousers, and said with a face full of disbelief:

"He's dead! Why don't you let him pee? How did he die?"

"Poisoned."

After such a toss, the old man Xu has become much more energetic. He sat up reluctantly and said eloquently:

"Many years ago, your Li family was not so powerful. A large family, called the Yuan family, poisoned Grandpa You and your second grandfather to death and wanted to annex the land."

"Later, your grandfather came back with a knife, killed the Yuan family, and divided up their land instead."

Li Xuanfeng propped up his small hands, sat on the mossy tombstone that was neither tall nor short, grinned, and said loudly:
"Good kill!"

Old man Xu glared at him, and then continued:

"What's so good, the Yuan family... ran away with a doll, and came back in 22 years to kill your uncle!"

"Hey?!"

Li Xuanfeng's eyes narrowed suddenly, and the child's slender eyelashes moved between his brows, cursing:
"It's all because Grandpa didn't do it kindly. He killed the whole family, but he managed to escape one of them."

Old man Xu stared at him blankly, and said softly:
"What a bad breed! Your Li family has been bad since childhood."

Li Xuanfeng shook his head unconvinced, and said loudly:
"Why should the Yuan family kill my Li family? Kill my Li family and kill one, and then wait to be slaughtered by my family. My Li family killed a baby, and wait for him to come and take revenge! What's the point? Bad fight?"

Old man Xu also shook his head, and said in a deep voice:
"When will it be time for revenge..."

"If you don't have good hands and feet, when will you repay your injustice? If you slaughter your family and exterminate your family, what more injustice can you repay?"

Li Xuanfeng cursed, his immature face was full of disdain, he didn't look like a seven or eight year old child at all.

Old man Xu coughed twice, mocking himself:
"The old man has seen too much life and death, so he is afraid of killing people, but he is not as straightforward as you, a doll."

"Uncle Xu."

Li Xuanfeng stood beside him seriously, and said:

"Sheep eat grass, wolves eat sheep, people eat meat, demons eat people, and everything in the world is you who eat me and I eat you."

"That's what my father said."

Straightening his back, he put on a serious look, pretending to be old and said:

"Feng'er! This world is a world of great contention!"

After saying that, he laughed and rolled on the ground a few times, making the old man Xu on the ground cough and laugh too.

Old man Xu laughed for a while, then slowly said:

"Once upon a time, there was a family that lived on the edge of the village. The father worked diligently on the land, and the mother took good care of their three children."

"One day, my father saw fireworks in the neighboring village, so he asked his younger son Xu San to go up the mountain to cut firewood. Xu San happily went up the mountain, playing wildly and didn't come back until evening."

"But as soon as he got home, Xu San saw bloodstains all over the place. A dozen people were sitting around his courtyard, setting up a big pot with his parents in it. His two older brothers had been shaved, piled up It became two piles."

"Xu San was terrified. He turned around and ran, hiding on the mountain for ten days. Later, he heard that the village next door had suffered a severe drought. The villagers were desperate for hunger, and his home was far away from the village. suffered such a catastrophe."

Li Xuanfeng was fascinated by what he heard, and said in a low voice with a cold face:
"I'm going to kill them all."

"But Xu San is useless. He has been useless all his life. He dare not say anything. He has been hiding in the village all his life. Xu San hates them, and Xu San hates that big sparrow even more, hates that fairy!"

Old man Xu yelled for a while, stretched out his hand and pulled Li Xuanfeng to him, and said hastily and in a low voice:
"Xu San saw two handymen releasing water in the mountains. They said...they said...the reason for seducing this big sparrow to come to Dali Mountain to eat people is to take the black qi in the flames to train the qi of the boring Jinmen young master. Xu San heard it clearly, Xu San has been in the nest for decades and dare not speak."

"Xu San, Xu San, uh... dead, all dead."

The old man Xu gasped twice, his eyes were bloodshot, he spit out a few foams of blood, he tilted his head and fell to the ground, his withered hand that was holding Li Xuanfeng's trouser leg was finally loosened.

Li Xuanfeng stared at him blankly, and after a long while, he suddenly said:
"Xu San, you are dead too."

Warm tears flowed down his face and dripped on old man Xu's cold and stiff corpse. Li Xuanfeng sobbed a few words, lay on his body and wailed loudly, dizzy and aggrieved from crying.

(End of this chapter)