White tea legend

Chapter 17 Tao is an old friend coming

Tianjun has two sons, his biological son is Prince Danzhu, and His Highness Chonghua is his adopted son.

After Tianjun ascended to heaven, he spent a thousand years traveling in the lower world, observing the sufferings of the people. Once he traveled deep into the mountains and almost fell into the mouth of a tiger, but was saved by a young man who was practicing hard in the mountains and risked his life.

This young man is His Highness Chonghua. Because of his life-saving grace to Tianjun, Tianjun originally gave him an order to promote him to the immortal position. However, the young man refused, saying that he would have to ask for immortality in person, which would be interesting.

The reason why this young man lives in the barren mountains is not because he wants to seek immortality, but because he has no choice but to do so.

The boy lost his mother when he was young, and his father married a step-brother and gave birth to a half-brother. Because his father was blind, he was obedient to the step-brother he finally married. It is said that every stepmother has a stepfather. If the stepmother is partial, the biological father will also be partial. The half-brother, relying on his parents' pampering, often bullies the elder, and either teases, beats or scolds the young boy.

Although the young man's father is blind, he has a lot of ancestral property in the family. In order to monopolize the family property, his stepmother and younger brother have repeatedly planned to kill the young man. Instead of stopping him, the blind father has become an accomplice:
  Once, the blind father tricked the young man into repairing the roof of the barn. When the young man climbed to the roof, his stepmother and younger brother set fire to the barn below. Fortunately, the young man was clever and used two bamboo hats as wings to jump off the house and escape. One calamity.

If one plan fails, another plan will be made. The blind father then tricked the young man into digging a well. When the young man dug the well very deep, the blind father helped his stepmother and brother fill the well with soil, hoping to bury the young man alive. Fortunately, the young man had been alert and dug a passage beside the shaft in advance. He passed through the passage and hid in the deep mountains and old forests.

After listening to the young man's detailed account of the past, Tianjun felt pity and asked the young man if he had any resentment.

The young man had no hatred towards his biological father, stepmother or younger brother. He only lamented that his biological father was old and blind, but he could not fulfill his filial piety. Furthermore, his stepmother and younger brother had bad intentions, but he could not influence them to go on the road of filial piety. The right path, but regret and self-blame.

When Tianjun heard this, he felt that the young man had a big mind that ordinary people did not have. In time, he would definitely achieve great success. He also felt pity for his young age and lacked the joy of family relationships, so he asked the young man to salute him in the mountains and accepted him as his adopted son.

After Tianjun revealed his identity, the young man had no intention of following Tianjun to return to heaven and enjoy happiness. Instead, he wanted to follow Tianjun to travel around the world and experience the sufferings of people's livelihood.

As a result, Tianjun traveled around the world for thousands of years, always taking the boy with him. The two were inseparable, and they made various speculations, becoming a father and son who were not biological but better than biological. Tianjun returned to the heavenly realm, and due to his perfect merits, the boy ascended to immortality and became His Highness Chonghua in the heavenly realm. He also became Tianjun's right-hand man in governing the six realms. Because he was kind and treated people with courtesy, he received numerous praises from the six realms. , and even rumors that he would become the successor of Tianjun leaked out, which made the upright prince Danzhu become a thing of the past. Prince Danzhu was so angry that he refused to set foot in heaven for several years.

"I miss Danzhu."

In Tianjun's bedroom, Tianjun was like a fragile old man, showing his soft side to his adopted son.

"My son, I am meeting my father this time and would like to ask him for a few days' leave."

"You want to leave heaven too?" Tianjun was shocked.

"I'm just taking a few days off. If things go well, I'll be back soon."

"where are you going?"

"It could be the human world, it could be the underworld, it could be the demon world..."

“Chonghua’s itinerary sounds like he’s going to find someone?”

His Highness Chonghua nodded: "I can't hide anything from my father."

"Who are you going to find?"

His Highness Chonghua refused to say it clearly. He wanted to go to Prince Danzhu to persuade him to go back to heaven and talk about the past with Tianjun, but he was afraid that this trip would not happen. If he told him in advance and failed to do it, Tianjun would be disappointed. , it’s better not to say it, it will be an unexpected surprise if it is done by then.

Tianjun had already guessed it in his heart, but Chonghua refused to say it, and he didn't point it out.

"Be careful on the road. Just go ahead."

"My son, please retire."

When Chonghua left the dormitory, Taibai Jinxing came forward to have a few drinks with Tianjun.

"Your Majesty, do you know who His Highness Chonghua is looking for?"

"I am the Lord of the Six Realms, how can anything be hidden from my eyes? I won't point it out, but it is just to fulfill Chonghua's filial piety."

"Your Majesty is a good king to the six realms, and a good father to your children."

"But Danzhu didn't think so. I exiled the demon to Danshui, which made Prince Danzhu even more dissatisfied with me."

"After all, the demon is the attendant of Prince Danzhu. Your Majesty did this to preserve the reputation of Prince Danzhu and protect him." Gods and Buddhas all over the sky can see the painstaking efforts of Tianjun, but Prince Danzhu cannot see it. Yeah, maybe he doesn’t want to see it!
  Tianjun was very depressed, and he drank a few more glasses of wine, which made him even more depressed, but he did sleep well.

His Highness Chonghua received a vacation from Tianjun, but he did not leave the heaven immediately. Instead, he walked to a corner, which was the corner where all the gods and Buddhas in the sky had forgotten.

Where the fragrant clouds are misty, a fence surrounds a thatched cottage. There is a little more greenery in front of the thatched cottage, which is a tea tree planted in a blue and white porcelain pot.

This is fresh vegetation in the heavenly realm and has never been seen before.

An immortal in white clothes is watering the tea tree. The tea tree stands tall and graceful, with tea buds and crystal white hair. Water drops hang from the tea leaves, glowing brightly.

"Is this the legendary white tea?"

Lu Yu turned around when he heard the sound, and it turned out to be an old friend.

"Why is His Highness Chonghua here?"

"Come to see an old friend," His Highness Chonghua opened the fence door and walked in. His eyes fell on the blue and white porcelain basin, "and this new friend."

"The distinguished guest has arrived, stop hiding." Lu Yu glanced at the tea tree, and the girl in white appeared.

"This is His Highness Chonghua."

"I have met His Highness."

Chonghua saw that the girl in white looked pretty, but was still very weak, and her actions were very cowardly, so he asked, "Still you don't change your original intention?"

"I still want to become an immortal." Lu Yu answered for Bai Cha.

His Highness Chonghua summoned a ray of spiritual power from his body, "In this way, I can show my meager strength."

As he said that, he pointed his spiritual power in the direction of Bai Cha, and the golden spiritual power suddenly penetrated into Bai Cha's Tianling Cap, and Bai Cha suddenly felt stronger. The plants in the blue and white porcelain pots also grew stronger instantly.

"This is not a waste of the three hundred years spent in Baicao Garden." His Highness Chonghua said.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Lu Yu thanked Bai Cha.

Bai Cha also bowed to express his thanks.

"There is a cause and a result, no need to thank you."

The phrase "there is a cause, there is an effect" again sounded familiar to Bai Cha.

Lu Yu wanted to persuade His Highness Chonghua to stay for some food and drinks to catch up on old times, but His Highness Chonghua said that he had something important and had to go to the lower world to deal with it, so he could only take one step first.

After His Highness Chonghua left, Bai Cha asked Lu Yu: "Why does he also say that there is cause and effect?"

"He said it, you ask him."

"But he's gone."

"Then ask next time."

"He looks familiar to you."

"It's an old friend."

"How old a friend?"

Seeing the curious expression on the girl's face, Lu Yu said: "Do your homework well today, and I will tell you in detail——"

(End of this chapter)