Nine idlers

Seeing his disciple put the notebook on the table and take a pen to record the past memories he said, Chen Yinning closed his eyes slightly, and after a while, he slowly opened them and said: "The earliest thing I remember is When I was five or six years old, my father took the Chinese New Year to visit relatives, and I was hungry halfway, so I bought a bowl of chaos at a stall at an intersection..."

Xu Changqing sat on a chair beside him, closed his eyes slightly, and listened quietly.

At the beginning, Chen Yingning's memory of the past was still a little fuzzy, and he often got into the memory of the other end before he finished speaking. After he recalled it, he looked at the notebook copied by his disciple and started talking again.From the beginning to the end, Xu Changqing did not express any opinions. Even if Chen Yingning stopped because of recalling some vague memories and went for a walk outside, he did not urge him. Sitting on the sofa in the ward, sometimes he closed his eyes and meditated, and sometimes he picked up the notebook copied by Chen Yingning's disciple and read it repeatedly.

Although Xu Changqing seems to outsiders to be calm as usual, in fact, his heart has been far from being peaceful a day ago, and all kinds of emotions are rushing out at this time, making his thoughts fall into an unprecedented mess.

Just one day ago, Chen Yingning began to recall the past few years when he borrowed from his relatives in Shanghai to travel in the capital when he was in his 30s.Hearing this, Xu Changqing found that the life trajectory of Chen Yingning in front of him had changed.Back then, Xu Changqing met Chen Yuanshan at this time and made friends with him, but Chen Yingning did not remember this period, and even after that, nothing related to Xu Changqing happened. What is more important is that after his travels, he After returning to Shanghai, he married a Western doctor named Hao Yizhu. In his later memories, there is no shadow of his cousin Zhou Qinglan, nor a son named Chen Xuantong.

At first, Xu Changqing thought that he had found the wrong person, and that Chen Yingning and Chen Yuanshan were two people, but after careful consideration, he realized that something was wrong.Because if you find the wrong person, it is impossible for this person's experience before the age of 30 to be exactly the same as Chen Yuanshan in his memory.Xu Changqing doesn't know much about Chen Yuanshan's memories before he was 30 years old, but what he knows contains some very personal little things, and it makes sense that one or two of these little things are similar.But they are all exactly the same, which cannot be explained by coincidence alone.

Afterwards, Xu Changqing guessed whether Chen Yingning's memory could be changed by someone else's spell, but then he felt that it was unlikely, because it is not difficult to change a person's memory through spells such as ecstasy.But this kind of memory modification can only modify a person's short-term memory.Even if Xu Changqing's golden fairy body is used to cast spells, it will not exceed one year at most, but Chen Yingning's memory is different for more than ten years after he was in his 30s, which is obviously not something that can be done by magic.What's more, the biggest difficulty in changing memory is to fill in the gaps in this part of memory, and it is extremely difficult to fabricate a person's one-day memory, let alone a complete memory of more than ten or twenty years.The biggest loophole in this guess is not just Chen Yingning's memory. If you want to make it seamless, you must modify the memories of everyone Chen Yingning has been in contact with over the years. People can do it.Even the innate gods of the ancient prehistoric world are probably powerless.

Xu Changqing also tried to deduce everything about Chen Yingning's past through Tianluodoushu and the law of causality, but he didn't know whether it was the touching power of human nature in the world, or the barrier of Chen Yingning's own Dao breath. The deduction of the fate is complete, and the result of the deduction is equally chaotic, and the result of the deduction of the same thing is completely different.

At this moment, Xu Changqing didn't know what to do at all, so that Chen Yingning didn't have the heart to listen to the various past events that Chen Yingning recalled afterwards, and some questions constantly appeared in his chaotic mind, which attracted all his energy.

What happened to Chen Yingning?What caused Chen Yingning's completely changed life trajectory?These two questions are naturally the core questions that Xu Changqing most wants to solve now, but there is another question that is not the core part.But for Xu Changqing, it is also the key to answering the core question, which is why this happened to Chen Yingning.

After Xu Changqing knew that Chen Yingning's life trajectory had changed, he initially felt that he was the cause of everything, because of himself, a kind of heaven and earth power that he did not know reversed Chen Yingning's life trajectory.after all.I am the person who should be robbed, and I have done so many things in the three realms of Kunlun, and the people related to him have become the core figures who promote the fate of the three realms of Kunlun, and I am the only one who has the possibility of stepping into the realm of Daluo Jinxian for so many years. A mortal who really jumps out of the Three Realms and is not in the Five Elements.It's not surprising that other people's lives change because of their close contact with him.

But the problem is.Because there are quite a few people who have changed their lives when they come into contact with him, but what they change is only the future fate, and they cannot change what has happened in the past, but Chen Yingning is completely different, what he changes is the past fate, It is to erase everything after Xu Changqing came into contact with him, and completely eliminate Xu Changqing from his life. This kind of thing is not recorded even in the incomplete memory of Zhen Yuanzi and the fragmented memory of the demon god Qiu.

The only guess that Xu Changqing can be sure of is that what happened to Chen Yingning must be related to him, but the cause is definitely not on him, and he is probably only a little bit involved with the cause of the incident. affected objects.Moreover, he also felt that the natal aura in Chen Yingning's soul that was compatible with the Dao of heaven and earth might also be related to this. The aura of Dao that even Da Luo Jinxian might not have in a mortal is doubtful in any way.

In this way, about ten days passed, and Xu Changqing's confused mind kept generating questions, and he kept answering them by himself, but in the end he couldn't find a reasonable and reliable clue.

On the other hand, with Chen Yingning's memories of the past ten days, the content of his memories has become more and more detailed, and more than a dozen notebooks recording the contents of his memories have been superimposed.Now it is not only the middle-aged disciple that Xu Changqing saw at the beginning was helping Chen Yingning to copy, but even Chen Yingning's other disciples in Beijing also came to assist in copying after get off work or in their spare time.Because of Xu Changqing's reluctance to announce his identity, he prevented Chen Yingning from introducing his identity to his disciples, and simply said that he was a distant relative of his, and except for the middle-aged man, those disciples only regarded him as An ordinary nephew and nephew just felt that their elder brother's attitude towards this distant relative was a little weird, both fearful and flattering.

On this day, Chen Yingning was preparing to recall the events after liberation. Among these disciples, someone suddenly proposed to use this opportunity to sort out some Taoist metaphysics notes left by Chen Yingning and compile them into a book for future publication.Because of Xu Changqing's help, Chen Yingning's spirit has also become very good during this period. He actually felt that he might be returning to the light now, and he might not have the opportunity to organize his life's learning into a book in the future, so he agreed to this proposal, and He called Hu Haiya, his personal disciple who was designated as the heir, and asked him to bring all the books and manuscripts that he had entrusted to him.

Hu Haiya is Chen Yingning's closed disciple and the established lineage heir. Before liberation, he had studied under Chen Yingning's sect and has been serving him all the time. It can be said that he is the person who is most familiar with Chen Yingning in the past 20 years.Among the memoirs that have been sorted out, a lot of content in the latter part involves Hu Haiya, which made Xu Changqing almost think that he was Chen Xuantong, the son of Chen Yuanshan whom he met back then.

Before Chen Yingning was diagnosed with cancer and entered the hospital for recuperation, Hu Haiya had been assisting Chen Yingning in sorting out his Taoism, and he was also the main participant in the published books on immortality, so he knew Chen Yingning's Xuanmen immortality system very well.Because of this, Chen Yingning, who felt that he could not survive this calamity, wrote his will years ago, and handed it along with all his books and manuscripts to this closed disciple, so that he could make a living after his death. Organize these book manuscripts.

Due to work reasons, Hu Haiya was transferred to a cadre school in other places, and he did not serve the sick Chen Yingning, and Chen Yingning did not want this closed disciple to see himself tortured by illness, so he was not allowed to return to Beijing.It’s just that the relationship between the master and apprentice is very deep, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that they love father and son. Therefore, after receiving the call, Hu Haiya asked for leave from the unit that day and returned to Beijing. He also went with several boxes of books and manuscripts. brought back.

When seeing Chen Yingning at this moment, Hu Haiya, like other disciples, mistakenly thought that Chen Yingning had recovered from his illness, but after it was confirmed that it was just a flashback, he couldn't help crying and cursing the world. In the eyes of a cold-tempered person like Xu Changqing, he couldn't help but sigh that Chen Yingning had accepted a good disciple.

Since Hu Haiya already had a plan and experience in sorting out Chen Yingning's books and manuscripts during this period, after the books and manuscripts were delivered, other disciples got started quickly, and within a day, all the books had been ordered in order. After the categories are arranged, the next step is to organize the manuscript.

Xu Changqing watched from the side during the whole process, and Chen Yingning didn't do anything directly, but just directed from the side. Most of the time, he continued the memories of the previous few days.

Just when Chen Yingning felt a little tired and was about to rest, and Xu Changqing still had nothing to do and waited for tomorrow to continue, Chen Yingning suddenly picked up a yellowed book that was neatly placed in the box, flipped through a few pages, and pointed it at Hu Haiya Handing it over, he said: "This book is the origin of Taoism in one's life, but it is the most comprehensive bibliography of immortal studies. You should not put this book together with other books. After I leave, you should carry it with you and read it carefully all the time. "(~^~)