The Love of the Green Snake in the Other Side Pavilion

Chapter 33
The mountain is majestic and tall.

On the edge of the cliff, Ji Kong stood in a blue shirt with his hands behind his back, his shoulder-length black hair was untied, fluttering in the wind, he should have a carefree attitude, but he was like a bamboo, his posture was tenacious, and he would not bend over even after thousands of pressures.

"Huaizhen, you are three hours late." Ji Kong said calmly, he did not turn his head back, it is true that he has no mana, but he never relied on mana to recognize people.

"Yes, master." Huaizhen replied, looking at such a master, he remembered a saying that the hunters in the village not far away said when they were chatting, the pole of the green bar tree-it is better to bend than to bend.

The pole will bend after being used for a long time or when it bears too much weight. Only the pole made of green bar tree would rather be broken than bend. The lonely sky is full of pride, and the back is always straight.

The two stopped talking and remained silent for a while.

One is indifferent, the other is dull, even if Jikong brings Huaizhen up with one hand, there is still not much communication between them.

"How long have you been a teacher?"

"100."

"It's three days in 99, 360, and two more days." Jikong corrected.

The two days that Huai Zhen told the woman were not an imaginary number but real two days.

Jikong said again: "Do you know that your dharma name is Huaizhen?"

"I don't know, please tell Master." Huaizhen's eyes were extremely clear.

"With a heart of chastity, you will not fall into the evil way. Huaizhen also has the idea of ​​steadfastness. You were brought back from the place where the teacher was starving and dying. I don't want you to fall into the evil way in the future, and I hope you can stick to your ideas. .and……"

And apart from this name, he has no relationship with her in this world. Yes, the little green snake he put in the mustard bag disappeared out of thin air, as if it had never appeared before. If it wasn't for the snake kiss remaining on his hand, he Must have thought he never found it.

"kindness?"

Huai Zhen was puzzled, he didn't hear the second part of the master's words clearly.

"It's okay, you go to Lili here, as a teacher, I only warn one thing, don't get involved in love."

It was originally for Huaizhen's good, but the moment he said it, there was a trace of fear in his heart. He was not afraid of demons, but what he was afraid of was that at the moment he said it, he only thought about letting Xu Qingqing meet Huaizhen. The destiny cannot be violated, but he has selfish intentions and hopes for it.

"Yes." Clear eyes are full of trust.

Ji Kong turned around, turned his back to the moonlight, half of his face was hidden in the darkness, his expression was difficult to distinguish, he looked at the serious face of the only disciple, he thought he was overthinking, Huai Zhen is just a child now.

His eyes narrowed slightly, his lips curled slightly, the stiff lines on his face softened to a line, and he smiled for the first time in a hundred years, he said: "Go and rest, don't come to see your teacher when you leave."

"Yes." Huaizhen nodded, turned around and took two steps, stopped as if thinking of something, turned around and asked, "Master, how long will it take to return from traveling?"

Jikong sighed and said: "I will come back when I should come back."

It is not only the Tao of Lao Zhuang who talks about letting nature take its course, the Buddha also talks about it.

Huaizhen left.

Jikong stood on the edge of the cliff, blowing the wind, watching the sun rise and the moon rising, he felt very at ease and peaceful. He spent two-thirds of his life in war and retreat, and he couldn't remember how long it was I have never looked at everything in the world.

He has been standing here for many years, with neither joy nor sorrow in his heart, and he has entered a state of mysterious and mysterious, wonderful and wonderful.He is him, he is not him, he is still him.

Birds came and landed on him, courted, mated, raised children, and left. The birds came and flew away, and there were many dead branches and weeds on his body, but he still didn't move a bit.

Spring comes and autumn goes, the twelfth lunar month is hot, and the four seasons rotate.Exposure to the sun, wind, rain and lightning, can't hurt him at all, he has become a lifelike stone sculpture.

One day, he woke up from that mysterious and mysterious, wonderful and wonderful situation, shaking his body, heard the sound of bones stiffening and stretching, dead branches and weeds on his body fell to the ground and became a bird's nest, with birds and eggs on his head. Falling into it, he was not startled away, but stretched his wings very peacefully.

He smiled slightly and was extremely gentle. The sharp-edged iceberg turned into a lake with gentle breeze.

He held up his wide sleeves to cover the birds on the ground from the rain, and picked up the bird's nest and placed it on a tree beside him. His hands were steady, so the birds were not scared away.

When the rain breaks, he puts the bird's nest on a tree at the foot of the mountain, and walks towards the southeast. It's only a few miles, not fast but not slow. Wherever he passes, passers-by feel dazzled.

He wants to travel again to prove the truth in his heart, but before traveling, he wants to see Huaizhen again.

Because he suddenly realized that it is better to go against the trend of the world than to follow the trend of the world. It is like the hardest and softest water in the world. The temperature is always the same, and there is some persistence in it; all things are cultivated without fighting, and the dirt of the world is tolerated without changing.

It took him hundreds of years to finally understand his own way. Although it is only a prototype, the way has already been born, and all that remains is for him to go on.

He didn't find the way, but went to the South China Sea.

There is a sea in the far south, and there is an island in the sea. It is not known who the owner of the island is. There are many ordinary people on the island. It is said that there is a snake demon in the purple bamboo forest on the east of the island.

He went, and after a long distance, he saw a half-human, half-snake beautiful girl in the purple bamboo forest, sitting gracefully cross-legged on the bamboo. Quite delicate and naive.

She suddenly said: "Hey, Monk, why don't you come out? Are you afraid of me, or did you say that my shape like a yaksha frightened you?"

Jikong thought she had seen his hiding place, so he took a step, and in front of him, a monk wearing a bamboo hat appeared in the purple bamboo forest.

When the monk saw her, he folded his hands and turned around to leave, because he didn't find the bloody and evil spirit on the girl, and he was not a person who was biased against all living beings in the six realms.

But the girl called out, "Hey, Monk, you haven't answered my question yet."

The monk did not speak, and took two steps forward.

The girl laughed: "Forget it, it doesn't matter, you have to take me outside to have a look, otherwise I will eat one person every day, who told me to be boring."

The girl yawned a lot as she spoke, it seemed that she was really bored.

The monk turned his head, and the wind picked up the gauze around the bamboo hat, Jikong finally saw the monk's face clearly, he was both surprised and took it for granted, because this monk was Huaizhen who had been away from Qing Ulsan for many years.

Many years have passed, Jikong should not be able to recognize it, but Huaizhen has not changed much, which is really recognizable.

He has grown from a naive boy to a man who can stand alone. The bun face that was cute when he was serious and serious when he was young is now upright, but still serious, and a small hole is squeezed out between his eyebrows.

When he spoke, his voice was as serious as his face: "You are not that kind of person."

"Puhaha, Monk, you are so funny. I am a demon, of course I am not that kind of person. You are stupid for reading Buddhist scriptures, Monk." The girl laughed out of breath, but it would not make people angry.

Huai Zhen didn't want to say more, she turned and left.

"Hey, wait for me."

The girl hurriedly stopped laughing, clutching her belly while flicking the snake's tail and followed.

Ji Kong, who was witnessing all this, had a strange idea in his heart, he thought, if he walked out before Huaizhen walked out, would Xu Qingqing like him.

He knew it was wrong, but couldn't help thinking about this question repeatedly, so he followed Xu Qingqing and Huaizhen from afar.

This is an extremely long time, and the mortal world has already passed the nine summers and ten colds.The icy aura on Jikong's body that had only eased became more and more serious. He often smiled wryly. He had been here for a long time, and he had guessed that he had returned to 3000 years ago. He came back inexplicably, and inexplicably became the master of the woman he rarely fell in love with. , everything that he had faintly worried about in the past has all come true, life is like a play, and everything here has become a mockery of him.

Treat him well, he will bring you unexpected.

The words of the strange woman Yaohu are still in my ears, but the scene I see is like this.

If so, don't do it.

Along the way, Xu Qingqing and Huaizhen were happy, angry, sad, happy, and fell in love with each other. In his eyes, he was like an addict who had tasted poppies. He knew it was poison but couldn't quit. He had no choice but to drink poison to quench his thirst.

He finally sighed, it is better to go back than this.

Looking at the still cold and busy city in the world, with people coming and going like ants, Jikong took a bite of vegetables and chewed them slowly in his mouth. There were two ordinary-looking people downstairs, one green and one brown, and he put them in his mouth. Throw in a peanut, smile slightly, turn around and jump out of the window.

Being trapped by love is not suitable for him, if he can't control it, then he won't see it.

Huaizhen has grown up, he is very relieved.

Huaizhen, who was picking up vegetables, paused for a moment before putting it in her mouth.

Xu Qingqing on the side snorted coldly, and asked pretending to be angry: "It's rare to eat it once and still be careless."

After all, the two of them are extraordinary people, it's okay if they don't eat for a long time, eating today is really a coincidence.

Huai Zhen thought that there was nothing to hide, and said: "The back of the person who just passed by the door looks like Master, but it is impossible to think about it, Master has never been down the mountain since a long time ago."

Xu Qingqing pretended to be sarcastic: "You, you only talk so much when you talk about your master. I don't know how long it will take. When you talk about Ben, I can talk so much."

She paused, as if she wasn't used to it, and quickly covered it up.

Huai Zhenmu had a serious face, full of embarrassment, he didn't know how to answer the conversation.

Xu Qingqing smiled and stopped teasing him, and ate the food with peace of mind.

But Ji Kong turned back and heard these words, just smiled, looked at the two of them and never returned.

No one noticed that there was an old woman and an old man whispering in a room of the inn diagonally opposite this building.

What Jikong is going this time is exactly the opposite of Xu Qingqing and Huaizhen.At this time, the mortal world has been stable for some time, but it is only stable.

If the country does not exist, there must be monsters.

Therefore, it is not uncommon to see flower spirits, fox demons, resentful ghosts, demons, Taoist gods, and Buddhist monks. If you smash them with a tile, nine out of ten are not ordinary people.

(End of this chapter)