The Stairway to Immortality

Since Mo Lao lived in the village, many children have learned to write and recognize words these days, and Zhao Shiyu has learned more than other children, not only literacy but also learned a lot of musical instruments, such as flute, guzheng, flute, flute, and so on

Mo Lao taught him a lot of principles of life, what should be done and what should not be done, and taught him everything he had learned, and Zhao Shiyu also lived up to his expectations and learned them one by one, but there was a small problem, once he learned it, he would not review it.

Mo Lao asked him why, and Zhao Shiyu replied, "What Mo Lao taught me, I won't take it out again if I put it in my heart, and I don't need to study it anymore." During

his studies, Mo Lao also taught Shi Zi how to use a dagger and some self-defense martial arts.

Mo Lao once told him, "When you grow up, learning is useful in this world, but you can't learn martial arts, and if you know martial arts, you can protect yourself and the people you want to protect." Zhao

Shiyu was holding a wooden dagger in his hand, which was made by Ma Wuqi at the request of Mo Lao, and Mo Lao told Zhao Shiyu to teach him the dagger move, called the life protection style, which was also taught to him by a martial artist when Mo Lao was young.

Day by day, Mo Lao has lived in the village for a few years, these years have been smooth, rare good days, the village people live a happy life in peace, but the matter of catching soldiers is every year, every time a few villagers will be arrested, and a lot of food will be requisitioned, the war year can only be like this, the little villagers can only be fished.

On this day, the wind and the sun are beautiful, Zhao Shiyu took his friends, caught the fish, and lassoed a few hares, now Zhao Shiyu is still dark skin, thin and thin figure, taller, Zhao Shiyu is carrying a bamboo basket fish in one hand, and carrying a long pole in the other hand, a few rabbits are tied with ropes on the long pole, striding in front of the meteor, with a wooden dagger on his waist, and a small bamboo flute, behind him are Erwang, Xiaochai, Dunzi and dogs.

The two little girls were not in the camp of their friends, because the girls couldn't go out when they reached this age, and they would have to find their in-laws to marry in two or three years.

The four partners behind him are almost the same as Zhao Shiyu, carrying their hands and shoulders, full of harvest, the five friends walked into the village and went home, only Zhao Shiyu carried rabbits and fish, and went to Mo's hometown first.

"Yo, yes, we have a lot of stones harvested every time, and we are really good at fishing and hunting from childhood to adulthood," Ma Wuqi said with a smile, reaching out to help unload the rabbits and fish.

Zhao Shiyu happily ran into Mo Lao's house, in the room Mo Lao was playing the qin, the timbre was beautiful, Zhao Shiyu stood quietly at the door and listened.

After a long time, the sound of the piano stopped, Mo Lao got up and said, "You kid doesn't help the adults in the field, but catches game, you are a bit out of business." "

I'm very greedy, and if I don't eat game for a few days, I feel uncomfortable," Zhao Shiyu said with a simple smile.

Mo Lao looked at Zhao Shiyu up and down, and said softly, "Zhao Shiyu, you are fourteen years old, aren't you afraid of being arrested and sent to be a soldier?"

Zhao Shiyu scratched his head and replied, "I'm also afraid, but what can I do? I have never been out of the village, and once I come to arrest soldiers, I don't know what to do? Mo Lao give me an idea, I still want to live happily."

"There's war everywhere, hey... The world is not good," Mo Lao sighed, and walked back and forth in the house with his hands behind his back.

Suddenly, Mo Lao's eyes lit up, and he clapped his palms and said with a smile, "Let me tell you a story, when I was traveling, I walked to the territory of Yue and heard an old man who was playing wood, he told a personal experience of himself, which is a strange thing." One

day, the old man was walking on the path in the woods, and suddenly he saw a flaming bird, this bird was born strangely, with a dark reddish-purple crown feather on the top of its head, a pair of small wings under a pair of wings, and four golden feathers longer than his body in the tail feathers behind him. At

this time, three young men came out of a big tree, all about twenty years old, each wearing a navy blue brocade robe, with a pair of koi fish embroidered on the cuffs, which could be remembered at a glance. At

this time, the red bird landed on a big stone, pecked the big stone with its beak and cracked it, and there was a small gray insect in the stone, when the old man did not see what kind of insect it was, the small insect in the stone disappeared in an instant, and when the old man reacted, the red bird was already standing on a young man's hairpin, and it was about to swallow the insect in its mouth.

At this time, a young man who looked at the younger walked to the old man's side, bowed slightly, after the old man returned the salute, he looked up at the young man's face, at this time a white light appeared in the young man's eyes, the old man felt that the white light was dazzling, turned over and fell to the ground when he woke up, it was sunset, the old man slowly got up, touched the big bag on his head with his hand, the pain was not good, fortunately there was no bleeding, and then look at the place where he was lying, a stone was buried under a dirt bag. "

It is rumored that this thing can be remembered, maybe it is the old man who hit his head against the stone, he will remember this matter, and a few woodcutters have also told such a story, but they all remember vaguely, not very clearly, this is a true story, because the old man is famous in the local area and never lies, he is very admired by everyone, this is the story of meeting the immortals" After Mo Lao finished speaking, he still had an unfinished look, and it was enjoyable to think about.

"Mo Lao, Mo Lao, there are really immortals in this world, people from the trees, and the red bird. Zhao Shiyu said excitedly.

Mo Lao didn't squeak, walked to the bookcase, rummaged through the pile of bamboo slips, looked for a long time before taking out a coarse cloth roll, and then beckoned Zhao Shiyu to come over.

Mo Lao pointed to a small bird and said, "Look at this bird, it is called Luanwei Fire Feather Bird, this is the plaything of the immortals, it will report the news, will hunt for treasures, and will help the immortals fight, but it is amazing."

Zhao Shiyu looked at the picture unconfidently, then looked up at Mo Lao, then looked at the picture, then looked at Mo Lao, pointed to the canvas and asked, "What is this? Mo Lao, you have never shown me this thing, I have seen all your bamboo slips, but what is this?"

Mo Lao said with a smile. This cloth scroll is also a gift from my teacher, the teacher told me to have a fairy in my heart, so that I was in awe of the things and things between heaven and earth, I used it as a thing to relieve boredom, and I could also see things and think about people, I didn't think that I could connect with the story before. At

this time, Zhao Shiyu also remembered that every time he dreamed, he saw lines of handwriting on the wall in the oval room, and the words said. I am a treasure disciple of Yuya Pavilion, only do two things every day, look at treasures, keep treasures, because of greed in my heart, think of the fairy treasure and fight day by day, one day with a token to take the treasure, the heart can not but the hand has held the purple and blue Tibetan stone, after injecting the spiritual law, I learned that there are five elements of high-grade elf stones and more than 100 gas crystals, a flying flower wind sword trick and a few pig dragon hamstrings, four soul beast fairy incense burner, phoenix tail moon shadow sword, dragon mirror jade knife, I used a clever plan to escape from the pavilion, but was tracked by the Yuya Divine Needle, was seriously injured by the divine needle, knowing that it was already a dying person, abandoned the hidden stone in the river, released the rain god spell, washed away the Tibetan stone and waited for the destined person to get it, but remember the treasure do not want to show the world, otherwise there will be death. The

story is linked to the handwriting on the wall, Zhao Shiyu is convinced, he is a little excited, his eyes look at Mo Lao without blinking, and then said, "Mo Lao, can you tell me to take a good look at the cloth scroll?" Mo Lao nodded and agreed to Zhao Shiyu's request.

The next day, Zhao Shiyu got up early in the morning, ran to Mo's house, and then read the pictures and texts in the cloth scroll.

Zhao Shiyu's father knew that Mo Lao was going to let his son avoid the army, and he didn't want this youngest son to have a fate that would never go back, he was afraid that the youngest son would follow in the footsteps of his two elder brothers, as long as he could get out of the village, walk between heaven and earth, and live well, he would be satisfied.

Zhao Shiyu looked at it seriously in Mo Lao's house, this cloth scroll wrote how the immortals fight, the immortals flew on fairy beasts, and all kinds of fairy beasts, fairy birds, all kinds of fairy world anecdotes, looking at the novelty, but also wrote about the fun of the fairy world, the immortals can fly to the sky and the earth, unrestrained between heaven and earth, see the last introduction to the immortals' wine and food, Zhao Shiyu saw the food, his eyes lit up, fantasizing about the world.

Zhao Shiyu suddenly looked up at Mo Lao and asked, "How can Mo Lao be an immortal? I also want to be like them, it's really enviable."

Mo Lao laughed and said, "I also want to be an immortal, but who can tell you how to get there? You can try it when you are young, even if you can't, you can avoid this disaster and try your luck in the woods of Yue Kingdom." Mo

Lao took out the map and put it on the table, in the past few years Mo Lao's training, Zhao Shiyu has already been able to read the map, Min Guo is in the corner of this map, the country's area is not large, nor is it small, from Min to Yue to go to several countries, Shizi looked at Yue Guo, very excited, thinking about going to Yue Guo, his heart flew out.

"Then how can I go, I won't be able to get there for a few years?" Zhao Shiyu asked.

Mo Lao said, "There is a caravan in the neighboring village, passing through Yue Guo all the way, just take you there, then I will be much more relieved, Ma Wuqi! Ma Wuqi! "

Ma Wuqi entered the house, he has been with Mo Lao for the past few years, and he has learned a lot like a scribe, but it seems that something is missing.

Ma Wuqi, who entered the house, smiled and Mimi replied, "Mo Lao, what is the matter, I'll do it for you."

"You go to find the caravan, I'm going to let Zhao Shiyu go to Yue Guo to do some business, and let this kid go out to see the world," Mo Lao said slowly.

"Mo Lao, you don't lie to me, you like Shizi, this kid, you are afraid that he will be arrested and sent to the army, right, I'll go and find it" Ma Wuqi is also a shrewd person, a person who sees things a little accurately, and turned around and left after saying a word.

Mo Lao got up and walked into the bedroom, not long after a while, holding a small cloth bag in his hand, he walked to the stone and reached out and grabbed a pearl, a gold ingot, a few taels of silver and a handful of copper coins in the bag.

"Money, you know how to use it, money can be exchanged for any sale items and food, and this pearl is equal to ten ingots of gold, money must not be leaked when you go out, you must know, I will give you all this, but you have to be careful to put it away, and this bamboo dagger, plus this common sword card" Mo Lao instructed seriously.

"By the way, I also drew a copy of the map for you, and you also carried the bamboo lattice box when I came," Mo Lao added.

Zhao Shiyu took the bamboo dagger and didn't pull it out, just like a piece of bamboo, and then looked at the iron plate that looked like a sword head, with a word engraved on it, and a tiger face engraved on the back, and reached out to pick up the map on the table It turned out to be made of animal skin, and it was heated with an iron pen.

Zhao Shiyu smiled and held the map in his hand, looked at Mo Lao and said, "I will arrive in Yue Kingdom, and then go to learn the immortal method, and then come back to pick up your old man, as well as my parents."

Mo Lao waved his hand to say no, and turned around on the chair to pick up a scribe's robe, the cuffs were embroidered with a Mo character, and the word was embroidered with fish patterns around the word, Mo Lao handed the scribe's robe to Zhao Shiyu and said, "Put it on and see it, if someone asks when you go out, you will report my name, and then take out the token, the officers and soldiers of all countries will not embarrass you, you are my letter delivery protégé, remember not to panic, to be calm, remember not to quarrel with outsiders."

Zhao Shiyu took off his clothes, changed into the scribe's robe given by Mo Lao, the length of the clothes was appropriate, then put on his pants, stood on the ground barefoot and turned around several times, Mo Lao shook his head, and then took out two pairs of cloth shoes and handed them to Zhao Shiyu, Zhao Shiyu put on his shoes and walked beside Mo Lao, turned left a few times, turned right a few times, let Mo Lao look at himself, Mo Lao nodded slightly.

Mo Lao took out a peach wood hairpin from his waist and gave it to Zhao Shiyu, and said, "Go home, come back tomorrow."

Zhao Shiyu bowed, thanked Mo Lao, took the things given by Mo Lao, and went out with a smile, and was seen by his friends on the way home, and asked together, "Shizi, you are wearing this statue as if you have changed someone, what are you going to do?" Zhao Shiyu

smiled and said, "I want to go out of the village, I want to go outside to have a look, and send a letter to Mo Lao." After saying that, he ran home.

Friends, you look at me, I'll look at you, and then we all go home.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw my father sitting on the bench at the door, and when I saw Zhao Shiyu's dress, my eyes lit up and I said with a smile, "Yo, is this still my son?

Zhao Shiyu's mother was also very happy to see her son's dress, but there was a trace of reluctance in her eyes that no one noticed, and after entering the house, Zhao Shiyu begged her mother to sew the map on the cloth shirt, and then asked her mother to tie her hair in a bun and put a peach hairpin on her head.

Mother gently touched Zhao Shiyu's head, Zhao Shiyu lowered his head and played with a bamboo dagger, and said to himself, "This knife is very thin, very sharp, it is a good dagger, good guy, it is different from a wooden dagger" Look left, look right, I like it very much.

At this time, the mother's tears remained silently, but Zhao Shiyu didn't see it, after the father entered the house, the mother wiped away the tears, and the father took out two pairs of straw sandals and handed them to Zhao Shiyu.

"Father, can you stuff this silver into straw sandals? so that outsiders can't find out, Mo Lao said that he wants to be rich without revealing it," Zhao Shiyu said.

Zhao Shiyu's father thought for a while, took out a hammer, flattened the broken silver and stuffed it into the straw soles one by one, and then thickened the soles.

The copper coins were stuffed into the four thicker bamboo tubes of the bamboo box, then plugged with grass, and one of the most precious pearls was stuffed into Zhao Shiyu's belt and placed together with the green warm stone.

Zhao Shiyu held the gold ingot in his hand and said, "Where is it good to put such a big gold? The gold is too big, I'll return it to Mo Lao, these are enough."