Chapter 4 Destiny and Happiness (Part 2)

The Chinese New Year is here in a blink of an eye.

Mu Hanchan hadn't seen Lin Mengge for more than ten days. He would wait as usual every day, but in the end he didn't wait. What was supposed to come never came.

In fact, Lin Mengge is not having a good time these days. Being banned from home by his mother for no reason, he is naturally very depressed. Being bored, he can only amuse himself with the pigeons at home.

"Geve, what do you think my mother has been doing lately? Why do she always come back so late and chat with a girl all day long?"

"Mom, you don't really want to get me engaged. I'm still so young, how can I decide on such a thing? Really, I don't consider other people's feelings at all."

"You think I won't be able to get married in the future. There are a bunch of boys in the village who are so timid. I won't marry any of them in the future."

Lin Mengge resentfully spoke his inner thoughts to the pigeon who could not understand human speech, but in return the pigeon acted as if he had not heard it. He turned his eyes left and right, and turned his head to look left and right. He seemed not to understand, and then

It seemed like he didn't take her words to heart.

An old man with white hair stood in front of a cave on the mountains flanking the village. He looked through everything in the village and watched the daily lives of mortals, but he could not interfere.

He is not incapable of change, but he cannot.

The old man is a heaven-respecting immortal cultivator, not a heaven-defying immortal cultivator, which is completely different from the current concept of immortality cultivation in the world of immortality. He respects the difference between immortals and mortals, and also sees through the difference between life and death. He is a powerful immortal cultivator who has almost first enlightened the Tao.

"Everyone's destiny is determined, but within the determined destiny, there are upper and lower limits.

The old man said again.

"I got it, go straight to the northeast of the village to the end, turn east and turn straight to the twelfth house. It has an oak door, double copper rings, and no door nails."

"I like it," Mu Hanchan replied. Then he asked, "What's wrong? Mom."

"Human nature seeks truth from mistakes, and chooses true love from mistakes," the old man said.

Mu Hanchan asked: "What about fate? What do you say? Can people change their destiny against nature?"

Destiny is destiny, luck is change."

The village is flanked by mountains.

"Okay." Mu Hanchan said.

"It's not that I don't want it all. The main reason is that I'm not happy, and also because I'm young, and I need an engagement gift."

Mrs. Liu said: "Your father doesn't care about this, so I mainly look at you. If you want it, I will tell the matchmaker. If you don't want it, we just don't respond."

"No one ever tells you that you are born happy."

True love is as elusive as truth is.”

Mu Hanchan said: "I feel that everything should be made clear. Whether you are willing or unwilling, make it clear to avoid misunderstandings."

"Your father will go out hunting later. You can go with him today and take some of the prey he brings back with you."

Mrs. Liu avoided answering and asked, "Do you like that girl?"

Because whether you are seeking love or seeking justice, you need to make a living first.

"You are still a child after all. There are many things that are inconvenient to explain clearly. They are also difficult to explain, unclear, and difficult to deal with. Alas, maybe you will understand these things when you grow up."

It's just that adults don't like Lin Mengge because Lin Mengge is too active. Children don't like Mu Hanchan because Mu Hanchan is not gregarious.

"What options do I have?"

The old man said: "It's time for you to go back, my friend." After knowing each other for half a year, the old man kicked out a guest for the first time.

Mrs. Liu was silent for a while and said: "There was a matchmaker in the village who said that a girl was going to be proposed for marriage. Most of the people who have boys in the family asked first."

"Choose love and your life will be painful. Unless you meet true love.

"Yeah, okay." Mu Hanchan responded, and then asked, "You should have known this a long time ago, right? Why didn't you tell me for more than ten days?"

Mrs. Liu repeated: "She should be the girl you like. She is the only one who would be so disliked."

Just seeking justice is the ultimate goal of making a living."

"Then what do I do? Both paths are difficult."

The old man replied: "What they change is just to bring themselves closer to their upper limit, or to avoid getting closer to their lower limit."

In fact, Mu Hanchan and Lin Mengge were the same kind of people when they were young, and they were both disliked.

"Choose truth and live a life of loneliness; choose love and live a life of pain." The old man said.

"Wouldn't it be bad not to respond? Maybe they will wait for a reply?"

Mu Hanchan said: "Then why did you tell me that the purpose of cultivating immortals is to change their destiny against heaven? Destiny is fixed and cannot be changed, so what are they trying to change?"

"People are wise only after experiencing it, and it takes a lifetime to manage it slowly," Liu said.

"What do you want to know this time?"

“If you don’t make a living first, wouldn’t you have to take many wrong paths?”

"Why?"

Mu Hanchan did not answer, but he was not changed by his mother's words. He has been a person with a strong character since he was a child, and he does not waver in his thoughts easily or make decisions casually.

He also said: "Choose the truth and you will be lonely all your life, unless you find it one day. The moment you find the truth, you will be truly satisfied."

"Yeah." Mu Hanchan left silently.

"Because when change comes, you have no choice."

Mu Hanchan fell silent and did not ask why.

Mu Hanchan asked her mother: "Mom, do you know where she lives?"

"Don't other families want her?"

"What's the matter?" Mu Hanchan asked.

"Does this have anything to do with our family?" Mu Hanchan asked.

Mu Hanchan added: "What about truth and love? What will be the consequences of choosing?"

But his mother, Mrs. Liu, said: "Chan'er, you have to think carefully. Maybe the jokes between you children can be taken less seriously.

"What should I do? Do you want to bring anything?"

Also, in destiny, there is not only one path to take in life, but the final outcome is the same, or almost the same.

Mu Hanchan asked: "What about love?"

"So mother, what do you think and what are you going to do?"

Therefore, it is difficult for true love to exist in human beings.

"Why? Wouldn't you be happy no matter which one you choose?"

This is the basis.

"No," the old man replied. He added, "Everyone's destiny has been determined a long time ago. Since it is determined, there is no such thing as changing one's destiny against heaven."

Mother Liu replied: "No, I only found out about it a week ago. It's just that when I went to inquire about it, I happened to meet a woman and she mentioned something to me, so I didn't tell you for a long time."

"You're here again!"

And people are incapable of giving true love.

Some people have a high upper limit, and the harder they work, the higher they go; some people have a lower limit, and if they don't work hard, they will keep falling.

"Why can there be more than one path in life, but the ending is the same?"

"Wisdom can avoid it, intelligence can correct it, prudence can reduce it."

This is the determination and change of destiny.

There was silence for a while.

"Are you going empty-handed?"

"Then what should I choose?"

Mrs. Liu looked at Mu Hanchan and said, "It should be the one you like."

"Then you must first know what choices you have in your life."

Therefore, there is a saying: It is enough to hear the Tao in the morning and die in the evening. This sentence describes it very aptly."

"Yes. Because you are a boy, so when I went to the east of the village to inquire about it, the woman also told me."

"You will definitely choose to become an immortal."

"Not responding is tantamount to rejection. This is a truth that adults understand. It's just because of face that it's not convenient to say it clearly."

"Yes."

It's easy to make a living.

All he wanted in his heart was to live happily forever with Lin Mengge.

"I want to know how to choose the path of my life."

"Because life, old age, sickness and death are the laws set by heaven for people. People can never change it. The most that people can change is their own happiness in life."

In the future, you will marry her as your wife when you grow up, as you have decided at this time, so you must think carefully about it."

So they all need to work hard.

On the way back, Mu Hanchan kept thinking: Can I become the Immortal King? I am just an ordinary child.

"So what? Doesn't it matter whether people choose to become immortal or ordinary, there is no possibility of happiness?" Mu Hanchan questioned.

"From now on, your choice is nothing more than two aspects. The first is to cultivate immortality or be ordinary. The second is truth and love."

"Oh, which family does this girl belong to?" Mu Hanchan asked casually.

But when we adults speak, we must be honest. If the other party doesn't agree, it's fine. If the other party agrees, we can't go back on our words.

Because only the truth can satisfy people forever, and nothing else is needed.

Because love is sweet at first and then bitter, and in the end few people can hold it.

Mu Hanchan didn't know what to choose.

"I don't know about this either. I think this needs to be left to you to explore for yourself throughout your life."

"Then I will go find her today."

The next day, the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

When she got home, Mu Hanchan said to her mother: "Mom, please help me. I have decided that I want this girl. This is what I like. I won't leave it to others."

You asked me to go home at noon. When the sun is shining, no matter how happy I am, I will still come back.

The old man said: "So you can put down the difficult ones first and choose the easier ones.

"What?" Mu Hanchan asked nervously.

"It's not completely absent," the old man said.

Mu Hanchan said: "Mistakes will bring losses. Wrong choices may also affect your life."

"No." Mu Hanchan replied: "Even if I grow up, I will be the same."

Mu Hanchan got angry and said, "When did I say what I said but didn't do it? When did I disobey you or fail to do what I promised you?

"How can a person be happy?"

You said you weren't allowed to play on the river. My friends pulled me many times, but I didn't go.

Now you are saying that I am a disobedient child and suspect that I am a person who does not keep my promises."

His mother Liu said: "I didn't say you were disobedient, nor did I say you were a dishonest person. It's no joke to you, but to others, it may not all be taken seriously.

When I remind you to comply, I am also reminding you not to forget to consider whether the other party will take it seriously."
Chapter completed!