Zhao Ning used his own skills to eat a full meal and then left directly. The man selling lanterns was a little unable to understand that such a person could obviously have a better life, wear better silks and satins, and fish every day.
Darou, why did you choose such a method?
In fact, not only does he not understand, but any normal person doesn't understand. Maybe even Li Mingyue standing here doesn't understand, just like people don't understand why Li Mingyue didn't become the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Is Li Mingyue not the emperor just because he wants revenge?
If he just wanted revenge, wouldn't it be much easier to become the emperor? At the very least, he could use the foundation of the entire Tang Dynasty to suppress Taoism and bring down Taoism step by step. Under the four words "Confucianism and Taoism should be popular"
, it is actually not difficult to do this.
Perhaps only Li Mingyue himself can explain the reason for this clearly, and the same may be true for Zhao Ning.
After Zhao Ning had a full meal, he returned to the inn where Li Mingyue was staying, and then wrote a couplet for the inn, in exchange for which he could rest in the stable for one night.
And Li Mingyue doesn't know or care about any of this.
At this moment, Li Mingyue was sitting in the room, heating a small stove, and the maid gently shook the cattail leaf fan, so that the fire in the stove could always maintain the same temperature.
Two people of about the same age, but enjoy very different treatment. Perhaps the only thing they have in common is their inner thoughts, which are different from ordinary people's thoughts.
Dongmei shook her cattail leaf fan and asked softly: "Sir, what are you thinking about?"
Li Mingyue came back to her senses and said, "I miss Qingyuan Mountain."
Dongmei was stunned.
But Li Mingyue said: "You go to sleep, I will sit alone for a while."
Dongmei put down the cattail leaf fan, stood up and left.
Li Mingyue sat alone by the stove. He did not pick up the cattail leaf fan to remove the charcoal fire in the stove, but just sat there. He really missed Qingyuan Mountain, and also missed the frosty senior sister and the sloppy old Taoist, especially
It's at this time.
He vaguely remembered that every New Year's Eve, Chen Daoling would bring some food from the mountain that he could not usually eat, and would paste two couplets in front of the Sanqing Temple. However, he never posted the door gods. Ever since he was a child, he had always
in this way.
This is normal, and Li Mingyue has never felt anything wrong. However, since he left Qingyuan Mountain and truly embarked on the path of spiritual practice, and came into contact with various sects on the mountain, he realized that the monks on the mountain were actually no more than 10 years old.
of.
To put it bluntly, the people at the foot of the mountain celebrate the New Year to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. It is a kind of expectation for the coming year. But for the people on the mountain, the years are just a snap of the fingers, and good and bad fortunes can also be reversed. I don’t believe it.
Gods don’t believe in demons.
As the only ascended immortal in the entire human world for thousands of years, Chen Daoling was naturally even less likely to believe this, but he did it. Li Mingyue still can't understand this until now.
So sometimes Li Mingyue couldn't help but think, can you really achieve spiritual practice by cutting off the worldly world? Can you really achieve Taoism and become an immortal by cutting off the worldly ties?
But if not, then why does everyone want to put an end to their mortal bond, try their best to break away from the world, and keep repeating the so-called "the ruthlessness of the great road"?
It would be fine if it was just someone else saying it, but even the woman in the bell said so, which means it is more than just a statement. The key is that Chen Daoling never told Li Mingyue whether it was yes or no.
In fact, since he was a child, Chen Daoling has never really guided Li Mingyue on what to do, and he has never told Li Mingyue what kind of person he wants to be in the future. What the old Taoist said were all trivial and trivial.
Therefore, in the whole world, Li Mingyue is the one who least wants to believe that the old Taoist will ascend to immortality.
However, Chen Daoling once said: "It doesn't matter what you think, the key is how to do it."
So many times, when Li Mingyue encounters something that he can't figure out, he often doesn't think too much. If possible, he chooses to do it first and then talk about it. But Li Mingyue can't just do everything without thinking about it. Along the way,
, after all, it is really difficult not to think about the choices we face, and to not weigh the pros and cons.
Once a person thinks too much, he will be afraid and timid. Li Mingyue naturally knows this very well, but the principle is one thing, and whether it can be done is another. The principle is simple to say and easy to say, but
If you really want to do it, it's not the same thing at all.
So Li Mingyue felt that she had not done a good job, at least not as Chen Daoling said.
That's why he said before that he was not a gentleman, because he didn't really have no regrets in his heart.
It must be that the fire in the stove had become smaller. Li Mingyue felt a little cold, so she simply got up and walked to the window to look at the scenery outside.
There is a custom of keeping the year old at the foot of the mountain, so at this time, every house is brightly lit, and there are even children playing and playing on the street, not afraid of the severe cold.
Li Mingyue looked at those children, the corners of her mouth raised slightly.
Perhaps, only children can truly have no regrets or scruples? But can we say that children are gentlemen?
Li Mingyue shook her head. She didn't know what was happening in Qingyuan Mountain now. Would the senior sister also post a couplet in front of Sanqing Temple?
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Qingyuan Mountain.
In front of the Sanqing Temple, there was a little girl wearing a long black coat standing on the steps, looking at the two door gods on the door, frowning.
But when this little girl stared at them, the charm contained in the two door gods completely dissipated, and not even half of them remained.
The little girl grinned and said, "That's right. With me here, why do we need you bullshit gods?"
There was a woman wearing a long green dress with a smile on her face. She was holding a wooden bucket in both hands. The bucket was filled with spring water from the mountain. She happened to see the little girl reaching out to pull the doorkeeper on the door, and she was suddenly shocked.
Losing color, he put the bucket on the ground and rushed up the steps. Unfortunately, he only saved the one on the left, and the one on the right had been torn off by the little girl.
Tantai Zhilan said angrily: "What are you doing?"
Wuyou looked confused, as if he didn't expect this woman to have such a big reaction because of a door god, and said: "It's useless anyway, why stick to it?"
She continued: "At the foot of the mountain, there is the mountain god Snow Empress, on the mountain there is me, Li Mingyue's senior sister, and that four-legged snake. None of the ghosts, ghosts, and snakes dare to come close, but you insist on being a door god. Isn't it unnecessary? What if?
If other people see you, why don’t you laugh at Qingyuan Mountain?”
Tantai Zhilan still had an angry look on her face. If she hadn't been able to defeat this little girl, there was no doubt that she would have drawn her sword towards her and started a fight. Unfortunately, it didn't work, so she could only cry and said: "I asked Fairy Su, and she agreed.
of?"
Wuyou said "Oh" and then said, "I tore it off, how about you stick it on again?"
Then he handed the door god in his hand to Tantai Zhilan, and then skipped towards the temple.
Tantai Zhilan looked at the wrinkled door god in her hand, sniffed, and then carefully unfolded it. If it was just wrinkled, it would be fine, but it had been torn into pieces, so she simply rubbed the door god in her hand hard.
Crumpled it into a ball, and then threw it on the ground. As if this was not enough, she reached out and was about to tear off the remaining one, but after touching the door god, she couldn't do it anymore.
.
Of course she also knew that there were no door gods on the mountain, but when she was a child, it was New Year's Eve when she first met her master, and she still remembered that day.
It was snowing that day, and her father had just died on the battlefield. She originally had a mother who depended on her, but on New Year's Eve, her mother left with a man she had never seen before, cruelly leaving her alone.
At that time, she happened to bring back two door gods from the street. She heard the conversation between the man and her mother outside the door. She did not cry, but the brand new door gods fell to the ground but she did not know it. Then she looked at her mother and the man.
They left together and she didn't chase him.
Although she was crying, she did not cry. After the man and her mother had gone away, she walked out from the corner and walked to the door.
On the snow in front of the door, there were her small footprints and two brand new door gods, but her mother did not see them. In fact, both door gods were stepped into the snow by the man and her mother.
She looked at the two door gods and thought they were pitiful, just like herself.
Then she squatted down, picked up the two door gods from the snow water, and wanted to stick them on the door, but found that she was not tall enough, so she moved a stool. After standing on it, she finally stuck the door gods in place, but because they were wet
Yes, there was still wind. As soon as I put it on, it fell off again.
She was about to jump off the stool to pick it up, but she found that an old man with a Taoist temple on his head had bent down to pick up the door god and looked at her with a smile on his face.
Although it was very cold at that time, she felt that the flowers all over the mountains and fields were blooming.
My father once said that the door god can protect the family's safety. He felt that the old Taoist was like the door god who ran out of those two pieces of paper.
After that, he followed the old Taoist up the mountain, became a disciple of Qingyu Sect, and became the Tantai Fairy that everyone envied.
But now, even the master is gone, and even the only junior sister has gone to the place called Siya Academy to become a Confucian disciple, leaving her alone.
So she plucked up the courage and went to find Fairy Su who seemed very hard to talk to. Su Qingfeng, who was also a disciple of the Immortal like Li Mingyue, hoped that she would agree to let her have two door gods, but she never expected that Su Qingfeng would
She really agreed, so she was very happy. First she ran down the mountain and bought two beautiful door gods. Then she went back to the mountain and pasted them up, then took the bucket to the mountain to fetch water. She wanted to cook a sumptuous meal with her own hands.
repay.
But he didn't expect that the little girl would tear it off as soon as the door god put it on.
The cold wind was howling, and the beautiful woman stood in front of the door. Her white fingers were still pressing on the door god, but she was trembling a little.
After a long time, she slid her fingers along the door god, and then said leisurely: "That's all, the past is over. Since I can't change anything, what can't I let go of?"
Then she turned around and walked down the stairs, picked up the bucket again, walked up the stairs, glanced at the remaining door god, and walked into the temple with the bucket.
So this year, Qingyuan Mountain posted a door god, but there was only one.
This year, the mountain temple was in full bloom, and Qingyuan Mountain was auspicious.