Chapter 6 We all saw the night at the end of the road (Part 1)
There is Ning Que's dormitory in the mountain behind the academy. Sangsang was seriously ill, so he naturally stayed. Not long after, Sangsang woke up. Although he was still a little weak, at least it was not as scary as at night, and gradually became stable.
Ning Que told jokes like he did when he was a child, humming a small song, and coaxed her to rest. Seeing that he was really hard, Tang Xiaotang took over and started taking care of him and asked him to rest outside for a while.
It was already dusk, and the setting sun was red and warm covering the back mountain. Ning Que walked out of the courtyard and saw Chen Pipi standing by the lake with his hands on his waist imitating loneliness. He was stunned and asked, "What's wrong?"
Chen Pipi looked at the aquatic plants in Jinghu and countless thousands of gold coins on the water surface. Her round and cute face was full of loneliness, and said, "I feel a little touched when I see you and Sangsang have such a good relationship."
Ning Que's heart moved slightly, thinking to himself whether it was him and Tang Xiaotang's couple having some conflicts again. He patted his shoulder and comforted him and said, "Senior Brother, you don't have to compare with me in this kind of thing."
Chen Pipi explained seriously: "Tangtang and I are not what you think.
Ning Que thought that Tangtang had such a stingy title, what else could he explain? He couldn't help but mocked: "Don't you think that men don't admit their accounts is the most disgusting thing in the world?"
Chen Pipi turned his head and looked at him sincerely and said, "We are holding hands."
Ning Que said sarcastically: "She is just a little girl. Do you just want to do to her?"
Chen Pipi said slightly annoyed: "She is about the same age as Sangsang!"
Ning Que was a little embarrassed and silent.
The soil on the lakeside looked like a golden shackle in the sunset. Chen Pipi lowered her head, gently turned her heels, and a few golden seals were formed in the soles of her shoes. After a long silence, he said, "My and I
Tangtang is not like you and Sangsang, we have no experience of living and dying together, nor have time to support each other, but we have a good relationship. I feel distressed when I watch her jumping into the waterfall, and I am happy to take her around Chang'an..."
Ning Que didn't want to be an emotional expert and asked directly: "What exactly do you want to say?"
Chen Pipi raised her head and looked at him and said seriously: "Sangsang is seriously ill today. Are you very scared?"
Ning Que thought for a while and said, "Yes, I can't imagine a life without her."
Chen Pipi said, "I am the same. I can't imagine that there will be no Tangtang next to me in the future, so I decided to go back to Zhishouguan."
Ning Que didn't know what to say. Two years ago, after Chen Pipi denied that he was the illegitimate son of the head of Xiling, he vaguely guessed the life experience of this guy, but he was confirmed today. Judging from the previous context, he would like to reply.
Knowing Shouguan must be a showdown on Tang Xiaotang.
Chen Pipi said: "There is a saying among the people that ugly daughter-in-law always meets her parents-in-law... My mother has long been dead, and my father is still alive. Tangtang is naturally not ugly, but in my father's eyes, people who came from the Demon Sect must not look very good.
It looks good. If this problem needs to be solved, I need to go back."
Ning Que frowned slightly and said, "Have you ever thought that if you return to Zhishouguan, you may never come back? Then what should Tang Xiaotang do then?"
Chen Pipi looked at him sincerely and said, "Junior brother, you are my best friend in Chang'an City. If I really can't come back, please help me take care of Xiaotang."
Ning Que refused without hesitation and said, "Senior brother, don't think that you can trap me to death with such words. Your little wife wants you to take care of yourself, don't count on me."
Hearing this, Chen Pipi was furious and scolded, "How could you be the junior brother like this? Besides, as long as the teacher says something, will I really never come back for the rest of my life?"
Ning Que thought for a while and said, "No matter what, you have to wait until I come back from Lanke Temple to discuss it. In fact, in my opinion, if the teacher takes the marriage for you, then you will get married. Why don't you return to Zhishouguan?
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The Master looked very unreliable, but his words were still so reliable. In fact, the Eleventh Senior Brother's decoction was really good. At night, Sangsang's body temperature returned to normal and his spirits improved a lot. He leaned on the bed.
Head and Tang Xiaotang were whispering between the little girl.
Ning Que sat at the desk and re-looking at Haoranqi in the light of the oil lamp. He always felt a little restless and couldn't help but glance at the bed with his eyes, looking at Tang Xiaotang's beautiful and childish face, thinking
What Chen Pipi said before, I couldn't help feeling a little unbearable.
The spring night breeze blows gently, and the oil lamp shakes slightly, illuminating his face with a little cloudy and unstable. I thought about the strange dream I had last night, Sangsang's illness, and what the teacher said in the thatched cottage during the day
He suddenly felt a little moved by those words, and told Tang Xiaotang to take care of Sangsang, and then walked out of the courtyard.
Leaving Jinghu Lake, passing through the forest, bypassing the waterfall, and walking out of the narrow gorge, we came to the back mountain of the back mountain of the academy. Between the cliffs in front of the sea of clouds, it was already late at night, and the surroundings were quiet, with only the waterfalls between the cliffs
The roar of the broken stone echoed constantly. With the sound of the waterfall, he walked up the steep stone path and took a long time to get to the cliff cave that had imprisoned him for a whole spring.
The rain corridor built by the senior brothers has endured the storm for a year and is no longer as new as before. The wisteria fruits in the corridor flutter in the night wind, like bells. Ning Que walked over and saw the Master.
The Master sat on the cliff, his left hand was an exquisite food box, with a few taels of beef in the food box, and a yellow mud wine pot on his right hand, inside it was a clear old wine. He looked at Chang'an City under the night in the distance,
Looking at the lights of thousands of houses there, I don’t know what I was thinking.
Ning Que walked behind the Master and bowed to him, remembering that on the late spring night last year, he was also on the cliff, and he had a long conversation with his teacher.
The Master knew that he was behind him, and seemed to know what he was thinking. He raised his hand and waved it, signaled him to sit beside him, and then said, "Let me say it when I want to."
Ning Que wanted to ask his master for many questions, but looking at the tall back on the cliff, he naturally remembered the back in his dream, so he hesitated for a long time but still didn't speak.
Living in the Tang Dynasty is a very happy thing, living in the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an is the happiest thing, and life in the academy is even more of the happiness he has never experienced in his life, so he doesn't know what to say, worrying about once
If you tell those things yourself, you will lose these happiness.
The Master picked up a piece of beef with bright tendons and put it into his lips and chewed it slowly for a while. His face showed an intoxicating look and waited to sip the aroma of the meat. He praised him and said, "Wine and meat, you will have no worries for your whole life."
After saying this, he picked up the wine pot and took a sip.
Ning Que sat next to the Master, picked up a piece of beef with his hands and threw it into his mouth, frowned because he felt that the beef was too light. However, he immediately knew that he was wrong, this piece of beef that seemed light but tasteless,
The more I chewed it in my mouth, the more fragrant the muscles were cut off by my teeth, and it released an extremely wonderful feeling of swelling and slimming. The unique taste of beef itself gradually moistened the mouth and tongue.
"Okay!" He said incredibly shocked: "Teacher, this is good wine and good meat."
The Master took out a small round iron wine pot from the side of the food box and threw it to him, and said with a smile: "Don't change the way to ask for wine. This wine is ordinary, but the beef is extremely unpalatable. There is a pot in the cliff building.
It’s just a stove that can braise white beef meat. The best thing is that Lao Huang can’t climb here to support me.”
Ning Que knew that the old yellow in the teacher's mouth was the old yellow ox. He thought of eating his kind in front of the yellow ox, and suddenly he found that the small round wine pot in his hand looked familiar. Looking carefully, he only
I saw that the surface of the wine pot was carved with straight lines. Isn’t it the small iron pot I used to blow Xiahou?
"Don't look at me like that. I just think this small iron pot is more suitable for wine. Of course, to prevent the smell of iron and wine, I applied something on the wall of the pot."
The Master brought the yellow mud wine pot to his lips and drank it and said, "A knife can be used to kill people and cut vegetables. It depends on how you choose. A person's mouth can be used to eat meat, drink wine or speak.
Asked, it depends on how you choose, but there is nothing right or wrong about this."
Ning Que couldn't understand the truth about this. After a moment of silence, he said, "Teacher, I have been having a dream in the past few years, and the stories in the dream seem to be developing step by step."
The Master asked, "Why do you come and ask me?"
Ning Que said: "Because there is a teacher in the dream.
The master smiled and said, "I am not a girl from Sangsang, why should you dream of me?"
Ning Que said annoyedly: "Teacher, I'm talking about these things very seriously. Can you stop joking?"
The Master looked at him with a smile and said, "Then you continue to talk about your dreams."
Looking at the Master's eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything in the world, Ning Que felt a little nervous and said in a slight voice: "Actually, you should know those dreams, teacher. Last night on this cliff, we talked about the invasion of the underworld, you
I once asked me where is the underworld in my dreams."
The Master looked at his youngest student quietly and said, "This question is still valid now."
Ning Que said: "The dark night I saw... came from the north."
The Master smiled and said, "In this way, it is consistent with what I have seen through my travels over the years."
Ning Que asked: "What's going on invading the dark night in the underworld? The teacher only told these stories in the legend last year, but did not mention those details."
"Details? When the whole world is shrouded in darkness, no one can see the details. When the entire civilization is cut off from its inheritance, even if there are details, they cannot be passed down."
The Master looked at the dark night above the cliff, looked at the stars, and said, "It is said that the night and day alternate between the world, sometimes tens of thousands of years of light, sometimes tens of thousands of years of darkness, the war between light and darkness runs through the entire history, Haotian
When you win, it is the world of light today, and when Pluto wins, it is the world of underworld."
"The underworld invaded, without scorching sun during the day and without stars at night, the world became extremely cold, and the creatures on the earth could only rely on geothermal heat for warmth. By then, volcanoes, hot springs and hot currents in the South China Sea will become the most precious resources
, countless wars will happen there."
"The war cannot last too long, and most people will die because of hunger, cold, and desperate fighting. You must know that it must be an unimaginable cold and realistic world. And decades later, the whole earth will become abnormal
Silence seems to have entered a deep sleep that will never wake up. Whether humans or animals, only the strongest and most resolute ones can survive it."
"In these cold and dark times, the Buddha Sect called the Dharma-Ending Age, and the Taoist Sect called the coming of the Pluto."
The Master said, "And I am used to calling it... Eternal Night."