Peach Wood Sword

Time flies, and it is five years in a blink of an eye.

In the clean courtyard, two or three branches of peach blossoms adorn the mood of spring.Suddenly there was a shout, and a sword came as expected, and when it was approaching the soft petals, it suddenly withdrew, the pale pink petals trembled twice, and the hair was not damaged.

The sword-wielding boy exhaled a long breath, wiped the thin sweat from his temples, and stood leaning on his sword.He was wearing a Taoist robe with blue cloud patterns on a white background, and thousands of slender blue silks were neatly tied behind his head with a white train, all pouring down and floating with the wind.

After practicing sword for many years, he has gradually mastered a little way, but all Zen mind and enlightenment can't get around that question——

The boy's ears trembled sensitively, his eyes suddenly brightened, he turned his head, stretched out his hand to brush his messy hair, put the mahogany sword in the cloth bag beside his belt, and smiled gradually: "Dad!"

A middle-aged man came to face him, it was the alchemist.The years didn't seem to age his face, Master Tianshi still had sunken eye sockets, his gaze was like a torch, and his back was straight as if he had been measured with a steel plate.He hurried forward a few steps, curled his lips in dissatisfaction, and glared at the boy: "Little brat, you haven't changed your words after so many years, it really makes me feel a little bit like a father."

The young man still didn't change his old nature, Quan regarded the words as wind in his ears, and suddenly his figure flashed, and he reached the side of Tianshi, hooked his arm around Tianshi's neck, and whispered affectionately in his ear: "Dad, why should I practice?" Sword? Can you not practice, I will be your assistant and prepare medicinal materials for you, okay, huh?"

The Heavenly Master twitched the corners of his mouth, feeling that he could no longer carry out the gentleness of the past, or this kid might have to go to the house to expose the tiles in the future, so he lowered his face and scolded: "No, I said you have to practice if you want to practice, and kill the demon Eliminate demons and serve the people, do you understand?"

The young man snorted, rubbed the celestial master's clothes, and begged unrelentingly: "Dad, look at the great harmony in this world, people who don't pick up lost things on the road, don't close their doors at night, and can't even catch a bandit. How can there be any evil? Staying in the previous era, I always thought about whether it was evil or evil, but now the world has changed, and it is not as dangerous as before, so there is no need to worry about it all the time."

The celestial master was silent.He raised his hand to pin the boy's fluttering strands of hair behind his ears, and lightly flicked the forehead of the second fool who rested his chin on his shoulder, and sighed: "Little brat, how do you know. "

"I don't understand..." The two of them entered the house, shutting out the bright spring and the illusion of quiet time.

The celestial master lit a fire in the fireplace and walked towards the kitchen. Suddenly, as if thinking of something, he tilted his head and looked at the young man: "Do you want tea or coffee?"

The celestial master was originally handsome, with a good skin, now he turned his head by the dark fire, the young man's staring eyes met his radiant black eyes, the eyelids seemed to be drooping, There was still a faint smile buried inside, with a kind of natural beauty, and for a while, I didn't know what to answer.

Tianshi waited for a long time, and knocked on the door frame impatiently: "What do you want, tell me quickly."

Only then did the young man come back to his senses, his neck seemed to be on fire, and with the blazing fire burning together, he lowered his head and looked at his neck shyly, and found that under the reflection of the fire, he couldn't see any clues. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief: "Coffee, add more milk and sugar, it's best to have half milk and half coffee."

"Then I might as well give you a cup of sweet milk." Tianshi gave him a blank look, turned and walked into the kitchen, and started the "potion preparation".

The water vapor jingled against the kettle, and the Celestial Master urged his palms to direct the sugar and milk to jump into the coffee cup by himself.Then he turned and walked out of the small kitchen, and put the coffee in front of the young man: "Drink it while it's hot."

"Understood, old lady." The young man glanced at the heavenly master who was pouring water guiltily, buried his face in the wide-mouthed coffee cup, and quietly looked at his beautiful adoptive father. He blushed to the base of his neck.

The Heavenly Master just happened to finish pouring his own strong tea, and when he turned around, he saw the young man staring at him obsessively, and frowned, wondering why this kid was so dumb, so he called out to him: "Boy, what's the matter with you?"

The young man was caught peeping indifferently, he couldn't help trembling, and prevaricated: "In a daze..."

Tianshi thought it was funny, sat beside him with a teacup, bowed his head and took a sip, and waited until the bitterness of the tea gradually dissipated and turned into sweetness, then he said: "You will be an adult next year, if I kick you out, I know I will What are you doing?"

The young man was taken aback, his palms clenched into fists, his expression was like a wounded little beast: "I'll follow you."

"Hey, how can you be so unambitious!" The celestial master raised his eyebrows and began to preach, "I think when I was young, I pretended to be the common people in my heart, and I held the token in my hand to order the mages of the whole country. A child with a hairless mouth, but your father and I have saved at least forty million Limin people."

The young man keenly grasped the loopholes in Tianshi's words, turned his face and smiled triumphantly: "Dad."

"A slip of the tongue! It's all about you, I'm used to being called by you." Tianshi felt that he had made a mistake, so he had to cough twice, and fooled him, "You are too old, you can't just pretend to be your own business in your heart." He stretched out his hand , poked the astonished boy's chest, and said, "Think again, think clearly and tell me."

Burying his face in the coffee cup, feeling the rising heat, the young man's voice became muttering, as soft as a mosquito buzzing: "Then you must swear that you will not abandon me or leave me behind."

The Heavenly Master didn't expect him to come out like this, first he smiled happily at his concealed demeanor, and then his heart was scratched by his coquettish tone, he laughed loudly, put his hand on the young man's shoulder, He patted twice lightly: "Why did the adoptive father abandon you? You are such a good little thing, and you were abducted by others, wouldn't I love you to death?"

The young man held the coffee cup without saying a word, his posture did not move at all, but the roots of his ears were already turning red.

To be in the same room with my sweetheart, to talk about the world, and to enjoy myself as sweetly as honey—the grand ambitions that the youth did not express were completely overwhelmed by the heavenly master's hearty laughter.The young man smiled softly, looking at the incongruous joy of the celestial master, he felt that somewhere in his heart seemed to be filled with heavy steadfastness.

The warm wind from the small open window dispelled the chill of winter a lot.One or two fragrant petals landed on Tianshi's hair impartially, and the careful young man picked them up silently, put them in a notebook with a blushing face, and kept them alone.

However, he was still young and failed to read such a sentence in the scrolls of ancient books:

Last year in this gate today, people's faces were red with peach blossoms.I don't know where the face is going, but the peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze.