Unexpected

Probably because there were too many thoughts in the sea of ​​consciousness, and he was still entangled with distracting thoughts from his previous life, Shi Xun fell asleep inadvertently.

After lying down for an indeterminate amount of time, the glaring white sun gradually weakened. With the evening breeze, the falling red maple was slightly blown up, and then fell on his white shirt again and again.

The child in Shi Xun's arms woke up before him.There was a faint blush on the child's white and tender face, he crawled on Shi Xun's open coat without a teacher, and soon rolled up on his waist, rubbing his hands and feet towards Shi Xun's head, The little hand tightly grabbed the skirt of the skirt, trying to pull himself over with strength.

Finally moved to the place he wanted to go, first he squatted down on Shi Xun's chest, waving his hands, tilting his head as if in deep thought, and seemed to have figured something out for a few moments, and suddenly put Xiao Xun Small arms wrapped around Shi Xun's neck.

There was an extraordinary harmony around the translucent neck with small white and tender fleshy hands.

The child, who had settled down firmly, rubbed his face against Shi Xun's neck one after another, with an immature intimacy on his face, and Shi Xun was barely awakened amidst such "trouble" all over the place.

He half sat up and leaned against the red maple wood, shaking off the small maple leaves on his shoulders, but the little hand that was hanging around his neck just now suddenly let go.The child's strength was still very weak, and he couldn't hug him at all, so he slid down from his lapel.

The child who slid down showed no sign of dissatisfaction, Xiang Shixun stretched out his hand, smiling like a peaceful crescent moon.

Shi Xun bent down, took the child's arms, and pulled him into his arms, then stood up and looked around.

This place is like a shallow valley in some mountains and rivers, and the light is exceptionally abundant.There is a shallow water pool at the bottom of the valley, leaning on the one-foot-high cliff. The accumulated stream flows down from the high-hanging mountain stream and the low cliff, and gently bypasses the sharp bumps on the cliff, extending to the steepest. Dodging the protruding rocks on the mountain wall, they stumbled and fell into the clear water pool.

The red maple, which looks like a fire, fell three feet away from the pool. Its red shade covered the sand and stones on the shore, and it was about to extend straight into the water. A few red leaves the size of a child's palm fell leisurely. It went down, and there were circles of ripples.

The shallow pool in this bay is not stagnant water. The water of the pool falls from the stream on the low cliff and flows out from the mountain stream to the west of the pool.

The mountain stream to the west of the pool is full of gravel and stubborn rocks, mixed with a few withered trunks. The calm water overflows from the pool, bringing with it some too thick obedience and fragility, and melts into the cracks of the rocks lightly and gently. Along the rocks and dead branches, a ray of emerald green and rich warmth is transformed, dizzying the lingering nostalgia of the valley.

There is also an empty plain in the shallow valley, and there is a crumbling wooden and thatched house built there.Shi Xun hugged the child tightly, waved Hong Lian with his empty hand, and walked towards the wooden thatched house.

When viewed from a distance, the outside of the house looks really dilapidated. The load-bearing wooden pillars have holes rotted by moths in several places, and the thatch of the roof has not been taken care of for a long time, and it has a damp and dry smell.When I got closer and took a closer look, I realized that the inside was indeed clean and tidy. Although there were not many things in the room, it was much better than the damp and wormholes outside.

In the wooden thatched house, there is a nanmu bed with footrests, which is still well preserved even after being abandoned for a long time. There is also a camphor wood suitcase slightly taller than Shixun, and a set of tables and chairs. A little messed up, but all in good condition.

Shi Xun supported the child's buttocks and sat down on the round chair. With a wave of his white sleeves, the dust and cobwebs on the solid wooden utensils disappeared in an instant, and the messy desks and chairs returned to their most suitable appearance, and the oil lamps and books fell safely on the desk. On the bed, several layers of quilts were stacked on the nanmu bed, and there were many more clothes in the wardrobe.The corroded insect eyes and the moisture on the thatch outside the house are also gone, very clean and tidy.

After doing this, Shi Xun transformed into a lightweight rocking bed. He removed the footrest beside the bed and moved the rocking bed over.

It has been a long time since the sun has set outside, and there is only the cold moonlight in the dark night.

Shi Xun carried the baby into the cradle, lying on top of it and pinching his fingers.The child had only met him not long ago, and he was already very close to him. His bright black eyes were as bright as stars, and he just looked straight at him.

He blushed for no reason, Shi Xun had never been so happy before, he helped the child up and sat upright, his tone was very serious but with a bit of stubbornness that could not be refused: "I don't know your origin, but fate told me to pick it up. With you, you have to live with me in the future. I can't go back to the Cangzhujie now, and I don't have the courage to go deep into the Six Realms. I can only wrong you first, let's raise it at the bottom of this valley , When you grow up in the future, you will have the ability to go where you want to go."

The child is very well-behaved, and I don't know if he understands, but he just kept nodding his head, seeing his silly appearance, and laughed "poof" from time to time, and said to him with a smile: "'The common people wish Donggu, Cuihua is still far away to the west.' Can I just call it Gu Yao?"

The child curled the corners of his mouth, and his two little hands were stretched out for a hug.Shi Xun took off his shoes, socks and outer shirt, took the child out of the crib, and wrapped them in the quilt together.

After going through too many ups and downs during the day, the mental energy was exhausted very quickly, and it didn't take long for the big one and the young one to fall asleep.The warm light in the wooden house makes this cool and cool night light extraordinarily warm, and the warm breath spreads far in the quiet mountains and rivers and shallow valleys.

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One day, two days, one month, two months, one year, two years.Shi Xun safely raised his soul and his steamed stuffed bun in the shallow valley.Everything is peaceful except for one thing.

For two full years, Gu Yao didn't look like he was going to grow up at all, he was still the two-foot baby from before.

Shi Xun put down the porcelain spoon in his right hand, fished back Gu Yao who was about to climb out of the soft cloth, pinched his little nose, and when he opened his mouth, he forcefully fed a spoonful of rice paste into it.

Gu Yao only has a few teeth, which are the same as before. After two years, he hasn't grown any teeth. He can only drink various kinds of rice cereal every day, and can't eat anything else.

Fortunately, although Gu Yao is small, he is very well-behaved, even if his mouth is full of rice paste, he can chew and swallow spontaneously.After eating, he was still babbling at Shi Xun with great air, as if he was angry with him for being barbaric.

When Shi Xun was cultivating his primordial spirit, Gu Yao would hold on to the red lotus, float on the edge of the shallow pool, and touch the small fish or stream water in the pool. The absorption melted into his spiritual consciousness.

Shi Xun's primordial spirit became intact after rebirth, but it was extremely fragile, as if it would break at the touch of a touch. The past two years of cultivation had made it gradually fuller.The absorption of aura is as common as eating, but he didn't see that in this ordinary accumulation, strands of invisible aura quietly melted into Gu Yao's body.

About ten months later, Shi Xun's primordial spirit has fully recovered, and his translucent body has gradually become solid, but he did not return to Cangzhujie immediately.

Under Tiandao's peeping, he stayed tremblingly for another two months. It wasn't until Tiandao's bone slip fell again that he realized that he really should leave.He didn't dare to do anything that might disappoint the way of heaven, but when Gu Yao asked him to leave, he lost his heart again.

In just three years, his taciturnity in the past 14 years has been smoothed away, and his resentment of being taken away from his soul has been smoothed over.The ordinary days are like clear water dissolved in ease, pouring on the ground that was cracked by tyranny in his heart, those peaceful reason, calmness, calmness, and responsibility have returned to his heart in these years, It is neither anxious nor dry nor humble nor arrogant.

Shi Xun, who was about to leave Qiangu, put an enchantment on Honglian, and also put a sleeping restraint on Gu Yao.

The half-floating silver bead red lotus opened its inner lotus petals further, and the soft lotus petals wrapped around Gu Yao's slender and soft arms.At this time, Shi Xun turned a birthday card out of thin air, inside which he wrote Gu Yao's birthday date and name with his energy, and placed it beside him.After doing all this, the petals on the outer layer of the red lotus suddenly grew bigger, covering Gu Yao's small body layer by layer, protecting him inside.

A ray of light fell into the water, and the clear water in the shallow pool slowly swirled outwards to free up a space. Shi Xun put the red lotus in, and the red lotus spontaneously formed a bubble, and the clear water in the pool returned to the red lotus. sank.

You especially worried, Shi Xun made another impregnable barrier in the valley.

"Gu Yao, probably the karma between me and you is only these three years."

"I want to go back to where I should go and do what I should do, but it's not my choice to keep you."

"You can't grow up, and you can't leave by yourself. I can only hide you here."

"The enchantment I created can be seen through by those high-ranking immortal cultivators. I hope that one day they pass by and can take you away, or grow up to cultivate immortality. It's really not good. It's good to keep it like this, right? .”

When he said these words, it was understated but with a bit of heartfelt unwillingness and bitterness, and the last sentence was even more heavy on the bottom of his heart. "You are just a bun, maybe you can't understand what I said, but I still want to tell you, it's really great to meet you, it's really great that you choose to come to my side, if one day , I can still come back, and you are still here, I will definitely raise you up white and fat, and then feed you rice cereal, okay?"

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The sun and the moon flow like a stream, and the time is like an invisible hand, pushing the annual rings of the four seasons, and pushing all people and things irresistibly toward the distant and unreachable front.

In the two seasons of the old and the old, the red lotus in the shallow valley splits the cover of the water and the impenetrable barrier. The heavy red lotus floats in the shallow valley of the Yaowang Valley carrying Gu Yao and his birthday sign. .

But one day, he was taken back by the disciples who were patrolling in the valley.

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"The common people would like to look eastward, but Cuihua is still far away to the west." ——Meng Jiao in Song of the Evening Snow