different paths

Looking at the shattered wheelchair, Jia Wukai was taken aback for a moment: "Your wheelchair is too weak."

"En." Yue Chentan was noncommittal.

"Then what should we do next?" Jia Wujue wanted to help Yue Shentan, but he was afraid that he would feel embarrassed. Yue Chentan was not doing well, so he was in a dilemma.

Yue Chentan didn't seem to notice his battle between heaven and man, he brushed off his robe: "Let's go."

"Your legs..." Jia Wuhai looked suspiciously at his lower body.

Yue Chentan pursed his thin lips slightly: "It's okay." As he spoke, he had already taken a step.

He is tall and tall, standing out from the crowd, and can be seen at a glance.In the shadows of the lights, his figure also swayed slightly, and Jia Wujue saw clearly——

Was it the left foot that was limping?

He had a straight spine and walked very slowly, every step seemed to be controlled with all the strength of his whole body. Even so, he still couldn't completely control the body imbalance caused by his limp.The shoulders wrapped in the material are straight and open, trying to keep them level as they walk, like ink lines.

Off the stage, many spectators noticed his limp.It's just that his appearance is awe-inspiring, like a giant tiger cutting the wind, no one dares to despise him.

"Shen Tan." Jia Wujue kept watching his back, and when he got here, he finally couldn't help calling out.

"Laughing at you and me, monks and laymen are destined to have three lives,

Laughing at you and me and poetry reward rhyme in Taolin.

Laughing at you and me at the age of twenty-eight, coincidentally the same age,

Laughing at you, I don’t know the soulmate...”[1]

Amidst the soft and melodious singing, Yue Chentan stopped and turned around, and he saw Jia Wuchai with a sad face at a glance. "I'm here." He seemed to smile.

"He laughed at me as a drunkard who didn't care about drinking,

He laughed at me saying Amitabha hypocritically.

Laughing at me pretending to be frivolous,

Laughing at you for being hypocritical and cold as ice..."[2]

Jia Wujue squeezed to Yue Chentan's side, quietly watched the joy, anger, sorrow and joy on the stage for a while, and then asked, "What's the matter with your legs?"

"Qi stagnation and blood stasis." Yue Chentan wrote lightly, as if he didn't care.

"Is there no way to cure it?" Jia Wuba looked at his stern profile.

"The opportunity has not come."

Jia Wuhu opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, and it took him a long time to hold back a sentence: "I can't find a suitable wheelchair for a while. If you have any inconvenience, just call me." I regret it, is this too intimate?

Yue Chentan didn't respond to him immediately, instead he concentrated on watching the performance on the stage for a while.Just when Jia Wujue thought he would not answer, he heard a sentence floating above his head: "You are really a Bodhisattva."

puff.

Jia Wuhai's heart beat wildly, and he subconsciously pressed his hand on his chest.

Is Yue Chentan... joking with him?

He looked at Yue Chentan uncertainly.

The gaze that had been lingering on the side of his face was impossible to ignore, Yue Chentan turned his head to the side: "What?"

"You just now," Jia Wuchai couldn't look him in the eyes for some reason, and said a little awkwardly, "Are you kidding me?"

"According to Your Excellency's opinion?" Yue Chentan didn't answer, but asked with normal expression.

Jia Wuhai lowered his head and began to ponder for himself.Yue Chentan looked down at him, the expression on his face was dark and unclear.

When Shengdan took the stage to call the curtain again, Jia Wujue finally found the fortune-telling operator among the crowd of people.

"See that old man with the straw hat?" Yue Chentan followed his hand and saw an old man wearing a rotten straw hat under a huge pagoda tree, waving The leading crutch seemed to be responding.

This divination operator's age... Yue Chentan looked at the other party with suspicion.

"Go, go first." Jia Wu tugged at his sleeve, seemed to see his doubts, and said amusedly, "You don't really think he is an old man, do you? The most taboo thing in their business is to be known True identity requires all kinds of disguises. I haven’t seen him a few times, but I have already witnessed his growth from childhood to old age.”

"Since he doesn't show his real body, how can you recognize him?" Yue Chentan asked.

"See that rotten straw hat?" Jia Wu had nothing to hide, "No matter what his identity is, he always wears that rotten straw hat." He wrinkled his nose, "That straw hat It's dirty and rotten, I don't know what's good about it, so he'll never leave him. But it's also good, so that no matter where he goes, he can always be caught."

While talking, the two had already walked under the locust tree.

"Old man, I found you!" Jia Wuchai jumped to Bu Shuanzi's side, holding his hand tightly, as if he was afraid that he would run away.

Bu Shuanzi raised his rotten straw hat, glanced at Jia Wuchai, and said inexplicably, "You kid, you're so stupid, I don't know you."

Jia Wujue smiled and said, "You don't know me, but I know your straw hat. You haven't seen my face, but I have seen your other faces."

Hearing this, Bu Shuanzi raised his head suddenly, his loose eyes became very vigilant, and there was a trace of clarity in his old voice: "Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who I am." Jia Wuhai said with a playful smile, "The important thing is that you were very satisfied with my face."

Bu Suanzi snorted coldly: "So what."

"The rules of the world, since you are satisfied, you can answer me a question, right?" Jia Wu bullied.

"Little old man has another rule," Bu Shuanzi said slowly, "Never look at the same face again. You can't keep the day of yesterday. Even if little old man was quite satisfied with your kid's face, your face now is not good enough." Not convincing at all."

Jia Wuju was not annoyed by what he said, he stretched out his hand and pulled Yue Chentan to him: "Now my face is not convincing, what about this one?"

Bu Shuanzi casually glanced at Yue Chentan, was stunned for a moment, and then reluctantly said: "The bead on the forehead is not bad..."

The bead on the forehead is a round protrusion half hidden and half visible between the eyebrows. Because it is similar to the diamond bead, it is also called the diamond bead on the forehead.The allusion of the bead on the forehead comes from the Nirvana Sutra. Those who have this face have profound Buddha nature and may have great success.

"Your Excellency's absurd praise." Yue Chentan said lightly.

"Can you answer my question now?" Jia Wujue asked the divination operator with an expression that I knew.

"Ask..." Bu Shuanzi slammed the dragon's head crutches to the ground, as a confession.

"The Yongqing Gate was destroyed 20 years ago, but in fact, one person escaped. Do you know where the escaped person went?" Jia Wujue asked.

When Bu Shuanzi heard this question, his expression froze, and he sighed: "I knew that someone would come to ask about this..." Then, he took off his straw hat and fanned himself, "It's not that the person escaped. , but the murderer saw that the man was not good enough, and for some unknown reason, let the man survive."

"You mean, the murderer showed mercy?" Jia Wujue was a little unbelievable, why would a murderer who was able to commit the crime of extermination suddenly show mercy and leave a dangerous seed behind.

"I don't know if I'm being merciful," Bu Shuanzi said in a low voice, "I only know that the man was sold to a brothel not long after."

"Brothel?" Something flashed through Jia Wuhai's mind quickly, and before he had time to catch it, Yue Chentan had already opened his mouth.

"The one who survived was a child." Yue Chentan looked at Bu Shuanzi, not asking, but determined.

"One question has been answered." Bu Shuanzi shrugged, but did not answer Yue Chentan's words.

Jia Wuhai knew his rules, he could only ask one question at a time, and if there were more, he would not be able to ask anything.He tried various methods to get Bu Shuanzi to answer a few more questions, but all failed.In view of this, he and Yue Chentan stopped entanglement and watched Bu Shuanzi walk away tremblingly.

Acting is really a complete set.

Looking at Bu Shuanzi's hunched back, Jia Wukai couldn't help but slander.

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[1][2] are all excerpted from the libretto of "Jade Dragonfly"