What should I do if my junior brother becomes a bad old man?

Ren Sha frowned:

"capricious."

Gu Xunzhi had no way to refute Ren Xun's assertion, so he could only smile guiltily.

Just let Ren Sha say again:

"You have some foundation in previous practice, and you have taken a lot of pills, and you wear Nanming beads on your hands. It is said that your life will be safe for a while. But the situation has changed now. Although I am always by your side, there are always things that I can't take care of. You have to be able to protect yourself a little bit.”

Ren Zhen's words were very reasonable, Gu Xunzhi thought of the terrifying appearance of the monster before, and felt his body tremble again, gritted his teeth and agreed to Ren Zhen:

"Senior brother is right, then... let's do it again."

Seeing that he agreed, Ren Sha relaxed her brows.

They have lived in this inn for the past two days, and they have gone up the mountain a few times during the day to sort out the surviving things.It's a pity that there are not many things that have been preserved intact. Except for a few books and some correspondence, the entire army was basically wiped out. Even the alchemy furnace was stained with oil. It took two hours to finish the fire.

Nowadays, there are too many necessities for life, and Ren Sha thinks that the cave is not clean enough, so no one can live here.Gu Xunzhi also had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​returning to Dongfu to live for a while, and planned to stay here after the Lantern Festival and leave.

I don't know whether Gu Xunzhi's luck is particularly good or bad. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it snowed here. It snowed for two consecutive days, and even the sixteenth day of the first lunar month was not spared.Dark clouds covered the moon, Gu Xunzhi temporarily escaped the embarrassing scene of being infused with spiritual energy, and felt a little relieved.

On the morning of the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, they left the foot of Bikong Mountain.

In the past few days, the two discussed it and decided to go to the master first.According to Ren Xun, the master's mana is roughly equivalent to that of an ordinary earth fairy. With his ability, he will not be in any danger if he encounters an ordinary monster, but if the situation changes, he does not know what kind of trouble he will encounter.If there is any particularly powerful demon appearing, the master may not be the opponent.

Ren Xun had checked the master's whereabouts before, and knew that the master was going southeast, so the two of them searched in that direction.When going southeast, you have to be close to the capital. The closer you are to the capital, the wider and more mysterious some rumors will spread.The two pieced together the many rumors and roughly understood the truth of the matter.It turned out that on the morning just after the Shangyuan Festival, a huge green dragon came out of the capital, soaring into the sky, and almost everyone in the capital saw it.

It is rumored that the location where the green dragon appeared was in the Prince Jin's mansion. After that, the King Jin who was just conferred by the emperor disappeared from the mansion. Not half a day after the news came out, the emperor's decree was passed down in the palace. The king left Beijing privately and was abolished as a commoner. The portrait of King Jin was posted everywhere, and he was wanted as a criminal for what seemed to be treason.

Considering what happened in Prince Jin's Mansion before, it was almost inevitable that things would develop like this.Now Qinglong is definitely going back to the East China Sea, and the little Jin King has deep-seated love, and he doesn't even want the throne for Qinglong, so he must have gone to the East China Sea.Now that the little King Jin has been wanted, it is hard to say whether he can reach the East China Sea and find Qinglong. I can ask for more blessings.

However, these news did not only affect Long and King Jin. Judging from the attitude of the emperor's decree, under this romantic story that was originally a personal affair, it seemed to herald an unspeakable situation. changing.Thinking about it carefully, the old King Jin captured Qinglong in order to seek rebellion. Although he failed, he still made a lot of preparations. Could this be the real source of the monsters on Bikong Mountain?

Gu Xunzhi went to ask Ren Sha, but didn't get any definite answer.His heart has been hanging like this all the time, and he can't return to his place.Ren Sha patted him on the shoulder:

"Don't worry, it's just a new cycle."

new cycle?Gu Xunzhi roughly understood what Ren Sha meant.For thousands of years, this has always been the case in the human world, with dynasties constantly changing, prosperity and chaos alternating.Gu Xunzhi was lucky to be born in a prosperous age, and he always subconsciously felt that everything would go smoothly as he did when he was young, but the reality is that troubled times and the arrival of demons are inevitable, they will always appear.

Gu Xunzhi turned his head to look at Ren Sha:

"If I live long enough, it's inevitable that I'll see this, isn't it?"

Ren Sha nodded:

"That's right, such things can never be avoided, you can only learn to get used to it."

After confirming this, Gu Xunzhi felt relieved.He realized that this was a way to get him closer to his senior brother.

The kiss that day changed a lot of things. It made Gu Xunzhi realize many things that he didn't know before. The exchange of body fluid seems to have some inexplicable special effects, which can bring him closer to his senior brother on some levels. He found that he seemed to have accidentally uncovered a corner of his senior brother's secret.

When they kissed before, those original impressions just appeared in his mind for no reason, as if someone had directly opened his head and put that thought in.Moreover, I don't know if it was related to this incident, but for several days after that, Gu Xunzhi always dreamed that he was wandering aimlessly in the deep night sea, surrounded by black sea water.

The sea was choppy, and the wind on the sea was frighteningly strong, but Gu Xunzhi was very calm in his dream, and he didn't feel any fear at all, as if all this was natural and he should be like that.His huge body floats on the sea, and the sea water is like a mother's embrace.It wasn't until he was about to wake up that he belatedly realized that he actually couldn't swim. He woke up in the sudden panic of choking on water, and after waking up, he had to sit and cough violently for a long time, making Ren Xi think that he couldn't swim. Catching a cold, he stuffed him with a large pack of pills and stared at him to eat.He tried to resist, but the senior brother's influence on him was too strong, as long as he gave him a glare, he could only raise his hand and surrender, obediently swallowing big pills.

Even in the daytime, he often loses his mind. One night, he lay on the bed and flipped through the scriptures. After half an hour, he realized that the book in his hand hadn't been turned. The blue ocean, as if he belonged there.

Which was really weird, because before that, he hadn't even been to the sea.

When this kind of thing continued for a little longer, he began to believe that it was not a coincidence, but was closely related to the kiss between him and his senior brother.Although Gu Xunzhi had never heard of such a thing, he had never done anything else that would cause strange dreams.

Ren Zhen noticed that he was in a trance recently, and asked him what happened.Gu Xunzhi didn't answer, just brushed it off casually.He didn't intend to ask his brother for confirmation, he believed that his brother probably didn't know either.

However, with the development of time, the number of such dreams became less and less, and gradually no longer became a kind of trouble, but made him miss it a little.Gu Xunzhi really wanted to kiss his senior brother again, to see if those dreams would come back, but the impulsive courage of the last time was actually not common to him, so he could only secretly think about it in his heart.

They are still trying to find the whereabouts of the master. Ren Xiao got some clues from the letters and books left by the master, but there are not many, and they are rather vague.Coupled with the fact that the time interval is too long, it is impossible to determine whether it is still effective, but it is a direction after all.In the process of searching, they got a more accurate news by chance. It said that about five or six years ago, someone once met a person somewhere nearby. kind of look.

This was really a pleasant surprise, Ren Zhen and Gu Xunzhi couldn't believe that things would go so smoothly.But it's not too early to be happy, maybe it's just a coincidence, but of course it's also possible that the master left clues and traces on purpose, just waiting for them to find him.

In fact, to be honest, although Gu Xunzhi lived with Master for almost ten years, Master's face has already become blurred in his memory.When he was first picked up the mountain by his master, the master originally planned to let his brother be his master.Later, it was the brother who resolutely disagreed before giving up, and accepted him without any trouble.

Apart from teaching him some things about cultivation, the master doesn't usually appear in front of him, and seems to be always busy making alchemy, at least that's what the senior brother said every time he asked him what the master was doing.But now that I think about it, Master really didn't make many alchemy, and he probably used the excuse of alchemy to be lazy.When Gu Xunzhi was young, almost all the duties of taking care of him were entrusted by the master to the senior brother. If the senior brother was dissatisfied with him, he would forcefully say something, "If there is something to do, the disciple will do his job, and there will be wine and food, and the master will eat." ."[Note]

When Gu Xunzhi was young, he always felt that his master was an expert, and he was full of admiration for him.Back then when he was not under his master's sect, he often watched the game between the master and the old temple master of Xuandu temple with a group of young Taoist priests in the courtyard of Xuandu Temple. At that time, the old temple master wore a simple and elegant gray robe, and the master was Wearing a white robe with fluttering fairy sleeves, she is extremely graceful.Over the years, the impression left by that year has never changed.However, recently, he heard his brother talk about some past events, and confirmed those events in his own memory. The more Gu Xunzhi recalled, the more he felt that Master actually seemed to be a rather lazy guy.

This is very different from Gu Xunzhi's childhood impression, which inevitably makes him a little disappointed.When he told his senior brother about his uncertain impressions one by one, and wanted to get a more accurate answer, he saw his senior brother obviously showed a slightly contemptuous expression:

"Well, he."

The senior brother didn't say much else, but his expression said everything.

Gu Xunzhi suddenly felt that his good impression of Master over the past hundred years began to collapse.

The author has something to say: [Note] The original sentence is from "The Analects of Confucius Weizheng" as follows:

Zi Xia asked about filial piety, and the master said: "Sex is difficult. If there is something to do, the disciple will do his job; if there is wine and food, the husband will eat. Did you ever think of filial piety?"

The original meaning is that children should be kind to their parents, and they should not be regarded as filial piety just because they do things for their parents and give them good food and drink.But this master misinterpreted it as: apprentices should do things for the master, and give the master (sir) something delicious to eat.It is too much.