Copper Coins

Xue Xian and Tong Deng came and went, while Xuan Min stood by helplessly.This is actually a very strange and rare scene.

The three of them used to be loners. Although their temperaments were not the same, there were some similarities in their bones-one founded the Tianji Academy where "no outsiders are allowed to enter", and the other couldn't escape for three days in the cold. In two sentences, there is another who has lived for thousands of years and has nothing to do with the world.

Probably no one would have imagined that such three people together could actually have something to do with "lively".And the excitement got even better later on, because the black bird that Xuan Min raised also came.

Following two faint and terrifying sighs, it spread its wings and rushed straight into the house with a delicate bamboo basket hanging on it, and changed its direction urgently halfway, and rolled into Xuan Min's arms accurately.

Xue Xian raised his eyebrows: "Why are you everywhere?"

Blackbird opened his mouth and yelled at him provocatively.

Tong Deng lightly interjected: "Is this bird still alive?"

"Do you recognize it?" Xue Xian asked in surprise, then thought of the bunch of copper coins that Black Bird had given him earlier, and guessed most of it.

"This bird is older than him." Tong Deng glanced at Xuan Min, and said indifferently: "It's good at pretending to be tender."

The blackbird should not have heard him, nor should he have seen him.However, this cub has never been judged by the standards of ordinary beasts. It seems to be a spirit. After talking with the lamp, it intentionally or unintentionally looked in the direction of the lamp, with its head tilted, as if hearing There were some noises, and it seemed to be vaguely aware that there was an old friend there.

Xuan Min raised his eyes when he heard the words: "Decades ago, it curled up half of its wings and landed in the corner of Tianjiyuan, and I picked it up. Have you seen it?"

Ever since he became in this state of neither human nor ghost, and met the same lamp again, Xuan Min's impression of the previous life occasionally surfaced, but it was very vague, like a dream, and he seemed to remember something after waking up. , and seems to have forgotten.

Therefore, his first impression of the black bird was still at the age of six or seven. He once thought it was just a coincidence that the black bird landed in Tianjiyuan, and it was rare for him to have a heart for raising pet birds. Year.

Listening to what Tong Deng said now, it seems that the relationship between this black bird and him is not so short.

Tong Deng said: "I've seen it before."

When this black bird first entered the Tianji Academy, Tong Deng was still a national teacher, and Xuan Min in his previous life had just turned ten years old.At that time, Tong Deng was a little worried, because the apprentice he raised was good at everything, but he didn't like to talk to people. He was a snow doll since he was a child, and he didn't show any signs of melting until he was old.

Although he himself doesn't like to talk to people, he suddenly changed from the frozen person to the "frozen" one, so he has some opinions.Besides, at that time, he was worried that Xuan Min would be too cold-hearted, and it would be difficult for him to appreciate the sufferings of the world when he grows up.

In order to keep Xuan Min warm, he tried many ways, but finally he decided to find a companion for this little apprentice.

When the black bird first came to Tianji Academy, it was still an egg.The timing of it breaking its shell was very coincidental, not too early or too late, when Tong Deng showed it to Xuan Min.

The first person it saw when it opened its eyes was Xuan Min, and since then it has recognized the Lord, and it is all about Xuan Min alone.

When it was a child, it looked like a chick, covered in soft fluff, and could not fly, it could only stretch two thin short legs and bounce around Xuan Min's heels.Wherever Xuanmin went, it would hop and follow there. If Xuanmin was sitting and reading a book, it would hop to a place where the sun could shine, rubbing against the corner of Xuanmin's clothes and squinting for a nap, or rolling around.

This chicken... the bird is born slower than ordinary birds, and it takes a long time to learn to fly.From then on, it changed from "following Xuanmin and jumping around on tiptoe" to "flying around Xuanmin with flapping wings".

Xuan Min's temperament was cold and cold, and after a long time, he still acquiesced to this black bird as his pet, and would prepare some food and spring water for it regularly, and most of the time it would be free range.Whether this brat wanders around without a trace, or sheds hair around him, he doesn't care.

Even this bastard has developed a quirk - from time to time, he will steal one or two pills of great nourishment, and he will not change after repeated admonitions.But as long as it doesn't peck itself out, Xuan Min doesn't care.

From Tongdeng's point of view, Xuan Min's "don't care" is mixed with "not to dislike", which can barely be regarded as a kind of "indulgence".After all, in the ten years he spent with Xuan Min, he had never seen Xuan Min "indulge" any creature more.

But what he didn't expect was that today, a hundred years after his death, he could actually see his frozen apprentice treat a living person with a more laissez-faire attitude.

After seeing Xue Xian, Tongdeng understood how far Xuan Min could truly indulge.

It was precisely because of meeting Xue Xian that Tongdeng discovered that his apprentice was probably born unable to withstand this kind of "life is endlessly tossing" stuff.

He even once suspected that Xuan Min had no other attitude towards Xue Xian except "good".

Of course, if he saw Xuan Min and would stop Xue Xian, he would ask "Are you still making trouble?" half habitually and half seriously, and he would probably feel that his apprentice was possessed by eating dirty things.Others might not be able to see it, but Xuan Min was raised by him, this kind of tone is definitely an extremely rare "tease" for Xuan Min...

This black bird is almost a sperm.

Xuan Min took out a jug of warm wine and a porcelain cup from the exquisite bamboo basket it was hanging on, probably expected that Xue Xian would find Xuan Min smoothly tonight, so he did not know where to get these wines for him For celebration.

Xuan Min never drank alcohol, so he took out the exquisite bean celadon wine jug and was taken aback for a moment, then handed it to Xue Xian very naturally.

Xue Xian took the jug, dumbfounded: "What did you feed this black bird?"

"Elixir." Tong Deng said concisely.

Xue Xian: "..."

He shook the wine jug slightly, and a clear scent of wine dispersed faintly.

"Qiu Lubai?" Tong Deng asked lightly.

Xue Xian nodded, "The smell should be right, you are familiar with the smell of wine."

"That's all I'm familiar with." Tong Deng seemed to be recalling the past, and said casually: "There is an old man who only loves Qiulubai, and he would let me have a drink with him every New Year's Eve."

When I mention it now, the word "accompany" seems light and delicate, but in fact, in order to fill him up a small cup, the old man always half-coaxed and half-deceived, finding all kinds of excuses...

"No, wait..." Xue Xian raised his eyebrows and looked at Tong Deng, repeating: "Have a drink? Autumn Lubai? You?"

Tongdeng responded with an "hmm".

Xuan Min on the side didn't look surprised. Although he never really remembered the master-student relationship in the previous life, when he heard the name of Qiu Lubai from the same lamp, he still felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if He has long been used to all this.

Xue Xian asked suspiciously, "Can monks drink alcohol?"

With a calm face, Tongdeng saluted Buddha with one hand, and said: "Daze Temple is no longer here before I received the precepts."

If you haven't taken the precepts, you don't have the precept body, so you don't need to keep the precepts.Although Xue Xian is not very clear about the detailed rules of the temple, he still has some understanding of the basics.Hearing this, his face was paralyzed, and he stared at Tong Deng and Xuan Min numbly for a long time, and finally couldn't help saying: "I can see that not only you have a deep hatred with your apprentice, but also your apprentice has no hatred with him. shallow."

Dare to feel that all of your masters and apprentices are not serious and bald donkeys, there is no restriction at all on whether to break the precepts, it all depends on self-torture?

Xue Xian almost sighed in admiration, the national teacher is the national teacher, so sick.

He turned his head and pointed at Xuan Min: "Liar."

Xuan Min: "..."

He glanced at Xue Xian quite speechlessly, then turned his head and glanced at Tong Deng.

"On the contrary, you seem to be very dissatisfied with being a teacher." Tong Deng raised his chin at the door coldly, "The door is there, you can do whatever you want."

After all, I still want Xuan Min and Xue Xian to get out of here.

"Don't blind the elders, let's go." Tong Deng didn't want to spend New Year's Eve with this unfilial apprentice and his real dragon at all, "Qiu Lubai stay here."

Xue Xian snorted, "I'm ashamed to say, I'm probably about eight hundred generations older than you."

Tong Deng: "..."

Seeing that his master was really about to be choked by someone, Xuan Min finally had the appearance of a serious disciple.He nodded at Tong Deng, then patted Xue Xian on the back of the head facing him, and said, "Let's go."

Although his appearance was serious, it somehow made people think that he seemed to be saying, "I'll take this unforgiving person back first, just kidding."

Xue Xian didn't care about it, and turned to him to confirm: "Go back with me, don't you want to hang around here?"

What is relying on...

Xuan Min let out a "hmm" and looked at him quietly.

Tong Deng silently rubbed the center of his brows, and blasted people and birds out together.

When Xue Xian and Xuan Min returned to the bamboo building, the night had just darkened.Maybe it's because the rope tied to his hand is getting more and more aura, or maybe it's because Xuan Min is getting closer to his physical body at this time.Almost as soon as he turned on the wick, Xue Xian discovered that a faint mark of blood mole had finally belatedly appeared on the neck of Xuan Min who was "not a human being, not a ghost".

It was as if the effect of the Longevity Spider had finally taken effect on the spirit body after so many days.

Just when the bloody mole on the neck of his spiritual body was completely formed, the physical body lying silently on the bed also changed—the bloody mole on the neck was originally bleak, but now it seems that it has finally completed its last journey and reached the end Generally, it brightens at a speed visible to the eyes, as if it had just been stained with blood.

Before Xuan Min could speak, he felt as if he was being sucked into a gust of wind, the sky was spinning, and there was a huge suction pulling him.

He was dizzy for a while, and his eyes suddenly went black.When he opened his eyes again, he found that he had changed into a lying down position at some point.

"It's finally done..." Xue Xian's sighing voice sounded in his ears, as if he was really at ease until now.

Xuan Min was stunned for a moment, then sat up suddenly, only to find that his hands and feet were heavy, completely different from the previous state of floating.He sat on the bamboo bed, looked down at his hands, then raised his eyes to Xue Xian, "I—"

"From now on, you will live the same life as the real dragon." Xue Xian propped his hands on the bamboo bed with a "slap", leaned close to Xuan Min, stared quietly into his eyes, and said word by word: "It's too late to repent." , you are going to live with me for hundreds of thousands of years or even longer, even if you get bored one day, there is no change."

Xuan Min's dark eyes were bottomless. He seemed to want to say something, but in the end he looked into Xue Xian's eyes without hesitation. After a long time, he said quietly, "I can't ask for it."

This was the first time Xue Xian heard such a straightforward wish from Xuan Min, he was stunned for a while, and then suddenly smiled.The smile seemed a little willful and a little bad, "How can you say this is a life-saving grace, how do you plan to repay it, huh?"