Xiao Han [Shooting Condor]

As the days went by, Xie Yao bled more and more, Tianshu didn't dare to delay, and hurried on the road day and night, even so, it was already four or five days later when he arrived in Taoyuan County.

At the foot of the mountain, the tea house has not changed at all.

Tianshu wanted to buy some steamed buns for Xie Yao, but he saw that Xiaoer was frying quail and steamed buns in front of a frying pan.Thinking of the night of the Lantern Festival, she couldn't help but bend her mouth slightly, and said, "Give me two." Xie Yao waited for her under the tree, but after a while, the heavenly book handed him a bunch, Xie Yao seemed to have never seen it before, and shouted : "Wow, what is this?"

Tianshu smiled: "My favorite thing to eat, um, you like it too."

No matter what Xie Yao put into his mouth, he took a big mouthful of "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" It melts in the mouth and seems to soak into the heart.

Leaving the reed at the foot of the mountain, the two went up the mountain hand in hand.Walking along the winding path for seven or eight miles, passing through a slit, the scenery suddenly opened up, and there was a faint sound of water in the distance. Walking up to the top of the ridge, the waterfall hangs upside down on the Qianchuan River, which is still the same as before.

Tianshu told Xie Yao not to wander around, and looked around, but he didn't see the fisherman fishing beside the waterfall. The mountains and fields were silent, as if there was no one there.Tianshu's heart tightened, thinking that if he came here for nothing, Master Yideng had already found another place, wouldn't it be a bamboo basket to fetch water?

Thinking of this, she hurriedly pulled Xie Yao up and took a look. Fortunately, the iron boat was still anchored in place.

But just like this, Tianshu was even more puzzled.She said to Xie Yao, "Get on board."

Xie Yao had never seen this iron boat before, so he was curious and sat in obediently.Tianshu picked up the iron oar and said, "Hold on tightly to the side of the boat, and don't fall into the river." Xie Yao nodded, holding on tightly.

Tianshu waved the iron oar, turned from the right to the corner of the mountain, passed the waterfall, and there was a torrent, it was not the first time for her to row a boat, relying on her martial arts, she fell very smoothly in the torrent.The boat went upstream and reached the mountainside.Tianshu stopped the boat on the shore, and stretched out his hand to help Xie Yao out, but he stepped on the bow of the boat, jumped onto the shore, puffed out his chest towards Tianshu, as if expecting praise: "Tianshu, am I good?"

Tianshu took his hand and said with a smile, "You are the most powerful."

There are flowers, plants and trees on both sides of the mountainside, and there are clusters of colorful flowers.

Tian Shu and Xie Yao walked a few steps deep into the flowers. She pondered for a moment, remembering that the woodcutter was named Jiang Qing, and he called his name softly. willow branch.

"What's the matter? Are you and Geng Qiaodu gone?"

She frowned and looked around, only to see a bundle of thick hemp rope hanging from the branch of a peach tree.Tianshu walked over quickly, took off the hemp rope, and said, "It doesn't matter, I have to go up the mountain anyway." After saying that, he tied the rope around Xie Yao's waist, hugged him, and climbed the cliff like climbing a snow peak.

What Tianshu was worried about was that he lost his mind, and Mo slipped and fell, but later found out that she was worrying too much.She told Xie Yao in advance not to look at his feet, but only to think about how to get to the top. Xie Yao followed her words and worked hard to go up, never looking down. When the two of them climbed to the top of the cliff together, Xie Yao turned his head to look at the bottomless cliff, Frightened, he fell to the ground.

"Alright, we're already up." Tianshu pulled him up and patted the dust off his body.

Looking around, it was already spring, but the paddy field had not been sown and transplanted, and the land was cracked, as if no one had taken care of it for a long time.Thinking of Wu Santong running around looking for He Yuanjun last year, I felt mixed feelings.She dragged Xie Yao to the top of the mountain again. After a short walk, the mountain road came to an end. In front of it was a stone beam with a width of about a foot.

Xie Yao raised his foot and was about to step over, Tianshu hurriedly stopped him: "What's the hurry? Come on, I'll lead you along." She knew very well that the stone beam was slippery, if Xie Yao fell, it would be fine.

Immediately, he tied the hemp rope back to Xie Yao's waist, hugged his arm tightly, walked one stone step at a time, walked about five or six stone steps, and finally arrived at the cave that Zhu Ziliu blocked at the beginning.Tianshu thought he could see this person, but he didn't expect that there was no one at the entrance of the cave. When he passed through the lotus pond, he saw that the lotus leaves were withered, the rhizomes were broken, and they were floating in the pond.

Xie Yao looked around along the way, Tianshu became more and more curious, and finally came to the gate of the small temple with anxiety.

She turned her head to Xie Yao and said: "When you see Master Yideng later, you will take out the string of beads, you understand?"

Xie Yao nodded: "I know."

After Tianshu finished speaking, he was about to knock on the door, when suddenly the door opened automatically, and something flew out with a "huh", Tianshu was shocked in his heart, stretched out his hand to copy it, and took it firmly in his hand.She took a closer look, and couldn't help being shocked. The object in her arms turned out to be a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. The small face was wrinkled, which seemed to be a newborn baby.

The baby was bewildered, his mouth was deflated, and he wailed loudly.

"You... who are you, please return the child to me." A woman in plain clothes said to Tianshu.

It was the first time Xie Yao saw such a small child. He looked at the baby's hands, then at his own, and asked strangely, "His hands are so small, could it be that he is zero years old?"

The woman in plain clothes took the child, thanked Tianshu for a while, and quickly patted the swaddling baby for a while to coax: "Dun Ru, don't cry, don't cry, your father was just impatient, it wasn't on purpose, he..." The woman said here, With tears in his eyes, he turned his head and saw that the courtyard was deserted, and there was no one in sight.

Tianshu looked to the southwest, raised his hand and pointed: "Is it Wu Santong? He went there."

The woman was startled when she heard the words, and said, "Do you know my officials?" It turned out that she was Wu Santong's original wife, Wu Sanniang.Tianshu didn't want to talk too much, he just said: "Is Master Yideng here? I have something important to ask."

Wu Sanniang frowned, remembering what Zhu Ziliu and others entrusted before leaving, if outsiders came to see him, they would all avoid the absence of Master Yideng, so as not to disturb the master's retreat.But Wu Sanniang was kind-hearted, thanks to Tianshu, she caught Wu Dunru, otherwise her son would have been dropped to death by his father, she struggled several times, and asked, "Why did you come to find Master?"

Tian Shu didn't say that he was seeking medical treatment, he said: "When an old friend comes to visit, I will tell Master Yideng when I see him."

Wu Sanniang sighed, and said: "Master is in seclusion, we can let Ci'en pass it on to you, but whether Master is willing to see you or not, we can't decide." After speaking, Wu Sanniang took the child and went Help pass the scriptures.After a while, a monk wearing a black cassock came out, with white beard and hair, it was Qiu Qianren who had been enlightened to become a monk.

When Ci'en saw the heavenly book, he was stunned for a moment, then he turned his head to see Xie Yao who was squatting by the door and playing with mud, and was shocked: "It's you! You're not dead?"

Tianshu stood in front of Xie Yao and gave him a cold look: "Take us to see Master Yideng."

Ci'en stayed under the seat of Master Yideng for a long time, but she really got rid of a lot of the previous hostility, and she didn't shout for Xie Yao when she saw Xie Yao.He only frowned and said: "Master is retreating, why bother him to clean up?"

Xie Yao listened to him, blinked, walked over suddenly and stretched out his hand to touch his bald head, but Ci'en thought he was going to kill him, so he slapped his backhand in shock, Tianshu's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, he strode out, stretched his cross arm, and This palm force becomes invisible, it is this moment, the difference between high and low.

Ci'en couldn't help being astonished, he didn't expect that Tianshu's martial arts were not weaker than him.Thinking that years ago, I was not self-reliant and tried to win the title of No. [-] in the world with swords in Huashan, and I was deeply moved.

Xie Yao didn't understand what they were doing, and while he was in a daze, he reached out to touch Ci'en's bald head, and asked with a smile, "Why don't you have hair?"

Ci'en was startled when he heard the words, and turned to look at Xie Yao, seeing the innocence in his eyes, how could there be any trace of the high-spiritedness he saw in Chongyang Palace back then?He blurted out: "Are you crazy?"

"shut up!"

Tianshu scolded angrily, Ci'en stopped answering immediately, she reached out her hand to touch Xie Yao's arms, handed the rosary to Ci'en, and said, "Give this to Master Yideng."

It stands to reason that Ci'en and Xie Yao should be regarded as enmity, but since he became a monk, he has a lot of kindness, so he didn't care about the rudeness of Tianshu.

After half a cup of tea, Ci En left and returned, saying: "You follow me."

The implication is that Master Yideng agrees to meet face to face.Tianshu originally thought that Master Yideng had lived in the mountains for a long time and would not know about Xie Yao, but she did not expect that Qiu Qianren followed him, maybe he knew about it long ago.In just a hundred steps, Tianshu seemed as long as a hundred years. She had been thinking and planning for Xie Yao, for fear that even this little hope would be shattered.

When he came to a meditation room, Ci'en stopped going in, and said to Tianshu: "The master is inside, donate as you please." After saying this, he turned and left, as if he didn't care about why Tianshu and Xie Yao came here.

With a soft "squeak", the door opened wide, and Master Yideng sat solemnly on the futon, with a huge "Zen" character behind him, reflecting the curling sandalwood, making him extremely peaceful.

Xie Yao didn't wait for Tianshu to speak, he ran in curiously, he saw the incense burner in the room at first glance, picked it up and brought it to the tip of his nose to smell it, inhaled a lot of incense ash with too much force, and sneezed loudly with a "sneeze".Xie Yao hurriedly raised his hand and rubbed his nose, but it was wet when he touched it, and it started to bleed again.

Every time he bleeds, Tianshu's heart is pierced like a knife. She stepped forward and gently wiped him with a handkerchief, looked at Master Yideng, and apologized to him: "I made Master laugh, he...he..." Tianshu looked at him Xie Yao, with a silly face, couldn't continue.

Master Yideng's eyes were as bright as a torch, and he naturally saw Xie Yao's madness.He was not too polite, and when he saw the rosary, he agreed to his promise, Xie Yao was like this, Tianshu brought him here, and naturally healed his illness.

"Come on, let me check his pulse."

Tianshu dragged Xie Yao to Master Yideng, and told him how Xie Yao was injured and how he used his life to suppress the devil in the cave.Master Yideng was startled when he heard the words, then nodded with a smile: "He is indeed a good boy, he would rather hurt himself than hurt others."

"Yes." Tianshu nodded, "I guarantee with my life that none of the murders in the Jianghu were committed by him."

She said these words firmly, Master Yideng looked at her, and said: "In this way, he suffered an ordeal for no reason." When he said this, he looked at Xie Yao's expression carefully, and couldn't help but With a long sigh, "If I say that he has no way to recover, you may accept it?"

Tianshu's figure swayed slightly, she was about to stand unsteadily, she shook her head with tears in her eyes: "...I can't!"

"I don't know how many kinds of martial arts are in his body. The yin and yang are inconsistent, the good and the evil are not in harmony, and the Tao and the Buddha are not the same. These internal forces are misused and damage the internal organs. If they go crazy from then on, they will live insanely for the next life. He refuses to fall into the evil thoughts. , Forcibly suppressing with a breath of true energy is adding fuel to the fire. If he can suppress for a lifetime, except that he can't use force, that's okay; The mottled internal force can no longer be suppressed, the bleeding is because the internal force has damaged the heart vessels, he actually vomits blood, but for some reason you say he does not have this symptom."

Master Yideng finished speaking, turned to look at Xie Yao, and asked, "Son, are you vomiting blood?" Xie Yao looked at Tianshu suspiciously, and Tianshu explained: "Do you often have a sweet throat, and then... um, Then spit out red saliva?"

Xie Yao smiled and said: "Yes, but I swallowed it all!"

Seeing his smile, Tianshu felt pain in his heart, looked at Master Yideng, and asked, "If he dies, what will happen?"

Master Yideng didn't seem to want to explain it to her, but the monks didn't want to lie, so they could only sigh: "Within three months, there will be no strength to return to heaven, and the tendons will be broken and he will die."

Tianshu didn't want to hear such a result, but Master Yideng would never lie to her because of this, her eyes became hot, she stood where she was, and wept.Seeing her crying, Xie Yao hurriedly walked over and spread his palms, followed her tears and comforted her, "Don't cry, Tianshu, don't cry."

Master Yideng saw this scene, and was also saddened by it, he couldn't help but said: "Actually, there is another way, but..." When he said this, he suddenly remained silent, but Tianshu seemed to hear the most beautiful voice in the world, She stepped forward quickly and asked: "What is the solution?" Master Yideng was silent for a while, then Fang raised his hand and returned the rosary to her, saying: "Let's go back and prepare for his funeral."

"Master, what is the solution!" Tianshu asked repeatedly, but Master Yideng avoided talking about it.Anxious and angry in her heart, she raised her palm and was about to strike, but just as she raised her hand, she suddenly realized that it was wrong and shouldn't be for her to force like this. She had forced Xie Yao countless times and could not force others.

What should she do?How to keep Xie Yao alive?

In fact, after all, it was all the root of the disaster she planted.If she hadn't forced Xie Yao to learn a lot of martial arts, to become number one in the world and use them for her own use, Xie Yao would definitely not have come to this point of desperation.She knew she was wrong, so she must find a way to make up for it.

Tianshu raised his tearful eyes, and without knowing what determination he had made, he walked up to Master Yideng step by step.

Master Yideng went in without knowing it, and at this moment, she bent her knees and knelt straight on the cold and hard ground.

"Please, tell me how to save him."

Tianshu felt the coldness coming from his knees, recalling the phrase "Don't kneel to the sky when you go up, don't kneel to the ground when you go down", he couldn't help but find it funny.

She has never lowered her posture in her life, kneeling in front of a person humbly, respectfully and sincerely.But she is doing this now entirely because of Xie Yao.When she knelt down, she knew that she would never be able to let go of Xie Yao in her life; when she knelt down, she had already put her ridiculous identity out of her mind; when she knelt down, she realized that Xie Yao was everything to her.

Master Yideng couldn't bear it and said: "Why do you have to do this?"

Tianshu lowered her head to hide her sorrow, but she couldn't stop the tears from falling. She said sadly but firmly: "As long as I can save him, let alone kneel down to you, even if it takes my life, it doesn't matter."

It was her fault in the first place, and she came to make up for it, to save it, so there's nothing wrong with it.

Xie Yao was at a loss, he stepped forward to pull the Tianshu, but the Tianshu knelt down on the ground, and when Xie Yao was in a hurry, he also knelt beside her.

Master Yideng's expression finally loosened a bit.

"Infatuation is the rarest thing in the world." He sighed a long, seemingly long sigh, "You shouldn't have come here, you should go to Tianlong Temple in Dali, there is still a glimmer of life."