Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

Garuda felt that he had never done anything bad in his life, so it was really puzzling why he had such an unlucky brother.

However, he has practiced Buddhism for a long time, and he still believes in cause and effect.Thinking about it, I didn't do any evil in this life, maybe I owed him 500 million after killing Maha's family in my previous life, so I have to pay back so many brothers' debts in this life.

A frightened sea snake was coiled above Garuda's head, and he left the sea of ​​blood expressionlessly, and passed through the barrier of time and space to the other end where the sea of ​​blood connects to Asura Road.Yan Mo Palace meanders along the majestic double Tielun Mountains, and even after such a long distance, it is impossible to see the end at a glance.

He threw the snake back into the sea of ​​blood, turned into a golden-winged roc, flew over the sea and the crystal avenue under the watchful eyes of countless monsters, landed on the top of the high tower of the magic palace, found a place with a wide view and sat in human form. down.

A son of God like Garuda who lived in the plateau and snow-capped mountains since he was a child, it is difficult for him to adapt to the harsh environment of the four evil realms. The ubiquitous thick blood in the air makes his breathing difficult, and he cannot sleep at night. He can't even eat the sea snake meat in the sea of ​​blood. .When Fenghuang came to the Demon Realm and saw him, he suggested that he go back to the Snow Mountain, but was rejected by Garuda.

He didn't know why he was here.The family has been living in disintegration for a long time, and he doesn't want to leave at all.

"Mother?" Garuda turned around.

Chu He walked along the moonlight stone tiles, stepped on the roof with a creaking sound, came to him, and reached out to rub his second son's messy short hair.

"Where's your brother?"

"Just now in the sea of ​​blood, Pozhi Asura King led the fierce ghosts to the human world, and when he passed the sea of ​​blood, he followed him to watch the excitement." Garuda paused, and said: "It doesn't necessarily mean...to eat people. "

Chu He sighed almost silently, sat down beside the second son, squinting at the hazy sky in the distance.

Garuda couldn't help but whispered: "Maha's hair has completely turned silver, and eating people is mainly to delay the symptoms of the five declines of heaven and man. In fact, he has been very restrained during this period, and only picks up the leftovers from Asuras. He also knows that if he continues to eat like this, he will soon be struck by lightning again..."

Chu He took out a paper bag from the pocket of his jeans, and opened it to reveal a small handful of crimson hay.He grabbed half a handful and gave it to Garuda, and twisted the rest into his mouth and began to chew.

"What is this?" Garou Roche asked.

"Devil World Tobacco, refreshing."

Garuda tasted it, and there was a strong bitterness in the mouth, but after chewing for a dozen times, an indescribable sweetness slowly spread from the root of the tongue.

He had tasted the local smoke in Nepal. It was not so difficult to swallow, but the aftertaste was not as mellow and long-lasting as this one. He really woke up quickly, and the fatigue of not being able to sleep at night for several days was greatly relieved.

"I will give Maha another godhead," Chu He said, "but not now."

Garuda couldn't help asking, "When was that?"

Chuhe gave him a serious look.

This is a very strange thing, Maha's facial features are more fierce on the basis of being similar to the phoenix, but there is a cold and strange smell flowing from the corners of his brows and eyes all the time, sometimes even reminiscent of snakes. ——The kind of gorgeous, evil snake that seems to suddenly appear behind you at any time and give you a fatal kiss.

But Phoenix has a sense of majesty in its gentleness, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes, noble and inviolable.

The military achievements proved that Wang He's merits and virtues were consummated as soon as he landed. Can it really cause such a big difference in the day after tomorrow?Jialouluo couldn't help muttering to himself, imagined the scene of Peacock King Ming wearing a cassock sitting high on the rosette, but the first thing that came to his mind was Maha running wildly all over the mountains and fields in a vacuum, and he lost all thoughts in an instant.

"How much merit do you have?" Chu He didn't answer Jialouluo's question, but asked suddenly.

"...I'm not bad... what?" Garuda thought for a while, "I don't have much incense."

"I'm not far behind, but Maha has almost never paid back. He has to kneel and chant Buddha for at least a thousand years to offset the current merit debt. If he returns to the god position now, his incense will be even stronger, but If you don’t get rid of the bad habit of cannibalism, you will be punished again soon.”

Garuda Luoxin said that Maha's cannibalism is a natural instinct, and it is almost impossible to change - the best way for him is to live in hell forever, and the sea of ​​​​blood is for him to toss about, and it is better not to go to the human world.

"Wait, mother." Garuda suddenly reacted: "You mean to hold Maha to pay back the current incense, and then the Demon King's..."

Chuhe raised his index finger, which instantly silenced Jialuluo.

"Yan Mowang Palace is Vatican's eighth consciousness," he said, "don't talk nonsense."

Garuda nodded, then frowned, and said to himself, if this is the case, is it true that his mother will wait in hell for Maha to pay off the thousand-year debt before attacking Mozun, and finally go back to the human world to reunite with his father? ?

This is too miserable, his father will drive a bomber to level the hell first, and then catch Maha and strangle him to death.

"It doesn't take that long," Chuhe seemed to have read his mind, his eyes were bright and deep: "Seven days later, Fan Luo led the hell demon to the human world to release his dead energy, and I will accompany him..."

Garuda realized something, and opened his eyes slightly.

Chu He didn't explain any more, but put his hands on Jialuolou's shoulders on both sides, and looked at him carefully.For the first time in so many years, he was so serious and solemn, and he looked at his youngest son without hesitation, this handsome young man who had grown up without knowing it.

Children always grow up fast, he thought.

No matter how many years and a long time it takes, in the eyes of their parents, they always take a sigh of relief overnight and suddenly grow up.

Now thinking of his impulse to hang on his children when they were just born, that kind of fanatical and abnormal love, it seems that it has been transformed into a deeper, thicker, and gentler in thousands of years of family life. of loving kindness.He is still willing to sacrifice himself in order to protect the child, but the intense emotion that is so extreme that he doesn't care about anything seems to be a thing of his previous life.

He finally began to realize that children have their own future to go, and maybe the person they are destined to be is hesitating and waiting around the corner.As a parent, he has his own fully developed life, and he also has people waiting for him in the distance.

"What are you thinking?" Garuda asked subconsciously.

"It's nothing." Chu He smiled slightly, and patted his hard bristling hair, feeling like Zhou Hui who had applied two kilograms of hairspray to his head.

Zhou Hui's hairstyle can only be made by tossing in front of the mirror for a long time every morning, and his son is born with this hairstyle.

Jialouluo wanted to ask something else, but then Chuhe slapped him heavily on the head, got up and said, "Go back to the human world, don't go to the snowy mountains in the Tibetan area, go to Beijing to find your father."

"……what?"

"Van Luo freely shuttles in the six realms, not only relying on the godhead of the great Asura king of the four evil realms, but also the enchantment that can erode space. In other words, only within the range of his enchantment, the ability to freely shuttle works." Chu Chu A playful expression flashed in He's eyes: "Your father is extremely arrogant in the face of the Demon Lord, and shouting and sealing the Demon Lord is just dealing with the Dao of Heaven, and he has never seriously thought about how to solve Fan Luo's ability to travel through the six realms at will... I I advised him to study more theories of forbidden magic, but he never listened."

Jialuluo seemed to understand something, but he saw Chuhe turn around and pass through the large pieces of moonlight stone tiles paved together, walking towards the way he came with a creaking sound.

"Wait!" Garuda suddenly took two steps forward: "But you have lost your original body, and Maha is in decline, so I have to stay to help you—"

"No," Chuhe said gently: "Go back, you have done enough for your brother, and your parents' problems are your parents' problems, and you should trust your adults once in a while."

·

I don’t know how Chuhe greeted Mozun, or he didn’t say anything, but Mozun himself was jealous of this young man who looked like his deadly enemy, and didn’t want him to stay in hell for a long time; in short, Jia Luolou left During the four evil realms, he was not hindered by anything, and even Maha didn't say anything.

This is also very normal, Maha's daily energy is spent on the two things of tossing in the sea of ​​blood and slowing down the speed of weakening. Garuda suspects that it will take at least another three days for him to realize the fact that he has disappeared.

Beijing, long-distance bus station.

Garuda jumped out of the car, raised his eyes and looked around when he landed.

He was carrying an old travel bag, wearing a gray pullover hood, and jeans outlined his long, strong legs. His face was tightly blocked by yellowed bandages except for his eyes, and he wore black leather gloves with fingerless fingers.

This outfit looks like a weird migrant worker, and a bit like a terrorist carrying a schoolbag and preparing to bomb the station. People kept looking back at him along the way, but he didn't realize it.

"Hey, stand over there!" Two policemen patrolled here and found that something was wrong, and immediately stepped forward to stop Garuda, staring at him vigilantly from left to right: "Where did you come from, what's going on with your face? Do you have any documents?"

People passing by around turned their heads frequently, Jialouluo was stunned, untied his schoolbag and began to look through the documents.

After searching for a long time, he couldn't find it. The set of fake ID that Chuhe arranged for him was packed together with scattered cash, and he wrapped it in a small cloth and stuffed it in the inner layer of the schoolbag. Now the inner bag is empty, and the deepest part is There is an imperceptible knife mark.

Garuda: "..."

Jialou Luo had never seen a thief since he was born. He didn't expect that even the golden-winged roc could be picked up by thieves these days, so he was a little dazed on the spot.

The patrolman looked at each other, and his tone became more serious: "Young man, what's your name?"

"... Garuda."

The police say you are a minority, what kind of bad name is this? "What happened to the face?"

"Scared of light."

...What's the matter with being afraid of light, can you find a smoother excuse!The policeman on the left turned his head and waved to his colleagues not far away to call for reinforcements, and the other one scanned Garuda back and forth with undisguised vigilance: "Where did you come from?"

But Garuda was very frank: "Come from Tibet, looking for my father."

"Who is your father, and which unit?"

This was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Garuda said, "Ministry of National Security."

Five minutes later, Garuda was escorted into a police car and drove away.

·

Police station.

Garuda sat on a chair in a regular manner, and two policemen sat across from him, looking him up and down with undisguised guarded eyes, and there was an open schoolbag in the middle of the table.

What was originally contained in the schoolbag was spread out - scriptures, scriptures, scriptures and a string of agarwood beads.

"This young man is probably reselling Buddhist cultural relics," said the policeman.

A voice came from outside the door:

"Our director's youngest son, who was deeply influenced by his family, went to Tibet to study Buddhism since he was a child... Yes, it's all irresponsible to have a second child. Parents favor the older child and neglect the second child... No, no, no, they should There will be no third child, and another kid will make our director jump into the river? How can I get them money to buy a house and marry a wife with such high housing prices in Beijing these days!"

The deputy director let in the two men in black, and said sympathetically, "Yes, if you don't have the ability, don't fight for a second child. If you can't raise them well, don't have one."

Garuda: "...?"

"These two are comrades from the Institute of Religious Studies of Peking University. The boy's father sent them to lead people." The deputy director pointed to the two men in black and introduced them. The police stood up to say hello. It's the whole package of special red pandas: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for causing you trouble at work, we'll take this child away now..."

Both parties politely gave in, one said no, the other insisted on what they wanted, and after a few concessions, the policeman was satisfied and took two packs of red pandas for one person. The two men in black turned their heads to look at Garuda, and when they saw his bandaged face Visibly twitching: "Mr. Zhou... Mr. Zhou asked us to come in to pick you up. He is waiting outside in the car."

Garuda narrowed his eyes.

He couldn't see it when his gaze was completely blank, but when he had an expression, he could clearly see Zhou Hui's shadow.Especially the deep browbones and eye sockets, as well as the sharp and calm eyes, are like buckling out of a mold.

He stood up, packed the schoolbag on the table and walked out, his arms showed obvious muscles when he swung the bag on his back.

The two members of the group saw him in full attire and old schoolbag, and thought to themselves that he was arrested as a terrorist. If he went to *** Square like this, he would not be stopped by the police on the spot and handcuffed to the ground. There are ghosts.

·

Jialouluo walked out of the police station, a silver Lexus was parked under the steps, and Zhou Hui, wearing a motorcycle leather jacket and sunglasses, was leaning on the car door to light a cigarette, and saw his son coming out and waving.

"How did you get arrested?"

Jialou Luo walked down the steps, faced Zhou Hui one step away, and said calmly, "The money and documents were stolen."

The father and son, who haven't seen each other for hundreds of years, look at each other closely. Although Garuda doesn't show his face, he is very similar to his father in terms of face shape, hair and figure.Especially the aura of Yuan Ting and Yue Zhi when he is not speaking, in the evenly matched collision, it gives people a very confusing and familiar sense of similarity.

Zhou Hui was still very young, but Jialou Luo was already a boy of seventeen or eighteen.When the two faced each other, they didn't look like father and son, but rather like a mature wolf pack and a young and strong challenger facing each other.

On the steps, two members of a group came out of the police station and subconsciously stopped in their tracks.

After a while, one of them hesitated and said, "The team leader..."

Zhou Hui grinned suddenly, and flicked off the long cigarette butt that had burned out from his hands. With the cigarette in his mouth, he pulled out the case and handed one to Garuda: "Huh?"

Garuda took the cigarette, but didn't light it, and said, "I'm here to tell you the news that the demon king will invade the border in a few days."

Zhou Hui said, "I know."

"There is also the method that mother knows how to deal with the demon king's six-path shuttle."

Zhou Hui paused, and saw that Jialuluo lowered his head to sniff the cigarette. He didn't seem very interested, so he casually threw it into the sewer beside the sidewalk.

"..." Zhou Hui glanced at his son up and down, and said coldly for a while, "Get in the car and talk."

It was the first time for Garuda to ride in a car after he was born. After getting in the car, he carefully looked at the instruments and steering wheel on the front driver's seat, and seemed to be very interested.

Zhou Hui casually asked a few things about Asura Dao, Garuda Luocai told him what he knew, and he spoke very concisely, and finally said: "Maha has already shown the symptoms of five declines, my mother told me not to stay in hell, Come to the human world to find you."

Zhou Hui grumbled expressionlessly.

Garuda couldn't help turning his head to look at him.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Hui asked casually.

"...I thought you would ask how mother is doing in Yan Mo Palace..."

Zhou Hui turned to his second son, narrowing his narrow and deep eyes slightly.

His eye sockets were originally deep, his eyelids were not obvious, and his eyes had a qualitative focus unique to archers.When his gaze is fixed on something and does not move, it gives people a sense of penetration like a sharp arrow.

"How your mother and I are doing is a matter between us. Parents have parents to solve the problem. Besides, no amount of worthless concern can change Phoenix's current situation, so you don't need to tell me."

After Zhou Hui finished speaking, he turned his head and closed his eyes against the leather back seat.

Garuda stared blankly at his father, not understanding where the other party's strong emotions of tit-for-tat came from. After a while, he turned his face and looked forward in a daze. The urge to go to the Yan Mo Palace to live with his mother.

However, Zhou Hui cast the evil fire that had been suppressed in his heart for many days on his son, and he immediately suffered retribution.

——Garuluo lived in a car for the first time in thousands of years. It was not comfortable to ride a long-distance bus for a few hours. The road conditions in downtown Beijing are crowded, driving and stopping for a while, which stimulated his brain even more dizziness.

After finally stopping and stopping, he arrived in front of the gray iron gate of Unit 547 of Guoan. Zhou Hui turned to his son expressionlessly. He was about to teach him a lesson when he was suddenly slapped on the shoulder by Garuda and cried out in pain: "Dad! ..."

Zhou Hui paused in confusion.In the next second, he saw the celestial girl throwing flowers in front of him, and Garuda vomited all over him.