Lao Gong begs you not to seek death

After that day, I don't know whether it was Lin Yu's tears that opened the heart of the old man, Master, or something, but whenever he got a chance, Master caught another good student of his and babbled.

The nagging made Lin Yu's brain ache.

He is not a jealous person, and besides, the master and the apprentice named "Liu Jinli" have a deep relationship, so he has no interest in getting involved.

The problem is that Master mentions it too often...

One day he brought a box of fried chicken over to share with his master. At first, the master looked at the golden and crispy skin with a sad face, "I don't know how Jinli is doing now, is he eating properly?" After chewing his stomach, he still didn't forget to sigh "really good", and told him to bring some more next time.

Lin Yu: "..."

Another winter, he brought a down jacket to the master, and the old man sighed again: "When I went out for the master, I took the mink fur with me. There is no winter clothes in the house. I don't know how Jinli got through it." ..."

Lin Yu: "..."

During the teaching, the last sentence was "Tao can be said, very Tao" in the "Tao Te Ching", and then I came up with a sentence: "Jin Li must hate death as a teacher."

Lin Yu wrote half of the notes, and was almost sent away by this sentence. He couldn't bear it and said: "Master, if you want to see him, just go and see him."

Xue Li put on a harmless face, "Master, I don't know where he is."

Lin Yu: "Isn't the compass magic tool able to locate a living person?"

"Ah...that ah...that compass was taken as a teacher..."

"..."

"Do you still remember, my teacher invited you to eat five bowls of dumplings last year, and my savings for a month was exhausted at that time, so I could only use the most valuable thing on my body to satisfy my hunger."

Lin Yu hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop, "Stop talking! I apologize, can't I apologize!"

Xue Li immediately beamed with joy, and changing his face was like flipping through a book, "That's right, I forgive you, Master."

From then on, Lin Yu never dared to be serious with him again. He loved to talk about Liu Jinli's shit, so just let him talk about it.

As Xue Li nagged more and more, correspondingly his health was getting worse day by day. Lin Yu often caught a glimpse of him coughing quietly through the crack of the door, and would also cough violently in the middle of the teaching later.

Lin Yu comforted himself thinking that he must have contracted a cold, and he would get better. He knew from the first moment he saw Master that Master was not a pure mortal.

In addition to Yang Qi, there is also Yin Qi in his body. Yin and Yang are at a perfect level, and he is half human and half ghost.

That's why his hair is all white, but his appearance is no different from that of a young man.

And what made Lin Yu feel that something was wrong was the attitude of the master. In the past, as long as he raised doubts about the way of heaven, the master would stop him in a rage, but no matter how many times he said "what the hell is the way of heaven", the master would not be angry. It seems that he is not interested in anything, but instead he is stuffed with piles of old books and told him to study by himself.

Lin Yu didn't take it seriously until...

On the first day of winter vacation, Lin Yu stepped on the snow on the side of the road and passed by the door of the neighbor's house. He saw that they had a new baby boy and they were having a banquet. Two shadows, one white, stood abruptly among the guests, wearing tall hats, standing on both sides of the baby boy, staring at him strangely, making the baby cry loudly.

He looked again, only to see that the two shadows had disappeared.

Immediately, the baby stopped crying.

Lin Yu realized in a second what the black and white shadow was. Without even thinking about it, he strode forward to push aside the crowd, picked up the baby in the crib, turned around and ran away.

The adults were all toasting and drinking tea, when they saw a familiar child holding a baby and looking like he was going to rush out, they hurriedly put down their cups and ran to stop him, dragging him across the face and yelling, "What are you doing, you brat! return!"

Lin Yu was grabbed by the clothes by the adults, still holding the baby and refused to let go, "Listen to me! He can't stay here! I didn't lie to you!"

The adults only thought of him as a brat, and a few men snatched the swaddle and kicked him out. Lin Yu looked back and shouted: "You can't put him here! There are bad things here!! "

The adults looked at each other, at the sleeping baby, then at the sloppy boy, "You must be crazy."

Then he yelled loudly: "He will die!"

I saw the child standing upright at the door, looking at this side with deep and far eyes, "Really, he will die..."

"..."

In the end, the hostess came forward to call a stop in person, and the farce ended.

However, only two hours passed, and what everyone didn't expect was that the baby boy unfortunately died, and the happy event turned into a mourning event, and the red event became a trivial event.

The boy's words came true.

At the same time, Lin Yu was listening to the master's lecture on "Tao Te Ching" in the yard, but the master's eyes were closed, and the book fell to the ground with a "click", and his whole body seemed to be suddenly pressed by an invisible weight, and he knelt down , the stone bricks under his knees were crushed into several gaps, and then he coughed suddenly, coughing up a mouthful of blood, which sprinkled on the icy snowflakes, like a winter plum in full bloom...

Lin Yu was stunned, and threw a pen over to help him, "Master...what's wrong with you..."

Unexpectedly, the master quietly pushed away his outstretched hand, looked up at him, there was no blame or anger in his expression, his brows were slightly frowned, full of reluctance to let go...

Lin Yu's thousands of words were choked in his throat for a while, as if there were a pair of big hands choking his lifeline, as if he was going to strangle him alive, it was the master who went through layers of obstacles and cut off this hand...

"Is that what you mean by 'Heaven is manifest'?" Lin Yu stared at him incredulously, as if looking for an answer through those eyes, "Tell me... "

Xue Li smiled purely and happily. He gently held the boy's cold hand, "Yu, I have witnessed the death of too many people in my life. This time, you are here to witness the death of my teacher."

Lin pulled his hand away like a ghost, "I don't want it!"

Xue Li called him softly, "Yu..."

He seemed to have thought of something, and put his head in his arms and said in a low voice: "'The way of heaven is clear' and 'Irresistible', so it is because... the retribution will come back to the spectator himself!" He looked at the gray-haired man impressively , it seems that the weird phenomenon of this year has been perfectly explained, why the master is getting old, why the body is getting worse...

"Did you bear all these retributions for me!"

Xue Li stared at him peacefully, without speaking.

Lin Yu suddenly dilated his pupils, and the wind swept across the courtyard one after another, looking desolate and silent.

Yellowed dead leaves and messy branches and leaves can be seen everywhere on the broken bricks of the temple, as if they could not be cleaned up no matter what, just like the hotel where they stayed overnight.

The filth is endless, and the life is accompanied by death.

Xue Li took out two things from his bosom and stuffed them into his hands, "This is a little something for you that the teacher prepared for you, take it well."

Lin Yu saw that it was a silver dagger and a yellow mahogany sword.

There is a bright red tassel hanging on the hilt of the sword, very similar to the residual blood on the corner of Master's mouth...

It seemed that when he touched the tassel, his fingertips would tremble in pain.

The boy held them tightly and didn't utter a word for a long time. He just silently accepted everything arranged by the master, unable to speak or refuse.

As if reading Lin Yu's expression, Xue Li wiped the blood stains around his mouth with his sleeve, and stroked his hair very gently, the warmth in his eyes was so much that it was about to overflow, "The person who spies on the secret... has been struggling all his life. In the cage of karmic reincarnation, harming others and yourself, disregarding human relations, the laws of nature do not tolerate, you can't understand the long-term, and you can't bear life and death, how can you call me a teacher...how can you tell me..."

Lin Yu felt that his warm hands were slowly turning cold, and the yin energy in his body was gradually raging, so that the original balance was completely broken, "So you... can't bear to treat yourself..."

"I don't blame you. Being a teacher is a dying person. I don't blame you..." Xue Li slowly stretched out three fingers, "Yu, promise three things to be a teacher."

Lin Yu gripped the two swords firmly, without saying a word.

"First, take care of yourself."

"Second, don't argue with others."

"Third... take care of Jinli..."

"I'm sorry, I'm so selfish as a teacher, I'm sorry..."

……

Since then, the neighbors in the neighborhood have rumored that the Lin family has a crow's mouth, and whoever spreads him will be in bad luck.

Lin Yu went to and from school as usual, and went home for dinner, but... he no longer went to that dilapidated monastery, no longer listened to a certain silver-haired expert teaching, no longer went to the park to guide the dead...

In the summer of the same year, the temple that preserved the memories of the two was demolished at the request of the local real estate, and a commercial street was quickly built in that area, and there were no longer two gods, one big and one small, in and out of it.

It seems that everything is just a fleeting dream.