red and white

In the middle of the dining table is a five-square copper pot, which are Sichuan fragrant red oil, three delicacies white soup, medicinal food pot, cold pot fish, and a chrysanthemum pot. I stayed abroad until my mouth was full of birds, but the second child's craftsmanship is superb, and I think about it day and night, just thinking about this meal."

There was a small table in the room with pots and pans for meat and vegetables. Song Wentong was wearing an apron and was slicing mutton, "If you can't finish eating, just swallow the table for me."

"It's easy to say, even if you cut up an elephant, the third child and I can clean it up for you."

"At the beginning, Lao Wu's appetite soared after his transformation, and he almost didn't eat up the study." Wu Zixu shook his head with a smile, "The original intention of Lao Wu to open this store is that Lao Wu can eat, and the leftovers from the small kitchen can be eaten every day. Make a few more big pots, so as not to waste it, this is how Ye Shui Zhu Hua came into being."

"When I left, the child was only up to my waist." Mu Gesheng stretched out his hand and gestured, "The second child wrote to say that he was taken back by the Zhu family. Is there any news recently? How are you doing?"

"I wrote a few days ago, saying that Zhu's food is not good, and I'm getting thinner from hunger." Wu Zixu smiled and said, "I'm eagerly looking forward to coming back. What are your plans?"

"It's not me who cooks, so you have to ask the second child." Mu Gesheng held his chopsticks in his mouth and said vaguely: "If the fifth child cries, makes troubles and hangs himself in the letter, it's not guaranteed that the second child can give it to me with a red knife. He's going to cook."

"The Zhu family hides from the world, and the only one who can invite Xingxiuzi..." Before Wu Zixu finished speaking, Song Wentong slammed the knife into the cutting board, brought out a plate of mutton, "eat."

"Come on, you've worked hard." Mu Gesheng poured someone a glass of wine with a smile, "Eat and eat."

After eating a meal for more than an hour, the three reunited after a long absence, and chatted from Tiannan to Haibei, "I went to Germany first, then transferred to the Soviet Union, and spent the last year studying in Europe..." Mu Gesheng gestured drunkenly: " Guess what? Brits... read Shakespeare in bed!"

Song asked Tong and laughed loudly: "What's the matter, Kaiyang|dirty?"

"That's not true. I know what's going on when you're in love and end with courtesy." Mu Gesheng waved his hand, "I heard it from my classmates in the drama club when I was in Cambridge. When I played the violin, I could actually play the tune of Xipi Liushui."

"I sang Butterfly Lovers, and a girl asked me what I was singing about." Mu Gesheng said with a smile: "I was talking about Romeo and Juliet, who turned into butterflies after death."

"Wonderful—" Wu Zixu took advantage of the drunkenness to pick up a tune, and opened his voice leisurely: "Plum blossoms are blooming in front of the study door, today I will send my brother home."

"Sometimes when they get together, they part, and the flowers bloom and fall, and then form stamens."

Mu Gesheng took the cavity, hit the lamp and said: "Since there is a difference, there must be a meeting."

"A pair of drunks." Song Wentong shook his head when he heard this, and got up to clean up the dishes, "The man just came back, so he hurriedly sang the Eighteenth Affair to see him off."

After dinner, Mu Gesheng stood up and said goodbye, "I'll go to Xiaofengzi to cut some coats, my second child, remember to set up a few lively tables in the evening, please come and get together."

"Get out." Song Wentong waved his hand, "Yeshui Zhuhua is closed for dinner tonight, and you can't afford to eat."

Mu Gesheng rubbed his belly and left, Wu Zixu looked at his back and said, "The fourth child should be going back."

"Being close to the hometown is timid, so come to us first to have a drink to strengthen your courage, and he is cowardly." Song Wentong sneered, and then frowned: "Why did you mention those words at the dinner table just now?"

"I'm telling the truth, the fourth one knows it well, and you understand it too." Wu Zixu sighed, "Back then the Zhu family entrusted Xing Xiuzi to Mr. Xingxiu to take care of him, and the name was to enroll in the Ginkgo Study, but everyone knows that the Zhu family entrusted Xing Xiuzi God's fortune."

"Before my husband passed away, I made it very clear in front of the seven families that the fortune-telling position was handed over to the fourth son. The 49 mountain ghosts spent money, whether he likes it or not, he will take it."

"If he doesn't like it, we won't accept it. In the worst case, we'll take care of it for him." Song Wentong said, "The fourth son was born in a general family, so he may not want to take care of such crap as the Qi family."

"You're alone, you're single, and you're single, so you can talk freely." Wu Zixu felt his head ache when he heard that, "Whenever something really happens, I'm not the one to turn it around."

"Third brother has worked hard, I invite you to dinner tonight."

"Don't eat." Wu Zixu waved his hands, "Fengdu has something to do, so I have to go to the ground."

"The fourth one just came back." Song Wentong raised his eyebrows and said, "Who is so well informed?"

"The dead are always less worried than the living." Wu Zixu shook his head, "Sooner or later."

Mu Gesheng had someone measure his body first, ordered a few coats, then changed into a plain white gown, washed his face and hands, and left the city all the way.

Baishui Temple, Ginkgo Study.

After the death of the master of Gingko Studio, the study stopped giving lectures, but it was not used for other purposes, and still retained the old style. The little novice who was cleaning saw Mu Gesheng, and bowed down and recited the Buddha's name.

Mu Gesheng kowtowed three times in front of the water pavilion, then walked into the incense hall, knelt on the futon, and offered three sticks of incense.

The window was full of ginkgo trees, and the shadows of the trees were dancing. Mu Gesheng looked at the spiritual tablet in the hall and spoke softly.

"Master, Ge Sheng is back."

Mu Gesheng knelt for a long time, until the sun was setting, the Xiangtang door opened with a "squeak", he didn't look back, but laughed: "I knew you would come."

A figure entered, kowtowed and offered incense, and then said: "You have been kneeling all afternoon."

"That's strange." Mu Gesheng smiled: "Three or nine days, you also think that I kneel for a long time."

Chai Shuxin knelt beside him, and he hadn't seen him for four years. The other person still had a cold look on his face, but he was a little more calm and dignified, like falling snow washing away the coldness of the plum fragrance, and the white clothes remained the same.

"I didn't see you at lunch, so I thought we'd meet in the study." Mu Gesheng said, "Look at you, do you come here often?"

"The Yao family is busy, and they don't have much free time. They only come here occasionally." Chai Shuxin said and bowed towards the spiritual seat, "Students are not filial."

"Don't you, you can be called unfilial, then I will not be a deceitful teacher and an ancestor."

The two were silent for a moment, and Chai Shuxin said, "My husband passed away two years ago, why didn't you come back?"

"Follow the teacher's order and not return." Mu Gesheng said: "Master has an order, not to go to the funeral after the first seven days. When the letter from the second child was sent to Moscow, the first seven days had already passed. With the master's ability, it is impossible to be inaccurate. Date, there is only one possibility, that is, the old man doesn't want me to come back."

"Furthermore, fortune tellers in the past dynasties counted destiny. After death, the soul is destined to be scattered and not reincarnated. Funerals are nothing more than a scene. No matter how much paper is burned, the old man will not cross the Naihe bridge, otherwise the second child will go to the bridge early." Fengdu robbed people, and the bustle and bustle returned to the sun."

"You didn't return back then, so there are different opinions." Chai Shuxin said indifferently: "Mr. passed on the position of Tiansuanzi to you personally, and all the scholars obeyed. You have spent two years abroad, and the seven families have been waiting for a long time. It is time to take over." The mountain ghost spent money."

"Where is my senior brother? He is more promising than me, let him pick it up."

"Brother Lin was ordered by Mr. to enter Penglai back then. There was a ten-year period, and he was not allowed to leave the monastery within ten years. Now that Mr. passed the throne to you, according to the rules of the school, he must withdraw from the sect. Now he is a student of Penglai."

"...What is Master doing here?" Mu Gesheng was stunned when he heard this, and asked for a long time: "Forcing people to go to Liangshan?"

"The news of your return has spread all over the world. The tree wants to be quiet but the wind keeps blowing. You can't avoid it."

"Young people often lose their spirits, but it's a pity that Qingshan doesn't wait for me." Mu Gesheng sighed, "Seven families of scholars, the seventh family has not yet appeared in the world, why are you so anxious?"

"The Rakshazi was born in times of chaos, and he is the god of killing who will destroy the world. If the seventh family appears in the world, the masters will not be able to calmly steer the helm, but will turn the tide." Chai Shuxin said: "It has been a long time since the last Rakshazi was born. It has been hundreds of years, and now the world is in chaos, and all families are worried."

There are seven families of philosophers, a total of six families have survived in the world for a long time, and the last family is Luochazi. Like Tian Suanzi, there is only one member in the family, and he is only born in the world during times of chaos.Although they can suppress the troubled times, they are violent and ferocious. Rakshazi in the past are extremely rebellious and completely uncontrollable. There are even those who have turned against the other six families. This is a variable that makes everyone headache and dread.

When you meet Buddha, you kill Buddha, when you meet ancestors, you kill ancestors, when you meet arhats, you kill arhats, when you meet parents, you kill your parents, when you meet relatives, you kill relatives, and you will be liberated.

"The fate of Rakshazi can only be checked and balanced by fortune." Muge understood, "No wonder, so you are here waiting for me."

"The seven families have all received news that they will gather in a few days. You should make plans early."

"I see, Aiqing kneel down." Mu Gesheng stood up, "By the way, I heard from Xiaofengzi that his father is seeing a doctor in your pharmacy, so I would like to thank you for him."

"Hanging the pot to help the world is the job of the Yao Family." Chai Shuxin also got up, looked at Mu Gesheng, "What are you laughing at?"

"It's okay." Mu Gesheng smiled and waved his hands, and said leisurely: "The war is about to start, and the seven families are divided. I think about it these days, and I feel that things are complicated. But when I really came back, I feel that these are nothing. , after all you are all here."

The two stood together on the porch, and Mu Gesheng looked up at the eaves, "You know, my third son and I sang Romance of the West Chamber together this morning."

"Ah."

"I remember that winter, when you stayed in the study for the first time to celebrate the New Year, the youngest son played the pipa, and you played a Su flute, and you sang for a whole night with five 21% off five books in the West Wing."

"At that time, I was still thinking that in the future, I would sing like this every year for a long time. When the fifth child grows up, I will ask him to pull the strings."

"Who knows that there will be no next time." Mu Gesheng said with a smile, "It turns out that the colorful flowers are blooming everywhere, and they are all given to ruins. Who will listen to the beautiful scenery on a good day?"

Chai Shuxin was silent for a moment, then said, "Sing it."

"Ok?"

"I listen."

"That can't be done. I've sung with the third child all morning. Please come early tomorrow, sir."

"In a few days, the seven families will gather together. You are the successor, even if you want them to carry a horse to listen to your stories, no one will object."

"Ha, good idea, why don't we just gather at Guan Shanyue, what do I want to sing--Zhang Sheng makes a fuss?"

"..."

"Don't be so sullen, you see that the third child can go on stage to tell a story, we can't keep doing it like this, can we, why don't we play mahjong?"

"There are six of you, not enough for two tables."

"Well, even if Rakshazi is alive, it's no big deal. There are seven families and two tables, and there are still three missing one."

"...Don't play games."

The two went down the mountain together, and Mu Gesheng wanted to invite Chai Shuxin to sit down in Yeshui Zhuhua, "The war has started, and the Yao family has complicated affairs, and there are elders waiting for me to go back to discuss matters." Chai Shuxin shook his head , "Come another day, and treat you to Yipinguo."

"By the way, I forgot to ask Sister Chai about it." Mu Gesheng patted his forehead, "I saw in your letter that my sister's health has improved, how is it?"

"It won't take a long time to get rid of old diseases." Chai Shuxin relaxed his brows and eyes, "but it can be cured."

"That would be great." Mu Gesheng said with a smile: "I'll find you sometime for lunch, remember to leave a window for me."

Chai Shuxin still remembered the absurdity of this man flipping through the window back then, but he didn't say anything, just shook his head, "The formation of the [-]-fold corridor has been changed, please be careful when you come in."

"Don't worry, I can't be bothered." Mu Gesheng waved his hands carelessly, "Let's go, the second child will not leave me a meal if it is later, let's get together another day."

Before Mu Gesheng had time to enter the city, he saw a car parked by the side of the road. He saw the license plate by the moonlight and was startled.

The car window was half down, and a deep male voice came out: "Get in the car."

Mu Gesheng quickly opened the door and got into the car, closed the curtain, and said, "Didn't you go to the National Defense Conference? You came back so early?"

The man sitting in the front row smiled and threw a bottle of soda, "I've been studying abroad for a few years, I don't know if your taste has changed."

"Then why don't you write a letter and ask me?" Mu Gesheng caught it and said helplessly, "Father."

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When you meet Buddha, you kill Buddha, when you meet ancestors, you kill ancestors, when you meet arhats, you kill arhats, when you meet parents, you kill your parents, when you meet relatives, you kill relatives, and you will be liberated. —— "Linji Lu"