Fellow Daoist, come with me

Sitting on the bullock cart, fluttering along with the bumps of the bullock cart, her thin and small body was shaking rhythmically. Because of the thick cushion under her body, she didn’t feel uncomfortable. Holding a piece of cake with both hands, she ate slowly. There is also some food beside him, all of which are well-known in Pei County. In the past, Liu Yun went to deal with the goods after shopping out of the mountains, and every time he would look for these food with him. This time, Chu Xiao also decided to follow his mother's example. .

Today was the evening of my return trip, when Chuxiao returned home, the sky was already dark, because her son abnormally got up early two days in a row to go to Pei County, Liu Yun couldn't help but feel suspicious, she asked her son carefully, but Chuxiao didn't explain, she just said Packs of things were placed on the wooden table and pushed to his mother: "I haven't tasted the fruit of Zhenwei Pavilion for many days, but I forgot it the day before yesterday. I remember that mother loves it too."

Hearing this, Liu Yun couldn't help but put a finger on the forehead of the flute and scolded with a smile: "Little monkey, you are so greedy!"

Chu Xiao grinned with a 'hehe' smile, reached out and took a small piece of candied fruit, stuffed it into his mouth, and said, "Mom, I'm hungry."

How could Liu Yun be willing to starve her precious son, she just got up and quickly walked into the kitchen without asking any more questions. After a while, the aroma of the food wafted far away.After dinner, Liu Yun called the flute to the left wing. This room was only prepared for the dipping of the flute. There was only a black lacquer carved four-poster bed, an octagonal low table and two pairs of round stools with curved feet. There is a small pot with red clay embryos on it and a pair of porcelain cups with birds and plum scenery. A mahogany screen with four gentlemen of "plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum" is placed three or five steps in front of the bed, which looks very clean.The flute player in this room often comes, and when he opened the door, he skillfully got into the screen to untie his clothes, and put the clothes on the edge of the screen, and the naked boy fell into the bathtub full of black medicinal juice .Immediately, an extremely weird smell poured into his mouth and nose overwhelmingly, Ximen Chuxiao rubbed his nose as usual, and called: "Mother, come in."

Only then did Liu Yun let go of the screen, picked up the ring-shaped lid next to it and covered the tub, looked at her son with only his head outside, and asked, "What does my son want to hear today?" Chuan Xiao thought for a while Thinking, said: "Last time, mother said that Huainan Lanyao is sweet, slightly astringent, and has the effect of strengthening muscles and bones, but how should this medicine be used? I also want to hear more from mother about heavenly treasures."

Liu Yun smiled, straightened her hair, and praised: "My son really worked hard... Huainan Lanyao knew that he needed rootless water and burned it with ground fire for three hours..."

The medicated bath lasted for seven days. During this period, Liu Yun poured medicine packs into it seven times, each time giving the flute different feelings, such as extreme pain, extreme acidity, extreme numbness, and extreme itching... the taste seemed to come from the skin to the skin. Drilling through the skin inside and penetrating into the three souls and seven souls, all the tastes in it are really not comparable to outsiders, so when you leave the room, playing the flute feels like a world away.

Seeing this scene, Liu Yun's heart ached, she turned sideways and took some money from the small box next to the bed, touched her son's head, and said softly: "My son wants to rest and rest, mother is going to set up a table for my son."

Chu Xiao nodded tiredly, reluctantly said a word of hard work, and got into bed with her clothes on.

Liu Yun sighed and walked out of the house, but she never expected what kind of news she would hear today.

In the sixth year of Emperor Shenzong of the Jing Kingdom, the Jing River flooded during the flood season, and the river was silted up, causing the river to run rampant.Shenzong was furious when the officialdom of Peijun was corrupted by ink and ruled Heyin. He decreed that all the officials in Peijun should be imprisoned, and ordered the Ministry of Punishments to thoroughly investigate the matter. Shangshu Yan Juncheng of the Ministry of Punishment had a grudge against the Fan Mansion in his early years, so he got the decree. Is there any reason to be unhappy?Moreover, he usually has the clues to collect Fan's house, and he has heard about the corruption case for a long time. Therefore, in just seven or eight days, all the personnel and money involved in the corruption case were controlled by Yan Shangshu, and he didn't even pull a single account book. , all of which were submitted to Shenzong, and a brochure of concern for the country and the people: "... as far as Zhanxiang, Jingyong, Siyang and other places on both sides of the Jing River are, they are all water, floating corpses are everywhere, the people are displaced, food If you don’t have enough to eat, there is a shocking thing about eating each other from the same root, and the people’s grievances are shocking. Hearing this, I am ashamed that I can’t sleep. However, some officials in Pei County are sitting on luxurious clothes and delicious food...” The book focuses on the corruption of Pei County’s officialdom, and will The wealth and honor of the Fan Mansion is particularly detailed. In the end, Yan Shangshu of course did not forget that a list of the family property of the officials involved in the Pei County ink corruption case was attached. Eighteen officials were involved in the case, and their assets were equivalent to 380 in silver. Six hundred and eighty seventy-one taels.

At the time when Shenzong was worrying about money, when he saw this list, how could he not be furious, so he broke the book and wrote an imperial decree, which was sent to Yan Shangshu, who was on trial in Peijun, eight hundred miles away. The imperial decree wrote a long and eloquent article reprimanding the officials of Pei County for their behavior of being indebted to the emperor and worthy of death. At the end, there are instructions on the case. In fact, it can be summed up in only a few words, that is: " All the people involved ransacked their homes, the female relatives were sent to the teaching workshop, and the males were exiled for thousands of miles, and the culprits were all executed!"

But in seven or eight days, the world will change, and the powerful man will fall, and he will be worse than the untouchables. At that time, when Liu Yun went out to buy food, she just knew that the Fan family had been imprisoned. I have to say that this news surprised her Unable to stop, he raised his eyebrows and secretly thought to save himself from wasting time, but then he turned to think about his son's anomaly in the past two days, his eyes flashed, and he thought about it.

Chuanxiao slept soundly for four hours before waking up at Liu Yun's call. There were four dishes and a soup on the table, with a tangy aroma, all of which he loved to use on weekdays. Chuanxiao was startled when he smelled the aroma of rice I was already hungry in my stomach, so I hurriedly washed and washed, then sat down and gorged myself.

After his son had finished eating, Liu Yun brought up the matter of the Fan family. Hearing the news that Fan Ruibo had been executed and the son of the Fan family was exiled, there was a smile on the corner of Chu Xiao's mouth, and that annoying Fan Yanxi had finally disappeared. Well, Fan Yanxi wanted to raise Liu Yun as a concubine early in the morning, so naturally he couldn't ask a matchmaker to hire him. There is no matchmaker and no hire, and they have never eaten or used money from the Fan family, so they can't get involved at all. .

Seeing his son's expression like this, Liu Yun couldn't guess that his son had done something wrong, and sighed secretly, then pulled his son into his arms and groped for a while: "A little man, why do you care about these kids? People will bully the two of us."

Chui Xiao was comfortably leaning against his mother's arms, enjoying his mother's caress, not feeling shy at all, and never retorting, obediently listening to Liu Yun talking about him, he had already done something about him, and it was just for her to talk about two things. sentence.It's just that those mirrors need to be taken back quickly. Now that the culprit who caused Peijun's righteousness to recede has been punished, the way of heaven will not let Peijun ignore it.

Liu Yun babbled for a while, seeing his son listening with lowered brows, he was both proud and distressed, proud that such a weak little thing who couldn't lift his shoulders or lift his body had such superb skills, and Feeling sorry for her son, who is only a few years old, but using such means to protect his mother, she feels relieved besides mixed feelings. As Chuxiao grows up, she also feels that her body is not as strong as before, and she has been inspired recently. She, I am afraid that Not two years to live.Thinking that I have neither father, brother, elders to be reliable, nor close friends to trust, leaving behind the youngest son of twelve or three, even if he died, he would be uneasy.Now, she can relax a little bit.

After this incident, the life of the mother and son returned to calm. Liu Yun still went out to gather medicine every now and then, and taught the "Medicine Classic" to Chuanxiao in her free time, but everyone could feel that her body was gradually weakening. It's not sick, it's as if the vitality of the whole body has been sucked away by something, the face that was originally plump has turned pale, and the whole person is like the sun that is dying, full of twilight.

Every time Chu Xiao sees this, his heart feels shivering, wishing he didn't have these glazed eyes, and didn't see Liu Yun's lifeless spirit growing day by day.However, one must not deceive oneself, one is destined to be like this, and one cannot hide from it.

In October of the ninth year of Shenzong, Liu Yun fell down. She slept longer and thinner each time, and her figure also lost weight rapidly. Looking at her with a flute, she remembered that when she was just born, Liu Yun protected herself from endless pursuits. The stern figure that cut a bloody path, such a decisive killing, is infinitely beautiful.But at this moment, she was lying there, pale and weak, just looking at her, her heart ached, that kind of dull pain was like a blunt knife cutting his heart one by one, and it seemed as if someone slowly stretched out his hand He strangled his throat and tightened it a little bit. The powerless feeling of suffocation made Chu Xiao feel numb.

He never cried, and didn't even have a big reaction. He just waited on Liu Yun's soup, medicine and food in silence, but this reaction was more worrying for Liu Yun than the great grief and pain. This dying man remained silent, as if he had lost all his popularity, and he was not interested in anything in this world.She was even worried that if she, a worthless person, left, Chuxiao would resign herself to her fate and wait for her death.

This is absolutely impossible!How could she, the baby that Liu Yun tried her best to keep, only lived in this world for more than ten years?He has to live!Live recklessly, live happily, and live without any regrets before you can die calmly!

The winter in the ninth year of Shenzong was extremely cold, and Liu Yun finally couldn't bear it any longer. One day, Chu Xiao woke up from the couch in Liu Yun's room and went to see his mother as usual. Hurrying out of the room to look for it, just turning a corner, I saw Liu Yun coming with a food box, her slender body wrapped in a heavy cotton padded jacket, looking ecstatic, Ximen Chuxiao noticed that her mother was already slender She's done dressing up, she's put on makeup and lipstick, her face is even more rosy, as if she's never been weak.

Chu Xiao was shocked, and stretched out his hand to support the door. He could see the thick dead air on Liu Yun's body from far away.

Back to the light, back to the light!Flute slipped these four words from his mouth, closed his eyes tightly, and showed a look of crying but not crying. Liu Yun sighed, took his hand, and led him into the door. As if gossiping, he said: "You are like this, how can I rest assured, I will leave soon, and my son will have a good meal with me."

Fluttering her lips and choking with sobs, she said, "...OK."

Liu Yun smiled and served the flute, but she didn't use much. While watching the flute, she said slowly: "I know my son is not ordinary. When I took you to flee in the early years, my son could lead the way for my mother." , dodged so many murderous intentions, and even used other methods to make those people come and go. I have been a cultivator of immortality since I have passed down the practice of seizing the house. I don't know who you were before, did you take my son's life? , instead of his soul, I only know that you crawled out of my stomach, so I recognize you."

Hearing these words, Chuan Xiao suddenly stopped, and looked up at Liu Yun, he didn't know that his mother thought him an immortal cultivator!

"Mother, I'm not." Staring at Liu Yun, Chuxiao said seriously, "I'm not a cultivator who seized the house. I should have been born on your belly. I don't know anything about it."

Liu Yun was stunned, and she shed tears: "It's like this! I thought, my son is a Taoist friend of Duoshe, so even if I die, you still have a way out..."

Chu Xiao was taken aback, never thought that Liu Yun would come here for him, he couldn't help holding Liu Yun's hand, and comforted him: "Mother, you don't need to worry, I have already learned the "Medicine Classic", and I can also take some herbs on weekdays to maintain my health. My livelihood is enough, besides, with my body, I don't think it will take long before I can go to trouble my mother again."

Liu Yun heard that death was really calm in his words, she was angry and anxious, and shouted: "Nizi, kneel down for me."

Chu Xiao didn't know why, but seeing his mother was so angry, she knelt down.

Liu Yun looked at him and reprimanded: "A few days ago, when I watched you, I had the intention of resigning myself to fate and following the crowd. Are you looking for death?"

Chuixiao was stunned for a while, even though he felt that the destiny must not be violated, he didn't mean to seek death, but there was only a little vitality left in this body, which was exhausted after a few years, so naturally he went after Liu Yun, and immediately argued: : "I absolutely don't mean that. However, there is a way to everything, and the destiny cannot be violated. When the deadline comes, even if I fight desperately, I can't fight for the sky."

"Then we have to fight! My immortal cultivator is going against the sky. Tianyuan doesn't let us people live so long, so every time the realm rises to a level, there will be countless catastrophes. The road to immortal cultivation is full of murderous opportunities. If you take one wrong step, life may be worse than death. But there are still so many ancestors who have fought, and their lives are getting longer and longer every day. What destiny cannot be violated! It's just that they don't want to fight!"

Chu Xiao lowered her head and said nothing.The world in his eyes is completely different from that of Liu Yun. The laws of heaven and earth that he can sense, Liu Yun cannot, but this does not mean that Liu Yun’s statement is wrong.If you don't fight, how do you know if the way of heaven makes you struggle in the world?Is he obsessed with 'following the way of heaven' these days?

Seeing that her son seemed to have realized something, Liu Yun eased her tone: "Brother Xiao'er, I, Liu Yun, have nothing else to ask for in my life. As long as you do one thing, let me go with peace of mind." She took out a map, Passed to the flute, "In the early years, I took you to seek a 'miracle doctor'. He once said that no one in this world can cure you. The only hope is this place. That's why I brought you to Liuzhuang Village, Pei County. , I have searched according to the pictures many times over the years, but I have found nothing. But I believe that the genius doctor will not be aimless. Mom wants you to persevere, go here, look for it, I want you to fight, fight with this day! Fight with this life !"

"My son, are you willing to honor my mother's last wish?!"

Tears flowed wantonly from the flute, he knelt down, took the thin brocade with both hands, bent down and kowtowed: "Son, I agree."

Liu Yun breathed a sigh of relief, and finally laughed: "Great, great! Mother can go at ease." After speaking, she got up, lay on the bed with her clothes on, closed her eyes, and remained silent.

Chu Xiao watched the death energy dissipate from Liu Yun's body quickly. When the last trace of death energy left, Chu Xiao bit her lip and cried bitterly. Liu Yun has completely gone...