I cross the cold pond

Xu Ziru stayed in Zangshu Pavilion until sunset, and didn't eat dinner in the small kitchen. He just carried a few cakes with him, and decided not to wait until Uncle Liu didn't leave.

Fortunately, Uncle Liu didn't let him wait in the library pavilion until he starved to death, so he came here that night with a candle.

Xu Ziru sat cross-legged on the ground and swayed from side to side. When he saw someone coming, he asked in surprise, "Who?"

Uncle Liu said, "Me."

Xu Ziru was surprised: "Uncle Liu, why did you come here at night?"

Uncle Liu said, "I'll sleep here at night."

Xu Ziru knew about it a long time ago, so he said twice on purpose: "You sleep next to the library, Uncle Liu, have you read all the books here?" He continued immediately without waiting for the other party's reaction, "Then Just in time, I read a few books here this afternoon, and I need your help to answer some questions I don’t understand.”

Uncle Liu had a very good temper. He put the candle lamp in his hand on the candle holder on the table, sat on the chair and asked, "What's the problem?"

Xu Ziru was thinking about how to cooperate so well, and thought that he would have to coax a few more words before speaking.He moved slowly to Uncle Liu's feet, looked up at Uncle Liu's face under the light, and asked, "I heard you mention the Exorcism Abyss today. A formation set up by a demon?"

Uncle Liu didn't care whether he understood or not, he explained on his own: "That's right. But the human body is fragile, and it's the end of the battle with the body for decades."

"..." Xu Ziru was silent for a moment, then picked up his hands, "Then what should we do?"

Uncle Liu said: "In the Exorcism Abyss, there is a treasure called Nuwa stone, which is used to suppress the monsters in the pole."

Xu Ziru is very cooperative: "Jizhu?"

Uncle Liu didn't explain at all: "The Empress Nuwa Stone was lost, and another treasure called Kunlun Mirror was found in the Tianji Gate." He began to talk about it like a storytelling.

"..." Xu Ziru was silent for a while, and tried to cooperate again, "Kunlun Mirror?"

Uncle Liu said: "It is rumored that the nuwa stone can revive the flesh and bones of the dead, making people live forever. It can also guide people to enter the Three Jewels dream to make up for the shortcomings in their hearts. If they live in the dream, they will be free after waking up."

When Xu Ziru heard the word "Three Treasures Dreamland", his eyes could not help but sharpen, and he answered in a calm voice, "Is this Three Treasures Dreamland?"

Uncle Liu completely ignored any questions from his audience, Uncle Liu ignored him completely, and continued in a low voice: "Nuwa Stone is pure and good, it is a divine tool used to mend the sky and suppress demons, without any evil spirit. "

"..." Xu Ziru paused, and You continued to remind without giving up, "Uncle Liu, what exactly is the dream of the Three Treasures that you are talking about?"

Uncle Liu glanced at him under the faint candlelight, and then said to himself: "After the Nuwa stone was lost, Tianjimen used the Kunlun mirror to trap monsters, so that all the monsters in the exorcism abyss were trapped in the Kunlun mirror."

"..." Xu Ziru didn't want to talk at all, he propped his head on his hands, thinking in his heart—OK, I'll ask after you finish speaking.

Uncle Liu unhurriedly began to talk about these information that Xu Zizi had searched for many years and had never found.

"The Kunlun Mirror can reverse time and tear space. It is not as good and pure as the Nuwa Stone. Because there are many monsters absorbed in the Exorcism Abyss, it is more or less affected by those monsters that confuse people's hearts." Uncle Liu said.

Xu Ziru heard the words, his spirit froze, and he blurted out: "Traveling through time and space?"

Uncle Liu glanced at him, as if he just realized that there was someone sitting in front of him who needed his answers. He nodded, "Yes."

Xu Ziru looked at Uncle Liu suspiciously for a while.

Uncle Liu didn't give too much explanation, and continued: "Later, someone discovered that the lost Nuwa Stone was actually in the Kunlun Mirror."

Xu Ziru frowned: "How did you do it?"

Uncle Liu shook his head: "No one knows why the Nuwa Stone entered the Kunlun Mirror. But because the Nuwa Stone is in the mirror, the suppressed monsters in the mirror don't dare to wreak havoc. Exorcism Yuan has passed through a period of peaceful years. "

Xu Ziru let out a sigh, he still wanted to know more about the dream of the Three Treasures, he wanted to turn the topic back to the topic of the dream, so he opened his mouth to speak.

Uncle Liu interrupted and said, "Because the Nuwa stone is in the Kunlun mirror, it was originally seeking to liberate people's hearts, and the dream of the three treasures to make up for regrets has changed."

When Xu Ziru heard the topic he wanted to hear, he sat on the ground lazily and bowed his back as if he had no bones, but immediately straightened his back when he heard the words: "What will happen if you enter this dream of the Three Treasures?"

"If you are bewitched by the Kunlun Mirror, you can't distinguish between dreams and reality, so you can't wake up from your dreams." Uncle Liu said.

Xu Ziru nodded: "So you spent your whole life in a dream?"

Uncle Liu's face suddenly became serious: "At worst, he was bewitched by the monsters trapped in the Kunlun mirror for hundreds of years, and even possessed his body. They are like gangrene attached to the bone, and they cannot be torn off even if they are attached to the body. People's temperaments have changed."

Xu Ziru suddenly thought of Yan Qinghe. In recent years, Yan Qinghe was not much different from what he remembered. When he first fell asleep, Yan Qinghe was strangely tight.He couldn't hold back and immediately asked: "What's the difference between being possessed by a monster and being born with a demon?"

Uncle Liu waved his hand: "This statement is wrong. The demons come from the heart and are controlled by personal emotions."

Xu Ziru couldn't help turning dark, and was a little speechless: "What does that mean, don't the two sound similar?"

Uncle Liu glanced at him, as if he felt that he was unteachable: "The devil in your heart is that you have fallen into a maze, and being blinded by a leaf is not a big deal."

"..." Xu Ziru was silent, surprised, "The inner demon is not a big deal, there is no need to get rid of it at all, and it won't cause a big change in people's temperament?"

Uncle Liu clicked his tongue: "If you understand it this way, of course there is no problem. In life, who would not doubt himself because of inner distress, it's not a big deal, it's just a normal human condition."

Xu Ziru straightened his back, he gritted his teeth and asked: "If someone says that you have a demon in your heart because you like someone, and you need to exorcise the demon, what is it?"

Uncle Liu said: "Absurd, seven emotions and six desires are normal human feelings, why do you have a demon?"

Xu Ziru silently recalled the appearance of Yan Qinghe standing in front of him and saying that his demons had been eliminated, and he suddenly felt extremely ridiculous.He felt that during the time when the two of them were in the same mind, it was actually just a demon to Yan Qinghe.He felt sorry for Yan Qinghe.

Xu Ziru was silent for a moment, but he couldn't hold back and asked: "Then what if someone insists that this is a heart demon and has already been exorcised?"

Uncle Liu actually laughed when he heard the words: "It's all about cutting off the roots of love. Human beings are ridiculous. They think that cultivators of immortals cannot be emotional, and they must be ruthless in love to achieve true results. Do you really think that gods have no feelings?"

Xu Ziru looked at Uncle Liu in front of him strangely and suspiciously, and almost blurted out his curiosity in his heart, but after thinking that he still had a lot of questions to ask, he pressed the curiosity button and continued to ask: "Then you What about the so-called being possessed by a monster for hundreds of years?"

Uncle Liu also cooperated and continued to explain: "Century-year-old monsters are the most deceptive and disturbing people's minds. They turn right and wrong into black and white, and make people fall into half-demons, neither human nor ghost. Once time passes, it may be difficult to regain consciousness."

Xu Ziru's nerves tensed up, and he pressed his breath and asked, "Then what should I do?"

Uncle Liu said: "The monster is trapped in the mirror, since it is entangled in a dream, it can just go out."

Xu Ziru asked: "The monster won't follow out, and the person who is entangled by the monster will return to normal?"

Uncle Liu nodded, and Xu Ziru yelled inwardly—you fart!What was it that was raging in He's mansion that night? !Suppressing the surging heartbeat, he tried to remain calm and asked, "Then how do you dream?"

Uncle Liu raised his hand and touched his chin. He seemed to ponder for a moment: "I found the Nuwa Stone." He said.

"Then what does this Nuwa stone look like? Where should I find it?" Xu Ziru blurted out.

After Xu Ziru finished speaking, Zangshu Pavilion suddenly became completely quiet.The candlesticks on the table were dimly lit, only quietly surrounding the square inch in front of the two people in the cabinet.

Xu Ziru and Uncle Liu sat on the ground with their heads up, and the other sat on a chair with their heads down, and looked at each other for a while.

The two of them maintained a tacit understanding and didn't ask each other any other questions. After looking at each other for a while, Uncle Liu suddenly said: "Whoever takes it into a dream will have it with him."

Emotionally silent.

Uncle Liu added: "If you see it, you will know that it is the Nuwa Stone."

Xu Ziru's face was no longer that of a pretentious teenager, he had a calm face, because of too much thinking, the expression on his face was a bit cold.He tapped his fingers on the wooden floor of Zangshuge a little irritably, and the sound of "da da" finger tapping was echoed in this silent Zangshuge.

He asked in a deep voice, "If I find the Nuwa stone, how can I have a dream?"

Uncle Liu said: "Tell the truth to the person who holds the Nuwa stone, and let him accept the guidance of the Nuwa stone at the happiest moment in his dream."

Xu Ziru pondered: "If he just doesn't want to go out, so what?"

"..." Uncle Liu frowned slightly, "Perhaps you can be guided to leave when you are extremely happy, sad, or hateful."

Hearing this, Xu Ziru could not hold back his eyes and smiled: "Obviously the latter two are easier to achieve, who wants to wake up from the dream?"

Uncle Liu glanced at him, he opened his mouth as if wanting to speak, hesitated for a while and then sighed, but in the end he didn't speak.

Xu Ziru sat cross-legged, holding his ankles with both hands, shaking his body slightly. He said with a smile: "When I was young, I learned the Book of Changes from a person who had nothing to do all day and just sat and read. I have studied for many years, Yin Yang and Five Elements , Fuxi and gossip are all well-knowledgeable. Later, I left after studying and went out to tell fortunes for others, and the calculations were so accurate that everyone called me a half-immortal. Now I think, this person who taught me fortune-telling may be a real half-immortal?" Xu Ziru tilted his head and looked at the white-haired Uncle Liu.

Uncle Liu laughed out loud, but didn't reply.

Xu Ziru stood up from the ground, he reached out and patted the dust on the robe, and muttered: "It's getting late, I have to go."

Uncle Liu looked at him silently and nodded.

Xu Ziru walked to the door of Zangshu Pavilion, turned his head mischievously before opening the door, and smiled: "Uncle Liu, you see that you know so many things that others don't."

Uncle Liu raised his eyebrows slightly.

Xu Ziru laughed: "You must be quite young, right? You look quite young!" He opened the door and ran away.

"This kid!" Uncle Liu snorted, seeing the person running fast and disappearing under the moonlight in an instant, he shook his head helplessly, and gradually disappeared into the Library Pavilion holding the candle lamp.

Xu Ziru stepped on the moonlight all the way to Yanqinghe's courtyard.There have never been four seasons inside the Tianji Gate, and there has never been a rainy day. Every day when you wake up in the daytime, the sun shines on all places inside the gate, and at night, the moonlight is also bright, and there is nowhere to hide in the darkness.

Xu Ziru thought for a long time along the way, his face was heavy, and his walking steps were heavy and slow.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Yan Qinghe sitting alone in silence under the moonlight.He was sitting by a pond with fish in the yard. He was dressed in a plain white gown with his hair draped over his head, sitting in front of the pond like a ghost.

The movement brought by Xu Ziru walking into the courtyard made Yan Qinghe, who was sitting in front of the pond, look sideways slightly.Then he looked away, squeezed a few pieces of fish food in his hand, and sprinkled them lightly into the pond.

Xu Ziru sat there as if seeing Yan Qinghe's ghost at night, after hesitating for a moment, he suddenly had an idea in his heart.He walked up and said hello: "Brother, how about feeding the fish at night?"

At night, the moonlight on the water surface of the pond seemed to be coated with a thin layer of silver, and several koi fish were swimming around and wagging their tails to grab food.

Yan Qinghe threw a few more fish food, and let out an unhurried "um".

Xu Ziru sat on the stone chair next to him, stared at the fish swimming underwater, thought about his words for a while, and asked aloud, "Senior brother, I've always been very curious."

Yan Qinghe fed the fish in the pond without rushing: "Huh?"

Xu Ziru smiled: "You look like this all day, have you ever been happy?"

"Yes." Yan Qinghe kept feeding on his hand.

Xu Ziru turned to look at him: "For example, when?"

Yan Qinghe threw all the fish food in his hand into the pool, and flicked the fish food residue that remained on his fingertips with the fingers holding the fish food, and said lightly: "I am very happy now."

Xu Ziru couldn't help laughing: "I don't sleep at night, are you happy feeding the fish?"

Yan Qinghe turned his head to look at him, his thick eyelashes drooping slightly, his eyes seemed to be filled with the moonlight of countless nights of Tianji Gate, his blinking speed was slow, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, always a little bit in the night. His pale face seemed to be a little more flexible.

The corners of Yan Qinghe's eyes were slightly curved, and his calm expression was somewhat joyful and careless. He smiled and said, "That's not true."

Xu Ziru raised his eyebrows curiously: "Huh?"

Yan Qinghe moved his body slightly, leaned closer to Xu Ziru, pressed a kiss on Xu Ziru's forehead very politely, and then said slowly: "Xiao Xu, it's you who make me happy here .”

After Yan Qinghe finished the kiss, he sat back and turned his head slightly to stare at Xu Ziru.

Xu Ziru felt a little funny, he stretched out his hand and touched his forehead that had been touched by Yan Qinghe's lips, even though Yan Qinghe was a piece of wood most of the time, his lips were still soft.Xu Ziru lowered his eyes, and after a long while, he showed a very bright smile to Yan Qinghe: "Do I make senior brother happy?"

Yan Qinghe tilted his head slightly, looking at him silently and gently in the moonlight.

Xu Ziru walked to Yan Qinghe's side, because Yan Qinghe was sitting, he squatted down directly, raised his head slightly to look at Yan Qinghe, he bent his crescent-like eyes, and smiled until his teeth were exposed: "Brother, does this mean that you like me?"

Yan Qinghe raised his eyebrows, and said frankly: "Indeed."

Xu Ziru dug out from his bosom, after a long time he took out a duck-egg blue jade pendant, handed it to Yan Qinghe with both hands, and said with a smile: "Then senior brother has to accept this."

Yan Qinghe looked at the jade pendant in his hand.

Xu Ziru opened his mouth and made up: "The family heirloom I took away when I left home. When my mother gave it to me, she told me that it was a treasure that my family has given to my daughter-in-law for generations, brother." Xu Ziru blinked at Yan Qinghe as he said, He added slowly, "For you, okay senior brother?"

Yan Qinghe reached out and picked up Xu Ziru's jade pendant directly. He stroked the jade pendant lightly with his fingertips twice, then nodded and said: "Okay."

Xu Ziru's eyebrows twitched, thinking that Yan Qinghe was possessed by a monster as expected, and he became so easy to deceive. If he had been as stupid as he is now, he wouldn't have chased him so hard, and finally fell behind. Get the end of a stupid sentence like "the friendship between two people is full of demons".

Xu Ziru suppressed the emotions in his heart, and smiled at Yan Qinghe who was holding the jade pendant: "Senior brother, it's getting late, let's go to bed early."

Yan Qinghe said something in his nasal cavity. He pulled Xu Ziru who was squatting at his feet to stand up from the ground, and walked towards the bedroom with Xu Ziru. Move things to my room to sleep in."

"..." Xu Ziru was staggered by Yan Qinghe's fright, stroked his hair for a long while, and answered vaguely twice.

The two of them walked towards the bedroom hand in hand. Not far away, the pond was still illuminated by the moonlight as if it was covered with silver light, and the fish gathered together were still fighting for the fish thrown into the water by the Yanqing River. Fish food, the moon reflected in the water was broken into countless afterimages by the looting fish.And after a while, among the fish that had just scrambled to eat, the strongest one was fed endlessly for several days, its tail shook in the water a few times, and finally turned its white belly against the moonlight, and then There was no movement.

The school of fish scattered, and the moon reflected in the water returned to its original shape.