Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

The leaves of the tea leaves stand upright, turning slowly on the water surface like duckweed. The leaves shaped like bamboo needles are light in color, and the color of the dyed water is even lighter, which is more like the goose yellow of the new leaves in early spring.Take a sip, press the root of the tongue and inhale, the lips and teeth will be fragrant and sweet.The shape of the tea leaves is as thin as Abbot Zhuyuan, but the taste is not as bitter as his own life.

An Tong recalled that more than 20 years ago, he often made tea in this wooden house, and the tea he made was Zhuyeqing, a specialty of Shuzhou.

Everything in the wooden house was placed in the original place, a table, a chair, a futon, and a stove for refining medicine.

Zhu Yuan said: "Does Mr. An believe in 'reincarnation'?"

An Tong didn't think much, "I believe."

"Mr. An's talent is the same as that of Su Tong in the past, and his personality and temperament are also [-]|[-]% similar."

An Tong thought to himself, in his last life, he went to Baiyin Temple to live in seclusion and practiced at a rare age. Abbot Zhuyuan got along most with himself at that age. Now it is said that his personality and temperament are like Su Tong, not that he has the characteristics of an old man. .However, after thinking about it, the abbot actually said that he was young. According to his mental age, he was already [-] years old.

An Tong said: "I have read the books that Prime Minister Su has read since I was a child, and I have learned from Prime Minister Su's comprehension and comprehension methods. After Prime Minister Su's image is internalized in my heart, it will naturally be externalized in all aspects. I don't know if it is on An What do you see that makes you feel like Prime Minister Su?"

Zhu Yuan said: "The whole person."

An Tong smiled and took a sip of tea.

Zhu Yuandao: "Although Su Tong was a prime minister, he was clean and even poor all his life. He became an official at the age of 70. The emperor thought of his contribution to the former emperor and sympathized with his life. The salary is because Prime Minister Su came to Baiyin Temple, cut off worldly contacts, and called himself Lijin Layman, and spent the rest of his life here. He lived in this wooden house and tasted the tea in Mr. An's hand."

An Tong said: "Prime Minister Su has left many manuscripts during this period of time, about comprehension, alchemy, practice, and many poems, all compiled and published by you, Abbot, so An is fortunate to know Prime Minister Su better. thorough."

Zhu Yuan raised his eyebrows lightly: "Lijin Layman said: No matter is precious, go to bed early is rich, eat late is meat, and walking is a car. These four sentences are the complete portrayal of Su Tong's life in his later years. "

An Tong smiled: "He borrowed Mr. Dongpo's use of Yan Chu's words, maybe they all like Su like this."

Zhu Yuan said: "Su Tong added, does Mr. An know?"

An Tong lowered his eyelashes to cover up the unstable light in his eyes.

Zhuyuan didn't wait for him to answer, and said: "It's a matter of non-disturbance. The old monk didn't include this sentence in any collection."

An Tong raised his head: "Without outside disturbance, Leshan Leshui is a different kind of leisure and elegance, which should be the meaning."

Zhuyuan did not positively affirm or deny, but said: "During the time Su Tong was in Baiyin Temple, he created many lingering love poems."

An Tong came up with a sentence: "Ice balls are fragrant and cold in the morning snow and evening, what is the fate of the qin flute. You smile, the strings are slightly plucked in ancient times, and the dance is like flying wings." Not married, but wrote a lot of love poems, which is also one of the topics of conversation after dinner in the small streets. Why, is Abbot Zhuyuan also interested in these mortal ghosts?"

"I just want Mr. An to understand the meaning of that sentence from another aspect."

"Start with the word 'love'?"

"Exactly."

An Tong said: "From another angle, it's nothing more than friendship, affection, affection, and love."

Zhu Yuan said, "Mr. An is correct."

"which one?"

"It's either."

Zhu Yuandao: "For ten years in Baiyin Temple, Su Tong is not alone, but has someone who is always by his side. Do you remember Mr. An?"

An Tong said: "What do you mean by 'remembering' something you don't know at all?" He subconsciously exerted force, clenched the teacup tightly, and his fingertips turned blue.whitish.

Abbot Zhuyuan let out a long sigh: "Su Tong, if you really don't remember, that's fine. If you do, why bother to go back to Baiyin Temple to add to your sorrows, but still pretend to be someone else? Buddhism emphasizes that everything is as dewy as lightning. , but you are not a person who really sees through, you want to forget but you can't forget."

An Tong looked squarely at Abbot Zhuyuan again, carefully looked at the wrinkles on his face, and his gaze became loose after looking at it.After a long time, he put down his teacup and said, "Since the abbot believes that An is Su Tong, why bother probing for so long?"

"Since it is a 'temptation', it must be tactful."

An Tong said: "It's one thing not to forget, but it's another thing to continue following Su Tong's path."

"Hasn't Mr. An been following Su Tong's path?"

"..."

Zhu Yuan said: "Su Tong, you are reborn as a human being, and I am very relieved that you have not indulged in the underworld. As for how you will go in this life, I naturally have no right and no intention to interfere."

An Tong said with a relieved smile: "An Mou will leave."

An Tong was walking down the mountain while thinking about the old abbot's words, and vaguely saw a person in front of him, and took a closer look, it was Xiao Xin.Xiao Xin just turned around when he heard the voice, and when he saw An Tong, he showed an overjoyed expression.

Xiao Dao said: "Brother Su Rong, you haven't come down the mountain yet?"

"Drink a cup of tea with Abbot Zhuyuan."

"Are you talking about Prime Minister Su?"

"Yes……"

"Abbot Zhuyuan was a good friend of Prime Minister Su. I heard that he asked about you, and he always wanted to meet 'Little Su Tong'."

"..."

An Tong changed the topic: "Da Ya, have you told the people in Suishui Town what I said?"

"Don't worry, it was Mr. An who said it, and they said they would do what you said. It's just that they insisted on letting the three wizards and doctors use it together. I thought about your health-preserving decoction, so I didn't say it again." Persuade." Xiao said.As he spoke, his complexion became uneasy: "By the way, Mrs. An and Song Chan know that you have been here, because the people in Suishui Town insist on asking Mrs. An to thank you."

An Tong had already expected this.If you know it, you know it, Song Chan can say it if he wants to, after all, Mr. An is in a strong body, and he won't die if he is angry again.

Seeing An Tong's calm expression, Xiao Xin was relieved.

The two bid farewell at the market.An Tong turned back to the study from the bamboo grove, it was past time.Soon the servant who delivered the breakfast knocked on the door of the study, An Tong asked him if Master An had come this morning, the servant said that Master An seemed to have caught a cold and was still lying on the bed.

An Tong was flying around with the brush while using the breakfast, thinking that he would go to see his father when he ran out of the breakfast.

Before eating a few mouthfuls, I heard the servants outside greet me: "Mrs. An is back, Miss Song is back."

An Tong had a premonition that Mrs. An Cao was going to enter the study to ask him about Baiyin Temple, so he hurriedly rubbed the rice paper with random graffiti, and sat upright for breakfast.

"A Tong." An Cao knocked on the door, the knocking sound was as soft as her voice, if An Tong didn't pay special attention, he might not hear anything.

An Tong opened the door and said: "Mother." Seeing that Song Chan followed, he said again: "Song Chan."

An Caoshi and Song Chan sat quietly beside them, waiting for An Tong to finish eating.An Tong was indeed hungry too, not afraid of the two of them waiting for him, he just ate the food on the plate in a leisurely and personable manner, as if nothing had happened.

The servant came in and took away the plate, An Tong said: "Mother, I went to Baiyin Temple today."

An Cao smiled wryly: "I know."

Song Chan said: "Tong, Mother said you don't want Uncle Zhang to help you catch goldfish, so it's because of this."

An Tong raised his eyebrows, he may have been imprisoned by Anyi for too long, and he didn't notice that Song Chan had already called An Cao's "mother".

An Tong said: "It's because of this."

An Cao asked: "Xiao Xin's student and his parents, uncles and sisters-in-law said they are very thankful to you. What's going on? Ah Tong, what did you do today?"

"There was a plague in Suishui Town, and they came to Baiyin Temple to get rid of the disaster. I heard what Xiao Daya said, so I went to help."

An Cao said: "Eliminating the plague is the business of the wizards, what can you do to help, aren't you just fooling around?"

An Tong smiled: "Mum, just think I'm bored and panic, and go to Baiyin Temple for a stroll."

"Your father had symptoms of a cold yesterday, and he wanted me to keep it from you, lest you worry and be distracted. Ah Tong, you are fine, but I want my father to worry about you. I discussed this with Chan'er, no Tell your father to let him recuperate at ease, and this will not be an example." An Cao's speech speed was slightly accelerated, and he frowned, An Tong knew that this was the most serious manifestation of his mother's anger.In addition, she still speaks softly, every word she speaks seems to be too light to touch the ground.

An Tong said: "Yes."

Song Chan said: "Tong, you have to concentrate, don't let down your father's expectations, your mother's expectations, and An's expectations."

An Tong felt uncomfortable when he heard it, but he had no reason to express any negative emotions to a delicate woman whose mother was the benchmark, so he nodded: "Yes."

An Cao: "Your father doesn't want you to visit him, so you can stay here and don't disappear again."

"Yes."

An Cao touched his son's face, and Song Chan helped him away.

The sound of the door closing and the sound of "bang" falling to the ground overlapped.

An Ran fell from the window, her limbs trembled and her face was distorted, but because of An Cao, she was about to go out, so she didn't dare to make too much noise, hugged herself and shivered on the ground.

An Tong picked him up, put him on the desk and rubbed his arms and legs.

"Brother, this is the first time for Ah Ran to open the window."

An Tong smiled and said, "Yes."

"Aran has grown up."

"Ah."

"No, no, Aran hasn't grown up."

"Ok?"

"Aran still needs to be nice to his brother, don't grow up, and don't be nice to girls." He was still thinking about An Tong not wanting him to carry the fish basket.

An Tong couldn't help but roll him on the table like a ball.After rolling for a while, An Ran raised her little hand: "No more rolling, no more rolling! Dizziness."

An Tong lifted his younger brother to the ground and let him get up by himself.

An Ran suddenly said excitedly: "Brother, I gave the little goldfish a name, listen to it and see if it's okay."

"what name?"

"Ali."

An Tong's heart twitched.He thought that An Ran must have heard of Su Tong being called "Golden Layman" before he came up with such a name.

At that time, Su Tong liked to raise goldfish. He thought goldfish were as beautiful as glass. After he was free in Baiyin Temple, he called himself "Lijin Layman" and raised many goldfish in the Xiuzhu River next to the temple.This is a widely circulated saying in the world.

What Su Tong cares most about is actually the two homonyms.

Glass, leave.that person's name.

Glass gold, away from the scriptures.The meaning of deviant.

Su Tong didn't want to be bound by scriptures and etiquette, but lived under the influence of classics and books all his life, and was regarded as a model scholar, so he was revered by the world.In the ten years of Baiyin Temple, he "takes it as a matter of fact" and is not trapped by etiquette. He regards himself as a deviant person in his heart.

But he failed. In this life, Su Tong, the eldest son An Tong'an, still lives by scriptures.

An Ran's little hand waved in front of An Tong: "Is this a good name?"

An Tong said: "Okay." He unfolded a piece of rice paper, hung his elbows to write, and swayed a series of densely packed small characters of different shapes.It's all one word: leave.

An Ran leaned on her elder brother's shoulder to watch him write. After finishing writing, her little head shook vigorously: "It's not the word." Then, she took the pen in An Tong's hand, and added a radical next to one of the characters "Li" : "It's this glass."

An Tong said: "Liuli's 'glass'."

An Ran said: "Li Jin layman's 'glass'."

An Tong thought for a moment, then asked, "Aran, does he want his brother to become Su Tong?"

"Although Ah Ran can't imitate Prime Minister Su, my brother can. Prime Minister Su is so powerful, of course Ah Ran wants my brother to become Prime Minister Su."

Su Tong was extremely intelligent when she was a child, but her family was poor. When she was young, her hometown Xiuzhu suffered from drought and plague, her father suffered misfortune, and her mother died of starvation because she could not get relief food from the government. Su Tong was adopted by neighbors. Work harder.He was an official with all his heart, and after he climbed to a high position, he severely punished corrupt officials who exploited people's trust and withheld relief food.After avenging his revenge, he realized that he had been deeply involved in the officialdom. If he didn't continue to go up, he would only be slaughtered by the gang of corrupt officials who held a grudge.

An Tong said: "Prime Minister Su is a person who can do nothing but be a prime minister."

An Ran asked: "What else does Prime Minister Su want to do?"

"Seek the way of escape."

"Have you looked for it?"

"Looked for it."

"Have you found it?"

An Tong scratched his younger brother's nose: "No. There is no such statement in the practical book, and it will be too late when he finishes reading the practical book."

An Ran didn't understand why her brother was so serious all of a sudden, she blinked and said "Oh".

An Tong thought about it, the current self is still different from Su Tong.He has parents, a younger brother, and those lost relatives who pushed Su Tong forward. He is the eldest son of the An family and is admired by the world.In this world, the secular world is good, and there is no need to seek a way of escape.

An Ran: "Is Prime Minister Su a very boring person?"

"Do you think brother is interesting?"

"The most interesting." There were stars in An Ran's eyes.

"Aran, in fact, Su Tong is sometimes very interesting. For example, when he was in Baiyin Temple, he refined a lot of poisons and almost poisoned himself to death." An Tong recalled himself at that time, taking a pill, As a result, he sat motionless for three days in a row, and could not even feel his pulse or breathing. Both Yunli and Abbot Zhuyuan thought he was dead.Fortunately, Baiyin Temple did not release the news during the preparation of the coffin, otherwise the temple would definitely be overcrowded, and many people would see Prime Minister Su's "fraudulent corpse" with their own eyes.

An Ran looked surprised: "Isn't Prime Minister Su refining an elixir?"

"Many of the failed elixirs are poison pills. If there are too many failed products, the way to make poison will be discovered."

"Can my brother make alchemy?"

"……meeting."

"What kind of Dan?"

An Tong said: "A lot."

He introduced to An Ran all kinds of weird pills that he had made before, roughly divided into two categories, one is poisonous, and the other is pills with strange effects, such as eating them that make people speechless and only vomit. The kind that barks.

Of course, there was another elixir that was close to success, but it was snatched away without Yunli's inspection.Those who ate that pill may die from poisoning, or they may truly become immortal.

An Ran was listening attentively, when a human head popped out of the window, startled him, and pointed fingers with his little hands.The head was actually Uncle Zhang, but with some dead branches and leaves stuck on it, and covered with dirt, it looked like a monster at first glance.

Uncle Zhang whispered: "Master An, your fish has jumped out!"

It shouldn't be a big deal for the fish to jump out, just pick it up and throw it into the pond, but Uncle Zhang is in a mess, and he came to the study to notify him, which seems strange.

Little Anran blinked her eyes, looked at Uncle Zhang and then at Brother.

An Tong thought for a while and asked, "How do you dance?"

Uncle Zhang gestured: "That fish has to learn from birds! It jumps very high, and if it jumps too high, it won't land properly. I put it back in the pond, and it kept jumping forever."

When they meet, they imitate tigers and put them in the pond to imitate birds. This fish is really restless.

An Ran said: "Brother, let's go see Ali!"

An Tong also wanted to see how high a little goldfish could "fly", so he followed Uncle Zhang into the bamboo forest. When he approached the small pond, he happened to see the scene of the little goldfish "flying into the sky" riding on the spray.This scene was beautiful at first, and it was quite appropriate to praise the vitality of the little fish with the carp jumping over the dragon gate, but not long after it was so beautiful, the little goldfish fell down with a thud, did not fall into the water, and fell on the muddy floor like a cicada's wings The tail flapped and flicked very pitifully.

Uncle Zhang said, "Young Master An, let's take a look," and ran over to take the slippery little goldfish back to the pond.

As soon as it touched the water, the little goldfish puffed up again and flew into the air.

An Ran looked distressed, and said, "A Li, please don't jump."

Both Uncle Zhang and An Ran had no choice but to take the goldfish, so Uncle Zhang wanted to discuss with An Tong whether to release the fish back to the Xiuzhu River, but An Tong caught the fish in mid-air and sent it back to the water, the goldfish actually calmed down , no longer fly up, but circle in the pool.

The little goldfish opened its bean-like round eyes and opened and closed its mouth to spit bubbles.

An Tong thought that he was probably tired from dancing.

Uncle Zhang said: "Young Master An, even if it has rested, if it falls a few more times, I'm afraid it will fall to death, why not put it back in the Xiuzhu River."

An Tong said: "Okay, wait until you find a more docile fish next time."

Seemingly having understood the conversation between the two, the goldfish became energetic again, thumping and fetching water.

An Ran said: "A Li doesn't want to go back."

An Tong squatted down and nodded the little goldfish's head: "What are you doing, little one?"

The little goldfish started spinning around in the water again.

The three of them sat quietly around the pond for a long time. Seeing that the little goldfish had stopped making trouble, Uncle Zhang said that he should leave this place to him, and that he would not bother Master An.However, An Tong stood up before turning around, and the goldfish flew again.

An Ran said: "A Li likes brother."

An Tong tried to walk back, but within three steps, the goldfish stood up to the shore again.

An Ran pushed the stubborn little goldfish back.

An Tong pinched his chin at the goldfish: "Uncle Zhang, help me buy a bigger bamboo basket from Uncle Xiao Fu, and send it to the study."