Ten Years in Daocheng

Spine reads the titles one by one.

""Twelve Laws of Yujian", "Complete Works of Talismans", "History of Rune Evolution"... Hey, I said why I couldn't find this book in Daoyun Pavilion, so it is here."

Xu Liujun smiled embarrassedly: "I told Master Yang that I wanted to read this book, and he found it for me next year. It turned out that it was 'stolen' from your library."

Bai Xincha laughed too, and continued to read: "The Analects, Song Ci, The Romance of the West Chamber...Why did my master show you this..."Zhuangzi", "Tao Te Ching"...What is this?"

He suddenly found an unnamed booklet, which looked more like a manuscript.Xu Liujun interjected: "I don't know who wrote the novel, but it's included in "Song Ci". I really like reading it, and it's almost ruined."

Indeed, the writing on the cover of the manuscript is illegible.Baixincha opened it carefully.It didn't matter after seeing it, his face turned red up to the base of his ears.

"This isn't... isn't this my own novel!"

Part43

Xu Liujun noticed Bai Xincha's strangeness and asked him what's wrong.

Bai Xincha didn't hear it.He recalled the story in "Song Ci", which he spent nearly half a year lying on the table in the corner of Daoyun Pavilion by the window, lighting a lamp and cooking oil: Dinghai's luminous pearl was taken away, and the kingdom of the seabed At stake.The merman returning to the ruins turned into a human in search of the night pearl, and unexpectedly fell in love with the beautiful princess on land.And Ye Mingzhu is the medicine for the princess to treat the incurable disease.Merman can't forget his mission, but he can't watch the princess die either.In the end, he retrieved the Ye Mingzhu, but used his own heart as a medicine to keep the princess alive.

When Bai Xincha first came to Daocheng School, he still liked to show his novels to others.At that time, Yue Yun was young and Xiao Zhen hadn't come yet.So the only reader is Ye Yuan.

Ye Yuan finished reading seriously.

"How did the merman transform into a human form?" he asked.

"Ah... what about this, anyway, ah... this is not important." Bai Xincha said, "What do you think of the novel?"

"Why didn't the princess fall in love with the merman?" Ye Yuan said, "The merman gave his life for her. And after she regained her health, she even married the prince of a neighboring country? This makes me feel bad."

"Don't you think this is the best place?" Bai Xincha said, "Efforts may not necessarily yield results, love may not necessarily be rewarded, and lovers may not eventually get married. Isn't this normal?"

Ye Yuan still insisted: "The princess is too heartless. She should be with the shark."

At that time, Bai Xincha was still a little thin-skinned, so he slipped back to the library in embarrassment, and randomly stuffed the manuscript in some book.Ye Yuan disliked the ending that he felt good about himself, which hit him hard.From then on, after the novel was finished, he just put it away and kept it for himself to read.

But Xu Liujun actually said that he really liked reading this story, and it didn't look like he was joking at all.Bai Xincha was overjoyed but also a little surprised, and fell into memories for a while.Seeing that he was silent, Xu Liujun asked him again.

"Ah, it's nothing." Bai Xincha replied pretentiously, while putting the manuscript back on the bookshelf, "You said Master was afraid of your loneliness, but there are so many disciples in Shaoyang Sect, how can you be lonely?"

"I live here alone, so..." Xu Liujun replied slowly, his expression becoming unnatural again.

"You live here?" Bai Xincha looked around in surprise, "There are books here, where do you sleep?"

"I sleep here." Xu Liujun pulled Bai Xincha through the rows of bookshelves, and turned into a narrow corner.A narrow bed was leaning against the wall, and the quilt was about the same color as Xu Liujun's clothes. Although it looked very old, it was very tidy.There were also stacks of books around the bed, and there was even a thin booklet spread out by the bedside.

"Junior brother Liujun, why don't you live with your brother?"

Xu Liujun hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind, pulled out a ladder from under the bed as if by magic, and put it on the wall beside the bed.Bai Xincha looked towards the top of his head along the direction of the ladder, and found that there was a skylight on it, allowing one person to enter and exit.

Xu Liujun climbed up the ladder neatly, pushed open the skylight, turned his head and said to Bai Xincha who was standing there blankly: "Brother Xincha, come with me."

Bai Xincha agreed, and began to climb up with hands and feet.Just turning his head, he caught a glimpse of the brochure by Xu Liujun's bedside.The words on the small booklet were crooked, and Bai Xincha didn't recognize any of them, but the shapes and structures were very familiar, as if they had seen it somewhere before.

Part44

The two sat next to each other on the roof.It was only then that Bai Xincha discovered that there was a backyard, which was slightly larger than the front yard he saw just now, and it was also bluestone slabs and blue wall bricks. The only difference was that there was a peach tree planted in the backyard, which was almost as high as the eaves, and the leaves were faster than the eaves. It's gone.There are no other buildings outside the yard, only trees and grass, making a "rustling" sound in the autumn wind.

Xu Liujun pointed to the taller mountain in the distance and said: "That is the main peak of Shaoyang Mountain, where master and brothers live. And here is the side peak of Shaoyang Mountain."

"You live alone." Bai Xincha said.

Xu Liujun nodded silently.

Bai Xincha didn't ask why.Asking further will touch Xu Liujun's deeper secrets, and Xu Liujun will not tell him anything.He has this intuition.Besides, it is very inhumane to ask the bottom line at this time.He turned his head to look at Xu Liujun, this was the second time he looked at him carefully.His high nose and thin chin made his profile look delicate and slightly resolute.But his face clearly still had a bit of childishness, and when he smiled, his eyes were crooked.It's amazing, Bai Xincha thought.Xu Liujun is wrapping his arms around his knees at this moment, this posture makes him look melancholy and fragile.

So Bai Xincha wanted to make him happy.

"Why do you like that novel so much? Don't you think its ending is too depressing?"

"No." Xu Liujun shook his head seriously, "This is very real. In the novels brought to me by Master Yang, the protagonists always easily defeat the people who have bullied them, or easily fall in love with them. Another person. But in fact, people can't always get what they want, and getting what they want is the norm."

Bai Xincha almost made him his confidant.

Xu Liujun suddenly remembered something and asked, "Brother Xincha, how did you know the ending of that novel? Have you read it too?"

Bai Xincha showed a embarrassed expression on purpose: "Hey... Let me tell you, don't tell anyone."

"Yeah!" Xu Liujun quickly agreed.

"That novel...to tell you the truth, I wrote it." Bai Xincha paid attention to Xu Liujun's reaction.

"You wrote it!" Xu Liujun said pleasantly, "Brother Xincha, you actually wrote it! Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Sure enough, he was happy again.Baixincha is very proud.

Xu Liujun is still immersed in the joy brought to him by the wonderful fate. "I've always loved the merman in the story," he said.

"why?"

"Even if he couldn't get the princess' love, he still worked hard to win it. And he knew that the princess didn't like him, but he didn't hate the princess or the prince of the neighboring country because of it. So, I think he is a very pure 'human', oh No, it's a 'merman'. Although getting what you want is the normal state of life, you can't give up without trying."

"This is a bit like what Master said..." Bai Xincha thought.Then he told Xu Liujun about Ye Yuan's evaluation of this story.

"I actually think that Senior Brother Ye Yuan may not understand what you said." Xu Liujun tilted his head and said slowly, "Maybe he knew in his heart that he would experience these things sooner or later, but he just wanted them to come later."

Bai Xincha chewed on these words, suddenly enlightened, his heart was filled with uneasiness, self-blame and shame.Thinking about it now, at that time he was only focused on refuting Ye Yuan, but he didn't know that those words were also a kind of harm to Ye Yuan.Bai Xincha said the truth that "hard work may not necessarily result in results, and love may not necessarily result in rewards", but in fact he has never worked hard at all, nor has he ever been in love with anyone.He always thinks that he sees more thoroughly and thinks farther than others, which is really ironic.But he never thought that Ye Yuan has tasted all these bitter tastes in the past ten years.

Today's Ye Yuan will no longer stubbornly demand that the princess and the shark fall in love.

Part45

They chatted one after another, and when they couldn't find anything to say, they were silent for a while, looking at the scenery around them or the night sky above them, until the moon went down and the stars disappeared.

Xu Liujun sighed for a long time: "We should go."

"where to?"

"Get out of my dream."

Bai Xincha had already forgotten that she was in a dream, and only after hearing him say this did she suddenly remember.

"Even I forgot, thank you for remembering." He said, "But then again, very few people know that they are dreaming. How can you be so clear?"

Xu Liujun didn't answer immediately.He stood up and jumped lightly from the roof to the tree in the backyard.

Bai Xincha also jumped down with him, seeing him gently stroking the tree trunk, his eyes were filled with the indescribable indifference and sadness that Bai Xincha felt when he first met him.

"I'm leaving." Xu Liujun seemed to be talking to himself.

Suddenly the tree trunk shook.Bai Xincha thought it would say something like the books in the house.But the peach tree moved a few times and then stopped, with bare branches piercing straight into the sky.

Bai Xincha patted Xu Liujun on the shoulder: "It's late autumn now, it may be hibernating, so it didn't answer you."

Xu Liujun shook his head and said, "It will wake up and send me off."

As soon as the voice fell, leave them