Chapter 17: parting time to wine also when the song
Inside the Black Dragon Cave, although the cold is very thick, cold and damp, but compared to the outside cold wind, it is really good.
The color of the sky is still early, from the time of the dragon ascension is still early, our gang of people naturally will not be here to wait until the night eleven or twelve o'clock, to come to bring the wine and food and other things, of course, is not entirely in order to pass the time when waiting for the boredom of time here, the main thing is to think of in case of the old man can appear, and then chatter with us, it will be a very happy thing for us, After all, basically sure, it is going to be gone, to be gone forever. After all, it is basically certain that it is going away, going away forever.
Unfortunately, the old woman was not there, and this field of wine and food we had set up inside the Black Dragon Cave could only be used by us youngsters in our moping to pass the difficult, cold hours.
After a few glasses of wine and chewing on peanuts, the guys naturally talked about the old Taiyao, remembering the time it used to be with us.
When our party and the Yangshupo Taiyou Temple with thousands of yellow wolves in front of the battle, rescued the old Taiyou, killed the yellow wolves monster, in the evening when the victory, the old Taiyou in the image of Guo Laohan scruffy appear in the snowy fields, and we laughed and talked about it, and then watched us singing a song of triumph and go away;
I still remember the first time I fought with the white fox in front of the Old Master's Temple, and when I was about to die, the old man was still in the image of Guo Laohan, shuffling his footsteps, driving the white fox away, and saving me from the danger;
In order to earn some pocket money, a group of us went to Yangshupo in the middle of the night to catch the yellow wolves, the old taiyou and us in the temple of taiyou to drink, tell those stories of the past, tell us the existence of another kind of life in the world …… At that time, we still regarded the old taiyou as Guo Laohan, only we were skeptical, and even Chen Jin and I tried to find out many times; the two of them were still in the image of Guo Laohan. Chen Jin and the two of us tried many times;
When we were persecuted by the White Fox Zi Jing, in Handan city with a gang of social gangsters after a fierce battle, was locked into the detention center, during the period of dispersal of the soul spell attack, the pain of the time, the old age of the old woman sacrificed her body to cut the flesh, so that I do not suffer from dispersal of the soul spell attack of the pain of the agony of the torment;
That night, after a fierce battle with the white fox vixen, Liu Bin was white fox vixen on the body, we were tricked into the well, fortunately, there is the existence of the belt made of Wuzui leather, we out of harm's way, followed by Hu Laoshi stole the white fox vixen's flesh, and the riverbank above the white fox vixen to induce the white fox vixen to go, the old woman and Hu Laoshi together with the magic, forcing the white fox vixen to explode its own demon soul;
White Fox Zi Jing Demon Spirit self-detonation, so that the village all over the evil, erosion of human consciousness, so that the villagers are trapped in a difficult situation, fortunately, there is the old age of the existence of the old, and even thought of self-detonation of the spirit and the evil with the death, it can be said that, the old age of the spirit of the absolute goodness of the creature;
No coincidence, but in the year close to the time, a chance, making us mess with the old jiao, the old age and the old jiao reached an agreement, with their own lives, in exchange for the old jiao in addition to the evil in the village, lifting the dispersal of the curse on my body.
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Now, the old woman is about to be or has long been swallowed by the old jiao, to help it ascend to the heavenly realm, our gang, how can we not have a lot of emotions?
Talking about the past little by little, although the time is not long, but always feel with the old age, there are thousands of years of feelings, such as brothers, like elders, our group of people, talking about the old age, how can not long pout and short sighs?
Wine into sadness, Liu Bin, Guo Chao, Yao Jing a few soft-hearted people, has long been tears, a few of us are also red eyes, shaking his head and sighing, from time to time eyes looking into the depths of the Black Dragon Cave, looking forward to the old age of that hobbled the unkempt figure can be out of the darkness, revealing a kind face, smiling and greeted us, and we sit together, talk about the wine and talk about this time spent together, and the old age, the old age of the old age of the old age of the old age of the black dragon hole. It's less than half a year when you do the math!
Regardless of the mood of the people, time in our hearts, or like the passing of light, or like a slow fire, a little bit of the past.
The sky outside the cave, gradually darkened, Chang Yunliang lifted his wrist and looked at his watch, it is already more than five o'clock in the afternoon.
There are still a few hours left before the old auger ascends, we still have to wait.
The light inside the cave is even worse, has been completely dark, fortunately our gang in the cave for a long time, can still adapt to the darkness of the cave, fumbling will bring the candle lit two, we continue to mope drinking.
But the wine has almost finished, the mood of the people, drink wine, there is no door gulping, our group of heartless young people, also seems to forget that these wines were originally brought to the old woman to drink before his departure, just focusing on the long pouting, teary-eyed, keep drinking wine, reminiscing, talking about the past bits and pieces.
Probably the more we talk about it, the more we feel that we can't let go of the old lady, sorry for the old lady, right? Or is drunkenly forget the words we once said, anyway, Chen Jin this kid can not sit still, cursing and grinning in the mouth of the cigarette stood up, swaying body to the depths of the hole to go, hiccups with alcohol, yelling: "I don't care, what the fucking mess of the heart of the good thing, I can not watch the old man died for us, it can not die, I want to go to the old man, I want to go to the old man, I want to go to the old man. It can not die, I want to go to save the old lady age ……"
With him at the head of the brothers are also wine on the surge, staring at the red eyes, bulging cheeks angrily stood up, wobbling to the depths of the cave to go, the heart of the thought, can not be lost righteousness, do people have to be righteous is not it?
This is also considered to be young and impetuous, reckless and impulsive, reckless actions without regard to the weight.
After all, it is young ah!
Hu Laoshi saw our gang started to go crazy again, hurriedly swayed to stand up and shouted: "Hey hey, all back, back! Earlier told you those words are forgotten ah? Hurry back!"
No one cared about him, all the brothers are still each stalking neck staring, clenched fists to go inside.
As a matter of fact, I know that among the brothers, some of them were only in the way of brotherhood and face, and had to walk to the cave with their brothers, but in fact, they were afraid in their hearts. I am indeed a member of this kind of people, but I bet, I swear, no matter what kind of mentality I am, no matter what kind of dangerous and horrible things we may encounter when we walk towards the cave, I will never be scared out of my wits, ignoring my brothers and escaping on my own.
We are a person with few advantages, but absolutely righteous, absolutely want to face, in our heart, the purpose of living a lifetime is a sentence: trees live a skin, people live two faces. People live is not for a face it?
I think, my brothers, in addition to Yao Jing, encountered a crisis, will not be the first to escape.
When we step deep a foot shallow a foot on the wet ground toward the cave, Hu Laoshi anxious, roaring voice has changed the sound, but still no help, he had to hobble feet, dragging that old body chased over.
Ahead, pitch black, out of reach, absolutely no light at all, it has nothing to do with the eyes adapting or not, even if they are adapting again, you can't see anything.
The darkness finally stopped our group of impulsive young people, everyone began to hesitate a little, it was Chen Jin, also a little annoyed stomped his foot, stopped and cursed: "Damn, still need the whole torch to go, otherwise so dark, go in and see the old auger, how can we still do the battle ah?"
"Right, right, go back, there are still several hours left anyway." I nodded and greeted my brothers pulling their hands together, and step by step they started to retreat back.
Everyone turned around, originally walked in the last Yao Jing, in turn became the first, very natural, he and hastily chased over the Hu Lao Si collided with, Hu Lao Si is old, was hit by a ouch fell to the ground, brothers hurriedly follow the sound of groping forward to the Hu Lao Si helped up, assisted together slowly and carefully back to go.
Did not go out much farther, the two bean-sized candle flame appeared in the darkness not far away, of course, there is that dim unclear cave entrance, outside the cave, the light is always stronger than inside the cave.
Originally the heroic to rush into the cave to save the old age, but do not want to go out much farther, even the old auger's hair has not yet seen it, let the darkness to block back, brothers naturally a little downcast, high momentum declined a lot of walking pace, but also full of a lot of.
When we were groping and slowly walking step by step in the direction of those two candle flames, a faint, soft yellow light suddenly appeared out of thin air at the entrance of the cave, and the mass of light slowly expanded to cover the empty space where we were sitting around and eating wine.
Then we people saw a scene that made us surprised, but felt like we were dreaming, some jaw-dropping scene.
Only to see the original place where we were sitting around, in the soft yellow light, the old woman was smilingly sitting on a rock, one hand carrying a bottle of wine and pouring wine into his mouth, his eyes were still looking at us, full of smiles.
A very familiar old woman, a very kind old woman, it still looks like Guo Laohan.
After being stunned for a long time, Chen Jin was the first to shout, "Aigoo my old taiyou!" Shouting, Chen Jin had already sent his feet running over.
We a few natural also not idle, hurriedly and happily shouting and shouting rushed the old age ran over, that look, full like seeing decades have not seen the pro parents general excitement, happy …… Seriously, at that time, the tears in my eyes flowed out, good thing is that the light inside the cave is not good, was not found by other people, did not lose face.
Dozens of meters away from the road, so that we all feel as if it is dozens of miles that far, hurriedly running, can not wait to hurry to sit in front of the old age of the old man, a good examination of some of the body to see if it has lost meat, the face of the face whether there is the color of suffering. This feeling, just like in the desert far from seeing a pool of spring water, anxious and full of excitement and hope to run over to drink two mouthfuls, but has not been able to run in front of me, I do not know that it is an illusion.
I was running, while rubbing my eyes vigorously, rubbing the tears dry, worried about running to the front of the brothers found a joke, the eyes bright, worried about what they see, really like the refraction of light in the desert, or as the consciousness of too much anticipation, before the eyes of the hallucinations, that sat on the stone blocks smiling at us, drinking wine to the bottle mouth of the old man, is not a false impression?
Finally, we ran to the soft yellowish light, ran to the old man's front, Hu Laoshi some excitement, some feelings walked to the old man's front and sat down, did not say anything.
We eight young people stood in a circle, staring blankly at the old woman with a bottle of wine smiling at us.
In my heart, I wanted to ask: "Old lady, how are you?"
Mouth but murmured words, yes, indeed is the old age, it did not let the old auger to eat, at least, now it is sitting in front of us smiling and drinking, its face, is still so kind and gentle.
In a few hours, it was going to willingly let the old scaly man eat it.
I came back to my senses and looked down at my brothers, their eyes, were filled with tears, even Chen Jin, those eyes, were watery with tears.
At this time I realized, I don't know is we just did hallucinate, or the old woman deliberately practice, this soft yellow light, in fact, is the moonlight outside the cave, from the cave entrance sprinkled in the cave this open space.
Outside the cave, the full moon is hanging high, the moonlight is like frost, the stars are faint, in the light of the moon will be ashamed of the shape of the hidden, only revealing a little light to set off the bright moon.
Inside the cave, we these people around the old age, inner feelings, a few days to see, as decades and centuries have not seen, that a few months to know each other, such as how many years spent together in the lofty years ……
The cave is quiet, no one speaks, even the sound of so many people's breathing, seems to be swallowed up by the quiet.
The smiling face of the old woman gradually became a bit raw, and a layer of crystalline tears slowly clouded its kind eyes that could penetrate people's hearts and lungs. These days, our group of people have all thrown away the talismans on their bodies, so why bother to guard against the old taiyou? And why do we need to be so pretentious? So distrustful of each other?
We all knew that the old woman knew what was in each of our hearts, so it was moved, saddened, and couldn't bear to see us go.
I think, at that time, if the old age said: I will not go!
Our brothers and several people, we will definitely nod firmly, and the bravado and the old age of the old taiyang together, to face the old auger, the old auger s son and grandson …… So what if it is a bloody battle? What about disaster? Uniformly in the brotherhood of righteousness, become dispensable.
In our hearts, perhaps before has been the old too old as a elder, a long do not know how many generations of elders, but now we realized, more than elders? It is also one of our friends, is also one of our brothers, is also a worthy of our good buddies!
It has been for us, the two ribs, the knife mountain and sea of fire to play life, knowing that is a death, but also to die generously!
No matter how it feels in its heart, even if it is not only for us young people, even if there are not a few of us, it will still go to die generously, so what?
We've taken it on as our buddy! It's righteous enough, it's meaningful enough!
"What are you waiting for? Sit down!" The old woman finally revealed a kind and gentle smile once again, inadvertently reaching out and wiping the teardrops from the corner of her eyes, beckoning on the ground to change out several bottles of white wine and some chicken and fish, smilingly saying, "The wine that was brought in is all finished, isn't it? You little drunkards, each of you is a guy who can't walk when he sees wine, this is not, there is wine and meat, all sit down!"
Looking at the wine and meat that changed out on the ground, several of us didn't show a shocked look, seeing the strange, it wasn't strange anymore.
Or Chen Jin was the first to react, stepped forward, picked up a bottle of wine, unscrewed the cap, lifted the inverted bottle to the mouth, gulped down two big mouthfuls, turned his head and handed me the bottle, greeted: "Don't freeze, sit, sit, come on, drink!"
"Yes, brothers, drink! Drink him up, don't get drunk!" I took the bottle, drank two big mouthfuls of wine, took two steps forward, sat on the ground, because of drinking too much wine, some feel choked, throat full of white wine that kind of spicy flavor, I coughed twice, reached out and picked up a chicken, tore off the thighs of the chicken, stuffed it into the mouth and gnawed on it for a couple of mouthfuls, and then greeted the other people: "Come, come, eat, drink, don't look like a dead person here, be happy! Don't look like you've had a death in the family, be happy! Come on!"
Only then did the brothers gather around, some sitting on the rocks, some simply sitting on the ground like me, not caring about the cold chill under their asses.
Bottles of wine passed, drinking, two rounds down, a bottle of white wine to the bottom, brothers have hands, open two bottles of white wine again, who want to drink, who will take up to drink a couple of mouths, the meat are taken to eat!
By now, we all understand, the old age show up, is not and we have an idea, thinking we sit together to eat and drink well chat, a goodbye?
But the heart so think, also drink also eat, mouth but froze can not speak, do not know what to say, what to talk about, should be happy laughter? Or should be reluctant to sadly cry?
For a long time, I fell off the hand has been gnawed clean chicken bones, drink a mouthful of wine, lit a cigarette, sighed and said: "The old age, your old …… oops, you this age of surprisingly large, generation naturally also too much, do not know how to shout you, that what, really on the …… have to go, no other method?"
Hearing me ask this question, everyone stopped the action in their hands, looked at the old woman age with unblinking eyes, waiting for the old woman age's answer.
Old Taiyang was stunned for a moment, bitterly smiled and drank a mouthful of wine, looked at the crowd, then looked straight at me and said blandly, "I've lived for almost 10,000 years, I'm also tired of living, it's time to go, it's nothing, to use a saying, it's considered as a joyful mourning."
The crowd is silent, the proverb often said red and white happy event, red, naturally, is the wedding of the big happy event, white, is the home of an old man passed away, the reason why called the happy funeral, that is, the old man end of life, in the world of happiness and well-being, but also long life life life, can be called the happy funeral, meaning that the old man went to the world of peace and happiness, there is no regrets on this earth, with a smile and go… …
If this is the case, the old woman years of age so gone, indeed is also considered a happy funeral, only the way of death is a little too unreasonable, let the old auger to eat, this is not dead without a whole body, simply is dead without a body ah!
I said: "old lady, you go, not compared to the old jiao, it may be to another world, ascension success, you old? You are purely giving your life away!"
"Yes, yes, you can't go to your death like this, it's not easy to live for 10,000 years!" Chen Jin immediately echoed: "As long as you say, we brothers in the water water to go, the fire in the fire to go, the mountain of daggers, we do not have to be afraid! What do you say, do you want to compete with that old Jiao?"
"Forget it!" The old man smiled bitterly and waved his hand, not to laugh at Chen Jin that kind of some ignorant words, after all, Chen Jin's words and then self-importance, and then childish and ridiculous, that is also from the heart really! The old man said: "Ten million years, I enjoy the world's worship, worship, absorbing the spirit of heaven and earth, and all kinds of evil things have dealt with, suffered a lot of pain, have eaten too much loss, in the village of Guo old man before I know, I have never had a heart with people, that is, in the once transformed into a human form, make a few friends, when they learned that I am the age of too many years old, rather than when humans, have an inexplicable fear, carved out of the heart of a man, and the world of the world, I am the age of too many years old. There is an inexplicable fear, deliberately away from me, avoid me, some still with my friends, but there is no such a sincere affection in the past, just in the covetousness of my flesh, thinking of consuming my meat, to be able to survive into immortality, do not know, I have a body of meat, although it can be called a rare elixir in the world, can be cured of all kinds of illnesses, and even have the effect of bringing back to life, but to think of eating two pieces of meat on me, to become an immortal, it is by no means possible. Possible, Alas …… until I met Guo old man, it is a heart of nothing, lonely life, just a few decades, life is so similar to my millions of years, I and he, nothing to talk about, but without any heart, call it a good friend! Furthermore Hu Laoshi, counted as a good person, with the humble Taoist line, for the villagers to dare with the demonic and evil things as an enemy, in the greater good without selfishness, although the life of the small things on the occasional greed ……"
Speaking here, Hu Laoshi blushed, waved his hand with a bitter smile and nodded his head as a default. This old boy did seem a bit obscene some of the time on weekdays.
The old woman paused for a moment, smiled faintly, then said: ''I was trapped by the little yellow wolf and white fox spirit for more than ten years, I never thought that I would be saved by you young people, my heart was full of emotions, at first I thought that you were young and wild, did not know how to be courteous and were too greedy, and the evaluation of the good people that I have had in my heart for millions of years was far from what I had expected, but just in order to be grateful to you, and also for the sake of all the people in the village not to be harmed by the evil things, the old man said. I only thought about getting rid of evils and protecting the village after I got well."
"But after contacting with you a few times, I feel more and more, these ten million years, the standard of judgment for human beings in my heart, it seems that there are some mistakes, right and wrong, good and bad people, it turns out that you can also use righteousness and friendship to measure. Your youthful arrogance, can be said to be young and ignorant, this is not wrong, your nature is good, for friends to pay for righteousness, to treat friendship as if the same as family love, hardworking and simple, not loyal but sincere enough ……."
A bunch of young people for us praise words out, let us each have some fluttering, of course, for our criticism, is also certainly there, just here I will not write out, anyway, we can see, especially me and Chen Jin, pure is trouble, nothing to do with the main child.
The old man finished these, the smile is still there, the face of gratification, raised the bottle, signaling us to drink, and then very bold a drum, the bottle of wine gulp dry, ancient heroes drink wine in a big bowl is also just so ah!
After listening to the words of the old man, is planning to say something, see the old man so, a few of us rushed to pick up the bottle, to the bottle to the mouth to pour wine, drink two big mouth after, it was handed to the people next to me, until everyone has drunk, I was a little drunken, said: "the old man years old ah, since the words are said here, I know, can not stop you, not to mention that! To be honest, today we all drank wine, alcohol burned what all dare to do, what big words dare to say, but if the strength of the wine over, really want to do a fight with the old auger, I admit, I first heart is weak to death, and then it is for the sake of the whole village and even the whole township, alas, I don't know how to say it, our brother owes you, always have to pay back, but now it has become so, you say, we even have the opportunity to return the favor are not ……"
"Who says it's not, old lady, can you think of other ideas?"
"Yes, does it have to be like this? Can you discuss with the old jiao, let it first do not go, and then go to the Busan River to collect twenty years of water aura can not?"
Brothers have agreed, Chen Jin said: "Bullshit, where so much nonsense, you are afraid of is not it? I'm not afraid, what the old fucking auger more powerful, I do not believe in this evil …… just, just, I also take into account the people of our village and the township, the whole township how to have 30,000 to 40,000 people, right?"
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Hu Laoshi, who had been silent and only focused on drinking, finally spoke up and said, "Old lady, do we have to put your life on the line this time? Can't you just cut some more meat for the old Jiao? The water aura it collected, no matter how much it is, it's not worth the meat of your body!"
The old taiyou didn't seem to listen to us at all, and just drank his own wine, we didn't know what to do, so we just drank, ate meat, and looked at the old taiyou with bated breath, waiting for it to speak, it's the main character ah!
"Ten million years of time passes, erased not only the years, but also the deep memories, alas ……" The old Taiyang finished another bottle of wine, squinting his eyes, slightly drunkenly slapped his hands a few times, squinting his eyes and smiling bitterly, said: "This old life, it should be replaced with a new life, old, old, old, the old does not go, the new does not come ah! To say the least, it is not the life that is lost, but the memory, this life of mine, I still can't lose ah!"
Hearing this, all of us were shocked, the meaning of these words, clearly is the old woman can not die! I hurriedly asked: "You old this is …… you old will not die?"
"Yes!" The old woman years old the slightest joyful appearance are not, bitter smile again and again, shook his head and sighed, said: "Only, that all the memories, will be that thousands of years ago like memories, are all forgotten."
"Is it all the memories?" Chen Jin asked with a frown.
The old woman was stunned and nodded.
"Isn't that the same as being dead? Holy shit!" Chen Jin slammed his fist on the stone, causing him to grimace in pain.
I asked suspiciously, "What do you mean when you say that you will still be alive?"
"The spirit nucleus will still stay in this world, start from scratch, slowly grow into, after a thousand years, it will naturally have a spiritual consciousness, just by the bitterness of this side of the soil and water, the spiritual qi will all be sucked up by my body."
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The cave is quiet again, just as Chen Jin said, this and dead, no different. Especially for us people, isn't what we hope for, is that the old taiyou will survive, and be able to be with us in the future, drinking and chatting together, and dealing with evil things? Happy, as friends, as buddies ……
But this is good, not only is the memory lost, even if it is the life, also have to be in a thousand years later, will only have the spirit of awareness, to that time may not change the appearance of the people, not to mention drinking and chatting together to deal with the evil things, oh, back a step, back a million steps to say, it is a thousand years later, the front of all of these things can be done, and then back a million steps to say, it has forgotten about us, you can then re-recognition! Cultivate feelings …… But the question is, who of us can live for a thousand years? We are not evil things elves and monsters, we are normal people ah, beaten pain, drink too much vomit, live old, but also have to die ah!
Is our heart of hope that rises into the sky, plunged to the bottom of the valley, depressed can't not when, the old woman suddenly said: "The hour is up!"
We all wake up from the depression, hastily look at the cave, the moon in the sky, such as frost moonlight like silver leakage, shining the world will be like that day as bright.
Turning back to look at the old woman, but see the direction it gazed at, but the deep darkness of the cave!