On New Year's Eve, Li Xiuyuan did not get up early.

Chenshi got up, washed up, and made half a pot of white porridge. Then he took the Ruoshui Wooden Sword and waved it casually in the wind and snow outside the hall for half an hour. He didn't know how many sword cuts he made.

Before it was too late, Old Man Zhang braved the wind and snow and climbed up the mountain, took half of the roe deer and carried it into the kitchen.

When Li Xiuyuan saw it, he smiled and asked, "This must weigh one to two hundred kilograms, right? How can I eat it all by myself?"

Elder Zhang put the roe deer away, took out three large food boxes and put them on the kitchen table. He turned to look at him and said, "Eat the roe deer slowly. Today's meal has been prepared for you. You just need to heat it up."

It’s done when it’s hot.”

Li Xiuyuan was startled, pointed to the food box on the table and said with a smile: "This is a lot of food, enough for me to eat until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year."

Old Man Zhang thought for a while, then put half of the roe deer in the snow under the peach tree, and smiled: "I'll keep my toys in the snow here, and the wild beasts in the mountains won't come into the Taoist temple to snatch them from you."

Food.”

Li Xiuyuan walked over, piled the snow on the side onto the roe deer, and asked: "As long as I have something to eat, if you have nothing to do, hurry down the mountain and celebrate the New Year with them! Remember, drink less wine."

Old Man Zhang was about to say something, but he didn't expect that Li Xiuyuan would remind him to drink less. He couldn't help but reply: "Well, I will just join them for a while, and I can't drink more than a few glasses of wine."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and walked towards the main hall.

Old Man Zhang looked at his back and couldn't help but ask: "Well, do you want to follow me to the village?"

"No! If you want to spend this New Year's Day quietly by yourself, don't bother me if you have nothing to do, unless someone comes to cause trouble..." Li Xiuyuan replied softly.

"They've been here and there for a month, how can they cause trouble for you?!" Old Man Zhang couldn't help but muttered after hearing this.

"Let's wait and see. I hope everyone will stay at home during the New Year and don't come to trouble me!" Li Xiuyuan is not a fuel-efficient person at the moment.

"Um, did you write talismans again yesterday?" Old man Zhang walked into the hall, looked at the neatly arranged runes on the shelf, and turned to look at Li Xiuyuan and asked.

Li Xiuyuan added charcoal to the brazier and said, "I haven't done anything for a long time. I have to write some and put them here to meet the needs of the villagers down the mountain. If there are not enough, I will let you take action."

"Oh, I can be lazy now. With this wave of your hand, I can enjoy a year and a half of leisurely time. It seems I have to work hard."

Old man Zhang thought about his state and said with a smile.

"Don't be anxious. Wait until after the New Year. I will prepare a pair of elixirs for you to try and break through one or two more realms."

Li Xiuyuan glanced at Old Man Zhang and said thoughtfully: "Maybe, in a few years, you will still have hope to break through to the realm of breaking through the void."

When Old Man Zhang, who was about to walk out, heard these words, he couldn't help but say: "Maybe, someone will come looking for you in a few days."

When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he laughed loudly, shook his head and said, "Whatever, I will take over whether it's good or bad."

I saw Mr. Zhang put three sticks of incense on his head, placed the tributes brought from the mountain, and then clasped his hands and saluted.

Li Xiuyuan lit the fire and made tea, while looking at Old Man Zhang and said: "Drink two cups of tea before going down the mountain, but tea is not something you can drink lightly..."

In his opinion, it is natural to moisturize Old Man Zhang's body with spiritual tea first, and then think about breaking the situation after the New Year.

Mr. Zhang raised his head, glanced at the peach trees in the yard, and asked inexplicably: "After all this hard work, you still can't eat the spring apricots everywhere this year?"

Li Xiuyuan, who was making tea, looked at him and sighed: "It doesn't matter if you can't eat it, just think about it... You have to put in some effort to prune the apricot trees on this mountain every autumn."

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Old man Zhang sighed secretly: After spending so much time, he didn't even taste a single fresh spring apricot.

Those troublesome matters in the Demon Realm are still waiting for him to deal with.

This was the first New Year's Eve that Li Xiuyuan spent alone in Luoxia Mountain. In the following years, he did not know where he was going and who he was with.

"I can't finish the mountain of apricots. Even if I have time to sell them... I'd better send some to General Chen and the Queen in Tianfeng City."

In Li Xiuyuan's view, he could distance himself from his eldest grandson, but that would not prevent Old Man Zhang from sending some fresh spring apricots.

Old Man Zhang smiled and said: "Don't worry about this, I will send it to you every year when you are away."

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said quietly: "In a few days, when the apricot flowers bloom, we can make wine."

In his opinion, this year's apricot wine is sweeter than last year's.

...

On New Year's Eve this year, Li Xiuyuan watched the wind and snow on the mountain, cut a piece of roe deer and cooked it in soup, and heated up two plates of food brought by Old Man Zhang. This was a gift from the villagers to the little Taoist priest on the mountain.

Then, he took the spiritual peach wine from the Nine Heavens that he had not drunk for a long time and poured it for the founder of the Sanqing Dynasty. Then he looked at the snowflakes in the sky outside the hall and chuckled: "This wine should only be made in the sky..."

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For Li Xiuyuan at the moment, even if his body is injured, as long as he survives, there are countless elixirs and elixirs that can cure him. This is the confidence that he dares to endure the cave.

A glass of wine in front of the palace, one person smiling and looking at the snow-covered mountains.

However, Li Xiuyuan was not drunk tonight, because he had to keep vigil, and even if he was alone on New Year's Eve, he would watch it carefully.

At midnight, there was only Li Xiuyuan in Ruoda Taoist Temple, sitting alone under the lamp, with the small stove on the table emitting dense steam.

The wind and snow outside the hall stopped at some point. The entire Luoxia Mountain fell silent.

Li Xiuyuan took out the light yellow Hu Xuan, spread it on the bed, and ground an inkstone with boiling water in the pot.

He was thinking about what Xiaoqing and Xiaolonger were doing in the royal city of Dachu at this time? And Nangong Ruyu from Taoyuan... He was not drunk, but he was full of thoughts and had some faint melancholy.

He sighed, picked up the unfrozen wolf hair on the table, and gently stretched it into the thick ink.

Who can ask about the empty mountain? The cold lamp is only friendly.

The whole year is about to end, and no one has returned from thousands of miles away.

I think about the past, and laugh at myself.

With sorrow and kindness, spring will come again tomorrow.

Like the couplet outside the wooden house at the foot of the mountain, this was written by Li Ye when he was alone in the bluestone courtyard of Xuantian Temple on New Year's Eve.

The difference was that that year the Qingshi Courtyard was full of guests, but at this moment he was the only one in Luoxia Mountain.

After sweeping away the snow under the eaves in front of the hall and the floating dust in the hall, Li Xiuyuan returned to the table, poured himself a cup of hot tea, held it in his hands and blew gently.

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On the first day of the new year, Old Man Zhang ran up the mountain to have lunch with Li Xiuyuan and chatted with him about some trivial matters down the mountain. Because there was a large formation, everything was calm.

On the second day of junior high school, Li Xiuyuan, who had nothing to do, walked around the back mountain, trying to get back the feeling he had back then.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, before Li Xiuyuan could go out, Old Man Zhang ran up to him and pulled him down the mountain. As he walked, he said, "The Queen is here. You have to go down the mountain quickly and have a look."

"The wind and snow haven't stopped yet, why is she running here?"

Li Xiuyuan thought to himself that I am living a comfortable life here. You are not staying in the palace. Why are you here in the wilderness?

Old Man Zhang shook his head and replied: "How dare I ask about this? You have to go down the mountain to ask."

Li Xiuyuan said with a smile: "Is she too idle for me to stay here? Or is she too comfortable staying in the palace? What if a monk from the Demon Realm comes to trouble me and encounters her?"

Old Man Zhang replied calmly: "This is only the third year of junior high school. I guess it will be after the fifteenth year when the devil's people want to trouble you. By that time, you will have already left here, right?"

"I hope so, I don't want to fight with them again."

Li Xiuyuan replied with a smile, and then walked quickly down the mountain. After a while, Old Man Zhang lost sight of him.

"I don't have anything good here, so how dare I trouble my queen to come here again and again?"

Before entering the room, Li Xiuyuan looked at Queen Changsun sitting in the room and said.

Queen Changsun looked at the smile on his face and silently thought, what kind of monster is this guy in front of her that can fight against a practitioner of the power of the cave? And can also kill him.

"There is something I haven't been able to figure out." Queen Changsun said suddenly.

Li Xiuyuan stretched out his hand to flick off the fallen snow on his clothes, looked at her slightly startled and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xiaoyun, who was sitting nearby making tea, poured him a cup of hot tea.

Empress Changsun said: "Xiaoyun is obviously not weaker than you in terms of talent in cultivation, but her understanding of sword intent is far inferior to yours. Just write a couplet outside your door, and there will be a sword intent to cut through the air.

out......"

Li Xiuyuan picked up the tea cup in front of him, thought for a while and said: "I don't really understand it either. This is a doubt I have had since I was a child. Even my master didn't understand it at the beginning."

Queen Changsun said: "You are able to cut through the sky with the power of distraction. Is it because you understand the meaning of the sword and control the power of the sword? Or do you have a more powerful method?"

Li Xiuyuan sighed and said, "Am I afraid of them too? So I will leave here in a few days..."

Xiaoyun, who was sitting aside making tea, was startled after hearing this, looked at him and asked: "Do you want to leave here?"

"There is nothing I can do. I am not a strong man in the Cave Heaven Realm. How can I keep fighting with them... Since I can't beat them, I have to find a way to escape and let them go to the Shura battlefield to find me...

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Li Xiuyuan frowned and said: "When they get to the Shura battlefield, they will find that I am almost like a cat." He did not say another sentence. What they will encounter on the Shura battlefield is those who eat people without spitting out their bones.

guy.

Queen Changsun looked at him and said: "You understand this truth, so you have to leave here."

Li Xiuyuan replied: "Yes."

Queen Changsun shook her head and said: "When you go to the Shura battlefield, take care of the disciples of the Tianfeng Kingdom. How about I take care of the Shura Village for you?"

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "This is the Shura Village of the Tianfeng Kingdom. It is not mine. I have no relationship with these villagers."
To be continued...