Li Ye meditated in the small courtyard all night and woke up early.

When I opened the door, there was wind in the morning but no snow.

Standing quietly under the eaves, looking at the clean courtyard, I felt a little reluctant.

In the blink of an eye, I have been living here for half a year.

He sighed softly and opened the courtyard door.

I haven't woken up yet when I look up at the Big Buddha Temple.

Stepping on the snow, we walked quietly outside the temple.

Walking to the mountain gate, I looked back.

The snow-covered Buddhist temple is quiet and solemn.

He grinned, put on the purple bamboo hat, turned around and walked out of the temple.

I want to go back, Jun Moxiao. How many people have come back from my practice?

...

On a snowy morning, there were no carriages waiting for guests outside the Great Buddha Temple.

Li Ye stepped on the snow, and the morning bell rang in the Great Buddhist Temple behind him.

Every now and then, it was like beating on his soul.

The mountains are high and the roads are far away. I don’t know when I will be able to return to Fengyun City. As I walk, I turn myself into a snowman.

On the windy and snowy morning road, passers-by are returning home.

When I reached the city gate, I shook off the snow all over my body and looked around.

He waved for a carriage and headed in the direction of Zizhuyuan.

...

The carriage ran outside the Zizhu Courtyard. Agui was sweeping the snow in front of the gate. Xiaobai followed him and yawned while sweeping.

Seeing Li Ye getting off the carriage, Xiaobai dropped the broom, ran over and took his hand and said, "I'm just waiting for you to come back for the festival."

Agui also smiled and said: "Young master is coming back to celebrate the festival, will he not go back to the temple again?"

Li Ye nodded and said, "If I'm not going back, I'll just stay at home for a while."

After saying that, he picked up the broom Xiaobai left behind and started sweeping the snow on the ground.

Agui hurriedly came up and pulled him and said, "Master, go in first. I can do these things. You don't need to do anything else."

Li Ye patted his shoulder and said, "You take Xiaobai into the house, and I'll sweep it. I have to sweep the floor every day in my temple, so I'm used to it."

Xiaobai knew that Li Ye would not let go, so he smiled and said, "It's rare for my brother to sweep away the snow. I'll go and tell my sister that you are back."

After saying that, he pulled Agui and ran towards the courtyard.

The cold wind blew slightly, and the broom in Li Ye's hand was like a sharp long knife, slashing away the snow on the ground, and soon the front of the yard was clean.

He put away the broom and stood on the steps in front of the yard. At a glance, Fengyun City had woken up from the morning fog. There were pedestrians and carriages coming and going on the streets.

Xiao Qing came out after hearing the sound, wearing a new green coat, and her face was as red as a carrot in the snow.

"Mumu is still lying in bed?" Li Ye looked at her and said with a smile.

Xiao Qing pinched the corner of her clothes and said with a smile: "How could she get up so early? She's such a lazy pig."

Li Ye smiled and said, "Why don't you sleep a little longer?"

"I get up early to catch Xiaobai, sweep the floor, and read, otherwise he will be as sleepy as Mumu." Xiaoqing said with a smile.

Li Ye smiled and continued to watch the passers-by in the distance.

Xiao Qing hesitated to speak and looked at Li Ye with her eyes open.

Li Ye was stunned and said with a smile: "You don't have any money to spend? How about I give you some?"

Xiaoqing shook her head.

Li Ye was startled and said, "What's the matter?"

Xiaoqing raised her eyes and glanced in the direction of Tianshan Mountain.

Li Ye followed her gaze and said, "You want to see the old ape? How do you get there in this windy and snowy day?"

Xiaoqing continued to shake her head.

Li Ye moved two stools from the gate, handed one to Xiaoqing, and the two sat under the eaves.

Xiaoqing thought for a moment, looked at Li Ye, and said softly: "I will go back in a while!"

"Go back? Where? Tianshan or..." Li Ye was stunned.

Xiaoqing lowered her head and said in a low voice: "I have been out for too long this time. My wife must have been anxious. I have to go back."

Li Ye raised his head, looked in the direction of Tianshan Mountain, and said, "How long will you go back this time?"

"I don't know. It depends on Madam's arrangements when I get back." Xiao Qing said softly, with a bit of reluctance in her eyes.

"I will take Mumu to the Central Region and Xixuan Region after spring begins. My husband and wife will also go, and so will Xiaobai."

"Well... I want to take Xiaobai back with me." Xiaoqing said softly.

Li Ye was startled and blurted out: "Why are you taking Xiaobai there? The old wolf said he can't go back to that starry sky!"

Xiao Qing looked at Li Ye, thought for a moment and continued: "I'm taking him back to our place, there won't be any trouble. The exercises he practices are not available here. After I go back, I want to ask the elders of the clan to teach him. I'll ask him for advice.

Mr. Guo, he said it’s okay.”

Li Ye frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "Where's Xiao Bai, what does he think?"

"I asked him and he said he was willing to go with me."

"He is only in the Nascent Soul realm and can't fly. Can he go back?"

"If he comes with me, I have a way. Besides, he was not born in this world, and the rules of the world will not affect him." Xiao Qing's face turned redder.

Li Ye thought for a while and said: "I'll ask my husband about this, and then I'll ask Xiaobai. After all, Lao Lang entrusted him to me, and I have to watch him grow up."

Xiao Qing nodded and said: "Aren't you going to Fangcun Mountain to practice? Maybe Xiao Bai will come back before you come down from the mountain, and he can always stay with you in the future. Only when his realm is high can he help you."

Li Ye sighed and said: "As for Mu Mu and Xiao Bai, I don't expect them to have any earth-shattering abilities, as long as they grow up well."

Xiaoqing nodded and agreed.

Li Ye turned his head, looked at Xiaoqing, and said with a smile: "Have you told Mu Mu about this?"

Xiaoqing shook her head and said: "She loves to cry. Let her know that it will definitely cause an earth-shattering commotion. I want to take Xiaobai away quietly. You can tell her after we leave."

"That's fine. When she went down the mountain with you, she cried so much that she couldn't help but cry. I'll handle this matter. You decide when to leave?"

"Wait until the festival is over. Choose a sunny day."

"That's it, tell me before you leave." Li Ye stood up, holding the stool in his hand and said, "Let's go in and have breakfast. I haven't eaten either. I'm hungry."

Xiaoqing smiled and said, "Isn't there breakfast in the temple?"

"I was afraid that the master in the temple would be sad, so I left quietly early in the morning."

Li Ye turned back and glanced in the direction of the Great Buddhist Temple, and said softly: "Life is full of partings, it's so annoying." After saying that, he turned around and walked into the yard.

Xiao Qing was stunned, looked at Li Ye's back, and thought to herself: "So you have also experienced the pain of separation today."

...

Entering the hall, Ye Zhiqiu was feeding Li Xiaoxue porridge. He saw Li Ye coming in and said with a smile: "Son, you are finally back."

Li Xiaoxue shouted in a charming voice: "Brother, hug me!"

Li Ye walked over, hugged her and spun her around, and said, "Eat porridge first and then play later, okay?"

After saying that, he put her down, looked at Agui and said, "Is there anything else to eat? I haven't had breakfast yet."

Agui said with a smile: "I think you will come back, so I put more rice when cooking porridge, that's enough."

Li Ye nodded, sat at the table and served himself a bowl of porridge.

Ye Zhiqiu fed Li Xiaoxue some porridge and said, "How long can you stay at home this time? Do you have any plans?"

Li Ye thought for a while and said: "Before I left the Eastern Region, I stayed at home and didn't go anywhere. I played the piano, wrote, and went shopping with my sister every day..."

Ye Zhiqiu smiled and said: "You are back just in time. You can take care of Mumu. She only listens to your words. She hasn't played the piano for a long time, so this won't work."

Li Ye scratched his head and said, "Okay."

...

"Mom, why haven't you seen your father and your husband?" Li Ye moved the piano stand to the snow in the garden and put his husband's iron piano on it.

Ye Zhiqiu said with a smile: "Your father, husband, and your wife went to the restaurant to give out red envelopes to the employees. The restaurant is closed for seven days today and will open again after the new year."

Li Ye nodded and said, "After a year of hard work, they should go home to spend the New Year with their relatives."

After setting up the iron piano, he brought a stool from the front of the hall and placed it in front of the piano platform. He lit a stick of incense and placed his hands on the strings.

Ye Zhiqiu patted Li Xiaoxue's little hand and said, "Don't run around. Listen to your brother playing the piano with your mother."

Li Xiaoxue watched Li Ye move out the piano and also wanted to run out.

I calmed down and let my mind go. I held the strings with both hands, flicked the strings with my fingers, and pressed the tuning button. A song "Goose Falling on the Flat Sand" flew out from my fingers. The sound of the piano was clearer and more unparalleled. It was sonorous and sonorous, and it penetrated instantly.

The snow in the purple bamboo forest drifted towards the outside of the courtyard wall.

The first time I felt a little unfamiliar, but the second time I gradually became more proficient, and my fingers seemed to come alive. While playing Qin, I sang loudly:

"Looking at the sword while drunk,

Dreaming back to the trumpet company camp,

Eight hundred miles apart, I will burn under my command,

The sound of fifty strings turning over the wall,

Autumn calls for troops on the battlefield."

...

The sound of the iron piano was so penetrating that pedestrians passing by Zizhuyuan stopped and listened.

Someone said with a smile: "It has been several years since the sound of piano and singing came out of Zizhuyuan. I think that boy Li Ye is back."

This was the first time Ye Zhiqiu heard Li Ye play the iron piano, and both of them were stunned.

Li Xiaoxue pouted, looked at Li Ye, closed her eyes and laughed.

Mu Mu, who was sleeping in bed, woke up from the bed to the sonorous sound of the piano. She put on her clothes and ran out without combing her hair, shouting as she ran: "Brother is back!"

Xiaobai, who was sitting next to Xiaoqing, grinned and said, "I knew that as soon as my brother comes back, Mumu won't be able to sleep."

Before the sound of the piano stopped, Mu Mu ran out of the back room, lay down behind Li Ye, and breathed hot air into his ear.

He closed his fingers and stopped playing the piano. Li Ye turned his head, looked at Mu Mu's appearance, and frowned slightly.

"Today is Chinese New Year, so you ran out without washing your face or combing your hair. Go find Xiaoqing to get a comb, and bring a stool over, and I will braid your hair."

Mu Mu said "Oh", jumped off her back, ran to the front of the hall to find Xiao Qing to get the persimmons, moved a stool, and sat obediently in front of Li Ye, tilting her head and waiting for him to braid her hair.

.

Li Ye sighed softly and said, "Mumu, you will be seven years old soon. When will you learn to comb your hair by yourself?"

Mu Mu curled her lips and said, "Why should I learn when Xiaoqing and brother are here? Wait a minute."

Li Ye was speechless, shook his head, took the comb, took Mumu's black hair with one hand, and gently combed it.

Xiaoqing pulled Li Xiaoxue over. Li Xiaoxue pulled Li Ye's clothes and said in a sweet voice, "Brother, I want it too."

Li Ye looked at her and said with a smile: "When you get up tomorrow, my brother will make it up for you, okay?"

Mu Mu stretched out her hand, touched Li Xiaoxue's little face and said, "Sister, you can't argue with me."

Xiaoqing pursed her lips and smiled.

Ye Zhiqiu, who was sitting in the hall, looked at the scene in front of him and said to Xiaobai with a smile: "Xiaobai, it's lucky that you are not a girl, otherwise he would have been busy for a long time just braiding his hair."

Xiaobai grinned: "Mom, I'm clumsy, otherwise I would have made it up with my sister."

Ye Zhiqiu nodded and said with a smile: "To celebrate the New Year today, I will change out of these dirty clothes and put on the new clothes that your wife bought for you."

Xiaobai nodded, stood up and walked to the back room.

After braiding his hair, Li Ye touched Mu Mu's head and said, "Go wash your face and have breakfast. When you're done, come over and play the piano."

Mu Mu turned around and made a face at him, pulling Li Xiaoxue away.

"Brother, today is the New Year, why do you want me to practice piano?" Mu Mu said as he ran.
Chapter completed!