Volume 1 Yellow Spring in December Chapter 12: Thousands of Mountains and Thousands of Seas
"Don't let me ask. You can explain yourself clearly."
Mountains and Seas is not like tasting tea, but simply quenching thirst, gulping down the tea in one go.
"Oh, it's really terrible. Is this the way you talk to your benefactor?" Mr. Jiyue raised his sleeves again and covered them with his lips as if he was joking.
"I don't want to argue with you, so I advise you to explain your little abacus clearly."
"Benefactor? What benefactor?"
Aluan interrupted their unfriendly conversation. Lord Jiyue looked at her and responded with a smile:
"Now Luan'er has grown into a big girl."
"You recognize me?"
"I even hugged you."
A Luan didn't understand anymore. She glanced at Shan Hai, but he just looked down at the tea cup. So she moved her eyes to Ji Yuejun to listen to what he was going to say next.
"You don't believe it? I really hugged you. As for the benefactor of Shanhai, you don't know anything. If it weren't for me, you might not have a master now."
Seeing that Shanhai didn't refute or stop him, she continued to ask: "Then tell me quickly."
"Children are just impatient." He smiled, "Don't rush me. Luan'er will help me peel a loquat first."
Aluan actually went to the table and touched a loquat peel. She remembered that that night, Lord Jiyue said personally that she had no hands. Even Shanhai did not deny this.
"Good girl, why have I never seen you treat me like this?"
Shan Hai didn't know whether he laughed angrily or just said it casually. A Luan answered confidently:
"You have hands and feet, so do it yourself."
"Tch, that's how he lied to me about the piece of meat in the bowl. Later I realized that Zai Wuchang needs to eat. He has been hungry for hundreds of years and nothing has happened to him. Don't give it to him, he won't starve to death."
As soon as he finished speaking, the peeled loquat was stuffed into Jiyuejun's mouth. Hearing this, Jiyuejun raised his head slightly, holding the fruit in his mouth and said vaguely to him, "Nuo, give it back to you."
"Go! I'm annoyed."
"With this piece of meat, you can remember me for a lifetime. But you are really weird. Let me make it clear that you are the one who wants me to stay by my side now."
"Hey, don't worry about him. Tell me quickly, what's going on with the benefactor?"
Aluan was anxious. Mr. Jiyue swallowed the food in his mouth slowly and gestured towards the teapot in front of Shanhai. Aluan stood up and pulled the teapot over, poured a cup of tea, he picked up the teacup through his sleeves,
Then he spoke slowly and leisurely.
"Let me ask you first, do you know where his name Lin Shanhai comes from?"
Ah Luan shook his head, and Lord Jiyue continued:
"Your master has no parents, you know this. When he was still in his infancy, he was placed at the intersection at the foot of the mountain. It happened that the master of Linxiao Temple was traveling, saw him, and asked the accompanying disciples to take him back to the temple.
The cloth also contained his birthday and a letter. The letter said that he was sent here from the Tibetan Lanhai Sea. But the letter did not say who his biological parents were. He just asked for help.
Take good care of him. So the sect master asked him to take his surname as Lin. He was born in Zanglanhai and grew up in Dailuan City, so he was named Shanhai."
"oh"
Aluan let out a long sigh. At this moment, she was also stunned for a while, as if listening to a book.
"Then, was it you who brought him here?"
"That's not true. I only got to know him in Dailuan City."
"But what does this have to do with the benefactor?"
"I told him that he has no biological parents, so the sect leader accepted him as his direct disciple. His wife, who was ill due to practicing martial arts in her early years, has no children, so she treats him as if she were her own child. He understands this himself, and is always grateful for this.
.Until one year, the master's wife was seriously ill again and she was not getting better. He didn't know where he listened to the nonsense, so he went to the mountains with a basket on his back to find some Wu Xuelian that could cure all diseases."
"Don't snow lotuses grow on extremely high and extremely cold mountain peaks? Although the mountains in Dailuan City are covered with snow, they are nowhere that high."
"Yes, but Wu Xuelian was a gift from Xuan Luan. What he was looking for was not the medicinal herbs, but the divine bird. As a result, he fell down from the cliff and was saved by me."
What Lord Jiyue said was miraculous, and Aluan listened with rapt attention.
"You know, when you first saw him when you were a child, you smiled at him. Everyone thought you liked him, but in fact it was not the case. There were two souls behind him teasing you."
"I do not remember"
"Of course you don't remember. Your horoscope is too weak, and the first few brothers and sisters are really short-lived. Your father is afraid that you won't be able to survive, so he is looking for solutions to keep you alive. In addition to the safety lock, some people say that you should pray for a horoscope.
A master who is compatible with and can enhance your fortune. In the whole city, only the teenage Shan Hai is suitable. He went up to the mountain in person and took you to discuss this matter with the sect master, and he finally agreed."
"Well, I heard Shan Hai say this."
"Your master fell down from the mountain and lost half of his life. Then he saw my impermanence. After he recovered his life, he naturally had yin and yang eyes. The shadow he saw at the beginning was naturally his biological father and mother.
Naturally, I helped them to the end and ferried those two people across. However, it seems that he still blames me."
"I don't blame you," Shan Hai suddenly said, "I just feel sorry and don't know how to apologize to my parents."
"Apologise?" Aluan asked again.
"Well, the sect master read the letter and said that he had good horoscopes, was an orphan of the opposite sex, had bad luck, ruined his ancestral property, and suffered severe injuries to his parents. It meant that he was a master of his parents, and he could only achieve success by sending samples to other families. I never thought,
When they brought him here, they were already dead. When he grew up and found out about this, he always felt that it was his fault."
"Okay, okay, do you want to talk about the business or not?"
Shan Hai interrupted him, and there was no indication of his liking or disliking of this topic from his expression. But in comparison, the matter at hand was naturally more important. At this time, Aluan competed with him to talk, chasing after Shan Hai.
The tail of the voice raised a new question.
"Then what's going on with your eyes?"
"Well, I was a musician in the palace during my lifetime. At that time, because I was afraid that those of us who were close to the emperor would assassinate me, I deliberately used poison to blind my eyes."
"Eh? This is too much -"
"It was like this at that time. No one thought it was unreasonable, not even me. I couldn't see behind my back, but I had a better understanding of music. For nearly a thousand years, no matter flowers, plants, men, women, old or young, anyone, as long as they are in my
As soon as it flashes in front of me, I can know it immediately. In this way, how is it different from ordinary people?"
"well--"
"You seem disappointed?"
"Not really. I've just heard the story of the Twelve Months of Underworld since I was a child, and thought that you are all omnipotent gods, demons, and monsters in heaven and earth. I never thought that you are also ordinary people."
"Yes, we were all just mortals once. An adult showed us the way and gave us a place to stay."
Aluan seemed to want to continue asking, such as his hands and that "adult". But Shanhai knocked the porcelain cup gently, making the table make a loud sound. If they continued to chat, he might not be able to do it.
Looking good.
"Ah, business, business"
Lord Jiyue thought hard, as if searching for something to say.
"Well, what happened during your investigation?"
"Didn't you hear everything upstairs?"
He knows how good Mr. Jiyue is. He can tell how many grains of rice are mixed in a handful of beans, how many flowers are blooming in the bushes from a gust of wind, and how many people are sitting quietly in front of him just breathing.
Some men, some women, some old, some young.
"Then I'll make it clear." He sat upright, "You guessed it right, it is indeed a group of hungry ghosts that opened a hole in the human world. But this is not unusual. How can we walk in the six paths in the human body in December? Naturally
It depends on these cracks - in our words, these are the six spiritual veins. Each of them has such a place, bordering on different worlds. If I go to heaven to stay for one day, a year will have passed in the human world; I am in hell
The Taoist line is only twenty feet long, and it has only traveled one mile in the human world. But these spiritual veins will not have any impact at all. The problem lies in that someone tore open this crack in Huansha City with force——"
"Although it is a mortal body, without an immortal body, it is impossible to travel through these spiritual veins, right?"
Shanhai asked him, and Lord Jiyue nodded. So he fell into a brief thought, and then asked:
"You mean, there are other impermanent people who did this?"
Lord Jiyue didn't answer, which was regarded as acquiescence. Aluan couldn't understand again, so he asked them:
"Why do you say this? I've heard that you all are impermanent. Aren't you all people who walk the six paths, mediate the three realms, and work for the country and the country of the human world?"
"This is true. But you have to know that although we were mortals, we also had some extraordinary experiences that made us what we are today. Among the twelve of us, there were innocent people who were willing to do good and love to save all sentient beings, but
There are also extremely evil people who are ungrateful, violent and wanton. You heard what Shan Hai said about immortality, which is a characteristic of the impermanence of our six realms. And eternal life for these people can be a compliment, or it can be something that they don’t know until they wake up.
The punishment will stop.”
“This is too”
Dangerous? Unbelievable? Aluan didn’t know how to answer. She just felt that this arrangement seemed unjustifiable, but she couldn’t find anything wrong with it. In the end, she just sighed like a little adult, not knowing what to say.
.
"You are indeed kind to me, that's true. But you actually asked me to intervene in the dispute of impermanence. At a small level, it is just taking my place. At a big level, if something goes wrong, it will be a sin of interfering in the six realms."
Lord Jiyue finished drinking the tea and looked at him seriously with her blind eyes.
"Don't worry, I'm not blackmailing you. In the final analysis, this is my own business. I'm just telling you that there is such a job here, and it has nothing to do with the grudges between you and me.
As long as you help the common people in Huansha City, get rid of your own problems, take the money and leave, that's enough."
What was said next was nothing more than Taoist matters. Aluan couldn't understand and didn't want to hear it. After being bored for a while, the two of them seemed to have finally finished talking. But then it was dinner time again, and she was thinking about it.
Before those questions could be asked, Shanhai pulled her to leave.
Ah Luan was pushed out of the door first, and she ran away unhappy. Before closing the door, Shan Hai turned around again and asked one last question.
"To this day, I still don't know why you wanted to save me."
It’s not that he is complaining, it’s just pure confusion. He knows that in the past thousand years, Lord Jiyue must have seen many scenes where his life was hanging by a thread. But saving people is not their bounden duty. Even if they save people once, it is impossible.
He was saved every time.
Why did it happen to be him at that time? Shan Hai couldn't understand this question.
"Then let me ask you, why do you always hold on to the matter of repaying your kindness? I never asked you what you wanted, but you always feel that you are indebted to me. What does it mean?"
Whether it was due to the nature of human conscience or something else, Shanhai couldn't say. In such silence, Mr. Jiyue said the familiar words again, which was an ambiguous question and answer to himself.
"You should know better than me. Returning a favor is the same as taking revenge. No one can stop it."
