Nightfall Chapter 6: We all saw the night at the end of the road (Part 1)

There is Ning Que’s dormitory in the mountains behind the academy. Sangsang was seriously ill, so he naturally stayed. After not long, Sangsang woke up. Although he was still a little weak, at least he was not as scary as the night. Gradually stabilized. Ning Que was telling jokes like he did when he was a child, humming a little tune, and coaxing her to rest. Tang Xiaotang saw that he was really struggling, so he took care of him and let him go outside to rest for a while.

It was late at night, and the setting sun enveloped the back mountain. Ning Que walked out of the small courtyard and saw Chen Pipi standing on the lakeside with his hands on his waist, imitating loneliness. He was startled and asked, "What's wrong?"

Chen Pipi looked at the water plants in the Jinghu Lake and the countless tens of thousands of gold coins on the water, her round and very cute face was full of loneliness, and said: "Looking at the relationship between you and Sangsang, I feel a little bit ."

Ning Que's heart moved slightly, wondering if it was the conflict between him and Tang Xiaotang's young couple, and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him and said, "Brother, you don't have to compare with me for this kind of thing."

Chen Pipi sternly explained: "Me and Tangtang are not what you think.

Ning Que thought to himself that Tangtang had such a nasty title, what else could he explain? I couldn't help but mocked and said: "Don't you think it is the most disgusting thing in the world for a man to deny his account?"

Chen Pipi turned his head and looked at him sincerely and said, "We are holding hands."

Ning Que mocked and said: "She is just a little girl, so what do you want to do to her?"

Chen Pipi said slightly annoyed: "She is about the same age as Sangsang!"

Ning Que was a little embarrassed and was silent.

The mud by the lake looked like golden crumbs in the sunset, Chen Pipi lowered his head, gently turned his heels, and several gold prints were rolled on the soles. After a long period of silence, he said: "I and Tangtang are not like you and Sangsang. We don’t have the experience of living and dying together, and we don’t have time to meet each other, but our relationship is also very good. I feel distressed watching her jump into the waterfall. , I am happy to take her to Chang'an..."

Ning Que didn't want to be a relationship expert, so he asked directly: "What do you want to say."

Chen Pipi looked up, looked at him and said seriously: "Sangsang is very sick today, are you scared?"

Ning Que thought for a while and said, "Yes, I can't imagine my life without her."

Chen Pipi said: "Me too, I can't imagine that Tangtang will not be by my side in the future, so I decided to come back and watch."

Ning Que didn’t know what to say. After Chen Pipi denied that he was the illegitimate son of Xiling Master two years ago, he vaguely guessed this guy’s life experience, but it was confirmed today, according to the previous context. If he wants to know and watch, he must have a showdown on Tang Xiaotang.

Chen Pipi said: "There is a popular saying that ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws... My mother is dead long ago, and my father is still alive. Tangtang is naturally not ugly, but in my father’s eyes, people born in the demon sect must be long. It’s not so good-looking. To solve this problem, I need to go back after all."

Ning Que frowned slightly, and said: "Have you ever thought that if you know and observe, you may never come back? Then what will Tang Xiaotang do?"

Chen Pippi looked at him and said sincerely: "Junior brother, you are my best friend in Chang'an City. If I really can't come back, please help me take care of Xiaotang."

Ning Que refused without hesitation, and said: "Brother, don't think that you can trap me to death with such words. After all, your little daughter-in-law wants you to take care of yourself, don't count on me."

Hearing this, Chen Pipi was furious, and yelled: "Why did you do this? Besides, as long as the teacher says something, will I really not come back forever?"

Ning Que thought for a while and said: "Anyway, you have to wait until I come back from Lanke Temple and we will discuss it. In fact, in my opinion, let the teacher do the marriage for you, so what else do you know? Keep watch."

The Master looked very unreliable, and what he said was still so reliable. In fact, Elder Brother's decoction was really good. At night, Sangsang’s body temperature returned to normal and his spirit improved a lot. Leaning on the bedside and talking to Tang Xiaotang whispering between the little girls.

Ning Que was sitting at the desk, rewatching Hao Ranqi in the light of the oil lamp, always feeling a little agitated, couldn't help but glance at the bedside with the corner of the light, looking at Tang Xiaotang’s childish face in Qingli , Thinking of what Chen Pipi said earlier, could not help but feel a little intolerable.

The spring night was breezy, the oil lamp shook slightly, and his face was a little overcast, thinking about the strange dream he had last night, thinking about Sangsang’s illness, thinking about the teacher being in the Caolu during the day Those words in his heart suddenly moved slightly, and he told Tang Xiaotang to take care of Sangsang and walked out of the small courtyard.

Leaving Jinghu, passing through the forest, bypassing the waterfall, and out of the narrow gorge, I came to the back mountain behind the academy and between the cliffs in front of the sea of ​​clouds. At this time, it was deep at night, and there was silence all around, only the cliffs. The roar of the waterfall between the rocks reverberated continuously. Accompanied by the sound of the waterfall, he walked up the steep stone path, and it took him a long time before he walked to the cliff cave that had imprisoned himself for a whole spring.

The rain corridor built by the brothers has withstood the wind and rain for a year, and it is no longer as new as it was at the beginning. The wisteria fruit growing in the corridor is blowing in the night breeze like bells. Ning Que walked over and saw the Master.

The master sits on the edge of the cliff, with a delicate food box in his left hand, a few taels of beef in the food box, and a yellow clay jug on his right, which is filled with old wine. He looks at the night in the distance Chang'an City, looking at the lights of thousands of families there, I don't know what I'm thinking.

Ning Que walked behind the Master and bowed to salute. He remembered that he was also on the cliffside in the late spring of last year. He had a long conversation with his teacher.

The master knew he was behind him, and seemed to know what he was thinking, raised his hand and waved, motioned him to sit next to him, and then said: "I'll talk when I want to."

Ning Que wanted to ask the Master many questions, but looking at the tall figure beside the cliff, he naturally thought of the figure in the dream, so he hesitated for a long time, but still did not speak.

Living in Datang is a very happy thing. Living in Chang'an, the capital of Datang, is the happiest thing. In the academy, he has never experienced happiness in his life, so he doesn’t know how to say it. , I am worried that once I break those things, I will lose these happiness.

The master picked up a piece of beef with bright tendons, put it into his lips and slowly chewed it for a while, with a look of intoxication on his face, waiting to sip the fragrance of the meat, and praised: "If there is wine and meat, there will be no worries for a lifetime. "

After saying this, he picked up the small hip flask and took a sip.

Ning Que sat beside the master, took a slice of beef with his hand and threw it into his mouth, frowned because he thought the beef was too light. But then he knew that he was wrong. This piece of seemingly bland beef, the more fragrant it chewed in the mouth, after the meat was cut by the teeth, it released a wonderfully mixed touch of elastic and velvet, and the beef itself was unique. The taste will gradually moisturize the tongue.

"Okay!" He said in shock: "Teacher, this is good wine and good meat."

The master took out a small iron jug from the side of the food box and threw it to him, and said with a smile: "Don't beg for wine in another way. This wine is ordinary, but the beef is extremely unpalatable. Yalou There is a pot and a stove in it, which can just marinate the white water beef. The best thing is that Lao Huang can't climb here to beat me."

Ning Que knew that the old yellow ox in the teacher’s mouth was the old scalper. He was really embarrassed to eat its kind in front of the scalper. Suddenly he found that the small round flask in his hand was a bit familiar, and he looked carefully. Go, I saw straight lines carved on the surface of the hip flask, isn't it the small iron pot I used to fry Xiahou?

"Don't look at me like that, I just think this small iron jug is more suitable for holding wine. Of course, I put something on the wall of the jug to prevent iron stains."

The master brought the yellow clay jug to his lips and drank, "Knives can be used to kill people or to cut vegetables. It depends on your choice. Human mouths can be used to eat meat or drink alcohol. Used to speak and ask, after all, it depends on your choice, but there is nothing right or wrong."

There is no reason why Ning Que could not understand these words. After a moment of silence, he said: "Teacher, I have been having a dream for several years. The story in the dream seems to be developing step by step."

The master asked: "Why are you asking me?"

Ning Que said: "Because there is a teacher in the dream.

The master smiled and said: "I'm not the Sangsang girl, why do you dream of me?"

Ning Que said annoyed: "Teacher, I'm talking about these things very seriously, can you please stop joking."

The master smiled at him and said, "Then you continue to talk about dreams."

Looking at Master's eyes that seem to be able to see everything in the world, Ning Que felt a little nervous, and said with a low voice, "Actually, you should know those dreams, teacher. Last night on this cliff, we talked about the invasion of the underworld. When, you asked me which direction the underworld is in my dream."

The master quietly looked at his youngest student and said, "This question is still valid now."

Ning Que said: "The dark night I saw...comes from the north."

The master smiled and said: "In this way, it is in line with the results of my travels over the years."

Ning Que asked: "What is going on with the underworld invading the night? The teacher only told these stories in the legend last year, but did not mention the details."

"Details? When the entire world is shrouded in darkness, no one can see the details. When the entire civilization is cut off, even the details cannot be passed down."

The Master looked at the dark night above the cliff, looked at the stars, and said: "It is said that night and day alternate in this world, sometimes tens of thousands of years of light, sometimes tens of thousands of years of darkness, and the war between light and darkness runs through history. , When Haotian wins, it is the bright world today, and when Pluto wins, it is the arrival of the underworld."

"The underworld is invading. There is no scorching sun during the day and no stars at night. The world becomes extremely cold. The creatures on the earth can only rely on geothermal heating. By then, the volcanoes, hot springs and the heat flow in the South China Sea will become the most Valuable resources, countless wars will happen there."

"The war will not last too long. Most people will die because of hunger, because of the cold and despair. You must know that it must be an unimaginable cold and realistic world. And decades later, the whole earth will be Becomes abnormally silent, as if entering a deep sleep that will never wake up. Whether humans or beasts, only the strongest and most persevering can survive."

"In these cold and dark years, Buddhism is called the Age of End of Dharma, and Daomen is called the Pluto incarnation."

The master said: "And I used to call it...every night."

……(to be continued)

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