The light rising from the hill was a little fog, not violent, it should be a cloudy day. Jun Li sat in the backlight. There was no one by the river, so he sat there overnight. The depression all night seemed to be a little diluted until dawn, but it was not enough to make him stand up immediately.

He sat for a while and thought about where he would go next.

If you have no purpose in your journey, you will inevitably feel like this, and you will feel confused and helpless negative from time to time. Naturally, Taoism is inherently negative, but - before you can become an immortal, if you don't encourage yourself to think more positive things, you will probably be suffocated to death before you become an immortal.

Do you want to go back to the family? He thought to himself. Even if you don’t go back to the family, go to the vicinity of the house and ask about how they are doing.

After his idea was settled, he felt his heart bright and refreshed. He stood up and patted the dust on his body, and raised the banner to leave.

The journey of Huizhou is not far. Jun Li is approaching every day, but he is becoming more and more nervous. His adoptive father, who is probably in his sixties, is still healthy? Sister Xiaomeng thinks he has been married, so he probably won't see him? And his sister-in-law - Teng Ying, who has her husband's leavened son, doesn't know if she has remarried now? That baby should have grown up now, but she won't recognize me at all, right?

He thought about this and stopped, remembering the four words that Master finally said before his death:

"Friendship is shallow."

The master said that my relationship was shallow. He smiled bitterly in his heart. It was not until that last day that he explained to him this way that the reason he refused to tell him his life experience. He also told him a lot of stories. His childhood stories were almost all stories related to his life experience, except for the life experience itself.

"Why do I say that my relationship is shallow?" He asked his master. Literally, he certainly understood the meaning of these four words, but he never believed that this kind of life would fall on him.

But the master's answer was very affirmative: "You are destined to be like this. I saw it just a few months after you were born."

"It turns out that Master... has seen my life." He whispered. He always thought that he and Master depended on each other for his life, and he could not count his life, nor could he count his own life, but he forgot that he could see his life clearly before accepting him as his disciple.

"If it weren't for your fate, I probably wouldn't have forced you to take it away." The master said again. "You are the eldest grandson of the family. If everything later proved that what I said was right, how could your elders in your family give up on you?"

"What happened to me when I was a child?" Jun Li asked.

"Didn't you have a scar on your stomach? You asked me about my origin." said the master. "Actually, that was the result of a strange disease you had when you were a child."

"What kind of strange disease? What is the relationship with 'shallow relationship'?"

"More than 20 years ago, I passed by a family and saw a young woman crying at the door with a baby in her arms. She went up to ask what happened. She said that the child had a strange disease and was very sick. No one could cure her. I was curious about what kind of child had such a short life - that was the first time I saw you."

"What then?" Jun Li couldn't wait.

"Your face was vaguely filled with premature death, but there were signs of the opposite, which really made me curious. I saw your illness and my stomach was bulging. At that time, I had a strange idea and said to your mother, if you believe me, give me a bowl of water, and I will try to cure you-but if you die unfortunately, you can't blame me. Your mother thought there was no other way, so she took a bowl of water for me. I drank the water, smashed the bowl, and cut it open with fragments, and black blood would flow out of your belly."

Jun Li was a little scared when he heard this. This was actually his own story, which was incredible.

"Then I will be saved because of this?" he asked.

"It seems that it has worked. Your health has improved within a few days. In order to thank me, your elders in your family invited me to come over and treat you with kindness. I was curious about your fate, so I went there. Your parents did not doubt that I had other purposes, so they told me your name, horoscope and various details, and asked me to tell you a fortune. This fate chart would be fine if I didn't look at that day."

When the old Taoist priest said this, he sighed heavily. "I have never seen a dangerous horoscope like you. The fate is full of great disasters, and every item is enough to stop your life abruptly, or to cause your relatives to suffer misfortune. Your parents and grandparents are all happy because you recover from illness, but they don't know that it is just the beginning."

Jun Li was nervous and couldn't say a word.

"I can't bear to tell your parents the truth, so I tried to change the method and then push it again, and the result was the same. I just accidentally tried to withdraw my closest relatives from your fate, and I saw that the fate was gone, which was almost calm."

"So, the master told my parents that I must stay away from them and avoid them in order to keep me safe-?"

"At that time, the so-called close relatives were of course only parents and grandparents. But if you stayed in the mortal world, and when you grew up, it would be difficult to escape, so the only way to resolve the disaster was to become a monk. But for your parents, it might be more cruel than their original fate - because they were happy about you, cherish you and love you, and even more than their own destiny. If you leave suddenly, you will not be able to meet for a lifetime. For them, what is the difference between seeing you and seeing you die? Although I have no trouble with ordinary people, I also know the pain of ordinary people. So after saying that, your grandfather was furious and refused to respond, which was as expected."

"My grandfather refused to agree, so what afterwards?"

"Of course I can't rob you, let alone passers-by at that time. If they don't believe in my fate, at most you will let you die. When I left, I only said that you will be in the future. In less than a year, you should be able to see it. Only your mother believed it. She chased me and said that I would have a way to resolve it. I must teach her."

When the old Taoist priest said this, the topic suddenly changed and said, "Do you still remember that when you were a child, you always wore a ring of dead grass stems on your arms?"

"Remember." Jun Li nodded. "Master also said that it was the protective talisman left to me by my parents, which caused me - when the grass ring was crushed by someone, I was so panicked that I was so angry that I cried."

The old Taoist smiled slightly, "That's what I gave to your mother that day."

Jun Li was stunned. "Is it the master?"

"Actually, it was just the poor village woman on the roadside before. She asked her how to resolve the rough fabric she bought. I didn't know how to attack you, and how to resolve it. I just thought that your family is in a good place and food and clothing are all fine things. Have you ever been exposed to such rough objects? Maybe this is what you lack. Your mother thanked her so much and put the grass ring on your neck. Later, this grass ring really saved your life."

"Is this really the case?"

"You fell into the water." The old Taoist priest replied. "About half a year after the illness was cured, your family members forgot my warning. They were negligent on the boat and you fell into the water. It was already dusk and the water was big. You searched for you all night and there was no result. Almost despair, but by dawn, you were a little baby floating, your limbs were swollen. You thought you were dead, but unexpectedly the rough grass ring on your neck was entangled with water plants. You couldn't move, but you floated on the water and fell asleep."

Jun Li listened blankly, thinking that he always liked to take boats and watch water when he was a child, but he didn't know if it was related to this.

"I also thought that the disaster was coming, so I went to your neighborhood. Sure enough, your mother was waiting for me long ago. After that incident, your family would never dare not believe what I said before. I met your grandfather and your father again. Although they still couldn't bear to leave you, if you left them, they could only do this. At that time, they thought that you could let you go in nearby temples and Taoist temples, and they could occasionally see you, but in fact, even if you just secretly look at you, it would also add to your trouble. Not to mention that it was nearby, even no matter how far away it was, as long as they knew where you were, they could not guarantee that one day I would be eager to find you. The only way was to take you away, and from now on, the world would be home."

He paused for a moment, and heard Jun Li just remain silent, and then said, "You have always been obsessed with your own background, but who are your parents and where your hometown is is the thing I want you to know the least. Now you have learned more things, so you should understand that I do this for your own good."

Jun Li nodded reluctantly and said, "I know." Then he squeezed out a smile: "Why did Master tell me so much today - in the past, I didn't even ask me. Does this mean that I have enough concentration now and can calculate the master?"

The old Taoist priest also smiled slightly. "That's because - you and I are destined to be masters and apprentices for such a period of time. Even if you don't leave the master, you must leave the master."

Jun Li was a little confused for a moment: "What's wrong, where is the master going?"

"Do you know how old is Master this year?"

"I know, I must be seventy-six years old."

The old Taoist priest nodded and sighed softly: "The vast yin and yang move, and the life of the year is like morning dew - Jun Li, I have been practicing Taoism for decades, and I will eventually have such a day."

When Jun Li heard what he said, he felt something was wrong and said panic: "Master is healthy, why did you say this?" Seeing that the old Taoist just smiled and said a little at a loss, he said hurriedly: "I don't even want to listen to my family background and life background. When did I say what I was interested in? Now there are so many things that I have no worries."

"When I die, you will be even more worried." The old Taoist still smiled.

Jun Li found that he had said the wrong thing again, but when he heard him say the word "death", his eyes turned red and he hurriedly said, "I'll just open a divination and take a look. If Master doesn't live for a hundred years or a thousand years, then that's unreasonable!"

The old Taoist priest took out all the tools and calculated them all, but the divination was blurred - Jun Li looked at it again and again, but it was still just a blur. Is it because of the mist in front of him, or because he really couldn't figure out the people he cared about - he didn't know; the more he didn't know, the more anxious he became, the more he was, the more he was.

In the end, he could only throw the thing away and shouted, "I just don't believe it!"

"Jun Li." The old Taoist priest patted his shoulder, "I don't have much to say about your childhood, but you still have to promise your master. If you know who your parents are by chance in the future, don't go to find them. Just pretend that you still don't know, just like now - can you agree?"

"This... Master, what's the point of this matter? You don't have to say it today." Jun Li bit his lip and refused to accept it.

"I met your parents later." The old Taoist priest seemed to have not felt the trembling in his voice. "They were doing well, and later they had a son, so you don't have to worry about them."

"I'm not worried about them. I just want Master, don't try me in this way!" Jun Li stood up at once. "I've said I don't listen to them. I don't listen to a word again. Master, please don't say again!"

The old Taoist priest looked at his red eyes and shook his head. "At this age, you are still like a child. The road to seeking Tao may be really difficult for you, but you have no choice to avoid disasters. Fortunately, you have a good understanding. After following the master for so long, you will know everything you should do. I am not worried that you will not be able to sustain yourself."

Jun Li said nothing.

"You don't have to feel unfair. You practice Taoism alone and you have lost a lot of things, but there are always some gains that others have not been able to achieve. If one day you practice diligently, you will see all the fate of others. There is nothing to be surprised by, and no one to be envied by you."

Jun Li suddenly looked up in the middle of the street, and then he realized that he had been thinking about it for too long. Although he remembered all the words of his master, when he saw him die suddenly, all he could do was to shout "Why" in his heart.
Chapter completed!