I am over 1,300 years old this year. Live under a bridge in the West Lake.This bridge is called "Broken Bridge".In the past, it was not called Broken Bridge, but Duanjia Bridge. winter.I was full, very lazy, and bored, so I fell asleep.Sleeping next to me is my sister.We curled up and entangled, not knowing what happened in the world. Although the bridge body has been rebuilt, reinforced concrete is paved, and cars can pass through it. There are also tourists from all over the world, stepping on the residual snow, arty, and giving out artificial sighs of admiration. These are no longer so easy to wake us up.

The West Lake itself has no connotation. It neither understands thoughts nor is it turbulent. It is simply an idiot.It even won the chants of poets and poets, saying, "When will the singing and dancing in the West Lake stop? The warm wind makes tourists drunk, and Hangzhou is called Bianzhou."It's ridiculous. My years in West Lake have never been so poetic.If you can pick and choose, I hope nothing happens. In the distance, there was another clear and indifferent bell. I don't know if it was the Lingyin Temple in Beishan, or the Jingci Temple in Yinanshan. The evening bell rang.I turned around and continued my dream.

I don't want to get up. But when the spring snow melted and the spring thunder sounded, we had no choice but to be awakened.Year after year. My happiness, anger, sorrow, birth, old age, and illness all happened in West Lake, except death.My lifelong career is "cultivation". Who knows what kind of activity is cultivation?What are the benefits of continuing to practice?who knows?My greatest pain is not being able to die.Already more than 1,300 years old, I still have to keep practicing, Yiyuhudi?This is not optional. In addition to occupation, there are many things that cannot be picked.Like fate.Why did something go wrong in my destiny?Of course, he was relatively young at that time, only over five hundred years old, and his skills were insufficient, so he did ridiculous things.

—I forgot to tell you that I am a snake. I am a blue snake. You can't change your color, you just have to love it.For more than thirteen hundred years, forever. When I was young, during the reign of Xiaozong Chunxi in Southern Song Dynasty, I was about five hundred years old. Yuanshen is undecided, half-conscious and half-awake. The big tree by the lake may be older than me.Its roots extend to the bottom of the lake, grasping deeply and firmly. There is a hole in the sky here, so I jumped in and took it as my own territory.Quite lazy by nature, take the opportunity to breathe and fall asleep.The long forked tongue was unconsciously exposed.

I was lying next to a jagged boulder.Didn't know it wasn't actually a stone, but a stonefish. In a daze, the black and brown body of "it" moved slightly at the bottom of the water.It was chaotic and gloomy, and shot out like an arrow from its back, spitting poisonous juice at me.Can't see that stupid thing, staring at me with dark green gloomy little eyes, actually regarded me as a prey! The venom sprayed on the scales and woke me up with a start. It's so annoying. If I don't practice by myself, I just took advantage of the opportunity to attack others. Damn it, I flicked my tail, trying to exert force——painful!

Ah, it turns out that this stupid thing is extremely poisonous, and for a moment I clearly saw its row of thin white but sharp teeth. Can it eat me?I do not believe! In a hurry, the poisonous juice and mist penetrated into my heart, making me convulse.No, no, no, it is unreasonable for a snake to swim in shallow water and be played by fish.But the severe pain, like a bunch of black random arrows, radiated violently in my body, and I struggled desperately.It smiled fiercely. I died before leaving school, my whole body was sore and regretful, why did I restless and peacefully become a ferocious poisonous snake?It's good to compete with one of them, and eat it immediately if you win.

I'm gasping for breath... —Fortunately she showed up just in time. I don't know where, something flows rapidly, like a giant beast, but it is elegant and restrained.The long body quickly rolled it up, and the stonefish was hugged tightly, bursting immediately.She killed it, but at a critical moment, she calmly crushed a piece of hard mud with one hand, and it became powder.Mixed into a pool of black water. She breathed heavily at the place where I was poisoned, as if the poisonous mist was being forced out, she couldn't wait to exhale it from her mouth, dissipating into foam.

I looked at seven inches away, covered in cold sweat. She is a white snake.Without talking or smiling. The shock just settled. I stared dumbfounded at the other party's silvery-white glamorous scales, and broke the deadlock: "Thank you for your help." She looked at me coldly, since she is the same kind, why should she make me feel uncomfortable?But she is a lifesaver, in front of her, I am half shorter. After a while, she said: "It turned out to be a test product that was picked out in the dark." "Oh," I suddenly realized, "it's no wonder I have a bad death, because I can't die. But there are so many snakes in the world, why are we different? What is the test?"

"Immortal." "What good is that?" "The benefits are realized slowly. How old are you?" I quickly inspected the scales on my body: "Ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty... Oh, it's over five hundred years old!" She smiled coldly and arrogantly.Take it easy: "I am a thousand years old." I am very convinced by her.Almost flattering: "You are prettier than me, stronger than me in mana, and older than me—" Suzhen and I are like sisters. Since the two of us have excellent abilities for no reason, there is no need to be humble and retreat.Seeing other people of the same kind grow up to be almost plump, they will be skinned and galled, boiled and spooned, and their lives will be over.We stood by with disdain.It is precisely because each has its own cause, how can it be envied?

When I came, it was the Tang Dynasty, the most prosperous period of Chinese culture, and I have seen all kinds of scenes, so what regrets do I have?Prosperity is extreme and decline, whether it is extreme prosperity or prosperity, the Song Dynasty's southern crossing will be safe, the people will be safe, and so will we.Hangzhou has not changed much. Suzhen sees a wider world than I do, and has more ideas than I do. So he decided to follow her around, so that he could take care of her. That day I smelled the fragrance and sneezed. "Is it from you, sister? Why use the smell of flowers to cover up the fishy smell? I'm not used to the smell of flowers."

"Don't you feel bored?" "No. I've been busy thinking about why I'm different day in and day out." "I thought five hundred years earlier than you, and I still can't figure it out today. Why don't we find some entertainment." She spun around in front of me. She put on the most popular dress, Si Luo's under skirt, with thin pleats and a jade ring on the ribbon. She was completely white. It turned out that she used tulip grass to grind the juice and soaked the skirt, so when she turned and walked around, she gave off a fragrance. So I also imagined a human form, a green silk shirt, and a green silk skirt.I am also very satisfied. As a young adult, he is still weak, leaning against a tree and against a wall from time to time.Suzhen hurriedly straightened me up, unable to see me: "You are human, how can you still be like a soft snake?" "I really don't understand why people have to walk straight, it's too hard, it's exhausting!" "Why is this so difficult? Look, wouldn't it be enough to come forward?" "Everyone likes to stand up and be brave." I muttered, "Oh, this 'feet'! There are ten useless toes, and there are toenails on the toes. What a trivial matter, how simple and complicated! " "Don't you want to be an adult too?" "Yes Yes Yes." I looked at the shadow by the water and twisted my waist.Rippled with fine waves, it turned out that this was a "coquettish" appearance. I couldn't hide my excitement. Looking back at Suzhen, she didn't make a fuss about me, and drifted away without taking it seriously. I felt ashamed, but I had never seen the world. exaggerated. Now that I was dressed up, I went to the West Lake to roam together. Go up the lonely mountain and step on the Su Causeway. When we arrived at the Xiling Bridge, we saw an ancient tomb with dark green stone nearby. There was a couplet on the stone pillar in front of the pavilion saying: "The peach blossoms and flowing water are gone, and the oil wall and fragrant car will never meet again." This is Su Xiaoxiaofang's tomb. "Su Xiaoxiao? Who is it? It's called 'Xiaoxiao', and it's short-lived." "Xiaoqing, don't be silly, don't laugh at other people's short life just because you live forever." I pouted: "She won't know. I don't know her. Oh, by the way, do you know her?" "Yes. She is from the Southern Qi Dynasty." "Oh, it was your time." "She is said to be a whore." "What is a whore?" "This... I heard that it is to accompany different men." "What is a man?" "Xiaoxiao wrote a poem: 'The concubine rides the oil wall cart, and the man rides the green horse. Where can we get together? Under the pines and cypresses of Xiling.' The man may be 'Lang'." "Hahaha! In vain you practiced earlier than me, so you don't know what a man is!" "Who says I don't know?" Suzhen couldn't bear the humiliation, her almond eyes widened.The snake's eyes widened as far as the eye could see. "Would you explain it? I really don't know—of course I've seen it, but I don't know." "That's a kind of kind that makes women sad." Suzhen tried to tell me what she had seen and heard, and told me the past in plain words: "Su's little man, call her Changyuan Cross Street; Yang Yuhuan Because of the failure of the Sixth Army, she was given Bailian to hang herself in Maweipo; the mysterious man made her lament "it is easy to find a priceless treasure, but it is rare to have a lover"; Huo Xiaoyu's man made her love and resent, The fragrance of jade perishes; Wang Baochuan's man, after eighteen years of guarding the cold kiln, has married Princess Daizhan of Xiliang Kingdom..." I was very impatient to hear it, so I collapsed and fell asleep in front of the small tomb beside the Xiling Bridge.No matter how Suzhen pushed, she couldn't move. The stories that have nothing to do with me, the sad history of others, and the pornographic scraps in the books.Really, what's the sound? My greatest happiness is to eat and sleep when I am full, and to eat when I am full.Five hundred years unchanged. But transfiguration is also a fun pastime.Sometimes we are also diligent in dressing up, so that we can refresh each other.We imitated the old women of the Tang Dynasty, and made peaches, apricots, lotus, chrysanthemums, plums and other flowers out of silk grass or golden jade tortoiseshell, and put them on hairpins; or designed some embroidery such as pomegranates, double butterflies, clouds, etc. It is embroidered between the pleats of the skirt; or embroidered with flying phoenixes and colorful birds on the shoes, passing by.Simple and happy. I believe that Suzhen actually doesn't know men.She pretends to know everything. Cold comes and summer goes, many days have passed.Until one day——it was the third day of March in Yangchun. By the West Lake, the willows were green and the peach blossoms were bright red. There was an old man with white hair and white beard who was carrying a burden to sell glutinous rice balls.He shouted at the top of his voice: "Eat glutinous rice balls! Eat glutinous rice balls! Big glutinous rice balls sell three for a copper tin, and small glutinous rice balls sell for three copper tins for one." We mingled among the crowd and laughed when we heard it. someone said: "Old man, you're calling the wrong one. Quickly exchange the prices of the big glutinous rice balls and the small glutinous rice balls." He didn't listen, but still shouted: "Big glutinous rice balls sell three for a copper tin, and small glutinous rice balls sell for three copper tins for one." People gathered around his burden, and they all bought big glutinous rice balls to eat.In an instant, the big glutinous rice balls in the pot were scooped up. Suzhen and I stood aside, seeing this scene, we didn't understand why.Really, who would spend money on his little glutinous rice balls? The old man looked at us, and on a whim, I took out three copper coins to buy his little glutinous rice balls to see what was going on. ——Actually, I absolutely shouldn’t, I bought his little glutinous rice balls, it’s all my fault.If you don't buy, nothing will happen. He took the money, first scooped a bowl of boiling water, and then scooped a small glutinous rice ball into the bowl.He squatted down with the bowl in his hand, and blew into the bowl with his lips, and the small glutinous rice balls rolled around the edge of the bowl, rolling up and down.Seeing Suzhen and I watching curiously, the old man was not without pride, so he scooped up another small glutinous rice ball and said: "This is for delivery." He brought over the bowl, two small glutinous rice balls rolled around, very tempting.The tangy fragrance, the moving hue. Moreover, everyone ate his big glutinous rice balls and were full of praise, which shows that it is also a delicacy in the world. Suzhen is confident that she has practiced for thousands of years, and I have practiced for five hundred years anyway, so what are the scruples?We are not afraid of poison—we are poison ourselves! Unexpectedly, when we scooped up the glutinous rice balls and were about to eat them, they jumped into our mouths as if they were alive, and slid straight into our stomachs, never refusing to come out again. The old man laughed and turned back into his real body.It turned out that he was Lu Dongbin! This sex maniac who kills thousands of knives tricked us into swallowing his seven emotions and six desires fairy pills... snort! "Lu Dongbin", as soon as you hear his name, you know that he is definitely not a gentleman.Pictograms, pictograms, referring to things, understanding, transcribing, and borrowing all show that the name is not literate.The name is so unliterary, and the person is even more unbearable.He is our senior, and he is also a professional "cultivator". He has a higher level of Taoism, so if he doesn't make it to the immortal class, he will flirt with women everywhere. He is eager to try in the mortal world.When I have free time, I play in the world, and I never think about what disasters will be caused by having fun for a while. "You two girls, you are really too bored. After eating my glutinous rice balls, you opened your eyes, you guys, haha!..." Then walk away. Leave a glutinous rice ball stall, who will clean it up? Leaving the two of us stunned and looking at each other in blank dismay, who will clean up? unstoppable. This is my fault.Until now, eight hundred years later, it is still a scar in my heart. At that moment, I hurried back to the bottom of the West Lake Broken Bridge, twisted and squeezed on the ground, trying to get out the little glutinous rice balls, who knew that it was like right and wrong in the world, it entered the heart, and it was hard to get out, and I couldn’t get it out again . We wait for it to digest. I thought to myself, we have nothing to do with the world, we have nothing to do with others, so we shouldn’t encounter retribution.Maybe Lu Dongbin was just joking. After a few days, there was no abnormality.No pain, no itching, no disasters.That little glutinous rice balls are—what kind of Qiqingliuyuxianwan?It must be the elixir of the immortal family, which is used to increase the skill. Gradually, I put the matter behind me. One day I woke up leisurely, and Suzhen was gone by my side. She must have been wandering in Yanxia Cave, Stone House Cave, Shuile Cave, etc.I will go to her.But she didn't drill a hole, she was on the bank of the peonies in Huagang, staring at the bright red and orange goldfish swimming in the water. "Sister," I called to her, "you look so pretty today!" She turned her head slightly: "What's the point of a woman dressing up for another woman's appreciation?" "What's the fun in a woman winning another woman's admiration?" she sighed there. I am stunned: "you do not like me?" "Like it," she said, "but aren't you tired?" "I have spent my life like this for five hundred years." I was a little angry, "It is not hypocritical to appreciate and praise you. If you are hypocritical, you will get tired easily." She didn't care about me, and set foot on Su Causeway with her own thoughts.I wrapped around her and babbled: "You don't like me? You don't like me anymore?" Su Causeway, which is a long embankment from south to north on the West Lake, has just been built by a talented man named Su Dongpo.It is late spring and March, and the six bridges in the middle: Yingbo, Suolan, Wangshan, Yadi, Dongpu, and Kuahong are even more simple and beautiful. I don't understand the morning light of Di Chunxiao, what's on the mind of a snake? Suzhen said to me almost to herself: "Look, there is a bunch of flowers here. I said I love that one the most. Someone heard it. He walked over by himself, picked it slowly, and put it on for me. Arise, alas! This is the indescribable joy of life." "Can't I pick it for you?" She doesn't hear me respond at all: "If I won't, he will. He'll coax me: You're the only one who can match this flower. So I obey him. What's the problem? If I lower myself a little--" "Did not you say--?" "Exactly! I hope there is such a man!" "Hahaha! It's crazy. You once said that you look down on this kind of animals because they are of poor quality." "yes?" "Do you remember? You said that the best talents in China were all in the Tang Dynasty, but they all died. It was too late. By the time you wanted a man, the man had obviously regressed." At night, the two of us came out from the bottom of the lake to absorb the green smoke and purple mist.My enthusiasm is shady, not as good as hers. "Xiaoqing, I figured it out!" "I do not care!" "Xiao Qingmei," she came to hold my hand, "I don't intend to ask for an outstanding talent. You see, these animals who call themselves dragons among men always look down on their peers, rely on their talents, and don't understand Cherish a woman's feelings, easily use 'chic' as a package, and change your heart. I don't want these." I feel curious: "What do you want?" "Any man who fights wits with me will lose in the end, because I am a thousand years older than them, and I am no match at all." Suzhen's eyes flickered in the dark night, "I just want an ordinary man." Oh!She has changed her mind.Maybe it was her idea all along.I don't know, I'm not as thoughtful as she is.Just because of her wish, it seems that there are ripples in our peaceful life.It was later discovered that it was not ripples, but storms. "Ordinary love and concern. Hustle and greet, eye contact. The most primitive touch." "Is it normal?" "Xiaoqing, we are already complicated enough." "But—you're nothing but a snake." After hearing this, she was silent for a moment. Yes, a five-hundred-year-old snake has a lower status than a thousand-year-old snake, but a thousand-year-old snake has lower status than a one-year-old man.No matter how proud we are, the facts cannot be denied.People always look down on snakes.We are all deluding ourselves. "Also, you have to accept the sun every day to make your blood warm; you have to sew up your forked tongue with a needle and thread to make it shorter; you have to stand upright and stop looking for support everywhere; you have to work hard Work hard, stop being lazy... Also, you have to give love, otherwise you won't get anything back in exchange." While I was talking wildly and eloquently, Suzhen thought seriously. I try to block it: "Sister, really, human beings are getting worse every day, and cunning from generation to generation, and there is no real friendship anymore-but I will always have it." "I like you," she said, "I even love you. But, man, that's different." man, man. This kind of spring heart is rippling, and spring sentiment is flourishing. Suzhen murmured: "At least I came to this world..." This time it was my turn to be silent. So she began to persuade me with a long tongue and eloquence: "Why don't we take a 'real' trip to the world. Just think about it: on a fine night, the moon shines on the West Lake, and the isolated mountains and Gelings scatter the cold lights, setting off the shadows of the slender curtains and trees, like fine needle embroidery. And The beloved one packed a melon skinned boat with green paint and red canopy. The two fell into the middle cabin, sat under the lantern, ate candied ten sceneries, peach kernels, and melon seeds, and sipped Longjing tea... It was so smoky, Immortal realm——Xiaoqing, I only envy mandarin ducks and not immortals." She was intoxicated by herself. "Won't humans be suspicious?" "Ah, are you in a mood?" "No." I denied it. "It's just that I can't stop you. If you leave, why should I stay here? I can't stand loneliness." "We'll go tomorrow!" "To be honest, you went for love, and I went for fear of loneliness." "—what's the difference between the two?" I seem to see a just full-term fetus wriggling impatiently in the mother's womb. Yes, Suzhen's heart is gone, the situation is gone, she wants to escape from this damp and cold cave, and she can't stay with this smelly scales. Plan for a better tomorrow and sleepless nights. I also saw Suzhen twisting and dancing coquettishly. When the distant horizon was rendered dizzy by a kind of drunken crimson paint, we had already set off. The sky is not yet bright, beautiful and vast, the vegetation trembles slightly, thinking that the world has never woken up.The market has not yet opened, and the shop boy is yawning sleepily. He must have never noticed these two snakes that are just about to move and eager to try. Suddenly there was a sound of wooden fish. I saw a thin old monk with a benevolent face, knocking on a wooden fish to announce the dawn, and he recited: Some men and women in the building were woken up. "Well—the monk has come to announce the dawn again—" The woman is tired of Meiyin: "Leave him alone—only monks wake up early." We both saw him walk by.Many shops opened reluctantly: turbans, mounted pictures, food, cooked meats, medicines, preserves, fish and flowers.The quarrel began again. The peddler dozed off next to the salt load, and the carnival Deng Tuzi was just now getting drunk and walking around unsteadily.A fire rose from the ground, and the blacksmith began his day's bombardment and roar.Sweat smells sour. What a vulgar world! The sound of horseshoes clattering from the street, following the prestige, a white paper lantern with a long handle swayed in front of the horse's head.But it knew that it was the morning court, and it was not energetic, so it just paced forward lazily.The sound of hooves stopped suddenly. The lazy horse cheered up, and the groom saw a strong monk coming out of the alley. He was a little surprised: "Why are there so many monks today?" Seeing that something was wrong, Suzhen pulled me aside and watched quietly. I see this, which is different from the one just now. He is not very old, but his features are serious, his eyes are intimidating, and he is not angry but majestic.Between the eyebrows there are faintly hidden golden steel beads, and the forehead beads are half hidden in the skin, with a transcendent Buddha nature.The monk is wearing a soap-colored Gebu single shirt and a cassock, holding a red lacquered Zen staff in his hand. When he taps the ground, each ring vibrates and makes a voiceless sound. Suzhen said: "This is an expert!" I asked: "Are monks human too?" ——A monk is a "person"?This majestic and proud monk should be smarter than others, right? He's on his way. In front is the old monk.