Chapter 4 Encountering the Immortals——Where does Huan come from, and Lang travels and never returns

ephemeral and eternal I can't keep you, I stretch out my hand, and what I hold is nothing but emptiness.It is destiny to stare, separate, and wait at the other end of the sky and the earth.The illusion that is longer than the long, what is gained is short-lived, and what is lost is eternal. There is a very beautiful legend about peach blossoms. During the reign of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao, two herbal pickers in Shan County, Kuaiji County (now Sheng County, Zhejiang Province), went to Tiantai Mountain together to pick grain bark (the bark is a kind of herbal medicine).Unfortunately, the two lost their way and could not turn back.I stayed in the mountains for about thirteen days. After I ran out of food, I was hungry and exhausted.At this time, I saw a peach tree growing on the mountain from a distance. The peach tree on the tree was bright red and full of fruit.

The peach tree is far above the cliff, and there is a deep gully in the middle.If it was normal, the two of them would probably be intimidated and let it go.At this time, the two were on the verge of desperation, looking far away to find food, their desire to survive overwhelmed their fear, and desperately climbed up the vines, picked peaches, and felt a little bit of strength after eating wildly. The two survived the desperation and found the way down the mountain again, fetching water by the stream to wash, saw turnip leaves floating from the side of the mountain, and then saw a cup containing sesame rice.The two said excitedly: "Look, there is food! It seems that this place should not be far from where people live..." So they went up by the water.

After passing a mountain, I saw a big stream. There were two beautiful women by the stream. When they saw them, they said happily: "Look, Liu and Ruan Erlang are here with the cup that floated away." The two didn't know these two women, but listening to their tone of voice, it seemed that they had known each other for a long time. The two women laughed and said, "Why did you come so late?" The two men were still in doubt, so they were invited home.The woman's home is very gorgeous, it doesn't look like a residence in the mountains.There is a big bed on the south wall and a big bed on the east wall. There are red curtains on the bed, and golden bells are hung on the four corners, and the gold and silver are interlaced.Dozens of maidservants stood by the bed.The second daughter ordered the maid to say: "The two gentlemen have worked hard all the way. Although they have eaten fairy peaches, their bodies are still weak. You wait to cook and bring them up."

Soon someone prepared sesame rice, goat meat, and dried beef and sent them.The meals are rich, sweet and delicious.After eating and drinking, a group of maids came over with fairy peaches in their hands, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to your husband on his arrival." Everyone laughed and drank together.When Liu and Ruan came here, they were both surprised and happy, and they were completely at their mercy.In the evening, the women go to bed with each other. The women are charming and graceful, and the beauty of getting along makes them so happy that they forget their worries.

After more than ten days like this, Liu and Ruan wanted to go back.The woman persuaded: "When you come here, we have made a marriage with each other. It is a blessing from many generations of practice. Why are you in a hurry to go back?"So it stayed for another half a year.In spring, the blooming flowers make people miss their homes, and the singing of birds makes them sad. Liu and Ruan are homesick and begged many times to go back. What can I do?" So the former female companions were called together to play music to see them off, and to guide them on the way out of the mountain.

After the two came out of the mountain, they found that the place where they lived was completely different, and neither were the personnel.They can't find their home at all, and their old relatives and friends are even more withered and hard to find.The two inquired around and saw a child (who was their seventh grandson after inquiring), who said to himself that the elders said that the ancestors went to the mountains to collect herbs, and they didn't know where to end... It turned out that the two had lived in the mountains for half a year, and seven lifetimes had passed in the human world.At this time, it was the eighth year of Jin Taiyuan.

The second half of the story is that Liu and Ruan returned to Tiantai Mountain in a state of disappointment and searched around in the mountain.The place where the medicine is collected, the stream where you meet, the experience is like a dream, and the fairy wife is no longer found.The stream is stained with melancholy, and the bridge is called the melancholy bridge. I think the word "melancholy" is too shallow.Just imagine, the astonishment in Liu and Ruan's hearts is the word "melancholy" that can be exhausted?The price of a brief love affair is the death of relatives and friends, they stay in the world, and the relatives have no idea where the reincarnation has gone.

Bai Yuncanggou, the ups and downs of the world, he and him, suddenly became the coordinates of time and space, standing abruptly. Two ordinary people suddenly became extraordinary.This upgrade was not voluntary, they just went to the mountains to collect herbs on an ordinary day, not even an expedition.I accidentally stayed in the mountains for half a year, thinking it was an affair, even if it was luck, but I didn't get carried away. I always miss my family when I am having fun, and I always want to go home. This strange love affair can be reserved for the mediocre years to savor and chew.If you really never forget, you can also come to this mountain to continue the frontier.

Unexpectedly, after leaving the mountain, everything has changed beyond recognition.Time flies, and in the eyes of the world, they are people who have long since passed away.Relatives and friends are gone, and there is no intimacy in the world.The fate of immortality is cut off again, and I can't go back to the road of meeting immortals.In the vast world, where should we go from now on?Suddenly gained, suddenly lost.What is gained is short-lived, but what is lost becomes eternal. Two reincarnated people, the duality of identity is enough to confuse people - I am just an ordinary person, but now I have become extraordinary again!The world is really unpredictable, and the changes are unimaginable!The desolation of being suddenly rootless, the panic of being alone, the plight of having nowhere to go.As long as you are willing to put yourself in their shoes and think about it, you will know that their feelings are definitely not the romance attached to them in the later prose, but the desolation enough to kill people.

There is a saying, "Seven days in the middle of the mountain, thousands of years have passed in the world." Time is a paradoxical theory of relativity.After living for a hundred years, floating in a flash, they were thrown to an unexpected height by fate, but when they landed, they were extremely embarrassed and miserable.He and him are like wandering souls who are reluctant to give up reincarnation and love the world.So serious, serious.Everything I experienced was extremely real, and I thought it was real, but I didn't expect to be thrown off the original track by fate. All attachments have become delusion.

If at this moment, you can return to the secret realm, annihilate the world from now on, and watch the vicissitudes of life with a smile, it will be a way of liberation.It is a pity that Taoyuan is hard to find, and immortals are forever separated.They who once fell in love at first sight and fell in love with each other also sentenced them on trumped-up charges. Why, is all this their fault?If it were me, I would be angry too. Do fairies have the right to only love strangers?What do you say, if you want to love, then love, if you don't love, then don't love, first use marriage to seduce, and then use the end of fate to evade. It turns out that it is not a man's patent to be chaotic and abandon.Hastily attribute everything to fate, no wonder fate always hurts people. In the later Tang poetry and Song Ci, there are always people who use their life experience to express their feelings."Drunk Taoyuan" in Cipai, also known as Ruan Langgui.Feelings are sad, and its tone is mostly sad and beautiful. In the tenth year of Yuanhe in the Tang Dynasty, Xuandu Temple in Chang'an, the remnant spring.The tree is full of red.Liu Yuxi stepped on a little bit of moss and broken red, looked at the withered peach blossoms and chanted loudly: "Where does the Taoist priest who planted peaches go? Liu Lang, who was there before, is here again."——Everyone can read it, Liu Yuxi hides in his loneliness Excitement, joy.His agitated attitude was a demonstration, and he challenged the powerful: You can't beat me, I'm back again! I'm afraid that Liu Chen will laugh and cry when he sees this sentence.Peach blossom, see peach blossom again.How come the same Liu Lang, living in floating water, also experienced ups and downs.He has been living for ten years, and the road to Qingyun has not stopped, and he, in a daze for a moment, can no longer find his way home.