Drunk Immortal Gourd

Nowadays, Qingyang has looked away and is more casual. I am lucky to have lost my life. If he can get Yu Mengmiao, Qingyang will definitely cherish it more. If he can't get it, he will feel regretful in his heart at most. He will not complain about heaven and earth, nor will he seek death and survival.

Qingyang stood quietly among the crowd and did not show any abnormality. He waited until the engagement meeting was over and the monks left before he followed the crowd out of the City Lord's Mansion.

After leaving the city lord's mansion, Qingyang wandered around Qingfu City for a day with a lot of thoughts. In such a huge Qingfu City, he couldn't find a place to stay. No matter what he looked at, he couldn't get interested. Finally, Qingyang turned around and headed towards Walk outside the city. Yu Mengmiao has found her destination, and her last concern in this world is gone. Where in the world can she go?

Although he had made up his mind, Qingyang could not bear to leave. In the final analysis, he still couldn't let go, so after leaving the city, Qingyang did not fly with the wind gourd, but followed the road Walking forward slowly and leisurely is like taking a walk to relax.

In one day, Qingyang only walked a hundred miles, when a white lake suddenly appeared in front of him. The lake is not big, only about ten miles in diameter. The lakeside is made of white sand and pebbles, reflecting the whiteness of the entire lake. There is a dilapidated tea shed near the road near the lake. There are no guests at this time. There is only an old woman sitting there bored. Under the shed.

The old woman had white hair and wrinkles on her face. Qingyang estimated that she was at least seventy years old. Seventy years of life were rare, and it was rare for a mortal to live to this age. Seeing Qingyang, the old woman greeted: "Young man, are you tired from the journey? Come and have a cup of tea?"

Qingyang's actual age is older than this old woman, but he is an immortal cultivator and has always maintained the appearance of a young man. Although he has experienced a series of blows during this period, which has made him haggard and old, he is younger than this old woman. Much more. Qingyang has been preoccupied with things these past two days and has no destination for the time being. He almost just goes wherever he goes. Now that he saw the other party taking the initiative to invite him, he stopped and walked under the tea shed and said, "Thank you, old lady."

The old woman moved Qingyang to an old table, then turned around and took out a large coarse porcelain bowl, sprinkled some tea powder into it, poured boiling water in it, and then sat down on a chair next to Qingyang. He looked at him and said: "I see that you neither look like a scribe on an outing, nor a businessman passing by in a hurry, nor a farm worker busy making a living. You are preoccupied along the way, and you are walking aimlessly. You must be... If you have something on your mind, can you talk to the old lady? "

Qingyang didn't want to talk about his own affairs, so he said casually: "I was just walking around and came here accidentally. I wonder where this place is?"

The old woman smiled and said, "This lake is called Baishou Lake."

Baishou Lake? Could it be that they mean growing old together? Seeing that the entire lake was completely white, the name was quite vivid. Qingyang asked casually: "Why is it called Baishou Lake?"

The old woman said: "Speaking of this, there is a story. I wonder if our guests would like to hear it?"

"I would like to hear the details." Qingyang said, there is nothing wrong anyway, so it doesn't hurt to listen.

The old woman recalled it for a moment, and then said slowly: "Many years ago, there was a village by this lake. Although there were not many families, it lived a quiet and peaceful life. There was a young man and woman in the village, who were childhood sweethearts. They were childhood sweethearts. Later, the two of them grew up and reached the age where they were discussing marriage, but the man could not afford the bride price, so the man went to work as a long-term worker in a wealthy family and asked the woman to wait for him for a few years, saying that he would save enough. If you get the money, you will come back and marry that woman.”

"What happened next?" Qingyang asked. He had lived in the mortal world since he was a child and was aware of the sufferings of the world. He had heard a lot of such things, with various endings.

The old woman said: "The woman took her words seriously and kept waiting for the man to come back to marry her. No matter how her parents coerced and lured her, they could not change her mind. As a result, she waited for ten years. Ten years later, the man returned home. He heard the news and said that he was about to save enough money, but he accidentally broke the owner's valuables and had no money to repay, so he had to sell himself to pay off the debt. "

Qingyang listened quietly without saying a word, and the old woman continued: "The woman has no other choice but to secretly lament her miserable life and continue to wait for the man by the lake, waiting for him to come back and marry her after paying off his debt. We waited for another ten years. In the end, the man did not come back. He only brought news that he was forced by the host family and had no choice but to marry the other party. Even the child was several years old. "

Forced into a wealthy family? Is there such a good thing? This is just an excuse for his shameless behavior. Qingyang said: "Does that woman believe this?"

The old woman didn't seem to hear Qingyang's words, and said to herself: "Although the woman was sad, she firmly believed that the man was forced to have no choice, so she continued to wait for him by the lake. Another ten years later, the news of the man spread again Come on, it's said that the rich man has passed away, and now he has taken over the other party's wealth. Although he was forced to have no choice at first, there are only orphans and widows left there. He can't just leave, and he can't let go of that puddle. , had no choice but to stay there.”

Hearing this, Qingyang was too lazy to complain and listened quietly to the old woman as she continued: "In the blink of an eye, another ten years have passed. Forty years have passed. The man's wife finally passed away, and the family business was passed to his son. Finally he gave up everything and returned to the lake with his white hair to fulfill his promise. Unfortunately, his time was running out and he only lived with the woman for three days before passing away. Because of this incident in a few years, the lake later became It was changed to Baishou Lake.”

The woman had waited for the man for forty years, but only got three days of getting along with him. And these three days might just be the man's conscience before he died, and he came to give the woman a comfort, or to make up for his guilt, Qingyang said. : "Didn't the woman think that this might just be a lie by the other party? There was no selling herself to pay off the debt, but the man was greedy for wealth and married into a rich family. Was everything he said to lie to the woman?"

The old woman shook her head and said: "No, that woman never regretted it, because she always believed that the man liked him, and everything she did was out of necessity. Even if the man was really lying to her, it was for her own good. , otherwise why would she wait for forty years?”

Qingyang did not argue with the old woman and said smoothly: "I didn't expect there to be such an infatuated woman in the world. It's really admirable. But that woman's forty years of waiting only ended up with three days of being with her beloved." , is it too short?”