I didn't intend to be a Fairy

The Taoist walked and stopped, walking slowly.

The cat, on the other hand, took small, cheerful steps, stopping from time to time, and often trotting for a while, sometimes running in front of the Taoist, and sometimes falling behind.

If he was a little behind, when he was far away, he would often stretch his neck to see him, and if he couldn't see him, he would trot to follow him. If you walked in front of him, you would often stop and look back at him. Seeing that he was still not following, you had no choice but to stop and wait for him.

"Taoist~"

The cat waited for the Taoist again, she raised her head high, her head and eyes followed the water birds flying by in the air, and she called Taoist.

"Um?"

"Are we going to find that man named Dou?"

"Mistress Sanhua is ice-snow smart, I admire you." The Taoist replied patiently while he was immersed in the world in this painting.

"But where is he?"

"That's a good question."

The Taoist also moved his gaze down from the sky, looking at the high mountain ahead.

The mountains are magnificent and the foot of the mountains is far away.

Counting only from the size that can be seen on the painting, there are at least tens of miles from left to right. When I look at it now, my eyes are not limited to the painting, but can go outside the painting—just like when I first entered the painting, Looking back, I can see a lake that does not exist in the painting. Looking north and south at this time, there are many mountains that are not in the painting. I don’t know if I can go out and where.

In any case, just looking at the area in the painting, the foot of the mountain is tens of miles long, with scattered villages and tens of thousands of families. How do you know where Master Dou lives?

"It's fine if you can't find it."

The Taoist said this to the cat.

"oh……"

The cat didn't seem to care too much either. He shook his head, took small steps, and went to the front to catch the bugs again.

Song You raised his hand, following his steps, his fingers slid across the reed ears.

It's finally over.

In front is the vast fertile land.

From the end of the reeds all the way to the foot of the mountain in the distance, no matter whether the field is good or not, it is like a checkerboard grid, with ridges and paths criss-crossing, and occasionally people walk on it.

Looks like someone really...

The Taoist still didn't slow down, walking along the path without hurrying.

It wasn't until he met an old man who was driving back with a cow that he saluted:

"This old man."

When the old man heard the voice, he turned around and saw that it was a Taoist in a Taoist robe, but he was a little surprised: "A Taoist priest? It's quite unfamiliar."

"When I come here for the first time, I will be born naturally."

Hearing this, the old man turned his head to look at the big mountain in front of him, then turned his eyes away and looked at the Taoist: "Is this the first time for the Taoist priest to go down the mountain? But the little old man often goes up the mountain, why haven't he met the Taoist priest?"

Song You followed his gaze.

It sounds like there is also a Taoist temple on that mountain, and it seems that there is only this Taoist temple here.

"I'm coming from outside to visit my old friend."

"From outside!?"

The old man was startled suddenly, and opened his eyes to look at him.

"Exactly."

The Taoist replied truthfully.

The old man's sunken eyes stared straight at him, and then at the cat beside him, before he asked, "How did you get in? And where did you get in?"

"Are there few outsiders here?"

"This is a place outside the world, how can outsiders get in?"

"It's also a coincidence."

Seeing that he was old, Song You was very surprised. Afraid that he would be too excited, he had no choice but to salute and said, "My surname is Song Mingyou. I practiced in Yizhou. I am not a bad person. I am very surprised and want to come here. Ask the old man about the situation here."

"oops!"

The old man was surprised.

It is a rare thing for outsiders to come here, but seeing the calm expression of this Taoist priest, he was not surprised in his tone, and he spoke properly, which made him even more extraordinary, probably a master of cultivation.

The old man immediately became more respectful.

"Where is the priest going?"

"I don't know for now."

"Then invite the Taoist priest and the little old man to come. Let's talk as we walk, so that we can entertain the Taoist priest." The old man waved to him while holding the ox rope, signaling to follow him.

"Why bother old man?"

"Why not? Come, come!"

"It's better to obey than to respect."

The Taoist didn't dare to refuse, so he had to salute again, and then he followed the old man and asked, "I am very surprised when I first came here. I want to ask the old man, what is this place?"

"no name."

"What about this mountain?"

"We just call it Cangshan."

"How many villages are there under the mountain?"

"I'm afraid there are dozens of them, big and small. I live in Xiaobei Village, just go straight ahead."

"Since the old man said that this place is a place outside the world, I don't know when you came here? Or do you mean that you have lived here for generations?"

"I heard from an old man in the past that he came here in the early years of Dayan. At that time, there were only houses and no one lived here." The old man walked with a hunched back while leading the green bull, "It is said that it was to avoid something in the past. Wars or taxes, and then we settled down here."

It sounded like they were new to wars and taxes.

"Did outsiders come over these years?"

"I heard that outsiders came several times." The old man said, "I remember two times. Once when I was still young, dozens of people came in from outside. Now they seem to live in Niang'erzhuang. Another time, it was When I was young, I also heard that people came from outside, this time there are more than a hundred, it seems to live in the southernmost part."

"I see……"

The Taoist nodded.

It seems that the people here were not drawn out of thin air, but each generation of Dou family heirs were brought in from outside for various reasons.

"These outsiders are all fleeing, either hiding from wars or something else, but if you ask them how they got in, they can't answer. The people here are hospitable and there are many places, so we treat them well. Fan, settle down." The old man said to him, "From their mouths, we can hear a lot of things outside."

"It's not as good as coming here from other places."

"Isn't that right? I heard that outside, the food grown by oneself has to be handed over to others, and there are also wars, with knives, to kill people." The old man shook his head, paused, but then said, "But this The location is good, but I heard it is very different from the outside.”

"What's the difference?"

Song You quickly cupped his hands: "I also ask the old man to enlighten me."

"It's the same here all year round. There's no hot or cold weather, and it's all daytime, and there's no night. It's dark every day outside, but is it true?"

"real."

"Can't you come out to farm when it's dark?"

"We usually sleep when it's dark."

"Everyone sleeps together?"

"yes."

The Taoist replied calmly, as if he was not surprised.

"real or fake?"

"It seems that this is not it?"

"We sleep when we want to sleep, we wake up when we think about it, in some places we have to ring the bell and drum, we sleep when we beat the drum, we wake up when we ring the bell, and we just close the curtain." The old man seemed very surprised by what Song You said, "But other people never People from outside seem to say the same thing.”

"What about that kind of food?"

"Food is still planted, and it grows quickly, but it can only be planted in the soil in the field over there, and it will not grow in other places, let alone in the reed field behind."

"Why can't it be planted in the reed field?"

"There are gods and monsters on the reeds over there. They only grow like that. They don't grow much, they don't get smaller, they don't turn green, and they can't be cut. Naturally, they can't grow anything."

"I see."

"Sounds like a god!" The old man chuckled, "Some people say that we are a garden of gods, and others say that we live in a painting. Hehe, tell me, how can there be any gods?"

"yes."

The Taoist smiled and nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Then can we go out from here?"

"I can't go out, it's ninety-nine and eighty-one miles from here to there." The old man pointed from left to right, and from behind to the front, "The farthest from the back is the lake. If you can't go down to the lake, The farthest and the farthest in front is only to climb to the top of the mountain, but it cannot be turned over, and it is said that it is eighteen miles long."

"Is it only possible to live here?"

"That's not necessarily..."

"Why not?"

"I heard that sometimes people walked by. I don't know why, but they just disappeared and never came back." The old man shook his head while talking, "I don't know where he went."

"No wonder there is a fence around the lake."

"you do not say……"

The old man looked at the young priest while talking.

But he found that no matter what he said, the Taoist priest who claimed to be from the outside world was calm and calm, as if he was not surprised at all. As for himself, who had heard of the outside world before, he couldn't help being surprised by what he said about the outside world. There was a huge difference between the two sides.

The old man confirmed his previous guess even more.

So he knows everything and says everything.

Taoists almost know something about this place.

There is only late autumn here, no four seasons, only day, no night, eighteen miles from east to west, and eighty-one miles from north to south, not small, but not vast, and the population is far from saturated.

There seems to be a barrier on the edge, which cannot be walked through, but occasionally someone can pass through it, and they don't know where they went.

While chatting and walking, we are approaching the village.

If you look around, you can see that the houses are neat and tidy, there are often beautiful pools of mulberry and bamboo, and you can often hear cocks crowing and dogs barking.

Some people are farming in the fields, some people go out to pick vegetables with a basket on their shoulders, some people eat with a bowl, some people just woke up, everyone is enjoying themselves, and there is rarely any sadness on their faces.

The old man was wearing the clothes he wore for farming, so he couldn't tell much, but when he arrived in the village, he could see from the clothes of the young men and women that although they were generally similar to the outside world, there were also subtle differences.

It's like the decorative accessories that have become popular in the outside world in recent years, but you can't see them here.

The Taoist walked and watched, and at the same time asked the old man next to him if anyone had come in recently, but the old man shook his head and said he didn't know.

The Taoist originally wanted to find Master Dou, but the place is so vast that it is difficult to find him, but the old man was very enthusiastic and invited him to his home as a guest.

The Taoist made some excuses, but it was not easy to push too much, so he agreed and let him go to his home.

There were seven members of the old man's family. When they heard that the Taoist came from outside, they were all very enthusiastic. They set up wine and slaughtered chickens to entertain him and let him stay at home. Everyone chatted with him and asked about the outside world, and they were always surprised when they heard the difference, as if it was hard to imagine that there was such a world as the outside world.