Chapter 109: Beating a drowning dog

Faced with the provocation of the master, the god rarely spoke. The heavy rain continued to fall. In this place without sunlight, I looked at the side of the master’s face, and for the first time in many years, I felt a ray of sunshine shining in.

I couldn’t stay on the ground forever. The rain blurred my vision and wet my face through the wet bangs in front of my forehead. I wiped the rain and traces of tears from my face and stood up with my arms supporting me.

It was as if we had never been apart. I looked at my master, and my master looked at me.

“Sanwa, come here.” The master looked at me and smiled, but his eyes were scanning Lin Xiaohua up and down.

“Mm,” I smiled and walked over to stand behind my master.

Wearing a gray robe, with messy hair and a beard sticking up, it was a very familiar back, and I felt inexplicably at ease. I stood behind my master with my hands behind my back, and the smile on my face seemed to never fade away.

From then on, even if the sky fell, what did it matter? It wasn’t that I wanted to rely on my master, but after so many years, I had long forgotten to rely on him. What I remembered was the warmth of having someone to rely on. From now on, even if the sky fell, there wouldn’t be a big hole in my heart.

“Where’s my wise old man?” I turned around and saw that my old friend, Master Hui, had come to see me. Like Master, he hadn’t changed much in the years I hadn’t seen him. He was still the same old crook, but the longing and concern in his eyes were real.

“Hui Gen is in the village outside. He misses you very much.” Sometimes, too much longing is expressed in a light manner, because it has long been discovered that saying too much cannot explain it, so it is better not to say it. Those who understand will naturally understand.

As soon as the words fell, the master’s ears were grabbed by Grandma Ling Qing, probably scolding him for staring at the young lady as soon as he came out.

The master shouted in an exaggerated voice, and I laughed.

I was already used to his master’s un-master-like behavior, and both Master Hui and I chose to ignore it.

“Sanwa, why don’t you say hello to me?” Grandpa Hui seemed a little dissatisfied.

Without saying a word, I walked over and gave Grandpa Hui a big hug. He smelled of dust, and I didn’t understand how they had suddenly woken up, but I knew that they had been trapped under the altar for at least two years.

This must be how they got the dust smell.

“What are you hugging for? No, I don’t like women, and I don’t like men either. Sanwa, you’ve been corrupted by learning.” Grandpa Hui shouted exaggeratedly, as if he wanted to push me away, but instead he patted my back heavily, then pushed me away, turned around, looked at the sky, and quickly wiped his face with his hand.

I was dumbfounded. For so many years, this old man has been so unreliable.

“The old monk cried himself, and I’m sorry, but he’s turning on others instead. Sanwa, you don’t care about him.” The master’s ear was red, but his eyes dared not fall on Lin Xiaohua. He still spoke in a mocking tone, commenting on Master Hui, wanting to look at me, but also a little embarrassed to look at me.

After so many years, it seems that only by deliberately maintaining a sense of familiarity can one avoid being overwhelmed by sadness at this moment.

Grandpa Hui’s reaction was also exaggerated. He jumped up and yelled at the Master to fight him one-on-one. Similarly, the Master was not willing to be outdone, and the two looked like they were about to fight again while talking.

Grandma Ling Qing and I both sighed. After that black door, no one else appeared, which made me a little worried. Where were the uncles? And the elders who had followed Master Xiao Chengqian?

“Enough, don’t pretend to be crazy on my turf. Here comes the master, and here comes the apprentice. There is no way we can be friends. What do you want? Draw the line?” Perhaps our behavior of ignoring him finally angered the god, and he spoke.

The joy of seeing Master again made me almost forget the existence of this god. It was only then that I suddenly realized that we were indeed in a very difficult situation, and whether we could get out was a big problem.

At this thought, my brows involuntarily furrowed, and my mind began to think of a countermeasure. But the next moment, my brows relaxed again. Master was here, so what was there to worry about?

“Haha, you know you can’t get away with it?” At the moment my brows relaxed, Master, who had been arguing with Uncle Hui a moment ago, became serious the next moment. He walked step by step from my side, his hands behind his back, each step very steady and very calm.

Facing his words, Shen snorted and didn’t say anything more.

I felt a little strange. According to the temper of this god, he was always arrogant and used to not tolerating even the slightest disobedience from others. How could he tolerate Master’s attitude again and again?

Why not just get rid of him? He was the same with Grandma Lingqing.

“How many lives have you taken with your altar? The people in the village outside have all been turned into monsters by you… How many evil deeds have your hands been stained with?” Master stopped about three meters away from me and spoke every word with a resounding voice.

“Master, there is now another town in a similar situation. If he hadn’t stopped it, I’m afraid something would have spread.” I couldn’t help but add, thinking that the master might have come directly from the holy village and not known that there was another town in a similarly dire situation. I also pointed to Lin Jianguo, who looked somewhat dazed in the corner.

“Another town?” Master’s brows furrowed, and he looked at Lin Jianguo, sighed, nodded, and greeted him. He and Lin Jianguo were originally acquaintances, so this greeting was not unexpected.

Facing his master’s greeting, Lin Jianguo’s eyes still fell on the god, and he kept rubbing the wooden plaque in his hands, somewhat in a trance, almost ignoring his master.

The master didn’t care, and continued to turn to the god and say, “What grudges do you and I have? It’s just that the heavens don’t allow you, and they will naturally take you. I just happen to take on this responsibility, because the master left things for his disciples to repay, which is only natural. Just as my disciple has finally found this place.”

“The law of the jungle is that the weak are prey to the strong. It is only natural. Because the sheep are pitiful, does that mean the wolf is not allowed to eat meat? The heavens do not allow me? What kind of reasoning is this old man talking about?” The god was extremely patient today, and even talked about the Dao with the master.

“In the human world, there is also the law of the jungle, and I always thought that this was the way of nature. But this law of the jungle is covered with the light of civilization, kindness, and justice. Do you understand? It is a competition for survival and evolution, not the wolf eating meat by force of words! Do you think that covering what you do with the reason of the law of the jungle can hide its bloody, naked, predatory nature? Life is a power given by the heavens to all things, not something you can take away or play with. And you always forget that the sheep in your eyes are people in our eyes.” In the face of God’s words, the master’s reply was particularly serious, just as when he was a child, he liked to explain to me the essence of everything.

Looking at the straight back of my master standing in front of me, my back also couldn’t help but straighten a little.

“Haha, wonderful! I am not on the same level as you. What do you see in people? What does it have to do with me? In my eyes, an ant is an ant. Even if your master is Li Yiguang, and you are clamoring to do anything for him, you are still just an ant.” The god’s face finally showed signs of impatience, but there was a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

“Hey… I never intended to be nice to you, and I have no intention of persuading you. You and I are just delaying the inevitable. I still need to get used to it. Thanks to my good disciple, you’re not in a good condition either, are you?” The master’s tone changed, and the confrontation had actually begun from the very beginning.

“You know that too? Don’t forget, Neicun has your life tablet, and half of you are in Neicun. If you leave today, I won’t bother to argue with you this time. The mountains and rivers will remain unchanged, and the green water will flow on forever. Let’s talk about the future later.” The tone of the god’s words also changed, very peculiar, as if he were very magnanimous.

Could it be that a destined battle was resolved in such a way? I had a feeling that it was not real.

In addition, at this moment, I finally understood why Lin Chen told me that half of my master was in the village, and that it was a life tablet. But what is a life tablet?

“Hahaha…” Master suddenly laughed to the sky, and his expression was a bit like that of the free-spirited Grand Master. After laughing, Master suddenly turned to me, winked at Master Hui and Grandma Lingqing, and said, “This guy really isn’t from this world, because he doesn’t seem to know a single sentence.”

“That’s what it means to beat a drowning dog!”