Chapter 1599 – Su Dao

“The heaven and earth, the adversity of all things also …… time and light, the passing of a hundred generations also …… and floating life is like a dream, for the joy of geometry …… and for the geometry of joy ……”

June in Suzhou, after the season of recovery of all things, into the flowers bloom, beautiful flowers in the month, the sky fluttering willow flakes, seems to bring the last trace of strength, to blow away the rest of the light of day.

Willow flakes in the sky, look like snow, this scene is very beautiful, as the summer snowflakes, drifting in the sky, if the wind is a little stronger, those willow flakes dance more dense, fluttering, as if rootless life, in the beautiful at the same time also blossomed a trace of indescribable sadness.

They, as if there is no home, and as if they left the home of the wanderer, can only move with the wind, and ultimately do not know where the fate, do not know where they will be blown by the wind, perhaps on the river, to become a tourist in the eyes of the water and the sky scene, or fell to the ground, and the dust melted together, rolled into a ball, swept densely in the wind.

Their destiny is the wind, different winds, gave them a different life.

There is so a wisp of willow flakes, white, flowery, gently fluttering in mid-air, fell on the head of a not very big boat, stood a white-clothed young man raised above the palm of the right hand.

That young man left hand holding a wine pot, drink a big mouthful, say that heroic poetry, its voice is not big, but through a seemingly to pursue the end of the sky and the earth’s spontaneity.

Behind the youth, followed by a middle-aged man in a scholar’s attire, this man with a bitter face, his expression reveals reluctance, that youth almost every drink, this middle-aged man will be more heartache one point.

“A pot of osmanthus wine costs seven coins of silver, expensive, really too expensive! One sip is almost equivalent to half a silver dollar ……”

That falls in the palm of the youth’s hand willow, just a pause, seems not to the end of the line, vaguely want to have a light sigh echo, once again from the youth’s hands to fly up, from his eyes drifted past, toward the distance, bewildered fluttering, but also through a trace of insanity, as if knowing the end of their own lives, running to that let it no longer tired of the place of the return of the market.

Beside that river bank, there is also a peach blossom forest, at this moment in the willow fluttering, peach blossom dotted, there are even pieces of flowers after the wind fell into the river, floating on the water surface, rippling with the waves.

“The crazy willow flakes dance with the wind, and the frivolous peach blossoms flow by the water.” Wang Lin drank the wine in his hand in one gulp and his laughter echoed.

In addition to the boatman and this master and servant, there were also three women in marvelous clothes on that boat, one of the three women played the zither, and the other two sang and danced, making this boat, following the river in the company of the roiling willow wadding, pass through a stone bridge that spanned the river, and pass underneath it, and lazily go far away.

“Da Fu, fetch the wine!” Wang Lin turned to look at the middle-aged man behind him as he laughed.

With a bitter face, Dafu sighed repeatedly and picked up a jug of wine from the side, reluctantly handing it to Wang Lin, almost speaking with a crying voice.

“Gongzi, silver this time really not much …… We again is the ancestor boat, again is to buy wine, there are these three little lady accompanied, this daily cost, but too high …… If not … . don’t we still go ashore, find a cheap inn can still save some.”

“What’s the rush, the person I’m waiting for, hasn’t come yet.” Wang Lin shook his head and smiled, took the wine pot and drank a sip again, then sat aside and listened to the woman who had quite a bit of posture fiddling with the strings of the zither, playing a burst of gentle zither sounds, that zither sound through a trace of joy, just fell in Wang Lin’s ears, but let him never be able to integrate into the heart and mind.

“Gongzi, this time I private stash of those but all taken out, you you …… grandmother, I counted, so spend down, another seven days, we have to go to ask for food! This is more than a month ah, more than a month ah, in the end you are waiting for who ah, why not come.” Dafu was heartbroken to the core, bitterly rambling in general constantly beside Wang Lin.

Perhaps it was because his appearance was funny, causing a woman who was tired of dancing down to rest on the side to cover her mouth and laugh.

Dafu’s eyes glared, glanced at the woman, muttered a few words and then simply picked up a pot of wine as well and drank a few mouthfuls fiercely.

“I want to drink more, this is good wine, a mouthful of half a dollar ……”

“The sound of the zither, it’s still not right.” Wang Lin leaned on the side of the boat, gently shaking his head, after a long time he drank a little too much, with drunkenness got up and walked to the side of the woman playing the zither, his right hand was placed on the ancient zither, the woman’s pretty face was red, and she hurriedly took her hands down.

“I remember a tune, unknown, but heard it in my dreams, she should be playing so ……” Wang Lin whispered, closed his eyes, his right hand slowly played on that ancient zither.

At first it was full of rawness, the intermittent zither sound was not a tune, but gradually, as Wang Lin’s entire mind was integrated into it, the sound of the zither slowly cohered together.

An indescribably sad zither sound danced out in this boat, spreading out in all directions.

The two women resting on that boat, at this moment, their eyes showed bewilderment and gazed at Wang Lin, the sadness that came out of that zither sound was very light, but it went straight into the soul, making people not be able to help but feel their hearts and minds shake after hearing it.

I don’t know when, Wang Lin sat in the place where he played the zither, the woman who had played the zither before was at the side, her beautiful eyes revealed an indescribable splendor, as if the whole person was lost in the sound of the zither that was as if it was sighing.

Even Dafu, also froze for a moment after sitting there, a mouthful of wine, forgetting the heartache, staring blankly at his right wrist, initiating the God.

This zither sound, was played by Li Muwan back then, not the same tune, but the same divine sound, in the hands of the blind woman in the land of the demon spirit had also appeared.

At this moment, Wang Lin’s closed eyes, slowly had tear tracks flowing down, the tears dripped down on the strings, as if melting within the sound of the zither, and then drifted away.

His dream, every night he would seek, in that dream, he saw a lot, just not all of them were clear, there were so many people, after they appeared in the dream, they were always blurred, but despite the blurriness, the feeling that made him sad, was deep, very deep.

Under the sound of this zither, the boat floated down the river, crossing a stone bridge until dusk and sunset, and another night came.

Wang Lin had waited for more than a month, only the person who should have appeared in that dream had never appeared.

As the boat floated past under a stone bridge, there were two people standing there on that stone bridge at some point, silently looking at the boat, with the sad zither music surrounding their ears.

These two people, both are old men with gray hair, one of them is wearing a green shirt, although he is just standing there calmly, his body is straight, like a green pine.

His complexion was tinged with vicissitudes, his eyes revealed wisdom, and as he stood there, an aura of a contemporary literary great scholar came over him.

He, was Su Dao.

“A good song of the sound of the sad soul, such a song and music, ordinary people can not play in a lifetime …… and in that sadness, through the vicissitudes of the ages, as after experiencing countless years and years, looking back, a certain sad picture within that memory, always pervading the heart. Su San, this trip, old me did not come in vain.” Su Dao’s eyes revealed emotion, looking at that under the bridge gradually far away on the boat, playing the qin Wang Lin, leisurely opened his mouth.

That old man behind Su Dao likewise sighed softly, if Wang Lin saw him at this moment, he would definitely recognize at a glance that this person, was that old supervisor in the examination hall, who always looked at his examination paper until the end.

“The student also didn’t expect that he would play the zither, it’s just that after seeing his exam paper at first, he felt that this son was extraordinary, and when he came to pay his respects to Mr. the other day, he saw that this son was swimming in the boat, so he asked Mr. to come here to see him.” That old man’s complexion revealed respect, bent over and said softly.

Painted boat more and more far away, that zither sound slowly dissipate, just at this time, that green shirt old man Su Dao, but a slight smile in, a few steps forward to press the bridge railing, to the river below the painted boat shouted.

“Young man, tell the old man, what do you think cause and effect, is.”

Wang Lin’s hands lurched, his zither stopped, and he opened his eyes, turned back with confusion, and saw the green-shirted old man on the bridge. In his position, this glance could only see the old man alone, he couldn’t see that second old man behind him in the other direction of the bridge.

At this moment the night is covered, a round of bright moon hanging in the sky, in the night, that old man’s figure seems to be a little blurred, even the bridge around, also seems to be hidden in the moonlight, hazy up.

“Cause and effect ……” Even Wang Lin’s gaze, at this moment seems to be blurred, he stared blankly at the old man, looked at the bridge, looked at the surrounding haze, murmured.

“It shouldn t be like this …… If all of this is a time rewind, if all of this is a reincarnation, if all of this is a dream, then what I should have encountered is the one in that dream …… But why is it that today, what I have encountered is this old man …… Why is this ……”

Wang Lin waited for more than a month, what he waited for, was that in a dream, he saw that scene that made him wake up bewildered for a whole day, and drank a whole day’s worth of wine, and in that scene, he saw another self, on the water of the river in this Su City, on that stone bridge, appearing.

But now, he didn’t meet that dream self, but met this old man.

“This explanation does not make sense …… I know the things of the Soul Refining Sect, and even the person who appeared hundreds of years later in that Soul Refining Sect, I can vaguely guess that it was the me in the dream …… However, all of this was originally already enlightened to me, but why did I in I don’t see him here …… “Wang Lin’s eyes revealed a deep confusion, he couldn’t understand, even he himself was getting fuzzy at the moment.

As Wang Lin was confused, the painted boat drifted farther and farther away.

When the old man on that stone bridge saw that Wang Lin didn’t answer, he smiled and shouted again.

“Young man, tell the old man what you think cause and effect is.”

“Cause and effect …… I am the cause, I, am the effect ……” Wang Lin’s voice, which came slowly, slowly dissipated as the painted boat went away.

That green shirt old man Su Dao with a smile on his face, looking at the painted boat disappeared in the eyes, turned back to look at the students behind him.

“What’s his name?”