Chapter 256 – The Cold

Wang Lin was dumbfounded and nodded, saying, “Yes, when uncle earns big money, he will go back to marry his wife.”

Da Niu was about to speak, when his father called out from within the ironware store, Da Niu hurriedly answered and said to Wang Lin with a bitter face, “Ugh, we need to make iron again.” Saying that, he helplessly returned to the iron store.

From within the store, there were a few chants from Da Niu’s father, Wang Lin drank a mouthful of wine and sat quietly in the doorway, at this time, the sky gradually drifted down some snowflakes, slowly, the snowflakes were getting bigger and bigger, and the first snow of the year, without a sound, fell from the sky.

The temperature, all of a sudden cold.

The snowflakes hit Wang Lin’s face and quickly melted into ice water, Wang Lin looked up at the dim sky, and after a long time, he stretched out his right hand and casually held it, and then the snowflakes around him instantly coalesced.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and let go of his right hand, the snowflakes immediately collapsed and once again drifted in all directions.

This scene happened extremely quickly, and no pedestrians noticed anything unusual, each one just lowered their heads and hurriedly rushed on their way.

As the sky got darker, the pedestrians gradually became less and less, in the end, there was not a single silhouette of a person on the entire street, even the stores in the surrounding area, because of the heavy snowfall in the sky, closed their doors in advance, and no longer did business, but instead, the family reunited next to the fireplace to get warm.

This kind of warmth, in addition to the body, there is also the soul, the family reunion, that kind of warmth, can drive away any cold.

Wang Lin’s eyes gradually revealed the color of loss, the snowflakes brought the cold, for him, is really insignificant, but at this time he, looking around the store within a family lit up lights, the whole street only his store is a dark piece, his heart, suddenly rose a trace of coldness.

This kind of coldness. Not any fire source could dispel it. It was not any divine spell that could make up for it. This kind of coldness was the price of sensing the Heavenly Dao, the necessity of experiencing life.

If one wants to transform into a god. First, we must transform the mortal.

But the transformation of the mortal, easy to say. In reality, it’s not that simple. Wang Lin now. Experienced loneliness. This loneliness. He knows it deep down. He had to keep experiencing it.

Compared to this loneliness. A few years later. The people around him died one by one. The feeling of being the only person in the entire world, compared to this. That was true loneliness.

Wang Lin was silent. After a long time he stumbled to his feet. The entire person seemed to have aged a bit in this instant. Slowly, he cleaned up the chairs at the entrance. Returned to the store. Gently closed the door.

After a long time. Inside the store, a fire was lit up. Although it looked no different from the other stores around. But in reality. This fire light. Only the appearance. Within it was hidden, a deep loneliness.

Wang Lin sat next to the fireplace, the store within the very warm, just his heart, but more and more cold, silent for a long time, Wang Lin took its storage bag, took out a statue from inside, placed it at his side.

This statue is engraved, is his father.

Looking at the statue, Wang Lin’s inner cold, gradually less, he took out his mother’s statue, then, a statue was taken out of his storage bag, placed around the fireplace.

There were boyfriends and girls, old and young, all of them were neighbors in the small village back then.

Looking at these statues, Wang Lin revealed a smile, this smile is full of a trace of satisfaction, but if anyone sees this smile at this time, will feel, this where is a smile, clearly is a silent cry.

Furnace fire flickering, light and dark, reflected in the human face, but also so, reflected in those wooden carvings, but also has a strange feeling.

Gently pick up a statue, Wang Lin’s inner cold, gradually less, just, although the loneliness is less, but the sadness is heavy.

“Can’t let go …… can’t let go ……” Wang Lin muttered, when he cultivated immortality in his early years, he couldn’t let go of his loved ones, and now, he still puts it down.

However, this kind of emotion, is different from the year, if you want to turn into a god, you must first turn into a mortal, if you really let go of your loved ones to let go of everything, then you want to turn into a mortal, it is simply impossible.

Every cultivator of the God-realization stage, the reason why powerful, in addition to its cultivation, more importantly, is its heart, all have a hidden deep emotion, it is this emotion, can let them turn mortal, so that through the emotion, break through the baby, to reach the realm of God-realization.

It was because of this obsession that Wang Lin didn’t encounter too much frustration in transforming into a mortal, but gradually felt the feeling of being a mortal.

At this moment, he was immersed in the thoughts of his parents, quietly sensing this feeling, the spiritual energy in his body, once again, rotated crazily, this rotation, gradually penetrated outside of his body, and on top of all the wood carvings in this store, a trace of spiritual energy suddenly rose, rapidly rotating in the same fluctuation as the spiritual energy in Wang Lin’s body.

Gradually, this spiritual energy rotated faster and faster, penetrating the store.

The snowflakes descending from the sky also rotated as they landed on the roof of the store, forming a rotating snowflake cluster that slid away in all directions.

Snow, the more it fell, after a long time, Wang Lin gradually awake, in the moment he was awake, the surrounding shelves on the wooden carvings, there is a small half, snapped, appeared to break.

Although this small half of the wood carvings have broken, but its diffuse spiritual power, is heavier than before, and even the quality, has also improved.

Wang Lin looked at it and took a deep breath.

He stood up and pushed open the door of the store, a cold aura blew in his face, mixed with countless icy cold, Wang Lin looked up at the sky and whispered flatly, “Transformation of the gods, I, Wang Lin, have it!”

The snowflakes that fell from the sky, were even bigger, and a thick layer piled up on the ground, at this time, the door of the iron tool store across the street suddenly opened, and Da Niu and his father, who were about to go out, saw Wang Lin standing across the street, and couldn’t help but be flabbergasted for a moment, and then Da Niu ran a few steps fast, stepped on the snow, making a crunching sound, and came to Wang Lin’s side, and cried out, “Uncle Wang, did you know that we were going to come over ah.” With that, he entered the room and sat by the fireplace.

Da Niu’s father, smiling nervously, held a wooden basket and said to Wang Lin, “Wang family brothers, not busy, right?”

Wang Lin smiled and let himself go, saying, “Not busy, come in and talk.”

Da Niu’s father entered the room and looked at the wood carvings around him, his eyes showed envy, then he put down the wooden basket in his hands and rubbed his hands together, as if he wanted to say something but was too embarrassed to open his mouth.

At this time, Da Niu, who was sitting by the fireplace, saw the statues of Wang Lin’s parents and relatives and immediately let out a soft cry and said, “Uncle Wang, how come I’ve never seen these statues before, were they made recently?”

Wang Lin closed the door to the room, sat aside and said, “It was made before.”

Da Niu gazed at the statues and said, “Uncle Wang, who are the people carved on these statues?”

A trace of nostalgia appeared in Wang Lin’s eyes as he slowly said, “They are my relatives.”

Da Niu was stunned, so he didn’t continue to ask, but hurriedly stood up and ran to the wooden basket and opened the lid, only to see three plates of exquisite small dishes as well as two jugs of fruit wine inside.

Wang Lin looked at it and looked at Da Niu’s father with a smile on his face, in these three years, he and the other party had been interacting with each other from time to time, and this was the first time that he had seen this bright and cheerful man with the current scene, obviously he was looking for his help with something.

“Big brother Zeng, if there’s anything you want to say, just say it.” Wang Lin said.

Da Niu’s father hesitated, rubbed his hands together, and said awkwardly, “Nothing, nothing.”

Da Niu looked at the small dishes in the wooden basket, swallowed his saliva, reached out to grab inside, his father’s eyes glared, frightening Da Niu hastily withdrew his hand, muttering discontentedly, “It’s not just that you want to borrow some silver, what’s there to be embarrassed about.”

Da Niu’s father, his face instantly red, scolded: “Little brat, you wait for home.”

Da Niu stuck out his tongue and said to Wang Lin: “Uncle Wang, my father is embarrassed to say, I say it, my mother is ready to take down the store next to the store, make the store bigger, but the money is not enough.”

Da Niu’s father sighed, looked at Wang Lin and said helplessly, “Wang family brother, your sister-in-law always said that our store is small, so not many people come to buy iron tools, this is not to see that the store next to Old Li’s family is going to be rented out, so we are thinking of renting it.”

Wang Lin smiled and nodded, picked up the wine pot inside the wooden basket, took a sip and said, “How much?”

Da Niu’s father hesitated for a moment and said, “His store is quite big, and it will be paid for two years at a time, it will take fifty taels of silver …… en …… thirty taels, thirty taels will be enough.”

Da Niu pouted his lips and whispered, “Mother clearly said that it needs eighty taels ……” He didn t wait to speak, and then he was glared at by his father fiercely.

Wang Lin nodded and didn’t say anything, but got up and came to the back room, where there was a large frame, all of which were gold and silver things, Wang Lin casually picked up a piece of gold, returned to the store, and placed it in front of Da Niu’s father’s ground.

When Da Niu’s father saw the gold, he was stunned and quickly said, “I can’t use this much, Wang Clan brother, take it back, I’m only borrowing 30 taels of silver and that’s enough.” In his opinion, this gold, at least ten taels, with what he needed, exceeded too much.

Wang Lin picked up the wine pot and smiled, “Big brother Zeng, this money, is not borrowed from you, but my money to buy wine, from now on, a pot a day, your fruit wine is good, ten years of wine money, it’s worth it.”

Da Niu father hesitated for a moment, his face showed excitement, said, “Wang family brother, this ……”

Da Niu’s eyes rolled and said, “Father, just take it, Uncle Wang selling a wood carving is worth ten taels of gold.”

Da Niu’s father glared at Da Niu once again, then took a deep breath, he picked up the wine pot, took a big hard gulp, nodded his head and said, “Wang family brother, what ten or eight years, as long as you live here for a day, I’ll send you a pot every day.”

Wang Lin laughed lightly, looking at the father and son duo in front of him, his heart gradually ceased to be cold and slowly gained a trace of warmth.

This night, Da Niu’s father drank a lot, two jugs of wine was obviously not enough, Da Niu waited on the side, until after the tenth jug was brought, it was enough to drink.

In the end, Da Niu’s father was drunk and fell over, but his hand was holding the gold tightly, and was helped by Da Niu to go back.

Before leaving, Da Niu quietly said to Wang Lin: “Uncle Wang, my family this wine, can be a lot, my father did not let me tell others, in fact, my family’s cellar, there are several large altar, are left behind by the ancestors, I heard of the bottom of the buried a lot of it, if it is not my father resolutely do not allow the sale of my mother would not have allowed him to come to borrow money.”