The three of them were welcomed in by Zhou Ce. As Li Yu walked, he carefully looked at the small courtyard. The courtyard was not very big. There was a main room and a kitchen next to it. It looked very simple.

After entering the house, Li Yu discovered that there were not many furnishings inside, including a dining table, a few benches, and some small cabinets for storing sundries. There was also a room on the right, which should be Zhou Ce's bedroom.

Several people were chatting at the dining table in the main room. Zhou Ce brought them tea. Zhou Ce asked, "What are you doing in the central square? Is there anything going on there?"

Li Yu and Shen Xun looked at each other, as if they were wondering whether to say something, but what to say. Could it be that Shen Tang had heard the three people talking about the stone tablet just now?

Shen Tang didn't think too much, she said calmly, "I once heard those three guys talking about the stone tablet, saying that the stone tablet recorded the history of Tianmen Town, so I told my brother and the others about it. Talked about it."

Zhou Ce laughed and said, "It's actually the same thing!"

Shen Xun realized something and said, "Is this what you were talking about just now?"

Zhou Ce nodded and said, "Yes, they asked me to find a way to find out about the stone tablet when I go to the city lord's mansion."

Hearing this, Li Yu seemed to have guessed something and asked, "Can Brother Zhou still go to the City Lord's Mansion?"

Shen Tang was quite proud of him and said, "Yes, you didn't know it when you first came here. The Lord of the City appreciates Brother Zhou Ce very much and often asks him to go to the Lord's Mansion to sort out the books there."

Shen Xun then explained, "The collection of books in the City Lord's Mansion is the largest in Tianmen Town. Unfortunately, ordinary people are not allowed to enter. Later, the City Lord asked A Ce to go there twice a month so that he could copy some books and show them to us students."

Li Yu nodded, indicating that he understood, and didn't say much else.

Shen Xun then asked, "Then do they want you to go to the city lord's palace library to check about the stone tablet?"

Zhou Ce nodded helplessly and said, "Yes, they asked me to check it out, saying that there is a secret in that stone tablet, and it will be good for me if I find out."

The three of them could clearly feel the reluctance in Zhou Ce's words. Shen Tang asked directly, "Then brother Zhou Ce doesn't want to check?"

"Of course I don't want to investigate. The city lord is so kind to me and wants me to investigate the affairs of Tianmen Town with a purpose. It always feels like betraying him. Moreover, I just want to study here in peace and mind. They want to I don’t want to get involved in any of those things.”

Li Yu asked, "Can't you refuse?"

Zhou Ce didn't answer, and there was a moment of silence among the four of them. Li Yu didn't know if he asked something he shouldn't have asked. He glanced at the others, and finally Shen Xun touched his head and answered for him, "A Ce His identity is a bit special. Unlike us, he has family here. He has no family to make plans for him. He lives alone in Tianmen Town. There are many ways for others to manipulate him. If there were not many things in the City Lord's Mansion these years Zhaofu, I'm afraid his life will be even more difficult than it is now."

Shen Xun didn't finish what he said, but Li Yu didn't know that there are many ways to manipulate a person in this world. Without the care of adults, it would be difficult to survive in this world.

From then on, he also understood a little bit why Zhou Ce didn't come forward to help in time when Wang Feiyu and others were aggressive towards Shen Xun. From his point of view, the only way to protect himself was to endure as long as he could.

Zhou Ce saw that the three of them were silent about his matters, and did not want them to worry more about his matters, so he changed the subject and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. We finally have a rest. Of course we talk about happy things. Ah Xun , didn’t you say yesterday that you would take us to sea today? When will we set off? "

After hearing this, Shen Tang looked at her brother with wide eyes and said in disbelief, "Okay, I said you didn't want to take me with you when you went out in the morning. It turns out that you want to go to sea without telling your parents. You are crazy. Come on. Aren't you afraid that something will happen if there are no adults around us?"

Shen Xun said angrily, "Then don't go, who asked you to follow me?"

Seeing that her brother didn't seem to care about going to sea or their safety, Shen Tang said a little angrily, "Okay, okay, I'll go talk to my parents and see if they will agree to your going."

Zhou Ce and Li Yu looked at each other, not knowing how to ease the conflict between the brother and sister. Li Yu bit the bullet and said, "Sister, don't be angry first. I don't think my brother wants to go to the deep sea. He wants to go there." It should be the beach and shallow water area. I want to show me the world."

Hearing Li Yu step down for the two of them, Shen Xun also softened his tone and said, "Yeah, who said I would go to the deep sea area? I just heard Xiao Yu'er say yesterday that it was his first time to see the sea. I have never been to the beach before, so I want to take you to have fun. If you really want to go to those dangerous sea areas, even if I want to, I don’t have the ability to take you there. Even if I am not afraid of death, am I still afraid of death? Can I care whether you live or die?"

After hearing this, Shen Tang thought for a moment. Although her brother was usually a bit unreliable and had wild ideas, he was still very good to her. He would protect her from dangerous things and dangerous places. This time, she was also Overreaction.

She curled her lips and said, "I'm also worried that you are too excited and something will happen to you!"

The two people finally no longer had the tense atmosphere just now. Zhou Ce and Li Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, looked at each other, and smiled helplessly.

The four of them planned to have lunch outside today. They took some fruits and vegetables from Zhou Ce's house, plus the steamed buns they brought from home in the morning. They also caught two fish from the sea and grilled them for lunch. That was enough.

After Zhou Ce locked the yard, the group walked from his home to the seaside.

On the way, Zhou Ce and Shen Xun were walking behind, avoiding Li Yu and Shen Tang who were talking small talk. Zhou Ce asked, "Don't you know, Sister Tang? I thought you told her today!"

Shen Xun also secretly said, "Of course I don't know. If she knew, my parents would know too."

"Then you're bringing them here? Can't we just go together?" Zhou Ce asked in confusion.

Shen Xun explained, "Originally I wanted to take Xiao Yu'er with me, but you don't know, I chatted with him yesterday and found out that he has a lot of knowledge, and I thought that we would have someone to discuss anything we encounter together. Unexpectedly, he played very well with my sister. My sister heard that he was playing with us today and she clamored to come over."

Zhou Ce asked with some confusion and disbelief, "He? He looks like he is only five or six years old. He is smaller than us. How much knowledge can he have? Aren't you confused by him?"

Shen Xun said, "Don't believe it. Just what he said just now shows that he is extraordinary. Also, although Uncle Lin didn't show his power in front of us, how can we not know how powerful he is? A Do you think the person who can be accepted as a disciple by Uncle Lin will be an ordinary person?"

Zhou Ce came to his senses and said in disbelief, "You mean, he is also a practitioner?"

Shen Xun said with some pride, "Although he didn't say it himself, nor did Uncle Lin, I can feel that he is definitely not as weak as he appears."

Zhou Ce said with some sigh, "I really didn't expect that Taoist Master Lin would accept him as his disciple."

Then, he asked curiously, "By the way, why don't you become a disciple of Taoist Master Lin? He has such a good relationship with your family."

Shen Xun said, "Actually, I asked Uncle Lin later, and he said that I am not suitable for practicing Taoism, but only suitable for reading. But I also thought about it seriously, and I seem to like reading more. Doesn't it say in the book that if you read thousands of books? After traveling thousands of miles, I want to be such a scholar. If you really ask me to meditate in my room, I don’t think I can sit down.”

Zhou Ce said, "You are quite open-minded." There was a hint of loneliness in his words, but this meaning was fleeting, so Shen Xun did not catch it. Shen Xun also asked him, "What about you? Why don't you go for it? I didn’t know whether Uncle Lin would accept disciples before, but now that he has accepted Xiao Yu’er, it means that he still has the intention to accept disciples.”

This question made Zhou Ce a little tempted, but he also thought that it was not that he had never fought for it before. That was once when he was copying books in the city lord's mansion, and when Lin Taoist went to the city lord's mansion as a guest, the city lord introduced him and said It would be great to recommend Zhou Ce to Taoist Lin, and it would be good to be a little disciple who would serve him by the side. But the Taoist glanced at him and asked Zhou Ce a question, "What do you think is cultivation?"

Zhou Ce was only six years old at the time and had just been enlightened for a year. He only vaguely knew that cultivation was a very powerful thing from books. But even so, he didn't know how to answer this question. After the incident, he only remembered that he answered One sentence, "I want to stand on the top of the world so that everyone can see me. Does this count as spiritual practice?"

Then, the Taoist ignored the matter.

When he gets older, he will be more and more impressed by this matter, and how can he not know that the other party is not satisfied with his answer, and does not want to accept him as a disciple!

At this time, when he heard Shen Xun ask him this, he said with some laughter and tears, "I don't have the fate of being a master and a disciple with Taoist Lin."

Shen Xun knew what it meant and didn't ask any more questions. Why did he ask so clearly about some things? He patted Zhou Ce on the shoulder, comforted him and said, "It's okay. We are also great scholars. Books Didn't it say that people in this world can not only practice Taoism, but also become saints through reading, which is also a very remarkable achievement."

The four of them saw some acquaintances on the road, greeted them warmly, and introduced Li Yu's existence. In this way, Li Yu really came into everyone's eyes.

"This is the child brought by Master Lin. He is so good-looking, like a child from a wealthy family."

"How old are you this year? Where are you from? Is there anyone else at home? Does your family agree with you leaving with Taoist Master Lin?"

"..."

Everyone asked each other questions, and Li Yu answered some questions that he could answer, and vaguely answered those that he couldn't. This also gave Zhou Ce a general understanding of Li Yu's life experience, and he felt quite fond of him. To sigh, it seems that his life experience was also very rough and difficult.

After walking through these complicated problems, the four of them finally arrived at the beach. Li Yu looked at the sea in front of him and the boats sailing on the sea, and the world in his heart suddenly became wider.

This was different from when he saw the sea on the boat to Tianmen Town. The sea was densely foggy at that time, which made him feel that the surroundings were very silted, and there was no open and vast artistic conception. He spent most of the time in the cabin, so naturally he could not see the sea.

True appearance.

Looking at the sea now, the last feeling of uneasiness in his heart due to the death of his grandma and coming to this strange Tianmen Town disappeared in an instant. He finally understood that he once saw an ancient poem in a book - The sky is far away and the sea is far away.

, the artistic conception of dying in peace.
Chapter completed!