Fireworks exploded in the night sky, and the sudden flash of white illuminated Qin Ran on the barren mountain.
On this snowy night, Li Shiyin was setting off fireworks and Qin Ran was watching them.
Li Shiyin set off her own fireworks. She and her brother lit up the brilliant fireworks in her backyard.
Qin Ran was watching other people's fireworks. He was outside the city, in the mountains, in the dark, alone, in the rain, watching other people's fireworks light up in the night sky.
He was on the outskirts of Qingyuan City, while his parents in this life were in Qingyuan City.
Qin Ran was a person with a strong sense of ritual. After arriving in this world, even if he lived alone, he would still celebrate the traditional festivals of his previous life. He would pay tribute to his master during the Qingming Festival, make rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, burn paper money during the Zhongyuan Festival, make moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and set off firecrackers on New Year's Eve.
He remembered the festivals in his previous life, but... he always celebrated them alone.
In fact, his relatives in this life are still there, including his parents, who are in Qingyuan City, very close to Daojianmen. If he wants, he can go back and forth several times a day. It's just that it's hard to say what kind of feelings he has for them.
He went up the mountain to practice at a very young age, he should have been only five years old at that time, plus he was originally a lonely soul wandering in another world. How could he be expected to have feelings for his parents in this world?
Although he paid attention to them and helped them secretly to make their lives better, he never met them again.
If Li Shiyin hadn't said that she was going home for the New Year, perhaps he wouldn't have thought of coming here on New Year's Day to "go home".
"Home" is in the city, but at this moment, standing here, he felt the loneliness from the whole world. This loneliness has nothing to do with monks and mortals, but this world and him, he and this world, are incompatible.
Chinese New Year...the world is very lively, but all that liveliness has nothing to do with him.
It rained all night, and Qin Ran, a water mage, was soaked by the cold rain. He did not enter Qingyuan City until dawn.
When a faint light appeared in the east, making the world a little brighter, he turned and left, away from Qingyuan City.
Qin Ran found the direction of Daojian Gate and walked back to Danfeng step by step like a mortal. Perhaps... that was his home.
From Qingyuan to Daojianmen, if one used the means of a cultivator, flying or escaping, one would arrive in a blink of an eye, but if one walked like a mortal, it would take Qin Ran more than ten days.
He walked step by step, through muddy roads, through thorny roads, through roads with rocks, through roads with tall trees, through huge rocks, through rivers, through roads without roads, until his clothes were torn and his shoes were broken. He waded through mud, thorns, gravel and rivers barefoot.
He didn’t know why he had to make this journey, but he just walked like that... Just like during the spiritual practice, one needs to overcome tribulations; to find a home, a spiritual home, one also needs to "overcome tribulations."
On the way, he saw hunters going into the mountains and forests alone, regardless of the New Year and the cold weather; he saw skinny, pale old women begging on the roadside; he saw birds and animals looming in the jungle by the roadside; he saw dead people on the road; he saw corpses and bones in the jungle...
He saw all the living beings in the world. It turned out that no matter which world or era, the ordinary people at the bottom of society were all the same.
All living beings suffer.
The New Year is the end of the old and the beginning of the new. It is a sign that life is getting better, a new hope for life, and a happy thing. It should be a happy thing.
But what does this New Year have to do with all these suffering people? And what does it have to do with Qin Ran?
Qin Ran walked hundreds of miles in the rain, just like the old woman who was staggering and begging in the rain, and walked back to Daojianmen.
He looked up at the gate of Daojianmen and thought, what is the difference between him in the cultivation world and ordinary people in the human world? He is no different from an old woman begging for food.
Because of his sloppy appearance, he was also driven away by an equally sinister villain... Beggars should stay away from important immortal sects like Daojianmen.
Therefore, there is no difference between humans and immortals.
He did not pursue the crime of the outer disciple, but took out the token, opened the formation passage and entered the Daojian Gate.
Arriving at Danfeng, Qin Ran looked up at the mist formed by the mountain protection formation outside Danfeng. That was the formation he had built bit by bit. Danfeng was originally his home in this alien world.
But……
When he got here, he realized that perhaps a person’s home is not a specific place, but a person.
"well!"
He sighed and waved his hand to open the formation.
Then he passed through the formation channel...
Saw that person.
I don't know when it stopped raining. On the lawn in front of Danfeng's cabin, two silhouettes, one red and one white, were chasing and playing. The red one was Li Shiyin in red, and the white one was Zhuifeng in white.
These two guys can't live in peace unless they make a fuss for a day.
Kieran walked through the formation and stood in front of the lawn, looking at the two of them.
“Master?” Li Shiyin was the first to notice Qin Ran’s return. She rushed over and wanted to give him a bear hug, but Qin Ran’s embarrassment made her stop. “Master! How did you become like this?”
She added, "Same as Li Shiwen."
Zhuifeng ran over and sniffed around Qin Ran, shaking his head and asking, "Dad, have you been bullied?"
Qin Ran held down Zhui Feng's spinning cat head, looked at Li Shiyin, smiled, and asked, "When did you come back?"
"I've been back for a few days!" Li Shiyin replied, "I'll be back after the Chinese New Year!"
She looked at Qin Ran, and suddenly her hands were pinching the corners of her clothes, and finally she looked shy like a girl. She lowered her head and whispered, "Who knew that Master, you were not at Danfeng."
The girl's shyness was so alluring that Qin Ran wanted to go up to her, hug her tightly in his arms and cherish her, but he didn't. He held back with great willpower.
He looked away and replied, "I walked around a bit."
Upon hearing this, Li Shiyin looked at Qin Ran's feet and found that Qin Ran's shoes were torn and several toes were sticking out of the shoes.
She took out two pairs of shoes from her Qiankun bag and handed them to Qin Ran. She said in a lower voice, "Master will give you shoes."
The shoes were given to her by Yang Yanqi before she left home. Yang Yanqi told her: "This is the custom of my mother's side. If you like a boy, you should give him shoes, so that he can't leave your palm."
This is a token of love.
Qin Ran didn't know. He thought it was an ordinary gift. He took it with a smile and said, "Thank you."
Hearing the noise of Qin Ran coming back, Long Qiqi came out of the shed and looked over here. Seeing Li Shiyin's appearance, he frowned and said, "Why is Li Shiyin acting like a sissy today?"
The family of three walked towards the cabin. Qin Ran looked up and found that the sky, which had been cloudy, rainy or snowy for more than a month, had finally retreated and the sun was shining on the horizon.
It’s the New Year, the Spring Festival has arrived.
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