At the beginning of the story, he was Lao and his son, and they were old. On the stage, two students acted out the story he wrote about "Between Immortals and Mortals" in a very flamboyant way, while he sat quietly in a corner. The scene was interspersed with memories of him running away with his son, and the desolate background of his current scene. Suddenly, an ignorant boy came to him and asked him a question - since we are in love, why don't we break through all the obstacles and be together? He smiled, a wry smile that had gone through fifty years of hardships. This kid looked fearless like his 20-year-old counterpart, but he was still too young after all.
This is his appearance, not the high-spirited Lao Xinrong in his memories, but the old Master Lao who has exhausted all his vitality. And the heroine in his memory made her first real appearance under a dead tree in the Netherworld Garden. Her face was haggard, she was enduring waves of physical and mental pain, and she refused to deny their love no matter what. Although you have not aged for fifty years, you may be a beauty in the morning and a withered skeleton in the evening.
This is the beginning of the story, but it is about to end for them.
The love affair between the second princess of Tianwai Feixianli and Lao Fuzi is a tie-in to the whole play, and it can also be said to be a clue throughout the whole story. Xiao Qiyi first descended to earth to have an entanglement with Tong Yuan in order to save her The connection between the second sister, Xiang Xuehai, and the third generation of the Shangguan family started when the civet cat rescued the seriously injured Lao Xinrong for the sake of the second princess. All in all, they are the original knot of the story.
Their meeting, now that I think about it, was a bit childish and ridiculous. At that time, Lao Xinrong was a handsome young man with high spirits. He went to the temple to question the gods and Buddhas all over the sky. What could have been laughed off, but he shouted out Yu Xiao'er. Such a woman suddenly appeared in the ancient temple with a leisurely manner. In a daze, a gust of fresh wind blew away the staleness in front of his eyes, and the birds were chirping in the distance, which wrinkled the silent lake water in early spring. He felt that all the spring scenery he had seen could not match her smile. She must have felt that the young man in front of her was crazy and cute, so she prayed for him tenderly. Suddenly, she grabbed his hair, pinched his nose, and then told him that a mortal would be angry if he was manipulated like this, let alone a god or a Buddha. As a result, Lao Xinrong said in a daze, "I think gods are also happy to be manipulated."
Why?
Because he likes you.
Yu Xiaoer was also a little stunned, but he fell in love with this bad boy. He and she are probably the fate of each other. Meeting, falling in love, being forced to separate, missing each other in two places, in less than one episode, the joy, the pain of parting, and all kinds of tiredness in the world came to an abrupt end, so that every time I think about it later, I always think of that year. The peach blossoms you want to see have not yet had time to bloom.
Master Lao once said that love can reach the state of not loving. At the time, he thought it was a bit far-fetched. He said, if Lao Xinrong had said "I don't love you" when they were separated, or if Yu Xiao'er had said "I don't love you", would the outcome have been very different? Will he be spared 50 years of bipolar suffering? Later, I realized that the so-called not loving is for the sake of the other person's life well-being.
But Lao Xinrong and Yu Xiaoer would never have said this at that time. At that time, he was young and passionate, and she was gentle and affectionate. How could they say this if they didn't love each other. So these four words, going around and around, could only be written on the paper fan by the experienced old master with a stroke of his pen. The second princess left the Nether Garden and missed him quietly and unyieldingly. But he, like a candle that was about to be extinguished, clung to the hairpin she left behind and pursued it relentlessly.
These four words were finally used by Xiaoqi on Tong Yuan, but they seemed to bring another kind of pain, worse than missing each other but not being in love. There are no ifs in life. If you think you will choose another path, you know it is not another hell. Not loving is always an excuse. From the beginning to the end of the two people, the one who has always been brave is Xiao'er. I have been thinking, if the old master was still as fearless as he was when he was young, would the ending be different?
Compared with Lao Fuzi, Xiao'er's longing is actually more peaceful, but it is also deep and as firm as ever. The second princess and her sisters came down to earth to help Xiao Qi, and under the guidance of Fa Chai, Lao Fuzi followed him again and again. It was just a curtain in the sky that kept them on the same side. Mr. Lao is now an old man who only dares to pursue his lover in the dark. He has gradually become inferior in this tug-of-war of love. He has always been an open-minded wise man, except for the second princess. As the second princess of Heaven, Yu Xiaoer's lonely and long years made her reject the so-called immortality.
In such stagnant years, she would rather have a fire light up her life, even if she would be burned to death, than these endless days, so she is more fearless and brave. It’s just that she forgot that the life of that fire was too short. The days she wanted to be burned out were the life of the fire. When the flame became more and more dim with time and could no longer give her love and protection, the future , is just a distant and frozen noun. The gap between eternity and ephemerality is the knot in Lao Fuzi's heart. It is entangled and entangled, and she, Yu Xiaoer, cannot untie it.
In the end, Fuzi Lao met the second princess at the cost of his own heart. What a scene it was. There was a faint red light on the sky, and then it became brighter, spreading over half of the sky, as if there were stars. Falling, circle after circle, slowly outlines her figure, she rotates, the embroidery sways, step by step, her face gradually becomes clear, like a hibiscus emerging from the water. But he turned his back, and the child looked at him tenderly and somewhat sadly. The conversation was mixed with memories. She accompanied him to recall the time when he was tired, and looked at his bleak silhouette in the night, with watery eyes. The heartache and affection that cannot be concealed.
I always thought that the beginning of the story was about to end for them. Although Xiang Xuehai's spell made him young for a while, the pain of returning to his original shape hit him a hundred times a thousand times; the second princess turned herself into an old woman and wanted to go against heaven to stay with him, but it also made him more sober. He realized that he could not accompany her through her whole life, and could not even prevent her from getting older, even if it was just an illusion. If he couldn't, it would ruin the dreams of the two of them. If he refused, she would be less desperate in the days after she left. Therefore, Lao Fuzi finally summoned the heavenly soldiers and made himself despair.
Just as Mr. Lao couldn’t appreciate the desperate perseverance in the second princess’s love, the second princess couldn’t understand the humbleness of his mentality. So when the second princess saw the heavenly soldiers and generals and the ruthless old master, she couldn't believe it and even tried her best to save him. In late autumn, all the scenery was brilliantly burning, and in her eyes, everything looked gray. The day before, the moonlight was gentle, and the two of them were swinging by the tree and talking about their thoughts. Now, she was almost kneeling. Behind him, there was no exchange for his turning around. In the face of such determination, all that was left of her indomitable spirit was grief that was as low as the dust. When she was finally restrained and disappeared, her heart turned gray. She leaned over and looked at each other, and suddenly thought of what Lao Xinrong had just said:
"It seems short, but I have spent my whole life. I've tried my best."
She finally called him to be happy, shouting at the top of her lungs, only to realize that the leaves under the big tree were now really yellow and withered.
Later, Lao Xinrong died, and Yu Xiaoer cried so hard that her heart was broken. From then on, she was left alone, missing her alone.
In the endless days, I suddenly remembered that day when she cast a spell to make butterflies pick up the red beans from Lao Fuzi across the wall. At that time, the box containing the red beans was scattered on the ground, one by one, like many years of longing. Stillness spreads. She picked it up between her two fingers and gently held it in her mouth, her love melting away. For a moment, my heart trembled slightly, and my eyes flickered several times. She couldn't help but reveal her true identity to Lao Xinrong outside the wall. In the night, the faces of the two people overlapped.
In the past, there was a woman whose tears turned into blood and turned into acacia beans.
Between them, they may be brave or cowardly. Their love is so deep that they search and search for each other, but in the end they still miss each other endlessly.