The little girl walked out of the room, smelled the aroma of meat, and ran straight to the kitchen with greed.
"It'll be ready soon..." Bai Ze held the wooden spoon, but before he finished speaking, Jian Xi knelt down on the ground with a plop, using too much force, which made her grimace in pain, but it was harmless, and she bowed her head to Bai Ze.
"Dad!!" Jian Xi shouted. The sound of "Daddy" frightened Bai Ze. The wooden spoon in his hand shook and landed straight on Jian Xi's forehead.
"Ouch!" Jian Xi was hurt by being hit with a wooden spoon. She covered her head and stared at Bai Ze.
"Why did you hit me?"
"What did you call me?" Bai Ze's face turned dark.
"Dad!" Jian Xi said confidently. Sensing that Bai Ze's expression was wrong, she dropped the wooden spoon in her hand and quickly explained, "This is what the old gentleman in the library said! He said that once you are a teacher, you will always be a father. Since I want to recognize you as my master, I should naturally call you daddy. You are taking advantage of me anyway, why are you beating me..."
"Do you recognize me as your master?" Bai Ze was stunned, frowned and said,
"No."
"Why?!" Jian Xi wondered,
"Master thinks I'm too stupid? As the old saying goes, diligence can make up for stupidity. I may be stupid, but I'm diligent!"
"No." Bai Ze said,
"I can't teach you. I haven't practiced cultivation myself yet. If I become your master, wouldn't it make me laugh?"
"How could it be possible?" Jian Xi argued,
"Master stepped into such a deep pit with one foot and taught me enough. I am not greedy. I will learn as much as Master is willing to teach!"
"No." Bai Ze refused,
"I have only just reached the second-rate level. There are so many people like me in the world of Jiuzhou that I really can't teach you."
"The second rate is already very high!" Jian Xi said.
"You are not in the world, so you don't know the ropes." Bai Ze explained,
"There are first-class masters above me. Above the first-class masters is the ultimate master, and above the supreme master there is the Fengtian." The next three realms are third-rate, the fourth realm is second-rate, the fifth realm is first-rate, the sixth realm is the ultimate, and the seventh realm is Fengtian.
"I don't care." Jian Xi said stubbornly,
"Even if the master is not the most powerful one, he must be the best one in the world. If you don't agree, I will keep kneeling here and won't get up!" Bai Ze was quite helpless. Seeing that the meat was cooked, he filled it with Bowl, squatted down and handed it to Jian Xi.
The little girl pursed her lips and her stomach growled, but she didn't say a word, as if Bai Ze wouldn't eat unless she promised him.
"Don't want to eat?" Bai Ze said with a smile,
"It smells good." Jian Xi knelt there without saying a word. Bai Ze couldn't bear it, but the road he was going to take was extremely dangerous. How could he bear to take such an inexperienced little girl to a sea of blood and murder?
"How about I teach you a few boxing moves?" Bai Ze said,
"Didn't you say you wanted to learn boxing from me?"
"Master agreed?" Jian Xi's eyes lit up. Bai Ze was stunned and shook his head. The light in Jian Xi's eyes immediately dimmed, she was dejected and said angrily: "I won't learn!" Bai Ze had no choice but to get up and walk out of the kitchen, stepping on the moon and walking away.
Bai Ze walked all the way to Hengqu, the moon was as cold as water, reflecting the water in Hengqu, making the floating light shine like gold. The boy in sackcloth called softly by the river,
"Here comes the sword." Upstream of Hengqu, a sword broke through the water from the river bed. It made a clear sword cry and flew in front of Bai Ze.
The young man stretched out his hand to grab the scabbard, pulled out the sword with his right hand, shook the sword with a splash of blood, shook off the water stains on the sword, flicked the dark jade sword with his fingers, and said with a smile: "These days, you are really lonely. "After that, the sword was sheathed and a cold light flashed.
"What a sword." Someone walked up from the river bank and praised it. Bai Ze looked at the place where the sound came from in surprise. Although he was seriously injured by the turbulence of time and space and has not recovered yet, his cultivation has entered the fourth realm and the opening of the soul spring has given him extraordinary spiritual awareness. I noticed there were other people beside Hengqu!
Mr. Baize Dingjingtang.
"Old sir." Bai Ze's heart was filled with excitement, but his face was calm, and he said politely to the old scholar.
The old scholar was surprised for a moment by Bai Ze's salute, and said, "Your name is A Ze, right? From what I see, you seem to be from a Taoist sect. How can I greet you with Confucian etiquette?"
"When I was young, I studied in the Academy." Bai Ze said,
"Sir, this is a joke."
"Xue Gong?" the old scholar asked in surprise,
"But Jixia Academy?"
"Exactly." Bai Ze said.
"Why didn't you read it later?" the old scholar asked,
"I see that you have wisdom. If you continue reading, you may not be able to join the Confucian Temple in the future." Bai Ze was shocked and said in fear: "The old man has embarrassed the younger generation! What kind of existence is the Confucian Temple, how can the younger generation join it? What is enshrined there, But they are all Confucian sages."
"Haha, my nonsense words scared you little guy." The old scholar stroked his beard and smiled,
"It's okay not to mention it. I see that you seem to be troubled and don't know why?" Bai Ze smiled bitterly and said, "You are a girl from the Jian family."
"Oh." The old scholar said meaningfully,
"The Jian family girl is also a person with deep wisdom. After so many years of suffering, meeting you is a blessing after all."
"Sir, it seems that there is something in his words." Bai Ze said.
"Haha, since my little friend has nothing to do at night, why not go to my snow hall and sit down, drink tea and talk at night." The old scholar said.
"Sir, you are so kind, how dare I refuse?" Bai Ze said with a smile. Bai Ze followed the old scholar all the way and finally guessed what he meant.
Jianxi has wisdom roots. The old scholar repeatedly mentioned reading in his conversation with him, and the obvious meaning was that he wanted to find a successor to pass on what he had learned throughout his life.
That person is naturally Jian Xi. Bai Ze was surprised. He didn't expect to be dragged here by the time and space turbulence in the Kunlun Secret Realm, and he met an expert.
He saw that the town had no special luck, but he didn't expect that he was still young, and that luck was right in front of him but he couldn't notice it.
Bai Ze followed the old scholar and looked at the old man's slender back. If the old scholar is not deliberately mystical, then he is as clever as clumsy and as wise as foolish.
The former is not very likely. This can be seen from the fact that the old scholar guessed that the academy was Jixia Academy. If an ordinary Confucian scholar hears the name of Jixia Academy, he will at least be surprised, if not envious.
But just now the old scholar was just surprised, as if he didn't expect Bai Ze to have studied at Jixia Academy, instead of reacting to the four words "Jixia Academy".
The residence of the old scholar can be said to be shabby. Chaimen is cold and the walls of several thatched houses are all white. This is probably the origin of the word Xuetang.
The old scholar brought Bai Ze into the main room, held a lamp, and took out the fire to make tea. The water is spring water and the tea is mountain tea.
The old scholar made tea with his own hands. After a while, the water gurgled in the hall and the fragrance overflowed.
"Try this Funiu Mountain green tea." The old scholar boiled the tea, poured two bowls, and pushed one bowl in front of Bai Ze. The two sat across the table from each other. The old man smiled and said,
"Tea from Funiu Mountain is sweet in spring, strong in summer, and strong in autumn. Spring tea must be drank in a cup, summer tea must be drank in a cup, but this autumn tea must be drank in a bowl, otherwise it will not be as refreshing to drink. ." After saying that, the old scholar laughed to himself and seemed to be very satisfied with his tea art.
"What the gentleman said is not like tea, but more like the principles of life." Bai Ze said with a smile.
"Oh?" the old scholar asked,
"What do you mean by this?"
"Spring tea is just like a boy, full of vigor, but also lacking some flavor." Bai Ze said,
"Xia Cha seems to be middle-aged, high-spirited, and already has his own story. But compared with Qiu Cha, these two are a little worse."
"How?" the old scholar smiled.
"Autumn tea is like old age, which has accumulated throughout a lifetime and is so strong that it makes you feel angry." Bai Ze said,
"But it doesn't fully let its life bloom, because winter is approaching, and it has to accumulate strength for the coming spring and the sprouting of new tea."
"It seems that I did not make a mistake. My intelligence is better than mine." The old scholar motioned for Bai Ze to drink tea, then he picked up the bowl and took a sip.
"Sir, that's ridiculous." Bai Ze put down the tea bowl and said bluntly,
"It's just that this junior doesn't understand. Sir is here, why doesn't he accept the girl from the Jian family as his successor?"
"I'm old." The old scholar shook his head and sighed,
"The girl from the Jian family wants to do farm work for Mrs. Jian, and I have a scholar to help her. It is inappropriate for an orphan and a widowed mother. Besides, I can't do that work. Studying is not an easy task, and the girl from the Jian family is worried about it. , Even if you study with me, you will be half-hearted and it will be difficult to achieve anything."
"As the saying goes, reading thousands of books means traveling thousands of miles." Bai Ze said doubtfully.
"I dare to ask, sir, is it possible that working and studying are not the same thing?"
"If you gain something, it is one thing. If you gain nothing, it is not a thing." The old scholar said,
"It's so difficult to work all day and read at night. If the Jian girl has your kind of mind, she can do it. On the contrary, it will only harm her life." Bai Ze suddenly realized.
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