After saying goodbye to Xu Lixue, Lu Ping and his party left Happy Forest. After passing through Baozhilin, a no-nonsense area, we re-entered the territory of the Xuanjun Empire. Then they went all the way south. The few magic weapons they carried in their hands were still very eye-catching, but the journey was peaceful and they returned to the village on the outskirts of Zhiling City in a few days. Several people rushed to the abandoned courtyard where they stayed temporarily that day. After entering the door, everyone was immediately stunned.
The abandoned hut that was originally so simple and only had a tattered straw mat now looked quite neat. The dust accumulated everywhere disappeared, the tattered straw mat was replaced by a clean quilt, and there were several cups and bowls piled on a wooden table that was not there before.
The furnishings are still simple, but it looks like someone lives here. Several people looked at each other in confusion. Before they started discussing, they heard the sound of footsteps behind them. When they turned around, they saw Chu Min walking in from outside the courtyard with a few bottles of wine. When he saw a few people, he didn't show any surprise or smile. Instead, he frowned and said, "You just came back?"
"Talent?" Mo Lin was slightly dissatisfied.
"The Emperor Xuan's order to cancel the wanted order has been sent to us a long time ago, but you guys arrived late." Chu Min said.
"I was injured, so I was delayed for a few days." Su Tang stood up and said.
"It's okay." Chu Min looked at Su Tang and finally smiled.
"Yeah." Su Tang nodded, and everyone laughed. They didn't have much expectations, they just wanted each other to be safe. Therefore, their reunion did not look very exciting, but everyone's smiles were full of peace of mind and satisfaction.
"Teacher, are your injuries okay?" Ling Ziyan stepped forward and asked after taking the wine bottles from Chu Min's hands skillfully.
"I can't say that I have completely recovered, but it's not serious." Chu Min said, her tone was her usual free and easy tone, good is good, bad is bad, without covering up at all.
"No one here will cause trouble for you, right? If so, tell Lu Ping immediately." Mo Lin said.
"What? This trip to Xuanjun City was very impressive?" Chu Min looked at Lu Ping.
"That's so majestic!" Mo Lin knew that if Lu Ping was asked to answer, it would be very boring. He quickly took over the topic and vividly described the scenes that he had neither experienced nor witnessed, starting from the courtyard. Everyone crowded into the hut and sat on the ground.
"Happy!" After hearing this, Chu Min didn't dwell on the pros and cons of doing so. He just raised the wine bottle and took a big sip.
"Do your best." Lu Ping said, with a very boring attitude as expected by Mo Lin.
"So you are now preparing to return to Xiafeng City to rebuild the Wind Picking Academy?" Chu Min asked.
"Yes, teacher, do you want to come with us?" Lu Ping said.
Chu Min smiled: "Someone asked me this many years ago."
"Is it the dean?" Lu Ping and the others knew that Chu Min and Guo Youdao were old acquaintances, but they had never heard of them talking about how they met and interacted with each other.
"Yes. If I had nodded then, I would be your senior now." When Chu Min said this, he looked at Fang Yizhu, and the title he used was not "you", but "you". When Fang Yizhu heard this, he immediately understood the meaning of Chu Min's words. Chu Min knew Guo Youdao's true purpose of establishing the Fengzhaofeng Academy, and he was once appreciated by Guo Youdao, but it was a pity that he did not seem to be appreciated by Chu Min.
"Why?" Fang Yizhu asked subconsciously.
"It's too troublesome and doesn't fit my taste." Chu Min said.
"Okay..." Fang Yizhu thought for a moment and agreed. He didn't have much contact with Chu Min, but Chu Min's temperament was so clear. Guo Youdao's requirements for the dark wielder were indeed very out of tune with Chu Min's temperament.
"You haven't eaten yet, right?" Chu Min stood up and said.
"Yeah." Everyone nodded.
"Just eat here." Chu Min said.
"This?" Everyone looked around in confusion. Although there are bowls and chopsticks in the room, it looks like a home, but it seems like it’s only enough for one person, right?
"I'm going to borrow some bowls and chopsticks." Chu Min said and went out.
Several people followed him out curiously and saw that Chu Min didn't go far after leaving the hospital and went directly to the next door hospital. She knocked on the door and went in. She didn't come out. She hugged a stack of dishes and chopsticks. A couple in the room took her to the hospital. They chatted from time to time and looked very familiar. Before leaving the hospital, Chu Min had two more cabbages and a large piece of tofu in her hands.
"How many days have we been gone?" Mo Lin suddenly asked.
"About ten days." Fang Yi noted.
"Why does it feel like Teacher Chu Min has lived here all his life?" Mo Lin said, and saw that Chu Min had returned with dishes and bowls and chopsticks.
"Go and light a fire." Chu Min said after entering the hospital.
Ling Ziyan seemed to have this kind of routine when she lived with Chu Min, and she quickly got into the half-collapsed kitchen in the courtyard. Not much smoke was coming from the kitchen, but a broken pot was sitting on the stove, and the water inside had begun to gurgling. Chu Min didn't use a knife, he just controlled the spirit of Qi. With four commands, two cabbages and a large piece of tofu were cut into pieces.
Soon, a pot of cabbage and tofu cooked in plain water was served. The color, flavor, and image all seem unpalatable no matter how you look at it.
"Do it yourself." Chu Min gestured.
There wasn't even enough room to sit at the table, so in the end one person had to come up and scoop out a bowl. But two cabbage and one piece of tofu are not enough for so many people. The couple next door came over again at this time. They also thought of this and brought some pickles. Chu Min took out a bag of white flour cakes from nowhere, and everyone just made do with it and ate it.
The room was too narrow, so everyone was squatting in the courtyard with bowls in their hands. The sun is setting toward the west, and every household in the village is preparing for dinner. This is just a very ordinary village. The villagers' lives are not very prosperous. They live hand to mouth and no one can afford delicious food. But even so, no matter which direction the smell comes from, it smells much more delicious than our bowl of white water, cabbage and tofu.
"Does anyone want to drink?" Chu Min took out a wine bottle from the house and asked.
"It's worth drinking a pot when we meet again after a long separation!" Fang Yizhu immediately rushed over to ask for a pot.
"You think the food is tasteless, right?" Mo Lin despised him.
"After all, I'm not that hero." Fang Yizhu said.
"That's incomparable." Mo Lin was also convinced. The only person who could make Chu Min enjoy his meal was Lu Ping. Even Su Tang is a bit inferior to him.
"It would be great if it can always be like this." Lu Ping was also sighing to Su Tang at this time.
Su Tang nodded, she knew what Lu Ping meant. He was not only referring to this meal, but also to the ordinary living atmosphere in this ordinary village, which made him feel at ease.
"I hope we can." Su Tang said.
"It's difficult, look..." Lu Ping said, pointing outside the courtyard. A man stopped in front of the courtyard gate. It was obvious from his clothes that he was definitely not a villager in this village.
"Lu Ping." The man looked towards the courtyard and saw Lu Ping looking at him, so he said hello casually.
"Who are you?" Lu Ping asked. The person coming was no ordinary person, Lu Ping had already heard the voice of Po Zhili.
"Why are you here?" At this moment, Chu Min also looked at the person and spoke.
"I heard that you have a lot of guests here. I'm here to join in the fun. What are you eating?" The visitor said that he had already walked into the hospital. As he asked, he still looked at Lu Ping and answered his previous question.
"My name is Long Wei, and I have the final say in Zhiling District."
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