The three of them played until the sunset and then returned to the Qingshi Courtyard from the back mountain of Xuantian Temple.
The drunkard who left Qingxu Small Courtyard was already standing under the pear tree guarding a pot of tea. He looked at Li Ye who had returned belatedly and said with a smile: "Master is here. If you don't go and cook, are you going to starve me to death?" "
When Li Ye heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Teacher, there is no delicious food here. Why don't you come over after eating at my master's place?"
"Master, you are here. Wait for Yu'er to cook for you." Nangong Lingyu walked up and sat down next to him, turning to see why his master looked unhappy.
"You must know that winemaking is also about cultivating your state of mind. If I were you, I should be happy. Didn't your husband teach you to cultivate your state of mind?"
Seeing the reluctance on Li Ye's face, Jiu Chi said lightly.
"Boom!" A spring thunder struck Li Ye's heart.
I thought that my state of mind had been polished like a rock, but I didn't expect that my heart would be rippled by Mu Mu's departure, and then the words of the drunkard would wake up the dreamer.
"Teacher, I will teach you." Li Ye was convinced and nodded gently.
“All things come into being in spring, just when the rice is cooked and the rice is cooked. After the scorching summer, the continuous rain in autumn, and the freezing snow in winter, next spring, a vat of fine wine will be brewed!”
Pour yourself a cup of tea, the drunkard looked at the three of them and said with a smile.
It seems that it is not about making wine, but about practicing a method and cooking a delicacy that goes through spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Nangong Ruyu stepped forward, held his arm and asked, "Master, it takes you so long? Doesn't it mean that you have to wait until Yu'er is six years old before you can drink the wine brewed by the master?"
The wine addict held her little hand and smiled: "You can drink wine brewed in spring and in summer, but the taste will not be as delicious as after four seasons of aging."
Nangong Ruyu said somewhat depressedly: "It's so troublesome to have to wait for a whole year, Master."
"Well..." The drunkard was suddenly stunned. He couldn't find a reasonable explanation for the innocent Nangong Ruyu.
Li Ye looked at the old and the young, shook his head helplessly, looked at the two of them and said, "I'll cook, and the teacher will have some tea."
The drunkard looked at him and said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry, just take your time."
Nangong Ruyu looked at Li Ye and shouted, "Master, Yu'er wants to eat meat!"
Li Ye, who had already reached the kitchen door, couldn't help but twist his feet when he heard this and almost fell to the ground.
Nangong Ruyu, who was sitting under the pear tree, looked at him and laughed: "Master, be careful when you walk, don't fall down like Yu'er!"
Li Ye looked back at her and thought to himself, "Are you sent by God to deal with me?"
Hearing the exact same tone from Nangong Ruyu and Mu Mu, I thought that I would never be quiet in the future.
Xiaohua followed him, looked at him and asked, "Did the lady say something wrong?"
Li Ye shook his head and said with a wry smile: "It's because I still haven't woken up from the drink!"
I think about my own concerns, who else in the five realms can I tell them to? I am afraid that only Li Hongxiu can understand it. After all, she has been following Mu Mu since she was a child. If she knew that Mu Mu had lost her, she would be in a lot of trouble.
Mumu is more precious to the master's wife than her own daughter.
Not only because of Li Ye, but also on the days when her husband went to the top of the mountain, when she was most depressed, only Mumu was by her side, which relieved her of a lot of lovesickness.
While lighting the fire, Li Ye was in a daze.
How can it be possible to refine one's heart in the world of mortals?
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The next day, Li Ye and Xiaohua began to clean the large vat sent by the brothers and sisters in Guanli. Qingxu personally came over and directed the disciples in Guanli to build two stoves in the shed in the small courtyard. The wine addict said that they were using For cooking rice.
Looking at the dozen or so large vats that were brought in, Li Ye couldn't help but ask: "Master, even if the wine is brewed in these vats, there is no place to put them?"
Qingxu glared at him and said with a smile: "Tomorrow I will build a shed in your yard specifically for storing wine."
Li Ye looked around and said with a smile: "This yard is already small. Master, if you build a shed, the place where Yu'er practices will become much smaller in the future."
Qingxu stared at him, pointed at the door and said, "The world is so big, why do you have to stay in this courtyard?"
"Master, Master said that the outside world is dangerous, and he wants me to practice in the courtyard with peace of mind." Nangong Ruyu looked at him and said with a smile.
"Fart, what danger will my Xuantian Temple be in?" Xindao, this shameless disciple, what does the outside world mean? Should she be locked up for the rest of her life without being able to get out?
Li Ye felt a headache watching the conversation between the two, not because he took what Nangong Ruyu said to him out of context, but because his master was an unreasonable guy compared to his husband.
The problem is, he still can't find a reason to reason with him.
Because he is the master and he is the apprentice.
"Master, Yu'er is still young, at least until she is thirteen years old before she considers going out for training, right?" Li Ye replied while rinsing the vat.
"Master, the master is right. Yu'er will practice here from now on. However, some masters will also take Yu'er back to the temple to see her father."
Nangong Ruyu thought of Wuxin who practiced in Prajna Temple.
"Your father? Who is he?" Qingxu was completely speechless. He could scold Li Ye, but he couldn't take it out on Nangong Ruyu.
"Yu'er's father's name is Wu Xin. He practices in Prajna Temple and is considered my nephew." Li Ye, sweating profusely, said with a smile.
"Master's nephew?" Qingxu Qi's nose glared, and he was about to curse.
But Li Ye smiled and said, "Yu'er and I are on our own terms. He is practicing in the temple, and his seniority depends on where he is. There's nothing we can do about it."
"That's true. I forgot that you called monk Ming Hui senior brother. So you are not my junior brother? What a mess, crazy!"
Qingxu couldn't help but feel dizzy when he thought of the names and seniorities of several people.
The drunkard looked at Qingxu and couldn't help laughing.
He said: "Didn't my disciple already say that you each have your own business, why do you need to compare with each other? You haven't seen Monk Minghui and he doesn't care about you? In this regard, you are not as good as that monk."
Qingxu looked at him and nodded helplessly.
"Master, has my senior brother gone back to the temple?" Li Ye thought that he had to ask Minghui something, and looked at Qingxu and asked.
"Let's go. He went back early the next morning when you were drunk."
Qingxu waved his hand and said impatiently.
"It seems I have to wait until I get back to the temple to find him now." Li Ye lowered his head and continued to rinse the water tank.
Xiao Hua was carrying water for him. Nangong Ruyu followed Xiao Hua and held a small basin, which was also half filled with water.
"Master, Yu'er also contributed to the wine you made." Nangong Ruyu and Li Ye said with a smile while reaching out to wipe the sweat on their faces.
"I know, wait until next year to bring your grandpa two jars of wine down the mountain, and let him be happy for you!" Li Ye thought of Nangong Xuanyuan of the Nangong family, and thought that next year he could almost persuade Wu Xin to come back down the mountain.
The spring wind was still moist, but it blew away the pear blossoms all over the ground.
Looking at the busy people in the courtyard, Li Ye wondered whether the apricot flowers in Fengyun City were still in full bloom.
And in the place where Mumu went, were there also gardens full of pear trees and apricot blossoms?
Qingxu looked at Li Ye's dazed look, shook his head, sat under the pear tree and poured himself a cup of tea. He looked at the drunkard and said, "My disciple is worried, so you have to be more tolerant."
The alcoholic was a little shocked. He didn't know what Li Ye had experienced, but from what he said that day while holding half a jar of wine, he knew that it was definitely not what he could have experienced at his age.
He knew that feeling, it was called the vicissitudes of time.
Thinking about how he felt when he brewed the drunken dream of life and death, the drunkard looked at Li Ye and said: "Disciple, I hope you can brew the drunken life and dream of death for me, so that even if I leave with your master tomorrow, it will be worthwhile."
"Can I brew it?" Li Ye was shocked and put down the brush in his hand.
"Why not, your state of mind is changing little by little, just like making wine. You must know that good wine must be brewed with heart."
The drunkard looked at him and said seriously.
"I hope I can satisfy the master. I also want to try to see if I can brew that heartbreaking wine." Li Ye nodded with a smile and poured the water from Xiaohua's basket into the wine vat.
"First learn the basics of washing rice, washing rice, soaking rice, and cooking rice...and then I will teach you how to prepare rice wine. Yu'er, go get a pen and ink."
The drunkard looked at Nangong Zhiyu and said.
"Master, Master needs pen and ink." Nangong Ruyu blinked, looked at Li Ye and smiled: "Yu'er doesn't know where you put it, Master."
"I'll get it." Li Ye replied softly, put down the brush in his hand, and went into the room to get what the drunkard wanted.
After a while, the table was covered with paper and the inkstone was filled with ink. Li Ye and Nangong Ruyu stood aside, watching the drunkard waving the paper.
"That's right, thinking about how much wine you drank, your hands should be shaking!" Qingxu looked at the drunkard and laughed.
The drunkard turned his eyes to Li Ye and said in a solemn voice: "Starting from tomorrow, let's buy two large jars of rice first. I'll watch you."
"Teacher, don't worry. I have plenty of strength, so you don't have to worry about this." Li Ye thought to himself that his formless body had reached the mid-ninth level of cultivation, and finding more than a dozen jars of rice was no small matter.
The drunkard nodded with satisfaction. He really liked Li Ye's willingness to endure hardship.
The spring night was getting deeper, Qingxu had already gone to rest, and the drunkard also closed the door and fell asleep with his head in his arms.
Nangong Ruyu stayed by Li Ye's side, watching him carefully read the wine-making techniques copied by the alcoholic during the day. Seeing him frowning from time to time, Nangong Ruyu couldn't help but reach out her little hand and wipe it off his forehead.
"Master, you don't look good when you frown. Yu'er smoothed it for you."
"Well, Yu'er is good, why don't you go to bed? When Xiaohua falls asleep, who will hold you?"
"Master! Master won't leave Yu'er alone, right?"
"Okay, are you hungry? Do you want a pastry?"
"Yu'er is not hungry. Master, do you want to eat? Well, Yu'er will have a piece with you."
Li Ye's heart moved and he thought that Nangong Ruyu was more well-behaved than Mu Mu at this time. Could it be because both of them had the blue blood of the woman in white flowing in their bodies?
Thinking of this, he reached out and held Nangong Ruyu's little hand, quietly feeling the subtle changes in her body, and seeing if the blue essence in her body was slowly merging.
Nangong Ruyu Buhe knew what Li Ye was going to do, so she just looked at him with wide eyes, wondering if the master was thinking of brewing herbs for herself. She was afraid of the taste every time she brewed it.
It really hurt, even though she had endured it several times.
Li Ye couldn't see through Nangong Ruyu's body, but he could feel that her weak meridians, although slow, were very powerful, not like they were when he was young.
Could this be her intention, to change your body since childhood?
Nangong Ruyu was the reincarnation of the woman in white. He had the blood and essence of the woman in white when he was pregnant in ten months. Unlike Li Ye, he was forcibly injected into his body by the woman in white the day after tomorrow.
Sneak into the night with the rain, moistening things silently.
Only by using this principle can we explain the changes in Nangong Ruyu's body.
He decided not to tell Wu Xin about Nangong Ruyu for the time being, nor could he tell Nangong Xuanyuan. He wanted to ask Brother Minghui to see if there was a way to hide it for her and himself.
After all, practitioners in the Five Realms do not yet have the inheritance of blue blood.
"Yu'er, be careful when playing outside in the future. Don't fall. It will hurt if you bleed." After thinking for a long time, Li Ye could only use this method to temporarily get Nangong Ruyu's attention.
"Master, don't worry, Yu'er won't run around and will practice with the master faithfully..." Before he could finish his words, he was already lying on the table and snoring.
"Aren't you clamoring for pastries?" Looking at Nangong Ruyu lying on the table, Li Ye smiled faintly.
He picked her up gently and walked to Xiaocha's house.
Knocking on the door gently, Xiaohua is still awake.
Li Ye hugged Nangong Ruyu, put her on the bed, looked at Xiaohua and said, "Wipe her face and let her have a good sleep."
Xiaohua nodded and went out to find water.
After walking out of the door, Li Ye sat quietly under the pear tree alone, smelling the fragrance that filled the courtyard and murmuring.
No one from last year was seen, but pear blossoms were blooming again.
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