Since then, the wine addict has lived in the small bluestone courtyard, instructing Li Ye and Xiaohua to wash the rice, wash the rice, put it on the steamer, and prepare the wine koji. Time flies by so fast, and it’s almost late spring before I know it.
Nangong Ruyu also completed three body temperings under Li Ye's supervision.
This time, it was no different than when she was in the Prajna Temple last year. This was a medicinal herb prepared by her mother herself. The medicinal power was not comparable to that of the medicinal herbs from the five realms.
She screamed in pain and cursed with tears in her eyes: "Master, you want to murder Yu'er. Master, you don't love Yu'er anymore!"
Only Xiaohua stood aside and covered her mouth and smiled. "Yu'er, just be satisfied. Sister Xiaohua didn't even have it if she wanted it back then!"
Li Ye looked at Xiao Hua and smiled and said: "Xiao Hua, if you want, I can give you some of Yu'er's herbs, she won't be able to use them all anyway.
"Is that okay? Am I already a Nascent Soul?" Xiaohua looked at Li Ye and was shocked.
"Why not? You are just tempering your physical body, and it has nothing to do with your realm!" Li Ye smiled lightly.
Xiaohua looked at Nangong Ruyu who had calmed down in the bathtub, and said softly: "If there are medicinal herbs, I would like to try them too!"
Nangong Ruyu, who had already calmed down, looked at Xiaohua and shouted: "Sister Xiaohua, you have to think clearly, this is like killing a pig, it hurts to death!"
"You have already tempered your body three times. There is no need to continue, but looking at you, it seems that you have not tempered enough." Looking at Nangong Ruyu, Li Ye said quietly.
"That's enough, that's enough, Yu'er won't talk nonsense anymore!" Upon hearing this, Nangong Ruyu shook her head desperately, saying that she would listen to her master's words in the future.
"After completing the body tempering, I will run five miles in the mountains with Sister Xiaohua every day." After speaking, Li Ye took out the armor made for him with a hint of blue flame and placed it on the table.
"This armor weighs thirty kilograms. You are not allowed to take it off except to take a shower." Li Ye looked at her and said with a smile.
Xiaohua was startled and reached out to touch the armor on the table, her eyes showing sympathy.
Nangong Ruyu's eyes narrowed, she looked at Li Ye and said, "Master, do you think Yu'er is disobedient and are trying different ways to punish me?"
"Trick you? Do you know how much effort the master spent on this armor? It only weighs thirty pounds. When the master was young, my master made me wear fifty pounds."
Looking at Nangong Ruyu in front of him, Li Ye remembered how he looked back then. Inadvertently, it was time for his apprentice to practice.
Nangong Ruyu's eyes widened, and after a while she said, "Master is so cruel, how many masters does Yu'er have?"
Li Ye glanced at her, scratched his head, and said with a smile, "I have to count to find out."
When Nangong Ruyu heard this, she couldn't help but giggle.
"Get up and put on your clothes. Remember to put your armor on inside. From now on, the master will add five kilograms to you every year!" Li Ye was soft-hearted in the end and did not have the heart to add ten kilograms to her.
"There will be more." Upon hearing this, Nangong Ruyu suddenly lay down in the tub.
...
In the small courtyard, all the pear blossoms have fallen, and tiny green pears have grown.
The wine addict was sitting under the tree making tea. He looked at Li Ye who came out and said with a smile, "The wine has been brewed. What do you want to do next?"
Looking at the green pears hanging on the treetops, Li Ye said softly: "Teacher, how long can you and the master stay in Xuantian Temple?"
Thinking that the two masters would break through the void and ascend soon, Li Ye felt reluctant to leave, and there was a feeling of parting in his heart.
"I don't know, maybe a month, maybe a year, it all depends on God's will." The drunkard looked up at the sky and replied calmly.
Li Ye nodded. He had experienced the ascension of the old ape and the old wolf and had already expected this.
"It's just a matter of time. Teacher, just keep your mentality." Li Ye replied.
Sa Chi put down the teacup in his hand, poured him a cup of tea, looked at him and asked, "Don't you think you have experience with this, disciple?"
"How can I have any experience?" Li Ye said with a smile: "I just practiced on Tianshan Mountain when I was young. I met two old people who were about to ascend and learned some final things from them."
"Tell me about it." The drunkard became interested after hearing this.
"Teacher, it's nothing. In the end, they will eat what they should eat and drink what they should drink, quietly waiting for the call of heaven and earth, and then go to the top of the mountain to escape the tribulation."
Li Ye thought about how when he was young, he didn't even have the courage to go to the top of the mountain, and missed witnessing the two old people's tribulation.
"That's the truth, so I won't go anywhere for the rest of the days. I will just stay in the temple, chat with the old Taoist priests, and watch you brew wine and practice."
The drunkard looked at him and replied quietly.
"But, teacher, you haven't taught me how to get drunk and dream of life and death?" Li Ye looked at him and asked softly.
I think I want to make wine, but you haven’t taught me yet?
Unexpectedly, the drunkard looked at him and shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "I have taught you everything I can teach you. If I had the method, I would have brewed it long ago, so why have I struggled so hard for so many years?"
Jiu Chi said to himself, that wine was also my unintentional creation. Where is the secret?
Li Ye watched him lower his head and thought about Guan Tian, and couldn't help but ask: "Teacher, does it mean that winemaking also depends on God's will?"
The drunkard looked at him with a serious expression. He turned to look at a shed of wine tanks and said lightly: "Five points for strength, four points for skill, and the last point depends on God's will."
"I see, isn't this the same as the method I practice?" I thought about how the formless body I practiced was similar to the dozen or so bottles of wine I brewed.
"It seems that you already know that wine-making and your cultivation are the same. If you want to cultivate a unique skill, you have to spend several years of hard training and encounter various opportunities, and then at the last minute, you can't It depends on God’s will.”
The drunkard looked at him and sighed, feeling very happy in his heart.
In his last days at Xuantian Temple, he was able to meet a rare genius in the Five Realms, and he passed on his brewing skills. As for whether Li Ye could brew a drunken dream, he was now bearish.
As he said, it takes nine percent of effort, and the last one depends on God's will.
While the two were talking, Nangong Ruyu staggered out of the room, threw herself into the arms of the drunkard, hugged him and shouted: "Master, master wants to murder Yu'er!"
When the drunkard heard this, he couldn't help but look at Li Ye.
Li Ye watched him wave his hands and said with a smile: "How can I teach my disciples? I just used the method that my husband used on me back then on her."
When Nangong Yu'er heard this, she quickly opened the corner of her clothes, revealing the blue armor she was wearing, and said with a grimace, "Master wants me to wear this, and I'm not allowed to take it off yet!"
The drunkard reached out and touched it carefully. He did not answer her, but looked at Li Ye and asked, "Did you forge this? Your craftsmanship is good, and the heat doesn't look like one from the Five Realms."
"I forged this with heavenly fire in an unknown place. The teacher's vision is really good. He could see it at a glance." Li Ye said.
"No wonder, some of these materials can't be seen in the five realms. Yu'er, this is a treasure, you know?" The wine maniac pulled up the corner of her shirt for her and patted her little hand.
"It turns out it's a treasure. Since the master said so, then Yu'er just grits his teeth and wears it. The treasure can't be given to others. The master made it specially for Yu'er."
After listening to the drunkard's words, Nangong Ruyu finally felt at ease.
As long as the master doesn't want to murder her and suffer some hardships, she is not afraid.
After all, her current physical body is much more powerful than Li Ye's back then. She has blue blood from another world and spent two years tempering her body. Now wearing this thirty kilograms of iron armor only adds to the weight of her body. , he won't be bruised to the point of bleeding like Li Ye did before.
Li Ye looked at her and nodded, with a doting look on his face, and said, "Yu'er, go play with Sister Xiaohua, and the master will talk to the master."
When Nangong Ruyu heard this, she got up from Jiu Chi's arms and ran staggeringly outside the house.
"Master, please remember to cook meat for Yu'er tonight!"
Li Ye was speechless. This little guy was also a foodie. I wonder if he is also a little money-crazy like Mu Mu.
...
"Disciple is going back to Prajna Temple for a few days. Teacher, do you want to go there with us?" Li Ye thought that he had spent too much time here and had to go back to Prajna Temple to have a look.
"You take Yu'er with you, I will live here quietly." The alcoholic has made up his mind and will not leave.
Li Ye looked at the wine vat in the shed and asked softly: "Next time when the disciple comes back, he can try the new wine brewed this year, right?"
"Of course you can." The drunkard said with a proud smile.
"I can't believe that this brewing method is the same as the technique I practice. Not only does it take a lot of effort, but in the end it also depends on luck and God's will."
"Practice is never easy. How many people practiced in the Five Realms? How many people were able to take the final step? For example, the Taoist priests in Xuantian Temple did not hesitate to go to unknown places just to fight for a chance. What?"
Thinking about the situation Li Ye described to Qingxu when he came back, the drunkard couldn't help but start nagging.
When he thought of traveling to an unknown land, a faint haze instantly enveloped Li Ye's face. It was during this trip that he lost Mu Mu.
Seeing his anxious expression, Jiu Chi laughed.
Said: "When you make wine, you always want to brew a vat with different flavors. When you practice, you also want to cultivate your realm to a higher realm. If you can't do anything, then What’s the point of practicing hard?”
Thinking about what the old monk of the Great Buddha Temple said about hearing the Tao in the morning and entering the Tao in the evening, I thought that it would be okay to hear the Tao in the morning and die at night. Even if I could not control the fate of others, I might even have the slightest chance of controlling my own ending.
If he could do it all over again, he would rather choose to practice in Bansiruoli, then go down the mountain, and then live with Mumu until the day when the two of them overcome the tribulation together.
But he didn't want to discuss the unknown land anymore, especially he didn't want to talk about Mumu to outsiders.
Li Ye lowered his head and was silent for a long time. He raised his head and looked at Jiu Chi and asked, "Teacher, what would you do if you and the master ascended to the Shura Heaven?"
"What should I do? Of course, once it's here, it's okay." Upon hearing this, the drunkard couldn't help but glare at him.
Li Ye sighed. In his understanding, this was never the case.
"Teacher, I hope that both you and the master will be well. I will wait until the day when the disciples practice and find you." After thinking about it, Li Ye could only comfort himself in this way.
The drunkard looked at him, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I haven't tasted your newly brewed wine yet, how can I be willing to leave?"
"Teacher, I heard that when you go through the tribulation, you can't take anything from this world with you, including these fine wines."
Looking at the old man in front of him, Li Ye said softly.
"Really? Who did you listen to?" The wine addict was stunned when he heard this. He couldn't bear to part with the wine.
Li Ye thought to himself that he shouldn't tell him about Po Xu Monk. Even the teacher probably wouldn't believe it.
After thinking for a while, he replied: "I heard from my husband that he once accompanied two people through a disaster."
"This is a troublesome thing. I can put down the money, but these fine wines I brewed..." The wine addict looked at the shed of new wine, looking a little disappointed.
Li Ye looked at him and smiled and said: "I think gold and silver are not afraid of thunder. Teacher can just take them away. Maybe they will be useful under another starry sky."
This is what the husband told him, and now he told the drunkard again.
"That's good. As long as I have money, I can continue to make wine in another place. But I can't take these wine-making books with me. Whatever I keep when I pour them is yours."
The thought of taking away the gold coins finally made the drunkard feel a little more at ease.
As for wine and water, you can brew it yourself.
