The next day, after Li Ye greeted Qingxu, he took Nangong Ruyu and Xiaohua back to Prajna Temple.
Summer in Fangcun Mountain is unique. There are early-ripening wild fruits on the mountain that emit an alluring fragrance. Hares will pass by on the mountain trails from time to time, prompting Nangong Ruyu to chase them.
This time Li Ye was not in a hurry, he just took her all the way to play until noon. It was not until Yu'er complained that she was hungry that he speeded up with her on his back.
By the time the three of them returned to the small courtyard of Prajna Temple, it was already late.
Back in the small courtyard, Wu Xin and Wu You were sitting in the courtyard making tea. Looking at Nangong Ruyu who came in through the door, Wu Xin couldn't help but laugh.
"Daddy! Yu'er misses you so much!" Nangong Ruyu threw herself into his arms and started acting coquettishly.
Li Ye looked at Wuyou and asked, "Is there anything to eat?"
Wuyou looked at him, shook his head, and said with a smile, "Senior brother and I didn't know that our junior uncle was coming back today. We haven't seen you in four months."
Li Ye stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, smiling and saying, "Are you hungry? I'll cook now."
Wuyou smiled and said, "Senior brother and I just had a meal not long ago, but my junior uncle rarely invites me to dinner, so I have to have another bowl.
"Then I'll make more. Yu'er will play with your father, and the master will cook." Li Ye asked Xiaohua to go to the kitchen together.
Nangong Ruyu looked at Li Ye's back and suddenly shouted: "Master Yu'er wants to eat meat!"
Li Ye ignored her. After a while, Xiaohua came out and said with a smile, "Yu'er has bamboo shoot porridge for lunch!"
Nangong Ruyu immediately looked at Wu Xin with a bitter face and said, "Dad, you are here, the master won't give Yu'er meat to eat."
Wuyou touched her little head and said with a smile, "Yu'er will eat it tonight."
Wu Xin stared at her blankly until Nangong Ruyu reached out and waved her little hand in front of his eyes twice before he came back to his senses, looked at her and said, "Yu'er, what did you do when you went to Xuantian Temple in the spring?"
"Master gave Yu'er a medicinal bath, taught Yu'er luck, and also made Yu'er an iron suit." He said and opened the corner of his clothes to let Wu Xin see through the armor inside.
Wu Xin was startled, gently caressing the blue-glowing armor, and asked, "Does it hurt to wear it?"
"It doesn't hurt, but it's a little heavy. Yu'er can't run fast!" Nangong Ruyu hugged Wuxin and pouted, meaning that Wuxin could intercede with the master and take off this toy.
"Your master spent a lot of effort to do this. Yu'er should practice hard and strive to surpass her father in the future, okay?" Wuxin felt sorry for his daughter, but was also touched by Li Ye's concern.
The path of spiritual practice is never easy. Even his daughter.
When Nangong Ruyu saw that the conspiracy failed, she gave up this idea.
"Also, the master has found a powerful master for Yu'er. He brewed a lot of wine in the courtyard of Xuantianguan. Sister Xiaohua and Yu'er are helping. The master said that Yu'er will be taken to Gangshan later. To grandpa.”
Nangong Ruyu pinched her hair with her little hand, looked at Xiao Hua coming in and out of the kitchen, and said with a smile.
"Why did Junior Master learn how to make wine? I wonder if Master Hui knows about it?" Wu Xin frowned when Nangong Ruyu said it. He was afraid that Li Ye would delay his practice because of wine making.
Wuyou didn't think as much as he did. He looked at Yu'er and said, "It's better for Yu'er to run around with the master every day, practice for a while and drink wine at the same time."
"Yu'er also drank?" Wuxin looked at her and asked.
"It's early. Master said that if you are greedy, you can try it in the summer, or you can wait until next spring." Nangong Ruyu, who followed the drunkard every day, had already memorized the conversation between the two.
"Oh, I didn't expect that my junior uncle actually hired a master who knew how to make wine." Wu Xin pondered for a while and said with a smile.
Wuyou looked at Nangong Yu'er and asked, "Yu'er, where is your master from Xuantian Temple?"
"Master is staying in the temple and won't come over to play with Yu'er." Thinking that Qingxu rarely came to Qingshi Courtyard, she spent more time with Li Yedi.
"Yu'er, go wash your hands and get ready to eat!" Li Ye popped his head out of the kitchen, looked at Nangong Ruyu who was tired of being in Wuxin's arms, and frowned.
This guy is like Mu Mu in many ways. She has to be watched to wash her hands every time she eats.
Nangong Ruyu made a face for him and trotted towards the kitchen.
"Sister Xiaohua, get some water for me to wash my hands!"
There were shouting sounds from the kitchen.
Wuxin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and looked at Wuyou and said, "See, this is my package. I have to carry her for most of my life, possibly my whole life!"
"I don't think my junior uncle thinks that way. Think about it, he is tempering Yu'er's body and casting his armor. Senior brother, you are not as thoughtful as you."
Wuyou looked at him and said seriously.
The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, and the unintentional person actually feels that he has not fulfilled his responsibility as a father.
Looking in the direction of the kitchen, he silently paused.
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After eating the bamboo shoot porridge cooked by Li Ye, Wuxin left with Wuyou and went to the Buddhist hall. Xiaohua took Nangong Ruyu to sleep in the house.
Li Ye walked to Minghui's Buddhist hall alone.
It's been a long time since he came back, but he hasn't had a private chat with Ming Hui. There are some things he needs to ask his senior brother for advice seriously.
As if knowing that Li Ye was coming, Minghui in the Buddhist hall had already boiled a pot of water. She looked at Li Ye who walked in and asked, "How are you doing with the drunkard at Xuantian Temple?"
"What else can we do? Just make wine together. Learn how to make wine while teaching Yu'er how to practice. It's a rare and leisurely spring day."
Looking at Minghui washing the pot and making tea, Li Ye smiled lightly.
"Don't you need to practice yourself? Or have you already practiced your skills to a certain level?" Minghui was concerned about the practice of Li Ye's formless body.
"My practice?" Li Ye looked at Ming Hui and smiled bitterly, pointing to the top of his bare head and said, "I was hit by another thunder somewhere."
Li Ye told Ming Hui what happened in the unknown place in detail, and then looked at him and smiled bitterly.
"Doesn't it mean that you will be able to cultivate the formless body to a perfect state in a few years?" Minghui looked at him and was shocked.
"When we first went there, we were all in cultivation, and... we slowly recovered after we came back, which shocked me." Li Ye felt a little scared when he thought of the scene that day.
"Have you recovered? Where is your realm? What are you afraid of?" Ming Hui said with a smile.
"So what? If there really is a demon in this world, or if someone with intentions knows the secret between me and Yu'er and uses it to make a big fuss, wouldn't we become public enemies in the five realms?"
When I think about the trace of blue blood in my body, I feel distressed.
"What are you afraid of? It's just blood. Could it be that you also have a pair of horns on your head and a pair of wings on your back?"
Minghui was a sensible person and was not intimidated by Li Ye.
"Brother, you are a sensible person, but there are still many people in this world who don't understand." With a sigh, Li Ye reached for the teapot on the table and poured tea into their cups.
Picking up the teacup in front of her, Minghui looked at him and frowned: "Then what will you do?"
Li Ye looked up at the Bodhisattva on the Buddhist altar and said softly: "If I go down the mountain and return to the imperial city, the first thing I should do is resign as the national preceptor. In this way, even if something happens to me in the future, it will not matter to the emperor."
Minghui nodded and said seriously: "You think clearly, taking all the responsibilities on yourself, so that the new emperor can have a clean court."
Li Ye lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and continued: "Even so, I can't let go of my relationship with my parents, sister, husband, and all my friends."
As long as he meets people who have intersection with him, Li Ye will have a head as big as an ox.
Whether it is the young ladies from the Royal Academy, the Royal Wutong Company, Nalan Yu and Hua Tianxia who are full of flowers, as well as Hu Ge, Tang Chao and Xiao Ju who are practicing in Qingcheng, they are all people that I can't let go of.
If one day, he and Nangong Ruyu became public enemies in the five realms, he really couldn't imagine the final result.
"If junior brother is a person, no one has to be afraid. After all, once your formless body is cultivated to perfection, and then your cultivation is broken to the point of distraction, who else in the five realms can resist you?"
Minghui understood that Li Ye was afraid of hurting his family.
Only at this time did Li Yedi understand the benefits of being alone. If one person is full, the whole family will not be hungry.
If one person is guilty, everyone around him will be implicated.
"I don't think about it anymore. I'm just chatting with my senior brother. After all, my senior brother can't help me with this matter."
Li Ye thought to himself, even his senior brother has never seen a real demon, right?
"You can't say that. After all, you are my junior brother. If you can't stand in the world by then, just come back to Prajna Temple. Buddhas can also contain demons!"
Minghui looked at him and said seriously.
At this moment, he was determined to protect his junior brother. After all, in order to find information about the abbot senior brother, Li Ye did not hesitate to take risks, went to unknown places, and even lost his lover.
This kind of thing is not something that others can bear.
Li Ye looked at him and smiled and said: "After all, junior brother, I am also a winemaker in the Five Regions now. How about I brew a few tanks of fine wine in the small courtyard? Senior brother can go and have a drink when you are free."
When Minghui heard this, she looked at him and smiled. She looked up at the Bodhisattva on the Buddhist altar and muttered a few words softly.
Li Ye looked at him and smiled and said: "Senior brother, how about eating tea? What about drinking? Is there any difference? Drinking is drinking, drinking tea is drinking. If you think of drinking tea when drinking, then what you are drinking is tea. ."
When Minghui heard this, he couldn't help but admired: "Junior brother, it's a pity that you don't enter Buddhism."
"In that case, senior brother told me tomorrow to ask the senior brothers in the temple to find a few large vats and bring them to the small courtyard, and buy several hundred kilograms of fresh rice. I have distiller's yeast and medicinal herbs here."
What Li Ye thought was that since wine can be brewed at Xuantian Temple, why not brew a few tanks at Prajna Temple. Anyway, it is all about practice and study.
"Senior Brother will be able to brew fine wine before the Buddha. He must be very happy as well."
Looking at Ming Hui, Li Ye said softly.
Upon hearing this, Minghui took a deep breath, looked at Li Ye and said, "Junior brother is really a Buddha walking in the world. He is not bound by etiquette, but he always has Buddha in his heart, Amitabha, so good!"
"My Buddhist teachings were all taught by the old monks and senior brothers of the Great Buddha Temple. How can they compare with you, senior brother." Li Ye looked at Minghui and felt happy. After all, Minghui temporarily eliminated the problem in his heart.
As for the problems we encountered in the future, we would try to solve them in the future. If that didn't work, we would leave the imperial city and come to Fangcun Mountain to practice and live. After all, there is a Xuantian Temple on the north slope.
That's also Li Ye's home.
It is estimated that if Li Ye is willing to stay, Qingxu would like to hand over the entire Taoist temple to him.
Jiu Chi and him were also counting the days in the five realms, just like the old ape and the old wolf on Tianshan Mountain. Who knew that one day they would go to the top of the mountain to survive the tribulation?
Minghui added tea to Li Ye's cup and said with a smile: "While the weather is good, hurry up and get this done tomorrow. We can't keep running to Xuantian Temple. Old Taoist priests are sometimes hard to talk to."
The wine made by the ready-made winemaker in front of him is no worse than Xuantian Guan's, so why wouldn't he do it?
Just as Li Ye said, brewing fine wine can also be offered to the Buddha.
Seeing Ming Hui's happy look, Li Ye felt happy.
The only thing I can do about the matter between myself and Nangong Ruyu is to find time to talk to Nangong Xuanyuan in detail, but Wuxin can't talk about it anyway.
People are afraid of being careless and doing mindless things.
When he thought of the entrustment that the woman in white had entrusted to him, it was just like when the emperor entrusted the eldest prince and Princess Wutong to him.
When did I become a full-time nanny?
Looking at the Bodhisattva on the Buddhist altar, Li Ye murmured.
