The spring nights in Tianshan are earlier than summer.
The four of them finally arrived at the place where Li Ye lived before dark. Xiaobai took Xia Wutong and Nangong Ruyu to clean up in the cave, while Li Ye picked up some branches in the woods to make a fire for cooking.
By the time Li Ye cooked dinner, the Youshi hour had passed, and night had already enveloped the mountain forest heavily.
Xia Wutong, who had finished cleaning up the cave, came over, handed a wet handkerchief to Li Ye, and said, "I didn't expect there was a large piece of elixir on that hillside."
Li Ye led the three of them to dig cordyceps on the hillside for an hour, which made Xia Wutong and Nangong Ruyu extremely happy. While digging, they shouted: "What's mine is mine."
Each cordyceps was regarded as a gold coin in the eyes of the two of them, and they enjoyed digging under Xiaobai's command.
Li Ye wiped his face and said with a smile: "I had no money here before, so I could only pick some herbs in the mountains and sell them back to the city. You know there are many people in our family, including my husband and my wife, and Mumu."
"So you work hard to collect medicines and make money? Just to make their lives better?"
Xia Wutong looked at the person with a faint smile on his face.
"Yes. One of you and Yu'er is a princess and the other is a princess. We obviously have no shortage of money to spend, but aren't you equally happy to see this medicinal herb?"
Li Ye couldn't help but laugh when he thought about the appearance of the two of them.
"What Yu'er and I like is the process at that moment. It's the same as when you practice swordplay. Don't you know this? I don't believe it."
Xia Wutong opened his eyes, wanting to see into his heart.
Li Ye looked at her and said, "It's one thing to know, but another thing to be able to do it."
"After all, you still think Yu'er and I are still children." Xia Wutong glared at him.
Li Ye looked at her and said with a smile: "When I first met you, I thought you were just a girl relying on your master. I envied you and Yu'er the innocent childhood and youth..."
After all, Li Ye and Xia Wutong had known each other for a long time. Although Xia Wutong did not meet Li Ye when she went to Tianshan, Li Ye knew a lot about her.
And Xia Wutong saw Li Ye's sword intention from his scriptures, and it left a mark on her heart at a young age.
Today, although there is no need to avoid many things, it is undeniable that her childhood and youth were indeed much simpler than Li Ye's.
At least she had never experienced an attack or murder, and her life experience for more than ten years had been clean and simple.
Just like Nangong Ruyu in front of her.
Xia Wutong was born in the royal family and practiced with Tang Qiuyu since he was a child. His performance was particularly outstanding and he had long been famous in the five realms.
Nangong Ruyu was born in the Nangong family and had an incredibly powerful mother. She even practiced with Li Ye not long after she was born.
In a sense, Nangong Ruyu almost replicated Xia Wutong's experience back then.
It's just that one of their masters is Tang Qiuyu from Qingcheng, and the other is a junior master from Prajna Temple.
In Xia Wutonghe's heart, the young man in front of her was even more mysterious than her master.
She could see Tang Qiuyu's thoughts clearly, but she could never see through Li Ye's heart.
"Happiness is simple and simple, it's just what others think. If you don't believe it, ask Yu'er, if the knife leaves you as the master, will she be happy? Is she really happy without a mother since she was a child?"
At this time, Xia Wutong remembered that when he was young, his mother moved out of the imperial city to practice cultivation, and his father entrusted him with the education of his master.
There will always be an indelible shadow in her heart.
She would not tell Tang Qiuyu about this, but she was willing to share it with Li Ye.
Li Ye looked at Xia Wutong, who looked dashing and heroic without any arrogance, and said calmly: "I don't dare to say much about Yu'er, and I can't say much. But she will understand one day. , I believe she won’t blame me.”
Regarding the matter of the woman in white, Li Ye only told Nangong Xuanyuan alone. No one in the Five Realms knew about it, not even Wuxin.
The person Li Ye wanted to tell the most was the gentleman in the imperial city. Because Li Ye was afraid that he would suddenly leave the Five Realms, his husband didn't know Nangong Ruyu's life experience, and he didn't know how to deal with her when she was in danger.
Li Ye made her a bowl of soup and placed it on the stone table that had just been cleaned. He turned around and took three more bowls and placed them on it, waiting for Xiaobai and Nangong Ruyu to come out.
"Actually, I've always been curious about what kind of person you are."
Xia Wutong raised his eyebrows, looked at Li Ye's face, and said quietly.
"I once asked my father, but he refused to tell me. When I asked him anxiously, he only said that if you encounter difficulties in the future, everything will be up to you. I have rarely seen my father speak so highly of others. , what kind of person are you?"
"It does make me a little proud to have the emperor comment like this."
Li Ye looked over her shoulder and landed on Xiaobai and Nangong Ruyu who were walking out of the cave. Thinking about those years, he said after a moment of silence: "Maybe it's because I am Mr.'s apprentice and I am relatively simple."
"That's it?" Xia Wutong looked at him in disbelief.
"Otherwise? My cultivation back then was not as high as yours, and Mr. Tang knew that."
Li Ye thought to himself, I can't tell you everything, right?
Even Li Hongxiu and his mother, Li Ye also had many things that he didn't tell them.
In the words of Mr. Wang: It is better to do less than to do more. It is too troublesome to explain many things, and if one more person knows about it, it will be more dangerous. It is better not to say anything.
Later, Li Ye learned Buddhism from the old monk of Big Buddha, and even more understood what it means to have trouble come from the mouth.
It cannot be said! Just try not to say it if you can.
"It seems that you still don't want to believe me or share your thoughts with me."
Xia Wutong waved to Nangong Ruyu who was walking over.
"Yu'er, come over for dinner. Haven't you been saying you were hungry for a long time? Hurry, have you washed your hands?"
At this moment, the gentle and kind princess turned into the housekeeper of her mother-in-law. Li Ye had the illusion that Xia Wutong called Nangong Ruyu, just like Li Hongxiu called Mu Mu to eat.
Could this habit be contagious?
"Yu'er is starving to death! Master, why did it take you so long? I should have known that Yu'er would come to help."
Nangong Ruyu's expression at this time was very similar to Mu Mu's expression back then.
Looking at the three people in front of him, Li Ye sighed silently, looked at the three people and said, "Eat early and rest early. Xiaobai will sleep outside with me at night."
"Master, are you beginning to dislike Yu'er for driving her to bed so early?"
Nangong Ruyu sat down next to Li Ye, picked up the bowl and took a sip of soup, looking up at him eagerly.
When Li Ye heard this, he couldn't help but laugh: "I want to wake you up early tomorrow morning and follow me to the back mountain to pick spring tea. I'm afraid you'll sleep too late today and stay in bed then."
When Xiaobai heard this, he rubbed the back of his head and asked, "Brother, why didn't I know there was tea here?"
Li Ye looked at him and said: "That year, we missed the spring when we came here, so naturally we didn't pick it. You have to go tomorrow. If you want to drink tea in the future, you have to do it yourself."
After saying this, Zhiye pointed to the back of the wooden house and said, "Turn over, it's very close to us."
Xia Wutong looked at the three of them and said with a smile: "It has been more than ten years since this house was built. I didn't expect it to be so strong. I really can't believe how my husband and junior brother built it back then."
When Xiaobai heard this, he quit!
He jumped up and shouted: "I spent ten days repairing this. My husband said that my brother would come to stay for a few days after he came down from the mountain and asked me to clean it up."
Li Ye glanced at Xiaobai and said nothing.
From the moment he walked into the woods and looked at the clean ground on the cliff, he knew that Xiaobai had been here before. It seemed that he was even more moved when he saw the wooden house was clean and tidy.
However, he is a person who does not want to reveal his feelings easily.
He and Xiaobai are brothers, there is no need to say these words.
Xia Wutong was different. She had lived here before and had some feelings for it. When she saw every tree and grass, she couldn't help but ask about it.
"There are heavy winds and heavy snowfall in the Tianshan Mountains. No matter how well-built a wooden house is, it will break down after being left unoccupied for a few years."
Looking at the three people, Li Ye said softly.
Xia Wutong and Nangong Ruyu, who were not familiar with Yang Chunshui, could not understand this truth. Li Ye felt that he should tell them this common sense.
After Li Ye paused for a moment, he said with a smile: "We will rest here for a few days and then return to Fengyun City. We will come back later... I don't know what year or month it will be."
After speaking, Li Ye sighed softly.
When Nangong Ruyu heard this, she held his hand and said, "When Yu'er grows up, she will accompany her master back to Tianshan to live."
Li Ye looked at her and couldn't help laughing, and said softly: "Yu'er's path is not in Tianshan Mountain. Your path is further than the master's path, so people should practice well now, you know?"
Xia Wutong's heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition came over her.
Looking at Li Ye, he frowned and asked, "Does it mean that Yu'er will leave junior brother in the future? Or is it that Yu'er will practice much faster than junior brother in the future?"
Xia Wutong may not have expected that her unintentional words tonight would turn out to be a prophecy, and that they would happen to Li Ye and Nangong Ruyu one by one in the near future.
It's just that things in the world are unpredictable, and there are only a few people who can explain clearly and understand what will happen in the future.
Li Ye looked at the questions she asked in succession, shook his head and replied: "Who knows what will happen in the future? I know that now I need to improve Yu'er's basic skills? Practice her sword skills well!"
"Master, how can Yu'er practice swordsmanship well? Can you teach me?"
Li Ye glanced at her, pointed to the back of the wooden house and said, "Back then, I carved scriptures on the stone wall behind this stone house. When you come back from picking tea tomorrow, you can scrape off the moss on it. The princess and Mr. Tang were watching on it. The sword intention is revealed!"
"Brother, can't you teach Yu'er the sword's will? After all, I'm also her uncle, so I have to give her some benefits, right?"
Xiaobai looked at Li Ye and Nangong Ruyu and asked with some embarrassment.
"Yes, master, just teach Yu'er, you only have a good disciple in Yuzuo!"
When Nangong Ruyu saw Xiaobai helping her to speak, she started acting coquettishly.
"There is no need to teach sword intention. You will learn it naturally if you see it too much. If you can't see it, you will never understand it. This seems to be what Mr. Tang said back then."
After saying these words, Li Ye glanced at Xia Wutong.
Xia Wutong looked at the two of them and nodded, and said seriously: "That's how my master made peace with me back then. You can only understand the meaning of the sword by yourself, and no one else can help you."
Nangong Ruyu looked at her and asked curiously: "Sister, how long did you read the scriptures and how much effort did it take to understand the sword meaning on the stone wall?"
Xia Wutong was stunned, and Li Fa couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at her. I thought to myself, I can't tell you that it took me countless years of hard work to comprehend a hint of sword intent, right?
"Seeing is one thing, understanding is another. Yu'er, don't be impatient."
Xia Wutong did not answer her question directly, but told her the principles of practice, just like Tang Qiuyu explained to her back then.
Upon hearing this, Nangong Ruyu nodded and said, "Yu'er understands. During these few days on Tianshan Mountain, Yu'er will take a good look at the sword intention left by the master on the stone wall."
Li Ye looked at her and shook his head. He smiled and said: "Look at the calligraphy first, then the sword intention. Don't be deliberate."
