The master and apprentice led Qingying back to Wangyue Stream, and it was almost midnight. The master went to get some medicinal herbs to treat Qing Ying's injury, while Li Xiuyuan went to the mountain spring to cleanse himself.
It took half an hour to clean the whole body and put on the coarse cloth clothes of the college handyman. When I returned to the hut, the master had already lit a fire under the tree and planned to barbecue.
Li Xiuyuan took out the spices and marinated the python meat prepared by Master, and said with a smile: "Don't do anything these days. Dry the meat first, otherwise it will turn into a pile of smelly meat when the weather changes."
The Master looked at him and said quietly: "I told you when your leg injury healed, but you didn't even tell me."
Qing Ying, who was squatting aside, also called out "chirp!" twice, expressing his dissatisfaction with Li Xiuyuan.
Li Xiuyuan was startled and stared at his left leg. He was speechless for a long time: "I don't know? Isn't it healed before fighting this big python?"
When Qingying heard this, he couldn't help but say "Chirp!" with a look of disgust on his face.
Li Xiuyuan looked at it and asked, "Do you think I drank the golden python and the blood? Or did the blood drip on my feet?"
Qingying heard this. "Chirp!" He shouted twice and nodded in agreement.
When Li Xiuyuan saw it, tears flowed down his face. He had to eat a lot for this leg, which made it inconvenient to walk, even more inconvenient when chopping firewood, not to mention crawling in this vast mountain...
The Master looked at him with a smile and said calmly: "If you hadn't suffered so much, you wouldn't have the state of mind and achievements you have now. Everything is worth it."
Li Xiuyuan pinched the corner of his sleeve and gently wiped away the tears on his face, and replied with a smile: "The student understands what the teacher said. Thank you to the teacher for taking care of him for a long time. He does not despise the student as a disabled person."
When the master heard this, he couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Who said I don't dislike you anymore? Just because your feet are inconvenient, I have to chew dried meat for several days!"
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he couldn't help laughing. He pointed at the green eagle and said, "Teachers will no longer go hungry. If students find delicious food in the mountains, let the eagle bring it back to you."
Upon hearing this, Qingying rubbed his head against the master twice to express his agreement with Li Xiuyuan. After all, the master had just applied medicinal herbs to the wound on his body, otherwise it would not be able to heal on its own within a month or two.
Li Xiuyuan lowered his head and thought for a while, then looked at his master and asked: "Teacher, if the dean knew that my legs and feet were healed, would he let me join the newcomers who are taking the spring exam today..."
Regarding Li Xiuyuan's arrival, he was already accustomed to the quiet life in front of him. How could he want to become an official disciple of the academy? If you want to know what the dean can teach, the master can naturally teach himself.
The master knew what he was thinking, looked at him and said with a smile: "Apart from me, who else in the academy knows that your leg is healed?"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned and laughed: "I didn't expect that the teacher also turned evil and actually taught the students to pretend to be pigs and eat tigers!"
After saying this, he picked up the gallbladder of the golden python from the basin and walked under the wooden shed. He wants to throw the dried herbs into the medicinal wine together with the snake gallbladder. This is a great tonic and cannot be wasted.
"When can I get a jar of this wine and try it?" Master asked, looking at Li Xiuyuan in the wooden shed.
"You can drink it now!" Li Xiuyuan thought that the wine had been brewed for almost three months, so he went back to the house to find a spoon, gently poured a jar out, put it under his nose and sniffed it gently.
“It tastes pretty good!”
Li Xiuyuan took a taste and looked at the Master and laughed.
When the master saw him, he couldn't bear it anymore and shouted at him: "In that case, why don't you come over and have a barbecue? Do you want to starve me to death?"
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he lowered his head and thought for a while, looked at the Master and said seriously: "Teacher, why do I hear this so well? It seems that someone has told me this before."
When the master heard this, he couldn't help but frown and said, "It seems that you really starved your master before, otherwise your memory wouldn't be so profound."
How could the master in front of him know that the person Li Xiuyuan was talking about was not the old Taoist priest who had left, but Mu Mu who lived in his blood memory.
It's just that this he is no longer Li Ye from the Five Realms, but the Li Xiuyuan who has lived in Yunqi Taoist Temple in Luoxia Mountain since childhood.
Qingying, who was squatting by the fire, smelled the aroma of wine and couldn't wait any longer. He looked at Li Xiuyuan and shouted "Chirp!"
Li Xiuyuan was very happy, looked at the master and said, "I didn't expect that this eagle is also greedy."
Despite this, he still poured a glass for Qing Ying and placed it in front of it. Qing Ying imitated the Master's example and took a sip from the wine glass, then roared happily.
"Stop barking, I'll grill the meat for you." Li Xiuyuan thought it was barking unpleasantly, so he planned to stuff its mouth with meat.
"Tweet!" Qing Ying was drinking happily, but she didn't pay attention to him.
"Teacher, can I ask a question?" Li Xiuyuan suddenly said with a smile.
"Tell me?" The master was pouring the second glass of wine, adding more to Qing Ying's glass as he poured it.
"Since the teacher doesn't want to accept an apprentice, why did he send the little boy to the kitchen to work as a handyman?" Li Xiuyuan has always been puzzled about this, so he asked today while he was in a good mood.
The Master shook his head and said: "I am old and can only do two things: drinking and ascension. Naturally, you will lead the little guy to practice."
Li Xiuyuan was silent for a long time after hearing this answer, then slowly raised his head and asked: "Teacher, I am just you and your disciple, how can I be a teacher who can be a teacher to others?"
The master took a sip of wine from the cup, looked at Li Xiuyuan and tried to persuade him: "When you broke through to the golden elixir on the mountain just now, was I by your side?"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned and said in confusion: "What does accepting Wei Qing as his apprentice have to do with me breaking through? Could it be that because I can break through to the golden elixir, I can be his master?"
The master shook his head, looked at him and said in a deep voice: "If you can break through to the golden elixir, you will definitely be able to break through to the Nascent Soul. Even if you break through the realm, you don't need me to worry about such a life and death matter. I am the master of a little guy who gathers Qi. What’s so difficult?”
At this point in the conversation, Li Xiuyuan finally understood the master's thoughts, looked at him and said with a smile: "Teacher, you are acting irresponsibly!"
"Xiuyuan, think carefully about what my teacher has taught you?"
The master looked at him and said quietly: "I just taught you some principles and fingering techniques for playing the piano. I didn't even teach you the music scores, let alone the spiritual matters. You can be Wei Qing's teacher, you have to believe in yourself ."
Li Xiuyuan slowly raised his head, looked at the rising half of the crescent moon in the sky, and became stunned.
When he was in the Taoist temple, after all, the old Taoist priest only tempered his body since he was a child and taught him to memorize the "Tai Xuan Sutra". The knowledge of medicinal herbs was also self-enlightened, not to mention that the old Taoist priest ascended after gathering his own Qi.
When I think about it carefully, my swordsmanship was not taught by an old Taoist priest, but only from the "Tai Xuan Jing" and calligraphy. After Master Jing said this, he seriously thought about it. Could it be that he was really the reincarnation of a god?
Are there gods in this world?
Aren’t the gods all in the world where the master went?
"What? Do you have some confidence? Before I leave, I will help you keep an eye on him, but he can only be recorded in your name. You know I am afraid of trouble, and trouble in the academy."
The master gets a headache when he thinks of the evil intentions of the faculty. Is the city willing to accept more disciples? Even if he accepted Li Xiuyuan as his disciple, he could deny it to the dean and say that he only taught him how to play the piano.
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, looked at the master and smiled and said: "In this case, I will give it a try. With just this much python meat, after it is dried, I will cook some medicinal soup for him to drink. It is estimated that he will be like me in less than two years." ”
"That's right, you just need to take him to the Golden Core Realm, and then throw him to the gentleman in the academy. By then, others will probably be vying to accept him as their disciple."
Li Xiuyuan looked up at him for a moment without saying a word. He continued to pick up a few pieces of meat and roasted them on the fire.
After a long silence, Qingqingying suddenly cried out uneasily.
The master was stunned, looked at Li Xiuyuan and said, "The eagle said that the meat you grilled is very fragrant and it wants to eat two pieces."
Li Xiuyuan turned to look at him and replied: "When it eats it more often, no matter how fragrant the meat is, it will only be so good."
"The problem is that it hasn't eaten yet." Master smiled.
"Alas! I really don't know who can afford to raise it. It is both greedy and drinkable." Li Xiuyuan looked at the Master and laughed.
"Just be content. With the help of this eagle, it will be much easier for you to find medicine in the future. If you are in danger, you can ask him to help you. As for food, it will find it by itself. You can help it bake it at most. bake."
The master looked at him and shook his head dissatisfied, thinking to himself, is this a good thing that fell one meter from the sky? You just saved its life once, and it may save you many times in the future.
However, because the green eagle has understood human nature, the master will naturally not say too many words in front of it, otherwise the master and the disciple will take advantage of this kind eagle.
"Well, when its wound recovers, I will take him into the mountains to collect medicine. I hope it can help me." Li Xiuyuan held the wine vat and poured medicinal wine into the cups of Master and Qingying.
The master smiled, pointed to the wooden shed and said, "Although this wine is good, don't drink too much. Wait until you come back from gathering more herbs and drink it in winter."
Upon hearing this, Li Xiuyuan looked at the wine glass in his hand and asked, "What if the teacher wants to drink in the future?"
The master was startled, patted his thigh and replied: "Stupid, can't I go down the mountain to buy some wine if I don't have any? As long as I don't let anyone in the academy see me."
Li Xiuyuan thought about this for a while. If he drank the wine now, it would be a waste. At least he would have to wait until it snows for the medicine to be effective.
"In this case, then drink it after the winter solstice or next spring. The longer the wine is stored, the better the effect will be. I kept it in the Taoist temple for a whole year before opening it."
Thinking of the old Taoist priest who had left, Li Xiuyuan said softly.
The master nodded and smiled: "When the time comes, drink the tank you opened first. Don't put any herbs here in the future to avoid waste."
"Then when I return to the academy, should I continue to look the same as before?"
In Li Xiuyuan's opinion, it was inconvenient to have a disabled leg later, but it is even more inconvenient now that it is healed.
The master glanced at him and said with a smile: "If you are not afraid of trouble, you can tell all the teachers and students in the academy that your foot was cured on the back mountain..."
After the master finished speaking, he looked at him and laughed.
...
After the master herded Li Xiuyuan's sheep for a year in the spring, he finally exercised his duties as a husband in midsummer.
That was the beginning of the torture. I don’t know where the master found some iron blocks. Each piece weighed about twenty kilograms. Then he used the skin of the golden python to make a vest for Li Xiuyuan and stuffed six pieces into it. piece.
"Put it on, and when you climb up from the mountain stream, I will give you two more pieces." The master took the remaining two pieces in his hand, looked at him and smiled.
Li Xiuyuan took it and tried it, then said with a grimace: "Teacher, this piece of iron is heavier than me, how do you want me to climb up wearing it?"
The Master looked at him and smiled and said, "It's okay if you don't want to go. Just go back to the academy now and don't tell anyone that you are my student in the future."
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he said, "Don't you force me to go?"
Qingying, who had long since recovered from his injuries, stood aside, looked at Li Xiuyuan sideways and yelled "Chirp!" twice, which clearly meant that he looked down on him.
Li Xiuyuan was stunned, thinking that no matter how useless I am, I can't let an eagle look down on me, right?
With a sudden change of heart, he put on the vest holding the iron block, raised his head and asked, "How should I practice?"
The master looked at him and smiled and said: "I ask you to climb up from the mountain stream now. It will definitely not work. You can just put on the suit and walk around the mountain for two hours before coming back. Remember to be quick. I will ask Ying'er to follow. Behind you."
