After a glass of spiritual wine, Xiao Ling'er and Long Potian officially became their master.
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, looked at the two of them and said seriously: "From now on, Master will only teach you reading, writing, and piano. If you practice each skill, you will have your own skills, so there is no need to trouble the teacher."
After hearing this, the master nodded and sighed: "We have to wait until we figure out the troubles I have before we talk about this matter."
Po Meng, who was sitting aside, smiled and said, "We'll talk about this tomorrow. Let's eat first."
Li Xiuyuan reached out and filled a bowl of soup for the master first, and then filled a bowl each for Xiao Ling'er and Long Potian.
After thinking for a while, he looked at the three of them and said: "After drinking this bowl of soup, it depends on the fate of the three of you. There was once a person who broke through a major realm in one day."
"Who? So scary?!"
Xiao Ling'er took a sip of the soup, raised her head and looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked in disbelief: "What kind of state is that? Can it be broken in one day?"
Li Xiuyuan then gave Po Meng a bowl of soup, looked at her and said with a smile: "My disciple Youruo, a monk from Tianxiang City Academy, was in the God Transformation realm before breaking through, and then reached the sixth level of Void Refining..."
This is You Ruo's cultivation after she arrived at the Tang Snow Mountain and Li Xiuyuan helped her break through.
As for Youruo's subsequent breakthrough all the way to the ninth level of refining the void, it is an unknown story, unless the old Taoist priest tells him in a dream.
However, in his opinion, the master would never affect his state of mind just because of these trivial matters.
Even so, both Master and Youruo, and even Long Potian screamed in surprise.
Only Po Meng disagreed. In her opinion, she could understand the story that happened to Li Xiuyuan.
Long Potian exclaimed softly: "It seems that tonight, I will have to take advantage of my brother and break through two levels of cultivation." After speaking, he glanced at Xiao Ling'er.
Xiao Ling'er glared at him and said with a smile: "The two of us shouldn't be that exaggerated. It would be good if we can break through one realm, but the teacher may break through several realms in a row."
Xiao Ling'er had just returned from Wanli Youhe with Li Xiuyuan. She knew that she had received too many opportunities and could no longer be like an ordinary monk.
Li Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment, then replied with a faint smile: "My sister can understand it, but Long Potian is a little too greedy."
"Why?"
Po Meng was confused when she heard this. She looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "My sister is no longer a human being. Is Long Potian a monster?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "I can't say. Anyway, eldest sister can drink two more bowls of soup. I just dug these winter bamboo shoots in the snowy mountains. They are fresh and nourishing."
Po Meng took a shallow breath and felt that the taste was something she had never tasted before.
He couldn't help but look at Li Xiuyuan and asked gently: "Tell me, what did you do in the Tang Dynasty?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled: "I have a small wine shop in the imperial city. Behind the wine shop is the courtyard where I live... There is a small wooden house on the snowy mountain outside the city..."
"There are several plum trees, vegetables and radishes planted in the garden outside the house, and some tea trees planted behind the house... This is my life, there is nothing to be proud of..."
Speaking of which, he explained: "It's the New Year's season now. I can wait another month to pick tea. I don't know if I can grow spiritual tea on the snow-capped mountains."
This time, not to mention Po Meng, even Xiao Ling'er and Master couldn't help but look at Li Xiuyuan in surprise.
In Xiao Ling'er's heart, her brother has always been the most powerful. Why did he go to Datang and become a wine shopkeeper and a vegetable grower?
The Master is even more incomprehensible. When he was in the academy, Li Xiuyuan dared to fight against the sky in order to practice. He was torturing himself desperately.
How long had it been before you started slacking off?
Thinking of this, Master couldn't help but ask: "Xiu Yuan, what is your current cultivation level? Why can't I feel a trace of spiritual energy in you?"
Li Xiuyuan took a sip of the soup, looked at the old man and said, "I don't have any cultivation. I went to Datang just to have a look, not for my own cultivation."
Po Meng looked at the two of them and smiled: "Xiao Ling'er, you should know something, so don't say anything. Master, don't worry about my brother either. He has his own way."
Regarding Li Xiuyuan's matter, not only she, but also King Qin Guang under Jiuyou couldn't understand it.
She also didn't want the old man and little Ling'er in front of her to inquire too much about Li Xiuyuan's secrets.
Long Potian wouldn't worry about Li Xiuyuan, after all, he had never won when the two met.
After drinking two bowls of soup and eating a lot of meat and radishes, he felt like his whole body was on fire. Long Potian couldn't help but ask, "Say, how come this radish also has spiritual power?"
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said with a smile: "This is purely unintentional. Apart from you, I don't dare to give it to those guys in Datang."
Po Meng ate a piece of radish and couldn't help but laugh: "You can grow this radish like this, I'm afraid you are the only one in the world."
Thinking about it, he added, "Remember, if that spiritual tea is really grown, you have to leave a box for me."
Xiao Ling'er smiled playfully: "I want it too."
Li Xiuyuan waved his hand and said: "Eat quickly. After that, go back to the house and practice by yourself. I will sit with my eldest sister for a while, and I will go to the bridge to enjoy the breeze at night."
Seeing this, the old man stopped nagging Li Xiuyuan and asked, "Xiuyuan, which house do you live in?"
Li Xiuyuan put down his wine glass and led the old man out of the living room.
Seeing the master and apprentice leave the living room, Po Meng looked at Xiao Ling'er and Long Potian and said seriously: "If the old man's matter is resolved, you two have to calm down."
Xiao Ling'er nodded: "Since he is my brother's teacher, he is also Xiao Ling'er's teacher."
Long Potian patted his chest: "I promise to be obedient and not cause trouble."
Xiao Ling'er pinched his ears and smiled: "Why don't you cause trouble for me?"
Po Meng's head felt heavy when she saw the two of them. She waved her hand and said: "Hurry up and put away all the pots and bowls after eating. Don't let your brother cook and wash the dishes."
The two of them speeded up, and while eating, they wondered if they would be lucky enough to break through two realms in a row.
Leaning slantedly on the chair, Po Meng couldn't help but sigh.
Firstly, I was happy for Qingluan to have a younger sister, and secondly, I thought that Li Xiuyuan went to Datang to do something that only an old farmer would do.
It seems that during the hundred years that this guy was at Wangchuan Bridge, he was probably cultivating and farming at the same time.
Xiao Ling'er and Long Po cleaned up the mess on the table, cleared the table and put the tea sets on it.
The two went to wash up, and Li Xiuyuan settled down with his wife and returned to the living room.
Seeing that it was still early, I couldn't help but look at Po Meng and asked, "Sister, do you want to go back to the house and rest for a while?"
Shaking her head, Meng Po pulled him to sit next to her: "It's rare for you to come here, and you might leave again in the blink of an eye. When can't you sleep?"
Li Xiuyuan thought for a moment and smiled: "It shouldn't be that fast."
While boiling water, Li Xiuyuan thought for a moment and said, "It's too late today. I'll invite King Qin Guang here tomorrow and ask if he's free."
Po Meng laughed when she heard this: "Others would definitely not have time to look for him, but if it were you, he would definitely come."
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When the autumn wind blows, the night above the Forgotten River is as cool as water.
On the Wangchuan Bridge late at night, the silent river flowed quietly, silently watching the dazed young man on the bridge.
Just like those hundred years of wind and rain, the young man once held a sword and waved it on the bridge every night. After finishing it, he would lower his head silently and gaze at the water of the River of Forgetfulness for a hundred years.
Po Meng sat quietly aside. She didn't know what Li Xiuyuan was thinking at the moment, and she didn't want to ask.
The young man has stood on this bridge for more than a hundred years, and the total time before and after is probably almost two hundred years.
This bridge and the river under the bridge have long remembered his breath.
"Above the River of Forgetfulness, beneath the Mulberry Village. Half is light, half is shadow..."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and looked at the shadow in the river in silence.
He said quietly: "I never understood the meaning of this statement before, until I stood on the gazebo, but I couldn't see the Fengyun City that it once was."
Po Meng sighed after hearing this: "That place is for people who have entered reincarnation. Take a last look at your former hometown. You are fine, so naturally you can't see it."
"If it were Long Potian who said these words, I would definitely have to beat him up. Okay, why are you running to Wangxiangtai if you have nothing to do?"
Po Meng smiled angrily and said, "Even your teacher, I'm afraid he didn't see it, right?"
Li Xiuyuan retracted his gaze towards the river, returned to the table, took out the wooden bowls from the basin, lined them up in two rows, and poured soup into them carefully.
He looked up at the half moon in the sky and smiled: "That's true, but the place I came back to this time is Wangxiangtai..."
"Don't go there if you have nothing to do. It's not a good place."
Mrs. Meng curled her lips and replied: "You haven't seen you coming for countless times, and I never took you over to take a look?"
Li Xiuyuan ignored her words, but thought about the strange things that happened today, which in his opinion were too abnormal.
Beyond his imagination.
Thinking of the scene when Long Qingyun broke the formation and set off a firework because he and Qingluan were sitting on the bridge...
Li Xiuyuan frowned, looked at Po Meng and said, "Tomorrow let Xiao Ling'er accompany the eldest sister to collect elixirs. I'll take Long Potian to Wangxiang Terrace to have another look. There's something weird there!"
"Do you want me to go and see it with you?"
Po Meng looked at the solemn expression on Li Xiuyuan's face, and suddenly remembered the scene where Qinglong emerged from the Wangchuan River and swallowed Li Xiuyuan in one gulp, and she couldn't help being frightened.
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan smiled: "Don't be afraid, Long Potian is with me, and it just so happens that I want to call King Qin Guang to come up... Even if there is trouble, it will also be his."
While talking, the time has come, and Po Meng opened the magic circle on the bridge.
The autumn wind rustled, and countless shadows slowly came from the other side of the bridge.
Li Xiuyuan shouted: "Drink a bowl of soup before crossing the bridge. Please line up and come here. Don't be disobedient. If you fall into the river, you won't be able to reincarnate..."
Mother Meng laughed when she heard this, and shouted to the visitor: "Be obedient, drink the soup, and go find your chance in the next life. Don't let mother-in-law do it."
For a moment, a whining sound sounded on the bridge. It was the people who didn't want to cross the river who were thinking about their loved ones in this life.
Then the sound of drinking soup echoed on the bridge, but it was the guy who couldn't wait to go to reincarnation, drinking soup while waiting to cross the bridge.
There was even a scream of "Ah...", followed by the sound of falling into the water.
Po Meng looked at the guys waiting to cross the bridge behind and said with a smile: "See, those who are disobedient will stay under the bridge forever. Stop thinking about reincarnation."
The crescent moon quietly shines on the Wangchuan Bridge and the river under the bridge.
Seeing someone who didn't want to drink the soup to pass the test fell into the river, the guys behind them no longer dared to act rashly.
Po Meng looked at Li Xiuyuan and smiled bitterly: "I try to persuade them every day, but every day there will be disobedient guys falling."
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "The south wall is right there, someone has to hit it!"
Po Meng chuckled: "It's just that those who hit the south wall still have a chance to turn back. These guys are not so lucky."
Looking up at the crescent moon in the sky, Li Xiuyuan muttered to himself.
I'm afraid that some people will hit the wall and never regret it.
Just like Wuxin who practiced in Prajna Temple back then, he struggled with the three births and three births countless times, and he struggled with becoming a monk and returning to secular life countless times.
Until he met Nalan Moli, until the two of them died and entered reincarnation.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan said leisurely: "For some infatuated guys, they may have to drink this soup several times before they can get out of the reincarnation of three lives and three lives."
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