As soon as the youth’s voice fell, he seemed to feel that he was a little too abrupt, and stammered and explained, “I, I didn’t mean that, I’m not such a casual person. I just said, if you help me this time, I will help you in the future… I have heard from others that a person being a cauldron will only last a few years at most, and the days after that will not be too good. “
At this time, Qiu Yutong finally understood what the other party had misunderstood. He was really speechless, and he didn’t know how to explain it for a while, so he could only stare at the youth.
“Why are you looking at me? What I say is the truth…”
Under the condemning gaze of those beautiful eyes, the youth’s voice became smaller and smaller. In the end, he really couldn’t go on. He turned his head uncomfortably, and couldn’t help but secretly glance at Qiu Yutong out of the corner of his eyes.
“…” Qiu Yutong didn’t want to talk too much, but he couldn’t help but explain this situation. He frowned at the youth, just about to say something, but as soon as the youth made contact with his eyes, he quickly turned his eyes away. He muttered, “Just help me introduce myself to Peak Master Qiu, do you agree or not?”
Qiu Yutong said helplessly, “It’s not a question of whether or not to answer, I’m Qiu Yu…”
“In addition to banknotes and spirit stones, I have other things!” The youth interrupted him directly, and then he took out a lot of things, and stuffed them into Qiu Yutong’s arms in a mess, “Here, this, this, This red sandalwood comb, this is an ink jade inkstone… all for you! Oh, yes, and this is a string of night pearls…”
Qiu Yutong was forced to hold a lot of strange things, and didn’t know if he should laugh or cry. He was about to explain when a warm and indifferent voice came, “Yutong, why are you here? We are all waiting for you. Why didn’t you go to the front hall to choose apprentices?”
Qiu Yutong quickly stood up, “Sect Leader.”
Xie Wanting turned the wheel of his wheelchair and slowly approached. He looked at Qiu Yutong, then at the youth, and asked in confusion, “Yutong, who is this little friend?”
“City Lord Xie?!” The youth suddenly widened his eyes and stared at Xie Wanting in a daze. After a while, he turned his neck extremely stiffly and slowly, and looked at Qiu Yutong stupidly, as if his whole body was hit by a blast of lightning, and so shocked his tongue frozww, “This is City Lord Xie, you, you call him… Sect Leader? Then, then you are…”
Xie Wanting looked at the child’s incoherent appearance, and could not help but slightly frown. He no longer cared about the youth, and looked down at the pile of things in Qiu Yutong’s arms, “Yutong, what are these?”
“…” Qiu Yutong didn’t know how to answer.
If he were to speak, these messy things seemed to be bribes that the youth stuffed him with this “favored cauldron” and asked him to help introduce himself to “the owner of the cauldron”.
“Yutong? What’s wrong?” Xie Wanting wondered.
Qiu Yutong hasn’t answered yet, but the youth over there had suddenly come to understand. For a while, his face suddenly turned green, white, red and black. After a colorful change, he suddenly knelt down with a “pop”, “City Lord Xie, these things, these things are… a little bit of my filial piety to Shizun!”
Qiu Yutong, “?!”
Xie Wanting wondered, “…What Shizun?”
The youth turned around and kowtowed heavily to Qiu Yutong, “I hope Shizun will kindly accept my intentions!”
Xie Wanting was stunned for a moment, and then said clearly, “Yutong, you have already selected your apprentice? Is that him?”
“No, no.” Qiu Yutong laughed, “Okay, get up quickly, don’t cause trouble in front of the Sect Leader.”
“Peak Master Qiu, please accept me as your apprentice!” The youth knelt straight on the ground and looked up at Qiu Yutong, but he refused to get up.
Xie Wanting looked at the young man and seemed to think of something, so he couldn’t help raising his eyebrows, “Are you, the mutant spirit root young master of the Chen family? The one called… Chen Yuelin?”
The youth nodded, “En, I am Chen Yuelin.”
Xie Wanting pondered for a moment, then turned to look at Qiu Yutong, “The Chen family is clean, and his aptitude is really good. How about you accept him?”
Qiu Yutong hurriedly shook his head and said, “Sect Leader, as you know, I really can’t do anything in my current situation…”
Xie Wanting sighed, “Yutong, I used to think that your temperament was too pure, and I always hoped that you would accept a smart and reliable apprentice, but now you look like this… I think accepting a more lively apprentice is quite good. Sigh, you have always been like this, I am not at ease.”
“Senior Brother, I…” Qiu Yutong felt very guilty in his heart, but still shook his head.
Chen Yuelin said anxiously, “Shizun, just accept me, I can do anything! I will take good care of you!”
Before Qiu Yutong had time to say anything, Xie Wanting had already nodded his head, and said in a pleasant manner, “What do you know?”
“Uh, playing polo, fighting crickets, listening to little tunes…,” Chen Yuelin’s voice became smaller and smaller, and finally shut up.
The corners of Xie Wanting’s mouth twitched slightly, “These, cough, cough… However, it’s good to be lively and cheerful. I’ll take you as an outer apprentice of North Snow City for the time being. You will live in Feilai Peak first. As for Yutong, whether he will accept you as a disciple or not, it depends on your good luck. “
Chen Yuelin nodded immediately, “I understand! I will definitely perform well!”
“Sect Leader, I…”
Qiu Yutong still wanted to say something, but Xie Wanting had already waved his hand, “Okay, that’s it. If you really don’t like him, just chase him down the mountain, that’s all.”
“Oh,” Xie Wanting had already said this, and Qiu Yutong had to shut up silently.
Chen Yuelin looked happy, completely forgetting the “cauldron event” just now, and revolved around Qiu Yutong, “Shizun, Shizun, Shizun, Shizun!”
Shizun… Qiu Yutong felt uncomfortable when he heard this title, and couldn’t help rubbing his brows, “I’ll take you as an apprentice, don’t call me Shizun, just call me Peak Master Qiu.”
……
At the apprentice selection meeting in North Snow City, in addition to Chen Yuelin, who unilaterally forcibly apprenticed, Xie Wanting, Bai Hanyuan, and Sang Lingxi also accepted several children from aristocratic families, and everyone was very satisfied.
The peaceful days always passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, another half a year had passed.
The weather was getting colder, and North Snow City finally ushered in the first heavy snow this winter.
This morning, Qiu Yutong stood on the Lingxiao platform behind Feilai Pavilion, he held Tianzhao Yunhai in both hands, and stared blankly at the fluttering goose feather snow in the mountains, and recalled some extremely distant past events.
It was so cold this winter, he didn’t know if Xiao-er was cold at the bottom of the Cold Pool?
“Shizun!” A crisp young voice interrupted Qiu Yutong’s thoughts, and Chen Yuelin jumped in happily, “Shizun, have you heard? The city lord asked us to go down the mountain to buy New Year’s goods!”
Every winter in North Snow CIty, they sent people to the market at the foot of the mountain to purchase some New Year’s goods, such as rhyming couplets, paper cuttings, cakes… these things. Compared with boring tasks such as catching ghosts and praying for rain, purchasing New Year’s goods was a huge difference, and everyone fought to go.
When Qiu Yutong was a child, he always tried his best to beg his brothers to let them take him down the mountain to buy New Year’s goods, but at this moment, when he heard the Sect Leader asked him to buy New Year’s goods, he felt that he really couldn’t lift his spirits.
He also knew that the Sect Leader deliberately arranged this errand for him, in order to let him go down the mountain to relax. He was very grateful to the Sect Leader, but… he really had no interest.
Seeing that Qiu Yutong was silent, Chen Yuelin cautiously came over and shoved the delicate brass hand stove in his arms to him, “Shizun, your face is frozen white, don’t stay here, it’s cold outside, go back to the house. .”
Qiu Yutong sighed softly, “Yuelin, how many times have I said, stop calling me Shizun. If you really want to cultivate, go to Biyun Tower on the mountainside of Cuiping Peak, and beg Third Senior Brother, he has the best temper, and may accept you as an apprentice.”
Chen Yuelin pursed his lips, “No, I’m going to stay here.”
“I don’t actually know how to teach disciples, I will delay you,” Qiu Yutong kneaded his throbbing head. “You know now, I was injured in the secret realm before, this Dao body has not yet produced the pill and Third Senior Brother is much stronger than me…”
Looking at his pale and fragile appearance, Chen Yuelin only felt a pain in his heart for no reason, and couldn’t help but say, “City Lord Xie gave me an introductory cultivation manual and I’m learning by myself these days. Shizun is injured, you have to recuperate slowly, I will make rapid progress, I… I will protect Shizun. “
“What are you talking about? Even though I am like this now, I don’t need a child to protect me,” Qiu Yutong couldn’t help but laugh.
His path of cultivation really started from scratch, but this body had excellent physical aptitude and abundant spiritual power. It was estimated that he would be able to go to Wenjian Cliff to form his core next month. What did this little boy think he was?
“I know that Shizun doesn’t need it, but…” Chen Yuelin didn’t say anything, and stretched out his hand to pull him, “Okay, Shizun, let’s go, let’s go shopping for New Year’s goods, okay?”
Qiu Yutong was annoyed by him and he couldn’t bear to brush the good intentions of his Sect Leader, so he said, “Okay, I’ll go down the mountain with you to buy New Year’s goods. Just one thing, don’t call me Shizun.”
Chen Yuelin said happily, “Yes, Shizun!”
“… Call me Peak Master Qiu!”
“Oh, Peak Master Qiu,” Chen Yuelin said reluctantly.
The two packed up, and went to the foot of the mountain with their swords.
At the foot of Canglong Snow Mountain, there were many scattered small towns, the largest of which was called Qingshiqiao Town. This morning was the last market in the town before the New Year. The streets were bustling with people coming and going, the hawkers were hawking, the villagers were haggling, the aunties were gossiping, the sound of frying chestnuts bursting, the fragrance of oil fruit being put into the pot, the fragrance of the girls’ powder… All kinds of cheesy sounds and fragrances were intertwined, and they had a special New Year’s flavor.
“Selling pine nuts, fragrant and crispy fried pine nuts!”
“The buns just came out of the steamer basket, the buns with thin skin and lots of stuffing~”
“Master, do you want to buy a rhyming couplet? This is written by a scholar from Lijia Village!”
“Hey, sister, look over there, there are fried chestnuts!”
“As soon as the paper cuttings are posted, the coming year will be auspicious ~ buy paper cuttings~”
Chen Yuelin dragged Qiu Yutong, and the two of them squeezed around in the crowded market. They wandered and looked around. They bought a lot of New Year’s goods such as rhyming couplets, cakes, roasted seeds and nuts, paper cuttings… and a lantern.
Qiu Yutong held the carp lantern that the other party forcibly passed over, and his mind was blank for a moment.
Although the workmanship of this carp lantern was very rough, was far less exquisite than the lotus silk lantern that Lu Xiao gave him back then, and also without no weird lantern riddles attached to it, but at this moment, Qiu Yutong couldn’t hold the light and fluttering lantern, and his hands trembled badly.
Chen Yuelin looked at him blankly, “Peak Master Qiu, what’s the matter? You look so bad.”
Qiu Yutong tried hard to calm down, shook his head reluctantly, and said roughly, “It’s nothing.”
“Forget it, I’ll hold it.” Chen Yuelin took the lantern, and asked in confusion, “Peak Master Qiu, are you not feeling well? Otherwise, let’s find a restaurant, take a break, and have something to eat?”
“En,” Qiu Yutong nodded randomly.
There were many restaurants in the town. The two casually walked into a lively restaurant on the street. Chen Yuelin took out a large piece of silver and shouted for a table of dishes. Qiu Yutong stared out the window of the restaurant reluctantly, his mind in a mess.
“Peak Master Qiu, look, what is this?” Chen Yuelin mysteriously pushed a plate in front of Qiu Yutong, “I asked City Lord Xie before, and he said that you liked to eat this since you were a child.”
Qiu Yutong lowered his head and stared blankly at the plate of snow-white sweet-scented osmanthus cake in front of him. There was an unspeakable, severe pain in his chest, and his brain was even more dizzy. He clenched his teeth tightly, almost involuntarily pinching his palm, so as not to lose his temper.
Chen Yuelin wondered, “Peak Master Qiu?”
Qiu Yutong closed his eyes and tried his best to control his emotions. He pushed the plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake in front of Chen Yuelin and said dumbly, “Yuelin, you eat.”
This used to be his favorite sweet-scented osmanthus cake,and he would never get tired of eating it in his entire life, but, but… he couldn’t eat it anymore. As soon as he saw this snow-white pastry, he would think of the little apprentice he dug out the devil core from and was pushed into the bottom of the cold pool… He couldn’t face it, he couldn’t help it.
“You are letting me eat it?” Chen Yuelin blinked his eyes for unknown reasons. He carefully scrutinized Qiu Yutong’s drooping eyelashes, and then looked at the plate of snow-white osmanthus cake in front of him. He couldn’t help but sway slightly in his heart, and said boldly, “Shizun, you are so kind to me.”
“En,” Qiu Yutong twitched the corners of his mouth extremely reluctantly, unable to utter a complete sentence, so he did not refute this intimate “Shizun”.
“Thank you, Shizun!” Chen Yuelin smiled sweetly at him, and then lowered his head to eat happily.
No one noticed that at a table in the corner of the restaurant, a tall man was looking at him coldly.
The man was tall and strong, his expression was very dull, and his face was brown and withered, but if an expert looked closely, he would know that he was wearing an extremely delicate human face. At this moment, he was tightly holding the blue-and-white porcelain wine glass in his hand, and the blue veins on the back of his hand were bulging.
A “crack” sounded softly, and the wine glass broke.
The man didn’t pay attention to the wine cup in his hand at all, and with a pair of dark phoenix eyes, he only stared at Qiu Yutong’s table.
He watched the man stretch out his slender, snow-white hand and push his favorite pastry in front of the youth without hesitation. He listened to the chattering noise of the handsome youth, and the indifferent voice of the man. He just felt there was a “buzz” in his head, and his chest seemed to be crushed by a heavy hammer full of spikes. The pain was so sour that it was almost impossible to breathe.
The youth smiled and said, “Shizun.”
