Chapter 43
Chapter 43
In the small courtyard that Yin Sui arranged for Jiang Shuo, except for one person and one rabbit living in it, there were no other people from Xuanjimen.
At first Jiang Shuo wanted to talk to the disciples of Xuanji Sect, but he didn't expect that in a few days, apart from Yin Sui and a snow rabbit who only knew how to eat, he would never see half a living thing again.
I don't know what's going on outside... Jiang Shuo caressed the snow rabbit's long fluffy ears absently, and stared at the peach petals falling on the ground in a daze.
Xiao Chen failed to become a teacher, Yin Sui revealed his rebirth identity several years in advance, and even came and went freely in Jiuhua, but he didn't deliberately hurt anyone.
Jiang Shuo stared at the snow rabbit in his arms, and realized that the plot had already left his memory.
Even Yin Sui—
The courtyard door creaked and was pushed open. Jiang Shuo didn't even need to look up to know that it was the demon cultivator.
"You didn't eat." Yin Sui stood in the courtyard, glanced at the cold food on the stone table, and said.
Jiang Shuo: "."
In fact, a cultivator will not die if he does not eat for a few days.
Yin Sui frowned, the delicate peach petals fell on his ink robe, and was instantly crushed by the devilish energy, he asked lightly: "Are you angry?"
Jiang Shuo put the snow rabbit down, got up and went back to the room, and calmly replied: "Should I be happy?"
Yin Sui stretched out his hand to pinch the snow rabbit's back neck, stared at the short-legged rabbit in his hand, thought for a moment, and asked in doubt, "You don't like rabbits?"
"..." Jiang Shuo stopped walking back to his room, no matter how gentle and patient he was, he couldn't help feeling annoyed at this moment.
"Yin Sui," he turned around and looked straight at Moxiu, his beautiful eyes rarely showed a bit of anger, "You kept me a secret first and imprisoned me later, and now you come to ask me, why are you unhappy? "
Yin Sui pursed his thin lips, lowered his eyelashes subconsciously, and said after a while: "After I was born, if I didn't hide my identity, I'm afraid my soul would be gone within three days."
Jiang Shuo paused, and found that Moxiu seemed to be... explaining to him.
"I entered Jiuhua at first for revenge." Yin Sui said in a low voice, "Dong Yan has a personal vendetta against this honor, and this honor indeed wanted to find an opportunity to kill him."
Later, how did this idea of revenge become weaker and weaker, and how did he fall into the peaceful and gentle days and forget his original purpose...
Yin Sui casually threw the kicking snow rabbit back under the peach blossom tree, and stopped talking.
Jiang Shuo stood quietly, and after a while, he asked, "Do you have anything to do with the unreasonable death of several disciples in Jiuhua, the loosening of the restraint in the Demon Locking Tower, and the trial in the secret realm of Xuanji Gate?"
Yin Sui was silent for a long time before he spoke out: "It has nothing to do with this deity, but because of this deity."
Jiang Shuo's long eyelashes trembled lightly, not knowing whether to believe it or not.
Yin Sui's heart gradually became restless, he had obviously trapped people here, but he still felt worried about gains and losses.The demonic energy in his body disturbed him so much that he couldn't calm down and think, and he was only driven by instinct to use the most brutal means to solve it——
"If you want to go out, there are only two options."
Yin Sui's voice seemed frozen: "Either give up accepting Xiao Chen as a disciple, and sever ties with Dong Yan. Or become a Taoist companion with this deity."
Jiang Shuo was stunned for a moment, his eyes were blank, as if he didn't understand.
"This deity—" Yin Sui stretched out his hand and broke off a peach blossom branch, stared at it casually, and said coldly:
"...I have coveted you for a long time, and I don't mind if you have other Taoist companions. You will double cultivate with this deity in the future, and your cultivation base will also greatly increase."
He thought of something again, frowned slightly, and said emphatically: "I have never had other Taoist companions, nor have I practiced dual cultivation with others."
Jiang Shuo: "..."
Long after Yin Sui left, Jiang Shuo was still thinking.
When is...
Jiang Shuo thought of his former apprentice, except that he was more clingy, more moody, more prone to crying... There should be nothing different from ordinary people.
And besides teaching the lessons step by step, and occasionally taking the boy out to travel in his spare time, he didn't seem to have done anything worth noting.
In the middle of the night, Jiang Shuo tossed and turned on the couch, closed his eyes either to see the handsome young face, or Moxiu's cold and scarlet eyes, his heart was full of turmoil, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.
After staying up for half the night, Jiang Shuo simply got up and put on his clothes, drank a few sips of herbal tea, opened the door and went out to the small courtyard to enjoy the air.
Unexpectedly, he had only stepped half a step out of the threshold when he was startled by a figure sitting cross-legged in the courtyard.
Yin Sui sat under the peach blossom tree with downcast eyes, and was just playing with the snow rabbit's long ears with a thin peach blossom branch.The snow rabbit was immobilized by the magic spell, shaking its ears and tail in vain to show its anger. Hearing Jiang Shuo's movement, a pair of red eyes immediately looked at him for help.
The peach blossom branch in Yin Sui's hand froze, apparently not expecting Jiang Shuo to come out.
But then he threw the flower branch away, and said in a casual tone, "This place is cool and open, suitable for meditation and cultivation."
Jiang Shuo took a few steps closer and asked, "Do you sit here in a daze every night?"
"How is it possible." Yin Sui retorted subconsciously, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his voice was deep: "This deity is such a boring person."
The snow rabbit under his palm kicked its limbs frantically, kicking the finely divided soil onto Yin Sui's legs.
"How do you think about the day's affairs." Yin Sui changed the subject, released the restraint that imprisoned the snow rabbit, and let the little thing go, while pretending to be absent-minded: "I am not a patient person."
Moxiu's face showed a little impatience and anger that was common when he was a teenager before: "If you hesitate, I will make the decision myself."
Jiang Shuo lightly frowned: "I am your... teacher's wife, how can I become a Taoist couple with you."
"So what?" Yin Sui sat cross-legged on the ground, raised his eyelids slightly, his black eyes were as deep as a black abyss, and said calmly: "Most demon cultivators disregard human relations and act recklessly, and this deity is the same."
"Besides—" he bent his fingers, unconsciously tapped on his knees, and said in a mocking tone, "Isn't it just right for me to take you by force and make Dongyan suffer great shame and humiliation?"
Jiang Shuo started, his voice lowered: "I don't accept Xiao Chen as a disciple."
For some reason, Yin Sui had clearly achieved his original goal, but he still couldn't help clenching his hands under the sleeves of his robe, and said coldly: "Just don't accept Xiao Chen as a disciple?"
Jiang Shuo's eyes were extremely beautiful under the moonlight, soft and intoxicating like fine wine, Yin Sui stared closely at his eyes, and saw a little bewildered inside.
"What do you want?" Jiang Shuo asked.
Yin Sui: "Sever the relationship with Dong Yan as a Taoist couple."
Jiang Shuo thought about it for a moment, and felt that there was no serious problem. He was just a false Taoist couple in name only: "Okay."
Yin Sui made an inch of progress and pressed forward step by step: "Let the world know that you have nothing to do with Dong Yan, and you are in love with this venerable, and you are already on the lord's couch."
"..." Jiang Shuo was speechless for a while, and said in silence for a while, "How is this different from your becoming a Taoist companion?"
Yin Sui frowned: "Of course it's different. If you become a Taoist couple with this deity, you will sleep with this deity every night from tomorrow, and practice double cultivation every day. How can it be the same?"
Jiang Shuo: "."
The reason why Moxiu is Moxiu may be because he has a much thicker skin than ordinary people.
If he was still the little apprentice he used to be, his face would turn red the moment he talked about "the man on the couch" and he would not dare to say more.
"I only give you three days to think about it," Yin Sui said in an understated tone, only quietly blushing from an angle that Jiang Shuo couldn't see, "After three days, if there is no reply, this lord will not only ask you not to accept Xiao Chen as a disciple, I also want you to be willing to go to the couch of the deity and become a Taoist partner with the deity."
After listening to Yin Suifang's cruel words, Jiang Shuo originally thought about whether he should follow what he said and write a letter of invitation to leave to Dong Yan, but only one day later, something happened suddenly.
"Dong Yan has announced to everyone that you are no longer his Taoist partner." Yin Sui held the sword, leaned lazily under the peach blossom tree, and talked to Jiang Shuo in the room, his expression seemed to be careless, but his tone was mocking: "Not Claim that from now on, you have nothing to do with him, you are just an ordinary monk in Jiuhua."
Jiang Shuo was standing in front of the desk by the window, picking up a pen to practice calligraphy, when he heard that the tip of the pen paused, a drop of ink fell and hit the rice paper, staining a large black stain.
"Why?" Jiang Shuo lowered his eyelashes and asked softly.
It's not about chasing the title of No. 1 Daoist Companion in the World, it's just that after so long, he has long been used to this nominal identity, and he is also used to grit his teeth and carry the head of Jiuhua when he can't see Dongyan all day long. responsibility.
For many days and nights, those obscure ledgers, elusive files, and thick and old training books were all his regular reading materials before going to bed. Although he couldn't do it, Jiang Shuo thought... he had done something at least .
Yin Sui slowly retracted the sloppy look on his face, and stared at the person in the window with dark eyes for a while.
Jiang Shuo lowered his head slightly, pursed his lips and looked at the rice paper on the case, as if lost in thought.
"If you are not happy," Yin Sui said suddenly, "I will kill him for you."
Jiang Shuo shook his head very lightly, suddenly he didn't know what to say, and he spoke after a while: "If this is the case, I don't need to write a letter of leave to Dong Yan, right?"
Yin Sui was a little anxious, and he was not happy about this long-awaited event in his heart. Instead, seeing Jiang Shuo's dazed look, he wished to kill Jiuhua immediately and cut that person into pieces.
I haven't done anything to Jiang Shuo yet, Dongyan...
Violent scarlet blood gushed out of Moxiu's eyes, at this moment, Jiang Shuo suddenly put down his pen, and said to the gloomy Yin Sui outside the window, "I want to go for a walk."
Yin Sui: "..."
Half an hour later, the two arrived in the lower town under the jurisdiction of Xuanji Gate.
"You..." Yin Sui seemed to have come to his senses at this moment, frowning and said coldly: "This deity just happened to be bored today, so I brought you out together, don't think that in the future you can—"
"Chestnut sweet cake." Jiang Shuo said with his gaze not far away.
The last half of Yin Sui's words got stuck in his throat, and he turned his gaze over, and found that there was indeed a peddler selling chestnut sweet cakes a dozen steps away, and he was calling out to the people who came and went with a loud voice: "Chestnut cakes!" Have a bite? Sweet but not greasy, fresh and hot!"
Yin Sui took a short glance, then withdrew his gaze, and couldn't help but said: "The deity can also make that kind of gadget."
Jiang Shuo naturally knew that he would do it, and he did it very well.When Zeng was still in Jiuhua, as a young apprentice, Yin Sui liked to hide in the kitchen, using the excuse of making cakes to avoid schoolwork.
However, Jiang Shuo is soft-hearted and sweet, so he can't resist the temptation of cakes. Yin Sui often uses a few small cakes to coax him into forgetting to check his homework, and let the young man take advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters and spend his days lazily.
His thoughts were immersed in the past for only a moment, and he was already noticed by the demon cultivator beside him, and he said in a low voice: "Don't look, if you really want to eat, this deity... If you beg this deity, it's not that you can't do it for you Try it."
"That person," Yin Sui said coldly as he glanced at the enthusiastic peddler indifferently, "is a demon cultivator. The things he sells cannot be eaten."
Jiang Shuo was taken aback, and looked at the vendor again.
The corners of the peddler's smiling mouth were a little exaggerated, sticking to his face like a dummy skin, and his pupils were flatter than ordinary people's.As for the chestnut cake under his hands, although it looks very good, Jiang Shuo took a closer look and found that there was a faint evil spirit lingering around the cake.
It is unknown what will happen if this thing is eaten into the stomach.
A woman with a child walked up, clutching a wrinkled purse in one hand, apparently planning to buy some pastries for her hungry children.
Jiang Shuo frowned slightly, and stopped walking.
"Monster cultivators and ghost cultivators are everywhere," Jiang Shuo said coldly, "Does the Xuanji sect care whether these people live or die?"
Yin Sui was absent-minded at first, but upon hearing this, he said: "They are a bunch of selfish idiots, what can we expect?"
"..." Jiang Shuo asked, "Aren't you the head of the Xuanji sect?"
Yin Sui paused, with a contemptuous expression and an impatient tone: "I am the head of the Xuanji Sect, a fart."
Jiang Shuo: "."
That's the end of the topic of the head of the Xuanji Sect. Jiang Shuo turned his eyes and noticed that a woman not far away bought a sweet cake for a few copper coins and was about to bend over to feed the child, and his expression changed immediately.
"What are you doing?" Yin Sui asked with a frown as he saw him walking straight ahead.
Since Jiang Shuo was brought to the Xuanji Gate, Yin Sui's cultivation had already been restricted by Yin Sui, and now his ability is no different from that of an ordinary person with slightly better five senses.But compared to ordinary people, they are more eye-catching and vulnerable.
Watching Jiang Shuo go straight to the demon cultivator, Yin Sui clenched his hands in his sleeves and then let go, whispering impatiently: "... mind your own business."
Immediately, he slightly raised his hand, and simply volleyed directly to overturn Yaoxiu's pastry stand.
Jiang Shuo, who was halfway there: "..."
The woman who was about to feed the sweet cake to the child: "..."
The demon cultivator was overturned to the ground by the demonic energy, and the cakes were smashed all over him. He was so angry that he forgot even his disguise, and exposed his sharp canine teeth and long tail behind him. He jumped up and cursed: " What kind of fucking son of a bitch—"
Yin Sui frowned: "Noisy."
The demon cultivator cut off his curses abruptly, the thick and cold devilish energy made his hairs stand on end, his pupils shrunk into sharp lines, and finally, under the natural and instinctive fear, he suddenly turned into a prototype, and fled away in a hurry .
He fled in such a hasty and quick manner that the surrounding people couldn't even tell what it was, they just widened their eyes in horror: "Demon... demon cultivator!"
"There's a demon over there—"
"Moxiu, Moxiu is here to kill!"
The crowd scattered and ran screaming, the woman who was still holding the sweet cake in one hand was stunned for a while, then suddenly bent down and covered the child's eyes, kneeled down on the ground with trembling legs, and walked towards her not far away without saying a word Yin Sui said:
"Officer...Officer, my, my child is only three years old, please...please don't hurt him—"
Yin Sui's expression was cold, and he walked past her without looking sideways. He didn't stop until Jiang Shuo was in front of him, and asked irritably, "The matter is settled, why don't you leave?"
In just a few moments, the bustling crowd around the two of them cleared up, and some bolder ones hid in a small shop in the distance and looked this way, their eyes filled with fear and tension.
Jiang Shuo witnessed the whole process, and now he lowered his eyelashes and asked, "...Why are they so afraid of you?"
Yin Sui's tone was meaningless, and there was even a hint of sarcasm in his eyes: "Because I am a demon cultivator."
He looked at Jiang Shuo, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a half-smile: "What? You pity me?"
Jiang Shuo shook his head and said softly, "No, I just think...if I didn't bring you into the secret realm, it would be fine."
Yin Sui froze for a moment.
"Nonsense." Moxiu turned his eyes away, concealing the strangeness in his heart, and said in a low voice: "I was Moxiu in my previous life, if you..."
He stopped talking suddenly and didn't continue.
If I had met Jiang Shuo earlier, perhaps the path I would take today would be very different.
But Yin Sui can no longer say such words of relying on flattery.
How could the deity be so shameful, he thought.
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