The day I woke up, it was already five days later.

"Master, where are you going?"

Seeing Zilian packing up two burdens, one large and one small, on the table, I asked him a little puzzled.

"Go to the world."

He sat down at the table and replied, reaching out to pick up a cup of tea on the table and taking a sip.

"Huh? To the earth? ”

I opened my mouth wide and looked at him bitterly, and said, "Master, do you want to leave Xiaoyu behind and go to the world alone?" ”

"Leave you behind?"

He frowned slightly and wondered, put the teacup back on the table, and raised his eyes to look at me. It's obviously plain eyes with little emotion, but at the moment, I'm staring at my face and it's hot.

"Master, Master......"

I was a little embarrassed to be looked at like this, so I buried my head in a panic to avoid his direct gaze, scalded my cheeks, and whispered, "You...... You ......"

"What are you?"

His voice rang out, as if in confusion.

"I ...... I...... I don't have anything. ”

Obviously, he was talking about him, but in the end, the question inexplicably turned back to me.

Zilian said again: "Since there is nothing, then why do you bury your head so low?" Are you because there's something strange on your face that you don't want your teacher to see? ”

"Hmm...... No, no, no, no. There is nothing strange on the face of the little fish. ”

I nodded my head and then shook my head, and finally I couldn't bury my head any deeper. I didn't dare to look up, not because I didn't want to see him, but because I didn't dare to look at him. I was afraid, afraid that my red face of boiled shrimp would scare him, and that he would laugh at my ugliness.

"What's wrong?"

His voice sounded again, and I looked down to see him get up and slowly approach me, step by step, step by step, my heart beating with his steps, as if to welcome him. Before I could react, his warm palm pressed against my forehead.

However, the warmth did not linger on my forehead for long, and soon his hand was withdrawn.

"Did you get up this morning and drink any medicine?"

He asked me with a stern tone in his voice.

"No, no."

I slowly shook my head and replied.

"Why don't you drink the medicine?"

Listening to the way he spoke, it seemed like he was a little angry with me. I whispered back, "Xiaoyu's illness has been cured, and he doesn't need to drink those medicines anymore." ”

"Okay?"

He didn't seem to believe what I was saying, and reached over and stroked my forehead. This time I stayed a little longer than before. I managed to lower some of my hot face, and it became hotter and hotter because of his touch this time.

The palm on his forehead was removed, and Zilian's voice seemed to be annoyed: "Your face is as red as a boiled shrimp, and your forehead is hot to the palm of your hand, where does this look like a person who has recovered from illness." Hurry up and take the bowl of medicine and drink it. ”

After speaking, his eyes closed slightly and glared at me.

I looked at his face with a hint of anger, thinking that he was angry like this because I didn't like to take medicine, and I couldn't help but feel a little moved in my heart.

"Master."

The inside of my nose was suddenly so sore and uncomfortable, and my eyes were moist and I wanted to shed tears.

"Master, you are so good to Xiaoyu!"

I looked at him with wide eyes, and I looked like I was about to cry.

Seeing me like this, he sighed deeply, walked over and took my hand, and walked to the table. When the two of them walked to the table, he let go of me, reached out and picked up the bowl of black medicinal juice, put it in front of my eyes, and said helplessly: "The teacher knows that the taste of this medicine is very bitter, and he also knows that Xiaoyu hates to eat bitter food and drink bitter tea." However, this time you are sick, and if you don't drink this medicine, Xiaoyu's body will not be better. Therefore, Xiaoyu should be obedient and obediently drink this bowl of medicine, and when you drink this medicine, the disease will be cured. ”

He said to me half-persuasively and half-coaxingly, his eyes more gentle than before.

"Oh? Be. ”

I reached out and took the bowl from his hand, looking down at the blackened clumps of potion. Bitter medicine, black medicine, what is it? As long as Zilian asked me to drink it, let alone this bitter medicine that makes people want to commit suicide, even if it is a bowl of poison, I will be willing to eat it. So, with his heart closed, he closed his eyes and poured a bowl of bitter medicine in one gulp.

"Huh...... It's amazing. ”

Zilian reached out and patted me lightly on the back a few times, looking at the bowl that had been drunk with the potion, a contemptuous smile appeared on his face, "The medicine that is rumored to be the most unpalatable and the most difficult to swallow in these six realms, so that's it!" Before being a teacher, I thought that this medicine was so powerful, and how it killed immortals in the absence of immortals, but I thought that it was nothing more than this when I saw it today. The little fish who was the teacher drank such a big bowl of it in one go, and when he said it to those immortals in the sky, I am afraid that they would not dare to believe it. No......"

Speaking of this, he turned around and clasped his hands tightly on my shoulders, and said with a hint of begging: "Xiaoyu, can you help the teacher do something?" ”

I looked at him in disbelief, "Helping Master?" ”

"Hmm!" He nodded with a serious face, "When I was in the Buddha Realm Youtan Hall, Weishi once made a bet with a friend in the Heavenly Realm that if one day the teacher could let one person drink the most bitter and unpalatable soup rumored in the Six Realms, he would give Weishi a string of Buddhist beads that had been incensed in the Lingyin Temple for ten thousand years. ”

"Oh! Prayer beads. As he spoke, I nodded stupidly.

Seeing me like this, he seemed to be more and more happy, lowered his head, and looked directly at me, "Xiaoyu, now at this time, only you can help as a teacher?" ”

"Help Master?"

I looked at him with a blank expression, not understanding what he meant.

"Yes." He stretched out his hand to stroke my head and said with a smile: "For more than 3,000 years as a teacher, I have never accepted other disciples. Xiaoyu, you are the only disciple of the teacher in this world. ”

"Hmm!"

I nodded stupidly again, and suddenly felt that I was the most important person in the world to Zilian.

He said again: "Xiaoyu, you have to promise to be a teacher, next time, if you want to ask you for help as a teacher, don't hesitate!" ”

"Hmm!" I nodded in agreement: "Xiao Yu listens to Master's words, Xiao Yu does not hesitate. ”

"Hmmm! This is a good apprentice for a teacher! ”

He seemed to be happy, with a smile on his face, and reached over and rubbed my fluffy hair again.

"Master."

I called him softly, looked up at him, and asked, "Master, what ...... Isn't that little fish's illness serious? ”

"It's not serious!"

He smiled and replied easily, "You're just getting some rain and catching the cold." It's okay, it's okay, there's a teacher, and you'll be fine in no time. ”

"Oh!" I nodded and whispered again, "What about ...... Do people who have a wind chill need to drink this medicine that Xiaoyu drank today? ”

"No, I don't."

He easily denied it, and said: "It's just typhoid fever, just go to the human pharmacy and grab a few herbs and boil them into water and drink them, where can you take such a valuable medicine." ”

"Oh!"

Hearing his words, I had an ominous premonition in my heart, and asked him cautiously, "What about the little fish?" If Xiao Yu hadn't drunk the medicine given by Master today, but had drunk the medicine he had caught from the human medicine shop, would Xiao Yu's illness be better? ”

"Absolutely."

Zilian said with an affirmative face: "The medicine that the teacher gave Xiaoyu to drink today is a rare bitter medicine in the world, and the teacher will give you a drink, the first is to cure your illness, and the second is to see if there is anyone in this world who can drink this bitter medicine in one gulp." ”

Me: "......"