Chapter 10: The Masters and Apprentices of the Past
The girl lived here for two days and had begun to develop an endless curiosity about the man.
"Na, uncle, what's your name?" The girl asked.
"Yu Mo." The chopsticks in the man's hand paused slightly and replied.
"Na, what is Uncle Yu Mo doing?" The girl asked.
The man's steps were slightly chaotic, he stopped, and glanced at the girl helplessly: "Practice the sword." ”
"Na, why is Uncle Yu Mo wearing a mask?" The girl asked.
"Avoid suspicion." The man frowned, the recliner he leaned on swayed a little faster.
"Na, can I sleep with Uncle Yu Mo." The girl asked.
"Don't ......," the man had not finished speaking, and the girl had already dropped the pillow on his bed, burrowed into his quilt, and slept soundly.
"Nana, why does Uncle Yu Mo have dark circles under his eyes?" The girl asked.
The "......" man did not make any statement.
"Na, Uncle Yu Mo......" One day, the girl spoke again.
"Why do you have so many questions?" Yu Mo finally couldn't bear it anymore, "I can't ...... it"
"You can be my master!" The girl was the first to speak.
The man was stunned for a moment, and then knocked the girl's head lightly: "What are you talking nonsense again?" ”
"I'm not talking nonsense!" The girl covered her head and shouted, "I really want to worship you as a teacher!" ”
"Why?" Yu Mo Dao. He was really puzzled, he hadn't told her the truth about her parents' deaths, but this girl didn't want her father at all, and never asked to go back to see it. Instead, it stuck to him like a fart.
The girl suddenly fell silent, and her little head lowered: "Because, I don't actually have anywhere else to go, right?" ”
There was a little more surprise in Yu Mo's eyes.
"Daddy and mother, in fact, have ...... You can't come back, right? The little girl raised her head, "Daddy taught me that if I am bullied, I must not hide it, and I must treat it the way of others." Therefore, those bad people who killed their parents can't live either" was obviously smiling, but there were faint tears in the corners of his eyes. Yu Mo had never looked at her carefully, and then after a closer look, he found that the girl's eyes were already slightly swollen. Yu Mo could imagine how sad she was crying in private. Thinking of this, Yu Mo couldn't help but squat down and rubbed her head with her hand. The girl seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, and plunged into Yu Mo's arms and cried bitterly.
Yu Mo didn't push her away, and let the girl's snot and tears wipe her body. He coaxed the girl as he fell into deep thought.
"With the way of others, can you still govern the body of others......" Yu Mo whispered, and chuckled lightly, "It's not bad." ”
"Later I learned," Yi Ling suddenly smiled, mixed with sadness, "Master is a black python, and the black python clan has a cruel tradition, in the coming-of-age ceremony, a thousand black pythons have to kill each other, and only the last hundred can really become adults." The person who was the Master's crush died during the coming-of-age ceremony. ”
She propped her head with her right hand and tilted her head to look at Maple Leaf: "Later, Master practiced a kind of hypnosis-like witchcraft, and he used this kind of witchcraft to make the residents of the clan kill each other and slaughter the people of a clan. ”
Ironic, isn't it? Persecuting others in this way often leads to a thousand times the same persecution.
I don't know how long it took for the girl to raise her head, looking at Yu Mo with red and swollen eyes, Yu Mo smiled: "Get up, I haven't asked you yet, what's your name?" ”
"Hmm......" The girl stood up and wiped the tears on her face, "Xiao Yi ......"
"Yi......" Yu Mo thought for a while, "Well, I picked you up next to a clump of Poria grass, and from now on, you will be called Yiling, and from today on, I will be your master." ”
When the girl heard this, her fleshy little body immediately knelt down, "Poria thanks Master for the name." ”
Later, Yiling has been practicing witchcraft with Yu Mo, and when she finally has a certain foundation, Yu Mo began to take her out to participate in various tasks. Yu Mo is a well-known killer in Xuanwu, and he has never failed to shoot, but no one knows that there is the blood of a python flowing under his powerful appearance.
Yi Ling once wanted to learn Yu Mo's charm technique, but every time he proposed, he refused.
"It's better not to exist this kind of witchcraft that plagues the world." Yu Mo Dao.
Although Yi Ling agreed on the surface, behind the scenes, she would still secretly memorize this spell in her mind while the master was on a mission and study it by herself.
"Master, don't you hate human beings?" Occasionally, Poria would ask him this, knowing that if she weren't human, she wouldn't have that kind of dark memory.
Yu Mo sighed, rubbed her head, and smiled helplessly: "Poria, you remember, not all people are bad people, and not all demons are good demons, you can't transfer your resentment towards an individual to a race, nor can you transfer your resentment against a race to a country, let alone transfer your resentment towards a country to this world." Otherwise, you will only sink deeper and deeper into neglecting those who love you. ”
Yiling nodded as if she didn't understand, and Yu Mo smiled again: "Also, when you're usually outside, don't put your true emotions on your face, it's very dangerous and easy to be taken advantage of." ”
"Heh," Yi Ling put down the blue and white porcelain cup in her hand and returned to her posture just now, "It's a pity that I didn't know what Master meant by his last words until the moment before he died. ”
Yiling followed Yu Mo to learn witchcraft, winter went to spring, summer solstice and autumn rain, and more than 50 years passed unconsciously. Yi Ling has been studying Yu Mo's witchcraft, until one day, Yu Mo came to her room to find her: "Poria Ling, someone has come to entrust it, this time the journey is relatively far Pack up and prepare to go on the road tomorrow." Yiling, who was already looking like a girl, nodded.
This mission is in a distant but relatively wealthy town in the Xuanwu Kingdom, Yiyang City, because of the terrain, the sunshine hours here are slightly longer than other towns, and the wind and rain here are smooth all year round, and the agricultural technology is the most developed. It is said that the city supported one-fifth of the people's food rations. In order to help the development of Yiyang City, the Xuanwu Kingdom also provided a lot of land and resources.
Yu Mo received the task this time to deal with Jiang Shucai, an important person in the city who colluded with adulterous merchants to buy out grain.
Yu Mo is also a master who accepts the commission according to his mood, as long as it is a task that he is interested in, he will take it no matter how much he is paid, and he has also come to him with a similar task to deal with corrupt officials and important officials before, but he refused without saying a word.
"Master, is this mission special?" Sitting in the carriage heading to Yiyang City, Yiling couldn't help but ask.
"No," Yu Mo looked at the scenery outside the window, enjoying the just right amount of sunshine, and a smile hooked up at the corner of his mouth, "It's the reward this time, it's very special." ”