Chapter Twenty-Four: Yan Yu is hazy
"What's the matter?" Yun Qian looked at the treacherous smile and secretly prayed that Lijiu would not calculate himself again.
Li Jiu's eyes smiled, gently blew the aroma in Yun Qian's ear, and said, "I want you, um... Help me write a recipe. β
"Writing a recipe? It's as simple as that? Yun Qian's side face was itchy for a while, and he quickly dodged away.
Li Jiu raised his eyebrows lightly: "Otherwise?" What more would you like to do? β
"It's not easy-" Yun Qian was about to agree, but suddenly remembered something, and asked with a twist of words, "What's going on with that pair of words hanging in the lobby on the first floor?" β
"Well, seeing that your recruitment notice that day was well written, I will find someone to frame it." Li Jiu lowered his head and stroked his slender jade fingers and said.
"Oh? How did this picture become written by me, I just heard that it was written by a famous artist!" Yun Qian said teasingly.
"My nephew is a master of calligraphy!" Li Jiu stared at Yun Qian and replied as a matter of course.
"I'll be embarrassed to praise me like that." Yun Qian brought the tip of his nose close to Lijiu's cheek and whispered.
On the side of Li Jiu, he counted and said, "Don't be embarrassed, after all, you owe a month of drunken immortal drink." A pot of drunken immortal drinks fifty taels of silver, thirty days a month, how can Lao Liu have to drink two pots a day..."
"Stop, stop, I write, I write. But I said it in advance, help you finish writing the recipe, and our accounts will be cleared. Yun Qian hurriedly interrupted the proprietress .
"How's that going to work?" Lijiu's eyes swirled like a fox and said, "In the future, as long as there is a need in the restaurant, you have to help me write." If the restaurant business is not good and you can't go on, you can go to the street to set up a stall to sell words. β
Yun Qian was angry, but he had to agree under the obscenity of the proprietress of the boss.
"Boss, get some good pen and ink!" Yun Qian deliberately put up a shelf and ordered Lijiu with a straight face.
"Yes." Lijiu responded very cooperatively and gently, and after a while, he took all the things. She carefully laid out the rice paper, and her graceful waist moved gently when she studied the ink: "Mr. Yun, this ink is all left over from the palace of the previous dynasty, do you think you can still take advantage of it?" β
The soft and charming appearance of the proprietress made Yun Qian sweat coldly.
Li Jiu saw it in his eyes, and after smiling proudly, he no longer teased Yun Qian.
In a moment's effort, several elegant recipes were born under Yun Qian's wonderful pen. Li Jiu praised with satisfaction: "My nephew is worthy of Mr. Xu's high apprentice, and this beautiful hand is not shallow compared to those masterpieces of the world." β
"That's it." Yun Qian is also not modest. You must know that he has put a lot of hard work into practicing calligraphy. Yun Qian is just an adopted son in the Yun family, and his light since he was a child has been covered by his eldest brother, which also makes him develop a resolute character of working silently. Since he started learning calligraphy at the age of five, he has secretly practiced calligraphy for an hour or two late every night. Sometimes I copied ancient books, sometimes I copied poems, and I copied the fonts on them until I had mastered them completely and then changed to the next book. The words on these books are also printed according to the strokes of those calligraphers. Such perseverance in practice has greatly benefited his calligraphy skills.
As soon as the recipe written by Yun Qian was revealed, it attracted a large number of visitors to Yanyu Building. Many talented people pointed at the recipe and sighed. It's just that this word should only exist in heaven, and the world will have to look at it a few times. At the behest of the proprietress , the clerks who knew about it also deliberately said that the calligrapher was mysterious. The calligraphy master hidden in the smoke and rain building has returned, and it has spread in this Jinling City in only half a day. Since then, the daily stream of visitors has added a lot of business to the restaurant.
That night, Yun Qian took the initiative to come to Lijiu's room and asked, "Boss, when will you continue to teach me light skills?" This matter should not be delayed for too long, so it is better for us to start tonight. β
Li Jiu looked at Yun Qian in surprise, and said worriedly: "It's better in two days, you have injuries on your body after all..."
"Don't worry!" Yun Qian knew that his time was running out, and he just wanted to use his only remaining life to do one thing for Chu Xi.
"Yun Qian, are you hiding something from me?" The proprietress looked at Yun Qian with some suspicion.
"I... It's just that I miss my senior sister a little..."Yun Qian's eyes were slightly red, and she continued: "Senior sister is very kind to me, and I don't want to delay what she entrusted me with because of my own reasons. If the foundation here is firmly established, I can see her earlier. β
"Hmm... Well, it's rare that you have the heart. Your Highness will be glad to know this. Pack up and follow me to a secluded place outside the city to teach you. Li Jiu said.
"Huh? I'm going out of the city again..."Yun Qian screamed.
"What? Scared? Lijiu looked at him amusedly.
"No... No. Yun Qian replied curtly, but he thought in his heart what would happen if he ran into Liu Mingxiang again.
Li Jiu thought that he had lingering feelings about the events of the previous days, and explained softly: "The fact that I know martial arts must be hidden from people's eyes, so I can't be too public." Don't be afraid, my sister is here, no one can hurt you this time. β
"Well, I'm not afraid." Yun Qian's heart was touched.
The two of them walked all the way to the outside of the city, because it had just rained, the air was a little condensed, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers and plants. With the moonlight like water, Yun Qian and Li Jiu chatted without a word, and their mood was much more relaxed. When passing by the place where Jiang Pingxuan was stabbed that day, Yun Qian also laughed at himself and pointed to Lijiu.
Yun Qian took Lijiu and tried to walk away from the Yan Sect as much as possible. After rounding a small hill, they found a secluded maple forest by the stream.
Under the moonlight, Li Jiu's facial features looked particularly delicate and exquisite, and she said softly: "This set of light skills I want to teach you is the secret technique of our Great Yan Lingyu Secret Guard. Ling Yu guards the era of the dark guard to protect my Dayan royal family, and swear to die. If you want to learn this, you must join the Feather Guard. Yun Qian, I am here to ask you as the commander of the two states of Lingyu and Su Yang, are you willing to protect my Dayan, be loyal to Her Royal Highness the Princess, and not be afraid to go even if you are in purgatory? β
Yun Qian swore firmly: "I, Yun Qian, am willing to devote my life to protect Dayan, be loyal to Her Royal Highness the Princess, even if it is Shura Purgatory, I will also go to it!" β
At this time, Yun Qian only thought that his life was scarce, and he only wanted to repay Chu Xi's kindness. He didn't know what path he was taking, let alone the treacherous variables that would lie ahead.
"Okay." Li Jiu looked at Yun Qian with some relief, and began to explain: "The light skill I want to teach you is called Yan Yu Hazy. This exercise is divided into five realms, one is called the Yan Realm, the February Flying Yan Realm, the March Stepping Yan Realm, the April Thousand Feather Realm, and the fifth is the Remnant Feather Realm. After learning this exercise, the body is as light as a swallow. It is not a problem to enter the Yan Realm and walk on the wall, the Feiyan Realm is fast and agile to come and go without a trace, and the Yan Realm can travel thousands of miles a day as usual. Now the cheats of the Thousand Feather Realm and the Remnant Feather Realm have been lost, and it is said that the first person in the Great Yan Martial Dao, Master Kongyu, entered the Remnant Feather Realm, and it is not a problem to pick up stars in the sky. Now walking on the rivers and lakes, only practicing the first three layers can also make you more than self-preservation. I've only just touched the threshold of the Step-Swallow Realm. β
Yun Qian didn't seem to understand when he heard it, and nodded again and again on the side.
Li Jiu looked funny, patted him on the head, and said angrily: "Look at your stupid appearance." Yan Yu Hazy is a secret book that is not passed on, so the mind can only be dictated to you. You can remember it carefully, and if you forget it later, you can ask me again, but according to the ancestral rules, I can only say it three times. β
"Well, I'll listen up." Yun Qian hurriedly concentrated and stood nervously as if facing a great enemy.
Li Jiu giggled again, and chanted rhythmically in a crisp voice: "Yan Xingkong and Lingyun day by day, soaring all over the sea and disappearing without a trace." If the body of an ordinary man can be swallowed, he will travel between the world and not be trapped. The swallow is like a god, feathered like a shadow, and is extremely fast to the point of hazy and uncatchable. The swallow feather is hazy, and the spirit moves freely. Whatever the heart thinks, there is nothing to do, and there is no obstacle to what you do. Whoever wants to break the dust, the heart is in the clouds....... Feiyan breaks Hongmeng, Yan Xing steps on Kyushu, if you peep a thousand feathers, the shadow posture needs to be repaired"
"Okay, this is all the mental methods of the first three chapters of Yan Yu's hazy mind, and I don't know the rest of it. Have you memorized them all? Li Jiu said quietly.
"Remembered." Yun Qian immediately recited Yan Yu's hazy mental method dozens of times until he was familiar with it. Li Jiu nodded secretly on the side, quite appreciating his serious attitude.
"Now I'm going to demonstrate the method of chasing the Yan Realm, and I'll be optimistic. If you don't understand anything, you can ask. As soon as Li Jiu's words fell, he swooped out, and his soft body tapped between the canopies like a milk swallow. When it was speeding through, it didn't leave a very noticeable sound. Under the cover of the breeze, it would have been difficult to detect her whereabouts unless someone with a good ear had listened attentively. In order to show Yun Qian clearly, Li Jiu deliberately suppressed the speed, but Yun Qian was still a little dumbfounded.
"It's... Can you slow down?" Yun Qian said with some embarrassment.
"Isn't that slow enough?" The proprietress has always been very patient, and she repeated the demonstration several times with displeasure. Yun Qian scratched his head beside him, and his half-confused appearance was a little naΓ―ve.
"Hey, are you really watching?" Li Jiu couldn't help it. This is too stupid, this first layer of body method only took half an hour to basically understand when I learned it back then. How could she have thought that the person who taught her light skills back then was an old teacher specially sent by the secret guard, and he was very good at explaining all kinds of body techniques. At that time, Li Jiu was only a five or six-year-old child, and now he ignores those explanations in his memory.
Yun Qian was also quite annoyed by his stupidity, but when he thought of Chu Xi's entrustment, he calmed down and took the trouble to ask Li Jiu for advice. Although Li Jiu is an acute child, he also recognizes Yun Qian's attitude of seeking advice seriously, dismantling the body method little by little, and then teaching it to Yun Qian step by step.
The moon shadow is falling, and the sky will be bright. Yun Qian's expression was still resolute, and Li Jiu leaned lazily against a stone, squinting at Yun Qian's clumsy figure.
After a night, Yun Qian felt that he had gained a lot, and he was a little excited when he was young. Looking at his heavy eye bags and dark circles in the small bronze mirror, he couldn't help but grit his teeth a little, and hatefully calculated that he would deduct Yun Qian's salary for a few more months, so that he could go to Xinghua Yuxuan on West Street to buy some beauty balm and come back to save his beauty.