Ever since I was born, I was taken away by a practitioner and sent to the mountains, and since I could walk, someone taught me spells, and that person was my first master.

When I was almost four years old, he said that I had learned all his skills and that he had nothing to teach me. So I was sent away and had a second master.

After three months, my second master said the same thing as the first master and sent me to another place. Walking around like this, when I was almost five years old, I met my fifth master, Wang Yuzi, a middle-aged man who was hanging his son.

I heard others say that he is also a person who was born with talent, and his cultivation is not ordinary. But after getting along, I found out that he was not the same as the legend, no, it should be said that it was completely different.

Lazy.

"Cuizi, don't be so desperate to come and rest."

"Cuizi, the weather is so nice today, let's go on an outing."

"Tsuiko, ......"

Fastidious.

"This dish is too bland."

"Why is there no meat for this?"

"It's not pretty."

Don't want to forge ahead.

"This spell, it's too difficult."

"This doesn't work."

"Forget it, go to bed."

……

During the cultivation assessment, the elder asked me why I had not made much progress, and I looked at Wang Yuzi, who was secretly desperately glaring at me, and said, "The disciple is stupid. ”

The elder didn't believe it, so he called Wang Yuzi alone for questioning, and I waited outside. When he came out, Wang Yuzi hung his head down, squatted down and sighed for a long time before saying, "I'll send you to see someone." ”

I was exactly five years old.

On the way to see me off, I passed by the side of the village road, and I heard the singing of my peers.

"The blue moonlight, dreaming alone.

No one knows, that little wish.

Say this tomorrow, and say this to the man.

Looking up at the stars in the sky, the big eyes were full of tears.

Pet the bird is delayed, pet the bird is delayed. ”

……

A group of girls were in a circle and didn't know what game they were playing.

I was drawn to the singing and stopped to look at them.

"Oh~ This is a caged bird that children have been playing with a lot lately." Wang Yuzi saw that I didn't come to talk to me. "They're cute, aren't they?"

"How does Master know about this game when he stays in the mountains all day?"

"Uh......" he stroked his beard and couldn't say why.

"It is precisely because I often secretly run down the mountain to practice and am lazy that I lost my apprentice." I've seen enough and keep walking.

Wang Yuzi thought in the back, "What a loss, what a loss, I am thinking about your future, you can learn more if you change your master." ”

"If you can't keep me, don't make any other excuses."

"There's no way, your talent is higher than mine and you're diligent, and I can't teach you if I want to."

"That's why I told you not to do your job."

"Uh...... Well. ”

So far, Wang Yuzi is the master with whom I have spent the shortest time. This time I'm going to visit a shrine maiden, and people say that I'm going to be as capable as her in the future. I'm curious what she's like.

"From today onwards, she will be your master, Qiang."

I looked at the woman sitting at the small table fiddling with the vase, and it was completely different from what I had imagined.

She wears a gorgeous kimono with crimson lines and fine lines, a snow-white complexion, a little red lips, thin eyebrows and bright eyes, and a stroke at the end of the eye. She had ten slender fingers around the neck of a small vase, and her nails were painted with Kodan, not like a Taoist cultivator, but like a young lady in the aristocratic deep courtyard.

She glanced at me and curled the corners of her mouth, "You're what they call a genius?" ”

I saluted, "Girl Rose." ”

"You should call me Master." Qiang placed a red flower in a vase and placed it in the middle of the table.

"Yes, Master."

"Well, let's go down." Qiang waved a little lazily.

I was with the Master, oh no, it should have been the previous Master, and he squatted down in front of the door and told me.

"You have to stay here and learn spells from Qiang, don't be lazy, with your heavenly posture, you will become a great weapon in the future......"

I listened to his teachings and nodded, and at the end he said cryptically, "You are an obedient child, but it is not good to be too obedient. ”

I nodded, and he looked at it and sighed, "Don't you have anything to tell me?" Reluctantly something. I really want you to be my apprentice all the time. ”

He seemed to be really reluctant to give up on me, which the previous master would never do. My heart suddenly warmed a little, and I was about to speak, when I heard him continue.

"You don't need me to watch, you don't need me to teach, and you can go down the mountain for me to cover up, it's really a rare apprentice." He touched his chin and added, "It's just that cooking is unpalatable." ”

"......," I patted him on the shoulder, "let's go." ”

Actually, where I practice is no different for me, anyway, I will leave again soon.

I haven't met her since the first time I met her, and I live in a small courtyard where I repeat what I've learned every day. Occasionally, people would come to me and ask where Qiang was, and they would say they were in the room, but I didn't look for her.

If I continue like this, I may not learn anything, and I will waste my time.

One day, I went to Qiang's yard again, and I ran here every day to squat. People who don't know think I'm coming every day to say hello, and we have a good relationship.

The weather is good today but my luck is still bad and she's not there. I don't understand why everyone says she's here, but I can't find her, do I always like to sneak around like the previous Master? I sat in the yard for a while, and there was a boy outside the door, and he brought in two baskets of saffron and planted them in the newly turned field in the yard.

I've seen a lot of flowers, but it's the first time I've seen them so good-looking, so I walked over and asked him, "What kind of flower is this?" ”

He was squatting and concentrating on his work, and I was startled, and he looked up at me and immediately lowered his head as if he was frightened.

"Yes, it's Rose."

I was amazed, and his eyes flashed. You can know what kind of light a person is from the eyes, in this era, most people have no brilliance in their eyes because of the hardships of life, but this person has a pair of pure and soft eyes.

"My name is Tsuiko, what's your name?"

Probably few people will ask his name, he is not used to being very shy, "My name is Wozhi......"

What a nice name.

To ease his nervousness, I shifted the subject to flowers, "Did you grow these?" ”

"Hmm." When it comes to flowers, he's really much more relaxed.

"You're amazing, you can grow flowers so well."

Hearing someone praise him, he became even more shy, "No, it's nothing, it's very simple." ”

I shook my head, "If it were that simple, the flowers in the world would be so gorgeous." ”

Lying on the branch is not good at words, so he picked the most colorful flower in the basket and gave it to me.

"Give it to me?"

"Hmm."

I took the flower, "Thank you." ”

I sat back in my place with the flower, he wasn't used to having people next to him. When he finished planting all the flowers, I finally waited for Qiang, and she was the first to see that Wozhi was not satisfied with the flowers he planted.

"How is it a rose?"

"Don't you like Rose the most, so ......," Wo Zhi cautiously brought a little joy to Rose talking to him.

"How many times have I said that I want redbuds!" Qiang interrupted him, and after seeing his shrunken eyes, he softened, "It's important for future guests not to mistake the flower seeds again." ”

"Yes." Lying on the branch, he squatted down and pulled out the freshly planted rose.

Qiang saw me and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

I couldn't say anything I wanted to say when I saw her look, she didn't mean to teach me.

The two looked at each other for a while, and then she said as if she remembered, "Oh, I took you as an apprentice a few days ago." She went to the room and threw me a book: "You can practice it." ”

She didn't say a word to me and closed the door, I took the book in my hand and was worried for the first time, I still can't read, how can I read it?