Chapter 2: The Toad in the Sky

This matter finally reached the ears of the young lady of the General's Mansion, and the young lady quit and ran to the general's father, yelling at the general to arrest Li Ye and clean it up.

The general smiled, touched the young lady's head, and said, "People don't name him, why should they clean him up? ”

The general's name is Shangguan Feihu, and he is already a general in Fengyun City in his early thirties, and his wife Lin Yueru is also from everyone's background, and she is less than twenty-five. The two only have a daughter, Shangguan Wushuang, who is a baby in the palm of her hand, and she is used to it on weekdays.

The general wanted his daughter to practice martial arts early on, but the young lady was afraid of hardship and refused to practice. This is good, and finally found a reason for her to practice martial arts.

The little sister's face was red, she thought about it again and again, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "I'll practice with my father, and when I have the kung fu, I'll go and clean up Li Ye!" Holding her little fist, she looked like an angry little tiger.

"Okay, good, Daddy will find you a good master and teach you to practice seriously. "Turning around, he began to study ink and write letters in front of the case.

"Go, send a message to Li Ye of Chunfeng Academy, tell him to wait until he grows up and marry into the General's Mansion, and wait for his father to beat him eight times a day!" the young lady instructed the maid Chunhong.

"Still thinking about the toad, waiting for this princess to beat you like a toad. ”

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On this day, Li Ye was studying in the classroom of the academy, and Chunhong, the maid of the General's Mansion, ran to the window of Li Ye's school and said to the dozen or so young students in the classroom: "Li Ye, listen carefully, Princess Wushuang let you grow up and marry into the General's Mansion, if you are disobedient, I will beat you eight times a day!"

After saying that, he didn't look back, and ran out of the academy with a smoke, leaving a group of friends in a daze.

After a while, the friends who had blown up their hair hurt their stomachs with laughter, pointed at Li Ye and said: You are miserable, you will marry the general's mansion in the future, and you will have to be cleaned up eight times a day.

Li Ye was depressed to death, wasn't it just a joke? It was necessary to be so ruthless!

This soon spread throughout the city. Even Li Ye's father and mother laughed at Li Ye, what should I do? Li Ye of our family is going to marry the princess of the General's Mansion when he grows up.

The lady of the General's Mansion was angry, frowned and said to the general: "Wushuang is a child, and his mouth is unconcealed, and now it has spread all over the city, saying that the princess of the General's Mansion will marry the little scholar of the academy when she grows up." ”

The general frowned and replied: "This is only a child's angry words, can it be taken seriously?"

"What if Musou is serious?" said Madame.

"Wushuang is going to practice martial arts, she is willing. I hired a master for her, and she will come to the house in a few days. The general looked up at the sky. Turn away.

After a few days, everyone in the city knew that the General's Mansion had invited a powerful master from Phoenix Mountain to teach Princess Wushuang to practice.

The friends in the academy looked at Li Ye sympathetically, expressing that they were full of worries about his future. His classmate friend Tang Chao snorted: "Li Ye, who told you to look at her on the bridge one more time......

Li Ye kicked Tang Chao, "You are a tragedy, people don't want you!"

The children's laughter hurts their stomachs. A song "Toad in the Sky", Li Ye became the after-dinner gossip of the friends and the adults and old people in the city, and he couldn't stop it.

Xiao Li Ye was so depressed in his heart that he couldn't do it, and after thinking about it, he returned to the backyard and said to the master, "Dad, when will you teach me to practice?"

The master thought for a moment and said, "Practice, my father can't teach you." The old monk of the Big Buddha Temple introduced you to a master, Mr. Mo Yu from the Zizhu Temple in the east of the city, and I will take you to meet him in two days.

Li Ye thought to himself: I can finally practice, and I don't have to be afraid of the little tiger in the general's mansion.

In the early morning of autumn, Li Ye and his master went out of the academy and came to see Mo Yu in his own carriage.

After knocking on the door three times, someone opened the door, and after asking about the situation, the two of them were invited to enter the door, saying that the gentleman was in front of the hall. The father and son looked at the purple bamboos in the garden, rustling in the wind.

Mo Yuduan sat in front of the hall, preparing to boil water and make tea. He looked like he was about fifty, dressed in black, with black hair, a straight waist, a kind face, and looked at the father and son with a smile.

The father and son saluted Mo Yu and sat down opposite him.

Mr. Mo Yu slowly and carelessly added charcoal to boil water, warm the kettle, wash the cup, and wash the tea, and in a moment, the fragrance of tea wafted out.

The gentleman glanced at Li Ye and said softly, "Why do you want to practice?"

The master also looked at Li Ye.

Li Ye lowered his little head, thought for a while, and replied in a low voice: "The disciple's heart is in the Nine Heavens, but he is in the abyss. I want to practice and change myself. ”

The Master was shocked when he heard this, looked at the Master and said, "What did you teach him?"

The master hurriedly replied, "No, I haven't taught him to practice yet. ”

The gentleman poured tea for the two of them and asked Li Ye to stretch out his hand and take the pulse.

The two fingers cut the pulse, and the true qi of the master went straight to the twelve veins of Li Ye's body, and after a while, the gentleman was shocked, looked at the master and said, "The natural pulse is connected!

The master hurriedly replied: "My cultivation is limited, and I am afraid that I will mistake him, so I want to find him a good teacher and practice seriously." ”

Mo Yu was silent for a while, and said: "I heard the monk of the Big Buddha Temple say about your family, this kid has a good heart, follow me to practice in the future." ”

The master's face was full of joy, and he saluted Master Mo Yu again: "Thank you so much, Master." ”

"Starting tomorrow, you come in the afternoon and start studying". Mo Yu said to Li Ye: "If you want to practice with me, first learn to make tea and then learn the piano." ”

Li Ye served tea to Mr., knelt down and kowtowed three times, and Mr. simply completed the apprenticeship.

The fresh breeze blowing through the bamboo forest in front of the hall is fragrant.

Li Yexin said that he has a master, can practice, and is happy.

The mist of the bamboo forest rose in the morning light, and there was a rainbow, which crossed the front of the hall of the gentleman and crossed the courtyard wall.

Mr. looked at the rainbow and said in his heart: Let's see you stirring up the wind and clouds and rising into the sky.

The tea was overjoyed, and the father and son thanked and returned.

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After a few days, everyone in the city knew that Li Ye of the academy had learned the way of the piano from Master Mo of Zizhu Academy.

The young lady of the General's Mansion practiced with the master of Phoenix Mountain, and the young son of the academy followed Mr. Mo from Zizhu Academy to learn the way of the qin.

This year, Li Ye was five years old, and Shangguan Wushuang was seven years old.

In the words of the master: From the day I practiced with my husband, it was the beginning of Li Ye's tribulations in life.

Li Ye's mother was afraid that Li Ye would suffer hardships when she learned the piano, so she called Agui, who was three years older than Li Ye in the yard, and followed.

In the afternoon of the next day, Li Ye and Ah Gui came to Mr. Mo Yu's Zizhu Courtyard early, entered the courtyard gate, and sat quietly in front of the hall waiting for Mr.

The master came out of the study and looked at Li Ye, and said with a smile: "Yes, at a young age, you will be sarcastic, and you will write poems to insinuate." Go, bring the black piano in the study. ”

Li Ye glanced at Mr., then got up and went to the study to move the piano.

After a while, he came back with a red face and said to Mo Yu: "Sir, the piano is too heavy to move." ”

The gentleman looked at Li Ye and said disdainfully: "You can't even move the piano, you still want to learn the piano?

Li Ye was speechless, blushed, and did not speak.

"Do you want to learn the piano with me seriously?" Mo Yu looked at Li Ye.

"Yes, I really want to. Li Ye clenched his small fists.

Mo Yu listened to Li Ye's answer, took out a black cloth bag from under the tea table, and put it on the table.

"Put on this fifty-pound iron armor, and you are not allowed to take it off at any time except for taking a bath in the future, and when you can pick up the black piano, I will teach you to play the piano." ”

Li Ye opened the cloth bag, and inside was a thin black iron armor, and there was a cold aura when he touched it with his hand. Can be worn snugly under the robe. Li Ye weighed less than sixty pounds this year.

Agui stepped forward to help Li Ye put on the black iron armor, Li Ye's little face was flushed and covered with sweat.

"Remember, you will walk home for a while, and then you will have to walk in the Qin Courtyard, and you are not allowed to take a carriage, can you do it?" Mo Yu said to Li Ye. "Also, in the future, I will re-add weight to your iron armor every year, ten catties per year, until you leave the school."

Li Ye's face turned red and he couldn't speak, but he nodded vigorously.

In the afternoon of that day, Mr. began to teach Li Ye to make tea: "Life is like tea, the world is like tea, and learning Buddhism is just a cup of tea." Study hard, and when you come later, boil water to make tea first."

On this day, Li Ye returned home from the Qin Courtyard, walked for two hours on a five-mile road, and wept as he walked, his small body could not bear the weight of this armor, and he gritted his teeth.

Ah Gui drove the carriage and followed behind Li Ye, with a distressed face, and kept saying, "Young master, if you don't get in the car, you will leave tomorrow." ”

Li Ye shook his head and didn't speak.

Finally returned to the academy. When I entered the house, I said hello to my father and mother, but I didn't eat, and I fell asleep.

The next day, Li Ye told his master that he was not allowed to ride in the carriage and that he would walk to learn the piano.

It took Li Ye another two hours to walk to the Qin Courtyard, and when he arrived at the Qin Courtyard, there was already blood on the outside of the robe, so the master looked at it and asked Li Ye to take off his clothes. I saw that the close-fitting clothes inside were already a little worn out, and some places had begun to bleed.

The master took Li Ye to a wooden barrel in the kitchen, made Li Ye strip naked, picked up the naked Li Ye, and threw it in, only to hear a howl.

"Sir, it's going to be painful!" Li Ye couldn't help crying.

"Bear with it, if you want to learn the piano, you have to endure hardships first, you know?" Master Mo Yu slapped Li Ye's little hand that he wanted to climb out with a bamboo stick.

"These medicinal materials are very expensive, you know? I owe them first, and then you have to slowly earn them back for my husband!"

Ah Gui covered his mouth and laughed, "Young Master, you endure a little, don't endure hardships, how can you do it, are you really willing to beat you eight times a day with the little princess of the General's Mansion?"

Hearing this, the gentleman smiled.

That afternoon, Li Ye did not learn the tea ceremony, but only soaked in a wooden barrel for two hours in a medicinal bath. When Li Ye climbed out of the barrel, the bucket was full of black water, and the smell was stinking. The gentleman looked disgusted,

"Pour the water, wash the bucket and you can go back. ”

Agui helped Li Ye out of the bucket and touched Li Ye. "Young master, you have turned whiter, whiter than the princess of the General's Mansion, and the wounds on your body are gone."

The gentleman pretended not to see it, and walked away with his head up.

Li Ye looked at his body, it was really white, sighed and said, "I still have to suffer on the way home, bring my clothes over." ”

After getting dressed, the two left the academy and spent two more hours returning to the academy.

Unlike yesterday, Li Ye ate dinner hard today, and ate three bowls in one go. I didn't eat last night, but I ate three bowls today.

After dinner, Li Ye went back to the house to rest, and the master and his wife called Li Gui. "Agui, what did the young master study at the Qin Academy today, why are you so tired?"

"Back to the old lady, the young master didn't learn anything today, but just went to Master Mo's piano courtyard to soak in a medicinal bath for two hours, and when he came out, he was whiter than the princess of the General's Mansion, didn't you pay attention, madam?"

"I've got to go see this. Madame got up and went to see Li Ye.

The master stopped the lady and said not to ask for anything, but to talk about it later.

That night, Li Ye found that his strength was much greater than before, and he didn't have to rest on the way back. He took off his coat and touched the black iron armor, which was strung together one by one like fish scales. I don't know where Mr. got this thing from, it's amazing.

The next day, it took Li Ye and Ah Gui an hour and a half to walk to the Qin Courtyard, and this time there was no blood on their bodies. Master Mo Yu glanced at it and said, "Yes, after only soaking once, you can withstand the tempering of iron armor." Soak once every three days after that. Now go boil water and boil tea. ”

Li Ye began to boil water and brewed the first tea in his life. Give your hands to the gentleman. The gentleman only tasted it and threw it up.

"What kind of water is brewed in this tea, pour it out, start over. ”

"This is the spring water from the back mountain, doesn't Mr. like to drink spring water?" Li Ye looked at Mr. aggrievedly.

Agui lowered his head and couldn't help laughing.

"Water is true, tea is wrong, but you are wrong. This is the spring tea before the rain, you use boiling water to brew, and the charm of this spring tea kills you. Master Mo Yu slapped Li Ye with a bamboo stick.

Li Ye then started over again and began to boil water again.

"Your pot is not warm, just put the tea, are you a pig's brain, do you do it again!"

"The water temperature is too low, let it boil for a while, and then soak. "It's been an hour, and before I have drunk tea, Master Mo Yu is a little angry. "This tea is too little, it has no taste, and I will start again. ”

That afternoon, Li Ye spent two hours and finally made a satisfactory tea for his husband. In Mr.'s words, Li Ye has not yet started the tea ceremony, just like a student who has just entered the Master's School, he can't do anything.

I went back to the academy. After the meal, the master and his wife called Agui as usual and asked about the situation. Agui replied with a smile: "Old lady, my son has grown better today than yesterday, and under the guidance of my husband, I spent two hours making a cup of tea for my husband." ”

The lady nodded and said to the master, "You have to learn the tea ceremony first to learn the piano?"

"What do you know, sir, this is to teach this kid to cultivate his mind before learning the piano, and only when his mind is calm can he be promising. "Thinking in my heart, it makes sense for the ancients to teach by teachers.

From this day on, in Gui's words: Li Ye is either in Mr.'s Zizhu Courtyard or on the way to Zizhu Courtyard.

Come rain come shine. Li Ye spent three months honing his body, practicing the tea ceremony taught by Mr., and finally being able to make a satisfactory tea for Mr.

In Mr.'s words, after soaking in a medicinal bath for three months and practicing in Xuantie armor, Li Ye's body can be regarded as entering the door and he can start learning the way of the qin.

It was autumn when Li Ye apprenticed, and it was already winter at this time.

After Li Ye learned the piano from Mr. Mo Yu, who lived in the west of the city, for two months, he adjusted a song and sang the song "Toad in the Sky".

The toads of the sky fly in the sky

The toad on the ground chased after him on the ground

If you're worried I won't be able to fly

I have my butterflies

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