Back at Qifeng Mountain, the sun was about to set, and only the afterglow was left to illuminate half of the sky red.

The first thing Ye Pei did when he came back was to release the spirit sparrow.

"Why did you let it go?" Lou Zijin was puzzled and said eagerly, "This is what I caught with great effort!" ”

"I want her to be free." Ye Pei explained.

"You're not mad at me, are you?" Lou Zijin asked cowardly aggrievedly. "I couldn't find you at the time, I was just in a hurry, and I pushed you, I didn't mean to!"

"Don't worry, I'm not angry with you, I know you can't find me in a hurry, it's mine, it's mine!" Ye Pei explained slowly. "I really want to give this bird freedom, haven't you heard 'Knowing that it is better to listen to the golden cage than to cry freely in the forest'?"

Lou Zijin doesn't care about any poetry, "It's good that you're not angry with me!" I'll go get you dinner!" ”

Ye Pei looked at the back of him leaving, and there was some warmth in his heart.

The next morning, Lou Zijin was practicing martial arts in the courtyard, and Ye Pei also got up early and sat in front of the door to watch. When Bashan came out, Ye Pei walked over and said to him, "I also want to learn martial arts, is that okay?" ”

Bashan looked Ye Pei up and down before slowly asking, "Why do you want to learn martial arts?" ”

"I don't know." Ye Pei lowered his head.

Bashan asked, "Do you want revenge?" ”

"I didn't think about ......it" Ye Pei didn't know why he suddenly said to Bashan that he wanted to learn martial arts, maybe he wanted to be like Lou Zijin, maybe he just wanted to find something to do, maybe she knew a master and found the feeling of home, or it was nothing, Ye Pei couldn't tell himself. But Ye Pei really didn't think about revenge or anything like that, she experienced death, but she didn't know hatred yet.

Bashan casually handed a piece of jade he carved to Ye Pei and said, "This is for you, I'll teach you to carve such a jade wall, okay?" ”

Ye Pei took it and looked at it, it was really exquisite. This is a piece of soft white jade, using the hollow technique to carve out the layering of the mountains, skillfully retaining the jade skin, using the treatment of the pretty color, so that the leaves of the autumn naturally appear yellow-brown, and there is more artistic conception of "Danfeng ten thousand leaves and blue clouds, yellow flowers under a thousand points of secluded rocks". This is not a flawless piece of jade, but Bashan is based on the jade texture, and the slight flaws are removed, which shows the carver's exquisite craftsmanship.

"You're doing a great job! But...... I want to learn martial arts. Ye Pei shook his head and said.

"Do you want to study medicine? I can teach you to heal and save people. Bashan said again.

"No, I want to learn martial arts, it makes me feel warm and, moreover, safe. I think I'll like it......" Ye Pei didn't know how to explain to persuade Bashan, so he had to continue with a snake: "When I was a child, an uncle said that I was a good seedling to learn martial arts, and I think I can learn martial arts well!" Ye Pei said firmly.

"Your bones are really good." Bashan lowered his eyes and said, "But, child, I want you to live a comfortable life, away from those dangers. Bashan's last few words were said very softly, and his eyes looked into the distance.

"Then why did you learn martial arts?" Ye Pei asked rhetorically.

Bashan didn't know how to answer, the little girl's question in front of him made him seem to have a thousand words in his heart, but he didn't know how to say it, let alone say anything to a child. He thought about it, but said helplessly but sincerely: "I like martial arts. ”

"Do you have a hate in your heart?" Ye Pei asked.

"Yes! But not for this ......" This question seemed to arouse Bashan's infinite emotion, and he looked at the book in his hand and fell into memory. The hand that held the book had also held a knife, a murderous knife, and now that the wolf tooth knife had been put on the high save, he hoped it would never be used again.

Ye Pei saw Ba Shan staring at the book in his hand and asked, "Is the book "Hug Puzi" teaching people fortune-telling?" ”

Bashan looked up at Ye Pei, "No, it's teaching people to obey the destiny of heaven!" ”

Ye Pei was puzzled, but nodded.

Bashan continued: "I hope that you will live this life in peace without hatred in your heart. If you're willing to learn martial arts, I'll teach you some. ”

Ye Pei thought that Bashan had rejected him, but he didn't expect that he was willing to teach himself in the end, and he couldn't believe it.

An Chang walked over and said, "Why don't you hurry up and kneel down to apprentice?" ”

Ye Peicai reacted, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Master is above, and I will be worshiped by my disciple Ye Pei!" Ye Pei kowtowed three times seriously.

Bashan helped her up and said, "Good boy, get up quickly." ”

Bashan smiled again and said, "I'll teach you a piece of "Baduanjin" today!" ”

"Great, I have a junior sister!" Lou Zijin jumped and ran over and shouted excitedly.

From this day on, Ye Pei officially apprenticed to learn art. Starting from the basic exercises, Baduan Jin, Changquan, Liuhezhang, and Wuxing Baguazhang...... Although Ye Pei is everyone's daughter, she is never squeamish, tenacity, strength, and persistence have always been her temper. Bashan teaches seriously, Ye Pei learns hard, and Lou Zijin and An Chang are by her side to guide, she can be said to be a thousand miles a day, and she is making rapid progress.

On this day, Bashan took Lou Zijin and Ye Pei to the forest to hunt and practice light skills. They lie on their stomachs in the dense grass and observe the animals. In half a day, Lou Zijin caught three hares with his bare hands, and Ye Pei also shot a roe deer with an arrow.

As they prepared to return, they saw a pregnant doe coming out to graze, and Bashan told them to hide in the grass so as not to disturb them. After watching for a while, he found that two wolves were also crawling in the grass in the distance, preparing to attack the doe. Ye Pei was startled when he found out, and shot an arrow into the air, and the doe was immediately alert when she heard the sound of the bowstring. It then spotted a wolf in the grass and immediately ran and jumped to escape. When the wolf saw the doe running away, he also found Ye Pei and them, and immediately turned around and left quickly.

Bashan was slightly displeased, and whispered, "Didn't you tell you not to disturb them?" ”

"But, Master, I can't watch them bully the weak!"

"You think it's weak? That's with me. Bashan said in a low voice.

The three of them performed light skills and chased after the two wolves. It was almost close, Bashan made a gesture, and the three of them stopped and slowly approached.

The two wolves stopped beside a rocky cliff, and there was a hole in it, and out of the hole came four cubs, gray-haired and round-eyed, the size of a hare, and very cute. It seems that the two wolves, one male and one female, are raising their cubs, and the female wolf goes up to lick and test the fur of the little wolf, which looks very loving.

Bashan said: "At this time, do you still think that you are saving the weak? ”

Ye Pei bowed his head and was silent.

"Looks like they're going to be hungry, let's go!" Bashan said.

"Master, senior brother, you wait for me." Ye Pei said as he quickly ran back to the same place, dragging the dead deer back to the wolf's den and putting it down.

"Master, so they don't have to go hungry, right?"

Bashan smiled and said, "Wolves don't eat dead things, that's what wild dogs and crows do." They only catch fresh prey on their own to eat. ”

Ye Pei pursed his lips and said in disappointment, "Okay, then let's go." ”

Gradually walking away, Bashan said again: "Everything in the world has its own destiny track, don't forcibly intervene, this is called going with the flow!" Got it? ”

Ye Pei and Lou Zijin both agreed: "Understood." ”

In addition to practicing martial arts, Bashan also has a rich collection of books, and there are even many strange books and forbidden books, these are books that Ye Pei can't read or read when he is at home. Although Bashan taught her the truth, he never restrained her, and she was so willful that she could see enough. "Luban Book", "Jin Kui Yaolu", "Pulse Meridian", "Qi Min Yaoshu", "Nan Ke Taishou Biography", "Huo Xiaoyu Biography" and so on, and even the most popular picture book "Drunkard Talk" in the market at that time is also here.

Ye Pei is very diligent, and he gets up before dawn every day to make breakfast for his master and brother. After breakfast, I practiced a basic skill, then read a book at dawn, and when the sun was about to set, I began to practice Changquan or gassho again, and I washed and slept almost every day when I saw the stars. Although life is hard, she never gets tired of it, and she has never even been so conscious.

Lou Zijin is reluctant to let Ye Pei do rough work, chopping wood and carrying water are all Lou Zijin doing, An often cooks, Ye Pei occasionally goes to help the kitchen or wash and sew clothes for them, but Ye Pei's female workers are really not flattering, it is okay to patch and nail a button with a thick needle, and the stitches are not as neat as An Chang's sewing.

Ye Pei loves flowers, and Lou Zijin planted a long Gesang flower and a long rape flower for her outside the courtyard, so that there are rape flowers in spring and Gesang flowers in autumn.

Ye Pei likes to eat roasted taro, and Lou Zijin roasted it for her seriously, and roasted it on call.

Ye Pei likes to watch the stars, and Lou Zijin also likes to sit under the night sky and chat with her.

Lou Zijin was humble in everything, and even allowed Ye Pei to kick and beat when he was fighting. This is used to her competitive temper, but Ye Pei is proud but not willful, and she always cares about and loves her master, senior brother and An Chang. Such days may seem boring, but they are fun and fulfilling.