By the time Ji An returned to the hut, it was already dark. Ye Yuqing was still in the courtyard, waving the iron sword in his hand, and the old man on the side looked embarrassed.

Ji An walked up to the old man and said hello, the old man didn't look at Ji An much, just waved his hand to signal Ji An to cook.

Ji An obediently walked into the house, lit a fire and started cooking.

Ji An prepared the meal and walked out of the house to call the two of them into the house, but was attracted by the faint red light emitted by the senior sister's hand: Is this true qi?

Ji An was still thinking about it, Ye Yuqing couldn't hold on in the courtyard anymore, the true qi in his hand gradually dissipated, and the speed of swinging the sword became slower and slower.

After a while, Ye Yuqing finally exhausted her strength, she thrust the sword into the ground fiercely, holding the hilt of the sword with both hands, kneeling on the ground on one knee, gasping for air.

The old man shook his head and sighed: "That's it today, hey, if you want to achieve your goal within five years at such a speed, you can't do it at all, you have to work harder, girl!" ”

Ji An reacted and shouted, "It's time to eat, senior sister." After shouting, he hurriedly ran to the yard, picked up the exhausted Ye Yuqing, and walked towards the house, and the old man followed the two slowly.

The meal was very quiet, and none of the three spoke.

Halfway through eating, Ye Yuqing lost her appetite, and then walked to the room and fell asleep.

When he was about to finish eating, the old man finally asked, "Boy, why did you go so long today?" ”

Faced with the old man's questioning, Ji An was a little weak-hearted.

"Uh, uh, that, I'm so tired, I don't know what's going on today, and I fell asleep in the middle of brewing." Ji'an stammered.

The old man looked at Ji An and didn't speak again.

Spring goes to autumn, cold comes and summer. Time passes with the spring.

Two years later –

Ji An sat by the spring, and the rice barrel for winemaking was lonely under the peach blossom tree.

Ji An's eyes were closed, and he concentrated on feeling the true qi scattered all over his body. Beads of sweat kept sliding down Ji An's cheeks.

Ji An tightened his lips: it's almost, it's about to succeed! Ji An opened his eyes suddenly, stretched his hands back in fists, and relaxed after shouting.

After Ji An recovered for a while, he spread his hands in front of him, looking at the gray light spot on his hand, Ji An stood up excitedly.

"Is this my true anger? But the one that looked at my sister before seems to be red, why is mine different? Ji An wondered.

"Forget it, why do you care so much about him." Ji An shook his head, walked under the peach blossom tree, and was about to take something and pat his ass and leave.

Just as he was about to leave, Ji An was attracted by a large rock under the tree.

Ji An touched his chin with one hand: Since it has been practiced with great difficulty, let's try how powerful this true qi is first.

So Ji An walked in front of the big stone, gathered gray-white true qi in his right hand, and punched the big stone.

The surface of the boulder was hit with a rather small pit, but Ji An's hand was unharmed.

Ji An looked at the pit of the boulder, then looked at his right hand, moved his fingers in disbelief, and then jumped up happily like a little girl: "Yahu, it's not the result of my two years of practice!" That's amazing, isn't it? ”

Ji An ran back to the hut excitedly, and the senior sister still waved her sword in the courtyard as always.

Ji An looked at the master and sister in the courtyard: Why is the senior sister practicing this weapon every day? How long has it been since you finished practicing?

Three years later –

The old man looked at Ye Yuqing, who was wielding the sword, and nodded with satisfaction: "Finally succeeded!" I didn't expect you to really complete the goal set by the old man for you in five years. ”

Ye Yuqing took the sword back.

The old man looked at the gray sky: Ji An, this stinky boy, the brewing time is getting longer and longer, is he lazy? Or did you learn to drink secretly every day? The old man has to go and see. The old man said hello to Ye Yuqing and walked towards Xiaoquan.

The old man walked not far from the spring and saw Ji An sitting by the spring with his eyes closed.

After five years of growth, Ji An has faded into immaturity, his facial features are upright, and he can already be as tall as an old man when he stands up with black bundled hair.

The old man touched his beard and picked up a small pebble: This stinky boy is really lazy. The old man used a little force and threw the pebble towards Ji An.

Just when the stone was about to touch Ji An, Ji An opened his eyes violently, and one smashed the stone.

The old man saw the gray-white light in Ji An's hand, and his heart was shocked: True anger? This kid has practiced martial arts?!

Ji An quickly stood up and shouted, "What person? Why are you hiding in the shadows and attacking me? ”

The old man came to Ji An in an instant, and Ji An was so frightened that he didn't stand firm and fell into the small spring.

Ji An struggled for a while before grabbing onto the stone by the spring and barely climbing up. Ji An took a breath, and just wanted to settle accounts with the man, but turned his head and saw the angry old man.

"Master!?" Ji An panicked, the old man didn't say a word and came to Ji An in an instant, and punched Ji An in the abdomen, this punch directly flew Ji An under the peach blossom tree, and Ji An spit out a mouthful of blood.

The old man turned around for another moment, looking down at Ji An lying on the ground with the attitude of an absolute king: "Who taught you to practice martial arts?" How long has it been? ”

Looking at the angry old man, Ji An didn't dare to lie and told the old man.

The old man didn't make another move, he picked up Ji An, who was lying on the ground, and asked Ji An to go back to the house together.

Ji An followed behind the old man, and the angry look on the old man's face still did not dissipate.

When the two walked not far from the courtyard, Ye Yuqing found the two.

Looking at the angry old man, Ye Yuqing hurriedly ran up to ask, but the old man didn't say anything more and just asked Ye Yuqing to help Ji An into the house.

Ye Yuqing found that Ji An behind him was full of blood and holding his abdomen in one hand. Ye Yuqing hurriedly went up to help.

"Xiao An, how did you get this? What about a mouthful of blood? Ye Yuqing asked anxiously.

Ji An didn't answer, but teased: "Senior sister, look at what I said, you won't grow up in two years, I'm a head taller than you now." ”

Looking at Ji An, who was still smiling, Ye Yuqing slapped Ji An on the skull of the head angrily. Ji An was in pain and let out a quiet "hiss".

When the three of them came to the house, Ye Yuqing helped Ji An to a chair and sat down.

The old man looked at the two of them now, and recalled the scene when the two of them were children and followed him, and there was a faint desolation in his heart.

The old man paused for a while and said: "You two have grown up now, you should go down the mountain tomorrow morning to experience the experience, in the future, there will be no master by your side, and you are not allowed to come back, you must support each other, think about each other, and you can't reveal anything about being a teacher to others." ”

Ye Yuqing wanted to speak, but was retracted by the old man's eyes, and Ji An on the side was full of unwillingness, and his hands were clenched with fists.

After that, the old man hastily admonished a few more words, and the three of them went to sleep separately. The stars shifted, and it rained heavily outside the house in the middle of the night.

In the courtyard in the early morning, a big rooster crowed, waking up Ye Yuqing and Ji An, who were still asleep, and the old man was already sitting on the bamboo chair in the courtyard.

Ji An and Ye Yuqing walked out one after another, and when they saw the old man sitting in the courtyard without saying a word, they remembered what happened yesterday, and their hearts were very uncomfortable.

The old man also had reluctance in his heart, but he had already made up his mind. The old man asked the two of them to go out for breakfast and go down the mountain early.

Before leaving, the old man stopped Ji An and handed a white chess piece to Ji An: "You must put it away at any time, and you will be able to see the old man again by relying on it at some point." ”

Ji An was puzzled, but he still responded and put away the chess piece.

Looking at the backs of the two of them going down the mountain, the old man returned to the hut, closed the door, and sighed: "I didn't expect to be discovered by them so early." ”