Chapter 7: The Dust Settles
Zhou Xingyu opened his eyes vaguely, only to feel that his mind was in chaos.
Knowing that he was in the hut of the Xuanmen Rejuvenation Valley at this time, another thought in his heart kept telling him that he was sleeping at home at this time, and there was no Song Qingfeng or Xuanmen at all, everything was just a dream.
Fortunately, this state of confusion did not last long, and a slightly immature voice completely woke him up from this state.
"You~ You're awake, come over and eat, and I'll go to see the valley master in a while."
Valley owner?
Yes, yesterday he passed the trial of the Finger Xuanmen, and was supposed to be assigned to the Foreign Affairs Hall to learn martial arts, and then officially integrated into the Finger Xuanmen and became a glorious disciple of the Finger Xuanmen, who knew that the valley master Li Qingtai suddenly appeared and brought himself and another young man Li Tong back to the Rejuvenation Valley.
According to the command of the valley lord, I will go to him today and listen to his commands.
Memories came like a tide, like light and shadow flashing in Zhou Xingyu's mind.
Zhou Xingyu looked up and saw a young man with a simple face standing in front of him with some embarrassment, with a bowl of steaming millet porridge in his hand, and a plate of big white steamed buns on the table not far away.
"I saw a lot of disciples rushing to a place outside the valley before, so I followed, and when I arrived at the place, I found that it was a canteen, I had already eaten, these were brought to you by me, and I don't know if they suit your appetite." Finding Zhou Xingyu looking at himself, the young man said embarrassedly.
Yes, this is the young man who was chosen by the valley lord with me, Li Tong.
Feeling the concern from the young Li Tong, Zhou Xingyu's heart was instantly full of emotion, and he said gratefully: "Thank you, Brother Li Tong." ”
Stretched out his hand to take the bowl in the other party's hand, after a day of high-intensity trial, Zhou Xingyu at this time was already empty and hungry, he was also polite, rice porridge with steamed buns began to eat in a big gulp, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a gobble.
"It's good to be appetizing, you don't have to thank me, I used to do these things at home ~ through ~ often do these things, and I'm used to it. Bringing you food this time is also incidental. Hearing Zhou Xingyu call himself Brother Li Tong, the young man smiled embarrassedly and said.
"Brother Li Tong, we will be friends in the future, if you have something, just tell me, you're welcome."
"Well, if you have something to tell me in the future, my father and mother often say that I have a lot of strength, as long as I can help, I will definitely contribute."
"Hiccup, so full." Zhou Xingyu rubbed his round stomach and said with satisfaction.
"Let's go see the valley master, are you okay? Do you want to digest it first? Looking at Zhou Xingyu's appearance, Li Tong said with some worry.
"It's okay, Brother Li."
Zhou Xingyu knew his own situation, if he hadn't cultivated the fetal breath recipe, he would never eat and drink like this, especially when he had something to do, but after cultivating the fetal breath technique, it was different, at this time, his fetal breath recipe had made great progress, and it would only be a matter of a few minutes for this little thing to consume, and when he saw the valley master, it was estimated that it would be almost good.
The two came one after the other to the door of Li Qingtai's bamboo house.
"Li Tong and Zhou Xingyu ask to see the valley master!"
"Come in." Soon there was a quiet sound in the room.
The two entered the room and soon saw Li Qingtai who was reading a book, and seeing that the other party was not talking to him, Li Tong and Zhou Xingyu naturally did not dare to move, so they had to stand honestly in place.
However, after all, he was a teenager, and after waiting for an hour, seeing that the other party did not stop at all, Zhou Xingyu couldn't help but gently move his somewhat swollen calves, and at the same time, a pair of round eyes secretly looked at the surrounding layout.
The room was simply made of green bamboo, and next to the window were two pots of tender green bonsai, which looked verdant and pleasant, and Li Qingtai was sitting behind a long table opposite the window, behind which was a large bookshelf, which occupied a wall full of dense books.
Zhou Xingyu took a serious look at these books, but unfortunately, with his barren cultural level, his knowledge was really limited, and in the end, he was confused but felt that he didn't see anything, only felt unfathomable.
Time passed, and just when the two were crumbling, Li Qingtai, who had been reading, spoke.
"The two of you will be registered disciples of the Rejuvenation Valley from now on, from now on you can call me teacher or sir, you are in the Rejuvenation Valley, I will first teach you some basic medicine knowledge, and I will also teach you some superficial knowledge of healing patients. After you get acquainted with it, the disciples in the sect come to seek medical treatment, as long as it is not too tricky, it will be handed over to you to be responsible, remember? Li Qingtai put the book on the table for the time being, looked at the two and asked.
"Remembered." Li Tong and Zhou Xingyu hurriedly replied.
"Well, although I won't teach you martial arts, but if you really want to learn, you can also go to the Foreign Affairs Hall to find a martial artist in the door to learn some martial arts foundations, although these people are not very good, but they have a specialization in the art industry, and they still have a hand in teaching martial arts. After you have learned the basic martial arts foundation, you can go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to get a set of internal exercises and a set of external exercises for free according to the rules of the door, which is not in a hurry. Of course, if you really want to practice, I have no opinion, as for what you will achieve in the future, it is your own business. Li Qingtai explained another matter about learning martial arts, although his famous words would not teach the two of them martial arts, but the relevant matters related to learning martial arts were told to the two without any mistakes.
Zhou Xingyu can see that the other party just wants to find two people to help, so that he can get out of his busy work, and he doesn't want to accept apprentices at all.
This made Zhou Xingyu both relieved and inevitably a little disappointed.
"Well, that's what I'm going to explain today...... Well? Li Qingtai suddenly stopped talking and glanced at the two of them, his eyes were a little strange.
I saw him look down at the books on the table, and then said casually: "By the way, there is one more thing you must remember, after you finish learning the basics of martial arts, I will teach you a set of health preservation formulas, if there is a small success, maybe I will make an exception to accept you as an apprentice and teach you some real skills." ”
Hearing Li Qingtai say that he would teach himself true skills, although he didn't know why the other party changed his mind temporarily, the two of them still smiled, after all, this is a high-level person of the Xuanmen, and if he teaches himself and others a few hands, he will definitely benefit for life.
"Teacher Xie, we will work hard to meet your requirements."
"Well, you two should go out now, you can go and familiarize yourself with the situation inside the door during this time, and come back to see me tomorrow." Li Qingtai waved his hand at the two, sat back on the chair, picked up the books he had put down before from the table, and read them with relish.
Seeing that the teacher had no other instructions, the two of them left the room lightly.
After coming out of the house, Zhou Xingyu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, I don't know if it was an illusion, when he faced Li Qingtai before, he felt as if he had met a python for the first time in the mountains when he was a child, and even breathing became difficult. Knowing that the other party wouldn't do anything to him, Zhou Xingyu couldn't help but tremble in his body, and his nerves tightened.
In the next few days, Li Tong and Zhou Xingyu were extremely excited, because of Li Qingtai's previous arrangement, they and the others officially entered the door wall of the Xuanmen and became the disciples of the Xuanmen. Thinking of Uncle Song's majestic appearance in Lingxi City before, Zhou Xingyu seemed to have seen his future self.
Just thinking of his parents, brothers and sisters at home, Zhou Xingyu couldn't help but feel a little sad, because Uncle Song had already told him before that if he passed the trial, it would be best for him to contact his family less, which was not only to protect them, but also to protect himself.
Although Zhou Xingyu still doesn't understand why Uncle Song is saying this to him, he believes that it is for his own good.
"I wonder how they're doing?" Thinking about his family, Zhou Xingyu subconsciously touched a small jade pendant on his neck, which was given to him by his father before he left, and it is said that it was left by his grandfather, the original intention was that if Zhou Xingyu was embarrassed outside the home, he could exchange it for money to tide over the difficulties, but at this time, it became the sustenance in his heart for his family.
In the following days, after the two became familiar with the situation of Zhixuanmen, Li Qingtai also officially began to teach the two of them some healing and saving people, and herbal medicine. In the morning, Zhou Xingyu and Li Tong studied with Li Qingtai, and in the afternoon, they went to the Foreign Affairs Hall to follow the martial artists in the door to learn the basic knowledge of martial arts such as literacy and hyphenation, the twelve canons, the eight veins of the Qi Jing, the direction of the acupoints, and the skeletal muscles, and practiced the basic skills together.
During this period, Zhou Xingyu deliberately went to find Wang Ye once, but unfortunately he got the news that Wang Ye had been in retreat, and Zhou Xingyu also went to visit Elder Li, and the result was the same.
In desperation, Zhou Xingyu had no choice but to leave, anyway, there will be opportunities in the future, and there will always be a meeting.
However, perhaps thinking that Zhou Xingyu would come to him, Wang Ye instructed the servants guarding the door to leave a package for Zhou Xingyu.
There is a letter in the package, which roughly says that his retreat may take a long time, and he will not see Zhou Xingyu for a long time in the future, but as a good big brother, he will naturally not forget Zhou Xingyu, and left him a piece of his identity jade pendant inside, if he encounters any trouble in the future, as long as he takes out the jade pendant, no matter who he wants to refer to in the Xuanmen, he will always give him Wang a little face.
At the same time, there is also a thin booklet, on the book "Fetal Breath Formula" three big characters, it is Wang Ye specially asked Elder Li to come, according to the content of the letter, Zhou Xingyu only knew at this time that "Fetal Breath Formula" does not refer to the entrance exercises of Xuanmen at all, but Elder Li went out to get it, Wang Ye knew that Zhou Xingyu practiced "Fetal Breath Formula", so he asked Elder Li for the whole book to leave him, of course, this book in Zhou Xingyu's hand is a manuscript, and it was originally treasured by Elder Li. Of course, the letter also mentioned that Zhou Xingyu should not spread the word.
Looking at the "Fetal Breath Formula" in his hand, Zhou Xingyu remembered the other party's kindness deeply in his heart.
A month later, Wang Ye and Li Tong finally passed Li Qingtai's test, and the two never went to the Foreign Affairs Hall again, because Li Qingtai began to formally teach the two of them "Aoki Decision", and the two of them also had to learn to cure diseases and save people with Li Qingtai, so naturally they didn't have time to go to the Foreign Affairs Hall to practice martial arts.
I don't even have time to go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to get the exercises.
"Aoki Decision" is the book that Li Qingtai has been reading before, and after this period of study in the Foreign Affairs Hall, Zhou Xingyu finally got out of the category of semi-literacy.
If Zhou Xingyu returns to the village at this time, it is estimated that Lao Li Tou will lose his job.