The cold wind whimpered and ran through the eaves, squeezing into the doorway, and the oil lamp standing on the stove swayed gently.

"Let me tell you, this afternoon's head catcher, some time ago, I ran a hill chasing this road, if it weren't for my master's repeated instructions not to do anything to ordinary people, I would have been able to beat him with a palm that day, and I couldn't find the North ......."

The stove room was dim, reflecting the shadows of the five people around the small table to eat, and from time to time Sun Yingxian said a word, which caused the three of them to laugh, and the small room was full of warmth.

Li Jinhua sandwiched a chopstick dish for her husband, and saw her son holding a bowl and silently holding the rice.

"Liangsheng, what are you thinking? If you don't eat again, the food will be cold. ”

Lu Liangsheng raised his head, hummed, took two mouthfuls into his mouth, and smiled at his mother: "I didn't think about anything." ”

After speaking, put down the dishes and chopsticks.

"Mother, father, I'm done. ”

Immediately, he got up and walked to the stove, took an empty bowl and scooped a spoonful of hot soup in the firewood pot, the cold wind outside the window whimpered, when Lu Liangsheng turned around, his wide sleeves waved to that side, and the slightly open window 'snapped' tightly.

Walking to the door of the stove room, the door made a creaking sound, opened by itself, the young man walked out in the cold wind, and the door behind him closed again, leaving the old couple who forgot to eat with dishes and chopsticks, and Lu Xiaoxian who was stunned.

Only Sun Yingxian pursed his lips.

"Hmph...... I want to have a female ghost, and I can pretend to be ...... in this way."

The words stopped abruptly, and while the family of three on the opposite side had not come back to their senses, the chopsticks quickly stretched out the plate, clamped it into the bowl, and picked up the bowl, revealing only two eyes, and smacked towards the mouth.

He and Lu Laoshi and Li Jinhua saw a different picture, except that when the window was closed, Lu Liangsheng wielded his mana, opening and closing the door, and it was all female ghosts who were helping, so naturally he didn't feel surprised.

Lu Xiaoxian came back to her senses, hit the Taoist with chopsticks, and then grabbed it, Li Jinhua looked at the closed door, put down the bowl, and didn't care about the Taoist and her daughter grabbing things.

"Liangsheng, this is a matter of heart. ”

Lu Laoshi nodded: "It's like this when you come back from outside, will you ....... with that king?"

The woman just sighed.

Outside, Lu Liangsheng walked through the eaves with the soup, the yin wind blew, pushed the door open, walked into the house, waved the sleeves of his robe, and the oil lamp lit a bean-sized flame.

The warm yellow light illuminated the room, and in the futon room on the bed, the toad Taoist was trembling under the sheets, feeling the light, and when he opened his eyes, Lu Liangsheng sat on the edge of the bed, and the bowl he was holding was steaming.

"Master, drink some hot soup to warm your body, there are ginger and shallots in it, it tastes good. ”

The toad Taoist turned his face away and snorted, "Don't drink." ”

Nie Honglian waved her long sleeves to cover her delicate face, floated to the young man's side, and her eyes bent into crescent moons: "Master Toad, this is a temper tantrum, I have often heard that the older you are, the more you sometimes look like a child....."

"The old man didn't make a fuss!" the toad wrapped in the quilt and turned in a direction.

The boy smiled and sat down on the other side.

"Master, what's wrong with you?"

The quilt stirred a few times, and the toad Taoist stretched out his two little short legs and sat up, surrounded by his flippers: "Your academic master, how can you look down on cultivators? If the master's mana is still there, I can't say that I can't pull him to reason, and the old man can be his grandfather at any age!"

Red Pian Piao sat on the edge of the bed and chuckled.

"The same rhetoric as Sun Daochang. ”

"Don't mention that stinky Taoist priest!" The toad Taoist jumped up in anger: "It's angry when he says it, if he hadn't grabbed the padded jacket of the teacher, how would I have been planted in that pool!!"

Lu Liangsheng smiled and nodded: "Yes, I'll scold him when I turn around." Then, he scooped a spoonful of warm soup and handed it over: "I'm angry, I'm still angry, I'd better drink the soup first, so that I have the strength to scold Sun Yingxian." ”

"You are a shrew as a teacher?!"

After the toad Taoist said it, he was a lot more angry, took a sip of soup, and a warmth swirled in his stomach, looking at the disciple in front of him, he suddenly felt that he was no worse than the old scholar.

Smacking his lips: "The taste is a little light, next time I ask your mother to put more salt, and in terms of food, the old man is an expert....."

When he opened his mouth and took a second sip, the voices of people in the courtyard outside the house came, followed by the words of Li Jinhua and Lu Laoshi.

"Grandpa, why are you here, and you don't ask for help. ”

The voice of the words came into the room, and on the side of the bed, Nie Honglian took the bowl over, "Childe, go outside and have a look." ”

"Hmm. ”

Lu Liangsheng nodded, comforted the toad Daoist, got up and opened the door, Lu Taigong was holding his pear wooden cane, supported by Li Jinhua and Lu Laoshi, and walked slowly to the eaves.

"Lay down for three months...... The body bones are fine..... and the bones are fine......"

The old man sat there, his eyes cloudy and kind, watching Lu Liangsheng come over, his toothless mouth laughing out loud and wrinkled.

"I ..... here just to thank Liangsheng in person..... if it weren't for him, I'm afraid I would have been buried in the ground. ”

"Yo, Grandpa, don't say anything thank you or not. "Lu Laoshi is not a person who is too good at talking, and after a sentence, he forgot what to say later.

Lu Liangsheng took over: "My father is right, there is no need for the family to say thank you." He went over, squatted in front of Lu Taigong, and touched the old man's wrist with his fingertips to probe the pulse.

In fact, he has never read a medical book, but how to use mana to observe people's physical conditions, there is an article in "Qinghuai Supplementing Dreams" that talks about it.

"Taigong, my body is still a little weak, so don't go out often during this time, so as not to catch the wind and cold, and it will be troublesome. ”

The old man is old, but he has not experienced much battle in the end, and he has basically lived in the mountains all his life, and hearing Lu Liangsheng's calm words at this moment made him feel at peace in his heart.

He grabbed the young man's hand, and after a while, he said, "Liangsheng...... I'm sorry for you...... Taigong is also afraid of death, and wants to see more children in the village, life is prosperous day by day, I have also heard, every family in the village is doing well now, and Taigong has nothing to thank you. ”

He staggered up from the stool on crutches and bowed down.

"Only ......"

"Taigong!"

Lu Liangsheng hurriedly stretched out his hand to hug the old man, "Taigong, this is what Liangsheng should do..... should be done.....

What to do.....

muttering back these three words, the knot between the previous and the teacher in the field, finally had a clear understanding.

"It doesn't matter if you practice to help others, or if you are an official and benefit the people of the world...... Don't take small kindness for nothing. ”

Pressing the old man back to the stool and sitting down, Lu Liangsheng suddenly had a smile on his face.

Inside the house.

The soup bowl was already empty, and the toad Taoist touched his swollen belly, leaned on the quilt and squinted his eyes comfortably and talked to the female ghost about how to accept Lu Liangsheng as an apprentice, and when he talked about the night he met the centipede essence, the words stopped.

“....... At such a juncture, he actually came up. ”

The female ghost lay on the futon, bent her calves and shook gently, supporting her chin, and her pretty face was full of curiosity: "Why? Isn't Childe afraid?"

"Afraid, he's ..... a bad guy. ”

The toad man looked at the flickering oil lamp and smiled.

"Guess what he said in the end?"

"Say what?"

"He said, "You are Master......"

The toad Taoist sat up, there was some past, it was inconvenient to talk about it, he thought for a while, and just smiled: "The old man is just such a disciple in his life." ”

The bean-sized lamps flickered, illuminating the inside and outside of the house, far away to the mountain village under the outline of the mountain, in the city with thousands of lights, in a quiet courtyard, and the figures of people cut in the paper windows of the slight gaps.

In the occasional barking of dogs, Zuo Zhengyang looked at the paper manuscript spread out on the desk, like a simple relationship diagram drawn temporarily.

Soon, the tip of the pen stained with ink circled the three words 'Lujiacun'.

The firelight reflected on his face, and his thick brows furrowed.