The moon set, the stars were thin, and a rooster crow came from the alley, and I saw a slight light in the eastern sky.

The Imperial City, which had slept all night, also woke up from its sleep, and the figures on the streets gradually increased, and the voices of street vendors were active, showing a lively and prosperous scene.

In the inn, Xiaocai, dressed in a red lace dress, was lying gently on a table, staring at Ren Yuan stupidly with her big watery eyes.

Ren Yuan, who was reading a book for a while, felt uncomfortable, feeling as if she had done something wrong, and was being peeled off layer by layer by her eyes full of spirituality.

"Ahem... What are you looking at? little fool. Ren Yuan pretended to cough and said, "What's so good." ”

"I don't know why, I feel like the owner looks good today!" The girl replied with a smile of natural innocence.

"Really, it's beautiful! Xiaocai never lies!"

After hearing Xiaocai's words, Ren Yuan hurriedly put down the teacup that was almost to his mouth, immediately pretended to cough, and quickly covered his face with the folding fan in his hand. Don't look at Ren Yuan is about to be thirty years old, you think that he should be a master of love. But you don't know that he is actually a person who has never experienced feelings.

When he was a teenager, he devoted himself to cultivation. I haven't gone out to meet a dusty relationship at all.

"What's wrong?Dongjia, are you not feeling well?" Xiaocai saw Ren Yuan's appearance and said worriedly: "Grandpa Shi, come and take a look, is Dongjia sick?"

The white-haired old man who was scheming on the side stopped what he was doing and laughed:

"Hahaha... Little girl, he's fine, he's really fine!"

The old man surnamed Shi deliberately glanced at Ren Yuan, and said with a slight smile: "He was shy when he saw that the colorful girl was so beautiful." ”

"Shi Lao, don't make fun of me. Ren Yuan pretended to be angry.

"Really?really?Is it true that the owner is like this because Xiaocai is good-looking?hehehehehe..."The girl said excitedly, looking at Ren Yuan with her big watery eyes full of anticipation.

"Okay, okay Xiaocai, don't make trouble, don't be chained by this disrespectful old man!" Ren Yuan tried hard to defend himself by breaking this embarrassing scene: "Is Xiaocai still puzzled by what happened last night?"

Ren Yuan thought in his heart, this little girl is so abnormal today, maybe it is because of what happened last night! It seems that it is time to tell her everything.

Seeing the girl, she nodded, indicating that she still had some doubts about what happened last night.

"Well, in fact, Shi Lao and I are both cultivators. Ren Yuan said slowly: "You have already seen it last night, the hand I used to control the air, the wine turned into a dragon!"

"Uh-huh..."Xiaocai nodded vigorously, "I knew that the owner would come to save me." ”

"Actually, that hand is not a magic skill, it's just an ordinary qi weapon. Ren Yuan explained: "The so-called Qi Guardian is the first step of a cultivator, that is, the Qi cultivation period. ”

"The so-called Qi refining is that people have a sense of the aura of the surrounding heaven and earth, and cultivate and use it. Eventually, it will reach the point of melting through. ”

"Integrate the body and the aura of heaven and earth to achieve the effect of lifting qi and lightening the body, and can mobilize part of the aura of heaven and earth for one's own use. This is the Qi training period. ”

Listening to Ren Yuan's explanation, Xiaocai's small mouth opened slightly into a circle, and her eyes opened wide, and her pupils emitted brilliance.

Seeing that Xiaocai was so interested, Ren Yuan smiled, stretched out a hand and touched her head, and said softly:

"Got it?"

Looking at Ren Yuan's gentle smile, listening to his gentle voice, and feeling his powerful palm gently caressing his head. She suddenly felt a warmth in her heart, and her heart beat faster.

His eyes were slightly lowered, deliberately avoiding Ren Yuan's eyes. nodded, then covered his cheeks with his long sleeves.

Ren Yuan looked at Xiaocai's appearance, and was also frightened by her, and hurriedly withdrew his hand. I always feel like I've done something wrong to get to such an embarrassing point.

So he hurriedly pretended to cough a few times in a vain attempt to break this embarrassing scene.

"Okay, okay, boss, you're not too young, why are you shy? It's not a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. Shi Lao on the side said happily: "Look at what a good girl our Xiaocai is, shouldn't you..."

"Ahem, cough, cough..."Ren Yuan coughed a few times and deliberately interrupted him:

"You old disrespectful guy, you dare to say more, believe it or not, I will deduct your salary?"

"Hmph!" the old man turned around and kept muttering: "Stingy, stingy, I can't say it, I can't say it!"

Seeing him blowing his beard and staring, Ren Yuan and Xiaocai couldn't help laughing, and finally broke this embarrassing situation.

"Xiaocai, we didn't want to tell you about this in the first place. Ren Yuan suddenly said solemnly.

"Why, the owner, do you dislike Xiaocai for being a mortal?" asked Xiaocai with tears in her eyes.

"It's not like that. It's because I'm worried about Lotto getting hurt. Ren Yuan explained: "The path of cultivation is difficult and dangerous. Along the way, there are constant crises, endless natural and man-made disasters, stepping on one after another, and the slightest misfortune will be martyred. ”

"With all these dangers, I can't bear to let a girl who has never been in the world go into danger. ”

"Is it really that dangerous?" Xiao Cai muttered, "But I want to be with the owner forever!"

Seeing that the girl lowered her head and muttered to herself, Ren Yuan continued:

"It's come to this, Xiaocai, if you also want to embark on the path of cultivation, I can pass on your exercises, if you want to live an ordinary life, when this matter passes, I will leave here, and the Four Seas Inn will be handed over to you to manage." ”

At this moment, Ren Yuan had an expectation in his heart, he really hoped that Xiaocai could embark on the path of immortality. Since Ren Yuan took her in ten years ago, Ren Yuan really likes this sensible and well-behaved little girl.

Watching her grow from a little girl of five or six years old to a fair lady is a different emotion!