22. Awakened by the sense of dependence
"Don't cry......" Mei Yan hadn't coaxed a child for a long time, and she was caught red-handed for lying, so she could only repeat it weakly.
"Master deceived me like a child!" Shen Yu accused her of the crime.
"But you're a child. Mei Yan patted him on the back and smiled bitterly.
"What's the next time it hurts?"
"In a month's time. After Mei Yan answered truthfully, she also felt empty: This time interval is indeed too easy for people to misunderstand.
"Woo......" Shen Yu buried his head and thought about it, and complained frustratedly: "It's too late." β
"What is too late?"
"It's too late to make new medicines. He was very annoyed by the time he had delayed, "I haven't studied any prescriptions for internal injuries...... It's too late next month!"
Mei Yan hurriedly smoothed the hair: "I said that painkillers are good, increase the dose, and the effect is still there." How can an old wound be so easy to heal!"
"Does it work?" he lifted his watery eyes.
"Hmm......" Mei Yan hesitated for a moment between "telling the truth" and "telling the truth to a limited extent", but Shen Yu knew that she was going to talk nonsense again, so she hammered her ribs with a small fist in annoyance.
Mei Yan hurriedly pointed to the sky and swore an oath: "It has a certain effect, this is the truth." β
"Then you won't be allowed to endure the discomfort in the future. Shen Yu finally finished his master's trial, and instructed thoughtfully: "I will add medicine to you, or change the medicine, and I will definitely be able to formulate the most effective painkiller prescription!"
"You can't delay your own spiritual progress. β
"It's just painkillers, it's the simplest. Shen Yu suddenly came out of nowhere with confidence, and despised Mei Yan, an outright layman, as if he was an insider.
- Actually, there are many drugs that are purely pain-relieving, but no one uses them that way. A real doctor will not do this kind of "pain relief but not cure" thing, which will cover up the symptoms and delay the treatment!
"Okay, in fact, it's not for nothing that there is a way to do it once and for all. Mei Yan tried his best to comfort him, and smiled lightly: "If I find a Taoist who has cultivated a similar level, let the yin and yang balance in the body, and it can be relieved a lot! β
"...... with others?" Shen Yu panicked again when she heard this, her arms tightened, and her head knocked on her sternum with a "bang": "Master is not allowed to cultivate with others!"
"Huh?"
Shen Yu was confident: "You are a woman, you have to clean yourself!"
"Who taught you this?" Mei Yan poked the top of his head vigorously: "Only ordinary people have the idea that women should keep their chastity, we are cultivators, we just want to do everything as we like!
Shen Yu remembered the woman he saw in Xiao Teng's room...... Do you do whatever you want, do whatever you want in that kind of thing?
A wave of annoyance rose in his heart, and he became even more arrogant: "Anyway, you can't!"
Mei Yan knew a lot of monks of the same generation, and Shen Yu still remembered the fat man in the Diyong Wanjin Pavilion, who was also a sect master, and he coveted the master very much...... No, I can't think about it anymore!
Mei Yan was almost strangled by his sudden choke lock, and had no choice but to compromise: "What kind of axis are you committing again? I'll tease you! Let go, I'll just talk about it casually!"
"Tell me about it?!"
"I'm not the kind of woman who can have fun. Mei Yan finally became impatient, and with a soft hand in his hand, he pulled him off his body like a dog skin plaster.
"Heh, if I were really that kind of person, I wouldn't have put up with this two hundred years ago!"
Shen Yu's arm was twisted painfully, and he honestly lowered his head and asked, "Is it because of Daddy?"
"Huh?" Mei Yan couldn't adapt to her apprentice's whimsical thinking circuit, "What's wrong with Senior Brother?" What does this have to do with Shen Xuan.
Shen Yu pursed her lips, carefully observed her face, and asked, "Master, are you putting up with this, is it because you want to be with my father?"
"Don't listen to their nonsense. Mei Yan frowned, "Senior brother is my relative, and you are like my own child." β
When Shen Yu heard her say this, his heart was inexplicably more irritable, and he turned his head awkwardly: "Anyway, you are not allowed to double cultivate with others." β
Mei Yan was speechless, and slapped him on the top of his head: "What are you thinking about!"
"You mentioned it first!" Shen Yu hugged his head and dodged, accusing.
Mei Yan was stunned for a moment, it seemed that it was too! Okay, admit his mistake again: "As a teacher, this time it was really wrong, little ancestor, you forgot these words." I just want to tease you, and I won't dare to do it again - you're not only a primary school, but also a little donkey!"
There is a price to tease children, and Mei Yan remembered this lesson stupidly. It's all because this kid is too mature and doesn't treat him as a child, so he jokes...... It's really just a joke!
In Shen Yu's little head, because of this little joke, he turned to other thoughts. "Master, you ...... Do you want to be my stepmother?"
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Suddenly hearing such a straightforward question, Mei Yan resisted the urge to vomit blood, and tried to restrain her slap - he had already knocked his skull once just now, and he really knocked the child stupid, and he couldn't explain it to his senior brother!
But her cheeks still twitched, narrowed her eyes dangerously, and asked, "You're joking with me, too, aren't you?"
Shen Yu hesitated for a moment, and raised his head with a simple but serious expression: "Master, they all said that you like my father." β
This is no joke. Shen Yu knew very well in his heart that now he was a childlike no matter what he asked, but when he grew up in the future, it would be difficult to ask about his elders again!
Mei Yan didn't speak, but looked at him intently, as if trying to discern something from his face.
Shen Yu began to panic, trying to maintain the ignorance he should have at his age, and asked worriedly: "Master, is it all because of my father that you are so good to me now?"
Mei Yan looked at this innocent look and finally let out a long sigh. She feels that since raising this child, her helpless emotions have increased significantly!
She had been prepared to accept these complicated situations from the beginning of her apprenticeship, but the rumors about her elders had hurt the child after all.
Someone spreads Shen Xuan's romance, and someone must spread that Tianyu Lotus is a fox who seduces Shen Xuan...... After all, in all fairness, his parents are not fuel-efficient lamps, and Mei Yan has to admit this fact.
Mei Yan didn't want to lie to him, but she didn't want this kid to learn complicated ideas between adults too early. So, she thought about it and decided to change the subject.
"Do you think I'm good to you?" Mei Yan's expression didn't show joy or anger, and it seemed that he was just indifferently stating the facts.
"I'm not doing this to all my disciples either. You think I'm good to you, just because you're too weak now!"
Shen Yu was stunned, he didn't expect to get such an answer.
"You're just building the foundation now, and after you get married, your little body may be able to resist my tossing! When the time comes, you'll feel that I'm the worst master in the world." β
Shen Yu was still a little lost, but when he heard Mei Yan's explanation, he was inexplicably looking forward to it. The small ambition for his own strength finally returned to him.
But before that, he still has to ask the answer he wants.
"Master, you really didn't bring me back because you want to be my stepmother?"
This time, Mei Yan replied quickly: "No." β
"If I don't bring you back, you will have to follow your blood grandfather and return to Mishan to send you. She shook her head slightly, "Senior brother is already destined to be punished, you are helpless, even if it is for the sake of Tianyu Lotus's face, I don't want to see you die!"
She remembered the little head that poked out from behind Shen Xuan on the stone steps trail. The adults have not yet reached the level of heinousness, and the children are even more innocent, seeing this child fall into the dangerous place of the Mishan faction, how can she bear it!
"It's because of Daddy. Shen Yu muttered.
However, since Mei Yan wasn't thinking about Shen Xuan, a stone in Shen Yu's heart finally fell to the groundβhe didn't know why this happened, but his heart obviously became relaxed, which was not false at all.
If you rob Master with your father...... Then he seems to only have the capital of beauty.
He was taken aback by his own idea, and then rejoiced: Fortunately, Master didn't mean that, it's great.
Mei Yan also felt that his emotions had finally relaxed for some reason. At this moment, even if she lent her ten divine souls, she couldn't imagine that Shen Yu's ten-year-old little head had already turned in that direction!
"Master, you haven't been cultivating lately, is it because you're taking care of me?"
"How is it possible, I've just advanced, and this cultivation progress is not good?" Mei Yan replied, "And I don't care about rank in the first place. Don't listen to other people's gossip, when I slay the Demon Abyss, those broken mouths were not born yet!"
"Also, don't think about me all the time, take care of yourself before you take care of others!"
The helplessness in Mei Yan's heart has reached the extreme - the senior brother is cold and not good at words, this child must be accustomed to observing words and emotions with such a father.
However, while the child was obedient at this moment, Mei Yan hurriedly turned on her obviously less muscular head and assigned the next stage of tasks to the apprentice.
"Now that your realm has been consolidated, you will have to practice more spells after that. As for alchemy, you can regard it as a hobby, not as your main direction now. β
Shen Yu responded. Seeing that his master had become a strict master, instead of a master who could be coquettish, his head also drooped, and he listened listlessly to the lecture.
Mei Yan knew that her emotions were a little irritable. However, although it is a good thing to return the favor, this child's attention to her seems to be a little too much, right?
That's not going to work. Even if the child has no mother since he was a child, he can't rely too much on any female elders now, which will make the boy cowardly. In any case, how can the apprentice of the God of War Mei Yan be a soft egg!
After thinking about this, I couldn't bear to be left behind by her, even if Shen Yu looked pitiful now, what should be taught still can't be sloppy.
"I said apprentice, you are really, why don't you dare to fight that snake before? I let you resist the sword, if you don't like it, you have to learn the spell!"
Shen Yu's head was buried even lower.
"Nowadays, monks generally use spells and magic weapons, and they can subdue demons with a single move. Look at you again, it's been two months since the foundation was built, and you don't even have a decent means of attack, and you can't do anything against demon beasts of the same rank, shouldn't you reflect on it?"
It was the first time for Shen Yu to hear his master say such heavy words, and he was very depressed. Looking back on the past few months, he is also very confused.
After all, the Lingshan faction is the largest faction in Dongzhou, and there are many masters of refining medicine in the four pavilions and three sects. As for him, just to build a foundation and cultivate and get started for a few months, he wants to find another way to heal Master's 200-year-old wounds......
This kind of thinking is really too arrogant.