After returning from the valley, another half a month passed, Zhang Xiaofan had been in Qingyunmen for three years, and at the same time ended his bamboo cutting career, but at the end of the year, he handed over the results, even he blushed.

Because of that inexplicable trip to the valley, in the next half month, Zhang Xiaofan often felt dizzy, lacking qi and blood, and the whole person was particularly prone to fatigue. He secretly guessed in his own mind that it might be caused by the hemorrhage that he had vaguely seen when he was delirious. But he searched all over his body but there was no wound, and he was so nervous that he didn't dare to ask the master, so he had to bury it in his heart.

It's just that he doesn't speak, but his body reacts. In the past, at least two big black knotted bamboos could be cut off, but now I was out of breath without cutting a few times, and I broke out in a cold sweat, and I couldn't even cut a black knotted bamboo for half a day. In fact, it's no wonder that in the deep valley, the "blood devouring bead" sucked almost half of the jīng blood in his body, if it weren't for his body that has always been strong, I'm afraid that he would have been bedridden a long time ago. However, Zhang Xiaofan wants to cut bamboo like before, which is also delusional.

This situation continued, and it was not until half a month later that Zhang Xiaofan felt that his body had improved slightly, and his mental strength had improved. However, the bamboo cutting work also ended at this time. On the last day, under the watchful eyes of the senior brother Song Daren and others who came to accept, Zhang Xiaofan tried his best and finally cut off a black knotted bamboo before the end of the hour.

Song Daren and the others looked at each other and were speechless, only Tian Ling'er walked up, patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Xiaofan, it's okay, you have more than a dozen of my senior sister's ability, which is already very good." ”

Zhang Xiaofan smiled bitterly.

At ten o'clock for dinner, Da Zhufeng and the others sat in the dining room. After Tian Buyi and his wife sat down, Song Daren first told Zhang Xiaofan about the situation, Tian Buyi sneered, and didn't even look at Zhang Xiaofan, but Su Ru smiled and said: "Ah, Xiaofan, it's been three years since you came to our Dazhufeng." ”

Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly said: "Yes, Master." ”

Su Ru sighed lightly and said, "Alas, time flies so fast, three years have passed in a flash. As she spoke, she suddenly paused, raised her voice, and said to the other six disciples, "Do you feel this way?"

All the disciples of Dazhu Peak were shocked, and immediately sat up straight, and said, "Yes!"

Su Ru snorted and said, "Now that your little junior brothers have grown up, but you haven't entered the realm at all in the past three years, are you going to me and your master to death!"

Everyone didn't dare to speak, but they all turned their eyes to Song Daren. Song Daren was forced by other junior disciples to bite the bullet and said: "Don't worry, senior sister, we will definitely fight this time!"

Su Ru made the word "don't believe" clear on her face, and just as she was about to speak, Tian Buyi suddenly interjected: "Sixth." ”

Du Bishu's whole body was excited, and he raised his head and said, "Master, you called me?"

Tian Buyi said lightly: "I see you dancing in front of pots and pans in the kitchen in your spare time, what's going on?"

Du Bishu's face turned red, he opened his mouth and said, "Master, you, why did you see it?"

Su Ru sighed and said, "Bishu, what's wrong?"

Du Bishu hesitated for a long time, and said in a low voice: "The disciple wants to see if he can make those things move......

Everyone was moved, the realm of "driving things" is the fundamental foundation for cultivating magic weapons in the Qingyun Gate Dao Method, and it is unimaginable to reach the fourth layer of the Taiji Xuanqing Dao Jade Qing Realm.

Tian Buyi nodded, although there was nothing on his face, there was still a trace of joy in his eyes, and said, "What?"

Du Bishu said in a low voice: "It seems, it seems to have moved." ”

"Boom", everyone was in an uproar, all surprised, and the old fifth Lu Daxin, who was sitting next to him, patted him on the shoulder, with a smile on his face. Su Ru on the other side also smiled, and said with a smile: "Good boy, I can't imagine that you are angry, when will it happen?"

Du Bishu was infected by everyone, and he also relaxed, and said: "Just recently, I was practicing in my room a few days ago, and I suddenly found that under the power of my mind, the water cup on the table moved, and I guessed if it was me who broke through the third layer. Speaking of this, he smiled embarrassedly, and said, "But the disciple didn't have a bottom in his heart, and he couldn't believe it, so he often tried it, but he didn't expect to be discovered by the master." ”

Tian Buyi smiled and said: "That's the case, between the fourth and third layers of the Jade Qing Realm, although there is a world of difference in efficacy, there is nothing obvious about the initial cultivation. You are clever, although you are late to get started, you can't imagine that you will come from behind. ”

Everyone laughed and congratulated, during which Tian Ling'er interjected: "Sixth Senior Brother, have you decided to cultivate any magic weapons?"

Du Bishu was stunned for a moment and said, "No, I also confirmed from my master that I have cultivated to the fourth layer just now, and I haven't had time to think about it yet." ”

Su Ru smiled and said: "Don't worry, you can think about these things slowly, but you know your master's temper, and he never forces you to cultivate the fairy sword, what you like, think about it and go find the materials." ”

Zhang Xiaofan was extremely envious on the side, seeing that the sixth senior brother was smiling with teeth on his face, and listened to Tian Buyi and said: "Sixth." ”

Du Bishu hurriedly said, "Master." ”

Tian Buyi said: "According to the old practice of our Qingyun Sect, the disciples who have cultivated to the fourth level of Taiji Xuanqing Dao will have to go down the mountain to travel the world, and at the same time look for good materials and spiritual objects to cultivate magic weapons. You get ready, and you can go down the mountain. ”

Du Bishu was stunned for a moment, with a little reluctance and joy in his eyes, and said in a low voice: "Yes." After speaking, he remembered something, and said, "But Master, the meal here has always been the responsibility of the disciple, but after the disciple left, ......."

Lu Daxin, who was beside him, laughed and said, "What are you afraid of, didn't you still have me before you started, don't worry, you can't starve to death." ”

Du Bishu and everyone laughed, only Tian Ling'er laughed on the side: "Fifth Senior Brother, you are embarrassed to say, as far as the food you cooked, I had nightmares when I ate it when I was a child!"

Lu Daxin's face turned red, everyone burst into laughter, and when the laughter stopped, Tian Buyi said lightly: "In the future, the kitchen will be asked to do it." ”

Everyone was stunned, and Lu Daxin was surprised: "Master, junior brother is still ...... young."

Tian Buyi squinted his eyes and glanced at Zhang Xiaofan, Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly said: "Master, don't worry, I often follow the sixth senior brother to help in the kitchen, and I will do it." ”

Tian Buyi nodded, didn't say much, and waved his hand: "Eat!"

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After three rì, Du Bishu cleaned up, explained the affairs in the kitchen clearly, and went down the mountain. In the past three years, among the senior brothers, Du Bishu is the youngest, and he is lively and lively.

Zhang Xiaofan is closest to him. Now that he is gone, Zhang Xiaofan is quite reluctant in his heart, and he only feels that he is a little lonely on the big bamboo peak.

Subsequently, Zhang Xiaofan began his second "homework" in Qingyunmen - cooking.

That day was his first formal cooking and stir-frying, he was busy in the kitchen alone for a morning, washing rice and washing vegetables was very busy, unconsciously at noon, Tian Buyi and others walked into the dining room, only to see that the table was laid out as usual, Zhang Xiaofan sat at the end of the table, his hands clasped each other, trembling, anyone could feel the tension.

Everyone sat down, Tian Buyi didn't speak, but Su Ru glanced at Zhang Xiaofan, a little smile appeared on her face, and said, "Xiaofan, how does it feel to cook for the first time?"

Zhang Xiaofan opened his mouth, but couldn't think of what to say, Tian Buyi snorted and said, "Eat." The disciples responded, raised their chopsticks to eat, and put them in their mouths.

In the dining room, there was silence.

Zhang Xiaofan was so nervous that his heart jumped to his throat, cold sweat trickled out from his forehead, and he said in a low voice: "Master, senior brother, I, I didn't do well, you, you ......"

"Wow, it's so delicious!" Tian Ling'er suddenly screamed with joy, and couldn't help but put another piece of bamboo shoots in her mouth. Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, and saw all the senior brothers smiling and smiling

The head is not stacked, and the chopsticks are full of praise like the wind.

"I can't imagine that the little junior brother still has this hand, amazing, amazing!"

"Hmm(vague), it's better than the fifth, no, it's better than the fifth and sixth combined, hehe!"

At this time, even Tian Buyi also took a few more chopsticks and nodded, with a little more smile in his eyes. Zhang Xiaofan looked at it in his eyes and was satisfied.

Since then, Zhang Xiaofan has been doing it in the kitchen. He has not yet shown any talent in Taoist practice, but he is actually quite talented in cooking, and his skills are self-taught

The food that came out was delicious, far superior to others. And in his heart, as long as Tian Buyi nodded slightly in approval, it was already the greatest joy.

Time flies, and another half a year has passed, seeing that Qingyunmen's "Seven Veins Huiwu" is approaching, not only Su Ru, but even Tian Buyi began to urge the disciples under his seat. Crowd only

Heart cultivation, but no one came to disturb Zhang Xiaofan, anyway, everyone didn't have any hope for him.

As for Zhang Xiaofan, he doesn't care, every time he is busy in the kitchen, he also realizes a little happiness from this pot and pan, and he cultivates Taoism by himself in his spare time, and practices "Dafa Prajna" every late at night.

During this time, the gray monkey he brought back from the valley lived with him for half a year, and the human monkey was already very close to each other, and Zhang Xiaofan also named it - Little Gray. this

The name was as plain and unremarkable as his own.

Since he started to work in the kitchen, Xiao Ash has been close to the water and the building first, and often follows him to the kitchen, grabbing a bamboo shoot in the east and a fruit in the west, eating it secretly, and living down for half a year

Ran fat, but on this big bamboo peak, the monkey Xiao Gray still has a rival, that is, the big yellow dog that Tian Buyi raised since he was a child-rhubarb.

I don't know what's going on, the big yellow dog always looks at this monkey in his eyes and is not very pleasing to the eye, at first rìzi it always barks more than once it sees Xiao Ash, scared that Xiao Ash always hides in high places, and then rì for a long time, finally reluctantly acquiesced that Xiao Ash is a member of the big bamboo peak, but every time he meets, he grins his teeth and makes a vicious appearance, and every time Xiao Ash is scared to "squeak" and scream, Rhubarb only "Wangwang" screams a few times, raises the dog's head, wagged his tail, and walks aside.

Autumn is coming to winter, and the weather on Dazhu Peak is getting colder, except for Tian Buyi and his wife, who have advanced cultivation, and are not afraid of this ordinary cold and warmth, the rest of the disciples have slowly added clothes.

This rì, the rare sunshine on the big bamboo peak, Zhang Xiaofan finished the kitchen work, walked out, stretched his waist, sat down next to a pine tree outside the house, leaned against the trunk, squinted his eyes, and comfortably enjoyed the sun.

After sitting for a while, when he was groggy and falling asleep, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly heard a few dog barks in front of him, and when he opened his eyes, it was Rhubarb who was also lying on the ground in front of him lazily basking in the sun, while Xiao Ash moved towards Rhubarb step by step from behind.

Zhang Xiaofan was very curious in his heart, and Rhubarb Ping often ran to the kitchen to eat, and he was also familiar with him, so he couldn't be more clear about the relationship between this monkey and dog, and he didn't want the sun to come out like the west, and Xiao Ash would actually take the initiative to approach Rhubarb! Zhang Xiaofan suddenly came to the god and stared at the front tightly.

I saw that Xiao Gray quickly approached Rhubarb, although Rhubarb couldn't see things behind him, but as soon as his nose moved, he immediately smelled something strange behind him, and when he looked back, he opened his big mouth and showed his fangs, and he screamed a few times.

Little Gray shrank and looked still a little scared, but the monkey's eyes rolled a few times, and his right hand was raised and shook in front of Rhubarb.

Rhubarb didn't care at first, and kept barking at Xiao Ash, but after a few sniffs, as if he smelled something, the two dogs stared at Xiao Gray's hand, blinking, moving, and no longer barking, opening their mouths and sticking out their long tongues, and even the dog's tail began to wagging non-stop to show friendship.

Zhang Xiaofan was extremely surprised, looking at it, he couldn't help but smile dumbly, it turned out that Xiao Ash was holding a piece of meat and bone in his hand, and the fragrance was overflowing, and he could faintly smell it from a distance. This was originally used by him to make soup, because he knew that rhubarb liked to eat this thing the most, so after cooking, he specially sealed it and put it in a high place, but Xiao Ash didn't know when he stole a piece and ran to be close to the rhubarb set.

At that moment, I saw that Xiao Ash shook it twice, and threw the meat and bones in front of Rhubarb, who was already drooling in his mouth, and immediately opened his mouth to bite the meat and bones in his mouth, "tsk" and gnawed non-stop.

Xiao Ash looked at Rhubarb's appearance, "squeaked" twice, cautiously approached Rhubarb, hesitated, and reached out to touch Rhubarb's head.

Rhubarb suddenly let out a low voice, and Xiao Ash quickly retracted his hand, but after a while, he couldn't help but reach out and touch Rhubarb's head again. This time Rhubarb didn't react, just busy gnawing meat bones, Xiao Ash put his hand on Rhubarb's head, and gently stroked Rhubarb's bright and soft yellow hair, Rhubarb actually felt very comfortable, shrunk a little, and screamed lowly, but it was all over

Non-hostile.

Little Gray became a little bolder, laughed and screamed twice, and began to rummage through the rhubarb fur, as if looking for lice, and occasionally Rhubarb turned around, and actually licked Little Gray with his tongue, this monkey and dog are very close to each other, and become faster than anything else.

Zhang Xiaofan was stunned, and said in his heart that this little gray is really smart, but it seems that the meat and bones will be hidden more secretively in the future.

He was thinking like this in his heart, and suddenly there was a sound of breaking the sky above his head, two white lights galloped from the west, Rhubarb seemed to be startled, and barked loudly at the white light, Xiao Ash stretched out his hand and touched the top of its head twice, as if comforting, but it was very effective, and Rhubarb actually quieted down immediately.

Zhang Xiaofan watched the two white lights fall in front of the main hall "Shoujing Hall", and after a burst of light flickered, two people appeared, one of them was long and jade, chic, and fluttering in white clothes, extremely handsome.

The other was a teenager, a little shorter than him, fifteen or sixteen years old.

Zhang Xiaofan suddenly held his breath, and a wisp of sadness that had been forgotten slowly rose from the depths of his heart, because of the lonely back that looked a little lonely!

"Feather?" he cried out, his voice hoarse.

The young man's body shook, and he immediately turned around, his eyes widened, and his mouth opened wide, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, a thousand words turned into only two words:

"Xiao Fan!"

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