"What apprentice!? I don't have an apprentice!" Li Wuxin listened slightly angrily, "That's it for today, and you can leave tomorrow." With that, he got up and went into the back room.

"This... Xiao 13 and Lin Tian glanced at each other, and looked at the closed door in a daze.

"Come, eat more fruit, and leave him alone. Luo Jingrou still greeted the two with a smile, and seeing that Lin Tian was still stunned, she said again: "Don't worry, it's okay, I'll talk to him tomorrow." ”

"Aunt Jingrou, what's wrong with Uncle Shi, why... Xiao Thirteen asked as he ate the fruit.

"Alas~ This has to start four years ago. Luo Jingrou sighed, smoothed the hair around her ears, and continued: " Four years ago, a teenager came to the village, ragged, like a little beggar, I and Wuxin soft-hearted took him in, the little guy is very sensible, unintentionally found that he likes to practice martial arts very much, so he pointed out, and gradually the little guy found the pulse wall, broke through to the pulse realm, and then formally worshiped Wuxin as a teacher, Wuxin loved this apprentice very much, but, a year ago, the little guy suddenly said that he wanted to go home to visit his parents, I and Wuxin didn't think too much, so he agreed, he never came back, and later, through the people who went out in the village, I knew that the kid has now become the general of the Burmese Prefecture, since then, as long as he mentions him, Wuxin is very angry。 ”

After listening to Luo Jingrou's words, she smiled and said, "If he doesn't come back, it may be that he has some troubles." ”

"yes, maybe. Luo Jingrou rubbed her chin and said lightly.

Xiao Thirteen slept really well this night, lying on the soft futon, very comfortable, at this moment, the sky was bright, the rooster crowed, Xiao Thirteen stretched his waist: "This is really comfortable, alas, I said Xiaotian, it's time to get up, continue your apprenticeship, Xiaotian, Xiaotian?" Xiao Thirteen turned his head to look, only to see the neatly folded bedding next to him, but he didn't see Lin Tian's figure.

Xiao Thirteen hurriedly got up, and when he got out of the back room, he saw Luo Jingrou preparing breakfast: "Aunt Jingrou, where is Xiaotian, have you seen him?"

Luo Jingrou smiled slightly and raised her chin towards the door.

Xiao Thirteen looked towards the door, and saw that outside the open courtyard gate, Lin Tian was kneeling there upright.

Xiao Thirteen hurriedly ran over, squatted down and asked, "Xiaotian, when were you here?"

"Last night. Lin Tian looked ahead and replied.

"Alas~ I'm here to accompany you, I don't believe it, we've been kneeling here, can he agree?" said Xiao Thirteen also knelt down next to Lin Tian.

"You... Thirteen, you don't have to be here with me, you ... Lin Tian looked at Xiao Thirteen with some emotion.

"What's this, good brother, enjoy the blessings together, and carry the difficulties together. Xiao Thirteen patted his chest and said.

"Alas~" Lin Tian sighed and stopped talking, just like that, the two knelt at the gate and looked at Luo Jingrou's busy figure in the house.

After a while, footsteps sounded, Xiao Thirteen turned his head to look, only to see that he didn't know when he went out, walked slowly, and when he passed by Lin Tian and the others, he snorted, walked into the courtyard, and closed the courtyard door with his hand.

"Hey, the world... Xiao Thirteen, who didn't have time to say hello, reluctantly put down his raised right hand.

There was another sound of footsteps, Xiao Thirteen turned his head to look, only to see a middle-aged man carrying an axe, passing by them, this is the villager in the village, it seems that he is going up the mountain to chop wood, Xiao Thirteen originally ignored it, but this man always stared at the two of them, smiling and nodding while watching.

"Uncle, what's the matter?" Xiao Thirteen couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay. The big man hurriedly shook his head, and then said with a smile: "The young man is good. ”

Xiao Thirteen heard this, a little inexplicable, even Lin Tian next to him, he didn't know why he had to look over.

Watching the man walk away, the two looked at each other, shook their heads and continued to kneel there.

After a while, another villager passed by, this was an old man with a gray beard, and the old man looked at Lin Tian and the others with a smile on his face: "Not bad, not bad, young man continue, continue." ”

Lin Tian and the others, who were already confused, were even more puzzled, and Xiao Thirteen wanted to ask what was going on, but the old man had gradually walked away.

After that, the villagers passed by, young and old, all smiling, and from time to time someone would say a few words, such as "Come on, young man!" "Young man insisted!" "Wait, wait, it seems to be some words of encouragement, cheer for what, encouragement for what?

Halfway through, Xiao Thirteen pulled the villagers to ask one or two questions from time to time, but those villagers all shook their heads and smiled, laughing so much that Lin Tian and the others were a little hairy.

Unconsciously, three days have passed, three days are the scorching sun, Xiao Thirteen drooped his head, poked his fingers at the ground, Lin Tian on the side stood up and looked straight ahead, and from time to time villagers passed by and greeted them warmly.

For three days, the two of them didn't eat or drink, Xiao Thirteen touched his rumbling stomach and smacked his lips, he regretted it a little now, regretted suffering this sin with Lin Tian, it was Lin Tian's apprenticeship and not him Xiao Thirteen, the more he thought about it in the past two days, the more wrong it became, he looked at the closed door, and hoped that his Aunt Jingrou would come out with food again, Luo Jingrou also brought them food on the first day, and the next day he seemed to know that they wouldn't eat, and it would be wasted if they were served, so he never brought it out, and he didn't want to go in and out these days, just as the two of them didn't exist, he didn't even look at it。

On the morning of the fifth day, the sky was dark, and after a while, it began to rain heavily, and it rained heavily for two days.

In the early morning of the seventh day, Lin Tian turned his head to look at the smiling thirteen who was slumped and said, "Thirteen, you go in quickly, you don't have to accompany me here, until now, it's useless for you to accompany me here." ”

Xiao 13 also turned his head to look: "No, it's been so many days, let me give up now, I didn't kneel in vain in the past few days." ”

At this time, Luo Jingrou was eating breakfast with Wuxin, Luo Jingrou glanced at Wuxin, and said while eating: "Brother Xin, do you really want to let them kneel like this all the time?"

Seeing Wuxin as if he hadn't heard it, he was still eating slowly, and then said: "It's the seventh day, I'm afraid the two little guys can't stand it, ordinary people don't eat or drink for at most three or five days, although they are in the pulse realm, but they can't last long, don't burn your body, alas~ cough cough cough" After speaking, he took the dishes and chopsticks and sighed, but then, coughed again.

It seemed that Luo Jingrou's cough touched Wuxin, who patted Luo Jingrou's hand and said, "Don't worry, the two of them are young and strong and can't die, you, you're still worried about your body, come, eat more." As he spoke, he looked at Luo Jingrou with the dishes in his bowl.

"Crunch!" The courtyard door was pushed open, and the two looked out, only to see Xiao Thirteen holding on to the door frame, moving towards the house step by step, I don't know what Lin Tian said, he persuaded Xiao Thirteen to come in, Xiao Thirteen rubbed to the table, and said in a hoarse voice: "Aunt Jingrou, do you still have food?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Luo Jingrou was stunned for a moment, immediately reacted, hurriedly got up and poured water for rice, looking at Xiao Thirteen's gobbling up, Luo Jingrou touched his head: "Eat slowly, and don't choke." He looked at the figure outside the door who was still kneeling straight and said, "Why is Lin Tian still there, why did you come in by yourself." ”

Xiao Thirteen swallowed hard, glanced at the faint eating and said: "Xiao Tian said, if Uncle Shi doesn't agree to him for a day, he won't get up, he said that it's useless for me to kneel, and it's not my apprenticeship, I thought about it right, so I came in." ”

Luo Jingrou looked at the slightly thin figure outside the gate and shook her head: "Alas, this kid is as stubborn as someone." After speaking, I looked at Wuxin.

In this way, Lin Tian has been kneeling outside the door, the slightly emaciated figure is revealing perseverance, the villagers are still greeting enthusiastically, and Lin Tian does not know why he responds.

Time passed day by day, Lin Tian knelt there, it had been a full fourteen days! If it was an ordinary person, he would definitely not be able to hold on for a long time, even if it was a normal person in the Tongmai Realm, he would not hold on for so long, these fourteen days made the entire village, including Wuxin, a little shocked.

On the fifteenth day, early in the morning, Xiao Thirteen finished eating, leaned against the gate, and accompanied Lin Tian.

"Tick tick!" A sound of blowing and blowing came from a distance, and the villagers who were alarmed were all towards the entrance of the village, gradually, the sound of blowing was approaching, Lin Tianhe and Xiao Thirteen looked, only to see a group of people wearing red clothes, blowing and beating all the way, some children ran and shouted: "Zhuang Yuan is back! Zhuang Yuan is back!"

When I got closer, I saw that the first person, dressed in official uniform, with a young and handsome face, riding a tall horse, looked mighty, and greeted the villagers next to him from time to time, and behind him was a group of drummers, blowing and beating, and then behind him, there were carriages full of goods.

The villagers who watched the excitement next to them clapped their hands in welcome, and they seemed to be very familiar.

The group blew and blew and walked not far in front of Lin Tian, at this time, Luo Jingrou in the house heard the sound and walked out, and the handsome young man on horseback immediately dismounted, hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and said: "Unfilial disciple Zhuang Yuan to see the master!"

Luo Jingrou just leaned out, and was stunned at first when she saw this scene, and then hurriedly stepped forward to help the young man and said: "Xiaoyuan, you kid, you have been walking for so long, and you don't bring a letter back, get up quickly, it's been more than a year, and you've lost weight." Luo Jingrou looked at Zhuang Yuan with loving eyes, and her jade hand stroked Zhuang Yuan's cheek with emotion.

"Master, Yuan'er is not filial, I didn't inform my master in time, I really can't help but get out of Yuan'er, Master, is he okay?" Zhuang Yuan looked towards the back room and asked.

Luo Jingrou glanced at the courtyard and sighed: "Alas, you kid, you have been gone for so long, your master and I are worried about you to death, and later your master learned that after you became the general of the Burmese Prefecture, he didn't come back to report his safety, he was very angry, you, you have to apologize to your master." ”

"Well, the apprentice is going to kowtow to the master and ask for guilt. Zhuang Yuan nodded, said goodbye to Luo Jingrou, approached the courtyard, and was just about to step into the house, 'Hmph!' A cold snort sounded, and Lin Tian knelt at the gate and felt his ears buzzing.