The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Chap 125
The handwriting on the list was very neat and neat. It was written as follows:
First: Nangong Si
Identity: Scholarly Wind Sect’s Young Master
Second: Xue Meng
Identity: Young Master of the Peak of Life and Death
Xue Meng: “…”
He slammed the book shut, and the muscles on his face were trembling. It was as if the moment he relaxed, he would not be able to contain the great flood and ferocious beast in his heart and burn the books.
“Sure.” Xue Meng’s face was gloomy. He took the booklet and patted the frightened stall owner. Every word was squeezed out from between his teeth.
“Wrap this book up separately for me. I’ll take it back and study it myself.”
Xue Meng shoved the book into his pocket, then staggered back to the mountain with a large stack of books and scrolls given to him by the stall owner.
He was very angry.
He was so angry that he was about to die.
Ranked second on the List of Young Masters?
Bah! Which blind dog made the list? If he found out, he would definitely drag that person out and give him a hundred punches before he could vent his anger! Screw your arrogance! What a dog!
This kind of anger neutralized the ecstasy in his heart a little. When they returned to the Red Lotus Pavilion, Xue Meng’s mood finally returned to normal. He didn’t explode at the slightest provocation. Although he was still very agitated, because he had just been angry, after a while, his mind was still clear and not muddled.
At this moment, two high-ranking disciples were standing guard outside the waterside pavilion. The others were not allowed to pass so that the elders could rest.
But Xue Meng was the Young Master. Who would dare to stop him?
Thus, Xue Meng smoothly entered.
By this time, the sky was already dark. The windows of the main hall of the Waterside Pavilion were half open, letting in a soft, honey-like light. Xue Meng didn’t know if Shizun had woken up or not, so he softened his footsteps and entered with a book in hand.
It was so quiet that he could hear his own heartbeat, like a bird jumping on a tree branch.
He temporarily put the “Unknown List” to the back of his mind. He held his breath and looked at the bed with bright eyes.
“…”
After a long silence, Xue Meng was stunned.
“Huh?”
Why was there no one on the bed?
Just as he was about to take a closer look, a cold hand suddenly landed on his shoulder.
A voice dripping with cold water vapor faintly sounded behind him. “Your Excellency, why have you barged into the Red Lotus Pavilion?”
“…” Xue Meng stiffly turned his head and saw a pale face. The light was dim, and before he could see clearly, he was so scared that he screamed, raised his arm, and slashed at the other person!
Who would have thought that the opponent’s speed was faster than his? His movements were as swift as a gust of wind and lightning. Suddenly he hacked Xue Meng’s neck, and then he kicked Xue Meng’s abdomen. Xue Meng was forced to kneel down, and the books in his arms scattered all over the floor. He was in a very sorry state.
Xue Meng was originally just startled, but when he was forced to kneel by that person, he was truly shocked!
It had to be known that he was no longer the same as before. After five years of diligent cultivation, even Nangong Si was not his opponent. But this person, who he couldn’t even see clearly, only used two moves to suppress him. Who was it?
His head buzzed and blood rushed to his skull.
However, at this time, he heard that person say in an extremely cold voice, “I’ve been in closed door cultivation for five years. Now anyone dares to come to my place. Whose disciple are you? Where’s your master? Didn’t he teach you the rules? ”
As soon as his voice fell, Xue Meng threw himself over and tightly hugged him.
“Master! Master!! ”
Chu Wanning: “…”
Xue Meng raised his head. He originally wanted to hold it in, but in the end he couldn’t. Tears flowed down his face. He couldn’t help but choke with sobs as he said, “Master, it’s me … look … it’s me …”
It turned out that Chu Wanning had just woken up and went out to take a bath. Because of this, his body and hands were still cold and slightly damp. He stood in the same place. Although the light was dim, he could see clearly now that it was quiet.
The person kneeling in front of him was a youth around twenty years of age.
His skin was very white, which contrasted with his dark and thick eyebrows. The distance between his eyes and the arch of his eyebrows was slightly closer than normal people’s, so his facial features were deep and his eyes were full of emotions. As for his lips, they were full and smooth, and the shape of his lips was beautiful. With this kind of face, even when he was angry, there was a hint of pampering. In fact, it was very easy for someone with this kind of appearance to be associated with the word “seductive”, but he wasn’t.
The most charming part of a person’s face was their eyes. Xue Meng’s eyes were like strong wine, always sparkling with a spicy, passionate, and unbridled light. They were very threatening.
With these two pools of wine, even if they were filled with ice white and soft jade flasks, no one would be able to recognize them wrongly.
After all, five years had passed. When Chu Wanning died, Xue Meng was only sixteen years old. Now, he was twenty-one years old.
Sixteen or seventeen years old was the time when a man would change the most. One year, his appearance would change, and half a year, his figure would change. Chu Wanning had missed five years, so when he suddenly saw him, he didn’t recognize him immediately.
“… … Xue Meng.”
After a long while, Chu Wanning stared at him and slowly called out.
It seemed like he was calling him, but it also seemed like he was telling himself.
This was Xue Meng. Xue Meng was no longer the immature youth in his memory. He had grown up, his shoulders were very wide, and his height was also … …
Chu Wanning calmly pulled him up.
“Why are you kneeling? Get up.”
“… …”
There wasn’t much difference in height between them.
Time passed exceptionally quickly on a young person. In just a few strokes, a child was carved into a mature appearance. When he first woke up, the first person Chu Wanning saw was Xue Zhengyong. He didn’t feel how long five years was, but now that he saw Xue Meng, he suddenly understood. As it turned out, many people and things had changed in the blink of an eye.
“Shizun, at the Soul Mountain Conference, I … …” Xue Meng finally calmed down a little. He pulled Chu Wanning aside and said, “I took first place.”
Chu Wanning first glanced at him, and then the corners of his mouth curved into a smile. “That’s only natural.”
Xue Meng blushed and said, “I, I fought with Nangong Si. He, he had a Divine Weapon, I didn’t, I … …” As he spoke, he felt that his intention of asking for credit was too obvious. He was actually a little embarrassed, so he lowered his head and rubbed the corner of his clothes.
“I didn’t lose face for Shizun.”
Chu Wanning smiled faintly and nodded. He suddenly said, “You must have suffered a lot.”
“It wasn’t bitter, it wasn’t bitter!” Xue Meng paused and said, “It was sweet.”
Chu Wanning reached out, wanting to rub his head like he did in the past. But then he remembered that Xue Meng was no longer a child, so it wasn’t appropriate to do so. Midway, he turned around and patted his shoulder.
The books on the floor were scattered everywhere. The two of them picked them up one by one and placed them on the table.
“You bought so many?” Chu Wanning said, “How long do you want me to read?”
“Not much, not much. Shizun reads ten lines at a glance. He finished it all in one night.”
“… …”
Even after so long, Xue Meng’s admiration did not diminish in the slightest. But Chu Wanning was a little speechless. He didn’t know what to say, so he lit a candle and casually flipped through a few books.
“Jiang Dongtang has a new Sect Leader?”
“It’s changed, it’s changed. The new Sect Leader is a woman. It’s said that her temper is very bad.”
Chu Wanning continued to read. The page he was reading was about Jiang Dongtang’s Chronicles. It was a long and voluminous article. Chu Wanning read very attentively. As he read, he suddenly stopped at “The Life of Jiang Dongtang’s New Sect Leader” and casually asked, “Mo Ran … … how has he been these years?”
He asked in a very restrained and light tone.
Because of this, Xue Meng didn’t feel that it was too abrupt. He answered honestly, “Not bad.”
Chu Wanning looked up. “What do you mean by not bad?”
Xue Meng considered his words and said, “It means that he’s like a person.”
“He wasn’t like a person before?”
Without waiting for Xue Meng to speak, Chu Wanning nodded again.
“He really isn’t like a person. Go on. ”
“… …” Xue Meng was best at telling his own story in a very long and exciting way. He would tell others, especially Mo Ran’s story in a very short and simple way.
“He’s been running around these years. He’s become more sensible.” Xue Meng said, “Other than that, there’s nothing else.”
“He didn’t go to the Soul Mountain Conference?”
“No, he was cultivating in the Snow Valley at that time.”
Chu Wanning didn’t ask any more questions.
The two of them talked about other things. Xue Meng was afraid that he would be tired. Although he still had a lot to say, he restrained himself and left first.
After he left, Chu Wanning lay on the bed with his clothes on.
He still remembered what happened in the World of Spirits and Souls. Therefore, he wasn’t surprised by Mo Ran’s change. It was just a fleeting life. After parting for so many years, Xue Meng had grown so much that he almost couldn’t recognize him. He didn’t know what Mo Ran looked like now.
He still remembered what Xue Zhengyong said to him before he left today, “Yuheng, I’ll hold a banquet at the Meng Po Lobby tomorrow to congratulate you on coming out of seclusion. You mustn’t refuse. I’ve already sent the letter to Ran Er. You can’t let him rush back from so far away and end up with no food and drink, right? ”
Chu Wanning didn’t refuse. Although he didn’t like crowds, Mo Ran had always been his weak spot.
According to Xue Zhengyong, when the Rainbow Butterfly Suppresses the Heavens and Rends the Heavens, many villages at the foot of the White Top Mountain were destroyed. Now, the survivors were either injured or disabled. Because of the heavy losses, those villages were still in ruins. The entire snowfield was like hell on earth.
Mo Ran had been helping to rebuild the village these days.
He read a book under the candlelight for a while. He couldn’t help but get up and wave his sleeve to summon a transmission begonia. After thinking for a while, he said, “Lord, I’ll have to trouble you to write another letter to Mo Ran. Tell him not to worry and that it’s best if he can make it back in time. If he can’t, I won’t blame him. The weather is getting colder. Whitetop Mountain is bitterly cold every winter. Tell him to settle down in the village and not deal with it carelessly. ”
After throwing away the begonia flower, Chu Wanning sighed and lay back on the bed. He picked up the half-read Chronicles of the Cultivation World and continued reading.
Although his eyesight wasn’t as exaggerated as Xue Meng said that he could finish reading these vast and complex scrolls in one night, he could still read a few historical books with ease.
Late at night, the candlelight flowed into a quiet pool. Chu Wanning closed the book and frowned slightly.
He had already roughly read the events that happened in the cultivation world in the past five years. At the beginning, the contents of the book didn’t have much to say. But when it came to Colorful Butterfly Town, there were a lot of descriptions about Mo Ran.
Chu Wanning was originally lying on his side with one hand supporting his mouth and the other lazily flipping through the pages. When he read to this point, he couldn’t help but sit up and read the book carefully.
“In the lower cultivation world, thousands of people traveled east. When they reached the border, they encountered a wall to defend, not allowing them to enter. Every few days, the sky was cloudy and evil spirits were everywhere. Thousands of people died in front of the wall, blood flowed like drifting pestles. In the ninth month, the food supply route was cut off. People couldn’t eat for seventeen days because of internal Yin and Yang killing each other for food … ”
What was written here was that in the lower cultivation world, many people wanted to escape to the upper cultivation world to take refuge, but they were refused. In the end, they had no food in their stomachs, so they killed each other to survive.
That foul wind and bloody rain that filled the sky had now become a few words on the paper. When Chu Wanning read it, he felt very uncomfortable.
“At the peak of life and death, Young Master Meng and Young Master Ran were the immortals. Their swords came out of Shu. Under the Longcheng Saber, more than a thousand evil spirits were killed. Xue Meng became famous. Mo Ran patched up the sky alone, eliminating evil spirits in the underworld. His boundary technique, I, Chu Wanning, was not inferior. The world was shocked. ”
Although Chu Wanning knew that the heavenly fissure described here wasn’t as serious as it was in the past, he was still a little surprised. He opened his eyes slightly. “He was able to patch up the fissure with his own strength?”
As he continued reading, he read more about Mo Ran’s deeds of eliminating evil spirits and suppressing evil spirits.
“… There were evil spirits on the east side of the river. Blue Pool Village refused to deal with this matter. Mo Ran heard and went. He encountered the Yellow River Demon and fought for three days. He cut off its head and burned it, eliminating the evil. Then, Young Master was seriously injured. His abdomen and ribs were pierced. Fortunately, he met Sect Leader Jiang Xi in the middle of the night … ”
Chu Wanning’s fingertips were cold.
Young Master was seriously injured. His abdomen and ribs were pierced.
Whose abdomen? Whose ribs? Mo Ran’s?
He was clearly someone who would never misread a sentence, but he didn’t want to believe it at this time. He repeated it four or five times, and on the sixth time, he put his finger on it and read it word by word.
Mo Ran heard and went … he fought for three days …
Chu Wanning seemed to see the back of a black-clothed Xiao Sa, his boots stepping on the huge waves of the Yellow River, one hand behind his back, the other holding the shining divine weapon willow vine.
He cut off its head and burned it, eliminating the evil. However, the Young Master was seriously injured.
His hands clenched tightly on the paper, his knuckles turning jade-like.
He saw Mo Ran pull out the willow vine amidst the stormy waves. He let out a long roar like he had seen a ghost and cut off the Ba’s head. In an instant, blood splattered everywhere. At the same time, the Ba’s sharp claws pierced into Mo Ran’s abdomen!
The behemoth that had lost its head swayed and finally fell to the ground, its huge body cutting off the flow of the Yellow River. Mo Ran also fell to the riverside. He could no longer stand, and his clothes were instantly soaked in blood …
Chu Wanning slowly closed his eyes.
For a long, long time, he didn’t open them. Only his fluttering eyelashes were slightly moist.
After that, without exception, those books all called Mo Ran “Grandmaster Mo”.
When Chu Wanning saw these three words, he only felt that they were indescribably strange and unfamiliar.
He couldn’t connect the smiling, lazy teenager in his memory with the title “Grandmaster Mo”. He had missed too many things about Mo Ran. He suddenly wondered if he would still be able to recognize this disciple if that person returned tomorrow.
A disciple with many scars would become Grandmaster Mo’s disciple.
As he thought about it, he couldn’t help but feel a vague sense of uneasiness.
He really wanted to see Mo Ran, but he also didn’t dare to see Mo Ran.
With such anxiety, Chu Wanning finally fell asleep in the latter half of the night.
Even though she had died once, she still did not know how to take care of herself. She lay in a pile of files without a blanket. He was really quite weak, and his energy had yet to fully recover. In addition, not many people dared to trespass into the Red Lotus Pavilion, so no one woke him up. He fell into a deep sleep, and when Chu Wanning woke up, it was already the evening of the next day.
Chu Wanning opened the window and looked at the setting sun outside. He fell into a long silence.
“…”
The red clouds reflected the surface of the lake. A wild crane flew leisurely over the horizon, and a tired bird returned to its nest.
It was already evening …
He actually lay in bed for a day and a night?
Chu Wanning’s face was ashen. He put his hand on the window frame and with a ‘pa’ sound, he almost broke the wooden frame.
The banquet that the High Lord specially prepared for him was about to begin, but he was still sleepy, his clothes were untidy, and his hair was messy … What should he do? What to do? What to do?!
He was secretly anxious.
“Yu Heng!” At this time, Xue Zhengyong actually came up the mountain. He pushed open the door and saw Chu Wanning sitting on the bed with an unfathomable expression. He couldn’t help but be stunned.
“Why aren’t you up yet?”
“I’m up.” Chu Wanning said. If it weren’t for the strands of hair on his forehead sticking up, his appearance would have been very dignified. “What’s the matter, High Lord? You actually need to come here personally. ”
“Nothing, nothing. I just didn’t see you come down for a day, so I was a little worried.” Xue Zhengyong rubbed his hands. “Since you’re up, wash up and go to the Meng Po Lobby to eat. When Master Huaizui left, he specifically said that you can only eat after 24 hours. You haven’t eaten since you woke up yesterday, and now it’s 24 hours. I had people prepare many dishes that you like. Crab meats, lion’s head, osmanthus and lotus root. Come, let’s go together. ”
“Thank you for your trouble, High Lord.” When Chu Wanning heard about the crab meats, lion’s head, osmanthus and lotus root, he was too lazy to take care of it carefully. He prepared to change his clothes and go down with Xue Zhengyong.
After all, the crab meats had to be eaten while they were hot. They would be tasteless if they were cold.
“Of course, of course.” Xue Zhengyong watched him get off the bed and put on his shoes. He rubbed his hands for a while, then suddenly thought of something and said, “Oh, right, there’s one more thing.”
Chu Wanning wasn’t good at taking care of life. After sleeping for five years, he was even more sluggish. He put on his left and right socks upside down. After a long time, he realized that something was wrong and quietly changed back.
He focused on putting on his socks, so he didn’t raise his head and said lightly, “What?”
Xue Zhengyong smiled. “Ran Er sent an urgent letter this morning saying that he’ll definitely rush back tonight. He even brought you a congratulatory gift. This child is getting more sensible as he grows up. I … Hey, Yu Heng, why did you take off your socks? ”
“Nothing, this is from yesterday.”
Chu Wanning said, “It’s a bit dirty, so I changed to a clean one.”
“… Then why didn’t you change just now?”
“I didn’t remember just now.”
Xue Zhengyong was very straightforward and didn’t think about it. He just looked around and sighed. “Speaking of which, Yu Heng, you’re not young anymore. I think it’s time for you to find a Dao companion. Look at your room. When Master Huaizui left, it was neat and tidy. But when you woke up, it’s not even lively yet. There’s only a piece of paper here and a robe there … Do you want me to help you keep an eye out? ”
“Please go out, Lord.”
“Huh?”
Chu Wanning’s face was gloomy, and he didn’t have a good temper. “I’ll change.”
“Haha, okay, go out then. But about the Dao companion …?”
Chu Wanning suddenly looked up. His eyes were like an ice lake, and he stared at Xue Zhengyong who didn’t have good eyesight.
Xue Zhengyong finally understood and laughed dryly. “… I’m just asking. Yu Heng’s condition isn’t good enough for you.”
Chu Wanning lowered his eyelids and looked like he was rolling his eyes at Xue Zhengyong.
Xue Zhengyong sighed and said helplessly, “Did I say something wrong? I know you’re picky. ”
Chu Wanning said lightly, “I just don’t have the time. How is that picky?”
“Since you’re not picky, then tell me, what kind of woman would catch your eye? As for me, I don’t want to force you, but at least I can help you keep an eye out. ”
Chu Wanning found him annoying and couldn’t be bothered to talk to him, so he said perfunctorily, “Living people. Women. Lord, please keep an eye out. I won’t see you out. ”
With that, he pushed Xue Zhengyong out the door. Xue Zhengyong was unwilling. After going through a life and death situation, he was sincerely concerned about Chu Wanning’s marriage.
Back then, when Chu Wanning passed away, Xue Zhengyong was very regretful. He thought that if Chu Wanning had left behind a child like his brother, he would at least have something to think about. He would have someone to take care of and make up for it.
However, Chu Wanning didn’t have any children or brothers. He was a lone wolf.
Xue Zhengyong was very sad at that time and felt very guilty. He felt that Chu Wanning was lonely and pitiful.
“Your request is different from not saying anything … Yu Heng, it’s true, I’m serious — Sigh!”
Xue Zhengyong wanted to struggle, but Chu Wanning had already pushed him out and closed the door with a bang.
At the same time, he also set up a barrier, blocking him outside.
Xue Zhengyong: “…”
