Chapter 46: He will go crazy.
(Forty-six)
At night.
Li Shanglu fed the two cubs and lay on the couch to read a book.
"Shanglu, don't read while lying down. It's bad for your eyes."
Shen Changyi gently took the book from her hand. Now he could ask Li Shanglu to do some things, such as eating on time, not staying up late, and eating fruit every day.
Although Li Shanglu still finds him annoying, he will listen to him.
However, when he pulled out the book, he glanced at the contents and his face turned red instantly.
The secret method of dual cultivation.
Li Shanglu supported his chin and looked at his shy appearance. He could not connect him with the sword immortal who was like a god of death that day.
If I had to say something about Chen Changyi at that time, actually...
It really made her feel a little excited.
The first time she actually saw Shen Changyi exorcise demons, the feeling was completely different from watching him chop vegetables and meat.
Heads rolled into the dust. Those powerful and infamous demon cultivators were powerless before him. The disparity in strength was like a mountain falling on an egg. Such overwhelming power would have filled anyone with fear.
It was obvious that he was not that scary when he practiced sword skills on ordinary days, but when his light sword moves landed on the demon cultivators, it was extremely terrifying, as if those people were not living people, but just a piece of tofu or a watermelon.
What was he thinking when he was exorcising demons?
Shen Changyi didn't know why she was staring at him from head to toe, and he felt even more embarrassed.
The eyes look weird.
Elder Teng was still recuperating from his injuries, so it was not convenient for him to ask whether the effect of the medicine had worn off.
If Shang Lu wanted to practice at this time, what if he...
"Come here." Li Shanglu suddenly said, making room on the couch.
When Shen Changyi saw her movements, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and he climbed onto her bed carefully.
Li Shanglu noticed his nervousness and was speechless for a while. He grabbed his collar and pulled him to lie down beside him. "You wish. I just want you to lie down and sleep."
Hearing her words, Shen Changyi pursed his lips, feeling a little lost in his heart.
I usually do something, and I feel uncomfortable when I suddenly stop doing it.
He tucked in the quilt for her, took off his coat and lay down beside Li Shanglu.
The candle went out and the room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
"Shen Changyi."
"Hmm?" Shen Changyi turned his head to look at her, his tone vaguely expectant.
Li Shanglu closed his eyes and said softly, "What if Helan Jin really takes me away?"
As the words fell, Shen Changyi's body stiffened slightly.
"To save you."
The answer was unoriginal. Li Shanglu felt that she shouldn't have asked. She could guess what this idiot would say without any calculation.
"But there will always be times when you are not around, and there is more than one demon cultivator in the world, Helan Jin."
Shen Changyi fell silent. He stretched out his hand, tentatively found her, and interlocked his fingers with Li Shanglu.
"Shanglu, there's something I've been thinking about for a long time."
Li Shanglu looked slightly stunned.
"Let's live in seclusion, somewhere where no one can find us, and live out our lives peacefully and normally, just like when we were little."
Li Shanglu suddenly sat up from the bed, "Chen Changyi, what nonsense are you talking about so late at night?"
Shen Changyi lowered his eyelashes and did not speak.
Seeing his look, Li Shanglu really wanted to slap him twice.
"You're not going to fight demons and defend the Dao anymore? If that's the case, why couldn't you stay home three years ago?"
Hearing her words, Shen Changyi closed his eyes and whispered, "My original purpose in going up the mountain was to get rid of a demon cultivator, but now he is dead."
"Helan Jin?" Li Shanglu was stunned, becoming even more confused. "What nonsense are you talking about? How did you know him three years ago?"
She had heard from Elder Teng that the He family was a family of alchemy, and that it was impossible for Shen Changyi to have been to Yunxu, which was thousands of miles away.
Shen Changyi remained silent for a long time before whispering, "Helan Jin was the Lord of the Demon Realm. I've been searching for him for a long time. Now that he's dead, the Demon Realm will be at peace. I no longer need to exorcise demons."
He avoided the main point and spoke in a roundabout way, and it was obvious that he deliberately did not want to answer Li Shanglu's question.
With a cold face and patience, she gave Shen Changyi one last chance, "Tell me clearly why you left home to fight demons, how you met Helan Jin, and why you suddenly want to live in seclusion?"
Shen Changyi pursed his lips and stood up from the couch under Li Shanglu's fixed gaze. "I'll sleep outside."
Hearing this, Li Shanglu opened his eyes and picked up a pillow and smashed it on his head, "Chen Changyi, am I too good to you?"
Chen Changyi picked up the pillow from the ground, placed it on the small table silently, turned around and was about to leave.
Seeing that he dared to remain silent, Li Shanglu was so angry that he got off the bed barefoot to catch him. Before he could reach him, he was picked up horizontally by the other party.
"The ground is cold."
As soon as he finished speaking, his lips were bitten hard.
Shen Changyi frowned in pain, and before he could react, Li Shanglu kissed him without any method.
"Phytolacca...hmm."
His slender fingers unconsciously grasped her thin arm, and a few light blue veins covered the back of his hand.
After a long kiss, Li Shanglu reached out and grabbed his neck, his tone sinister, "Tell me or not?"
Shen Changyi's eyes sparkled with tears. He looked away awkwardly, temporarily placing the person on the table, and pleaded in a low voice, "Shang Lu, I swore a solemn oath that I will never speak of this."
"Who did you swear to?" Li Shanglu keenly noticed the clue and slowly tightened his fingers. "Okay, Shen Changyi, for whom did you leave home to fight demons?"
When Shen Changyi insisted on going up the mountain not long after getting married, she said there was something wrong!
“…I can’t say that either.”
This time Li Shanglu couldn't help but slap him.
"If you don't tell me, don't even think about touching me and the child. I'll pretend you don't exist in this family." Even though Li Shanglu had said the only words she could think of that would make Shen Changyi surrender immediately, Shen Changyi was unusually firm.
It seems that he has no choice but to use that trick. If Li Shanglu had not been forced to do so, he would never use that trick, which has always worked.
"Are you really not going to tell me?" Li Shanglu glared at him.
Shen Changyi shook his head.
"Then I won't eat from tomorrow on."
“……?”
Shen Changyi slowly raised his eyes to look at her, with a hint of dissatisfaction in his eyes, "If you don't eat, I will feed you myself."
How dare you threaten her? She has always been the one threatening others, and no one else has ever threatened her.
Li Shanglu really felt that she had spoiled Shen Changyi. In the past, if she said no, this idiot would honestly tell her everything.
There is no other way, let’s just have a cold war.
She pushed Shen Changyi away, and when he reached out to hug her, she stepped on his boots and said, "Get lost."
Shen Changyi watched her leave angrily and lie back on the bed, as if she didn't want to pay any attention to him anymore.
After a while, he withdrew his gaze and whispered, "It's okay not to live in seclusion. I'm just worried that you might get into any more accidents. I won't leave your side, and I will report this matter to the sect leader."
Li Shanglu paused for a moment, turned his back to him, and indeed stopped talking to him.
Chen Changyi walked out of the door silently, sat on a small bench, staring at the moon silently, his back lonely.
He never thought of himself as a great swordsman. He started practicing just to become a normal person who could get out of bed and walk.
Returning to his and Shang Lu's home and living the rest of his life in peace and stability is the life he really wants.
If possible, he would rather be a mortal.
His wife will not be in danger because he is targeted by the evil cultivator, and his children can grow up healthy and happy in the village.
But now there is no turning back.
Shang Lu began to like Ming Zhou Sect and the people in it. Although she didn't say it, Shen Changyi knew that she wanted to stay.
Staying means they may still experience what happened today——
Demonic cultivators are accustomed to hiding their whereabouts.
If Helan Jin had really taken Shanglu away at that time and hidden him somewhere where he could never be found again.
He will go crazy.
*
The next morning, as soon as Li Shanglu got up, she saw prepared meals on the table. As if afraid that she really wouldn't eat, she picked out all her favorite dishes.
I looked around, but Shen Changyi was not there.
She sat down at the table and picked up her chopsticks to eat.
Are you kidding? Li Shanglu wouldn’t starve himself. Why wouldn’t he eat if he has food?
After dinner, she fed the cub as usual, then put on her clothes and jewelry and went out to visit Elder Teng who was still recuperating in bed.
She also wanted to find out what happened last night. Who was the bastard who kidnapped her idiot husband and brought him to the mountain to exorcise demons?
"Why did Master Sword Immortal come to Ming Zhou Sect..." Elder Teng took a sip of hot tea and sighed softly, "How would I know if you ask me? I'm not even familiar with Master Sword Immortal now, let alone three years ago. You should ask the Sect Master or Xie Du about this matter."
As they were talking, someone strode in hurriedly from outside the door.
"Master's wife?"
Xie Du looked anxious, not even taking off the sword from his waist. "I heard that Master's soul was taken away?"
If he hadn't mentioned it, Li Shanglu almost didn't remember it.
At that time, a demon cultivator was assigned by Helan Jin to escort Elder Teng back to the sect, and the soul in Xiao Huang's body was taken away by the demon cultivator who had luckily survived.
Shen Changyi said that his soul would not be damaged and there was no need to worry too much. After a while, his soul would automatically return to its master.
After hearing this, Li Shanglu didn't take it seriously anymore. She just built a proper grave for the broken Xiao Huang with some sadness - there would be one less piece of wood to help her look after the child in the future.
"Where did you hear that?"
Li Shanglu raised his eyelids and looked at him slowly.
Xie Du: "The Sect Master said that a demon cultivator sneaked into the sect yesterday and injured someone, so he asked me to come back and strengthen the formation... This is not important. Was the soul really taken away?"
"Yeah." Li Shanglu's nonchalant tone made Xie Du a little overwhelmed.
That is the soul of a cultivator, how can we let the evil cultivator take it away like this? What if he uses it to refine a puppet?
Xie Du was about to go look for that spirit, but was stopped by Li Shanglu.
"Xie Du."
He suddenly stopped. This was the first time Li Shanglu called him by his name.
"Master's wife, is there something wrong?"
Xie Du turned around to look at her, his mind quickly pondering whether he had offended Li Shanglu in any way recently. He then took a look at himself, his gaze suddenly pausing, "Disciple, in my haste to come here today, I forgot to take my sword. I will punish myself with three lashes later."
Li Shanglu stared at him without saying anything.
"Ten lashes as punishment..." Xie Du gritted his teeth.
But the person in front of him still didn't speak. Xie Du's eyelids twitched, and he said with great difficulty, "Master's wife, the discipline whip has thorns..."
It really hurts. Ten lashes aren't enough?
However, Li Shanglu suddenly smiled and patted the chair beside him, "What nonsense are you talking about? I told you to come and sit here."
Xie Du was stunned for a moment, then walked over doubtfully and sat next to her.
"When your master went up the mountain, you should have been fifteen years old. You can remember everything, right?"
Isn't this nonsense? Who doesn't remember anything at the age of fifteen? It's juvenile dementia.
Xie Du's mouth twitched slightly. He felt that Li Shanglu's gentle tone was like a trap for him to jump into. "Master's wife, I'll remember this."
Hearing this, the smile in Li Shanglu's eyes suddenly disappeared. She said quietly, "Very good. For whom did your master go up the mountain to exorcise the demon?"
Xie Du: “…”
He said there was a pit!
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