Chapter 6: Embracing the Sun "If you do that again, I'll chop it off for you."...
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At night.
Lying on his comfortable and soft couch, Li Shanglu's mind kept replaying Shen Changyi's words.
She understood what Shen Changyi meant. He was angry not only because Xie Du offended her, but also because she actually copied those female trainings that distorted her nature.
He felt that Li Shanglu copied those things because he was afraid that he would leave, so he had to compromise. That was why he got angry and punished Xie Du to kneel, in order to prove that Li Shanglu had the final say in this family and no one, including himself, could disobey.
Well, Li Shanglu did think so a little bit, but there was some discrepancy. She was not afraid that Shen Changyi would leave, she just wanted Shen Changyi to feel sorry for her and stay.
After all, she was bullied for him, so Shen Changyi should feel guilty.
After thinking for a long time, Li Shanglu became more and more angry and tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
Her gloomy and long-lasting demeanor made her feel that she had sinister intentions and was too cunning.
In front of Shen Changyi, she always looked like a dirty villain.
Damn it, so damn damn!
He should really be killed with a bowl of poison, and the world will be peaceful from then on, and everyone will be a good person.
The night grew deeper, birds returned to their nests to sleep, and wild animals rested beside the trees.
In a daze, Li Shanglu felt the sunlight shining on her face. She rubbed her eyes and got up from the bed.
There was a noisy sound outside the door, and she walked forward in a daze and pushed the door open.
There were many people wearing Taoist robes standing in the courtyard. She recognized those Yunhe Taoist robes, which were the exclusive Taoist robes of Shen Changyi's sect.
"She was the one who killed the Sword Immortal!"
"What a devilish woman! She actually teamed up with the demon cultivators to poison the Sword Immortal. How hateful and shameful! Kill her to avenge the Sword Immortal!"
Li Shanglu's pupils shrank for a moment, and he subconsciously took a half step back, but leaned against something.
She turned around and saw Shen Changyi staring at her coldly in the shadows. His emotionless eyes made her shiver all over.
"You are already very happy, why are you still not satisfied?"
Why are you still not satisfied?
She felt like she had been hit hard by a punch, her head was dazed, and she stood there at a loss.
That day she did have the thought of killing Shen Changyi for the money, but after struggling for a long time, she finally threw away the poisoned food and made a new one.
But for some reason, Shen Changyi died after eating the meal she cooked.
She didn't know what had happened, and no one gave her a chance to explain. What's more, she did have the thought of harming him, so even if she explained, she was not innocent.
"Chen Changyi..." Li Shanglu wanted to say something, but he couldn't bring himself to explain.
Until the other party looked at Li Shanglu with disappointment, turned around, walked into the darkness, and his figure disappeared little by little.
Shen Changyi left.
Won't be coming back this time.
In an instant, Li Shanglu opened his eyes and touched his face, where there were two wet tear marks.
——How ridiculous! I actually had a nightmare because of that idiot and his idiot apprentice.
It was already bright outside the window. She got up tiredly. Suddenly, there was a noisy sound outside the door, as if someone was talking. The scene was exactly the same as in her dream just now.
Li Shanglu froze on the couch in an instant, staring at her door motionlessly.
Suddenly, the door opened.
She was startled and almost instinctively crawled into bed and covered her head with the quilt.
"Shanglu, it's time to eat." A familiar voice came from outside the door. It was not someone coming to take her life, but Shen Changyi coming to call her to eat.
Li Shanglu poked half of her head out from under the quilt to make sure that the person outside the door didn't have a cold expression, nor was he looking at her with extreme disappointment.
It was still that calm face, neither happy nor sad.
"Phytolacca?"
Shen Changyi looked at her with some confusion, and saw the traces of tears on her face.
He frowned and asked in a low voice, "Can I come in?"
Li Shanglu hugged the quilt and said nothing.
"Okay." Shen Changyi reluctantly took a half step back, wanting to close the door and give her some space to be alone. "Call me when you want to eat."
Before the door closed, the little man on the couch, wrapped up in a quilt, spoke. His voice sounded muffled under the quilt, "Come in."
Shen Changyi's eyelashes trembled slightly, and his body froze in place.
After a long time, he turned around and walked into the room, closing the door tightly.
He was rarely allowed to enter Li Shanglu's bedroom. It was not known whether it was because he would ask a question every time before coming in, and was always rejected by Li Shanglu.
If you don't ask, maybe he'll come in and sweep the floor.
Standing in the middle of the room, Shen Changyi was in a dilemma.
Where should I stand?
If you get too close to the bed, you might get hit.
"I told you to get over here. Are you deaf?"
Well, if you’re too far from the bed, you might get beaten.
Shen Changyi approached her couch cautiously, standing precisely at a position that was neither too far nor too close.
The room fell silent. He politely turned his gaze away, not looking at the little figure bulging in the quilt. He also pretended not to notice a slender white hand reaching out to him and grabbing the corner of his clothes.
No one spoke. Li Shanglu gently pulled the corner of the clothes and led the person to the bed.
Then, he let go.
Shen Changyi could only hear his own heartbeat like a storm in his chest. He slowly leaned over and knelt on the soft couch as if he understood what he was saying.
His Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he reached out his hands and carefully hugged her body.
It felt cold, as if it was frightened.
He always felt that his wife was like a biting cat, who only occasionally wanted to bite him to death.
Li Shanglu nestled in his arms, and her panicked heart finally found a home. Her breathing gradually calmed down, and her body temperature was no longer cold.
It’s so warm, like hugging the sun.
After a while, Li Shanglu's face suddenly turned ugly. He looked up at the person in front of him and gritted his teeth, "What are you doing?" She asked why it was so hot.
Shen Changyi's ears instantly turned red, and he whispered, "Sorry."
"Sorry, why don't you get out of here?" Li Shanglu had returned to normal. He was so angry that he didn't realize he was so frivolous before.
Under Li Shanglu's knife-like eyes, Shen Changyi slowly stood up and left her soft couch, but the expression on his face was a little reluctant.
Li Shanglu snorted coldly and threatened, "If you do that again, I'll chop you off."
Shen Changyi immediately calmed down, because she might really do that.
"Get out." Li Shanglu glared at him.
Shen Changyi received the order and left obediently.
But before stepping out of the door, he turned back and whispered, "Those were dreams, not real. I will never hate you."
Li Shanglu's eyes widened slightly, and he picked up a pillow and threw it at him, "I told you to get out!"
This idiot, how did he know what she dreamed about?
This is outrageous.
However, after Shen Changyi left, Li Shanglu's originally depressed and complicated mood miraculously disappeared.
That's right, Shen Changyi wouldn't look at her with that kind of disappointed look. This idiot would just sit alone on the Naihe Bridge, feeling sad while wondering what he had done wrong, then blame everything on himself, secretly pour out the Mengpo soup, and reincarnate back to continue annoying her.
Dreams are just dreams, they are all fake, those things never happened.
Li Shanglu deceived himself, put on his shoes and socks, got up and opened the door.
In the small courtyard, Xie Du was still kneeling in the same place as yesterday, motionless. The only difference was that he was holding a bucket full of water in each hand.
Even someone like Li Shanglu, who considered herself ruthless, was surprised. She walked over to Shen Changyi, who was still feeding the chickens, and asked in confusion, "What did he do? Why are you punishing him again?"
Shen Changyi raised his eyes to look at her, and then gave Xie Du a little attention. "You're kneeling anyway, so you might as well get some exercise."
Li Shanglu: "...Is this how you train your apprentices on a daily basis?"
Hearing this, Shen Changyi shook his head and said seriously, "Swing the sword 30,000 times a day, practice a book of skills, and create a new sword move every seven days..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Shanglu's scalp was already tingling. In comparison, kneeling in the yard and carrying two buckets of water was actually the easiest job.
"Alright, tell him to stop kneeling. He's not an eyesore enough." Li Shanglu waved his hand compassionately. "Tell him that it's because his master's wife feels sorry for him that she didn't let him be punished."
Chen Changyi frowned slightly, obviously not very satisfied with a word in her words, and said "Oh".
After a while, at the dinner table, Li Shanglu watched Xie Du walk into the house. He knelt all night as if nothing had happened. It seemed that the punishment was too light.
"Thank you, Master's wife, for exempting me from punishment." Xie Du lowered his head and didn't look at her. His tone was flat, but one could vaguely hear that he was not so reluctant.
Li Shanglu stared at him, bit off the fish on his chopsticks, chewed it, and said incoherently, "From now on, you are not allowed to carry a sword in front of me."
Xie Du: “?”
He didn't understand why she said that, but he didn't dare to ask again. After all, his master was sitting next to him, and he never wanted to see Shen Changyi's angry expression again.
Xie Du had no choice but to take off the long sword from his waist and throw it into the storage ring. Looking at his master and his mistress who were having a meal happily at the table, he tried to persuade his master to return to the sect.
Before he could speak, he heard Li Shanglu say calmly, "Can someone who doesn't know how to practice cultivation go to your sect?"
As soon as the words fell, the whole room fell silent.
Shen Changyi was stunned, almost thinking that he had heard it wrong.
"Master's wife," Xie Du came back to his senses after a long while, looking at the weak woman in front of him, "Yes, the sect master's husband will not practice."
Li Shanglu was stunned. "Your sect leader is a woman?"
"Yes." Xie Du spoke a lot more about the sect. "In our Ming Zhou Sect, many of our cleaning disciples have no talent, and the fire-serving children at Danfeng can't practice. Moreover, the scenery of Ming Zhou Sect is very beautiful, and the sleeping hall is spacious and bright. If Master's wife can come, the Sect Master will definitely welcome her very much..."
Shen Changyi looked at Li Shanglu, and his mind suddenly emerged three years ago when he got married and was preparing to go to the sect to help eliminate demons. At that time, Li Shanglu was very angry and refused to let him go no matter what.
She said that cultivation was useless and that those cultivators were just there to eat and do nothing, otherwise why would there still be so many demonic cultivators alive? She also said that with Shen Changyi's mediocre skills, he would just be cannon fodder to die in the sect.
However, Shen Changyi went in the end, and Li Shanglu was so angry that he ignored him for a long time.
That was the only time he disobeyed Li Shanglu, and this incident became a taboo between the two of them that could never be mentioned again. He knew that Li Shanglu hated him and hated the sect even more. For this reason, he never suggested that Li Shanglu live with him in the sect.
"Shang Lu, you don't have to force yourself," Shen Changyi said anxiously, "I promise I won't leave again. You don't have to do this for me..."
Li Shanglu glanced at him and asked, "Who did this for you? Why are you so shameless?"
Shen Changyi: "..."
Not big.
The more excuses he made, the more Li Shanglu felt that he was hiding something from her. He must be living too comfortably outside, or he was hiding a sweetheart, Bai Yueguang, and was afraid that she would find out!
She had thought so before. Why didn't Chen Changyi ever mention letting her live with him in the sect? He must have thought she was a hindrance and was afraid that she would be incompetent and cause trouble.
Li Shanglu had not mentioned this matter before due to face, but now that she had finally brought it up, she had to go.
Without waiting for Shen Changyi to say anything else, Li Shanglu said calmly, "After dinner, pack your luggage, yours and mine."
Xie Du rarely smiled, bowed respectfully to her, and shouted, "Master's Wisdom is wise."
You ignorant woman, when you get to the sect, you will know what kind of person the sword immortal Shen Changyi is, whom you bully every day.
As he was thinking this, he saw the Sword Immortal putting food into Li Shanglu's bowl in a flattering manner.
“Is it salty?”
"It's bland, how did you stir-fry it?"
The voice was obviously lost.
"sorry."
Xie Du: ...
Why do I have such a bad feeling?
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