Chapter 53: Ah Li, be good. From now on, Master will buy you candy.
Lu Li couldn't understand why Ye Musi knew puppetry, why Ye Musi practiced forbidden magic, and this kind of magic that disgusted the world of cultivation.
"What? Can't the upright cultivators use forbidden techniques?" Ye Musi said. Those people would do anything to achieve their goals. Not to mention using forbidden techniques, they even use them to absorb essence to improve their cultivation. These were all told to him by his notorious senior brother in the valley.
His senior brother not only took him to play in the water and read storybooks, but also took him to the forbidden room of the library. He accidentally flipped through a book and memorized a spell. He thought he would never use it, but unexpectedly...
"If it can't be used, it should be completely destroyed, leaving no residue. Why would there be fragments left?"
Lu Lishen looked at Ye Musi in silence. He hadn't expected the real Master to be like this, completely different from the aloof Xuelian. It was like turning from white to black, leaving a stain. The Master really trusted him, and was willing to show him such a thing.
"I want you to stay. I just want you to stay." Ye Musi pulled Lu Lishen's sleeves, his voice suddenly softening. "You said before, if you love each other, you should be together."
"But Master also said that being in love doesn't mean you have to be together. We can separate if we have to."
Ye Musi clenched his fists. He was just telling the truth at that time. They were forced to separate. In his opinion, they were not forced to be together. They could obviously be together, so why should they separate?
At the beginning, Lu Lishen hugged me and clung to me, saying countless sweet words and promising to be with me forever and never separate, but now it is Lu Lishen who wants to separate.
Then what is he?
Why was he the one who said we'd be together forever, and why was he the one who said he wanted to leave? What did he think of himself? Could he just say no and leave?
"How can there be any compulsion between you and me?" He mustered up the courage to look at Lu Lishen, "Unless you don't love me anymore, don't ask me to let go!"
He seemed to know what Lu Lishen was going to say next. Regardless of the thousands of arguments the man in front of him had, he leaned forward slightly, stood on tiptoe and kissed Lu Lishen on the lips.
"I just want you to stay. I'll be willful just this once..."
Ever since he became the master of the valley, he has been unable to tell anyone about anything, big or small, and he keeps all his worries deep in his heart.
He's been so tired over the years.
He really just wanted to be willful this time.
"Ali..."
Lu Li was afraid that if he saw Ye Musi like this again, he would not be able to bear to leave, so he closed his eyes and stopped looking at Ye Musi.
In Ye Musi's opinion, his action meant that he disagreed and was unwilling to stay.
"Are you going to disobey your master's orders?" Ye Musi spoke without confidence. He was finding it increasingly difficult to understand Lu Lishen. He was afraid that what Lu Lishen had said in the Demon Palace that he didn't love him was true. He knew clearly that it was not true, but he was still worried in his heart, and this thought inexplicably popped up in his mind.
He stopped what he was doing and grabbed his collar instead.
Seeing that Lu Lishen still had no reaction, he let go.
He didn't want to see Lu Lishen wearing all black, so he found the disciple uniform he had prepared in his closet and refitted it to Lu Lishen's size.
He forcibly stripped Lu Lishen's clothes off, and when he was halfway through, he saw scabbed scars on Lu Lishen's back.
He stretched out his hand and touched her through the air. When he and Lu Limu were making love, Lu Limu always faced him directly, and he could not see his back. But now...
"Does it hurt?" He swallowed and asked with concern.
Lu Lishen still closed his eyes and did not speak. He could hear that Ye Musi's voice was already filled with tears. He also wanted to cry, but he couldn't. Once he cried, he would want to stay in Ye Musi's arms, isolate himself from the world, and go traveling with Ye Musi, not caring about the world.
He lost his mother when he was five years old. He had to beg for a living and wander around being beaten and kicked. He had long forgotten what physical pain was. When he was seven years old, he went to work as a child laborer in a wealthy family. But not long after, because he was too hardworking, he took over the work of his old friend. He was framed and kicked out of the house for stealing the wife's jewelry. Therefore, he thought that everyone was a bad person, even the master. It was not enough for the master to have three or four concubines. He also went to various brothels and did not let go of even the servants.
He didn't dare to work as a child laborer in any mansion anymore and could only beg for a living.
Once, he was so hungry that he robbed the food of a Beggar Gang leader and was almost beaten to death. Fortunately, he met Ye Musi, who helped him solve those problems and said he would take him home. At that time, he just thought it was ridiculous. He had been wandering around for many years and had no home. What kind of home could he return to?
Ye Musi took very good care of him. After washing him clean, he personally applied medicine to him, bought him clothes, took him out to eat, and also provided him with snacks.
He didn't dare trust Ye Musi, thinking he had some ulterior motive for being so kind to him. He lived in fear in Hidden Valley for a month. A month later, Ye Musi suddenly said he wanted to take him in as his apprentice. It was August 8th, his birthday, a gift from heaven, as if to make up for the misfortunes of the previous five years.
The master will teach him literacy, swordsmanship, and...
do the laundry.
His small figure squatted beside the pool, with two wooden basins of the same size beside them, one was his and the other was Ye Musi's.
Ye Musi rubbed the clothes, and he also learned to rub the clothes. After a few times, the clothes were washed clean. Before he could wring the clothes dry, water suddenly splashed on his face. He quickly wiped the water stain and was about to find the person to settle the score, but realized that he was no longer in the traffic.
"Hahaha--"
Ye Musi's laughter came from the side, coming from the heart and carefree.
"Ali, smile a little. Children who always have a stern face will age quickly."
Ye Musi wiped his wet hands, gently touched Lu Lishen's head, and then splashed water on him when he was not paying attention.
This time Lu Lishen fought back and poured all the water in the basin onto Ye Musi.
Ye Musi was almost completely wet.
Lu Lishen picked up the basin and clothes and left.
"..." Ye Musi looked at Lu Lishen's small back in silence, "..."
I can't laugh anymore.
Lu Lishen returned to his room, looked at the clothes in the wooden basin, and thought about the consequences of his actions.
Being beaten? He was already used to it.
It was Ye Musi's fault. He was the one who splashed water on himself first. It was not his fault. If Ye Musi wanted to blame him, he would be right.
He lowered his head, waiting for Ye Musi to come and question him.
After waiting for a long time, Ye Musi still didn't come. He became a little anxious. He opened the door and saw his uncle coming with a bag of something he didn't know what it was. He went into Ye Musi's room, and came out after a while. He walked along the corridor and went straight to his room.
"A-Li, where is your master?"
Lu Lishen shook his head.
Seeing Lu Lishen shaking his head, Zhu Jianye handed him the candy he bought from a nearby town.
Lu Lishen took it and asked, "What is this?"
"Candy, for you." Zhu Jianye loved candy when he was a child, Ye Musi loved candy when he was a child, and almost everyone around him liked it when they were children, so he naturally thought that Lu Lishen also liked it, so he bought it.
Since Ye Musi was not here, Zhu Jianye was about to leave. "Let's go."
He left as soon as he said he would, without even looking back.
Not long after, Ye Musi also came back and knocked gently on Lu Lishen's door.
"Ali, open the door."
Lu Li took a deep breath. Is it finally coming...
He was ready and went to open the door.
The door slowly opened, and Lu Lishen first stuck his head out and then his body. He was a little scared, but Ye Musi did not behave as he imagined. Instead, he smiled and gently took out a bag from behind that was exactly the same as the one Zhu Jianye brought.
He whispered tentatively, "Sugar?"
Ye Musi nodded and said gently, "A-Li is really smart. Can you let me go into the house first?"
Lu Lishen gave way. He couldn't understand why Ye Musi was the only one living in the West Mountain and the whole mountain belonged to Ye Musi.
In the past, he lived with other slaves. The masters could enter the house whenever they wanted, and they had no say. In addition, he had been wandering around for many years and rarely experienced what it was like to have a place to live.
As soon as Ye Musi walked into the house, he saw the same candy bag he had bought, which had not been opened yet.
"This is?"
"Master uncle has been here."
Ye Musi nodded and put the candy bag together with it.
He turned around.
Lu Lishen lowered his head. He thought Ye Musi was going to get angry and hit him, but Ye Musi bent down and rubbed the tip of Lu Lishen's nose affectionately.
Lu Lishen was stunned on the spot, not because Ye Musi didn't beat him or scold him, but because his mother often treated him like this, and her mother often rubbed his nose with hers.
Such a familiar feeling made his eyes wet.
"I'm sorry, Ah Li. Master just wanted to cheer you up, so he played with you. Were you angry just now?" Ye Musi pointed at the bag of candy he bought and said, "This is the candy I bought for you. It's delicious, sweet but not greasy. I didn't know what flavors you like, so I bought them all."
"Would you like to try some?" He walked over, opened the bag of candy he had bought, and used tweezers to pick out a piece of crystal-clear, watery pink candy before the two of them. "This is strawberry flavored."
He handed it to Lu Lishen's mouth.
Lu Lishen actually doesn't like sweets. During the five years he was wandering, he once got greedy and ate a piece of candy sold by a street vendor, and was kicked several times.
He still remembers that he was beaten and kicked by his boss's son, while his mother took her children to buy candy. From that moment on, he no longer liked to eat candy.
He looked at Ye Musi's expectant eyes, and for some unknown reason he opened his mouth and gently bit the pink candy. The sweet taste of the strawberry spread across his tongue, completely different from the bitter taste he remembered.
"Is it tasty?"
Lu Li nodded deeply, "Yeah."
He looked at Ye Musi and felt that his master was like his mother at this moment. Whether it was rubbing his nose or using a coaxing tone, they were extremely similar.
Nan Fengye Musi took out a handkerchief and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
"Don't cry, don't cry. Master will buy you candy from now on, okay?"
Seeing how gentle Ye Musi was, Lu Lishen nodded repeatedly as if possessed by a ghost, and tears couldn't stop falling.
"Ah Li, be good! If you keep crying you'll turn into a little cat!"
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