Chapter 14 Chapter 14 "The feelings between you brothers are also...
"This child said he went to cultivate immortality, and ended up like this!" Aunt Man sighed.
Aunt Man should be Ruan Mingyu's wet nurse in the book, and the best person to him in the entire Ruan family.
Ruan Mingyu didn't know how long he had been asleep. He could hear the people around him talking, but he couldn't open his eyes.
"Ruan Mingyu studies and practices diligently in the mountains, even skipping sleep every day to cultivate. Given time, he'll surely achieve something." This was Song Chenxi's voice. Was he praising him? Such words actually came out of his mouth.
Aunt Man was delighted to hear the compliment and said, "Is the immortal who brought Ruan Mingyu up the mountain safe and sound? We should thank him for giving the child a chance."
"He's dead," Song Chenxi said seriously, "Ruan Mingyu is following me now."
"That's a shame."
"It's not a pity, he deserves to die."
"Xiaoyu has been sleeping for so long, why hasn't she woken up yet?"
"It's almost there. It won't take long to calculate."
Aunt Man paced back and forth in the room. Song Chenxi said, "Go downstairs. I'll take care of him."
Aunt Man: "I'm so embarrassed. Sorry to bother you, sir."
"I'm his senior brother, it's my duty."
Song Chenxi lowered his head and wiped Ruan Mingyu's face. He really missed the days when he was so lively. "I've already taken you home, why haven't you woken up yet?"
"If you don't wake up, I'll kiss you." Even though he fainted, Song Chenxi didn't intend to let him go and still wanted to play with him.
Ruan Mingyu's eyelashes trembled.
Seeing this, Song Chenxi continued to provoke him: "If you don't wake up, I will become your Taoist partner. When Shen Yanyuan comes out of seclusion, I think his expression will be very interesting."
Logically speaking, Ruan Mingyu should have slept for another two or three days, but now, in order to refute Song Chenxi's words, he was stimulated to wake up. He suddenly opened his eyes and sat up.
As soon as I woke up, I heard Song Chenxi's wicked smile. He said, "When did you fall in love with me? Just because you heard that I wanted to be your Taoist partner, you couldn't wait to get up?"
He is really sick, and very sick.
Ruan Mingyu pretended not to hear and asked him, "How long have I slept?"
Song Chenxi: "It wasn't long, only sixteen days. Why don't you continue sleeping?"
He spoke in such a sarcastic tone, I don’t know what I did to offend him.
Ruan Mingyu changed into a dark blue brocade robe with dark patterns, which still had the familiar scent of soapberries. It was probably Song Chenxi's clothes again. Ruan Mingyu had never seen him wear these before. Maybe he thought the color of the clothes was too youthful and rarely wore them.
Song Chenxi was holding a pack of sachets in his hand, which he had taken from Ruan Mingyu's clothes: "Is this a gift from your senior brother?" He kept calling Shen Yanyuan, Shen Yanyuan, and Ruan Mingyu almost forgot that Shen Yanyuan was his senior brother.
When Ruan Mingyu first came, he was so worried that he couldn't sleep the whole day. Only when he smelled the calming fragrance in the sachet did he feel a little relieved. Over time, he got used to hanging the sachet on his body.
Ruan Mingyu nodded.
Song Chenxi's eyes darkened and he burned the incense bag in his hand into powder.
"This one doesn't smell good, I'll give you a new one."
He took out a light blue sachet and tied it around Ruan Mingyu's waist.
Ruan Mingyu smelled it and found that it was not much different from the previous one.
Forget it, there's no need to argue with him over such a small matter.
Ruan Mingyu felt uncomfortable all over after lying in bed for a long time, so he lifted the quilt and wanted to get out of bed and take a few steps. However, as soon as he moved, his body immediately went limp and he almost fell off the bed. This affected the wound on his shoulder blade, and he gasped in pain. Tears couldn't be held back and hung on his eyelashes.
Fortunately, Song Chenxi was quick enough to hug him and carry him back to bed, otherwise he would have fallen hard.
Song Chenxi held Ruan Mingyu in his arms. From his angle, all the flesh on Ruan Mingyu's cheeks was gone. He used to have a little baby fat, but now he has lost a lot of weight and his chin is pointed.
Ruan Mingyu looked around and asked, "Where is this?"
Song Chenxi greedily put her arms around his waist and said, "Don't you want to go home? I'll take you home."
Ruan Mingyu was filled with emotion. He could never return to his own home, and a somewhat lonely smile appeared on his face.
"Yeah, it's nice to be home."
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Ruan Mingyu rested for a few more days and finally recovered a lot, but his face was still pale.
The arrow that hit him was poisoned, a very strong poison, and he was almost beyond saving. It was very difficult for Ruan Mingyu to wake up.
Song Chenxi said to him, "We'll return to the sect in a few days and ask your master to check if there's anything wrong."
This is not his home. Ruan Mingyu said, "No need to wait any longer. Let's go back today."
Song Chenxi was surprised, but didn't say much: "Since you have decided, let's go."
Ruan Mingyu had just packed up and put on his clothes when a man walked in. He had a shrewd look on his face and looked a bit like Ruan Mingyu. "Xiaoyu, you finally came back, and you're leaving like this. This immortal should stay with you and drink my little girl's full moon wine before leaving."
He remembered that this person should be his cousin Ruan Liquan.
Song Chenxi looked at Ruan Mingyu, his eyes questioning his decision.
My cousin held Ruan Mingyu and said, "Our little Ruan Lang finally came home. Come and reminisce about the past with me, your cousin."
"You're so young, and you already have a child?"
"Oh, you've changed a lot since you started cultivating. It wouldn't be surprising if I had a child ten years ago. But Yunniang and I have been childhood sweethearts for so long, and it's only now that we have a child. That's surprising."
Ruan Mingyu smiled and said nothing.
The two of them chatted about family matters, and Song Chenxi came over and said to his cousin with a smile: "My junior brother just woke up not long ago and is not feeling well. Come and talk to him tomorrow."
Ruan Liquan left in disappointment.
Song Chenxi wasn't afraid of Ruan Mingyu coming, but he didn't want him to chat with others for too long. He sat down on the bed and took out a pill and gave it to Ruan Mingyu: "Here, a sugar pill, do you want to eat it?"
Ruan Mingyu was about to answer when Aunt Man came in again. She looked at Song Chenxi gesturedly, and Song Chenxi nodded: "Okay, I'll go, you guys chat." Then he slammed the door and left in great displeasure.
Aunt Man pulled Ruan Mingyu aside and said, "I heard you were leaving, so I came here right away."
Ruan Mingyu: "I told my cousin to have his daughter's full moon banquet before leaving."
Seeing that no one was around, Aunt Man said, "I wanted to wait until you left to tell you, but now that I have some free time, I'm telling you. I've advised you many times not to follow that man, but you just wouldn't listen." She shed tears as she spoke, "He said he would take care of you, but now he's thrown you to someone else, and he came back with such a serious injury."
Ruan Mingyu comforted her, "Auntie Man, I'm fine. My current senior brother treats me very well."
Aunt Man looked around to make sure no one was around: "Although your current senior brother seems easy to get along with, based on my experience of judging people over the years, I feel that he is not that simple. You should be careful and watch out for him."
Aunt Man was very good at judging people. Ruan Mingyu nodded and said, "Don't worry about me. I can protect myself."
Aunt Man wiped away her tears and said, "You are already cultivating immortality, so don't come home so often."
Ruan Mingyu said "hmm". The home he really wanted to go back to was no longer available for him.
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In the middle of the night, Ruan Mingyu sat alone in bed, meditating. During his years in the cave, he had learned some principles and was now able to cultivate and mobilize his spiritual energy like a novice cultivator, sensing the fluctuations of spiritual energy in the air.
When he had nothing to do, he let his consciousness wander freely in the Ruan Mansion. The reason he did this was simply because he was too bored. After sleeping for more than half a month, he really couldn't fall asleep, no matter how sleepy he was.
The spiritual consciousness wandered aimlessly and entered a door. There was smoke all around. Ruan Mingyu continued to explore. As soon as he looked clearly, he saw Song Chenxi taking off his clothes and taking a bath.
He must be sick, taking a bath in the middle of the night! Ruan Mingyu quickly withdrew his spiritual consciousness.
Song Chenxi sensed him as soon as he entered. He smiled and said, "Ruan Mingyu, if you want to see, you can open the door and come over to see it yourself. What's the point of sneaking in with your spiritual sense?"
Ruan Mingyu ran away in a hurry.
His spiritual consciousness continued to wander, and after a long time, he didn't find anything interesting. Suddenly, he heard the crying of a baby, and thought it should be his cousin's newborn baby.
Ruan Mingyu used his spiritual consciousness to go over and see what the baby looked like. The baby was held in her mother's arms and coaxed, and finally stopped crying.
Ruan Mingyu didn't find anything interesting and was about to withdraw his spiritual consciousness back into his body.
But he always felt that there was something wrong with the woman holding the baby.
He paused for a moment and finally understood where the discomfort came from.
The woman holding the baby didn't have any sign of life on her body, she was clearly a ghost!
Ruan Mingyu suddenly opened his eyes.
Song Chenxi from next door didn't sleep in his bed after taking a shower. He pushed open Ruan Mingyu's door and came in.
Ruan Mingyu stared at him with wide eyes.
"Have you seen a ghost? You look like this..." Song Chenxi said with a chin that couldn't be penetrated, "Are you trying to be careful and wary of me?"
It seems that Song Chenxi heard everything he and Aunt Man said during the day.
But Ruan Mingyu really saw a ghost.
"Can ghosts give birth to children?" Ruan Mingyu asked unexpectedly.
"Why not?" Song Chenxi glanced at him and said, "You can have a baby if you want."
Ruan Mingyu: “…”
"I'm not kidding, I really saw a ghost." Ruan Mingyu said.
Song Chenxi actually knew it from the first step he took here, but Ruan Mingyu was in a coma these days, so he didn't have the energy to care about other people's affairs.
Now that Ruan Mingyu was awake, he suddenly became interested and asked him, "Do you want to catch ghosts?"
Ruan Mingyu: "Catching ghosts? Let's go."
The two of them sneaked into the yard they had just been in. The baby must have just been coaxed to sleep, and there was no sound in the yard.
The sound of a man snoring could be heard in the room. The maids and servants who were serving him were also soundly asleep and could not wake up at all. And my cousin's wife, or perhaps he should call her cousin's wife, sat alone in the yard facing the moon and absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.
The moon hung brightly in the sky, but it couldn't reflect her. Apart from that, she looked just like a human.
Ruan Mingyu lay on the roof: "This is the first time I've seen a ghost."
Song Chenxi rummaged through his treasure bag for a while, finally pulling out a suitable magical weapon and about to go down, Ruan Mingyu stopped him: "Where are you going?"
"Catching ghosts. We cultivators, besides practicing, also catch ghosts and monsters to eliminate evil and defend the way."
Ruan Mingyu thought to himself, you have become a demon, and you still have the nerve to say this.
Song Chenxi seemed to see through his thoughts: "You think I don't know what you are thinking? You can also report me and have me arrested. Oh, I forgot that you have a Word Spirit. If you tell others, you will turn into a little sparrow."
"..." His mouth is really annoying.
Ruan Mingyu didn't give up and continued to hold him: "I don't think she has any intention of harming anyone."
Song Chenxi: "I have no intention of harming anyone. Come on, little sparrow, I'll teach you a lesson today."
He jumped up and jumped down from the eaves. Ruan Mingyu had never jumped up and down like this before. He stepped nervously on the tiles, afraid of falling.
Song Chenxi jumped down by himself and saw Ruan Mingyu still moving slowly there. He didn't know when he would be able to come down.
He simply flew up again and picked him up horizontally. Ruan Mingyu was frightened by his sudden movement. He hooked his neck in fear and let out a scream. Before he could think, he fell to the ground.
"What are you still standing there for? Come down."
Ruan Mingyu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and helped Song Chenxi to stand steadily.
The ghostly woman saw them barge into the courtyard, her face filled with panic. "What are you two doing here?" She noticed one of them was Ruan Mingyu, and asked, "Little Ruan, why are you here in the middle of the night? Logically, I should be visiting you, but I'm unwell and can't leave. I wonder what brings you here today?"
Song Chenxi didn't beat around the bush with him and said with a gentle smile, "We are here to catch ghosts."
Yunniang's face changed and she fled in panic.
Song Chenxi threw a rope to Ruan Mingyu and ordered, "Little Sparrow, go!"
Ruan Mingyu's hands moved faster than his brain. He threw the rope in his hand, and the female ghost was immediately tied up by them.
Her cultivation level is not high, so she is probably not a harmful ghost.
At this point, she immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, "My child is still young and cannot be left without a mother to take care of him. When he grows up a little, I will enter the reincarnation cycle and no longer linger in the world. I beg you two immortals to let me go this time."
Yunniang told her miserable experience. It was tragic. Not long after she married her cousin, she accidentally fell into a pond with her carriage on her way back to her parents' home and died.
Song Chenxi: "Oh, don't cry and beg me. The last person who cried and begged me has become my junior apprentice."
Ruan Mingyu: “…”
He turned to Ruan Mingyu and asked, "Mingyu, how do you think we should deal with her?" The one with the highest cultivation here is Song Chenxi, and he is the only one who has the final say on how to deal with him. What does it mean that he suddenly asks Ruan Mingyu now?
Since he let her decide, Ruan Mingyu said, "Less trouble is worse than more. I think we should let her go."
"What if I don't want to?" Song Chenxi said.
"Brother, you are magnanimous and compassionate. As a living Bodhisattva, you will definitely not get along with a female ghost, let alone a female ghost with little cultivation."
Song Chenxi smiled and said, "Mingyu still knows me best."
Ruan Mingyu didn't care whether he was willing or not, he went forward and cut the rope.
Yunniang thanked them with tears in her eyes.
Ruan Mingyu hurriedly pulled Song Chenxi away, fearing that he would scare others. It was really strange these days, people were even afraid of people scaring ghosts!
After returning home, Ruan Mingyu thought of a question: "What would happen if my cousin knew that his wife had turned into a female ghost?"
Song Chenxi acted calm and collected. "The parties involved don't care, so why are you surprised?"
Ruan Mingyu: "Does my cousin know?"
Song Chenxi asked in return, "Is it difficult to distinguish between humans and ghosts?"
Two days later, Ruan Liquan's child's full moon banquet finally began.
According to the local custom, each guest will be given a red egg.
Ruan Mingyu and Song Chenxi sat together. Ruan Mingyu peeled the egg and ate it, his hands stained with red paint. Song Chenxi gave his egg to Ruan Mingyu.
Ruan Mingyu chewed with his cheeks puffed out and said to Song Chenxi, "This is for good luck, eat it yourself." He did not take it, and Song Chenxi played with the red egg.
In the center of the banquet, everyone held the baby in the middle like the moon surrounded by stars, and prepared many things for her to do during the one-year-old celebration, such as account books, the Four Books and Five Classics, embroidery, calligraphy and painting, etc. Unexpectedly, Song Chenxi also sent something, which was a small wooden sword, which was also placed on the table for the baby to do during the one-year-old celebration.
The baby giggled.
Everyone in the Ruan family hopes that she will take up the account book and help manage household affairs in the future.
However, the baby immediately grabbed the small wooden sword given by Song Chenxi.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Great, in the future, she will become a famous female hero in the world of immortal cultivation. My Ruan family will also be considered to have produced many talented people."
Ruan Mingyu finished his meal contentedly, wiped his mouth, and whispered in Song Chenxi's ear.
Ruan Mingyu: "We will go back soon."
Song Chenxi: "Are you going back like this? Why don't you stay and play for a few more days? When I carried you on my back, you were crying and making a fuss about going home."
Ruan Mingyu: "I will go back sooner or later."
The cousin asked Yunniang to bring their daughter to Ruan Mingyu and the others to see. He said to Song Chenxi, "Master, please give our daughter a name." The wooden sword was given by Song Chenxi, so naturally he wanted his daughter to have a bond with him.
Song Chenxi said nothing but smiled, then pushed Ruan Mingyu out: "Come on, the Immortal will give you a name."
Obviously, Song Chenxi didn't want to have this cause and effect. Now Ruan Mingyu was also a cultivator, so it was most appropriate for him to name the child.
The cousin gave the baby to Ruan Mingyu to hold. Ruan Mingyu held the little baby with a thousand feelings in his heart. He held a young life in his palm.
Ruan Mingyu thought for a moment and said, "Let's call it 'Happy Life'. It means to enjoy this life and be happy all the time."
Yunniang wore a felt hat and hid from the sun. Although the two knew she was a ghost, they still helped her hide it.
Yunniang held the baby's hand and said with a smile, "What a nice name! Baby, you now have a name. Are you happy, my little Yu'er?"
She poured a glass of wine and toasted them: "Thank you both!"
My cousin quickly took the wine from her and said, "I'll drink this for Yunniang."
Ruan Mingyu said, "You two have such a good relationship."
Yunniang said, "My dear, I have known each other since childhood and have only been together for a long time."
Song Chenxi interjected, "They were childhood sweethearts, and it's a beautiful story."
Yunniang smiled and said, "You two brothers have a very good relationship."
Hearing this, Song Chenxi smiled and said, "Of course."
He picked up a glass of wine and said, "Come on, let's toast to my Junior Brother Mingyu, who I have a close relationship with."
He drank the wine in his hand.
The wine is aged and is specially used to entertain guests from afar.
As soon as he drank it, half of his face turned red.
Song Chenxi filled Ruan Mingyu's glass, and Ruan Mingyu drank it happily.
After a while, Song Chenxi was seen slumped over at the table. Ruan Mingyu approached him, saw his drunken state, and nudged his forehead with his finger: "You can't do everything, can you? You can't even drink as much as I can."
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