Chapter 35 Chapter 35 When will you become my Taoist partner?
Ruan Mingyu grabbed Song Chenxi's hand, limped to his feet, and walked towards where Qiu Shi was.
Qiu Shi fell to the ground. Seeing Ruan Mingyu coming over, he thought there was still hope and reached out to reach him.
"I was wrong about what I did before. I hope you can forgive me. I'm sorry... Please don't leave!"
Ruan Mingyu had a cold face and threw a bottle of medicine in front of the man.
"You poisoned me, I stabbed you with a sword, and we're even now."
Qiu Shi shouted at the top of his lungs: "Impossible!"
Ruan Mingyu didn't even look at him. He turned around without mercy. He had difficulty walking. Seeing his appearance, Song Chenxi put his arm around his waist and wanted to pick him up sideways.
Ruan Mingyu didn't want to be held by him, and hurriedly said, "Brother, can you carry me on your back?"
Song Chenxi nodded, bent down, and carried him on his back.
Ruan Mingyu put his lips close to Song Chenxi's ear and said, "Brother, let's go home."
Song Chenxi said "hmm": "Hold on tight."
Ruan Mingyu leaned his head against his shoulder. It turned out that even when he was most lost and helpless, there was someone willing to help him. This feeling of dependence made his barren heart sprout.
Ruan Mingyu sniffed, suppressing the urge to cry. He buried his head and said nothing.
Song Chenxi noticed his strangeness and said, "Cry if you want to. I've seen all kinds of you."
After hearing what he said, Ruan Mingyu stopped crying.
"I'm not crying. I don't want to be such a wimp."
Song Chenxi just smiled and said nothing.
He carried Ruan Mingyu on his back as he walked along the mountain road. The road was steep, but Ruan Mingyu didn't feel it was very bumpy.
As he walked, Ruan Mingyu fell asleep.
But he didn't sleep well, always feeling that something was missing, until he touched his sleeve and found that he had lost his wallet somewhere.
This is more sad than taking his life.
He quickly called for a stop.
"Brother, I lost something. I'll go back and look for it."
Song Chenxi didn't stop: "Don't go back. I'll make up for what you lost."
Ruan Mingyu: "What about a big bag of spirit stones?"
Song Chenxi: "Greedy little sparrow, I'll reimburse you when I get back."
Ruan Mingyu: "Really?"
Song Chenxi: "Cooked."
Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Ruan Mingyu had never liked Song Chenxi so much before. He smiled with his eyebrows curved, "Senior Brother, you are such a kind person."
Song Chenxi asked him, "Are you happy now?"
Ruan Mingyu hid the worry in his brows and said, "It is indeed very happy to be with Brother."
Hearing his words, Song Chenxi was stunned for a moment, then said seriously: "When will you become my Taoist partner? When we become Taoist partners, you can stay with me every day."
Ruan Mingyu froze: "This matter still needs to be considered in detail..."
He immediately shut up and vowed never to say such things again.
Song Chenxi didn't give him a chance to breathe: "Didn't you say you had me in your heart? If you don't want to sign a contract, then just get married like an ordinary couple."
Ruan Mingyu: "Senior Brother, I'm tired." He lay on Song Chenxi's shoulder and began to pretend to sleep.
Song Chenxi was unhappy, but he didn't ask any more questions. He just carried Ruan Mingyu back to the sect. The senior sister saw from a distance that Ruan Mingyu was being carried by Song Chenxi, and his body was covered in blood.
The senior sister was shocked: "What happened to you?" She went over to support Ruan Mingyu, and suddenly frowned. "Did you encounter a monster?"
Logically speaking, the blood has been on my body for so long, it shouldn't still have any breath left.
So, what's left is probably...
Ruan Mingyu was shocked. He was different from Song Chenxi. Song Chenxi could control his demonic energy with ease, but he was also contaminated with the devil's aura because he drank Song Chenxi's blood. What should he do if he was mistaken for a monster?
In the Immortal Sect, if a disciple is found to have turned into a demon, he will be sentenced to death and will never be reborn.
Song Chenxi stepped forward and pushed Ruan Mingyu and his senior sister aside.
He said seriously, "We just had a bloody battle with the monster that sneaked into the sect last time, and we haven't had time to rest yet."
The senior sister didn't say anything more: "Then go and clean up."
After the senior sister left, Ruan Mingyu hurriedly pulled Song Chenxi into his own room.
He closed the door and asked Song Chenxi, "Did Senior Sister discover anything?"
"So what if we find out?" Song Chenxi sat on the chair and poured himself a sip of tea. "The worst outcome is being hunted down by the entire sect."
"...It's easy to say, but there's no way you'd survive if you did that." Ruan Mingyu said angrily.
Song Chenxi glanced at him and said with a smile: "Don't worry, if such a day really comes, I still have the ability to take you away."
"I don't want this day to come." Ruan Mingyu said.
Ruan Mingyu felt a sense of belonging to his master's sect and would never leave unless it was absolutely necessary. The problem was that he had never been able to successfully refine the elixir to cure his "delusions." If he really went insane as described in the book, his fate would probably not be good.
Ruan Mingyu was overwhelmed. With a frown on his face, he supported his face with his hands and sat down opposite Song Chenxi.
Song Chenxi also poured him a cup of tea.
"Drink some water, little sparrow. There's no point in worrying."
Ruan Mingyu held his face in his hands and sighed, "Oh, you're right. I better go make some alchemy. Maybe I can make a universal antidote pill that can cure all our problems. Why am I so miserable? I just got rid of the poison and I got infected with something new. How can I live a good life now?"
He was extremely depressed and pushed open the door to go to the alchemy room. As soon as he stood up, Song Chenxi called him.
"Is there anything else?" Ruan Mingyu asked.
Song Chenxi threw a big bag to him. Ruan Mingyu opened it and saw that it was full of spirit stones.
"Are you feeling happier?" Song Chenxi leaned back in his chair and asked him with a smile.
Ruan Mingyu held the purse, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
He put away all the spirit stones without any hesitation.
"Senior Brother, I will definitely be able to make the elixir, and neither you nor I will die." Ruan Mingyu said.
"If you can practice it, then practice it. Take it easy." Song Chenxi took a sip of tea.
Ruan Mingyu thought he was comforting himself, but the next moment he heard him say:
"It doesn't matter if you die, I'll be with you on your way to the underworld anyway."
Ruan Mingyu paused and looked back at him: "I don't need you to accompany me."
Since he came back last time, Ruan Mingyu has not left the sect for several years. He is really afraid that Qiu Shi will come to find him again. Moreover, he is suffering from "delusions" and is now in the same boat with Song Chenxi. If he becomes unconscious like last time after coming down the mountain, no one can save him.
During these days, Ruan Mingyu was refining pills every day. During this period, he read countless classics and combined them with Zhao Ziping's alchemy manual. Finally, he found the problem. One of the ingredients in the pill he refined was not used properly. If it could be replaced with Luohou Fairy Fruit or the essence and blood of Deer Fairy, it might be effective.
However, of these two medicines, the former is said to be on an isolated island in a fairy mountain overseas, guarded by an ancient ferocious beast. As for the latter, it is something that only appears in mythology.
The progress of refining the antidote has reached a dead end again.
It was a bit surprising that he hadn't seen Song Chenxi often recently. He had always come back to see him no matter how busy he was. Ruan Mingyu thought he was probably busy, so he didn't bother him.
After living here for so many years, Ruan Mingyu's concept of home has gradually faded away. Only when he receives letters and some local specialties from Aunt Man and cousin every year, he will vaguely remember the existence of "home".
However, he did not receive any letters this year, and the contact between them seemed to have suddenly ceased.
Ruan Mingyu decided to find some time to go back and see what was going on with them.
Without further ado, Ruan Mingyu planned to set off in the next few days. He wanted to tell Song Chenxi before leaving, but he didn't see him, so he went down the mountain alone.
Ruan Mingyu had only been back to his present home once. Fortunately, he had a good memory. Although he took many detours along the way, he finally arrived at where the Ruan family was.
So many years had passed, and the Ruan family had already changed several generations. Ruan Mingyu stood at the door, and no one recognized him. The Ruan family's door had been freshly painted, but beneath the shiny surface were traces of the weathering of time.
The guard at the gate asked him, "Who are you looking for?"
Ruan Mingyu said, "Ruan Liquan." My cousin's letters stopped coming earlier than Aunt Man's. I wonder if he has any problems?
The guard went in to report, and soon a girl who looked about the same age as Ruan Mingyu came out. There was some sadness between her brows, and she did not have the carefreeness of a young girl.
She said, "Who are you? Why are you looking for my father?"
After taking a look at her, Ruan Mingyu blurted out, "Are you Yunniang's daughter?"
Yu Sheng nodded. She looked at Ruan Mingyu and asked, "Are you my uncle?"
The babbling baby has now grown into a graceful young lady. Ruan Mingyu couldn't help but feel deeply moved. After all, she was the one who chose her name.
Yu Sheng said, "I've heard my father talk about you. Come in with me."
When Ruan Mingyu stepped into the Ruan family's gate again, he felt a sense of strangeness as he had not been here for a long time.
"Where's Aunt Man?"
A hint of sadness flashed across Yusheng's eyes. "Auntie Man went back to her hometown last year." How could Auntie Man, at such an old age, still go back to her hometown alone? What was the meaning behind this? It was self-evident.
Ruan Mingyu fell silent for a moment.
He sighed helplessly.
Life is short and passes by in the blink of an eye.
"I want to go see her," he said.
Yu Sheng brought him to the ancestral hall, where the tablets of his deceased relatives were neatly placed. The people on them, whether Ruan Mingyu or strangers, had all turned into a handful of dust.
Ruan Mingyu searched for a while and found Aunt Man's tablet in the corner. Her presence in the ancestral hall as a person from an outside family was enough to show her dedication to the Ruan family over the years.
Ruan Mingyu lit three incense sticks for Aunt Man, feeling indescribable.
Those letters stopped coming along with the loss of life.
He couldn't help feeling lonely.
"Where is my cousin?" Ruan Mingyu asked.
Yu Sheng said, "My father became a monk a few years ago."
"Become a monk?"
"After my mother passed away, my father never remarried. Two years ago, he said he had seen through the world and went to the temple to become a monk. He also told me not to look for him anymore."
Yu Sheng suddenly pleaded, "Uncle, can you help me find my father? I haven't had any contact with him in a long time. I don't necessarily need to see him, but I'm really worried about his safety. He went to Cangzhou last time, and I heard there was a plague there. Now the route to Cangzhou is halfway, and I really don't know how to find him."
Ruan Mingyu patted her shoulder and said comfortingly, "Leave it to me. I'll leave for Cangzhou today."
Yu Sheng wiped his tears and said, "You finally came back, why don't you stay for a few days?"
"No, I'll leave in a while." Ruan Mingyu stood in the middle of the Ruan family's courtyard for a while. The people he wanted to see were gone now, so what reason was there for him to stay here?
Before leaving, he said to Yu Sheng, "Don't worry, Yu Sheng. I will definitely bring your father back. No matter what the outcome, you... take care of yourself."
After bidding farewell to the Ruan family, Ruan Mingyu headed west, traveling through the night. Halfway through his journey, he was stopped by someone.
Ruan Mingyu became alert and reached for the sword at his waist.
Then a familiar voice came: "Mingyu, where are you going? Why don't you take me with you?"
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