Chapter 107 Senior Brother, thank you.
Under Yu Sui's gaze, the orange-yellow light in his palm flickered, seemingly having an outline. The moment he noticed the door open, Yu Sui lowered his hand and tilted his head to look at the doorway.
When Shi Yuezhen came in and saw Yu Sui sitting up, she was somewhat surprised: "Why are you up? Are you feeling unwell?"
Yu Sui shook her head, touched her throat, and said, "I'm a little thirsty."
"I'll go get you a glass of water." Shi Yuezhen smiled and turned to leave.
She came in a moment later, carrying a teacup. The water was at the perfect temperature; there was no need to wait.
Yu Sui took a sip, then heard Shi Yuezhen ask, "Is there anything else that's bothering you?"
"I feel a little tired." Yu Sui finished her drink and lay back down, obediently pulling the blanket up. "I want to sleep a little longer."
Shi Yuezhen didn't ask any more questions. Mei Liangyu had given her a signal not to investigate further.
“Your senior brother went to the Ghost Path Sanctuary. He left in a hurry, and we don’t know when he’ll be back.” Shi Yuezhen picked up her cup and stood up. “Go to sleep. He’ll come to see you when he gets back.”
Yu Sui nodded obediently and closed her eyes.
Shi Yuezhen also knew about the fight between Sheng Fei and Gu Gan, but she didn't tell Yu Sui. She was already in a bad state and couldn't afford to be distracted by such a thing.
It will be dawn soon outside.
Mei Liangyu returned in the morning light, walking in the opposite direction from the first group of people who left the dormitory.
After daybreak, the burning flames subsided, and Yu Sui slept intermittently. The house was well soundproofed, and there was no one outside, making it very quiet and conducive to rest.
Yu Sui closed her eyes, preparing to sleep a little longer, but then she sensed someone had come.
Mei Liangyu pushed open the door and entered the room without making a sound. She quietly came to the bedside and looked down at Yu Sui, who seemed to be asleep.
He had tidied himself up, changed into clean clothes, and still had a faint fragrance from his bath lingering on his body, which drifted towards Yu Sui's nose and seeped into her lungs with each breath.
Mei Liangyu stood by the bed without moving, gazing quietly at Yu Sui's sleeping face. After a while, he whispered, "Are you asleep?"
Yu Sui closed her eyes, pulled the blanket up to cover her head, and her voice came out muffled from under the blanket: "I'm asleep."
Mei Liangyu: "..."
He thought Yu Sui was asleep.
Yu Sui heard a soft chuckle, a laugh tinged with helplessness. Before Mei Liangyu could reply, she asked, "Did you go and tell Master?"
"Hmm." Mei Liangyu lowered her head, the smile on her lips disappearing.
"What did Master say?" Yu Sui asked.
Mei Liangyu remained silent for a long time.
Yu Sui waited patiently. She didn't lift the blanket because her senior brother probably didn't want her to be awake. By keeping their eyes separate, he could calmly compose himself.
Mei Liangyu said calmly, "Master's attitude remains unchanged. What's past is past. There's no need to be trapped in past memories. We should live in the present."
That doesn't sound wrong.
Yu Sui tilted her head slightly towards where he was standing: "What do you think, Senior Brother?"
“My meaning remains unchanged,” Mei Liangyu said calmly, “so I don’t remember anything now.”
Yu Sui asked softly, "Is that Master?"
Mei Liangyu replied softly, "Mm."
He didn't talk about the details of his conversation with his master, and he had to process some of his emotions on his own.
Yu Sui gave him plenty of time, and only after a long while did she ask, "Do I want to return it to you?"
Mei Liangyu responded softly, "Mm."
Yu Sui then lifted the quilt covering her head. Although it was already daylight outside, the blackout curtains were still closed, and the room was dimly lit. She lay on the bed, looked up and met the gaze of the person standing beside her, and said, "I'm awake."
Mei Liangyu was amused by her.
Yu Sui slowly sat up, and Mei Liangyu asked her, "Are you able to get up now?"
"It's barely okay," Yu Sui said, clutching her chest. "It still hurts a bit. I'll lie down after I give it back to you."
She looked up at Mei Liangyu, nodded her head forward, and gestured for him to lean in.
This scene seems familiar.
Mei Liangyu looked at her with a half-smile, and slowly bent down to get closer.
Just as the two were touching foreheads, and Yu Sui was about to return the memories from the Star Origin Curse, the door was opened, and Cang Shu stood in the doorway saying, "Qiu Yan has come to see me..."
Cang Shu came quickly and left quickly.
When he stumbled upon the two people inside, their foreheads touching, he didn't even have time to show his surprise before his hand reflexively closed the door.
Cang Shu turned around to look at Nian Qiuyan standing behind him.
Nian Qiuyan smiled slightly and said, "Although you closed it very quickly, I saw it all."
Cang Shu paused for a moment, then said, "That's not my fault."
Inside the room, Mei Liangyu, her expression unchanged, leaned over and touched Yu Sui's forehead, retrieving the memories from her.
Yu Sui didn't intend to pay attention to the little incident just now. After returning the Star Source Curse, she lay down again: "Senior brother, I want to stay with Sister Yuezhen for a few more days."
Mei Liangyu nodded: "She will agree."
"Then I'll sleep a little longer," Yu Sui whispered.
"Go to sleep." Mei Liangyu turned and left after seeing her close her eyes and fall asleep.
He had only taken two steps when he heard Yu Sui speak again: "Senior Brother."
Mei Liangyu stopped in her tracks and was about to turn around when, unexpectedly, she heard Yu Sui ask softly, "Was it discovered by the seed of the sacred tree?"
He paused in his turn, and without much thought, he understood what Yu Sui was asking.
Was it the divine tree seed that made you discover I possess a strange fire?
This was the first time Yu Sui had asked him on her own initiative, but she didn't dare to mention the words "strange fire".
Mei Liangyu answered in a low voice, "Yes."
Yu Sui blinked, as if considering the next part of the conversation. Mei Liangyu didn't turn around; this time, it was his turn to give Yu Sui time.
He thought Yu Sui would have a lot to say to him, but after a long time, he only heard Yu Sui say lightly, "Senior brother, thank you."
Mei Liangyu's heart stirred slightly upon hearing this. After concealing the emotions in his eyes, he stepped out.
Mei Liangyu closed the door behind him, never turning back to look at Yu Sui.
Yu Sui's fingers, draped over the blanket, tapped unconsciously. Her clear, bright eyes, black and white, stared at the dim ceiling, yet seemed to be looking into the distance, her gaze unfocused.
Thanks to Mei Liangyu's affection for her, the secret of the strange fire can be kept for the time being.
The senior brother was clearly not the kind of person who would be obsessed with love or sacrifice himself for love at all costs. Both the senior brother and she had their own things to do.
Good feelings are one thing, liking is another; the degree of liking differs, and the decisions made will also differ.
Yu Sui felt more at ease knowing her senior brother's secret than when he said he liked her.
She has become accustomed to cooperating with others for mutual benefit, or to using each other's weaknesses to restrain one another.
Perhaps Mei Liangyu can teach her other ways of getting along.
By feigning innocence and weakness to gain sympathy and pity from others, Yu Sui couldn't say that this tactic was 100% effective, but it worked most of the time.
She also knew that affection gained through scheming and manipulation was different from genuine affection from others.
After Mei Liangyu went outside, he was scrutinized by the two friends. He remained expressionless and offered no explanation. He looked at Nian Qiuyan and raised his chin slightly: "What is it?"
"Let me see how badly you're hurt," Nian Qiuyan said with a smile. "You're still lively and energetic, that's good."
The door slammed open from the outside. Shi Yuezhen stood to the side, covering her nose, while Xing Chun, covered in mud and hay, slapped the door open, leaving a muddy handprint on it.
Xing Chun asked anxiously, "Meimei! Are you dead?!"
Mei Liangyu, standing tall and straight in the room, glanced over coldly: "Not dead."
"That's good, that's good." Xing Chun breathed a sigh of relief, wiping his eyes which were covered in mud. He had asked if the man was dead because he couldn't see.
Mei Liangyu smelled the stench of dirt and duck droppings on Xing Chun, and together with Nian Qiuyan, they stopped Xing Chun from coming in, making him stand at the door as punishment.
"Go back and wash up first," Nian Qiuyan said.
Xing Chun said dejectedly, "I was just helping Cang Shu look after his farmland. You have no idea what kind of rubbish he raises. Poisonous insects are one thing, but he has chickens, ducks, fish, geese, rabbits, and everything else. And there's Yue Zhen's medicinal herb field right next to it. The ducks and chickens all want to go to the medicinal herb field. I'm constantly running back and forth, and I'm covered in chicken and duck feathers and chicken and duck droppings!"
He said angrily, "Why are you keeping these things?"
Mei Liangyu and Nian Qiuyan looked at Cang Shu and saw that he was a beat slow to respond before answering, "Eat."
As Xing Chun walked out, he said, "I'll kill them all today and make soup for Meimei!"
He acted immediately, calling on his friends in the Listening Wind Chime and telling them to go and catch the chickens, ducks, fish, and geese that were about to be slaughtered.
Both agricultural and medical disciples can have their own medicinal fields or farms allocated by the academy, which they can manage and cultivate according to their own needs. These fields are also needed for some of the academy's trials and assessments.
Cang Shu raised chickens, ducks, fish, and geese to test for Gu worms and poisons, to practice the art of animal control in farming, and of course, to eat.
Beside his farmhouse was a bamboo grove, and beneath the bamboo grove was a fenced-off chicken and duck pen. Several large white geese had already gone down to the paddy field in front of the farmhouse, and in the grassy field near the medicinal herb field, two snow-white rabbits were grazing on the grass.
Nian Qiuyan stood by the paddy field, staring at the large white geese swimming freely in the field, and pondered, "Can we eat the geese that farmers use to practice Gu poison?"
Kong Yiyi had already rolled up her sleeves and said confidently, "I can eat anything that won't kill me. You stay here and stop them from getting away."
After she went into the water, she was very aggressive, driving three or five big white geese to jump left and right. With great difficulty, she managed to drive one of them towards Nian Qiuyan. The goose flapped its wings, cried out loudly, and charged forward angrily. Nian Qiuyan dodged and obediently made way, letting the goose run away.
Kong Yiyi: "..."
She glared at Nian Qiuyan: "Why did you let it get away?"
Nian Qiuyan sighed and said, "I can't beat it."
Kong Yiyi swung a large goose from the water and threw it at him. Nian Qiuyan was flustered, but managed to catch the goose that was flapping its wings and struggling desperately, and held it up to show her, indicating that I had caught it.
Mei Liangyu calmly withdrew his gaze and looked at the two rabbits in the grass in front of him.
The rabbits ate grass, their mouths moving as the slender blades of grass disappeared one by one from their mouths. The two rabbits ate their own food without disturbing each other.
One rabbit was pure white, without a single blemish, while the other had a small, irregular black ring around its head.
The mixed-colored rabbit was easily satisfied. After eating and drinking its fill, it started washing its face, while another one was still pouting and smacking its lips. Mei Liangyu stared at the rabbit washing its face; its furry paws rubbed its cheeks, then it scratched its ears.
These small and cute things are so pleasing to the eye.
Mei Liangyu, however, always thought of Yu Sui.
When his junior sister was well-behaved and cute, he felt pleasing and comfortable just watching her from the side.
The chemistry between people is so inexplicable that no one could have predicted it.
He wanted to keep things that were beautiful and lovely in his eyes, and didn't want them to be attacked or destroyed.
For example, the rabbit in front of you.
For example, his junior sister.
Just as the rabbit finished rubbing its ears and was about to continue rubbing its cheeks, someone grabbed its ears and pulled it up.
Mei Liangyu: "..."
Zhong Lishan, holding the rabbit, turned around and looked at Su Tong, who was holding the other rabbit's ear. Su Tong said, "There are only two. Do you want to keep one?"
"Why keep one?" Zhong Lishan asked.
Su Tong shook the rabbit in her hand: "Keep one so they can reproduce and breed more rabbits."
Zhong Lishan raised an eyebrow and asked her, "How can one give birth?"
Su Tong shrugged: "We have to leave him one, and then buy new ones for breeding."
“Buying two new ones won’t hurt,” Zhong Lishan said, reaching for the rabbit that was kicking wildly in his hand. Mei Liangyu stopped him, saying, “I told you to keep one, but you insist on eating two. Why are you so bloodthirsty?”
Zhong Lishan looked completely bewildered and turned to look at him quietly.
Mei Liangyu took the rabbit from his hand and put it on the ground, only to be kicked by the rabbit's leg.
Zhongli Shan asked, "Have you switched from the Taoist school of ghosts to Buddhism?"
Mei Liangyu replied without turning his head, "I'll repair any house."
That's not a valid argument.
Su Tong laughed and pulled Zhong Lishan along as they walked. Zhong Lishan found it a bit strange and kept looking back at Mei Liangyu.
Cang Shu let them grab whatever they wanted and prepare whatever they wanted to eat. In the end, only Zhong Lishan and Xing Chun were left busy in the kitchen. Shi Yuezhen added some medicine to the soup, making it more suitable for the two injured people, Mei Liangyu and Yu Sui.
After Yu Sui was injured, she didn't have to do anything.
She would stay in bed all day to rest and recuperate, waiting for the five elements in her body to heal her severely damaged body. At night, Shi Yuezhen would also help her to regulate the scattered and unrecovered five elements to speed up the recovery process.
When the time came, Mei Liangyu would bring her food, and the two of them would chat briefly.
After Gu Gan and Sheng Fei had a big fight, people paid less attention to Wen Yanghui's death and focused more on Gu Gan and Sheng Fei, as well as Gu Gan's magical abilities.
Yu Sui and Mei Liangyu didn't talk about these things; they talked more about Mei Liangyu's memories.
"Should I ask someone outside to help you find the place you remember?" Yu Sui asked.
Mei Liangyu sat by her bedside, playing with the wind-listening ruler with his head down. Hearing this, he hummed in agreement.
Yu Sui held the soup bowl and sipped it slowly: "Senior brother, if you leave Taiyi, what will Master do?"
Mei Liangyu glanced at her and said, "I'll be kicked off the dragon carriage before I even get on."
The rule states that the Saint Changgen cannot leave Taiyi Academy unless summoned.
If Mei Liangyu were to board the dragon carriage and leave, then this rule would be useless to the Sage Changgen.
He'd done it before, sneaking into the goods of the government agency, thinking he was safe, only to be thrown out of the Ghost Path Sanctuary along with his box.
Another time, he was kicked down by his master, even though he hadn't summoned him.
On the way back, the boy grumbled and cursed, but his master remained silent. After walking a long distance, the boy asked, "Are you gone?" His master replied, "I'm still here."
So the boy continued to curse.
As Yu Sui listened to Mei Liangyu recount his past, she bent her knees, rested her hands on her knees to support her face, and looked at him with a smile.
[Author's Note]
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
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