Fang Zhiyi said calmly, "Before, you ate rabbit, venison, pheasant, wild boar... every time you didn't rush to eat it? You've gained weight."
Mei Ruoxue looked down at herself and found that she had indeed gained some weight.
"I don't know! If I knew!"
Fang Zhiyi raised his hand to stop her: "It's so far away that I'm afraid you won't remember it, so I'll just ask this little deer how you saved it."
Mei Ruoxue answered subconsciously, "I was playing in the mountains and saw it lying there with an arrow stuck in its leg. I felt sorry for it, so I...you are so cruel!"
Seeing she was about to start again, Fang Zhiyi said, "There's a village over the two mountains behind us. There's a hunter in the village. His wife died young, leaving him with only his blind mother and three-year-old child. He spends every day in the mountains and forests, collecting firewood and hunting, just to earn a little silver for his mother's medicine. Today, you rescued the deer, leaving the hunter with nothing to harvest. His mother and child are crying with hunger at home."
Mei Ruoxue was stunned.
He Wugui looked at Fang Zhiyi with complicated eyes, and even Lu Zhaoran stopped chewing.
"Am I cruel? How many silkworms have died to make that silkworm coat you wear? The pearl on your hairpin was conceived by a clam, which died to obtain it. And the fur coat you wear in winter—how many animals did that come from? We don't have much money to begin with. Are we going to steal silver to buy medicine just to save these animals? Do you know how many ordinary people can't even afford medicine when they're sick?"
"This deer is already six years old, not even a fawn. You saved that little bird earlier, and it was attacked by a bird of prey. But have you ever considered that if you saved it, the bird of prey would starve? This is the law of nature. Plants wither and grow, and animals have their own way of life. If humans want to gain a foothold in the world, they cannot kill without restraint, nor can they empty talk of compassion without considering the fundamentals of life. You must learn to be reverent, reverent to nature and to life, not to be reckless and kind."
"You gave meat to that poor family. That was kindness. You built a nest for the birds. That was also kindness. Respecting life isn't about saving every animal. It's about understanding. Understanding the world's need for survival, while also maintaining compassion for all living things."
After these words, Mei Ruoxue fell into a long silence, He Wugui seemed to be relying on something, and Lu Zhaoran frowned and continued to eat.
Only Lao Lan silently thought to himself, "Even though you have money, you've already collected two or three hundred taels in challenge fees recently..."
No words were spoken that night.
Mei Ruoxue seemed to have cried, but when she opened the door, she saw the bird she had rescued jumping at her door.
He Wugui spoke to Fang Zhiyi calmly for the first time: "Are you speaking too harshly? Ruoxue is still young..."
Fang Zhiyi spread his hands: "As a demon, what will happen to her if I die one day? If I don't teach her about reality now, she will be bullied by others in the future."
He knew that Mei Ruoxue was eavesdropping nearby.
From that day on, Mei Ruoxue seemed to be more mature, and even pestered Fang Zhiyi to teach her martial arts. However, this request was opposed by He Wugui and Lu Zhaoran. They offered to teach Mei Ruoxue, but Fang Zhiyi was happy to do so. He just instilled in Mei Ruoxue all kinds of dangerous stories and scams in the martial arts world.
After being reminded by Xiao Hei, Fang Zhiyi knew that "Lin Muran" was coming.
But what surprised him was that Mei Ruoxue did not pick up Lin Muran. She looked at the dying boy, hesitated for a moment, and then ran home to tell Fang Zhiyi. She was a little unsure whether the boy was pretending to faint. After all, she also knew Fang Zhiyi's identity. Now Mei Ruoxue was much more cautious.
When Fang Zhiyi arrived at the scene happily, he found that Lin Muran had disappeared.
Xiao Hei said that he was possessed by a time traveler and left on his own when he woke up.
"Tsk tsk, this son of luck has really strong luck." Fang Zhiyi dragged out the word "strong" and looked at Xiao Hei with deep eyes.
Xiao Hei tilted his head unnaturally, not knowing where to put his hands.
Fang Zhiyi didn't blame it for not informing him. As a Heavenly Dao that was awakening its consciousness, it was quite good that it didn't help the Son of Destiny.
Everything is caused by the will of this world, but this stud male protagonist will not have an easy time in the future.
A lot of people now come to the entrance of the bamboo forest where Fang Zhiyi lives every few minutes, and some people have even forgotten why they came there in the first place.
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