Chapter 55
"Accept my ass!" Shi Jueming really didn't know how this person could be so open-minded.
Shi Wanqing said helplessly, "Senior brother, please don't do this."
Zhou Xuanzhi heard the voices inside from the doorway. Shi Yunzhou was someone he had begged his master to bring back, but why did it take half of his master's life?
At that moment, the hatred he felt for his family and stepmother vanished. Those who didn't care about him, those who wanted him dead, weren't worth a second glance. The only people who were worth it were his grandmother far away in the capital, and his master and junior brothers before him.
He left without making a sound. Looking at his sleeping junior brother and thinking about his master's injuries, he couldn't sleep.
Shi Wanqing suddenly realized that her apprentice had grown up overnight.
The eldest disciple took care of her daily needs and even assigned her junior brother's homework very well, so she didn't have to do anything herself. After a few days of this, Shi Wanqing felt very uncomfortable, so one day she called over her two disciples.
In the open space, Shi Wanqing sat on the ground with a guqin in front of her. She smiled and looked at her two apprentices, saying, "Today I will teach you how to play the guqin."
Playing the zither? Zhou Xuanzhi looked at Shi Wanqing, and he felt a chilling unease about the smiling woman before him. Why did he have such thoughts about his master? Because his master couldn't play the zither at all…
...
Some memories suddenly surfaced, and Zhou Xuanzhi stood up, looking at the seated "Shi Wanqing". This person really looked like his master. Even though he was awake at this moment, he still wanted to immerse himself in this dream.
A red sword appeared in his hand. Shi Wanqing looked at him with a smile. Zhou Xuanzhi closed his eyes and swung his sword at the person in front of him.
When he opened his eyes, he saw the people around him. Some were still immersed in the illusion, while others were struggling to resist.
He searched through the crowd but couldn't find Shi Yunzhou.
"I'm awake, stop looking for me." The teasing tone put Zhou Xuanzhi at ease. Shi Yunzhou asked, "How did you wake up?"
"Because my master can't play the zither. What about you?"
"Master...she can't cook." Shi Yunzhou shook his head. The first time his master went to the kitchen, she burned it down. Since then, the kitchen has become a forbidden place for his master. It's not that his master hasn't cooked since, but every time she brings out something...
The two chuckled; Shi Wanqing's self-care abilities were indeed not very good. They had previously pestered their master, wanting to eat the food he cooked himself. When those dark, indistinct things were served, they closed their eyes and took a bite—it was meat, charred black on the outside, uncooked on the inside, and oozing blood. It was truly awful, and their master made it several more times afterward, with the same result.
As for playing the zither, they saw other disciples learning from their masters and decided to play the flute instead. They thought they should follow the crowd and begged for several days before finally hearing their master's music. The moment the music started, they immediately realized that playing the flute was much better, so why follow the crowd?
But today, neither of them could have imagined that the somewhat painful memories of the past would become the key to dispelling the illusion.
This was different from the illusions they had encountered before, where everyone was together. Now, they were being taken down one by one. Several Qingxu Sect disciples had already woken up, and they looked around at the people still immersed in the dream, stunned, because they didn't know what to do.
"How about we try to wake them up?" Shi Yunzhou said to the disciples of Qingxu Sect.
"Shall we give it a try?"
Although he didn't care about what had happened before, he had really argued with Lin Jichen in the dream just now, and he had even lost. He couldn't swallow this insult. So Shi Yunzhou pointed at Lin Jichen and said to everyone, "How about we start with my senior sister!"
Without waiting for anyone to comment, he shouted in Lin Jichen's ear, "Fire! Lin Jichen, get up and put out the fire!"
...I knew this person would be like this.
“Junior Sister Lin had already shown signs of waking up earlier,” Zhou Xuanzhi said. “When I was anxiously looking for you just now, I saw that Junior Sister Lin had already started to struggle.”
"It's been so long, and you still haven't woken up? Is it too late?" Shi Yunzhou's exaggerated expression made it clear to the Qingxu Sect disciples that the two must have had a grudge against each other.
"Senior sister!"
"...Stop yelling, you're scaring a good person to death." Lin Jichen finally opened his eyes, looking at Shi Yunzhou with annoyance, "You didn't run into anyone else just now, did you?"
"What's the meaning?"
Lin Jichen stretched his arms and legs and said, "I've been awake for a while. Seeing you all asleep, I thought I'd wake you. I only touched you, and I was pulled into your dream."
"In my dream?" Zhou Xuanzhi was certain that the Lin Jichen in his dream was the same person as when he was a child.
"In your fantasy, I am just an observer, watching from the sidelines, the kind of person you can't feel." It has to be said that if Zhou Xuanzhi hadn't met Shi Wanqing when he was young, he wouldn't have grown into such an upright person.
Upon hearing this, Shi Yunzhou looked at Gu Qingci, who was being protected by layers of protection. He reached out and touched Gu Qingci's arm. Suddenly, he felt a wave of drowsiness. While he was still conscious, he grabbed Lin Jichen.
And so the two of them entered Gu Qingci's dream together.
Lin Jichen could only think that Shi Yunzhou's actions were incredibly childish. She also didn't want to bother with him.
The two were in a desolate place in the human world, surrounded by weeds, and there were very few passersby.
"What kind of place is this?" Lin Jichen didn't quite understand why Gu Qingci, a noble lady from a prominent family, would have any impression of such a place.
Shi Yunzhou, standing to the side, felt that this scene seemed familiar, as if he had seen it before. In the distance, a city could be vaguely seen, but there were no mountains or rivers nearby, so it was impossible to tell what place it was.
Realizing he had indeed acted on purpose, but given the current situation, cooperation seemed to be the only option, he pointed towards the city and said, "How about we go into the city?"
Before Lin Jichen could speak, they heard the sound of a baby crying nearby.
Following the sound, the two found an infant in swaddling clothes. There were no houses nearby, and wild animals even appeared at night. The child had been abandoned.
The baby's blanket was covered in patches, and the baby's voice was hoarse. The baby looked pale and thin, probably because he hadn't had a proper meal in a long time.
Shi Yunzhou stepped forward to pick up the child, but when he touched the child, his hand passed right through the child. He looked at Lin Jichen, who was standing to the side without moving, and asked, "What happened?"
Serves you right, it's for ignoring me just now.
"We are in Gu Qingci's dream, we are just bystanders. No one around us can see our existence, including Gu Qingci." Even if this child is killed by wild wolves at night, he can only watch.
But the baby seemed to sense something; her crying stopped after Shi Yunzhou touched her, and she looked at the two people who were talking. Neither of them noticed her strange behavior.
Have you tried it? In what situation?
Is the answer that I stopped you from becoming an apprentice satisfactory? You ask so many questions every day.
Lin Jichen really wanted to end the topic, and just as she was trying to change the subject, two figures appeared in her line of sight. She pointed to the people coming this way and said, "This must be you and Senior Brother Zhou, right?"
Looking in the direction the finger was pointing, it was indeed a younger version of himself and his senior brother. The two of them looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, walking and searching for something.
What are you looking for?
This was his first time descending the mountain. Back then, he had caused trouble on the mountain, and his senior uncle, the sect leader, had punished him and his senior brother by sending them down the mountain for training. Some unpleasant memories flooded back, and he looked at the baby on the ground and asked, "Is there really nothing that can be stopped?" His tone was very calm, without a trace of panic.
Lin Jichen's amused expression vanished after those words. "Didn't you just try it?"
"Then this child might die."
? ? ?
At this moment, the two boys reached the baby and picked him up.
Lin Jichen watched the two teenagers lead the child toward the city. She followed them for a few steps, watching their backs, then turned back to Shi Yunzhou and asked, "So it's this time!"
Upon hearing Lin Jichen's words, an unnatural expression flashed across Shi Yunzhou's face. "Should we follow them?"
It looks like it. Sigh, how did I end up in this mess?
“There were demons causing trouble in the city, and they would eat newborn babies. My senior brother and I were young at the time, and we thought that we could help after cultivating for so many years. We happened to come across an abandoned baby, so we took the baby into the city. Then we pretended to be a family of three, rented a small courtyard, and settled down.”
The young Shi Yunzhou in the courtyard was really beautiful when dressed as a woman. After he and Zhou Xuanzhi had a few arguments and he broke a few bowls, Lin Jichen concluded that this "beauty" had a bad temper.
Looking at the young Shi Yunzhou, who had already changed into women's clothing, Lin Jichen suppressed his laughter. If it weren't for the murderous tone in Shi Yunzhou's explanation, he probably would have been rolling on the floor laughing by now.
"I'm not convinced? Why should I? Let's go again!" Shi Yunzhou's tone wasn't exactly friendly, and he even muttered a few inappropriate words for children after finishing his sentence.
"You're already wearing it, and everyone has already seen you. Isn't it strange to change now?"
In comparison, Zhou Xuanzhi was still able to speak politely, which was truly remarkable. He wasn't like this when he was young; he must have been taught this manner by Shi Wanqing!
Shi Yunzhou has a bad temper, but his face is so handsome that he has many female senior and junior sisters around him. I wonder if these female senior and junior sisters know that Shi Yunzhou is truly beautiful in women's clothing.
Shi Yunzhou's temper has improved a lot now. When he faces his younger self, he doesn't get angry or feel ashamed; he just looks at him calmly.
"If you dislike it so much, why did you dress up as a woman?" Don't get too carried away, you have to hold back.
Lin Jichen's face was contorted from trying to suppress his laughter, which made Shi Yunzhou even angrier. He said irritably, "I lost the rock-paper-scissors game."
"One game to decide the winner?"
Seeing Lin Jichen about to lose his temper, Shi Yunzhou began to think about how to get revenge when they got back. "Best of five."
As expected of you, hahaha.
If this weren't a dream, he really wanted to fight Lin Jichen. He suddenly remembered that Lin Jichen's words just now were a bit strange, "What did you mean by what you just said? You mean when you said 'at this time,' what time is that?"
Lin Jichen pointed to the baby being held in the courtyard and said, "This is Gu Qingci's past life. The past life in which you unintentionally killed her."
Shi Yunzhou looked at Lin Jichen in disbelief. He turned back several times to look at the child not far away, his words stuck in his throat, unable to make a sound.
Shi Yunzhou, no longer paying attention to Zhou Xuanzhi holding the child in the courtyard, went into the room and slammed the door shut. With a loud bang, the child in Zhou Xuanzhi's arms burst into tears.
Lin Jichen naturally wouldn't let this opportunity to mock him pass by. She casually slapped Shi Yunzhou's arm and pointed to the room, saying, "Look at you, you've scared the child to tears."
"So this is... what evidence do you have?" Shi Yunzhou hoped that Lin Jichen was lying to him.
Lin Jichen finally turned to look at Shi Yunzhou, his gaze seeming to burn him alive. He then composed himself and said in an unquestionable tone, "Didn't you already guess?"
"The only woman in this scene is the baby in swaddling clothes."
Shi Yunzhou had never been so nervous before, and even swallowed hard.
So their connection is so deep. Then, is that the reason behind the silver bracelet that carried the aura of her master?
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