Chapter 30 Unhappy Learning
Beneath the stone gate, Su Yuyao burst into tears, "I don't want to stay here! Xuanfeng! You lied to me!"
"Girl, Bai Er and I will come to pick you up this afternoon!"
"I don't want to! I want to leave now!"
"Miss, please don't cry! I'll go back and make you something delicious..."
"I don't want you to leave! I don't want to stay here!"
"Girl, you can stay for one day. If you really don't like it, we won't come tomorrow, okay?"
"I don't want to be here today!"
"Miss, please don't cry..."
"I don't……"
"Su Yuyao!"
Bai Er quickly covered Su Yuyao's mouth.
Seeing Xuan Feng clenching his fists and gritting his teeth, Su Yuyao finally stopped crying. She was so busy crying that she forgot to pay attention to his expression and almost got beaten up!
"Then...then come pick me up soon..." Su Yuyao said, wiping away her tears.
Xuanfeng's expression softened slightly, and he said, "You must listen to me and not cause trouble!"
"Mmm." Su Yuyao's tears welled up again.
"Uncle-Master, I'm entrusting the girl to you now. I'll come to pick her up this afternoon. Goodbye!"
Qi Meng nodded, then looked back at Su Yuyao, whose face was covered in snot and tears, and suddenly felt a tightness in his forehead.
He took a breath and said, "Yao'er, come with me."
Qi Meng led Su Yuyao back to the main hall, where the apprentices stood quietly, waiting for Qi Meng to take his seat.
"Please have a seat."
"Yes, Master!"
Meng Yu walked over and led Su Yuyao to the back. Just as they were about to sit down, Qi Meng said, "Meng Yu, bring Yao'er's cushion and table over and put them next to me. I want to watch over her myself!" Qi Meng's words filled Su Yuyao's eyes with tears again.
Meng Yu glanced at Su Yuyao, who was silently wiping away her tears, and secretly took out a dried apricot from her sleeve and put it into Su Yuyao's mouth.
Su Yuyao chewed on the sweet and sour dried apricots and looked at Meng Yu. Oh! It was the man who had shared the steamed buns with her!
"Junior Sister, don't cry," Meng Yu said with a smile. "Those sitting below are all Senior Brother's disciples. They call our Immortal Master Grandmaster. You are their Martial Aunt! You should be sitting up here!"
"Martial Uncle?" Su Yuyao smacked her lips, chewing on a dried apricot. "I've become a Martial Uncle?!"
“Yes!” Meng Yu smiled, picked up the table and cushion, and then led Su Yuyao to Qi Meng’s side, gently putting them down.
Su Yuyao sat cross-legged with a bitter face and a sigh. As she watched Meng Yu bring over another set of writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone and place them on her desk, her lips trembled, and tears welled up in her eyes again.
Meng Yu looked at Su Yuyao, who was pursing her lips, puffing out her cheeks, and having red eyes, smiled, secretly glanced at Qi Meng, and then took out a piece of dried apricot and stuffed it into Su Yuyao's mouth.
Su Yuyao, with a dried apricot in her mouth, looked up at Meng Yu. Meng Yu smiled, and Su Yuyao smiled back.
Qi Meng picked up the ruler and tapped it on Su Yuyao's desk, saying, "Listen to me first, and you can ask me if you don't understand anything after class."
Su Yuyao nodded.
"The spirit of the valley never dies; it is called the mysterious female. The gate of the mysterious female is called the root of heaven and earth. It exists continuously, and its use is inexhaustible..."
So it was a Taoist scripture that my mother made me copy! Mother…
Su Yuyao's eyes reddened again.
Meng Yu walked over and squatted down, looking at Su Yuyao, and asked softly, "Junior Sister, why are you crying again?"
"I...I miss my mother..." Su Yuyao said softly, her eyes brimming with tears.
Meng Yu smiled and said softly, "I think you're not missing your mother, you're just using tears to deceive my dried apricot!"
"Hehehe..." Meng Yu's words made Su Yuyao laugh.
"Yao'er! Meng Yu! What are you saying?! How can you joke around in class?!" Qi Meng sternly questioned Su Yuyao by tapping her desk with a ruler.
“Immortal Master!” Meng Yu stood up and replied, “Junior Sister shared her understanding of this passage, and I praised her for speaking well, which made her smile.”
"Yao'er, tell me, what are your thoughts?" Qi Meng asked curiously.
“Physical…experience? I don’t have any…” Su Yuyao looked at Meng Yu in a panic.
Meng Yu asked with a smile, "Who did you just say you were thinking about?"
"I...I miss my mother..."
"Yes, although it's a colloquial term, the meaning is correct. The Dao is the form of nothingness, the mother of all things, from which all things are born..."
Su Yuyao looked at Meng Yu, tears still glistening in the corners of her eyes, but she smiled brightly.
With Meng Yu's help, the dull and boring lectures finally came to an end.
"Yao'er! Meng Yu! You two stay here for a moment." Qi Meng watched as the apprentices left the main hall before standing up with the ruler in hand and saying to Su Yuyao, "Hold out your hands!"
"Huh?" Su Yuyao hesitated before reaching out her hand.
Smack! Smack!
"Mmm!" Su Yuyao gritted her teeth, not uttering a sound.
“And you!” Qi Meng pointed at Meng Yu.
Meng Yu grinned and stretched out his hand, "Immortal Master, please give me some face..."
Clap clap clap clap! Meng Yu's clappers rang out exceptionally loudly.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
"Hehehe..." Su Yuyao laughed happily as she watched Meng Yu jumping up and down after being hit.
Meng Yu looked at Su Yuyao's blushing face and smiled back, raising his eyebrows.
Qi Meng tapped their heads with the ruler again, "Next time you disrupt the class, I'll..."
“Immortal Master! We will never dare to do it again!” Meng Yu said, holding the ruler on Su Yuyao’s head.
“Meng Yu, you used to be the youngest, but now that you have a junior sister, you need to act like a senior brother! You can’t just laugh and joke around all the time…”
"Immortal Master! I understand. Don't worry, I will definitely take good care of Junior Sister!" Meng Yu said with a grin, then grabbed Su Yuyao and ran off.
"Meng Yu!" Su Yuyao asked nervously, "Won't the Immortal Master be angry if we just run out like this?"
"Of course! So we have to run fast!"
"That makes sense! Hehehe..."
Meng Yu pulled Su Yuyao and ran towards the mountains and forests, "Yao'er! Shall I take you somewhere?"
"Okay! Where is it?"
"I'll take you to the top of the mountain!"
"Hurrah!"
Meng Yu pulled Su Yuyao into the forest, climbing up the steep slope. The dense foliage covered them completely like a thick blanket.
"Ah!" Su Yuyao suddenly couldn't move, as if a force was pulling her backward. She frantically flailed her arms and cried out, "Meng Yu! Meng Yu! I can't move!"
"Hahaha! Silly Yao'er! Your bundle is hanging on the tree branch!" Meng Yu lifted Su Yuyao by the waist and took her down from the branch.
The mountain was getting steeper and steeper. Meng Yu turned back to look at Su Yuyao, "Yao'er! Can you do it? If you can't hold on, we'll go back!"
"Of course! I once crossed the hunting mountain of Xuanhuang Valley!" Su Yuyao said proudly.
"Really? Then let's keep climbing!" Meng Yu smiled and extended her hand to Su Yuyao.
"We're here!" Meng Yu said, pointing to the bright spot ahead. "That's the summit!"
Su Yuyao ran out of the dense forest with Meng Yu. The sunlight was dazzling and a steep cliff suddenly appeared. She stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down at all the mountains. A gentle breeze blew and the forest rustled, as if the mountains were kneeling at her feet and shouting in unison.
"So beautiful!" Su Yuyao exclaimed, looking down at the mountains below.
"Beautiful, aren't they! These are all Lord Xuanfeng's immortal mountains! It's just a pity that Lord Qinggan has given away quite a few of them..."
"Send it out? Why?" Su Yuyao asked, puzzled.
Meng Yu said with a smile, "Lord Qinggan has used the mountain to his advantage for the sake of his connections. The people in his gang have already become kings of the mountain. Now, Lord Xuanfeng will have a hard time getting it back!"
"Difficult? That's because he's soft-hearted!" Su Yuyao said. "It should be a matter of natural selection, but because he added his own emotions, things became difficult..."
Su Yuyao cast a divination at will. I am on the mountain peak. The upper trigram is Dui and the lower trigram is Gen. The main hexagram is Ze Shan Xian. The time is Si. The upper line moves and the changing hexagram is Tian Shan Dun. The body generates the function, which is a sign of consumption!
How to break this cycle? Stop the consumption, which requires overcoming metal, using fire! Fire overcomes metal and also generates earth! This not only stops the loss but also nourishes the body!
Fire! The Li hexagram! Innovation!
Meng Yu squinted at Su Yuyao, "You have a plan?"
"No, but even if there were a way, it would be very risky!" Su Yuyao turned and walked back into the forest, saying, "We should go back!"
"What kind of risky method?" Meng Yu asked with great curiosity.
"No matter what the method, now is not the time!" Su Yuyao said as she walked. "The most important thing now is to go back and eat. I'm starving!"
Meng Yu watched Su Yuyao's retreating figure thoughtfully...
The two hurried as fast as they could and finally made it back to the academy before lunch.
"Meng Yu, where did you take Yao'er?" Gong Meng grabbed Meng Yu by the neck and asked angrily.
"Ouch! It hurts! It hurts! I took her to the top of the mountain to take a look, what's wrong?!" Meng Yu said shamelessly.
"What happened?! The Immortal Master just asked about Yao'er, and that's when we realized you two were missing. Go explain yourself!" Gong Meng slapped Meng Yu on the back of the head.
"Is the Immortal Master angry?" Meng Yu asked, rubbing his head.
"What do you think!" Gong Meng rolled her eyes at Meng Yu, then turned to Su Yuyao and said, "Yao'er, you should spend less time fooling around with him in the future. He's always getting punished, so don't get dragged into it! Do you hear me?"
Su Yuyao nodded and asked cautiously, "Senior Brother, will I be implicated this time?"
Gong Meng looked at Su Yuyao, who was covered in leaves and had messy hair, and said softly, "I'll take you inside so you can properly apologize, do you hear me?"
"Yes!" Su Yuyao nodded repeatedly.
Inside the Tingxuan Hall, Qi Meng was meditating with his eyes closed.
“Immortal Master,” Gong Meng said softly as he led Su Yuyao to stand in the main hall, “Yao’er has been found. Meng Yu has taken her to the mountaintop to play.”
"Immortal Master, I'm back. I was wrong. I'll never run away again. Please forgive me..." Su Yuyao said pitifully, her head bowed.
"Where is Meng Yu?" Qi Meng asked with his eyes closed.
“Meng Yu… is outside the hall. He knows he was wrong, but he’s afraid you’ll be angry, so he doesn’t dare to come in.”
Qi Meng opened his eyes, looked at Su Yuyao, and said, "Yao'er, since you know you've done something wrong, I'll punish you. Do you accept it?"
Su Yuyao lowered her head and hid behind Gong Meng, "I'll never dare to do it again..."
“Immortal Master, Yao’er is young and has just arrived. It’s normal for her to be led astray by Meng Yu. Therefore, the fault does not lie with Yao’er this time.”
"Yao'er, what do you think?" Qi Meng asked.
"I……"
"Immortal Master, please give Yao'er a chance!"
Qi Meng sighed and said, "This is a one-time exception. Next time, no one is allowed to plead for me!"
Gong Meng pulled Su Yuyao in front of him, and Su Yuyao quickly curtsied and said, "Thank you, Immortal Master!"
After a simple lunch, it was free time.
Meng Yu was surrounded by a group of female apprentices, who all expressed their dissatisfaction.
"Fifth Uncle! Why did you give the dried apricots I gave you to Su Yuyao?!" A girl with an oval face asked, rolling her eyes.
"Oh! Is Qinglu angry?" Meng Yu said with a smile. "Uncle-Master thinks the dried apricots are too delicious, so he shared them with Yao'er."
Qinglu smiled charmingly, "Fifth Uncle, if you like it, I'll get you some more!"
"What if I share it with someone else?" Meng Yu asked.
"Hmph, I'll just bring it to you. Whether you want to share it with any Tom, Dick, or Harry is none of my business!"
"Any Tom, Dick, or Harry? Are you talking about me?!" Su Yuyao instantly lost all goodwill towards this girl named Qinglu. If she weren't afraid of causing trouble, she definitely wouldn't let her off the hook!
Meng Yu spotted Su Yuyao outside the crowd. "Yao'er! Come here!"
Su Yuyao forced a smile and said, "No need! I'm afraid of stepping on the tail of some Tom, Dick, or Harry!"
After saying that, he turned and walked away.
The boys were playing wrestling. Qingju was big, but not very agile. Su Yuyao watched him fall awkwardly a few times before she realized that she hit Qingju on the head with a stone not because he didn't dodge, but because he really couldn't!
Su Yuyao watched the boys wrestling for a while and found it boring, not even half as fun as wrestling with Ruixue!
Su Yuyao found an open space, took off her small bundle, pulled out a shuttlecock, and started playing by herself.
"What is this?" a group of girls asked as they gathered around.
"This is a shuttlecock. Xuanfeng bought it for me. Want to play together?"
"May I?"
“Why not? Come on!” Su Yuyao called out and immediately received a response.
The girls stood in a circle and happily started kicking shuttlecocks.
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