After the monster frenzy subsided, Sheng Ning didn't see his senior brothers for a long time.
During this time, she secretly went down the mountain and bought two roast geese. She ran excitedly to the gate of her master's courtyard and said, "Master, your disciple has brought you some good things!"
The courtyard remained quiet, without even a small insect in sight.
Just as Sheng Ning noticed that the courtyard was unusually quiet, she heard the sound of a door opening from the direction of the main house.
"You...you brought roast goose to see me."
It was that familiar voice again. Sheng Ning put her thoughts aside and immediately smiled.
She walked forward carrying the roast goose, and when she saw the main door of the house open a crack and a slender, white hand reaching out from inside, her smile widened.
"Master, do you still remember who your disciple is?"
Mo Jingchun, who was behind the house, suddenly fell silent. After a long while, he spoke softly, "Yes, little disciple."
He smelled the aroma of roast goose and asked anxiously, "Did I...did I get it right?"
Sheng Ning smiled and shook her head and then nodded, "When I saw Master last time, I mentioned that my name is Sheng Ning."
She took a few steps back until she sat down at the stone table in the courtyard. "Master is afraid to see people, but there's no one around. Why don't you come out and have something to eat with your disciple?"
After saying that, she took out a pot of apricot blossom wine from her mustard seed bag.
Sheng Ning had already placed the roast goose in the courtyard, but the people inside the house still dared not come out.
She wasn't in a hurry. After opening the oil paper, she tore off a goose leg and shook it towards the main house.
"Master, don't be afraid. There's no one around. Let's eat and then go back to the house."
If someone who didn't know the situation saw Mo Jingchun speaking in such a coaxing tone, they would probably think he was a shy disciple.
As the door to the main house slowly opened, Sheng Ning's smile widened.
She pretended to stuff a goose leg into her mouth, and her master, who had been in the room a second ago, appeared in front of her the next second.
"Me, me, me, my roast goose."
Sheng Ning raised an eyebrow and handed the goose leg to him, "Master is finally willing to come out and talk to his disciple for a while."
Mo Jingchun rarely appeared in the courtyard. Her skin was pale and cold, but just standing there gave people a feeling of being as beautiful as jade and as gentle as a spring breeze.
His features were deep-set, but his eyes were full of water, making him look like an old... little puppy?
To conceal his true thoughts, Sheng Ning clenched his fist and pressed it to his lips, then coughed lightly.
Finally getting to eat the roast goose she had been longing for, Mo Jingchun was no longer as shy as before.
He plopped down on the round stool, glanced at Sheng Ning, then raised his arms and carefully gathered the two roast geese in front of him.
Seeing this, Sheng Ning couldn't help but chuckle.
Mo Jingchun trembled upon hearing the sound, and her ears turned red at a visible speed.
"I...I...you can buy more."
Sheng Ning nodded, her smile only growing wider. "Master is right, disciple can buy more."
"Second Senior Brother said that Master will have indigestion if he eats too much. Next time I go down the mountain to buy Master roast goose, can I only eat two this time?"
Although Mo Jingchun felt aggrieved that she could only eat two roast geese today, she still nodded.
He won't have indigestion; his second apprentice is just stingy!
He ate very quickly, devouring his food in a flash, yet his movements remained elegant.
Sheng Ning sat opposite him and saw that he ate very quickly, so she poured him a cup of apricot blossom wine.
"Master, slow down, no one's going to take it from you."
Mo Jingchun nodded, took the apricot blossom wine, and continued eating at the same pace.
The courtyard was quiet and windless. Sheng Ning looked at the tree branches swaying in the wind outside the courtyard and narrowed her eyes slightly.
In the original story, the five disciples of the Invincible Sect were all murdered by the disciples of the Taixu Sect.
The sect leader who founded the Invincible Sect, who was also Lu Qing'an's master, never showed his face from beginning to end.
After killing Lu Qing'an and the other four, the disciples of the Taixu Sect also swept through the Wudi Sect.
Judging from the way those people from the Taixu Sect act, they certainly won't let Mo Jingchun's courtyard go.
But why wasn't this mentioned in the original work? Why did Mo Jingchun never appear when Lu Qing'an and the others were killed?
Sheng Ning tapped her fingers lightly on the table, and her expression would turn serious whenever she was thinking.
Although Mo Jingchun kept eating roast goose, his eyes never left her.
Seeing her serious expression, he glanced at the half-eaten roast goose left in his hand.
With gritted teeth and enduring the pain.
He tore off the wing tip and handed it to Sheng Ning, saying, "You, you, you eat it!"
If Lu Qing'an and the other four were present, they would be so shocked that their jaws would drop.
The five of them had been in the sect for many years, and they had only obtained a number of magical treasures from their master.
But if they asked their master for food, he would just glare at them, turn away with the food, and pretend not to know them.
How could a master who is so stingy with food share his favorite roast goose with his junior sister?
Sheng Ning was still recalling the original work she had read before.
When a wingtip suddenly appeared in front of her, she lowered her eyes to look at it and smiled, "Master doesn't like wingtips?"
No, that's not true!
Mo Jingchun's favorite part is the wing tip.
Although it has less meat, it's the most flavorful.
He gave her his favorite wing tip, just to make her happy.
Sheng Ning saw the reluctance in his eyes and smiled as she pushed his hand away, saying, "I'm not hungry, Master, you eat."
Upon hearing this, Mo Jingchun immediately looked up, her wet, dog-like eyes brimming with excitement, as if asking her, 'Really?'
Only after seeing Sheng Ning nod did he open his mouth and put the wing tip into his mouth.
"My second senior brother said that the reason why the Invincible Sect is called the Invincible Sect is because you, Master, said that you are invincible."
"Master, if the Invincible Sect is in trouble, you will definitely step forward to stand up for us, right?"
Sheng Ning's sudden question startled Mo Jingchun.
He still had a wing tip in his mouth, and upon hearing her words, the light in his dog eyes instantly dimmed.
"I...I can't..."
Before he could finish speaking, the sky above the master and his disciple suddenly darkened.
Then a muffled rumble of thunder was heard.
Sheng Ning glanced at the suddenly changing sky, and when she looked away, Mo Jingchun, who had been sitting in front of her, had suddenly disappeared.
Along with it, half of the roast goose also disappeared.
Sheng Ning turned her head to look in the direction of the main house, and sure enough, the door that had just been opened was now tightly closed again.
She went up and knocked on the door, but all she could hear was Mo Jingchun's halting voice coming from inside.
"You, you can leave."
Sheng Ning took a deep breath, looked up at the dark sky, and then bowed to the closed door.
"Disciple Sheng Ning takes his leave. He will bring roast goose to visit Master again in the future. Master, please rest early."
As soon as she stepped out of the courtyard, a ray of sunlight immediately shone on her shoulder.
The sky, which had been covered in dark clouds, cleared up instantly.
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