In the early morning, I was awakened by Cai'er's beautiful singing. I moved my body slightly, and then I smelled the aroma of porridge and got up.
In the kitchen, King Yao looked at the porridge with sticky bubbles in the casserole with satisfaction. Gardenia stepped into the threshold, put her hands on her waist and said: "Master, why are you cooking breakfast again? Didn't I agree that I would cook it?
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"I'm old and don't get as much sleep as you. I get up early to cook. After eating, I can teach you Qinggong."
Gardenia smiled and took the bowl and chopsticks from his hand and said, "Master is so kind."
In the forest, the warm sunlight shines through the dense branches and leaves, and falls to the ground after passing by, shining with golden spots.
Gardenia jumped down from a tree, looked up at the layers of leaves, wiped the sweat on her forehead, and said with some embarrassment: "Master, Gardenia is very stupid, isn't it? I can't even teach you this trick."
I’ve been studying for two days.”
Yao Wang sat on a tree pole, holding a wine gourd in his hand, and said while drinking: "You are already very good. You have almost learned all the Qinggong moves I have taught you in the past two months. This is just one move. Don't worry.
Take it easy."
Gardenia jumped up the tree, sat next to him and said, "Master, please don't comfort me. Gardenia is self-aware."
He tapped the tip of her nose lovingly and said, "You are a rare and good granddaughter. Look, it only took you half a month to learn how to pierce leaves with flying needles when your master taught you."
"That's because you taught me well, Master." Gardenia showed little coquettishness, which made King Yao feel happy.
"Gardenia is so smart, nothing can trouble you." King Yao raised his finger and pointed to the top of the towering tree and said, "It seems you are not interested in the fruit on that branch?"
Follow the instructions, nod and say: "I see it."
"Just look at it, don't feel like you're burdened, go ahead and pick it off."
Gardenia stood up on the tree branch, took a deep breath, stepped on the leaves like a dragonfly, then flew up to the branch, picked the fruit, and shouted excitedly: "Master, I picked it, I got it.
Got it."
"Hahaha——." Yao Wang said with a smile: "I said you can do it, come down quickly."
After a while, he sat next to King Yao again, handed over the fruit, and said, "Master, here it is for you."
"You better take it and go back and plant it. Maybe in a few years, it will be a towering tree again."
"Like the one we're sitting on now?"
"Well——, Gardenia, you have learned Qing Gong now. Although you are not familiar with it yet, as long as you practice it regularly, you will definitely reach the point of becoming proficient."
"Can you come and go without a trace like Master?"
"Hahaha, my silly girl, as long as you practice hard, you will be like my master."
The two of them were chatting happily, when the young master came over with his arms on the branches and screamed, as if something had happened.
King Yao said: "Zhi Niang, let's go and have a look."
The young master led the two of them to the edge of the Lost Forest. It turned out that there was a man lying covered in blood. His disheveled hair, messy and torn clothes, and a long knife wound on his chest were clearly oozing with black blood.
There was blood and the bodies of flies were all around the wound, but there were still flies attached to the wound, buzzing and buzzing, as if they were devouring this dying life.
Medicine King stepped forward to check his breathing, and said with a solemn expression: "Tsk, tsk, the breath is like a gossamer."
Gardenia also squatted beside him, pulled out his pulse, looked at the wound, and said, "Master, this man has been seriously poisoned."