The Taifu and Prime Minister Yin could not find anyone. They originally thought that this trip would lead to a catastrophe of rebellion between the emperor and his ministers. Now that the situation was calm, they both breathed a sigh of relief. In order not to meet the emperor, they left the Taoist temple in a hurry. Liu Fan stayed in Agarwood.
In the cabinet, no one came out to see them off.
Luo Lianyi was led by Taoist Master Mu Shi and they did not leave the Taoist temple very far. They stopped in the canyon on the other side of Biya Peak. The canyon was winding and led to a place where there was no road. Mu Shi took her from a stone
After entering the cave, turning left and right, and coming out of the cave, it was like another world, suddenly opened up.
"It's so beautiful!" Luo Lianyi admired as she looked at the lake in front of her and the mountains covered with white snow outside the lake.
"This is a paradise I accidentally discovered when I was collecting herbs. I built a wooden house here when I was very bored in my early years. Go and have a look." Mu Shi smiled while stroking his beard.
Luo Lianyi followed the direction he pointed and walked through the spotless white snow to a small wooden house.
"Go in." Taoist Master Mu Shi said.
Luo Lianyi reached out and pushed open the ajar wooden door and walked into the house. The house was simple and clean, with a faint fragrance of trees. There was a bed, a table, a stool, and a stove. There was a lot of firewood piled next to the stove.
, there is a wooden cup, a wooden bowl, and a pair of wooden chopsticks on the table.
"Taoist Master, it's good for one person to live here." Luo Lianyi picked up the only wooden cup on the table and said.
"Yes, Pindao usually comes here alone to collect medicine and make medicine. Sometimes he stays here for ten and a half days. Now I bring you here because I want you to live here first while I go out to find the antidote for you." Taoist Master Mu Shi said.
explain.
Luo Lianyi was stunned for a moment. She was a little scared to live alone in this deserted valley.
"Don't be afraid, Pindao will teach you a few self-defense techniques, which are more than enough to deal with jackals and wild beasts." Taoist priest Mu Shi suddenly reached out and grabbed her wrist, and poured a warm current into her body.
After a while, he let go of his hand and let Luo Lianyi meditate on the wooden bed. "You try to run this internal force I put into your body for a week."
Luo Lianyi sat down, folded her hands on her abdomen, and calmed down. She knew medical acupuncture points, so she easily followed the guidance of Taoist Mu Shi beside her to move the internal energy acupoints all over her body and return them to the Dantian.
"Let's go out." After finishing speaking, Taoist Master Mu Shi stepped into the open space outside the wooden house. Luo Lianyi jumped out of bed and ran to him.
"Put your inner strength into your arms and push!" Taoist Master Mu Shi directed Luo Lianyi to push towards a bamboo forest with both hands. The bamboo forest seemed to have been suddenly blown by the wind, and the snow was falling.
"You have no foundation in martial arts. The poor Taoist can only input half of your internal energy, but this half of the internal energy is enough to resist wild beasts and ordinary thieves." Mu Shi nodded and smiled.
"Thank you, Master." Luo Lianyi took back her hand and said.
"You must be lonely here. Take this book of martial arts secrets and illustrated moves to kill time. Pindao will rush back as soon as possible. You must not go out, lest there will be another disturbance." Taoist priest Mu Shi took it out of his arms.
A scripture was handed to her.
"Yes." Luo Lianyi took it and nodded in agreement.
"I'll go outside to buy some daily necessities first, and then you can practice your internal strength a few times according to the method I just taught you." After speaking, Taoist Master Mu Shi turned around and went out of the cave.
There was silence in the valley for a moment. Luo Lianyi looked around, feeling a little sad. She missed her parents strongly, thinking that there was no hope of returning in this life, and her eyes filled with tears. And Lu Fan, she suddenly thought, if he and Lu Fan were together that day
She walked together. It was good that the two of them could find such a beautiful place to stay. She remembered the time they fell into the cliff together, and remembered that he asked her if she lived in seclusion there and would never come out again.
Scene, now I can finally understand his state of mind at that time.
She returned to the hut and circulated the internal energy that Mu Shi had given her to her body. After resting for a while, Mu Shi came back carrying a large bag of things.
After buying all the necessary things for daily life, Mu Shi left the wooden house without looking back and went out through the cave after explaining a few more words.
Luo Lianyi packed up her things, then sat by the window and watched the snow. It was completely silent, letting her thoughts continue to fly. She imagined that in the distance, Liu Fan suddenly came walking on the snow, and came to her side with a smile, and gently
Hold her hand and say "I'm here, don't be afraid." A smile appeared on her face, she closed her eyes slightly, hugged herself with both hands, and imagined leaning in his arms, the warmth of his arms, the two of them.
Tears suddenly fell down.
But there was no warmth, the snowy wind blew in from the window, and her body was almost frozen with cold. She had to withdraw her thoughts, return to the wooden bed, and use her internal energy.
After her body warmed up a little, she took out the scripture and flipped through the pages. When she saw the place of ecstasy, she unconsciously stretched out her hand to follow the moves.
"If I get familiar with these moves, I can practice them with Liu Fan next time, and it will be easier for him to remember them." She thought to herself, and jumped out of bed and started practicing according to the diagrams one by one.
, she didn’t stop until it was dark and she felt hungry.
She lit a fire on the stove, cooked a pot of rice, steamed some cured meat that Taoist Master Mu Shi had bought, and had a hearty meal. By the time she put away the dishes and washed up, it was already dark.
Quiet, so quiet. After Luo Lianyi closed the door of the wooden house, the silence made her feel inexplicably panicked. She walked back and forth in the house, at a loss.
"It would be nice to have someone with me, Brother Feng Lin. Otherwise, Xiao Gudong, or Xiao Gudong's sable will do the trick. Alas -" She said to herself, sitting heavily on the wooden bed.
Suddenly, she heard the sound of claws scratching at the wooden door. She was so frightened that she sat up suddenly and listened carefully.
"Creak, squeak -" There seemed to be a sound coming from the throat of some animal outside.
Luo Lianyi was so frightened that she clutched the edge of the bed, her hair stood on end, and she didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
"Zhizhi, zhizhi——" The voice seemed a little anxious, and the sound of claws scratching the door became louder and louder.
"What?" Luo Lianyi suddenly remembered that she had internal power. She crouched down, took a good posture, and waited for the animals outside to break through the door before she would use her power. But the animals outside seemed to have no attack power, and they just continued to attack.
He grabbed the door and didn't force it in.
Luo Lianyi put away her posture, held the candle, and quietly approached the wooden door. Through the crack in the door, she saw a little furry thing outside. When the little thing looked up, she was ecstatic, opened the door and shouted: "Little sable! Little Gudong!"
!Are you here?" Xuefeng blew out the candle in her hand, and she couldn't care less.
Sable jumped on her shoulders and rubbed her face affectionately, but little Gudong did not appear.
"Where's little Gudong? Didn't he come?" Luo Lianyi carried the little sable out of the wooden house, stood on tiptoe and looked around, while asking the sable, as if it could understand and answer.