Chapter 12: Reunion
After coming back from the Valley of Seclusion, after another half a month, Zhang Xiaofan had been in the Qing Yun Sect for three whole years, and at the same time, he had also ended his bamboo chopping career, only that the grades he delivered towards the end, even he himself blushed for it.
Because of that inexplicable trip to the valley, in the next half a month, Zhang Xiaofan often felt dizzy, qi loss and lack of blood, the whole person is especially easy to fatigue.
He quietly guessed in his own mind that perhaps it was caused by the hemorrhage he vaguely saw that day when he was delirious. But he checked all over his body but there is no wound, his heart is apprehensive and do not dare to ask the master, but only buried in the heart.
Only he did not speak, but his body reacted. Usually poor to poor at least can cut two big black section bamboo, now not cut a few on the panting, cold sweat, half a day down even a black section bamboo can not cut.
In fact, it is no wonder, that day in the valley, "blood devouring beads" almost sucked away half of the blood in his body, if not his body has always been strong, I'm afraid that would have been bedridden. However, Zhang Xiaofan wanted to cut bamboo again as before, it is also delusional.
This situation has continued, until half a month later Zhang Xiaofan felt slightly better, the spirit of qi are better. But the bamboo cutting homework also ended at this time.
On the last day, under the watchful eyes of Eldest Senior Brother Song Daren and the others who had come to inspect the work, Zhang Xiaofan did his best and finally cut a black-sectioned bamboo before the end of the hour.
Song Daren and the others looked at each other in dismay, dumbfounded, only Tian Ling'er walked up, smilingly patted his shoulder and said, "Xiaofan, it's alright, it's already pretty good that you have a teeny tiny fraction of what Elder Sister I can do."
Zhang Xiaofan laughed bitterly.
At ten minutes into the dinner, a group of people from Great Bamboo Peak sat around in the dining hall. After Tian Yi's couple sat down, Song Daren first reported Zhang Xiaofan's situation, and Tian Yi gave a cold smile, not even looking at Zhang Xiaofan.
Su Ru smiled and said, ''Ah! Xiaofan you have come to our Great Bamboo Peak for three years already ah!"
Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly said, "Yes, Senior Mother."
Su Ru sighed lightly and said, "Alas! Time flies so fast, three years have passed in a flash." Saying that, she suddenly paused, raised her voice, and said to the other six disciples, "Do you guys have this feeling ah?"
The Great Bamboo Peak disciples all shook in unison and immediately sat up straight and said, "Yes!"
Su Ru grunted and said, "Now that your junior disciples have grown up, but you still haven't made any progress at all in the past three years, are you trying to piss me and your master off!"
Everyone didn't dare to speak, but they all turned their gazes towards Song Daren. Song Daren, under the urging of the other senior brothers, stiffly said, "Don't worry, Senior Mother, we will definitely compete this time!"
Su Ru had the word "disbelief" on her face, and was about to speak when Tian Yi Yi suddenly interjected, "Old Six."
Du Bishu's whole body was startled, looked up and said in surprise: "Master, are you calling me?"
Tian did not easily said faintly: "These days I see you in the kitchen in your spare time dancing to the pots and pans, what's going on?"
Du Bishu's face reddened, his mouth opened and he said, "Master, you, how did you see that?"
Su Ru let out an "eep" and said, "Bishu, what's wrong?"
Du Bishu hesitated for a long time and said in a low voice, "I want to see if I can make those things move..."
The crowd immediately moved, "drive things" this realm is the fundamental basis of cultivation of treasure in the Qingyun Sect Dao, not to reach the fourth level of the Taiji Xuanqing Dao Jade Qing realm can not be imagined.
Tian not easy to nod, face although nothing, but the eyes swept over a trace of joy, said: "how?"
Du Bishu whispered, "It seems, it seems to have moved."
"Boom", the crowd clamored, all surprised, the oldest five sitting beside him, Lu Daxin, forcefully patted his shoulder, all smiles on his face.
Opposite to him, Su Ru was also smiling, laughing, "Good boy, I can't believe you're fighting for your life, when did it happen?"
Du Bishu was infected by the crowd and also relaxed, said, "Just recently, a few days ago I was practicing in my room, suddenly I realized that under the power of my thoughts, the water cup on the table moved a little bit, I guessed that it could be that I broke through the third layer." Saying this, he smiled rather embarrassedly and added, "But disciple had no bottom in my heart and couldn't believe it, so I tried it from time to time, I didn't expect to be discovered by master."
Tian did not easily smile and said, "It's like this, between the fourth level of the Jade Clear Realm and the third level, although there is a world of difference in efficacy, there are no obvious differences between the first cultivation. You have a resourceful nature, although you started late, I never thought that you would come on top later."
Everyone laughed and congratulated one after another, during which Tian Ling'er interjected, "Sixth senior brother, then have you decided what magic treasure to cultivate?"
Du Bishu was dumbfounded for a moment and said, "No, I've only just ascertained from my master's mouth that I've cultivated to the fourth layer, I haven't had time to think about it yet!"
Su Ru smiled and said, "There is no hurry, these few days you and slowly think about it, but your master's temperament you guys know, never force you to necessarily cultivate the immortal sword, what do you like yourself, think about it and then go and find the materials!"
Zhang Xiaofan was envious on the sidelines, seeing his sixth senior brother smiling with a toothy grin on his face, he also heard Tian Yiqi say, "Old Sixth."
Du Bishu hurriedly said, "Master."
Tian did not easily said: "According to our Qingyun Sect's old rules, disciples who cultivate to the fourth level of Taiji Xuanqing Dao, will have to go down the mountain to travel the world, and at the same time, look for good materials and spiritual objects to cultivate magic treasures, as for whether you can get the divine object that gathers the spiritual qi of the earth and the sky, it is up to your own chance of creation and fortune. Prepare yourself and go down the mountain in the next few days!"
Du Bishu was stunned for a moment, there were a few moments of reluctance and a few moments of joy in his eyes as he whispered, "Yes." After saying this, he remembered something and said, "However, Master, the meals here have always been the responsibility of the disciple, but after the disciple leaves..."
Beside him, Lu Daxin laughed and said, "What are you afraid of, before you started, there is still me, don't worry, no one can starve."
Du Bishu and the crowd laughed out, only Tian Ling'er laughed at the side: "Fifth senior brother you still have the nerve to say, on your cooking, I ate when I was a child can be straight nightmares it!"
Lv Daxin's face was red, the crowd laughed loudly, when the laughter stopped a little, Tian did not easily faintly said, "In the future, the kitchen thing will ask the old seven to do it!"
Everyone was stunned, Lu Daxin surprised: "Master, he is still small..."
Tian Yi's gaze slanted and glanced at Zhang Xiaofan, who hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Master, I follow Sixth Senior Brother from time to time to help in the kitchen and will do it."
Tian Yanyu nodded, and without saying much, waved his hand, "Eat!"
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Three days later, Du Bishu cleaned up, explained all the affairs in the kitchen clearly, and went down the mountain.
Over the past three years, among all the senior brothers, Du Bishu is the youngest, lively, Zhang Xiaofan and he is the closest. Now he left, Zhang Xiaofan heart quite reluctant to part with, only to feel the big bamboo peak, suddenly a few points of loneliness.
Afterwards, Zhang Xiaofan began his second "homework" in the Qingyun Sect - cooking.
That day was his first formal cooking fried vegetables, he was alone in the kitchen busy morning, panning and washing vegetables busy, unknowingly to noon, Tian not easy and other people into the dining hall, only to see the table and as usual set up a meal, Zhang Xiaofan sat at the end of the table, hands clasped each other, trembling, anyone can feel that tension.
The crowd sat down, Tian Yiqiu did not speak, but Su Ru glanced at Zhang Xiaofan, a few smiles appeared on her face, saying, "Xiaofan, how does it feel to cook for the first time?"
Zhang Xiaofan opened his mouth, but couldn't think of what to say, Tian Yiqi hummed and said, "Eat."
The disciples responded, raising their chopsticks to clip food and put it in their mouths.
In the dining hall, there was silence.
Zhang Xiaofan was so nervous that his heart jumped to his throat, cold sweat beaded out on his forehead, and he whispered, "Master, senior brother, I, I didn't do well, you, you guys..."
"Wow, it's really delicious!" Tian Ling'er suddenly let out a cry of joy and couldn't help but clip another bamboo shoot slice and put it in her mouth. Zhang Xiaofan was dumbfounded, only to see all the senior brothers smiling and nodding their heads, out chopsticks like the wind in praise.
"I can't imagine that Junior Brother actually has this skill, awesome, awesome!"
"Well (slurred), better than Old Five, no, better than Old Five and Old Six combined, huh!"
At this time, even Tian Yanyu had also added a few more chopsticks and nodded his head, with a few more smiles in his eyes. Zhang Xiaofan looked at the bottom of his eyes, a burst of satisfaction.
Since then, Zhang Xiaofan made his way down to the kitchen. He has not yet shown any talent in Taoism cultivation, but he is actually quite talented in cooking, his skills are self-taught, and the flavor of the cooked meals is delicious, far better than the others. And in his heart, as long as Tian not easy slight nod of approval, would have been the greatest joy.
Time is in a hurry, another half a year has passed, seeing the Qingyun door once a year "seven veins will martial arts" is approaching, not only Su Ru, even Tian not easy to begin to supervise the seat of the disciples. The people concentrate on cultivation, no one to disturb Zhang Xiaofan, anyway, the people do not have much hope for him.
As for Zhang Xiaofan does not care, every day in the kitchen in the busy, but also from the pots and pans in the realization of a few points of joy, leisure time will be self-cultivation of Taoism, every late at night and then practice "Da Fan Prajna", the day is also a peaceful.
During this period of time, when he brought back from the valley of the gray monkey and he lived with half a year, people and monkeys have been very close to each other, Zhang Xiaofan also gave it a name - small gray. This name was then the same as his own, plain and unassuming.
Since he began to do things in the kitchen, small gray will be close to the water first moon, often followed him to run to the kitchen, east grab a bamboo shoots, west take a fruit, the whole day to steal food, half a year down actually fattened up a circle, but in this big bamboo peak, the monkey small gray but there is still a counter, that is, Tian not easy to raise from childhood, big yellow dog - big yellow.
I do not know how, big yellow dog eyes always look at the monkey is not very good eyes, the first days it every time to see small gray always bark more than, scared small gray always to high hiding. To the later days long, finally is reluctantly acquiesced to the small gray is a member of the big bamboo peak, but every time we meet, are showing their teeth to do vicious, every time to the small gray scared "squeak" screaming, rhubarb only "woof woof" barked a few times, high dog head, wagging his tail, go! The dog will only "woof woof" a few times, high dog head, wagging tail, go to the side.
Autumn to winter, the weather on the Great Bamboo Peak is also gradually cold, in addition to the Tian not easy couple two deep cultivation, early not afraid of this ordinary cold and warm, the rest of the disciples are slowly added clothes.
This day, the big bamboo peak on the rare sunshine and warm, Zhang Xiaofan busy kitchen things, walked out, stretched a lazy waist, in the house outside a pine tree next to sit down, leaning against the tree trunk, squinting on the eyes, comfortable to enjoy the sunshine.
Sitting for a while, is drowsy will want to sleep at the moment, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly heard a few barks from the front, opened his eyes to see, but it is also lying on the ground in front of the rhubarb also lazily sunbathing, while the small gray from the back of the step by step to the rhubarb moved over.
Zhang Xiaofan heart surprised, rhubarb weekdays often run to the kitchen to eat, and he also mixed with familiar, so the relationship between the monkey dog he is clear, do not want to today the sun seems to come out of the west, small gray will actually take the initiative to approach the rhubarb! Zhang Xiaofan was immediately energized and stared tightly ahead.
Only to see the little gray quickly close to the rhubarb, rhubarb can not see things behind, but the nose moves, immediately smelled behind the strange, turn around and look, opened his mouth, revealing sharp teeth, "Woof Woof Woof" even called a few times.
Little gray body shrinkage, looks like still some fear, but the monkey eyes bone turn a few times, the right hand raised, in front of the big yellow waved.
Big yellow at first did not think, at the small gray barking, unexpectedly a little later nose pumped a few times, seems to smell what, two dog eyes immediately stared at the small gray hand, blinking, not blinking, not moving, also no longer barking, open his mouth and stick out the old long tongue, and even the dog's tail began to wag non-stop, in order to show friendliness.
Zhang Xiaofan surprised, look, not feel dumbfounded, the original small gray hand holding a piece of meat bones, the aroma overflowing, separated from a long distance he also vaguely smell. This is what he used to make soup, because he knows that rhubarb is favorite to eat this thing, so after cooking specially sealed and placed in a high place, I did not expect that little gray did not know when to steal a piece, ran to and rhubarb set close to.
At that moment only saw the little gray shook twice, then threw this meat bone to the rhubarb in front of the rhubarb mouth has long been drooling, immediately opened his mouth to the meat bone bite in the mouth, "slurp" gnawed non-stop. Little gray looked at the appearance of rhubarb, "squeak" barked twice, carefully approaching the rhubarb, hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand to the rhubarb head to touch.
The rhubarb suddenly lowered his voice, the little gray hastily retracted his hand, but not long after, can not help but stretch out his hand again to the rhubarb head to touch. This time the rhubarb did not react, only busy gnawing meat bones, small gray put his hand on the head of the rhubarb, gently caressing the rhubarb bright soft yellow hair, rhubarb actually feel very comfortable look, shrink a little bit, a low cry, but there has been no hostility.
Little gray became bold some, smiled and screamed twice, began to rummage rhubarb fur, seems to be looking for lice, between the rhubarb turned back, actually also used his tongue to lick a little gray, this monkey a dog between intimate incomparable, become faster than anything.
Zhang Xiaofan straight to see the dumbfounded, thought this small gray can really smart, but it looks like the future of the meat bone to hide more hidden.
His heart is thinking like this, suddenly overhead rang a burst of sound, two white light from the west came speeding, rhubarb seems to be startled, barking loudly at the white light, small gray outstretched his hand on the top of its head and touched the two, seems to comfort, but unexpectedly it is very effective, rhubarb was actually immediately quiet down.
Zhang Xiaofan watched the two white light fell in front of the main hall "keep quiet hall", a burst of light flashes, now two people, a person long body, dashing and elegant, white clothes, extremely handsome. The other person is a teenager, shorter than him, fifteen, sixteen years old.
Zhang Xiaofan suddenly held his breath, a wisp of sadness that had once faded away slowly rose up from the deep heart, because of the back of that one who looked a little lonely!
"Shocking Feather?" He stood up, his voice becoming hoarse as he called out.
That teenager's body shook and immediately turned around, his eyes rounded, his mouth opened wide, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, a thousand words eventually turned into only two words.
"Xiaofan!"
