When Run Yu was wiping his sweat, he must have accidentally rubbed the ashes on his face. He followed Xiao Longnu's instructions and wiped his face with a clean sleeve. He smiled and said: "Thank you."
Run Yu's smile brightened the room. Xiao Longnu turned her head away, her voice returning to its previous indifference. "After this meal, you will leave the Tomb of the Living Dead."
Run Yu knew that he was not liked by others, but he did not expect this girl to hate him so much. He sneered in his heart, in the six realms, there was no place that the Celestial Ruler could not enter. He could even go to the River of Forgetfulness, what was the Tomb of the Living Dead?
Actually, Run Yu misunderstood this point. Xiao Longnu did not hate anyone, she only said this because the sect rules did not allow outsiders to enter without reason, and men entering was a big taboo.
Run Yu's expression was normal, he changed the topic and asked: "Miss, you have always called this place the 'Tomb of the Living Dead', why did you give it such a name?" It was too inauspicious.
Xiao Longnu said: "Once you enter the sect, you cannot leave the tomb for the rest of your life. When I was young, I heard my master call this the Tomb of the Living Dead, so I called it that. In the early years, when my martial sister made a name for herself in Jianghu, the people of Jianghu called us the 'Ancient Tomb Sect', it was not a name I came up with. "
Being imprisoned in the tomb for the rest of your life, isn't that the same as being a living dead?
"Miss, do you plan to stay here for the rest of your life?" Run Yu saw that Xiao Longnu's complexion was abnormally pale, he knew that she was not exaggerating, she must have spent most of her time in this dark tomb.
Xiao Longnu said: "Ancestor Grandma and my master are buried in the coffins next door, the two empty coffins are Grandma Sun's and mine."
Run Yu was speechless. He was once trapped by love, he did something to imprison his lover, Jin Mi hated him because of this, he did not feel the slightest bit of happiness. It can be seen that freedom, whether for humans or immortals, is the most precious thing. However, when Xiao Longnu spoke, her expression was natural and magnanimous. She did not feel that this was a form of imprisonment at all. Run Yu couldn't help but recall the words in the Tao Te Ching. The Taoist's realm of cultivation was as follows: inaction, selflessness, selflessness, subordination, purity, and nature.
Only great heroes can show their true colors. A true scholar is naturally distinguished. The most fundamental aspect of life was "nature", but "nature" was the most difficult realm to attain. Therefore, even as a Divine Master, Run Yu was in awe of the young girl.
In the gloomy and dark room, white smoke drifted out of the rice pot, adding a bit of the atmosphere of the mortal world.
Run Yu looked at Xiao Longnu's slender figure under the dim candlelight. His eyes were hazy and his heart skipped a beat. "Could it be that your sect's Patriarch didn't set any conditions for leaving the tomb?"
Xiao Longnu hesitated for a moment, then quickly spat out two words: "No."
Then there must be one. For some reason, Run Yu felt a little happy.
The rice cooking on the stove emitted a pleasant gurgling sound. Xiao Longnu lowered her eyes, covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve, and quietly yawned. It was already past midnight, and people were inevitably sleepy. Xiao Longnu glanced at Run Yu through her sleeve and found that he was not sleepy at all.
Run Yu smiled and said: "Miss, you must be tired today. Rest after dinner."
Xiao Longnu said: "You're not sleepy at all."
"Of course, Run Yu is a night …" The Night God almost blurted it out. "A night owl."
Xiao Longnu thought about it. This person chose to go up the mountain in the middle of the night. It didn't seem like he was here to pick a fight. It seemed like he really came here at night for a stroll. "Then why did a night owl like you go up the mountain?"
Run Yu said slowly: "Run Yu has no family or friends in this world. I have no money and no shelter. The world is vast, so I can only drift around with the sky as my curtain and the earth as my seat. "
Perhaps if it was any other woman, seeing such a graceful gentleman using such a pleasant voice to say these words full of sadness, they would soften and give in. Only Xiao Longnu, after hearing his story, said seriously, "You can still live without family or friends. But it's really troublesome to have no shelter. Then I'll give you a few jars of Jade Bee Royal Jelly. If you take it outside, you can buy a house, right? "
Xiao Longnu was as pure as a piece of white paper. What family and friends were, what money was, she probably didn't even know.
In the long years, among the people Run Yu remembered, there were some who were amazing, some who were gentle and kind, some who had no desires, and some who were ignorant. However, it was the first time for Run Yu to see so many contradictory and harmonious characteristics intertwined into one. After gradually understanding Xiao Longnu's character, not only did he no longer think of her as a wooden beauty, but he also had a desire to continue to talk with her — Xiao Longnu had her own set of rules that she explored, which was different from the people outside the ancient tomb. It was really interesting to talk with this kind of person who was completely different from himself.
"How big a house can you buy with the Jade Bee Royal Jelly …"
"You're teasing me." Xiao Longnu was keenly aware of it.
"No." Run Yu smiled from the bottom of his heart, and then sighed, "Miss Long's Taoist heart can make many immortals feel ashamed."
"No one has ever seen an immortal. You're talking nonsense." Her voice suddenly became stern, "No matter how much you talk, you still have to leave later. Master and Grandma Sun said that there is no good man in the world. If you dare to have any bad thoughts, I'll make sure you can never leave the ancient tomb! "
"It was Grandma Sun and you who brought Run Yu to the ancient tomb. Run Yu never said that he wanted to stay here." She was obviously a little girl, but she always liked to pretend to be mature and fierce, which was seen through at a glance. "Miss, what are you nervous about?"
Xiao Longnu turned her back to him, "You're talking nonsense again. What's there to be nervous about?"
Run Yu said, "By the way, before I leave, Run Yu has one more thing to ask. Can you let me take another look at the gloves you were wearing?"
"Yes." Xiao Longnu generously agreed. She put on a glove and stretched out her hand in front of Run Yu's eyes. That hand was white and slender, with distinct joints. Against the sparkling silk, it had an ambiguous and beautiful feeling that couldn't be described in words.
From Run Yu's point of view, it was as if Xiao Longnu invited him to hold that hand. Run Yu's heart moved, and he really held that hand. The silk was very thin, and it might not be found in the water, so Xiao Longnu wanted to wear it on her hand for him to see. This was the most appropriate way. But the moment Run Yu held Rou's hand, his original goal fell back to second place in his mind. When he came back to his senses, he realized that he was thinking about that kind of thing in a daze. He immediately let go of her hand as if he had been electrocuted and put it behind his back.
Xiao Longnu grew up in the ancient tomb, so she could still see clearly in the dim light. She looked at Run Yu and asked suspiciously, "You're so strange. You want to see the gloves, so I'll show it to you. Why are you blushing?"
"Run Yu has been rude."
This pair of gloves was definitely not something from the mortal world! Run Yu's divinity didn't completely disappear in this heaven's punishment. When he touched something from the divine realm, he would instinctively feel it. His heartbeat gradually sped up, and slowly returned to a stable state. The feeling just now couldn't deceive him. It was as he guessed, this pair of gloves was indeed from the divine realm. It seemed that before he found out the relationship between the Ancient Tomb sect and the divine realm, he couldn't easily leave. When he thought about how Kuang Lu Fairy found him disappear into thin air when she was patrolling the Jade Pearl Palace … and how the Yong beast was alone at night … he couldn't wait to use the keepsake left by the Snow God in the mortal world, which was this pair of gloves, to contact the divine realm.
Xiao Longnu was the only clue now.
The two of them were thinking about something. After a while, Xiao Longnu suddenly cried out, and actually used qinggong to rush to the front of the stove. She hurriedly opened the lid of the pot, and immediately, a burnt smell floated into the room …
Two people who were proficient in all the six arts cooked a pot of rice together, but because they were distracted, the pot was burnt.
Xiao Longnu calmly scooped out a small amount of clean rice and burnt matter, and put it on the table. Run Yu wanted to go forward to see how it was burnt, but he saw Xiao Longnu use her sleeve to cover the rice. "This rice can't be eaten. Feed the fish. "
She said that she wanted to repay Run Yu with a meal, but in the end, Run Yu didn't eat the fish, and the rice was burnt. Xiao Longnu was also very embarrassed.
"Feed the fish?" The word fish made Run Yu think of something.
Xiao Longnu walked to the river, squatted down, and used a spoon to dig out the top layer of rice.
"Wait," Run Yu squatted down as well, and reached out to take the spoon in Xiao Longnu's hand, "Run Yu eat first."
Xiao Longnu looked up, and was lucky enough to see the scene of the immortal young master fighting with the fish for food, and felt guilty. When she thought about how she had to let her benefactor, who came to the ancient tomb hungry and didn't even have a full meal, go down the mountain at night, she felt more and more that she was too cruel.
Run Yu secretly curled her lips into a smile, then got up and walked a few steps weakly. His body was thin, and he didn't have any internal strength, so it could be said that he was blessed by the heavens to pretend to be a weak scholar. Run Yu leaned against the stone wall, and violently coughed.
Xiao Longnu remembered when she was sick and coughing as a child, Grandma Sun would take care of her day and night, and would gently pat her back. She couldn't help but tentatively reach out her hand, and patted Run Yu's straight back twice. She opened her eyes and asked, "Are you okay?"
Run Yu resisted the urge to smile, and pretended to be strong as he said, "I'm okay, I should be able to walk out."
The inside of the tomb of the living dead was complicated, like a maze. Unless someone like Xiao Longnu, who lived here since childhood, could pass through unimpeded, outsiders had to be careful even if someone was leading them.
"Run Yu, you can't go out now." Xiao Longnu thought that her benefactor was hungry and sick, and it was dark and cold outside. If he was accidentally injured by the mechanism, she was afraid that he would lose his life in the tomb.
Run Yu said, "Then what should I do?"
"It will be dawn in a few hours. Let Grandma Sun take the child and go with you." Xiao Longnu thought again. She had promised her benefactor a meal, so she couldn't go back on her words. She added, "I will make breakfast for you."
Run Yu said, "Miss Long sleeps late, so you should sleep a bit more. I'll make breakfast. "
Xiao Longnu didn't agree, "I personally said it, how can it be invalid?"
Naturally, Runyu followed his advice. Not long after, the two returned to the room from the beginning.
Xiao Longnu lifted a piece of white cloth, revealing a jade bed that emitted a trace of cold air, and said to Run Yu, "You're the one sleeping here."
Run Yu was surprised, "Sleeping here?"
Xiao Longnu coldly snorted, "What, you don't dare to sleep? All the heroes in the world want to sleep on this bed. This is the Frost Jade that Ancestor Grandma spent seven years of painstaking effort to dig out from under hundreds of feet of ice in the extreme north. I've been sleeping on the Frost Jade Bed since I was young. Normal people's cultivation during the day will be weakened once they fall asleep, but the Frost Jade Bed allows me to instinctively circulate my energy to resist the cold air even when I'm asleep. For martial arts, it's a good thing. Your constitution is cold, so there's a saying that you can use poison to fight poison. You can also use cold to counter cold to improve your body. Even if you only sleep for one night, it'll be good for your body. "
Run Yu paused, but in the end, he couldn't say what he was thinking. He was originally an expert in water magic, so why would he be afraid of sleeping on the Frost Jade Bed? He was just surprised that Xiao Longnu didn't understand etiquette at all, actually letting a man like him sleep on her bed. "Miss Long is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. She knows how to be considerate of others." Run Yu was even more convinced of this. He happily took off his shoes and lay on the bed.
Xiao Longnu took out a hemp rope that was as thick as a palm and placed it on both sides of the room. Then, she lightly flipped over and landed on the hemp rope. She laid down as if the hemp rope was just an ordinary bed.
"Miss, you're sleeping on the rope?" Run Yu tilted his head and looked at the girl not far away.
Xiao Longnu closed her eyes and didn't reply.
After all, a mortal's body couldn't resist the cold. Run Yu laid down for a while and shivered all over, unable to fall asleep. However, he was determined and endured it without making a sound.
"I'll teach you some of the most basic heart techniques to resist the cold. Although you don't have internal energy, these shallow breathing techniques are beneficial to you." Xiao Longnu flipped down from the rope. "You don't have to treat me as your master. You're also not allowed to call yourself a disciple of the Ancient Tomb Sect." Then, she said some of the Ancient Tomb Sect's internal energy heart techniques.
"I understand. Thank you." After listening to it once, Run Yu did as he was told and indeed, he didn't feel as cold.
Xiao Longnu said a few hundred words just now and it wasn't the language she usually used. Moreover, she hadn't even started to teach him how to comprehend the internal energy. How could Run Yu understand it? "The most taboo when learning martial arts is to pretend to know when you don't know and muddle through …"
"Miss, you're right." Run Yu thought of the countless lonely days and nights he practiced diligently just to win the father god's favor. His voice softened. "Actually, it's not just learning martial arts. No matter what you learn, these two things are taboo."
After Run Yu lay down again, Xiao Longnu observed him for a while. She found that his breathing was indeed calm and he was no longer shivering. Only then did she believe that there were indeed geniuses in the world.
The short night was rare and leisurely.
In the future, if someone asked how Run Yu and Xiao Longnu met, the two would probably give the same answer.
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