Lan Wangji did not look at Wei Wuxian, but nodded his head in greeting, and said calmly: "Conviction comes first, suppression comes second, and extermination comes third. First, think of their parents, wives, and children, fulfill their wishes, and eliminate their obsessions; if it doesn't work, then suppress them; if their crimes are extremely serious and their resentment is not dissipated, then cut off the roots and do not allow them to survive. When doing things in the Xuanmen, you must strictly follow this order and not make any mistakes."

Everyone heaved a sigh of relief, thanking God in their hearts. Fortunately, the old man picked Lan Wangji, otherwise when it was their turn, they would inevitably miss one or two or the order would be wrong. Lan Qiren nodded with satisfaction and said, "Exactly the same." After a pause, he continued, "Whether it is cultivation or being a person, you need to be so down-to-earth. If you become complacent and naughty just because you have subdued a few inferior mountain spirits and ghosts in your home and have some false reputation, you will sooner or later bring shame upon yourself."

Wei WuXian raised an eyebrow and glanced at Lan WangJi’s profile, thinking, “So this old man is coming for me. He asked his good students to come and study together just to make me look good.”

He said, "I have doubts."

Lan Qiren said, “Speak.”

Wei WuXian said, “Although ‘conversion’ is the first priority, ‘conversion’ is often impossible. ‘Fulfilling their wishes and removing their obsessions’ is easy to say, but if the obsession is to get a new dress, then it’s easy to say, but if it’s to kill an entire family for revenge, what should I do?”

Lan Wangji said: “So, we should focus on enlightenment, and use suppression as a supplement, and exterminate if necessary.”

Wei WuXian smiled slightly and said, “What a waste of resources.” After a pause, he said, “It’s not that I didn’t know the answer just now, I was just considering the fourth path.”

Lan Qiren said: "I have never heard of a fourth rule."

Wei WuXian said, “It was inevitable that this executioner died a violent death and turned into a vicious corpse. Since he beheaded more than a hundred people during his lifetime, it would be better to dig up the graves of these hundred people, stir up their resentment, and then use a hundred heads to fight against the vicious corpse…”

Lan Wangji finally turned around to look at him, but his brows were slightly furrowed and his expression was very cold. Lan Qiren's beard trembled and he shouted, "You don't know how high the sky is or how deep the earth is!"

Everyone in the orchid room was shocked, and Lan Qiren stood up suddenly: "Subduing demons and monsters, exorcising ghosts and exterminating evil, all for the sake of salvation! Not only do you not think about how to save them, but you also want to provoke their resentment? You are putting the cart before the horse and disregarding human ethics!"

Wei WuXian said, “Some things are useless anyway, so why not make use of them? Even Dayu knew when he was controlling floods that blocking is the worst option, while draining is the best option. Suppression is blocking, isn’t that the worst option…” Lan QiRen threw a book at him, and he dodged it without changing his expression, continuing to talk nonsense, “Spiritual energy is also energy, and resentment is also energy. Spiritual energy is stored in the Dan Palace, and can be used to split mountains and fill the sea. Why can’t resentment be used by people?”

Lan Qiren threw another book at him and said sternly, "Then let me ask you again! How can you ensure that this resentment will be used for your own benefit instead of harming others?"

Wei WuXian dodged while saying, “I haven’t thought of that yet!”

Lan Qiren was furious: "If you think of this, the hundreds of immortal families will not let you stay. Get out!"

Wei WuXian wanted nothing more than to get away.

He wandered around the Cloud Recesses, playing with flowers and grass for half a day. After listening to his lecture, everyone finally found him on a high eaves. Wei Wuxian was sitting on the green tiles on the top of the wall, holding a piece of orchid in his mouth, supporting his cheek with his right hand, one leg raised, and the other leg hanging down, swaying gently. The people below pointed at him and said, "Brother Wei! I admire you. He told you to leave, and you actually left! Hahahaha..."

"He didn't understand for a long time after you left, his face was ashen!"

Wei WuXian bit the grass and shouted to the people below, “I will answer any questions you ask. If he tells me to get out of here, get out of here. What else does he want from me?”

Nie Huaisang said, "Why does Old Man Lan seem to be particularly harsh on you? He points at you and scolds you."

Jiang Cheng snorted, "He deserves it. What kind of answer is that? It's fine if he says this kind of nonsense at home, but he actually dared to say it in front of Lan Qiren. He's courting death!"

Wei WuXian said, “No matter how I answer, he won’t like me, so I might as well just say it out loud. And I didn’t scold him, I was just answering honestly.”

Nie Huaisang thought about it and revealed a feeling of envy and yearning, saying: "Actually, what Brother Wei said is very interesting. Spiritual energy needs to be cultivated by oneself, and it takes a lot of hard work to form a golden elixir. For someone like me who has such poor talent that it seems like a dog had eaten me in the womb, I don't know how many years it will take. And the resentment is all from those evil spirits. It would be great if we could use it right away."

The so-called golden elixir is a pill formed in the body of a cultivator after reaching a certain level of cultivation, which can store and circulate spiritual energy. After forming a pill, one's cultivation will advance by leaps and bounds, and only then can one cultivate more and more, and reach new heights, otherwise he can only be considered a low-ranking cultivator. If a child of an aristocratic family forms a pill too late, it would be shameful to tell others about it, but Nie Huaisang did not feel ashamed at all. Wei Wuxian also laughed and said, "Right? It's a waste if you don't use it."

Jiang Cheng warned, "That's enough. You can talk, but don't go down this evil path."

Wei WuXian smiled and said, “Why would I walk on this narrow bridge in the gutter instead of taking the open road? If it were so easy, someone would have walked on it long ago. Don’t worry, he just asked and I just said so. Hey, are you guys coming? Let’s go out and hunt pheasants before curfew.”

Jiang Cheng scolded, "What are you shooting pheasants for? Where can you find pheasants here? Go copy the Yazheng Collection first. Lan Qiren told me to tell you to copy the Shangyi Chapter of the Yazheng Collection three times so that you can learn what the Heavenly Dao and Human Relations are."

"Ya Zheng Ji" is the Lan family precepts. His family precepts are too long, so Lan Qiren revised them and compiled them into a thick collection. "Shang Yi Pian" and "Li Ze Pian" account for four fifths of the whole book. Wei Wuxian spit out the grass in his mouth, patted the dust on his boots, and said: "Copy it three times? I can ascend to heaven after one time. I am not a member of the Lan family, and I don't plan to marry into the Lan family. Why should I copy their family precepts? I won't copy it."

Nie Huaisang hurriedly said, "I'll copy it for you! I'll copy it for you!"

Wei WuXian said, “If someone is too nice to you for no reason, he is either a traitor or a thief. Tell me, what do you want from me?”

Nie Huaisang said: "That's right. Brother Wei, old man Lan has a bad habit. He..." A Song of Ice and Fire novel

He was halfway through his speech when he suddenly fell silent, coughed dryly, unfolded his folding fan and shrank aside. Wei Wuxian knew something was wrong, and when he looked over, he saw Lan Wangji, standing under a lush old tree with the Bichen Sword on his back, looking at them from afar. He was like a jade tree, with mottled shadows of leaves and sunlight, but his eyes were not very kind. Being stared at by him was like falling into an ice cave. Everyone knew that they had shouted too loudly in the air just now, and they were afraid that the noise had attracted him, so they kept their mouths shut. Wei Wuxian jumped down, walked up to him and shouted, "Brother Wangji!"

Lan Wangji turned and walked away, and Wei Wuxian chased after him happily, calling out, “Brother Wangji, wait for me!”

The white dress with fluttering ribbons flashed behind the tree and disappeared in an instant, which made it clear that Lan Wangji didn't want to talk to him. Wei Wuxian ate his back, feeling bored, and turned around to complain to others: "He ignored me."

"Yes." Nie Huaisang said: "It seems that he really hates you, Brother Wei. Lan Wangji is usually... No, he has never been so rude."

Wei WuXian said, “Is this annoying? I wanted to admit my mistake to him.”

Jiang Cheng laughed at him, "It's too late to admit your mistake now! He must think you are evil and a bad embryo just like his uncle, and he will not bother to pay attention to you."

Wei WuXian disagreed and said in a low voice: “If you don’t want to pay attention to him, then don’t. Is he handsome?” Thinking about it again, he was indeed handsome, and he put the desire to pout behind his mind with relief.

Three days later, Wei Wuxian finally found out what Lan Qiren's bad habits were.

Lan Qiren's lectures were extremely lengthy, and all of them had to be memorized. The changes of several generations of cultivation families, the division of spheres of influence, famous sayings, family genealogy...

When listening, it was like listening to a heavenly book; when silent, it was like selling oneself into slavery. Nie Huaisang helped Wei Wuxian copy the "Shangyi Pian" twice, and begged before the exam: "Please, Brother Wei, this is my third year in Gusu. If I still can't get a grade lower than B, my eldest brother will really break my legs! What's the difference between direct and collateral descent, the main family and the branch family? Children of aristocratic families like us can't even figure out our own relatives. We just call the relatives beyond the second degree aunt, aunt, uncle and uncle casually. Who has the extra brain to remember other families!"

The consequence of the cheat sheets flying everywhere was that Lan Wangji suddenly appeared during the test and caught several leaders of the rebellion. Lan Qiren was furious and sent letters to all the major families to complain. He hated it very much: although this group of children from noble families could not sit still, at least no one took the lead, and their buttocks barely touched their calves. But when Wei Ying came, the boys who had evil intentions but no courage were instigated and provoked by him. Some went out at night and some drank, and the evil spirit gradually grew. This Wei Ying was indeed as he expected, the number one harm in the world!

Jiang Fengmian responded, "Ying has always been like this. Mr. Lao Lan took the trouble to discipline him."

So Wei Wuxian was punished again.

Originally, he didn't care. It was just copying a book, he never lacked people to help him copy. But this time, Nie Huaisang said, "Brother Wei, I can't help you, just bear it slowly."

Wei WuXian asked: “What?”

Nie Huaisang said, "Mr. Lan said that we should copy the "Shangyi Chapter" and the "Li Ze Chapter" together this time."

The "Etiquette Chapter" is the most tedious of the twelve chapters of the Lan family precepts. It is long and tedious, with many quotations from classics and rare characters. Copying it once is boring, but copying it ten times will make you soar. Nie Huaisang said, "He also said that during the punishment, no one is allowed to hang out with you or copy for you."

Wei WuXian asked curiously, “How would he know if I copied for him or not? Could he have someone watch me copying?”

Jiang Cheng said: "That's right."

"..." Wei WuXian asked: "What did you say?"

Jiang Cheng said, "He asked you not to go out every day, to go to the Lan family's library to copy, and to face the wall to reflect on your mistakes for a month. Naturally, someone is watching you. As for who it is, I don't need to say more, right?"

Inside the library.

There was a green mat, a wooden table, two candlesticks, and two people. On one side, they sat in a serious manner. On the other side, Wei Wuxian had copied more than ten pages of the "Etiquette Chapter". He felt dizzy and bored, so he put down his pen to take a breath and looked across.

When he was in Yunmeng, many girls in the Jiang family envied him for being able to study with Lan Wangji. They said that the Gusu Lan family had produced handsome men from generation to generation, and the Lan brothers, the twin peaks of the current generation, were even more extraordinary. Wei Wuxian had not had time to take a close look at his face before, but now that he had, he thought to himself, "He is quite handsome. There is nothing wrong with his appearance and manners. But I really want those girls to come and see for themselves. If he is bitter and vengeful all day long, and looks cold and cold as if he has lost his parents, no matter how handsome his face is, it can't save him."

Lan Wangji was re-copying an ancient book in the Lan family's library that was very old and not convenient for outsiders to see. He wrote slowly and his handwriting was neat and clear. Wei Wuxian couldn't help but blurt out a sincere compliment: "Good handwriting! Top-notch."

Lan Wangji remained unmoved.

Wei WuXian rarely kept silent for such a long time, and he felt suffocated. He thought, "This man is so boring. If I were to sit opposite him for several hours every day for a month, wouldn't that kill me?"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but lean forward a little.