Chapter 159: I am not willing to be a brick
It is indeed a jade-inducing thing.
He was still holding the Geomancer's Shovel. With this magical tool in hand, even if he was swallowed by the mountain monster, he could quickly dig a way out and escape. Therefore, it was not strange for him to appear here. After all, the sound of Quan Yizhen pounding the wall just now was earth-shattering.
Because the images seen by his left and right eyes were different, he felt extremely uncomfortable. Xie Lian blinked gently and found that even if he closed his eyes, he could still see the images outside with his right eye, so he simply closed his eyes. At this moment, his vision suddenly trembled slightly, and then suddenly swung left and right, as if Quan Yizhen had finally woken up and shook his head.
Seeing him raise his head, Yinyu moved very quickly, raising his hand to cover his face with a ghost mask. However, Quan Yizhen had no time to pay attention to him, because he had just woken up and his whole body shrank back.
The mountain monster sucked in a large part of Quan Yizhen's body!
While his hands were still outside, Quan Yizhen continued to bang on the wall while trying to pull himself out. But the mountain monster must be a thousand years old and powerful. It opened its mouth and sucked again. Quan Yizhen fell deeper and deeper until the sound of pounding on the wall disappeared, and it seemed that both his hands were dragged into the stone wall. At this moment, the mountain monster stopped moving. However, Quan Yizhen was left with only his head exposed.
It seemed that he had just noticed that there was someone standing below him, and he asked without thinking, "Who are you?"
Yinyu did not answer, but shot out two glances through the mask.
That look was terrifying. Xie Lian couldn’t help but think, “… this doesn’t look like someone who wants to reminisce about the past, does it?”
Quan Yizhen continued without thinking: "Is that a shovel in your hand? Help me dig the wall, I want to get out."
He always spoke like this. Innocent, matter-of-fact, fearless, like a child. He didn't even ask who the other party was and asked him to help, without considering whether the strange black shadow that appeared in this scene and atmosphere was here to take his head. Hearing these two words from him, Yinyu's grip on the geomancer's shovel gradually tightened.
In a moment, he grabbed the shiny shovel and slowly approached Quan Yizhen. Step by step, he seemed like a murderer preparing to commit a major crime. Seeing this, Xie Lian was inexplicably frightened and said, "... Wait, why do I feel like he wants to shovel Qiying's head off with a shovel?"
Hua Cheng said, "Maybe."
Xie Lian: “???”
Hua Cheng added: "However, we cannot let him kill Quan Yizhen for the time being. Right now the mountain monster can only eat him alive, which is difficult to digest. But if Quan Yizhen dies and only his body is left, it will be much easier to digest. The mountain monster ate a priest, and his magic power increased greatly. I'm afraid it will be more troublesome for us to get out."
Xie Lian hurriedly said, “Wait a minute. Sanlang, let’s put this aside for now. Yinyu is your subordinate. Based on your understanding of him, do you think he would kill Qiying? Do they have a deep hatred?”
Qiying was so active in looking for Yinyu. Since they were fellow disciples, he would not have lost sight of this person after so many years. He thought that it was because Quan Yizhen thought Yinyu was worth it. And with Quan Yizhen's personality, he would never do anything that would make people want to kill him. Huacheng said, "No. However, sometimes, whether or not to kill someone is not necessarily determined by one or two deep hatreds, but may also come from some small things. Even small things that you are not aware of at all."
Xie Lian asked, “What’s the small matter?”
As soon as he finished speaking, the scene he saw with his right eye was different. What he saw was neither the red dress on Hua Cheng's chest nor the scene of a man and a woman facing each other outside the stone wall, but a street. Just as Xie Lian was about to ask what this was, he heard a commotion coming from the front.
I saw a group of Taoists gathered on the road, seeming to be surrounding someone and shouting angrily. Upon closer inspection, I found a child squatting in the middle of the group of Taoists, with curly hair and a bloody face.
An ordinary child would have been scared to tears if surrounded and scolded by such a crowd, but this child was only about ten years old, and he was not afraid at all. Instead, he seemed quite excited, looking left and right, clenching his fists and looking eager to try. At this time, a young Taoist pushed through the crowd and came over, saying, "Forget it, stop scolding him, he should know he is wrong."
Xie Lian let out a soft “eh”.
This young Taoist had bright eyes, a radiant face, and a straight back. He was actually Yin Yu.
However, I don’t know if it’s because Yinyu is a real young man at this time, or because he is full of vigor and vitality, without the dullness of being polished by time, but much more vivid than the faint impression left in Xie Lian’s mind when he first met him. Anyone who sees him will praise him as a good young man. They are two completely different people. Xie Lian thought to himself: “It’s not so ordinary now!”
Hua Cheng laughed and said, "Who hasn't been a teenager?"
Xie Lian then realized that he had accidentally said it, and asked, “San Lang’s right eye can actually see something like this?”
Hua Cheng said: "It wasn't my right eye that saw it, it was something else that saw it, I just borrowed it to have a look."
Xie Lian said, “A wonderful method. A unique method.”
Hua Cheng said: "It's simple. If you want to pick a subordinate, you have to know everything about him. I'm pretty good at this. If you need to find out who you want to find out, just come to me."
At this moment, in the scene seen by their right eyes, another handsome Taoist priest who was about the same age as Yinyu angrily said, "He knows he is wrong! Does he look like he knows he is wrong? This kid doesn't know anything at all! Let's do some morning exercises and beat him up with rocks and mud. We must teach him a lesson!"
Yinyu stopped him and said, "Forget it, Jianyu. He has been beaten like this, he will not dare to do it again next time. You should vent your anger. What else is there to teach him? If you teach him again, someone will die. Look at this kid dressed like this, there must be no one at home, no one to teach him. Leave him alone, go back and cool off."
Jian Yu turned around and said angrily: "I'm telling you this brat is mentally ill, he's not normal! Look, he's still smiling after being beaten! He even wants to beat him up again!"
Yinyu pushed them away and said, "Hey! You said he was mentally ill, why bother with him?"
It can be seen that at this time, Yinyu's words were very important among his fellow disciples. Although they were indignant, they still went back. Yinyu looked at the child sitting on the ground and squatted down. Before he could say anything, the child grabbed a handful of mud and threw it on his face, his face still excited.
Yinyu was hit right in the face. He was speechless for a moment, wiped the dirt off his face, and said, "You little kid, why are you so naughty? Why did you hit the Taoist priest in our temple?"
The child jumped up, got into a fighting stance, and said, "Come and fight!"
“…”
Yinyu stood up and said, "This opening move is from our school. Who taught you?"
The kid just yelled, "Come and fight!" He jumped around like a silly little monkey, and kept picking up dirt and rocks from the ground and throwing them at his "opponent" with surprising precision. Yinyu was several years older than him, and he was too proud to fight with a kid, but the kid beat him so hard that he ran away and said, "This technique is also from us. Did you learn it by climbing over the wall every day... Stop it, I said, stop hitting me! I didn't hit you! Do you really like fighting so much?!"
Unexpectedly, after saying this, Quan Yizhen suddenly stopped, nodded, rubbed his muddy hands, and said, "I like it."
He actually said it very seriously. Xie Lian and Yin Yu were both stunned.
It was self-evident who this kid was. Xie Lian couldn't help but sigh, "Qiying is really a martial arts fanatic. A natural born martial arts god."
Although everyone else thought Quan Yi was a mentally ill kid at this time, Xie Lian felt very close to him.
Because, when it comes to something, you must first be "crazy" before you can become a "god".
In this regard, people who can understand this obsession still have some potential and are interesting; while people who cannot understand will only laugh at those who are "sick" and "fools", and from this moment on it can be judged that there is no hope on this path.
Yinyu was stunned for a moment, then laughed again. But before he could laugh for long, a ball of mud was smeared on his face again. He hurriedly said, "Hey! I told you not to hit me... Listen to me! Then - do you want to join my sect and learn how to fight?"
Hearing this, Quan Yizhen stopped moving, holding a ball of mud in his hand, not knowing whether it flew out. Xie Lian did not see whether he threw it out, because immediately afterwards, the jade outside the stone wall made a "clang" sound, nailing the earth master's shovel to the wall.
He didn't really chop off Quan Yizhen's head, but the sharp metal brushed past Quan Yizhen's face, which was extremely dangerous.
The silver butterfly hidden in Quan Yizhen’s hair was very stable. Although it was not startled and flew away by the sudden attack, the scene that Xie Lian saw with his right eye changed suddenly. He couldn’t help but blurt out, “Don’t!”
Hua Cheng seemed to have expected this and said, "See. He does have this tendency. But he doesn't have a strong killing intent at the moment."
Quan Yizhen only showed his head and asked, "You want to kill me?"
Yinyu said nothing.
Quan Yizhen seemed confused and asked, "Did I do something wrong?"
Xie Lian also asked, “Did he do anything?”
Hua Cheng said: "It's hard to say. Brother, just see for yourself."
After he finished speaking, a Taoist temple with white walls and black tiles appeared in front of Xie Lian’s right eye. Yinyu looked a few years older than before, and was writing furiously at the desk in the Taoist temple. A large circle of fellow disciples gathered around him to complain, and they were filled with righteous indignation:
"Brother Yinyu, Quan Yizhen's eating habits are so ugly! He always spills food everywhere, and eats three times more than others, just like a starving ghost. He monopolizes the rice bucket and makes it difficult for others to eat properly!"
"Brother Yinyu, I can't live with him anymore. I need to change rooms. He's so irritable when he wakes up. I worry every day that he'll kick me and break my ribs. I can't afford to offend him!"
"Brother Yinyu, I don't want to be in the same team with him anymore. This kid never cooperates with others and never cares about others. He only cares about fighting and showing off. I would rather team up with the worst brother than with him!"
Yinyu felt dizzy after hearing this and said, "Okay, then, how about this, I'll investigate first, and then I'll consider how to deal with it. You guys go back first."
The one who slammed the table and complained the most was of course Jianyu. He was obviously not satisfied with the result and said, "Yinyu, you really shouldn't have let Master accept that kid as your disciple. He has really brought trouble to our family. Look, he has been here for so long, and there is no day that is not full of chaos and trouble!"
Everyone was getting aggressive, so Yinyu said a few words to mediate, saying, "Actually, these are not that big of a deal..."
"It's not a big deal?! Our peace and tranquility have been disturbed. How can we practice if we don't have peace and tranquility?"
"Yeah, why wasn't there so much trouble before?"
Yinyu had no choice but to say, "Yizhen doesn't have any bad intentions, he just really doesn't understand the ways of the world, and doesn't know how to get along with others."
Jianyu said, "Not knowing the ways of the world doesn't mean you can get away with it. If you don't know, can't you learn? Since you live in this world full of people, you have to learn how to get along with them. He's already a teenager, so why should he still act like a child? There are teenagers who have become fathers!"
"Let's not say that the master is partial. This kid has only been here for a few years? He gets all the good things. The best training room is given to him. The best elixir is also given to him. He doesn't have to do morning and evening classes, and he doesn't even have to recite scriptures. When he is caught by the master, he is just said a few words to him, and he doesn't scold him! Why?! Brother Yinyu, you are the eldest disciple. If you were like this, everyone would let it go and have nothing to say. But who is he? He has no education and no morals. What's the big deal about his talent?! Who among us will obey him?"
This had the subtle intention of sowing discord, and everyone started to clamor in agreement. Yin Yu's expression suddenly turned unhappy when he heard this, and he clenched his pen tightly. Xie Lian couldn't help but feel that something was wrong.
People with average tolerance can easily fall into this kind of hook, but if the person is narrow-minded, he will jump up without being hooked. Once the hook is pulled, won’t he explode?
However, unexpectedly, after thinking for a moment, Yinyu put down his pen, frowned and said solemnly: "My fellow disciples, I think it is wrong for you to say such things."
Everyone was stunned. Yin Yu said, "Let me say something unpleasant. No matter what kind of cultivation one practices, having good aptitude is really amazing. Moreover, he has good aptitude and is willing to practice. If you really think that the master is biased, we should work harder to catch up with him and surpass him. Then the training room and the medicine room will naturally be opened to everyone. If you have time to be angry with him, it is better to practice diligently, right?"
After he said this, everyone felt a little embarrassed, but still said: "Senior brother is generous, don't bother with him."
"Just this magnanimity is far superior to him."
Jianyu said, "Yinyu, you are helping him today, be careful that you will be disgusted by him in the future!"
In short, neither side was happy with this complaint. After all the fellow disciples left, Yinyu closed the door and was about to close the window when he suddenly found someone squatting on the window. He was startled and asked, "Who is it?!"
Quan Yizhen hung his head and squatted on the window frame. Yinyu saw that it was him and asked, "When did you come?" He pulled him twice but he didn't move. He said, "Yizhen, if you want to squat, please squat somewhere else. I'm going to close the window."
Quan Yizhen suddenly asked: "Brother, am I really annoying?"