Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 55: If you waited a lifetime, you must have waited for a long time
After resting for a while, Li Si chatted with Jiang Lian'er for a while before going down the mountain. After all, he had stolen someone's wine and was caught on the spot, so he felt embarrassed to stay too long.
However, he also promised Jiang Lian'er a favor, so that Jiang Lian'er didn't lose the jar of wine in vain. Li Si's favor was still quite expensive in the martial arts world.
In the days that followed, Li Si wandered around the world.
Sometimes he would lie idly on the Broken Sword Cliff of Huashan, watching the Huashan disciples getting up early for morning exercises below the cliff. Whenever he saw some interesting sword techniques, he would learn a few. Although he did not use a sword, it did not stop him from learning.
Sometimes I would observe the Buddhist scriptures written in Sanskrit in Shaolin's Sutra Library, but I didn't quite understand them. I ended up falling asleep among the pile of messy scriptures while reading them.
Sometimes he would sit in the sea of flowers in the Hundred Flowers Valley, watching the disciples of the Hundred Flowers carrying their medicine baskets picking herbs in the mountains, and then he would mutter to himself the names of the herbs they picked. If he came across a rare one, he would steal some from their baskets to taste, which made the Hundred Flowers girls unable to find the herbs and their eyes turned red with anxiety.
Of course, he went to these places secretly. Some of the sect leaders and abbots discovered him, while others did not.
Those who didn't notice him couldn't take care of him, and those who did notice him thought he was troublesome and were too lazy to bother with him. This allowed him to come and go freely, and there was no place he couldn't go.
Li Si was like this when he had nothing to do, as if all the turbulent affairs in the world had nothing to do with him. Even though he was in the river, he would not go with the river.
Gradually, people in the underworld began to say that they had seen the King of Thieves again. He was still as unscrupulous as ever, stealing everything and taking everything.
Some people said that they saw him going to Huashan, probably to learn swordsmanship secretly.
Hiss, the thief saint uses a sword, no one dares to imagine that. If that is true, the world will probably have another famous swordsman.
Some people said that they saw him go to Shaolin. Could it be that he was going to become a monk?
I was immediately sneered at by others. If the thief saint becomes a monk, why don’t you say that a nun gets married?
Others said that he had stolen several thousand-year-old medicinal herbs from Baihua Valley, causing the female disciples of Baihua Valley to stay in their own pharmacies these days and not dare to go out.
This is really confusing. I don't know what the Thief King can do with the stolen medicinal herbs.
But none of this matters, because no one can tell for sure whether the Thief Saint is in the Heavenly Prison or has come out.
…
It's another crisp autumn day.
At the dock, on the longboat, Li Si was lying on a mast taking a nap. The sail covered his body so that the people below could not see him.
The waves on the river swayed gently, causing the boat under Li Si to sway gently as well. Well, it felt like sleeping in a rocking chair.
Just when Li Si was feeling relaxed and was about to go to bed.
A man flew from a distance and landed in front of him.
His lightness skill was quite good, and there was no sound when he fell. This was considered top-notch in the martial arts world.
Li Si silently opened his eyes and looked at the person in front of him.
This person looked very familiar. He was wearing an overly luxurious robe and holding a broken jade fan, which made a very impressive impression.
After just thinking for a while, Li Si remembered who he was.
"What about those from Fengyu Tower and Xueyi Tower?" Li Si asked.
The person in front of him was Xiao Muchu, whom he had met before in West Lake.
"The people from the Blood Robe Tower went to the desert to do some work." Xiao Muchu looked at Li Si and answered in a gentle voice.
"That's it." Li Si nodded, then smiled helplessly at Xiao Muchu: "The court's wanted order has already been issued, do you still want to arrest me?"
Xiao Muchu sighed, smiled bitterly and shook the fan in his hand.
"I'm not here to arrest you this time. I'm here to beg you."
He was aware that he couldn't catch Li Si by himself.
Li Si was a little surprised. Xiao Muchu was the owner of Fengyu Tower. What kind of thing could make him use the word "ask" to ask for something?
"What do you want from me?" Li Si couldn't figure it out, so he asked.
"Please help me find someone." The smile on Xiao Muchu's face seemed to dim a little, completely different from his usual fox-like smile.
"Who?" Li Si asked directly while half lying down.
"Half-immortal." Xiao Muchu said the name lightly.
Li Si pondered for a while and raised his eyebrows.
"I need a reason."
Banjiexian is also half of his friend, so it is impossible for him to help others find him for no reason.
"He's my dad."
Xiao Muchu gave a direct answer.
"Is that reason enough?"
His voice was very complicated, and it was hard to tell whether he was feeling bitter or helpless. But it was definitely not a good feeling, as he wanted to find his biological father and he actually needed help from others.
Li Si was stunned for a long time before he spoke again.
"I never heard that he had any children."
It’s not that he is suspicious, but Xiao Muchu’s reputation in the martial arts world is really not very good. The Jade-faced Fox is not a nice name.
"You can go ask him yourself." Xiao Muchu put away the fan in his hand and said softly.
"Just tell him when you see him that my mother is dead and he should at least come back to see her."
After saying that, he turned around, without a smile on his face, but lowered his eyes, and flew away using his Qing Kung Fu.
He didn't plan to go with Li Si to find that person. He really didn't want to see that person.
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Three months after Xiao Muchu was born, Banjiexian left and never came back.
Banjiexian likes to get news so much that he even ignores his wife and children.
He likes to fight in the world and never stays in one place for long.
So since childhood, Xiao Muchu had never seen his father, let alone what his father looked like.
He only knew that his mother would wait at the door every night, waiting for his father to come back, but that man never came back, not even once.
He asked his mother why his father didn't come back, but his mother just had red eyes and couldn't answer.
So when he grew up, Xiao Muchu established Fengyu Piaoyao Tower, which collected information from all over the world and recruited spies from all over the world.
He wanted to know everything in the world and what made that man so obsessed that he didn't even go home and leave his wife and children.
He wanted to find that man and make him admit his mistake to his mother.
But he never found that bastard until his mother died.
That day, he stood in front of his mother's grave for a long time, not noticing how dark or day had passed, and he only hated himself for being useless.
He also remembered when he was very young, one evening, his mother sat by the window, mending his clothes with a lamp. Suddenly she looked out the window, then turned around and said to him with a smile, "Your father will be back soon, let's wait for him..." This waiting meant a lifetime of loneliness and helplessness.
Later he learned that Li Si seemed to be involved with that man, so he came looking for him.
He asked for his mother's wish.
His mother is already dead, at least, that person should be allowed to come back once.
