Chapter 12 Cultivation is a very personal matter
The master and servant walked on the way back to the academy with the sunset on their backs. The rays of light shone on the sky on their bodies. Li Ye was holding the water bowl, and there were three sunsets...
Before I knew it, I walked on the road to the General's Mansion again.
The young lady of the General's Mansion held her chin with her little hands, sat on the stone steps of the front door in front of the mansion, looking towards the roadside, thinking that it had been a month since she had no news about Li Ye.
Li Ye walked quietly, thinking about what his husband said in the afternoon, but unexpectedly he walked to the road in front of the general's mansion again. Looking at the young lady sitting on the stone steps from afar, he said in his heart that she couldn't see me, she couldn't see me...
The young lady was thinking, and as soon as she looked up, she saw Li Ye holding a bowl, walking past the general's mansion.
I felt happy, and my feet were pressing down, jumped off the steps, and ran to Li Ye: "Stop, Li Ye, what are you hiding? Come here. I am looking for you for something."
When Li Ye saw that he could not hide, he had to stop and looked at the young lady helplessly. "What's the matter? Tell me quickly. I didn't see me holding on to the water. I was so tired that I was rushing to go home."
The young lady smiled, pulled Li Ye's sleeve with her left hand, and gently stretched over Li Ye's shoulder with her right hand: "Don't be angry, show me your bowl and just take a look."
I just wanted to get the iron bowl, but I didn't expect that the iron bowl containing the water was very heavy. I waved my hand and the water in the bowl spilled out and sprinkled on Li Ye's robe.
Li Ye looked speechless and said to the young lady patiently: "If you want to see it, let me give it to you. This messy thing makes my robe wet. Isn't it ugly?"
The young lady's face suddenly turned red and she thought to herself: "This fool is indeed practicing and is not angry with me anymore."
Holding the iron bowl with most of the water left in both hands, he whispered to Li Ye: "This bowl is indeed very heavy. I didn't expect you to be so powerful. When will you teach me, let me push it too." As he said that, he wanted to put it on his head.
Li Ye smiled angry at the young lady. "You are a girl, isn't it ugly to see? You want to lend it to you for a while, but don't break it." After that, he took his own bowl from the young lady.
The young lady was happy after hearing this, and hurriedly pulled Li Ye and said, "You have agreed that you will definitely play with me and ensure that you won't mess it up."
Li Ye nodded, handed the bowl to Agui, and put it on his shoulder. He said to the young lady, "I'll go back first if it's okay."
Turning around and trying to leave.
The young lady was anxious and hurriedly pulled Li Ye and said with a mysterious look on her face: "Don't be anxious, the matter hasn't been said yet!"
When he heard this, Li Ye stopped again in a daze, and looked at the young lady with a bitter face.
"The sister Li from Hongxiulou spoke a few days ago and offered a reward of 500 gold coins to write a poem for her painting. Everyone in the city was crazy and squeezed in front of the Hongxiulou gate to line up to deliver poems!" The young lady looked at Li Ye with a proud look on her face.
Li Ye still replied with a bitter face: "What's up to me? Let go. My parents are waiting for me to go home for dinner. You should go back quickly, don't linger around the door, girl, it's precious."
When the young lady heard this, she stopped doing it, and her red face shed sweat. "That's not possible. Didn't your poem be well written? Didn't Sister Li grind the ink for you last time?"
"You are responsible for writing. I will send it to Sister Li. After collecting the money, we will share it equally. How about it?"
"It's not so good, it's evenly divided? Is it 250 per person?" Li Ye really smiled this time.
After saying that, he ignored the young lady, turned around and called Agui to leave together.
The young lady was so angry that she jumped up and shouted: "Don't run away, I'll go to your house to find you tomorrow night, and my parents will go there too."
After shouting, the young lady turned around and went back to her house.
Leaving Agui behind Li Ye, he kept laughing.
Li Ye frowned and said, "Agui, why did she go to my house? She is still with her parents."
Agui followed behind him and quickly replied, "Isn't my wife's birthday tomorrow? So, I invited the General's Mansion and Sanhao Medicine Pavilion, and it seems that there is also the owner of Hongxiu Building."
If he didn't go back to Agui, Li Ye accelerated his pace and took advantage of the time he went home.
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When I entered my home, it was almost dark. The lights had been lit in the academy and the food had been set on the dining table. I was waiting for Li Ye to come back.
He took off the bowl that was pressed on his head and was about to wash his face with water when Ye Zhiqiu walked over.
As the mother, she was naturally very happy that she hadn't seen her son for a month. She hugged Li Ye and shouted: "Son, I haven't seen her for a long time, and her hair has grown. She still looks so good. You are not allowed to shave your head in the future. Ah!"
Li Ye nodded and agreed. He took my mother's hand to the flower hall, and his stomach screamed.
The Master had already sat at the dining table, watching the mother and the other two come in, and was also happy. He looked at Li Ye and said, "Are you studying or practicing in this month of seclusion? Are you gaining anything?"
Li Ye quickly returned the gift to his father and said, "Go back to my parents, my son is studying the poems and books in his husband's study this month, and he is almost ready to read it all. His cultivation seems to have also broken through this month."
When the Master heard that he was smiling, he looked at Ye Zhiqiu and said, "Madam, our son is still smart. It is rare to be happy today, so I have to have a drink."
Mrs. Ye was also happy and told the servants to go to the kitchen to get wine.
The three of them sat down, and the wife still packed vegetables in Li Ye’s bowl. She touched Li Ye’s head and said softly: “I haven’t sat down for a long time to have dinner together. Today is an exception. Let’s talk while eating.”
Li Ye nodded and said, "Okay, listen to my mother."
The Master took the rice wine taken by the servant, poured a glass of it for his wife and himself, and looked at Li Ye and said, "You have practiced with your husband for so long. You are born with smooth flow. Why do you still think of the third or fourth layers of Qi gathering? Wushuang now has the seven to eight layers of Qi gathering."
Li Ye was holding up the chopsticks and was about to eat meat. After hearing what his father said, he had to put down the meat in his mouth and replied: "Mr. said that the highest level of practice is no realm. As long as you think of it, your body can reach it! With the master of the Great Buddha Temple, it is said: It cannot be said."
"Mr. I had taught me earlier that practice is not for fighting or showing off. Practice is just a very personal matter and is not worth comparing with others."
After saying that, he used the meat to his mouth and ignored his parents' interrogation.
When the Master and the Wife heard this, they were stunned. The teacher and his disciples in their hearts wanted to improve their realm without stopping, and they tried their best to find ways to practice and buy elixirs, and then compete with others for martial arts. Mr. Mo not only taught his son tea ceremony, piano tracing and practice, but also taught his son to cultivate his body and nature. The truth he taught was not even comparable to the couple.
Ye Zhiqiu was full of joy. His son followed his husband to practice, and he was well-educated at a young age. While picking up food in Li Ye’s bowl, he said, “This practice is important, you must also pay attention to your health, don’t be tired.”
When Li Ye asked about his mother's birthday tomorrow, he said that the husband told him to stay at home tomorrow and rest for a day.
Speaking of this, the master who was drinking, inserted: "Tomorrow I will invite people from the General's Mansion, Lord Xia, and Lord Li from Hongxiu Building. I will play with your friends in the academy tomorrow morning and receive guests with us at home in the afternoon. Also, I will also invite your classmate Tang Chao and his parents."
Li Ye nodded and expressed his obedience to his parents' arrangements.
The whole family was in a state of joy until the moon was shining and the stars were rare.
Chapter completed!