Chapter 2: The return of the eldest young master
"Young Master, there are sweet fruit and vegetable pastries tonight, seafood carved sweet potatoes, soup Guyuan Xianjin, golden silk vegetable leaf platter, and it is said that there is also the iron-backed steel-bristled pork pork that I just hunted in the afternoon." The maid was excited when she said that she was eating, and seemed to be looking forward to dinner, and she didn't notice that the young master's face had turned from blue to black.
It's simply a sample of dark cuisine, just add vegetables to it, it's hard for Ma Rui to imagine that anti-human chefs came up with honey to add gnocchi soup, which makes the stomach twitch when you think about it.
What’s even more ridiculous is carving the ingredients. I don’t know who came up with the idea. Does sweet potatoes have the peach smell when they carve the longevity peaches? Even if they sprinkle some salt, wouldn’t it be considered a delicacy of the sea?
It was the first time I heard of an iron-backed steel-bred porcupine. I don’t know what cooking method it was, which aroused a hint of hope from Ma Rui: “Is the pork custard delicious?”
"Mei'er doesn't know, but the iron-backed and steel-bred porcupine is a monster!" Speaking of this, the maid Mei'er was even more excited. The monster was huge. I believe that the servants in the yard would have the chance to taste the monster tonight!
Monster beast? This is not the first time Ma Rui has heard that the legendary stories of Qiyuan Continent cannot be separated from three elements, cultivation sects, magic weapons, and monsters.
In Qiyuan Continent, any bird and beast that can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth like a human cultivator is collectively called a monster.
Only when humans practice hard can they comprehend the way of heaven, understand nature, progress through layer by layer, and finally cultivate themselves into their free true self. However, monsters are different. As long as the surrounding environment is suitable and they live long enough, almost every monster has the opportunity to achieve the right result.
There is no place with abundant spiritual energy near Fenglin City. This iron-backed steel-bred porcupine is obviously not the legendary thousand-year-old monster. It is probably just the lowest-end species of monster beasts. However, monster beasts are monsters after all, and they are strange abilities that are different from wild beasts.
The iron-backed and steel-bred porcupine like this monster is as its name suggests. It has a layer of iron armor-like hard protective horn on its back that can resist the sharpness of swords. There are hundreds of terrible sharp thorns on it for attack. The thorns like steel arrows can easily penetrate the body of unprotected hunters within ten meters, and there are numerous. Once triggered, it is extremely difficult to dodge. It is a fierce thing that is not easy to mess with in the mountains and forests far and near.
I don’t know how the casualties within the clan were killed, so I guess the hunting process was quite difficult.
"It seems that there are very few monsters in the clan to hunt?" Ma Rui traveled over for two months. This was the first time he heard that he had hunted monsters. He asked the maid behind him casually.
"Then, that's of course..." The maid was slightly stunned. Thinking of the young master's head hurt when he fell downstairs, which led to his behavior being abnormal recently, he patiently explained: "It is said that eating monsters can increase spiritual energy and even improve the level of cultivation. Cultivators have long hunted monsters nearby! Now, except for the Beimang Mountains, monsters are almost extinct!"
"Oh——" Ma Rui dragged his long voice to express his knowledge, and his heart was full of disdain: Although the people in Qiyuan World eat rough and boring, their pursuit of good ingredients is no longer behind those crazy guys in the foodie country in their previous lives, and they will not give up until genocide!
As he was talking, a wave of shouts came from the front yard.
"The eldest young master is back!"
"Go and notify the lady!"
"Someone is here to move the luggage!"
The quiet courtyard suddenly became a mess.
"Is it my brother back?" Ma Rui took off the recliner and straightened his upper body, looked at the maid's reaction with his eyes squinted.
The maid nodded bitterly, sympathizing with the young master in front of her. She was afraid that she would be stupid. There were only two young masters in the family. How could there be any other possibility besides yourself?
After a while, Ma Rui heard a burst of rapid footsteps and walked through the hall to his small courtyard.
"Ari!" A strange voice sounded, sounding quite happy. Then a sturdy young man with a similar appearance to Ma Rui appeared from behind the trees in the courtyard, smiling at this side with a spring breeze, shaking the objects in his hand: "Look at what I brought you!"
Ma Rui adhered to the habit of two months. When he saw any stranger, he would scratch his head and say nothing. He would wait until the other party spoke before thinking about countermeasures, and remind him that the injured person was not very smart.
So Ma Rui scratched his head honestly, stood up and greeted him, barely squeezing out a little smile: "Thank you brother!"
He reached out to take a bamboo bird cage, and a colorful bird inside was standing on the perch bar, looking at the human outside in horror.
"Don't you like it?" Brother Ma Xiang was a little surprised. His younger brother would not be so dull when he saw him.
"That... I fell downstairs some time ago and hurt my head. I have some amnesia. Brother, don't blame me!" In my impression, except for the second generation ancestors in TV series in previous life or the old men in the streets who were seventy and eighty in the morning, raising birds has faded out of people's sight, so I naturally couldn't get interested when I received such a gift, but I blamed this dullness on amnesia.
"Fallen downstairs?" Unexpectedly, when Ma Xiang heard this, he was shocked and angry, and shouted, "What's going on!"
Ma Rui could almost intuitively feel that with his brother Ma Xiang in front of him, a ripples of air were evenly opened like a shock wave, causing a gust of cold wind to rush towards his face, blowing away the green branches and leaves in the courtyard.
Is this a cultivator in the Kalpa stage? Ma Rui stood there in a daze, feeling like a car was speeding past in front of him in the cold winter, rolling up a bone-bone cold current.
It turns out that cultivators can be so powerful! Ma Rui has experienced the methods of cultivators for the first time since his time travel. Compared with the legendary master who cuts mountains and waters from the maids and servants, Ma Xiang's realm in front of him is obviously not boasting enough, but it is more real and even more arousing Ma Rui's eagerness to ask the truth.
"I don't remember it very much, I just heard them say..." That was before the time travel, and Ma Rui only heard about it. It is said that no one noticed the young master fell down.
Ma Xiang's sharp eyes quickly turned to the maid Mei'er, and the temperature in the entire courtyard seemed to be a little colder.
"That day, Tiangou ate the moon, and the patriarch organized everyone to go to the villa in the back mountain to enjoy the moon. The young master, if you accidentally..." Mei'er was so nervous that she trembled with fear that the matter would be attributed to her, so she quickly comforted the eldest master: "The doctor said that the young master only had a temporary memory loss and would recover after a period of cultivation."
"Everyone says that if I survive a disaster, I will have a blessing in the future! Haha!" Ma Rui made a smooth move, thinking that it would be good to have such a brother who cared for him. He didn't want to bother with his injuries anymore, so he quickly changed the topic: "Mei'er, let's put the bird cage in the house."
The maid, who was silent and trembling, quickly left the yard and hurried into the house with a bird cage, and stopped appearing.
"Fortunately you are fine!" As Ma Xiang's nervous expression eased, the temperature in the courtyard was rising, and he turned to complain to his younger brother in a doting way: "Why are you so careless? I left March and such a dangerous accident happened!"
Ma Xiang went out to practice for three months in order to consolidate his cultivation. On the way, he encountered the evil sign of Tiangou eating the moon. He also laughed and said that there was no way to make trouble. Unexpectedly, the one who was unlucky was his own brother!
"I will be careful in the future." Ma Rui squeezed out a smile and responded vaguely.
"Show me the wound!" Ma Xiang nodded and looked at the injury Ma Rui was referring to with concern - the swelling behind his head had long been eliminated and nothing was left.
"By the way, I heard that you have the Shanhe School's "Heart Sutra" from the Shanhe School. Can you borrow me to refer to and practice?" Ma Rui didn't know how to borrow it, but he didn't expect that the two brothers were so close, so it was not difficult to borrow it to take a look.
As the introductory mind method of the Shanhe Sect, "The Heart Sutra of the Mountains and Rivers" is at least more famous than the old books in the attic of the Ma clan. A few years ago, when the disciples of the Shanhe Sect went down the mountain to travel, the Ma clan recommended Ma Xiang, who was in the late stage of foundation building in order to highlight the storefront. Although Ma Xiang was not accepted as a disciple of the Shanhe Sect at that time, he obtained this mind method as an encouragement.
Even if it is just an introductory mind method, it is a great reward and marks a kind of glory.
It is natural that ordinary people cannot borrow it, and it is impossible to look at the title page, but Ma Rui couldn't help but feel the desire in his heart and decided to give it a try. The family's mental methods he has practiced these days have made little progress, and perhaps changing to a powerful mental method can have miraculous effects.
"Hmm?" Ma Xiang widened his eyes and his expression became very nervous. He looked around and then hugged his brother's shoulders. He pulled it to one corner and asked cautiously and lowly: "Aren't you just practicing the Heart Sutra of Mountains and Rivers? Can you forget this?"
"Ha?" Ma Rui was completely stunned. It turned out that the faint breath in his body was the contribution of the "Heart Sutra of Mountains and Rivers"? Isn't that saying that it is the same as the Taoist practiced by my brother, it is completely a difference in talent?
This can be even more frustrating.
"Don't let it go!" Ma Xiang was still worried and warned seriously: "Only parents and you know about this matter, I must not reveal it. The consequences of being discovered by Shanhe Sect will be unimaginable."
"Oh! Oh!" Ma Rui nodded repeatedly, no wonder he asked others where there was a high-level mental method of cultivation. Everyone talked about Ma Xiang's "Heart Sutra of Mountains and Rivers". It turned out that he didn't know that Ma Rui had already practiced quietly.
No wonder, no one at Ma Rui's mid-stage Qi Refining level would suspect that Ma Xiang revealed the "Mountain and River Heart Method" to his younger brother.
Ma Rui can understand that Shanhe Sect is unwilling to leak the minds of the sect. Just like the company training documents in their previous lives, even if they are not classified, they are limited to insiders. Ma Xiang is currently in the probation period and is not considered a formal employee, and it is even more inappropriate to leak the documents.
However, it further confirms Ma Rui's complete waste physical condition. When practicing the same mental method, the two brothers are different from Yunran.
Ma Xiang noticed the frustration and unwillingness in his younger brother's eyes, and changed his tone and comforted Ma Rui with a soft voice: "It doesn't matter. If you have your brother here, you don't have to suffer this hardship!"
Ma Rui looked up at Ma Xiang, and saw care and... pity from the brother's eyes.
Yes, mercy.
It is a foregone conclusion that he is useless in cultivation. His family has long given up hope and does not expect Ma Rui to make any achievements.
This is why my parents only smiled faintly when they saw Ma Rui working hard for two months, and even indulged Ma Rui to rummage the boxes and close their cabinets in the clan without even asking about it.
Everything is pity, like pity for a disabled pet.
Humans full of love and kindness can care for their pets, treat their pets as their family members, and are willing to make their pets worry-free. As long as the pets are happy, as long as they don’t cause trouble, as long as they are within a limited range, they are willing to tolerate everything about their pets.
As for what ambitions a pet has, it doesn’t matter. As long as the owner thinks that the pet lives a happy life, it’s enough.
A sense of sadness arose from the heart. Ma Rui gritted his teeth. Before he could say anything bold, he was suddenly interrupted by the servant who broke into the courtyard:
"Madam, please have dinner in the main hall!"
Chapter completed!