Chapter 62 Young People

Chapter 62 Young People

Chapter 62 Young People

With Xue Baoping's help, carrying Zeng Jianqiu back was not particularly difficult.

The straw in the woodshed had been removed, and Xue Baoping didn't want to bring out the straw again, so he wanted to put Zeng Jianqiu on her bed. Li Wuxiang grabbed his feet and thought breathlessly: "Let's put it in the woodshed, he definitely doesn't care. It would be too deliberate to put it with you."

"What...deliberately?"

Li Wuxiang slowly walked in and loosened his hand beside the firewood pile: "You will know tomorrow."

After putting Zeng Jianqiu away, Li Wuxiang went out and found the two soldiers guarding under the willow tree, and asked them to go back to Chen's house to call some people to clean up the kitchen. A quarter of an hour later, Chen Xin came with a few people. He went into the yard first, and when he saw Li Wuxiang, he bent his knees and was about to bow down. Li Wuxiang waited until his knees touched the ground before helping him up, and sighed: "Uncle Chen, why do you have to do this?"

Chen Xin bowed his body and folded his hands in front of his chest: "My old eyes are blurry. I thought you were a child of the Li family before. I am really sorry..."

Li Wuxiang smiled and said, "When you are out, you give yourself an identity. How can I blame you? To be honest, I am indeed a cultivator. I came out of the mountains to gain experience. When I passed by here, I felt something was wrong—"

He turned around and pointed at Xue Baoping: "I saw her again and felt that she was just like my sister, so I stayed and taught her some things. Do you still remember the three people from the Wang family?"

“Ah…I remember.”

"She wanted to bully her that night, so she asked me to kill her. Don't take it as an offense."

Chen Xin immediately shook his head: "They are also from other families, but they are different from the Xue family. The Xue family is good people, and we Jinshui accepted them well. The Wang family, ah, it's all those years before I came here. I don't like them either. Asking them for tiger bones is to force them to leave. The immortal master is getting rid of harm to the town!"

Li Wuxiang smiled: "Then you still have to thank me?"

"You should thank me, you should thank me!" Chen Xin's eyes turned red. "There's more to thank than just this. This time, when I was at the gate during the day, I really couldn't be the town master. I'm sorry to my fellow villagers. I was blind and worshipped Zhao Qi, this scourge. I heard that Ranshan Sect..."

"Ah, the Ranshan Sect is good. Zhao Qi and Zhao Kui were originally temporary disciples of the Ranshan Sect. This is not your fault. I still have to find an opportunity to take action."

"Yes, yes... I mean, Master, what you said today was really... Oh, I can't thank you enough for your kindness. Master, if you need anything in the future, I will give it to you even if I sell everything I have!"

"Alright." Li Wuxiang grabbed his shoulders and straightened his back. "I'm not Zhao Qi, so I don't want anything. You don't have to treat me like this. It's fine for us to have a meal and drink tea together. But your master's injury does require something - help me clean up the kitchen and turn it into a room. He will stay in town for a few more days."

Chen Xin looked into the room and hesitated for a while: "He..."

"I remember you now. It was inconvenient for us to recognize each other before. I'll ask you to come and see him when he's healed. Now he needs to rest and I have to heal him." "Okay, let's do it now!"

It only took half an hour to dismantle everything in the kitchen, and then various household items were delivered in a stream - a bed that looked like it was originally used by the Chen family, but was now dismantled. There were also various pots, pans, tables, chairs, benches, and some clothes, and some silver and money. Li Wuxiang instructed them to put the bed in the kitchen, and by the time they had put everything in order, another three quarters of an hour had passed.

Before leaving, Chen Xin gave many instructions and sighed, saying that his master lived in the newly cleaned kitchen, but Master Li had no quiet place, so he asked if he wanted to clean up the house next door. Li Wuxiang coaxed him a few words and sent him away.

After the footsteps outside the door faded away, he lay comfortably on the bed in the kitchen for a while, tried the quilt again, and carried another quilt to the wood room to see Zeng Jianqiu. He asked Xue Baoping to pick up some thin firewood branches and lay a layer, then a layer of straw, and then put the quilt on top. After putting him on, he opened his eyelids, felt his pulse, and listened to his heartbeat.

According to his experience, if Zeng Jianqiu is regarded as an ordinary person, his body can be considered healthy. Li Wuxiang guessed that it might be because his youth and lifespan have been exhausted, which has affected the internal energy and caused him to faint.

So he took Xue Baoping and sat at the door of his new house to taste the various new foods that the Chen family had sent.

When Zeng Jianqiu woke up, it was already light. He opened his eyes suddenly and immediately touched his arm, feeling that the small sword in his sleeve was still there. Then he quickly looked around and tried to prop himself up. But his elbow bent weakly and fell back onto the bed, so he could only slowly climb up sideways.

His ears were buzzing, and he could almost hear the blood and heartbeat. After he leaned against the wall and took a few breaths, his ears gradually quieted down, and he could vaguely distinguish other sounds - birds singing, the rustling of leaves in the wind, the crisp sound of dishes and chopsticks colliding, and the faint laughter.

He took a deep breath, looked around the woodshed again, slowly walked to the door, reached out his hand and pushed it gently.

With a creak, the door opened. It was not locked. Zeng Jianqiu was stunned for a moment, and finally let out the breath he had been holding.

He walked into the yard and saw the main house of the Xue family. The door was open and Li Wuxiang and Xue Baoping were having dinner.

He stood there and watched quietly for a while - what he saw were two beautiful young people, with smooth skin and bright eyes. The sunlight shining on them was so bright that it seemed a little dazzling. Their movements were brisk and agile, and their faces were full of smiles, as if they had never had any worries and would never age, as if this was the embodiment of youth.

A thought suddenly jumped into his mind... He shouldn't be in this state of mind. But this thought quickly dissipated like a ball of dust carried by the wind. Zeng Jianqiu slowly exhaled again and felt the pain in his body. His wrists, ankles, face, shoulders, and lower back were all swollen and painful. He had heard of this kind of pain before - the root of the disease caused by injury, or the hidden disease left by labor in old age. These things had nothing to do with the young Taiyi swordsman in the past, but now he realized that they seemed to have all come to him.

He sighed, took a deep breath, and strode over: "Why didn't you call me for dinner? You woke me up from hunger!"

Li Wuxiang leaned back, looked out the door into the yard, smiled, and pointed at the empty bowl and chopsticks on the table: "We saved them for you. Try the ones your apprentice brought this morning. After dinner, I'll tell you about Guang Chanzi. I just don't know how good your memory is."

(End of this chapter)