Chapter 538
Chapter 538
Chapter 538
"Elder..."
“I saw Runsheng on the village road just now. Now he is pleasing to my eye.”
"It's pleasing to your eye."
"Yes."
Liu Yumei picked up her teacup and took a sip.
This is a very low evaluation, but because the person who said it was Ali, it seems very high.
Ali used his "eyes" as a reference point.
Being able to catch Ali's eye means that someone is qualified to receive a punch from Ali, whether it's one, two, or three punches. In short, they have met the threshold.
Ali never compares himself to his peers. Over the years, he has been the one to support the family. He always compares himself to the elders of the orthodox Dragon King's family.
This means that Runsheng is now close to reaching the level of "elder". Combined with the characteristics of the Qin family, it can be said that he has already stepped into the line.
Liu Yumei was somewhat dazed. A few days ago, when Xiao Yuan was drinking tea with her on the dam, he had expressed his helplessness in the face of the old man.
Yes, given this child's personality, why would he confide in someone for no reason? Could it be that he wants to get comfort from me?
It must have been around that time that Xiaoyuan was already designing and planning; what I heard was just the child's arrangements during the preparation phase.
Liu Yumei put down her teacup and looked at the bright sunshine outside.
She had long been convinced that Xiao Yuan was the future of the Qin and Liu families, but this future came too quickly and too suddenly, making even her hot-tempered radical seem very conservative.
A dream that was once out of reach suddenly becomes close at hand, and anyone would feel anxious and uncertain about losing it.
However, the position of head of the family has already been handed over, so I don't need to do any of the earnest teachings, cold water, or suggestions. Xiao Yuan is more capable of managing the family than I am, and his temperament is also more stable.
Since failure is not something I need to worry about, the only thing I can do is to look forward to success without any worries.
Liu Yumei suddenly smiled, tapping her fingertips lightly on the offering table, causing the ancestral dragon king tablets above to tremble slightly.
"Hehe, time is running out for this martial arts world."
Li Sanjiang came downstairs, first went to the kitchen to see Chen Xiyuan who was eating breakfast early, then walked across the courtyard with his hands behind his back to the door of the east room and peeked inside.
Uncle Qin stepped aside, and Liu Yumei looked at Li Sanjiang and asked:
"Is something wrong?"
"There's something I need to discuss. The other night I was drinking at the carpenter's house. His nephew's in-laws work in the city's education department, so they have some connections. There's a school for the deaf and mute in our city, and I was thinking..."
"Which school do you want Ah Li to attend?"
"No no no!"
Li Sanjiang quickly waved his hand.
What a joke! He had personally witnessed how fiercely the little girl used to grab people. Although she had changed a lot in recent years, he still didn't dare to let her go to school. The children in the school were already pitiful enough; it would be too cruel for them to be grabbed by the little girl again.
“Sister, what I mean is, let’s hire a responsible teacher from that school to teach sign language. I’ve inquired about it. Sending the teacher to our home to teach is cheaper. It’s much more expensive to have the teacher come to our home two or three times a week. We also need to pick them up and drop them off. A tractor won’t do. Zhuangzhuang will have to drive to pick them up.”
Liu Yumei gently rubbed her brow with her fingertips.
"Don't worry, little sister, I'll pay for the tutoring fee, I'll pay for it."
Li Sanjiang patted his chest, fearing that the mercenary old lady might be reluctant to let her child go because she was afraid of spending money.
Liu Yumei: "Our Ah Li knows sign language."
"Huh?" Li Sanjiang was taken aback. "The little girl knows how?"
"Yes, before I came to your house, there was a teacher next door who taught Ah Li."
"Then why haven't I seen the little girl use sign language?"
"Can you understand it?"
"That's true, hahaha!" Li Sanjiang laughed for a while, then pondered, "Then let Marquis Yuan learn it?"
"Xiao Yuan can do it too."
"What? Our little Marquis Yuan can do that too?"
"Yes, Ah Li taught him. Xiao Yuan is smart and learns things quickly."
"That's right, our little Marquis Yuan is the smartest!"
Liu Yumei had long since figured out Li Sanjiang's personality; any question that veered into praising the old man's great-grandson would no longer be a problem.
Li Sanjiang: "That's good, that's good. I was thinking that the kids are still young now, so it's fine for them to play together. But when they grow up, get married, and have kids, there will always be some bumps in the road. We'll need to find a way to argue. Sometimes, a little arguing will make things better."
Liu Yumei didn't take it seriously. Not to mention that A-Li can't speak yet, even if she could, given the way these two children are getting along, it would be really difficult for them to quarrel.
"Time for breakfast!"
Chen Xiyuan came from the kitchen to the dam, merely to change positions, but the battle continued.
Soup dumplings don't taste good when they're cold, but they're too hot to eat quickly when they're hot, which severely limits Ms. Chen's eating speed.
After everyone else had used up their supplies, Miss Chen was still fighting alone.
"Phew... I'm full, sister. Let me help you wash the dishes."
"Alright, go do your thing."
"No, if we don't wash up soon, it will delay you from making lunch, sister."
After Tan Wenbin took Runsheng to the airport, he returned. When he passed by the kitchen, he wanted to ask if there were any more soup dumplings. He had managed to get one from Aunt Liu when he left in the morning. But when he saw Miss Chen squatting there washing the dishes, he knew that the mess must have been cleaned up.
Entering the house and going upstairs, Tan Wenbin arrived at Li Zhuiyuan's room.
"Brother Xiaoyuan, if there are no delays, Runsheng should be boarding the plane by now, heading to hell."
"Brother Binbin, you can take these with you." Li Zhuiyuan pointed to the stack of paper on the desk, which was half a person high. "I've already broken it down. You should take advantage of these days to digest and understand it."
Tan Wenbin flipped through a few pages of paper, took a deep breath, and realized that even though Xiao Yuan had broken it down, the difficulty of the array on each page was still very high. Such a tall array of papers was equivalent to a test paper of the same height.
"I can only help you modify the formation diagram once you've thoroughly understood it, Brother Binbin."
"Don't worry, Xiao Yuan, I'm good at doing practice problems."
"Take a break, these drawings can cause hallucinations."
"Well, I see."
Tan Wenbin picked up the paper and went downstairs.
He moved a square table over, found a small stool to sit on, laid out his worksheets, picked up his pen, and began to "solve problems."
The new facial features seal diagram tailored for Tan Wenbin has been designed by the main body. What Tan Wenbin is now studying is the instruction manual.
This is the drawback of a unique formation; no single detail can be universally applied.
As he watched, Tan Wenbin's eyes began to swell, and his other senses also became distorted. He immediately stopped to rest and started doing eye exercises.
Lin Shuyou pushed Zhao Yi over.
From a distance, seeing Binbin diligently writing down math problems, Ayou's heart skipped a beat. He mistakenly thought that Binbin was secretly studying behind his back because it was nearing the end of the semester.
Once they reached the dam and saw the astonishing thickness of the material, Ayou realized he had misunderstood Brother Bin. Why would anyone need to review so much material for final exams? This guy was really treating college students like high school seniors.
Zhao Yi: "Ayou, push it closer so I can see."
Lin Shuyou: "Don't disturb my brother Bin's studies."
Zhao Yi: "I'd rather you worry that I'm stealing secrets."
Tan Wenbin: "Ayou, push the outer team over here."
Zhao Yi: "Look, this is the magnanimity of a high-ranking official."
Lin Shuyou pushed Zhao Yi over, and Zhao Yi picked up a few sheets of paper and started reading. Lin Shuyou also picked up a few sheets and started reading with him.
Zhao Yi narrowed his eyes; he recognized what it was.
"vomit!"
Lin Shuyou was so engrossed in reading that he suddenly felt dizzy and ran to the edge of the dam, where he leaned out and began to gag.
Zhao Yi put the array paper back and sighed:
"Tan Daban is truly favored by our young lord."
Tan Wenbin: "If we're just talking about who's more favored, who among us would dare to say they can compare to you from other teams?"
Zhao Yi shook his head: "Sigh, it's different."
You have to earn it through your own performance, but Li is selfless in giving to Tan Wenbin and his group.
The image inside Tan Wenbin's body included the four spirit beasts. Li could have easily extracted them for his own use, but instead chose to continue supporting Tan Wenbin.
From the perspective of maximizing team interests, this is fine, but the person surnamed Li could have used this as a new means of self-preservation.
Tan Wenbin: "Who told you, from the other team, to refuse to submit to Zhao at Shizhuo back then, even at the cost of your life?"
Zhao Yi: "I don't regret it now."
Tan Wenbin: "That's precisely where your charm lies."
Zhao Yi: "Listen to this, Tan Daban is starting to flatter me and bewitch me."
Tan Wenbin took out a cigarette and offered one to Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi didn't take it, but looked down at his pocket: "I'm smoking a pipe."
Tan Wenbin got up, took out his pipe, filled it with tobacco, and carefully helped Zhao Yi smoke it. Then he stood behind the wheelchair and massaged Zhao Yi's shoulders.
"That feels good. This is the kind of treatment that only someone surnamed Li usually gets."
"Brother Xiaoyuan usually doesn't let us take care of his daily life. He's the only one in the team who does this."
"Fine, you've chosen me, haven't you? If I don't spit something out, won't I be resented?"
"It's not that bad, it's just that your hand might get sore from squeezing for too long, and you might not be able to lift your hand up next time."
"The guy surnamed Li is too high-ranking; he's actually not very good at teaching people."
"The gap between us and Brother Xiaoyuan is too big."
Zhao Yi exhaled a smoke ring and pointed to the large stack of array papers:
"Tan Daban, this is a completely new set of materials. Don't translate them page by page into the array knowledge you already know. Treat these as a new language to learn them, and it will be easier."
Upon hearing this, Tan Wenbin's eyes immediately lit up.
"Thank you so much, teammate. You've really helped me a lot."
"You're welcome. I just saved you some time. Ah-you, are you done throwing up? Push me to the temple."
"coming."
Lin Shuyou pushed Zhao Yi to the back of the house.
Following Zhao Yi's instructions, Tan Wenbin continued to study these array diagrams, increasing his efficiency several times over.
As I watched, that feeling of my perception being distorted returned.
Tan Wenbin stopped, intending to clear his head and rest. This time, instead of doing eye exercises, he took out his university textbooks and materials from the coffin and began reviewing for his final exams.
According to past practice, students could skip school on weekdays, but as long as conditions allowed, they still had to return to school to take the final exams, and even Xiao Yuan was no exception.
After regaining his senses, Tan Wenbin put away his university textbooks and materials and began to study the array paper anew.
At that moment, Lin Shuyou pushed Zhao Yi back.
Zhao Yi: "I'll produce a revised drawing in the next couple of days. This will also allow me to recover from my injury and get rid of this wheelchair. When we officially start making the revisions, you can go and talk to Miss Chen and ask her to do my side job."
Tan Wenbin: "Okay, team leader, Ayou, remember to ask Miss Chen for help."
Lin Shuyou: "Okay."
Zhao Yi: "Is this how you save money on favors, Mr. Li?"
Tan Wenbin: "This is just mutual help between friends."
The main reason is that Jeremy Lin has a very good relationship with all the other teams.
Zhao Yi: "Alright, push me back. It wouldn't be appropriate if Grandpa Li came back later and saw me like this."
It didn't matter that Grandpa Li saw the injury, but Grandpa Li was very concerned about the mule. Zhao Yi was afraid that Grandpa Li would force him to go to the health center for a check-up, and then he would have to spend as many days in a wheelchair and with bandages as he stayed in Nantong.
Lin Shuyou pushed Zhao Yi off the dam.
Zhao Yi gripped the wheels with both hands, stopping the car in its tracks. He looked up at the second floor and cursed:
"Hey Li, you really won't even show your face, are you just treating me like a freeloader?"
No one responded from the second floor.
Zhao Yi reluctantly let go of his hand.
Lin Shuyou continued to push Zhao Yi away.
In the room on the second floor, Li Zhuiyuan was mixing colors, and A Li was painting.
In the past few days, all the equipment that needed repair has been repaired.
The armor of General Zeng and General Sun was reduced to two sets, as General Zeng destroyed one set at the Zhenjun Temple.
Considering that General Zeng's clone would remain in the dojo, there was no need to take only one clone out to fight, so Li Zhuiyuan did not inform Feng Xionglin to introduce another elder to him.
Ah Li finished a painting. She had already painted Xuanzhen from the previous wave and inserted it into the sketchbook frame, so this time she wasn't painting the scene from the previous wave, but rather three new weapons.
The True Lord weapons obtained from the True Lord Temple can be remelted, and the materials obtained can be used to reforge and upgrade the weapons of your companions.
In A-Li's painting, Runsheng's Yellow River shovel only retains the peach wood handle, while the shovel head is to be made of new materials, and a skull face base is added to the tail end.
The skull's mouth can be opened and closed, and its interior is designed with valve patterns. When Runsheng is fighting, he can first use the end of the shovel to attack, knock back and injure the enemy, and then inject air into the shovel. When the skull opens its mouth, he can suck the opponent back in, or he can use this to force the opponent back.
The small modification greatly increased the practicality of the Yellow River shovel for modern life, and only the young men and women in this room could make such a design.
Because only Li Zhuiyuan, A Li, and Uncle Qin could understand the "Qin Family Observation of Dragons" to this level, and Uncle Qin... obviously wouldn't design it.
Li Zhuiyuan also planned to melt down Lin Shuyou's pair of golden maces. In fact, since Ayou's team positioning, which focuses on swift and agile attacks, was not suitable for using blunt weapons like maces.
But in the past, due to limited resources, there was nothing better to replace it, so we had to make do with what we had.
In A-Li's painting, A-You's double maces have been transformed into Meishan double swords.
The dual swords are male and female, with the male sword held in the right hand and the female sword in the left. They are designed for quick, fierce, and fluid combat, making them a perfect fit for Ayou's fighting style.
Another reason that cannot be ignored is that the double swords are more in line with Ayou's temperament than the golden mace.
Li Zhuiyuan could picture Ayou with his hands behind his back, moving forward, the tip of his knife drawing two streaks of sparks on the ground.
Ah Li put a lot of detail into the texture of the blade and handle.
The two are in agreement on this point: they will pursue better visual appeal as long as conditions permit, since emotional value is also a value.
Tan Wenbin's rusty sword needs to be reforged. Li Zhuiyuan plans to make it into a soft sword, which will be more convenient for Tan Wenbin, who has mastered powerful hidden abilities, to use. The soft sword will retain the effects of resentment and tetanus.
After lunch, Li Zhuiyuan and A Li spent the entire afternoon working on design drawings. Before dinner, the boy carried three sets of design drawings and a weapon image scroll to the bearded man's house.
In the open space outside the peach grove, Zhao Yi was playing a chase game with Benben, who was riding a black motorcycle, while maneuvering his wheelchair.
Benben finished his afternoon classes and this was his break time before evening self-study.
Zhao Yi shouted, "If I catch you, you'll have to flick your little bird three times!"
"Wang Wang Wang!"
Even though Xiao Hei is intelligent and a top-tier black dog, it can't compare to Zhao Yi's wheelchair, which he secretly used to cheat by having it enhanced by a ghost dragon.
Soon, Benben was caught by Zhao Yi.
"Come on, come on, I'll play, I'll play, I'll play and play!"
What's more terrifying than flicking a small bird is making a fake flicking motion.
Seeing Benben's startled expression, Zhao Yi burst into laughter.
He liked the child; he saw his younger self in the child, a "self" who could run, jump, and ride a dog.
On the dam, Old Tian looked at the young master playing with the child with a look of satisfaction, hoping that the young master would also have children in the future.
Li Zhuiyuan's arrival was like a savior to Benben. Just as he was about to call out, he heard Zhao Yi whisper behind his head:
"I'll take you to the city tomorrow to find that clown girl."
Benben shut his mouth, looking aggrieved.
Zhao Yi picked up Benben, rubbing the child's chubby cheeks with both hands while looking at Li Zhuiyuan.
Seeing Li Zhuiyuan carrying the blueprints and drawings into the peach grove, he couldn't help but chuckle:
"Well, that's really the Li family tradition, not letting a single mule sit idle."
Li Zhuiyuan found Luo Xiaoyu, who lived in the peach grove.
The boy first handed two books to Luo Xiaoyu: one was a book on feng shui, and the other was a book on formations.
Each of the two books records some very representative cases of feng shui and formations, which are very suitable for Luo Xiaoyu to study at this stage.
Luo Xiaoyu took the book, each flipped through a couple of pages, then immediately put it down and bowed deeply to Li Zhuiyuan in gratitude.
Although he was treated as a "good-for-nothing" since childhood, bullied by his senior brothers and looked down upon by his senior sisters and junior sisters, he was treated well in private, and he could also read the sect's secret manuals.
Even so, he was still amazed by the value of the two books and could only sigh in his heart that they were indeed a legitimate Dragon King family, and that such treasures could be given away as gifts at will.
"I have no way to repay your kindness in guiding me, senior. In the future..."
"No need for later, let's do it now."
Li Zhuiyuan placed the scroll and design drawings in front of Luo Xiaoyu.
"Senior, what is this?"
"The furnace below the kiln is yours to use. You are responsible for forging these three weapons according to my requirements." With the design drawings here, Luo Xiaoyu only needs to "carve" them step by step. This is not a difficult task for a genius array master like him, but it will seem very boring and tedious, equivalent to asking a calligraphy master to copy dozens of children's calligraphy practice books.
Luo Xiaoyu: "Please rest assured, senior, I will do my best and will never let you down!"
Li Zhuiyuan: "Also, I don't have any fuel stones, so you can use the formation to slowly heat it up."
Upon hearing this, Luo Xiaoyu's lips twitched.
Without fuel stones, relying on the array to naturally heat up the furnace is equivalent to cooking with the warmth of the sun without firewood. It's possible, but he has to spend at least a morning each day just heating up the furnace, and the same amount of time turning it off means he spends half a day turning the gas stove on and off.
"I do have the necessary materials; I'll have Sister Hua fetch them."
"That's great, thank you for spending the money."
"Senior, you flatter me. The guidance you gave me before, and the value of these two books, are not even worth a fraction of what I could bring from my cave dwelling..."
"Then let's move them all over here."
“…Okay, senior.”
Li Zhuiyuan left.
Sister Hua asked in a low voice, "Xiaoyu, are we really going to move everything here?"
That was a large amount of resources that the sect's patriarch had allocated for Xiaoyu when he lit the lamp.
Luo Xiaoyu: "Yes, move everything over here, don't leave anything behind."
Sister Hua: "But, now that we've moved here, what will we use? Even Xiaoyu, we'll need to repair the chessboard and rebuild the pieces..."
Luo Xiaoyu interrupted Sister Hua and said:
"Didn't the Chen family from Qiongya move everything here too? We've brought everything here, so we can get whatever we need from here in the future."
Sister Hua was speechless at first, then realized what was going on, and a look of relief appeared on her face: "Xiaoyu, you've really grown up."
"It's not that I've grown up, but that I've let go. The constraints between array masters vying for the Dragon King are already significant, and right now, there are several people in Jiangshang who are no less skilled than me in the art of array formations."
I have little chance left. Though I'm still on the river, my eyes are already on the shore.
Sister Hua: "Xiaoyu, I understand. Building a good relationship with this person will make it easier for you to take charge of the sect in the future."
Luo Xiaoyu: "I haven't thought about that. Rather than becoming the sect leader, I hope that my future disciples will have the opportunity to become the Dragon King."
It was late at night.
Lin Shuyou sat up and saw light coming through the crack where Tan Wenbin was sitting. He reached out and tapped on Brother Bin's coffin lid.
"Brother Bin, are you still watching?"
"Ah."
Lin Shuyou said with concern, "Brother Bin, you've really had a tough time."
In comparison, his upgrade this time was much simpler and more convenient. He didn't need to go through the furnace like Runsheng, nor did he need to brush up so many layers of paper like Bin Ge.
Tan Wenbin: "It's okay, just consider it a chance to reminisce about my youth."
"By the way, Brother Bin, when are we going back to school?"
"Let's wait until you and Xiao Yuan come back from Fujian."
"So, what about our final exams this time..."
"Engineer Luo is busy, and Professor Zhai is busy too. This time, they didn't have any requirements for our final exams. Just pass them and don't fail."
That's great.
Lin Shuyou lay down and went to sleep contentedly.
Inside the coffin, Tan Wenbin, holding a flashlight, rubbed his eyes, which were throbbing again. He pushed aside the old paper and replaced it with final exam review materials.
Ah-Li walked out of the dojo and returned to the east room.
Standing at the door of the east room, Liu Yumei looked up and saw the dark clouds overhead dissipate.
The following afternoon, Lin Shuyou pushed Zhao Yi in a wheelchair for a walk along the village river.
"Three-eyed man, can't you walk by yourself?"
"No."
"I'm going back to Fujian with Xiaoyuan tomorrow."
"No one is pushing my wheelchair anymore, so I have to walk by myself."
"you……"
Zhao Yi took out the construction drawings from his pocket and patted them: "Why is that guy surnamed Li leaving tomorrow? He's waiting for me to give him these drawings for approval."
"Thank you for your hard work."
"If you keep acting so distant, I'm going to call you Zhou Yunyun."
"Three-Eyed, are you ever going to stop?!"
Zhao Yi: "Zhou Yunyun!"
Lin Shuyou: "You..."
Just then, a voice called out from afar, "Hey!"
Zhou Yunyun arrived, accompanied by Chen Lin.
Lin Shuyou pushed Zhao Yi, and their eyes met as Chen Lin approached.
Zhao Yi waved to Chen Lin.
Chen Lin stepped forward and asked, "Is the injury serious?"
Zhao Yi: "It's alright, it's a minor issue."
Zhou Yunyun asked, "Ah, how did you do that?"
Zhao Yi: "You failed in your acrobatic performance and fell from the sky. You'll be fine after a while. Tan Wenbin is waiting for you at home. Go find him. Hey, Ayou, you and Linlin go for a walk. I'm going to take a nap here."
Chen Lin: "Let's push you around in your stroller for a walk."
Chen Lin offered to lend a hand, and together with Lin Shuyou, they pushed Zhao Yi forward.
Zhao Yi: "I'm so sorry, haven't I disturbed you?"
Chen Lin: No, Ayou is naturally reserved. With you here, the atmosphere is even more relaxed.
Zhao Yi: "Is he being subtle? He's going back to Fujian tomorrow, and he just asked me if I should muster up the courage to invite you home with him to meet his parents."
Lin Shuyou: "Huh?"
Boy: "Yes, yes, yes!"
The boy, who hadn't been active for a long time, was suddenly ignited with passion by Zhao Yi.
Anyway, once I return to Fujian, that person will restore the True Lord system, and I only need to keep an eye on him for one night.
Chen Lin: "Really, Ayou?"
Lin Shuyou: "I'm going back to Fujian tomorrow, but..."
Chen Lin: "I do."
Lin Shuyou: "I didn't..."
Zhao Yi: "He said he didn't buy you a gift. How about this, you go to the city now and buy some things to take on the plane tomorrow. His master and grandfather will be waiting for you at the airport, so you won't have time to buy anything then."
Chen Lin: "Okay, Ayou, can you give me some suggestions on what your uncle and aunt like?"
Boy: "They like the Cuju team."
Zhao Yi: "Ayou's father is a football fan."
Boy: "You can actually hear me now!"
At this moment, Chen Xiyuan returned from her music tutoring class and walked happily along the village road.
Zhao Yi: "Miss Chen!"
Chen Xiyuan: What!
Zhao Yi pointed to the village entrance: "Help me flag down a car."
Chen Xiyuan: "Go and stop them yourself."
Zhao Yi: "Ayou is going to the city to buy gifts for meeting Chen Lin's parents."
Chen Xiyuan: "I'll flag down a car, I want to go shopping too!"
Zhao Yi: "Hurry up, Ah You. Miss Chen is quick to flag down a taxi. Look, there's already a taxi parked at the village entrance."
Chen Lin reached out and gently tugged at Lin Shuyou's sleeve, then lowered her head and whispered:
"Do you think your aunt and uncle won't like me? If so, I won't go. It's okay."
Lin Shuyou: "Let's go shopping, but I need to go talk to Xiao first..."
“I was just about to go talk to that guy surnamed Li about the blueprints. I’ll go talk to him for you.”
With that, Zhao Yi stood up from his wheelchair and walked towards Li Sanjiang's house.
On the dam, Tan Wenbin was looking at his final exam review materials, and Zhou Yunyun sat next to him, leaning against him.
"Binbin, watching you study really makes me feel uncomfortable."
"There's a final exam coming up."
"I thought none of you cared about this anymore."
"Both tutors value this highly; just passing isn't enough, you also need to get good grades."
Zhou Yunyun put her arm around Tan Wenbin's shoulder: "You know what? The way you look when you're focused on your work is really something."
"Sorry, it's probably because I stayed up too late studying yesterday and didn't take a shower."
Zhou Yunyun was so angry that she reached out and pinched Tan Wenbin's waist.
Tan Wenbin reached out and pulled her into his arms. At first, Yunyun resisted, but gradually she pressed her face against his chest.
Zhao Yi walked onto the dam, and Zhou Yunyun sat up.
Zhao Yi: "I'm going to use the toilet behind the house."
Tan Wenbin nodded to Zhao Yi.
After reviewing the temple grounds again according to his plan, Zhao Yi came out, entered the main house, and went up to the second floor.
Li Zhuiyuan pushed open the door and came out.
Zhao Yi handed over the blueprints in his hand.
The boy took it and sat down in the wicker chair to look through it.
Zhao Yi stood to the side, took out a cigarette, and glanced back into the room, where the girl was drawing talismans.
Li Zhuiyuan: "Next, it will be hard on you and Chen Xiyuan."
Zhao Yi: "No, let's keep things separate. I didn't do this for you."
Li Zhuiyuan: "I know."
Zhao Yi: "I stirred things up a bit. Chen Lin is going to Fujian with Ayou tomorrow. You don't mind, do you?"
Li Zhuiyuan: "I don't mind."
Zhao Yi: "I quite like Chen Lin. It's good for a girl to be a little shrewd."
Li Zhuiyuan: "You share the same opinion as my grandmother."
"It's mainly because our personalities complement each other. After all, not everyone can be as lucky as you at such a young age."
Zhao Yi blew a smoke ring at Li Zhuiyuan.
At that moment, Li Zhuiyuan happened to flip to the last page of the construction drawings, where there were a few words typed out with his fingernail.
Zhao Yi inspected the dojo just yesterday. He didn't just do a cursory inspection; he actually went through the underlying architecture to verify it. Considering that he would have to carry out the construction himself later, he didn't do any restoration work, since it wouldn't affect the normal use of the dojo anyway.
As a result, when I checked again just now, the traces of the underlying architecture had been repaired.
It definitely wasn't done by someone surnamed Li. The person surnamed Li is the owner of the temple. It's like the owner of a safe wiping away their own fingerprints—it's meaningless.
Of the remaining people, only that one person has the ability to run the dojo.
But what exactly is that person doing, using the dojo without wanting the boy to know?
Oh dear, this is so hard to guess!
Zhao Yi licked his lips.
Li Zhuiyuan handed the construction drawings back to Zhao Yi: "The design is very good, I have no objections."
"After you leave, Chen Xiyuan and I will start construction."
"it is good."
Zhao Yi took the blueprints, went downstairs, and left.
After descending the dam and walking along the path, Zhao Yi, with his hands behind his head, glanced back at Li Zhuiyuan, who was still sitting in the rattan chair on the terrace, and thought to himself:
I'm willing to trade my best talents for your safety at this moment.
Li, it's true that you're not favored by fate, but you'd be too embarrassed to say you have bad luck.
Li Zhuiyuan looked up at the sky in front of him.
Ah Li walked out of the house, sat down on a rattan chair next to her, and pointed her hand at the air.
Li Zhuiyuan smiled in response and then made his move on the chessboard.
As the sun gradually sets in the west, it slowly merges the shadows of the two people on the terrace into one.
Aunt Liu leaned against the kitchen doorway, cracking sunflower seeds.
She still remembered the vows Xiao Yuan made to the evil spirits that were harassing A Li during his initiation ceremony; combined with her guesses about what A Li was secretly doing.
Their already striking good looks, coupled with a deeper backstory, make the sunflower seeds even more delicious.
Chen Xiyuan walked over, took out some sunflower seeds from Aunt Liu's pocket, and struck the same pose as her, watching and cracking them together.
Aunt Liu: "Why did you get out of class so late today?"
Chen Xiyuan: "Ayou is taking his girlfriend home to meet his parents, so I went with him to buy a gift."
Aunt Liu: Do you think it will go smoothly?
Chen Xiyuan: "It should go quite smoothly."
Aunt Liu: "That's hard to say. Chen Lin has an older brother. She might not bring the betrothal gifts back with her, but instead give them to her brother for his wedding."
Chen Xiyuan looked at Aunt Liu in surprise, not believing that Aunt Liu didn't know about Chen Lin and her brother's family affairs.
Immediately, Chen Xiyuan's face showed amazement: Sister, this is a higher level, self-association, self-cultivation, self-entertainment.
Chen Xiyuan tried to respond: "Yes, there is indeed this concern."
Aunt Liu: "It's alright, Ayou's family is rich, they own temple property and even a mountain, they can afford it."
Chen Xiyuan: "Yes, that's right."
After chatting for a while, or rather, after imparting knowledge for a while, Aunt Liu clapped her hands and called out:
"Dinner's ready!"
Chen Xiyuan sat at the dining table in a daze. Aunt Liu's method shocked her. It turned out that there was no need to open the field to listen to the corner of the bed. You could just imagine what you wanted to hear.
After the meal, Liu Yumei asked, "Miss Chen, is something on your mind?"
Chen Xiyuan shook her head: "It's alright, Madam."
Liu Yumei: "I thought you had something on your mind. You ate less tonight, and your appetite has decreased."
Chen Xiyuan smiled and shook her head again.
After helping to clear the dishes, she went back to the bearded man's house.
Walking along the village road, she was still pondering the conversation she had with Aunt Liu before the meal.
Zhao Yi carried Benben on his back and bought spicy strips from Aunt Zhang's shop, strips that his mother forbade him to eat.
Turning her head, she saw Chen Xiyuan walking towards her in the distance and wanted to ask her if she wanted some too.
As it turned out, she was just spacing out.
In a daze, Chen Xiyuan was unaware that her domain had actually opened on its own, and that this domain was constantly and spontaneously generating various changes.
Zhao Yi: "..."
As night fell, the lights in the second-floor rooms were turned off.
Liu Yumei pushed open the door to the east room, stood at the doorway, raised her arm and waved, and a small patch of dark clouds gathered above her head.
Ah Li left the house and headed to the temple.
After her granddaughter disappeared, Liu Yumei waved her hand, preparing to go back inside and quietly bring her granddaughter back late at night.
However, while this wave dispelled one dark cloud, another remained overhead.
Liu Yumei stopped, turned around, and looked up at the second floor.
On the terrace stood the figure of a boy.
(End of this chapter)