Embers

After simply having breakfast, Ember was dragged to the lobby by Ye Bozhou.

In Xiaxianmen, everyone has to go to the lobby for a meeting after breakfast every day. Most of the time it is the head of the sect, sometimes the elders do it for them, talking about the situation in the world and the essentials of martial arts.

The disciples can't go down the mountain easily, so the daily morning meeting has become the main way for them to understand the world outside. Some people listen to it for fun, while others pay more attention.

When the two arrived, the morning meeting had just started, and Ember was placed in the back row as soon as she entered the door, and then watched Ye Bozhou pass through the aisle in the center of the lobby, and sat down amidst the attention of the crowd.

Sitting next to Ember was a white and clean young man who looked about his age. When he laughed, he had two big dimples on his cheeks and his eyes narrowed into crescent moons—he smiled at Ember as a sign of his goodwill.

However, the embers were just a stone in the latrine, smelly and hard. He took a deep look at him, nodded dispensably, and turned his eyes to the front again.

Standing on the stage was a middle-aged man, average in appearance but quite attractive, with straight eyebrows and eyes, neither fat nor thin, wearing a dark blue brocade robe, with a calm, gentle and wise demeanor.

It was Lu Yuzhi, the current head of the Xiaxianmen.

At this time, he was talking about major events in Jianghu, and the disciples in the audience listened attentively.

This person speaks in a clear, concise and concise manner, neither fast nor slow and rigid, and he will use some vivid analogies when it is interesting, which makes the disciples burst into laughter.

"Let's talk about the battle at Luoyan Peak, which happened two years ago. At that time, Nie Budu was only 13 years old, but his martial arts were already unfathomable! Master Feng Guo, Master Handan, were all defeated by him, which caused a great uproar in Bai Dao.

"I saw that demon wearing a bright red shirt and a black gauze covering his face. He was already inappropriate for his attire. As soon as he raised his hand, several silks from the sky emerged from his sleeves. The silk was extremely thin but extremely tough. Several masters tried to chop it off. Defeated all of them.”

Lu Yuzhi's expression was heavy and his brows were tightly frowned, "That day, the silk would often wrap around people's necks quietly, like a sharp blade, cutting straight through the skin, penetrating blood vessels and breaking bones, before people even had time to feel the pain. Already lost his life!"

Everyone was shocked, and their faces were full of indignation.

"But now, the whole Jianghu knows the weakness of that monster: this person won't live to be 25 years old! Because the previous leader of the demon sect didn't have a complete copy of the Wrong Flower Heart Sutra, so he passed the remnant copy to him. This is the same lethality, but there is no time to write down the way to resist the backlash, so although Nie Budu has greatly improved his martial arts in a short period of time, what he pays is a long life!"

"The whole world is waiting to see his jokes, so we don't provoke him, and let him go too far. After all, we are the righteous way of martial arts, so how can we care about a dead man?"

After saying that, he laughed loudly, and the disciples also became happy, as if they found a sense of superiority from the lines again.

Li Mei didn't smile.He is a very kind person, thinking about it, he doesn't feel cruel, and he always feels that no matter how fierce Nan Nie Budu is, he is only a 15-year-old child after all.

Thinking of this, he sighed softly, but when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he found that there was another person beside him who was also silent, which was at odds with the laughter around him.

"Hey, you also sympathize with Nie Budu?" asked in a low voice.

Ember raised her eyes abruptly: "Sympathy?" He sneered and paused every word, "I hope he dies more than anyone else!"

The fair and clean boy was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak immediately.

The moment Ember raised his eyes just now, he clearly saw the deep hatred rolling in his eyes, gathered together, as if it was about to form a violent black storm!

After Lu Yuzhi finished what he should say today, Ye Bozhou stepped forward, called Yu Jin to come over, and said with a smile to everyone: "This is my apprentice, Jin'er. From now on, you will all be brothers of the same school. You should take care of each other and love each other. .”

Ember bowed her head respectfully and walked up to the stage, although there was no expression on her face, there was no trace of gloom anymore.

All the disciples were amazed, they had seen such a good-looking child before, but it was the first time they had seen such a good-looking one, although the facial features were still immature, but the delicate features of the eyebrows and the noble bearing were rare in the world.

The elders stood aside and looked him up and down, and Ye Bozhou introduced him one by one.

"This is your master uncle."

Lu Yuzhi nodded slightly, with a gentle expression, and a look of inquiry hidden in his eyes.

"This is the second uncle."

He was a big man with a dark face, broom eyebrows, and thick lips.Seeing Ember looked over and smiled heartily.

"This is Third Master Uncle."

Su Changjiu blinked slyly.

"This is the fourth uncle."

He was a tall, thin, gentle man with fine features, but his face was full of frost.

"This is Uncle Six."

It was the young man who saw him that day. His skin was yellowish, and his facial features were so ordinary that people could forget them at a glance. He was wearing a gray robe, with a serious and rigid expression, and a scent of medicine on his body.

After seeing all the senior uncles one by one, Yu Jin was pushed to the bottom by Ye Bozhou to listen to the fellow seniors introduce themselves.

The elders thought they had nothing to do and ran away, but Lu Yuzhi called Ye Bozhou aside alone, and said bluntly, "Where did you come from?"

Ye Bozhou has always been quite in awe of this senior brother Ye Bozhou, so he answered concisely: "I picked it up."

"Where did you get it?"

"The door of the tavern."

"identity?"

"beggar."

"A beggar?" Lu Yuzhi's eyes were burning, "Can a beggar have such a bearing?" His eyes fell directly on the head of Ember in the crowd, "Hands and gestures are not elegant enough, you tell me this is a beggar?"

Ye Bozhou frowned calmly, and smiled again: "Most likely he is the young son of a wealthy family, but he became a beggar because of his family's decline. What's the big deal?"

"What did he tell you?"

Ye Bozhou paused for a moment, and said "En".

Lu Yuzhi stared at Ember for a long time, and then took a while to look away, sighed hard, and looked at Ye Bozhou sternly, with a slight disapproval.

Ye Bozhou looked at him lazily.

"...how is your talent?" Lu Yuzhi was always frustrated when facing this junior brother.

Ye Bozhou said without thinking, "Genius!"

Here, the embers are burning with the enthusiasm of the crowd.

"Junior Junior Brother, Junior Brother, I am Elder Lin Xu's disciple Shen Qingqiu!" "I am Elder Hua Buyu's disciple Ling Ziqi!" "I am..." "I am..."

Ember felt that she was about to suffer from prosopagnosia, and she was very annoyed at the moment, but she responded seriously out of politeness, but her face stinks terribly.

While looking around, I saw a person standing on the periphery of the crowd and kept looking this way. However, the brothers were too crowded to get in. I was feeling a little depressed, but I saw Ember looking this way, and his eyes met , laughed immediately, with two big dimples on her cheeks, and her eyes narrowed into crescents.

"My name is Li Mei!"

Ember took another look at him, nodded, and turned to look for his master with a blank expression.

Seeing the darkened face of his little apprentice from a distance, Ye Bozhou found it very interesting, so he simply stood still and admired it for a while.

When the child's eyes gradually became annoyed, he walked over in a calm manner, and said softly to a group of disciples: "Okay, okay, the time is almost up, you have to practice too, right? Don't make Master wait in a hurry."

Only then did everyone think of their long-neglected master, and dispersed in a hurry.

Ember walked slowly in front of his master.

Ye Bozhou took his little hand and walked out, and said with a smile, "Are you still enthusiastic, brothers and sisters?"

Ember's face darkened: "It's more than just enthusiasm." It was almost going to eat him alive!

Ye Bozhou laughed loudly: "It's a pity that Su Jiujiu's little Yanzi didn't come today, otherwise you two should be good friends. That child is also like you, always loves to be alone."

Ember glanced at him, but said nothing.

Ye Bozhou smiled again: "I see you are very interested in girls."

Ember was suspicious: "Sister?"

"Oh, that's Li Mei, Su Jiujiu's little apprentice."

"..."

Ember suddenly wanted to stay away from him, for fear that this incomprehensible master would give herself an embarrassing nickname.

"But the girl is really pretty, you have a good eye." Ye Bozhou blinked narrowly, "Guess, before you came, who was the most beautiful in our Lingyou Mountain?"

Ember had nothing to say, others hadn't recognized it yet.

"As a teacher."

"..." It turns out that he not only likes to give people nicknames, but also loves himself.

"The next is Little Swallow, then my sister, then your third uncle Su Jiujiu, and then... there is nothing to look at."

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a little indignant, "All the good-looking people are in the White Deer Courtyard, how embarrassing is this for other people!"

The White Deer Courtyard is Su Changjiu's courtyard, and the two people he nominated just now are both Su Changjiu's apprentices.

Ember didn't want to hear him talking about all these things, so she said with a cold face: "Leng, let's go."

Ye Bozhou was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly smiled.

Although Ember is extremely talented, she doesn't have the slightest foundation in martial arts, so she has to start from scratch, such as the basic skill - zama step.

On a December day, the wind was cold.Ember was wearing a padded jacket and striding under a pear tree in the yard, her little face was flushed red from the cold.

It's been almost half an hour, and I haven't changed my position or position. The muscles in my legs are sore and trembling, and the cold wind has wiped away the sweat that just emerged from my forehead.

Ye Bozhou was sitting in the small pavilion opposite, making tea, wearing a white cloak, wrapped in a fairy-like figure, with the simple and elegant pavilion and the white snow, it became a painting without deliberately making expressions.

What's more, his movements of making tea are smooth and elegant, which is really pleasing to the eye.

Ember was able to divert his attention and persist for so long by admiring his master's beauty.

"Okay, let's have a rest."

When Ye Bozhou gave an order, Ember fell to her knees uncontrollably, as if she had received an amnesty, her knees hurt so much that she couldn't get up at all.

Seeing this, Ye Bozhou laughed, "It's cold on the ground, come and sit here." There were cushions on the stone benches in the pavilion.

Ember staggered to the pavilion again and sat down, almost collapsed and remained silent.

Ye Bozhou was a little distressed, and poured him a bowl of hot tea. Ember was so thirsty that he picked it up and drank it. He didn't have time to taste it carefully, so he just said one last thing, "Why does this taste so strange."

Ye Bozhou took a sip and smiled: "This is the ancients' cooking method. When brewing tea, add green onion, ginger, jujube, orange peel, mint and other ingredients, and it will taste like this. It can't compare to the simplicity of making tea directly. "

Ember half-deadly poured another bowl by herself, slandering: Bad habits.