Aggrieved Fish Sprite

A piece of ice suddenly fell outside the window, the sun rose and the snow began to melt.

Mo Li shrank his hands hanging in his sleeves, and he raised his head, just in time to meet Qin Lu's concerned eyes.

"..."

Seeing Mr. Qin's white hair, the ink carp got stuck again.

How should he use words to express his meaning implicitly and tactfully without scaring the teacher?

Mo Li was very confused, he looked around in the room, trying to find something to use as a metaphor, but his poetry and songs are very mediocre.Although he can write a few poems after a lot of hard thinking, he doesn't have the ability to just open his mouth. Now that he is in a hurry, he is even more at a loss.

Qin Lu sighed in his heart when he saw Mo Li's eyes wandering.

Every time Mo Li wanted to change the topic, or when he felt that there was something he couldn't say directly, he would look like this.

Old Mr. Qin didn't know whether to continue to put pressure on the students, or let Mo Li think about it alone. They will talk another day. When they were in a dilemma, the students suddenly stood up.

"Appropriate?"

"Teacher, please wait a moment."

After Mo Li finished speaking, he walked behind the screen in the bedroom and brought out the bathtub.

Qin Lu was confused.

Mo Li didn't explain, and went to the courtyard to fetch a bucket of well water, poured it all into the bathtub, and then began to close the doors and windows.

Old Mr. Qin was dumbfounded. In this cold winter, although the well water was not frozen, it was still bitingly cold.Even if the masters of the inner family are not afraid of the cold and heat, they don't take cold baths in winter, unless they practice some special exercises.

No no, even if you want to take a shower, why do you have to take a shower in front of yourself?

Qin Lu was about to stop him, when he suddenly saw Mo Li taking a porcelain bottle, walking in front of him again and sitting down.

So the master and apprentice sat opposite each other, with a big wooden barrel in between.

"..."

Qin Lu couldn't figure out what kind of medicine his student was selling in his gourd, so he coughed lightly: "Shizhi, what are you doing with the tub?"

Mo Li opened the porcelain bottle in his hand, poured out a pill, and offered it to Mr. Qin with both hands.

Qin Lu took it inexplicably and smelled it habitually.

"Borneum, safflower, red peony root, Chuanxiong...Is this your new heart-protecting pill?" Qin Lu looked at it carefully, and saw that the surface of the pill was smooth and slightly brown, and he couldn't help but nodded in admiration.

Although the boiled medicinal soup is good, it is too late when it is necessary for emergency treatment. Huxin Pill is exactly this kind of pill.

After Qin Lu finished speaking, he found that the student was looking at him silently, he was taken aback for a moment, did he let himself eat and watch?

"It's suitable, there is no heart disease for being a teacher." Qin Lu was very puzzled.

Mo Li almost uttered the words "prepared and safe", and he couldn't let Qin Lu take a pill first. People who are not sick will always feel uncomfortable after taking medicine. Drugs for the pulse should be used with caution, so as not to lose Qi and go crazy.

"...Teacher, can you seal my pulse?"

"Seal the pulse? Why?" Qin Lu was even more puzzled.

Mo Li took a deep breath, and said respectfully, "Because the teacher has a deep cultivation base and a long inner breath, once he goes astray, the danger will multiply, and the students dare not take risks."

Makes sense, but——

"Why did my internal force go astray?" Old Mr. Qin asked blankly. He went to bed early and woke up early every day, ate moderately, avoided getting angry, and didn't have strong enemies coming to compete. ?

Mo Li thinks what the teacher said makes sense. When Qin Lu was young, he traveled all over the world and was well-informed. When he heard that he was a monster, he just worried for a long time. Can you hold on this time?

——No, no, just in case.

Mo Li made up his mind and said cautiously, "Because the student wants to show the teacher something...."

He closed his eyes, heaved his mind, and said directly: "This is related to the answer to the teacher's question just now."

Qin Lu was taken aback. He looked at the heart-protecting pill in his hand, and then remembered Mo Li's request to seal his acupoints. Thousands of speculations suddenly arose in his mind.He watched the ink carp grow up, there is nothing he doesn't know, could it be that the problem lies in his background?The ink carp is not from Zhushan County, nor is it a child of the mountain people, but has another origin?

That's right, when he picked up the doll, its skin was white and tender, and it looked like it had been raised.

It's just that later Mo Li didn't complain about suffering, didn't cry tired, and didn't wipe away his tears. Qin Lu ignored this detail. Because of the high mortality rate of children, I am afraid that they will not grow up.

Qin Lu remembered that when Mo Li was a child, he couldn't speak, use chopsticks, or even dress, and he still couldn't remember the past—whether he couldn't remember, or couldn't tell?It is not uncommon for those children from prominent and powerful families to have maids to take care of their daily life since they were young.

The more Qin Lu thought about it, the more confused he became.

Thinking that his students are unhappy all day long, it is actually because it is difficult to return home/recognize relatives, Mr. Qin frowned. These family disputes have always been the most exhausting, the concubine murders the direct one, the main clan suppresses the branch, how much The aristocratic family fell because of this, and how many people of insight died young?

"It's suitable..."

Qin Lu let out a long sigh, met Shang Moli's serious eyes, immediately lost ground, and silently sealed his acupoints.

Mo Li put the porcelain vase of Huxin Pill on the table, facing the fish pattern on the vase, said in a low voice: "Teacher, Zhuangzi said that Zi Feiyu knows the happiness of fish, so people don't know the plight of fish. "

Qin Lu's heart skipped a beat. Is this a disease, or is it a metaphor?

If you are caught in a family struggle, it is indeed difficult for outsiders to help, and the internal hatred is not as simple as good and evil, and sometimes even involves several generations, which cannot be explained clearly in a few words.But if he is such a good student, if he is delayed by such a thing, he will be unhappy all his life, wouldn't he be committing a crime?

Qin Lu said in a deep voice: "Fish is born in the water. It thinks that the water is the world, and there are heaven, earth and everything, but it is not. Why don't you jump out and get trapped in a corner, instead of fooling yourself."

Mo Li paused, so the teacher also supported him to leave Qimao Mountain?

"Shizhi, have you ever seen what it looks like outside the pond?"

"... seen."

Qin Lu felt relieved, thinking that Mo Li was talking about his life of being by his side for so many years, giving up his surname and disregarding his blood, devoting himself to cultivating literature and martial arts, curing diseases and saving lives.

Unexpectedly, Mo Li changed the subject and opened his mouth, "Last night, when I was traveling in Taijing, I saw a dragon vein that covered the sky and covered the sun."

"The sky and the earth are big, and the scenery is different...Wait what are you talking about? Taijing? Dragon veins?" Old Mr. Qin looked at a loss. Could it be that they were playing a game?What a good metaphor, why did the dragon veins suddenly appear?

"Did you dream of dragon veins?"

For literati, mind wandering means dreaming. Qin Lu instinctively felt that things were not that simple.

Mo Li looked at the pill in Qin Lu's hand, thinking that the teacher didn't know that he was a dragon vein yet, so he had to take it step by step without rushing.

"It's not a dream, but it's a spiritual energy that takes me on a trip to Taijing. The dragon is golden in color and has a body shape like a mountain. It's thousands of times better than... the black dragon we saw yesterday."

"..."

Mr. Qin seemed to be falling into a dream, he opened his mouth and closed it again.

After all, he had seen the black dragon with his own eyes.

"Teacher, I don't understand why I am a fish." The ink carp was very distressed, what is missing between the dragon and the fish?

Qin Lu hesitated to speak, but actually he wanted to say why you don't do good things and always have trouble with fish?

"Actually, I've wanted to ask for a long time, whether the teacher has ever seen a fish like me when he was traveling around the world."

Mo Li stood up, took off his coat and boots directly, and came directly in front of the teacher because he couldn't do anything else, so he simply approached the tub, bowed his head and plunged into the water, and was transformed into his original form under Qin Lu's first puzzled and then terrified eyes .

Clothes hung lightly on the rim of the bucket.

People are gone.

Mr. Qin was dumbfounded.

Then he felt a burst of chest tightness and shortness of breath, and the breath in his dantian was churning. If the air pockets hadn't been sealed, his internal energy would be like a galloping wild horse at this moment, running wildly among the eight meridians, and he couldn't control it at all.Because my mind was blank, even my breathing stopped, and I didn't know who I was, so what was going on.

"Snapped."

The water splashed, and a black fish jumped out of the water, then poked its head out, looking at Qin Lu eagerly.

Qin Lu saw the urging in the fish's eyes.

Urge?Qin Lu subconsciously lowered his head to see the pill in his hand, reacted immediately, raised his hand and took it.

Not long after, the medicine surged up, and Qin Lu's chest tightness and shortness of breath disappeared. He coughed again and again, struggled to stand up, walked to the tub, and stared at the fish in it numbly.

Mo Li thought that Qin Lu was coming to identify his own appearance, so he swam laps and laps very slowly.

Qin Lu's eyes were empty.

——A good student, if you say you can change into a fish, you will become a fish.

Why did a big living person turn into a fish? !

So what he saved in the flood was a fish?Rescue a fish from the water? !

...The ink carp is really a black fish!

So his students are not sick?

No no, it's worse than being sick!The disease can be cured, but what about the fish?Are you really going to jump the dragon gate?

Qin Lu took a step back, as if he had lost all his strength.

The ink carp saw its reflection in the water and felt that something was wrong, so it quickly got into the clothes hanging on the edge of the bucket, and then turned into a human form.The collar and sleeves are wet, but it doesn't matter, the aura is used as internal force, and it can be dried in a blink of an eye.

"teacher?"

Qin Lu looked at Mo Li weakly. He hoped that the student was a juggler, but how could he not know if there was any fish in the bucket?I can't do it if I want to deceive myself, I can only cough.

Mo Li felt a little regretful in his heart, and quickly said, "It's all students who are reckless."

Qin Lu raised his hand to stop it, tried to catch his breath, touched Mo Li's hand, and said with a complicated expression: "No, you should have told me earlier... I mean, you should have shown me your original body earlier."

"Worried about scaring the teacher."

Mo Li couldn't help lowering his head, because Qin Lu grabbed his hand and touched it over and over again.

"Scared sooner or later, it will happen sooner or later." Old Mr. Qin said angrily.

Once he knew that the ink carp was really a fish, the questions in Qin Lu's heart were immediately solved. What kind of life does a fish like?How can you be happy if you are not in the water and have no company?

"You wait first, take a breath as a teacher."

Mo Li thoughtfully supported Qin Lu to sit down, and poured him another cup of hot tea.

Qin Lu looked at the porcelain vase and pondered, "Your matter is a bit difficult."

Mo Li sat up straight and replied, "I have searched all over Qimao Mountain, but there are no other monsters."

"If you want to go outside and have a look...it's reasonable, let me think about it again." Mr. Qin continued to stare at the porcelain bottle, because there were two fish patterns on the bottle.

The geese and cranes are deeply in love with each other.

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Translate the last few paragraphs for you——

Qin Lu: It's a little difficult for you.

Mo Li: Yes, the students know.

The ink carp [didn't notice that there are two fish on the bottle] thought: I want to find a companion, other fish are fine, monsters are also fine

Qin Lu [staring at the Pisces pattern, thoughtfully] thought to himself: The big fish should marry the demon, and Xiaotang and I are both human, so we still have to find a partner