refuse to be a teacher

The horse galloped all the way to the north, and the iron hooves crossed the last siege of the city gate one after another. Just after the time of the child, the ancient bell outside the mountain was like the deep night covering the sky, a ruthless meditation, and endless joys and sorrows. Being blocked and bound in the tall and cold city gate, it is difficult to stretch out ferocious or soft minions.

But at this moment, in the dim old inn on the outskirts of the city, a thin waxy candle is tremblingly igniting a little spark.

There are almost no decorations in the room, even the bed and bedding are packed out temporarily, and they are put together in one place, which makes people feel sleepy.

In front of the paper window that was leaking from the wind, a pair of tables and stools swayed crookedly. The stool was still lame. Xue Lanyin dragged it up with one hand, and put it next to the bed. By the way, a clean porcelain basin filled with water was placed on it.

He soaked the cloth towel in the water, soaked it for a while, then picked it up and wrung it dry. His movements were numb and mechanical, and he couldn't tell what he was feeling. He twisted the cloth towel, as if he was twisting someone's neck, the force was so strong , and even the back of his hands had a few obvious blue veins.

Yan Jue sat beside him and didn't speak. He just looked at the dog apprentice acting like he was venting his anger on someone, and he was quite angry-but his hand was quite gentle, holding the cloth towel and sticking it to Yan Jue's arm. Between the hideous wounds, I carefully tried several times back and forth, but it was as light as a finger brushing over it, and it couldn't be cleaned at all.

Gu Hebai's Broken Ji short sword used the unique swordsmanship of the Lingtai Yijian School, but its internal skills were different from it, so the moves were all violent and perverted. To torture people to the point of pain.Fortunately, the wound on Yan Jue's arm was dodged in time, and the wound was not too big, otherwise, if he really took a blow from him, he would have to be a hero with a broken arm in his next life.

——He had made a plan. After finding out Gu Hebai's background, he used his own power to lure Gu and Chen away, so that no matter what the consequences would be, it would not have any impact on Xue Lanyin.But this kid is a hard-headed guy, and he insisted on coming in halfway to interfere. Fortunately, nothing major happened to him, otherwise Yan Jue would have been so angry that his blood spattered three feet on the spot.

Yan Jue turned his eyes sideways, and was looking at Xue Lan because the little bastard was clumsy and couldn't handle even a small injury. After holding it for a long time, he couldn't hold it back anymore. He reached out and snatched the cloth towel, and said impatiently: "Okay... I'll come by myself and tell you to do something like a mother-in-law. I don't know how to obey at all."

Unexpectedly, he just snatched it in such a way, Xue Lan got excited, crumpled the cloth towel with her backhand, clasped it tightly in her palm, and asked out of nowhere: "...so, this is why you pushed me directly One side's reason?"

Yan Jue was slightly taken aback.In my impression, Xue Lan seldom spoke to him in such a rebellious tone, and the only time he talked back seemed to have happened a long time ago.As a master, he naturally couldn't tolerate his apprentice repeatedly challenging his bottom line, especially in this situation, Xue Lanyin was kneeling in front of him, but the emotion in his eyes was condescending, as if he was deliberately treating his every move It's like a trial with one movement, from the eyes to the expression, they are all naked provocations.

"Xue Xiaomao." Yan Ba ​​called him.The voice was calm, but the long and narrow phoenix eyes were narrowed down into an obviously unfriendly arc. Xue Lan could easily see the contamination in those cold pupils just by looking down at random. There was a bit of anger suppressed into a thread.

"Do you think... Master is too kind to you, so there is no need to have any scruples at all? Anyway, no matter what you did wrong, I will soften my heart and forgive you in the end... Is that so?"

"……What am I did wrong?"

This was the first time that Xue Lan was sitting upright in front of him, without hunchback or lazily propping up her arms.

He straightened his waist, and for the first time, he did not use any weak or pleading eyes in an attempt to win Yan Jue's mercy.

"Master, what did I do wrong?"

As Xue Lan lowered her head slightly, that pair of well-defined handsome features just turned downwards, reflecting Yan Jue's slightly narrowed eyes without missing a beat.

Driven by the soul-sending curse, the living sword body has an amazing self-healing ability. 16 years ago, Xue Lanyin was still a ghostly remnant soul who was almost the same as Qin, but now that time has passed, he is no different from the appearance when he first met at the bottom of Xixin Valley.

Yan Jue didn't understand the age pattern of the living sword people, they seemed to live many times longer than ordinary humans.Even Xue Lanyin couldn't count how many years he had lived, ten or twenty years was just a flick of a finger.

Maybe, he has lived for hundreds of years, or maybe, when he first met Yan Jue, he was just a young man who had just entered the world—but in the end, his ever-changing handsome face was always the same. The old look that makes people envious.

16 years ago, he was like this, lowering his oppressive and irreversible eyes, staring at Yan Hao's face exactly.That kind of look seems to really want to swallow people alive and wipe them clean.

16 years later, he is still like this. The past memories have clearly been crushed into a piece of fragmented ruins. When he looked at Yan Jue, his eyes were so strong that they were uncomfortable, but they were still like knives. Yan bullied his heart and lungs.

"Are you trying to rebel or what?"

The slender and powerful arms were raised.There was coldness in Yan Jue's eyes, and he forcibly pulled Xue Lanyin's chin with his fingers, forcing him to lower his head, and in a temporarily docile manner, stared into his eyes for a moment.

"Xue Lanyin, tell me, what do you want?"

Every time the master is angry, he will definitely call him by his first name.Of course Xue Lan knew this, but this time, no matter what, he couldn't make any more concessions.

He once again gathered strength to straighten his back, and the palm that was holding the cloth towel sank down, and it was supporting Yan Jue's ear with graying hair on his temples.

"The one who wants to rebel is obviously the master."

As soon as these words came out, Yan Jue's face turned pale, and he raised his hand to slap him, but he used his strength to press down instead, turned over and firmly restrained Yan Jue.

"We made it clear that I will follow you in everything I do in the future." Xue Lan clasped Yan Jue's wrists with her backhand, almost in a posture of completely suppressing him, wrapping him in her arms, " But what was Master doing just now? Deliberately leaving me behind, and then ran out alone to cause trouble?"

"You..." Yan Jue struggled violently several times, but was forced to lie on his back under Xue Lanyin because of the pain in the wound on his arm, and said exhaustedly: "Who told you? What did I say? Let you follow? Huh?"

"Okay, yes, you are right." For some reason, this sentence triggered Xue Lanyin's bulging nerve.His peach blossom eyes, which were full of water from both sides, were now gloomy with frustration and annoyance, as if they had cast a layer of gravel for no reason, "You really didn't say anything to me, from the beginning to the end, Following you, sticking to you, getting close to you are all my wishful thinking... What did I do wrong? Is it an unforgivable crime to like someone? "

Yan Jue made him froze from the question.

In fact, what the two of them are saying and thinking right now are totally irrelevant things.Yan bullying is angry with Xue Lanyin, it is entirely because this bastard boy refuses to obey discipline, relying on his master's pampering, he is confident, sooner or later, Yan bullying can no longer control him, he must wish he could reach the sky in one step, and trample everyone under his feet to ridicule crushed.

——But Xue Lan was angry because of Yan Jue's attitude towards him all along.

It was always good for Yan to bully him, but if this kind of "goodness" was only limited to the relationship between master and apprentice, then Xue Lan's crooked mind would be useless, and he would never be able to correct it.

"Does Master not like me at all?" With her slender knuckles pointing up slightly, Xue Lan passed through Yan Jue's white fingers and clasped them tightly, just like his unstoppable forceful suppression. He couldn't breathe, "Am I not qualified to be by your side? Or... or something else?"

"You... what kind of messed up things are you thinking all day long?" Yan Jue was about to laugh out of anger, and got up slightly to try to get rid of his shackles, but this bastard's hands were strong, as if he was trying to make things difficult for others. Seeing Yan Jue's insignificant struggle and dodge, he intensified his strength, completely imprisoning him in the narrow gap formed by his slender arms, leaving almost no room for escape.

Yan Jue really had nothing to do with him, so he withdrew most of his anger, as if someone had poured a bowl of herbal tea on his face, completely catching him off guard.

"...Why do you have such an idea?"

There was a bit of puzzlement and doubt in his voice, he turned his head to look at Xue Lanyin, but his slender eyelashes faintly curved into a bewildered arc.

——From Xue Lanyin's subtle point of view, it even seemed a little bit more wronged and innocent.

The breathtakingly handsome face beneath her was always so strong that it could be called mean.But now, she was stuck motionless in his warm and powerful arms, gentle and obedient, without the slightest bit of malice.

With just a quick glance, Xue Lan couldn't help but soften her heart.

The heavy and strong palm attached to Yan Jue's wrist relaxed slightly.Xue Lan became sluggish again because of her upright back just now, lowered her head, and patted her voice inexplicably slowly: "It's me who is so useless that you dislike me, so you... Whenever there is an urgent matter, the first thought is to push me away."

Yan Jue frowned and said, "I am..."

"I know you've always wanted to protect me! But master, do you understand that feeling..." Xue Lanyin continued, "I was really scared when I drove back on my horse alone just now. Master... ...I'm really afraid that most of your cultivation base was damaged because of me, but now you bump into Shen Miaozhou and Gu Hebai, I...I'm afraid that if I delay for a while, I won't see you again it's your turn."

His life has been too long.It was so long that the people or things that were closely surrounding him were being lost inch by inch, including his memory.

He forgot everything, but only put that person in the most important position in his heart. If even that person drifted away without anyone noticing, he would really have nothing left.

"When I first arrived at Changxingju, I had a nightmare. I dreamed that you were old, with white hair, no teeth, and only a little dried up blood left on your body." The voice was obviously suppressed to the point of choking, Xue Lan Yin was still stubborn and stubborn, wanting to finish all the words in one breath, "When I woke up, I bit you like crazy, gnawed on you, just because I was afraid. I was afraid that you would really leave like this No, you won't want me anymore."

Yan Jue's breath was stagnant, and he raised his palm with some difficulty, as if he wanted to gently hold Xue Lanyin down.Halfway down, it fell down weakly, but Xue Lanyin stuffed it back into the palm of his hand bit by bit, and tightened his grip.

"Master, tell me, I, a poor man with nothing, will lose you one day. What do I have left?"

Because Xue Lan's eyebrows were downcast, there was no smile on that smiling face that was always beautiful. At this moment, she was caught in the large shadows surrounded by the backlight of the candle, and was even more stained with a gray frost-like background.