refuse to be a teacher

——Yan Jue really did what he said.

A few days later, I specially picked a sunny day to cut two pieces of solid wood to make a bow, and the remaining thin wooden sticks to make arrows. I grabbed them neatly and put them in a small bamboo tube. Then excitedly dragged the apprentices one by one and slipped out the door.

Xue Lanyin actually didn't quite understand what Yan Jue was trying to achieve by teaching him archery.To him, the ordinary skills necessary for life, such as going out to hunt, are just trivial things that can be easily obtained by cutting one's arms and bleeding.

But the little master is a little master after all - the way he raises his hands and draws the bow is also a beauty with a heroic demeanor.Yan Jue was standing upright under the tree alone, while Xue Lanyin was lazily nesting in the shade of the tree with a nymphomaniac. At that time, a warm sun was shining outside, which completely separated the two faces. The cold side face is immersed in the bright light beam, but Xue Lan's dim eyes are silently hidden into the deep shadow of the backlight. In the wind, clouds, flying and falling leaves, it seems that a hundred turns of emotions are lost and disappeared in the sky. invisible.

"The body holding the bow should stand up straight, and you must not be shy like you. All the movements must be coherent and done in one go, otherwise it will affect the accuracy afterwards." Yan Jue's powerful five fingers rolled over the arrow tail tightly, and the thin string stretched in response. Under the glare of the daylight, it bends into a strong arc that is ready to go, "Shoulders, elbows, and hands must form a straight line. A wooden bow is easily deformed, so don't use brute force... Hey, Xue Xiaomao , are you listening?"

Halfway through the conversation, I suddenly felt that something was not quite right.When he suddenly turned around and looked back, sure enough, there were no people under the shade of the tree, so who cares whether to listen or not?

"Where did you go, this bastard..."

Yan Jue retracted the bow and arrow with his backhand, as if he was still a little lost, he frowned and began to look around.However, after half a day, no one could be seen, and I don't know how many rabbits passed by, leaving Yan Jue alone in the sun like a lump of wood, the more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became.

——He obviously wanted to teach something with good intentions, but the little bastard was absent-minded and ungrateful. He didn't know where his eyes were staring, anyway, he wasn't watching how he drew his bow.It's all right now, but he played hide-and-seek forcibly, and everyone ran away without a trace!

"Xue Xiaomao, get out!" Yan Jue impatiently crossed his arms and said, "If you keep messing around, I'll..."

Before he finished speaking, the top of his head sank suddenly, and a layer of blackness was lightly cast in front of his eyes.With a sound of brushing, most of his lively and cunning handsome face protruded from the grass, he opened his hands and grabbed Yan Jue into his arms, and said with a pleasant smile: "Ah, I caught Master!"

Yan Jue caught people off guard all of a sudden, and while he was flustered and changed color, he had already planned his words and began to curse directly, but at this moment, something was placed on his forehead, he hurriedly pulled it and grabbed it in the palm of his hand. A series of delicate garlands.

"Does it look good?" Xue Lan hugged him with a playful smile and said, "Now I made it up for you, do you like it?"

Yan Jue held the wreath in his palm silently, the emotions in his eyes flowed silently, like the tide falling alone at night.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that he refused to speak for a long time, Xue Lan suddenly became a little nervous, "...Are you angry? I...I just want to make you happy, and I didn't listen to you seriously! I swear, just now I listened to every word you taught!"

Yan Jue looked at him sideways, thinking of something, his eyes became a little soft.

He sighed and said helplessly, "Forget it."

"what……"

"I say forget it." Yan Jue raised his hand and clasped the wreath on Xue Lanyin's head, then turned around and pulled his sleeve and said, "I'll teach you tomorrow. The sun is so rare today, let's just walk around outside the house." Walk."

It is said that it is a casual walk, but in fact, Xixin Valley does not have much territory in general, and the sealed aura barriers are rampant everywhere. If you look at it from a distance, it is full of endless barren mountains and forests. Counting the area of ​​nearly a hundred miles, it is almost invisible. Half a wisp of people, only a few inches of sunlight mottled with stars on the other side is the proof of being connected with the outside world.

Subconsciously, Xue Lan could sense that Yan Jue wanted to talk to him.Just using the professor's archery as an excuse, Xue Lan obviously didn't listen very seriously, and now it seems that he has a chance, but Yan Jue doesn't talk much, and the two just circle the bottom of the valley in such a boring way, twisting and turning For a long time, it was Xue Lan who couldn't hold back anymore, and asked in a ignorant voice, "Heyu, why did you suddenly want to teach me archery?"

Yan Jue's eyes paused, and he quickly said calmly as usual: "Of course I hope you can come in handy."

"But, I..."

"I know that the blood and physique of your people are different from ordinary people. If it is not necessary on weekdays, you only use yourself as a tool." Yan bullied, "However, since the living sword is a 'living' sword, It is also a life with self-awareness. Pain can become a habit along with numbness, but it will not be completely eliminated. In the same way, a person will die if he bleeds too much... You are also a human being. How special is your blood? Ordinary people don't make any difference."

Xue Lan lifted her eyes slightly, and said with a little astonishment in her eyes: "Heyu, what you said..."

"I said this just to warn you that things like knives are in your hands and are for use—rather than stabbing yourself repeatedly." Yan Jue turned sideways, hooked his hand on the tip of his nose, Twist hard, and gritted his teeth with some resentment, and said every word, "You are the most stupid of all your clan. You don't care about your life, so you have to rely on others to teach you!"

Xue Lan giggled because he was twisted, and said straightly: "I am very stupid...so is Master willing to watch over me and teach?"

This is the second time he raised such a question.

Yan Jue also froze again.Afterwards, he seemed to be a little disappointed and opened his mouth to bypass the topic and said: "If I don't teach you, don't you know how to protect yourself?"

"As long as you follow Master, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life." Xue Lanyin blinked her eyes and said very straightforwardly, "If you were by my side, I would never stab myself with a knife again."

Yan Jue raised his eyebrows and said, "Are you threatening me?"

Xue Lan said with a smile on her eyebrows: "I like you."

"I don't need your likes."

Yan Jue flicked his sleeves and turned to leave. Fang stepped out only half a foot away, but was pulled back violently, and a soft thing was stuck on his forehead——

He is here again!

Yan Jue's pupils shrank, and he was about to erupt from embarrassment, but Xue Lanyin held his lips gently with a finger.

"If you let me kiss you, I won't like you anymore." He said softly, "OK?"

Yan Jue was filled with anger, as if his head had been showered with cold water, and suddenly stood still.

Because Xue Lan took the opportunity to bow her head, she couldn't help but come to take advantage of him.In the end, half of the lips were not touched, and Yan Jue suddenly reached out to stop him: "...No, I can't kiss!"

Xue Lan frowned and was about to say something when Yan Jue shouted again: "Don't even like me!"

"why?"

Yan Jue's ears turned red, and he said intermittently: "Anyway, it's just... just not!"

Xue Lan raised his hand to gently hold his face, put all the handsome and beautiful features in the center of the warm and dry palm, then stared at him intently and said: "Just a kiss. It's just you and me here, don't worry about others seeing it. "

Yan Jue lowered his eyes, followed the wide cuffs under his palms to see the hideous and mixed brown scars on his arms, and was speechless for a while.

Seeing that he was silent for a long time, Xue Lan simply gave up waiting and slightly opened her lips to greet him.

At that moment, Yan Jue could clearly feel that some emotions in his heart had changed differently—it wasn't necessarily the hysterical resistance in the past.When Xue Lanyin pressed against his lips and grinded slowly, she was always very cautious. It looked like the two were kissing, but in fact Yan Jue didn't give any response, and Xue Lanyin only followed his lips. Touching the wires tremblingly and carefully, it is more like a unilateral pleasing than the so-called unscrupulous demands.

——There really wasn’t any unusually strong discomfort.Yan Jue thought, on the contrary, he seemed to let Xue Lan feel a little bit comfortable touching her warm and soft lips.

At the end of the kiss, Xue Lanyin also carefully combed the slightly messy hair between the temples for him.

Yan Jue felt a little awkward, couldn't help frowning and said in a low voice: "You..."

"Master." Xue Lanyin interrupted him suddenly.Then he touched his red ears lightly, and said very naturally, "Didn't you just say... you want to teach me archery tomorrow?"

Yan Jue said in a daze: "Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Can you... postpone it for another day?" Xue Lan clasped her hands together and begged him coquettishly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I really didn't mean to let you go. Don't be angry with me!"

Yan Jue seemed a little unhappy: "What are you going to do tomorrow?"

"I just remembered that tomorrow should be the day to go out of the valley." Xue Lanyin said, "There is really no way to push this matter away, otherwise I would like to stay with you."

"Routine out of the Valley...?" Yan Jue said with extreme sensitivity, "When did you leave Xixin Valley, why didn't I know?"

"Of course you don't know. You were injured so badly in those early days, and I went out once or twice, and you didn't have the strength to follow along to find out." Xue Lan touched Yan Jue's head, as if he was afraid that he would jump up and throw a tantrum , Hastily explained word by word and then patiently explained, "This is the rule established by the Lingtai Yijian Sect—with 49 days as a cycle, people must be sent to stagger [-] enchantments every month to guide me as usual. Out of the valley once. It has been like this for four years, and there has never been a change.”

There is such a thing...

For the first time, Yan Jue was shocked to find that he didn't seem to have a deep understanding of the series of things that happened around Xue Lanyin.

The same is true for bloodletting and hunting, as well as regular trips to the valley... There may be more important secrets that he is completely unaware of. It is not because Xue Lan is reluctant to mention it to him, but because he has never tried to ask him.

"Then... why do they want you out of the valley?" He couldn't control himself, "It won't be something special like regular blood collection..."

"You're overthinking." Xue Lan had expected that he would ask such a question, so she simply avoided the topic and continued, "The blood of the ancient living sword has only survived for decades, and it was finally negotiated and coordinated by many parties. Decided to place me at the bottom of Xixin Valley—the outside world is afraid that they will listen to the selfishness of the One Sword Sect, and use the protection of the gods as an excuse to take blood from the bottom of the valley without authorization. Prove to all that the living sword itself is intact."

——It is indeed such a truth.The blood of the people of the Living Sword clan is inherently special, and it has always been a violent weapon that countless people have tried their best to control. Now, in Xixin Valley, this benefit is given by Lingtai Yijian. An Xie, so regularly lead Xue Lan out of the valley to show that no one has touched the sword, which is also an expedient measure to quell external disputes.