Ren Bin stayed awake all night.
There was a cold wind blowing outside the window, whistling against the window. It was obviously the best time to sleep.
What’s more, he had been painting for three days and three nights in a row and was already mentally exhausted.
But he couldn’t sleep for some reason.
He spent the whole night with his eyes closed, holding the sleeping Shuyao in his arms, unable to fall asleep.
His thoughts were in disarray, and his mind was filled with Yu Xian’s words:”My family has been practicing medicine for generations. When my senior brother took out the incense burner, I recognized it as .”
“Brother, I pretended not to know on purpose, because… I am willing to do so too.”
Why not hide? Because I’m not afraid.
How is it possible to sleep like this!
Ren Bin felt his cheeks burning.
It turned out that they had fallen in love with each other six years ago.
It’s just that Yuxian doesn’t know how to express it.
And Ren Bin used the wrong approach again.
A deep sense of self-blame arose in Ren Bin’s heart.
He could have taken it step by step, but for the so-called script, he took away her virginity so simply and carelessly.
Thinking of this, he couldn’t sleep even more.
The little girl in his arms hummed twice and struggled for a few times.
Then he realized that it was already dawn outside the window.
“Good morning, Daddy…”Xiao Shuyao rubbed her eyes, her hair was messy, like a kitten with its fur standing on end.
She actually slept quite restlessly last night. She kept kicking Ren Bin’s legs and talking in her sleep from time to time.
“Good morning.”
Ren Bin stroked her head along her fur, then couldn’t help but kiss her gently on the forehead.
“Hmm…”Shuyao narrowed her eyes, then tilted her head and looked around.
“Hey, where’s mom?”
Ren Bin scratched his hair, his tone a little awkward:”Mom has gone outside to practice, hurry up and change your clothes.”
Last night, after Yu Xian said those words, she felt ashamed and hid outside the house.
Shuyao nodded obediently, then took her clothes from the hanger beside her and put them on slowly while yawning.
Ren Bin took out a comb from the bedside table, sat cross-legged behind Shuyao, and combed her hair.
“Dad, Shuyao suddenly has a question.”
“Hmm? Go ahead.”
The little girl frowned, looking very confused.
“Why are there so few people on this mountain, Daddy?”
Ren Bin froze.
“When mother brought Shuyao here, we passed by other mountains and there were so many people there.”
“But why is there no one here, Daddy?”
“There are obviously a lot of houses… Have the others gone outside?”
Ren Bin covered his face behind her and was unable to speak for a while.
Stop cursing, stop cursing.
Six years ago, the previous peak master went into seclusion, and he was regarded as a fallen genius who “never recovered”.
The elders and disciples had already obtained the peak’s secret manuals, and they were able to use them as they pleased.
In just one year, all the people in Yifeng left and the library was cleaned out.
Because he was forced to succeed to the throne, and Ren Bin had been looking for a way to break through for the past six years and ignored the affairs of the peak sect, so except for the two disciples he was forced to accept, he really did not do anything to revive the peak sect.
Recruiting elders?
What do the elders want to do here?
If they can’t get any money or fame, they won’t want to come here at all.
Recruiting disciples?
That’s even more absurd. All the books in Fengmen’s library have been emptied out, so you can’t learn anything here.
To be honest, he had never even thought about reviving the sect.
He had only thought about… after his two disciples finished their apprenticeship, he would abandon this mess and go on a journey to spend the rest of his life…I’m sorry for being a lazy dog.
But, he couldn’t say to Shuyao…your father is a loser, and everyone in the peak sect dislikes your father so they all ran away, right?
This is so embarrassing.
“Ahem, Shuyao, everyone in the peak… is out for some reason, and will be back later.”
He chose to lie.
“Really?”
Shuyao turned her head, her eyes sparkling.
“Uh…really.”
Ren Bin turned his head away feeling somewhat guilty; the light in those eyes was so bright that it condemned his conscience.
“Are you still not up?”
Yu Xian pushed the wooden door open.
She looked at the father and daughter sitting on the bed in front and behind.
When her eyes met Ren Bin’s, she looked away in panic.
“Come out quickly, I have prepared breakfast.”
“You go out to eat first. I’ll help Shuyao comb her hair.”
She walked forward, took the comb from Ren Bin, and sat on the other side of Shuyao.
“Silly girl, you’ve got your clothes on backwards.”
When Ren Bin walked out of the house, breakfast was already on the table.
A few simple side dishes were placed on the table, and the freshly cooked rich rice porridge was still steaming.
But, what made him feel something was wrong was…That girl Chen Boyu didn’t even show up at the dining table.
This heartless girl has always been active in everything except cultivation, and she is always the first one to appear at the table during meals.
Since Yuxian and Shuyao were still changing clothes, he might as well go find Chen Boyu to see what this girl was doing.
He walked across the snow, came to Chen Boyu’s residence, and gently pushed open the door.
Chen Boyu was lying on the wooden table, with a pen in his hand, sleeping soundly.
A candle was half-burned, and the candlestick was full of wax.
She crossed her arms and pressed down on the densely written paper, which was the talisman that Ren Bin asked her to copy as punishment.
So he fell asleep due to being punished to copy?
Ren Bin thought silently in his heart.
Chen Boyu has just established her foundation. Her cultivation is not enough to make up for her mental strength. She also needs rest on weekdays.
For her, a thousand times… is it too much?
“Master…”Chen Boyu murmured, his words were a little unclear, but Ren Bin could still hear them clearly.
This girl who has always been cheating on me, is it possible that she still thinks about me in her dreams?
“I want to get some gold coins so I can buy Yinchun Pavilion’s picture book, hehe…”Ren Bin:……You are just being too sentimental.
“Traitor…”“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!!!”
Ren Bin grabbed Chen Boyu’s ear and twisted it 180 degrees without any hesitation.
The latter screamed in pain, covered his ears, and his eyes were full of tears.
When he saw that the person coming was Ren Bin, he nervously shrank his neck and dared not breathe.
“Master, why are you here…”Ren Bin had a gloomy face and naturally had no intention of greeting this traitor.
“Have you finished copying what you were asked to copy as punishment?”
“Well……””Hehe…” Chen Boyu knocked his head, “Master, there’s still some left, almost there…””How much is left?”
“More than seven hundred times…”Ren Bin:……You call this almost? ! !
He calmed himself down… Oh, kid, why are you angry with her?
Think about your own problem. Is the punishment too severe?
Others fell asleep while copying.
“Then you can recite the spell once, and forget about the rest.”
Ren Bin calmed down, took a long breath, and prepared to give Chen Boyu a way out.
We are a master and a disciple, why should we be so nervous?
I learned talismans from scratch, and I memorized this spell after reading it six times.
Outer disciples will remember it after learning it a dozen times.
She must have copied it more than two hundred or three hundred times, so she must have remembered it…right?
“Forehead……”Chen Boyu panicked, stammered, and whispered cautiously:”Master, I am stupid and haven’t… memorized it yet.”
Ren Bin:……Good job.
Copying is copying, and memorizing is memorizing.
They have nothing to do with each other, right?
What does the matter of the hands have to do with the brain?
“Traitor, add another thousand times and give it to me tomorrow morning.”
Ren Bin’s face turned completely black.
“No eating or resting allowed before this!”
“Wow…”Chen Boyu had a sad face. He picked up the pen again and spread out the straw paper.
“But before that, you should go to your senior sister first.”