The rooster crowed a few times. The people in the town worked from sunrise to sunset and had already gotten up to work. In the thatched cottage, Rong Yu lazily turned over, felt empty in his arms, and opened his eyes. Yan Zhao was sitting at the head of the bed, holding a book in his hands. He didn't know how long he had been sitting there.
Rong Yu said lazily: "What are you doing getting up so early..."
Yan Zhao woke him up and put the book back on the bookshelf: "There is someone outside."
Rong Yu pricked up his ears: "Why didn't I hear any sound?"
"I set up a soundproof barrier for fear of waking you up." Yan Zhao raised his hand to remove the barrier.
The wooden door could not block out the children's noise, and several pairs of hands took turns knocking on the door.
"Brother Wen, are you there?"
"Is Brother Wen not here?"
"My dad said this morning that I don't need to come to school today. Maybe Brother Wen went out for something."
"Have you gone to town to sell calligraphy and paintings?"
"That's not right. Brother Wen only goes to town every seven days. He wasn't here yesterday, so he will definitely be at home today."
"Is he sick? He's too sick to get up. We need to find a doctor for Brother Wen!"
The children chattered away in an innocent and clear voice.
Wen Yichu teaches the children in the town to read and write every day, rain or shine. Normally at this time of day, Wen Yichu would have already become close friends with the children and would not sleep in like Rong Yu.
The day before yesterday, Wen Yichu was persecuted by the Hu family. The incident happened suddenly and the adults would not tell the children such a cruel thing. At most, they would implicitly remind the children that they don’t need to go to Wendao Academy to study anymore.
The children naturally wouldn't be obedient. They had a very good impression of Wen Yichu, and even though they were warned by their elders, they still went to school as usual and came to disturb them early in the morning.
However, Rong Yu was still sleeping at that time. Yan Zhao had the biggest eyes on Rong Yu, and when he saw Rong Yu frowning in his sleep, he immediately and coldly set up a soundproof barrier, and frantically locked the group of children outside the door.
When Rongyu heard the noise outside the door, he knew what was going on.
He has lived for so long and done everything, but he has never taught.
According to human standards, every one of the devil's behaviors can be listed as a negative example.
If he were to teach these human cubs, he might end up raising an army of monsters.
Rong Yu pulled the quilt up to cover his face and said, "Send them away. Wen Dao Academy will be closed from today on."
After these words were spoken, before Yan Zhao could react, Wen Yichu's ever-burning candle began to jump wildly again, emitting strong protest.
If Wen Yichu has any wishes, the first is to seek welfare for the people, and the second is to have students all over the world. He is not a teacher, but knowledge is the only hope for children in these poor areas to change their fate. If one of these children can escape the fate of being trapped in the fields for generations, and pass on the torch, he can help more people escape their fate.
If Wendao Academy is gone, the hope of these children will be gone.
Everyone understands the truth.
But he is really not cut out for teaching.
Rong Yu was arrogant and conceited, but he was self-aware of some things. He could only recite the original owner's memory, but he could not really understand it. He had never read the knowledge of humans, so how could he teach? He was most annoyed by those chattering little idiots, who kept talking to each other endlessly, which made him feel very upset.
Rongyu was firm in her attitude: No.
Perhaps Wen Yichu realized that he could not shake this powerful demon king. The candlelight stopped flickering and became dim, as if it was dying.
Rong Yu: You’re just not going to teach, so why are you planning to put out the fire
The candlelight flickered gently in Wen Yichu's eyes. He was in low spirits and looked as if the sky was falling.
Rong Yu: You are a little more lively. The first two sons of destiny I met were as quiet as chickens, but you can jump high.
Wen Yichu: …
It doesn’t matter, but what he cares about cannot be changed.
Rong Yu glanced at the ever-burning candle flame that was curled up into a ball and autistic in the spot, and wondered if the Son of Destiny would be so angry that he would go out if he didn't leave the house today.
That would be about the destruction of the world.
This door is the door to maintaining world peace.
In fact, even if the world is destroyed, it has nothing to do with Rong Yu. The big devil will not care about it and it will only take a few minutes to destroy the world.
But after all, he is not a devil who is so willful as to kill innocent people indiscriminately.
The Red Lotus Karma Fire was first born between heaven and earth, and it did what it wanted, acting arbitrarily. Wherever it passed, everything turned to ashes, all things fell, and no grass grew. It only cared about its own prosperity, not caring about the life and death of others.
When did you learn to restrain yourself
That story all started from the day when Yang Luo fell beside me.
He who keeps company with vermilion becomes red, he who keeps company with ink becomes black, he who keeps company with light becomes warm, just, knowledgeable and sensible.
He didn't know whether he had learned well or badly.
Rong Yu lifted the quilt and sat up: "Forget it, let's not close it down for now."
"Try to be a teacher today."
Wen Yichu's candle flame suddenly became brighter.
Outside the door, a group of little kids were lying on the door, sticking their heads out and peeking through the cracks to see what was happening inside clearly.
Suddenly there was a creaky sound, and the door opened from the inside. The radish heads that were piled high all fell into a ball, screaming "ouch!"
Rongyu lowered his eyes and looked down at them.
Two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven radish heads in total, not even as high as his waist when they stood up.
"Brother Wen, you are at home." The children felt cold under such gazes. It took them a while to get up from the ground and said in a muffled voice.
They surrounded Rong Yu and exclaimed: "Brother Wen is dressed so beautifully today! Master Hu and Master Jin are not dressed so well!"
"Where did this dress come from? Can I touch it?"
Both the Hu and Jin families were local gentry in Yueyang Town. The two masters were the most prominent and the most elegantly dressed people among the children.
Wen Yichu's clothes were very simple, he had a fair complexion and a handsome face. Rong Yu did not wrong himself, still wearing the red dress with red lotus embroidered on the cuffs, with most of his black hair draped over his head, and two strands of black hair tied up loosely with a red chain snake - of course, under Yan Zhao's magic, the children saw a red hairband, otherwise they would have been scared and fled.
The gentle aura he had in the past was completely restrained. The young man's eyebrows and eyes were gorgeous, and his eyes were slightly raised, which made him look down on everyone. The children shrank back, thinking that there was something wrong with Brother Wen today, and he looked like an official.
The children had never been an official, but they often played house games together, pretending to be officials, ministers, and peacekeepers. They all thought that officials were imposing and intimidating at first sight. None of them could act out this kind of imposingness, but today they saw it from Brother Wen's eyes.
That feeling lasted only for a moment, and the arrogance and sharpness in Rong Yu's eyes disappeared, replaced by his usual casual and lazy look: "No, everyone sit down and start the class."
Rong Yu had no teaching experience and didn't know what to teach, so he simply let the children ask questions themselves and he answered them one by one.
The child with a tiger-like face and a tiger-like appearance was the first to raise his hand: "Brother Wen, I have a question!"
Rong Yu: “Ask.”
"I learned the Three Character Classic yesterday, and I can recite the first four sentences! But I don't know what they mean. Can Brother Wen explain it to me?"
Rong Yu: "What are the first four sentences?"
What is the Three Character Classic
He had not received the same education as humans, and different worlds had different knowledge. Some similar worlds would have common knowledge points, but the vast majority of worlds Rong Yu had experienced did not have the "Three Character Classic" at all. Even if there was, he would not memorize it for no reason.
Hu thought Rongyu was testing him, so he immediately recited it in a clear and logical manner: "When a person is born, his nature is good, his nature is close, □□."
Rong Yu searched the original owner's memory in his mind, trying to find the answer. Wen Yichu was extremely talented and well-read, and he had a lot of knowledge in his head, so much that finding the explanation of the Three Character Classic was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The expectant look of the tiger gradually turned into doubt: "Brother Wen, don't you know?"
The devil will never admit his ignorance!
Rong Yu gave up searching and started to talk nonsense according to the literal meaning: "When people spend money, their nature is good, which means that when people spend money, they will be very kind to you..."
"Pfft—" Before Rong Yu could come up with the meaning of the next two sentences, Yan Zhaoxian, who had been watching Rong Yu teaching the children under the thatched hut in spirit form, couldn't help laughing.
Rong Yu glared at him: What are you laughing at
Blood Jade Bracelet: Big Devil, you can’t ask me, you are misleading our students!
Rong Yu said calmly: How could there be something I don't know? Shut up.
Blood Jade Bracelet: I told you to shut up, but Wen Yichu is almost angry again!
Rong Yu: Why does he ask for so much? I have to teach him. I have to teach him.
Blood Jade Bracelet: He may not have realized that your knowledge level is so limited... Next time you come to the modern world, do you want to accept the following nine years of compulsory education? Otherwise, it is easy to encounter academic discrimination.
Rong Yu: I'm not interested. Why should I know human knowledge? They are mortals who don't understand the heavenly book and magic text. Do I despise them
Blood Jade Bracelet: You don’t have to learn any of these skills, but you can’t teach this mortal girl carelessly. I’ll tell you the correct answer...
"What this sentence means is that people are kind by nature, but if they grow up in a bad environment, their temperament will become bad."
These words were not spoken by the Blood Jade Bracelet, but by Yan Zhao.
Rong Yu snorted coldly: "You're the only one who knows?"
He turned to the tiger who was still trying to digest the knowledge and said seriously: "The explanation just now was wrong. I said this so that you can remember it like this. What I am going to say next is correct..."
Tiger, who had just tried to remember the wrong explanation, said: "…"
Brother Wen, if you hadn't said that, I wouldn't have remembered it like this...
With Yan Zhao as an invisible plug-in, Rong Yu could answer any questions the children asked. Yan Zhao could even draw inferences from one example and teach in a targeted manner, making him a good teacher and helpful friend.
The children looked at Yan Zhao with increasing admiration, and when school was over, they all reluctantly said goodbye to Rong Yu.
Rongyu couldn't wait to drive people away.
After the children left, Rong Yu went back to the house and sat down, making himself a cup of tea to moisten his dry throat: "You are really knowledgeable and talented."
The tone he used was not one of praise, and it was a bit strange. After all, he had previously called him illiterate, but today he had to rely on Yan Zhao's help all day to avoid the collapse of his scholarly persona.
Yan Zhao showed up and sat down opposite him: "Thank you for the compliment."
"Who really praised you?" Rong Yu said unhappily, "Aren't you illiterate? When did you know so much?"
"I really didn't know anything after I woke up." Yan Zhao said, "But I asked the ghost for a book the other day, and after a while, I learned it. This morning, I had nothing to do, so I cleared the books off the shelf, and then I understood it."
Rong Yu: “…” Why are you being so pretentious
But Yan Zhao was really amazing. He hadn't spoken for a thousand years, but he could speak fluently again in just one day. He could understand all the book knowledge with just a glance.
The Lord God is the Lord God, different from ordinary people.
Yan Zhao suddenly asked: "Is there any reward for helping you so much today?"
"What reward do you want?" Rong Yu asked back, "Hold you for two hours tonight?"
Yan Zhao immediately shook his head: "It's still broken." He would be in so much pain.
"Then get married."
Yan Zhao shook his head even more: "Wait a little longer."
Rong Yu was getting impatient: "Just say what you want, stop beating around the bush."
"Then I'll be frank." Yan Zhao lowered his eyes and said softly, "I'll kiss you."
Rong Yu smiled and said, "You only kiss but don't marry. You are really not a human being."
Yan Zhao: “…”
He felt that his behavior was too much, but he had an almost physiological fear of getting married. When he thought of getting married, the image that came to his mind was not the harmonious life with Rongyu, but Rongyu's sudden disappearance. He searched everywhere for her, but there was no news...
Having thought about this, he no longer dared to do it.
This fear is not unfounded.
He heard clearly that the child called Rong Yu's family "Brother Wen", and the names of Wen's parents were written on the memorial tablet, which indicated that the young man should be called Wen Yichu.
But the young man said his name was Rong Yu.
Yan Zhao didn't believe it. He had no feelings towards the word Wen Yichu, but when he heard the word Rong Yu, he felt that his cold heart, which was no longer beating, was heating up and throbbing wildly.
The original suspicion was completely confirmed after today. The children's brother Wen should be knowledgeable, but Rong Yu is... cough, ignorant in a cute way. Yan Zhao finally judged that Wen Yichu and Rong Yu were definitely not the same person.
He didn't know why Rong Yu used Wen Yichu's identity, just as he didn't know how to find Rong Yu if he left one day.
He was constantly feeling this anxiety, yet he always felt that that day would eventually come.
He only prayed that it would go slower for one day, slower for another, slower until the last four days of their lives.
The marriage-phobic Ghost King blamed himself and struggled, and finally lowered his head in disappointment: "Then let's not kiss, I'll change..."
Suddenly, I felt a warm touch on my lips.
His pupils trembled, and when he looked up, he saw the young man standing in front of him without him knowing when, leaning over and kissing him gently on the cheek.
"Change what?" Rong Yu looked into his eyes.
"I didn't refuse."
"Xiaohu, why are you back so late? Where have you been?" The woman came out of the kitchen carrying food, "Come and have dinner."
Hu said lively: "Mom, I went to the academy today!"
The woman paused, her tone unnatural: "Didn't your father say this morning that you didn't have to go to the academy today? What were you doing there? Why did you stay there for so long and come back?"
They saw Mr. Wen being buried by the Hu family the day before yesterday, and the coffin was nailed shut. They tried to stop him at the time, but the land that the whole family depended on for survival belonged to the Hu family, and they could not do anything about it, so they could only remain silent.
Guilt and insecurity mixed together and became a way of escape.
Hu said: "Of course I'm going to study."
The woman was stunned: "Mr. Wen is gone, what's the point of studying?"
"Brother Wen is here." Xiaohu said curiously, "He taught us a lot of new knowledge today! But Brother Wen is a little bit unhappy. He wore a beautiful red dress today. He must have bought it when he went to the city to sell calligraphy and paintings yesterday. By the way, the look in Brother Wen's eyes when he opened the door was so strange and scary..."
The woman was so frightened that her hands were shaking and the food fell to the ground.
Mr. Wen was dragged away by the Hu family to be arranged for a ghost marriage the day before yesterday, and he died in the coffin yesterday. How could he go to the city to buy red clothes... Those red clothes are wedding clothes for ghost marriages!
Until last night, the Hu family was haunted and scared a few people crazy. Today, Mr. Wen came back to teach in red clothes as if nothing had happened. There is only one possibility...
Mr. Wen turned into a ghost and crawled out of the grave to seek revenge!