Leng Mushi had no idea of Xiao Mian's little thoughts. She rubbed her tired eyes, shook her wrist which had obviously felt much better after Xiao Mian's massage, and continued to read the books and make notes.
Xiao Mian rolled around on Leng Mushi's bed for a while, then imitated the magic spider and kicked his legs silently in the air, venting his joy. He then stood up, put on his shoes, got up, walked behind Leng Mushi and massaged her shoulders.
Just a few days ago, when Xiao Mian eagerly reached out his hand to massage her for the first time, Leng Mushi rejected him sternly. What did she say at that time
"You don't need to do this. I'm fine. I can do it."
The result is just like now. After enjoying it twice, Leng Mushi accepted Xiao Mian's bullshit truth that "good brothers don't need to be too taboo" without any psychological pressure.
At this moment, Xiao Mian's hand squeezed with moderate force, and Leng Mushi relaxed her shoulders, leaned back in the chair, closed her eyes and enjoyed it.
"A little to the left, use a little more strength, Leng Tianyin's grip on me is stronger than yours." Leng Mushi hummed and commanded, tilting her neck to cooperate with Xiao Mian. Xiao Mian stood behind her, and since she couldn't see, the corners of his mouth rose wildly.
He felt that the idea he came up with was really wise, and that what they were doing was actually not much different from being in love.
It's impossible to be together every day like this when you are in a relationship, practicing together, eating and living together. It's just too sweet.
Of course, there are many things that cannot be done. For example, he can use the excuse of massage to help her relieve fatigue, but he must not cross the line and let her notice anything unusual. The boy was too easily moved, and it was indeed a bit difficult to restrain himself in front of the person he liked, but Xiao Mian was very satisfied.
He preferred to get along with Leng Mushi like this. He looked at the dim eternal lamp reflecting their intertwined shadows, and felt an indescribable illusion of warmth.
They had the illusion that they were already a couple who had been married for many years. On such a night, under the candlelight, the wife was embroidering something and he was watching beside her. Of course, this thing must be a gift for him.
Xiao Mian had never had such wishful thinking before, but the longer he spent with Leng Mushi, the more he liked her personality.
He liked her concentration, her cunning and cleverness, and her fearlessness of hard work and even torture, because every time, when even Xiao Mian found it difficult to test the medicine, Leng Mushi would always take it before him without blinking, and even when she was suffering, she could still pick up a pen and neatly record the effects of the medicine.
She used to be just a weed that grew again in the spring breeze in Xiao Mian's heart, but now, she has grown into a towering tree in his heart.
He really had to be with her.
He wanted to hear her call him Brother Xiao softly again and throw herself into his arms.
So during the two months when Hua Yanyue was away from the sect, in the first month, Leng Mushi advanced two levels himself, and the quality of his elixirs had reached the pinnacle of primary alchemy. Not only did he never waste any elixirs like Hua Yanyue, he even created several elixirs of his own.
In the second month, Xiao Mian and Leng Mushi were the only ones living together. Leng Mushi was obsessed with alchemy and couldn't extricate herself, and Xiao Mian was obsessed with Leng Mushi and couldn't extricate himself.
How can there be such a girl in this world? She is so cute.
Xiao Mian was like a little wife. Apart from returning to the sect and attending classes, as well as cleaning the stone steps, she spent all her time in Cangshengyuan.
He intervened more and more in Leng Mushi's life. At first, he just helped her test medicine, and later he helped her record, helped her watch the medicine furnace, helped her raise monsters and beasts, helped her relieve fatigue, and even... cooked and washed clothes.
Leng Mushi accidentally crawled out of the cellar one day. She thought the sunshine was really nice. She hadn't been out for many days, so when she went out through the back door to bask in the sun, she saw Xiao Mian holding her clothes and washing them in the bathing pool.
She blinked, squinted her eyes and smiled in the sunlight, "Hey, Xiao Mian, I find that you are becoming more and more virtuous."
Xiao Mian was facing Leng Mushi sideways, and was putting his clothes on the bamboo pole. He stretched the hem and shook it hard. The water droplets suddenly flew up and flew onto Xiao Mian's face, falling between his eyebrows and eyes.
At this time, Xiao Mian turned around when he heard the words. Under the sunlight, the tiny water droplets on his face reflected his handsome eyebrows and eyes, making them look like a black glass stone that was the raw material for storing elixirs, scattering colorful spots of light.
He looked at Leng Mushi with a look of reproach in his eyes, and said, "If I don't wash you, you will just lie there and stink."
Leng Mushi touched her nose a little embarrassedly, "I can wash it too... Besides, I have learned the art of cleaning."
Xiao Mian glanced at her lightly and continued to shake the clothes. In fact, he was also very skilled in the cleaning technique. To clean these clothes, he only needed to activate the runes with his fingers.
But he hadn't used the cleaning technique for a long time. When he was with Leng Mushi, he found that she was just like an ordinary mortal, using water to clean herself and her clothes.
Sometimes she would go out to wash her face in the early morning and come back into the house with wet hair and shaking the water from her hands. Xiao Mian would always get lost in her hair that stuck to the side of her face because of wetness, and he would wander along the curved and wet curve again and again, but could not find a way out.
So he also fell in love with water for cleanliness. When he saw her taking off her clothes and leaving them there without caring about, and the next batch of pills had not been produced yet, he had nothing to do, so he came to wash.
Leng Mushi felt like running away when Xiao Mian was looking at her, mainly because Xiao Mian gave her a weird feeling, as if... how to describe it
It was like a drunk man like her, coming home at night with smelly clothes, and being despised by her young wife.
Leng Mushi shook her head to get rid of this terrible thought, and then saw Xiao Mian continuing to fish out clothes from the bathing pool.
Outer robe, waist belt, long gown, inner shirt, middle... pants.
Seeing this, the skin on the back of Leng Mushi's neck tightened. When she realized what Xiao Mian was still fishing for, her head suddenly made a "crack", as if she was struck by lightning from the top of her head to the back of her heels, splitting her in half alive.
"Wait..." she squeezed out of her throat.
Then he was horrified to see Xiao Mian actually fished out her underwear from the pool.
Leng Mushi exploded.
My brain exploded.
This, this, this, this!
She hurriedly ran to Xiao Mian's side and snatched away his wet underwear. After hesitating for a long time, with nowhere to hide, she lifted up the hem of her clothes and stuffed the clothes inside.
Then she jumped into the house like an iron pillar dancing in the wind, burning red hot.
Xiao Mian's hands were empty. He looked at her red ears and neck, and belatedly realized that he was a little embarrassed. He originally thought it was nothing, but when Leng Mushi did this, he felt embarrassed...
Leng Mushi ran into the house holding her wet, dripping underwear, her mind feeling as empty as if it had been sucked by a demon spider.
She closed the door, her wet and cold belly pressed against her thing that was not visible to others, curled up into a ball, as if she had a big belly.
Leng Mushi lowered her head and thought aimlessly, the degree of shame this was almost the same as actually having an affair and getting pregnant.
Is Xiao Mian crazy? !
Why would I let her wash this thing, ahhhh—
She just wanted to leave it for a day, so she turned on the furnace at night and secretly washed herself while taking a bath.
Who knew that Xiao Mian, this damn unlucky guy, would get into trouble!
Leng Mushi collapsed and lay in the house, holding her big belly and imitating the donkey pulling the mill.
Xiao Mian was standing outside the back door, holding his sleeve in his mouth and also spinning around.
But he, the "culprit", was always calmer. After calming down, he pretended to be calm and pushed the door open. His eyes met Leng Mushi's. He pointed at her belly and said, "Give it to me to hang on the stove."
Leng Mushi stepped back holding her belly, her eyes filled with fear, like a young woman about to give birth seeing the executioner.
Xiao Mian didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's nothing, we are friends, I washed mine too, and I washed yours too, I didn't think much about it, your reaction makes me so embarrassed."
He clenched his fingers behind his back, his face expressionless.
He was able to fool Leng Mushi every time he did this, but this time he really couldn't fool her.
Leng Mushi shook her head: "Stay away from my... clothes, don't try to trick me into thinking I'm not well-educated."
Leng Mushi cried, "I have made so many friends, but not one of them is willing to wash my clothes, and... such intimate clothes!"
Leng Mushi glared at Xiao Mian: "Tell me! Are you still harboring evil intentions?! Do you have any plans for me?"
Xiao Mian's heart was trembling violently, but he always lied without changing his expression, so he looked at Leng Mushi in confusion: "I just did it casually, I didn't think about it. If you feel offended, I apologize, but I didn't mean to touch your private parts. It's just that you...wrapped them in your outer robe, and I found them after I got into the water."
This is the truth. After all, Xiao Mian is not a real pervert.
After he said that, Leng Mushi indeed remembered that she had rolled up her underwear inside her outer robe.
Her expression eased a little, but she still stayed away from Xiao Mian.
Seeing that she had dispelled some of her doubts, Xiao Mian boldly stepped forward, grabbed the robe she was rolling up, frowned and said seriously: "Give it to me quickly, I'll wash it again and hang it up. Why are you holding it on your belly? It's so cold."
Xiao Mian was like an old maid in Cuihonglou, trying to convince people with reason: "In a few days, it will be menstruation. If you keep it cold, you will have a stomachache..."
Leng Mushi was originally looking at him with suspicion and doubt, and seeing how frank he was, she felt like she was about to be fooled by him.
But when she heard him mention her private parts, her face, which had just subsided a little, suddenly turned red again: "You...you..."
"Give it to me now!"
Leng Mushi grabbed her clothes and ran outside, panting as she washed them and hung them up to dry. After hesitating outside for a while, she went into the house and prepared to have a serious discussion with Xiao Mian about the relationship between men and women. Even though they were brothers, she was still a woman after all.
She mustered up the courage to come in. Xiao Mian was drinking tea at the table as if nothing had happened. Leng Mushi sat opposite him and said to him seriously, "Xiao Mian, I think something is wrong with you."
Hearing this, Xiao Mian slowly put down the cup and looked at her helplessly, "I haven't taken any pills yet, and everything is fine."
Leng Mushi shook her head like a rattle, "You know, there are differences between men and women. No matter how good our relationship is, you won't... You won't..."
She was a little embarrassed to speak, so Xiao Mian took over the conversation: "Shouldn't I touch your underwear?"
Leng Mushi nodded vigorously, "Yes!"
Xiao Mian looked innocent, "But I explained, it was an accident."
Leng Mushi held her breath, nodded, and then said, "Well, then what?"
She gritted her teeth and stamped her feet, "My menstrual period! You..."
Leng Mushi roared at the end, "Why do you want to remember it?"
Leng Mushi collapsed and questioned Xiao Mian. Xiao Mian's expression was blank for a moment, and then he said: "Of course I didn't remember it on purpose..."
"Then explain to me why you can remember it when I can't even remember it clearly myself?" Leng Mushi put her hands on her hips and looked at Xiao Mian.
If he doesn't give a reasonable explanation today, this matter will definitely not end.
Xiao Mian lowered his head, stretched out his hand and pinched his earlobe, then said: "Have you forgotten, when I started to experiment with medicine, you once refined a furnace of five-color pills to strengthen the five senses for a short period of time. After I ate it, the effect was particularly good... I smelled blood on you."
Leng Mushi opened her mouth, her face flushed like a monkey's buttocks. Xiao Mian said seriously, "I didn't understand it at first, but when I asked you if you were injured, you said no. I probed your meridians and found nothing unusual, so I flipped through some books and finally understood the matter of women's menstrual fluid."
Leng Mushi covered her face, not knowing what to say.
Why does Xiao Mian have to read such messed up books
Xiao Mian continued, "It's nothing. Boys and girls are born different. I just accidentally remembered your menstrual cycle and calculated that you would be in a few days. I was just worried that you would catch a cold."
Xiao Mian said: "There is nothing to be ashamed of. You and I have been researching elixirs all day long, and we are researching the differences in the effects of these elixirs on people. Men and women are born with different physiques. This difference can also be considered a subtle difference that affects the efficacy of the medicine..."
"Yes!" Leng Mushi was still feeling ashamed, but when she heard Xiao Mian say this, it was like a wake-up call. She said that the effects of the medicine on her and Xiao Mian were always different.
Leng Mushi originally thought that it was because of their different cultivation levels and body sizes, but now it seems that it must be because of the natural differences between men and women!
If she studies this point thoroughly, then she may be able to imagine that perhaps the elixirs developed in the future can also be targeted at men and women!
Leng Mushi immediately stopped telling Xiao Mian about underwear and menstrual cycle. She squatted excitedly beside the big box of her notes and began to look through the drug records to compare them with hers.
Xiao Mian watched her busying herself and slowly let out a breath. He certainly didn't remember it on purpose, but it would not be right to say that he was not attentive. He really cared about Leng Mushi very much.
It's not just her menstrual period. After being together for so long, Xiao Mian even knows what foods are likely to upset her stomach, how much water she drinks a day, and how many times she goes to urinate.
Of course, he didn't remember this on purpose. He wasn't a sex maniac. He just couldn't help but pay attention to her. He couldn't control it.
Xiao Mian thought that this was actually quite good. Leng Mushi was an elixir fanatic, and being her medicine man did not count as slacking off in his cultivation. He was also very willing to use his extra energy to take care of her.
This brief episode passed just like that, but because of Xiao Mian's words, Leng Mushi took out most of the manual and compared them bit by bit, from day to night, from night to dawn, which made Xiao Mian a little bit annoyed.
"Why don't you come and eat something before you look?" Xiao Mian said, "Or you can just tell me where to look and I'll help you."
Leng Mushi shook her head and turned her stiff neck, "No, you can't understand the ghostly characters I wrote..."
There were some that she couldn't understand herself, and Xiao Mian was not sensitive to pill recipes, so it was easy for him to miss important information.
Xiao Mian could only feed her like a child. He scooped up the wonton, walked over to her, and fed her with a spoon.
When the food was brought to his mouth, he opened his mouth naturally when he smelled it. Leng Mushi casually praised it as "delicious", and Xiao Mian was so happy that his tail almost lifted up to the sky.
"I didn't go down the mountain to the Five Grains Hall today. How does this wonton taste? It's made with mushrooms from the backyard of the Cangsheng Courtyard and a wild rabbit that stole mushrooms from the Cangsheng Courtyard as the stuffing," Xiao Mian said. "This is my first time making it. If you like it, I'll make it for you later."
Leng Mushi didn't hear what he was saying at all. When she was concentrating, most of the sounds went in one ear and out the other, and she couldn't understand what they meant even after they passed through her brain.
But after eating a few, Xiao Mian kept talking about how fresh the mushrooms were and how stupid and easy to catch the wild rabbits were. Only then did Leng Mushi realize that something was wrong.
Turning her head, she saw Xiao Mian also eating wonton with the same spoon she had used.
Xiao Mian's eyes met hers, and he immediately felt guilty and banged his spoon against the wall of the bowl with a "ding" sound, "What, what happened?"
He often ate from the same bowl with Leng Mushi recently. She had noticed it, but she never showed any sign of concern and didn't seem to care. Xiao Mian gradually became bolder.
At this moment, Leng Mushi suddenly looked at him like this, and Xiao Mian became afraid again, afraid that she would have a grudge against him because of what happened during the day and wanted to be on guard against him.
Leng Mushi just stared at Xiao Mian for a while, then rubbed her brows with her fingers and asked Xiao Mian: "You just said that you made this wonton?"
When Xiao Mian heard her ask this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and said with a smile: "If you like it, I will learn something else later."
Leng Mushi shook her head. "The mushrooms in the backyard and the rabbits on the cliff that stole the mushrooms?"
Xiao Mian nodded, "Yes, there are so many mushrooms in the backyard. I found a few edible ones..."
"You can't eat it," Leng Mushi raised her hand to interrupt Xiao Mian's words, "Hurry, my legs are numb and I can't get up, go to the bed and get the detoxification pill..."
Leng Mushi was so speechless at this moment, "The soil in the backyard... was dug by my master in a secret realm. The things that grow on it all have a strong paralyzing effect. They are paralyzing fungi used to catch monsters and beasts and take their blood..."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Mian was so shocked that he quickly stood up. He was originally half-kneeling beside Leng Mushi to feed her and he also ate a few bites. But when he stood up, he found that his legs were not working well.
“Ah…” The bowl and chopsticks containing the unfinished wonton fell to the ground, and he fell back to Leng Mushi’s side.
Leng Mushi sighed, her lips numb.
Xiao Mian tried to comfort her: "No, no, I'll get it right away."
Then he gritted his teeth and tried to stand up again, but fell back every time he tried.
The room was very small, and the distance between the bed and where the two people were squatting was only a few steps, but neither of them could get up.
Leng Mushi was speechless. She ate even more and looked at Xiao Mian with a look of despair as he continued to struggle, but he only crawled a little further and was already sweating profusely from exhaustion.
Slowly, she could no longer hold on to the box and slid to the ground. She could not even feel her own breathing. She could not help but think in her heart, "Xiao Mian is really..." Not only did he use mushrooms as the stuffing, he also used wild rabbits that eat mushrooms all year round.
The wild rabbit always came to steal mushrooms. Leng Mushi had seen it many times. Relying on the medicinal properties all over its body, it was rampant among the beasts under the cliff in the backyard. No one dared to eat it. After all, even the most powerful beast would be paralyzed after eating it and might become food for other beasts.
Even the rabbit that eats mushrooms all year round probably didn't expect that someone would dare to eat it. This is...
Leng Mushi lost consciousness. Xiao Mian crawled out a little, but he couldn't move anymore, let alone get the detoxification pill from the storage bag on the bed.
Coincidentally, Leng Mushi's storage bag was originally carried with her, and she only took it out to change clothes these two days. The antidote was within reach, but it seemed like a chasm separated them from it.
In the end, Xiao Mian gave up. He couldn't even condense his spiritual energy.
He used up the last of his strength to turn around, rolled back to Leng Mushi and hugged her, pressing half of her body under his own to prevent the demon spider from taking advantage of their unconsciousness to come out and seek revenge and cause trouble.
Before he lost consciousness, Xiao Mian was still thinking, this is good, Leng Mushi hasn't had a good rest for so many days, now she can have a good rest. It's just that the ground is a little cold, I should have spread a quilt earlier.
The two of them slept from night to day, and from day to evening.
Xiao Mian did not go down the mountain to attend classes, did not return to the Disciple Hall, and did not even go to the Five Grains Hall to eat. After nightfall, Yi Tu and Xing Zhou began to look for him all over the mountain.
Even Tianxuzi was almost alarmed. After all, losing a disciple out of nowhere was no small matter.
The punishment of sweeping the stone steps had not yet ended. No one had swept the steps, and many dead leaves had fallen. Leng Tianyin, Xingzhou Yitu and the others had no choice but to help Xiao Mian and Leng Mushi clean the steps first.
Until late at night, there was no sign of Xiao Mian. When Xingzhou, Yi Tu and even Xiao Mian's other senior brothers began to look for him, they sensed his location the moment the barrier of Cangshengyuan was opened.
It was actually in the Cangsheng Courtyard. Well, they had suspected the Cangsheng Courtyard during the day, but the Cangsheng Courtyard was not accessible to ordinary people, and they couldn't even peek inside.
The reason why the barrier of Cangshengyuan was opened in an instant was because Hua Yanyue, or Xuanzhu, who had been away from the mountain for more than two months, came back.
As soon as he opened the barrier, he realized something was wrong, because the hungry howls of demonic beasts could be heard everywhere, the bone-breaking lizard was about to break the tree, the red snake was studying the poisonous flame beast, and the hut was completely silent.
Xuan Zhu entered and pushed open the door... His pupils suddenly contracted violently.
The demonic spiders on the ground were busy using spider silk to wrap up a huge human figure. For a moment, Xuan Zhu thought that his new junior sister was dead and had been sucked dry by the demonic spiders.
But he sensed it and found that there was a steady breathing inside the cocoon-like spider silk, and not just one, but a pair of them rising and falling...
Xuanzhu Xiefei raised his eyebrows slightly, drove away the demon spider, picked open the spider cocoon with his sword, and then saw two people sleeping soundly in each other's arms.
One is his junior sister, and the other...
Xuan Zhu narrowed his eyes. Isn't this the annoying guy with a dead face sitting under Tianxuzi's seat
Xuan Zhu pulled his junior sister out of Xiao Mian's arms with great force, put her on the bed, wrapped her in a quilt and examined her. He was surprised to find her cultivation level and that she had been poisoned by a paralyzing drug.
He suddenly looked at Xiao Mian lying on the ground, and then he was so angry that he almost woke up Hua Yanyue in his body.
Why did the junior sister make such rapid progress? Could it be that... this dead face tricked her into taking the evil path of dual cultivation in the past two months? !
Xuan Zhu couldn't be blamed for this. After all, in the eyes of alchemists, everything except alchemy was an evil path. Practicing formations was to trap monsters and beasts to obtain materials, and practicing swordsmanship was to protect oneself and obtain materials. Everything was based on alchemy, and other miscellaneous studies were all for the purpose of alchemy.
Hua Yanyue is an elixir fanatic, and so is Xuanzhu, except that he is much more extreme than Hua Yanyue.
Therefore, the xenophobia is very strong, especially under such misunderstandings at this moment—
So Leng Mushi was still lying unconscious in the warm bed, but Xiao Mian was stuffed with pills by Xuan Zhu and kicked twice, but he still didn't wake up. Xuan Zhu, with a cold face, took the cold tea that had been on the table for two nights and poured it all on Xiao Mian's face.
Xiao Mian was awakened alive. When he opened his eyes, his arms were empty. He was so frightened that he sat up immediately. He wiped the water marks on his face and then looked into Xuan Zhu's face that looked evil and sinister.
The author has something to say: Xuan Zhu: You bastard cheated on my little sister!