Ye Su untied the Qiankun bag again, and deliberately slowed down the knotting speed so that You Fushi could see it clearly: "Is this... okay?"
"Do it again." You Fushi stared at her hands seriously.
Ye Su taught him patiently several times until he learned it.
Up to now, You Fushi was still happy until Ye Su pushed paper and pen over to teach him how to read.
Ye Su took out a handful of spirit stones from her Qiankun bag, placed them on her desk, turned to You Fushi and said, "Fifty words, learn them, and they're yours."
This time the spirit stone was even more dazzling than the last time. He pretended not to care, but his eyes had been wandering over it several times.
"One word per piece." Ye Su took the initiative to push over a piece of top-grade spirit stone and said.
You Fushi hesitated for a moment, reached out his hand to touch the spirit stone, and then took it back.
"Want to go out and play? There's wine for sale outside." Ye Su pointed at the spirit stone, "But you can only use this to buy it."
"What other wine is there?" You Fushi asked curiously.
"A lot. Although not as good as the Eight Green Wine, the taste is different." Ye Su knew too well how to control him. He saw through him in just a few days, not to mention that they had been together for such a long time in the past.
"I can read, will you take me out to play?" You Fushi was just a young demon lord who was not very experienced in the world. He was easily moved by Ye Su and began to waver.
"Um."
You Fushi grabbed a spiritual stone on the table, lowered his head and stuffed it into his Qiankun bag, then raised his eyes and said to Ye Su: "Then... teach me to recognize a word first."
Ye Su opened the ancient Chinese dictionary and began to teach him how to read, from pronunciation to strokes, slowly and patiently.
"Put your finger here." Ye Su flicked You Fushi's fingers with the pen, signaling him to learn from her movements.
If you can't learn when you are in ambush, just pick up the pen randomly and deal with it in a random manner.
Ye Su put down her pen and leaned over to guide him as he wrote: "All the strokes have a pattern. Look carefully."
You Fushi stared at the words gradually taking shape on the paper. The two were very close to each other. After one word was finished, he tilted his head to look at Ye Su and asked with a little confusion: "You really don't want to practice dual cultivation with me?"
Ye Su's face remained calm: "Who did you learn about dual cultivation from? The turtle monster in the wine cellar that day?"
"You gave me a Qiankun bag and clothes, taught me to read, and gave me spirit stones." You Fushi didn't say whether it was true or not. He touched the Qiankun bag on his waist and said, "You are so nice to me. Don't you want to practice dual cultivation?"
In the past in the demon world, they would only fight with him, and he only knew Zang Liu.
Ye Su let go of his hand, took a step back, returned to her seat, and said slowly: "Being nice to someone, besides wanting to practice dual cultivation, also means I like him."
"So you like me." You Fushi learned quickly by analogy.
Ye Su didn't expect him to respond so quickly. She smiled, pulled out the ancient Chinese dictionary, flipped through it, found the two words, and put them in front of You Fushi: "These two words are pronounced 'like', try to write them."
You Fushi: "... You didn't reply to my words."
"There are many kinds of liking. The liking between friends and relatives is also different." Ye Su began to break down and explain the two words, and then extended from 'like' to other words.
You Fushi had never heard these words before, and gradually became fascinated by them, and even forgot what he had just asked.
…
Ye Su extended the word "like" to other words and taught them all to You Fushi. She used the Shuohui Jade Plate to record the strokes of her own writing and the previous lecture notes, and then taught him how to play them back so that he could practice writing by himself.
"You won't teach me anymore?" You Fu Shi looked up at Ye Su who stood up and asked.
"That's all for today. Remember to finish writing when you go back." Ye Su pushed the spirit stones on the table over and took out a handful of spirit stones from her Qiankun bag and gave them to him. "Come back for class in three days."
"You're not coming tomorrow?" You Fushi looked outside. "I used to have classes every day."
"Give you a few days to digest it first." Ye Su thought for a while and said, "I live on Jiuxuan Peak. You can come to me if you have any problems."
She is a weapon refiner. To advance, she not only needs to practice, but also needs to complete her path through weapon refinement.
You Fushi watched her walk away, then looked at the ancient Chinese dictionary, paper and pen on the desk. After hesitating for a while, he still lay there and continued to practice calligraphy.
Without Ye Su's supervision, he simply laid on the table while writing, drawing the strokes lazily.
Often after writing one or two words, his mind would become wandering. He would play with the spirit stone for a while, then take out clothes from his Qiankun bag and touch them carefully.
Seeing that she gave him something, he finished writing these words.
…
Within three days, Ye Su successfully refined a magic weapon, but unfortunately the previous material was scrapped. She had no understanding of this material that she had never seen before, and she had to borrow a complete material book from the library before she could barely understand it.
Even so, when Ye Su took the magic weapon to collect the subsequent reward late that night, the manager of the mission hall was shocked.
"You've refined it? In just a few days!" The manager rubbed his eyes, looked at the magic weapon on the table, and thought he was dreaming.
"The manager can check it again." Ye Su said.
"Wait here, I'll go check first." The manager walked to the back and called his colleagues, and the mission hall was suddenly brightly lit.
At least two hours had passed since the commotion. Ye Su, who was sitting against a pillar to rest, heard footsteps. He opened his eyes and saw several managers standing in front of him. "Have you finished the inspection?"
"Alright, alright." The manager came over with a bag of spirit stones, smiling, "Here's the rest of your reward."
"Thank you, Manager." Ye Su took the spirit stone and disappeared into the mission hall.
A group of managers just stared blankly: "..." They still wanted to say a few words of greeting!
Ye Su left the mission hall and looked up at the faint glow in the east. It was dawn.
She stood there for a moment, then turned around to look for You Fushi.
After returning that day, Ye Su asked Elder Xing where he was arranged to live.
Although it is a large courtyard, everyone has his or her own independent room, which is far apart and does not interfere with each other.
Ye Su walked to the door of a room, knocked on it and asked, "Do you want to go out?"
You Fushi immediately opened the door and came out, wearing only an undershirt that was crooked, but he looked at her with bright eyes: "You want to take me out to play?"
"Yeah." Ye Su originally wanted to go out to purchase after getting the spirit stones, but the steward took too long to check and it was already daybreak, so it would be better to take You Fushi out directly to save him from waiting again.
She reached out and held his hand, walked back into the room, and closed the door: "Put on your clothes first."
You Fushi looked down at the two people holding hands with a strange look on his face, as no one had ever touched him like this before.
…and it’s not that annoying.
Ye Su pulled him to the bedside, turned around to help him straighten his inner clothes, then grabbed the outer robe beside him and put it on him: "Next time, remember to straighten your clothes before going out to meet people, and tie your belt like this."
You Fushi watched her fasten her belt carefully before he said "Oh".
"What about the calligraphy you practiced these days?" Ye Su took back her hand and suddenly asked him.
You Fushi's eyes dodged, and his face showed a guilty look: "I haven't finished writing it yet."
"Let me see how much you have written."
He turned around and walked to the desk to get a stack of papers: "I wrote this."
"It's still halfway." Ye Su frowned.
"I remember them all. I already know these words." You Fushi said hurriedly, worried that she would not take him out to play.
Ye Su collected the papers and said, "You will be punished to copy twice as much."
"Then can I still... go out and play?" You Fushi asked, looking at her secretly.
…
This was the second time You Fushi walked on the street, but this time he had someone to accompany him and she had spirit stones on her. She bought him whatever he wanted to eat. It was a completely different feeling from before.
Ye Su took You Fushi into a shop and said, "Practice calligraphy more conscientiously. I will take you out next time."
You Fushi said yes with a lot of words, holding a bag of pastries in his hand, which he had just eaten along the way.
"Daoist friend, what do you want?" The shopkeeper had just finished speaking when he saw the Taoist robes on the two men. His face immediately showed some respect. "So you are Daoists from Qianji Sect. What do you want? I'll give you 20% off."
"Communication jade disc." Ye Su said.
"Fellow Daoist, come and have a look." The shop assistant opened the box at the back, "Inside are all communication jade discs, including..."
Ye Su interrupted the waiter: "I want the best kind."
"Okay!" The shop clerk picked out a jade communication disc with the most exquisite workmanship and highest quality and gave it to Ye Su.
"Get a few more teleportation scrolls, the best ones too."
After she paid the bill and came out, she turned around and gave You Fushi, who was standing next to her, a rough instruction: "If you need anything in the future, use this to contact me, but you need to be able to write to send a message. Keep the teleportation scroll and use it when you want to go somewhere in the future."
You Fushi took it, flipped through it, then put the spirit stone in and pressed it a few times. Sure enough, he saw Ye Su's face above the jade disc. He curiously reached out to touch the face of the person inside, but only touched nothing.
Ye Su laughed: "It's just an image."
After coming out of the shop, You Fushi wanted to go shopping in the front, but Ye Su would not let him and wanted to take him back to Qianji Gate.
"Next time you practice your calligraphy well, I'll take you out to play again." Ye Su turned around and pointed at the words on the floor. "Remember what's written here. We'll start from here next time."
"I only know one word." You Fushi looked up at the shop plaque and said without any sense of shame.
Ye Su glanced at him and said, "Illiterate junior brother."
"What does illiterate mean? You didn't tell me last time."
"You'll know later."
The two walked towards Qianjimen Mountain. On the way, You Fushi told Ye Su about what happened in the teleportation array before.
"Does that person like me as much as you do?" You Fushi asked confidently.
Ye Su: "... You said he was from the Hehuan Sect, probably because you are good-looking, so this can barely be considered a kind of love."
"Am I good-looking?" You Fushi was puzzled. He was a demon, and in the demon world, strength was the most important thing.
"Yeah." Ye Su said casually, "You look good."
You Fushi touched his face and asked again: "Do you like me because I am good-looking?"
The two walked through the Qianji Gate's protective formation, and Ye Su began to calculate how many large characters he needed to write when he was in the water: "Fifty characters in three days. Last time, I only practiced half of it, so there are still twenty-five characters left to practice. Double that and write fifty characters. Add the fifty characters you need to learn today, and you will give me a hundred characters next time."
You Fushi thought of those crooked characters and suddenly became reluctant, trying to bargain: "Can I get to know a little less today?"
"No." Ye Su turned to look at him, "I haven't taken you to drink other wine today. I'll take you there after you pass Elder Xing's assessment. How about that?"
You Fushi thought about it and was successfully tempted to agree, and he followed her to learn how to read seriously.