In front of the floor-to-ceiling bronze mirror.
A boy about sixteen or seventeen years old was standing in front of the mirror. He looked at himself in the mirror with confusion, and couldn't help muttering, "How did you grow so big overnight?"
This young man is Fang Chaozhou. He was still thinking about losing weight before going to bed last night. When he opened his eyes today, he found that his physical age had changed from two to sixteen or seventeen.
At the beginning, Song Lianyi's maid clearly told him that he would only grow four or five years old if he was fed blood for four or five days in a row. Why did he suddenly grow ten years old.
Just when Fang Chaozhou couldn't figure it out, there were footsteps coming from far and near, but he was startled by the sound of footsteps coming very close, and turned around suddenly.
The visitor stood at the door curtain, opened the snow-colored door curtain with one hand, and looked inside. When he saw Fang Chaozhou, his eyes froze.
Fang Chaozhou was overjoyed when he saw the person coming, and quickly asked: "Master, what's wrong with me? Didn't the puppet increase in age by feeding blood for four or five days in a row? Why did I arrive overnight? Are you in your teens?"
Although he was happy because he grew up, he also felt uneasy because of his sudden growth, fearing that something went wrong.
Zhongli Yueshui was silent for a moment, and then said calmly: "Maybe it's a mistake."
"This puppet can still make mistakes? Then... I won't be seven or eighty years old in a few days, right?" Fang Chaozhou became even more uneasy. At this speed, if he becomes more than ten years old overnight, it won't be a few days. He is getting old, his eyes are not good, his teeth are not good, how can he eat and read scriptures
When Zhongli Yueshui heard these words, a trace of helplessness seemed to flash across his eyebrows, "You are a monk, how can you get old? If you are really old, if you lift the seal, won't you change back again?"
Hearing this, Fang Chaozhou smiled awkwardly. He forgot for a moment that as long as the seal was removed, he would be able to return to his original appearance.
Without the trouble of growing old, Fang Chaozhou can fully enjoy the joy of growing up as a teenager.
When a child has nothing to do, he can't walk steadily, he can't comb his hair well, and it's troublesome to put on clothes. Most importantly, he finds that he doesn't gain weight after he grows up.
But after he grew up, Fang Chaozhou couldn't get bored in the room anymore, especially after he finished reading the jade slips that he needed to read today.
Here, he doesn't even have to read a script. When he was two years old, he slept more. Now that he is not so sleepy, he feels that the day is too long.
When eating at noon, he couldn't help but said to Zhongli Yueshui, "Master, can I go out?"
Zhongli Yueshui was holding a scroll of jade slips in his hand. Hearing this, he raised his eyelids and looked at him, "Where are you going?"
Fang Chaozhou pretended to be well-behaved, "I didn't go anywhere, but I wanted to go to the place where I practiced before. Isn't there a lot of aura? I want to go there to see the jade slips in the afternoon."
Zhongli Yueshui's eyes sank, "Why do you have to go there to see the jade slips?"
Seeing him like this, Fang Chaozhou seemed to object, so he couldn't help but tell the truth, "Master, I've been bored here for more than a month, and I can't even go out of the courtyard. I'm not a child now, so I naturally want to go out." Breathe in the wind."
Even Fang Chaozhou himself didn't notice that his temper at this time was affected by the age of the puppet, as if he really became a boy who was bored at home.
He didn't notice, but Zhongli Yueshui did.
Zhongli Yueshui lowered his eyes, and turned his gaze back to the jade slip in his hand, "Then you go, but don't delay your homework."
"Of course not." Fang Chaozhou laughed immediately, but stopped halfway through the laugh, "But Master, I can't stay too far away from you, or I will become a puppet."
Zhongli Yueshui didn't raise his eyes again, but said indifferently: "You just take Tubai with you."
Fang Chaozhou was stunned for a moment, but he didn't ask why he just took Tubai there. After the meal, he ate the food-transforming beads, held Tubai in one hand, picked up a new roll of jade slips with the other hand, and went out. .
Zhongli Yueshui, who stayed at the table, held the hand of the jade slip tightly, and then raised his eyes. He first glanced at the threshold, and then at Fang Chaozhou's leaving back.
The young man is reckless, and even his back looks full of vigor.
Xue Danrong got off the Garuda as before, and wanted to go straight to Zhongli Yueshui's courtyard, but he heard the sound of playing first.
Huali Mountain has always been quiet, no one will play, and no one dares to play.
After being stunned, Xue Danrong couldn't help walking towards the sound of playfulness.
When he got closer, he realized who made the noise.
Under the blue sky, the light from the Golden Crow shrouds the entire Huali Mountain in the afternoon, and the lake water is also sparkling and full of spring due to the sunlight.
And the young man in the lake was also covered by the sunlight. He was only wearing his underwear, standing in the sunlight and the lake water, the water and the light merged into one body, he didn't notice anyone coming, and he laughed with the white tiger who was also soaking in the water : "Tubai, you must be the fastest at catching fish, but do you want to compete to see who can swim faster? No spells are allowed, let's see who gets to the other side first."
Bai Hu didn't answer his words, but turned his head to look in the direction where Xue Danrong was standing.
Because of its movement, the young man in the lake also turned his head, and then met Xue Danrong's eyes.
When he saw Xue Danrong not far away, he was taken aback for a moment, then he smiled and called out "Little Junior Brother", then wiped the water on his face, and said to Bai Hu: "Tubai, hurry up, the game is on, let's start!"
As soon as the words fell, he got into the water.
The white tiger next to him saw his movements and hurriedly started to participate in the competition.
It's just that it obviously seldom swims, and its movements are slow and stiff. It didn't swim to the middle of the lake until the boy got out of the water on the other side.
Seeing Tubai's clumsy movements, Fang Chaozhou couldn't help laughing, and then walked out of the lake. He sat casually on a stone by the lake, pulled off the loose copper-green hair tie, and bit it between his lips. , Comb with your hands, pull the wet hair casually, and tie it with a hair tie.
After tying up his hair, he glanced at Tubai who hadn't swam over yet, and raised his head to look at the sky above. The sunlight was so good that he was a little sleepy.
He raised his hand to block the sunlight, and just sat and basked in the sun until Tubai walked up to him, then he lowered his head to look at Tubai who had pitiful eyes.
"It's okay, Tubai, we'll come back tomorrow, you will definitely swim faster tomorrow than today." Fang Chaozhou stretched out his hand comfortingly, and touched Tubai's wet tiger head, but at this moment a sudden gust of wind made him feel chilly all over his body , and even took a breath.
His clothes are now soaked and clinging to his body. I had just been baked by the sun, so I didn't feel anything yet, but now when the wind blows, I feel extremely cold.
Fang Chaozhou stood up quickly, walked to the other side of the lake, picked up the coat that was neatly folded on the stone, and put it on his body. He put on his clothes, only to think of Xue Danrong who he saw just now, but when he looked over, there was no one there.
Fang Chaozhou didn't care either. He put on his coat and prepared to go back to Zhongli Yueshui's courtyard.
When he returned to the courtyard, the courtyard was quiet. Fang Chaozhou glanced at the cubicle, guessing that Zhongli Yueshui must have been helping Xue Danrong get rid of the evil energy, so he tiptoed into the inner room.
He told Zhongli Yueshui before that he was going to look at the jade slips, and if the other party found out that he had actually gone to play with water, he might be punished.
But Fang Chaozhou didn’t think well, he was so busy walking lightly, but he forgot the water dripping from his body, the water dripping on the ground, tick-tock-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick, extending from the corridor to the inner room.
And Tubai followed behind him, it didn't dry the fur on its body, it was wet all over, and followed all the way in, so the ground was even wetter.
When Fang Chaozhou entered the inner room, he took off his outer robe, threw it on the stool, opened the storage ring, and turned the clothes inside, but the clothes inside were all clothes for his original body shape, and there were no clothes from when he was a teenager. .
And his clothes in the closet in the room are all two-year-old children can wear.
Today, his clothes grew bigger with his age, probably the puppet also knew that he could not wear without clothes, so the clothes grew bigger with the person.
Fang Chaozhou struggled for a while, and decided to wear the clothes of his original body type first, and reluctantly let him go. After Zhongli Yueshui helped Xue Danrong get rid of the evil spirit, he asked if he could go down the mountain to buy clothes.
When choosing which clothes to wear, Fang Chaozhou struggled again. After a while, he chose a pine-colored dress with peach-red borders. During this period of time, all the clothes he wore in Zhongli Yueshui were plain, so today he couldn't help but choose a less plain one.
After choosing the clothes, Fang Chaozhou took the clothes and went to the clean room next to him to take a bath, leaving watermarks along the way. Seeing Fang Chaozhou going to take a bath, Tubai wanted to follow him, but was driven out, so he had no choice but to hang his head, and ran outside the courtyard to bask in the sun and lick his fur.
Fang Chaozhou entered the clean room, hung the clean clothes on the screen, then took off his wet clothes, and entered the bathtub with running water. Although Zhongli Yueshui has lived here alone for many years, he obviously has high requirements for the quality of life. For example, in this bath with running water, the water is always hot, as if brought from a hot spring pool.
The most amazing thing is that there is a faucet above the bath, and the water flows out from above. If you press the faucet, the water that flows out will turn red.
When Fang Chaozhou lived in another courtyard in Huali Mountain before, the structure of the bathroom there was exactly the same as this bathroom. He also turned on the faucet at the beginning, and red water came out.
He was taken aback at the time, and Tubai even joked that he had never seen the world.
Tubai told him that the red water was good for people's health, because Zhongliyue often soaked in the water.
Fang Chaozhou hadn't soaked it before, because he felt that soaking in red water was like soaking in blood, which felt strange, but today he looked at the faucet above and couldn't help but want to try it, so he stretched out his hand to the faucet.
compartment.
Zhongli Yueshui suddenly opened his eyes. He turned his head to look at the sound transmission talisman on the side. The sound transmission talisman was on. Usually, except for Xue Danrong, the only ones who could contact him were his disciples.
At this time Xue Danrong was beside him, and his disciples would not contact him unless there was something important in the sect.
Zhongli Yueshui thought for a while, and got up to pick up the sound transmission talisman. He didn't avoid Xue Danrong, but just listened to what was passed on.
It was the words from the elder Four Fingers Peak.
"Master, Lin Han wants to break through the distraction period. I think his posture is unusual, so I invite Master to come over."
Lin Han is the elder of Wuzhi Peak.
Hearing the voice, Xue Danrong also opened his eyes. He looked at Zhongli Yueshui, "Master, let's go there. Elder Lin's breaking through the distraction period should not be underestimated."
Zhongli Yueshui was silent for a moment, and then said: "Then I'll go over and have a look. If you haven't waited for an hour before I come back, go to Wuzhi Peak to find me."
When the words fell, he disappeared into the compartment.
Xue Danrong, who stayed where he was, sat for a while, then got up and walked out. As soon as he walked out, he saw a long string of wet marks extending all the way out.