The Year of Lihua: She Was Reborn

Xuzhi stood aside for a long time, listening to everything they said, and couldn't help but feel muffled...

"Most of the conversations among women are still about men."

His lips moved as he was about to say something, and suddenly a special name came out of his mouth.

"Yer, are you okay?"

Hua Ye was stunned by his sudden and intimate shout.

"Forget it, let him call me that if he wants! After all, that's how my parents call me, and Master is half my father after all."

"Miss, your master is calling you? Keep this receipt and come and get it when you come."

Xu Zhi glanced at the little girl who considered him her father, then turned and walked out the door...

The female shopkeeper glanced at Master Xuzhi's back as he left several times and stuffed a receipt into her hand.

"Sister shopkeeper, see you later. Master is here!" Hua Ye waved goodbye to the female shopkeeper and trotted out of Caiyun Pavilion following the figure of Master Xuzhi.

"Find me a quiet place to practice meditation!"

"Master, are you going to practice in seclusion? Shouldn't your disciple help you prepare some food?"

"No need, just find me a place!"

"Okay, then let's go to the cave where I lived before. It's warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It's far away from the town, quiet and secluded, and not as dark and damp as the secret room before."

Hua Ye analyzed the pros and cons and explained them one by one to Master Xuzhi.

"Master, I feel that you have just woken up not long ago. You should not rush into cultivation, as it may damage your foundation. You should proceed step by step."

As she spoke, she packed a lot of food, drinks and other necessities from the stall behind him.

Xuzhi's cold almond eyes were now imprinted with the bustling atmosphere of the world, the hawkers' cries, the cheers won by begging, and the chattering sounds.

He stood in the crowd and listened carefully. What he saw and heard seemed to be something he had not seen for a long time. Xuzhi felt a little uncomfortable and his ears were aching.

"This... is too noisy..."

Hua Ye appeared behind him holding a large bag of things: "Master, everything is bought, let's go first!"

Hua Ye stretched out her small hand with difficulty, gently pinched his sleeve with her index finger and thumb, and walked into the deserted alley.

She was holding a bunch of things she had bought. Xuzhi held her slender waist with his long arms and lifted her up gently into the air above Risu City.

Looking down, I saw crowds of people as small as ants, bustling back and forth in the streets.

Xuzhi landed precisely in the courtyard of the cave. He didn't dare to stay for a moment and let go of her waist.

He looked around and said, "It's small, but it has everything!"

He curled the corners of his mouth in satisfaction.

"Yer, it's getting late, go to bed early!"

"Master, I slept in the middle room before you. There's a secret door behind the wooden cabinet, and there's a small room inside. You can practice meditation there."

Hua Ye stuffed everything in his hand into the whitened cupboard in the kitchen.

Xuzhi walked over and opened the door. He instantly felt much better because of the coolness. It was not drafty but not stuffy either, as if there were natural ventilation ducts inside.

He walked straight to the wooden cabinet, and when he focused his eyes on it, the cabinet moved aside out of thin air, and the secret door appeared.

Pushing the door open and half-bending over to walk in, you can see a round hole vaguely buried in fine sand, and a long stone bed connected to the sand wall.

There were two layers of straw mats and a brand new mattress on it. An oil lamp was placed at one end of the stone bed. As long as it was lit, it could illuminate the space which was smaller than his.

"That's pretty unique!"

Xu Zhi didn't even turn on the light, he lifted the mattress and sat cross-legged on the stone bed to meditate, as if his soul had entered another space, and his body sat there motionless.

The wooden cabinet had been moved back to its original position long ago, but when Hua Ye came in, he still noticed with his sharp eyes that the place where the dust had settled was slightly loose.

"Is it so urgent that you're going into seclusion right now?"

She stood there and looked up and down at the person behind the secret door, as if she could see through the secret door and the wooden cabinet.

After a while, she yawned loudly, thinking that she didn't take a good bath last time, so she went out of the room and boiled a full iron pot of water.

The water drawn from the well more than ten feet deep filled the two large porcelain vats in the yard, and then he slowly looked up at the starry sky.

"What is this? A barrier? Was it set up by the master?"

There was a thin layer of nothingness, like the barrier described in mythological stories, covering the courtyard of this cave dwelling.

She stepped lightly on the loess bricks of the courtyard wall, and could clearly feel its presence with just a touch.

"This should also be a place where you can only go out but not come in."

Hua Ye's eyes could subtly detect the fluctuations in the barrier's power, which was even stronger than the barrier in the desert.

She landed steadily, then cleaned the bathtub with peace of mind and poured hot water into it, filling the entire bathtub.

After a while, the separate bathroom was shrouded in mist and smoke.

Hua Ye walked in with the newly bought Confucian skirt...

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