Recap
Yan Zhao whispered: “Rong Rong, stop it. Your hands will be cold.”
“No, just hold me for an hour, don’t let go.” Rong Yu buried his head in his chest, and said softly, “No one will die.”
Yan Zhao had no choice but to hug the young man and count down for one hour in agony.
This was really teasing him…
For Rong Yu, Yan Zhao’s embrace was cold, but also reassuring.
On the night when Rong Yu slept with the ghost, the Hu family stayed up all night.
They were haunted.
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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 house, Rong Yu lazily turned over, felt empty in his arms, opened his eyes, and saw Yan Zhao sitting at the head of the bed, holding a book in his hand. He didn’t know how long he had been sitting there.
Rong Yu said lazily, “Why did you get up so early?”
Yan Zhao saw him wake up and put the book back on the bookshelf. “There’s someone outside.”
Rong Yu pricked up his ears: “Why didn’t I hear any sound?”
“I set up a soundproof barrier to prevent you from waking me up.” Yan Zhao raised his hand to remove the barrier.
A wooden door couldn’t block the noise of the children, and there were several pairs of small hands knocking on the door in turn.
“Brother Wen, are you in there?”
“Is Brother Wen not here?”
“My father said this morning that we don’t need to come to school today. Maybe Brother Wen went out for something.”
“Did you go to town to sell calligraphy and paintings?”
“No, Brother Wen only goes to town once every seven days. He was not here yesterday, so he must be at home today.”
“Is he sick? He is too sick to get up. We need to find a doctor for Brother Wen!”
The children chattered, innocent and romantic, and their voices were very clear.
Wen Yichu teaches the children in the town to read and write every day, rain or shine. At this time of day, Wen Yichu would have been 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 remind the children implicitly that they no longer needed to go to Wen Dao Academy to study.
The children would naturally not be obedient. They had a high degree of favorability towards Wen Yichu. Even though they were warned by their elders, they still had to go to school as usual and came early in the morning to disturb the people.
However, Rong Yu was still sleeping at that time. In Yan Zhao’s eyes, Rong Yu was the most important. Seeing Rong Yu frowning in his sleep, he immediately set up a soundproof barrier indifferently and locked a group of children outside the door in a cruel way.
Rong Yu knew what was going on when he heard the noise outside the door.
He had lived for so long and had done everything, but he had never taught people.
According to human standards, the behavior of the Great Demon King could be listed as a negative example.
If he were to teach these human cubs, he would probably teach a legion of monsters.
Rong Yu pulled the quilt up to cover his face: “Send them away; Wen Dao Academy will be closed from today.”
As soon as these words came out, Yan Zhao hadn’t reacted yet, and Wen Yichu’s long-burning candle began to jump wildly again, emitting a strong protest.
Wen Yichu wants to seek welfare for the people, and the other 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, passing on the torch can help more people escape their fate.
Without Wen Dao Academy, these children’s hope will also be gone.
Rong Yu understands the truth.
But he is really not a teacher.
No matter how arrogant and conceited Rong Yu is, he knows some things. At most, he can recite proficiently based on the original owner’s memory, but he can’t really understand it. He hasn’t even read the knowledge of humans, so how can he teach? He also hates those chattering little rascals who keep talking endlessly. Just thinking about it makes him feel dizzy.
Rong Yu is determined: I won’t go.
Wen Yichu may understand that he can’t shake this powerful demon king. The candlelight stops jumping and becomes dim, and it feels like it is dying.
Rong Yu: Isn’t it just not going to teach? Why are you planning to put out the fire?
Wen Yichu’s candlelight flickers gently, and he is in a low mood, looking like the sky is falling.
Rong Yu: You are too lively. The first two sons of destiny I met were as quiet as chickens, but you jump high.
Wen Yichu:…
It doesn’t matter, but what he has in mind cannot be changed.
Rong Yu glanced at the long-burning candlelight that huddled up and was autistic on the spot and wondered if the son of destiny would be so angry that he would go out if he didn’t leave this door today.
That’s about the destruction of the world.
This door is the door to maintaining world peace.
In fact, even if the real world is destroyed, it has nothing to do with Rong Yu. The big devil is reckless, and it will destroy a small world in a matter of minutes.
But after all, he is not a willful devil who kills innocent people.
The red lotus fire was first born between heaven and earth. It is indeed arbitrary and reckless. Wherever it passes, it is ashes; everything falls, and no grass grows. It only cares about its own happiness, not the lives and deaths of others.
When did you learn to restrain yourself?
That has to start with the day when the sun fell beside you.
Those who are close to vermilion are red; those who are close to ink are black; and those who are close to light are warm, just, and know things.
He doesn’t know whether he has learned well or badly.
Rong Yu lifted the quilt and sat up. “Forget it; don’t go extinguishing yourself yet.”
“I’ll try to be a teacher today.”
Wen Yichu’s candlelight suddenly became brighter.
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Outside the door, a group of little radish heads were lying on the door, sticking their heads out, trying to see the situation inside through the cracks.
Suddenly, with a “creak,” the door opened from the inside, and the radish heads piled high all fell into a ball, screaming “ouch.”.
Rong Yu lowered his eyes and looked down at them.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven—a total of seven radish heads—stand up, not even as high as his waist.
“Brother Wen, you are at home.” The children were stared at with such eyes, and they got up from the ground after a while, saying it in a muffled voice.
They surrounded Rong Yu and exclaimed, “Brother Wen is dressed so beautifully today! Master Hu and Master Jin don’t wear such beautiful clothes!”
“Where did this dress come from? Can I touch it?”
The Hu and Jin families are both gentry in Yuexi Town. The two masters are the most prominent and stylish people in the children’s hearts.
Wen Yichu’s clothes are very simple. He has a fair complexion and looks handsome. Rong Yu did not wrong himself. He still wore the red dress with a red lotus embroidered on the cuffs. Most of his black hair was draped, and two strands of black hair were wrapped around his head and tied up loosely with a red chain snake. Of course, under Yan Zhao’s illusion, the children saw a red hairband; otherwise, they would have been scared and fled.
The gentle aura on his body in the past was completely restrained. The young man’s eyebrows were gorgeous, and the corners of his eyes were slightly raised, which made him look down on everyone. The children shrank back, thinking that Brother Wen was different today and looked like an official.
The children had never seen an official, but they often played house games together, playing the roles of officials, ministers, and civilians. They all thought that officials were imposing and intimidating. None of them could act out this kind of imposingness, but today they saw it in Brother Wen’s eyes.
That feeling lasted only a moment, and the arrogance and sharpness in Rong Yu’s eyes disappeared, replaced by his usual laziness: “No, sit down and start the class.”
Rong Yu had no teaching experience, and he didn’t know what to teach, so he simply let the children ask questions themselves, and he answered them one by one.
A chubby kid named Xiaohu raised his hand first: “Brother Wen, I have a question!”
Rong Yu: “Ask.”
Xiaohu said, “I learned the Three Character Classic yesterday, and I can recite the first four sentences! But I don’t know what the first four sentences mean. Can Brother Wen explain it?”
Rong Yu: “What are the first four sentences?”
What is the Three Character Classic?
He has not received the education of humans, and different worlds have different knowledge. Some similar worlds have common knowledge points, but most of the worlds Rong Yu has experienced do not have the Three Character Classic at all. Even if there is, he would not recite it for no reason.
Xiaohu thought Rong Yu was testing him and immediately recited it in a logical manner: “When a person is born, his nature is good, and his nature is close, but his habits are far away.”
Rong Yu searched the original owner’s memory in his mind, trying to find the answer. Wen Yichu is very talented and well-educated, and he has a lot of knowledge in his mind, so much that it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find an explanation for the Three Character Classic.
Xiaohu’s expectant eyes gradually turned into doubt: “Brother Wen doesn’t know either?”
The big devil will not admit his ignorance!
Rong Yu gave up searching and began to talk nonsense according to the literal meaning: “People spend money, and their nature is good, which means that when people spend money, they are very kind to you.”
“Puff——” Rong Yu had not yet made up the meaning of the next two sentences, and Yan Zhaoxian, who had been watching Rong Yu teach children under the thatched shed in a soul state, couldn’t help laughing.
Rong Yu glared at him. What are you laughing at?
Blood Jade Bracelet: Big devil, if you don’t know, you can ask me; you are misleading the students!
Rong Yu said calmly, How could there be something I don’t know? Shut up.
Blood Jade Bracelet: I want to shut up too, but Wen Yichu is almost angry again!
Rong Yu: Why does he ask so much? I can’t teach them.
Blood Jade Bracelet: He may not have thought that your knowledge level is so limited… Next time you come to the modern world, do you want to receive a nine-year compulsory education? Otherwise, it is easy to encounter academic discrimination.
Rong Yu: I am not interested. Why should I understand human knowledge? They are mortals who cannot read the heavenly book or magic text. Do I despise them?
Blood Jade Bracelet: You don’t have to learn it, but you can’t teach these mortal children randomly. I will tell you the correct answer…
“What this sentence means is that people are kind by nature. Different growth environments will make their temperaments different.”
This was not said by Blood Jade Bracelet, but by Yan Zhao.
Rong Yu snorted: “You know it?”
He turned to Xiaohu, who was still trying to digest the knowledge, and said seriously, “The explanation just now was wrong. I said this so that you don’t remember it like this. What I say next is correct.”
Xiaohu, 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 smoothly. Yan Zhao could even draw inferences from one example and teach in a targeted manner. He was really a good teacher and a helpful friend.
The children couldn’t see Yan Zhao, and they looked at Rong Yu with more and more admiration. When school was over, they all said goodbye to Rong Yu reluctantly.
Rong Yu couldn’t wait to drive them away.
As soon as the children left, Rong Yu went back to the house and sat down, brewing a cup of tea for himself to moisten his dry throat. “You are really knowledgeable and talented.”
The tone he used was not a compliment, but a bit weird. After all, he had said that the other person was illiterate before, but today he relied on Yan Zhao’s help all day to prevent the collapse of his scholarly personality.
Yan Zhao showed up and sat down opposite. “Thank you.”
“Who’s praising you?” Rong Yu said unhappily, “Aren’t you illiterate? When did you know so much?”
“I really knew nothing after I woke up.” Yan Zhao said, “But I asked the little ghost for a book the day before yesterday, and after asking for advice for a while, I learned it. This morning, I had nothing to do, so I finished reading the books on the shelf and understood it.”
Rong Yu: “Why are you so pretentious?
But Yan Zhao is really amazing. He hasn’t spoken for a thousand years, but he can speak fluently in one day. He can 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 a 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 and said, “No.” He would be heartbroken.
“Then get married.”
Yan Zhao shook his head even more. “Wait a little longer.”
Rong Yu was impatient: “Just say what you want, don’t beat around the bush.”
“Then I’ll say it straight.” Yan Zhao lowered his eyes and said softly, “I want to kiss you.”
Rong Yu smiled: “You only kiss but not marry; you are really not a human being.”
Yan Zhao: “…”
He also felt that he was too much, but he was almost physiologically afraid of getting married. When he thought of getting married, the picture in his mind was not a life of harmony with Rong Yu, but Rong Yu suddenly disappeared. He searched everywhere, but there was no news.
Thinking of this, he didn’t dare.
This fear was not groundless.
He heard clearly that those children were called Rong Yu “Brother Wen,” and the names of Wen’s parents were written on the spirit tablet, which showed that the young man should be called Wen Yichu.
But the young man said that his name was Rong Yu.
Yan Zhao believed it. He had no feelings for the name 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.
The original suspicion was completely confirmed today. Brother Wen, as the children said, should be knowledgeable, but Rong Yu was… cough, ignorant and cute. Yan Zhao finally judged that Wen Yichu and Rong Yu were definitely not the same person.
He didn’t know why Rong Yu would use Wen Yichu’s identity, just as if Rong Yu left one day, he wouldn’t know how to find her.
He was always under such anxiety, but he always felt that day would come.
He only prayed that it would be slower for one day, and then another day, until the last day of their lives.
The ghost king, who was afraid of marriage, blamed himself and struggled, and finally lowered his head in disappointment: “Not a kiss then, I’ll exchange a…”
Suddenly, a warm touch came from his lips.
His pupils trembled, and he looked up to see that the young man had stood in front of him without knowing when, leaning over and kissing him gently.
“?” Rong Yu looked into his eyes.
“I didn’t refuse.”
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“Xiao Hu, why are you back so late? Where have you been?” The woman came out of the kitchen with food and said, “Come and have dinner.”
Xiao Hu said livelyly, “Mom, I went to the academy today!”
The woman paused, her tone unnatural: “Didn’t your father say in the morning that you don’t have to go to the academy today? What did you do there? You stayed there for a day before coming back?”
Mr. Wen was buried by the Hu family the day before yesterday, and the coffin was nailed shut. At that time, they also wanted to stop it, but the land on which the whole family depended for survival belonged to the Hu family. They couldn’t twist their arms and thighs, and finally, they could only remain silent.
Guilt and uneasiness mixed together, becoming an escape.
Xiaohu 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 obviously here.” Xiaohu said in surprise, “He taught us a lot of new knowledge today! But Brother Wen is a little different. He wore a beautiful red dress today. He must have bought it yesterday when he went to the city to sell calligraphy and paintings. By the way, Brother Wen’s eyes were so strange and scary when he opened the door…”
The woman was so scared that her hands were shaking, and the food fell to the ground.
Mr. Wen was dragged by the Hu family to arrange a ghost marriage the day before yesterday. He died in the coffin yesterday. How could he go to the city to buy red clothes? That red dress must be wedding clothes for a ghost marriage!
Thinking that the Hu family was haunted last night and scared a few people crazy, Mr. Wen came back to teach in red clothes today as if nothing had happened. After thinking about it, there is only one possibility…
Mr. Wen turned into a fierce ghost and crawled out of the grave to take revenge!
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