Chapter 381 The Secret of the Study
Danfeng, beside Xijian Lake, under the Devouring Demon Willow, the spring day was warm and the spring breeze was blowing. Qin Ran was curled up in a recliner, reading the Dan Sutra.
The damage caused by dividing one-tenth of his soul was greater than Qin Ran had imagined. For three or five days in a row, he couldn't muster up any energy. Alchemy, cultivation, and managing the medicine hall were all completely put aside, and he entered the ultimate rotten mode.
Every day he just read books and slept listlessly, and at most cooked something to eat. It was similar to Long Qiqi.
He curled up in a chair and read a book. Behind him, there was a little kid with a willow branch hanging on his feet, lying on the back of his chair, reading with him.
A slight spring breeze blew, ripples appeared on the lake, the willow branches swayed gently, and the little kid swayed with the wind.
"Do you want to learn alchemy?" Qin Ran suddenly asked.
Liu Xiaoji looked around and found that there was no one else except the buzzing Phoenix Wing Tiger Head Bee. He knew that he was really asking him.
"Can I learn to make pills?" he asked.
You know, he is just a tree, without pill fire, pill water, hands and feet... it's too strange for a tree to make pills.
"Yes." Qin Ran confirmed.
The clone who accidentally ran to the Tianhai area performed a trick of using his soul to make pills on the boat.
Liu Xiaoji heard it, thought about it, and shook his head: "No."
For him, concentrating on cultivation and increasing cultivation is the kingly way. He is just a tree, and the speed of cultivation is slow, so how can he have time to care about those weird things.
"What a pity." Qin Ran sighed.
If Liu Xiaoji learned to make pills, he would have millions of clones in the future, one person... one tree to make pills, and the whole Daojianmen would be enough.
Qin Ran was bored, teasing Liu Xiaoji while reading a book.
As he was talking, the mountain protection formation suddenly fluctuated, and Qin Ran and Liu Xiaoji looked towards the place where the fluctuation came from.
One of them is the master of the formation, and the other is the core of the formation. Any fluctuation of the formation cannot escape their perception.
At a glance, a white-clothed swordsman opened the formation mist with a token and flew in from outside with a sword. It was naturally Danfeng's silly apprentice Li Shiyin.
She entered the formation, stopped in mid-air and glanced around. Seeing Qin Ran, she flew straight over.
"Master, I'm done." She flew over here, put away the sword neatly, and squatted next to Qin Ran's chair. She looked well-behaved and reported to Qin Ran quietly.
After not seeing her for several days, Qin Ran missed her very much. He reached out and stroked her hair, and asked with a smile: "Did you find any problems?"
"No." Li Shiyin shook her head.
"Thank you for your hard work." Qin Ran touched her soft hair and pinched her face, and the touch was still tender and smooth.
"Hehe!" Li Shiyin giggled, "Not miserable."
Qin Ran looked at his silly apprentice and laughed, but his eyes narrowed like a fox. He asked with a sly smile: "Really not miserable?"
The master's appearance made Li Shiyin feel the crisis. She became alert, tilted her head back, avoided the master's claws, and asked: "Master, what are you going to do?"
"Don't you remember what I said?" Qin Ran said, "I asked you to summarize all the information you found, make a file, and then give it to me. Now you have finished the investigation, where is the summarized file? So, now, immediately, go down and summarize it and make a file!"
"Ah?!!" Li Shiyin opened her eyes wide, "Master, you are not right?!"
"Go quickly..." Qin Ran urged, "It's been a long time, be careful that you will remember it wrong."
"Master" Li Shiyin raised her hand, grabbed Qin Ran's sleeve and shook it, pouting and acting coquettishly.
Qin Ran held her face with his backhand, rubbed her hard, and said with a smile: "Go!"
"Hmph!" Li Shiyin stood up with a wrinkled nose, "Stinky Master!"
Before she left to make a report, she saw Zhang Junyi coming out of the greenhouse. She looked at him twice more, with more or less pity in her eyes.
Zhang Junyi felt Li Shiyin's gaze and looked back, but only saw Li Shiyin's back as she left.
He didn't know why Li Shiyin was looking at him, and he was not qualified to know. He looked at Qin Ran and found that Qin Ran ignored him, so he took out a book from his arms and leaned against the foundation of the house to read.
His house has been on the foundation for the past two days, and it was a bit embarrassing at this time.
But he didn't feel it at all, and he read the book with relish. The book in his hand was a detailed explanation of the meridians and acupuncture points of the human body, which was the book Qin Ran gave to Li Shiyin before but Li Shiyin didn't use. Qin Ran said that he would lend it to Zhang Junyi to help him practice, but he only had seven days, and he had to return the book after seven days.
So in order to practice, Zhang Junyi had to race against time to write down the meridian points in the book.
Qin Ran secretly glanced at Zhang Junyi who was reading in the dirt pile, smiled and shook his head.
This is probably... raising a son in poverty, right?
Li Shiyin spent most of the day, and finally wrote down all the information she found about Zhang Junyi this time. Although it was not systematic, she remembered it completely.
In the evening, she found Qin Ran in the study and handed him the information about Zhang Junyi.
"Alas, Master, he is so miserable!" She sighed.
Qin Ran opened the information and found that what Zhang Junyi said to him that day was actually the truth.
"Master, you should be nicer to him..." She found that the master's attitude towards Zhang Junyi was completely different from his attitude towards her, and advised, "He has been so pitiful all the way."
"What does it have to do with me? He is not my apprentice." Qin Ran teased Li Shiyin while reading.
"Oh, Master! I'm telling you something serious!" Li Shiyin just didn't want others to call her Master, Master, but she could see clearly that Master wanted to train Zhang Junyi as a successor of Danfeng.
"Don't worry about these things." Qin Ran smiled and shook his head, "Master knows what he is doing."
Li Shiyin angrily scratched Kieran's head, making Kieran's hair a mess, and then turned around and left the study.
Qin Ran read through the messy report that Li Shiyin remembered, and then he pulled out a file, using time as a clue, from the eighteenth generation of Zhang Jun's ancestor, all the way to his apprenticeship at Daojianmen.
After memorizing it, he compared it and looked at it again. After confirming that it was correct, he pulled the bookshelf next to the desk into the void and pulled out a hidden space out of thin air. The space was small and contained several files.
The name of the top file is "Anti-Tushan Youyou Plan".
He put Zhang Junyi's files in and scrambled the files inside. Several names were revealed in those files:
"Anti-Zhuifeng Plan", "Anti-Liu Xiaoji Plan", "Anti-Li Shiyin Plan"...
"Master, where did Zhui Feng go?"
The next day, Qin Ran was inspecting Zhu Guo in the greenhouse when Li Shiyin suddenly ran in and asked.