Unknowingly, Ji Ruoxue has lived in this small courtyard for more than ten days. During these more than ten days, Ji Ruoxue also felt relaxed and comfortable as never before.

And this time, under the old man's step-by-step teaching, she really learned to make the bed, fold the quilt, wash the dishes, and not cook... Yes, she still hasn't learned to cook. This is not because she is unwilling to learn, but because of the old man.

After giving her a step-by-step tutorial and seeing the cooked food she cooked, I decided that she only needed to wash the dishes. After all, food is closely related to human life. Let’s not talk about whether it tastes bad or not. The key is

You have to eat people first, and her craftsmanship? In the words of the old man, before seeing her cooking, the old man had never seen her before, and he had never even imagined that you could really survive by cooking fish.

When fish is put into the pot, it turns out that chicken legs can really look like black charcoal, and it turns out that rice can be cooked without adding water... There are so many things like this that the old man feels that if this continues, he will just

She was afraid that she would be suspicious of the world, so even though Ji Ruoxue was actually the most interested in cooking among these household chores, the old man said nothing and refused to let her cook anymore. But apart from cooking

Apart from that, in other aspects the two of them got along quite happily. The old man would prepare three meals a day on time every day, and Ji Ruoxue would wash the pots and pans cleanly before cooking.

A pot of hot tea was served, and the two sat around the fire to drink tea and talk... The strange thing is that although the two are very different in age, there is no generation gap in their communication. The main reason is that the old man is more powerful, no matter what Ji Ruoxue puts forward

The old man can pick up any topic. In Ji Ruoxue's impression, the old man seems to be as omnipotent as the legendary immortal.

In addition to giving up these daily chores, there is another thing that is also very important, that is, the old man said that he would supervise her sword practice, not just words, but actually implemented it.

Ji Ruoxue has to get up at dawn every day to practice swordplay. It is naturally a bit hard work, but Ji Ruoxue has never complained or pushed back. She will appear in the yard on time every day. On the one hand, it is because she promised

On the other hand, she also realized the importance of her own strength. Take this escape as an example. If her cultivation level was higher than those two senior brothers, how could she be in such trouble?

Does the famous senior brother still owe a favor?... Therefore, under the influence of various factors, Ji Ruoxue practiced sword practice this time. Although the old man had asked her to practice the most basic things for more than ten days, she also

Worked extremely carefully.

…

Ji Ruoxue stood in the courtyard, holding a bamboo pole in her hand, with a green brick hanging from the top of the bamboo pole with a hemp rope. She had been keeping this posture for an hour, if she hadn't been using her true energy to resist the cold.

, I'm afraid it has already been frozen by now.

However, the benefits of her doing this are also obvious. At least she has gone from being sluggish after practicing every day to now being light and easy.

Ji Ruoxue stood motionless in the courtyard, her arm parallel to the bamboo pole. Her eyes also passed over her arm and the bamboo pole, but she didn't know where it ended up.

With a "pop" sound, the green bricks tied to the top of the bamboo pole split into pieces, but Ji Ruoxue remained motionless, and even the hand holding the bamboo pole did not shake at all.

The old man who was leaning on the door frame of the kitchen nodded slightly when he saw Ji Ruoxue's appearance. Then the old man made a virtual tap towards the bamboo pole with his fingers like swords. With a "pop" sound, the bamboo pole broke into two pieces.

, and the break of the bamboo pole was actually at a finger outside Ji Ruoxue's hand holding the bamboo pole, but even if

In this way, Ji Ruoxue remained motionless, still holding the small piece of bamboo pole in her hand... This time the old man seemed to feel very satisfied, lightly knocked on the door, and said to Ji Ruoxue: "I'll be here today, let's eat first.

Let’s have breakfast!”

Hearing the old man shouting for food, Ji Ruoxue finally relaxed. After throwing away the small bamboo pole in her hand, she ran to the old man and asked excitedly: "Old man, how did you do that just now?"

The old man looked at her lovingly and said, "Let's have breakfast first!"

Ji Ruoxue, who was originally looking excited and waiting for the old man to answer the question, became even more excited after hearing the word "eat breakfast" and asked: "Old man, what delicious food did you cook today?"

"Have you ever eaten noodles in red oil soup?" the old man asked with a smile.

"I haven't eaten it yet. It seems that Xue'er is in luck again today." Ji Ruoxue said with a smile.

"You are so clever, you know how to choose nice things to say to make the old man happy every day. In fact, you don't want the old man to come up with delicious food for you in different ways." The old man said with a smile.

"whee"

Ji Ruoxue smiled and said, "You have seen through this, old man."

"Go and wash your hands and eat!" The old man said to Ji Ruoxue, then turned and walked into the kitchen.

After Ji Ruoxue finished washing, the old man came out with two pieces of red oil soup noodles.

I have to say that the red oil soup noodle slices made by the old man do look very tempting. There is a layer of translucent red oil in the large milk-white coarse porcelain bowl, and the snow-white noodle slices about two fingers wide are looming under the red oil.

There is also some unknown minced meat on top...

"It's so delicious. Isn't your cooking skill great, old man?" Ji Ruoxue looked at the red oil soup noodle slices in front of her and praised the old man.

When the old man heard this, he looked even more proud and said in a show-off manner: "What's this? Old man, the golden steamed buns I made are the most fragrant. I'll make that for you for breakfast tomorrow..."

"Is this true? Xue'er is going to be blessed again." Ji Ruoxue said with excitement.

"Why do I feel like I've been tricked by you again?" the old man said helplessly.

"I didn't trick you! Did you say this yourself? It was you who said you wanted to make golden steamed buns for Xueer tomorrow morning..." Ji Ruoxue defended herself with a smile on her face.

"Even if it's what I said!"

The old man smiled and said: "Eat quickly! If you don't eat quickly, the noodles will get cold."

"Yeah." Ji Ruoxue responded and began to eat noodles.

…

After the two of them finished eating the noodles and Ji Ruoxue washed the noodle bowl, Chuyang slowly climbed up the branch.

The old man looked at Ji Ruoxue and said with a look of relief: "From today on, you no longer need to practice lifting the bamboo pole every day. Your wrist strength has been improved and you can hold the sword well."

The old man looked at Ji Ruoxue and asked, "What is a sword in your understanding?"

Ji Ruoxue thought about it seriously and said, "Master once told me that swords are murder weapons and swordsmanship is a means of killing."

"Your master is right, the sword is the murder weapon." The old man nodded, acknowledging Ji Ruoxue's words.

Then he continued: "The fact that your master can talk to you about swords like this means that he has indeed made great achievements in the art of swordsmanship. At least he is much better than those literati."

"Yes! Master is a master of swordsmanship." Ji Ruoxue replied affirmatively.

She did not tell the old man that her master was Dao Sword Immortal, one of the four great sword immortals, because she was afraid that the old man would become embarrassed if she told him... Yes! Although you are somewhat capable, when it comes to using a sword, who is the best?

Do you dare to claim that you can defeat the four great swordsmen?

After hearing Ji Ruoxue say that her master is a master of swordsmanship, the old man did not ask about his master's origins, but continued: "How do you think the sword should be used?"

"Shouldn't the methods of using the sword be diversified? It can be used to chop, chop, tease, and stab..." Ji Ruoxue said slowly.

"Well, you are right. There are indeed many ways to use swords." The old man nodded and continued: "It seems that you have a deep understanding of swords. In this case, I don't need to explain these to you.

…”

"These are what Master told me, not what I thought of." Ji Ruoxue explained.

Hearing this, the old man looked at Ji Ruoxue approvingly and said, "It doesn't matter. Whether it's what your master told you or what you think about yourself? If you can remember this, it belongs to you."

After thinking for a while, the old man said: "I think your personality is still too out-of-touch. I'm afraid that when you were practicing swordsmanship, you were always cheating and cheating, and you never paid attention to it. If you hadn't been slacking off before, I'm afraid that

Your current swordsmanship is much more than that."

"Old man, you really know me very well." Ji Ruoxue said sheepishly.

"However, I still have to tell you that the "sword" is profound and profound. If you remain as before, not only will your swordsmanship not improve, I'm afraid that all the efforts you have made these days will be in vain, so I still

You have to be patient...and this is not just a sword, it is also true for other swords." The old man said earnestly.

"Well, what the old man said is absolutely true. Xue'er should keep it in mind." Ji Ruoxue nodded in agreement.

"Really remember it?" the old man asked again.

"Well, Xue'er can promise the old man that if Xue'er can't do it, Xue'er will be punished and not allowed to eat... Then you should feel relieved, old man, right? You must know that if Xue'er can't eat the food you cooked, what will happen to Xue'er?

It is said to be the greatest torture..."

The old man smiled and said: "This is what you promised me! When I ask you to do those boring things tomorrow, you are not allowed to be perfunctory, let alone cheating. I will remember you firmly today

That’s what you said!”

"Old man..." Ji Ruoxue called out

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Why do I feel that when you said this, old man, it looked like I was praising your delicious cooking?" Ji Ruoxue continued.

"Haha... Who says it's not the case? I learned this from you after I've been with you for a long time. Now you have to admit that you used to deliberately compliment me!"
Chapter completed!