Chapter 72 Like a Father

The atmosphere in the room gradually became awkward in the silence of the two. Neither of them wanted to speak first, nor did they know what to say.

Just when Xue Qing couldn't help but get up and say goodbye, her ears suddenly moved slightly, and she turned her head to look at Ye Zhichen, whose face was a little dark. She couldn't help but lower her head slightly and chuckled.

"This little bastard." Ye Zhichen's face was slightly dark, and his lips trembled for a long time before he squeezed out such a sentence.

It turned out that Li Chuyi, who went to the side room to do his daily homework, thought that with Xue Qing's restraint, the cold-faced uncle should not be able to check his practice for a while, so he secretly took out the paper package that Xue Qing brought him, and opened it, and it turned out to be several roasted and fragrant chicken legs.

Li Chuyi, who looked at the chicken legs as if he saw his relatives, was naturally overjoyed, and looked left and right with a smile, looking at it for a long time, as if appreciating a rare treasure.

After watching for a long time, Li Chuyi finally had enough. He grabbed one of the chicken legs, put it to his nose, and took a deep sniff. He immediately felt refreshed, as if he was going to ascend to heaven. He looked back and listened for a long time. After confirming that there was no movement, he licked it gently. The gravy on the surface of the chicken leg melted in his mouth with his tongue. Li Chuyi instantly felt that he was surrounded by a full sense of happiness.

"My life is worth it!"

With a mediocre exclamation, Li Chuyi could no longer hold back and began to devour it. In the waves of pig-like sounds, there were some low curses and complaints from time to time.

"You wooden-faced uncle, you actually want to starve me to death! I will eat you to death!"

Hung hung hung.

"Sister Xueqing is still good. If it weren't for her, I would have committed suicide by hitting my head against the wall!"

Hurling hurling.

"You are an old man with no life and no interest. No wonder you are still alone at such an old age. Your life taste is not even one ten-thousandth of my master's. Which blind woman can be attracted by you?!"

Crackling.

"Although the Taoist bullies me all day long, at least he didn't let me starve. You, an old man, feed me with vegetables and pancakes every day. Do you really think I am a rabbit? It's just that I have strong adaptability. If someone else came, I would have been driven crazy by you!"

Crackling.

......

"You still set up a broken ban at the door to prevent me from going out! Is there anyone who bullies people like this?"

"Huh? Why is this bone so hard? Damn, you wooden-faced guy surnamed Ye bullies me, and even you dare to bully me, I will bite you to death!"

With a series of crackling sounds, a chicken leg was mistaken for Ye Zhichen and entered Li Chuyi's stomach with meat and bones.

Li Chuyi, who was satisfied as if he had just finished his opium addiction, sucked his fingers while casting two green eyes on the remaining chicken legs. He was struggling in his heart whether to eat another one or save it first. He had no idea that the words he thought only he could hear were heard by the two people in the room.

Inside the room, Ye Zhichen looked at Xue Qing, who was shaking and laughing. His face became darker and darker. Finally, he couldn't help but said awkwardly: "Can you stop laughing?"

"Okay, stop laughing." Xue Qing agreed, but the smile on her face was hard to dissipate.

Looking at Xue Qing, Ye Zhichen said angrily: "It's all because of you. If you hadn't brought him meat, would he be like this?"

"How can you blame me!" Xue Qing glared at him and retorted, "If you had paid more attention to his diet and given him some of his favorite food, would he have been so hungry? You know, when I first came here, this kid's eyes were green. Fortunately, you don't have mice here, otherwise he might not even let the mice go."

Thinking of his hungry look when he first came here to see Li Chuyi, Xue Qing couldn't help but chuckle again.

"I am doing this for his own good." Ye Zhichen defended, "A cultivator needs to practice, practice requires cultivation, cultivation requires cultivation of the Tao, cultivation requires cultivation of the mind, a calm mind leads to a solid spirit, and a solid spirit leads to insight into the secrets of heaven. If he can't even ignore this mere desire for food, how can he go far in the future? I'm not stopping him from eating, but he has to meet my requirements. If he can eat without desire, think without thinking, and completely eliminate the interference of this desire on his mind, then he can eat whatever he wants, and I won't stop him."

"But, after all, he is still a child, a child of only thirteen years old." Xue Qing whispered.

"Just because he is a child and still young, he must lay a good foundation from now on, and consolidate the foundation for the future. And this first step is the restraint and patience that I want him to learn now." Ye Zhichen said seriously.

"Brother Ye, did you do it when you were thirteen?"

"No." Ye Zhichen shook his head slightly, "I started practicing at the age of sixteen, and it was only after twenty years of hard practice that I truly understood this truth. So I want to pass on my understanding to him while he is still young. I believe he can do it, and he will do better than me."

Xue Qing couldn't help but sigh and shook her head when she heard this. She believed that Ye Zhichen would not harm Li Chuyi, let alone torture him. She knew that Ye Zhichen was really doing this for Li Chuyi's good, wanting to strengthen his heart and lay a good foundation. However, Ye Zhichen was a man after all, and he was a man who had been alone for many years and had never raised a child. He did not have the delicacy and flexibility of a woman, nor the meticulous care and wholehearted care of a mother. He would only forcefully impose his kindness on Li Chuyi, and this approach would often backfire and hurt the other party instead.

After weighing the words for a while, Xue Qing said, "Brother Ye, I know you mean well, but does Li Chuyi really understand your good intentions? After all, he is only thirteen years old. You know, a thirteen-year-old child is no longer like a child who has no thoughts of his own and only knows to follow blindly. He has begun to have his own ideas, and his thoughts may even be more mature than you think. But is his mind mature enough to distinguish the good and bad of a thing from another perspective like an adult, and your approach will only make him rebellious. Maybe today he only dares to hide in the corner and complain secretly to relieve his resentment, but in the long run, this resentment will one day burst out, and this consequence must be something that none of us want to see."

Looking at the silent Ye Zhichen, I know While he was thinking about what he said, Xue Qing paused and spoke again:

"Besides, although you, Brother Ye, have a great relationship with Chuyi and can be said to be his relative, he doesn't know it. To him, you are just someone who took care of him during his time in Taixu Palace, or even a stranger who just got familiar with him. And you are not his master, but you want him to do this and that, and want to discipline him like a master, how can he accept this. Think about it, if you were suddenly disciplined by a stranger like a disciple, would you be willing?"

"But, Baijie Patriarch asked me to give him some pointers so that he can have the power to protect himself, and he won't be like now, with all the magic power but only brute force, and I really want to teach him something." Ye Zhichen said.

Xue Qing shook her head slightly, looking at the man in front of her who had always been in her heart. Seeing that he was so smart in the past, he was so clumsy at this moment. She sighed slightly and said, "Brother Ye, the ancestor Baijie asked you to guide him, not to discipline him. Chuyi's master is that senior, and I don't know what kind of skills that senior taught Chuyi, but it was so strange. I believe you should have seen it. Think about it, Chuyi has been following that senior since he was a child, but that senior has always let him practice alone and has never disciplined him like you do. Isn't there a reason? You do this, although it is kind, but I am afraid that it will ruin Chuyi's practice path." Ye Zhichen heard the words and couldn't help but shudder. Thinking about it carefully, what Xue Qing said makes sense. He sensed Li Chuyi's magic power, which was very strange and weird. It was not like energy like ordinary cultivators, but a kind of breath. If Li Chuyi could not really perform Taoist magic, Ye Zhichen would even regard this breath as the internal force practiced by mortal warriors. As Xue Qing said, after Tianyi Daozun passed on the technique to Li Chuyi, he let him practice like a sheep and never disciplined him. However, Li Chuyi has practiced to the current level. According to Ye Zhichen's perception, the depth of Li Chuyi's strange magic power is almost comparable to that of a cultivator who is about to form a pill. You should know that it is impossible for ordinary cultivators to practice to this level without more than ten or twenty years of hard practice.

But Li Chuyi is only thirteen years old!

There have been few examples of a thirteen-year-old cultivator who is about to form a pill in the entire human world from ancient times to the present. This can no longer be called a genius, and even a monster is not enough to describe it. Even Ye Zhichen, who is so calm, can't help but feel a burst of horror when he occasionally thinks of it in his spare time.

Thinking about what Tianyi Daozun did, and then thinking about what he did, Ye Zhichen couldn't help but feel secretly panicked. Although I have good intentions, if it is really as Xue Qing said, it will ruin Li Chuyi's practice. Then I will really die. Even if I die in the future, I will not be able to face Li Chuyi's mother.

After a slight silence, Ye Zhichen said in a low voice: "I am a rough man, and I am not as delicate as you women. Xue Qing, what do you think I should do?"

Looking at Ye Zhichen who was a little sad, Xue Qing couldn't help but feel pity. With a sigh, Xue Qing said softly: "It's actually very simple. Guide him and take care of him. Take care of him like a father."

Ye Zhichen was slightly stunned, then cast a complicated gaze out of the window, looking at the constantly changing white clouds, and gently exhaled a slightly bitter sigh.

"Like, a father?"